When it comes to arms training, the biggest mistake people make is neglecting both heads of the bicep. Many people are unaware that they are actually composed of two heads.
And although it's true that both heads will always be active in all bicep exercises, as shown in scientific literature, we can elicit superior activation in one head over the other with certain exercises.
Before we get started with the exercises, let's take a look at their anatomy.
The two heads of the bicep are the long head and the short head. The long head lies more laterally on the arm, and the short head more medially (the "inside" of the arm).
Another muscle that tends to be forgotten is the brachialis. It lies beneath the biceps and assists in flexing at the elbow. When well developed it can actually push your biceps up more to provide a better peak (Check out this article on a specific bicep peak workout) when flexing as well as provide more separation between the biceps and triceps.
So in order to best train your biceps you want to choose exercises that will allow growth in both heads as well as the brachialis.
You may be wondering what chin ups are doing in an arm routine, but in my opinion they are one of the best exercises to grow your biceps and scientific literature seems to agree with this.
For example, this 2014 study by the American Council on Exercise compared EMG activation of the biceps with 7 different exercises. The chin-up was tied for second for activation of the biceps. It even managed to out-perform traditional exercises like the barbell curl and EZ curl.
1) Because it's a compound movement.
2) Because research, like this study by Hughes et al. has shown that the biceps are comprised of mostly type II muscle fibers which (may) best respond to training with heavy weight.
In fact, one study by Lagally et al. found that each jump in relative load going from 30-90% of 1 rep max resulted in more bicep activation.
Meaning that in order to recruit all the motor units of your biceps, you need to use heavy weight. And since you can easily overload chin-ups with weight and work up to very heavy loads with it, I suggest starting your biceps workout with them and going heavy for fairly low reps.
This second exercise will be used to put more emphasis on the long head of your biceps, but keep in mind that both heads will always be activated to an extent during any elbow flexing movement.
But the reason it emphasizes the long head more is because when you perform a curl when on an incline, your shoulder is in a hyper-extended position. This stretches the head of the biceps which runs over the shoulder joint.
Since the long head is placed in a greater stretch position compared to the short head, it's now able to produce more force. And as demonstrated in this study by Oliveira et al., the long head will be active throughout the whole range of motion rather than just the beginning or just the end which is the case for many bicep exercises like preacher curls.
Thus, leading to better overall activation and growth for the long head.
The next exercise will be used to put more emphasis on the short head of the biceps.
I chose to include this exercise because as we saw earlier in this study, the concentration curl elicited much higher bicep activation than the 7 other exercises.
And the reason it puts more emphasis on the short head of the biceps is because, as shown in this study by Staudenmann et al., EMG activation of the short head of the biceps is maximized with combined flexion and supination.
So you want to turn your wrist out during every rep in order to fully activate the short head of your biceps.
Another great thing about this exercise is that it minimizes the involvement of the anterior delts, which often come into play during curling exercises.
In fact, the study I previously showed by the American Council of Exercise not only showed that the concentration curl had the greatest bicep activation, but the activation of the anterior delt was significantly lower during this exercise than all of the other workouts.
This is likely because during this movement the humerus is pressed against the leg and doesn't allow the upper arm to sway. This helps isolate the biceps to a greater degree.
One researcher also noted that there may be something mental going on as well. The fact that you can visually see your biceps working throughout the movement may in fact help with the mind-muscle connection.
You want to use this last exercise to help target the brachialis and the brachioradialis which are muscles that will help a lot in improving the aesthetics of your arm.
The reason I chose EZ Bar curls with a reverse grip is because, as demonstrated in this 2015 study by Staudenmann et al., the brachialis inserts onto the ulna rather than the radius.
Simply meaning that it only has one purpose and that is to flex the arm. Since it has no role in supinating the wrist like the biceps do, flexing the arm with a pronated grip will shift some of the work away from the biceps and onto the brachialis. This has been proven in various EMG studies like this one by Naito et al. to put more emphasis onto the brachialis which otherwise gets taken over by the biceps during regular curling exercises.
So to wrap this all up, here's a sample workout you can do using everything I previously discussed.
I don't suggest you perform this workout on it's own though. Rather, you can add it to an arms workout with triceps or with your back workout. However, it's a fairly high volume workout. You may want to consider cutting it down and spreading it throughout your routine or alternating the workouts.
Let me know if you have any questions, I'll be here to answer them! Cheers!
Concerning your short head isolation. Many things that I've read and watched conclude that supination of the forearm leads to more work done by the long head, not the short head. This can easily be seen by simply supinating your hand while your arm is bent at 90°. You can plainly see and feel the long head fire up as soon as your hand is supinated, but I'd love to hear from you about this. I personally use supine dumbbell curls as a long head isolator and can definitely feel it working on my outer bicep when I do.
Great question – I probably could have gone more in depth regarding this point I made, and I'll edit that part in the article. You're correct in what you're saying, but it isn't that simple. I suggest you take a look at this study (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21813298). "In the neutral and pronated forearm, the short head is the relatively more efficient supinator. In the supinated forearm, the long head becomes relatively more efficient at supination." So what this means, and what I've personally noticed, is that when going from a neutral hand position to a supinated position, the short head is more involved. However, when going from an already-supinated hand position and going into even more supination, this is where the long head actually becomes more involved since it's more efficient from a biomechanics perspective. So the involvement of each head depends on the extent to which you supinate your forearm. Hope this helps.
Is there any alt to doing the Incline Dumbbell Curls that work just as well? Because of a injury I have I find that execise abit hard on my arm when I sit in that position shown.
You might want to check out this video I made for some alternatives. 2 options are "drag curls" or "cable curls" where the arm is held behind the body.
Going to try it out on my next arm workout and see if it works better.
Thanks man, i love your youtube channel and your web, i really feel that since i workout with your programs i have better results, so thank you for your effort and time, i just want to ask if you could add to this kind of workouts some alternatives for the excersises like you do on the PDF's, that will be great and again, thanks a lot for your work.
Thanks Kevin! Will cover that for future articles/videos!
I love your videos and also want to adjust the workout for 3 days in a week, could you also provide a 3 way split routine like sample workout for Back + Bicep, Chest + Triceps, Legs + Shoulders.
I haven't written it up here yet!
Nice workout, can i do biceps and triceps at the same time?
It can be done in a superset fashion, yes.
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Congratulations to Jake on the selection of his 1995 as the August Miata of the Month!
I've been "into" cars since I was a little kid. I'd sit in the backseat of my mom's Nissan Sentra and read the badges on trunk lids to her as we drove around. My parents always supported my "car thing" in the form of magazines, trips to car shows, and so on, but it wasn't until I went to college that I really dove in head-first.
I learned to drive manual on a '99 BMW Z3. My parents didn't own any three-pedal cars at the time, but some family friends down the street did. So we used the Z3 to get my feet wet, and when I got my license and that family went out of town, they left me the BMW keys for ten days. As a high school kid with a newly-minted license, this was SO cool.
Throughout the rest of high school, they'd let me borrow the Z3 here and there, just for fun. The husband owned a Mariner Blue '91 Miata, and one day I asked if I could try that. He threw the keys at me. "Don't rest your foot on the clutch, go have fun, see you tomorrow."
My mom ended up buying a Chrysler Crossfire convertible right as I got my license, and my parents gave me her "old" Ford Escape to drive. The Escape was "mine" throughout high school.
So I got to college and went to the annual "clubs and orgs fair" in the convocation center with some friends. We're walking around and I see a racing helmet high above the crowd - and quickly headed that way, only to discover the college's motorsports club.
Madison Motorsports was full of incredibly friendly people with a very diverse set of vehicles. You name it, someone's owned it. I started learning about autocross and decided that my summer goal was to buy myself a sportier car than the Escape. In talking to the MM guys, they helped me narrow down my options, and I set my sights on a NA Miata.
The summer was full of working long hours and searching every possible venue for a car. I drove several really ragged-out examples locally, but eventually was contacted by a professor who saw my wanted-to-buy ad on Miata.net and had a black '95, three hours south. Dad took the day off and we drove to Williamsburg, check in hand. I was 18 and spent most of the money I had on a 72k-mile PEP Miata.
Driving that Miata home on I-95 was truly awesome, and terrifying. Surrounded by semi-trucks with the roof down was quite the experience.
After a $250 slave cylinder and $300 rear brakes, I discovered that maintenance would be the quick end to my bank account if I had to rely on shops. Fortunately, the MMers at school were all too happy to teach me how to spin a wrench. My friend DJ taught me how to change my oil and transmission fluid one day in his apartment parking lot. I Googled a lot, and searched this forum a lot.
From there, I started hanging out with the car club all the time. They became great friends. I got into local autocrosses, and even had my parents drive at a few of them. I started working with our region of the National Auto Sport Association as a flagger to get closer to the action.
Time went on, the Miata got modified and maintained by yours truly in various parking lots, as cash and time allowed. I ended up the president of Madison Motorsports for two years, increasing membership and participation and truly growing my gearhead-friend circle. My involvement with NASA grew tenfold, from flagging to working grid and timing, to now driving the pace car.
The BMW bug bit me senior year, and I ended up going through four old BMWs in three years as semi-lousy, mostly nice daily drivers - the Miata was on "fun/track car" status. I got a rollbar installed, and started tracking the hell out of it.
It lasted a year and a half.
My roommate backed it out of the garage one morning and noticed massive plumes of blue smoke from the exhaust. We tried various "snake oil" fixes, but the motor was done. At just 118k, I had killed it.
Naturally, I decided I was too attached to the car to just sell the smoky shell for a grand. So, I talked to my racer buddies and came up with a $700 motor from a '99. We got the motor home and I broke out my socket wrenches. In the span of a few weeks, spending an hour or so after work each night, I got the old motor ready to be removed. And then, in a 26-hour period of weekend, my roommate and three other friends helped me remove the old motor, install the new one, and get everything hooked back up.
The car had sat for about a year while I found parts, saved money, and so on. Taking it out on rock-hard Azenis to put the first tank of gas back in it was such a good feeling. I did this. We did this. It ran again.
The swap wasn't without faults. The car leaked fuel, oil and coolant at various times, but over a week or so we got it sorted. I've spent another Miata's worth of money fixing this one, and it was entirely worth it.
When you go to college, you meet friends, drop friends, change majors, add minors, move to new apartments/houses every year, take random trips, and eventually graduate and move again and repeat the process. The close friends I have now are all from my college car club and from the track. My passion is all-things-car and motorsport. It's what I do in my free time.
The Miata has been the only constant "thing" in my life since I was 18 - everything else has changed and evolved as time marches on.
And to think, my life is where it is now because of a little black Mazda I bought six years ago. Cheers.


