Robyn Powell, Attorney Advisor at the National Council on Disability (NCD), USA, outlines the key findings and recommendations of NCD's ground breaking report, on disabled parents' rights in the USA.
Rocking the cradle is a comprehensive policy study, infused with real life stories of parents with disabilities. The report reviews the barriers and facilitators people with disabilities experience when exercising their fundamental right to create and maintain families, and the discrimination often faced by parents with disabilities. The report analyses how US disability law and policy apply to parents with disabilities in the child welfare and family law systems. Problems faced by prospective parents with disabilities who wish to adopt or access assisted reproductive technologies (ART) further illustrate the need for comprehensive protection of these rights. The report also examines programs that currently serve parents with disabilities and their children, and finds that with more funding, model programs could easily grow to better serve this often overlooked population.
Increasing numbers of Americans with disabilities are choosing to become parents; currently, there are more than 4.1 million parents with disabilities in the US, roughly 6.2% of all American parents with children under the age of 18. Estimates indicate 6.1 million children in the US have parents with disabilities, which amounts to nearly 1 in 10 American children. Parents with disabilities are the only distinct community of Americans who struggle, solely because of their status, to retain custody of their children.
Removal rates for parents with psychiatric disabilities are as high as 70-80%, for parents with intellectual disabilities as high as 80%. There are also extremely high removal rates and loss of parental rights for parents with sensory or physical disabilities. Laws in most states allow courts to determine that a parent is unfit, and terminate their parental rights, on the basis of a disability. In every state, disability may be considered in determining the best interest of a child for purposes of custody. Parents with disabilities are more likely to lose custody or visitation of their children after divorce. Prospective parents with disabilities face significant barriers when accessing reproductive health care, such as assisted reproductive technologies, or adopting children.
Examples of real life cases include a blind couple whose new baby was taken into state custody two days after birth, a quadriplegic mother who had to fight for 18 months to retain custody of her son, and a woman with cerebral palsy who was told she might be unfit to adopt because of her disability. Sadly, these are not isolated cases.
In 1995, when Rachel and her partner (both wheelchair users) decided to adopt, they had no idea they were embarking on a 15 year journey to become parents. They contacted the local child welfare agency to express interest in becoming foster or adoptive parents. They were immediately told that because of their disabilities they were not qualified. After they worked their way 'up the chain' and threatened a lawsuit, the agency finally allowed them to apply. The couple met all the requirements and completed the necessary training. Soon after that, a brother and sister were placed with them. After only three months, the agency removed the foster children because their birth mother did not want them placed with a disabled couple. The agency offered another child, who proved to be an inappropriate match. Nearly five years later, with no communication from the agency, Rachel and her partner went through the training process again. Despite successful completion of training a second time, they never heard from the agency.
In 2004, after Rachel's partner started a new job that paid well, the couple decided to apply for private adoption, hoping a private agency would better engage and assist prospective parents with disabilities. But the private adoption process was also riddled with discrimination. In 2006, the couple applied to adopt a young girl. After a home study and nearly two years of silence, they enquired again. Finally, in early 2009, Rachel and her partner were allowed to meet a child. In March 2009, the agency contacted the couple and told them that the girl's foster parents were relinquishing her (which Rachel and her partner assumed was owing to her significant intellectual and psychiatric disabilities) and asked if they would like to become her foster parents. They agreed and she moved into their home in April 2009. In June 2010, 15 years after beginning their journey to become parents, Rachel and her partner adopted their daughter. Tragically, Rachel's partner passed away five months later.
The following list sets out some key recommendations from Rocking the Cradle: Ensuring the Rights of Parents with Disabilities and Their Children. For a complete list of recommendations, please read the full report.
federal funding for research on parents with disabilities and their families.
a shift of funding priorities at the federal level so that states have a greater incentive to provide services to families while the children are maintained in the home.
Similarly, with respect to the family law system, NCD recommends that states modify their custody and visitation statutes to eliminate language that discriminates against parents with disabilities.
NCD recommends that regular training on parenting with disabilities is mandatory for all family court professionals, custody evaluators, and adoption agency staff.
NCD recommends that guidance is issued, and increased monitoring and enforcement of federal disability laws is carried out for: child welfare agencies, dependency courts, family courts, domestic public and private adoption agencies, and ART providers.
To address inappropriate and unadapted parenting assessments and the lack of national resources to provide adapted services and adaptive parenting equipment, NCD recommends state statutes, rules of court, and professional standards require that parenting assessments are fully accessible to parents with disabilities.
In addition, to better support parents with disabilities and their children, NCD recommends the definition of activities of daily living be expanded to include parenting activities, so that funded personal assistance services can help consumers with their parenting responsibilities.
Furthermore, since parents with disabilities face significant barriers to retaining effective and affordable legal representation for dependency and family law proceedings, NCD recommends that Protection & Advocacy agencies establish protection of custody and parenting rights as a formal national priority.
Finally, NCD recommends that the United States swiftly ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities because it reinforces the rights of people with disabilities to create and maintain families.
The full report is available on NCD's website.


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Bulgarian Establishments to Stage Smoking Ban Boycott
Society | December 12, 2012, Wednesday // 10:37
Bulgaria is consistently ranking among the top 5 European countries in terms of smoking rates, both in the general population and among the young. File photo
Beginning December 15, the managers of Bulgarian bars, restaurants and coffee shops will allow smoking in their establishments despite the full smoking ban being effective in the country.
The Chairman of the Bulgarian Association of Hotel and Restaurant Owners (BHRA), Blagoy Ragin says the boycott will, most likely, last until the end of the year and aims at showing the difference in profits when smoking is allowed inside.
The warning will turn into reality if lawmakers fail to listen and respond favorably to demands of BHRA members to return to having smoking and no-smoking spaces inside establishments.
The owners and managers are going to pay any fines imposed on them for the boycott.
On Tuesday, Ragin met with Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, and Health Minister, Desislava Atanasova, but has been told they back the full smoking ban and BHRA needs to find a lobby in the Parliament. Atanasova, however, said later the Members of the Parliament also want the full ban to remain in force.
Meanwhile, Ragin insisted that MPs from the two main opposition formations – the left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP, and the ethnic Turkish party Movement for Rights and Freedoms, DPS, have given BHRA 100% support.
Dian Chervenkondev, MP from Borisov's ruling, center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party, GERB, in contradiction of what was reported by Atanasova, said there would be separate spaces for smokers and non-smokers in an attempt to achieve balance and reasonable consensus.
Chervenkondev grounded his statement on the fact the revenues of the establishments were collapsing, forcing many to close and layoff staff.
Last Thursday, MPs from GERB declared that the full smoking ban in indoor spaces in Bulgaria would remain without any future changes. Their statement came on the heels of reports about Bulgaria's Parliament considering easing the full smoking ban in closed public spaces that was imposed in the country on June 1. The Standard daily wrote earlier that the ban may only be lifted in bars and night clubs and only after 10:00 pm.
On Sunday, in a TV interview, Borisov pointed out that, since the full smoking ban is an important measure, it has to be discussed again, and hinted he would see the above decision as a reasonable move.
In November, Bulgarian business representatives, as well as regular citizens assembled in front of the Bulgarian Parliament in Sofia to rally for a lifting of the full smoking ban in closed public spaces.
Bulgaria is consistently ranking among the top 5 European countries in terms of smoking rates, both in the general population and among the young.
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An original early 20th-century watercolour painting, SHS Romanhurst, Witcombe.
On Arnold & Foster unbleached drawing board. A similar signed work from this collection suggests that the artist is "S. Sheppard".
The board has been bent and consequently shows horizontal crease damage across the centre.


