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Skills Building Workshop
Important Notice: The congress programme has been finalised. For an overview of the programme, download here!
Skills Building Workshop
The 9th ICAAP will host thirty-two (32) Skills Building Workshops together with national, regional and international partners. Skills Building Workshops are considered as one of the important components of the conference which requires skills and experience as well as technical know-how. Through these workshops, conference delegates will have the opportunity to improve various skills that they can apply to their HIV and AIDS work in communities and organisations.
These workshops are aimed to promote knowledge and skills sharing based on lessons learned, best approaches and practices on HIV programming and will enable delegates to put learning into action, using creative participatory learning methods on subjects critically vital to those facing the realities of AIDS pandemic today, whether they are medical professionals, researchers, politicians, administrators, outreach workers, peer educators, caregivers and/or people living with HIV (PLHIV).
Skills Building tracks will consist of:
Please visit our website for full descriptions of the skills building tracks. Each session is entitled to a maximum of 90 minutes.
Application and Selection Process for Skills Building Workshop Proposals
"All deadlines have been extended from 15 March 2009 to 27 March 2009"
Proposals will be subject to a peer-review process carried out by the Skills Building Sub-Committee. Each proposal will be reviewed by no fewer than three reviewers. The skills building proposal review period will take place in April 2009.
Facilitators and trainers interested in sharing their experiences and expertise: (a) should be sponsored by their organisations, or (b) should seek sponsorship from other organisation for their travel-related expenses, or (c) may apply for scholarship (please see Scholarship Section).
Skills Building workshop will consist of the following tracks:
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Ariane Flight VA208
Arianespace's mission that orbited the Intelsat 20 and HYLAS 2 satellites today marked the milestone 50th consecutive success for its Ariane 5 heavy-lift launcher, confirming this vehicle's role as the launch services industry reference in reliability, flexibility and performance.
With the deployment of its latest two passengers during a flight of 34 minutes from the Spaceport in French Guiana, Ariane 5's combined lift performance in the 50 straight successes totals more than 434,000 kg., delivering payloads to geostationary transfer orbit, low Earth orbit, Sun-synchronous polar orbit and Earth escape trajectories.
Payloads carried by Ariane 5 have included civilian and defense telecommunications satellites, TV broadcast relay platforms, resupply vessels for the International Space Station, civilian and military Earth observation systems, meteorology and environmental spacecraft and deep-space exploration probes; along with auxiliary and piggyback payloads for scientific and industrial experiments, defense early warning, electronic intelligence (ELINT) and climate research.
Recognizing those who contribute to Ariane 5's success
In post-launch comments from the Spaceport, Arianespace Chairman & CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall paid homage to all who contribute to Ariane 5's successes, from the mission personnel in Europe and the launch teams in French Guiana to Europe's industrial suppliers, as well as the European Space Agency and France's CNES space agency – which have played key roles in the launcher's development and operation.
"Thanks to all you in Europe and French Guiana, Ariane 5 is something that works…works very well…and will continue to work for a long time," he added. "Following tonight's launch, and with all of the contracts we've signed since the start of this year, our order book effectively covers no less than 19 firm Ariane 5 launches, which guarantees us more than three years of activity. Therefore, thank you and bravo to everyone!"
The numbers from Ariane 5's unbroken string of 50 mission successes are impressive.
In its most frequent role as the launcher of choice for telecommunications and TV broadcast satellite operators and manufacturers worldwide, Ariane 5 has delivered platforms with a total equivalent relay capacity of well over 3,200 transponders, channels and beams for both civil and military users.
The largest payload lofted by Ariane 5 is Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle for servicing of the International Space Station, with the heaviest of the three orbited so far weighing more than 19,700 kg.; while the smallest were piggyback satellites such as Spain's Nanosat, with had a liftoff mass of less than 20 kg.
Le Gall said today's mission also was historic from another aspect, as its lift performance of nearly 10.2 metric tons beat the world's record for total mass launched to geostationary transfer orbit. "We captured the previous record last year with just over 10 tons, and this demonstrates the pertinence of our improvement strategy, which – step-by-step – enables us to increase the capacity of our launcher while retaining its extraordinary reliability."
Intelsat 20 was installed as the upper payload on this latest Ariane 5 launch, and was released first during the mission at 28 minutes into the flight. Built for international satellite operator Intelsat by Space Systems/Loral of Palo Alto, California based on its 1300-series platform, Intelsat 20 weighed approximately 6,090 kg. at liftoff, and is configured with Ku-band, C-band and Ka-band transponders. Intended to replace the Intelsat 7 and Intelsat 10 satellites in orbit, Intelsat 20 is to provide video, telephone and data transmission services for Europe, Africa, Russia, Asia and the Middle East.
Two key customers on Ariane 5's milestone mission
According to Le Gall, today marks the 53rd time Intelsat has placed its confidence in Arianespace's launch services. "In fact, more than one payload in six launched by Ariane vehicles from the beginning have been for Intelsat," he continued. "This proves, more than any words, the quality and intensity of our relationship. And with a satellite as powerful as Intelsat 20, built by Space Systems/Loral, we are certain that Intelsat will be able to respond to the growing demands of its customers – in particular for the African continent."
The HYLAS 2 satellite orbited by Ariane 5 on today's flight was deployed 34 minutes after liftoff, and will be used by European satellite operator Avanti Communications. Produced by Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles, Virginia using the Star 2.4E platform, HYLAS 2 is equipped with Ka-band transponders for data capacity offered to telecommunications, enterprise and government customers in Europe, the Middle East and portions of Africa.
Le Gall, who put on a special hat with the 50th success logo for Ariane 5, noted that Arianespace also orbited Avanti Communications' first satellite – HYLAS 1 – on an Ariane 5 mission in 2010. "We are very proud that to have been chosen by Avanti in contributing to the development of very high-speed data services," he added.
For today's 64th mission of an Ariane 5 – and the 208th flight overall of an Ariane family vehicle – the heavy-lift launcher's estimated orbital parameters at the injection of its cryogenic upper stage were:
- Perigee: 249.9 km. for a target of 249.5 km.
- Apogee: 35,960 km. for a target of 35,934 km.
- Inclination: 5.99 deg. for a target of 6.00 deg.
Following this success – the fourth for Ariane 5 in 2012 – Arianespace's mission pace will continue with its next two flights announced for September: the September 21 launch of another Ariane 5 from the Spaceport with the Astra 2F and GSAT-10 telecommunications relay platforms; and the September 17 mission of a Soyuz from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, performed by Arianespace's Starsem affiliate and carrying Eumetsat's MetOp-B meteorological satellite.