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Another phony leader
Hillary Clinton, leadership, presidential nomination
We have sycophancy on the media's dance floor again. Perhaps I read the wrong headlines, but I see the press hugging itself all over because we now we have a woman running for president. Being a woman does not qualify you for any office, any more than being a man qualifies you for any office. Being a leader with integrity qualifies you for high office, especially president. Where do we find evidence that Hillary Clinton has those qualities?
The press say that Hillary Clinton delivered an historic speech Tuesday night in California, as she claimed the nomination. "Thanks to you we've reached a milestone: the first time in our nation's history that a woman will be a major party's nominee," she declaimed. Eight years ago we all congratulated ourselves when we nominated, then elected the first black president. Look how well he turned out. What a surprise, he preserved his predecessor's national security policies, because that's what presidents do. Clinton says that's why we should elect her: because she'll preserve the same disastrous policies that Bush and Obama forced on us!
Clinton's so-called historic speech sounds inspirational in the hands of smitten media. In fact, Clinton does nothing more than praise herself for her gender, and thank voters for making history by selecting her. You never heard Margaret Thatcher suggest British voters should vote for her because she would be the first woman elected prime minister. She told British citizens where she wanted to lead the country, and let voters decide whether they wanted to follow her. Clinton's speeches about where she wants to lead the country have no more substance than the ode to Hillary she delivered Tuesday night.
I wonder how many women actually take pride in the Democratic party's selection of Clinton. The way she takes credit for being the first female presidential nominee in our nation's history opens a small window on her weak character. Why do we have to keep listening to her talk about herself? After so long in public life, you still feel she wants us to vote for her because she's a woman, and because she has an impressive resume. If you choose a leader based on gender and her resume, you are not looking for qualities relevant to the job.
You see propaganda shots of Hillary bathed in celestial floodlight, looking benevolently up and over her followers. What a load of crap served up by – who can tell where this stuff originates? She is a power-grubbing politician whose only vision of leadership is her own electoral success, who uses other people to satisfy her desire for self-advancement, who sends other people's sons to war not to protect her country from danger, but because to do otherwise would endanger her career. She shows no qualities of leadership, no sense of integrity or service, no sense of anything but entitlement and ambition.
People say she works hard and does her homework. That's what we want in a leader? Our minimal standard now is someone who does her homework? That's a good quality for administrators who want to be prepared, but do we want to pat her on the head with a private jet and the White House? She is a weak candidate who will do nothing to correct our country's problems, and to make a big deal of her gender discredits female leaders through history who actually had integrity and vision. Hillary Clinton, by contrast, shows qualities we now expect from every phony leader who wants to move into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: crony crapitalism, favor trading, and a stooge like willingness to do what the national security state wants her to do.
Perhaps most revealing is her callous expectation that people ought to admire her because she has power. Remember leaders with integrity have power because people admire them.
Trump's Thin Skin vs. Clinton's Thick Head

