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The suspends level has been there always since The Leet World and the beginning of Web Zeroes.
I have enjoyed watching the stuffs u guys have made and will forever be a fan of the smooth few films gang..
Lots of laughter of joy through out Season 1. Hope Season 2 will be the same or even more better.
Cant wait for March 2010 to watch Season 2.
NICE!!! loved this episode! cant possibly wait for season 2!!
love your stuff guys ,also i cant find it anywhere so ill ask here ,whats the camcorder you shoot with?
We use a Panasonic HVX-200 for most of the show, for season 2 we'll be switch to a canon 7D.
Could I possibly get the encoder settings for this video?
You guys are my hero's!
Cant wait till the next season!
I followed the link from Burnie's blog on Rooster Teeth and watched the whole series in two sittings. Good show. I actually registered as a user just to comment on how great that joke was 🙂 Worth it. Anyway I'm gonna grab my Chirizo and pepperoni pizza and finish the finale.


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Eli Manning is Overhyped and Giant Fans Don't Care
New York Giants QB Eli Manning is one of the most famous sports figures in America. He's also one of the highest-paid. He can't help that. He was born a Manning and he was acquired by the Giants. There's no bigger spotlight to be under as the Giants' QB. He's also a member of football's royal family. There's no escaping that.
He has answered his critics with two Super Bowl wins over the game's greatest player in Tom Brady but those moments are distant memories in this man's NFL. The past few seasons have seen Eli look more like a washed-up bum than a two-time Super Bowl MVP who ranks sixth all-time in passes attempted and completed and yards passing. He has thrown 339 touchdowns in his career (8th all time) and holds every Giants passing mark that matters.
So when our friend Brett Sobieski over at Bleacher Report put Eli at the top of his list of "overhyped" NFL players, Giant fans just shrug it off.
Who cares? Not me. Not Giant fans. We know Eli's "decline" is being greatly exaggerated.
I'll admit, Eli has frustrated the living out of me at times and, yes, I occasionally wished the Giants had kept Philip Rivers or drafted Ben Roethlisberger instead of putting together that deal for Eli back in April of 2004.
But a lot of that goes away when Manning has a big game. Only problem is, he hasn't had too many of those of late. And we can blame that on the Giants' brass and Ben McAdoo more than anyone else. Eli has been here everyday, showing up for work ready to go. The same cannot be said for the rest of the organization.
Eli Manning has been under constant pressure the past few years with little to work with. (Photo credit: Andrew Mills | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)
The Giants brought McAdoo in as their offensive coordinator in 2014 to help Eli raise his completion percentage. McAdoo had been Aaron Rodgers' QB coach in Green Bay not realizing that Rodgers didn't need a QB coach. Never has, never will. Rodgers can succeed in any offensive scheme, not just the Packers'. He has escapability, something Eli doesn't have. McAdoo and his boss, Mike McCarthy, were often bailed out by Rodgers' improvisational style. When Rodgers got hurt last year, the Packers went 3-6 with Brett Hundley at QB as proof that their offensive plan sucks. It's all about Rodgers' ability.
McAdoo installed that short passing game here in New York, one which he knew did not fit around Eli's big-play style. I called it "horizontal", which is diametrically opposed to a "vertical" passing game. Eli is a vertical, downfield passer. Always has been. By putting him in a short passing offense, the Giants emasculated him. That's why his numbers suck the past few year. And, by the way, his completion percentage didn't get any better, either.
It didn't help that the Giants failed to put a decent offensive line in front of him and completely abandoned the running game. Defenses would salivate over playing the Giants and their truncated passing route tree. They would jam the box with all eleven players knowing the Giants had no designs on spreading the field. They stopped the run and the pass. They also put constant pressure on Manning.
The results were disastrous. McAdoo never adjusted, either. Eli was left to throw four yard passes to receivers who would either be covered, dropped the ball or got hit immediately. With no possibility of play-action, defenses would be all over the Giants in the box making moving the football nearly impossible. The hope was that the receiver would catch the ball and then make a defender or two miss to gain extra yards. Odell Beckham, Jr. did this quite often but to ask him to consistently create magic was unreasonable.
Since 2014, only Derek Carr has suffered more dropped passes than Eli Manning. #Giants
Last season, Eli's targets totaled an #NFL worst 43 drops. Their 16 drops on 3rd down also led the league. pic.twitter.com/7O1PUjvVLi
— PFF NY Giants (@PFF_Giants) June 7, 2018
Then, after OBJ got hurt in early October last season, the Giants were left with very little for Manning to work with. In my opinion, he did the best he could. Rivers or Rothelisberger would have fared no better given the scrubs they surrounded Eli with, not to mention the flawed offensive scheme.
Eli Manning threw 70% of his passes fewer than 10 yards downfield in 2017.
The #Giants have players to turn short passes into big plays.
In 2016, @OBJ_3 led all WRs with 30 forced missed tackles. Rookie @saquon led all draft-eligible RBs with 644 yards after the catch. 🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/XY3YNQiWK4
McAdoo's solution was to sit Manning in favor of Jets reject Geno Smith. That was the wrong move at the wrong time and it cost him, GM Jerry Reese and others their jobs.
After finishing sixth in points in 2015 (averaging 26.2 per game), the league caught up to McAdoo. The Giants have been shut down ever since. In 2016, they went 11-5 but it was on the back of their defense. The offensive production sunk to 19.4 points per game. Last year, they bottomed out with a paltry 15.4 average. Only lowly Cleveland was worse.
With McAdoo gone, the Giants are loosening the shackles on Manning and opening up their offense again. They hired coaches who had actually called plays and game planned in this league in head coach Pat Shurmur and OD Mike Shula. They revamped their offensive line and added a stud weapon in the draft in RB Saquon Barkley. In drills at OTAs, Manning is throwing the football deeper and with more authority.
More deep passing will bring a new element to the #Giants offense in 2018.
Last season, Eli Manning only threw deep on 10.5% of his attempts, the 2nd-lowest rate among 23 qualified QBs. https://t.co/wKyD90KJCh
Eli is poised for a big season. He's looking at another 4,500 yard season with a spike n big plays and TDs. In fact, I'll bet the rest of my hair on it.
They usually don't give the Comeback Player of the Year award to players who have underperformed the prior season or seasons. But in Eli's case, given his circumstances, he's a candidate this year. He's not done. In fact, he might be just beginning.
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Thesaurus apps for iPhone
By Kate Dohe, Macworld	 Apr 17, 2009 1:20 am PDT
As a graduate student, I spend a good amount of my time writing papers with titles like "The Ramifications of Convivial Design Mechanisms on Affective Responses." This sentence doesn't actually have any complex meaning (Translation: "How Group Features Make People Feel"), but by using a thesaurus, I can make it sound much more important—the secret of academics everywhere.
Consequently, the thesaurus is an essential writing tool, and it's only natural for established publishers and independent outfits alike to bring mobile thesauri to the iPhone. I took a look at a trio of apps to determine which is nonpareil.
Word Watch: Thesaurus from SearchQuest provides a big list of synonyms, antonyms, and related terms but not much in the way of context.
You get what you pay for with SearchQuest's $1 Thesaurus application—there are no frills or extra features, just a simple keywords search which provides you with a list of words categorized as synonyms, antonyms, or related terms.
However, SearchQuest's source material, which proudly advertises the contributions of "people on the internet," often inaccurately identifies broader or narrower terms as synonyms.
Additionally, there's a reason thesauri include usage notes and examples—if you need a thesaurus, chances are you also need help deciding what the most appropriate term for your audience is. A big list of words provides no context, and no context becomes a barrier to comprehension.
A Way With Words: Handy tools like autocomplete searching, usage notes, and the ability to bookmark entries makes Roget's II: New Thesaurus a winner.
At $10, Roget's II: New Thesaurus from Enfour offers the best value for features and content. Roget's II includes many handy tools like autocomplete searching, brief definitions, usage notes, and even professional features like wildcard searching. The app cross-links "See also" entries, but oddly doesn't cross-link terms in the synonym list.
While Roget's included fewer of my test terms than the other two apps I looked at for this round-up, the entries included were concise, easy to read and understand. Roget's allows users to bookmark entries and attach notes to an entry—a convenient feature for writers.
Is the Oxford Thesaurus of English worth $25 on the iPhone? Considering the print edition is nearly twice as expensive, and that Oxford's dictionaries are the gold standard for English language reference, perhaps the cost is justified.
As expected, the entries included in Handmark's iPhone version of the Oxford Thesaurus of English are thorough, very accurate, and include usage notes and examples. Moreover, all terms in an entry are cross-linked (when there is a corresponding entry in the thesaurus), and the developer made an interesting and useful decision to first enlarge a term when tapped, rather than immediately taking the user to the entry.
Linked In: Handmark's Oxford Thesaurus of English features a cross-link for any term that has a corresponding entry within the mobile thesaurus.
On the other hand, the Oxford Thesaurus of English should dazzle on the iPhone; instead its feature set comes up short when compared to Roget's II. While the Oxford Thesaurus app also searches as you type, it does not provide advanced search abilities like wildcards—power users are likely to miss this. Like Roget's, the app maintains a history of entries a user has looked at, but does not support bookmarking or attaching notes. In fact, even the $1 Thesaurus application lets users e-mail entries, but this too is missing from Oxford Thesaurus of English.
Ultimately, the best thesaurus for you depends on your writing needs, and how much value you place on accurate content. However, Roget's II stands out as a clear choice for anyone who needs both quality content and rich features.
Thesaurus and Roget's II: New Thesaurus are compatible with any iPhone or iPod touch running the iPhone 2.x software update. Oxford Thesaurus of English runs on the iPhone 2.1 update and higher.
[Kate Dohe is a graduate student in library and information science at the University of Hawai'i in Honolulu; she works with the Laboratory for Interactive Learning Technologies as a designer and site administrator.]


