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Bloodshed In The Family
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 8:30 AM by Khadijah Thabit
When the home turns to dreaded and haunted abode, there is no place left to hide. It is a sign of anarchy because those pursued outside do run home to hide away from trouble.
But that seems to have been lost with the orgy of violence, stalking the homes of Nigerians. The homes have become killing fields. Love that gave rise to marriages has taken flight, vacating the homes for cudgels, daggers, knives, hatchets, acid, petrol, fire, hammer, axe, guns, etc. Almost every item in the homes has been turned to object for murder.
We are prone to news of deaths in the homes. They come from husbands to wives and from wives to husbands. Even cherished children are not spared by parents gone amok. In the past one year, we have reaped blood and carnage in the homes in tens, at least the ones reported in the media in various homes. And the trend seems to be on downhill roll that nothing comes in its way right now.
In less than two weeks two ugly tales of domestic violence at their worst levels jolted us.
One was in Abuja and the other in Lagos. They came at the worst magnitude and forms. It was just few days after the Abuja incident where a jealous wife doused her husband with petrol while he was asleep and burnt him dead that a worse case unfolded in Lagos.
The victim husband in Abuja, a journalist, politician and adviser to a senator, died in the hands of his second wife in Gwarimpa, a highbrow Abuja area.
The offence the man committed was an allegation that he gave more time and attention to the first wife. He had planned to travel to Kaduna to see the first wife when the second wife decided to end the trip and get better attention by roasting him in petrol fire at night. The late victim is Mohammed Ibrahim Matazu. He became yet another victim of the scourge of blood that has gone viral in the homes. The husband killer, who is now in cell awaiting trial, is simply called mummy by the family. But her act was a world away from the way of mummies.
If you, however, feel appalled by this dastardly act, you then don't need to read the shocking tale of a worse theatre in Lagos, just few days after. The Gwarimpa incident looks like mere rehearsal to what unfolded in Lagos when a jilted lover went totally berserk and left eight persons dead in his wake. His target originally was a former lover. He killed the woman he claimed to have loved, killed a relation of hers with the eight-month old foetus she carried. His anger is that the lady's family was opposed to his relationship with the lady he claimed to have loved and later killed.
A man, just 27 years old, reportedly walked into the girlfriend's home in Igando, Lagos suburb, and shot dead seven persons. The next victim, the ex-lover's sister and her three children were killed too. He was not done yet as he later picked the victim's phone and called her husband to know his location and stalk him for further massacre.
The recent incidents made Abuja Metro to embark on a recall of some of the recent bloodsheds, rocking Nigerian homes and families that have put husbands and wives in stiff contest over who out-kills the other.
Killer husbands
A middle-aged man, Sebastine Ude, allegedly killed his wife, Abigail, after a quarrel in the night.
That was right in the home of the couple in Ikata Community, Ahaoda East Local Government Area of Rivers State. The two had a quarrel late in the night and at about 4.00am, the husband reportedly grabbed an object and slew the wife. He turned the machete the home had had for other uses on the wife and dealt her blows until she died. He was later arrested
Musa Yusuf allegedly killed his wife for refusing him sex. That was in Ilorin, Kwara State.
He was immediately arrested and remanded in prison custody.
Yusuf is facing one-count charge of culpable homicide, punishable under Section 221 of the Penal Code.
The brother of the deceased, Sanni Suleiman, told the court that the woman took food to her husband in the farm but did not return home.
Her corpse was found in the husband's farm with mark of violence on her face. The body, he said, was concealed under weeds.
A 46-year-old unemployed man, resident in Agbado in Ogun State, was arrested for allegedly killing his wife by throwing her into a pit latrine after a misunderstanding.
This is just the latest case in the chronic saga of Nigerians, killing their wives at home and abroad.
Another case of wife-killing rocked Enugu State. Graphic pictures of the wife's lifeless body, showing deep cuts with blood oozing out, had circulated on the Internet.
Sunday Eze was shown to the world by the police in Nsukka for allegedly butchering his wife with a machete. If that was not horrible enough, then Eze drove his carnage instincts home when he decided to dismember his wife's body in the full watch of his eleven-year-old son, Onyebuchi. The boy, a primary five pupil, also sustained deep machete cut in his hand while trying to prevent his father from taking his mother's life.
Eze was said to have had some battle with mental ill health prior to the incident.
"My father has a mental problem and exhibits it at times. He regrets certain actions he takes, when it is too late," his son said.
It was another theatre in Enugu State when a man, Mathias Nweze, former worker with the Enugu Independent Electoral Commission (ENSIEC), admitted shooting his wife.
The couple hailed from Umuida, Enugu Ezike in Igboeze North Local Government Area. The suspect reportedly murdered the deceased said to be one of his two wives.
The late wife was a native of Imufu as her husband. Her offence was preparing the kind of soup her husband did not want for him.
However, perhaps, out of sheer bravado, the Nweze had rushed to the police station in the community to report himself for killing his wife.
The orgy crossed international borders when a Nigerian husband, 26-year-old Nathaniel Udama Edu, killed his girlfriend in Ghana. The victim was Matilda Asante, 19, a senior high school graduate at South Afankor. The body of the deceased was found in the neighbourhood, wrapped in bedsheet and her legs tied, while her head was covered in a black polythene bag.
Peter Odion, a middle aged man, killed his wife, Ifeoma, in Lagos for eating his food.