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The Extension Division was established in 1921 as a way of offering education to those not attending Brigham Young University. In 1957 it was renamed Adult Education and Extension Services and in 1966 became the Division of Continuing Education. Those who served as directors include Lowry Nelson (1921-1936), Harrison R. Merrill (1936-1939), Carlton Culmsee (1939-1944), Gerrit de Jong (Acting Director; 1944-1946), Thomas L. Broadbent (Acting Director; 1946-1947), Harold G. Clark (1947-1957).
The Extension Division was established in 1921 as a way of offering education to those not attending Brigham Young University. In 1957 it was renamed Adult Education and Extension Services. Those who served as directors include Lowry Nelson (1921-1936), Harrison R. Merrill (1936-1939), Carlton Culmsee (1939-1944), Gerrit de Jong (Acting Director; 1944-1946), Thomas L. Broadbent (Acting Director; 1946-1947), Harold G. Clark (1947-1957).
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Abolished: 1957
Location: Provo, Utah (1921-1957)
The purpose of the Extension Division is to carry the work of Brigham Young University beyond the immediate campus to the people of the entire church as far as is feasible. At the time of its inception, its program combined publicity, off-campus programs, lectures, and community services with the more formal classroom offerings and credit courses both by correspondence and lecture.
Assets and Administrative Structure
The Extension Division was supervised by a director who reported to the president of the university.
Associated Units
Superior unit: Brigham Young University (1921-1957)
Later unit: Brigham Young University. Adult Education and Extension Services (1957)
Earlier unit: Brigham Young University. Extension Dept. (1920)
Associated unit: Brigham Young University. Extension Division Council (1950-1958)
Associated Archival Materials
Extension Division Announcement, 1921; BYU Quarterlies (UA 1102 Box 2 Fol 3)
Brigham Young University Annual Catalog 1921-1922 p. 8; (Lowry Nelson, Director)
Brigham Young University Annual Catalog 1936-1937 p.253; (Harrison R. Merrill, Director)
Brigham Young University Annual Catalog 1939-1940 p.216; (Carlton Culmsee, Director)
Brigham Young University Annual Catalog 1944-1945 p. 274; (Gerrit deJong, Acting Director)
Brigham Young University Annual Catalog 1946-1947 p. 305; (Thomas L. Broadbent, Acting Director)
Brigham Young University Annual Catalog 1946-1948 p. 304; (Harold G. Clark, Director)
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Home › Latest News › Vaping Digest July 1st
Vaping Digest July 1st
Posted on 1st July 2019 by Admin	Posted in Latest News
Monday's News at a glance:
San Francisco vape ban becomes law; WHO sticks to anti-vaping line – Brexit Britain's vaping paradise – San Fran Fallout – Canadian Data Causes Celebration – ACLU Objects to Nicotine Testing in Nebraska School – Vaping In The News – June 29th – The Golden Gate City Needs MSA Funds – Vermont Implements the Second Highest Vape Tax in the US – Colin Mendelsohn and Simon Chapman discuss vaping – VPZ to create 1,000 jobs and 200 stores across UK – THR Advocacy-Science and Consumers – Alana's 'uplifting journey' – E-Cigarettes to be banned in Indoor – Governments must find optimal regulatory balance – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest
San Francisco vape ban becomes law
Fergus Mason, Vaping Post
San Francisco's lawmakers have taken the final step to e-cig prohibition, voting through a new law that will ban all sales of vapour products inside the city as of 1 January 2020. Meanwhile, health officials in Turkey and Indonesia – two nations with massive smoking rates – have chosen to attack vaping instead. Even in the UK, "health" groups continue to attack tobacco harm reduction; vape advocates need to keep up the fight against the creeping tide of bans, taxes and bureaucratic meddling.
San Francisco vape ban could hinder war on tobacco, say UK experts
Brexit Britain's vaping paradise
Some U.K. lawmakers think they've found a way to reduce British smoking deaths: Brexit. Large numbers of British cigarette smokers will switch to vaping once the U.K. leaves the bloc, they argue, if looser British tobacco laws replace tighter EU limits on nicotine advertising and packaging.
Tobacco laws appear likely to mark one of the U.K.'s first post-Brexit breaks with EU law.
The House of Commons' science and technology committee recommended a review of tobacco legislation last year, to create a "more risk-proportionate regulatory environment." The government's Department of Health and Social Care agreed, saying it would look to "sensibly deregulate without harming public health" after Brexit.
San Fran Fallout
Dave Cross, Planet of the Vapes
The toxic news that San Francisco's Board of Supervisors had dropped a bomb on tobacco harm reduction spread around the world like a tornado, becoming the number one item in every news room. Critics lined up to denounce the nonsensical decision to prohibit the sale of vape products yet allow the continued legal sale of tobacco.
Neal Benowitz is a respected expert on the subject of nicotine. The University of California Los Angeles medicine professor announced he was "disappointed and frustrated" by the move, but his response was still guarded: "While I am sympathetic with the parents' concerns, whether e-cigarettes use among adolescents will persist, as opposed to being a fad, and if there are any long-term harms for e-cigarette use in youth are unknown.
San Francisco Vaping Ban Will Disproportionately Impact the Black Community
Canadian Data Causes Celebration
Research covering the United Kingdom, United States and Canada, looked at the numbers of teens taking up vaping. It is a disappointing hotchpotch that negated to factor in potential causes for the observed patterns. It has been leapt upon by prohibitionists and zealots as a reason to celebrate and implement superfluous restrictions.
"Prevalence of vaping and smoking among adolescents in Canada, England, and the United States: repeat national cross sectional surveys" was published by the British Medical Journal this last week.
Ultrafire batteries are crap. This 3000mAh 18650 was found to have an actual capacity of 530mAh when tested. No surprise there, but under the wrapper it wasn't an 18650, it was an 18500 with a spacer added. There was a nut glued in the base of the spacer to add weight. pic.twitter.com/IkAEsWgYWA
— Torchy (@TorchyUK) June 30, 2019
We @daniel_kotz have just completed the first 3 years of the German Study on Tobacco Use (DEBRA) with >36,000 respondents. So excited about the next 3 years @BMG_Bund @SRNT_Europe @HHU_de Latest prevalence rates on tobacco/e-cig consumption are available https://t.co/g1rtquwCC7
— Sabrina Kastaun (@KastaunS) June 28, 2019
ACLU Objects to Nicotine Testing
Jim McDonald, Vaping 360
A Nebraska school district is being challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union for its plan to randomly test students for nicotine. The recently announced policy—which will take effect this fall—has earned major media attention.
Fairbury public schools announced the new nicotine testing policy in a June 19 press release. The school has randomly tested students who participate in extracurricular activities for other drugs for the last three school years. Beginning this fall, Fairbury will add nicotine to the list.
Vaping In The News – June 29th
Kevin Crowley, Vaping Links
New study on second-hand JUUL vapour. You can all relax now. ~ Finally, A Direct Comparison of Smoking and Smokeless Tobacco Use ~ Denial of Nicotine Health Information Is a Breach of Human Rights ~ Behold the Revolving Door: Gottlieb Joins Pfizer ~ Scott Gottlieb Elected to Pfizer's Board of Directors ~ Big Pharma battles Big Tobacco over smokers ~ Thinking About The Children ~ Dual Use of Vapes and Cigarettes—Harmful or Harm Reduction? ~ Bad categories, bad science ~ Was Seattle's soda tax a bait and switch?