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The Hi-Fidelity Lounge in Bremerton packed a Wednesday night house with Seattle's Cave Singers and The Dutchess and the Duke. It was an intimate stop on a statewide tour that will also bring the indie folk bands to The Showbox March 6 to a decidedly larger crowd than the full-capacity 68 who were at Hi-Fidelity.
There was dancing, singing and some picture-taking by yours truly. Click on the photo below to see more from the show. The Seattle Weekly even made it out and wrote it up for their music blog.
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The general health of our team members has been good, but two have been suffering from serious dermatitis caused by exposure to the sap of trees in the Anacardiaceae—the poison ivy family. Trees in this family are common in the forest, and exposure is hard to avoid. It does seem like these cases were caused by handling collections and by sniffing the slashed bark, a standard practice to help identify the tree (more on the smell of trees in a later post). Anacards (as we call them) usually ooze a sinister black sap from cut parts that warns one not to get too close. The tree that team member Pak Manto sniffed, however, was a Buchanania that has a watery brown sap, easily mistaken for less troublesome species. Severity of reaction to the tree's toxins (urushiols) varies greatly from person to person. I'm fortunate in seldom getting a reaction, but it appears that repeated exposure increases the likelihood of a reaction and one day I may also be unable to touch these wonderful trees. Pak Manto's face swelled up and he was unable to sleep for a couple nights. In the end, he went down to the village clinic, believing he could be cured by an injection they offer there. They probably administered a steroid injection to quell the intense itching, but the rash that follows exposure to urushiol is the result of an immune reaction and cannot be treated—it must run its course over a couple of weeks. He's back from the village now, but clearly still bothered by the itching.
Probably the most serious danger in the forest is being hit by a falling branch or trunk. The canopy is full of dead limbs precariously held aloft by vines. Most of the time, being in an equatorial position out of the zone of tradewinds, the forest is windless; but occasionally there are strong winds associated with convection storms. When a wind comes, it is accompanied by snaps and thumps as leaves, twigs, and branches snagged in the canopy come crashing down to the ground. This is a time to pay full attention to one's surroundings and to find a place to stand that is not below a vine tangle or dying tree. Once or twice a year there will be a very strong wind, when even healthy trees might be blown down. Right at the beginning of our project, when we were surveying the B plot on the crown of a hill, we experienced just such a wind. It kept increasing in strength until the canopy above was a swirling mass of flailing limbs. Leafy branches were transformed into silvery skeletons as the leaves were flattened along the twigs. Forty-meter trees swayed back and forth through as much as twenty degrees, looking more like giant blades of grass than solid woody organisms. Our excitement turned to fear and from fear to panic as we searched for a place to hide, but in a forest there is nowhere to hide from falling trees. Ultimately, we found a large rock on the side of the hill to protect us from being crushed. The windstorm lasted for about twenty minutes before dying away, only to be followed by a drenching rain. While truly concerned about being flattened, I was also entranced by this awesome demonstration of the power of the natural world. It was one of those moments when you are forced to recalibrate your perception of your physical permanence in this large, wonderful world.


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- The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal), convened in May 1946;
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Previously, when the subject of his infidelity surfaced, Souder told everyone that the rumors were unfounded and blamed the vicious lies on "revenge politics."
After getting caught, however, 60-year-old Souder made a statement to the press about his liaison with the loose woman in question. He said that he "sinned against God, my wife and my family by having a mutual relationship with a part-time member of my staff. I wish I could have been a better example. In this poisonous environment of Washington, D.C., any personal failing is seized upon, often twisted, for political gain. I am resigning rather than to put my family through that painful, drawn-out process.. We are a committed family but the error is mine and I should bear the responsibility. Not only am I thankful for a loving family but for a loving God."
Souder served eight terms in Indiana. He allegedly took up with the loose woman in 2004 and has suffered from Emerald Forest Syndrome ever since. His last day on the taxpayer's money is Friday, May 21st. Insiders said that his part-timer asked him for a raise a few times, but he abstained. She is making less than minimum wage.
When Souder contacted senior House leaders to discuss his exit over the coming weekend, he was told to keep his shorts on.
Investigators, looking for incriminating evidence, found this video in his study labeled "My Hero:"
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Heartbeat Opera
Bramwell Tovey mixes a mean musical cocktail
Bramwell Tovey
Los Angeles Times
By Kevin Berger
The convivial Canadian (by way of Britain) is returning for his third summer as principal guest conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl.
— It's tempting to call Bramwell Tovey the Noel Coward of conductors.
In the past decade the native Brit has become renowned for his droll and witty remarks from concert stages.
In June, as host of the New York Philharmonic Summertime Classics series, Tovey guided the orchestra through a dramatic, seductive performance of pieces from the ballet score "Raymonda" by Russian composer Alexander Glazunov.
After the applause came to a rest, Tovey faced the full house at Avery Fisher Hall and offered his opinion of Glazunov, a contemporary of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky and Prokofiev.
"I think he was right at the top of a second-class act," Tovey said.
The audience broke out in laughter.
Still, Noel Coward isn't quite the right comparison for Tovey, who returns Tuesday for his third summer as principal guest conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl.
Yes, Tovey is urbane and wears his learning lightly. It's just that his elegance comes out in his conducting and not his, well, look.
On a June afternoon in Manhattan, seated in an old-world Italian cafe, the portly Tovey, 57, was wearing brown corduroys and a brown shirt with a zipper that ran up the collar. Actually, the shirt was kind of stylish.
There was no mistaking, though, his inner rumpledness.
Tovey has a cheerfully big head that appears to sit directly on his shoulders. His nose juts outward and drops abruptly south, like a broken rooster beak. An inveterate cricket player, Tovey has taken one too many balls to the face.
"How would I describe myself?" Tovey said, thinking for a moment. "Cosmetically challenged."
Tovey enjoys his reputation as the witty bloke whom everybody loves to gather around at the pub. It's not an act. It's who he is.
At the same time, his Falstaffian image overshadows a fascinatingly diverse musician, a champion of contemporary music and a composer himself who writes in surprisingly dark and unflinching tones.
"I'm just this whole cocktail," he said.
Tovey grew up in a modest home in East London. He descended from a long line of Salvation Army evangelists who spread the Protestant word with the fire of the Holy Ghost and the sound of brass bands.
Tovey played the piano, tuba and violin by the time he was a teenager.
Hs father, a World War II vet, always wanted be a professional musician, yet lived out a melancholic life as an accountant for a jewelry company. He died of cancer when Tovey was 15.
Nobody laid out a red carpet for Tovey to enter the privileged world of art. He made it on his own street talent and smarts. The artful dodger became the conductor who could lead anybody to classical music.
In the restaurant, maybe because Kelsey Grammar was sitting a few tables away from us, our conversation veered to the surreal world of celebrities. Tovey recalled his first brush with fame.
At home in London one morning in the late '70s, Tovey picked up the Daily Star and saw a huge photo of the "lovely" flute player he dated a few times when they both attended the Royal Academy of Music. He wondered what happened to her.
Quite apparently, he explained, "she had run off, joined a rock band and built a singing career." Now here she was in bold type in one of England's storied tabloids: Annie Lennox.
"My wife is a huge Annie Lennox fan," he continued. "When I told her I went out with Annie, she said, 'Did you sleep with her?' I said, 'No!'" Disappointed that Tovey didn't have a good coda for his story, his wife, Lana, a Canadian music educator, said to him, "Why not? What's wrong with you?"
Tovey has lived in Canada for more than two decades. In the '80s, while on tour in Canada with a British ballet company, he formed a chain of lasting relationships. Beginning in 1989, he served as the music director of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra for 11 years. Since 2000, he has been the music director of the Vancouver Symphony.
While Tovey is best known in the U.S. for his summer gigs with the L.A. Philharmonic and the New York Philharmonic, generally conducting crowd pleasers such as Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" — which he will do for two nights at the Hollywood Bowl — he is celebrated in Canada as the consummate raconteur.
"In Winnipeg, Bramwell was a superstar," said Glenn Buhr, a Canadian composer and pianist, who has worked with Tovey for 20 years. "He was the most famous person in the city. I've never seen anything like it.
"Everybody — politicians — wanted to know him. Even in Vancouver, he's at the top of the fame game."
Buhr, whose piercing, tranquil work "Winter Poems" is often performed by the Vancouver Symphony, called Tovey "as good as any conductor in the world right now." He underscored the typical first impression of him.
"When I first met Bramwell, I thought of him as a party animal," Buhr said. "I hadn't been to rehearsal with him yet, and I thought, 'Oh, this is going to be fun, he's just going to joke around.'
"But he walked in and he was very strict. He never let the orchestra out a second early. He always had something more for them to do. He's an impeccable musician."
In 1990, Tovey and Buhr launched a new music festival in Winnipeg, featuring both local and international composers. (" Arvo Part writes very beautiful music," Tovey said. "But he tinkers with it constantly. He's quite frustrating to have around.")
It was the force of Tovey's personality, Buhr said, that broke down the barriers that typical classical music subscribers erect to new music and earned the festival a wide audience. "Bramwell can sell anything from the stage," Buhr said.
Tovey's commitment to new music is seen plainly in his own compositions, which he works on every morning from 6 to 9.
Influenced by the hard-edged Romanticism of his beloved countryman Frederick Delius, Tovey often finds his voice in dire currents. In 2003, he won a Juno, Canada's Grammy, for classical composition of the year for "Requiem for a Charred Skull," a searing work for choir and brass band. As Tovey explained, the work was inspired by his disgust at England's lavish "millennium" celebration in 1998, when it dumped $2.5 billion into a "ridiculous" exhibition dome. "At the same time, there was genocide in Serbia. There was nothing to celebrate."
Tovey's fidelity to his art hit the public airwaves in December 2009 with an impact seldom felt by classical music. The Vancouver Olympics' organizing committee asked Tovey to record Barber's "Adagio for Strings" for the opening ceremony. Thing was, the performance would be credited to Tovey and the Vancouver Symphony, but would be mimed on stage by another telegenic conductor and orchestra.
No go, Tovey responded to the committee, he wouldn't record it. "It was awkward to begin with," he said. "It's an iconic American piece for a Canadian opening ceremony. And when I was told another conductor would mime it, I said, 'That's dishonest. Get somebody else to do it.'" The committee did, though later publicly apologized.
The range of Tovey's talents will be on display at the Hollywood Bowl — good news for audiences and the L.A. Philharmonic itself. "The orchestra loves working with him," said Deborah Borda, president and chief executive of L.A. Phil.
For years, Tovey had conducted the occasional concert with the orchestra. So when Leonard Slatkin's run as guest conductor at the Hollywood Bowl ended in 2007, Borda said, Tovey was the unanimous choice to replace him.
While Tovey's eight upcoming programs lean toward popular works by Beethoven and Brahms — one night will be consumed by Leonard Bernstein's operetta "Candide" — the Sept. 7 evening will spotlight one of Tovey's own works, the jubilant "Urban Runway," his lampoon of the high fashion world.
Our conversation turned back to Canada. For some reason, I said, it was difficult to imagine the true Brit fully at home in Canada.
"I do feel slightly stateless," Tovey said. "I love Canada. And I am Canadian. But when I walk out on top of Malvern Hills in England, where Elgar used to go, and come down and have a pint of bitter at the pub, I think that's when I feel most at home."