The incident occurred at their residence at 2, Olushola Close, Abule Taylor, Abule Egba, Lagos State.
Chinweike Ohalele, a sister of the deceased, who was living with the couple but was not at home when the tragedy occurred, said: "I was at my village meeting on Sunday afternoon when one of our neighbours called me on phone to meet them at a hospital at Abule Egba over my sister's condition. When I got there, I met my sister in an unconscious state with blood dripping from her head and face. In fact, she could neither talk nor recognise me."
It made so much news when Arowolo Akolade, a jobless man, living in Isolo, Lagos, literally butchered his banker wife, Titilayo.
Akolade, who claimed to be a born again Christian, and Titilayo had been married for two years and had a daughter. No one knows exactly what transpired the day he killed his wife.
When Titi didn't show up at work or contact anyone for days, the police were called in and when they got to the couple's home, they found Titi's dismembered body and a distraught Kolade was on the run and later arrested.
Disagreement between a husband and his wife over some missing eggs caused the death of the woman.
Ama Jejeba, 26, who was allegedly beaten unconscious by her husband, Kojo Tawiah, as the disagreement turned fatal, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Tarkwa Government Hospital. That was in Ghana. Perhaps, the bug had jumped the borders.
Jane Nyawira, a witness before a Nairobi court, Kenya, told the court that her uncle killed his own two sons. She said she thought her uncle, James Mwinga, was actually joking only to discover that he had truly killed his two sons.
Nyawira said Mwinga had the day before threatened to kill the boys, aged five and seven, if his wife, who had left their matrimonial home, did not return. Another witness said Mwinga's estranged wife had called to request her to check on her two sons. Mwinga himself had earlier called to tell his wife that he had killed their children. When she went to check on the children, Wanjiru said she found the bodies of the two boys drenched and lying in a pool of blood in their home.
A senior pastor of United Evangelical Church, Rev. Sunday Alfa, allegedly murdered his wife, a mother of four, for refusing him sex. The wife, Rose Alfa, was murdered in the Mission House at about 3am in Igojo,Ubali Village near Okene in Kogi State. The woman before her death had confessed to a policeman that took her to the hospital that she did no wrong to her pastor husband and that the man came in the night into the room she was sleeping to demand for sex but she refused because she gave birth to her last baby through cesarean section and the doctor asked her to abstain from sex for some time.
Police admitted shock when it got a phone call from Peter Michael Agbala, son of a Deputy Superintendent of Police, that a man had killed his wife. The incident was in Suleja, Niger State.
On interrogation, the wife killer simply said: "You know I have spent so much money on my wife? I have killed her." The victim was Lydia Ekundayo John.
In Ondo State, police reported that a hunter, Ojo Toki, 45, shot dead his wife, Adesewa, over disagreement on his breakfast in Ibule Soro area of the state. The suspect, who is in detention in Igbara-Oke Police Station is a staffer of the Ministry of Agriculture in Igbara-Oke. He allegedly shot his wife on the neck at close range with a dane gun.
The suspect had disagreement with his wife in the morning of the ill-fated day. He angrily left for his hunting expedition only to return to vent his anger by shooting the deceased.
In Ikorodu, Lagos, it was a day of horror in the family after a man allegedly killed his wife during a scuffle.
The cause of the fight could not be ascertained but report said the couple had been having incessant quarrels for some time. There was a shout for help from Mr. and Mrs. Molade's one-room apartment located on 14, Ifesowa Street.
However, no one responded as most of the tenants had left for work.
Out of curiosity, a passerby went to the apartment and found Mrs. Omolere Molade unconscious. Attempts to revive her were fruitless. Police later confirmed that Paul Omolade had hit his wife, who later died, and ran away.
Esther Arogundade was stabbed 13 times by Shola Adebiyi at her Salford, Greater Manchester, home.
Adebiyi tried to kill himself by drinking oven cleaner after killing his former partner
He phoned his victim's new lover to say he would never see her again and then confessed the killing to a friend. Adebiyi was jailed for a minimum of 20-and-a-half years at Manchester Crown Court. Esther Arogundade, 32, was attacked by Adebiyi in her own home after she began a relationship with another man. Adebiyi also drank oven cleaner in an attempt to kill himself.
At Kwali Street in Phase 1, Site 2, Kubwa, Abuja, a husband, Mr. Godwin Udonta, 40, allegedly pulled a sword from his car to kill the wife. The marriage of almost 12 years produced two sons of eleven and seven years. Wife of the man, Mrs. Nsini Udonta, 36 narrated her narrow escape from death.
Mrs. Evelyn Uche Vanacker, Nigerian woman married to a Belgian met her death in the hands of her husband, Mr. Wim Vanacker. He strangled her and drove her body about 100km away from their residence to dump it in an open field on the border between France and Belgium. Evelyn was 31 years old. Her body was discovered by French authorities and on interrogation, her 35-year-old husband, Wim Vanacker, confessed to strangling her.
A farmer, Habila Illiya, killed his estranged wife and buried her remains in a farmland in Kaduna.
The woman honoured an invitation from the man that fateful day but that was a mistake that cost her, her life. She left behind four children.
Martha was from Nungu tribe of Kaduna and Habila from Pataki village, Jema'a Local Government of Kaduna State. They married in 1997 and had four children before the marriage ended in 2010.
