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The TOP-HIFI sound amplifier module, also known as Logic 7, can fail, with time, for various reasons. This is the final amplification stage for sound on your car. If your BMW is equipped with this module and you are experiencing sound problems, please read below.
PRICE: starts at 100 EUR (click here for full rates)
REPAIR DURATION: 2-3 business days
LOCATIONS: worldwide
Click here for delivery costs
Repair Procedure
- You ship the TOP HIFI amplifier to us for repair
- We repair it and thoroughly test it to confirm full functioning
- You pay safely
- We ship the Logic 7 amplifier back to you
We fix ALL faults
The most common:
- Prevents proper functioning of the CCC iDrive navigation. A faulty TOP HIFI amplifier is known to prevent the CCC iDrive navigation from proper functioning. The most common symptoms are: slow navigation through the menu of the CCC unit (a lag in executing user input commands to the iDrive), interruptions in the navigation voice, freezing of the iDrive head unit.
- Water infiltration
- Lack of sound: rarely, the lack of sound is experienced in only a few of the speakers, but Usually, all sound channels are affected by this fault.
- Unusual noise: sometimes, unusual noise can be heard from the speakers, like crackling, loud noises etc. The speakers per se are rarely the source of the problem and the fault lies with the Logic 7 amplifier most of the time.
Shipping your unit to us
- Download, fill in and send us the the form from this link
- Your Logic 7 amplifier should be located in the trunk of your car.
- Add cushioning (espcially aroundthe plastic connectors) and use a cardboard box
- Use the shipping details (company name, address & phone) from our contact page
- Return shipping is done through Romanian Post or DHL Express. Shipping rates to non-EU destinations.
- Our non-EU customers use their national post or DHL Express.
- Parcels coming from outside the European Union are subject to customs procedures, which last 2-4 business days.
- In the case of parcels shipped with the national post, the customs will charge a VAT fee of 20% of the stated product, if this value is above 40 Eur. This is why we recommend our customers to declare a value of 40 EUR for a faulty Logic 7 Amplifier. For higher stated product values, the VAT fee will be added to the total cost.
- Please contact us for exact shipping details before sending your unit from a non-EU location.
Car Models
- BMW 1 Series (E81, E82, E87, E88), BMW 3 Series (E90, E91, E92, E93), BMW 5 Series (E60, E61), BMW 6 Series (E63, E64), X5 E70, X6 E71
- We do not repair Logic 7 amplifiers from the 7 Series BMW models. These are very different modules and are rarely fully repairable.
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What our clients say
Customer Reviews
"The best technicians Mura car, top of the top. thanks a lot for the repair of the stereo of my car I would like to say good Job.."
- Antoine Maniklu
"The best repair service for BMW units. My MULF unit again works fine, quick response and friendly staff. I recommend anyone who has problems with BMW bluetooth CCC etc"
- Dušan Mikolič
"I have e61 bmw and the ccc-unit had this reboot-loop-problem time to time when unit got warmed up. Mca fixed and updated the unit fast and inexpensively. Could not be more pleased. Big thumbs up for these people, highly recommended! Back transport could have been faster and more precise, but that did not depend on mca"
- Heikki Meriö
"Had problem with my e91ccc, sent it to MCA and they repaired it fast and cheap."
- Roger Ehrstorm
"Je suis très satisfaite de leur service. Au début je m'inquiétais un peu d'envoyer mon Idrive en Roumanie mais quelques échanges de mails m'ont rassurée et en deux semaines, 300 euros frais de port inclus, mon Idrive était réparé alors que cela m'aurait coûté 1500 euros chez BMW. Je les recommande à 100 % !! Hyper professionnels je suis vraiment hyper contente d'être tombée sur le site par hasard alors que je cherchais toutes les solutions possibles."
- Lea Guillot
"Professional and economical repair of my BMW I-Drive module. I was a bit concerned about sending it from UK to Romania, but I needn't have worried - the repair was completed promptly on receipt and Vlad kept me informed all the way through. If you have a problem with car electronics these are the guys to fix it. 5* service."
