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I know.. SOCIALISM!!!!
No, the USA lacks solar panels because everybody is already on the grid.
Peru is using photovoltaics to provide small amounts of electricity without the infrastructure cost, which makes perfect sense.
PVs are still a very expensive way to generate large amounts of power. Only a wealthy country like Germany can afford to waste obscene amounts of money that way, where the benefits are mostly political.
That said, there is no sane reason why countries like the US and Australia should not be use far more solar-powered water heaters, and build homes for passive solar heating. Huge amounts of fossil fuels are being wasted that way.
I know not these hoops of which you speak. Citation?
Ah. New York City. It figures. I think in that case, the decision was made that control was more important than acting responsibly.
I'm on the west coast, and I didn't even have to tell my homeowner's association before I put up the panels.
same goes for Georgia, we tried in southern Georgia to get solar panels but city ordinance, zoning commission inspection fees and licensing, state red tape and you have to notify the grid and since the city controls utilities here, we dont have a normal power company our power bill is issued by the city on the bill has power, water, cable, garbage all on one bill. They wont allow them to be fed back into their grid here. So far they refuse to allow it, but you can set them up and run them side by side so use the solar power for some things but it can't connect back to the grid in any form or fashion, therefore it doesn't really negate anything. Since city can just raise rates if you ever do get the ability to get them installed.
they raise rates on houses individually here, based on how many people live in the home and ages, etc.
its a racket
So, is it a flat rate based on occupancy, then? Your electricity isn't metered? That would suck, because you can't lower your bill no matter what you do. You might as well draw as much as you can and,,, I dunno, use it to make artificial diamonds or something.
I'm in Oregon, and we *can* feed back into the grid, but the problem is the system is required by law to shut down if the grid fails so that power line techs don't have to work with live lines. (There are ways around this at significant extra cost.
There are ways around this at significant extra cost.
What, a $2000 switch as part of a $15,000 install is a "significant" extra cost? Every licensed installer I've ever seen includes that cost in the "basic" install and won't install without it. Grid-tie is cheaper than batteries and (unless you are planning for the apocalypse), more useful.
There are ways around this at significant extra cost.
What, a $2000 switch as part of a $15,000 install is a "significant" extra cost? Every licensed installer I've ever seen includes that cost in the "basic" install and won't install without it. Grid-tie is cheaper than batteries and (unless you are planning for the apocalypse), more useful.
Batteries are mandatory. Grid tie is optional. Again, I'm not trying for "green", I'm trying for self sufficient.
Planning on the grid failing is always funny. I'm sure you have lots of guns, but what do you do when the grids down for weeks and people see your lights and smoke and come knocking?
Reminds me of the girl at Occupy Wall Street who was telling the reporter that we should all be forced to go back to subsistence farming. When the reporter responded that there would be mass deaths, the girl said "well, people die". A good followup question, I always thought, might have been "ok, so you're subsistence farming, and a bunch of armed men come and want your stuff. What then?"
A friend of mine is a firm survivalist, but he hasn't stockpiled any food, only weapons and ammunition. I asked him h
Planning on the grid failing is always funny. I'm sure you have lots of guns, but what do you do when the grids down for weeks and people see your lights and smoke and come knocking?
Is that a tricky question? You stand your ground.
So you kill them. Why can't you say it? Because you know it's wrong and evil, but you'll pretend to be a big man on the Internet.
You kill them if they intend to hurt you, its pretty obvious. But what does it have to do with backup battery and solar power?
> With grid-tie solar, you'd have full power for about 8 hours a day, you'd just lose power at night.
Night is when you need it the most.
Some would say, you have a pool? That's not very green.
There are hand-pump filters that will render the water drinkable without having to boil it.
A friend of mine is a firm survivalist, but he hasn't stockpiled any food, only weapons and ammunition. I asked him how that's supposed to work, and he said it's ok, whatever food he needs he'll just take from his liberal neighbors. What are they going to do, call the cops? Although I personally don't work that way, I have to admit, he has a point.
Your "friend" is a psychopath. My advice would be to stay well away from him (if he exists anywhere outside of your head).
If only the greens and survivalists learned to stop ridiculing each other, they might find they had some things in common.
The greens I know may be naive, but at least they're not planning to kill their neighbours.
Oh, he definitely exists. Think about it for a minute -- how likely is it that people with that mind set *don't* exist? I'll wait.
He has other qualities that justify being his friend. We disagree on this point, but I hope to turn him around some day. In the meantime, I'm mindful of
this [dilbert.com].
I think the point is, it's not enough to merely have supplies or the means to produce them, but inevitably at some point you will also need the means to defend them. This is where the greens fall short, I think, and in a
I know conservatives tend to be "fuck you, I've got mine (or I'll get yours and make it mine)", but it's still shocking to hear of someone who would willingly kill people they disagree with instead of being proactive to solve their own problems. I'm pretty sure that negates any right to EVER complain about ANYONE on welfare ever again.
I can't grasp how someone can rabidly rail against a certain behavior when taken by others, and then be completely unable (or unwilling) to notice when they do THE EXACT SAME THING. It doesn't take a genius to realize conservative thinking is the cause of America's demise.
Ok, so, you are free to believe whatever makes you feel better. (It's still a free country in that respect.) But I think you may be missing the point. Practicing self-sustainability is a fine goal when nobody else needs what you have. But if things turn bad due to any number of breakdowns (power, transportation, monumental crop failure) you will inevitably be put in a position where you need to defend what you have against people who have not prepared or have no interest in doing so. And that policeman
From the comments on the Dilbert strip you linked to:
Myself, I like the argument that knowing and working with your neighbors is a good approach to security; thieves last Friday swiped my own hunting rifle. Big arms cache's will always be a strategic target for any organized pilfering, whether IRS or militia or garden-variety thug.
I do believe it's important to work with one's neighbors; in this way I disagree with the person I was talking about, and as I said, I still hope to turn him around. There is a school of thought that you are obligated not only to provide for yourself in an emergency but be equipped to provide for others. I think that's a good idea. But there's no shortage of garden-variety thugs, so security is still a requirement.
Regarding weapons themselves being a target, it's true. And anyone who thinks they've secu
same goes for Georgia, we tried in southern Georgia to get solar panels but city ordinance, zoning commission inspection fees and licensing, state red tape and you have to notify the grid and since the city controls utilities here, we dont have a normal power company our power bill is issued by the city on the bill has power, water, cable, garbage all on one bill. They wont allow them to be fed back into their grid here.
You may want to read this
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/07/15/peru-solar-power-program-to-give-electricity-to-2-million-of-poorest-peruvians/ [cleantechnica.com]
Meanwhile, in the United States, Americans for Prosperity - a political lobbying group founded by billionaire fossil fuel industrialists Charles and David Koch - is currently lobbying the Georgia state legislature to reject a plan requiring Georgia Power, one of the largest energy utilities in the American Southeast, to buy more solar energy.
I wish I was on Georgia Power,
unfortunately my city feeds power in from Colquitt EMC, that power company gives power to the City, that city then gives it out to people at a raised rate. Georgia power only serves the rural areas around here not in the city
You should require power companies to fund installation. Next time they say they need to build a new power station due to demand tell them "no, you fund the installation of solar and improvements to efficiency". Essentially they loan people the money to buy and install solar PV or beef up their insulation and then it gets paid back over 10-20 years via that person's energy bill. The reduction in their bill covers the cost of the loan, plus the small increase that the power company would have demanded to fun
Natural gas is cheap enough that there's no reason to replace it with a solar system.
Now... if my home were all-electric, then there might very well be economic justification to install solar water heaters.
Natural gas is cheap enough that there's no reason to replace it with a solar system.
Not "no reason", just "no economic reason if we don't take externalities into account".
The externalities that I must take into account are the bills I have to pay every month. There's no room for the cost of installing a meaningful number of PV arrays which are 15% solar efficient at best, and then lose 20% of that to DC-AC inverter inefficiency.
> Peru is using photovoltaics to provide small amounts of electricity without the infrastructure cost, which makes perfect sense.
because they started later, without all the baggage of powerful existing telecoms.
No, because the new telecoms didn't have to also support the existing legacy wire outside plant. Remember that most of the mobile companies grew out of wireline companies.
Existing legacy wire is the baggage part, and mobile companies growing out of existing wireline companies is the powerful part.
And to further the line of barons I can name two of those wireline companies that came out of the railroads. Sprint (Southern Pacific Internal Network Telecommunications) and Qwest (BNSF) used the railroad right of way to lay fiber. Back in the wire/fiber days, right of way was king.
McCaw did a trick with Clearwire. He, where he could, bypassed the wire. He built it up mostly using Dragonwave microwave links using both mobile-wireless and point-to-point wireless spectrum that he is so good at getting. Cl
Peru is using photovoltaics to provide small amounts of electricity without the infrastructure cost, which makes perfect sense.
That is EXACTLY why I consider this is an AWESOME idea. I have visited some of those locations, and the geography around them is extremely harsh. Many of these families live above 2500m altitude (some even above 3500m - 4000m), get their water from rivers, wells or old aqueducts (some of them made during the Inka's empire), and live mainly from farming and livestock. Giving them electricity from PV so they can use basic things, like led lights and small radios, will improve their quality of life A LOT. Bringing them electricity from the regular grid would be cost-prohibitive.