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Wow guys, it has been a crazy week in my neck of the woods and here at DALB but it's good to be back up and running so let's get straight to today's tutorial.
Step 1: Cut your sock about a 1/3 in. taller than where you want the design to begin.
Step 2: Open up your clasp so it forms a circle.
Stick your sock in the center so the cut edge of the sock touches the rim of the clasp.
Step 3: Thread your needle and starting on one side of the clasp begin sewing around the top of the sock through the holes.
I folded the top of my fabric over and sewed through both layers, which tidied up my edges nicely.
Now you have a little expandable pouch of your own! I am torn with what to do with mine. I could keep glasses, D&D dice, or my iPod in it. I'm just going to have to make more!
If you like this tutorial you may also enjoy my Binder Pencil Pouch or my Comfy Camera Strap.


Well I have decided to revive this website after a couple of years of inactivity! All encouragement is readily accepted.
I have had the Super on the road for a couple of years now. I haven't been out in it nearly enough due to all the other time demands on life. I do try to make a point of getting to the local Cars and Coffee event each month though.
I am going to re-enable comments on the posts as well, in the hope that I get some positive feedback to keep me going!


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9-11, Conspiracies, and Science of Building Collapse
Updated on October 15, 2017
Dan Demland
Registered Architect, 40 years experience, investigative forensic specialist, engineering trained, college teacher, NCARB mentor, MBA.
About a month ago we marked the 16th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. I wrote my first article on the event back in 2009, and a follow-up article in 2011. I will attempt not to repeat here what I wrote in those articles. Much of the misinformation fervor has thankfully faded away, however much still lingers. Just recently I was at a function of a trade association that I am a member of, and was discussing with a colleague past events in our industry. As many times has seen in the past, 9-11 became a topic of discussion, and I came face to face once again with these conspiracy theories. Reading those previous articles of mine, you will know I hold little agreement with many of these theories as I find most of those theories fail the scrutiny of science.
By my experience, I am a very different type of Architect. Not so much in the art, which is the root of Architecture, but more in the science of Architecture. I often think of myself as a very board based Architectural Engineer, going far beyond the limited structural engineering component that most of those that view themselves as an Architectural Engineer possess. My engineering background is certainly multi-discipline and that is readily revealed in my views, beliefs and approaches. This will prove out as you read the rest of this article.
I will once again I find myself addressing some of the component conspiracy arguments I have heard when it comes to the twin towers. The north tower (WTC 1) was hit first about 8:45 AM local time, hitting floors 94 – 98 (5 floors). About 18 minutes later, at 9:03 AM local time the south tower (WTC 2) was hit, taking out floors 78 – 84 (7 floors). A total of at least 12 floors in both towers damaged and now on fire. At about 10:05 AM local time, the south tower (WTC 2) collapses, 62 minutes after it was first hit. At about 10:28 AM local time, the north tower (WTC 1) collapses, 105 minutes after it was first hit. The following map shows what the World Trade Center site looked like that fateful morning in September 2001. Please note that the twin towers (WTC 1 and WTC 2) were not the only buildings lost that day. The 47-story WTC 7 building was also destroyed, allowed to collapse as fires within the building were not able to be controlled. All the other buildings on the site (WTC 3, WTC 4, WTC 5, and WTC 6) all sustained serious damage that day.
WTC Site Plan on 9-11
As we enter this discussion, it is not my intent to "change" people's minds about conspiracy theories. People will choose to believe whatever they want, it is not my place tell them that they are wrong. That is what civil discourse is all about, expression of all views and exchange of ideas. I will present evidence as I have found, and let each person decide what they want to do with that information. After almost 40 years of design and building, I have concluded that there must be someone that created this universe, intelligent design if you will, as I find it intellectually dishonest to make the claim that this universe just "happened". Compared to many other complex rudiments in this universe, and seeing how much planning it takes to create even the simplest of structures or buildings, I cannot reconcile in my mind that this all just "happened" without guidance, forethought, or planning. That is my belief. Other's may choose to believe something else, it is not for me to tell them that their belief is wrong. That does not mean that we should not exchange ideas, data, or information. It is under this essential pretense that I submit the following data to each reader to let them decide for their self.
Conspiracy: WTC 7 was Allowed to Collapse for Some Insidious Purpose
To begin, let me take part of this "conspiracy" away immediately. WTC 7 was allowed to burn out of control and collapse! Let me say it again, WTC 7 was allowed to burn out of control and collapse! I hope I made that clear to everyone reading this. After saying that, the decision to allow WTC 7 was no more insidious than your bank account having a zero balance at the end of the month. In fact, they both attest to the exact same thing, lack of resources. I am not sure if that even constitutes anything that could be considered as insidious, although the end of the month often finds me having those sentiments as I look at the balance in my account.
Now let me illustrate why it was a resource issue. To begin, each of the twin towers (WTC 1 and WTC 2) were about an acre (43,560 square feet) footprint each. Based on the hazard classification of light (office building), these buildings would require a fire sprinkler design rate of approximately 0.1 GPM (gallons per minute) per square foot, for a total of 4,356 GPM per floor. With at least 12 impact floors on fire that would equate to 52,272 GPM for the fire sprinkler systems in twin towers alone just for the impacted floors alone.
That demand does not take into account the water loading by the Fire Department's equipment for those towers as the Fire Department fought the fires in the towers on the other floors. These building fire sprinkler systems are automatic, so once the heads open, they most likely stay open until manually shut off. Also keep in mind that these systems also required about 1,500 PSI (pounds per square inch) pressure to operate. That is a lot of volume and an enormous amount of pressure.
As I have never designed anything in New York, I can only relate to projects I have worked on in the U.S. southwest desert. What I know is most of the fire lines I have tapped into in my career, had the largest one in the range of 36" to 48" inches in diameter. At the time of this writing I could not find max loading for pipes of that size, but I did find that a 24" diameter, schedule 40, steel pipe had a maximum capacity of 18,000 GPM. Maybe barely enough capacity for the twin towers, but what about the demands from the Fire Department fighting fires in other parts of the twin towers or other WTC buildings? How about the demands in the WTC 7 fire sprinkler systems? How many other demands were created by the other WTC buildings? Or the surrounding buildings? As one can see, the overall demand was GIGANTIC!
It would appear that lack of water resources was the basis for the decision to leave WTC 7 burn, and I pose this question, how insidious is that basis? When does lack of resources become an insidious plan? How is that different from any other time resources restrict reactions or design? Is this insidious claim based on the lack of resources? If so, how could this lack of water have been predicated? Is the claim that resources should be design with no limitations? How is that to be accomplished? Unlimited budgets? Where do those come from? I have never had a project with an unlimited budget. You see where this reasoning could lead if followed to the nth degree? This basic premise for conspiracist seems ludicrous at the very least.
Conspiracy: The Buildings had to be Controlled Demolished Because They Pancaked (1)
I will be looking at this conspiracy theory from two perspectives. This first one is from an alternative result expectation. The basis for this view appears to be that there is an expectation that something else should have happened in the collapse of these towers than what actually occurred. I pose the question, what should have been that other "expected" or anticipated result? How should the buildings have collapsed? Is the expectation from those that subscribe to this conspiracy theory saying that the buildings should have toppled over? Stop reading for a moment and ponder that question, think critically about this very question. Is that really the intent of this alternative result being expected?
Before exploring that result, I want to present data to set the framework for this alternative scenario. To begin, on that September morning in 2001, the population for Manhattan, New York was about 1,562,000 in a 22.82 square mile area. Extrapolating from current data, there were approximately 68,451 people per square mile (net) in Manhattan that September morning. The north tower (WTC 1) was 1,310 feet tall, while the south tower (WTC 2) was the taller at 1,362 feet.
The smallest constituted area would be if the tower toppled directly perpendicular to one of the sides, a length of about 209 feet long. Now assume that it falls exactly flat, the depth of the building would not have stayed exactly on top of the flat side, so let us say that half of it would fall off the pile on each side, that would make the width of the flattened area widen out another 105 feet wider, making the entire width of crushing zone 314 feet by 1,310 feet equaling an area of 411,340 square feet, or .01475 square miles. Based on the density stated previously that would have led to a death toll of about 1,010 people on the ground surrounding the building. Adding the people that would have occupied the building at that time, around 25,000, that would not have been evacuated as a result of the immediate toppling effect, would have brought the total dead to approximately 26,010 for the one tower. Using the same methodology, the second tower would have added another 26,050, for a total of 52,060 dead in the attack. That is a very different result than the 2,500 from the actual event.
