![]() After being an Environmental Protection Agency "Superfund" cleanup site in the 1990s, with extensive clean-up, a portion of it became the Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge in 2000. The land was an ordinance supply depot during World War II. In 1982, NRDC surrendered control of 3,100 acres in the Massachusetts towns of Hudson, Maynard, Stow and Sudbury to Fort Devens to become a field training facility, now the Connolly Armed Forces Training Area. DARCOM and TSC merged in July 1992, forging the U.S. Army Natick Research and Development Center, a subordinate element of the U.S. Army Natick Research and Development Laboratories and three years later as the U.S. In September 1980, the NRDC was redesignated as the U.S. Army Materiel Development and Readiness Command. The same month, AMC was redesignated the U.S. Army Natick Research and Development Command in January 1976 and assigned to the U.S. Army Natick Development Center and reassigned to the AMC. Natick Laboratories became a subordinate element to the Troop Support Command in July 1973 and was redesignated two years later as the U.S. In July 1967 the Navy Clothing and Textile Research Facility relocated to Natick. In November 1962, the QREC was redesignated as Natick Laboratories and the following year the Food and Container Institute moved to Natick. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine at Natick and a year later the QREC was placed under the U.S. To reach an NSSC number from overseas, dial the DSN area code, (312), then the last seven digits of the phone number.Ĭonstruction of the Quartermaster Research Facility (QRF) at Natick, authorized by Congress in October 1949, began in November 1952. A year later, the QRF was redesignated as the Quartermaster Research and Development Center, and four years later as the Quartermaster Research and Engineering Command. When dialing a DSN number to/from military locations overseas, replace the regular area code with the DSN area code. The DSN area code for Natick Soldier Systems Center (NSSC) is 312. It is an Army Reserve installation with limited services available to NSSC personnel, such as ID Card Office, Army Reserve Education Center, and Army and Air Force Exchange Service Clothing and Sales store for Army uniforms. Hanscom Air Force Base is located 20 miles north of the installation. It has a wide range of services, including a medical treatment clinic, commissary, post exchange/base exchange, and a full range of Morale, Welfare and Recreation services. Natick Soldier Systems Center personnel are welcomed at Hanscom to use their services.įort Devens is located 28 miles from the installation. The nearest commissary is 20 miles away at Hanscom Air Force Base. However, the installation is situated in a beautiful location served by some of the best public schools in the country and is next door to Boston, one of the most historic and vibrant cities in the nation. Since the installation is small, it does not have the typical range of support services found on larger installations. For example, there is no school and no child development center (day care) on the installation.
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![]() Thin wire such as 20AWG or 22AWG isn’t very common but occasionally can be useful for lower power speakers. The gauges available range from about 20 gauge to 10 gauge, with 18 gauge being one the most popular. Most speaker wire sold today is made up of two conductors attached as a pair with one marked as the positive they’re essentially the same as stranded power cable paired together. By comparison, thicker speaker wire has low resistance and therefore less power lost across it at high power levels or a long cable run. Higher amps require a larger conductor size (thick wire) just like for power wire. This can make a difference in the wire size you need based on the length and power carried to audio speakers. When an amplifier supplies an audio signal with a given voltage output, speakers with a lower impedance draw more electrical current (higher amps) than higher impedance speakers. Speaker impedance and power vs the correct gauge wire Likewise, a larger number is used for smaller wires with fewer conductors. The AWG wire chart uses a numbering system in which thicker cable has a smaller number. Likewise, each AWG wire gauge has an electrical current capacity (how many amps it can handle, also called ampacity sometimes). It specifies sizes, each with a given circular area of the electrical conductor size, its resistance per foot or meter, and some other specifications. Less commonly known as the Brown and Sharpe wire chart, the American Wire Gauge chart has been around since 1857. Speaker wire doesn’t have just one size (gauge) – it’s standardized and based on the American Wire Gauge (AWG) chart which lists standard sizes using a number. What gauge is speaker wire? (Wire size and wire gauge explained) It is true, however, that real copper wire is better than copper coated aluminum wire as I explain later. The electrical signal will not have any measurable difference at the speaker end. As long as you’re using a good quality wire with the correct gauge you’ll be fine. It’s a great marketing feature for retailers but the data shows that there’s an amazingly small difference in performance. It’s not worth spending more money on it. No, oxygen free pure copper wire will not deliver any noticeable improvements in sound or power.