You don't even have to look at undeveloped regions to see that "expensive generator" can be cheaper than "grid hookup + cheap generator".
I live in a fairly big American city. A state capital, even. Pretty far from a third-world country (or whatever Peru is - the term seems to be pretty vague, I'm probably using it wrong).
Just yesterday, one of the never-ending road crews installed some pedestrian crossing lights across a road I travel every day to get to work. And guess what? There's little solar panels to
If they got a river or like, they will get hugely more electricity from that. Probably cheaper too, especially if there are few houses who share the construction.
Just 10 meters height with 10 liters per second gives 1kW, and that is extremely small scale.
In moutainous areas, you have torrents rather than rivers, i.e. very irregular and seasonal streams. You'll get a lot of power when snow and ice melts but the rest of the year, not so much, possibly zero watt for monthes end.
The other reply mentioned the intermittent flowing water problem in these areas, the other problem is that the homes in a village aren't all densely packed like a Western city, but may be a couple of hundred meters apart. It's a lot cheaper to put a solar panel on each dwelling and not need much cable than have to run several miles of cable to wire up a dozen homes.
It depends on where in the US you are talking about. I heat my home two months a year, three if it is a really bad year. I cool my house usually four months of the year. It is July and I am feeling the bite from the electric company this month. I love winter it's two month of low bills and little usage on the electric bill.
I have been to the northern states and yes they may benefit from that but the mid-west and farther south probably not.
There are too many trees around my house. One really strong wind (not enough to damage the roof) snaps a branch and there goes thousands of dollars.
There are too many trees around my house. One really strong wind (not enough to damage the roof) snaps a branch and there goes thousands of dollars.
Uh, no? Any solar panel made for roof mounting has a tempered glass top. It's hail proof. Random branches are nothing. A good full-roof solar panel installation stands up to strong winds better than asphalt shingles. Shingles get lifted and ripped off in strong winds. Solar panels, properly installed, do not.
Try again.
Interesting. Thanks.
solar energy installation is incredibly cheap.... like pennies.
Are you kidding me? An installation big enough to run a house would cost thousands of dollars in panels, wiring, mounting hardware, battery storage, etc. Show me where you can find 1000 watts of solar panels for under a dollar.
Another issue is that some houses are not oriented well to collect sunlight. For example, a house with a single slopes roof that slopes toward the north would be an inefficient place to put solar panels.
If you have room, maybe install panels somewhere next to the house.
Yes, it's crap if you want to run all kinds of high powered equipments including fridge, gaming PC (or old CRT), big TV, clothes drier, kettle etc. and I forgot home A/C, which is common in the US (but not so much in european countries). And wanting to do this at any time.
The equation changes if you start with a home with no electricity. I assume heating/cooking is done with wood, maybe alcohol and bottles of natural gas, and you may have oc
Well home A/C is one of those things where solar might make sense: you want the greatest amount of AC when the sun is shining most strongly, so the production of PV panels peaks just when your demand peaks.
The equation changes if you start with a home with no electricity. I assume heating/cooking is done with wood, maybe alcohol and bottles of natural gas,
All of which produce Greenhouse gasses at high levels. There is already a problem in the North East of the US with so many people using wood fired heating. The soot and other pollutant levels are becoming a concern. Do you know why London was so foggy in the 19th century? Because the water vapor condensed on all the soot in the air. You seem to be proposing that we all go back to no TV, refrigeration, computers, bright lights, washing machines, driers, etc. Few people are willing to go back to the 19th cent
Actually a few billion people do not have refrigeration, computers, bright lights or washing machines.
Another issue is that some houses are not oriented well to collect sunlight. For example, a house with a single slopes roof that slopes toward the north would be an inefficient place to put solar panels.
That's why they're doing it in Peru, south of the Equator
solar energy installation is incredibly cheap.... like pennies. the only reason why every houshold in the US doesnt have solar panels is because the energy companies lobby our government to increase the cost of them thousandfold...
Methinks there is another angle to this matter - China Phobia.
China can produce PV panels cheapest than anybody in the world, and if USA is indeed serious into cheap electricity, the most rational action to take is to get as many solar panel as the Chinese can produce and install them in the U.S. of A.
But is that happening ?
Why not?
Instead of making US strong again by taming the power crisis, congress is more concern of "unfair dumping" or whatever fucking excuse they can come up with, and ban the import o
solar energy installation is incredibly cheap.... like pennies.
Installation might be cheap, the cost of buying the power is awfully expensive. Utilities in the US are paying $0.14-0.82/kWh, and in Germany they're paying 0.35-70/kWh on solar generation. Here in Ontario we're paying $0.23-88kW/h for solar generation.FiT(Feed in Tariff) programs [wikipedia.org] are the bane of cheap energy, and nearly everywhere they're in existence the price of electricity goes through the roof. Hell here in Ontario hydro prices have gone up 30% in the last 4 years.
I looked into putting solar panels on my roof. In my state the issue wasn't regulation. Neither my state or county really put any barriers up that I could find. The HOA might have been a different story but I never got that far. The state even offered a subsidy. The factor preventing it was cost of the panels, cost of installation and the amount of energy produced. Essentially even with a subsidy the break even point on the installation was about five years longer than the expected life of the panels. So he
Two million times say $50 per panel is not crazy money.
a $50 panel can power LED lights for hours.
a $50 panel can power cell phones or mountain top to mountain top mesh networks.
Mountain top mesh networks can look like those old triangulation meshes that worked their way up canyons. Line of site Pringle-can style WiFi can support networking fully as rich as the Telebit modem networks that bootstrapped the computer age. Dust off the old store and forward protocols like mail and "bob's your uncle".
Two million times say $50 per panel is not crazy money.
TFA says "about 12,500 solar (photovoltaic) systems to provide for approximately 500,000 households at an overall cost of about $200 million."
So $16,000 per village system. They are not simply putting one small panel and a motocycle battery on each house.
The photos in the inhabit.com article are very misleading. Shoddy work, taking somebody else's article, and adding your own vaguely related stock photos.
Well, you still need to store the energy somehow for non-sunny times. Even if it's a pump filling up a big water tank during the day, and then letting the water turn a turbine at night.
Well, you still need to store the energy somehow for non-sunny times. Even if it's a pump filling up a big water tank during the day, and then letting the water turn a turbine at night.
A modest battery for LED lights to read a book (or kindle paper white).
A modest battery for a modest low power display and low power computer. The new XO tablet should run for hours after dark.
Lights out and go to bed at a decent hour. That is a darn good thing.
Sun rises and store and forward technology fires up a mesh WiFi and bob's your uncle. News and mail flow up and down the valleys. Yes West Virgina could too.
The flaw from the outside looking in is that folk want "Las Vegas" power budgets
Cheapness isn't really the point here. It's lack of a power grid, and the prohibitive cost, effort, and impact of building one up. (Ok, so cheapness is part of it.) The thing about solar is that it's not dependent on an existing power grid. This means it can be used anywhere there's a reasonable amount of sunlight and the power requirements aren't too massive. Caveat: It's not just the solar panels, there needs to be a way to store energy also, which usually means batteries, which have their own lifecycle issues.
Seriously, if they could put aside their differences, the greens and the preppers would realize they want the same thing for different reasons -- the greens because it's, well, green, and the preppers because it reduces or even eliminates reliance on the grid. It's all about marketing.
For instance, I'm not sure I buy into solar being all that green, when you take in the entire end-to-end environmental footprint including manufacturing and disposal at EOL. Nevertheless, I have solar panels and battery banks at my home, because they still work (at least until EOL) when the power shuts down, and that's valuable to me. At some point I would like to have enough panels to be completely off the grid, and the nice thing about solar is that you can do it in small increments, whereas power grids and centralized power generation needs to be done in much larger chunks, with MUCH larger start-up costs.
Is this the end shitty cell phone batteries?
end *to*, dammit!
I have seen the benefits of solar power in rural, tribal communities of Kerala, South India. These communities are living in the edge of forests - sometimes deep inside forests - where conventional power distribution via any type of cable/wire is impractical and prohibitively expensive.
The government has provided a solar panel to power basic needs - lights, fans, radio and a small TV. This is the way solar power has to be harnessed at least till the efficiency of panels goes up and costs go down for this to be widely useful.
I realize that the public in the US is sort of zoned out, brain dead or zombie like. But really we just can not keep pretending that other nations are backwards or poorly governed when they so frequently do things that the US can not. If any claims about American superiority are true we should be more than able to do things like provide solar power for the poor, medical care, and countless other items such as decent educations for poor students.
We are appearing clown like to the world.
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BOYS NAMES: Huntley Nolan Sorensen, Rhys Mackenzie Sorensen (in that order to avoid MRS initials lol) or Henry Rhys Sorensen, Riley Blake aka "Riles".
Huntley Nolan- Has a nice sound and feel though rather surname like overall. So a 7
Huntley- Seems like a trendier variation of Hunter and vague surname like, not a fan but not bad either. So a 7
Nolan- Makes me think of a surname but not bad or anything. So a 7
Rhys Mackenzie- Has a nice sound and feel to it, classic. So a 7
Rhys- I actually prefer this spelling over Reese/Reece, very handsome. So an 8
Mackenzie- Not a favorite but not bad and cute, has just always felt vaguely surname-ish and childish, but not badly. So an 8
Henry Rhys- The names have a bit of a repeating REE- sound that throws it off a bit but still nice. So a 7
Henry- This name is so cute on little boys and very strong on men. So a 9.