Our society concentrates on the negative. All the past hurts which can never be resolved haunt us daily. Dr. Daniel Amen has named them ANTS (automatic negative thoughts). Getting rid of the ANTS can be challenging as we cling to them as if they were the most wonderful events in our lives. In most cases doing this accomplishes only making us miserable. I does not and usually can not solve the past problem. If it does solve the problem successfully, then by all means do problem solve.
If, however, it accomplishes no benefit for you, then build and use a category of happy/amazing/ or wonderful memories to replace the upsetting recollections.
I will share with you a group of such reminiscences of mine to give you an idea of the scope of circumstances that you might include in your pleasant memory bank.
Under amazing; I was able to look a hump back whale directly in the eye while on the scientific tour into the ocean off of Long Island. I wanted to touch it, but it was lying alongside our ship: i was concerned that it might react by turning over which possibly would turn our ship over. I settled for just looking into the eye who seemed as curious about me as I was about it.
Under wonderful; I saw a mother rabbit give birth to three offspring. I wrote about it in detail in another article. Her male counterpart ran off the curious intruders: birds and another rabbit. After she gave birth, he sat up and the white of his chest expanded triple the former size.
Under happy; there are a number of happy events which continue to grow exponentially.
I observed a sunset of gradually multicoloured and continually changing kaleidoscope of colours in Tahiti.
The love of my friends and family warms me when I think of how they are there when I need them.
The birth of each of my three children created overwhelming happiness to the extent that I never slept for an entire 24 hour/ 7 day week due to the joy I experienced.
Keep collecting these pleasurable impressions so that when you have difficulty getting in touch with a soothing stress free mind set, you can transfer your mind toward these occurrences to help create a balanced calm state of mind.


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Q: I'm getting the error : runtime error: division by zero ; for my code Can someone plzz help me         int j;
        for( j=0;j<=i;j++)
        {  v.push_back(val);
        val= val*(i-j)/j+1;
        }
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In the line val=val*(i-j)/j+1 ; the error is occuring.

A: I am unsure what language this is in, but I would expect the division operator (/) to take precedence over the addition operator (+), so in the first iteration of the loop you will indeed be performing a division by 0 which is what the error is telling you.

A: Just change your code to this-
int j;
    for( j=0;j<=i;j++){
        v.push_back(val);
        val= val*(i-j)/(j+1);
    }
return v;

This error was occurring because you were dividing the value with j in line 4 that was initially 0, however you were adding one but you should have used ().

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When you help people you have direct contact with their lives. As you may have found, your compassion for those you help can affect you in positive and negative ways. Below are some questions about your experiences, both positive and negative, as a helper. Consider each of the following questions about you and your current work situation. Select the number that honestly reflects how frequently you experienced these things in the last 30 days.


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La Copa de Naciones (también llamado 4 Associations' Tournament or Celtic Cup) es un torneo bienal de fútbol en el que participan las selecciones de , ,  y .

Historia
El torneo fue inicialmente propuesto en 2006 por el entonces técnico de Irlanda del Norte Lawrie Sánchez. El 18 de septiembre de 2008, las asociaciones nacionales de fútbol de Escocia, Gales, Irlanda del Norte y la República de Irlanda anunciaron los planes para disputar un torneo internacional en 2011. Fue anunciado el 12 de agosto de 2010 que el torneo será promocionado por la empresa de cerveza Carling y anunciado por razones de promoción  como el Carling Nations Cup.

El torneo inaugural fue jugado en el Aviva Stadium en Dublín entre los meses de febrero y mayo de 2011, el torneo fue ganado por .  La edición de 2013 está programada para efectuarse en Gales.

Formato
La Copa de Naciones se desarrolla en formato de round robin, donde cada equipo juega un partido contra cada oponente, resultando un total de 6 juegos por cada temporada. Tres equipos (Escocia, Gales, e Irlanda del Norte) participaron en el ahora difunto British Home Championship, junto con Inglaterra.

El torneo iniciaría en 2009, pero fue aplazado hasta 2011 a causa de que se desarrollaba la
clasificación para la Copa Mundial de 2010. Los partidos son jugados entre febrero y mayo, con la sede que ira rotando torneo a torneo. La primera edición tuvo la participación de cuatro equipos iniciando en febrero de 2011 en el Aviva Stadium en Dublín. La República de Irlanda ganó el torneo inaugural después de ganar sus tres partidos, culminando con un 1-0 sobre Escocia en el último partido.

La Asociación de Fútbol de Gales cree que  podría ingresar en futuras ediciones al torneo si ellos dan "soluciones prácticas" al problema del calendario. A inicios de 2011, un reportero de BBC Sport anuncio que el British Home Championship podría disputarse en 2013. Posteriormente se sugirió que Inglaterra podría competir una solo ocasión en el torneo de 2013 en el marco del 150 aniversario de la Asociación de Fútbol de Inglaterra.

