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The National Hockey League today announced two scenarios for the 2018 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs First Round based on the outcome of Sunday’s Florida Panthers-Boston Bruinsgame at 7:30 p.m. ET.
The Colorado Avalanche will face the Nashville Predators in the first round in any scenario, with the first game scheduled for Thursday, April 12 at 7:30 p.m. MDT. Nashville will host Games 1 & 2 (Thursday and Saturday). Colorado will host Games 3 & 4 (Monday & Wednesday). If necessary, games 5-7 will be played in Nashville, Colorado and Nashville respectively.
The Bruins (50-19-12, 112 points) sit one point back of the Tampa Bay Lightning (54-23-5, 113 points) for the top spot in the Atlantic Division and Eastern Conference. Boston will clinch first place with a win of any kind, while Tampa Bay will claim the title if Boston loses in any fashion.
The 2018 Stanley Cup Playoffs will begin on Wednesday, April 11. National broadcast information will be announced when available. All times below are ET and subject to change.


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Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s appointment of Kaoru Yosano as economic and fiscal policy minister came as a surprise to some, particularly since he’s a documented critic of Mr. Kan’s party.
Only nine months ago, Mr. Yosano said “Down with the Democratic Party of Japan” in an interview that was published in the Asahi newspaper and posted to his official website. He argued that both the DPJ and the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party were playing “runaway politics.”
Mr. Yosano was part of the LDP for most of his political life, serving as chief cabinet secretary from 2007 to 2008, before co-founding the Sunrise Party in April (he left that one two days ago). Read More »

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The idea for this salad comes from Lorraine Elliott who is the premier Australian food blogger known as Not Quite Nigella.
So how was your day? I had a pretty good one. I got a couple of walks in, participated in a teleconference for work, picked up new spectacles, and ordered a pair of prescription sunglasses.
- Scotch fillet steak
- Iodised salt
- Whole peppercorns
- Pomegranate arils
- Red onion
- Lime juice (3 tablespoons)
- Fish sauce (3 tablespoons)
- Icing sugar (1 tablespoon)
- Warm water (1 tablespoon)
- Purchase the piece of steak.
- Vacuum seal in a plastic bag after seasoning with iodised salt.
- Refrigerate overnight.
- Set up the sous vide water bath.
- Turn on the precision cooker and set the temperature for 57 °C and the timer for 2 hours.
- When the water bath temperature reaches 57 °C, add the steak into the water bath and cook for 2 hours.
- Remove the steak from the water bath and open the bag and remove the steak to a cutting board with a sheet of kitchen towel on it.
- Dry the surfaces of the steak with kitchen paper.
- Grind the whole peppercorns in a mortar with a pestle and then press the pepper into the flesh of the meat.
- Heat a cast-iron skillet to a high temperature so when you splash a little water on it the water vaporises immediately.
- Add a little high vapour point oil and brush over the surface of the hot skillet.
- Lay the steak on the skillet and turn frequently until the Maillard reaction is to your liking.
- Add in a knob of butter and some crushed garlic and baste your meat.
- Allow the steak to rest.
- With a Dick boning knife, dissect the spinalis dorsi from the longissimus dorsi. Set the spinalis dorsi aside and refrigerate for lunch meat.
- With a Dick butchers knife slice the meat thinly.
- Shave the fennel bulb with a mandolin while wearing a safety glove.
- Shave some red onion with a mandolin while wearing a safety glove.
- Whack a pomegranate to get the arils out. Avoid wearing a white T-shirt while doing this. If you have no concerns about how you look, wear an apron.
- Coarsely chop some parsley and mint leaves.
- Put all the salad stuff into a mixing bowl.
- Mix the icing sugar and warm water and then add in the lime juice and fish sauce.
- Dress the salad.
- Transfer the salad to a dinner plate and then lay the steak on the salad.
Canberra was pretty glorious this morning
I elected to wait until I was preparing to participate in a teleconference to enjoy the first meal for today.
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Police arrested a reportedly homeless Gloucester woman in connection with an undercover investigation, after she allegedly sold narcotics to an undercover federal agent Friday morning.
Rosalyn J. Kline, 31, was arrested on Railroad Avenue about 9:33 a.m. on charges of selling Suboxone and distributing drugs in a school zone, police said.
Police had been keeping an eye on Kline, after receiving information about her allegedly being involved in criminal activity, officers said.
According to the police report, the undercover officer contacted Kline Friday morning, offering to buy 10 Suboxone for $120, and Kline agreed to meet the officer at the Shaw’s parking lot on Railroad Avenue.
Kline got into the undercover officer’s vehicle, then allegedly sold the drugs for $120, according to police. Two detectives arrested Kline as she exited the vehicle, according to police.
Police arrested a Gloucester man Friday about 2:15 a.m. on a charge of domestic assault and battery.
Gilbert Simeon Greenberg, 43, of the Heights Cape Ann, was arrested after allegedly assaulting a woman at the Heights after a witness reported to police that Greenberg was acting violently toward the alleged victim.
The woman told police who responded to the scene that Greenberg allegedly grabbed her foot and twisted it. The victim said she and Greenberg had been arguing since 9 p.m. Thursday.
Police on scene determined that the woman’s ankle was swollen and might be broken, and had her transported to Addison Gilbert Hospital, police said.
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We love food from all over! It is easy to go on and on about food and the delicious memories tied to a meal, however, we do not have all day to dedicate to food. This is a place for food discussions: from what are the best spots in the city to recipes we have tried and have loved. This is even a place for the food novices learning to cook for the first time. Hey, I burned many a meals my first time in the kitchen.
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Slowing down and only gets ran once a year. Selling as I don’t need it, taking up room. Lots of money and time invested. $7500.00 or maybe trade for nice G.M. Pre 72 street car. Very competitive, trophy and first place winner. 9” of lift. Skyjacker soft ride, custom rear shackle flip/ HD Offroad design hangers. Lengthened drivelines. 462 c.i. Big block. 2500 stall converter. TH400/208. Engine needs freshened up. .040 over, 781 heads ported/polished. Comp cams extreme 4x4 cam, all top end parts and valve train is Comp. Detroit locker in the rear, front axle open 14 bolt ff/ dana 44. Would do steering cross over eventually. B&M ratchet shifter. Fuel cell in bed, exhaust comes through bed floor. -Winch does not go with pickup-Serious inquiries only please. Don’t waste my time. Make reasonable offer! 78five-3three2-four4fivezero. Text or call.


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They burned me! I got a laser treatment on my upper lip from Dr. Karan's office and they literally burned me. An area on my upper lip is scabbed over and will likely leave a scar. Joey did my laser...do not use her!I went it to the office to show them and the Pankaj Karan, MD, the head doctor, wouldn't even give me anything for it...he told the receptionist to have me go to the drug store and buy some over the counter products. Really? This is what you want to hear from an establishment who has people that are working from them that are so inept that they don't know how to work the settings on the machine to the point in which it physically harms you!i also have had problem with the unprofessionalism when trying to make an appointment (that is, when they pick up the phone) and at the office. Take my advice, don't get burned like I did!
I should have reviewed a while back. I went to see Dr. Pankaj Karen after having horrible experiences with other Dr's/Offices. Dr. Pankaj took the time to explain my procedure, gave his recommendations, and did excellent work. I will definetly be returning to Valley Asthetics and Laser. His staff was friendly and knowledgeable,the office was spotless. In the end..it's about the quality of the work...HIGHLY RECOMMEND!