- Bill Smith
"Good communication. Got my mulf module for bmw e60 fixed, recommend"
- Erik Nygren
"Highly recommend these guys as they repaired my BMW pro logic amp I had it back in the UK in a couple of weeks communication was great throughout and they have a list of prices on their website which is far far cheaper than here-if you can find someone who will do a repair that is . Thank you so much Vlad and team"
- Ray Gaisford
"Best service in Europe. Team of professionals, Reasonable pricing,Reliable and Fast. Higly recomendable."
- Semi Juvonen
"Famous in between car enthusiastics for their professional repairs. Had my CCC unit repaired by them, it all took under a month with the shipping also. Pricing is reasonable compared to scalvage units (which tend to fail after a while so ALWAYS prefer the fix with these guys! They also give a year's guarantee for the unit) Very good communication, when the unit has been received, when it was repaired and ready for dispatch etc. good english skills so the communication was easy. Can't do else than recommend these with 5 stars! Best regards from Finland!"
- Witun Kehi S
"Fantastic Service, Looked everywhere in the UK to have my CCC unit repaired, accidentally came across mura... was hesitant at first but they are a very professional service... recommend A+++"
- Jenson Muttock
"Fantastic service I would recommend to anyone who has a fault with CCC"
- Phil Darwin
""I have just had my ccc unit repaired by Mura and they did an excellent and speedy job. the unit was returned to me in three days after arriving with them. thanks for a job well done.""
- Tony Dean, United Kingdom
"Everyone I spoke with in Portugal told me that my bluetoth module had no repair. They were wrong. You fixed it and for much less money than it cost a new one. Thank you very much."
- Jose Antonio Pimentel Silva, Portugal
"Professional, fast, thorough and kind best describe the people at Mura Car Accessories. They helped me with a sound module repair when nobody else could so a big thumbs up to them. Cheers guys!"
- Victor Andrei, Romania
"Excellent repairs and fast customer support, fixed my bmw ccc e61 reboot problem and no audio issue. Very satisfied with mca overall"
- Andra Wilhelmsson, Sweden
"They are professional, they repaired my car's (BMW E90 ) Bluetooth module and it is working perfectly. I recommend their services."
- Palfi Botond, Hungary
"We're very pleased with the service received in repairing our CIC i drive for 1 series BMW. We were quoted £1,000 plus £170 programming charges by main BMW dealer for a reconditioned unit, Mura Car Accessories repaired for a fraction of the cost therefore we have no hesitation in recommending this service to all. Many thanks Sandi and Phil Rudge UK."
- Sandi Rudge, United Kingdom
"Excellent Service from Mura. My iDrive was completely dead and I was quote £1k from BMW to get it fixed. Thankfully I found Mura and they fixed it at a far more realistic cost. The service and communication was excellent throughout. Thanks, Lyle"
- Lyle McCalmont, United Kingdom
""MCA: Best quality for reasonable price including one year warranty! First, I really worried about sending my CCC-unit of my BMW overall across europe and maybe never see it back again. But MCA did a great job, replied on all my email inquiries promptly and the unit works fine so far! The only problem I have been facing was the shipping via HERMES. Unfortunately the package got lost between germany and austria, what took another three weeks in my case. So better use DHL for shipping.""
- Martin Munster, Germany
""My name is Vitor and I live in Portugal. I leave here my feedback on the work of these guys: Fantastic!! Excellent communication, answer, fast and great price / quality. My module mulf works at 100% now !!! I recommend Mura Car Accessories to everyone! Thank you Vlad !!!""
- Vitor Vieira, Portugal
"A fast repair and return of the unit . I recommend this company very highly"
- David Reed, United Kingdom
"Great service, MURA fixed my BMW CCC unit superfast and now it works like a new one. Highly recommended 🙂"
- Olli Sipila, Finland
"Great service from MCA!! I sent my broken bmw e87 CCC to them. In just over 2 weeks it was back in the car fully repaired and working. MCA were quick to respond to my questions via email. Great service, highly recommended"
- Sean Martin, United Kingdom
"Sent CCC unit for E63 from Malaysia due to the unit kept restarting and blank screen. Just got the unit back and installed. Works great with Aux input activated. The turn around time from MCA receiving the unit and sending it back was fast. Definitely recommend others with problem with the head unit, CCC to send it to them for repair. Better than getting a second hand unit."