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Goleadores

Referencias

Enlaces externos
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Campeonatos de fútbol entre selecciones
Fútbol en Escocia
Fútbol en Gales
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Fútbol en Irlanda del Norte
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Defense ministry withdraws information bill after media criticism
The Lithuanian Defense Ministry said on Thursday it is taking its proposal on the release of official information back for further discussions and improvement following media criticism.
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"The Ministry of National Defense is suspending the approval procedure for the amendments to the Law on the Right of Access to Information from State and Local Authority Bodies and the Law on the Provision of Information to the Public," it said in a comment forwarded to BNS.
The ministry admitted that the draft amendments "need to be improved and require more in-depth discussions with social groups concerned".
The draft amendments, registered by the ministry early this week, introduce the concept of "information for official use", making such information not appropriate for public release.
Under the proposal, this marking would have been used for information related to issues on which state and municipal authorities have yet to make a final decision.
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Opinions and positions intended for internal work purposes and information on internal working arrangements of an institution or body would also have fallen into this classification.
The amendments were drafted following consultations within a working group made up of representatives from the ministries for defense, interior, economy and innovation, and transport and communications, the 15min online news site has reported.
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis appointed the working group in December 2018, according to the website.
'Would have undermined the legislative process'
Dainius Radzevicius, the chairman of the Lithuanian Journalists' Union, says the proposed amendments would have ruined the current "constitutional and legal procedure for the provision of information" and undermined the legislative process.
If passed, the bill "would basically mean that we would not be able to find out anything about any unadopted decisions," Radzevicius told BNS.
"It could be anything from a draft law to a draft decree or new regulation," he added.
According to the Defense Ministry, the amendments were aimed at solving an old problem of information exchange with EU and NATO structures in the absence of a national equivalent to the NATO UNCLASSIFIED or EU LIMITE security markings.
The ministry said in its response forwarded to BNS that the "information for official use" marking would be used for data the release of which could harm the interests of the state or its allies, the course of negotiations and objective decision-making, or draw the interest of foreign intelligence services.
It insists that the proposals would not have restricted the media's access to information.
According to the ministry, it will now look for other ways to lower the security requirements for some of the information currently marked as "restricted", ensuring its proper administration.
Draft amendments tabled by ministries have to be endorsed by the Cabinet before being sent to the Seimas for approval.
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Lowell Preview
Lowell River Hawks 2-11-2 (2-9-0) 10th Hockey East
Massachusetts Minutemen 2-6-3 (1-3-3) T-8th Hockey East
Two very similar teams will face off tomorrow afternoon as a young Lowell team comes into the Mullins to kick off the 2010-11 edition of the rivalry between these two schools. Lowell will be looking to gain points from a team just above them in the Hockey East standings while UMass looks to continue its recent success and take advantage of the games in hand it has over Lowell thus far.
Like UMass, Lowell is young and it has shown in their results. Lowell has won just two games so far this year, one in overtime to Providence and the other over 1-win Vermont. They also can lay claim to a couple of ties over Atlantic Hockey's Niagara and RIT. The River Hawks are currently mired in a six game losing streak.
Lowell has looked bad on both sides of the ice. Statistically they have the 5th worst offense in the country which isn't good, but when you combine it with the 6th worst goals given up it's just plain disastrous. Lowell has already given up 8 goals in a game twice this season, one each to Maine and Minnesota State. The Hawks are giving up a half goal more than the Minutemen at this point in the season. If there is a lone bright spot to their season it's the fact that they have not taken a lot of penalties. In fact they've taken the lowest amount in the country after only Air Force. Even when they have gone a man down their penalty kill has been a respectable 85.2%. Their power play has been middle of the pack at 16.9%.
The first period tomorrow should be interesting to watch as both teams have gotten off to slow starts to start the game. In fact Lowell has been outscored 6 to 20 in the opening period so far this season. In terms of scoring the Hawks are led by Riley Wetmore who is following up a strong freshman season with 6 goals and 6 assists so far as a sophomore. They've also gotten good production in the form of five goals from Joe Pendenza, who I was impressed with last year when I saw him play in juniors as a teammate to Colin Shea. The Lowell coaching staff is likely happy with what the 2 goals and 6 assists they've gotten out of freshman defenseman Chad Ruhwedel.
Defenseman Maury Edwards, who if you remember was an All-American as a sophomore, is following up a disappointing junior season with a horrible senior season. Through 15 games he has just 3 points and has a +/- of -13. Probably not the leadership the team expected out of him. Gone is the two headed goaltending monster of Carter Hutton and Nevin Hamilton and in is the freshman tandem of Doug Carr and Marc Boulanger. Carr was recruited by UMass but chose Lowell for the promise of playing time and he's certainly seen his share of action between the pipes. Looking at his 2-9-0 record may disguise the fact that he has had some very solid games and has been able to survive the season so far with a goals against of 3.33 and save % of .902. Boulanger hasn't been as lucky and comes into tomorrow's game with a 4.25 GAA and save percentage of .868.
For UMass the challenge will be to keep doing what they've been doing despite the week layoff. Those things that have carried them through the this three game streak has been penalty killing and goaltending. On the penalty kill side of things UMass has killed 13 of their opponents last 15 attempts during the three games in question. At the same time Paul Dainton has stopped 112 of the last 118 shots. That's a save percentage of .949. While their shot total has actually decreased recently the shots they are getting are better looks and they've done an adequate job of keeping the puck in the zone for quality possessions. Helping them gain the puck has been increased pressure on the forecheck which has been pretty successful.
Offensively UMass has gotten contribution from two key groups; freshmen and defensemen. And of course freshman defensemen. Some of this has been by design, which Coach Cahoon alluded to in this week's radio show, to try to generate more offense from the point and get guys in front of the net for whatever results. But I think some of the increase for the freshmen has just been confidence. The team has appeared looser before and during the games and minor mistakes are no longer being accompanied by lowered heads. This team has now had enough practices and games where they're getting comfortable with each other and believing in their teammates. But at the same time they're starting to believe in themselves as well. There is less hesitancy to shoot and pinch in for an offensive chance.
Hopefully that self-confidence will not turn into overconfidence. This team still only has two wins to their name, the same as the team coming into Amherst tomorrow. And I think if we've learned anything about Blaise MacDonald led Lowell teams over the years is that they tend to get up to play the flagship. Whatever the motivation is, Lowell comes to play almost everytime against the Minutemen. Despite their number of wins, their number of freshman, or the odd start time, I expect them to do the same tomorrow.
Since I plan on doing the cross-state thing tomorrow heading first out to Amherst for hockey and then back out to Boston for basketball, I probably won't relax with a beer until following the hoops game against Boston College. That will likely be at the Boston Beer Works Canal Street location. Beer Works, all locations, are a little strange because it's possible to have amazing or awful beer all in one sitting. It's like craft beer lottery. Luckily the food is always goods. If I remember last December they had a White Christmas wee heavy which I'm hoping to enjoy one of tomorrow.
Congratulations to Mike Pereira who was one of the runners-up to the national Rookie of the Month for November.
The USHL site shows Justin Braun with the puck from his first NHL goal.
There's word tonight that a bus full of UMass Ski and Board Club members flipped over on I-91 in Vermont with dozens of injuries reported. Hopes and thoughts are certainly with them.
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scary stuff about the ski and board club…and was reading this yahoo! fantasy article, talks about braun as one of the hot new adds in fantasy hockey, thought you might want to check it out:
http://sports.yahoo.com/fantasy/nhl/news?slug=rotowire-frozen_120210
That's great. Thanks for posting.
good game for umass! and also, question: do you have any idea what has happened to darren rowe? he went from skating on our power play to not playing at all…is he hurt or did he just fall out of the rotation?
I'm hearing a healthy scratch for both Rowe and Carzo recently.
interesting…thought carzo would play a bigger role than he has thusfar
I read an article today that suggested that everybody on the bus got out okay, some serious cuts, bruises, broken bones…but nothing terrible – Thank God.
Good to see UMass at 3-0 and I'm curious as to whats up with Rowe's ice time as well…
anonoymous
thought toot was trying to light a fire under rocco, but at this point the lines are all clicking and playing very very well together, no reason to change.
such a change from last year, no egos, great TEAM hockey.
I think the captains deserve a lot of the credit for the team mentality we're seeing from the team this year. They're leading by example and I don't sense a lot of attention placed on their own stats or pro prospects.
agreed, great group of captains, very happy for dainton.
syner is a stud, one of best goals of season, the first goal yesterday
I find it interesting that a lot of times on the rush like that Syner tends to skate to his backhand. But hell, it works and was a great shot. he almost scored a second backhand goal later on.
they gotta start throwing the puck towards the net more, good things happen when you do that. BC/BU do that so well. they are starting to do that, would love to see more of it.


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Every year in the build-up to the craziness that is Lollapalooza weekend, Timeout Magazine puts together a list of alternate activities, musical and non, for anyone looking to avoid the hoards of drunken suburban ex-pats (that's not meant to be mean, that's just Lolla as we now know it). Along with various movie-theaters, live-streaming Lolla from your couch, entering the Hamilton ticket lottery, exploring beaches and beer festivals, Picnics on the Porch (Aug. 4th Kelly Hogan & Scott Ligon) made the list. Swing by the Porch Friday night for a great show, a great meal and some great company.


Relationship building isn't always easy in a creative-access country. Nonbelievers regard Christians or missionaries suspiciously, unsure about what they offer. But through community outreach centers in several countries, doors are opening to the gospel as Alliance workers demonstrate Christ's love. English classes, occupational skills enhancement, and food-giveaways are only a few of the services provided by The Alliance in these neighborhood centers. And God is faithful to bring those whose hearts He has prepared to hear the good news.
As relations grow between Alliance workers and their beneficiaries, small groups are established to discuss and answer questions about God. Many attendees have no spiritual foundation and are members of their cultural religion in name only. It is through these groups that people are introduced to their Savior.
A "homework" assignment for a small group led by an Alliance worker showed God's concern for the intimate details in one new believer's life. Seventeen-year-old Anja loves her family, folk dancing, and studying medicine. Recently, Anja opened her heart to Jesus after her mother led her in a prayer of commitment to the Lord. Life for Anja has not been the same.
The Alliance worker gave each group member an index card with instructions to write how God answered their prayers during the next week. The purpose of the assignment was to make them aware that He hears their prayers and He is ready to answer.


Maincrops have flowered, first earlies haven't!
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 9:23 pm Post subject: Maincrops have flowered, first earlies haven't!
Hi everyone. I'm new on the forum but was wondering if anyone could offer me some advice?
I planted my first earlies (home guard) on St Patricks day. The young plants were coming along nicely until they got a bad burning with frost in mid April. This set some of them right back but they survived.
I planted some king Edwards in early May. They had caught right up with my earlies within a month and they have now flowered! My earlies however have not, despite being big strong healthy plants.
Should I go ahead and harvest my earlies now, even though they haven't flowered Given that they have been in the ground for four months now?
I dont know about home guards but I do know that some spuds dont flower at all. Why not dig one up or have a rummage around and see what's underneath?