![]() Add the harsh heat and spice at the finish and this just isn’t a favorable pairing.įrom my notes: “I wouldn’t drink these together again.”Ĭomplex aromas of juniper berries, orange zest, pine, and cucumbers pair well with the ripe grapefruit smell of the grapefruit juice. When mixed with grapefruit juice, it’s kind of overwhelming. There’s a ton of tangerine and lemon zest along with juniper in this gin’s nose. Right away, this is a citrus bomb of a cocktail. Juniper, nutmeg, cinnamon, licorice, and tart, bright citrus zest work in unison with the sharp, sweet flavor of the grapefruit juice.Īll in all, a winner of a combination. While subtle, I noticed notes of candied orange peel, coriander, cinnamon, and a gentle, herbal, floral flavor that melded with the sweet, grapefruit juice aroma. Sipping it only heightens the experience with more pine, wildflowers, wintry spices, and a ton of fruity flavor.įrom my notes: “It’s almost like this gin was created to be mixed with fruit juice, specifically grapefruit juice.” Taste 3 Christopher Osburn ![]() All of which pair well with the grapefruit juice component of the drink. On the nose, this gin is very fruity, and floral, and has just a hint of piney juniper. Then the cup is filled with grapefruit juice - simple as can be. The cocktail itself is literally just a jigger of gin over ice. Keep scrolling to see the gins we selected and see how everything turned out. We already love gin-based cocktails during the summer months so as August rolls out we figured we’d mix up a whole fleet of gins mixed with grapefruit juice for a blind test. While some recipes sweeten up gin’s juniper flavor by adding simple syrup into the mix, that’s not definitely not required - we’re basically talking about a classic screwdriver or Paloma, but with gin. We’ll let you get better acquainted with Snoop’s catalog on your own as for gin and juice, it’s a simple cocktail of gin and your favorite fruit juice (usually orange juice, grapefruit juice, or another type of citrus). ![]() And by that, we mean both classic tracks and classic cocktails. With my mind on my money and my money on my mind.” If you don’t recognize those lyrics from “ Gin and Juice” by Snoop Dogg, well… you need to study the classics. “Rollin’ down the street, smokin’ indo, sippin’ on gin and juice. ![]() ![]() ![]() V2.03 2023.8.22 GUI Improve: The Remote Download page of the Options window allows you to set the RSS feed password to access the local task list GUI Improve: The torrent maker window displays the number of files the task contains GUI Improve: Change the size of the BT task in the task list, task summary, and task disk information to the total file size without file boundary padding GUI Improve: Optimized the behavior of automatically hiding tabs when switching tasks when "Always show all tabs" is not selected in the Tab bar in the lower right panel GUI Improve: The server list of HTTP tasks and the tracker list of BT tasks are always displayed in the same position as the tab bar in the lower right corner GUI Improve: The Connections list of HTTP tasks and the Peers list of BT tasks are always displayed in the same position as the Tab bar in the lower right corner GUI Improve: support usernames and passwords in HTTP links of RSS feeds GUI Improve: In the option, the eMule TCP and UDP listening port can be set separately GUI Bugfix: When the tracker list is all selected, the right-click menu Update Tracker command is grayed out Core Improve: Ignore. ![]() ![]() Taking the production up a notch, 10 players currently have at least six goals and 11 have at least seven points.The Blue Jays count 23 different players with at least one goal, 21 players with at least one assist and 25 players with at least one point. Johns Hopkins features one of the most balanced scoring sheets in the nation this season.Including games played before the Big Ten was formed in 2015, Johns Hopkins is 144-71-1 (.669) all-time against teams currently competing in the Big Ten.The eight games JHU has won in the Big Ten Tournament are the second most in league history.Since the league was formed, the Blue Jays rank second in all-time appearances in the Big Ten title game (4) and second in Big Ten Tournament titles (2). ![]() Johns Hopkins joined the Big Ten as a sport affiliate member in 2015, the first year the league offered men's lacrosse as a championship sport.A complete look at the series history between Johns Hopkins and Maryland can be found on pages 21 and 22.The Blue Jays lead the series 75-49-1 after picking up a 12-11 victory against the Terps on April 22. This week's game will be the 126th all-time meeting between Johns Hopkins and Maryland.Among those 11 games are five against teams in the top eight (including Maryland twice) are 10 against teams in the top 20.Including this week's game against #7 Maryland, 11 of Johns Hopkins' 16 games have been against teams ranked in the top 20 in the nation at the time of the game.The number nine ranking marked