Keep Smoking San Francisco
The Golden Gate City Needs MSA Funds – Lindsey Stroud
After banning the sale of flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes and flavoring in e-cigarettes, San Francisco is snuffing out tobacco harm reduction again. Frisco is now the first city to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes. Mayor London Breed is expected to sign the ban, which will essentially save tobacco companies by wiping out a major competitor: electronic cigarettes and vaping devices.
This is especially ironic because 23 years ago San Francisco became the first locality to sue major tobacco manufactures, after nine states filed lawsuits to recoup state health care funds for smoking-related illnesses. The class-action suit resulted in the largest settlement in U.S. history: the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA).
Second Highest Vape Tax in the US
Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard
On July 1, the cost of electronic cigarettes and associated liquids skyrockets in Vermont as legislation passed earlier this year takes effect. The tax hike was made in the name of public health, especially of children. But the 92 percent wholesale tax, for which consumers will bear the burden, could hurt marginalized Vermonters and people seeking a safer alternative to combustible tobacco.
Signed into law on May 23, Vermont's Act 28 amended the existing Tobacco Products Tax by redefining "other tobacco products" to include non-tobacco products, such vapes and e-liquids, which it recognizes to be "tobacco substitutes."
Colin Mendelsohn and Simon Chapman
Discuss vaping on ABC Newcastle 1st July 2019
Thanks as always to @dnglos for the YouTubage
VPZ to create 1,000 jobs and 200 stores
Henry Saker-Clark
The UK's biggest vaping retailer has said it expects the UK Government to protect vapers from a San Francisco-style ban, as it commits its future to the industry with a major expansion plan.
VPZ has revealed plans to create 1,000 new jobs over the next three years as it looks to open 200 new stores across the UK.
The retailer, which has 125 stores across the country, said that it has outlined the rapid expansion proposals in order to keep up with surging demand as smokers put down traditional cigarettes.
Views of prison staff in Scotland
On the potential benefits and risks of e-cigarettes in smoke-free prisons
Ashley Brown, Helen Sweeting, Sean Semple, Linda Bauld, Evangelia Demou, Greig Logan, Kate Hunt
Conclusion Our findings highlight that scientific uncertainty, misunderstanding about vaping, the complexity of prisons as workplaces and prison tobacco control policy all have implications for staff perceptions of the potential place of e-cigarettes in smoke-free prisons. To alleviate staff concerns, there is a need for reliable information on e-cigarettes. Staff may also require reassurances on whether products are 'tamper proof', and rules about vaping indoors.
THR Advocacy-Science and Consumers
Charles Yates, NNA(AU)
I recently returned from the Global Forum on Nicotine, where some 700 like-minded individuals gathered to discuss various aspects of tobacco harm reduction. Although the topic of this years conference was "It's time to talk about nicotine", and it is, I was also focused on how best the NNA can maximise its efforts.
How should we move forward and moreover, how can we effect change? Is the consumer element of THR really a significant part of the equation? Can a collective of passionate advocates influence policy and facilitate a shift in government and societal thinking?
Alana's 'uplifting journey'
Alana Ibbetson's engaged in the fight of her life – a battle against one of the most addictive of toxins, nicotine.
"May 2, about two months ago," the Papamoa mum fires back when asked when exactly she had her last cigarette. Any lapsed smoker could also probably tell you the exact hour, the exact minute.
"But I haven't given up nicotine, I have given up smoking, I have given up cigarettes." She is realistic because her battle, if it's to be won, will be done so with small steps.
Governments must find optimal balance
Chris Lalonde
Across Canada, underage youth are legally restricted from purchasing alcohol, marijuana, cigarettes and vapes. But according to recently released survey data, they are using them anyway.
The media headlines say it all. A recent report in the British Medical Journal shows that Canada has experienced a "massive," "staggering," and "whopping" increase in teen vaping. Among 16- to 19-year-olds, last-30-days vaping use increased 74 per cent between 2017 and 2018.
India asks its states not to partner
With Philip Morris-funded foundation
India's health ministry has asked all state governments in the country not to partner with the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW) because of its links to tobacco giant Philip Morris International Inc (PM.N), a letter seen by Reuters showed.
Established in 2017, the FSFW focuses on eliminating usage of cigarettes and works toward smoking cessation using new technologies and alternative products. It says it works independently, but the World Health Organization (WHO) has said there are "clear conflicts" due to the $80 million in annual funding the foundation receives from Philip Morris.
E-Cigarettes to be banned in Indoor
Richie Pergolizzi
If you believe you can smoke an e-cigarette in a traditional nonsmoking area, think again. On July 1st, the ban on e-cigarettes in indoor areas will go into effect.
"I do support it, yeah." said supporter of the ban, Michael Shepard. According to Tobacco Free Florida, 25% of Florida high school students report using e-cigarettes as compared to just 4% of adults.
On this Day…2018
A look back at how things have moved on or otherwise….
Martin Cullip at #GFN18
I'd like to start with a little anecdote of something that I came across a few months ago. I got an Uber – it was fairly late at night and I'd been out with a friend.
We'd been drinking and vaping. He said "Oh, I've been vaping too, I've got an e-cigarette" I said "Oh, that's interesting, what have you got, let's see it?". He said "Oh no, I don't bring it out with me, I don't bring it to work." I said "Whyever not?". He said "Well, Transport for London have banned vaping in private hire vehicles so I can't use it and it's too much of a temptation." And I said "So, what do you do, when you go on a shift?". And he said "Well, I always buy a packet of cigarettes before I start work".
Act now to stop the EU vape tax
Collective of EU Vapers Associations
The European Commission is holding a public consultation into the taxation of tobacco and vaping products, ending on 3rd September (1). Consumer associations and tobacco harm reduction organizations are issuing an urgent call for mobilization.
Answer the questionnaire >> Public consultation on excise duties applied to manufactured tobacco and the possible taxation of novel products.
Les associations agissent contre la taxe anti-vape
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Feel like you are entering the bridge every time you come into your office by reproducing the Star Trek "swooshing" door sound. This trick uses a Webcam that sense motion, which triggers a script that plays the sound file. If you want something more professional looking, check out the Star Trek Door Panel on ThinkGeek.
Below is a picture of the setup I use. I have a tall filing cabinet that the speakers and camera can sit on.
Add a new sensor from the menu bar.
Move and adjust the sensor to where the threshold of the door is.
On the left side of the window, add this condition: When any sensor detects motion.
Then, add this action: Run shell script.
Save your work and let the fun begin. Anytime motion is detected, the door swoosh will play. Now you can feel like you live onboard an Intrepid-class starship.


