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All is fine and dandy on my drive to Arby's on my lunch break. About a 5 minute drive from my place of work. After it get my food and get back in my V i start her up... There is SEVERE knocking for half a second to a second and then it goes away. I listen carefully and drive different ways to try and make it knock again. doesn't do it. THEN almost back to work at a stop light. The light turns green and as I start off it kicks me out of first gear with an array of grinding. Doesn't do it again at any of the following stops.
2006 with 80k. I am hoping the popping out of gear is curable with revshift MM and tranny mount. which will be in order very soon if it acts up again. But the knocking... It's not low on oil... but it does consume probably 1 qt every month and a half or so. Also I'm pretty sure my harmonic balancer is bad. (vibrates according to rpm usually in 5th gear aroung 60 mph) Is it possible a pretty bad pulley could slop around or was this internal.
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The genuine kbdclass.sys file is a software component of Microsoft Windows Operating System by Microsoft.
The system file that allows your keyboard to interface with the Windows Operating System, this driver is included in all released of Windows. It can be superseded by other third party keyboard drivers, but this file is fairly reliable for most Windows or generic keyboards. Founded in 1975, Microsoft's flagship product is the Windows operating system, which is installed on over 90% of workstations worldwide.
KbdClass stands for Keyboard Class Driver
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Hello all,
My name is Theo. Just bought my second BMW, a 635d, which I'm very pleased with. However, I'm very disappointed with the MPG so far and think there may be an issue affecting it. BMW claim 30 around town, but even when driving very conservatively I'm struggling to get 19/20mpg. I know manufacturers tend to overestimate but this seems very low. Since getting the car 3 months ago I've done about 2000 miles and my average is 27mpg, which is mostly around town with some motorway stuff in there. Ive had a 118d before and this was getting 47 around town, so 20 is terrible. Previous to this i had an Alfa 159 1.9 diesel and when i first got it it was doing only 27 around town. Turned out the thermostat was jammed open and as soon as this was fixed the mpg went up to about 38 around town, so I'm wondering if there is something similar going on here.
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May 17, 2011/Model D Startup News
By Jon Zemke
Midtown Wayne State University has received a $750,000 grant from the Kresge Foundation to expand the Michigan Area Education Center program.
The Michigan Area Education Center is working to recruit and train more students for the health-care workforce. The program focuses on students in economically challenged areas to help alleviate unemployment attract more talent to the rapidly growing industry.
"It's intended to recruit kids in the K-12 into the health-care profession," says Ramona Benkert, associate professor at the College of Nursing at Wayne State University. "It also will help them improve their skill set. The long-term goal is to get these kids into the health-care professions."
The Wayne State University School of Medicine and College of Nursing received the initial federal grant in fall 2010 to establish the program. It is now working with community groups and schools in Metro Detroit to establish a regional career center and begin the outreach portion of the program this year.
Source: Ramona Benkert, associate professor at the College of Nursing at Wayne State University


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Posted by Jennifer Adams on the CIOs Blog on December 28, 2015
Welcome to my blog!
I joined Forrester recently as a senior forecast analyst on the ForecastView team focusing on business technology (BT) topics. What is ForecastView you ask? It's a Forrester product that puts the numbers around our research reports by publishing a five-year quantitative outlook. To learn how our forecasts can help you with your investment decisions, read our ForecastView overview.
Our BT forecast team takes a look at cloud, security, IoT, business intelligence, marketing ad technology, Big Data, and other hot topics in the BT space. We launched our ForecastView BT bundle in 2015. In case you missed it, our three 2015 forecasts examined eCommerce platforms, cloud security, and API management. Some highlights:
Posted by Peter Sheldon on the eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals Blog on June 29, 2015
Twenty months have passed since Forrester last published our Wave evaluation of the leading B2B commerce suite vendors. During that time much has changed. B2B eCommerce transactions in the US have grown 40% from $559b in 2013 to reach an estimated $780b by the end of 2015. Furthermore, 74% of B2B buyers now research and 30% now buy at least one-half of their work purchases online. Manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers alike are investing heavily in next generation enterprise B2B commerce technology to ensure they are delivering world-class online buying experiences that are able to scale for anticipated growth. As a result of this wave of investment, manufacturing and wholesale trade firms will spend more on commerce technology by the end of the decade than their peers in B2C retail.
As eBusiness teams look for solutions in the market, not only are they benchmarking their future state online buying experience against B2B peers like Grainger, but also against B2C leaders like Amazon and Wal-Mart. This means they need solutions with a best-in-class foundation of B2C features such as robust marketing, merchandising and experience management tools upon which unique B2B capabilities such as contract pricing, quotes pricing lists, eProcurement, product configuration and customization, guided selling, bulk order entry, dealer management, and account, contract, and budget management are then layered on top.
Posted by Michael Yamnitsky on the CIOs Blog on March 31, 2015
As companies get serious about digital transformation, we see investments shifting toward extensible software platforms used to build and manage a differentiated customer experience. My colleague John McCarthy has an excellent slide describing what's happening:
Before, tech management spent most of its time and budget managing a set of monolithic enterprise applications and databases. With an addressable market of a finite number of networked PCs, spending on the front end was largely an afterthought.
Today, applications must scale to millions, if not billions of connected devices while retaining a rich and seamless user experience. Infrastructure, in turn, must flex to meet these new specs. Since complete overhauls of the back end are a nonstarter for large enterprises with 30-plus years of investments in mainframes and legacy server systems, new investments gear toward the intermediary software platforms that connect digital touchpoints with enterprise applications and transaction systems.
At Forrester, we've been working to quantify some of the most viable software categories that exemplify this shift. A shortlist below:
· API management solutions: US CAGR 2015-2020: 22%.
· Public cloud platforms: Global CAGR 2015-2020: 30%. (Note: We have a forecast update in the works that segments the market into subcategories.)
Posted by Peter Sheldon on the eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals Blog on August 1, 2013
With growth comes investment, so given that eBusinesses across the globe continue to experience double-digit compound annual online sales growth, it should come as little surprise that 66% of these same firms are planning to increase their investment in commerce technology in 2014. In my latest research report "Commerce Technology Investment And Platform Trends — 2013", Forrester polled 49 eBusiness leaders to understand their investment and technology implementation plans for the next 12 months. Here's what the top of the investment priority list looks like:
Posted by Peter Sheldon on the eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals Blog on June 21, 2013
It's been more than two years since eBay's $2.4B acquisition of GSI Commerce and behind the scenes a lot has been happening. Gone is GSI's entrepreneurial founder Michael Rubin and in his place sits a new executive team that is now strategically aligned with eBay's senior management and corporate strategy group. Historically, eBay has been a C2C company, but yesterday's re-branding of GSI signifies that eBay is now deadly serious about providing a holistic suite of enterprise technology and services to leading retailers and brands beyond their core Marketplace and PayPal payment services.