- Arvind Menon, Malaysia
"Excellent. I had to change tv tuner of my bmw car, because i had lots of problems with my item and Mura Car Accessories helped me and solved all my difficulties. I'm completely satisfied with the quality, delivery time and service of this company. Professionalism, reliability, competences and kindness are the key words of MCA staff. Vlad and his staff was really quick in the service, we wrote lots of emails and they were always available and really kind. For sure i will get back to MCA if i need some more accessories for my car. I definitely suggest this company to all of bmw passionate people, they are kind and nice."
- Cristina Tasso, Italy
"Excellent service! I don't know what they did, but I sent them a completely dead MK4 unit and they sent it back fully working. Great communication throughout the process and a one year warranty of the work carried out. Highly recommended."
- Ed Hodson
"Just like the rest of the reviews say, Vlad (and his team) were awesome and managed to repair my bootlooping CCC iDrive unit quickly and without hassle. He kept in constant contact throughout the process making everything so easy, which I really appreciated considering I sent the unit halfway across the world (from New Zealand) for repair."
- Luke Hickin
"This is a very serious company and professional. I sent my ccc unit, they found the problem and fixed it. 24 hours after i had the unit back in sweden. Good service, price and email contact."
- Michael Neira
"Fast service time, great customer service and i'm very pleased, recommend!"
- Eelis Tohkanen
"They repaired my faulty CCC module. It's up and running again. Fast and reliable service."
- Ivailo Georgiev
"I couldn't be happier with this service ! I was quoted a lot more here in Germany for replacing my broken CCC. I sent my CCC to MCA in Romania and they fixed it for a fraction of the cost. It works perfectly !"
- Razvan Goga
"They repaired my CIC unit of my M6 car within 2 days , tested it and sent it back. I saved a great deal of money fixing this instead of buying a new one and it is working PERFECTLY ! Their pre and after sales follow up was amazing , they always called me back from Romania to Greece whenever they saw my call , Mr VLAD was extremely polite. I have only good things to say for them , this is how repair and service companies should be . go to them for your CCC the CIC , your bluetooth and all your BMW electronic problems , they know what they do"
- Gabriel Diacakis
"I was quoted silly money to fix my Bluetooth. I sent it to these guys, sorted, no issues. Safe as houses to work with."
- Gerard Mills
"Great price and great delivery time. Very responsive on E.mail. Kind and very helpful, and my CCC worked like a charm when i got it back. CCC was even faster on startup now. I would recommend this company to anyone at any times Couldn't be happier!"
- Ole Lund
"On my vehicle the iDrive had failed plus I had no audio... I sent my CCC to these guys and after just over a week a working and updated CCC was returned to me."
- Lance Edwards
"My CCC displayed all the usual fault symptoms, rebooting etc. Mura fixed it quickly and inexpensively. They updated the software and it now runs much smoother and noticeably faster. Vlad kept in touch throughout the whole process and the repair has a 12 month warranty."
- John Thomson
"MULF unit repaired successfully and now working really well."
- Peter Kegg
"Best and cheapest service to repair MULF modules for BMW! Instead of spending 150Eur on an SH MULF module, I chose to repair mine for ~50 EUR and I got a warranty! Repair took 2 days! Installed it in 2 min and I got my BT connectivity back and now iDrive works faster! Thx MCA!"
- Deleteplz
"I've sent my CCC to them from the UK because here I found nobody that could fix it. Got it back as good as new, great work ! I recommend this company to anyone, no matter where you are ! With the optional expedited repair and expedited return shipping, I got my unit back the next day !"
- Mu Sai
"They repaired My ccc unit for a fair price and it runs perfectly. Really good and fast service!"
- Endre Hoydal
"Very good repair, fast customer support. They fixed the restart loop and no sound issue on my ccc bmw e61."
- Andwi03
"If I can, I will give ten stars!!! In Croatia nobody repair CCC for BMW. I sent it to Romania,and in few days it's repaired and returned back!!! Thanks MCA! And special thanks to Mihaela, she is great, 24 hours she was available for any questions! Thanks again!"
- Renata Sik
"These guys offer a great, reasonably priced service. Quick turnaround and really nice to deal with. I can't recommend them highly enough. My BMW Bluetooth is working perfectly again and I didn't need to pay out hundreds of pounds 😀"
- Michael Hainge
"I was a bit skeptical at first sending in my unit overseas, but I'm glad i did. they did a fantastic job and Mihaela was great."