With Christmas just a few weeks away now, we are all tightening our belts for the spend on presents and the first of our leisure activities to feel the pinch is likely to be bingo.
Free bingo is popular all year round but even more so at the festive season as we all save the pennies. Paddy Power Bingo is one site that has a great selection of freebies to offer their players.
It all starts the moment that you register to play with the site and deposit and spend at least £1. Once this is down, the Newbie Room opens for you and you have 10 days access to play in the room.
The room is open from midday until 1pm and then from 7pm until 9pm from Monday to Saturday and then 7pm until 8pm on Sundays.
The pot prizes for Monday to Saturday are £5 on the free games and then £10 on the Sunday sessions.
That's not all though, there are daily free games available from midday until midnight in the Super Bargain Room.
A free game plays every 30 minutes in the room and all bonuses won are subject to 1x wagering requirements.
Need even more? How about another free bingo hour between Monday and Friday from 6pm until 7pm?
This happens in the Star Rewards Room but you do have to have spent £60 cash in the current month to gain access to the room, so it's not 'free' in the real sense of the word.
Just use the bonus code FREEBINGONOV for this month if you do think your cash spend will be £60. Remember, cash spend does not equal cash deposit.


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The Framework Algorithm wizzard provides either a scheduled universe or a coarse/fine universe collection. How can I combine both and schedule a coarse/fine universe selection once a month?
Scheduled universe selection and coarse/fine universe selection are not designed to work in a chain combination. We are making more universe selection models.
Thanks for your answer - I am already using these kind of workarounds. My point is: They shouldn't be necessary. If you provide a scheduling mechanism for anything, you should also provide flexible scheduling periods. Right now, one can only choose between minute, daily, weekly and monthly and for the latter, you only get to choose between month start and month end. If I want any other period , or if I want to schedule an event in the middle of a month, I am bound to use workarounds and additional code, like the one you provided.
We have been looking into helpers to make Lean users life easy.
However, please note that Lean is event/data-driven and we cannot schedule an event. The workaround is actually a good solution for the Coarse+Fine Universe Selection case, because, in theory, we don't know when the event is fired. Therefore, only after the event is fired, that we can decide whether the algorithm should change the universe or not.


In 2001, Newspaper Subscription Services (NSS) was founded on the belief that one company should execute effective marketing programs to generate new subscriptions for all newspapers. Economies of scale should be achieved if the programs could be refined and then all newspapers would benefit and be served in the same way. Somebody needed to create turnkey marketing programs that were easy to implement and quick to deploy. Somebody should be the expert and be able to help our newspapers using proven strategies. That person was the founder, visionary, and current president of NSS, Frank Vega.
Frank is a second-generation newspaper enthusiast who began his first paper route at age 14. Committed to the industry since childhood, Frank created Newspaper Subscription Services in 2001. He is an experienced entrepreneur, having founded and developed six successful business ventures. He is also the former president of the Houston Entrepreneur's Organization, is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization, and is an active mentor for students of the University of Houston's entrepreneurial program. Frank graduated from the University of Florida's Warrington College of Business Administration with a degree in Business and Finance.
Matt has an extensive background forming relationships with large organizations. Prior to joining NSS, Matt worked in strategy and business development for Sears Roebuck. During his tenure, he developed a series of partnerships for Sears with companies including America Online (AOL), Cisco Systems, eBay and Amazon.com. Matt earned a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Florida and an MBA from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.
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Kevin brings a diversity of experience to the team, from software engineering to economics, strategic planning to marketing technology, design to implementation. He has worked in a range of environments from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, including co-founding three software consulting firms. Kevin also contributes to non-profits, often as a youth soccer coach, but most recently as member of the Board of Governors for the Houston Area Model United Nations, an educational institution. He combines his graduate degree in Economics (George Mason University) with his undergraduate in Computer Science (University of Houston) to deliver solutions that are both technically elegant as well as economically efficient.
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Devin relies on his critical thinking and problem solving skills to deliver the best program package to our clients. To maximize your orders, Devin examines your current sales mix and delivers a customized and strategic NSS proposal. Devin can help you achieve your order acquisition goals.
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Colts finally make a free agent move, signing defensive end Isaac Rochell
Joel A. Erickson
INDIANAPOLIS — The Colts have made their first outside signing of free agency.
Indianapolis is signing former Los Angeles Chargers defensive end Isaac Rochell to a one-year, $2.5 million deal, according to his agent, Brian McLaughlin, addressing a position left open by Denico Autry's decision to sign with the Tennessee Titans.
The loss of Autry, along with the free agency of Justin Houston and Al-Quadin Muhammad, has left the Colts with a hole at both defensive end spots.
Rochell, a Notre Dame product who will turn 26 in a month, is coming off of his rookie contract, and was a restricted free agent who wasn't offered a tender by the Chargers. That means he won't count in the compensatory pick formula, which awards draft picks to teams based on the number and salary of the unrestricted free agents they lose and sign.
But Rochell also fits the profile of defensive linemen like Autry, the sort of players general manager Chris Ballard has often pursued in free agency. Rochell is listed at 6-4, 280 pounds and has played at anywhere from 290 pounds to 270, small for a defensive tackle but big for a defensive end — Autry was listed at 6-5, 285 and played at less than that — and capable of playing both inside and out.
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Rochell, a seventh-round pick in 2017, has mostly been a rotational piece for the Chargers, but he has shown flashes of promise in a few extended starting roles when Los Angeles star Joey Bosa has been injured. In 2018, Rochell was given a career-high 536 snaps on defense when Bosa went down with a foot injury, and he responded with 29 tackles, a career-best five sacks and seven quarterback hits.
The big defensive lineman also made six starts in 2020 and played 437 snaps, but he finished with 29 tackles and 2.5 sacks, unable to quite match the production of the 2018 season. Rochell has 74 career tackles, 9.5 sacks and an interception in four seasons, and Indianapolis is likely hoping that a move to the Colts' penetrating scheme is a better fit for the McDonough, Ga. native than the schemes he played in Los Angeles.
Under Ballard, the Colts have often found good value in free agency by identifying players who might be better-suited to the Indianapolis scheme than the one that put them on the market. Autry, in particular, had been a rotational 3-4 defensive end in Oakland and had just 10.5 career sacks in four seasons when the Colts signed him in 2018, and in defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus' scheme, Autry piled up 20 sacks in just three years.
Unlike Autry, who signed a three-year deal worth $17.3 million, Rochell's modest deal — worth $2.5 million, with incentives that could push it to $3 million — indicates the Colts initially see the defensive lineman as a rotational player.
A replacement for Autry's spot in the starting lineup might already be in Indianapolis. Fourth-year defensive end Tyquan Lewis, another 'tweener the Colts took in the second round in 2018, finally started to realize his potential in 2020, compiling four sacks and eight tackles-for-loss in 415 snaps, along with starting in Autry's place when the veteran missed two games due to COVID-19.
Rochell will likely have to compete with Lewis and the rest of the Indianapolis defensive line for playing time.
By signing Rochell, the Colts have also added a potentially important person for a locker room that has already lost community leader Jacoby Brissett in free agency this season and could lose a few more leaders — team captains T.Y. Hilton and Justin Houston remain unrestricted free agents — before the market is done turning.
Rochell was the Chargers' Walter Payton Man of the Year nominee last season, in part for his efforts in support of social justice and voter registration. Rochell has an apparel brand, Local Human, that sends all of its revenue to the Do Good Foundation, along with several other community and philanthropic initiatives.
For the Colts, Rochell represents the first cautious move in a free agent period that has so far been quieter than any other in Ballard's tenure. While never a big spender in free agency — Ballard has always said he prefers to sit out the first wave and wait until the contracts match the player — the Colts have so far only tendered three non-restricted free agents, brought back running back Marlon Mack on a one-year, $2 million deal and signed Rochell.
Colts owner Jim Irsay indicated it's all part of the team's plan to preserve cap space and focus on extensions for draft picks coming to the end of their rookie deals. Players like linebacker Darius Leonard, right tackle Braden Smith, left guard Quenton Nelson and potentially running back Nyheim Hines have all been in the league for three seasons now, making them eligible for big-money extensions.
"First of all, I think Chris Ballard does an incredible job of finding ways to fill those holes the right way, in other words, also protecting the cap so you don't get in a precarious situation down the road," Colts owner Jim Irsay said Thursday. "I feel also very confident that as the time goes along, better deals come along that you can get guys done and fill some holes."