On paper, the new eBay Enterprise is a "jack of all trades." For retailers and brands, eBay Enterprise represents a one-stop shop for enterprise commerce technology, commerce services, marketing services and outsourced fulfillment and customer care. Let's take a closer look at these offerings and what they mean to eBusiness professionals:


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My Little Golden Book About God
by Jane Werner Watson
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One of my favorite childhood books, and one of the first I learned to read on my own.
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A great way to help young children begin to understand who God is and what He is capable of. I love that the illustrations are basic but coincide nicely with the text presented. It leaves enough information open ended to allow parents or teachers to have discussions about personal beliefs. If I were to teach a lesson based on this book, I would have them create a picture of what they think God looks like. I would have skin tone paints and markers available to create the face. I would also have various materials like yarn, shredded paper or paper for shredding to make hair. I would also have materials like felt and scrap fabric for clothing.
A gentle introduction to God.
I wasn't very happy with this book, it's only a regurgitation of mindless Christian dogma.
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About this mapThe word Balkan is Turkish and means 'mountain'. The Balkans, or the Balkan Peninsula, is a region in the south-east of Europe. This map shows the geography of the Balkans and their religious and ethnic diversity. On this map the Balkans comprise the areas of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria and Romania. The westernmost part of Turkey is also included. The largest of the colour-coded groups on the map is the South Slavs or Yugoslav group which forms the majority of the population in several countries. The other national groups represented here are Romanians, Greeks and Albanians, as well as many other ethnic minorities who live in the region.
Where is this map from?The map is taken from La Péninsule balkanique. Géographie humaine (1918). This book is a study of the physical and human geography of the Balkans by Jovan Cvijić (1865-1927), a Serbian geographer and ethnographer, published in Paris. It includes essays, drawings, maps and four large maps in colour, folded and inserted at the back of the book.
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My sons car made a loud bang, cold weather and we found this underneath now the car will not run properly. Looks like an armature of some type with a bearing on the end. Please see attached link and thanks in advance
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It doesn't look like anything I recognize. Are there any other symptoms?
Where under the car did you find it?
Under the engine and bits of plastic as well, it also looks like it blew the outer intake right off the inner portion. At first when he described it I thought it was the block heater going. Looks like I will be taking the manifold off. I am wondering if this is the pivot for the plenum on the intake.
Intake manifold go boom. I thought I recognized the part.
Good eye v6mistake!
Ouch that may be it and would explain why it won't start due to the huge vacuum leak it has now. Now what cause the car to blow the intake manifold apart?
Car was running great, did need new battery, found that out for sure when it was cold. The only thing I can think is the block heater, which jr left on for a day got hot caused some gas vapor in the intake, and when he went to start it kaboom. Blew the entire ouside manifold off the inner portion. Will find out this weekend if I need a new intake. Ian do you have one in your shed? I dont think my luck could be that good.
Cheers Gerry
I did do a swap back in the day but nothing in the shed! Check Kijiji there was a guy parting out an SVT that I bought my steering wheel from. May have some leftovers for you.
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Its the intake for sure, surfing the forums it looks like it somewhat common in colder climates to have this happen. Flood the car, vapour in the intake, open valve, spark, kaboom. Nice thing is the dealer does carry them, for about 6 hundred. I will check kijiiji like you say.
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Site: Birmingham, Ala. (Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex)
Event: NCAA Championships (Individual Event Finals)
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Senior Joanna Sampson (Willow Grove, Pa./Upper Moreland) and junior Sachi Sugiyama (Keller, Texas/Keller) represented the No. 7-ranked University of Michigan women's gymnastics team on the final day of the season on Sunday (April 20) in the Individual Event Finals of the 2014 NCAA Championships, held inside the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex.
Sampson ended her phenomenal four-year career on two events, very nearly winning back-to-back national titles on floor exercise. In the final routine of her career, Sampson, the defending champion on the event, shined on all three tumbling passes, bookended with a powerful double layout on the first and a double pike on the third. She was the second-to-last gymnast to go in the order and was tied for the lead with Oklahoma's Maileana Kanewa and Haley Scaman at 9.950, before Arkansas' Katherine Grable scored 9.9625 in the final spot to overtake all three.
Earlier in the meet, Sampson competed on uneven bars, going 10th (of 12) in the order. She appeared to not cast her first handstand hard enough but hit the second with great verticality. She got great height and power on the Tkatchev release off the high bar before finishing the routine with an upgraded dismount, a full twisting double layout. She took a step on that landing, however, scoring 9.7625 to take 11th.
Sugiyama was actually the first up of the two, performing her patented Yurchenko 1.5 on vault. Up fifth in the order, she got good height and distance off the table but took a slight step on the landing, scoring 9.8667 to finish tied for ninth in her first NCAA Individual Event Finals appearance.
Michigan wraps up the 2014 season with a 28-8 record, winning the Big Ten championship and an NCAA Regional championship and qualifying to the NCAA Championships -- where it finished 10th -- for the 20th time in the last 22 seasons. The Wolverines will lose five seniors -- Sampson, Shelby Gies (Pennington, N.J./Hopewell Valley Central), Reema Zakharia (Miami, Fla./Coral Gables Senior High), Natalie Beilstein (Butler, Pa./Knoch) and Teresa Arthur (Tulsa, Okla./Bishop Kelley).
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I was tagged to do this promotional post by fellow author, John Rykken.
It works like this. On Twitter, an author "tags" four other authors, who post this Lucky Number 7 post on their blog. If you are "tagged," flip to page 77 in your newest published book/work in progress, and skim down seven lines, and on your blog, post the subsequent 7 lines.
My seven lines come from my first published book, The Impenetrable Spy.
"Zack shot a burst at the guard with the ski mask as Jack fired a three round burst at the guard with the beanie. The dead bodies fell over each other. Zack and Jack walked into the original control room with the pillars. Zack looked for an off switch. He flipped the switch that read, "Stop Production (Emergencies Only). The machines all stopped as the dead bodies from earlier lied cut up throughout all of the razors. Zack saw all of the bloodstains and then decided it was best to just look away."
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The Sunflower Movement – what Taiwan students call their recent protests, marked a sharp escalation as hundreds of protesters stormed Taiwan's cabinet offices on Sunday, which has resulted in several waves of clashes between anti-riot police and angry protesters, and inevitably, injured students.
The escalation came after days of the occupation of the Taiwan legislature by students in protest against a trade pact with mainland China, in which both sides agree to open up dozens of service sector industries to companies from either side. Opponents of the trade pact fear that Beijing will tighten its grip over Taiwan through growing influence over the self-governed island's economy.
So far, media in mainland China seem to have relative freedom in reporting what is likely to become Taiwan's own moment of "1989 student movements." China's leading social media Weibo has been filled with real-time updates from outside the Taiwan government buildings, where anti-riot police have been "clearing out" protesters.
Most Chinese netizens, after seeing the news, took the position of an onlooker because they believe that these Taiwan student protesters are "too young and naive" to achieve anything. After all, in their minds, the trade pact is meant to benefit Taiwan at the cost of the interests of mainland Chinese businesses.