My immediate question, forgetting everything else, is this the way we as a society really want our high-rise buildings designed? Is that what the conspiracist really wanted to propagate? I have no ability to relate to what these conspiracist are saying so I am unable to frame their argument in this framework. Furthermore, do you realize the problems with buildings designed to be that rigid? Imagine a high rise falling in a hurricane or high wind storm. A building falling from this type of rigidness, also has a risk of undermining the foundation of every neighboring structure in densely developed areas such as Manhattan or New York.
Nature's Design
I know that some may not agree with what I am about to say, but I hold Frank Lloyd Wright as one of the greatest modern Architects. That is my opinion. Several years ago, a late colleague of mine introduced me to a book, "The Oral History of Modern Architecture", in it there was a CD with a recorded interview of several great modern Architects of our time, Frank Lloyd Wright being one of those interviews. His philosophy of organic architecture goes beyond the bottles and tires we see referred to as organic architecture today. It really focused on seeing how nature creates structures and following that as basis for design. In the interview on that CD he closes his interview with the Welsh definition of what a genius is as he called it. He stated the definition was handed down from King Arthur's round table, "A genius is a man who has an eye to see nature, a genius is a man that has a heart to feel nature, and a genius is a man that has the courage follow nature."
Looking at nature, rigid tall slender design is not observed. Referring to the illustration below, some palm trees can grow to 25 feet, sometimes 30 feet or more in height. There is so much I could talk about the structure of the palm tree, but I will focus on just this one point at this time. This tall, slender tree has the capabilities to bend significantly in high wind, reflective of how in nature tall, slender structures survive long term in all conditions. Tall, slender buildings need to perform in a similar manner to survive. That is what nature shows us.
Palm Trees in High Winds
The very premise for this conspiracy belief seems to be unsubstantiated in the physical world, and even nature. I am not even sure that the building codes would allow that type of ridged design to occur. Yet I do not hear anything about that component in this discussion when conspiracist talk about this ideology.
Newton's Laws of Physics
Before we begin our discussion on the next conspiracy theory, I want to take a moment to give a quick basic lesson in physics. Sir Isaac Newton (1643 – 1727), who is considered by many as the father of physics, described three principal laws of physics. When speaking with respect to building structures, two of these three laws are in the center of focus.
His first law of physics, sometimes referred to as the law of inertia, is stated in this manner: objects in motion tend to stay in motion, while objects at rest tend to stay at rest. Simply articulated: if an object is moving, it takes very little energy to keep it moving, on the other hand an object not moving will take a significant amount of energy to start movement. An example of this is when you are driving. You stop at a red light, when the light turns green, you have to push the accelerator down a lot to start to move forward again, once moving, you have to lighten off the accelerator once you have reached speed to maintain a certain speed.
The other law of Newton's in this focus of structures is his third law, which is stated in this manner: for every action, there is an opposite, but equal reaction. Simply articulated: for every force exerted in one direction, there is a force of equal strength in the opposite direction. An example of this in line with the driving example previously mentioned is when you approach a red light. As you apply the brake, your body and contents of the vehicle continue to move forward. When you apply the brake too fast, something sitting on the seat next to you slides forward and onto the floorboard. An example as we approach the topic of structures would be a beam. The weight of the loading acting on the beam wants to move the beam downward, but the reactions (posts / columns) along with the strength of the beam exert an upward resisting force to hold the beam in place, this is also called equilibrium. This is always the desired result, as a building in movement never has a good outcome. The topic of this paper proves that.
The first thing I hear with this view is the phrase "controlled demolition". My first question is all explosives leave some sort of chemical residue behind, yet nothing has been found in any of the debris of the collapsed towers. The number of explosives required to demolish a floor would have been immense leaving a significant amount of chemical residue behind. If controlled demolition is true even in part, where is the evidence of explosive residue? How was this residue totally wiped clean off every piece of debris? Are the conspiracist claiming that everyone that had any knowledge of this chemical residual is keeping that information suppressed? Is that even a realistic expectation?
I read once that one of the Watergate conspirators wrote that the thought of a large number of people keeping a secret until all their deaths was not only impossible, but absurd. As he put it, there were only nine people that knew about the Watergate break-in and they could not keep that secret very long. How is it possible for a secret to be kept that was known to so many people? Especially after 16 years?
Structural Basics: Vertical and Horizontal Supporting Elements
When I first began taking my ARE (Architectural Registration Exam) back in 1983, one of the study materials I had to use was ANSI A58.1-1982, "Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures". Yes, for those that recognize it, the last four digits represent the publication year so I am dating myself. As part of this standard it introduced me to the concept of "localized collapse". That concept is based on the precept that a building design should include a means that will allow part of a building to collapse without jeopardizing the entire structure. I have seen this followed through my career by the use of safety margins when designing structures.
Using that as a basis of progression, I will provide a narrative with illustrations of the component parts to the catastrophic progressive collapse seen in the collapse of the twin towers, explaining in basic terms what occurred and why. In an attempt to keep the concepts understandable to the largest number of readers, will explain these concepts in very general terms. After reviewing this, I would hope to build a case that would indicated that this conspiracy theory is flawed at the very least. So, let us begin.
Every structure has two basic supporting elements, those that run horizontal (floors) and those that run vertical (walls, columns). There are many different components that form these basic elements. For instance, horizontal elements can be formed by beams, trusses, panelized systems such as slabs, and even decks (wood, concrete, and steel). The same can be said for the vertical members. A variety of materials can be used as well. The combination of these material characteristics forms the basis for how these systems react when exposed to varies conditions such as heat and moisture. Horizontal spanning members tend to deflected downward when loaded or over stressed, also referred to as bending deflection or Δ (pronounced "delta"). Vertical elements can see bending deflection as well when the element has an eccentric (off center) load; this will be manifested in a bending of the element where the top and bottom tend to come together and just like horizontal elements are caused by loading or overstressing. The illustrations below show this deflection of a horizontal member, which can be a joist, trusses, beam, or even a floor structure. The progression goes from the static (equilibrium, no movement) on the left through failure on the right.
Collapse of a Simple Beam
Notice as the horizontal element gains in deflection until it ultimately fails (breaks). Also, notice the tops of the supporting vertical elements start to be pulled toward the center of the span causing the vertical elements to fall towards the center span.
This effect occurs when the horizontal element is overload, or in the case of catastrophic collapse, when the element is overstressed. This overstressing of the horizontal element occurs when excessive load is added, such as a floor above collapsing on it or damage that decreases its load carrying capacity. This also occurs in the case of a structural steel beam exposed to high temperatures (about 500 - 600° F) for an extended period (maybe in the range of 10 – 15 minutes). This fatigue will not occur until the entire member is heated to this level throughout and that heat transfer only occurs with a duration of exposure, not immediate exposure. That is why the building codes have always required structural steel to be coated with a fire-resistive material, at least for much longer than my 40 years of practice. So, the structural steel did not have to melt to have its strength compromised, it only need to be directly exposed to high heat for a period of time duration. Short term heat exposure would not have allowed the steel to absorb enough heat to begin this fatigue degradation.
Now imagine what would happen if this was an internal span, having adjacent spanning bays. The failing span would bring the adjacent spanning bays right along with it as it failed, causing a progressive catastrophic collapse. To help illustrate this, please look at the figure below. The progression goes from the static (equilibrium, no movement) on the top through failure on the bottom.
Collapse of a Complex Beam
