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What to look for in a 2002 WRX used wagon?
Posted 28 May 2004 - 12:57 PM
I'm really excited about getting a WRX wagon or just mildly excited about getting the TS Wagon.. Costs will ultimately control my decision.
But, What should I look for in a used WRX? tell tail signs of problem.. or blown turbo's..
I know nothing about subaru, and turbos..
I need to run down of WRX issues and problems.. so I know what to avoid.
Thanks alot.
Posted 29 May 2004 - 12:36 PM
Posted 29 May 2004 - 02:28 PM
the one I was looking at is a automatic.. from what I've been reading, only the trannie is a major weakness..
I'm off to the dealership now.. hope for the best.. trading in my Integra..
Posted 29 May 2004 - 08:39 PM
An auto isn't necessarily a good decision either. The WRX engine is so unfit for an auto it isn't funny. Reviews say the AT can never decide on a proper gear, and most of the time you're stuck off-boost growing impatient.
Posted 29 May 2004 - 10:23 PM
I hope I had the right choice.. This is the only way I could afford one, otherwise it would be out of reach at $36000k new.
Posted 30 May 2004 - 12:48 PM
Posted 30 May 2004 - 01:00 PM
any idea what I need to do first to the car.. it is completly stock.
Posted 30 May 2004 - 01:17 PM
it was a 2002 wrx wagon auto... don't pick it up until next week.. in the mean while, I have to take off some of my stuff from my Teg.
any idea what I need to do first to the car.. it is completly stock.
FIRST- TURBO TIMER!!! Maintainance/longevity before speed.
Second- Suspension/swaybars (if it's stock WRX suspension they feel kinda cushy and alot of body roll IMO)
Third- Brakes... At the very least get some stainless lines, upgraded pads, and some decent (DOT 4 or up) brake fluid in there!
Fourth- get some decent sticky tires then... Go auto-x the car... being a new car for you, this should help familiarize yourself with a car that has totally different charachtoristics than an integra. Losing controll of the car on the truck doesn't suck nearly as bad as the street.
Posted 31 May 2004 - 08:33 AM
The car did feel like it had some body roll at highway speeds changing lanes..
I have lots to learn from this board...
I was dissapointed that it didn't come with a boost gauge!! do I need one?
What kind of special attention do I have to give for a turbo?
Posted 31 May 2004 - 01:15 PM
Boost gauge's aren't really necessary until you start modifying... with a stock motor running stock boost pressure it's kind of pointless. BUT, once you start mucking around with things you'll want one, and they're relatively inexpensive... so it couldn't hurt to throw one in there. Stock boost gauges on most cars that come with them *cough* 300ZX *cough* are really innacurate and would need replacing once you modify anyways. But as I mentioned in my last post... suspension/brakes are first, then power.
I'm feeling the same when I got my first teg 8 years ago... lots of little mods to look into..
The car did feel like it had some body roll at highway speeds changing lanes..
I have lots to learn from this board...
I was dissapointed that it didn't come with a boost gauge!! do I need one?
What kind of special attention do I have to give for a turbo?
As for special attention for your turbo... compared to a N/A car. Change the oil regularly. (how many miles are on your motor?) Switch to a synthetic oil... mobil 1 and Redline is what I use. And maintain as necessary. It's really not all that much different. Be sure to (if you can) let the car warm up before leaving in the mornings, and when you park the car after driving (ESPECIALLY if driving hard) let it idle for 1-3 minutes before turning it off.
(which is what a turbo timer will do for you, so you don't have to sit in your car and wait)
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I'm just wondering if anyone can give me some good ideas that will help me convince him. I don't want to feel like I am alone in this because that would make it nearly impossible.
What are some experiences that have made homeschooling work in your family? What are some of the cons to homeschooling? If your kids have experienced homeschool and public school, what are their opinions of each?
Here's a big one - what social and/or sports activities do your kids participate in? Naturally, his biggest argument was the social aspect and I tried to explain that there are homeschool groups and our town has city sports teams. Somehow, that wasn't enough for him.
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Homeschooling has helped make our family closer & stronger as a unit.
My oldest son went to PS for 7 1/2 years from Pre-K to half way through the 6TH grade. He hated PS & loved homeschooling (he graduated this year).
Right now my children aren't in any sport or activities because it is summer & we are waiting until the fall to see what will be offered (the activity's that is my children don't like to play in organized sports). Where we live there is a homeschool sports league that offers just about every kind of sport that is offered in the public school. There is a prom & graduation ceremony every year for the homeschool community, the same group that organizes that also organizes activity's through out the year for the teenagers that are used to help construct a year book for any homeschooler that wants one.
If he ever says he doesn't want your son to be weird because he is homeschooled, tell him that there are weird kids every where & that homeschooling will not make him that way any more then PS will keep him from being that way!
Men usually like the logical approach. So here are some statistics for him.
Home Schooled Children Outperform Public Schooled Children
I highly recommend reading the well adjusted child. http://www.amazon.com/The-Well-Adjusted-Child-Benefits-Homeschooling/dp/1600651070/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1371405676&sr=8-1&keywords=well+adjusted+child
I have seen so many benefits. You can be as active as you want to be in so many areas.
It is much easier to make sure your kids keep their curiosity and they are learning everything they need to learn. It also easier for kids to have more time pursue those things they love. Your kids will also be able to pick their friends and develop much deeper friendships with those they meet. There is also a much closer bond between parents and children.


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PARIS -- Thieves ripped a safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with around $1 million worth of jewelry, in a brazen late-night burglary just hours after the screening of a film about break-ins at the homes of Hollywood celebrities, French officials said Friday.
The apparently well-planned robbery at the Novotel hotel took place in the room of a representative of Chopard, the Swiss-based watch and jewelry maker and festival sponsor that was hosting a splashy gala event in a far ritzier hotel around the same time, officials said.
The jewelry was "very probably" in the Novotel in connection with the festival, said Cmdr. Bernard Mascarelli, a judicial police spokesman in the nearby city of Nice, though he didn't know who it might have been intended for.
Chopard has loaned jewelry to A-list stars who walk on the festival's famed red carpet under rapid-fire flashes of photographers' cameras. Already this year model Carla Devigne and actress Julianne Moore have walked the carpet in Chopard gems.
Mascarelli said he didn't know the exact type of jewelry taken or their exact value. "Numbers have been put forward that we're still trying to verify, but the figure of $1 million ... we're in that range," he said.
Jean-Michel Caillau, a state prosecutor in nearby Grasse who is leading an investigation, said early estimates were that the loot could have been worth as much as $1.4 million. He also said the theft appeared to have taken place around 2:30 a.m. Friday -- around the same time as Chopard's gala was running late at the 5-star Hotel Martinez across town.
Chopard declined immediate comment, but scheduled a news conference in Cannes on Friday evening. Melissa Levine, a spokeswoman for Accor, the French hospitality giant behind Novotel, also declined comment.
Dozens of police were involved in the investigation, and police vehicles could be seen outside the hotel Friday afternoon. Authorities were going over hotel surveillance cameras and questioning potential witnesses who might have seen any culprits.
"It seems pretty unlikely to us that it was just one person," Mascarelli said.
"Apparently this (hotel guest) was someone who was targeted because it wasn't someone who had been seeking attention. ... There must have been either an inside complicity, or people who were in contact with this person and knew that the person had jewels," he said.