Rhys- I actually prefer this spelling over Reese/Reece, very handsome. So an 8
Riley Blake- Has a 90's feel to it, very handsome. So an 8
Riley- Not a favorite of mine, but cute enough. So a 7
Blake- A name common in the 90's but now becoming rather dated. So a 7
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SOUTH BERWICK, Maine — Berwick Academy has announced Ryan Feeley of Canaan, N.H., as the new director of the middle school.
Feeley is the assistant headmaster of the Cardigan Mountain School in Canaan, and has served a number of roles there including teaching English, coaching sports, and running the co-educational summer program.
"I am thrilled to have the opportunity to work with the students, faculty, and parents both in the middle school and in the larger Berwick Academy community. From my perspective, there are two essential ingredients for a dynamic and responsive middle school: the ability to provide students with a wide range of authentic, meaningful learning experiences and committed and enthusiastic educators who are capable of forging positive relationships with young adolescents. During my visits to campus and my conversations with students, faculty, and parents, it has become clear to me that Berwick is in a position of strength in both of these respects. I eagerly await the good work ahead," said Feeley in a public statement.
Feeley will replace Dr. Rosemary Zurawel who has led the academy middle school for 13 years. Zurawel came to the school as a language teacher in grades K-6. By her third year, she was hired as the interim middle school director. Zurawel will be retiring at the end of the 2012-2013 school year.
Ryan holds a bachelor's degree from Colby and an master's in writing from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He has done extensive professional development work with national organizations.
Feeley has a passion for music, long distance running and his three children, Nolan, Cormac and Shea.
"Separate from his impressive professional qualifications, Ryan emerged as the clear first choice from a process that included input from so many different constituent groups. Our community universally responded to his poise, clarity, and humble model of visionary leadership. In Ryan, I am confident that we have found someone who will capitalize on the existing strengths of our middle school while setting a course toward a dynamic future," said Berwick Academy Head of School Greg Schneider.


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CORONET PEAK, New Zealand (Aug. 20) - The U.S. men's tech team is in Coronet Peak, New Zealand and that alone dictates part of the agenda. Coronet is extremely challenging terrain," says head coach Sasha Rearick. "Each turn (is on) a different pitch. It's not where we look for speed. In Portillo, we will begin to push for speed… Here, we work on tactics and handling terrain. Which is not to say there isn't some form of speed being achieved. Although there have been some warm days, the training conditions have been pretty good. "Slalom has been fantastic," says Rearick. "In GS, we had some good days and some very challenging conditions."
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Kevin Krainz L'13 advances to final round of Fels Public Policy Challenge
Penn Law student Kevin D. Krainz L'13 and a team of graduate students from Penn's Department of Criminology have advanced to the final round of the Fourth Annual Fels Public Policy Challenge.
The Public Policy Challenge is an interdisciplinary student competition sponsored by Penn's Fels School of Government. Teams of students devise research-based policy proposals and package them into integrated campaigns.
Krainz and his teammates developed a proposal for "Smart Justice," a kiosk system for low risk probationers and parolees, allowing them to check in with the Philadelphia Adult Probation and Parole Department more easily, freeing up Probation Officers to spend a greater amount of time with high-risk individuals who are more likely to recidivate.
"The Challenge offered a unique opportunity to partner with students from other schools and advocate for a practical reform," said Krainz, who is pursuing a joint Master's degree in public administration. "Our team is working to build partnerships within the criminal justice system and Philadelphia communities, and we hope that our efforts will ultimately produce a more efficient probation system in Philadelphia."
Krainz's teammates are Walter Campbell, Julie Gibson, and Allison Berger, who are pursuing Master's degrees from Penn's Department of Criminology.
In addition to Krainz and the Smart Justice team, four other teams have advanced to the competition's final round on Feb. 24. They are:
•Faith in Farmers Winter Initiative: Addressing the problem of Philadelphia's food deserts and the lack of healthy affordable foods in lower income communities by providing SNAP and WIC–eligible winter farmers' markets to low-income neighborhoods through community religious institutions.
•FitPhilly: Proposing a location-based mobile application to promote healthy lifestyles for Philadelphians by providing information about local healthy options and lowering behavioral barriers.
•Penn PUPIL: Proposing an initiative to train and coordinate interdisciplinary health teams of University of Pennsylvania graduate students and placing them in West Philadelphia schools for semester or year-long practicums.
•re:Mind: Creating an appointment reminder service targeting individuals discharged from inpatient mental health hospitalizations in order to decrease preventable re-hospitalizations and other undesirable outcomes that occur when patients miss their follow-up appointments.


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Tips on passing SMOG? (78 wagon, with issues)
Posted 20 June 2004 - 08:22 PM
On to the complicated stuff... I got one of the temporary registration permits so I can get the car smogged, but the car does have some issues. It seems as if oil is coming from somewhere in the engine bay, dont know where, and its recirculated em masse into the air filter box. After awhile driving, it smokes in the engine bay (not alot, but enough to notice, and alot of it is probably burn off but you can see that there is fresh oil coming from aparently the air filter box). Im not sure whats causing it, but the vacume hoses are fubared and I need to get them back into locations (anyone got a pic I can reference to do this?)
There is also a hole in the muffler, not a big deal, I was planning on getting a 2" header back exhaust with a cat installed, would this improve my emissions passing cabality alot or would it be a waste?
I also need an oil change, what is the best oil to use for the EA71? Just whatever, or something specific?
Is there anything else I should be worry about to pass emissions? I havent had a pre-test yet, but thats what I was going to do tommorow after I get gas and change the oil along with try to fix the vacume hoses.
Posted 20 June 2004 - 08:25 PM
Posted 20 June 2004 - 09:03 PM
As for oil, 10w30 is fine.
Engine is WAY too small for 2" headers. Run the stock Header (y-pipe), and anything you like after it. Holes in the muffler will not effect your emmissions - just make it loud.
Posted 20 June 2004 - 09:32 PM
This is why I have a '71 P/U.....
A fresh CAT never hurts......just make sure to "burn it in" a little before you take it in to test. Always pre-test, because if you fail, you will get a "gross polluter" status and you will have to go to a "test-only" station for ALL future tests.
Posted 20 June 2004 - 11:46 PM
I meant stock header + 2" after that. The exhaust is a total bottleneck after the header, and rusted :-p
Engine is WAY too small for 2" headers. Run the stock Header (y-pipe), and anything you like after it. Holes in the muffler will not effect your emmissions - just make it loud.
Posted 20 June 2004 - 11:48 PM
Funny though, since the car doesnt have any cats, or any exhaust silencer :-p
A fresh CAT never hurts......just make sure to "burn it in" a little before you take it in to test. Always pre-test, because if you fail, you will get a "gross polluter" status and you will have to go to a "test-only" station for ALL future tests.
Posted 21 June 2004 - 02:34 AM
Posted 21 June 2004 - 04:59 PM
but ya anyway... i have a few tricks to get you though smog that work... jack up your idle speed to 1500rpm... or around there... just make it idle really fast... before you go in run the car till it is very very got... almost redlining hot... put in really good fuel... it helps...
i dunno about you but up here i have to use a 4wd aircare machine... and they break a lot...
if all else fails you can bring it in on studded tires... you cannot run a car with studded tires on an aircare machine... they might just let you pass...
i have never actually used any of these methods because i have yet to aircare my car aso i don't know if they work...
but good luck!
Posted 21 June 2004 - 05:27 PM
also theres some stuff you can put in the tank that guarantees a pass
thicker oil wouldnt burn past the rings as easy as thinner oil, so that helps too.
theres more, just cant think at the moment.
Posted 21 June 2004 - 06:23 PM
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I like the thicker motor oil idea, that worked for awhile on an Oldsmobile with lots of blowby. (Helped to sell it actually, heh heh) We used 90 weight. In your case, maybe a ridiculously heavy oil (no MMO) could be used temporarily until after the test..then change to normal weight with the MMO.
Posted 21 June 2004 - 09:04 PM
It will lower your HC's............But it needs to be "burned-in" a few miles before testing to assure it's fully effective and "lit-off".
I installed one on my wife's car and drove it straight down to the test station (Only seven miles). Passed the first try, lowered my HC's down by over 100ppm............and it was not fully burned-in.
Not the cheapest alternative, but advice is worth what you pay for it.........
Vacuum leaks are the biggest killer of an otherwise passing engine..........
Oh, don't forget to check your gas cap. They will vacuum test your cap and if it leaks, you will fail the test.
Posted 21 June 2004 - 10:16 PM
It was actually passing the test, but the car fubared and couldnt get to 25mph! They told me oh well, get it worked on, it would have passed, but we couldnt get it to 25mph... I was freaked out, cause I was just doing 45mph 10 minutes prior.
So they didnt charge me anything, and I left, but OMG the car is sooo fubared!!! I got to 2nd gear, and the car would just go "bug bug bug" and would lurch back and forth and not go any faster even with it floored
Also, since the first time I drove it, I barely made it back because it was dying when I was about to get home and it totally died as I pulled in (let off the gas, with the clutch in and it would stall) and its doing this even more now, especially after the smog test.