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This season of HBO's "Game of Thrones" has given us poisoning, beheading, smooshed eyeballs and brains, a couple of dead giants and all manner of sword piercings. So what's left?
The fourth season finale, "The Children," airs Sunday night and to sort out our feelings about this season, we're hosting two chats before and after the finale to go through the carnage.
Join Times TV critic Mary McNamara, TV reporter Patrick Kevin Day and Times reporter and superfan Alicia Banks on Friday at noon PT as we discuss the latest events in the series, including last week's massive battle at the Wall, then speculate about what the finale will bring.
Then on Monday, we'll dry our eyes and regroup with Day, Banks and Times social media editor Stacey Leasca for another chat at noon PT to make sense of the finale's events. Who will live? Who will die? And how long before those dragons cause some major property damage?
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
I make my wine from sour grapes
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""The problem starts when these builders see themselves the same way that their fans do and practically float on air above the rest of us , ocasionally bestowing us with their wisdom and grace. ......... I feel that the blame belongs to some of the builders that are cultivating a 'Concours d' elegance ' approach to marketing"""""ReplyDelete
Who are the "People who are Deified" - Please - I beg you to tell us????
Spoken with a true K-Mart accent (all due respect to K-Mart, as they serve the masses well). Art for the masses is served up in just about every venue imaginable. Does that meen the Masters should stop producing the best art they are capible of? I hope not. We may be plumbers, just as many great artists painted houses in the beginning of their careers, but that doesn't mean we cannot be more, at least occasionally, and perhaps, just because we are driven to. A society that does not express it self through art might me pretty damn boring.ReplyDelete
Richard Long
Artist and bike builder
Temecula, CA
Hmm, Kmart accent ? As soon as you call yourself a 'master' your validity is nullified. Build art if that's what you are into, you'll get no argument from me. I build bicycles....if they are requested to be artstic , then so be it. I come from an art background...now I'm a framebuilders. The riding comes firs for me and I think that's the way it is for the formost artists in the trade, if not for you.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 2, 2009 at 2:22 PM
Way to miss the point of the post, Dick Long.ReplyDelete


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Need for Speed Hot Pursuit E3 2010 Preview
Though we knew Burnout developer Criterion was working on a Need for Speed game, this E3 demo is the first time it's been seen. Creative director Craig Sullivan introduced it as a return to the roots of the series made by a team that grew up on the games. They want to get the focus back on the sheer excitement of ripping down the highway at top speed. Sullivan said that the title says it all; there will be "pretty good pursuits and they're going to be hot."
The chase demo I played backed up his claims. I tried both the racer and cop sides of a one-on-one chase down a winding road through the woods in a duel of two Lamborghinis. The objectives are straightforward: get far enough ahead to escape as the racer or bring the speeder to a stop as the cop. Along with driving skill each side gets a few powers to help them win. As the cop I could radio ahead for a road block while as the racer I could jam the cop's radar and communications gear. Dramatic driving like weaving through oncoming traffic and drifting around corners provided the charge to use these abilities.
It was brief, but felt a lot like the good times I remember from playing the old Need for Speeds. The sweeping bends on the open road that let me really let the car out and run came as a welcome change from the tight confines and 90 degree turns of urban environments. Like all their Burnout games, the controls immediately felt comfortable with the cars having a nice sense of heft and momentum and responding exactly as I expected without a lot of thought.
Sullivan also introduced a feature they're calling Autolog that melds together the typical menu system for the game with all its connected community elements. Arranged on a timeline-like strip across the screen are all the options for things like career, photos, and the like. The most interesting of these is their new "Autolog Recommends" entry. This culls through all the data of what you, your friends, and the rest of the world have been up to in the game and then generates suggested things for you to do when you sit down to play. If your friend just hit a new high score on a run it might challenge you to try and best it. It's a nice evolution of the create your own contests stuff they'd been working on in Burnout. Combine that with the competitive nature of the chases and I can see this being a game I lose a lot of time to this fall.