A rude, judgmental, abrasive, unprofessional, uncaring ego maniac. With a chip on his shoulder. And a god complex. This man has got some issues. He's a child in a mans body. Why anybody would allow this Doctor to put his hands on you, is beyond me. If you read the responses he has given to some of the comments here, you can see the level of professionalism. Please people do your self a favor and stay away from this man. You wonder why I feel this way. I can not discuss my situation at this time. I'm afraid he would know who it is. Too fresh on his mind. I do not enjoy saying this about anybody. I had to.
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Apr 28, 2012, 1:15 PM EST
It’s the time of year when the buzzwords pop up again. “Five star,” “blue chipper,” “high-major.”
Evaluating players on the AAU circuit is an inexact science and, sometimes, some prospects slated to make a big impact don’t pan out.
Mike Huguenin of Yahoo! Sports took at look at some former five-star prospects that haven’t exactly lived up to potential.
Not to say that these players haven’t produced at the college level, because many of them have, but they aren’t necessarily where they were initially projected to be.
Take, for example, Duke forward Ryan Kelly.
Ranked as the 20th overall prospect in the Class of 2009, Kelly has averaged just over six points and three rebounds in his career with the Blue Devils.
But that doesn’t mean he has been unproductive.
Many say part of the reason Duke fell to Lehigh in the NCAA tournament was because Kelly was out with injury. Duke was then unable to stretch the floor and Lehigh came away with the 15/2 upset.
Take a look at the list and judge for yourself.
- ACC suspends Louisville junior forward Montrezl Harrell one game 0
- Late Night Snacks: Villanova survives Syracuse while UNC, SMU get big wins 0
- No. 1 Kentucky dismantles UCLA 5
- Markus Kennedy cleared to play immediately for SMU 0
- Weekend Preview: A loaded Saturday slate highlights the weekend 3
- Rebounding, foul shooting help No. 2 Duke make up for 19 turnovers in win over UConn 0
- Michigan State starting forward to miss next two games with non-displaced wrist fracture 0
- Report: David Robinson’s son will be preferred walk-on at Duke in 2015-16 (VIDEO) (6)
- West Virginia’s Bob Huggins torches Marshall after coach calls Huggs ‘afraid’ (5)
- No. 1 Kentucky dismantles UCLA (5)
- Tracking The Unbeatens: There are now just nine teams without a loss (3)
- Lauren Hill’s playing career over, to become honorary coach (3)


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Development Today: Garage retail store approved at St. Johns Town Center
These are the largest commercial building permits by job cost issued Oct. 31-Nov. 6, 2023, by the city of Jacksonville.
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- Beachline Apartments, 13305 Beach Blvd., contractor is Village Pools of Central Florida LLC, new swimming pool, $181,200.
- Seaboard Villas, 5951 Shellback Court, contractor is D&K Development Group LLC, 275 square feet, trash compactor, $65,000.
- Gentle Woods Villas, 6496 Breezy Oaks Way, contractor is D&K Development Group LLC, 275 square feet, trash compactor, $65,000.
- Georgian Villas, 5685 George Court, contractor is D&K Development Group LLC, 273 square feet, trash compactor, $65,000.
Church, Other Religious
- Innerlife Chapel International of Jacksonville Inc., 450 Busch Drive, No. 2, contractor is Reid Contracting LLC, 6,059 square feet, converting use, $67,498.
- City of Jacksonville, 5159 Cedar Point Road, contractor is Carports Anywhere Inc., 1,600 square feet, temporary Fire Station No. 76 building, $37,245.
- JAA, 785 Amelia Earhart Drive, contractor is Acon Construction Co. Inc., Sky Harbor Aviation column repairs, $24,420.
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- Michael Baker International Inc., 12740 Gran Bay Parkway W., No. 2110, contractor is Dav-Lin LLC, 5,138 square feet, tenant build-out, $69,065.
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- Garage, 4790 River City Drive, No. 137, contractor is Elder-Jones Inc., 2,990 square feet, tenant build-out, $539,000.


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Mainstays of comic books since the 1960s, and stars of two generations of cartoons, the Teen Titans are morphed into Tot Titans for a series aimed at younger audiences. Adventures that include “welcoming” a new principal, getting a new dog, babysitting younger siblings, and fighting for one’s spot in the playground are told in gag vignettes, most lasting 2-3 pages. The art is pleasantly funky, filled with motion and lively color, but the book as a whole proves a difficult example of audience selection. An in-depth knowledge of current Teen Titans continuity is necessary to distinguish between the massive cast of characters and to understand the relationships between them that many of the punch lines rely on; and references to such obscure touchstones as the movie Fight Club would make this a somewhat bizarre choice for most young readers. For large collections, this would be a good offering for young fans of the Teen Titans cartoon or those readers who are super-hero crazy, but too young for DC’s Adventures titles. Includes games and posters. Preschool-Grade 2. --Jesse Karp
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|Publication number||US4483185 A|
|Application number||US 06/492,653|
|Publication date||Nov 20, 1984|
|Filing date||May 9, 1983|
|Priority date||May 12, 1982|
|Also published as||DE3316588A1, DE3316588C2|
|Publication number||06492653, 492653, US 4483185 A, US 4483185A, US-A-4483185, US4483185 A, US4483185A|
|Original Assignee||Avl Gesellschaft Fur Verbrennungskraftmaschinen Und Messtechnik M.B.H., Prof.Dr.h.c. Hans List|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (2), Referenced by (11), Classifications (12), Legal Events (8)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
The present invention relates to an apparatus for checking the valve clearance of the inlet and exhaust valves of a piston engine.
Correctly adjusted valve-clearances are very important in piston engines because they very largely determine the wear in the valve gear which, when it exceeds certain tolerances, gives rise to malfunctions, loss of performance and the like.
Normally valve clearances are checked manually with the aid of feeler gauges consisting of thin blades of metal of different thicknesses which, for clearance checking purposes, are inserted directly between, for example the base circle of the cam and the actuating face of a cup-tappet, or between other appropriate cooperating parts of the valve gear. The actually existing valve clearance is then judged by the thickness or gauge of the respective feeler blade which can still, or no longer, be inserted freely in the existing gap. Naturally this check must be carried out while the engine is not functional and after making the valve gear accessible, which has the disadvantage, on the one hand, that any variations in valve clearance which may occur due to tensions or motion influences in the functional operation of the piston engine cannot be detected by this method and, on the other hand, that the checking or testing operation requires relatively much preparatory work and labor which is undesirable, for example in the routine-tesing of installed piston engines.
It is an aim of the present invention to provide an arrangement for checking or testing the valve clearances of the inlet and exhaust valves of a piston engine which in a simple manner allows quick and reliable information to be obtained concerning the individual valve clearances, which actually exist, while largely avoiding the need for further assembly or stripping work on an installed piston engine.
The present invention has arisen from the consideration that the metallic noises which occur when the valves open and close--during valve-opening these noises being mainly caused by the final velocity of impact between the two corresponding elements of the valve gear which value depends on the value of existing valve clearance, while during valve-closing such noises are mainly generated by the final velocity of impact of the valve head relative to the associated valve seat--are time-staggered by a length of time which is directly associated with the size of valve clearance relative to the theoretical valve opening and closing times which are known from the crank-angle and cam-diagrams. On the basis of this consideration, the present invention resides in that for the purposes of carrying out the checking operation the piston engine is extraneously driven, that at a predetermined point in the region of the valve gear at least one vibration-pick-up is applied to the surface of the piston engine to record solid-borne vibrations, the pick-up being connected to a processor unit and feeding into this unit signals which correspond to solid-borne vibrations occurring at its mounting site, that an angle-mark transmitter is provided on the crank assembly of the piston engine and is connected to the processor unit and in co-operation therewith issues reference signals corresponding to at least one defined angular position of the crank assembly, that the processor unit comprises a gate circuit which, triggered by the reference signals of the angle-mark transmitter, is open, at least within the time zone, known from the crank angle diagram, of one of the two end points of each valve movement, in respect of the received solid-borne vibration signals, and that the signals which pass through the gate circuit are applied to a limit-value-circuit associated with the processor unit which, by a comparison of levels with at least one trigger level provides a "good/bad" read-out in an associated indicator unit.