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The latest incident involved one Dubem Okafor, a well-regarded 64-year-old poet and nephew of Christopher Okigbo, the famous poet, who died, fighting for Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War. On August 15, Okafor, who was also an associate professor of English at Kurtz University in Pennsylvania, murdered his 37-year-old Jamaican-American wife and then committed suicide shortly afterwards. US media reported that the incident was the seventh, involving Nigerian couples in the USA in few years.
A drycleaner in Ago, Okota, Lagos, Henry Nnamdi, allegedly killed his one-year-old son, Chukwuebuka, in order to spite his wife, whom he accused of having an extra-marital affair.
Reports said Henry also used a hot pressing iron to burn his wife, Mercy, and stabbed her repeatedly in order to force her to confess to the allegation.
A police source said 40-year-old Henry had been suspecting that his wife was having an amorous relationship with his father for a while.
On the day of the incident, he came back home late in the evening and was ironing his customers' clothes on the floor while his wife and son were on the bed.
Rich Oganiru, an actor in Abuja, was accused of poisoning his wife and selling her property. He, however, denied the allegation.
The Ekiti State Police Command detained Mr. Nnaefenwa Lucky, in connection with the beheading of his wife, Bose. The torso of Bose, 40, suspected to have been killed for ritual purposes, was discovered in the bush by her husband, who had asked her to bring food to him. It was gathered that the deceased, who had four children, had prepared the food as instructed by her husband and was on the way to the farm to give it to him when she was attacked and decapitated by yet to be identified persons.
Adesanmoye Kehinde, expressed his frustration after he was dumped by his wife, Jean Odegba, 29, by setting her ablaze in Ikotun, Lagos.
He was said to have poured some petrol on her and lit a match that set her ablaze.
Although Jean was rescued, she suffered severe burns and was hospitalised.
The victim claimed that Kehinde enjoyed every benefit from her as his wife and yet he did not pay a dime to her family as dowry after repeated promises to do so.
She had, therefore, decided to quit the four-year relationship for another man, who was ready to marry her.
Killer wives
The tragic train anchored at Ago-Okota area of Lagos, when a man, identified as Ifeanyi Anaekwe, slumped and died during a scuffle with his wife in their apartment. The deceased and his wife had an argument over money to buy pampers and baby food for their child, which degenerated into a fight.
During the fight, the widow, Chikodili Anaekwe, allegedly grabbed a pestle and hit her husband on the head and he slumped. That was not enough still as the wife allegedly stabbed him several times.
This was a unique case where five of six wives of a man teamed up and killed him after raping him. The incident occurred in Ogbadibo LGA of Benue State. The five killers committed the act because their husband paid so much attention to the sixth wife. The late Uroko Onoja was having sex with his youngest wife, when the five other wives came in and attacked him with knives and sticks demanding that he had sex with all of them at once. Onoja, a wealthy businessman was overpowered by the women, who ordered the sex march, beginning with the youngest wife and continued in that order to the top. By the time the fifth wife got to his bed, he had stopped breathing. The women began laughing at what they had done but once he was unable to be resuscitated, the women realised the gravity of their gang rape and murder and ran into the forest.
A transporter, Wahab Adekola, pleaded with a court in Agege, Lagos, to dissolve his 21-year-old marriage over fetish acts and nagging habit of his estranged wife. He accused his first wife of killing another wife of his.
"I married another wife outside to look for love when I was frustrated by the woman I had married; I needed a woman that would pamper me. But the woman died suddenly with our five-month-old baby.
"I am so sure my first wife was responsible for their deaths because she always threatened to kill any woman associated with me."
Mrs. Ngozi Ademoye showed some remorse before the police for killing her husband but insisted the man was a terrible cultist, reason he was killed.
She said the fight between them that eventually led to his death arose from her insistence that he should renounce cultism. Ngozi revealed to family members and close friends of her late husband that when she recently discovered that her husband was a cultist, she made frantic efforts to make him renounce it without success. She said she approached her pastor, who prayed over a bottle of water with an instruction to always sprinkle some quantity all over the house, especially before bedtime.
The quarrel that led to the death arose from Ngozi's entry into the secret and cult coven of her husband in his absence.
Another wife and mother of four children killed her husband in Ikorodu, Lagos.
Police alleged she killed her husband during a brawl over food. Mrs. Folake Adekoya-Ojo, was arrested following reports by her late husband's relative. The widow was said to have told policemen that her 37-year-old husband committed suicide by hanging himself on the ceiling fan. On further interrogation, the widow reportedly admitted to have hit her husband with a stone during a scuffle.
Her husband came home at about 11p.m. that fateful night and demanded for food. The food was served but the man complained it was not properly served and trouble ensued that led to death.
In Osi-Ekiti, Ido-Osi Local Government Area of Ekiti State, a teacher decided to teach her husband murder. She hacked her husband dead. The suspect, Mrs. Rafatu Agboola, killed her husband, Akeem Agboola, who was asleep, with a machete and reported herself to the police in Osi-Ekiti immediately.
Hadiza Afegbua Abutu was discharged and acquitted of all charges of killing her husband, Ibrahim Abutu. In December 2011, Hadiza was accused of killing her husband.
Hadiza allegedly used a double barreled-gun to shoot her husband in cold blood, supposedly over his plans to marry a second wife. Hadiza was found not guilty and is a free woman now.