The highest railway bridge in Greece, the original Asopos Viaduct was a 3-hinged truss-arch that crossed a deep chasm on the line between Salonika and Athens. Similar to the Nami-Ti bridge in China, the inclined truss struts of the main span support a series of smaller lattice spans. Both bridges were French designs.
A strategic bridge during World War II, a team of British guerillas was sent up the gorge to see if they could successfully take out the arch. With a narrow river locked between sheer cliffs, freezing water and several waterfalls to rappel up, they realized it would take days to reach the bridge. After an exhaustive hike with several men doing reconnaissance and others carrying hundreds of feet of rope, grappling equipment and explosives, several of the men finally made it to the bridge. Due to a reinforcement project that had been underway, the span had scaffolding and ladders on it that would aid their access. On the night of the attack, several German guards were up on the bridge keeping watch with many more nearby. Searchlights were always sweeping the gorge. After 2 hours, the men had set the charges without being seen and headed back into the canyon. The charges were set to go off after an hour and a half but nothing happened. Then after an hour and fifty-five minutes, there was a bright flash. Their distance combined with the loud stream made them unsure of what had occurred. The next morning, a man who had staked out a position on a cliff above the bridge told them the news - there is an empty space where the bridge used to be.
The demolition of the Asopos viaduct was one of the more successful feats of sabotage in the war. Saboteurs were also successful in destroying several spans on the nearby Gorgopotamos Viaduct. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and some private contractors eventually reconstructed both bridges.
The original 1908 Asopos Viaduct.
The 1943 truss was built on a new alignment upstream from the site of the original 1908 viaduct. Image by Johnny the Mountaineer.
Image by Johnny the Mountaineer.
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10 Things you should Know before Casting your Vote to your Candidate
Bhattacharjee Shyamal
This is a question that really will have to force one to spend most of his time to find an answer to the same, The Lok Sabha electorate is primarily an election to select the "PM" of this country at India One need not explain what are the attributes that a "PM" of this country needs to possess. It is people who choose the "PM" and it is the people more than anyone else that needs to analyze and choose the right candidate as the "PM" of the country.
Actually the people franchise their vote to choose the member of the Lok Sabha and these numbers later choose the "PM" Hence the moot point is " what are the qualities, a minimum of ten of those that one ought to look to cast his vote to choose the "PM" of this country.
The choice of an individual varies, but there could be some common factors or the qualities that one pinpoints and looks as a quality to choose the "PM" Some of them are illustrated below:
1. The acceptability of the candidate as the "PM"
A "PM" ought to be somebody who ought to be accepted as the national leader by one and sundry of the nation. He has to have the ability to attract the people to him and his words His action his words and his way of interacting and reacting to the people is what generates a confidence amongst the people to repose and pin their faith on the "PM" The action of the "PM" later becomes the reaction of the people to either reject him or chose him as the leader of the country to lead his nation in the world This is the first major point.
2. The knowledge about the country and the states
While choosing the Member of the parliament who amongst themselves will later choose the "PM" one has to bear in the mind that the Members of the Parliament are chosen in a manner that they know the basic of the country beside knowing the information of one and sundry from the region that they are chosen The basis of the country includes an overall idea of what the country is, what are the different states and their strength as well as the weakness are, what are their condition in terms of the national ranking when it comes to Economics, Health, Education and Employment These are some of the basic traits that every Member of Parliament ought to know before they can expect the people to cast their vote for them from their apportioned region and there are the valid important quality that the people should know before they cast their vote for a candidate in the Lok Sabha election.
3. The "basic" education of the candidate
The basic education need not necessarily be the candidate possessing a hi-fi qualification In choosing the leader, the leader ought to have a complete knowledge of the entire constituency from where he is contesting, the bifurcation of the different people in terms of breeds, religion, caste and the creeds, the knowledge of their profession, the knowledge of the state of agriculture and farming of the area that he is contesting his election, the factors like forestry, the per capita income of the people and the info's of the basic amenities and the facilities that the area provides to the people This will help the member of the parliament who is contesting the election and these are some of the basic requisite of the people to know before they cast their franchise in favor of the candidates of the Lok Sabha from their area/ constituency.
4. The Academic qualification
A good academic qualification and that too if it a qualification that is associated with the professional one's could be considered to be a "blessing" for everything if at all a candidate who is contesting for the post of Member of Parliament possesses. The experience of the job that is associated or linked with his qualification can help him to gauge a situation brilliantly and analyze that precisely to expedite it. This can come in as a useful asset and it could be handy when he delivers and expedite his work A good professional qualification and the experience associated with it helps in analyzing a problem and finding out a suitable solution This is one important factor which the people who select their representative ought to look in for.
5. The "mannerism" of the candidate
This is one of the most important factor The manners that the representative carries ultimately makes and decides his failures and the success It is pertinent that every candidate who fights the Lok Sabha election carries a soft manner He may be a " rough-and-a-tough" candidate in his personal life with a lot of " volcano " in terms of the fire-and-the-anger inside him But he actually is the representative of the people He has to carry forward not only the people who select him all the time with him but he has to put their problems to the authorities for solving them. He has to carry a soft, mild and a pleasing human manner so that the people always pin their faith on him and he carries the faith of the people to its ultimate destination to get the problems of the people solved This is one important point and perhaps the most important point.
6. The "openness" and the "availability" of the candidate.
The representative that the people chose must be open to every problems that the people of the constituency put to him and he ought to build a habit to learn to accept the people for what they are He ought to be available to the people at the appropriate time when the people need him to be around them The representative's openness to give a proper hearing to the people and be ever ready to come in as a handy to him whenever required makes the representative a more accepted leader and that increases his brand value and his position which makes him a tall leader.
7. The knowledge of the world and its problems
It is the Member of the Parliament that are selected by the people and the "MP's" finally select the "PM" It is and it would be very necessary for the Members of the parliament that they know a bit or a little about each country that exists in the world their habitats, their fiscal and financial conditions, their strength and the weakness and their culture and heritage. This is very necessary now-a-days for the representative to know a knowledge of this will help them to put forward their views in a very strategic manner when the country deals with those on a diplomatic front and other such occasion when the need arises Knowing one's strength and weakness sometimes helps one to pitch exactly where we could be a success to them and they could be our's This is a strong point that these representatives ought to know and the people who elect their representative ought to focus on these points.
8. The background of the representative
For the people who elect their representative or their leaders it is imperative for one to gauge and now is the background and what is the background of the representative that he is elected. A good criminal free background with a good qualification is endured by the people and they elect their representative on this background The person's assessment is that a good family background, a healthy kind of a life that the representative leads and a free from the crimes it makes a representative to walk miles and go millions of miles to make his constituency a strong " zone " This is what the voters in general believe It raises a confidence amongst the voters that a good and a humble background will definitely not " dash " the hope that the voters put in him.
9. The ability to handle the crisis
The ability to handle the crisis by the representative and the expertise to solve the problems in an authentic manner is an important factor and the point that goes in a long way for the people to elect their representative from their constituency Especially the "PM" and his men ought to be very sensible, sensitive and absolutely balanced to solve and dilute or neutralize the critical situation that arises. The classic example of it was the " Dokhlam " affair and the situation that had risen, but the one's responsible to look after the affair of the nation diffused the situation very effectively and precisely.
10. The "Stability"
This is one of the most weak trait that the elected leaders of now-a-days possess They hop step and jump from one party to the other when their apple carts are turtled The one who chooses their representative ought to study this factor very carefully, sincerely with all the attitude and magnitude taken into consideration before one should elect his representative from his or her constituency.
This and these are some of the 10 most valid point that one ought to think and rethink before casting his precious vote for their candidate.
Mr. Shyamal Bhattacharjje, the author was born at West Chirimiri Colliery at District Surguja, Chattisgarh on July 6th 1959 He received his early education at Carmel Convent School Bishrampur and later at Christ Church Boys' Higher Secondary School at Jabalpur. He later joined Hislop College at Nagpur and completed his graduation in Science and he also added a degree in B A thereafter.He joined the HITAVADA, a leading dails of Central India at Nagpur as a Sub-Editor ( Sports ) but gave up to complete his MBA in 1984 He thereafter added a Diploma In Export Management.He has authored THREE books namely Notable Quotes and Noble Thought published by Pustak Mahal in 2001 Indian Cricket : Faces That Changed It in 2009 and Essential Of Office Management in 2012.He has a experience of about 35 years in marketing
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Q: compute taylor series about $x=0$ of $\arctan(e^x -1 )$ hello I am having some issue and need a little guidance with this taylor expansion
$$f(x)=arctan(e^x -1)$$
the terms i should get are $x+\frac{x^2}{2}-\frac{x^3}{6}-\frac{11 x^4}{24}-\frac{5 x^5}{24}$ but I am having some trouble with the expansion
should I use the definition of $e^x = \sum_{k=0}^\infty \frac{x^k}{k!}$ and truncate the first two terms $ 1 + x$ or should do three terms instead $1 + x +\frac{x^2}{2}$ after which taking the derivative of $$arctan(x)= \frac{1}{1 + x^2}*\frac{dy}{dx} $$ and then applying the the integration of the geometric series where by $$\int\frac{1}{1-x}= \int\sum_{k=0}^\infty {x^k}$$
or should i approach the question differently all together?