The center spanning bay acts just as in the previous figure, however notice that the adjacent horizontal elements to the failing spanning bay are being drug towards the failing spanning bay. This movement causes what is called a moment (rotation) at the top of the vertical elements, building stresses in those elements, potentially leading to a failure as indicated at the end of the movement in the illustration. This begins to show the progressive catastrophic failure as the center bay drags the two adjacent bays into the collapsing motion. Now imagine how this will impact the progression of the collapse when there are multiple floors in the center of a high-rise building, which I will be illustrating a little later.
Structural Basics: The Towers
Wright's design of his "mile high tower" for Chicago was designed much like a tree, a center core (trunk) with cantilevering floors (branches) from that core (trunk). This typifies the culmination of much of Wright's organic design ideology. You will find the twin towers held something in common with that concept. The main core was a grid of columns in both the x and y axes that housed the stairs, elevators, and restrooms for each floor that cantilevered out to the outside perimeter. This design allowed for maximized flexibility where the leasable space was located because it was essentially cleared spanned.
When you look at the illustration below, you may see that this column gridded core area created what could be considered a trunk of a tree, and the semi-cantilevered floors being much like the branches of the tree. Please remember this is only a schematic representation of the tower, not a detailed drawing, to illustrate just the concepts being discussed at this time. The floors are semi-cantilevered as they were support at the core side, and at the outside of the floor, as the outside tube columns were integrated into a vertical spanning system. Each line in the illustration will kind of represent either a vertical or horizontal element. As this is only a schematic representation, please keep in mind that it is neither to scale or exact number of floors. The purpose of this is just to illustrate macro concepts of the anatomy of a catastrophic progressive building collapse.
WTC Tower Schematic Drawing
The Anatomy of a Collapse
Before we continue, I want to briefly re-visit Newton's first law. This law tells us that it takes a significant amount of energy to commence movement in an object that is not moving, but once movement begins, it takes a lot less energy to keep the object moving or even accelerating movement. Conversely once this movement begins it takes an immense amount of energy to halt that movement.
Now think of the floors above the impact floors in the towers as a large weight acting on the damaged floors below. When an entire floor collapses below, this weight also collapses on it adding load on the un-collapsed entire floor below the just collapsed floor through this kinetic energy transfer in the form of an additional force on the still un-collapsed structure below. The question is how much are these weights in the two towers? I will be using only general numbers, not exact numbers as those are not available at the time of writing this paper. The construction method used for the towers weighed about 208 pounds per square foot. Each floor had an area of about an acre, that is 43,560 square feet per floor, making the weight of each floor 4,545.5 tons per floor. There were 110 floors in the tower, giving a total weight of each tower 500,000 tons. With 12 complete floors untouched above the impact floors, the north tower (WTC 1) had a weight of 54,546 tons above the highest impact floor. The south tower (WTC 2) had 26 complete floors above the impact floors weighing in at 118,183 tons.
Now going back to Newton's third law, for every action there is an opposite but equal reaction. A force on an element is external to that element, be that a horizontal (floor) or vertical (column / post) element. The resistance to that external force is called a stress and stress is an internal reaction to the external force being placed on an element. Both the impact load and the added weight creates additional stresses within the supporting elements (both horizontal and vertical) as a result of this third law. Stresses these elements were not intended or designed to resist. If this added stress overstresses (goes beyond the element's designed capabilities) the supporting elements (either vertical and horizontal) may be placed in failure (collapse) mode. As a result, the entire floor collapses adding to the loads of the entire floor below it through the same processes just described, creating the progressive catastrophic collapse, until the entire mass hits the ground and dissipates that energy into the soil below.
As a floor in the tower collapses, it receives energy, called kinetic energy. The two main contributors to this kinetic energy are mass and velocity. As mass and / or velocity increases so does the kinetic energy of the moving mass being transferred to the entire floor below. That mass becomes the floors above the impact floors and the collapsing floor, and then is added on its way down as the floors that receive this load collapses, adding to the kinetic energy of the mass impacting lower floors as it continues to progress. This kinetic energy transfer will have much the same effects on surrounding structures as an earthquake when the movement is arrested upon impact with the ground. These are the same effects that were reported on 9-11 in lower Manhattan and surrounding areas, even miles away.
The weight will add to the moving mass above as this mass is added to the mass of the floors below, increasing the mass above as it continues lower and lower in the tower. Adding mass will not add to the speed to the collapse, but it will certainly add to the kinetic energy hitting every floor below, which will increase the overstressing of those structural elements below that moving mass. That overstressing will cause failure (collapse) in those elements creating a cascade event that will continue to transfer in the downward motion. As the magnitude of these loads so increase, failure due to over stressing occurs faster and faster as the mass and kinetic energy increase on each subsequent floor. This is what the basic anatomy of a progressive catastrophic collapse looks like in a multi-story building.
Collapse of The Twin Towers
Once again, I want to re-state that the following illustrations are schematic representations of very complex occurrences that constitute a progressive catastrophic collapse. The illustrations are not to scale, and do not reflect all the stories in either tower or a specific tower of the twin towers. The goal of this section is to place into illustrations the discussions just completed on the anatomy of a progressive catastrophic collapse in a high-rise building.
This is the Architect in me, a picture is worth a thousand words and all. If you would like to see some more information that is substantially detailed on the collapse of the twin towers you may want to review the video from Purdue University. There is also some who contend that the aluminum from the planes actually melted and that this molten aluminum mixed with water to create some explosive events that were heard as the towers collapsed, as seen in this video. Another thought for the method of collapse is through momentum transfer as seen in this paper. I also found some great information on the engineering side of the collapse from this site. I am not saying one of these will be superior to the others, I personally think that they all address somethings that were recorded on that fateful September morning. However, each one of these specifically exclude any sort of controlled demolition. It appears that the buildings had the ability to collapse under their own weight in such extreme conditions as found on 9-11, without the assistance of any explosives in a controlled or augmented demolition scenario.
Looking at all the videos I could find from a variety of sources and perspectives, it seems almost clear to me to say that both towers collapsed in similar manner, but not in identical manners. This could be the result of more floors above the impact floors, or the amount of "fireproofing" lost on the initial impact of the planes, the specific location of the lost fireproofing, or… or… or… I have heard so many different things. The problem is this, these towers collapsed in the real world, not in a laboratory's controlled environment so few if any variables could be captured, isolated, and identified, so we may never know exactly everything that happened that fateful day as the sheer number of variables are astronomical alone, but the issue at hand right now is not "answering" how the towers collapsed in exacting detail, but did the collapse required explosive assistance to cause the towers to collapse or "pancake". The goal of this paper is just to show that explosive assistance WAS NOT REQUIRED for these two towers to collapse as was visually seen. I doubt if it will be ever known exactly what happened immediately prior to the collapse and exactly what was damaged. Without that knowledge, the best we can create are models that fit a solution to the observed collapse.
The video evidence I have reviewed showed that one tower might have had a slight tilt to one side above the impact floors as the collapse began, but then quickly leveled out as the "pancake" collapse continued to the ground. The other tower appeared to just drop straight down. Using the following illustrations, I will try to clear up both of these possible scenarios. Before we get into that, we need to grasp some basic principles of building structures.
Basic Structures 101: All loading forces generated upon a structure must be ultimately transferred to the ground. It is through the mechanism of transferring these forces to the ground a building is placed in equilibrium or a static condition. This means the building is not moving or in motion. In a building all forces that are created in a horizontal plane (floor or roof for instance) must be transferred to vertical elements (walls or columns) that will then distribute those forces to the ground, which is the ultimate reaction (resistance) for these forces.