the 500th time in school history that JHU has appeared in the top 20 of the USILA Poll.After being listed as receiving votes in the USILA Preseason Poll, the Blue Jays made the jump to ninth after starting the season at 2-0.In addition, this week's number five ranking marks the 434th time that Johns Hopkins has been ranked in the top 10 in the nation. The USILA Poll debuted in 1973 and this week's poll is the 530th issued JHU's number five ranking this week means the Blue Jays have appeared in 511 of the 530 polls.The Johns Hopkins Athletic Communications Office uses the USILA Poll when referencing JHU's official ranking at the time of a game.Maryland is ranked seventh in this week's USILA Coaches Poll and seventh in the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll as well.Johns Hopkins is ranked fifth in this week's USILA Coaches Poll and fourth in the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll as well.JHU owns 44 national championships with nine NCAA titles, 29 USILA titles and six ILA crowns to its credit.The Blue Jays picked up the program's 1,000th victory with an 11-10 win over Loyola on February 19, 2022. Johns Hopkins is the only men's lacrosse program in the nation with 1,000 or more all-time victories.Johns Hopkins enters this week's game with an all-time record of 1,015-368-15 (.731).This is the 136th season of Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse.Maryland punched its ticket to the Big Ten Semifinals as the Terrapins topped Rutgers, 14-11, in the Big Ten Quarterfinals last Saturday night (April 29) at home.The win secured a share of the Big Ten regular season title for the Blue Jays and locked down the number two seed in the Big Ten Tournament. Johns Hopkins closed the regular season with a 12-11 win at fourth-ranked Maryland in its regular season finale on April 22.The winners of the semifinal games will meet in the Big Ten Championship game on Saturday, May 6 (5:30 pm) at Homewood Field.Top-seeded Penn State will play fourth-seeded Michigan in the first semifinal (1 pm).The Hopkins-Maryland game will be the second of the two semifinal games at Homewood with faceoff set for approximately 3:30 pm on Thursday, May 4. 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![]() The front panel is held on via plastic clips and requires some considerable force. There's plenty of space to work in and panels can be removed with thumbscrews. The Corsair 275R Airflow offers impressive thermal performance for the price.Īs for building inside the Corsair 275R, which is the most important part of even the best PC cases, it's a smooth process. This doesn't mean you can't create a clean finish but makes it a little trickier to get everything in place. The grommets are large for routing cables, but there aren't any channels and minimal mounting locations. Where things become a little basic and dated is behind the motherboard tray. Fan filtering is present on front, top, and bottom panels. This is an issue I found with the Fractal Design Meshify C. ![]() The hard drive cage does not need to be removed in order to maximize front space for a 360mm radiator. Up to seven fans can be installed, allowing for one super-cooled PC. It's possible to install up to four 2.5-inch and two 3.5-inch drives. Seven horizontal PCI expansion slots are located on the rear, though Corsair does allow the vertical mounting of GPUs and two further PCI slots are available for this reason. Don't even consider installing a larger board as the tray protrudes with the cable grommets. In some cases, the nature of the item means that it is non-returnable, for example, due to hygiene/health and personal care/wellness/consumable nature of the product.The Corsair 275R supports motherboard sizes up to ATX. ![]() Office Products and Wireless Returns Policy New electronic items fulfilled by Amazon AU can be returned for change of mind, for a replacement or a full refund of the purchase cost of the item within 30 days of receipt of delivery.For information about returning faulty electronics please see Returning Faulty Items. 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In some circumstances, these items may be eligible for a refund or a replacement (for example, if you receive the wrong item due to an Amazon AU error or if the item is faulty). In some cases, the nature of the item means that it is non-returnable, for example, due to hygiene/health and personal care/wellness/consumable nature of the product. You can return most new, unopened items fulfilled by Amazon AU within 30 days of receipt of delivery for a replacement or full refund of the price you paid for the item if you change your mind - see About Replacements and About Refunds. ![]() The best online casinos are those which offer bonuses to new and existing players. Best online casino bonuses and promotions Best of all, you can play the games and collect your winnings from home. That has changed and there are thousands of online casinos that pay winnings to players in real money. ![]() There was a time when the only way to win money at a casino was to play at a land based casino. 