What initially looked like a normal fight between a Nigerian couple over sex, turned bloody when the wife stabbed the husband several times, resulting in the untimely death of a 42-year-old man at Asokore Mampong in Kumasi. Rashida Yetunde, 37, allegedly used a sharp knife to stab Maruuf Akinjobi three times in the chest, sending the stoutly-built man down, before stabbing him again on countless occasions in the abdomen when the deceased allegedly tried raping her.
Hafeez Rasheed was allegedly stabbed to death by his wife, Molayo. But the woman in the eye of the storm tried to justify her action. "After stabbing him, I cried out for help but our neighbours did not come to assist in saving his life. I cried for help but nobody came to assist me," she lamented. The incident occurred at Ile Oloola Oja Igbo area of Ibadan, Oyo State. Problem started when Molayo was eating a loaf of bread and her husband decided to take part of it without her permission. The 18-year-old woman was said to have challenged her husband for eating out of it.
Husaina Sani, a housewife of Majifa village in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State was arrested for allegedly killing her husband, Sani Dan'Mamman, 66, over maize flour.
Husaina was arrested in Majifa village after she killed her husband with a mud block in a scuffle over maize flour he gave her to prepare for a meal for the family.
An enraged woman killed her teenage maid, accusing her of sleeping with her husband.
The wife, a schoolteacher, fatally assaulted her teenage maid after catching her being intimate with her husband on their matrimonial bed and hid the body for 12 days. The body was later found hanging from a tree with some body parts missing. Missing from the maid's body were feet, which were chopped from the ankles, an ear, breast and private parts. The teacher is Itai Mutami, 35, while the victim was Sarudzai Chitevere, 17. They were from Uganda.
It was at Agonse Street, Ugbihoko quarters in Egor North East Local Government Council of Edo State. An actor, Daniel Iyamu, was killed by his wife. The lifeless body of Iyamu was discovered by his children, who raised the alarm that morning. Iyamu had gone to bed in good health the previous night and, as such, the children did not suspect anything until about 10am. when they decided to wake him up.
The injuries found on his head, however, suggested he might have been hit with a dangerous weapon.
Grace Iyamu, the late actor's wife, was found unconscious in another room, after she had allegedly hit her husband with a pestle that killed him.
At No. 8, Eze Street, off Okposi Street, Nkaliki, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, death stalked a home as the wife allegedly killed her husband over allegation of infidelity. Yaune Okoroji, an Assistant Immigration Officer attached to Ebonyi State headquarters of the command, was killed by his wife in a domestic violence. The late Okoroji and his wife, Mrs. Judith Okoroji, had serious marital crisis over infidelity before his sudden demise.
A housewife was arrested in Ilorin for allegedly killing her husband. The incident occurred at the 22, Armoured Brigade, Sobi, Ilorin. The woman was alleged to have bathed her husband with acid at about 10.00 pm, few weeks after she had allegedly attempted to terminate his life through food poisoning. Indeed, the man had just returned from the military hospital where he received treatment for food poisoning before the latest incident that led to his death.
The deceased was Sergeant Kayode, a native of Ilofa in Oke-Ero Local Government Area of Kwara State, while the wife hailed from a community in Kaduna State.
Bukola Abiwa, 34, was and arraigned in the Ejigbo Magistrate's Court, Lagos, for allegedly attempting to kill herself and her husband, Sunday Onayiga, with a knife.
She decided to kill herself and her husband after she was told by her husband to pack out of their home at 3, Bassey Street, Orelope area of Egbeda, Lagos, where they had lived for over two years. The angry woman insisted that he must marry her because he promised to marry her two years ago. The Ondo State-born woman expressed her frustration when Sunday broke the news to her that he was no longer interested in the marriage.
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Kari Ukkonen (born 19 February 1961) is a Finnish former football player and current football manager. As player, Ukkonen was fielded as defender as well as midfielder.

Ukkonen represented Finland at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Three years later, he earned his first cap for Finland in a 1–1 draw against Poland. The same year, Ukkonen was voted Finnish Footballer of the Year by sports journalists and the Football Association of Finland.

In between, in 1982, Ukkonen had moved from Finland to Belgium, when he was bought by Cercle Brugge. Ukkonen made his Belgian début on 13 November, when Cercle defeated SV Waregem with 2–1. Ukkonen would go on to win the Belgian Cup with Cercle in 1985. Ukkonen would spend most of his career in Belgium, also playing for other First division teams as Lokeren, Anderlecht and Royal Antwerp. Ukkonen ended his playing career with French side LB Châteauroux. He stayed in football as manager. First he was coach of Finland's national youth team. He was head coach of Finland at the 2001 World Youth Championship in Argentina. His next job was manager of Turun Palloseura.

Honours
Belgian Cup:
Winner (4): 1985, 1988, 1989, 1992
Runner-up (1): 1986
Belgian First Division:
Winner (1): 1990–91
Runner-up (2): 1988–89, 1989–90

References

Cerclemuseum.be
Kari Ukkonen player profile

1961 births
Living people
Finnish footballers
Finland international footballers
Association football defenders
Association football midfielders
Finnish football managers
People from Kuopio
Olympic footballers of Finland
Footballers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Cercle Brugge K.S.V. players
K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen players
R.S.C. Anderlecht players
Royal Antwerp F.C. players
LB Châteauroux players
Belgian Pro League players
Expatriate footballers in Belgium
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Association football utility players
TPS Turku football managers
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Sportspeople from North Savo

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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor, who ranks fifth nationally in passing efficiency, is one of 15 student-athletes named as a "Player to Watch" for the 2010 Walter Camp Player of the Year Award. The Walter Camp Football Foundation announced its list Tuesday.