- Ivan Fortunato
"Fixed my CIC unit after others couldn't. Very good customer support and great prices too ! Definitely recommend them !"
- Oana Androi
"Perfect service. Very fast shipment back to our place with a device full repaired. Everything is working perfectly.So much cheaper than expected/told by BMW. Thank you ! Hignly recommended."
- Alexandra Pourtois-Masoin
"Great service highly recommended . I was skeptical about the over seas thing but I'm glad I did . I just followed all their instructions and I can't be happier the unit is updated and works great"
- Patrick Dyson
"E61 ccc module completely gone. Sent it to MCA and within 4 working days I received it back, fully working and one year warranty! Thanks guys!!!"
- Cribebu
"Excellent five star service, very nice people to deal with and real experts on BMW CCC and similar electronics, highly recommended."
- Richard Arkell
"My ccc unit was damaged. I noticed that my ccc unit had the same symptoms described by them and that their price and warranty were to much better than here in USA. Today after 6 months, my radio is working like brand new. These guys are very honest and responsible to do business with."
- Kelly Madrigal
"As others have said before, I was a bit nervous about sending the unit away particularly out of the country, but other reviews gave me the confidence. Mihaela kept me up to date with the progress of the repair. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend the services of Mura Car Accessories"
- Sam Halstead
"I left my ccc drive from my e60 535d to these guys as it was rebooting and showing bmw logo.. Like anyone I was worried about sending it away and never seeing it again.. Absolutely brilliant service.. Mihaela Keeps you updated about your device and when he has recieved it and when they diagnose what's wrong with it.."
- Chris Bowen
"I recently got my CCC repaired at MCA for my 2006 BMW 325i. Like most people, I was very hesitant to send my unit outside of United States. I can't praise the service high enough for the detailed interactions and attention to quality service that MCA provided."
- Steve Noh
"Excellent service from beginning to end! Unbelievably good customer service, Mihaela and the guys at Mura are an asset to the industry! I cannot express how highly recommended the service provided, I will not go anywhere else for any kind of electronic refurbishment again."
- Ashley Buckle
"Fast and very detailed response for every time, I have asked something about CCC-repair service. I really can strongly recommend MCA shop for everyone, who needs help for BMW CCC-units! Thanks a lot for a fast and professional service!"
- Juha Snare
"I got my E91 -06 CCC fixed by MCA. Very good service and they also kept me well informed during the repair process. "
- Markus Aktner
"Mihaela, my contact at MCA, made sure that I knew what was happening every step of the way. The repair was done the same day. My BMW dealer had wanted about 850 euros plus 300 euros labour to replace the CCC. The total cost (MCA bill plus my postage from France) was less than 250 euros! Highly recommended!"
- Tony Tessier
"I'm from the Netherlands. A very good service, they are very helpful and think with you to find a solution. and the price is very good compared to the other !!! especially Mihaela is very much a team player . I definitely recommend it to do business with these people. They repaired my ccc unit and sent back. within 2 weeks I have received it already."
- Musa Altiparmak
"Great and affordable service. My BM54 module had broken amplifiers that needed fixing. I shipped my module to MCA and they replaced the amplifiers. They shipped back after the module was tested, clear track & trace and received the module quickly after shipping. Built in the module and works great! Sound has improved greatly."
- Rick Z
"Excellent Service and Comunication , So much cheaper than buying a used unit from the internet that you dont know if its working or not ,and my own unit returned very quickly and working like new again, well worth sending to Romania for repair , to say i am very pleased is a understatement Many thanks . "
- Phil Smith
"I'm located in United States. Mura Car Accessories fixed my BMW E60 CCC unit. I was getting the dreaded BMW logo reboot on my iDrive after every start. I would recommend this company to anyone who wants to resolve their BMW CCC unit from any sort of failures. Don't hesitate to use them! A++ service!"
- Danny C
"I ve a Digital tuner connected in my BMW M5 E39 since one year now... I ve completed my installation with a rear camera pluged at the Digital Tuner, The product is perfect and all the connection are very clean The installation respect the original spirit off BMW manufacturer I'm very happy. Very good job! Thank you "
- Romain Centazzo
"Fixed and returned my BMW CCC device within a few days. Email support was always fast."