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Hunting on Family Tree Circles
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Buntings from Canada/New York/Iowa
Been researching my Bunting line for almost 10 years now, and the only solid info I have is the following:
1880 US Census, Iowa, shows my James Bunting, born 1828 in Canada, having his father's birthplace New York, and mother's in Canada. He was married to Mary (who I know to be a McCann, born in about 1833 in Ireland. This is another line I am researching.)
The census shows James and Mary with 2 daughters and a son at home, as well as a son-in-law:
John C. Bunting, son, born abt 1853 in Canada
Maria A. Bunting, daughter, born abt 1855 in Canada
Rosella C. McFarin, daughter, born 1861 in Iowa
Samuel P. McFarin, son-in-law, born 1853 in Ohio
My line runs down through daughter Rosella and son-in-law Samuel McFarin.
I have info going forward on that line and going back as far as 1770's for my McFarin (McFarren, McFarrin, etc.)lines. Be happy to share any of that info with those who want.
I am stuck at James Bunting and Mary (Ann, Anne?) McCann. I have come across bits of information but nothing that I feel is solidly linked to my James and Mary.
Would love to find another researcher looking for same info.
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The PN-8593-BN is a ghost loaded ResoMax NW2 Wraparound Bridge in a black nickel finish. This lightweight, high strength bridge will increase harmonic content and leave your guitar dripping with tone.
This bridge will work with any ghost preamp kit.
Ghost pickups contain a custom engineered piezo crystals that is encapsulated in a set of String Saver saddles. The ghost saddle pickups have a natural compression effect so you can play as hard as you want without overloading the input channel or experiencing the dreaded piezo "Quack".
Pickups are individually calibrated so you get a precision-balanced set of ghost saddles, for even string to string output. Any set of ghost pickups can be used in conjunction with any ghost preamp kit as well as many others on the market.
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Neptune's Methane Band
The semi-major axis of Neptune's orbit about the Sun is 30.06 Astronomical Units (A.U.) or roughly 4.5 billion km.
Neptune has a diameter of roughly 30,800 miles (49,600 km) at the equator.
10423: H.B. Hammel (Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO) and E. Karkoschka (University of Arizona)
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I haven't fallen off the face of the earth. :) But I have to admit I haven't been in much of a blogging mood lately, which is why it's been more than a month since I last posted. I'm also
But the July 4th holiday is coming up and since July 4th is my favorite holiday of the year I had to break out the crochet hook and design something to celebrate it. And hopefully I'll get my designing mojo back and be back with some new designs soon. :)


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The California Air Resources Board (CARB) released the results from its first auction of greenhouse gas (GHG) allowances today. It sold all of the approximately 23 million current allowances (2013 vintage) at $10.09. It sold 14% of the approximately 39.5 million advance allowances (2015 vintage) at $10.00.
As I discussed last week, the unsold advance allowances will be held by CARB and offered for sale in either late 2014 or 2015 when that vintage becomes "current."
Given the number of allowances sold, we can easily estimate the gross revenue generated by this first auction:
- ~23.1 million current allowances * $10.09 = $233 million. These funds are from consigned utility allowances and the revenue will be used to benefit ratepayers, as regulated by the Public Utilities Commission.
- ~ 5.5 million advance allowances * $10.00 = $55 million
It is not surprising that advance allowances did not sell out. Any compliance entity can use 2013 vintage allowances this year or save them for use in subsequent years. So 2013 allowances are slightly more valuable than 2015-vintage, which as their name indicates, cannot be used until 2015 or later. A Bloomberg News Report, which correctly anticipated that advance allowances may not sell out, suggested that many companies are unwilling to purchase allowances to cover emissions more than one or two years in advance, whereas the advance allowances would not be due until 2015.
Early market reaction has the December 2013 futures (for 2013-vintage allowances) trading between $10.75 and $11.75. This basically means that the market anticipates that vintage-2013 allowance prices will rise from today's auction to approximately $11.25 by December 2013.
Other points of interest from the auction results:
- You can see the list of auction participants here. Almost all the allowances were purchased by compliance entities. But one or more non-compliance entities purchased about 500,000 allowances, likely hoping to get allowances cheaply to later sell as the program expands in 2015.
- The maximum bid for a 2013 allowance was $91.13. The median price was $12.96.
- The index CARB uses to measure bid concentration suggests that no one bidder purchased a large concentration of allowances. If I understand the index correctly, a single bidder purchased about 11% of all offered vintage-2013 allowances and 14% of all vintage-2015 allowances.