Pryor, who has led the Buckeyes to a 9-1 mark, has a passing efficiency rating of 166.4. He is completing 67.2 percent of his passes and has thrown a Big Ten best (tied) 22 touchdown passes against eight interceptions. He is one of two Big Ten Conference players to be selected.
Quarterbacks from four of the top six teams in the most recent BCS standings are on the list, including Auburn's Cam Newton, TCU's Andy Dalton, Boise State's Kellen Moore and Stanford's Andrew Luck. The 15-player watch list includes nine quarterbacks, three running backs, one wide receiver and two defensive players.
A list of five finalists will be announced on Wednesday, December 1.
The 2010 Walter Camp Player of the Year recipient, who is voted on by the Football Bowl Subdivision head coaches and sports information directors, will be presented live on Thursday, December 9 during the 6 p.m. edition of ESPN SportsCenter.
The complete list of Walter Camp "Players to Watch" is attached.


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All of the screens that we have used so far are accessed from the "Home" tab, but as you have probably noticed, we also have some other tabs, Configure, Profile, Options and Graphing, so let's take a look at these.
First, we will take a look at "Configure". This is basically to help you visualise how your system is compared to all the temperature and fan monitoring. So when we first click it, we get something like this, a lot of monitoring tools down the left-hand side and an image of a case.
If you right click on the case, you can choose to change it to one of the many Corsair cases that are available, or if you prefer you can also browse for an image of your own computer from the file. I like this option the best as you can take a picture of your built system, then add it and your pride and joy will be on show.
Once you have chosen your image, you can then drag and drop the sensors monitor to where it is in your system. this will leave you with something like this. As you can see it is far easier to visualise where every component is when it is set up like this.
The next tab along is "Profile". These are basically quick controls to give you yet more control over your PC. You can choose between presets such as "Performance" which gives you better cooling, but a louder system, this is great for if you are going to be doing something such as gaming where you don't mind the noise, but want a nice cool running PC. "Balanced", which is a balance between cooling and noise, which is great for everyday use or alternatively you can choose "Quiet", which, as I am sure you have guessed, puts fans at a slower speed, which makes the system quieter, but it may get a little warmer, this would be good for when you are watching a movie, so want to keep the noise down and you don't really need the system extremely cool. You can also create your own profiles if you wish.
The next tab "Options" gives us a drop down box with 3 different selections. Settings, Devices and About.
"Settings" let us change settings such as the Language, the Skin and temperature unit. "Devices" lets us see which firmware our devices are using and "About" lets us check for updates for Corsair Link as well as some giving us some useful links.
Finally, we have "Graphing" which I think should be a little more prominent. This is an excellent part of the Link software that should not be overlooked. Just clicking on it seems to give us the same as what we already have available on other screens, however, there is one excellent idea here that for some strange reason is actually Off by default. That is the "Log to file" option that is hidden away down the bottom right of the screen. This, as the name suggests logs any graphs that you want to keep an eye on to a .CSV file enabling us to keep track of our system continuously. The log file can keep track of temps, CPU usage, fan speeds, power usage and everything else Link 4 keeps an eye on.
This is just a small part of one of the log files that I created whilst checking out the Link 4 software. needless to say, it works very well and if your computer was to shut down randomly, if it was due to temps or PSU related, you have a lot more information than the standard user. I have attached a full log file HERE if you wish to see for yourselves how much information you can actually get from the log file.
So that is almost it for the actual link 4 software, this is the last screenshot for you, this, yet again, is just showing you just how much control you have, even without opening the full Link 4 software, you can see a wide range of information as well as changing the profile of your cooling. very handy if you just want to change something very quickly.
Now you have seen pretty much all the software that I am able to show currently. Let's have a quick round up of it and I can give you my thoughts on using the software and conclude this somewhat larger than expected article.


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Trajan's 'National Show' latest COVID-19 victim
The April 10-11 National Postage Stamp & Coin Show is the latest of many pandemic-caused cancellations dating back to mid-March 2020.
The Spring 2021 National Postage Stamp & Coin Show hosted by Trajan Media, the publisher of CSN and Canadian Coin News, has been cancelled due to COVID-19.
Held each spring and fall, the two-day show in Mississauga, Ont., typically includes a 50-dealer combined stamp and coin bourse, a two-session "Premier Auction," several seminars plus thousands of collectors coming through the door throughout the weekend. This spring marks the third time Trajan's "National Show" has been cancelled because of the pandemic, which began about a month before last year's spring show was slated to begin.
"Current conditions, and short-term forecasts, make it impossible for the show to proceed in a healthy and safe environment for all," said Trajan managing partner Mike Walsh on Feb. 2. "We are hopeful with the vaccinations' rollout to the general public later this spring to proceed with our fall show on Sept. 11-12."
While Trajan's April 10-11 National Show is cancelled, the Premier Auction will still be held by Kitchener, Ont.'s Colonial Acres. The firm will host the live sale online via iCollector on April 9-10. Live bidding will begin both days at 5:30 p.m. (ET). In addition to bidding through iCollector, bidders can enter bids via email or telephone. Beginning on March 19, lot viewing also will be available from Monday to Friday, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
CANCELLATIONS CONTINUE …
The show is the latest of a series of cancellations stretching back to March 2020.