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Facebook pages acceptable for job posting?
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It Pays to be Original - Long Live the Royal Oak!
Or maybe, it is more accurate to say that it doesn't pay to lack imagination. By now most of you have digested the news from the Southern District of New York. Audemars Piguet has successfully brought suit against Swiss Watch International (also known as SWI), and been awarded over 9 million dollars US in damages. The Royal Oak is a beautiful watch with a legendary history and clear provenance. The Swiss Legend Trimix Diver, not so much. While this is not an outright copy/knock off (I mean it did have an SWI dial!), it was felt by many to be not exactly an SWI original creation. It would seem that the law (at least the Southern District of New York) agrees.
THANK YOU! Sometimes there seems to be a bit of "moral flexibility" in the watch industry, and it is a little too tempting for some to push the envelope because there oftentimes aren't real consequences. Hopefully this will help to spread the message.
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POSITIVELY the last Burns Supper of the season was held the other night by the Aberdeen office of the global IT services firm EDS.
NORWAY'S Ocean Rig has set a record $637,000 per day for premier-division semi-submersible rigs by securing a three-year $723million contract with UK-listed independent Tullow. There are two one-year options on offer that must be exercised before the end of 2008.
WITH more than 75 purchasing organisations now using FPAL as their supplier management and selection tool, the organisation is becoming the world's leading oil & gas industry supply chain database.
Rockfield Software is near the end of a three-year joint industry project focused on prediction of the initiation and evolution of fractures and faults within hydrocarbon reservoirs.
If you haven't already done so, there is still just enough time to enter the new energy category at Ernst & Young's Scotland Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards 2008.
THE scale of growth that Locke has in mind requires in the order of $500million - a sizeable war chest with which to hit the acquisitions trail - and First Reserve is ready to step up to the plate. He doesn't want to see Abbot eclipsed by competitors or fall prey to them.
THE Alvheim production ship is, as indicated earlier, a rebuild of an existing vessel. The Odin had been competed as a tanker to a flexible design originally developed by Aker.
Within the current quarter, Marathon expects to start production from its much-delayed Alvheim cluster development on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
KYUSHU University in Japan is establishing what it says will be the world's first graduate programme in hydrogen energy technologies.
Locke says the game plan isn't a secret; returning to the market after three to five years, perhaps longer, is quite likely, but only after growing the business substantially.
Formal completion of a £906million deal that takes Abbot Group off the London Stock Market and into private equity is imminent.
THE Carbon Trust is calling for expressions of interest from potential partners within the scientific community to collaborate in the development of a world-class commercially viable pyrolysis oil upgrading process.
The UK used to be known as the colonial power in India. However, today, the power is all with the rapidly expanding Indian economy.
ExxonMobil is looking for farm-in partners to its multi-trillion cu ft of natural gas potential Dunquin blocks in the Porcupine Basin.
ALVHEIM is located west of the Heimdal field on production licence PL 203 and the first discovery well was drilled in 1998. Well 24/6-2 was originally planned to test the hydrocarbon potential of the A2 North Heimdal T60 sand prospect within what is known as the Lista Formation in the northern part of the licence acreage in block 24/6.
The attraction to politicians of talking about energy policy is that it normally takes about five years before reality catches up with rhetoric - and by then, everyone has moved on.
SINTEZNEFTEGAZ is set to start drilling its Kunene-1 exploration well offshore Namibia in Block 1711 early this month, according to partner EnerGulf Resources.
A recent discussion with one of my partners, Paul Sheridan, who deals with environmental law, gave me some food for thought which I wanted to share with you.
There are differences on basic issues between Iraq's political parties and groups, and these are not expected to be resolved in the near future.


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The Bangkok Chronicle was the only English-language newspaper in Bangkok published throughout World War II. Its editor was Mr. Sivaram Madhvan. The Bangkok Chronicle was banned by the Thai government on 21 August 1945. A few days later, it appeared under the new name Democracy with a new publisher, but the same staff. This newspaper was published from 1 September 1945 until 31 January 1947.

The Bangkok Chronicle was preceded by The Siam Chronicle that was started in May 1936, renamed The Thai Chronicle in July 1939 until it changed its name again in September 1939 for The Bangkok Chronicle. Its first editor and director was Phya Prijanusasana.

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See also
 Timeline of English-language newspapers published in Thailand
 List of online newspaper archives - Thailand

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Defunct newspapers published in Thailand
English-language newspapers published in Asia
English-language newspapers published in Thailand
Newspapers established in 1939
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Giorgi Sarajishvili
Team Giorgi Sarajishvili
giorgi.sarajishvili@bgi.ge
Giorgi (George) Sarajishvili is Head of Litigation Practice at BGI Advisory Services Georgia, based in Tbilisi. Mr. Sarajishvili joined the firm in September 2010 after earning his Master degree in International Commercial Law at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Prior to joining the firm Mr. Sarajishvili served as a Senior Specialist at the Division of International Cooperation at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia. His responsibilities covered intergovernmental negotiations and reporting to international organizations. Professional experience of Mr. Sarajishvili includes a practice at the Office of the State Minister for Civil Integration Issues (short-term contractual employee) and Tbilisi City Court (legal intern).
Mr. Sarajishvilis practice areas cover litigation, arbitration, intellectual property, taxation and corporate law. His notable engagements include the following:
Represented the interests of foreign investors operating in various fields of business in Georgian Courts;
Represented foreign companies in local procedures for recognition and enforcement of foreign awards;
Advised and represented Apple, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard, Ferrero group, Amazon.com, Sony Corporation and other international companies on Intellectual Property matters;
Represented a client in the biggest ever (from financial standpoint) matrimonial case in Georgia;
Represented the interests of one of the largest companies in Georgia (producer of fertilizers) concerning a dispute over the legality of auctioning all its assets (worth over USD 100 mln) by the creditor (local bank);
Successfully established the court practice on veil piercing in private disputes in a case representing the interests of a subsidiary of the international commodity giant Glencore;
In representing the interests of Facebook.Inc, established a court practice on the cancellation of domain names incorporating a trademark;
Successfully completed two landmark cases in favour of multinational confectionary giant Ferrero Group, establishing standards for: a) the registration of a trademark which "acquired distinctiveness through usage," b) the exception from general prohibition of the registration of a geographical indication as a trademark;
Revised a taxation section of the Prospectus of the Georgian Government for the issuance of sovereign debt securities at an amount of USD 500 mln;
Revised a taxation section of the Prospectus of a Georgian bank for the issuance of Securities for the London Stock Exchange;
Represented the Georgian Government in bilateral negotiations with the European Commission on Visa Facilitation and Readmission Agreements.
Mr. Sarajishvili was a successful participant at international moot court competitions - Vis International Commercial Moot Arbitration (Vienna, Austria), Jessup Moot Court Competition (Washington, the USA), Price International Media Law Moot Court Competition (Oxford, Great Britain), Central and Eastern European Moot Competition (Poznan, Poland), etc.
Together with his native Georgian, Mr. Sarajishvili is fluent in English and Russian.
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BGI Legal is 'exceptional' in M&A, financing and real estate, and is especially prominent in the energy sector. Lasha Gogiberidze, whom clients regard as 'the top lawyer in Georgia for banking, finance and capital markets transactions', and Sandro Bibilashvili handled a number of innovative regional energy projects and joint ventures, such as the Adjaristsqali hydropower project.
Vastly experienced market-leading firm assisting international and regional clients with all manner of corporate and commercial matters. Particularly well versed in project financing and loan agreements. Clients say: "The lawyers are detail-oriented and are always very helpful... Among the leading firms in Georgia."
A leading figure in capital markets and M&A, Lasha Gogiberidze has an enviable track record of acting on the market's highlight deals, primarily advising banks, including international developmental institutions. He wins praise for his responsiveness and is described as "very client-focused and understanding of our needs."