One netizen 火山石烤鱿鱼 commented: "I don't want Taiwan to pass the trade pact, either, because I don't want Beijing to use our hard-earned money to save Taiwan's economy. We should wait until Taiwan's economy collapses."
Mainland netizens seem to be much angrier at a few Taiwan stars who openly voiced support for the student protesters and publicly showed their disparage of mainland audiences. Among them are popular singers Yoga Lin, Deserts Chang, and rock band Mayday.
Earlier last week, Yoga Lin posted a paper titled "How the pending Agreement on Trade in Services between China and Taiwan would impact Taiwan's economy and sovereignty" on his Facebook page. In response to a comment that Lin may risk being banned in mainland, one of his fans said: "What is there to fear? I dear Beijing to ban all Taiwan singers. Let's wait and see who'd cry out loud if no Taiwan singer goes to China to perform."
This particular massage soon went viral on Weibo, and right now, #Kick Taiwan stars who support independence out of China# is trending.
Most of the anger lies in the belief that these stars condemn mainland Chinese as a faceless whole, while at the same time cashing in on mainland market. "While in front of us, they pretend that they care about us mainland fans…for our money. At our back, they speak ill of all mainland Chinese," commented one netizen 昕埝whyhong.
Many netizens hold that they are first a Chinese citizen then a fan. One long-time fan of Yoga Lin 李磊 said: "I have been your fan since 2007. I've purchased most of your albums and been to your concerts, but I won't keep supporting you starting now. Bye bye, Yoga. Best of luck. Please don't 'lower' yourself to perform in mainland China any more."
Also trending on Weibo is #Prevent Chapman To from coming to mainland China#. Chapman To is a popular Hong Kong actor best known for his comedic roles. As a Hong Kong star, he threw himself into the current controversy by calling his Taiwan celebrity friends to "ignore mainland netizens" because "they are truly barbarous."
Flooded by Chinese netizens' fury, he continued to point out that the criticism and anger from mainland netizens exactly proved his point. To make things worse, he went on to "declare war": "Stop telling me to not to visit mainland China if I have the guts. I say to you: 'I dare you guys to have the guts to keep me from performing in mainland China.'"
And thus the trending hashtag. While there are netizens who said they can understand Yoga Lin's stance as a Taiwanese, no one stood out in defense of Chapman To.
As one netizen 星光背影 commented: "I respect these celebrities' perspective given their unique background. But it's a big no for an actor to put himself above his audiences from an entire country. Chapman To, you are free to express your opinion, I'm also free to boycott all your works." Another pissed mainland netizen 左晓雯vian commented: "I may not be powerful enough to keep you out of mainland, but as a mainland Chinese, I will never pay a single penny to watch your movies."
Many netizens actually urged China's SARFT (State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and TV) to permanently ban him.
Even worse news for Chapman To is that he pissed off not only mainland audiences. 陈砺志, CEO of Beijing Maite Media, vowed to never use To in his production: "I will never use Chapman To in movies that I invest in. My company will also never join any project that Chapman To is in." Popular Chinese director 高群书 also followed suit.
This is not the first time when Taiwan or Hong Kong celebrities get involved in the complicated politics between mainland China and the two islands. A-mei, famous Taiwan singer who was banned from visiting mainland China in 2000 for supporting Taiwan independence, only made a full return in recent years. Deserts Chang, who held a Republic of China flag during her concert, even brought the confrontation to England.
At the heart of the conflict is mainland Chinese' belief that "celebrities should stay away from politics."
Although we have come to accept this form of behavior as family entertainment, the reality is that it has serious consequences.
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[...] Chang is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter. Chinese netizens recently criticized her for supporting the student protest in Taipei. Watch "Rose-Colored You" via [...]
How did Deserts Chang 'bring the confrontation to England'?
She took a flag from a member of the audience. Attending PRC students then politicized this simple act. Surely the group seeking confrontation were the PRC students?
[...] sectors. Further to that, Taiwan professionals work, actors and musicians act and perform (some mainlanders struck back at certain Taiwan celebs), students study, and retirees are buying homes on the mainland. Taiwan [...]
[...] Hong Kong actor Chapman To has also spoken in favor of the protest, so enraging Chinese netizens that the Weibo discussion page "Block Chapman To from the Mainland" (#阻止杜汶泽来大陆#) now has over 52,000 "likes." Offbeat China explains: [...]
[...] netizens call for boycott of Taiwan stars who voiced support for student protesters – http://offbeatchina.com/chinese-netizens-call-for-a-boycott-of-taiwan-stars-who-voiced-support-for-s… from China Studies at Leiden University [...]
"At the heart of the conflict is mainland Chinese' belief that 'celebrities should stay away from politics'."
No. At the heart of the conflict is envy that 1) Taiwanese live in a free society that promises free speech and actually practices it, unlike the PRC; and 2) Even faced with the loss of "market share" in the PRC, Taiwanese stars have the balls to speak from the heart.
fucking LOL.
"..envy that Taiwanese live in a free society that promises free speech and actually practises it, unlike the PRC"
lmao well first of all the PRC never claimed to be a "true-blue democrat" and have all these so-called "democratic principles" so your argument is fucking invalid.
"Even faced with the loss of "market share" in the PRC, Taiwanese stars have the balls to speak from the heart."
LOLOLOL and yet they keep crawling back to the PRC to promote despite their "balls". Why? Because they're fucking HYPOCRITES.
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Saturday, August 25, 2012
AIRCA Championship Finals Rodeo (Rodeo & Equestrian)
Location: Ganado, AZ
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AIRCA Championship Finals Rodeo (Rodeo & Equestrian)
Location: Ganado, AZ - RJM Rodeo Grounds
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Aces Wild Dance (Concerts & Dances)
Location: Chinle, AZ
Back by popular demand....Aces Wild to share the night with Johnny Lee & Urban Cowboy Band. Central Fair Weekend at the Community Center. Doors Open at 8p. Advance tickets $20 at NACE -Chinle.
27th Central Fair Rodeo (Rodeo & Equestrian)
Location: Chinle, AZ - Gorman's Arena
Performances: 8/24 at 7p. 8/25 at 7p. 8/26 at 1p
Central Navajo Fair Rodeo (Rodeo & Equestrian)
Location: Gorman's Arena, Chinle, AZ
CNRA CES, Rose Claw, 928.781.4340. Call ins on Tuesday 8/21 and Call Backs on Wednesday 8/22. Performances 8/24-8/26 at 7p/7p/1p with Slack on 8/26 at 9a.