- Robert Dougan
"Profesionalism, seriozitate, determinare si punctualitate! Asa as caracteriza echipa Mura. Specialist desavarsiti, doresc sa le multumesc frumos pentru promptitudinea si calitatea de exceptie a serviciilor prestate! Recomand cu incredere! "
- Cristian Cristea
"The CCC of my 2005 E91 simply displayed nothing. And it's fan was running continuously. It costed me 130 Euros to get a diagnosis from my BMW dealer: your CCC is dead. After extensive research, I came to MCA. Outstanding ! Email support has been quick and friendly, and PayPal payment flawless."
- Jack Alastor
"I can't highly recommend MCA enough to all of my fellow BMW drivers. The quality of work done on the amp is excellent. I was initially going to send the amp to the UK to get refurbished until I came across MCA by pure chance and thankfully I did. MCA are cheaper and so much faster. Guys, thank you so much and I wish you the very best of success. "
- Stephen Pratt
"Fixed my CCC unit for my BMW E61. Nice and fast email contact, always answer within a day. Very good price, compared to buying a brand new unit and letting a BMW workshop install it for you! Easy payment via Paypal also. Sending a package from Sweden to Romania took about 4-5 days, but totally worth the wait!"
- Joakim Leandersson
"Great price and great delivery time. Very responsive on E.mail. Kind and very helpful, and my CCC worked like a charm when i got it back. CCC was even faster on startup now. I would recommend this company to anyone at any times Couldn't be happier!"
- Plamen Kabakchiev
"Excellent service, very informative throughout, the price quoted was the price paid. From sending payment on work completion to receiving my BMW CCC Unit was 24 hours via DHL Express delivery (it took almost a week to get from the UK to Romania using Parcelforce - DHL were also about 40% cheaper)."
- David Stapleton
"Excellent communication throughout the repair. Very, very quick turn around and a really honest and genuine company. So glad to have my iDrive working like it should. Can't recommend MCA enough, especially as UK prices to fix iDrive systems are much higher and only offer 6 months guarantee, MCA fix for almost half the cost and give 12 months guarantee. Thanks again guys. Great job!"
- Luke Baynham
"Having purchased a used car with a faulty MULF module, resulting in no hands free Bluetooth, I took to the internet to find a solution. I came across these guys, based in Romania, and gave it a go as their website clearly described the issue I was experiencing and gave fixed pricing. I duly sent my module off from the UK and despite the repair taking a little longer than advertised, around 2 weeks plus shipping both ways, I am delighted with the result. Fully functioning hands free using the factory fit Bluetooth! Many thanks guys"
- Sam Megarry


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Friday, October 25, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (PDT)
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One fantastic location with a knowledgable group of JavaScript developers talking passionatly about the newest in JavaScript. This year we celibrate JavaScript in every place it exists.
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This year all of these people and hopefully you will be in one room together at The Winery SF, located on Treasure Island. Join us for a full day of inspiring and informative talks dedicated to the JavaScript Community by the industry's most renowned experts.
Afterwards mingle with the experts at the wine tasting reception immediatley following the program.
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I made a simple Window object that declared a simple list in C# code:
How to bind to 'list' object in XAML? I tried something like this:Code:List<int> list = new List<int>(); public Window1() { InitializeComponent(); list.Add(2); list.Add(3); }
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It's a no-brainer: B.C. has a Newfoundland-style motherlode of resource wealth off its coast. So, why not develop it?
That question, implicit in a just-released Fraser Institute report, has two pretty obvious answers.
First, British Columbians, at the moment protesting their guts out against proposed oil pipelines and tanker ports, almost surely would object.
And second, oil companies are well aware of such opposition and further daunted by unsettled aboriginal claims that could affect offshore development.
Those companies have no intention of spending cash on exploration in the absence of clear rules of engagement.
Nonetheless, the Fraser Institute report by economist Joel Wood urges the lifting of a 40-year old federal moratorium on offshore oil development.
Wood points out there's a treasure chest of cash below the waves off the west coast.
When things like regulatory costs, lost opportunity in the fishing and tourism sectors and spill costs are subtracted, expected net benefits — with oil at $90 per barrel — would total $9.6 billion.