There is something wrong and I have nooo idea, it could be that vacume regulator that Brian messed with, or it could be the PCV (but it looked fine, anyone have a part number for a new one?) or it could be something with the fuel... I fiddled alot with the idle adjustment screw too trying to get it to idle good (at the smog station it was idling at 950rpms)
Oh and yes I got that filter on, and got some new vacume lines and fixed all the vacume line locations to the right spots, and got the exhaust recurculator going back into the airbox. I dont have a heater hose, because there isnt one and I couldnt find one that was the right length and diameter.
After the test after dinner, I spent that time up to now cleaning out the engine bay so it looks more like an engine rather than a glob of mud, LOL! Looks better now, but its still not running very well at all.
The car does not have a cat. It also has an exhaust leak, that might help it get through emissions, so ill keep that until I can get the motor running right... I put in 10w30 before the test, with the new Fram filter brian had. I dont think the pcv is recurculating oil anymore either, but ya I should replace it.
Any thoughts/ideas? Ive got 3 weeks to get this smoged.
Posted 21 June 2004 - 10:29 PM
Did you put those new wires on? If so, make sure they're crimped tight. Sounds to me like the car isn't firing on all 4 cyl's. and if thats the case it'd run fine until you tried to reach a higher speed, at which point the spark would be too weak to fire.
Lemme know if you cant get it figured out and i'll try to stop by to take a look at it.
Find a heater hose that fits, or they'll fail you.
Posted 22 June 2004 - 12:03 AM
Got the fuel, didnt add the new wires. Any idea where to get the right heater hose? Both kragens didnt have the right size, smallest they had was 2" and this one is like 1.5" (4cm actually) and like I need a 3 foot one...
The PVC valve is brand new. I dont know why it wont reach 25mph or run, the thing was running great when i drove it over. You did add more fuel right??? cause it was resting on E.
Did you put those new wires on? If so, make sure they're crimped tight. Sounds to me like the car isn't firing on all 4 cyl's. and if thats the case it'd run fine until you tried to reach a higher speed, at which point the spark would be too weak to fire.
Lemme know if you cant get it figured out and i'll try to stop by to take a look at it.
Find a heater hose that fits, or they'll fail you.
Posted 22 June 2004 - 12:47 AM
As far as the other 25 mph problem, since it was passing smog, it sounds a lot like fuel starvation, meaning your fuel pump is flaking out, or you have some sediment in the tank thats clogging up stuff. you also might wanna take off the Fuel-Input fitting on the carburetor and make sure something isnt plugging/restricting that. 2 cents for ya
Posted 22 June 2004 - 01:15 AM
I'm guessing your're talking about the "pre-heater hose" that goes from the exhaust to the air cleaner snorkel. Until I found the correct size, I used the closest size that would fit that was a little larger, and hose-clamped it to the snorkel. I kind of "loose fitted" it at the exhaust end. Passed every time.
My 2 bucks
Posted 22 June 2004 - 01:29 AM
Flush the motor with gunk motor flush
USE Mobil #1 15W15 Synthetic oil will not produce as high of emissions if burned.
New spark plugs/wires and new coil
Replace ALL vac hoses, although they can appear good, they leak from being hard.
Replace the PVC valve
Adjust the valves.
I have never failed an emissions here and usually the cars run nearly as clean as my Imprezas!!
Oh the Gen1s did not have a CATs till the 80/81 BRAT. Original CA cars "may" have had a CAT, but I'm unsure.
You should be fine! Generally, EA-71s are very clean running when maintained, even with high mileage.
Work from the cheapest/easiest, to the more expensive, more complex repairs.
Regards, Todd
Posted 22 June 2004 - 02:09 AM
I also got some of that "garanteed to pass" stuff, ill throw that in tommorow and try get a good run out of the car.
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So, I threw in the "garanteed to pass" stuff and it still didnt start, but then after a few more tries, it started AND idled fine. So I let it sit there awhile and cook off all the oil and gunk that was on the headers from yesterday, and it was going fine, even adjusted the idle lower so it wasnt so crazy high and it was still running.
Then, I tried to back it up, and as soon as I put it in reverse and let off the clutch, death... So I put it back in the driveway, ran it some more, tried again, got it out of the driveway, but as soon as I put it in first and gave it gas, death Something is wrong for sure, but im at a loss. I havent worked on carbed cars before, this is my first.
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Providence, Rhode Island - Brown University Athletics, Citadel Broadcasting, and Nelligan Sports Marketing announced today that 790 WPRV-AM will be the broadcast partner of the Brown Bears football, men's basketball, and men's ice hockey teams beginning this weekend and extending through the 2012-2013 season.
790 WPRV-AM will provide live broadcasts of all ten football games, all men's basketball home and away regular and postseason games, and a minimum of five men's ice hockey games each season. Each game broadcast will feature pre- and post-game shows and will be streamed live via the internet.
Additionally, and beginning next Thursday evening (9/25) from 7-8pm, 790 WPRV-AM will broadcast the weekly Phil Estes Football Coaches Show. In the winter, the Jesse Agel Men's Basketball Coaches Show will take to the airwaves. These shows will also be streamed live via the internet.
Scott Cordischi, the long-time radio voice of the Bears, will resume his role as play-by-play announcer during game broadcasts and will host the coaches shows.
"We are very excited about this radio partnership with Citadel and 790 WPRV," Brown University's Director of Athletics Michael Goldberger said. "This relationship will allow Brown fans around the region and around the world to follow and support our outstanding student-athletes."
"We look forward to the excitement of Brown University Athletics on 790 RI True Oldies Station," said Barbara Haynes, General Manager at Citadel Broadcasting. "We are grateful to Brown University and Nelligan Sports Marketing for their choice of 790 WPRV"
"Our new partnership with Citadel Broadcasting, which includes an expanded media platform, will give Brown Athletics a greater presence in this competitive region," said Vice President of Nelligan Sports Marketing, John Egan. "This will allow us to continue to maximize the value for our corporate partners, while making the most of Brown's rich tradition."
790 WPRV-AM is the home of `Imus in the Morning' and True Oldies throughout the day. Citadel Broadcasting is the largest pure play radio company in the United States, with a strong national footprint reaching more than 50 markets. The company is comprised of 165 FM stations and 58 AM stations in the nation's leading markets. In addition to a strong national footprint, Citadel Broadcasting also owns and operates ABC Radio Networks, which creates and distributes programming to more than 4,000 affiliates.


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For Black History Month, the Alma Powell branch was honored to present Peter Ruei of the Lost Boys of Sudan on February 18 and February 25.
On February 18th, Peter and his friends shared stories from their past. They talked about being children during a war that brought tragedies and opportunities.
And on February 25 Peter told the audience of how he fled Sudan. Peter talked about running for his life when he was barely old enough to walk, he talked about becoming a refugee in Ethiopia, and he told us about forgiveness and opportunities. Not many have experienced the true tragedies of war nor can we see the losses it brings as a time to grow in faith and mercy. These are the concepts Peter shared with us.
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Santa Cruz, CA: Grassroots meeting - December 12, 2012
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
The Humane Society of the United States invites our members, supporters, and other animal advocates to join our California state director to discuss current issues and learn what you can do to advance the cause of animal protection in California.
We will tell some stories, share tips for effective citizen advocacy and talk about upcoming efforts. If you are concerned about animal welfare and creating a more compassionate California, you should attend this informative and motivational meeting to learn how you can help.
Together we can be a unified voice for the animals. Please join us and share your concerns and ideas for a more humane community. Contact Jennifer Fearing at email@example.com if you have additional questions.
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Department Chair Can Bilsel, PhD, to speak on April 13 at the Institut national d'histoire de l'art in Paris, France about his recent book, Antiquity on Display: Regimes of the Authentic in Berlin's Pergamon Museum (Oxford University Press)
Antiquity on Display is a critical biography of Berlin's Pergamon Museum and its popular architectural displays: the Great Altar of Pergamon, the Market Gate of Miletus, and the Ishtar Gate of Babylon. In this volume, Bilsel argues that the museum has produced a modern décor, an iconic image, which has replaced the lost antique originals, rather than creating an explicitly hypothetical representation of antiquity. Addressing the dilemmas raised by the continuing presence of these displays, which embody the distinctive traits of the artistic and ideological programs of the last two centuries, Bilsel questions what the process of reproduction and authentication of antiquity in the museum tells us about our changing perceptions of historic monuments. Documenting the process through which these imaginative reproductions of architecture were conceived, staged, and came to be perceived as authentic monuments, this volume offers an insight into the history of Berlin's Museum Island and the shifting regimes of the authentic in museum displays from the nineteenth century to the present. The book also provides a history of Berlin's Museum Island in 1830-1930.
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Brussels, 9 December 2009
Fisheries: EU/Norway consultations for 2010 – a real missed opportunity
After several weeks of negotiations between the European Union and Norway on bilateral fisheries arrangements for 2010, including arrangements on mackerel, the two Parties, at their latest meeting in Bergen (Norway), were unable to agree mutually satisfactory arrangements for their fishermen. The Commission deeply regrets that, despite all the efforts made to reach agreement with Norway, the respective approaches of the two Parties at this stage have proved to be irreconcilable.