A: All roads lead to rome! Let's  proceed by your first idea. We have
$$\frac1{1+u^2}=1-u^2+u^4+O(u^6)$$
hence using that $\arctan(0)=0$ we get
$$\arctan u=u-\frac{u^3}{3}+\frac{u^5}{5}+O(u^6)$$
moreover we have
$$e^x-1=x+\frac{x^2}{2}+\frac{x^3}{6}+\frac{x^4}{24}+\frac{x^5}{120}+O(x^6)$$
now we replace $u$ by $x+\frac{x^2}{2}+\frac{x^3}{6}+\frac{x^4}{24}+\frac{x^5}{120}$ and we only retain the terms with degree less or equal $5$ we get the desired result.

A: You can definitely do it the way you propose:
\begin{align}\tan^{-1}(x)&=\int\frac1{1+x^2}\text dx=\int\sum_{i=0}^\infty (-x^2)^i\text dx=\sum_{i=0}^\infty \frac{(-1)^ix^{2i+1}}{2i+1}\\
e^x&=\sum_{i=0}^\infty \frac{x^i}{i!}\end{align}
Therefore \begin{align}\tan^{-1}(e^x-1)&\approx (e^x-1)-\frac13(e^x-1)^3+\frac15(e^x-1)^5\\
&\approx (x+\frac12x^2+\frac16x^3+\frac1{24}x^4+\frac1{120}x^5)-\frac13(x+\frac12x^2+\frac16x^3)^3+\frac15x^5\\
&\approx x+\frac12x^2-\frac16x^3+\frac{11}{24}x^4-\frac5{24}x^5\end{align}


Wonder how quiet the thread will be this time.
In any case, here's my updated look at net income/EPS based on Oppenheimer's guidance and the latest $14B buyback.
Thanks for the summary. I have only one question.
How did you arrive at an average buy back of $505? I think I read that $2 billion was bought on the open market and $12 billion in block purchases. The block purchases would be at about 3% to 5% above market ( $520 - $530) or maybe more. This would put the average at ~ $522, and probably higher.
Then again I am probably wrong.
Would it? That's one hell of a commission to pay, isn't it?
I couldn't find information on typical fees or %s for block buy backs but did find a good overview of buybacks.
Just finished rereading Daniel Eran Dilger's piece from last November, in which he posits that Apple would have built up $11.3B in deferred revenue by the end of 2013. For those of you who read the financial statements more closely than I do, is the amount of deferred revenue being counted in the current quarter separated out? Or is it just invisibly added into the product category from which it was deferred? Do any of you home gamers (Mav?) or the pros attempt to include this in your projections in some way?
Probably not much drama in the earnings report again, I guess. The company will come in very close to the top of its so-called range, and it will once again be labeled as a disappointment. So yet again, it will be all about the guidance, and who among us expects anything exciting there?
Any thoughts on whether Luca will continue the Oppy Guidance Method, or will introduce something new?
Final, longwinded post for the quarter, thinking about analyst expectations (and leaving out a bunch of other different approaches, but hey). New product categories could affect guidance, but there's zero chatter about anything shipping by June that seems "credible", y'know?
Deferred revenue will never catch up for as long as Apple grows its business. So far, it's still doing that. Sort of.
Recognized deferred revenue is blended into quarterly results, so you just have to best-guess ASP and all that. Not even pro analysts can tell you the ASP of an iPhone or iPad for any given quarter, considering the way amortization works.
The new wrinkle is increased deferrals, which will result in a big impact to revenues and gross margin initially.
My quick take on earnings.


Has anyone worked with this company and can tell me if they offer good, unlimited leads and earning potential like they say they do?
Hi Karen, not sure if I can give you an answer on that, I am on the border as to make a commit to them, their platform sounds great but what they did not tell me was that I had to have at least 10 mbps upload thru the internet to handle the volumeness amount of dialing that goes thru your system via Assurance. I had already invested a great deal in buying non-resident licensing in other states before i discovered this bit of information that I think might have been important for me to know.
Based on where I live in El Paso, TX can't obtain anything higher than a 5 mbps upload.
they do want you to commit to at least 25 hours a week on the system.
Hi just wondering if you all went with assurance? I am thinking about it and talked to a recruiter a few days ago.
I went to work for them after being told I would be communicating with people that had requested an agent contact them. Instead, I listened to the computer call people and 99% of the people were angry.....there people that never requested info and most had requested numerous times for the calls to stop....it was embarrassing. So, it took hours to get somebody interested unlike what I was told. After becoming exhausted with the whole ordeal I quit (3 weeks) and they wouldn't pay me for my last week. I can't help but think it's best to go with a well known company (they use only one unknown company) that provides a tangible policy.....this whole thing was a bad experience.
I have been with Assurance about two months. In my brief experience I feel this can be an extremely lucrative opportunity. Inbound and transferred calls are pretty much non-stop once you get past Tier 4. There are 6 calling tiers and if you are half way good at following their scripts it takes about a month to get to Tier 3. Once there, you should be writing enough apps to make $50k plus. You have to spend 25 to 30 hours per week on the system to make that. Pretty good pay for a part time job in my book.
Start-up. They are very forthcoming on what is expected. I knew about the 20 Mpbs download/ 10Mpbs Upload in the first conversation I had with them so not sure how the other poster missed that. You have to sit through a week of pretty boring web based training that explains how things work and do some online training prior to that. In the middle of the training week they give you access to the system and you can start making money from then on.
Leads; Strongly disagree with 99% being bad calls. You get the occasional idiot that went online, filled out a profile, and now wonders why someone is calling them. DUH. If I fill out something online I can pretty much be assured that someone and probably several companies are going to call me. Most people are friendly and ready to get a proposal. If not, your done and on to the next call. It's a calling center type job, people. It is what it is. I usually talk to about 25 to 30 people a day and I am now averaging about two apps per day. That relates to about $250 commission per 6 hour day . I am still learning. Others are doing better. Do the math. I am good at what I do but definitely not the best. You just have to take the calls and sell the ones you can.
Support.: Great communication with my team leader Ron. Absolutely one of the best managers I have ever worked with. Very knowledgeable, skilled, and supportive. Accessible by text, phone, email. Usually get a response in no more than a few minutes.
This is a very viable, work from home job that you can make a lot of money at putting in part time hours. You can jump in from 8 AM EST to 9 PM PST and always have someone to talk to. Perfect for a retired person like myself to make extra money and still have time to do other stuff.
I have been with Assurance since the first of the year. I have a great manager. I can tell that he really wants all of his team members to be successful.
When I was recruited, the recruiter said I would be taking all inbound calls that had been prequalified and transferred to me. That turned out to not be true, and I was put on an outbound dialer which I LOATHED.
However, just recently, it seems like almost all of my calls are inbound, and that makes it tolerable. If I get to a point where I'm put on an outbound queue, I just hang up for the day or try again later. I can't handle being a "telemarketer".
I have not been terribly successful at this program. I feel that I am 50% of the cause. I could be doing better. I take responsibility for my lack of meaningful sales volume.
I don't work many hours per week, but if I did and I was able to sell more policies per week the commission level goes up slightly when you increase beyond a certain threshold, but that resets itself every week back to 20%.
The main positive is that there are NO expenses. Zero. You don't pay for leads, or any monthly "software" or other bs charges. I feel that they're truly trying to run a fair and legit opportunity for both agents and customers.
I don't know that their infrastructure is as solid as you would expect from a large insurance company; I have a feeling that all the underwriters also work from home and aren't terribly invested in the process. I've had several cases where the u/w's didn't seem too earnest about contacting pending applicants and getting the policies approved... you know, so I can get paid. And your hard work goes down the drain.
But if you put in a lot of hours, like 30 per week, I'm sure you can make a solid successful living at Assurance. I just don't particularly enjoy it and I haven't been putting forth a sacrificial effort of forcing myself to do the uncomfortable, so my lack of blazing success is my fault. If someone were highly motivated and disciplined, they'd very likely make a decent income.