That's money that "can be used to fund health care, education, environmental projects and other government services."
The billions would flow from the presumed deposits of natural gas and oil sitting off B.C.'s coast, as indicated by Geological Survey of Canada data.
Indeed B.C., says the Wood report, is adjacent to a field as big as the giant Hibernia deposit off Newfoundland's coast.
But the reality is B.C.'s resource economy is on the decline, "maturing into a more diverse less resource-dependent structure," says a provincial government website. Only eight per cent of B.C. workers have jobs in the sector today compared to 13 per cent in 1990.
Meanwhile, Newfoundland has been developing a plummy oil industry with a good safety record, Wood points out.
Fiscally, the results have been spectacular. Newfoundland has become a have province. Between 1997 and 2007, oil development accounted for 25 per cent of its entire GDP.
Wood notes that Newfoundland and the United Kingdom have pursued oil development without experiencing catastrophic spills such as BP's Gulf of Mexico spill in 2010.
Wood says that's because the U.S. had a flawed regulatory regime in contrast to superior ones in Newfoundland and the UK.
B.C. obviously could adopt the Newfoundland approach.
Still, the obstacles would be enormous. British Columbians this week are demonstrating vigorous opposition to any coastal oil activity in B.C., rejecting the Northern Gateway project, a proposed oil tanker port in Kitimat and possible twinning of an existing Kinder-Morgan pipeline that would increase tanker traffic in Vancouver's port.
Thousands turned out Monday to protest on the lawn of the Victoria legislature.
And sit-ins are being held Wednesday at least 63 MLAs' offices, with protesters linking arms "to symbolize B.C.'s unbroken wall of opposition," says a Leadnow.ca press release.
"There's a clear message here for Canada's politicians and they ignore it at their own peril," warned Chief Jackie Thomas of the Saik'uz First Nation near Vanderhoof.
Similar opposition to resource development has taken place in Quebec, which, for now, has a de facto moratorium on shale gas activity.
Former premier Lucien Bouchard lamented Monday at a Montreal conference that society "has invented a new religion" — based on opposing anything that might cause environmental damage.
That's certainly the case in B.C., a province where, by the way, there has been no discernible let up in the use of oil to heat homes and fuel cars, a province that is on track to run another deficit this year because it doesn't have sufficient revenue to balance its budget.


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Whilst travelling through New Zealand, I was fortunate to not only play in the Australasian Bike Polo Champs but also hit up a few city scenes too.
Bike polo is fast growing in New Zealand, with new scenes popping up all over the country. And hopefully for the first time, we'll be seeing a team from NZ (Christchurch to be exact) attend this years Worlds in Florida, having qualified via the Australasian Champs.
I hope the growth of polo continues in NZ.
Below are some photo's taken during my visits to Wellington, Taupo and Auckland.
I always find it interesting to see how each scene (where ever it is in the world) handles their court situation. Wellington's was definitely one of the more unique courts I've played on and the guys in Taupo had an awesome fold up court that they packed away and stored after each session – very resourceful.
Big thanks to all those in NZ who made me feel welcome to play and hang out in their scenes.


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cx18 devices (cx23418)
The cx18 devices feature an on-board hardware MPEG2 encoder; the CX23418. cx18 devices are supported by the cx18 driver module. Notable devices within this category are the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 and Compro VideoMate H900.
Supported cx18 devices
An up-to-date list of cx18 devices supported by V4L-DVB drivers is found in the cx18.txt file in the master development repository.
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LA Galaxy 5, Isidro Metapan 2
Thursday, August 23, 2012
The Home Depot Center – Carson, Calif.
CONCACAF Champions League – Group 5 – Week 2
Scoring Summary:
ISM – Nicolas Munoz 4 17'
LA – Own Goal (Ricardo Alvarado) 20'
LA – Robbie Keane 1 22'
LA – David Beckham 1 46+
LA – Juninho 1 82'
ISM – Nicolas Munoz 5 (Penalty Kick) 87'
LA – Juninho 2 92+
Misconduct Summary:
LA – A.J. DeLaGarza (Yellow Card) 6'
LA – Robbie Keane (Yellow Card) 70'
LA – Robbie Keane (Red Card) 70'
LA – Michael Stephens (Yellow Card) 80'
LA Galaxy: Josh Saunders; Sean Franklin, Omar Gonzalez, A.J. DeLaGarza, Todd Dunivant; Juninho, Marcelo Sarvas (Bryan Gaul 85'), David Beckham (Michael Stephens 80'), Mike Magee; Jose Villarreal (Hector Jimenez 63'), Robbie Keane© (Sent Off 70').