The European patent application which was published under number 31 806 describes a device for the functional testing of valves in piston engines, in which microphones are arranged in the inlet and exhaust ducts of the piston engine which is extraneously driven for the purposes of such functional testing, and the signals which mainly stem from the hissing noises of leaking valves are applied to a gate circuit which is controlled in relation with the crank angle of the piston engine. However, on the strength of the utilization of air-transmitted sound signals which is favorable in the context of valve leak-testing according to this known arrangement, no data can be obtained concerning the magnitude of valve clearance because of the implicit relatively long travel times of the signals from their generation to their reception. Even for ascertaining the actual timing of the valves--an operation which in principle can be performed with this known arrangement--for each valve it is necessary to take off the associated inlet and exhaust manifolds and to fit respectively associated microphones at the orifices on the cylinder head with the aid of relatively expensive adapters.
By adopting the above described provisions according to the present invention, on the other hand, it is possible even with one single solid-borne vibration pick-up which can be quite easily fitted on the piston engine without further assembly or dismantling, to pick up solid-borne vibration signals which, owing to their very brief travelling time are also suitable for the determination of very small time-differences such as occur in the deviations of valve clearances. In such an arrangement the windows in the gate circuit may be set in such a manner that the points in time which are known from the crank-angle diagram or cam diagram, taking into account also the ideal valve clearance values, will be at the start of the open range because this brings all those noises which are generated at this point in time directly into the open range of the gate circuit so that a relatively high signal level can be registered.
Basically the checking of one of the two end points of valve movement, that is to say of the opening--or of the closing noise--would be sufficient for checking valve clearance because a badly adjusted valve clearance naturally produces the same effect during opening as during closing of the valve. However, if both end points of valve movement are monitored in accordance with the present invention a greater degree of accuracy can be obtained and it is easier to rule out faults.
According to a further embodiment of the invention the limit-value circuit comprises two trigger levels for each window of the gate circuit, the first trigger level being above the base level existing without valve noise and the second trigger level being above the maximum level originating from one single valve. This enables separate testing as to whether in that crank-angle region within which the corresponding noise should appear in the presence of correctly adjusted valve clearance there is any noise level at all which is above the basic noises or whether in this region the noise level of a single valve is being exceeded. Should the first level check have a negative result it can be concluded that the valve clearance of the particular valve is wrongly adjusted, in other words, that the opening or closing noise appears too early or too late. If the second level check has a positive result this means that in the observed crank-angle range the noise occurs of not just one but of at least one further valve, which likewise indicates wrongly adjusted valve clearance. If all valve clearances in the whole engine were correctly adjusted therefore, the first level check would produce in all windows of the gate circuit a positive, and the second level check a negative result.
According to another attractive embodiment of the invention the limit-value-circuit is preceded by a signal rectifier and associated integrator which increases the intensity of the signal which is available for the level comparison and thereby improves accuracy.
In a further attractive embodiment of the invention provision is made for the open zones of the gate circuit, which is triggered by the reference signals of the angle-mark transmitter, to be adjustable in respect of their position relative to each other as well as in respect of their respective width, the adjustment being made in the processor unit and special advantages being obtained if the trigger level is separately adjustable for each and every window in the gate circuit. These provisions enable easy adaptation without problems of the apparatus according to this invention to various types of piston engines to be tested which naturally may involve different valve timing data.
The present invention is hereinafter more particularly described with reference to the enclosed drawings in which:
FIG. 1 shows a schematic representation of an embodiment of apparatus according to this invention,
FIG. 2 shows the piston stroke curve of one single cylinder of the engine shown in FIG. 1,
FIG. 3 shows the camlift curves associated with FIG. 2,
FIG. 4 shows the solid-borne-vibration signals which occur, and
FIG. 5 shows the signals which control the gate circuit of the processor unit according to FIG. 1.
For valve-clearance testing purposes a four-cylinder internal combustion engine 1 represented in FIG. 1 is driven extraneously by a separate motor 2 with the aid of a coupled drive transmission shaft 3. At each of two predetermined points in the region of a valve gear 4 there is arranged a vibration pick-up 5 to record solid-borne vibrations at the surface of the internal combustion engine 1, each pick-up being connected by a lead 6 to a processor unit which it feeds with signals corresponding to solid-borne vibration occurring at the place where it is fitted. Naturally the illustrated positional sites of the vibration pick-ups 5 are freely variable to suit given conditions; also, in certain circumstances it is possible to work with just one, or else with more than two, vibration pick-ups.
On a flywheel 7 of the engine 1 there is arranged an angle-mark transmitter 8 which is connected to the processor unit and in cooperation therewith delivers reference signals corresponding to at least one defined angular position of the crank assembly of the internal combustion engine.
The processor unit comprises a gate circuit 9 which, triggered by the reference signals of the angle-mark transmitter 8, is open to the solid-borne vibration signals arriving via leads 6 at least within the time-range, known from the crank-angle diagram of the internal combustion engine, of one of the two end points of each valve displacement. The "open" regions of the gate circuit 9 which is triggered by the reference signals of the angle-mark transmitter 8 are adjustable by means of an adjusting unit 10 in respect of their relative position as well as with regard to their respective widths.
In the described embodiment the signals of the vibration pick-ups 5 which pass through the gate circuit 9 are passed through a rectifier circuit 11 and an integrator 12 to a limit-value-circuit 13 which, by level comparison against two trigger levels provides a "good/bad" statement or readout in an associated indicator device 14. The trigger levels in the limit-value circuit 13 are separately adjustable in respect of their level value for each window of gate circuit 9 by means of an adjusting unit 15.
In this context it should also be mentioned that the manner in which the function of the individual component devices hereinafter described is actually put in practice is not critical--components and units of this kind are part of the state of the art--and for the purposes of the present invention it is equally immaterial whether the said units or circuit components and groups are put in practice in terms of hardware or software.
The function of the arrangement according to this invention will be hereinafter more particularly described with reference to the explanatory diagrams shown in FIGS. 2 to 5--all of which, for the sake of simplified representation, relate to one single cylinder of the internal combustion engine 1 according to FIG. 1 only.
FIG. 2 shows the piston stroke curve between two ignition, top dead centers 16--that is to say for one complete cycle of a four-stroke engine; between the two ignition top dead centers 16 the two bottom dead centers 17 and the change-over top dead center 18 are indicated. In the representation according to FIG. 3 the associated lift curves are shown of the valve-actuating cams, 19 being the lift curve associated with the exhaust valve and 20 the lift curve associated with the inlet valve.
Owing to valve clearance s (FIG. 3) in the valve gear the actual opening point 21 of the exhaust valve and 22 of the inlet valve occurs somewhat later by comparison with the associated commencement of cam lift and the actual closing point 23 of the exhaust valve and 24 of the inlet valve is somewhat earlier in time relative to the termination of cam lift. For this reason there is, on the one hand, a final relative velocity between the parts which have the valve clearance s at the start of valve actuation and, on the other hand, the application of the valve head to the valve seat occurs at a final velocity which, due to the mutual impact of the corresponding metallic parts gives rise to noises which can be clearly identified. These noises are shown in FIG. 4 corresponding to the representation of FIG. 3, in the form of solid-borne vibration signals, for example as recorded by means of the vibration pick-ups 5 according to FIG. 1.