To begin, look at the illustration above to see the towers as they were before any of the plane impacts. That schematic drawing shows the floors in between the column grids as solid, which is not exactly the way they appeared in real life. Remember that there were elevators going though many of those bays, but the structural design would have accounted for the transfer of the forces in the design of the diaphragm (horizontal force transfer system), so in this schematic drawing they are represented solid lines since the integrity of the transfer system, or diaphragm, is intact. Once that transfer mechanism is broken, it will be shown as a break in the system in the following illustrations, as the progression of the collapse is illustrated.
WTC Tower Immediately After Plane Impact
The tower illustration, above left, indicates what the tower possibly looked like immediately after the impact of the plane. The red elements would indicate those elements that possibly had sustained load capacity limiting damage by the immediate impact of the plane. That means that the elements would be incapable of sustaining their full intended design loads. Adjacent elements should have been taking some of those loads as witnessed in the fact that they did not immediately fail or collapse as seen in see picture above right.
What cannot be known exactly is what elements were damaged at this moment in either tower. The very best we have can only be modeled by computer, which can provide an idea, based on the parameters programmed for that particular model. One tower may not have had as extensive damage in the critical collapse zone of the core area as the other tower. It just can never be known with certainty. What is known for certain is that much of the fire proofing material that was sprayed on the structural steel at this point was most likely blown off by the explosion of the jet fuel. Again, the exact extent will never be known, and as previously discussed, any of the structural steel exposed to higher temperatures for an extended period would start to deform, lowering the load carrying capacity of component / element. Once this overstressed condition occurs movement of the component / element in the form of deflection is inevitable and unavoidable. Collapse is a certainty, but the timing is the only unknown. This deflection will lead to eventual catastrophic failure. Compounding of this will lead to progressive collapse as earlier discussed in this paper. It is possible that one tower had damage that went deeper into the core than the following illustrations indicate, thus explaining the slight difference in the collapsing of the towers visually seen and recorded. Those details are what will be forever unknown.
WTC Progressive Collapse
The left illustration, above, reflects the continual deflection, after the initial impact, in components / elements as a result of the fatigue caused by the elevated heat the structural steel was experiencing. This progressive deflection in these components / elements will start to move adjacent bays / elements / components as discussed above. All this leads to the beginning of motion, or movement, in the tower that would inevitably end in the tower's total collapse.
In this illustration the tower's core is only partially compromised. It is possible that in the other tower the damage to the core was, more than likely, much more extensive with respect to key structural components / elements.
As the deflections increased at the entry point on the right side of this illustration, it will eventually lead to the overstressing of vertical elements (in tension, an elongating type of deformation) on the left side of the tower, causing the weight from the top floors to tilt to the right, as seen in the center illustration. Once the right side starts to move and hits those lower floors which could quite possibly stop that movement, at least temporarily, the left side elements in tension probably failed giving the left side movement in the collapse sequence towards the lower floor(s) as illustrated in the right illustration. Completion of this motion, or movement, may possibly have brought the tower's motion to a momentary halt, until the next inevitable structural failure of the floors immediately below.
This progressive failure was inevitable as the impact, due to the kinetic energy, loading onto the lower floors created a very high short-term increase in the stresses of those elements being hit by that direct impact load of the floors above. Even if those elements could with stand such an impact loading that is only a short-term type of resistance to this type of loading, the elements were never intended to support the added dead load, along with the continual heating of the structural steel from the fires below would continually weaken the structure's overall carrying capacity capabilities and they too would eventually fail continuing the catastrophic progressive collapse.
The illustrations above depict the progressive "pancaking" collapse of the tower, until all of the mass's movement came to rest at ground level. The distribution of that kinetic energy in the ground would have resulted in forces not too dissimilar to a mild earthquake on nearby structures. This is further borne out by the seismic readings on nearby seismic devices as noted in a paper by Columbia University / Earth Institute, as outlined above.
Final Thoughts / Wrap-up
The collapse of WTC 7 was allowed by a conscientious decision. Yes, to the conspiracists, the 47-story WTC 7 WAS ALLOWED to burn and collapse. Let me repeat that to be crystal clear to everyone. The 47-story WTC 7 WAS ALLOWED to burn and collapse, but this is no more insidious than your bank account being depleted by the end of the month. It was clearly a lack of resources available to fight the fires in all the damaged WTC buildings, and the surrounding buildings. The City of New York did not have enough resources to counter such a heinous and cowardly act by these individuals. The required demand to fight these simultaneous fires far exceeded the volume, flow, and pressure the infrastructure could provide. So as part of the decision making, it was decided to concentrate resources on certain areas and not others. If conspiracists claim this is such an insidious reason for the WTC 7 being allowed to collapse, are they going to also address the issue of wage disparity under the same reasoning? After all isn't that also caused by a lack of resources too? Should that reasoning be excepted for intellectual consistency if nothing else? Or is there an ulterior motive that these conspiracists are not making known in their arguments?
If the towers should not have "pancaked" collapsed, what exactly is the proposed method of collapse that the conspiracists expected? Was the expected result for the buildings to topple over immediately upon impact? What do the conspiracists propose that is better than nature's method of designing tall, slender structures? What is a clear expectation for an alternative collapse being contended by the conspiracists? Or was the expectation that no collapse should have ever occurred? How could that have been achieved? I am open to discussions.
Now back to "controlled demolition". Where is the chemical residual that is left behind when explosives are detonated? These residuals were left at Oklahoma City, Boston, London, Manchester, Paris, and all others. Where are they at the twin towers? Are my expectations too high? Are the conspiracist claiming there is a new type of bomb that does not leave a residual? What is the science and materials that make up such a bomb? While thermite burns extremely hot, it burns so fast that it does not heat up the structural steel enough to start the fatigue processes. So, if it were not thermite, what was it? How did these demolition experts hide their work as it would have taken weeks to prepare? How would they have concealed their work on entire floors? How did they get the tons (pallets) of explosives into the building without notice by anyone, even occupants of the buildings? This type of operation would have taken a lot of people. How is it that all those people have kept quite all this time? Again, all I ask is for a little intellectual honesty and continuity.
The momentum transfer of a weight starting in the range of 50,000 tons to 118,000 tons and picking up another 4,500 tons every 10 – 12 feet, falling hundreds of feet alone indicates that the towers had enough kinetic energy to sustain catastrophic progressive collapse without assistance, once movement began. Explosives were not needed, only the removal of the key structural elements / components to begin the failure mode. This, by the way, was the exact goal of an attempted bombing, in 1993, on the North Tower (WTC 1) that was meant to send that tower crashing into the South Tower (WTC 2), but that attempt failed. It seems to be very clear, based on the overwhelming scientific evidence, that both towers had the capacity of sustaining total collapse once failure had begun.
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21 months ago from Phoenix, AZ
CJ, thanks for the comment. My hope really is to put to rest a lot that we hear from these "truthers". I am still a science geek.
CJ Kelly
21 months ago from Auburn, WA
One of the best explanations of Tower 7 I've ever read. Great job. Detailed, logical look at the issue.
Hope it does change some minds among the 9/11 "inside job" crew, but probably not.
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Man Given Death Penalty for Triple Murder
Updated Apr. 24, 2017 5:18PM ET / Published Nov. 08, 2010 7:58AM ET
A man who took part in one of the worst crimes in Connecticut history that garnered comparisons to the grisly family murder in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood was sentenced to death on Monday, according to The New York Times. After deliberating for three days, a jury voted unanimously to sentence Steven J. Hayes to death for a horrifying incident that saw Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky enter the home of the Petit family in the quaint suburb of Cheshire, Connecticut, on July 23, 2007, where they proceeded to tie the family's two daughters, Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11, to the bed, sexually assault the mother, 48-year-old Jennifer Hawke-Petit, and her youngest daughter, strangle the mother to death, and then set the house ablaze, killing the two girls. Hayes' trial began on September 13, and Komisarjevsky will be tried next year. While Connecticut state law provides for execution by lethal injection, because of appeals, it will be probably be many years before Hayes faces execution, if ever, according to death penalty lawyers.
Read it at The New York Times