As far as the exchanges of fishing possibilities for 2010 are concerned, the Commission considers that the Parties were very close to reaching an agreement. However, there remains a difference of approach between the Parties as regards the outstanding issue of the mackerel management for 2010. In the negotiations, the European Union has offered increased access for Norway to fish mackerel in EU waters, without asking for compensation by Norway.
Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Joe Borg stated: "This was a missed opportunity to conclude a balanced deal and commented that the same cooperative spirit that had guided the discussions last year to reduce wasteful discards, seemed absent."
In view of the long standing arrangements between the Parties, the Commission is surprised that a provisional arrangement which would have allowed the respective Parties to continue their fishing operations without interruption in one another's waters in early 2010, was not acceptable to Norway. As a result, EU fishing companies and vessels, which have no link to the mackerel issue, will be impacted upon negatively, and indeed important Norwegian fisheries on blue whiting and other species, are likewise affected since they will be excluded from EU waters.
Notwithstanding this regrettable situation, the Commission is confident that there will be solidarity of purpose among Member States to assist those most affected. In view of the common interest in harmonious fishing relations between the Union and Norway, the Commission is confident of an early resumption of negotiations in the beginning of 2010.
See also Memo/09/506 and IP/09/1801 for further background on EU/Norway negociations.
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How to Use Your Computer to Give Gifts a No-Fuss, Personal Touch
Everyone loves receiving a gift made just for him or her -- especially one's family. But the days when you could get away with giving your mother macaroni art are over. Which means if you're looking to shave a few dollars off your holiday shopping costs by turning up the sentimentality, you'll have to look someplace else other than your old arts-and-crafts cabinet. Looking to make a family calendar or a picture book of your best friend's wedding? Luckily, the Internet has you covered.
There is a host of major websites and programs available that allow you the opportunity to give useful and popular gifts a personal touch that let recipients know you care. The user experience of these services can range from easy-peasy to downright frustrating, and costs can range from the affordable to the prohibitive. Here's a breakdown of which services are worth your time, and which will only detract from your annual eggnog by the fire.
Founded in 1999, CafePress is one of the oldest online retailers to focus on user-customized items.
Getting Started CafePress allows you immediately begin customizing your items without logging in, a big bonus if you're just surveying your options. Simply hit the "Create" button at the top of the page and select from the more than 100 customizable items available.
Pros The real strength of CafePress is the sheer number of customizable items on the site. CafePress offers you the ability to personalize everything from Monopoly boards and gift bags to golf balls and iPhone cases - meaning if you have a specific recipient in mind, chances are you'll be able to find the right custom gift here.
Cons The downside is that the customization options for certain items can vary. CafePress's calendars come with a good chunk of preset options, and photo upload times are respectable, but customization options for items like iPhone accessories and yoga pants, for example, can be somewhat restricted, offering the ability to add text, shapes or custom images, but with limited color selections.
Prices Photo books are $37.95 to $67.99 and up; calendars $6.99 to $24.99; greeting cards $3.00 each, reduced with bulk pricing.
No, we're not talking about the website that allows women to rate hunky guys.
Rather, this Lulu, founded in 2002, is a self-publishing specialist that just so happens to have a few useful gift-giving features on its site.
Getting Started After selecting the item you want to customize, Lulu takes you to its free Lulu Studio, where you can select from a number of preset options and upload photos.
Pros The level of personalization is respectable, including custom holiday and other personal-touch options. If you're looking for a web-based program, this one is about as user-friendly as it gets. Plus, since Lulu specializes in publishing, you'll get some options you won't find elsewhere, like being able to select the look of a book's binding.
Cons Unlike other web-based photo programs, Lulu doesn't integrate with popular social networks.
Prices Photo books are $12.99 to $44.99 and up
(http://www.lulu.com/publish/photo-books/); calendars $9.99 to $18.99 (http://www.lulu.com/publish/calendars/?cid=nav_cal), with discounts available for bulk orders.
Founded in 2006, California-based Mixbook allows users to create photo products with an easy online interface favored for its freedom of design and abundance of creative elements.
Getting Started To start, all you need to do is visit the website and create an account. Don't worry, though: Mixbook keeps the questions to one simple form and is prompt with its confirmation e-mail.
Pros For calendars, Mixbook allows you to add specific events (birthdays, anniversaries, unofficial holidays) and about 50 traditional holidays. Other big advantages for users include integration with Instagram, Facebook, Picasa and Flickr, and the capability to collaborate with friends or family members on projects in the cloud.
Cons Since it's an online program, loading times can become a drag, especially if your aim is to play around and generate ideas. Likewise, the unlimited design options can be daunting, especially for those who are looking to quickly capitalize on a gift idea and get professional results.
Prices Calendars are $19.99 to $29.99 (http://www.mixbook.com/photo-calendars); books $6.99 to $74.98, depending on size, materials and feature selections (http://www.mixbook.com/photo-book-pricing); cards from 89 cents each (http://www.mixbook.com/cards/holiday-photo-cards).
If you're a Mac user, the most accessible program for creating cards, books or calendars is iPhoto. Unfortunately, Apple's default photo program is not an option for PC users.
Getting Started With iPhoto, getting started is as easy as ever, provided you have the photos you want to work with already loaded into the program. Just put all your photos you want to use for your gift into one album, click the "Create" button and choose the type of gift you'd like to personalize.
Pros For books, you can add extras like an inside "About the Author" flap, title and end pages, and captions. Further, since it's a software program, the service isn't dependent on your Internet connection.
Cons Apple breaks iPhoto's tools down into five steps, (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2536) but between choosing your layout and dragging various photos into allotted design blocks, you'll be signing up to spend some serious time with the program if you want to create an extensive book or calendar. Further, the card program, while it does have about 30 design styles, could be viewed as limited for those with a particular vision in mind.
Prices $20.99 to start for a book plus 99 cents for each additional page; cards 99 cents each for flat cards, $1.99 to $2.99 for folded cards; calendars $19.99 plus $1.49 each additional month. Shipping and handling not included.
Snapfish is a San Francisco-based and HP-owned photo-sharing service that focuses on making digital photos printable and sharable.
Getting Started The best thing about Snapfish is that it's easy to get going: It doesn't require you to sign up or log in to begin creating. It also helps keep you on task with a completion toolbar that lets you know how much work you have remaining.
Pros As far as usability, Snapfish has a number of preset themes, including some very specific options (for example, road trip or campground) that will entice last-minute shoppers, and unique features like two-page photos.
Cons Flickr and Facebook integration with the occasional slow transfer time, and no Instagram integration.
Prices Photo books are $5.99 to $54.99; photo CDs $9.49 and up; calendars $9.99 to $34.99; posters $6.99 to $104.99 (http://www5.snapfish.com/snapfish/helppricing).


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2009 Baseball
Ohio Northern 7, Bluffton 3
Ohio Northern slows Bluffton offense in 7-3 win over Beavers
April 23, 2009
ADA, Ohio - The Bluffton University baseball team fell victim to a superb Brian Hill pitching performance in Ohio Northern's 7-3 victory over the Beavers on Thursday, April 23, 2009. Bluffton dipped to 11-20 on the season while ONU upped its 2009 mark to 14-18.
The Polar Bears scored all of their runs in the second and third innings, chasing Bluffton starter Jesse Brown (Brookville) who surrendered all seven ONU runs. Matt Hampshire led off the bottom of the second with a solo shot to left. A Loren Fleischman single followed by a Mike Hoelzel double down the left field line made it 2-0 before Justin Good's sacrifice fly gave ONU a quick 3-0 lead.
The home team plated four more runs in the third to take a commanding 7-0 lead over the Beavers. Brett Katana tripled home Matt Rader before a walk to Hampshire put two runners on for Fleischman who delivered a three-run homer to left center, completing the scoring for the Polar Bears.
Bluffton cut into the deficit with a pair of fourth inning runs. With one out, Cody McPherson (Northwood/Millbury Lake) was hit by a Hill pitch and Brennan Bauman (Milford) followed with a two-run dinger to right field, making it 7-2.
Freshman Nick Broyles (Toledo/Whitmer) was hit by pitch to start the sixth and he went to second on a Chris Bauman (Milford) sacrifice bunt. McPherson's single put runners on the corners and a double steal made the score 7-3 when Broyles crossed the dish.
Hill continued to keep the Bluffton hitters off balance, going the distance whle improving to 5-5 on the season with his complete game win.
Broyles went 2-of-2 and scored a run while Brennan Bauman's homer provided the other two scores for Bluffton. Jesse Brown fell to 0-1 before Kelly Barnes (Toledo/Christian) came on and worked five scoreless frames to give the Beavers a chance.
Bluffton returns to the diamond on Friday, April 24, for the first contest of a three-game set at HCAC foe Transylvania University. The first pitch is slated for 4 p.m. in Lexington, Kentucky.


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dream... we can dream
2 comments:
- Phil Lepanto said...
Where was that picture taken?
One of the things I've really come to love about getting around by bike is being able to ride directly to my destination and lock up without having to hunt for a place.
Looks like that won't be true once the velorution happens.
- 8/14/2008
- gwadzilla said...
not sure where that photo was taken
as it is not mine
it is nice to go door to door
I think that there should be a mandatory try to ride your bike to work week
some people would have to try and work things out with public transportation
it is clear that cycling is not for everyone
but no one knows until they try
it changes lives
most for the better
- 8/14/2008
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Tired of selling cookies, calendars and other items to relatives as part of his child's school fundraising efforts, Rodney Robinson sat down with parents at Mountain Community School in Hendersonville and came up with something totally out of the box.