Rope for the Benjamins (Rodeo & Equestrian)
Time: 10:00 AMLocation: Edison Begay Arena, Chinle, AZ
Behind Chinle IHS, West Side. Enter at 10a and Rope at 10:30a
Celebrate Founder's Day at Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site (Seasonal Events)
Time: 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM
Location: Ganado, AZ
On August, 25 the national Park Service turns 96 years old and we mark another milestone on the road to our centennial. Join us outside of the Visitor Center on Saturday, August 25 at 11:00am-4:00pm for youth activities. Learn more about the National Park Service history, Theodore Roosevelt, and the importance of conservation. A live broadcast from KTNN-660am for the "The Drums of Summer" evening event will be from 6:00pm-9:00pm. There will be singing, dancing,drumming, and back to school giveaway for this evening event.
Diva's Rope N Ride Rodeo (Rodeo & Equestrian)
Time: 1:00 PMLocation: Gorman's Arena, Chinle, AZ
All Ladies Spectacular Event...
Tse'yi Navajo Fashion Show (Community Outreach)
Time: 2:00 PMLocation: Chinle Catholic Activity Hall
Navajo Designer: Manuelito's and Selina Marie Curley....along with local artists....featuring modern, contemporary, and traditional clothing.
Spirit in the Pines Benefit Concert (Fundraiser)
Time: 4:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Location: Museum of Northern Arizona
Flagstaff, AZ – On August 25, Native American performers Tony Duncan, Anthony Wakeman, and Radmilla Cody will perform a concert, Spirit in the Pines, to benefit Northland Family Help Center's (NFHC) Women's Shelter for survivors of domestic violence and their children.
23rd Canyon De Chelly Mud Bog (Community Outreach)
Time: 6:00 PMLocation: Chinle. AZ
Classes: Top Pro Unlimited, Pro Modified, Modified Stock. Half time entertainment...Atv Drags Winners takes all. Money pit run. at US 191 and Hospital Road. For more information call Donovan at 928-674-5939


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Criminal Investigation Certificate Program
This program is a series of North Carolina Justice Academy courses for investigators who wish to receive recognition for their achievement. It is designed to be tailored to the individual needs of the investigator and the department. For information on program requirements, visit the webpage.
Instructor Development Certificate Program
The Instructor Development Program (IDP) is a certificate program hosted by the North Carolina Justice Academy. The program will provide instructors with opportunities to improve their skills in all areas of the training function. NCJA has collaborated with training experts from other organizations from both the public and private sector to provide IDP students with the best possible learning experience.
Management Development Program
The Management Development Program (MDP) provides an innovative curriculum that is designed to examine the complex issues of law enforcement management. The goals of this program is to develop management and leadership skills which are fundamental to the criminal justice leaders of today.
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This program is designed to recognize the achievements of those officers involved in the specialized and tactical arenas. It combines core courses and elective courses to provide the individual officer the opportunity to develop a solid foundation of tactical training and expertise.
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June 28 is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 186 days remaining.
- 1932: Pat Morita, the voice of Udon, was born.
- 2011: Attack of the Zombies! was published.
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Re: Excel Data Managing
Hi Matteo,
First you have to throw away the text headers using Drop or Take.
Are you sure that each data triplet has two sets of curly brackets
around it? It looks unusual, not what I normally get when I import
from Excel. Assuming you put the rest of the dataset in the variable
data I'd suggest getting rid of the extra layer of brackets using
data = Flatten[data, 1]
If you want to plot Price against Year you could use ListPlot or
DateListPlot as follows:
ListPlot[Transpose[{ data[[All,1]], data[[All,2]] } ] .
data[[All,1]] takes the first column of the dataset and data[[All,2]]
takes the second. Putting them in a new list with { } and using
Transpose makes it a list with data pairs.
An alternative approach would be:
ListPlot[Transpose[{ Transpose[data][[1]], Transpose[data][[1]] } ]
Cheers -- Sjoerd
On Jun 14, 12:53 am, Sharing the Jazz <formenti.mat... at gmail.com>
> Hi,
> I import a dataset of three variable from excel to mathematica. The
> input works but i don't know how to work on it, for example plot it,
> analyze stationarity. The problem is that they are on this form and
> Mathematica (with Time Series application) doesn't work.
> {{{"Year", "Price", "Dividend"}}, {{1871., 77.2276,
> 4.52234}}, {{1872., 83.2615, 4.51085}}, ..... {{2009., 888.75,
> 28.7598}}}
> Can someone help me in start using this data?
> Thank you very much,
> Matteo
> HEC-Paris


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Man Guilty In Fatal Robbery
TAMPA, Fla. - A man accused of killing two Tampa Police officers has been convicted in another, unrelated fatal shooting.
A jury found 27-year-old Dontae Morris guilty Wednesday of first-degree murder and attempted robbery. He faces a mandatory life sentence.
Authorities say Morris killed 42-year-old Rodney Jones outside the Cotton Club in West Tampa on May 31, 2010. Officials say that one month after that incident, Morris shot and killed officers Jeffrey Kocab and David Curtis. Prosecutors are seeking a death sentence in that case. Morris also faces separate murder trials in the killings of Harold Wright and Derek Anderson.
The jurors in the current trial were selected from Orlando because too many potential jurors in Tampa were aware that Morris is also awaiting trial in the four other slayings.
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Thursday, November 11
Rockford Lions Club Meeting—6 p.m. social, 6:30 dinner and 7 p.m. meeting at the Community Cabin, 220 N. Monroe St., Rockford. Meetings held every second and fourth Thursday of each month.
Adult Book Discussion—6:45 p.m. at Krause Memorial Library, 140 E. Bridge St., Rockford. "Sarah's Key" by Tatiana de Rosnay.
Friday, November 12
Rummage Sale—noon to 5 p.m. at Sparta Baptist Church, corner of Division and State Street. Proceeds go to Women of Domestic Violence.
Saturday, November 13
Widow's Weekend Bazaar—9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Cedar Springs American Legion Post, hosted by the Auxiliary. There will be "garage sale" merchandise, arts, crafts, a bake sale and silent auction. For more information, call (616) 570-2830.
Benefit for Amber Ward—11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Wenger's Bowling Alley, to help her with her medical bills and future expenses since being diagnosed with terminal cancer. There will be a silent auction, 50/50 raffle, food, spirits and live entertainment. Cash donations accepted. For more information, contact Desireé Minnema at firstname.lastname@example.com or (616) 318-5910.
Rummage Sale—9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Sparta Baptist Church, corner of Division and State Street. Proceeds go to Women of Domestic Violence.
Monday, November 15
Free Food for Needy Families—5 p.m. at St. Stephen Lutheran Church, 6070 Kuttshill Drive, Rockford, with a Mobile Food Pantry providing free food for needy families in the North Kent community. For more information, call the church at (616) 866-1556.
Tuesday, November 16
Country Music—9:30 to 11:30 a.m. every Tuesday at Rockford Ambulance Community Center, corner of 10 Mile Road and Shaner Avenue in Rockford. Music by the Rogue River Band. Enjoy free coffee, tea and snacks.
Art Workshops for Families: Fabric Collage—6:30 p.m. at Krause Memorial Library, 140 E. Bridge St., Rockford. Make a textile collage by layering a variety of fabric shapes and textures on a thick collage board base. For families with kids of all ages.