On Thursday night, Chopard hosted a star-studded gala, and the festival screened Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring" -- a deadpan drama about celebrity-obsessed teenagers in Los Angeles who break into the homes of Paris Hilton and other stars. It's based on a true story about high-school students who, after seeing online when certain stars are expected at a premiere or other event, take the opportunity to steal items from their homes.
News of the robbery sent journalists scurrying to the Novotel, a business hotel about a 15-minute walk from Cannes' seafront promenade. Chopard has a suite at the Martinez during the festival. The company also manufactures the crystal and gold Palme d'Or trophy awarded each year to the festival's top film.
Festival organizers would not disclose the Palme's whereabouts Friday, but said it was kept in a safe place.
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As more and more people join the ranks of street performers, the growing number of buskers in the limited space of urban areas has given rise to intense competition for lucrative performance spots.
Some city and county governments are considering reducing the amount of busking permits that they grant to curb the rapid increase in the number of street performers and are also striving to build a better licensing and management system.
The Taipei City Government has so far issued 1,109 busking licenses and certified 72 locations as venues for street performances.
It holds license auditions twice a year — in May and November — that are highly publicized, including press briefings about the performers who pass the auditions.
However, buskers have complained that the city government has not made any serious efforts to resolve various busking issues.
Street performer Hsiao Chen said one issue was the varying skill levels of the different types of street artists in Taipei.
"For example, there are many street portraitists who are not good artists. The government should help them hone their skills because tourists might otherwise think that our buskers are not very competent, which would reflect badly on the nation," he said.
Another busker, Ha Shi-chi, said another issue was that some foreign street performers were unaware of regulations that require buskers to draw lots to determine where they can perform.
"Some of them speak Mandarin, but tend to revert to English if police arrive," he added.
Several of Taipei's buskers have also complained that they have not been allowed to perform in other cities or counties despite being licensed in the capital.
"This restriction arises because busking permits are not professional licenses, but rather a permission to perform at a specific location," a city official said.
The official added that local governments tend to emphasize different things in their cultural policies. For instance, Taipei gives priority to innovation and diversity, while Greater Tainan places more emphasis on preserving traditional arts.
As a consequence, local governments have different sets of principles for issuing street performance permits, the official said.
In New Taipei City (新北市), competition for performance spots is made all the more intense because of the large amount of money buskers can earn in prime locations.
New Taipei City officials said the Danshui MRT Station and Tamsui Golden Bank are the two most coveted locations.
Each morning, buskers draw lots to determine which of the 82 locations designated for street performances they will use.
There have been reports of some buskers swapping locations in private — a move that has sparked controversy although city officials say there are no regulations that prevent this practice.
Sources familiar with the issue say buskers can collect NT$10,000 or even NT$20,000 a day if they perform at a location that attracts large crowds, while those at less busy locations might earn just NT$300 or NT$500 a day. Because of this, there are frequent reports from around the city of the more established buskers bullying the newer ones, the sources said.
In Keelung, buskers can only perform between May and October because it rains so often during the other months.
Although there are 37 locations designated in Keelung for street performances, most of them are either privately owned or controlled by other government agencies. As a result, buskers are often chased away by the authorities.
Due to its relatively small population, many Keelung buskers have been forced to leave their hometown and seek permits in Taipei or New Taipei City.
By comparison, Yilan County is more friendly toward buskers.
Hu Ming-jui, head of the fire dancing group Scream, which was founded in May 2010 and obtained a busking permit from the Yilan County Government last year, said Yilan has many locations suitable for street performances.
"But there are relatively few buskers performing here," Hu said.
Since the county's Luodong (羅東) night market attracts a lot of tourists, Hu's group decided to apply for a permit to perform a fire dancing show, he said.
Fire dancing is not allowed in major cities such as Taipei and Greater Taichung, but "the Luodong Township Office approved the application after confirming that we would follow strict safety regulations. It also informed the township's fire department of our plan," Hu said.
It can take a long time for some local governments to approve street performance applications, but Luodong Township officials approved Scream's application quickly, Hu said.
"They were very friendly and even came to watch our show. We felt very honored," he added.
Shanny, a Canadian member of the troupe who has been in Taiwan for four years and lives in Yilan's Waiao (外澳), said contrary to common belief, fire dancing is not dangerous because to perform at all one must be very skilful.


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Officers located approximately 100 bags of heroin, $430 dollars and various prescription pills in LeFebvre's possession. LeFebvre was placed under arrest and transported back to the Granby Police Department for processing. Officers then applied for, and were granted, a search warrant for LeFebvre's home at 507 East State Street in Granby. That search lead to the seizure of approximately 700 more bags of heroin. The approximate total weight of the heroin seized was 24 grams with a street value of approximately $8000.
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Detroit's Coney Island hot dogs are a city staple
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Slathered in chili sauce, mustard and onions, Detroit's homegrown Coney Island hot dog remains a gastronomic constant in a city that's seen people, businesses and, at times, hope flee.
Restaurants serving the grease bombs named for New York's waterfront playground have persisted and evolved for almost 100 years in the ravaged auto-making capital. Detroit's population peaked in 1950 at 1.85 million, just as assembly-line hamburger factories began their march across the landscape.
Today, with two-thirds fewer residents, Detroit is home to about 150 Coney Islands, according to phone directories. That's roughly equal to the sum of all fast-food places in the city, including outlets of McDonald's Corp., Burger King Worldwide Inc., Wendy's Co. and Yum! Brands Inc.'s KFC, the Michigan Restaurant Association says.
Casual food reflects community ethos. New Orleans has its lavish muffuletta sandwiches. Maine has rich-yet-simple lobster rolls. Detroit's Coney Islands fuel a bankrupt city fighting to revive itself with menus that reflect its trapped-in-time essence and modern aspirations. And they're cheap.
"You get a lot more for your money versus a Burger King or McDonald's," said Mario Gjolaj, 39, who in 2011 opened Onasis Coney Island in the Corktown neighborhood. Gjolaj's menu includes Mexican, Greek, stir-fry and 12 salads. "Our No. 1 niche is Coney dogs, that's what we do best," he said.
Detroit Coney Islands, many run by ethnic Albanians, range from simple stands to diners that recall New Jersey's all-night oases. Some thrive next to fast-food chains. Others serve blighted neighborhoods, workers laboring behind bullet-proof windows. The culture long ago followed the flight of Detroiters to the suburbs, where sit-down versions reign, some in shopping malls.
"Coney Island" has become a generic brand, said Tom Giftos, president of Roseville, Michigan-based National Coney Island Inc., which operates 20 restaurants in the city and suburbs and manufactures chili sauce sold to other restaurants and retail stores.
"It's an instant way of letting people know what's behind the doors," he said.
Detroit would have more newfangled fast-food outlets were it not for its population loss, said Malcolm Knapp, a New York- based restaurant industry adviser. Indeed, the city of 700,000 has fewer total eating establishments than all but one of the 16 other U.S. cities with populations between 600,000 and 900,000. Detroit lost 78 percent of all retail businesses from 1972 to 2007, according to the Citizens Research Council of Michigan, a public-policy nonprofit.
The vacuum allowed Coneys Islands to fortify themselves against national chains.
"They seem to be immune to that kind of pressure," said Joe Grimm, a journalism instructor at Michigan State University in East Lansing and co-author of the 2012 book "Coney Detroit," a hot dog history.