Tired of selling cookies, calendars and other items to relatives as part of his child's school fundraising efforts, Rodney Robinson sat down with parents at Mountain Community School in Hendersonville and came up with something totally out of the box.
What emerged was "The Gnarliest Kids Adventure Race Ever." Unbeknownst at the time was that this idea would jump-start a healthy revolution within the walls of the public charter school.
The race, which debuted last year, is becoming a staple at the school and is already its biggest fundraiser. The second race will take place at 1 p.m. on May 5, and students have been thinking about it since last year's event ended. Two-children teams of kids ages 5-14 tackle a race that includes nine outdoor sports such as mountain biking, running, canoeing, hiking, a ropes course, climbing wall and a grand finale obstacle.
"It was a good way to introduce activities we have around here to kids," said Principal Denise Pesce.
The world inside the school also changed. In the wake of the success of the race, Pesce hired two part-time physical education teachers. The school already had some P.E., but the additions of the etachers made even more readily available.
Since "the Gnar," as students call it, the school has changed its lunch program and incorporated activities to promote a healthy lifestyle.
The school has done away with fast food options and contracted with Joey's Bagels for healthier menu options. Kids can eat whole wheat pasta and salad. In the mornings, instead of muffins for sale, kids can buy veggie and fruit smoothies.
"We didn't really want the Gnar to represent an isolated event," Pesce said. "I feel like the Gnar set the tone a little bit for us. We were just kind of riding the wave."
The Gnar has that effect, Robinson said. It created so much excitement that some of the kids have trained year-round for the event. The school also has a bicycle club, is about to implement a running club and holds running events throughout the year.
A lot of that was generated by the Gnar.
"It created that buzz of getting active," Robinson said.
He and other organizers have created a "word-class" race course at Camp Pinnacle. The event draws kids from all over North Carolina. Nine of the events are kept secret until race day.
Each grade level at the school is responsible for one portion of the race, and parents and teachers of that grade level volunteer to set up their portion of the course.
It's more than a race, however. It's an extension of school, Pesce said.
"These kinds of opportunities are so important," she said. "I feel it's important to give them these opportunities to do outdoor things. We're really trying to take advantage of this outdoor classroom we have here."
For more information about the race, visit http://themountaincommunityschool.com/gnar.htm.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – A Beatles medley and jazz musician Justin Echols will be featured at Oklahoma Christian University's annual Winter Concert on Feb. 9.
The free concert, showcasing OC's Symphonic Band, Jazz Ensemble, and Chamber Orchestra, will start at 2:30 p.m. in Hardeman Auditorium.
OC's Symphonic Band will perform John Barnes Chance's "Incantation and Dance," John Phillip Sousa's "Pride of the Wolverines" march, Henry Mancini's "Moon River," and a medley of Beatles songs.
The Chamber Orchestra will perform Vivaldi's Winter Concerto, a divertimento composed by Mozart, Bartok's "Allegro Barbaro," and arrangements of "Morning has Broken" and "Danny Boy."
The Jazz Ensemble will perform "There Will Never be Another You," "You Don't Know What Love Is," "I Could Write a Book," and "Deed I Do."
Echols, an Oklahoma City jazz musician who has performed in Italy, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, will play the piano and sing during the Jazz Ensemble set.
For more information, call (405) 425-5530.
Recognized as one of the best universities in the western United States by U.S. News and World Report and The Princeton Review, Oklahoma Christian offers undergraduate programs in more than 60 fields of study, an undergraduate Honors Program, and graduate programs in accountancy, business administration, engineering, Christian ministry, divinity, and theological studies.


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The US puts pressure on Sweden over WikiLeaks
Moment of truth for our Swedish politicians as the U.S. tries every means to prevent further leaks.
• Sweden plays key role in Wikileaks operations
The Pentagon on Thursday urged Sweden-based whistleblower website WikiLeaks to "do the right thing," and return thousands of leaked US military documents and stop any future public releases.
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said the Defense Department demands that WikiLeaks give the US government all versions of documents "obtained directly or indirectly" from Pentagon databases or records.
Since Wikileaks' main server is located in Sweden, Pentagon is also said to put pressure on Sweden to pull the plug on the whistleblower website. Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange has said that that the organization passes information via Sweden to protect sources.
"I'm convinced that they are discussing this between the U.S. and Sweden. The U.S. tries every means to prevent further leaks that are dangerous to their security and warfare", Anders Hellner, senior adviser at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, told daily Dagens Nyheter.
The problem for Pentagon is to convince the Swedish government that that material that irks the Pentagon is necessarily also illegal under Swedish law. Sweden has a strong tradition of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Protection of journalistic sources in Sweden is very strong.
Sweden also has a strong political movement for protecting freedom at the Internet. A Swedish political party, aimed at legalising Internet filesharing, in May said it would deliver bandwidth to a the notorious filesharing website The Pirate Bay after its service provider pulled the plug.
"It would not surprise me at all if Sweden is shortly subjected to American pressure to shut down Wikileaks," Anna Troberg of the Swedish Pirate Party told the blog TorrentFreak. "They have acted similarly in terms of The Pirate Bay, and given that Wikileaks' activities strikes at the very heart of American power, it's probably just a matter of time before they act."
"Now is the moment of truth for our Swedish politicians. Will they have enough backbone to stand up on Wikileaks and democracy, or will they give way to the U.S. and go after PRQ and Wikileaks?"
Geoff Morrell said there was other information in WikiLeaks' possession that "has not been pushed into the public domain yet that we hope this message will help convince them not to publish."
Some 70,000 classified documents on Afghanistan were published by WikiLeaks in late July. The files contained a string of damaging claims, including allegations that Pakistani spies met directly with the Taliban and that deaths of innocent civilians at the hands of international forces were covered up.
The documents also included the names of some Afghan informants, prompting claims that the leaks have endangered lives.
The website's disclosure "of a large number of our documents has already threatened the safety of our troops, our allies and Afghan citizens who are working with us to help bring about peace and stability in that part of the world," Morrell said.
"The only acceptable course is for WikiLeaks to take steps immediately to return all versions of all of these documents to the US government and permanently delete them from its website, computers and records," he said.
Morrell cautioned that any additional public disclosure of classified information "can only make the damage worse," adding that the Pentagon hoped WikiLeaks would heed its warning, but did not "have a high degree of confidence" that it would.
"If doing the right thing is not good enough for them, then we will figure out what other alternatives we have to compel them to do the right thing... Let me leave it at that," Morrell told reporters, without elaborating on what pressure could be brought to bear.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, 39, an Australian former hacker and computer programmer, has said he believed the publication would help focus public debate on the war in Afghanistan and on possible atrocities by US-led forces.
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, both said the publication had endangered locals providing information to US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan.
The Pentagon and the Federal Bureau of Investigation swiftly launched an investigation into the case when it came to light July 25.
Earlier this week Daniel Schmitt, a WikiLeaks spokesman in Germany, told US news website The Daily Beast that the site wanted to open a line of communication with the Pentagon to review another 15,000 classified reports, in order to "make redactions so they can be safely published."
The Pentagon however said Wednesday it had not received any such request from WikiLeaks.
The site, which styles itself "the first intelligence agency of the people," was founded in December 2006 and invited would-be whistleblowers from around the world to make anonymous contributions.
WikiLeaks has never identified the source of the Afghan files, but suspicion has fallen on Bradley Manning, a US Army intelligence analyst under arrest for allegedly leaking video of a 2007 US Apache helicopter strike in Baghdad in which civilians died.
Manning is being held in a US military jail after being transferred from a US military base in Kuwait.
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Bush and wayne.
Cruz isnt out btw. Hes healthy and starting sunday night.
I have two decisions that are close enough to ponder on. Curious what you guys think:
Reggie Bush (vs. MIN) or Darren McFadden (vs. IND) - I drafted Bush higher and am planning to go with him but I could see DMac having a very big day as well.
Reggie Wayne (vs. OAK) or Hakeem Nicks (vs. DAL) or Miles Austin (vs. NYG) - Same as above - planning to start first two. Kind of have to start Wayne vs. the Raiders but the other two are very close IMO. With Cruz out, Nicks should get a lot of looks but that works both ways.
At least I'm not going against Peyton this week
Bush and wayne.
Cruz isnt out btw. Hes healthy and starting sunday night.
For maybe the first time ever, I agree with JWN about something. Wayne is the play over nicks and austin simply because of volume of plays towards the receiver. Romo and Eli just find whoever a open. Luck, unless he's progressed from last year, still locks onto Wayne more often than not at crucial moments or when he needs a play.
I need 2 of the WRs. Who do you like Nicks vs. Austin.
Thanks guys. the input is good and helpful. I'd like to see more of this on this board.
McFadden v. IND
Wayne v. OAK and
Nicks v. DAL
Agreed with everyone. I'd go with McFadden, Wayne, and Nicks.
I'm having a hard time deciding on my one flex spot, as well. I have it narrowed down to McFadden vs. Indy or Tate vs. Carolina. Thoughts? Leaning slightly towards DMC at the moment.
McFadden has been awful. Tate has been real good. Your taking the reputation of mcfadden over the production of tate. Not a good philosophy my friend.