text:
package aws

import (
	"fmt"
	"testing"

	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/awserr"
	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/apigateway"
	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/helper/resource"
	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/terraform"
)

func TestAccAWSAPIGatewayIntegration_basic(t *testing.T) {
	var conf apigateway.Integration

	resource.Test(t, resource.TestCase{
		PreCheck:     func() { testAccPreCheck(t) },
		Providers:    testAccProviders,
		CheckDestroy: testAccCheckAWSAPIGatewayIntegrationDestroy,
		Steps: []resource.TestStep{
			resource.TestStep{
				Config: testAccAWSAPIGatewayIntegrationConfig,
				Check: resource.ComposeTestCheckFunc(
					testAccCheckAWSAPIGatewayIntegrationExists("aws_api_gateway_integration.test", &conf),
					testAccCheckAWSAPIGatewayIntegrationAttributes(&conf),
					resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(
						"aws_api_gateway_integration.test", "type", "HTTP"),
					resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(
						"aws_api_gateway_integration.test", "integration_http_method", "GET"),
					resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(
						"aws_api_gateway_integration.test", "uri", "https://www.google.de"),
					resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(
						"aws_api_gateway_integration.test", "request_templates.application/json", ""),
					resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(
						"aws_api_gateway_integration.test", "request_templates.application/xml", "#set($inputRoot = $input.path('$'))\n{ }"),
				),
			},

			resource.TestStep{
				Config: testAccAWSAPIGatewayIntegrationConfigUpdate,
				Check: resource.ComposeTestCheckFunc(
					testAccCheckAWSAPIGatewayIntegrationExists("aws_api_gateway_integration.test", &conf),
					testAccCheckAWSAPIGatewayMockIntegrationAttributes(&conf),
					resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(
						"aws_api_gateway_integration.test", "type", "MOCK"),
					resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(
						"aws_api_gateway_integration.test", "integration_http_method", ""),
					resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(
						"aws_api_gateway_integration.test", "uri", ""),
				),
			},
		},
	})
}

func testAccCheckAWSAPIGatewayMockIntegrationAttributes(conf *apigateway.Integration) resource.TestCheckFunc {
	return func(s *terraform.State) error {
		if *conf.Type != "MOCK" {
			return fmt.Errorf("Wrong Type: %q", *conf.Type)
		}
		return nil
	}
}

func testAccCheckAWSAPIGatewayIntegrationAttributes(conf *apigateway.Integration) resource.TestCheckFunc {
	return func(s *terraform.State) error {
		if *conf.HttpMethod == "" {
			return fmt.Errorf("empty HttpMethod")
		}
		if *conf.Uri != "https://www.google.de" {
			return fmt.Errorf("wrong Uri")
		}
		if *conf.Type != "HTTP" {
			return fmt.Errorf("wrong Type")
		}
		if conf.RequestTemplates["application/json"] != nil {
			return fmt.Errorf("wrong RequestTemplate for application/json")
		}
		if *conf.RequestTemplates["application/xml"] != "#set($inputRoot = $input.path('$'))\n{ }" {
			return fmt.Errorf("wrong RequestTemplate for application/xml")
		}
		return nil
	}
}

func testAccCheckAWSAPIGatewayIntegrationExists(n string, res *apigateway.Integration) resource.TestCheckFunc {
	return func(s *terraform.State) error {
		rs, ok := s.RootModule().Resources[n]
		if !ok {
			return fmt.Errorf("Not found: %s", n)
		}

		if rs.Primary.ID == "" {
			return fmt.Errorf("No API Gateway Method ID is set")
		}

		conn := testAccProvider.Meta().(*AWSClient).apigateway

		req := &apigateway.GetIntegrationInput{
			HttpMethod: aws.String("GET"),
			ResourceId: aws.String(s.RootModule().Resources["aws_api_gateway_resource.test"].Primary.ID),
			RestApiId:  aws.String(s.RootModule().Resources["aws_api_gateway_rest_api.test"].Primary.ID),
		}
		describe, err := conn.GetIntegration(req)
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}