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Development of a Bedside Pain Assessment Kit for Postherpetic Neuralgia (BSTK)
This study is currently recruiting participants.
Verified by Analgesic Solutions, August 2010
First Received: July 12, 2010 Last Updated: August 3, 2010
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
Post herpetic neuralgia (PHN) is an undertreated condition. It is a type of neuropathic pain (NP), or pain caused by abnormal activity of sensory nerves. Its mechanisms are not fully understood, and medication trials for PHN pain and other types of NP are frequently unsuccessful.
There has been extensive investigation aimed at identifying and understanding the specific mechanisms of NP. While some of these tests are inexpensive and easy to perform at the bedside, many require expensive tools and highly equipped laboratory facilities. Further, there is no standard method for assessment of pain in NP patients.
The investigators aim to test a Bedside Sensory Testing Kit (assessment for Neuropathic Pain) on a small number of patients with PHN.
The purpose of the Kit is to identify mechanisms of pain. The goal of this research is to design a way to classify patients with PHN based on what mechanisms are causing their pain, since this may help predict the best medications for individual patients.
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Study Type: Observational
Study Design: Observational Model: Case-Only
Time Perspective: Prospective Official Title: Development of a Bedside Pain Assessment Kit for Postherpetic Neuralgia
Further study details as provided by Analgesic Solutions:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Demonstrate usability of the BSTK. [ Time Frame: Subject Duration in the study is one (1) clinic visit ( approximatley 2-3 hours). We expect 10 weeks of open enrollment. Total study timeline is 4 months(1 month start up, 2 months enrollment, 1 month clean and analysis, 2 weeks final CSR. ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Analysis of subject feedback regarding clarity of instructions, burden of study procedures, and overall experience.
Analysis of investigator observations regarding clinical feasibility, investigator burden, and overall experience.
Estimated Enrollment: 12
Study Start Date: July 2010
Estimated Study Completion Date: November 2010
Estimated Primary Completion Date: October 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Detailed Description:
We hypothesize: (a) that a Bedside Sensory Testing Kit for PHN can be designed such that it works efficiently with Subjects and Investigators, is tolerated well by Subjects, and is statistically reliable between Investigators; (b) that the sensory testing kit can distinguish between PHN patients with different sensory qualities to their pain which may be caused by different underlying pain mechanisms.
The subjects will be patients with postherpetic neuralgia who voluntarily participate and meet eligibility criteria. The study participants will complete a brief questionnaire and undergo three rounds of the BSTK, performed by two study investigators. The items in the BSTK correspond to a series of sensory assessments, each of which are aimed to contribute to the characterization of individuals' PHN pain.
Ages Eligible for Study: 40 Years to 85 Years
Genders Eligible for Study: Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample
Study Population
Community sample patients with postherpetic neuralgia who voluntarily participate and meet eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Subject is between 40 and 85 years old.
- Physician documentation of history of postherpetic neuralgia must be provided; pain persisting more than 3 months/90 days after a patient's vesicular rash (shingles) has healed.
- Subject is able to speak, read and write in English and comply with all study procedures;
- Subject is willing to voluntarily sign and date an Informed Consent Form, approved by an IRB, prior to the conduct of any study-specific procedures;
- Subject must be willing to abstain from PRN (as needed) pain medicine for 12 hours prior to the study but may continue their standing doses of pain medicine.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Subject is pregnant and/or breast-feeding.
- Subjects with additional sources of chronic pain will not be allowed if the severity of pain in additional locations is severe enough to compromise assessment of PHN pain. This will be left to the Investigator's discretion.
- Subject has a medical condition, other than PHN, that is not well-controlled with treatment; or the subject has any clinically significant condition that would, in the opinion of the investigator, preclude study participation, interfere with the assessment of pain, or pose unacceptable risk to the participant.
- Subject has been enrolled in another study within 30 days.
- Subject has a known contact allergy to surgical skin markers.
- In the judgment of the investigator, the subject has a psychiatric or psychological disorder that would interfere with the completion of the study, confound the study results, or pose patient risk.
- Subject has neuropathy or nerve fiber disease other than PHN (e.g., diabetic peripheral neuropathy).


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This story has been updated.
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) is at an undisclosed residential treatment facility receiving medical treament for a mood disorder, his aides and doctors said Wednesday, capping two days of intense speculation about his whereabouts and political future.
Citing federal medical privacy laws, Jackson's office said in a statement late Wednesday that it would not release specific details of the congressman's condition, nor his current location. But in a statement attributed to an unnamed physician, Jackson's office said, "The Congressman is receiving intensive medical treatment at a residential treatment facility for a mood disorder. He is responding positively to treatment and is expected to make a full recovery."
Additionally, Jackson's office strongly disputed rumors about his condition and a report by NBC News Wednesday night that Jackson is being treated for alcohol and addiction issues at a facility in Arizona.
The disclosure came on the same day that House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told reporters that Jackson and his family "would be well advised" to tell constituents about his undisclosed medical condition and lengthy absence.
But Hoyer also said that people get sick in every profession, adding, "When people get sick, they miss work."
Hoyer's comments were the most direct appeal yet by a top House Democratic leader to Jackson to share more information about his condition.
Additionally, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the most senior lawmaker from Jackson's home state, said Wednesday that the congressman "has a responsibility as a public official to tell us what the situation is."
"I want him to get well, he's got a beautiful young family and I want him to get well and be home with them," Durbin said in an interview, "But when we accept this responsibility in public life, we have a burden to be more open about our private lives than most people."
Others, however, defended Jackson.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told reporters Wednesday that Jackson's timeline for publicizing more about his condition should be dictated by his medical needs.
"The timing ... is related, I think, not to my curiosity or to anyone else's but to his health-care needs," she said. "The time is right when Mr. Jackson — Congressman Jackson — has an evaluation of what his situation is, and I'm sure that he will share it with his constituents."
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said that members of the CBC were "amazed" at the sustained uninformed speculation about the lawmaker's condition.
"This is about a human being who's sick. This is not a political matter, it's a health matter," Cleaver. He said later that Jackson "is fine" and will "definitely" return to Congress.
The statement from Jackson's office came after his wife, Sandi Jackson – a Chicago alderman — told Chicago reporters that she hoped her husband's doctors would be able to disclose more information.
"I'm in constant talks with them about Jesse's condition and his medical prognosis going forward," Sandi Jackson told the Chicago Tribune.
Jackson last month waited more than two weeks before publicly announcing that he had been on a medical leave since June 10 for an undisclosed medical condition. His office last week said he was struggling with "physical and emotional ailments" worse than previously known, which only added to the intrigue surrounding his absence. Jackson's last recorded vote was June 8, according to The Washington Post Congressional Votes Database.
In an interview Tuesday, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, told Chicago's WMAQ-TV Tuesday that his son "is slowly regaining his strength, he is under medical supervision and he is taking his time in recovery. And of course we pray for him and of course the family embraces him, we love him so much. We hope that he will be successful in his return."
Pressed to disclose what is actually wrong with the lawmaker, Jackson said: "That's inappropriate. I speak as a father, and one who right now is pained as he comes out of his crisis. We're with him and we hope that he'll be fully restored to his health. But right now he's going through a tremendous challenge."
First elected to the House in 1994, Jackson represents Illinois's 2nd Congressional District, an area encompassing parts of Cook and Will counties and the southern suburbs of Chicago.
He has been under investigation by the House Ethics Committee in recent years over allegations that he improperly raised money for former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich (D) in an effort to win appointment to the Senate seat formerly held by President Obama. As part of a corruption investigation, Blagojevich was heard on a tape saying that Raghuveer Nayak, an associate of Jackson, had offered to pay $1.5 million to the governor if the congressman was appointed to the Senate. Nayak was arrested last month on unrelated fraud charges just days after Jackson's medical leave began.
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Video: Constituents of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. ask for more information about the Congressman's whereabouts. He is under intensive medical treatment for a "mood disorder," his office said in a brief statement Wednesday.