How bout this:
DJax, James Jones, Vic Cruz, TY hilton - need 3
Owen Daniels, Jordan cameron - need 1
Good point
I agree with what's been said before with one change.
DevJetsYanks88... Tate over McFadden (Just barely . Tough call for me.)
Joe W. Namath... Cruz, Hilton, and DJax. But I'd say Daniels overs Cameron. Cameron has looked good over the preseason & lots of potential, but Daniels to me is a proven commodity.
Not to hijack further, but I could use some help too. Need a #2 Receiver: Garcon, Boldin, or DJax (#1 Receiver is Julio Jones, Flex Spot is RB D. Wilson).
I think WAS v. PHI is gonna be a shootout. But all the hype about Chip Kelly's still unknown offense scares me. And I think McCoy beasts this week, so Garcon seems like the choice. Just needed someone's reassurance.


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NEWARK, Del. - The Columbia Volleyball team hung tough with Texas A&M in the second day of the Delaware Invitational but ultimately dropped a 3-0 decision to the Aggies Saturday night at the Bob Carpenter Center. A&M, which received votes in this week's AVCA Coaches Poll, defeated the Lions by scores of 25-20, 25-19, 25-15.
Columbia (2-4) kept pace with Texas A&M (8-1) early on, tying the score at 5-5 before slipping into a four-point deficit. A kill by Atlanta Moye-McLaren brought the Lions within one, and an A&M attack error knotted the score at 14-14.
The next four points would belong to the Aggies, forcing Columbia to call a timeout. The Lions came back ready to go, and a back-and-forth match ensued. With the score at 21-17 and the Lions down by three, A&M scored three consecutive points, pushing its lead to 24-17. But Columbia continued to fight and responded with a 3-0 run making it a closer 24-20 game.
A kill by Allie Sawatzky would give the Aggies their 25th point to take the first set 25-20.
Columbia came out on fire in the second set, quickly building up a 4-0 lead that forced the Aggies to call timeout. The Lions maintained their lead early on, but with the score at 6-2, A&M took off on a 5-0 surge that tied things up, 7-7.
The momentum shifted as the Aggies gradually built up a 17-12 lead, but Columbia answered by reeling off five straight points to even the score at 17-all.
The Aggies came right back with yet another 5-0 run, regaining the lead en route to a 25-19 second set victory.
The third set would also begin in Columbia's favor as the Lions took an early 2-0 edge after a kill by Colleen Brennan and a double-block by Caitlin Brenton and Savannah Fletcher. Three straight kills by the Aggies quickly reversed the Lions' short-lived advantage as Texas A&M stayed on top the rest of the way to win the third set and in turn, the match.
Molly Winger dominated with a match-high 22 digs on the day, while Bailey Springer contributed eight digs and a team-leading six kills for the Lions.
Winger, who was named to the Delaware Invitational All-Tournament Team, recorded 42 total digs throughout the weekend. She is joined on the All-Tournament team by Alisia Kastmo (Texas A&M - MVP), Allie Sawatzky (Texas A&M), Tori Mellinger (Texas A&M), Sarah Brown (Xavier), Alex Smith (Xavier) and Ariel Shonk (Delaware).
Kastmo led the Aggies with 21 kills while Mellinger led with 19 digs vs. the Lions.
Columbia will look to rebound as the Lions prepare to kick off their home opener next weekend with the Columbia Invitational at Levien Gymnasium. The five-game tournament, which will run from Sept. 14-15, will include Colgate, Hofstra and Rhode Island. The Lions will take on Colgate at 7 p.m. on Friday, Rhode Island on Saturday at 11 a.m. and Hofstra at 7 p.m. later that evening.


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I need to detect GPU (videocard) and set app settings appropriate to GPU performance.
I'm able to make a list with settings for each GPU model, but I don't understand how to detect GPU model installed in PC easily.
What is the bast way to solve this task? Does any way to do this that is not dependent on installed driver?


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Prime Minister Julia Gillard has called on the states to focus on the "things that matter" at Friday's COAG meeting.
The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting in Canberra is expected to tackle power prices, the national disability insurance scheme, red tape reform and school funding.
The states have questioned Ms Gillard's claim that national reform of the electricity market can ease power bills by up to $250 a year.
Queensland and Western Australia have yet to sign on to operate an NDIS launch site.
Ms Gillard told reporters in Melbourne on Tuesday that all parties needed to co-operate for the sake of the economy and jobs.
"We will be working through (COAG) for change, for things that matter for Australians," she said.
"We've got to keep making the right decisions that make us competitive for the future."
Ms Gillard says she will meet business leaders on Thursday to talk about ways to ensure Australia has a seamless national economy.
COAG Reform Council chairman Paul McClintock has warned that many of the reforms initiated as far back as 2007 have stalled and new vigour is needed at this week's meeting.
One of the biggest problems for business is the lack of a consistent occupational health and safety system, which if implemented could save national businesses $480 million a year, he says.
Finance Minister Penny Wong defended the pace of key business reforms, saying they are only possible if states get on board.
Of the 27 areas listed in the 2008 "seamless national economy" reforms, 17 had been implemented.
"Let me tell you, they only work where you get political agreement and political will to carry them through at all levels of government," she told ABC radio on Tuesday.
"One level of government can't achieve these sorts of reforms alone."
Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu has called for the federal government to announce the panel to head an inquiry into rising construction costs, which was agreed at a COAG meeting earlier this year.
"I've been incredibly disappointed with the way COAG is conducted," he told reporters on Tuesday.
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With its eighth straight win, Transylvania captures the Scottsdale Shootout Championship and improves to 9-1 on the season. With the Huskies see their three-game win streak stopped short and fall to 7-4 on the season.
McKenzie was 5-for-11 from the floor and 8-for-11 from the free throw line to lead three players in double-figures for the Pioneers. McKenzie's game-high 16 rebounds, including six offensive boards and helped Transylvania to a 47-40 edge on the glass. Sophomore Katelyn Smith (Hazard, Ky./Perry Co. Central) added 17 points, while junior Nicole Coffman (Liberty, Ky./Casey Co.) tossed in 15 points.
Senior Erin McNamara (West Newbury, Mass./Pentucket Regional) led the Huskies with 16 points, five assists, four steals and four rebounds. Sophomore Gretchen Anderson (Kittery Point, Maine/St. Thomas Acquinas) chipped in with a career-high 13 points on 5-for-6 shooting from the field. Sophomore Megan Pelletier (Winslow, Maine/Messanlonskee) added eight points and six boards despite suffering from early foul trouble.
Both teams shot below 40 percent for the game, the Transylvania was able to make up the difference on the offensive glass. The Pioneers cleared the backboard for 17 offensive rebounds and scored 14 of their 68 point off of second chance buckets. The Pioneers also had a huge edge in free throws, sinking 18-of-24 from the line. USM was 5-for-6 from the charity strip.
Southern Maine returns to action on Tuesday (6:00 p.m.) as the Huskies travel to Husson University for a non-conference game.


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"I saw Wedding Crashers accidentally. I bought a ticket for Grizzly Man and went into the wrong theater. After an hour, I figured I was in the wrong theater, but I kept waiting. Thats the thing about bear attacks. They come when you least expect it."-Dwight K. Schrute
To get to the bigs, stay a long time, and make lots of money. You only need to have one skill. Hit a lot of home runs. See Adam Dunn.
the ability to avaoid the minors
Speed (here me out).
A speed guy can get to more balls in the field.
A speed guy can steal bases more aptly to advance a runner.
A speed guy is more likely to score on a base hit.
You can work on a lot of things in baseball, but being able to run a 40 in 4.4 is god given.
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the most important characteristic is a euphonious appellation, such as Kalvoski
When evaluating tools, speed is probably fourth out of the big five, unless you have a cannon of an arm, it could be your 5th most important tool.
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The point of my post was to state the obvious. I just got tired of reading such things as flexability, speed, jump, ect. Because when it comes down to it, there is always someone that is faster, can jump higher, or more flexable. It takes a combination of these skills, that are required to make it and stay in the big league.
There is one skill that can get you to the big leagues and that is the skill to hit home runs. If flexabilty could get you even a cup of coffee, the yoga teacher at the local rec club would be platooning for a spot in Left field.
If there was one other skill that could even get you to the big leagues, I would say it is a fastball that tops 100+ MPH. But if you have no control you will not be around for long.
So I am glad you could help BRM. And thanks for your insight.
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As I sit here in tears after a recent call from my doctor, I am hoping someone out there has been through this same senario.
I have been diagnosed with GD and have been controlling it excellently with diet. My midwife says as long as I continue to do so, I will have no problem staying with her and having my natural, non-medicated birth. However, I also have a low platelet issue, which they did have to start me on prednisone with my last one (he is now 2 yrs old) to bump it up for the birth. (That birth was completely uncomplicated and natural all the way.)
A call from the doctor just now says they want to put me back on prednisone (platelets are at 68,000) and I will need to go on insulin because it will raise my blood sugars. I have fought so hard to keep them from doing any kind of treatment (refused the nonstress tests and BPP's as well), because I know from everything I've read on this website that it only makes me more at risk for intervention.
Can I go ahead and take the prednisone and refuse the insulin treatments? Once I start insulin, I lose my midwife and have to go to an OB. There is no such thing as an enlightened OB around here and I'm so afraid they will just want to induce or even worse have a c-section.