As the pandemic continues to progress, stamp shows have been cancelled into summer as organizers watch the vaccine rollout in this country and abroad.
Other recent show cancellations include:
the Mississauga Coin & Stamp Show in Mississauga, Ont., on March 7;
Winpex in Windsor, Ont., on March 13;
the Edmonton Spring National in Edmonton, Alta., on March 27-28;
Kapex in Peterborough, Ont., on April 17;
Orapex in Ottawa on May 2-3;
the in-person Postal History Society of Canada (PHSC) Symposium in Hamilton, Ont., on July 16-18; and
the in-person Royal Philatelic Society of Canada (RPSC) Convention in Peterborough on June 25-27.
Four of those events – the Edmonton Spring National, Orapex, the PHSC Symposium and Royal Convention – were also slated to feature national-level exhibitions.
As of mid-February, the only remaining 2021 national show in Canada is October's Canpex in London, Ont.
CANPEX & CAPEX
All five of Canada's 2020 national shows were also cancelled due to COVID-19, which has limited some exhibitors' chances to qualify for CAPEX 22.
With an unprecedented 400 single frames plus a literature class, CAPEX 22 will be the world's first World One-Frame Stamp Championship. It's slated to take place in Toronto on June 9-12, 2022. Single-frame exhibits only qualify to compete at CAPEX if they have earned a vermeil medal – 75 points – at a national-level exhibition since Jan 1, 2015. The application deadline is Nov. 1, 2021.
Late last year, to give exhibitors another opportunity to qualify for CAPEX, the RPSC approved a national-level virtual exhibition with both single-frame and literature classes. Managed by Canpex organizers via canpex.ca, the National Virtual One-Frame Philatelic Exhibition is slated for April 7-30.
The virtual exhibition's prospectus and entry forms have been available via the Canpex website since December. The deadline for entry forms is March 8, and accepted exhibits must be scanned and submitted to organizers by March 20. Exhibits will be uploaded as they are received beginning March 29, and all exhibits will be displayed from at least April 6 until April 30.


Understanding Liquid Rubber Coating | Truco Inc.
When a customer comes to us for assistance maintaining a roof with cracks, leaks, rust damage, or other surface-level problems, one of the most common tools we utilize is liquid rubber coating. Liquid rubber is a remarkably versatile and cost-effective option for extending the lifespan of a roof, without expensive repairs or re-roofing jobs.
Liquid rubber coating is also an excellent proactive measure on new roofs, protecting them from damage and ensuring they have a long active lifespan.
In this blog, we wanted to talk a bit about liquid rubber, its benefits, and the techniques we use to work with it. This should give you a better understanding of how liquid rubber can be deployed to create superior roof protection solutions.
What Types of Rubber Are Used?
Not every form of rubber is appropriate for use in liquid form. There are many alternatives on the market, with some of the most common being silicone rubber, Neoprene, butyl rubber, Viton, and ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM).
Choosing between them is generally down to a matter of three factors: the temperatures they will be working under, the level of friction desired, and the materials being coated. Decades of experience working with these materials gives a company the ability to choose properly.
What Are the Advantages of Liquid Rubber?
Simply put, liquid rubber allows a roof to do everything a roof should do, but better.
How Is Liquid Rubber Applied?
In nearly all situations, liquid rubber is simply sprayed onto the surface it's meant to coat, then left to dry. This process requires just spray, brush or roll it on and allow time to dry into a seamless cover or blanket for your roof.
This provides additional benefits to you. It's a relatively low-cost solution to roof improvements, and it can also be applied and ready for use quite quickly. This makes it attractive in a wide variety of situations.
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What is embroidery? It's a design created in thread, sounds simple right? Embroidery can be extremely simple or amazingly complex when in the hands of a master.
In the modern age, embroidery is done by computer for application onto everything from t-shirts and golf shirts to hats, patches, jackets, sweatshirts or just about anything that can fit into the machine.
The process to transform an image or a logo into stitches begins with digitization. A logo from the client is logo is brought into embroidery software as a background image. Then stitch by stitch that logo is transformed from a flat printed image into a 3D image made from stitches.
So now the big question - how much does it cost? Well it can be anywhere from a few dollars to hundreds of dollars. It's like looking at two cars for sale on a lot - both have the same brand and model on them; but their costs vary by thousand of dollars.
Embroidery is priced per project based on two main factors - how many stitches in the design and how many pieces are being completed? A project for 36 pieces of golf shirts with a small over the heart design will be very different than having 10 jackets with a 100,000 stitches back design for a construction company. Best thing to do is to contact us either through this website, our email or phone.


Yesterday I received the second surplus Civil Defense meter I wanted to compare and contrast with the GQ 500+. This one is a CD-V 700 high sensitivity meter with a 6993 GM tube. Before I do actual comparisons I wanted to check the calibration of the new meter. This meter has a Cs137 check/calibration source on the side of the case. The tube holder/wand has a sliding shield that allows beta to get to the tube and can be closed for primarily gamma readings. Calibration is straight forward; with the shield open tube placed centered on the source, the meter should read 2.0 mR (roughly 1250 CPM of the 6993 GM tube) in the 10X switch position. Adjustment is made with pot inside case . The problem I see is that the meter is high serial number 6A (~78000) and likely produced late in the manufacturing cycle (1961-1974), and the Cs137 source is likely diminished in activity significantly. Currently the meter shows 2.5 mR when I put the wand over the source, which is higher than the manual states it should read when calibrated, but I think it is calibrated according to manual procedure. I don't think it's taking into account the diminished source.