By means of the gate circuit 9 which is synchronized with the angle-mark transmitter 8, for example at signal repeat sequences corresponding to FIG. 5, the signals issued by the pick-ups 5 which arrive within the "open" time zone are fed into a rectifier circuit 11, whereafter the rectified signal amplitudes are accumulated in integrator 12 during the "open" period of the corresponding windows. The summation signals which are maintained at the integrator 12 for a certain predeterminable length of time following the closing of the windows are then checked in the limit-value circuit 13 against two trigger levels, the lower of these trigger levels being arranged, for example, above the basic level which exists without any valve noise at all, and the upper trigger level being higher than the maximum level of noise caused by one single valve. The limit-value circuit 13 therefore provides in this case two statements about exceeded level values which can be utilised in the indicator unit 14 to provide a "good/bad" read-out in respect of valve clearance.
As a variation from the described apparatus it would also be possible to test only one of the two end points of each valve movement--that is to say, either the opening or the closing point--because, as will be observed directly from FIG. 3, a shift in the value of valve clearance s produces the same effects during opening and closing of the valve. The above-described method of checking both terminal points of valve movement, however, enables a more accurate and fault-excluding statement to be obtained in respect of existing valve clearance.
If existing valve clearance s deviates from an ideal value which latter is pre-set by the position of the windows which are opened in the gate circuit 9 (see FIG. 5), this will show up directly in the signal which is eventually compared in the limit-value-circuit 13 with the pre-set trigger levels, thus affording information as to whether the valve clearance actually existing is tolerable or not.
Within the scope of the present invention it would also be conceivable, if no corresponding signal is received within the gate circuit windows which indicate correctly adjusted valve clearance, to shift these windows by a small amount in time or degree of crank-angle in order thereby to obtain information as to whether existing valve clearance is too small or too large. This could be done, for example, by means of the adjusting unit 10, if required.
The indicator unit 14 may also enable a general overall valuation to be obtained in respect of the valve gear due to the provision in said unit of memories for storing the informations obtained from the comparison of levels within the range of the individual windows which, for example after a run through several crank cycles enables mean values to be formed and so improves measuring accuracy.
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German Banking Profits 2021 Almost Tripled
German Banks With Highest Profit Increase since 2011
Deutsche Bundesbank just reported German Banking Profits of €17.3bn for 2021 almost tripling YoY. This is an increase of €11.5bn and the largest observed since 2011. It also confirms a trend reported by the ECB already a while ago, which had German banking profits in 2021 almost doubling.
Bundesbank reported the 3rd annual loss for big commercial banks in a row, while cooperative and regional banks posted new record highs. The latter benefited from Brexit-related asset transfers for foreign banks.
The largest profit driver was a drop in risk charges, which were not needed during COVID19.
For differences between Bundesbank and ECB data please continue reading HERE.


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27 Recycling has been proudly serving the Miami, FL community as the cities go-to recycling center. Our goal is simple, too reduce the amount of urban waste that ends up in landfills and to recycle metals that go back into the community through infrastructure projects. It's actually a win/win for everyone involved, customers get cash for their scrap metals and aluminum, the city reduces garbage and we get to recycle your scrap. So do your pockets and the environment a favor and recycle your old metal scraps for cash today!
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Founded by artist Marcia Stuermer, Stuermer Studios offers functional custom resin work for the built environment and resin-based artwork as well as a spectrum of functional product designs using recycled/upcycled resin from our own closed-loop production process.
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So, we may not have ‘alllllways’ been sugar free. And back in our sugar eating days, Bounty Bar’s were our all time FAV!!
When we eventually started understanding nutritional labels, let’s just say we were less than impressed with the long list of questionable ingredients that we found in our favourite chocolate bar!
But we later discovered that you CAN have your Bounty Bar and eat it too! Enter our Paleo, no bake, refined sugar free AND gluten free Bounty Slice
Recipe byStephanie Barreca
Raw biscuit base
1 x Cup cashews
1/2 x Cup roasted almonds
1 x Cup raw medjool dates
1/4 x Cup almond meal
1 x tsp Vanilla bean extract
2 x Cup desiccated coconut
1/4 x Cup coconut cream
1/2 x Cup Cell Squared coconut butter (melted)
1/4 x Cup coconut oil
1/4 x Cup maple syrup
1/2 x Cup coconut oil
1/2 x Cup Cell Squared cacao
1/4 x Cup maple syrup (add more if you like it sweeter)
In your food processor add all the ingredients for the base and pulse. Be sure not to over pulse it as you still want it to be crunchy. Pulse it enough until it is sticky and combines together.
Press down the mixture evenly into your 20 x 20 brownie tray. If you are not using a silicone tray be sure to line the tray with baking paper. This will make it easy to remove once set.
Add the base to the freezer while you prep the coconut layer.
Rinse out your food processor then add all the ingredients for your coconut layer and pulse. You will want to pulse it until it is smooth and creamy.
Remove the tray from the freezer and evenly pour in the coconut mixture. Place it back in the freezer to set. Leave it for approximately 10-15 minutes before adding the chocolate layer.
Add the coconut oil in a mixing bowl and in the microwave for 30 minutes or until completely melted.
Once melted, add the cacao and maple syrup until well combined.
Remove the mixture from the freezer and evenly pour over the chocolate layer.
To set, leave the slice in the freezer for at least 5 hours or overnight.
Once the mixture is set, remove it from the tray and slice up into serving size pieces. Best stored in a container in the freezer.


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Great Neck-based Mayflower Business Group has acquired the two five-story tenement buildings at 317-319 West 35th Street, in the Garment District section of Midtown, for $28 million. The new owner is planning to demolish the existing buildings and construct a new building, according to The Real Deal. The 4,937-square-foot site could accommodate 49,370 square feet of development rights, although Mayflower has the option to purchase an additional 10,000 square feet of air rights from the city. A residential building, a hotel, an office building, or a mixed-use project could be built at the site. Demolition permits were filed in March. Combined, the buildings contain 24 rental apartments and four commercial-retail units.
YIMBY last brought you a construction update in December, when foundation work was underway, on the 62-story, 426-unit mixed-use tower planned at 242 West 53rd Street (a.k.a. 239 West 52nd Street), in Midtown between Eighth Avenue and Broadway. Since then, foundation work has largely wrapped up, as seen in photos by Vertical Gotham via the YIMBY Forums, which means construction can now proceed skyward. Residential units in the 542,276-square-foot, 675-foot-tall tower should average 1,024 square feet apiece. There will also be 16,514 square feet of ground floor retail space. Amenities will include a 90-car parking garage, storage space for 247 bikes, a fitness center, a swimming pool, a basketball court, a golf simulator, and a private entertainment area. There will also be outdoor terraces on the second, third, and 61st floors. Algin Management is the developer, while CetraRuddy is behind the design of the exteriors and interiors.
Brooklyn-based GY Properties has filed applications for twin three-story, two-family mixed-use buildings at 2349-2353 Coney Island Avenue, in Sheepshead Bay, located six blocks from the Avenue U stop on the Q train. From north to south, they will measure 6,439 and 6,498 square feet respectively. The ground floors in each structure will host 1,901 and 1,925 square feet of retail space. Across both buildings, the project’s four full-floor residential units should average 1,304 square feet apiece, indicative of condominiums. Danny Isla’s Long Island-based Isla Engineering Service Company is the applicant of record. The 40-foot-wide plot is currently vacant.