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The GAA have postponed all of this weekend's Allianz Football and Hurling League Round 5 fixtures as a result of the adverse weather conditions caused by Storm Emma.
Croke Park had originally intended to make a decision on whether or not to call off the weekend's games tomorrow (Friday), but it seems the severity of the storm over the past couple of days has forced the Association's hand after having released the following early this afternoon:
"The GAA has confirmed that all Allianz Football and Hurling league fixtures scheduled for this weekend have been postponed.
"A full revised fixtures programme to cover the remaining rounds of the Allianz Leagues will be issued on Monday, March 5th. For the moment, the following should be noted as broad principles:
- Round 5 of the Allianz Hurling League will now take place next weekend (March 10th/11th).
- The Division 1 Allianz Hurling League Quarter finals will move to the weekend of March 17th/18th, the semi-finals to the weekend of March 24th/25th and the Allianz Hurling League final to March 31st.
- Round 5 of the Allianz Football League - due to be played this weekend - will move to March 10th/11th.
"Any exceptions to the above will be addressed in the revised fixture programme to be issued on Monday."Tweet


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|Friendsville, Tenn.
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|William Blount HS
John returns to action in 2013 after sitting out the entire 2012 season...should resume where he left off through his first three years to rank among the top runners on the squad...has run in 18 meets in the first three years of his career...was a leading force for his team in high school action...named to the Athletic Director's Honor Roll three times in recognition of his work in the classroom.
AT TECH (In 2012): Sat out the entire
2012 season as a medical redshirt.
(In 2011): John had a breakthrough junior season, lowering his career-best 8K time by nearly two minutes within a year's time...led the Golden Eagles in all seven races during the fall season...improved throughout the season, posting new career-best times in six of the seven meets...began the season with a bang, setting a new PR with a time of 27:41 at Sewanee...lowered that time by more than 40 seconds in his second meet at Georgia State, running a 26:59...lowered his time by 20 seconds at TTU, then by 11 at Jacksonville State and ran his current PR of 26:17 at Evansville...led Tech and set a new 10K PR at the NCAA South Regional with a time of 33:27.
(In 2010): John ran in all six meets, and proved to be a strong runner...opened the season at Sewanee placing second on the squad...also placed third on the team in two other races, at Western Kentucky and Furman...achieved a season-best time of 28:00.09 at Evansville.
(In 2009): John opened his Tech career by
placing fifth on the team in 29:44.06 at the Sewanee
Invitational...went on to run in five meets as a freshman and broke
the 30-minute mark two more times...clocked in at 29:27.90 at the
TTU Invitational and finished with a career-best 29:15.59 at the
Evansville meet.
HIGH SCHOOL: John attended William Blount High School in Maryville, where he competed with the Wildcats for Coach Chris Frary...he lettered four years each in both cross country and track...twice named Most Valuable Runner and also named to the All-Region team in cross country...also lettered one year in tennis.
PERSONAL: The son Mitch and Susan Greene...born April 20, 1991...full name is John Wesley Greene...majoring in engineering.


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Jackson Prep 63, Prairie View 33
Despite receiving a career-high 24-point effort from Tori Simmons, the Prairie View Lady Spartans came out on the short end of a 63-33 verdict against Jackson Prep on Thursday afternoon in the Jackson Academy Double Header.
Prep (17-5), the No. 3-ranked team in MAIS Class 3A, opened up a 15-8 first quarter lead and was up 25-16 at halftime. Outscoring the Lady Spartans 22-11 in the third quarter, the Lady Patriots stretched the difference to 47-27.
Sara Bolen and Morgan Litchler scored 16 points apiece and Ann Hilton Buckner pitched in 11 for the Lady Patriots.
Simmons carried the load offensively for the Lady Spartans (17-4), who are ranked No. 6 in Class 2A.
Prairie View returns to JA on Saturday at 3:30 to take on another 3A foe, fifth-ranked Hillcrest Christian.


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We've packed the car and we're ready to go to this year's Fossil Festival! The Museum will be in its usual place in the main marquee on the beach near the Lyme Regis Museum - this is my first trip to Lyme so it's all new to me.
I'm looking forward to the tropical climate and warm, shallow sea...oh no, that was in the Jurassic period. Forecast for this weekend: cool with occasional showers and the possibility of overnight frosts. Ah well, we're in a tent!
Museum volunteers Sam McCausland and Mike Smith pack the important stuff into the Fossilmobile.
This year we will be bringing anthropologist Margaret Clegg to talk about ancient humans, and palaeontologists Pip Brewer and Jerry Hooker to showcase some very ancient mammals.
You can sieve for sharks teeth with fish curator Emma Bernard and expert David Ward, and if you can find them you can take them home with you! They will also show you how to use shark jaws and teeth to estimate the body size of some of the largest sharks ever to have lived.
Zoe Hughes, our cephalopod and brachiopod curator and I will be explaining how palaeontologists reconstruct fossils to work out how the animals looked when they were alive. Test your palaeo-skills with our drawing challenge! Palaeontologists Martin Munt and Noel Morris are Lyme veterans and will be on hand to answer all your most technical paleontological questions - so you'd better think of some!
Those mysterious Museum mineralogists are planning a sparkling surprise so come down to the beach and see some very special pebbles...


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Good readers, let me take this time to suggest you toss out that old tape recorder from the 80s you may have used to interview various tattoo artists in the past, especially if you've recently discovered that during your latest interview it failed to record anything at all and, instead, still has the four gloriously terrible songs from your short-lived lark of a synth-heavy goofball hardcore band AXXX WOUND.
Good thing I was able to hang out with French tattooer Noon for a few weeks before getting him to sit down for an interview. So instead of a nice and neat little Q and A, you get a nice and neat little quasi-article from some feverishly taken notes before Noon booked for more international travels. And while it seems Noon is constantly on the move, he's made a semi-permanent home at Tattoo Culture in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, usually returning twice a year.
Recently featured in the May issue of Total Tattoo, Noon has created a style instantly recognizable and completely his own. It's something I'd rather let him describe, though he plainly says, "It's difficult to explain. I would say it's minimalist, it's singular. I don't know if there's a real name for this. The way I started was with the idea that the tattoo could be finished with only the line."
Growing up in a town full of ex-cons and gypsies, Noon's studied how they tattooed. "I watched them attach needles to pencils and set the ink bottle on a small plate over a flame. Very basic. I was young and in the poor part of town. All the guys there were tattooed and tattooing all the time. So I watched them. And at ten years old, I already knew how they did it. There was no color, no fill, only the line."
Noon's gypsy education could only go so far. He retained the basics and began to learn himself. He explains, "There were no magazines, no Internet. So in 1996 I got the address of Mickey Sharpz in London and I bought everything I could! I practiced on myself, I was always on the phone with Lionel (from Out of Step Tattoo) and we'd go back and forth asking 'How do you do this?' 'What's working for you?' It was not so easy then.""I like the look and feel," he says, making motions with his hands that seem to be building something in mid-air. He plans to keep painting but he is a tattooist first. "Always tattooing," he says, "until they shkkt! -- chop off my hands."
Noon will be back at Tattoo Culture from November 9th through the 22nd. He's currently taking appointments via email.