Using tube 1 setting of the 500+ I measured CPM of the calibration source of the 700, getting 1100 CPM. That gives .715 mR; a far cry from the 2.0 mR necessary to properly calibrate the instrument. My gut says to detune the meter to the .715 mR reading on the 10X scale and it will be calibrated with this source properly. Does that make sense?
Half life calculations for Cs137 show if this source started at 2.0 mR strength for this meter, then counts indicated by the 500+ show 45 years of diminishment. I get manufacture date of 1973.
Thanks for commenting on this approach. Coming back up to speed with stuff I haven't played with for many years.
Perhaps GQ could edit title of thread to GMC instead of GMS. It would be nice to be able to edit these if even for just a short period (or to delete and start over).
You can actually edit the thread title. Use the little pen icon at the right of your thread in the main forum link (http://www.gqelectronicsllc.com/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=14).
@stargazer40: interesting device; I like those old clunkers ;-) and the careful thoughts that went into their design.
I am not familiar with it, and couldn't quite follow your description. Could you add some photos, in particular on how this Cs source is added to the system for calibration? Is there a manual to document the calibration procedure? Please, publish if so.
Cs137 (it is certain that it is Cs137?) has a half life of 30.17 years, so after exactly 45 years there should still be 35.6% of the original strength left. If 100% had worked, then a bit more than a third will also work; just account for the 36%.
Here is GMC 500+ with tube 1 held against source showing 1000 CPM (held better it's 1100 CPM).
Note that the calibration sticker clearly shows the check source is 2.5 mR. Date of calibration is Aug 2015. The expiration is three years out so the exp date shown lower left on label is actually 2018. The calibration should still be valid. However it is not reading an independent source, but the source on the side of the case so mis-calibrated.
Ok, one of these "flat iron" types, as I like to call them.
So with Cs137 in there and a certificate issued as recently as 2015 - unfortunately your photos cut off the further text on the certificate. Does it give a number of what the absolute or relative dose was in 2015? It should have been 37.2% of original, as opposed to 35.6% today. No big difference.
But unfortunately it is difficult to impossible to compare those readings with today's GMC counters.
Today's standardized Cs samples set you back 800� in Europe, and only after you have obtained a license to acquire such samples! Those are packaged in a metal housing such than no betas can escape, hence a pure gamma source.
However, in this classic counter it is the betas, they want to use as reference. Easy to understand as a Geiger tube has an efficiency near 100% for betas, but at best in the single digit % for gamma (the SI3BG tube surely well below that low end).
In order to do a calibration, according to their manual, you must open a sliding window at the site of the tube, and hold this to this Cs-source patch at the side of the counter. Originally the instrument should show "2 mr/hr", so today one would expect a reading of 2*36% = ~0.7 "mr/hr".
This does NOT mean that the source delivers this does rate! It means this is what you read on the display, when you make this test. The instrument is intended for measuring gamma radiation, and only for gamma will it give meaningful answers. It is only a procedure, which they (supposedly) have verified in their labs to demonstrate that an instrument calibrated in this way, will later give proper readings when applied in a gamma environment!
The sliding window is probably of a thickness of 0.5mm. From the data in Potty Training you can determine that 0.3mm steel is sufficient to keep all Cs-137 betas away. Gammas, including those from Cs-137, are weakened by something well below 1%.
The instrument scale shows that 300CPM equal "0.5 mr/hr", which is 5�Sv/h. Divide 5 by 300 and you get 0.017 �Sv/h/CPM, or 3x less sensitive than the M4011, as it is currently assumed.
Have 2 plastic bags of KCl (or K2CO3, basically the same effect) ready, with a pound of this salt in each. Establish the background of each instrument in its most sensitive setting.
Next put one bag below and one above the probe or the GMC counter, resp., so that the tube/instrument is basically wrapped in K-Salt. Wait for a stable reading, record with GeigerLog if you can.
The results on both instruments should be almost only due to gamma. I expect a reading of near 60CPM on the GMC. For the CDV700 I'd take the background of 20 + 1/3 of 60, gives a reading of 40. How close am I?
Note: When you have a big bag of K-salts, the betas from the bottom layer won't reach the surface. So for measuring betas a thin bag (1cm?) may be enough. But gammas are mostly undisturbed by the salt, and fly through. Thus for measuring gammas you benefit from a thick bag. Therefore at least 1 pound per bag.
Next experiment: slide open the window, and open the back of the GMC counter. Put the window and the tube, resp, as close as possible to the K-salt. Wrapping not necessary. I expect ~150 for the GCM counter, no idea for the flat iron.
I just noticed that one pictures shows a reading of 0.25 "mr/hr" at a 10x setting, so 2.5mR/hr, just as much as it should show when puchased.
This is unexpectedly high. Did you make any adjustments at the "CAL" potentiometer? Was the radioactive source refreshed in 2015?
I didn't adjust the meter at all (yet). It is the way it came.
GMC500+ shows .7 mR/h when held next to the Cs source on the case. I think your numbers are correct and that's what the 500+ shows for original source. I think the meter is incorrectly calibrated with the original source and made higher than the 2.0 mR/h it should be to compensate for later time further decay. Can't say whether deliberate or simply uneducated on half life effects of the 45 year old Cs.