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2017: the Year of Concerts
Arts and Crafts time to celebrate the 11 concerts of this year.
I read a book once called How to Ditch Your Fairy about a world where everyone has a fairy that makes them exceptionally lucky at one thing. For example, if you have a parking fairy, you always get an amazing parking spot. One of my friends seems to have this fairy. It took me almost a decade to figure out which fairy I might have, but after this year, I know it is a concert fairy. Travel plans just so happen to magically align with the tours of various British musicians or occasionally acquiring tickets from generous friends who can no longer attend...yes, sounds like a concert fairy!
Bastille | Thursday, April 27 | Vancouver, Canada | Doug Mitchell Centre, University of British Columbia
The first of the magical travel coincidences happened when I discovered that Bastille would be in Vancouver the same time as me. I tried to convince practically my entire hostel to attend as well. I had seen Bastille once before in Denver (December 2015), but they had released a new album since then. It was the perfect way to start what unintentionally became the "year of concerts." The next two months, I listened to practically nothing but Bastille and anyone in my car had to put up with that. As one friend said, "I don't think I've heard their new album yet...oh wait, actually I definitely have since you've been driving all weekend." My friends were all very happy when I went to a different concert, in hopes that I might change up my music selections.
The 1975 | Sunday, May 7 | Denver, Colorado | Fillmore Auditorium |
I was already in Denver for the weekend and obviously accepted when a friend invited me to go watch British musicians. One of my flat mates from London has seen the 1975 many, many times and though I'm not trying to match her record, I had always heard great things about their live performances. Always looking for unsuspecting British musicians to marry, gain UK citizenship, and then travel the world, I quite liked the openers, a new band called Colouring and decided one of them might have potential. I said, "Watch he's probably 18." Sure enough, a simple Google search showed the year of birth as 1998...oh, so he is 18, lol, okay never mind, little hatchlings.
Coldplay | Saturday, July 8 | Dublin, Ireland | Croke Park
My concert fairy slacked off for a long time on seeing Coldplay, but finally delivered in a big way. After several failed attempts to attend a Coldplay concert, they happened to be in Dublin while I was in Ireland. Tickets for this July show supposedly sold out within minutes the prior October. Somehow though, I was able to find a normal (not re-sold) ticket when I searched "restricted view." A few other people I know tried to buy a ticket right after I did, but they were all sold out, so thank you, concert fairy, for whatever you did there. I had the worst seat in the house, but it didn't matter at all, it was definitely worth it! Their set included over 20 of their songs. As anyone who listens to Coldplay agrees, their last few albums are not nearly as good as their earlier ones and after a string of older songs, they started to sing "Everglow" and at least half of the lower levels filed out of the arena for a break...I found that amusing. I wrote in my Ireland blog post about how cool the bracelets that lit up were, and the special effects with fireworks and everything were top-notch. When I saw a high school friend recently for the first time all year, one of the first things she asked was whether finally seeing Coldplay in concert was everything I thought it would be and it definitely was!
The Head and the Heart | Wednesday, August 2 | Morrison, Colorado | Red Rocks Amphitheater
I was much overdue for a trip to Red Rocks: the best concert venue on the planet. The Head and the Heart came on stage to John Denver's, "Rocky Mountain High" which was the perfect way to start a set at Red Rocks. I noticed one lady had the job of asking people to please move out of the stairs. That is definitely a job I could do. At this point, I decided to contemplate alternative options to just travel and watch concerts all the time, in the event that marrying a British musician does not work out. If you live in Colorado and have never been to a concert at Red Rocks, put that one your to-do list. If you don't live in Colorado but find yourself here for a visit, definitely check to see if there is a concert of interest while you are in town. The red rocks work as a natural amplifier so there are only speakers in the front and the sound carries naturally.
Ed Sheeran | Tuesday, August 15 | Denver, Colorado | Pepsi Center
It's been a very exciting year musically, as my favourite red-headed British musician has been number one in the world on Spotify since the release of his new album. I attended with a friend of a friend who I had never met before. I told her, "I'm wearing a ridiculous elephant romper with feathers in the front and gladiator-like shoes so that you can recognize me." She replied, "Oh, I'm just wearing a white t-shirt and jeans lol." But she found me and we had a grand time.
Jamestown Revival | Wednesday, August 16 | Morrison, Colorado | Red Rocks Amphitheater
No one understands why I like Jamestown Revival so much. My friends who like folk say their music is too country. My friends who like country, say their music is too folk. My friends who like neither just say, "this doesn't sound like your type of music at all" and my mom even said it sounded like "hillbilly music." Well, that's fine, I thought and went to their concert by myself. I should mention that they were actually the first of two openers and I've never gone to a concert for the first of two openers before. As you can see from this picture, no one else was paying attention and just trickling in to the stadium or talking quietly amongst themselves. Okay...I understand, I'm the only Jamestown Revival fan in the whole world! I met some members from a local band who complimented me of my sophisticated musical taste by going to a concert for the first of two openers. The other performers, The Record Company and Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue were great as well, I made some new friends, and it was an overall successful night.
The Lumineers | Sunday, August 27 | Denver, Colorado | Fiddler's Green Amphitheater
The Lumineers played three nights in a row at their hometown show. Having a hometown show always brings a new energy and makes the concerts even more exciting. Their shows sold out right away, but they added some extra seats the week of the event, which I was able to get, thanks concert fairy. I've been listening to The Lumineers practically since they released their first single and seeing them live certainly didn't disappoint!
Bastille | Saturday, September 9 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Stage AE
Somehow Bastille's tour path and my travel plans managed to mesh again, this time when I was visiting family near Pittsburgh. I also appreciated that in the background of one of their songs, they had a skyscraper labeled "Crystal Tower." This show was on the one-year anniversary of the release of their newest album. It was actually a festival show with four other bands, and the first opener, Frenship, was my second-favourite of the night. Overall, I think Vancouver was a slightly better show, since the stage here was smaller and a festival show means a slightly shorter set, but I was much closer to the stage this time and they played the just-released a few days prior cover of Green Day's "Basket Case." So both shows were worth going to. Sorry friends, still playing Bastille music at least 75% of the time in my car. If you can quote every single word of their song "Glory," you have me to thank.
 If you happen to go to Stage AE in Pittsburgh, be prepared to only bring a teeny tiny bag unless your bag is full of diabetes supplies, as mine was. When they almost didn't let me in with the bag, I explained that it was full of medical supplies and they let me in, much to the annoyance of another lady who was turned away. Sorry, lady, it's better to not be allowed to have your bag at a concert than having type 1 diabetes.
I continued with my get-a-job-touring-with-a-band theme when I noticed there was someone whose sole job seemed to be to turn on a flashlight at one point for Dan Smith, Bastille's singer to go down the stairs. I later mentioned to a friend, "I could be the person who turns on the flashlight for him and since he's British, I'll even call it a torch instead." She said, "Okay, Crystal, we've reached a new low, haven't we? Trying to get a career as someone who turns on a flashlight? And you definitely don't have a technology fairy, so the flashlight probably would malfunction every show and he'd fall down the dark stairwell." Okay, point taken.
Kaleo | Friday, September 22 | Denver, Colorado | Paramount Theater
Yet another unexpected, impulsive concert attended was Iceland's Kaleo. Obviously quite popular in their native country, they now live in Texas and I was surprised that they were sold out two nights in Denver, as they only have one album out. I had the opportunity to try out my terrible Icelandic again and I think this has to be in the top 5 best concerts. They have a video on Youtube of them playing their most well-known song "Way Down We Go" in a volcano, because...Iceland.
Vance Joy | Tuesday, October 10 | Denver, Colorado | Gothic Theatre
When I found out Vance Joy was coming to Denver, my internal dialogue went something like this, "You really don't need to go to any more concerts. Yeah but, he's from Australia so who knows when he'll get back to Denver again. You have another concert planned that week. Yeah, but he's probably one of your top ten favourite musicians and it is in a venue that you've never been to before. Okay, fine." My flat mate and I have very different musical tastes and I am always trying to convert her to my (obviously way better) music. After trying to get her to attend a concert with me all summer, I finally persuaded her to come watch Vance Joy with me (I think she knew three of his songs) and she had so much fun that afterwards she suggested we do this more often. I said, "I told you you'd enjoy my music!" After watching this concert, I kept telling people that I was going to move to Australia...and then we found a black widow spider at work and I said, "Just kidding, they have even worse spiders there."
Imagine Dragons | Saturday, October 14 | Denver, Colorado | Pepsi Center
You know you've gone to way too many concerts when this is the second time you've seen both openers in the last two months...both times accidentally! K Flay was also one of the openers for the Bastille concert in Pittsburgh and Grouplove opened for the Head and the Heart at Red Rocks. This was actually the concert with the most advance planning, as my friend and I got our tickets way back in the spring time! It was a really well-done show, Imagine Dragons have had so many songs that have gone beyond the alternative circle and into mainstream music as well and for good reason. Plus, since we got the tickets during a pre-sale, we actually had really good seats, which was a welcome change!