Midtown South-based Mike Shamash has filed applications for a seven-story, eight-unit mixed-use building at 1010 Fulton Street, in southern Clinton Hill, located two blocks from the Franklin Avenue stop on the C train and Franklin Avenue Shuttle. The structure will encompass 11,000 square feet, of which 1,665 square feet will be designated to ground-floor retail. Beginning on the second floor, the residential units should average 815 square feet, which means rental apartments are likely in the works. Three of the apartments will be duplexes. Long Island-based Shahriar Afshari is the applicant of record. The 20.5-foot-wide, 2,091-square-foot lot is currently vacant.
Springhouse Partners has acquired, for $55 million, the six-story, 56-unit mixed-use building at 51 Irving Place, located on the corner of East 17th Street in Gramercy. The 42,502-square-foot property contains about 10,000 square feet of commercial space, which is currently split between five retail units and a single office unit. The residential units above are rental apartments, most of which are market-rate. The new owners plan to conduct renovations, according to The Real Deal. Work will include upgrades to the façade and interiors, and the addition of residential amenities. The apartments will remain as rentals. The property could also accommodate a small expansion, as it contains 5,000 square feet of air rights, although such plans to build an expansion are not known. Springhouse Partners recently secured a $37 million mortgage to finance the acquisition.


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Having completed a huge year celebrating it’s 50th anniversary celebration showcasing boats in Times Square NYC and hosting exclusive events around the world, it was fitting that the first new-generation Azimut (Azimut 60 pictured) to hit Australian shores be photographed in front of the iconic Sydney Opera House and Harbour. These landmarks are known for their incredible designs and memorable features much like the Italian made Azimut Yachts.
D’albora Marine is the exclusive Australian dealer for Azimut Yachts in Australia and they have recently taken delivery of the new-generation Azimut 60 which is currently for sale at d’Albora Marina Rushcutters Bay. The boat features many of the Azimut signature features such as expansive exterior deck spaces and glazing. Less obvious features include the carbon fibre flybridge that reduces weight and role and improves sea keeping. There is also zero-speed gyroscopic stabilisers, automatic trim interceptors and joystick controls on this model.
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BY ELIOT BROWN
The Times Square office building that captures the world’s attention every New Year’s Eve is mostly empty. Yet, it is minting cash.
Times Square tower has few tenants, but its billboards generate millions
The 25-story tower is doing a booming business as a billboard, its exterior cloaked with advertisements that can be seen each year by hundreds of millions of television viewers and passersby.
From sign rentals alone, the small trapezoidal building at One Times Square takes in more than $23 million a year in revenue, according to recent financing documents on the building. For example, Dunkin’ Brands Group pays $3.6 million a year for a Dunkin’ Donuts digital sign that often shows photos of fans who send images to the company’s Facebook page.
Other companies with signs include Sony and News America, which share a sign that costs $4 million a year. News Corp. owns News America and Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, which also rents sign space on the building.
Along with rents from a Walgreen store on the bottom three floors, those sums give the otherwise empty building an appraised value of $495 million, according to the loan documents.
“We’ve been very happy with it,” says Michael Phillips, chief operating officer at Jamestown Properties, which bought One Times Square in 1997 for $117 million.
Jamestown’s success in turning One Times Square into a cash machine reflects the rising value of advertising in one of the country’s iconic tourist destinations. More than 100 million pedestrians pass through the area a year, according to the Times Square Alliance. Foot traffic at key intersections is up about 90% since 1996, the Alliance estimates.
Property owners in Times Square say the rates for their signs are roughly double what they were a decade ago, although they vary widely by location. That is due in part to rising tourism to New York City—now at a record 50.9 million visitors annually.
Another factor: More owners have converted to digital billboards. Such signs are more expensive to build but can rent for five or six times as much as a static vinyl sign.
The signage in the area was once something of an afterthought for landlords. But these days, they are racing to put ever-larger signs on their buildings in a bid to capture the $2 million to $4 million a year, or more, that such signs can bring.
At an investor conference earlier this month, Edward Piccinich, executive vice president at SL Green Realty, described the company’s planned giant digital sign in Times Square as the “magnum opus” of a new development that is set to hold a flagship store for clothing retailer Express, which is also leasing the sign.
Express, in turn, could make money leasing out the sign part of the time to advertisers. “Those signs are worth a fortune,”
Michael Weiss, Express’s chief executive, told investors last year. “I mean, they cost you a fortune, but they’re worth a fortune.”
‘THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY’
For One Times Square, the times weren’t always so great. At one point, planners called for tearing the building down as part of a larger redevelopment project. But the district has blossomed over the past two decades.
“That’s the one that got away in my life,” said Lawrence Linksman, who sold the property in the early 1980s for about $10 million.
The advertisers who take space in the tower say the prices are high, but the visibility is unparalleled. “There’s a statement we make in being there—and we think the placement we’ve got is outstanding,” said Blaise D’Sylva, a vice president for marketing at beer brewer Anheuser-Busch.
Still, for others, the cost has gotten too dear. Nissin Food Products, which used to have a picture of a giant Japanese-style ramen noodle cup on One Times Square, didn’t renew when its lease expired a few years ago.
“We had to sell a lot of ramen before the billboard paid for itself,” said Linda Chung, assistant vice president of marketing at Nissin.

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‘For the Sender’ creator and friends to perform for Bro-Am Foundation
After the 2008 death of his beloved dog and the downfall of his record deal, Leucadia singer-songwriter Alex Woodard looked for a sign. He instead received a letter.
“When the record deal fell apart, everything else fell apart,” Woodard said. “You make a lot of sacrifices for this job. After 15 years, when you look at your hands and they still look kind of empty, it’s a pretty sobering feeling.”
Around that time, Connecticut resident Emily Jackson came across Woodard’s MySpace page, which featured an expired promotion: Woodard would write a song for anyone who pre-ordered his self-titled release and sent him a personal story.
Jackson, who had been grieving the death of her boyfriend, sent Woodard a note and a copy of a posthumous love letter she had written to her boyfriend.
“I ended up being really moved by it,” Woodard explained. “This letter mirrored what I was going through.”
Woodard shared Jackson’s letter with fellow singer-songwriter Sean Watkins of Nickel Creek, and inspired by the words, they collaborated on a song called “For the Sender.”
“It’s about how a letter is like a prayer in that it’s more for the sender,” Woodard said. “I sent it to her and she liked it, and that started the whole thing. I really liked that feeling of doing something for somebody else.”
As more letters came in, Woodard continued to collaborate with other artists.
One song turned into a dozen, and in addition to an album, he created an accompanying book, “For the Sender: Four Letters. Twelve Songs. One Story.” The 2012 set became a three-part book, album and concert series, with the second album and book, “For the Sender: Love Is (Not a Feeling),” published at the start of 2014.
“This project has given me a whole new direction. It’s given me new life,” Woodard said.
“This whole thing was about letting go of me. It was other people’s stories, and I had other people sing them and other people help me write. It was really liberating, because I spent so many years just doing it all for me.”
Once again working with others, Woodard is hosting a benefit concert Dec. 14 for Switchfoot’s Bro-Am Foundation at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, where he and his collaborators will share the stories of the letters.