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Jenny joined Colorado Public Radio as education reporter in July 2011 after spending 16 years at KUER, Salt Lake City, as senior reporter and news director. While at KUER, Jenny provided far-reaching coverage on a number of topics, including education, politics, immigration, health care and business. As news director, she also developed projects and series focused on issue-specific forums, citizen-based projects, commentaries and youth-produced stories.
Before her career in radio, Jenny worked as a literacy teacher at a refugee center in Alberta, Canada, where she developed curriculum and participated in the country's first program designed to help refugee children and teens adapt to life in Canada.
Jenny has won numerous national awards from Public Radio News Directors Incorporated, regional Murrow awards for news series and was named Best Radio Reporter six times by the Utah Headliners Chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists. In 2013 and 2015, Jenny won first prize nationally for education beat reporting in the Education Writer's Association contest and third prize for her report on violence in Denver schools. Jenny won second prize in the nation in beat reporting in EWA's 2014 contest. Jenny also served as senior fellow in NPR's Economic Training Project in 2009.


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Have just acquired a DT 360 but has issue with internal battery not holding any charge
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Anyone know where to get replacements at sensible price
Also was missing the flash drive and the wireless card and quill
A hard drive out of old IPod fits? Do you think it will work to test out the rest of the unit?
And is the pci card standard upgrade the wireless
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Don't underestimate the NEC's requirements for flexible cords and fixture wires — they're actually important enough that the standard covers them in two separate articles. Specifically, you'll find flexible cord requirements in Art. 400 and fixture wire requirements in Art. 402.
Flexible cords. The first thing you need to understand about flexible cords is that the NEC doesn't consider them "a wiring method." Article 400 applies to the cords and cables in Table 400.4, but it doesn't apply to the various types of cables in Chapter 3, such as NM, AC, or MC cable.
Next, it's important to remember that you must use the right cord and fittings for the application. For example, when you're working in a wet location, you need to use a cord approved for that purpose. This rule exists because the jacket material is tested to maintain its insulation properties and other characteristics only in the environment for which UL or another certifying body has approved it.
Take a few minutes to look at Table 400.4. If you think this is overkill for an extension cord, you're right. But it's not just about extension cords. Its scope ranges from lamp cords to vacuum cords — three of the entries are for elevator cords alone. It's still good to note the entries in this table.
You'll find the allowable ampacities for flexible cords in Tables 400.5(A) and 400.5(B). You'll find the overcurrent protection requirements in 400.13. Follow the requirements for 240.5 to protect cords.
You'll find a list of 11 permitted uses for flexible cords in 400.7. It helps to understand the rationale behind these uses. From time to time, equipment like pendants, cranes, and elevators must be moved and therefore need a flexible cord. In other cases, a short flexible cord provides for ease of installation and maintenance, as is the case with luminaires.
Art. 400 also includes a list of six uses not permitted for flexible cords. Consider the first item: you can't use cords to substitute for the fixed wiring of a structure. Requirements like these demonstrate the fact that flexible cords can't be used to get around Chapter 3 wiring methods.
You can't run cords in suspended ceilings or other "out-of-sight areas" (Fig. 1 above). Why is it OK to wire a luminaire with a cord when it's in the open, but not OK to use that same cord in a suspended ceiling? When a cord isn't in a concealed space, you can inspect it for damage caused by insects and rodents. Inside a suspended ceiling, these pests can chew through the cord and create a fire hazard you may not discover until it's too late. However, you can put cords within a raised floor not used for environmental air because this isn't considered a concealed space. See Art. 100 for the definition of "exposed."
The concept of not using flexible cords in place of Chapter 3 wiring methods sets the tone for 400.7 and 400.8. Consider the example of an appliance factory that violated this concept. Severe power quality problems in the finishing area resulted in unscheduled shutdowns and high scrap rates at a cost of nearly $1 million per month.
The subsequent investigation into these problems revealed a 2-foot thick bundle of flexible cords (SO wire) held together by hundreds of tie-wraps. This bundle ran from several 480V breakers to loads more than 200 feet away. Those loads included 10-hp motors and 120/208V transformers.
Redoing this installation to conform to Art. 400 and Chapter 3 eliminated the power quality problems and a major fire hazard. The payback period was just a few days, based on the power quality issues alone. While this is an extreme example, it illustrates the concept of using flexible cords for their intended purpose and using Chapter 3 wiring methods where required.
Flexible cords need support. Per 400.10, be sure to install them in a way that prevents transmission of tension to the conductor terminals. The NEC allows you to knot the cord, wind it with tape, or use fittings designed for relieving stress. However, the Code isn't a design guide — a higher level of stress relief than the Code minimum is often appropriate. For critical installations, it's best to use a factory-made stress relieving listed device — not an old-timer's knot (Fig. 2).
Fixture wires. As with flexible cords, the NEC doesn't consider fixture wires to be "a wiring method." And just as the NEC provides a large table that lists flexible cords, it also provides Table 402.3, which lists the various types of fixture wires, and Table 402.5, which specifies their allowable ampacities. If you look at that table, you'll see the smallest wire size is 18 AWG (Table). The NEC doesn't allow using a smaller fixture wire. If you use 20 AWG for fixture wire, you'll have a Code violation.
Raceways for fixture wires must be large enough to permit the installation and removal of conductors without damaging the insulation. Don't exceed the percentage fill specified in Table 1, Chapter 9. See 300.17 for additional details. If all conductors in a raceway are the same size and insulation, refer to Annex C for the maximum quantity per raceway type.
Per 402.10 and 402.11, you can use fixture wires to connect luminaires, but you can't use them as branch circuit conductors (Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 above). You can also use them for elevators and escalators [620.11(C)], Class 1 control and power-limited circuits [725.27(B)], and nonpower limited fire alarm circuits [760.27(B)]. You must protect them against overcurrent per 240.5. If you're using fixture wires for motor control circuit taps, follow 430.72(A). For Class 1 control circuits, follow 725.23.
Understanding flexible cord and fixture wiring requirements requires a minimal amount of time, but adhering to them can provide big benefits by eliminating preventable problems.


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It's Quatorze Juillet, the French national holiday as the Pyrenees are over and the first big shakeout at the 2006 Tour has shown who are the contenders and who are the pretenders. Hilly from the get-go, look for an early break, then a counterattack on the hills after Pailhes with 90km to go. Be certain that French champ Flo Brard will be looking to show off his Maillot Tricouleur on the way to the beautiful walled city of Carcassonne
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32 wrote:32 wrote:For those of you who were clamoring that Iverson would step outta the way and distribute for Carmelo, I'd like to make mention that he's currently 3rd in the league (tied with Dwayne Wade, behind LeBron James) for percentage of his team's points ( at 25.1%). Go ahead. Cite the 7 ally-oops he throws to Carmelo as "distribution". I cringe watching Iverson play.
If the Warriors get it going from beyond the arc, they can take this game. But we don't have a defensive answer for Iverson. Jackson will do what he can on 'Melo, but who guards AI? Baron? Because Allen will pass him like he's standing still... Monta seems like the best option, but I have a feeling it'll result in some quick fouls.
Please point out where I said Iverson "was great".
You don't have to say the word "great" to imply it. Your post states Iverson is third for percentage of his team's points. Then in your next paragraph you state how he will pass right by Baron when Baron tries to defend him and Baron can play pretty good defense, at least gets alot of steals