Learn About Muslim Women—6 to 8 p.m., hosted by Our Lady of Consolation's Women's Ministry, for a ladies evening of fellowship with women of Islamic faith, with homemade soups and chili, breads, salads, desserts and beverages. Space is limited. Childcare provided. To reserve your spot or for more information, call Karen at (616) 874-9543 or Debby at (616) 874-5469.
Wednesday, November 17
Blue Star Moms—6 p.m. at 669 Mead Road, Orleans, Mich. Meetings held the third Wednesday of each month. For more information, call Sally at (616) 761-2042.
Thursday, November 18
Great Lakes Great Ships Presentation—6 to 7 p.m. at Frenz Coffee House, in the Promenade, downtown Rockford (across from the dam), by local photographer Stacy Niedzwiecki. Her 2010 ArtPrize photography entry will be on display at Frenz from November 6 to 19. She will also have 2011 photo calendars, books, prints and other items for sale.
Friday, November 19
Adult Book Discussion—1:30 p.m. at Krause Memorial Library, 140 E. Bridge St., Rockford. "Islam: A Short History" by Karen Armstrong.
Turkey Time Bowling—at Westgate Bowling to benefit Olivia's Gift, a Belmont nonprofit organization to raise awareness for residential housing for adults with severe disabilities. This event is filled with crazy games, team competitions, prizes, and 100 frozen turkeys to be given away.
39 Clues Party—6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Krause Memorial Library, 140 E. Bridge St., Rockford. Uncover secrets, solve codes and mysteries, and enjoy activities related to the popular book series "39 Clues." For ages 6 and up. For more information, call the library at (616) 647-3940 or visit www.kdl.org.


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Posted by Mark Bartrick on February 28, 2014
Microsoft retires support for various older products in 2014 and 2015. This means there will be no more free updates or security patches. While it's a common occurrence to see support for older products retired by software vendors, it's annoying if either the old stuff is still running perfectly well or if the upgrade option is financially onerous, will significantly disrupt the business or offers little in the way of real added benefit.
So in April we'll be finally bidding farewell to support for the likes of Windows XP, Office 2003, Exchange Server 2003, and in July 2015 we'll say adieu to support for Windows Server 2003. In addition, some more recent products will be transitioning to extended support in July 2014 - namely SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 – which puts them next on the path to software heaven.
Windows XP
On April 8, 2014, Windows XP will reach the end of its support lifecycle and Microsoft will no longer provide security or online updates.
Office 2003
As a part of the Microsoft Support Lifecycle Policy, Office 2003 products receive five years of Mainstream Support and five years of Extended Support. April 8, 2014 marks the end of this 10-year support period. Running Office 2003 after the end-of-support date may expose your company to security risks and technology limitations.
Exchange Server 2003
While Exchange Server 2003 was a leader in the messaging space, after 10 years of technology progression it will reach End of Support effective April 8, 2014.
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Many of you will be in the midst of a contract negotiation or maintenance renewal with BMC and/or CA at the moment, because both software vendors do a large proportion of their license deals in the January to March quarter as it's their financial year ends on March 31. It's a sourcing cliché that software companies give their best discounts at their financial year end, but just because you are making a purchase in month 12 doesn't mean that you are getting a good deal. Through client interactions, I see a lot of software deals and I am often surprised by the gulf between the latest deal on the table and what I would consider to be a market best deal – one that sets the relationship up for mutual success, balancing price, flexibility and risk.
Buying software from powerful providers such as BMC and CA is very different from buying hardware, services and non-IT categories. Unfortunately, many sourcing professionals seem to think that they'll look weak if they engage external expert help to coach them during a negotiation, but it isn't a question of just buying additional haggling advice (although that can sometimes help), it's really a question of buying deep, current market knowledge. Unless you have that, you risk:
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In the Age of the Customer, it's vital that your hard-pressed IT budget is spent wisely and is refocused into areas of the business that can help improve client acquisition, retention and profitability. Negotiating better deals with your legacy incumbent software vendors is a great way to free up cash to spend on innovation.
If you have an upcoming contract negotiation with Microsoft, Oracle or SAP then let's schedule a call to discuss how you can gain greater pricing and contract concessions by working with Forrester's dedicated Software Contract Negotiation experts. With the costs of software licenses and annual maintenance going up each year and vendors providing limited transparency into licensing options, it's critical you know which discounts to target and what negotiation tactics have worked well for other businesses.
Having worked with thousands of clients, Forrester has built up significant market intelligence on what's achievable and how to get it. As a result, we are often able to show our clients how to negotiate additional savings on their license and on-going maintenance/support costs. And our success-based fee model means you only pay us if our advice helps you save you money.
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CANADA STOCKS-TSX set to open up as oil prices pare losses
Feb 25 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index was poised to open marginally higher on Thursday as oil prices moved off their session low.
March futures on the S&P TSX index were up 0.27 percent at 7:15 a.m. ET.
Canada's main stock index fell to a one-week low on Wednesday as weaker-than-expected bank earnings dragged down financial stocks, but higher crude oil prices helped pare some of the losses, providing support for energy stocks.
Dow Jones Industrial Average e-mini futures were up 0.24 percent at 7:15 a.m. ET. S&P 500 e-mini futures were up 0.23 percent and Nasdaq 100 e-mini futures were up 0.23 percent.
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Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce posted a first-quarter profit that topped market expectations, helped by growth in its retail and business banking division.
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An off-duty deputy pulls a gun on a pregnant woman and her husband in a dispute in Walmart...
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An off-duty deputy pulls a gun on a pregnant woman and her husband in a dispute in Walmart...
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Not sure how bad it is. Hard to tell from the report and what video there is. Sounds like there was a confrontation and the cop was acting to defend himself and prevent further escalation into a physical confrontation.
The husband is a large man, certainly giving concern if attacked, and while it may seem offensive and overkill to point a gun at a pregnant woman... pregnant women can be CRAZY and unpredictable. No charges being filed against the cop and the husband has battery charges.
Seems like a sittuation that just didn't need to happen, brought to you by you friendly local crazies at WM.
Not really enough information or facts to even form an opinion. IMO
if i got some where and someone was telling my ol lady something im going to get inbetween to try and calm the situation but if he presses i will probably push him back as well if he gets too close, personal space and everything.
Heres my question if he was ok getting that close where he was able to get pushed then why did he feel he needed to pull out his firearm?
I would want to find out what started it. That would be good
I never thought of the fact that pregnant women can be erratic. I just used similar language to that used in the title of the story. IMO, of what is shown in the footage, there was not nearly enough of a threat to draw...
I don't really know enough to say that the LEO was right in what he did or that the woman was out of control because she is pregnant. Those are stereo types that are NOT always correct. Especially the one about the woman.
Expect to see it on "People of Walmart " website.
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Guns in Illinois? No way Jose! They are banned, even for the cops sometimes! Illinois has no gun crime, this story can't be true.