The calibration sticker only says it was calibrated to 2.5 on the 10x scale. Now I question whether it is talking about the source at all. Likely that's what they set it to, but I still think they used the original source that was only 35% of what it once was so incorrect.
I need to buy some KCl.
The calibration sticker only says it was calibrated to 2.5 on the 10x scale.
That speaks of a breathtaking ignorance of these calibration people. How can you possibly "calibrate" something to the original value when the original value has lost 2/3rd of its intensity? Hilarious!
I wouldn't touch the CAL knob for now; just keep in mind that the reading is 2.5 / (2.5 * 37%) = 2.7fold too high.
But don't try to make any sense out of some other instrument reading a value which surfaced somewhere along the discussion.
Yes, go Potty with that bucket of salt!
Got my KCl in. Made two 1 lb. bags. Immersed wand of 700 in between. On X1 scale read .15mR/h. Immersed 500+ in between the two bags. Read .048mR/H. Pretty much as expected as the 700 miscalibrated by a factor of three times in my opinion (due to half life decay of the built in source (Cs137). I may play with the calibration to bring it in line. Was not surprised that the KCl was that radioactive, but does that fit activity you were expecting?
Didn't take into account background. I'll relook.
As your data seem to be a bit on the low side, I suppose you measured with the backside of the counter still mounted? The case is already holding back quite a few of the betas. Thus you have largely, but not exclusively, measured gammas. I suppose the wand has sufficient steel wall to hold back all betas, but the 500 will give you a mix; not quite comparable.
See Potty training for absorbers needed to absorb all beta. What does the 700 report with its window open and fully exposed to the K40?
@stargazer: now that you have a high-Ohm resistor, I wonder if you can do some tests on your CD-V 700 counter.
In its maximum range it supports CPM=30 000. According to them this is 50mR/h = 500�Sv/h. This implies a tube calibration factor of 0.017 �Sv/h/CPM, or 2.6 times less sensitive than a M4011. They were diligently enough to describe their source as "radium-equivalent radiation".
But with "only" CPM=30000 to support, the device does not need a more powerful HV than e.g. a GMC counter!
I took a good look into its manual. The HV is generated by the same principle as in the modern counters also, albeit with a chopping at different frequencies: CD-V700: ~100Hz, Radmon: 2.5kHz, GMC: varying 2.5...4.5kHz. This makes the latter two more efficient (and allows smaller build), but the inductance used could be making all the difference re HV power.
The pulsed HV is rectified and smoothed via standard RC components. The capacitors C4 and C5 are only 1nF and 10nF, resp. That is the same or even 10fold LOWER than in the RadMon, and only 10% higher than in a GMC! There is not much charge anyway that can be stored in such small capacitors! The voltage is limited by a tiny glow lamp to a max around 900V.
Of interest is the description on how to measure the HV: an electrostatic voltmeter is recommended. This is a rare instrument, which has the advantage of not drawing any current. I've never seen such an instrument in my life! It should read, quote: "910+/-10V". It is continued, quote: "This voltage may also be measured with a 20,000 ohms-per-volt meter on the 5,000 volt range"
Such an instrument at 1000V would have 20000 Ohm/V * 1000V = 20MOhm, and draw 50�A. And still measure 910V ??? That would really be a powerful HV generator; very strange when you first ask for an electrostatic voltmeter.
At the current of 0.095�A per 1000CPM, which I had determined, 50�A would support an M4011 tube up to CPS=8800, i.e. more than twice as much as the tube could handle!
2) measure Anode vs GND directly (without 100x probe) on a 10 MOhm DVM (or oscilloscope) in its 1000V range setting.
No need for counts, though if you have a good source, repeat measure 1).
The 15.4 is close enough to the 16.12 I had determined earlier, so, it is a confirmation. Let's call it 16MOhm. The CD-V 700 with 8Mohm is clearly more powerful. The RadMon+ had come out at about 12MOhm in other measurements.
But even the CD-V 700 does not create a lethal voltage by any means: when you shortcut its 900V, the internal resistance allows a current of ~110�A. Including skin resistance (when touching) it is somewhat less.
The "Threshold of sensation" is 1000�A (https://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~p616/safety/fatal_current.html ) and Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_injury ) has it at 500�A, though state "perceptible but no muscle reaction" for up to 5000�A.
This is confirmed by a German Technical report based on official DIN standards (DIN IEC/TS 60479-1 (VDE V 0140-479-1), norms, www.loullingen.lu/projekte/Defibrillator/103-STRO2.pdf) which gives an ever higher limit for DC of 2000�A.
Thanks for explaining that. Note first that the 700's GM tube will act no different really in lowering the voltage as counts increase. For me that says that even though this is a fifty year old device the likelihood that just about any of these commercial meters has a PS that can even get close to counts associated with saturation before voltage falls below plateau levels is getting higher and higher. I contacted Mazur which makes a $600 meter with pancake detector. From ZLM's comment concerning more efficient energy draw and less current we might assume that there is value to the 600+ in reaching much broader useful count range with similar detector. Mazur hasn't returned my call, and I did explain that I was interested in PS voltage regulation. We'll see.
I think sellers really take liability seriously and stating that the 700 has high voltage PS and urges caution does mitigate that in their minds. It caused me to be much more careful. Nice to know that he two alkaline D batteries likely can't be rigged to electrocute somebody.