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Cheboygan Crib Light Seeing The Light
Cheboygan, Michigan Home Back
The plan for the Cheboygan Crib Light as drawn-up by the District Engineer called for a round crib with an octagonal cast iron pierhead beacon centered upon it. While a contract for the fabrication and erection of the cast iron tower was awarded late in 1883, work on the crib itself did not begin until the opening of the 1884 season of navigation.
Work began with the construction of a wooden crib onshore in Cheboygan, which was then lowered into the water and towed out to the specified location at the entrance to the dredged river channel. Sunk in place with the addition of crushed rock, an upper level consisting of oak timber framework was then constructed atop the crib, with a basement oil storage room beneath the location in which the tower was to be installed. The deck of this superstructure was then leveled at a height of eleven feet above the water, planked with timber and fitted with a circular oak ring centered over the oil storage room to serve as an anchoring foundation for the cast iron tower itself.
On October 15, 1884, the cast iron tower was then assembled atop the oak ring and securely bolted in place. After a set of cast iron spiral stairs were installed to provide access to the lantern, the interior walls of the structure were lined with 2 ½ inch wide beaded pine paneling to help provide insulation, and to prevent condensation. Glass prism grates were installed in the lantern floor to allow light to pass into the structure's interior, and a pot-bellied stove was installed in the lower level, and a hole drilled in the gallery floor for its galvanized iron stovepipe. Atop the gallery, a prefabricated octagonal cast iron lantern was installed with a copper roof surmounted with an 18-inch copper ventilator ball. Atop this ventilator a lightning rod was installed and grounded to the water by way of a cable attached to the exterior of the structure.
The district Lampist arrived at the site to install the flashing red Fourth Order Fresnel lens with a 159 candlepower kerosene-powered lamp. The occulting mechanism was carefully adjusted to ensure that the station's designated repeated 2 ½ second cycle was attained, consisting of a single ½ second flash followed by a 2 second eclipse. By virtue of the tower's location atop the eleven foot high crib, the lens sat at a focal plane of 36 feet, with a resulting range of visibility of ten miles under clear conditions.
With construction complete, the entire structure was given a fresh coat of brown paint, and the Light was officially exhibited for the first time on the evening of November 1, 1884.
There station was built without a dwelling in the crib, and since there was insufficient room within the tower for living space, it would appear that it was District Inspector Commander Francis A. Cook's plan to have the keeper live on shore. Since the Lighthouse Board annual reports of the time make specific mention of the fact that an Assistant Keeper was assigned to this station, it would appear likely that he operated under the supervision of the Keeper of the Cheboygan Range Lights, and thus likely lived in the Font Range dwelling with the Head Keeper.
One can only imagine the drudgery involved for the keepers who manned this station. Every afternoon he would have to leave the safety of the dwelling in Cheboygan and row the ¼ mile out to the light in whatever weather the lake was dishing-up that day. On arrival at the crib, he would carefully secure his boat at the foot of the crib, and then gingerly step from the heaving boat onto the eleven foot ladder, climbing up to the deck while simultaneously carrying any supplies needed for the night. The lamp would illuminated at dusk, and the keeper would then sit in the solitude of the tower, huddled close to the stove to keep warm on cold nights during the late season, making frequent climbs to the lantern to adjust the light by trimming the wick, winding the occulting mechanism and adding fuel to the lamp. As dawn finally raised its head across the Straits of Mackinac, the lamp would be extinguished, and the illuminating apparatus, lens and lantern would be cleaned in preparation for illumination later that day. The keeper would then row the ¼ mile back to shore to get some sleep, knowing that he would have to back out on the crib to repeat the cycle a few short hours later.
To provide an extra measure of safety for the keeper, and to facilitate the transfer of supplies, a work crew from the Detroit depot arrive at the station in 1892 and installed a pair of iron boat davits on the crib. The keeper no doubt considered this addition to be a real improvement for, since it would allow him to raise the boat to the crib deck, where it would be safe from being broken against the crib by the crashing waves, and allow for far safer unloading of supplies.
In 1897, it would appear that the difficult conditions on the Crib came to the attention of the District Inspector, since it was in this year that a small dwelling and a pile protection for the boat were constructed on the crib. At the same time three and a half cords of riprap were placed around the base of the crib to protect against the action of the seas. The following year the District Lampist delivered a new and improved Fourth Order lamp to the station, increasing the distance of visibility to twelve miles.
It is a particular property of wood that if it is either kept dry or wet at all times, it holds up for extremely long periods of time. However, wood that is subjected to alternating periods of wet and dry will begin to rot. With the crib and decking being constructed entirely of wood, it is not surprising that by 1899 the entire deck needed replacement, and an additional 28 cords of riprap were installed at the crib's base in an attempt to stave off the complete re-facing that was becoming clearly inevitable.
To increase the effectiveness of the structure as a day mark, the main body of the tower received a coat of white paint in 1901, with the lantern room roof being painted a contrasting bright red.
By 1903, the deteriorating condition of the crib had reached a point at which it was critical that major repairs be undertaken to preclude its total collapse along with the tower above. A contract was awarded for the replacement of the wooden structure with something of a more substantial and permanent nature. The contractor arrived in Cheboygan and began the rebuilding by removing the entire wooden superstructure to a level twelve inches below the water level, a point at which constant immersion had precluded rotting of the timbers. On this solid foundation, a new concrete pier, faced with masonry was constructed, incorporating a new oil storage room below the tower and a cellar beneath the dwelling formed within the mass of concrete. To enhance safety, an iron hand railing was installed around the perimeter of the deck level. This railing was subsequently replaced three years later when an unnamed schooner collided with the tower.
To help preclude a reoccurrence of the 1906 collision, an automated fog bell was established on the crib in 1911, sounding a characteristic a single stroke every tens seconds.
Automation came to the crib in the late 1920's when the kerosene lamp within the Fourth Order Fresnel was replaced with an acetylene system equipped with a Sun Valve. The Sun Valve was designed to automatically turned the gas on as the cold of night arrived and off with the arrival of the warmth of day. Equipped with a tank into which acetylene could be pumped from the lighthouse tender Amaranth the light could be supplied with sufficient acetylene to stay lighted for the entire season. Thus any emergency troubleshooting by the Keepers of the Range lights, and a full-time keeper was no longer needed on the Crib. Thus it was that the last keeper assigned to the Cheboygan Crib Light left the structure on August 6, 1929.
It was likely during this time that the Crib Light became fondly known to locals as "The Dummy." A name that was commonly used when referring to the Light into the early 1980's, by which time crib had taken on a noticeable "leaning tower of Pisa" list, and was believed to be in danger of collapsing into the water. By this time, the use of Radio beacons, RADAR and LORAN-C had become universal in Great Lakes navigation, and the value of the Cheboygan Crib Light as an aid to navigation had decreased considerably. After evaluating the condition of the structure, the Coast Guard determined that the cost of stabilization and restoration would outweigh any navigational benefit, and made the difficult decision to scrap the iron tower and dynamite the crib into oblivion.
Hearing of "the Dummy's" impending destruction, a number of Cheboygan citizens raised their voices to see if some arrangement could be made to save the century old landmark. An agreement was reached with the Coast Guard whereby the tower would be donated to the City of Cheboygan for display as a historical attraction, and a new home for the structure was identified on the West Breakwall off Gordon Turner Park. A contract was entered into with Ryba Marine of Cheboygan to relocate the tower and remove the crib.
In the 1984, a Ryba barge with a boom arrived at the crib, and by means of a bar placed through the tower's round upper widows below the gallery, the tower was lifted from the crib and lowered onto the barge. From there it was transported to the Breakwall and lowered into the position in which it sits to this day. After installation, the glass windows were replaced with Lexan for safety reasons, and the tower was given a new coat of white paint, with the windows and door frame receiving a historically inaccurate coat or bright red paint.
When Dick Moehl and Sandy Planisek of the Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association visited Cheboygan early in 2001, they were dismayed to find that the tower had deteriorated, with the Lexan having crazed, and the station leaking as a result of the caulking having fallen out over the years. They approaching the City with the proposal that they would offer their labor to restore the structure if the City would cover the cost of materials. Receiving approval for the project from the city, Dick and Sandy set to work on August 2, 2001. After re-caulking all joints throughout the structure and replacing the Lexan windows, they painted the tower in its historically accurate white paint, gray gallery and red roof and ventilator.
Thanks to Dick and Sandy, the structure now has a fighting chance of making into its fourth century!
From downtown Cheboygan, take Water Street East to First Street. Turn left on First Street to Huron Street. Head East on Huron Street to Gordon Turner Park, and walk the beach to the lighthouse and pier.
06/14/200 email from the Cheboygan County Historical Society. Cheboygan Tribune article by Brenda Webb, 09/25/01
Great Lakes Light Lists, various, 1924 through 1958
1953 Coast Pilot, US Army Corps of Engineers
1980 photograph courtesy of Joann Gulau.
NPS Inventory of Historic Light Stations.
12/31/01 telephone conversation with Tom Tag of Great Lakes Lighthouse Research.
Annual reports of the Lighthouse Board, various, 1884 through 1911.
© Terry Pepper. This page last updated 12/02/2007 . Home Back