The Stewardship Sentinel: Estate Sale Planning: Realizing the true value of your collectibles.
Estate Sale Planning: Realizing the true value of your collectibles.
Growing up, my family would head out every Saturday in search for garage sales. After two or three garage sales, my budget would be spent and I would lose interest. I remember struggling through the three hours of endless garage sales that ensued.
As an adult, I no longer devote Saturdays to garage sales, but if I see one that looks good on the side of the road, I can't resist. I look for bargains and collectibles; stuff that has history or inherent value. The estate sales are the ones that really surprise me. As I look through endless amounts of items that were too valuable to discard by the owner, being discarded like yesterdays news by the heirs, my heart sinks. Think of the history… the stories behind these items. I usually look for those items and pick them up for a quarter, or a few bucks and imagine the story.
What will your garage sale look like? Are you a collector? Do your children know the heart and soul that you have poured into that collection of prints, or the civil war memorabilia? Do they know the history behind the tobacciana, or the miniature tea sets? Whether your collection is big or small, it has value. It is worth saving!!!
Choosing the right heirs. To the right parties, these collectibles will be priceless. Ask the kids if they understand the value, ask if they are interested in specific pieces in a collection or in the entire set. If not, it's time to look deeper. Who cares about these items?
Here is an example. A gentleman collected bronze sculptures. He and his wife cherished these items; they enjoyed collecting them together and displaying them in their home and in their yard. The couple worried that the kids had no desire to lug these things around. Meanwhile, on the other side of town, thoughtful citizens in the community were purchasing bronze sculptures and working hand in hand with artists to beautify the community. If this couple were to donate some of their favorite bronze sculptures to the community, they could spread that enjoyment to future generations to appreciate.
The many benefits of donating a collection. Donating collectibles not only preserves those items for future generations, but it offers a nice tax savings as well. Collectibles held for more than one year are taxed at 28% capital gains tax upon the sale, much higher than long term capital gains rate on stocks. Donating these items avoids the realization of that taxable gain.
If this type of property is donated to an organization to sell in a silent auction, or to take to an auction house, your tax deduction is limited to the price that you paid. However, if you were to donate antique farm equipment to the American Heritage Museum down the street for related use, then your tax deduction can equal the fair market value of the donation.
These deductions can be extremely valuable to many folks, especially those in higher tax brackets, or for those relying on tax-inefficient retirement accounts for income. Why not use these deductions to make a huge impact in an organization you care about and put these items to their best use?
In many cases an appraisal is necessary and you should always work closely with professionals that you can trust, including your accountant and attorney to get all the details right.
I'd love to hear about the collections that you love and your thoughts on which heirs or non-profits will treasure them most. If not, please have your kids let me know when the garage sale is!!!


Contact-Rick Herron 310-822-8105 or ClassicAutoPicks@aol.com for prints, giclees or acrylic commissions, dealer inquiries also.
I have been doing commissions since I returned to painting in 1998. I do acrylic, hand brushed paintings and digital art, detailed and carefully executed. I accept commissions from anywhere across the country and overseas. All that is needed is high resolution photographs to work with. I consult with the sponsor on their desires, type of background etc. and keep them informed of the progress every step of the way. Below are some examples of acrylic paintings and on page two digital art.
Mercedes Benz Credit requested this acrylic painting for the opening of a new showroom on the west coast.
This 24" by 12" acrylic painting was done for an SCCA driver in Colorado. The red car on the left was used for racing venues and the car on the right to drive on the streets.
This beautiful Mustang GT and the following two were done for members of the National Capitol Mustang Club.
1967 Mustang GT parked in front of Jerry's Ford during a Northern Virginia Ford car show.
The last of the big guns. Mustangs became smaller and less powerful. Even the earlier GTO Judge had to go.
The Miata belongs to my brother and was commissioned by his wife for his birthday. Another acrylic painting of a Ford Taurus station wagon was done for their son.
Commissioned by the Gulick Group for their owner in his Chevron racing car. This image was scanned on a flatbed by sections.