Sarcasm off.
There seems to be more to this than meets the eye. Obviously both "sides" had some issues and the one felt that a handgun might be justifiable in the resolution of the situation.
I've been a little aggravated when I get in line and have to wait for the cashier to finish with a customer because they forgot something and had left to get it before I got in line,but it in no way ever crossed my mind to pull a gun.Without audio and better video it's hard to tell what really led up to the incident.
In most instances you will have several sides to a story,"Victims",Aggressor","What really happened",
I don't see a verbal complaint as justification to initiate a physical assault. If a 300+ lb. man assaults me, he can plan on seeing a firearm aimed at him. It is called disparity of force putting me in fear for my life.
Lets say just for sake of argument that the woman was in the wrong 100% and that the officer was justified in drawing a weapon on her. At that point is she guilty of child endangerment?
Other side: In some states if you shoot a pregnant women and the child dies you can be convicted of murder. In this case if the officer shot and the fetus died could Felony Murder charges be brought against the mother?


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Pie Madness Takes Over Bowie
March 1, 2013 9:08 AM ET
BOWIE, Md. - The Bowie Baysox announce today that their lovable mascot Louie is ready for March Madness and he is celebrating it with pie. Louie's Pie Madness extravaganza will feature a special ticket offer and a bracket-style tournament to determine Baysox fans' favorite dessert pie leading up to the Baysox in-season celebration at 7:05 p.m. on Pi(e) Day, Friday, April 12.
Promotions Manager Chris Rogers is the brains behind Pie Madness.
"Most people celebrate the totality of Pi and pie on one single day: March 14 (3.14), but the Baysox believe pie is too important and too delicious to limit to just one day," Rogers explained. "Following last year's fruitful efforts, we will once again celebrate both the crucial math constant and delicious dessert throughout the month of March. We're even extending the celebration into April and Baysox baseball season with a dedicated theme night on April 12. Last season apple pie was crowned the Pie Madness Champion and our hard-working selection committee has tweaked this year's bracket to include different varieties of the delicious treat. I am excited to see if another contender can unseat this culinary juggernaut."
The Baysox have partnered with Bowie's own Best Pie Company to provide pies to the first 30 fans to purchase an $88 Fielder's Choice pack by visiting www.baysoxshop.com. The Fielder's Choice pack includes eight Box Seat tickets that can be used in any amount at any game and during this special limited time offer, the Baysox will also include your choice of a fresh baked apple, key lime or three berry (blueberry, blackberry and raspberry) pie with the ticket pack purchase. Louie or another Baysox staff member will personally deliver your fresh pie within a 25-mile radius between 1 and 5 p.m. Monday-Friday during the month of March.
The Baysox are also searching for the top pie in the land during the month of March. Starting Monday, March 4, a 16-pie bracket will be whittled down through voting on the Baysox Facebook page to one winner crowned the Baysox Pie Madness champion. For every vote made on the Facebook poll questions, fans will receive an entry into a raffle to win a Baysox 2012 team-signed baseball, so make your voice heard to determine the best pie in Bowie.
Baysox Baseball - We'll Knock Your 'Sox Off. The Baysox open the 2013 season on the road and begin the 20th season of baseball at Prince George's Stadium Thursday, April 11. To keep up with Baysox news during the offseason, visit baysox.com.
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Marcus Waldman is a Quantitative Policy Analysis in Education doctoral student at Harvard. His research looks at the effects of education policies and social inequalities on student achievement. Marcus taught high school in Atlanta as a corps member in Teach For America before graduate school. He received his Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his Master's degree in Applied Statistics from Teachers College, Columbia University.


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Opinions do vary on this - some folks think the ''Israeli way'' too.
My thinking is - 1911 - even tho it is not my own fave platform - yep condition #1 - and it is the grip safety that really helps on that for folks who worry.
With my BHP I was less happy - just the one safety so - for me not as comfortable condition #1.
In the end, because I was later to the 1911 platform than any other - my compromize is condition #1 but D/A - S/A . With the SIG in particular - I now hardly notice that D/A first shot - just get pumpin them out.
So yeah for me - the means to get one off pronto makes it paramount to have chamber loaded - just might be a fatal delay if otherwise. Another reason why revo's are good - first shot is there and ready regardless.


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Gov. Jerry Brown is a formidable candidate for re-election with $10 million in the bank, favorable poll numbers and the advantages that go to any Democrat running for re-election in California.
Two Republicans are ignoring those odds, though, and are already campaigning for governor. And they couldn't be more different from each other. In fact, Tim Donnelly and Abel Maldonado represent the ends of the spectrum in California's Republican Party.
When Maldonado was in the state Senate, he gave Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger the final vote he needed for the 2009 budget deal raising taxes. Schwarzenegger rewarded him by appointing him lieutenant governor.
Donnelly, on the other hand, is probably the most conservative member of the state Assembly. "You can put a gun to my head and I won't vote for a tax increase," he said earlier this month, while driving to a Solano County tea party meeting.
Donnelly used to be a member of the Minutemen, the self-styled vigilante group that patrolled the U.S.-Mexico border looking for illegal immigrants. He supported repealing California's DREAM Act, which makes some undocumented immigrants eligible for lower in-state tuition to public universities.
As for Maldonado, he regularly talks about his family's immigrant roots, he supports a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants, and he's making a big push to diversify the Republican Party. "We as Republicans need to take our message and show a little respect," he said during an interview in a downtown Los Angeles hotel. "We need to go to the communities Republicans don't go to. We need to go to East L.A. We need to go to the San Gabriel Valley. We need to go to Compton."
Different Approaches To 'Obamacare'
Maldonado is a businessman, but he's also had a long career in Central Coast politics. He served as a mayor in Santa Maria, then was in the state Assembly and Senate before becoming lieutenant governor. Last year he ran for Congress as a moderate against incumbent Democrat Lois Capps and lost.
But he's still holding on to the center. Take Obamacare. Opposition to President Obama's signature accomplishment has been a key Republican tenet since the measure became law in 2010. While California has created a state-based health insurance exchange and expanded Medi-Cal, many Republican governors across the country are fighting the measure and refusing to pass similar laws. Maldonado wouldn't join them. "Do I believe Obamacare is going to work? I've questioned it," he said. "And I continue to question. But it is going to happen, it's going to move forward. So let's let it be to see what happens with it."
Donnelly, on the other hand, told a group of 60 tea party members that the federal health care law is a "Trojan horse to full-blown socialism."
"I will do everything in my power to stand on the border of California and keep the federal government and its army of agents from coming here to force you to do something you don't want to do," he said as the audience burst into applause.
Will Top-Two Primary Make Candidates Change Tactics?
2014 will be the first time California's new top-two primary system goes into effect for a statewide race. Republican and Democratic voters alone won't be nominating their party's candidates. Instead, Democrats can vote for a Republican, Republicans can vote for a Democrat, and the top two vote-getters will advance to a November runoff – regardless of party affiliation.