Some even see proximity as an advantage. Having a McDonald's nearby is a help, said Nick Musollaj, 26, co-owner of Hollywood Coney Island on the east side.
"They do the marketing," he said. "You know they're bringing people in."
L. George's Coney Island in northwest Detroit faces off against Burger King and KFC franchises across the street. No worry, said co-owner Lonnie Domgjoni, 36, whose father bought the business in 1982.
"We have good food and low prices," he said. Among his edible arsenal: chicken, salads and a fish dog — catfish on a hot-dog bun for $2.85
At L. George's, a Coney dog costs $1.80, a quarter-pound bacon burger is $3.45 and fries are $1.40. That compares with Burger King's $3.49 Whopper hamburger and $2.09 medium-size fries.
The restaurants serve everything from deep-fried jalapenos to nachos to corned beef. Years ago the venerable Coney got a companion: a "loose hamburger" version that replaces the hot dog with finely chopped, seasoned ground beef covered with chili sauce and mustard. It defines gloppy.
Willie Davis, 59, manager of Detroit Corned Beef and Coney Island — a spare take-out with a garish yellow exterior — said he serves the taste of home.
"I know a lot of people who leave Detroit and as soon as they come back here, the first thing they want is to get a Coney Island," Davis said.
Deantae Butler, 24, drives 10 miles (16 kilometers) from his suburban house to Ed's Apollo Coney Island, an island in a west-side neighborhood pocked with abandoned homes, a gutted church and boarded-up storefronts.
"You don't get an omelet like that anywhere else," said Butler, showing off his breakfast, a glistening $6.25 mound of four eggs and grits that overflowed a nine-inch carryout box.
"A lot of people have specific Coney Islands they go to," Butler said. "You don't just stop in any Coney Island. Some are nasty."
The origin of the chili-laden hot dog is elusive, said Grimm. He found a few purveyors on the East Coast in the 1920s, though he said the genre flourished in Detroit with an influx of Greek immigrants. They were lured to a booming city of auto plants and industry.
"They came through New York's Ellis Island, they go to Coney Island and see Americans eating hot dogs," Grimm said. "Nobody will hire them, so they go into their own businesses."
About 1920, Greek immigrant William Keros opened Lafayette Coney Island in downtown Detroit with a chili sauce of his own devise. Three years later his brother, Constantine "Gust" Keros, opened American Coney Island next door, according to William's son, John Keros, 79, an accountant in the area.
At Lafayette, a customer could place, pay for and receive an order in 30 seconds, said Keros. Today, orders aren't written but shouted by waiters who add bills in their heads.
Both restaurants became landmarks, with walls lined by photos of celebrity customers, including actress Drew Barrymore and Vice President Joe Biden.
Eighteen months ago, American Coney Island opened a branch in a Las Vegas hotel. "We're taking Vegas by storm," said owner Grace Keros, granddaughter of the founder.
Back in Detroit, A-Eagle Coney Island has been in owner Gjina Merditaj's Albanian family since 1988. Merditaj, 41, has watched customers' children grow up to be customers themselves.
"We plan to be here a long, long time," Merditaj said.
She's grooming her 20-year-old son to take over, a new generation supplying the city with the food that holds a special place in its heart — and stomach.


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Worrying news for evil billionaires today, as pioneering research by top boffins – in which a large hammerhead shark was augmented with high technology – reveals that large, endangered elasmobranches suitable for the in-lair pool disposal of troublesome government operatives may soon be even harder to get hold of.
The new revelations come to us courtesy of professor Neil Hammerschlag and his colleagues, who have recently succeeded in fastening a satellite tracking device to the dorsal fin of a great hammerhead shark.
Great hammerheads, like many other shark species, are threatened by overfishing: shark's fin soup being a delicacy much in demand in Asia. Previous DNA analyses have indicated that the hungry shark-gobbling Far Easteners are denuding much of the world of big finny man-eaters, with a majority of shark fins sold in Asian markets now originating from the Atlantic. Another major snag for the toothy ocean predators is being accidentally snared in the tackle of fishermen actually after different species.
Hammerschlag and his colleagues had hoped that some hammerheads might be preserved from the scourge of the fishermen by perhaps staying within limited ranges. This would mean that some sharks might remain and breed safely within US waters, where fishing regulations are enforced, even though the high seas were swept clean.
Unfortunately it turns out that big sharks don't stay within fisheries enforcement limits. The great hammerhead in the study travelled some 1,200km (700+ miles) in just 62 days, departing from the Florida coast to the mid-Atlantic.
"This animal made an extraordinary large movement in a short amount of time," says Hammerschlag. "This study provides evidence that great hammerheads can migrate into international waters, where these sharks are vulnerable to illegal fishing".
The prof now suspects that most big sharks may exhibit similar behaviour, meaning that there will be no sanctuary within which they can thrive protected from hungry soup-mongers and careless fishermen. It may be, as was famously the case with Dr Evil, that it will prove impossible to get hold of actual sharks for use in execution pools in future and alternatives such as ill-tempered mutant sea bass will have to be considered instead.
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This Saturday, 4/16/11, at around 11:30 AM, I'll be conducting a live interview with Lukas Ligeti, avant-garde composer and percussionist and, yes, the son of Gyorgy Ligeti. This is in anticipation of Ligeti traveling to St. Louis for a solo performance on Friday, 4/29/11, under the auspices of the HEARding Cats artists' collective. The details are at this link :
Time: Friday, 4/29/11, 7 PM
Place: St. Louis Community College, Forest Park campus, Mildred Bastian theater
There'll be discussion of his recent album Pattern Time, as well as his music and artistic influences. If you want to sample some of his work, have a look & listen:
Live at the Contemporary Arts Center
Live duet with Colleen at Merkin Hall, New York City
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Youth in Camden County 4-H joined millions of young people across the nation to become scientists for the day during the sixth annual 4-H National Youth Science Day (NYSD) Nov. 2.
Youth in Camden County 4-H joined millions of young people across the nation to become scientists for the day during the sixth annual 4-H National Youth Science Day (NYSD) Nov. 2. This annual event seeks to spark an early youth interest in science and future science careers, and to reclaim the nation's position of leadership in scientific exploration. As part of 4-H NYSD, youth participated in 4-H Maps & Apps: the 2013 National Science Experiment.
Participants applied basic GIS principles and became geospatial thinkers as they designed and mapped their ideal park, used GIS mapping to solve community problems and contribute data about their community to the United States Geological Survey.
"Our nation is falling behind other countries in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math," Michele Kroll, 4-H Youth Development Specialist." However, participation in high-quality positive youth development programs like 4-H offers youth and adults the opportunity to engage in scientific exploration and work together to build the next generation of our nation's scientists, engineers and mathematicians."
To combat a national shortage of young people pursuing science college majors and occupations, and to enhance the nation's contribution to the sciences, 4-H National Youth Science Day demonstrates that science, engineering, math and technology are fun and attainable options for college degrees and future careers. Currently, more than six million young people across the nation participate in 4-H science, engineering, technology and applied math year-long programming.
4-H's university research-based science curriculum, combined with new initiatives like 4-H National Youth Science Day, arms young people with the necessary technical skills to help America maintain its competitive edge in the global marketplace. For more information about 4-H in Camden County contact 573-346-2644.