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Yesterday, Facebook announced a new search engine internal to the ring-fenced world of Facebook. For example, you could search to see if your friends "like" a movie. Too bad users can't rely on the search results to be true, and advertisers can't rely on them, either. Fabricated Likes Make Advertisers Look Bad Bernard Meisler at Readwrite had an interesting take-down of Facebook's fake likes (h/t Karl Denninger at The Market Ticker): Last month, while wasting a few moments on Facebook, my pal Brendan O'Malley was surprised to see that his old friend Alex Gomez had "liked" Discover. This was surprising not only because Alex hated mega-corporations but even more so because Alex had passed away six months earlier. The Facebook "like" is dated Nov. 1, which is strange since Alex "passed [away] around March 26 or March 27," O'Malley told me. Worse, O'Malley says the like was "quite offensive" since his friend "hated corporate bull****." That doesn't just make Facebook look bad, it makes Discover look bad, too. Users quickly figure out that "sponsored stories" have no credibility, and once credibility is lost, it's difficult to regain it. Questionable Advertising Results In an earlier commentary, I noted that one advertiser's own research showed that Facebook was charging it for bot clicks. It wasn't accusing Facebook of being the source of the fake clicks--anyone, including Facebook might have created the bot clicks--but the allegation is that Facebook charged the advertiser for the fakes, and it should have screened them out. Other advertisers are spending less because results are disappointing. The L.A. Times reported that just as General Motors, the third largest U.S. advertiser, pulled all of its $10 million in advertising for lack of results; the entertainment business is souring on Facebook, too. Film executives are considering cutting their ad spending and are miffed that Facebook is asking them to pay for exposure they previously got for free. Facebook is an ad supported web business, and its costs to find and keep users are going up while its per-user revenue is declining. Inflated Traffic Figures In an earlier commentary, I wrote that it seems to me that Facebook inflated its genuine user numbers (wildly underreported fakes) at its IPO, and that the problem is ongoing. Since writing my earlier commentary citing my unscientific survey: " Facebook's Fake Numbers: 'One Billion' Users May Be Less Than 500 Million" ( Huffington Post -- December 12, 2012), and after a Facebook spokesman responded to it (see update within the commentary in which the Facebook spokesman responds... but not to the numbers), I was amused to see that the Facebook "like" icon number in the upper right corner on Huffington Post dropped from 363 to 127. Perhaps Facebook is weeding out fake profiles and responding to my numbers after all. (Let's see, if I apply that ratio to "one billion" users, that would leave around 35 percent or 350 million genuine users. Well, it seems Facebook and I are in agreement!) Facebook has a big problem with fakes, impostors, and double/triple/quadruple counting of multi-platform fakes and users. If Facebook wants to claim it has one billion genuine active users, then it must defend that seemingly wildly inflated figure. To me it appears to be mostly baloney. My point is that as an advertiser, you cannot be assured that you are targeting real people, that the "likes" reported are real, and advertisers should independently verify that charges aren't from bot clicks. There's also no reason for you to take Facebook's assertions of advertising effectiveness as genuine. It seems to be very generous in claiming cause and effect for advertising revenues, but it's interesting to note that an experienced advertiser like GM doesn't spend on Facebook, but it spends advertising dollars on Twitter. Facebook Is Less Popular than Tumblr with the under 25's Never trust anyone over 25 may be the motto of the 13-25 year old demographic, and Facebook is showing Zuckerberg's age (29). (I'm under 25, since I use base-30 when I calculate it, but for everyone else I use base-10. If that doesn't seem fair, then consider that it seems to me that Facebook has been reporting genuine users using base-9, if not base-8, and the SEC expects it to use base-10.) A survey by Y Combinator start-up Survata found that 61 percent of teens aged 13-18 use Tumblr on a regular basis. Only 55 percent of them reported using Facebook on a regular basis (there's overlap). Minors are showing a clear preference for Tumblr. In the 18-25 age group, 57 percent use Tumblr on a regular basis, and only 52 percent use Facebook on a regular basis. There's some usage overlap, but young people prefer Tumblr. According to SocialBakers, around 1.4 million Americans stopped using Facebook in December. It still reportedly has 167 million users, but how many of those are fakes, imposters, or multiple counts due to multi-platform users? Adblock Plus Blocks All Facebook Ads for Android If all of the above weren't bad enough for Facebook, its already problematic mobile ad strategy had been dealt a blow by Eyeo's Adblock Plus for Android, since it can block all of your Facebook ads in all of the apps. Investors' Bottom Line Facebook brings in money but so far not enough to offset accounting losses. Its business model doesn't seem to justify its high valuation, since it hasn't demonstrated a viable revenue growth strategy. Since the IPO, Facebook has reported losses on a GAAP accounting basis, the standard for financial reporting. Now the worst seems to be happening. It is losing users to competition and technology is ahead of it to block its so-called strategies for bringing in new revenue.
Disclosure: I've bought and monetized puts on Facebook since they became exchange-traded shortly after the IPO. (" Investors Bet on Facebook Fall," Kaitlyn Kiernan and Jonathan Cheng, Wall Street Journal, May 19, 2012.) I'm currently long other puts on Facebook.
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Population-specific Community-based Cancer Screening May Discourage Smoking
While the World Health Organizations estimates that 60 to 80% of head and neck cancers could be curbed by changing at-risk behaviors, such as cigarettes use, our national programs to date have had little impact reducing these mortalities. To change this statistic and control costs, the June 2011 Affordable Care Act, (PL 111 - 148) mandated development of effective and achievable means for improvement in the U.S. health status. Contributing to the effort, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention support community-based programs that pair the offering of healthcare such as cheap cigarettes control interventions with education. This study's authors, understanding that office-based screening programs may not benefit those at risk who do not receive routine healthcare, set out to determine if participation in community-based screenings could result in a reduction in tobacco use and if different factors in participants predict behavior change.
To target the study population, NASCAR fans at the Atlanta Motor Speedway, who fit the demographic identified by Institute of Medicine of the National Academy as most at risk, were recruited. These were screened for symptoms indicative of head and neck cancer, such as lumps or sores in the mouth. Of the 578 participants who received a full screening, 31% were further identified as smokers. During the screening, physicians discussed signs and symptoms of head and neck cancer, the risks of tobacco use, and tobacco cessation with all participants.
A telephone survey of study participants was conducted six months later. Of those reached for survey who had identified as smokers at the screening, 59% reported smoking cigarettes fewer cigarettes store per day than six months prior, and 15% reported quitting smoking cigarettes entirely. Based on this evidence, the authors suggest that "the screening may have impacted tobacco cessation."
While the study's authors acknowledge that more research is needed, they state that community-based screening is likely useful, as it provides another source of tobacco-use education for an at-risk population. They write: "More must be done at national, state, and community level to support tobacco cessation in venues outside those funded government programs that historically have had little impact on tobacco use and head and neck cancer mortality. Physicians and healthcare workers must take the lead in developing creative avenues to teach their patients about tobacco cessation and its link to cancer and other diseases."