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Adding Wire Races Improves 3D-Printed Bearings
Dan Maloney
Like a lot of power transmission components, bearings have become far easier to source than they once were. It used to be hard to find exactly what you need, but now quality bearings are just a few clicks away. They're not always cheap though, especially when you get to the larger sizes, so knowing how to print your own bearings can be a handy skill.
Of course, 3D-printed bearings aren't going to work in every application, but [Eros Nicolau] has a plan for that. Rather than risk damage from frictional heating by running plastic or metal balls in a plastic race, he uses wire rings as wear surfaces. The first video below shows an early version of the bearing, where a pair of steel wire rings lines the 3D-printed inner and outer races. These worked OK, but suffered from occasional sticky spots and were a bit on the noisy side.
The second video shows version two, which uses the same wire-ring race arrangement but adds a printed ball cage to restrain the balls. This keeps things quieter and eliminates binding, making the bearing run smoother. [Eros] also added a bit of lube to the bearing, in the form of liquid PTFE, better known as Teflon. It certainly seemed to smooth things out. We'd imagine PTFE would be more compatible with most printed plastics than, say, petroleum-based greases, but we'd be keen to see how the bearings hold up in the long term.
Maybe you recall seeing big 3D-printed bearings around here before? You'd be right. And we've got you covered if you need to learn more about how bearings work — or lubricants, for that matter.
Thanks to [Nick Dunham] for the tip.
Posted in Misc HacksTagged 3d printing, ball bearing, bearing, composite, lubricant, power transmission, ptfe, races, teflon, wire
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35 thoughts on "Adding Wire Races Improves 3D-Printed Bearings"
robomonkey says:
Wonder if he could use the wire rings and bearings to transport power or signal to the rotating layer.
yetihehe says:
Signals yes, power – not too much, transferring power through bearings changes them into electric discharge machining devices, but they are not designed to last under that usage.
Steven Naslund says:
Yes, exactly. Signals would be super noisy and power is a no go. In fact when welding you have to be careful not to put power flow across and moving joint because it is a high resistance point that may cause welding or at least damage to the moving parts. You would be best to incorporate a slip ring concentric with the bearing for express purpose of transferring power and signals. The wiping motion vs a rolling motion makes all the difference because sliding does not have a constant make/break interface like rolling motion does.
Dennis C says:
Probably possible, but contact might could be flaky, and damage could result if power/signal levels are too high https://www.motioncontroltips.com/what-are-bearing-currents-and-what-causes-them/
If my memory serves me, slip rings for this purpose typically use sliding rather than rolling contacts, although I welcome info to the contrary if anyone has it.
CRJEEA says:
Put some carbon powder in there as a dry conducive lubricant and it'll probably help.
It's usually sold to lubricate locks.
TJay says:
I would think its possible. But Depending on the voltages and metal and coatings, and intended life of the part. I would think that there would be a high possibility for damage to the races. Similar to what cavitation does to metal surfaces. A bushing/brush setup would likely be better for such a purpose. Due to increased surface area. Otherwise I believe you experience pitting where the balls contact the inner and outer races.
socksbot says:
There's a nonzero contact resistance but it should be fairly constant if your bearings are worth anything. Of course you'd need at least two.
The usual ways to do this are slip rings and rotary transformers. VCR drums have the latter, one channel per head.
Daniël van den Berg says:
"you'd need at least two"
Nope, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Wire
Anathae says:
1wire communication still requires ground and power. Power can be harvested from the signal line, but the return line (ground) or path still has to exist.
bob bob says:
This gets the vote for "dumbest comment of the year"
The problem with a rolling ball contact is that the actual contact surface of the ball on the race is extremely small but surrounded by an area of very near contact (think arcing across a very small gap). Picture a ball on a piece of glass and you will understand. Over time the whole surface of the ball is subjected to this arc erosion making the ball rougher and rougher finally causing bearing self destruction. Please use a slip ring instead.
I only asked because I had always wanted to try a bearing power distribution for theatrical lighting. Brush ring works, but isn't without a tradeoff, which is a duty cycle at the power required to get a decent lamp output (at the time I was working with HMI lamps and high voltages). 12 volt quartz lamps could work fine on a brush ring assembly, but anything that was high power would either overheat the mechanism (unless you upped the size, which upped the weight, which upped the motor size and so on…).
Now with LED lamp sources being used in theatrical lighting the power requirement may be low enough to try the bearing power distribution again. And using wireless to control the system for signal would fix it so data doesn't need to go through the pivot point.
A project for another time.
Hm… Brainstorm-idea: could you do it as a with a transformer? Two spools, wouldn't have to touch each other, just be close. One on the stationary side, one on the rotating side. Same amount of windings as you don't want to do any transforming. Just hypothetically?
Unless the light needs to make complete continuous rotation you don't need a slipping contact. If you are having problems with a slip ring overheating, you problems will be even worse through a ball bearing since the actual contact area is much smaller (a ball touching a hard surface has a theoretical single point of tangent, in the real world there is some squish factor but not much). Sounds like you just need a larger slip ring or more conductive one to get more current carrying capacity. You could also use inductive coupling (think of a 1:1 transformer). You will get no surface wear but you will lose some power to heat in the transformer.
DKE says:
Appreciate the learning opportunity here, but…
I can buy a 6808-2RS for $2.50 (US) (40mm ID, 52mm OD)
Eros Nicolau says:
True. And even larger ones, for like 5-10 bucks. My whole experimentation with the wire race bearings started 6 years ago, when I needed a 300mm OD, thin cross section, lightweight bearing, for a portable application, and when I found out an aluminium casing one from FRANKE would cost 2000Eur. So I made my own for less than 500Eur. https://youtu.be/6zM2_Yc8O8I
Then, years after, when I bought my 3d printer, my first thought was: what about 3d-printed case, instead of aluminium?
Gregg Eshelman says:
The outer race could be more compact by making the halves snap fit together. The ball cage can be one sided and snap over the balls. Print inner and outer races, shift the inner race to one side to allow balls to be put in then distribute them around and center the inner race. Snap the cage in. Here's a design I did a while ago for a bearing using 12 steel BBs. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1769802
Nick Dunham says:
I think there's a lot of potential for special applications, and also for rerap-oriented projects.
When I found your videos, I was particularly thinking about building linear bearings to run directly on square tube, for a sort of intermediate between the MPCNC (skate bearings on EMT) and PrintNC (profile rails bolted to square tube).
Bearing says:
This. Even the most Chineseium of bearings will still be an order of magnitude more accurate and load capable, and cost a couple dollars.
The price isn't even the point – there's a lot of "easier" bearings (a simple lubricated tube section, for example) than ball bearings, so when you need a 40mm ball bearing, it's because you have a specific need for precision and longevity. Really can't see how a additive polymer production technology would even remotely compete with a precision steel bearing, even of much simpler kind, or even just a lubricated pair of PTFE half-cylinder mantles.
It's cool you can print a ball bearing. Do you really need a plastic ball bearing?
albeda01 says:
now, both… think outside the box….
Now that is a phrase misused!
"Thinking outside the box" is exactly what is *not* done by someone building a plastic ball bearing. They have a 3D printer and need a rotational bearing, and instead of thinking what they actually need they just make a very high-effort plastic ball bearing. That's "in-box thinking": if all you have is a 3D printer, all problems look like they should be solved by replicating complex objects in polymer.
https://hackaday.com/2017/06/12/big-slew-bearings-can-be-3d-printed/ is a nice example of clever thinking! The materials involved are sensible in the relation of their hardnesses.
Steven Gann says:
Welcome to Hack-a-Day. We talk about hacks, experiments, and other cool stuff. Practicality is optional.
It seems you're looking for Buy-a-Day.
Nope, I'm looking for hack-a-day, where people hack on things, trying to understand what they're doing instead of just replicating what they've seen before.
Which is exactly what happens here – I see a ball bearing, I replicate it. Never do I stop to think "hey, making a device from polymer whose whole idea depends on the housing being steel-ball compatibly solid, designed for purposes where I need sub-0.2 mm precision, does that make any sense".
Buy-a-day currently features a list of 3D printers you can buy.
Cap says:
The Hack part is replicating what you have seen before in Plastic. Then make a complete part out of plastic that includes the part integral to the design..
Case in Point, Make a Stepper Planetary gear Box that has bearings Integral to the design that are not a removable piece, and become the actual next part housing. You end up Printing the Bearing Race as part of the 'Arm' or Finger' or 'Shoulder' of your finished part.
The Human Knee Joint is not a removable Piece, it part of the Bone it's attached to..
Reality Bites says:
6318 2Z JEM –
SKF Radial Ball Bearing: 90 mm Bore Dia., 190 mm Outside Dia., 43 mm Wd, Double Shielded – Run over 700
bobatron says:
Wouldnt arcing between the bearing and wire races cause pitting in the bearings and races for eventual failure and "crunchy" movement?
That'd depend on the hardness of the steel ring, and how well it distributes the pressure evenly to the surrounding material, and how elastic that material reacts to uneven pressure.
But seeing the whole point of the steel ring is to be harder than the supporting polymer, and comparing this with hard metal inlays in steel bearing which are designed to be flat on the outer side to very evenly distribute pressure…
yeah, I guess it would
three_d_dave says:
WIre race bearings are used for much larger diameters. Instead of making the entire bearing of dense and therefore heavy steel, the housing is often aluminum with a steel wire that has a flat face ground onto it at an angle to the bearing axis and cylindrical rollers run against it. This produces a line-loading rather than the point loading of a sphere on a round wire.
This bearing looks fun, but has too much drag.
nnnm says:
Actually bearing with high drag coeficent is useful when you desire something to stop rapidly when red mushroom is pressed (etc. wood cutter with disk blade, chainsaw, drill).
Sorry my english i'm from poland.
I'd rather not have a permanent drag coefficient wasting energy and wearing components when one can be added and removed when required
mike stone says:
Recognizing the video shows a proof of concept, the gaps between the ends of the wire rings will make things a bit crunchy.
More to the point, may I recommend the excellent (if highly opinionated) book "Principles of Bearings" by Louis Langhaan, 1922:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Principles_of_Bearings/Q11AAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22principles+of+bearings%22&printsec=frontcover
Specifically the section titled "Three and Four Point Contact Bearings" which begins on page 62. The first paragraph is:
'It might be considered difficult to make something actually operative but 100% wrong. It has been accomplished in the design of "three point" and "four point" contact ball bearings, which violate every law of rolling motion and every principle of correct design.'
He then alternates between engineering and hysterics for another four pages.
The key point is that that the 'points of contact' are actually 'regions of contact' in all real bearings under load. Only regions of contact perpendicular to the ball's axis of rotation can roll without some amount of sliding. Three point and four point races produce regions of contact at an angle to the axis of rotation, so they have to slide. The result is almost pure grinding motion.
In fact, that's the basic operating principle of ball grinding and lapping machines.
Gérald says:
Instead of 2 wire circles on the sides, i would have tried 2 rings made of flat strip of metal: one on the inner side, one on the outer. And for the first prototype, i would have put more balls in order to have very little empty spaces left between balls. May be wrong ideas, i don't know…
Well, the ball has only a point contact so a flat strip is just wasted material, and if you fill the entire raceway with balls, that just makes every single one contact it's two neighbors, adding heat through friction with each contact point sliding at twice the speed of each ball's rotation speed.


These Darth Vader Mints are awesome, they're shaped like his helmet and put up a gnarly fight against bad breath. Will your breath be conquered by these Mints? Will they confess to a secret? Will your breath plummet to the mechanical engines below? Let's find out.


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