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4-H, the largest youth development organization, is a community of seven million young people around the world learning leadership, citizenship, and life skills. National 4-H Council is the private sector, non-profit partner of 4-H National Headquarters located at the National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) within USDA. In the U.S., 4-H programs are implemented by the 109 land grant universities and the Cooperative Extension System through their 3,100 local Extension offices across the country. Overseas, 4-H programs operate throughout more than 50 countries.


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"The shards came severally to shore: one was found among the reeds where watchers of Gondor lay, northwards below the infalls of the Entwash, the other was found spinning on the flood by one who had an errand on the water."
- The Window on the West; Book Four
He had volunteered to undertake the errand so as to escape from the city for a while. It was cowardly he supposed, but to stay within walls that reeked of the sorrow of a dear one's demise and a mother's grief, stifled him. He consoled himself with the thought that the times were such that the considerations of a few had to be overridden by what served for the good of many. The hopelessness that hung over the walls of the city was not hard to miss. How long had they lived like that? Not until very recently, surely? It was true they had spent many a year under the terrible shadow in the east but it had been so easy to forget that when he had been younger.
When he had been younger, children had played with abandon within the walls of stone. People had come out of the city to the flatlands and spent warm afternoons on the banks of the river eating, drinking and making merry in the orchards and tilth that flourished there. But now the children within were few and when people would leave the city, it would be for the hills under orders from the lords. Those who came out to the flatlands in these days came from matters related to military strategy.
They faced danger on many fronts from enemies who lay east and south. Their allies lay north but it was unsure what help could be hoped for from them.
It was but a simple errand that he came on and one that would ordinarily take little time but his heart was heavy and he found his mind running astray as he dismounted from his horse and trudged his way towards the river bank to decide where his men should dig the new trenches. Already the plains that were normally lush and fertile from riverine silt lay scarred by such defensive measures. But that was not enough now for fears of an imminent attack from the south had risen manifold the last few days. They had gleaned knowledge that the enemy's movements along the long stretch of road that connected their land to other lands far to the south had increased by enough extent to cause worry.
The trenches on the west bank would form one line of defence. East of the water lay Ithilien, defended as it had been for long by its rangers. But even they could not be expected to hold back an entire army should one descend upon them. The river would be Gondor's first and best line of defence. If they could hold its passage as they had done earlier, the city might stand a while longer. But if they could not, the trenches would be the second line and if even those did not hold out, all that would remain to protect the city would be the wall running around it. He wondered if the structure was fortified enough to hold back a truly mighty force. Once the wall fell... he dreaded to even think what might happen.
The ground sank with ease underneath his booted feet, the mud softened by the dampness of the area. They could not dig so close to the bank; not when the surface was as soft as this. They would have to build the trenches farther away in the drier patches. And they would have to begin work soon for he could see it would take them some time to complete their work. After marking out the spots at a sufficient distance from the water's edge, he returned to the river and stood silently, watching unseeingly as the waters lapped rhythmically against the banks. There was no wind, no light breeze carrying the scent of the river and the rushes nearby. The air was heavy and oppressing.
He was about to turn away and return to his camp but he wanted one more look at the river before he left. He had fond memories of the gleeful times spent by its side and those memories were now all he had of those who would not return and of times that could never be regained. Of times when he and his brothers had had been children unaffected by nameless fears and the distant memory of a father who had carried him on his shoulders along these very shores.
The river sparkled in the sunlight now as the still air hung heavily over the land. Colours reflected off the water, a hint of gold here, some blue there, a little green, but mostly grey as the skies above. An odd flash here and there would result each time a bird dived in for fish. When he had been younger he had often heard the minstrels sing lays about the river, praising it as a provider and a defender. They called it the Great River for it truly was a great river. It arose in lands to the far north that few in Gondor had even dreamed of visiting and made its massive way down, its current egged on by stiff winds from the north, until it emptied in all its majesty into the sea at Belfalas as it had done for ages.
The plains around the city were lush and fertile because of the river. Each year the crop was bountiful and never in all his life or in his parents' lives or in his parents' parents' lives had there been a shortfall in the harvest from the flatlands. The granaries in Minas Tirith were rarely empty, a fact that eased some of the pressure off the populace in these troubled times. Even the fish from the Great River it was said, tasted better than the fish from the streams of the Ered Nimrais or even the fish from the sea that the carriers brought over from the princedom of Dol Amroth. The city itself stood intact all these years because of the river, for to cross it would take much of any foe's might.
His father had often told him that and taught him the songs. He had brought him to stand where he stood now and told him to watch the water and drink in the sight, and to be thankful. A river was a giver, he had said. It always gave, and what it took, it returned manifold. And the Anduin was the greatest river in all the known lands.
A sudden draught of cool air brought him back to the present. He knew he should return soon but the rushes were swaying hypnotically as the north wind blew over the water, rustling with a musical quality, and the river almost seemed to dance in accompaniment. The smooth ripples lay disturbed and the smell of water and wet grass, familiar from his childhood days, hit his nostrils.
A glimmer of silver caught his eye. He knew immediately that it was not from the rays of the sun striking off the water's surface. It was a gleam of brightness in the grey of the river, bobbing its way towards where he stood, deep in mud and grass. There was something strange in the river, something that shone in the sunlight like a precious metal. But what it was he could not make out yet.
He watched it carefully and warily as the eddys carried it near him, then as the retreating tide carried it away, and wondered whether it was cause for alarm in any way. The current brought it near him again and yet again the retreating waves pulled it away, trying to drag it along with them on their seaward journey. He was suddenly reminded of the old puzzle he had heard many moons ago near a bridge that had stood further to the north. Of a frog that tried to climb out of a well but kept sliding back in.
He had been unable to sleep that evening. His eldest brother had been killed two days prior to that and he had then, as he did now, tried to drown his sorrow in his duties. It had rained earlier in the day bringing out the frogs. He had sat in the fading light, hidden under the shadow of a tent, and sought comfort in the gentle sound of the river. And he had unintentionally caught the voices floating near him. The Captain General and his brother had, like him, been watching the water and the ruins of an abandoned city, eerily visible in the dim light still lingering in the sky. Every now and then a frog would croak throatily. And the Captain General had with childish delight recounted the puzzle to Captain Faramir. Together they had stood by the river talking softly, the younger doing the calculations out aloud, using his fingers to count, while the elder simply laughed on and kept calling out random numbers to confuse his brother.
He had watched them as they stood silhouetted against the approaching cover of night and spoke and laughed in soft tones. The murmurs stood out against the sounds of falling dusk, the swirling of the river and the incessant croaking, as their voices still reflected a restrained joy of meeting each other after a long time. It was something he recognised from many such meetings with his own brothers so he continued sitting there, silently watching them. They looked alike in the dark, save that one seemed a little bulkier than the other, and carried with him the symbol of being the elder of the two; a war-horn.
Unable to sleep from the onslaught of bad news and old memories, he had spent the rest of his waking hours under the stars the place was named after, working out how long it would take the frog in the puzzle to come out of the well, preferring to do it in his mind than to scratch out numbers on the mud for he found he felt better when he thought of something other than the brother he would never see again.
And today once again he found himself wondering how long the strange object floating in the river would take to reach the shore so that he would not have to think of his second brother's death and his mother's grief, and wonder why it was that the sturdier sons of their land should depart just when it seemed that she would need them.