Sara and Sean Watkins of Nickel Creek, Jordan Pundik of New Found Glory, Molly Jenson, Nena Anderson, Andy Powers and Woodard will take the stage to sing songs from the “For the Sender” series. Event proceeds will benefit the Bro-Am Foundation, which supports underprivileged youth in the community.
“We’ll take these letters and tell the stories about them,” Woodard said. “You’ll hear the people who wrote them read the letters and we’ll perform the songs about them. It’s a multimedia experience, and it’s pretty special.”
The concert begins at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $18 in advance and $20 the day of the event.
“These stories are really powerful,” Woodard said. “It’s something that’s going to leave you feeling very hopeful and happy to be alive.”
For information or to buy tickets, visit www.bellyup.com.
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St Mary’s provides a school meal service offering hot, nutritionally balanced meals, freshly prepared and cooked on the school premises.
The meals are produced by catering firm Taylor Shaw and offer a choice from 3 main courses and 3 desserts per day. Each meal is developed to ensure the right amount of protein, carbohydrates, fruit and vegetables is available while avoiding confectionery and artificially-sweetened drinks, with limits on the fat, salt and sugar content in each meal. If your child has a special dietary requirement (supported by a Medical Practitioner) then this can still be provided for.
- School Dinners are £2.20 (from 1st April 2022) per day and can be paid for via your parentpay account.
*Please note if your child is in reception, Year 1 or Year 2 then school meals will be free to them.
- Packed lunches should only include healthy items and should not include confectionery, fizzy drinks or glass bottles.
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Illinois Parks & Recreation
May/June 1995 • Volume 26, Number 3
The Lost Treasures of Highland Park
by Sherly De Vore
Pool in the woods May 21, 1913 Highland Park
Jesse Lowe Smith on April 3, 1911, stood behind his cumbersome wooden view camera poised above skunk cabbage bursting through the snow at Sweeny's Woods in Highland Park. Smith carefully slid a 5x7 inch glass plate into the camera, then snapped the picture that he would use to teach children about this earliest of spring flowers.
Perhaps Smith even trekked to the woods with the youngsters so they could smell the unusual odor of the skunk cabbage.
Sweeney's Woods is gone now. Houses are there instead. Skunk cabbage doesn't grow there anymore, not since Smith passed away in 1943 after serving 32 years as Superintendent of School District 107 at Elm Place School.
But the photos Smith took—and his legacy—live on.
The photo of skunk cabbage in snow along with 51 more Smith took during his tenure at Elm Place School is part of the Park District of Highland Park's exhibit, "The Lost Treasures of Highland Park." The exhibit finished a run at the Heller Nature Center this spring and is headed to the Chicago Botanic Gardens July 28-September 10. Other groups, including Lake County Forest Preserve District at Ryerson Conservation Area, are set to host the show through next year.
"Smith's work now lives in a way that it probably never lived before," said Arthur Lazar. The Lake Forest College professor painstakingly transformed Smith's glass slides into black and white prints, then mounted them for the exhibit.
Park district naturalist Steve Barg, at the encouragement of former Elm Place School principal Peter Roknich, combed through cardboard box after cardboard box of glass slides encased in paper sleeves with torn edges to search for the landscape and native flora photographs along with countless others Smith took of school events.
Barg, director of the Heller Nature Center, found "beautiful landscape shots of woodland ponds and wetlands" and native flora such as a "close-up of a leaf curling around the blossom of bloodroot." There were glass slides of Indian trail trees and rare plant species such as the hoary pea now extinct in Lake County.
Smith took photographs "for the sole purpose of educating children," said Barg. He had the glass slides transferred to smaller lantern slides, which were hand-painted by artists. Smith provided artists with live samples of the plants so the colors would be as accurate as possible. Then he'd get out his lantern slide projector and "march all these kids into the auditorium and they'd have nature awareness assemblies," said Lazar.
"It was an introduction to field study," said Barg. "They all went out with their notebooks." Smith took 80 percent of the slides in Highland Park. The rest were taken either in the Glencoe area or in Lake County as far north as Illinois Beach State Park, where he photographed the state-endangered pitcher plant.
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While working on the exhibit, Barg and Lazar say they have come to know Smith on as personal a level as one can with someone who has been gone for more than half a century. Both identify with him, Lazar as a photographer who takes photos of fauna and calls Smith "a kindred spirit," and Barg as a naturalist who works with children and considers Smith a mentor.
"He was very much in love with his work," said Lazar. "He recognized the significance and great power of photography to serve as a teaching tool. And he was no doubt a very sensitive man. These photos convey Jesse Smith's personality. The man was a poet."
Smith was the kind of man who would have a pow wow of Blackfoot Indians at the school, encourage the formation of a local historical society, help the unemployed, serve as president of the Chicago Geographic Society and director for the Audobon Society of Chicago. And he rode his bicycle to school, maneuvering his huge black umbrella on rainy days.
During the 1920s and 1930s, Smith hung around with the likes of Jens Jensen, a noted native landscape architect. They formed an organization. Friends of Our Native Landscape, to save areas such as Illinois Beach State Park. They also recognized the need to educate school children about nature.
Smith teamed with Jensen and Everett Millard, a former Highland Park luminary, to write articles about how schools could incorporate nature in the curriculum. They wrote: "We believe that the teachers that come from our training schools should all have had generous courses in natural science based very largely upon field trips and they should gather inspiration for themselves and for their pupils from field and forest and from the nightly panorama of the stars."
"My whole purpose is to
lead children to enjoy
simple things simply,"
What Smith taught his students about nature has been remembered. While researching Smith's life, Barg discovered a written tribute to Smith that some students wrote in the 50th anniversary of their graduation from Elm Place School. Robert L. Childs remembered "the beehive in the window so we could watch what went on inside." Mae Bliss Hinchliff recalled spring and fall field trips with Smith "finding such wildflowers as the blue fringed gentians," and "learning the trees from their leaf-shapes and bark." Cecilia Peterson Freeman said Smith taught "us to recognize all the trees, bushes and flowers. This has always amazed my grandchildren as they have not received this knowledge in school today."
While some may lament the loss of this kind of teaching and of Lake County's native landscapes, Barg said the photographic exhibit will restore hope. "People will see the changes that have been made on our native landscape in the past 80 years," said Barg. "They will ask: What do we have today and what will we have 80 years from now? And what can we do to save it?"
Sheryl De Vore is a free-lance writer with Pioneer Press. Story and photos were provided courtesy of the Park District of Highland Park.*
"The Lost Treasures of Highland Park"" exhibit 'will be featured at the Chicago 'Botanic (gardens July 28-September 10.
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DANBURY, Conn. -- In a first for Danbury High School, a teen boy was crowned as the gay male prom queen at the school's senior prom last Friday, according to the Queerty.com website .
Promgoers cheered as Nasir Fleming accepted his crown at the prom held at the Matrix Center on Friday night.
“I was shocked to see how awesome and supportive my peers are,” Fleming told Queerty. “I received a decent amount of negative backlash, so I was surprised when I won.”
Fleming was voted prom queen by an election held by his classmates, according to Queerty.
"My main reason for wanting to win prom queen is to show the school, and hopefully the world, that if a spunky, odd gay kid can win prom queen, then anyone can!" Fleming told Queerty.
See a video above posted on YouTube by Nasir Fleming of the moment he was crowned.
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YUSUF FROM SUDAN, DETAINED IN MALTA, AGED 16
Yusuf fled his village because of the conflict in Darfur. ‘The war is compelling us to leave the country, to leave the people who we never wish to leave in our whole lives. And we have already faced a lot of things, so cruel, so bad things,’ Yusuf said.