What type of candidate does the new system help most? Dan Schnur, director of USC's Jesse Unruh Institute of Politics, said last year's local and congressional races showed that relying on your base alone won't work. "If all you do is talk to your best friends, you're not going to go very far," he said.
And Schnur rejects the conventional wisdom, saying, the top-two system doesn't necessarily help moderates or hurt conservatives. "A candidate from the base of his or her respective party can reach out across party lines, if they find an issue on which to do so."
Donnelly is convinced taxes are that issue. "When we're fighting in the trenches and we're champions of the average hard-working Californian, people forget we're Republicans. And they realize we're on their side." The conservative said he'll avoid campaigning on the social issues that have tripped up tea party candidates running for statewide office in places like Missouri and Indiana in recent years. "When we go off track and start talking about issues that have nothing to do with our future or economy or the average person's concerns, that's when we lose them."
A Hard Line On Realignment
The new primary system is in place largely because of Maldonado. Schwarzenegger agreed to help place it on the ballot in exchange for Maldonado's support of the governor's 2009 budget. Maldonado said he's confident it will produce a moderate, down-the-middle nominee.
And yet Maldonado is positioning himself as a hard-liner on one issue: crime and prison reform. He's made opposition to Gov. Brown's prison realignment plan, which redirects low-level offenders to county prisons, a centerpiece of the early campaign. Even as Brown battles federal judges to avoid releasing 9,000 prisoners from state prisons, Maldonado called the governor "anti-incarceration."
Maldonado was blasted by the NAACP earlier this year for a press conference he held featuring a blown-up mug shot of a frightening-looking African-American accused of murder. Problem was, the suspect's release from prison had nothing to do with realignment.
The NAACP called it a "Willie Horton-style" tactic, but Maldonado said he won't back down. "If I was going to do it all over again, maybe I should have (used) the picture of the 14-year-old girl sodomized by this person. Maybe I should have put pictures of the victims that were murdered by these people. And if I do another one soon, that's what I'll be doing," he said.
The California primary is still 10 months away. And at least one other candidate may join the race — former U.S. Treasury official Neel Kashkari, who ran the $400 billion effort to rescue financial institutions after the 2008 economic collapse.
Whichever Republican prevails will be rewarded with this: the chance to take on a powerful, well-funded incumbent who will boast of balancing the state budget after years of huge deficits.


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My idea of a conservative poet is Marcel Duchamp. There isn't much use for time external to the writing in my head these days, insofar as the timely timelessness thing goes, much as I can sort of be "in like" with the question, or give it some nod from the next set of collapsing structures (tonalities), one gets paid to briefly inhabit. "Doubt itself becomes a form. You divest yourself of what you know." Right. The four week old ain't gonna let me do this two-handedly. I rub my scratchy cheek on hers in protest, and my idea of an interesting asshole poet is Donald Judd. So I got to thinking, no, desiring to find another way to work with space in poems, which led to writing on the outskirts of 10" x 13" blank white pages in a sketchbook. Real practical. Cursive rectangles, no consistent start point, right up on the edges of the paper. A wide open impulse to say things in-what-kind-of-unit determined from the wing. Turn corners, no breaks. The poem doesn't stop, it closes around a huge flat vacuum. A different set of decisions. They get a little smudged, but I have enough of them to be able to read some of them fully (fun to read, turning that notebook around and around, if a little hard to manage an idea of what to read when bodies are nearby explicitly to listen: "an army of imaginations"). Long form, short material, wide range of prosodic openings. They get clause driven. Futureless outside of what they are. My idea of who might be on the other side of the poems, any poems, is anyone, or Joan Mitchell. Wait a minute. I'm a little freaked out by the voice construction this space enables. Do I really want that deep a relationship with contempt (which strikes me, perhaps falsely now, as often being a by-product of indirect self-assessment gone brutally haywire)? Gosh I like it when you accuse me of things. I know I'll eventually fuck up the gray shades of whatever's appropriate (the irony of radical restriction!) when composing a surface of knowingness. I have too much affection for making a mess. Making shapes out of, or with, messiness, whereas I remains a character that otherwise may draw exactly from my life without being it (like the I's I know in Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely and W. G. Sebald's Rings of Saturn… oddly similar books, despite appearances). Just as a little starting point, before duration overtakes depiction, speaking of time, inside the writing, and levels the field a bit. My idea of a sound poet is Robert Bresson, though that one's a little too pitched. But alas, fuckface, it be true. June sleeps well for her age, but she's damn loud. I had to recently put down Kathy Acker's Blood and Guts in High School because I had to give it back to the library. Took too long to get through the part where Janie is being kept in a room and tortured. Now trying to get through this long Inquisition scene in the Melmoth book, but I don't know. Reading is slower than living right now, which is unexpected (and astonishing, in a nothing sort of way), since the first kid's early weeks were marked by what felt like each second of each day passing out immobile on the ground.
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I just got started on my armor again, and I hope to complete my kit this year... new years resolution. great to be back!!!
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I just got started on my armor again, and I hope to complete my kit this year... new years resolution. great to be back!!!
Nice lid. What was your process for the build? - thinking of doing a bespoke Mando.
dude that's an awesome helmet! and the armor looks like its moving right along
Sooo jealous of the helmet, it's gorgeous. Can't wait to see more progress!
thanx everyone,it means a lot to me to have compliments on my work so far from other vode'. I'll try to get some more work done tonight and get some pics up.
some progress pics, anyone got an opinion on the left shoulder plate with pauldron?
Earcap that I've been working on.
Looks great! That completed shin looks awesome! Can't wait to see it all come together. Going to be one sick outfit. I think the pauldron idea is very cool. It'll gives it a heavy duty look/feel I think. ;-) Helmet is wicked btw.
Darm, sorry it took so long . here's the build process for the helmet
I really like how you combined the rather normal shoulder plate with the pauldron. It's makes it super interesting. Definitely keep it. :) And the rest of your kit is looking good too.


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Lindsay Lohan Drops Her Top for Instagram Selfie at Cannes
She's always been comfortable in her own skin and Lindsay Lohan flashed some serious flesh while partying in Cannes, France over the weekend.
The "Mean Girls" actress posed next to a male friend and snapped a selfie sans top, with only her long red locks to cover her lady parts.
Of course, LiLo was quick to upload the saucy shot to her Instagram account along with the caption, "#isCANNESQuicheENUF ?! #ily."
Meanwhile, Lindsay's next project "Inconceivable" has already run into a roadblock in the financing department and it's thought that her reputation for being unreliable is the root of the problem.
An insider told Radar, "There is always the problem of insuring Lindsay for movies. It's very likely this movie will never get made."
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Haven't heard of Cresyn? We're not surprised. The Korean manufacturer of affordable audio kit has been around since the 50s in one form or another, but its current headphone range has only recently crash-landed in the UK. The Cresyn C720H are the highest-end model currently available. They're huge, bold-looking and just £65. But if they sound as gaudy as they look, they could be in trouble.