It was getting closer now, bobbing up and down in the waters that were striking the mudflats gently, until finally it floated lazily onto the mud. Then the tide caught it up again and it lay there spinning slowly in shallow water, turning over and over again, and each time it pierced through the surface it shone brightly as the sun reflected off it, just as gold would or even silver. He moved closer towards it, wading into the shallow water, and bent down to pick it up. His hands closed around a curved object and he fished it out of the water. He could feel the touch was cold as silver.
It was silver.
Silver bound around one half of a war-horn.
He did not have to gaze upon it twice to recognise it. Often had he heard it blow; each time the company had set out. It had been heard to sound last, not long earlier and there had been much wonderment and great worry. But now it would wind no more. The trophy from a hunt in Araw, long years ago when kings had ruled in Gondor, had been cloven into two, never to come together again.
It was a cause for alarm, more so than he had expected. If the horn was in such a state how then was faring the one who carried it by right?
The war-horn had hung from the belt of a brave warrior. A captain of men who had for no known reason accepted into his own famed company of soldiers, Gondor's finest men, a timid young boy who had neither the build of a warrior nor the latent aggressiveness that seemed demanded of one; and had retained a simple faith in his abilities when the boy himself was unsure of them. He had seemed to understand without being told, why it was so necessary that the boy should become a fine soldier and a good warrior, just as his brothers had, even if not a great one like his father. And had watched him train and grow into just that with the pride and joy of a mother eagle watching her fledglings take their flight through air. A captain who even as he prepared to lead the crucial defence of the passages across the river, had found the time to speak to him and express his grief over the loss he had suffered.
He looked up when he heard a shout from the other bank. He would have known them from their voices if not from their green and brown garb. The pleasant voice of the tallest among them carried over the vast expanse of water as he stared down at the broken shard of the horn of Gondor lying in his hand and wondered what he should say to the brother of the commander he had revered since the day he had joined his troop.
The water swirled around his ankles as he tried to maintain his grip on the mud slipping away under his boots. His father's words came back to him. The river had returned to the land what it possessed of a loved son.
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By last week, the already truncated campaign season to fill John Kerry's recently vacated Senate seat was beginning to feel shorter by the moment, as the GOP struggled to find a candidate to compete in the June 25 special election. Indeed, as the Republicans apparently gathered to draw straws to see who'd be stuck with the task, it seemed more and more likely that the April 30 Democratic primary would decide the race.
"Basically, the Republican party is left with nobody," Ken Rudin, NPR's "political junkie," said during a discussion of the Massachusetts Senate race on Talk of the Nation last week, a few days before state Rep. Dan Winslow of Norfolk (and, it should be noted, a Valley native) finally broke the GOP standoff and announced his candidacy. Winslow, who served as Mitt Romney's chief legal counsel when Romney was governor of Massachusetts, bills himself as a "problem solver and fiscal conservative."
Rudin was referring to the ever-lengthening list of Republicans who'd opted not to run—starting, of course, with former Sen. Scott Brown, who decided against trying to reclaim the seat he just lost to Elizabeth Warren, instead, apparently, focusing his attention on a potential gig on Fox News, and, according to speculation, on a 2014 gubernatorial campaign. The next marquee name to drop out: William Weld, the former governor who's back in the Bay State after a stint in New York.
For a few days, at least, it looked as if the Republicans might wind up with a candidate who had some of Brown's crossover appeal: Richard Tisei, the former state legislator who lost a squeaker of a race in Massachusetts' 6th Congressional district in November, and whose moderate stances make him the kind of Republican that Massachusetts voters don't mind so much.
Tisei, however, decided against running. So did former Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey and former gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker. Then there was Tagg Romney's flirtation with running, a prospect that was both brief and inexplicable (the Romney name doesn't exactly have the same cachet in Massachusetts as, say, "Kennedy," as demonstrated by the rather poor showing posted in November's presidential election by Tagg's dad).
At deadline, two other Republican names were also being discussed as potential candidates alongside Winslow: Gabriel Gomez of Cohasset, an Iraq war veteran who last year worked with a group critical of Obama's national security record, and state Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr of Gloucester.
Rudin, the NPR pundit, dismissed Winslow and Gomez as "completely unknown"; Tarr didn't even make it on to his radar. That might not have been the most polite description—and certainly the three have more name recognition in Massachusetts than in NPR's Washington offices—but it underscored the considerable challenges each would face in a general election against the winner of the Democratic primary.
The two candidates competing in that race, Ed Markey and Stephen Lynch, are U.S. Congressmen, and have both the high profiles and big campaign war chests that state legislators from the minority party can only dream about. True, Scott Brown was a mere state legislator when he won his Senate seat in 2010 against a somewhat hapless Martha Coakley. But Massachusetts Democrats are hell-bent on avoiding that kind of humiliation again—and they're also buoyed by Warren's hard-fought victory over Brown in November.
As the Republicans scrambled to find their candidate, Massachusetts political junkies had already begun to occupy themselves by focusing on the Markey/Lynch race—a match-up that has its own intriguing narrative. Markey, who jumped into the race first, quickly sewed up endorsements from big-name Democrats, including Coakley, former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank and House Speaker Robert DeLeo.
Markey runs the risk of being cast as the "establishment" candidate, although his generally progressive voting record, and the support he's won from progressive groups, should temper that.
Lynch, meanwhile, is assuming the role of "regular-guy" candidate (case in point: he kicked off his campaign at O'Brien's Corner, a neighborhood joint in Springfield; when Markey's campaign came to the city, it was to the more upscale Student Prince, a favorite hangout for Springfield pols). Lynch will be hampered in a statewide race by his conservative positions on abortion and gay rights (although on those positions, the candidate now appears to be, to borrow a phrase from Obama, "evolving").
A former iron worker, Lynch should also expect strong support from organized labor, which might not have the numbers it once did but can still be a force in Massachusetts elections.


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Just went ahead with the upgrade to Xubuntu 13.04 from 12.10. Everything went fine except something happened to my favorite mouse cursor theme. For some reason, instead of a transparent background like all the other mouse themes, this one has a semi transparent background, making a funny looking square around the mouse pointer. See image below.
Even the sample pointers in the preview show it. They were fine in 12,10. Tried uninstalling them in Synaptic then reinstalling them. Same thing happens.
Is this a bug, or is this the new look for them? I guess I COULD copy the folder to my home directory & try editing them in GIMP to get true transparency, but that's a Pain In The Butt!
Forgot to mention It's running on an Dell Studio 1745 laptop with Intel built in graphics controller.
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Well, not like anyone cares or anything, but I fixed it. It seems like the ones I got thru Synaptic Package Manager have that weird background. So I finally found this post: http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/C … 8d1f540084 and downloaded & extracted the file. and they Do NOT have the weird background.
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Big Brother Wants to Chat
According to The Times of India, the Chinese government is reverting to the same PR tactics used by dot com's in the 90's. They've enlisted a band of carefully-selected undercover operatives to go into chat rooms, and basically defend and glorify government policies on any boards where there's dissent. But what's the value in turning The Peoples' frown emoticons upside down? Posing as "ordinary netizens," the special forces are expected to guide public opinion, and help control the over 100 million Chinese Internet users currently frolicking about the "˜net. Of course, I'm not sure who's going to tell the Minister of Propaganda that quite a few of the companies that resorted to such innovative chat room stratagem have either experienced significant backlashes, or found themselves belly-up by the end of the decade.