		*res = *describe

		return nil
	}
}

func testAccCheckAWSAPIGatewayIntegrationDestroy(s *terraform.State) error {
	conn := testAccProvider.Meta().(*AWSClient).apigateway

	for _, rs := range s.RootModule().Resources {
		if rs.Type != "aws_api_gateway_integration" {
			continue
		}

		req := &apigateway.GetIntegrationInput{
			HttpMethod: aws.String("GET"),
			ResourceId: aws.String(s.RootModule().Resources["aws_api_gateway_resource.test"].Primary.ID),
			RestApiId:  aws.String(s.RootModule().Resources["aws_api_gateway_rest_api.test"].Primary.ID),
		}
		_, err := conn.GetIntegration(req)

		if err == nil {
			return fmt.Errorf("API Gateway Method still exists")
		}

		aws2err, ok := err.(awserr.Error)
		if !ok {
			return err
		}
		if aws2err.Code() != "NotFoundException" {
			return err
		}

		return nil
	}

	return nil
}

const testAccAWSAPIGatewayIntegrationConfig = `
resource "aws_api_gateway_rest_api" "test" {
  name = "test"
}

resource "aws_api_gateway_resource" "test" {
  rest_api_id = "${aws_api_gateway_rest_api.test.id}"
  parent_id = "${aws_api_gateway_rest_api.test.root_resource_id}"
  path_part = "test"
}

resource "aws_api_gateway_method" "test" {
  rest_api_id = "${aws_api_gateway_rest_api.test.id}"
  resource_id = "${aws_api_gateway_resource.test.id}"
  http_method = "GET"
  authorization = "NONE"

  request_models = {
    "application/json" = "Error"
  }
}

resource "aws_api_gateway_integration" "test" {
  rest_api_id = "${aws_api_gateway_rest_api.test.id}"
  resource_id = "${aws_api_gateway_resource.test.id}"
  http_method = "${aws_api_gateway_method.test.http_method}"

  request_templates = {
    "application/json" = ""
    "application/xml" = "#set($inputRoot = $input.path('$'))\n{ }"
  }

  type = "HTTP"
  uri = "https://www.google.de"
  integration_http_method = "GET"
}
`

const testAccAWSAPIGatewayIntegrationConfigUpdate = `
resource "aws_api_gateway_rest_api" "test" {
  name = "test"
}

resource "aws_api_gateway_resource" "test" {
  rest_api_id = "${aws_api_gateway_rest_api.test.id}"
  parent_id = "${aws_api_gateway_rest_api.test.root_resource_id}"
  path_part = "test"
}

resource "aws_api_gateway_method" "test" {
  rest_api_id = "${aws_api_gateway_rest_api.test.id}"
  resource_id = "${aws_api_gateway_resource.test.id}"
  http_method = "GET"
  authorization = "NONE"

  request_models = {
    "application/json" = "Error"
  }
}

resource "aws_api_gateway_integration" "test" {
  rest_api_id = "${aws_api_gateway_rest_api.test.id}"
  resource_id = "${aws_api_gateway_resource.test.id}"
  http_method = "${aws_api_gateway_method.test.http_method}"

  type = "MOCK"
}
`

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Olympic Arms will not sell guns to police until gun laws are repealed in NY
By USAHM-News on February 14, 2013 /
Olympic Arms has joined the ranks of Magpul and LaRue Tactical in taking a stand against state governments who are trying to infringe the Second Amendment rights of their citizens.
Olympic Arms primarily manufactures entry level AR-15 style weapons and other firearms. Olympic Arms released the following press release via their Facebook Page.
Press Release: Olympic Arms, Inc. Announces New York State Sales Policy — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Olympic Arms is a staunch believer in and defender of the Constitution of the United States, and with special attention paid to the Bill of Rights that succinctly enumerates the security of our Divinely given Rights. One of those Rights is that to Keep and Bear Arms.
Legislation recently passed in the State of New York outlaws the AR15 and many other firearms, and will make it illegal for the good and free citizens of New York to own a large selection of legal and safe firearms and magazines. We feel as though the passage of this legislation exceeds the authority granted to the government of New York by its citizens, and violates the Constitution of the United States, ignoring such SCOTUS rulings as District of Columbia v. Heller – 554, U.S. 570 of 2008, McDonald v. Chicago – 561 U.S. 3025 of 2010, and specifically the case of United States v. Miller – 307 U.S. 174 of 1939.
Due the passing of this legislation, Olympic Arms would like to announce that the State of New York, any Law Enforcement Departments, Law Enforcement Officers, First Responders within the State of New York, or any New York State government entity or employee of such an entity – will no longer be served as customers.
In short, Olympic Arms will no longer be doing business with the State of New York or any governmental entity or employee of such governmental entity within the State of New York – henceforth and until such legislation is repealed, and an apology made to the good people of the State of New York and the American people.
If the leaders of the State of New York are willing to limit the right of the free and law abiding citizens of New York to arm themselves as they see fit under the Rights enumerate to all citizens of the United State through the Second Amendment, we feel as though the legislators and government entities within the State of New York should have to abide by the same restrictions.
This action has caused a division of the people into classes: Those the government deems valuable enough to protect with modern firearms, and those whose lives have been deemed as having less value, and whom the government has decided do not deserve the right to protect themselves with the same firearms. Olympic Arms will not support such behavior or policy against any citizen of this great nation.
Olympic Arms invites all firearms manufacturers, distributors and firearms dealers to join us in this action to refuse to do business with the State of New York. We must stand together, or we shall surely fall divided.
Brian Schuetz
Olympic Arms, Inc.
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Robb Armstrong – March 4th in African American History
By Chimsima Zuhri on March 4, 2014 in African American History, Artist, March
Tags: March 4, motivational speaker, Syracuse University
March 4, 1962 Robb Armstrong, syndicated cartoonist and motivational speaker, was born in Wynnefield, Pennsylvania.
Armstrong started drawing comics when he was three years old.
He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in art from Syracuse University in 1985. After graduating, he worked as an art director at a Philadelphia advertising agency while submitting comic strips for syndication. In 1988, his comic strip "Jump Start" first appeared and today it runs in more than 250 newspapers. In 1995, the strip won a Wilbur Award, for "excellence in the communication of religious issues, values, and themes." Armstrong is also a motivational speaker, speaking to about 2,000 young people a month.
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Trump Again Shows He Doesn't Understand Pro-Life Values
Donald Trump (photo credit: Gage Skidmore)
Yesterday, Donald Trump yet again demonstrated his lack of understanding on the abortion issue, expressing his desire to add exceptions to the Republican platform's position on abortion. Asked on NBC's "Today" whether he would want the GOP's platform on abortion to include exceptions in the case of rape or incest, or to save the life of the mother, Mr. Trump responded, "Yes I would. Absolutely. For the three exceptions I would."
Now, many Republicans have supported such exceptions, regardless of whether or not they were included in the official platform. But many others believe, as the platform currently states, that "the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which can not be infringed" and that this right is not dependent on the circumstances of the child's conception. Codifying exceptions into the platform would recast this position as an extreme one outside of what either party is willing to support, undermining decades of work from the pro-life movement. It's unclear what Trump thinks is the practical benefit of this proposal. It wouldn't win him any votes. All it would do is create a rift in the party and alienate the conservative and evangelical base.
Trump may very well be sincere when he says he finds abortions distasteful, but it's hard to find his principles behind this belief, or what he plans to do about it. Often, when he's delved into specifics, it's been entirely out of step with the pro-life movement, whether it's been his praise for Planned Parenthood, his suggestion that women should be punished for receiving abortions, or, a few days later, his claim that abortion laws ought to just remain the same. Even when he's walked back or clarified these statements, he's still varied on whether it's a state or federal issue.
Trump's grasp of the issue is obviously tenuous at best. The question is whether he doesn't understand, doesn't care, or both.
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KANIYATTU CHALIL NARAYANAN versus RAGHAVAN NAMBIAR,S/O.NARAYANAN NAMBIAR
KANIYATTU CHALIL NARAYANAN v. RAGHAVAN NAMBIAR,S/O.NARAYANAN NAMBIAR - CRL A No. 661 of 2002 [2007] RD-KL 7816 (13 April 2007)
CRL A No. 661 of 2002()
1. KANIYATTU CHALIL NARAYANAN,
1. RAGHAVAN NAMBIAR,S/O.NARAYANAN NAMBIAR,
2. CHALANGADAN GOPALAN,S/O.RAMAN,KANDAKAL
3. K.VINOD,AGED 24 YEARS,DRIVER,
4. K.PRAMOD,AGED 22 YEARS,SON OF GOPLAN,
5. STATE OF KERALA,REP.BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR
For Petitioner :SRI.SARVOTHAMAN
For Respondent :SRI.V.RAMKUMAR NAMBIAR
The Hon'ble MR. Justice K.THANKAPPAN
K.THANKAPPAN, J.
CRL. APPEAL NO.661 OF 2002
Dated this the 13th day of April, 2007
This appeal is filed against the order passed in C.C.No.254 of 1999 on the file of the Judicial First Class Magistrate's Court-II, Kannur. By the impugned order, the court below acquitted the accused - respondents 1 to 4 stating that the appellant failed to prove the case against the accused.
2. The case of the appellant - complainant before the court below was that the accused committed offences punishable under Sections 447 and 427 read with Section 34 I.P.C. According to the appellant, respondents 1 to 4 trespassed into his property armed with weapons like spades, pick axes etc. and demolished a portion of the road and made it unworthy for vehicles to enter into his house. His further case was that when he rushed to the spot to prevent the destruction, the accused threatened to do away with him. The appellant then preferred a written complaint before the police on 5.1.1999 and since the police did not take up the matter seriously, he filed the complaint before the court below. To CRL.APPEALNO.661/2002 2 prove the case against the appellant, the appellant and three other witnesses were examined as PWs.1 to 4 and Exts.P1 to P2(a) were produced. On the side of the defence, DW.1 was examined and Exts.D1 to D2(a) were produced. On closure of the complainant's evidence, the accused were questioned under Section 313 Cr.P.C. Denying the allegations, the accused stated that the case was in relation to a property dispute and that a civil suit was pending in relation to the said dispute. After considering the entire evidence, the court below acquitted the accused.
3. The appeal was admitted by this Court and notice was sent to respondents 1 to 4. When the appeal came up for hearing, it was submitted that the matter was likely to be settled out of Court and that the parties were willing for a compromise. Hence, the case was adjourned for that purpose. While so, the appellant - complainant sent a letter to the Registrar of this Court stating that the matter has been settled out of Court. But that fact was not admitted before this Court by the learned counsel appearing for respondents 1 to 4. The letter dated 26.8.2006 is now produced before this Court. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, this Court is of the view that the appeal can be dismissed as withdrawn. CRL.APPEALNO.661/2002 3 The Crl. Appeal is accordingly dismissed as withdrawn.
(K.THANKAPPAN, JUDGE)
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We are in the process of organising our stand for The Sheep Shearing championships in Portlaiose this weekend.
We are really looking forward to seeing the competition and meeting all of our customers.
We will be showing some of our sheep equipment including Weighing, Hurdles, Prattley equipment and Slats.