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This inexpensive product can provide an incredibly beneficial level of safety for your family.Ĭlint’s career has covered nearly the entire realm of audio and video production. When rewiring or updating your house to bring it up to code, pay attention to where to place GFCI outlets or breakers. Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters should exist in any home. You can also purchase inexpensive GFCI-compatible circuit testers. Pressing the “RESET” button re-activates your circuit. ![]() If the “RESET” button does not pop out, the GFCI is defective and should be replaced. If the “RESET” button pops out, but the light does not go out, the GFCI has been wired improperly. Press the “TEST” button on the GFCI to ensure the “RESET” button pops out, and the device turns off. To test the GFCI receptacle after installation, plug something into the outlet (like a radio or light) and turn it on. If you are at all unsure of how to do this, hire a professional. 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specifically palpate for a fifth metatarsal fracture.When examining a patient for a fracture of the fifth metatarsal, the examiner should There is pain-limited weight-bearing along the lateral aspect of the foot. In the case of fifth metatarsal styloid fracture, the pain and soreness is at the tuberosity of the fifth metatarsal base. Patients with a fifth metatarsal styloid fracture or a Jones fracture (proximal diaphysis) exhibit marked tenderness at the proximal fifth metatarsal, and bruising may be present. The examiner should always check for point tenderness of the metatarsal tenderness with any ankle injury. Easily missed in many cases, because the examiner focuses on the ankle injury.Sometimes caused by placement of abnormal stress.Swelling and point tenderness with an inability to bear weight along the lateral border of the foot.These result from the placement of abnormal stress on a normal bone. However, some stress fractures may appear more proximally, especially in dancers axial loads with torsion result in more proximal fractures. Stress fractures: Stress fractures of the metatarsals may occur distally at the metatarsal neck in runners.The resulting injury is more serious ( Fig. These result from laterally directed force on the forefoot with the ankle in plantar flexion (see “Radiographic Evaluation” for more information) they are caused by inversion of the foot. Jones fractures: True Jones fractures, more rare than avulsion fractures, occur at the proximal diaphysis (shaft).Avulsion fractures are transverse fractures that generally involve the tuberosity of the metatarsal base-the site of attachment of the avulsed peroneus brevis tendon. * Patients may complain of tripping or missing a curb or the rung of ladder. Avulsion fractures: These fractures have a mechanism of injury that is similar to an ankle sprain.There are basically three types of fifth metatarsal injuries. Tenderness at the base of the fifth metatarsal may be present.įractures of the foot are common and often involve the fifth metatarsal, the bone that runs from the middle of the foot to the base of the small toe ( Fig.Patients complain of pain and swelling.From our series, it is evident that most pediatric fifth metatarsal fractures behave as those found in adults and can be treated similarly. We recommend non-weight bearing casts for all angulated or displaced intra-articular injuries to avoid delays in healing and angulation. Fixation of Jones fractures in active adolescents should be considered to allow faster return to regular activities and prevent refracture. Most fractures of the fifth metatarsal in the pediatric population do well clinically after a course of walking cast, unless the fracture is an intra-articular displaced fracture type or the fracture occurs in the proximal diaphyseal area. Neck and shaft fractures did well with casting. Jones fractures had delays in healing if not treated surgically. Displaced intraarticular fractures had a significant delay in healing versus nondisplaced ones. Metatarsal neck and shaft fractures were included separately.Īpophyseal fractures did well with a short-leg walking cast for 3 to 6 weeks. Type III injuries represented Jones fracture. Type II represented tubercle fractures with intra-articular extension. The fractures were classified according to location. The purpose of our study was to identify the different types of fifth metatarsal fractures, to determine the mean time to healing, and to examine whether current adult recommendations can be extrapolated to children and adolescents.Ī total of 103 patients met the inclusion criteria. Their treatment is based on the adult literature. Fractures of the fifth metatarsal are the most common metatarsal fractures in children. |
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