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Melanie Knoblauch measures Emily Hemming for the gown the Flower Girls will wear when they are presented on June 27 in the Teller House Garden. Photo by David Zalubowski, Special to The Denver Post
The 15 young women who have accepted bids to become Central City Flower Girls for 2009 are:
Lindsey Kathleen Bell, daughter of Gary and Edie Bell of Centennial. Lindsey attends Cherry Creek High School. She was inducted into the National Honor Society during the 10th grade and has been active in DECA, the Key Club, and Cherry Creek High School Big Sisters. Her sports interests include golf and snowboarding and she has both played and coached field hockey. Lindsey has been very involved with several community service organizations including The Children's Hospital, where she has helped with several fundraising events; the Donor Alliance; the American Heart Association; and the Denver Ballet Guild. Lindsey is a fourth-generation Colorado native. Her family owns Bell Plumbing and Heating which has been in business for 83 years.
Elizabeth Kathleen Clark, daughter of Dennis and Ann Clark of Englewood. A senior at Kent Denver School, she is the head of the loan committee for the student-run Kent Denver Credit Union and a member of the Key Club and Model UN. Lizzy is a dominant force on both the lacrosse and field hockey teams where as goalie, her varsity field hockey team made both league and state finals. Following the season, Lizzy was named an All-Star Senior. Lizzy's mom, Ann, has been very involved with Central City Opera serving on committees for the Denver Antiques Show, L'Esprit de Noel, and as chairman of opening night in 2006.
Alison McKeen Morss Dehncke, daughter of Richard Dehncke and Kim Morss of Greenwood Village. She attends Cherry Creek High School and is involved with DECA, Creek Connects, the Diversity Task Force, Future Community Leaders of America, and is a member of the National Honor Society. During the summer of 2007, Ali participated in an Outward Bound wilderness program. She is a certified SCUBA diver and has earned varsity letters in lacrosse during both her junior and senior years. Ali's sister, Cameron, was a Flower Girl in 2007.
Elizabeth Anne Marie Deline, daughter of Tom and Meg Deline of Denver. She is the first fourth-generation student to attend St. Mary's Academy, where she earned a place on the honor roll and became a member of the National Honor Society. Liz has won consecutive state championships in summer club synchronized swimming and has been named by the United States Lacrosse Association as an Academic All-American in 2008. After playing on the field hockey state championship team in 2008, Liz was named Most Valuable Player by the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News. Liz's great-grandparents owned Monaghan Construction which created many of Colorado's original mountain passes, and built several of the state's highways, military bases and airports.
Laurette Warren Duke, daughter of Ben and Laurette Duke of Elizabeth. For the past 12 years, the Kent Denver senior has been an active member of the Elbert Creekside 4-H Club and is its current president. Rettie raises market sheep and has participated in shooting sports competitions at the Elbert County Fair. For the past four years, she has volunteered at the Denver Zoo as a zoo crew member. At Kent, Rettie has played on the varsity volleyball team, the junior varsity tennis team and enjoys her art classes there. Rettie's grandfather was vice chairman of the Gates Corp. and her grandmother founded the Aspen Country Store. Her great-grandfather headed the Producers Livestock Association in Denver.
Catherine Taylor Duke, daughter of Charles and Lisa Duke of Englewood. Also a senior at Kent Denver School, she has been very active in the theater program there and has had roles in West Side Story, Urine Town, The Sound of Music, and Fiddler on the Roof. Taylor is co-captain of the varsity volleyball team and also plays on the varsity soccer team. Taylor has worked with Habitat for Humanity and has also taken a Spanish-immersion community service trip to Argentina. Taylor's mom, Lisa, has been a member of the Denver Antiques Show committee and has served as chairman of the show.
Rebecca Louise Ferrell, daughter of Jeff and Kyle Ferrell of Englewood. A senior at Kent Denver School, she received the Algebra II award in 2008, has volunteered for Breakthough and helps to care for the children of Kent Denver teachers in the school's child care center. Becky's great-great-great grandparents lived in Central City in the 1860s.
Emily Anne Hemming, daughter of Bob and Nancy Hemming of Lakewood. Emily attends J.K. Mullen High School where she is a four-year member of both the lacrosse and cross country teams. She is also a member of the National Forensic League debate team and the business editor for the school yearbook. Emily's community service activities include being on the Youth Advisory Board for the Denver Community Credit Union and being a volunteer for Central City Opera Youth Education and Historic Properties where she earned the Youth Volunteer of the Year Award. Emily's maternal great-grandmother worked on Broadway in New York City as a wardrobe mistress and traveled by train to Central City on several occasions to bring various shows to the Central City Opera House. She was a friend of many of the Central City stars such as, Helen Hayes, Mae West, and Hedda Hopper. Emily's mom, Nancy, was the 2008 opening night chairman.
Meredith Anne Kaufman, daughter of Bob and Wendy Kaufman of Denver. Meredith attends St. George's School in Newport, Rhode Island, and will attend Bucknell University after graduation. She played junior varsity field hockey, has been the manager of the women's varsity ice hockey team, and is the editor of the school newspaper. Meredith has been on the honor roll for all semesters while at St George's. During the fall of 2007, she attended the Island School in Eleuthra, Bahamas, to study marine biology and during the summer of 2007, she attended the Choate School in France. Last summer she was an intern at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City. Meredith is a fifth-generation Colorado native. Her parents are supporters of the Denver Antiques Show as members of its Connoisseurs' Club.
Virginia Malcolm Lichty, daughter of LeeLee Lichty of Denver and the late Roger Harding Lichty. VeeVee, a senior at St. Mary's Academy, will attend Southern Methodist University. At St. Mary's, VeeVee is on the varsity lacrosse and field hockey teams. She volunteers for Habit for Humanity, with which she traveled to New Orleans to rebuild homes destroyed in Hurricane Katrina. Her mother has been active in many Central City Opera events, including a term chairing the L'Esprit de Noel holiday home tour. VeeVee's late father, Roger, was a Flower Girl escort in 1967.
Caitlin Hallager McGonagle, daughter of Tom and Anne McGonagle of Cherry Hills Village. Caitlin is a senior at Kent Denver School and will attend Colgate University. She has been captain of the Kent varsity soccer team, president of the Community Outreach Program, and very involved in the theater program where most recently she played Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof. Last summer, Caitlin traveled to Fiji to participate in a marine biology service program. Caitlin is a fifth-generation Coloradan. Her great-grandfather owned and operated the Denver Gear and Parts Company. Her grandfather is a Round-up Rider of the Rockies. The McGonagle home was part of the L'Espirt de Noel home tour in 2007, and her mom, Anne, has served on the Denver Antiques Show committee.
Shelby Ellyn Parker, daughter of Brad and Brooke Parker of Greenwood Village. Shelby is captain of the Cherry Creek High School pom squad and a member of DECA and Key Club. Shelby volunteers for Families First, Race for the Cure, and the First American State Bank Fitness Festival. She is a Bible study youth leader. Shelby's mother, Brooke Tanner Parker, was a Flower Girl in 1979, and Shelby's sister, Kelly, was a Flower Girl in 2005.