Cresyn is a budget brand, with headphones and earphones starting at less than ten pounds. Retailing for £65, the C720H fit into the lower mid-range of what you'd expect to pay for a decent set of over-the-ears cans. They're made of plastic, apart from the pleather ear pads and leather headband - props go to Cresyn for including the latter though.
Each headphone is covered with a grille that indicates these might be an open-backed pair. They're not. This grille is purely ornamental, laid on top of a standard black and silver plastic backing. This naturally adds a few millimetres to the bodies, and demonstrates the design philosophy that seems to be at work here - bigger is better.
Reducing the size of the C720H could perhaps have an adverse affect on sound quality, but it seems pretty unlikely on a set of cans of this calibre. Their closed-back design means you could take them on public transport without broadcasting your musical taste to your fellow passengers, but you'll need to discard your shame and pride to do so - they really are that big. Especially if you're a pale, white, middle-class male like the majority of the TrustedReviews team.
We took them out for a spin on the rail network to see how they deal with ambient noise, and found that in fact they only offer average noise isolation. The fit they exert on your head is a light one, so noise isn't reduced as much as an IEM earphone or a tighter over-the-ears set. However, they obviously remain a much better choice for travelling than leaky ear buds or an open-backed pair.
Cresyn doesn't intend the C720H as an on-the-go headphone though. The cable, which is non-detachable, is 3m long and braided - clearly meant for home use. Thanks to the fairly low-tech headband, kept in place with some form of rubber-band style material that passes through the band itself, we noticed an occasional annoying creaking sound when walking about with them on anyway, the movement causing small adjustments in the headband.
The jack is a dual 3.5mm and 6.3mm model. The 6.3mm extension screws in, making it look like a seamless addition rather than an adapter - rather neat. While the headphones themselves are rather plasticy and oversized, the cable and jack are surprisingly high-quality - even if the braided material simply covers a standard plastic cable.
The only unusual thing about the design of the Cresyn C720H is its ear pads, which are irregularly shaped, with a thin section at one end. When we received them, we found the positioning of the pads made it impossible to get the headphones to clamp on properly, reducing sound quality and decimating the otherwise comfortable fit. Thankfully, they're circular and are happy to swivel around on the cups - so you should be able to get a decent fit with a couple of minutes of experimentation. For a moment we thought we had a 5/10 pair of headphones on our hands. Thankfully, post-tweak, they're much better than that.
Thanks to iHeadphones for supplying our review unit.
Great review as always, just noticed you've got 5.3mm adapter in the review and key features sections which should probably be 1/4" or 6.3mm being the standard size for full size headphone jacks.
Thanks for the spot Julian. That was either a typo/blonde moment/premature senior moment. Take your pick!
I bought these on the strength of the review and because I needed a new set for home use.
I'm impressed with the build quality, but I have to admit I thought you were exaggerating on the size issue. But they are truely enormous - seriously massive. I like the braided cable, especially as the cable is hardwired into the headphones and thus not easily replaceable.
I bought these headphones based off this review also.. Have to say they had great sound and couldn't hear much else while listening... Only problem is everyone else could still hear me!!
If you want something that will give you good sound, reduce noise around you then these are great, but in my view if everyone else can still hear you then I might was well use my high quality speakers instead!!!
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Nice but I think the 518 is better
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Well, I am getting around much better. Sometimes I forget that I only have one front paw and try to swat at my favorite ball and go "plop" on the tile floor. Ouchie-wa-wa. My mom is nervous nellie and thinks I dislocated my "nub" when I fell so she is taking me to the vet soon. Also, doing my business is a little tricky still. Can't aim very well so I wet my only front paw and then slip and slide on the floor. My mom spends most of her days washing the floor. With all that extra work, you'd think she'd be a lot thinner! ;)
My stitches get taken out tomorrow and i am so happy!
the stitches are itchy and i have to wear a silly necklace around my neck to i cant reach my stitches! i cant wait till they get taken out. :)
i have been feeling a lot better. i'm playing a lot more now. my mom takes good care of me. im glad i have a good mom
i'll tell you how it was taking my stitches out later!
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Well, I am only three days out from losing my front left arm (yep... the whole arm is bye-bye). I am not a happy camper. My boo boo hurts and it really itches. I have to wear that dang cone and that gets on my nerves.
Well, I am kinda sleepy from all of my medicines so I will ask my mom to write again soon.
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hull reinforcement with liner
my boat has a liner and I am looking to reinforce the hull it.
does anyone have experience in this sort of procedure ?
You do not say precisely what you have in mind but I assume that you are talking about adding internal framing. I do not know of an easy way to reinforce the hull with a hull liner other than to temporarily remove sections of the liner, build up the internal framing that you wish to add, and then glass the liner back in. You may also look at developing as sytem to reinstall the liner in a manner that allows the liner to be removable, or leave the liner out if you are going offshore. (I personally think that liners are dangerous on an offshore boat because they limit access to the hull should you be damaged underway.)
Yes I would agree, and yes offshore it is.
If I was to add framing do you think there would be an issue of the framing stiffness effecting the glass structure so as to create flex points in parts of the panels that could compromise the panel strength?
Or are we talking more framing more strength period
Generally a bulkhead has foam between it and the hull so as not to create a hard spot. Framing usually is not as unforgiving as a full bulkhead and isn't stiff enough to create a hard spot if done properly. What kind of boat is it? The more information the better.
its a tanzer 26.
I dont think I would be adding any bulkheads, I was thinking just cemi circle ribs of epoxy/glass, to increase rigidity.
and lengthen some of the semingly short tabbing on the liner.
Not that I've personally seen but maybe Morris? And the two half bulkheads I added to my boat beside the galley stove are done that way. It's easy to do and any kind of foam works as it's just a spacer until the filleting and tabbing is in. Tim Lackey at Lackey Sailing, LLC | Boatbuilders, Boat Restorers, and Caretakers of Classic Boats does all his this way as well on his restorations.
If you just want to strengthen the panels a bit just hot glue some foam where you want the frame and glass over it with a couple of layers of biax and epoxy. Why are you reinforcing it? Does it flex more than you think it should or are you planning to go offshore? Like you say the problem is access with the liner in the way.
I am taking it across the Atlantic and I just feel the liner and tabbing is inadequate I had to re-glass some tab already so I know it is moving a bit. Aft of the main bulkhead their is no other bulkhead for the main and aft part of the boat.
And I beat on it quite a bit
The foam is a good idea I would have to round off the corners at the top though, probably be stronger than the hollow semicircle then?
Taking a Tanzer 26 trans Atlantic is a brave thing to do. These are built to be not much more than weekenders and are built very lightly. I hope you are not only reinforcing the structure but also the rudder and its mounting and thats a pretty weak little rudder mounted on thin gudgeons and very light pintles .... its not going to stand up against Atlantic waves. The rigging and chainplate mountings are also very light for that kind of crossing.
Good luck.
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