‘When I left Darfur… in front of me, around 10 o’clock in the morning, they raped my sisters. At that time, I was 16 years. But I will never forget this. I will never forget it. They killed my father and two brothers in front of me.’
Yusuf’s whole village fled after it was attacked. ‘The people who are dead, are dead. We buried them. And all of us left.
Nobody of the village who was still alive stayed in that place anymore,’ he said.
Yusuf left with his mother and two sisters. The village was close to the border, so it didn’t take long to cross into Chad. He stayed in a refugee camp for 11 days. But ‘the camp was not safe. Some people were coming from outside trying to enter the camp and they attack them, they shooting, they come creeping at night, militias and kidnapping the people.’ The guides who brought the villagers to the camp insisted they would take care of the mothers, but that the young boys were not safe and that they should leave.
‘So we left. We came to Libya. From Libya, we came here [to Malta].’
The boys from Yusuf’s village did not leave the refugee camp all together. Yusuf left with four other boys. The group travelled by car for a while before separating. Yusuf then found a Libyan animal trader who agreed to take Yusuf to Libya if he cared for the sheep on the way. The man took Yusuf to Tripoli. The whole trip lasted 14 days.
Yusuf stayed in Tripoli for three days. ‘When I arrived, the Sudanese people told me that now you see in Darfur the war is going on. And you have not any identification. Don’t go outside, on the street or anywhere. If the police catch you, they can transfer you to Sudan. They send you back. They give you to the government and the government is going to kill you. Don’t go outside from this house because you don’t have any identification, no passport, no ID card, nothing.’
‘I said to those people, “I have just a little bit of money so, not very much. I have only $500”.’ The smuggler who sends people from Libya to Europe told Yusuf that it would cost him $1000. The other Sudanese raised the extra $500 so that Yusuf could get a place on the boat, destination Italy. The boat set out from Tripoli with 12 people on board. Three were Yusuf’s age. The others were older.
‘But we were lost. Six days on the sea. The water was finished. The fuel was finished, the food was finished. And we just prayed. We have no light. We have no petrol. Nothing.’
‘When you turn any direction it was like dessert. You see nothing. No light, no people. Nothing. We just prayed. And we said, We have nothing to do. Whatever is going to be, we are ready to die. We are ready to drown. Maybe we can find some shark to eat us. Many things.’
‘Finally, the coastguard came and picked us up.’
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It feels like spring outside. The insects are flying, the birds are singing, the frogs are croaking… and the skinks are basking in the sun!
Skinks are lizards with sinuous bodies, small legs, and no defined neck. Their appearance is a cross between a lizard and a snake. Skinks can be mistaken for snakes because of their long bodies and their fast, serpent-like movement when startled.
The American five-lined skink is one of the most commonly seen lizards in the eastern United States. They range from five to eight inches in body length. The juveniles look markedly different from the adult form and may be mistaken as a separate species. The young are jet black with five golden stripes and a brilliant blue tail, while the adults are uniformly brown or gray with a ruddy face and faded stripes. American five-lined skinks are also known as blue-tailed skinks (because of the juvenile coloration) and red-headed skinks (because of the rosy faces of the adults).
These lizards are a familiar sight in landscapes and wooded areas, preferring moist habitats at ground level. They take shelter in shrubbery, stumps, logs, and fallen trees. The males are aggressive and territorial towards one another. The females exhibit parental care of their eggs and may nest communally with other unrelated females. They wrap their sun-warmed bodies around their eggs, urinate on them to maintain nest humidity, and consume any eggs that are not developing properly.
Skinks, like most lizards, have the ability to detach their tail from their body. Scientifically, this behavior is called autotomy, or self-amputation. This allows the skink to escape with its life while a predator is focused on the twitching tail that was left behind. The skink’s tail will regrow after several weeks, although it will never look the same as the original tail. Regrown tails are boneless, with cartilage replacing the original bones. These new tails are slightly off-color with a different skin texture. They also lack any patterns or markings.
Skinks are beneficial as they eat insects, spiders, and other small critters that may annoy people. Skinks themselves are not considered to be pests, but sometimes they get into houses where their presence is a nuisance. They may get on indoor glue boards and become stuck. Live ones can be rescued by placing the glue board outside in a safe place and coating the skink in vegetable oil – avoid drenching the nostrils to prevent suffocation. The oil will slowly dissolve the glue, allowing the skink to wiggle free.
Some people refer to the blue-tailed juveniles as “scorpions,” but they cannot sting and do not have any kind of venom. They can bite when handled, but the bite is neither painful nor harmful.
Five-lined Skink (Eumeces [Plestiodon] fasciatus). Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. Website: https://srelherp.uga.edu/lizards/eumfas.htm. Accessed March 2018.
Five-lined Skink. Animal Diversity Web. Website: http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Plestiodon_fasciatus/. Accessed March 2018.

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With the weather looking good for this Saturday I found myself trawling through my collection of guide books looking for a high country ramble. Normally the choices would be almost endless but I had a couple of caveats today. I wanted a walk that wasn't going to be overly taxing, I haven't completed a hard walk for months due to a leg operation, made even worse by three weeks on a ship floating around the South Pacific, so you might say that I'm not really match fit at the moment. The other consideration on this Saturday was that it was still two weeks before Parks Vic open up most of the tracks that have been closed for winter, so I had to find a walk that I could actually get to. To cut a long boring story short, I decided to head up to Telephone Box Junction and do a circuit walk around and over Mt Stirling.
|Telephone Box Junction was a little on the quiet side today.|
I was on the road early this morning which meant that I was booted up and walking out of the deserted Telephone Box Junction before 10am. For this walk I'd grabbed Glenn van der Knijff's book Bushwalks in the Victorian Alps, now this book dates back to 2004, so I wasn't exactly sure how accurate the notes would be. Heading up the closed Circuit Road though I soon arrived at my first track junction to find that it was marked not only with a signpost but with a map, I was happy to see that it appeared that most of my described route seemed to be still walkable. Leaving the Circuit Road here I headed up Bluff Spur Trail all the way to Bluff Spur Hut, being a cross country ski trail in winter meant that the climb up Bluff Spur Trail was never overly steep.
|Most of the junctions today were marked with these maps.|
Interestingly the climb up Bluff Spur also passed through forests of mostly un-burnt Alpine Ash and Snowgum trees, as I've mentioned before a lot of the Victorian High Country has been severely burnt in the last ten or so years so its nice to walk through a forest of mature trees. It wasn't long today that I started to encounter lingering drifts of snow, the good news was that it was very icy and compacted so it didn't make the walking any harder, but a bit of snow around always adds a bit to a walk I reckon. By the time I passed from the Mountain Ash zone to the Snow Gum zone I was more or less walking on a continuous covering of snow. After an hour and a bit of climbing I arrived at Bluff Spur Hut, this comfortable hut was built as a memorial hut to two skiers that died near this spot in 1985. Today though I was happy enough to just utilise the verandah to get out of the snow for a minute while I had a drink and a look at the map.
|Bluff Spur Trail.|
Leaving Bluff Spur Hut I headed up towards the summit of Mt Stirling, after only a few minutes of climbing I'd already passed out the Snow Gums and was climbing through alpine grassland. Most of the snow cover disappeared once I was out from under the tree canopy and at the same time the views became fairly extensive, which was another excuse for me to stop and take it all in. I'd never actually been up to the summit of Mt Stirling before so this was all new territory for me, I was enjoying the grandstand views that allowed me to pick out the surrounding mountains, the sites of many adventures over the years.
|Bluff Spur Hut.|
Once near the top I wandered over to check out a very photogenic lone Snow Gum, this beautiful tree was at least 100 metres from any other tree of any significance on the mountain, it kind of makes you wonder how it got itself established in such a inhospitable spot. After crawling around in the snow grass for awhile getting some photos of my Snow Gum I meandered my way over to a rocky outcrop to the south east of the main summit. This rocky peak gave me a grandstand view to the east with Mt Howitt, Mt Speculation and The Cross-Cut Saw clearly visible today, in the distance I could even make out the Bogong High Plains still with a fair covering of snow on them. What drew my eyes the most though was the rocky ramparts of The Bluff to the south across the deep valley that the Howqua River flows through. The movie of The Man From Snowy River was filmed in these hills years ago, in-fact the hut from the movie, Craigs Hut, is now somewhat of a tourist attraction off the Circuit Road on Mt Stirling.