Sarah Elizabeth Rich, daughter of John and Julie Rich of Greenwood Village. Sarah is a co-founder of Kent Denver's Marine Biology Club and founder and co-leader of SADD (Students Against Destructive Behavior). Sarah has been a member of both the field hockey and soccer teams and is actively involved with the school's arts and theater programs at Kent, earning roles in West Side Story, Urine Town, and Fiddler on the Roof. Her artwork has been published in the student fine arts magazine, Paper Wings.
Cory Tyler Smith, daughter of Dudley and Ronda Smith of Denver. Cory has been on the honor roll all four years at Kent Denver, where she earned three permanent art collection awards and has recently received a Scholastic Silver Key Award in ceramics. Cory is the co-captain of the varsity volleyball team and is a member of the Environmental Action Club. She has been a volunteer counselor and therapist's assistant for Adam's Camp and has traveled to Guatemala as a construction and education volunteer. Cory is a fourth-generation Coloradan. Cory's grandfather, Dudley Tyler Smith, Sr., was a prominent Denver architect. His work includes the City Annex building in downtown Denver. Her older sisters were Flower Girls in 1989 and 2005. Cory's mother, Ronda, is the 2009 Opening Night Co-Chairman and will chair the event in 2010.
Nicole Jennifer Wissmann, daughter of Paul and Amy Wissmann of Cherry Hills Village. Nicole has been on Kent Denver's high academic honor roll for four years and made Headmaster's List during her senior year. She is an elected Student Council representative, co-president of the Marine Biology Club, and is class president of the National Charity League where she was awarded the Martha Caschette Award for most service hours. Additionally, one of Nicole's photographs has been selected to be in Kent Denver's permanent art collection. Nicole is a volunteer for the Children's Hospital. The Wissmann home was part of the L'Esprit de Noel home tour in 2007.
Pictures taken at the tea where the 2009 Flower Girls were introduced for the first time can be viewed at denverpost.com/seengallery
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For Tracy Renee of Gene's Auto Repair, a new California smog bill has some good elements. But she's worried the bill may leave many motorists scratching their heads.
On Jan. 1, AB 2289 impacting California's smog check programs goes into effect as part of the larger effort to reduce air pollution.
The new law impacts both motorists and automotive places which offer smog testing, or other businesses which specialize in and only offer smog tests.
Vehicles must pass smog tests every two years so that their owners can register them through the Department of Motor Vehicles.
"It's such a huge bill and it encompasses a lot of different things, but, overall, I think that there will be a lot of improvements. Some of it is 'yet so see,' " Renee said.
One effect of the bill is that motorists with older cars (which the state considers most likely to fail the smog tests) will be directed to new "STAR Stations."
STAR stands for Station Technician Achievement Rating and means that a smog station has met high standards, or scores, based on a state-issued report card.
Auto operators who wanted to get STAR certification have had one year to improve their scores which are also available for consumers to see online, Renee said.
But, while the new STAR Stations don't go online until after the first of the year, some motorists are already getting DMV renewal notices directing them to such facilities.
One Benicia senior citizen, for example, drove to Renee's Vallejo auto shop earlier this month with such a DMV notice and a deadline to renew his 1998 Mercedes by Dec. 22, she said.
"Who knows how much time he spent trying to figure out what to do?" Renee said.
Due to her knowledge of the new law and smog issues, in general, Renee steered him in the right direction, she said. But, she was concerned that the elderly driver had been inconvenienced for no reason.
Consumer affairs spokesman Russ Heimerich said agencies had to prepare for the bill to go into effect on Jan. 1. As such, the DMV notices went out 60 to 90 days before a January deadline to renew the vehicle's registration, he added.
Since most people "wait until the last minute" to register their vehicles, they would be taking them to a STAR station after Jan. 1, he added.
DMV spokesman Armando Botello said under state law the agency must send out notices at least 60 days before the deadline for vehicles to be registered. He said an attachment inside the notices alerts motorists they can take their vehicles to a Gold Shield of Test Only station until the new law goes into effect.
Besides motorists, automotive operators are gearing up for the law to go into effect. Currently, more than 1,300 stations statewide have applied for and received high enough scores to become a STAR station.
"Right now we have about 1,300 stations" statewide, Heimerich said.
The STAR stations are not the only impact of the new state bill. Another aspect will go into effect mid-year 2013 aimed at making it easier and less expensive for newer cars to pass smog tests.
Smog stations will move away from traditional tail pipe tests they've been using for the last three decades and, instead, use specialized "sensors" to expedite the process.
However, those new sensors can be used only for cars that are year 2000 or newer. Older cars will be directed to STAR stations.
The goal of the new law is to improve smog passage rate through better testing, diagnostics, repair and follow-up, Heimerich said.
"There was some research which showed that vehicles within six months of being able to pass couldn't pass again. The vehicles were getting repaired just enough to pass smog but not enough to stop polluting," he added.
Motorists who have gotten DMV renewal notices telling them to go to a STAR station before those stations are, in fact, open can call the state at 1-800-952-5210 for direction.
Information on STAR stations and other aspects of AB 2289 is also available at www.autorepair.ca.gov.
Contact staff writer Sarah Rohrs at firstname.lastname@example.com or (707) 553-6832. Follow her on Twitter @SarahVTH.


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An amazing number of words.
Good twenty-minute increments.
Another of the Dear Departeds departs.
Procrastination. I wish I could do something about it. I think: I'll deal with it tomorrow.
HorseBack, with moody hills.
Some not very good news.
A faint feeling of unease.
The sweet, soothing presence of the red mare.
A smile at the thought of Frankel's birthday.
A fret about things undone.
A contemplation of the power of the simple, declarative sentence.
Kindness on the internet.
A very bad hair day.
Quite a lot of laughing.
One lovely winning bet.
A ham sandwich.
Thoughts of grammar.
One excited dog; one bloody big stick.
And, in the end, after all that, there was sun. Thick, ancient, Scottish sun, the colour of amber.
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Child Porn Suspect On FBI's Top 10 Most-Wanted List Arrested In Nicaragua
The FBI is going to have to choose someone else to fill out its top 10 Most Wanted List now that one of its members, Eric Justin Toth, has been arrested by police in Nicaragua, the Associated Press reported Monday.
The former private school teacher had been wanted for the FBI for allegedly possessing child pornography in Washington, D.C., where in 2008 pornographic images were found on a school camera he had used, according to a description of Toth on the FBI's website.
He also allegedly produced child porn in Maryland, the FBI description states. The FBI's site goes on to state that "Toth has often been described as a computer 'expert' and has demonstrated above-average knowledge regarding computers, the use of the Internet, and security awareness. Toth has the ability to integrate into various socio-economic classes, and is an expert at social engineering. He possesses an educational background conducive to gaining employment in fields having a connection to children. Toth may advertise online as a tutor or male nanny."
The suspect spent one year studying at Cornell University before transferring to Purdue University, where he earned a degree in education, according to the FBI, and since June 2008 the FBI believes he has traveled to states including Virginia, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Arizona, where the FBI description says he had been believed to have been living in a Phoenix homeless shelter since 2009.
Glenda Zavala, head of Nicaragua's National Police detectives, said Toth was arrested Saturday in the city of Esteli and that he would be unveiled to members of the media Monday in the capital city of Managua.
Toth was a third-grade teacher at Beauvoir, a private school located on the grounds of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., which he was escorted out of in June 2008 after the explicit porn images were found, the AP reported. He had not been seen since that day.