Here are some of the highlights from the November 10, 2012, Today's Homeowner with Danny Lipford radio show.
Jodi Marks shared a weekend project that used molding to add a touch of class to any room in the house!
Danny and Allen shared some low-cost tips to help you reduce heating bills this winter.
How to paint stained oak kitchen cabinets.
Adding crown molding to a popcorn ceiling.
How to prevent overspray when painting handrails.
Insulating stud walls in a basement.
Deicer to use on sidewalks and steps.
How to reduce glare from a white fence around patio.
Problem with cracking sound when walking on tile floor.
Moisture problem in concrete slab and walls.
Problem paint peeling on walls.
How to hang beadboard paneling over plaster walls.
Removing silicone caulk around a shower.
Problem with black residue in toilet.
Problem with bounce in floors and wall cracks.
Where to buy louvered privacy window screens.
How to paint wood outdoor steps to prevent peeling.
Problem with peeling ceiling paint.


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Drop morphologies on flexible fibers: influence of elastocapillary effects.
Title Drop morphologies on flexible fibers: influence of elastocapillary effects.
Authors Sauret, A, Boulogne, F, Somszor, K, Dressaire, E, Stone, HA
Journal Soft Matter
Date Published 2016 Dec 21
Various materials are made of long thin fibers that are randomly oriented to form a complex network in which drops of wetting liquid tend to accumulate at the nodes. The capillary force exerted by the liquid can bend flexible fibers, which in turn influences the morphology adopted by the liquid. In this paper, we investigate through a model situation the role of the fiber flexibility on the shape of a small volume of liquid on a pair of crossed flexible fibers. We characterize the liquid morphologies as we vary the volume of liquid, the angle between the fibers, and the length of the fibers. The drop morphologies previously reported for rigid crossed fibers, i.e., a drop, a column and a mixed morphology, are also observed on flexible crossed fibers with modified domains of existence. In addition, at small tilt angles between the fibers, a new behavior is observed: the fibers bend and collapse. Depending on the volume of liquid, a thin column with or without a drop is reported on the collapsed fibers. Our study suggests that the fiber flexibility adds a rich variety of behaviors that may be important for some applications.
DOI 10.1039/c6sm00921b
Alternate Journal Soft Matter


Watch night fall over the Pacific on a 2-hour sunset air tour of the Big Island, and explore steaming calderas, rainforests and Hawaii's rugged coast. Leave Kona in a Cessna plane and soar above the Hawaii Volcanos National Park; see Kilauea's lava flows glow in the dusky light as you enjoy your pilot's commentary on the island's landmarks and history. Capture unforgettable images through the plane's viewing windows, glide over the coast's beaches and surf breaks then catch the night's first stars as you touch back down in Kona.
2 thumbs up to Captain Daryl and the team at Big Island Air. Grateful that they still honored the tour even though there was only 1 other passenger besides me and my mom. Even if it were a full group, every seat gets their own window - no middle seat problem as you would have in a helicopter. And when we reached the main attraction where the lava meets the ocean, Captain Daryl circled in close and tight making sure we got to see the show.


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Q: What were Odo's "Analogies"? In the book The Dispossessed there are a number of references to what's called "Odo's Analogies". The Analogies seems to be the title of perhaps a body of writing or philosophy by the character Odo, the formative thinker of the anarchist movement upon which the society of planet Anarres is based.
How much or what parts of the "Analogies" are actually known and available to readers? eg Have they ever been written or published by Ursula K. LeGuin? Or inferred in any detail from her other writings?

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Nino Pecoraro (1899–1973) was an Italian spiritualist medium who was exposed as a fraud.

Pecoraro from Naples worked as a spiritualist medium. He claimed his spirit guide was Eusapia Palladino, a deceased medium. The psychical researcher Hereward Carrington introduced Pecoraro to the spiritualist Arthur Conan Doyle in America. Pecoraro who was tied up during a séance by Carrington, managed to impress Doyle by making musical instruments play.

Carrington persuaded Pecoraro to participate in the Scientific American contest. In four days in December, 1923 he was tested by members of the committee. He was tied to a chair with sixty feet of rope. Beside him was placed a table with musical instruments. During the séances various movements and sounds of objects were heard. He had managed to impress some of the committee members who considered the phenomena genuine. However, O. D. Munn, the publisher of the Scientific American, suspected that he had freed his hand to play the instruments.

The magician Harry Houdini had not been informed of the test sessions, but managed to get to the fourth séance. Houdini suggested that Percorao was an  escape artist who freed himself from the rope that bound him to his chair. Before the séance, Houdini had cut the rope into shorter pieces and tied Pecoraro to the chair. Because of the tight control, no phenomena occurred. In 1931, Pecoraro confessed his fraud in a newspaper interview.

Later in life he became an artist.  Two of his paintings are on exhibit at The Houdini Museum in Scranton, PA.

References

External links
Another Medium Exposed. The Drummondville Spokesman, April 28, 1931.
Faked Seances: Confessions of a World-Famous Medium. The Sunday Times, Perth, Western Australia, June 28, 1931.

1899 births
1973 deaths
Harry Houdini
Italian spiritualists
People from Naples
Psychokineticists
Spiritual mediums


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