Crossing over a large residual snow drift I meandered over to the trig point on the summit, well meandered as well as I could while being buffeted by very strong winds. Finding myself a bit of shelter behind a rock I dropped my pack for a few minutes and had a break, the scars on Mt Buller looking very ugly now they were un covered by their winter coat. To the north I could see plenty of snow in the rocky chutes dropping down from the Mt Buffalo Plateau, it certainly has been a good snow year. Shouldering my pack I dropped off the summit and headed down Stirling Trail for a couple of minutes until I came to the Geelong Grammar School Hut.
|Mt Buller doesn't look so flash without its mantle of snow.|
The Geelong Grammar School Hut is a very comfortable hut that is open for the public when the kids aren't using it, with its big fire place and a loft for sleeping it would make a nice spot to sit out bad weather. There was no bad weather today though, only wind, so I closed up the hut and headed off on my long descent down the undulating spur towards King Saddle. Like my climb up, as soon as I reached the cover of the snow gums I was once again walking on snow covered tracks, the snow definitely adding a little bit more interest to what was already a good walk. One thing I noticed on my descent was the amount of infrastructure, first I got to a newish looking hut (I think it may have been called Kings Spur Hut), a little further on I arrived at an open area that housed numerous permanent tents as well as a big teepee, a shelter and a couple of toilets. I suspect these set ups are for commercial horse riding trips judging by the slip rails, but I may be wrong.
Just before arriving at Kings Saddle the track got a little rougher and steeper, I was actually on a black diamond track according to a helpfully placed signpost, now if I was on skis I would of officially been shitting myself on a black diamond run, but it was amazing how much easier the black diamond run was without snow! Soon the open grassy spaces of Kings Saddle came into view through the arrow straight trunks of the Alpine Ash. Kings Saddle is actually on the Circuit Road and it would make a nice spot for a picnic or a bbq once they open up the road after winter, with the road still closed though it was quiet today. Passing by the large King Saddle Shelter I set off on the last stage of today's ramble.
I was now heading towards yet another hut, Razorback Hut. To get there I followed the beautiful contouring Hut Track, while only short this was a very enjoyable part of the walk, the easy walking being appreciated by my tired muscles (remember I haven't done a lot of walking for the last three months). Razorback Hut is actually a couple of huts and they would supply good shelter in winter when the roads are closed, in the warmer weather I suspect that they'd be over run with 4 wheel drivers though as you can easily drive to them. Leaving Razorback Hut I was faced with a choice of 3 tracks, to cut a long story short I reckon you should take the middle one, I took the faint southern most one and it disappeared after passing through a very damp patch of tee-tree, which left me with a short off track excursion to meet up with my intended route. Once back on track I had an easy descent back down to Telegraph Saddle, crossing one of the rushing tributaries of the Delatite River on the way, before arriving back at the ute which somewhat surprisingly was still the only vehicle in the car park on this beautiful day.
I walked 14.9 kilometres today and climbed 651 metres on this walk. I'd rate this walk as a medium grade walk I suppose, the tracks are generally well defined and sign-posted but there is a couple of spots to watch out for. Having said that though I was using notes that were over 10 years old, my map, the Vicmap Buller-Stirling 1:25,000 sheet dated back even further to 1993. Like I mentioned earlier I was using Glenn van der Knijff notes out of Bushwalks in the Victorian Alps, in the book the walk is titled High Mountain Ramble and its walk number 17 in the book. I enjoyed my day up on Mt Stirling, I found the walking fairly strait forward even accounting for my very dated information and I think timing my visit for just before they open the Circuit Road was probably a good idea as the place was more or less deserted.
|The walk still passed through some sections of burnt forest.|
|Wandering into Telephone Box Junction along the closed Circuit Road.|

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Still from 'Silvia paints Pat #2'
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Silvia Jansons painted Pat Larter’s body in two separate sessions during 1978. These two performances are known as ‘Silvia paints Pat #1’ and ‘Silvia paints Pat #2 (again!)’. Both sessions were originally filmed on Super8 film, without sound. The first body painting performance was done on 2 September. At the start of it, Pat Larter held up a story board with the inscription: ‘Pat and Richard Larter with Silvia Jansons/Armidale 1978’. Pat Larter’s body was painted with two different designs during ‘Silvia paints Pat #1’ and ‘Silvia paints Pat #2’. The first design in this second performance was based on a web with an open mouth in the middle of Pat’s body. The second design was chequered. Both films were shown in a retrospective of Pat and Dick Larter videotapes and films at the Sculpture Centre, Sydney, as part of the 1979 Biennale Alternatives.
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Hulu’s Mike, an eight-part unauthorized series about the life of boxing champion Mike Tyson (Trevante Rhodes), covered quite a bit of ground in Season 1. Going from beloved global athlete to outcast and back again, the show documents the ups and downs of Tyson’s boxing career and personal life, including his tumultuous marriage to Robin Givens (Laura Harrier). All in, Mike also explores themes of misogyny, class and race in America and the role the media and public have played in shaping Tyson’s story. Given the duration covered, as well as its limited series billing, however, Mike is unlikely to return for Season 2.
Anyway, the reviews didn’t exactly give Mike not ecstatic either. Although several outlets agreed that Rhodes gave a “knockout performance”, they also felt that the series was “ultimately losing the fight”. Meanwhile, Daniel Fienberg wrote in his August 23 review for The Hollywood Reporter that the series “does too many hits”, citing the “biggest problem with Mikebeing that “it’s far too generous to its unauthorized subject matter.” Fienberg added, “In reality, it’s hard to imagine anyone doing a nicer story about the former heavyweight champion and rapist. sentenced.”
That wasn’t the only controversy the miniseries endured throughout its run. When Hulu first announced Mike in February 2021, Tyson condemned the series on social media, saying the company failed to compensate him, blaming “Hulu’s corporate greed” for the “deaf cultural misappropriation of Tyson’s life story” . Later, as the show’s August 25 premiere date approached, the boxer blasted the show again on social media.
“Don’t let Hulu fool you,” he wrote via Instagram on August 6. “I don’t support their story about my life. It’s not 1822, it’s 2022. They stole my life story and didn’t pay me. To Hulu executives, I’m only ‘un…they can auction.
A few days earlier, series creator Steven Rogers explained his position during a virtual Television Critics Association panel on Aug. 4, sharing that he relied on “extensive research into factual accounts, interviews, [and] images of real events’ for the show. “Actually, we couldn’t talk to [Tyson] because his lifetime rights were already taken, so it was never on the table,” he told reporters, according to TheWrap. “I hope if he looks at it, he changes his mind.”
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Although some critics don’t quite agree, it seems that Mike was never destined for a comeback anyway.