"We commend the work of the Office of the U.S. Attorney and the FBI for their ongoing efforts to apprehend Mr. Toth," the school said in a statement. "They have been tenacious and resolute in their quest to bring this case to justice."
Toth is a rare nonviolent member of the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List, but the FBI chose to include him in April 2012, because there were no good clues about where he was located, and his computer skills and "alleged penchant children made him especially dangerous," the AP reported, adding that he allegedly faked a suicide in Minnesota in August 2008 but that his body was never found.
The 31-year-old also went by the name David Bussone.


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Submission + - Apple's XCode IDE Is No Longer Free (apple.com) 1
GlobalEcho writes: Apple has historically made its development tools available free to anyone willing to register on their website and wait for a 1GB download. Starting with XCode 4, the software will cost $4.99 for anyone not already a paid member of their Registered Developer program ($99/year). The new version will now come as an App Store download.


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By Tom Marshall-Bailey
Former Manchester City striker Niall Quinn believes defeat in the derby against Manchester United on Monday evening could decide manager Roberto Mancini's long-term future at the club.
With Sir Alex Ferguson's side going into the clash at Old Trafford in possession of a 15-point lead in the league, it represents a meek defence of the league crown City won on the final day of the campaign last season courtesy of a last-minute Sergio Aguero winner against QPR.
|Manchester City are 12/1 to beat United 1-0 with BetVictor
"There are rumours because there's a couple of gentleman brought to the club from Spain [Ferran Soriano and Txiki Begiristain] to make Manchester City bigger and better," Quinn exclusively told Goal.com at a Barclays Spaces For Sport event.
"And have the say on big footballing decisions and it's what they think which will ultimately decide Roberto Mancini's fate.
"It would make life a little bit easier and make Mancini's job a little bit safer if he was to get a win tonight and if he was to go on and win the FA Cup.
"If he was to lose tonight, if they don't win the FA Cup, I think it certainly diminishes his chances of getting a big pot of money and being told that he's the man to go on and bring the whole thing together for the next few years.
"It's a very interesting situation arising, but he does have a long-term contract. It may count for something but Man City have been in a hurry until now.
"It will be interesting to see what route they take. A victory tonight and perhaps it will edge Mancini's way."
Niall Quinn was speaking at the Manchester United flagship Barclays Spaces for Sports site ahead of the Manchester Derby. To find your nearest site, go to Barclays.com/spacesforsports.


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By Brendan Conway
At Legg Mason (LM), what investors once took away, they're now giving back. The same isn't true at Janus Capital Group (JNS).
The picture for investor inflows — the lifeblood of any fund company — at Legg was "a bit better" for the quarter. That's the way Stifel Nicolaus analysts J. Jeffrey Hopson and Marc Torrente put it:
This was a good Q for LM in the sense that flows improved and were positive overall, as both fixed and equity flows improved. Also the increase in average equity values resulted in a higher fee rate for the Q. Any sustained improvement in margins from here would result from a sustained improvement in AUM from a combination of organic growth/flows and market action. The company has suggested that they will be '"re-engineering" on the cost side to improve efficiency and scale, but that any savings would be invested in growth initiatives; thus, any major expense savings are behind the company.
That's from a duo with a "hold" rating on the stock. No wonder investors are pushing Legg's shares up by 2.6% today, to $34.91. The stock's year-to-date gain is nearly 36%.
By contrast, the pair call the period over at Janus "challenging," just as they expected:
Outflows of $5.4 bil. were right in line, for an annual decay rate of 13%, as all equity categories/business units were negative, while fixed income was just slightly positive. JNS confirmed that the recent PM changes had a negative effect on flows. For now, we see no reason to be optimistic that flow trends will improve in the foreseeable future given industry and company specific trends/issues.
Janus' stock is down 3.8% to $9.34 this afternoon, cutting the year-to-date rise to 9.6%.


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When I first saw the ''Call for Papers -- Toilet Papers: The Gendered Construction of Public Toilets" posted on an academic website, my beeswax detector went off. There can't really be two professors planning to publish a book working from ''the premise that public toilets, far from being banal or simply functional, are highly charged spaces, shaped by notions of propriety, hygiene and the binary gender division" . . . can there?
Here is some more rhetoric from the book proposal: ''Indeed, public toilets are among the very few openly segregated spaces in contemporary Western culture, and the physical differences between 'gentlemen' and 'ladies' remains central to (and is further naturalized by) their design. As such, they provide a fertile ground for critical work interrogating how conventional assumptions about the body, sexuality, privacy, and technology can be formed in public space and inscribed through design."
I think this is an excellent subject for scholarship, actually, but I will strenuously object if it leads to political action in the form of trying to abolish separate bathrooms for women.


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I need to ask about facial treatments Anna Love
Mar 20, 2004
Hi Nelson, It's John Hutson , the guy that worked with Dr Michael Dullnig on Lobbying to get European Steroids into America. And I'm also a friend of Michael Mooney. I hate to say this but my face looks sunken and sharp. I want to get someone great to "plump it up". Who would you reccomend? Money is a concern. Do you know if Blue Cross will pay for any of this, I have a private policy. I live in DC but will fly anywhere to get it done right. Thanks Nelson, Love John Hutson(yet another Lazarus!)
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Dear Jon:
How are you! Wow, I have not heard from you or seen you in a long time.! Yes, you were Dr X's best friend! I think he would be proud to see the work that we have done after his death, I hope.
Is your facial wasting mild, moderate, over-moderate or severe (4 grades).? For the two last grades, Bio-Alcamid (Anna Love www.clinicestetica.com)or Silikon 1000 ( Dr Derek Jones in Los Angeles, Dr Hal Brody in Atlanta, or Dr Orentreich in NYC) are the best bets, in my opinion. Bio-Alcamid can be injected in larger quantities, so you will need one to two sessions in most cases. Silikon 1000 is injected in microdroplets and it can take 4-6 sessions. Both seem to be permanent and I have heard equally good comments from patients in my lipodystrophy yahoo group of 730 members.
The cost for Bio-Alcamid is a flat fee of $4500 and they require half up front, no credit cards. The cost of Silikon 1000 is around 700 per session, depending on the doctor.
For the two first grades (mild to moderate), NewFill (Sculptra in the US) may be a good option. This procedure requires 4-6 sessions, and a touch up every 15-18 months. It is not premanent, but this may be a good thing if your fat slowly returns like the studies are starting to indicate after a switch of Zerit to Ziagen or Viread. This product may get approved soon and there will be a patient assistance program set up for people with low income and no insurnace/Medicare/Medicaid. Dermik, the company who owns the rights of Sculptra, is also working hard at getting reimbursement for this procedure. The total cost for 5-6 sessions of Sculptra will probably be around $5,500, but pricing has not been set. Currently, some doctors are using NewFill imported through DAAIR and charging $800 per session (product included). NewFill (Sculptra) is the option with more HIV related data. But keep in mind that we have no long term data of over 5 years with any of these products, so it is a risk we are taking when we decide to get our faces injected.
More information here: www.facialwasting.org
I hope to see you in the near future!
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The Morris Community High School Marching Redskins made a tour of three local junior high schools with the goal of promoting school marching band programs.
They played their 2012 field show, entitled "On This Shining Night," to students at Saratoga School, Shabbona Middle School and Immaculate Conception School.
All sections of the marching band were showcased, including winds, percussion and color guard.