Please if anyone can offer some words of advice I would sure appreciate it. I wish with all my heart that I had found Henci's articles before I had the stupid GD test....I would have refused it. :(
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Come one, come all to the official Borderlands group! Talk weapons and more!
Yeah you can. If you spread yourself too thin, any character can be screwed up. But I agree with you on the beating the crap out of people!
Mmm...pickle juice!
My main character, the one with the highest level, is my Soldier, currently named Yang. He went through different phases like "Michale Jackson" and "Ghetto Goth" when I made all of his clothes black. Honestly though out of all the characters, I like Mordecai the best. I am still unsure of why I picked the Soldier. I just platinum'd it with him so, fun stuff. I am currently downloading the DLC at this very moment. Level 61 here I come!
Also, IT'S LIKE CHRISTMAS!
I like Brick because i like to blow crap up!
mordecai all the way as himself i tried soldier and brick there kewl but mordecai is the ***
Lilith is pretty boss. Sneak around undetected and stand behind some stupid bandits than explode in electric fire.
Mordecai all the way. I love watching my enemies guts go flying 300 feet in the air. At least for me it was always easiest to do it with mordecai.
Playing as the Soldier formy solo run worked quite well. This was because I was able to upgrade my turret with ammo drop and a healing field, in case I were to get in any trouble. My one set back was the long refill process to use the turret again; luckily I was able to upgrade it to refill more quickly. I wish that i did not have to upgrade the refill time, but I still enjoyed my time as the Soldier.
I'm pretty much the same as Renaissanceman28.
I run all 4 classes...love the soldier if hes support gunner...love lilith if i have a decent tempest mod... mordecai is great all-around, cause bloodwing is way overpowered PvE.. and Brick is great early game and with a good rocket launcher... but without some ammo regen he burns through it and is left with a pretty crappy personal action skill late game... dont really have a favorite but definitely like it when all 4 are in a game.
Im running with the Hunter right now. I love the concept of relying on an animal companion in games. Dogmeat FTW
I am a team player, so Roland is my number one choice. Literally everything I upgraded helped the rest of my team. Plus his perks that helped weapons were more geared towards my play style. But Lillith is my favorite in terms of perks for a solo run. Long phasewalk+fast recharge+ health regen= best combination ever.
Roland, i started as a hunter and ended up somehow getting my file corrupted, i love that Roland can have both ammo regeneration and health regeneration with his turret, i never need health or ammo!
I'm playing as Mordecai
I'm a fan of Mordecai, and I think his character has some of the better Class Mods, specifically those for finding awesome weapons. However, Roland is still my favorite, as his turret is more geared toward my style of gameplay.


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March 6, 2013
From the beginning, White House petitioners looking to keep phone-unlocking legal have insisted that they want Congress' help. Barely a day after their first victory, in which the Obama administration expressed support for consumers who want to switch wireless carriers while being able to take their phones with them, the petitioners have received an even bigger dose of good news: Congress is paying attention.
Here's a tweet from Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah:
Working on leg to unlock your mobile phones.It is a freedom issue.You own the phone, you should be able to unlock it. .@ derekkhanna— Jason Chaffetz (@jasoninthehouse) March 5, 2013
Now, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., has said he supports those who want to unlock their phones so that they can bring the devices to new contracts on different wireless carriers. In a statement, Leahy vowed to "work in a bipartisan, bicameral fashion to restore users' ability to unlock their phones and provide them with the choice and freedom that we have all come to expect in the digital era."
While Leahy didn't say whether legislation was coming, his colleague Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., beat him to the punch. Wyden released the text of a bill called the "Wireless Device Independence Act" that would amend copyright law so that it permanently exempts the use of phone-unlocking software. Read the full text here (don't worry — it's just two pages long):
Wyden has a long history of taking the consumer's side on Internet issues. In fact, in 2011, he tried to stop Leahy's Protect IP Act (PIPA), the Senate's version of the House's Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which drew widespread online protests . Leahy stood up for PIPA on the grounds that digital piracy holds back the U.S. economy and that critics who feared frivolous allegations of infringement under the proposed law were simply engaging in "hyperbole."
Leahy's longtime defense of intellectual-property rights — he spent two years crafting PIPA — has generally put him in the position of defending the very copyright law that makes phone unlocking illegal. To see him now throw his support behind Digital Millenium Copyright Act reformers is a very big deal.
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I was raised on the eastside of Detroit near Denby High School, surrounded by family members who still reside there. My values were shaped by neighboring aunts and uncles who helped to raise me. After college, I returned to southeast Michigan, but to Southfield, where my wife is from. Since then, Oakland County has molded my career as an elected official.
As someone personally rooted in Detroit and politically rooted in Oakland County, I am both offended and disappointed to know that Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson is still actively engaged in the same old-guard, racial and divisive politics that have stymied regional cooperation for decades.
Although I've only read about the racist and divisive rhetorical exchanges between Patterson and the late Detroit Mayor Coleman A. Young from the late 1970s and early 1980s, I remember that in Detroit, those exchanges were the reason why our family and friends were reluctant to ever cross 8 Mile.
Young's participation died with him. Patterson's still lives on.
Once upon a time, the banter bolstered each man's local politics in a heavily polarized region. Today, those politics are tantamount to trying to open a 2014-era lock with a 1974-era key.
Our region can only move forward as one region, and comments like Patterson's are nothing more than an immature and reckless obstruction to that goal. Such unsolicited and unprovoked comments further drive a wedge down the middle of a region that can no longer afford to be divided.
There are far too many pressing issues that hinge on regional cooperation; we can't allow ourselves to fall back into divisiveness. Of these issues, mass transit is the most important and inextricably linked to our ability to function as one region. If we are ever going to build and extend light rail or rapid transit from downtown Detroit all the way to Pontiac, we can't allow Patterson's sentiments to get in the way. The stakes are far too high. A truly regional transit system offers something for everyone to benefit.
For every dollar spent on mass transit, $4 is generated in economic return. Not only does it create thousands of construction jobs, economic development follows that permanent investment creating thousands of permanent jobs. And not the least, mass transit provides a reliable mode of transportation for the 35 percent of metro-Detroiters without cars who need to get to work, school, and doctors appointments throughout southeast Michigan.
It's comments like Patterson's that make skeptical Detroiters view regionalism as a threat. It's those sentiments that make Oakland County residents skeptical about regional partnerships with a city that would be better if it just "dropped dead." Those comments create tension between long-time Detroiters and those who have begun to return from Oakland County to Midtown, Downtown and other Detroit neighborhoods. Maybe Patterson is trying to taint such movement knowing that he is losing former and returning taxpaying Detroiters who have been such a big part of Oakland County's success over the last 50 years.
What he has failed to realize is that southeast Michigan no longer has an appetite for the wounds of the past to be reopened and salted by his insensitive rhetoric.
So how do you respond to Patterson's sentiments? I suggest we all respond the same as we do with that uncle at Thanksgiving who, like every year, has had one too many:
You don't.
Rudy Hobbs is a state representative for the 35th district in Southfield.


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The Sepaton survey also reported that while 11 percent of data in enterprises' data centers was protected by a less-than-adequate disaster recovery plan, the figure for remote offices was 15 percent.
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TOPEKA, Kan. – It is with great sadness that the Topeka Zoo announces the passing of George the Pronghorn. Zoo staff and veterinarians treated George for neurologic symptoms.
Staff members observed changes in George two weeks ago, when George was slower to respond, and didn't recognize caretakers he normally did recognize. Caretakers say at times it appeared George was having trouble seeing. Zoo Director Brendan Wiley said the symptoms were similar to ones a person would display after experiencing a stroke.
Zoo staff began treating George with antibiotics and pain medication. When symptoms continued, caretakers increased their search for additional underlying causes. A blood sample came back normal, so caretakers changed to a stronger IV antibiotic, and continued to monitor George's symptoms.
After showing signs of improvement early this week, on Wednesday morning, his condition quickly deteriorated. Zoo staff intensified treatment, and continued looking for parasites that can target neurologic systems. Zoo staff and veterinarians assessed George's quality of life, and made the decision to euthanize him Wednesday evening. He was surrounded by the many staff members who cared for him deeply.
A necropsy was performed on George yesterday; it did not reveal any obvious cause of his symptoms and/or deterioration. Tissue samples have been sent out for evaluation.
George was born on June 29, 2002. He came to the Topeka Zoo from the Bramble Park Zoo in Watertown, South Dakota, in August 2002. George was a favorite of visitors to the zoo, especially children. He was a very curious animal and would frequently be found grazing on sweet grass next to the boardwalk.
George was approaching his 11th birthday this month. He outlived all of his siblings. The average lifespan of a pronghorn is 10 years.


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Why would you put a home stereo system [mcintoshlabs.com] in a PC case?
Really? I think there are scores of laptops out there that would spank it.The mini is already one of the fastest PCs (personal computer, this includes macs by the way) that has been fit into such a small space.
But, yes, you're right - the point of the mini is to get a nice reasonably powerful box that takes up no space, costs very little and runs OS X.
I guess Apple decided to give all those nerds that insist on "upgrading" their Macs with a PC mobo a challenge.
Although I agree with you, this Kevin Rose chap seems to be actively encouraging [kevinrose.com] exactly those comments.
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