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Empty Bowls Placerville – We began partnering with Empty Bowls in 2014 and they continue to be big supporters to this day; helping build and maintain numerous school and family greenhouses. Empty Bowls is a grassroots effort to fight hunger. Handmade bowls are given to each guest to represent the thousands of unfilled bowls in the world. Watch the video below for more info on how their support has helped us, and continue reading about our other amazing partners!
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Woodworker's Journal – Modern Lines
Woodworker's Journal eZINE
Alan Kaniarz: Modern Lines
Issue: Issue 325
Posted Date: 5/7/2013
by Joanna Werch Takes
Alan Kaniarz had "always been a handy kid, taking things apart and making things," and gaining more mechanical learning from hanging out at the gas station across the street from his youthful home. Spending a few years working as a welder with roll framing equipment — making things like guard rails, and gutters on houses — "taught me precision; we worked within 1,1000ths of an inch tolerance," Alan said.
After that, he went to work for a company that had offered a stained glass class he had taken and been interested in, eventually working his way up to be vice president of the stained glass manufacturing company (and repairing Tiffany and LaFarge pieces along the way). After parting ways with that company over a difference of principle with the owner, Alan got his builder's license and planned to work on houses, "but I was drawn to be a woodworker," he said. "I would make a little money, and buy a tool."Setting up shop, at first as part of a group, then by himself (those who've had roommates, Alan said, know how it is, "when you come home expecting to find the beer in the refrigerator and it wasn't"), Alan has made doors, traditional kitchen cabinets, and furniture, restored and repaired furniture, and bought and sold antiques, as well as doing a little bit of metalwork.His primary focus is on woodworking, though; most recently, on a line of modern furniture he's designed. "Until a couple of years ago, I was doing mostly reproduction work, a lot of Arts and Crafts, but my attraction these days is to modern — although Arts and Crafts is the beginning of modern furniture," Alan said."There's something visually stimulating about the lines of modern furniture. It has an organic nature to it that I find to be particularly appealing. With the classic mid-century designs — the Eames chair, Saarinen, Herman Miller — there's something pretty appealing about the spare amount of material that ends up in a visually appealing piece of furniture."Alan himself designed one chair that uses only four pieces of wood, and, in his "mobel" (a European word that means "furniture") line, "even though there's a number of pieces" per item, "it's not a lot of wood." In fact, that's part of the appeal for him: "We can build an entire chair, with 80 to 90 piees, and we can cut all the pieces out of a single sheet of plywood. We end up using 90 to 95 percent of a sheet, and the amount of waste is minimal at best." The plywood that Alan's speaking of for this line is Baltic birch plywood, which he likes because it's dimensionally stable and has a great weight to strength ratio. "We could make the pieces out of solid wood, but wood is a hygroscopic material; it takes on and gets rid of moisture and expands and contracts, so we would use a lot of wood, and the chair would eventually expand and contract itself apart." Also, Alan said, there are no mineral stains, no big voids, and the edges are attractive — "the edgework ends up looking like quartersawn wood, with rings on the edges."Alan and his three employees use the CAD/CAM system for this line of furniture, creating computer assisted drawings in the TurboCAD program to show what all the parts of a piece of furniture will look like, and how they will fit, then creating a drawing exchange file and transferring it those who are cutting the pieces for the furniture with a computer assisted manufacturing system. Furniture created for this line has included chairs like the flagship Quarnge (it rhymes with "orange") and the Zag Zig Chair (a take-off on a 1933 Zig-Zag Chair by Gerrit Reitveld). "It looks fragile, but I had a fellow who told me he weighed 365 pounds who was able to sit in it and rock in it," Alan said. All of the pieces are designed to be comfortable, which sometimes requires some redesigning. "It's the art of trial and error. Something might look good on paper, but it was a torture device when it turned out."
Since he has the assistance of his employees, Alan says he gets to pick and choose what aspects of the hands-on work he's involved with, picking things that particularly interest him. He's very involved in the design aspect, for instance, and he also likes finishing, "applying the various finishes and coming up with the stain and color combinations. A piece of furniture isn't finished until it has finish on it." These days, most of his items are finished with two-part post-catalyzed lacquer, which Alan appreciates as being "way more water- and chemical-resistant" than the older nitrocellulose lacquers. Sometimes, he'll use shellac as a sanding sealer, in order to impart the subtle "cat's-eye" shimmer of chatoyance.
He also keeps his hand in with stained glass because, he says, it goes hand in hand with woodworking — there might be glass sidelights on transoms on a door, leaded glass in the doors of kitchen cabinets, or leaded windows in the lower cabinets of a library installation. "I've been doing glass work since 1975," Alan said. "It's all done in the same shop."
He also has a collection of over 100 pieces of antique lighting form the Philadelphia-based John L. Gaumer Company, which existed from 1882 to 1952. Although Alan says their quality is comparable to Tiffany and others, the company relied on a paper hanging tag to identify its products, with "the result that almost no one knows about the company. I think I'm the world expert on this missing chapter in the Arts and Crafts movement story," Alan said.
Alan, who also teaches at an art college, elaborated on his point about Arts and Crafts being the beginning of a modern design: "The modern movement," he said, "started as retaliation against the overornamentation of the Victorian period, where things were carved and ornamented and fringed with all sorts of gewgaws superfluous to the design."
That's not his taste. Instead, Alan said, he likes things, like his modern furniture, "with interesting lines to it."
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