Subs Not Used: Brian Perk, Tommy Meyer, Kenney Walker, Pat Noonan.
Isidro Metapan: Fidel Mondragon; Mauricio Perla (Julio Martinez 77'), Milton Molina, Jose Alvarado, Alfredo Pacheco; Cristhian Sanchez (Cristhian Bautista 60'), Hector Meija, Ramon Sanchez©, Paolo Suarez; Eliseo Quintanilla (Shawn Martin 86'), Nicolas Munoz.
Subs Not Used: Gustavo Corleto, Marvin Monterroza, Daniel Escalante.
Referee: Alfredo Penaloza (MEX)
Referee's Assistants: Victor Calderon (MEX) and Alejandro Ayala (MEX)
4th Official: Ricardo Arellano (MEX)
QUOTES (found on the LA Galaxy Insider Blog)
- Defender Todd Dunivant's quotes can be found here.
- Defender Sean Franklin's quotes can be found here.
- Head Coach Bruce Arena's quotes can be found here.
- With the win, the Galaxy are now tied with Metapan for first place in Group 5 with three points from a 1-0-0 record. LA also have a +3 goal difference compared to -1 for Metapan, who have scored five goals and allowed six goals in their two games.
- LA are now a perfect 4-0-0 at home in the Group Stage of the CONCACAF Champions League.
- The five goals scored and the three goal margin of victory are each Galaxy records for the CONCACAF Champions League.
- Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena made just two changes to the side that drew 1-1 in Columbus on August 15 with David Beckham returning to the starting lineup and Jose Villarreal getting his first-ever start in an official match. They replaced Hector Jimenez and Michael Stephens who each came on as second half substitutes.
- The Galaxy played without captain Landon Donovan, who missed the game with a left hamstring strain.
- In addition to Donovan, the Galaxy were also without Edson Buddle, Leonardo, David Junior Lopes and Kyle Nakazawa, who all missed the game with injuries.
- Metapan took a surprise lead in the 17th minute when their top goal scorer Nicolas Munoz reacted quickest to the rebound of a Paolo Suarez shot that had been cleared off the line by Todd Dunivant and scored from close range, putting his team in front 1-0.
- That was the first time that the Galaxy had ever trailed at home in the Group Stage of the CONCACAF Champions League.
- Metapan's lead would last just three minutes before the Galaxy equalized courtesy of an own goal by Jose Alvarado in the 20th minute.
- In 11 all-time games in the CONCACAF Champions League, the Galaxy have now had four own goals scored in their favor. Only one Galaxy player has scored as many goals in the history of the competition.
- David Beckham provided the cross that led to the own goal and he then helped to set up Robbie Keane two minutes later as LA went in front 2-1 in the 22nd minute.
- The goal was Keane's first in the Champions League since he scored at Morelia on September 13, 2011.
- The two goals two minutes apart were the fastest two goals scored by LA in CONCACAF play since Ezra Hendrickson and Cobi Jones scored two minutes apart late in the first half of the 3-2 win over Olimpia in the final of the 2000 CONCACAF Champions Cup.
- Beckham sent the Galaxy into the half with a 3-1 lead after scoring directly from a corner kick in first half stoppage time.
- That goal was his first-ever in the CONCACAF Champions League and the second of his Galaxy career directly from a corner kick, having also done so in MLS play against Chicago in July 2011.
- Robbie Keane was yellow carded and then sent off by referee Alfredo Penaloza in the 70th minute, leaving the Galaxy to play down a man for the final 20 minutes.
- He is the second Galaxy player ever to be sent off in the Champions League, joining Juninho, who was shown two yellow cards in the 2-0 home win over Alajuelense on August 25, 2011.
- Despite playing down a man for the final 20 minutes, the Galaxy stretched their lead to 4-1 in the 82nd minute when Juninho scored off a feed from Michael Stephens, who had entered the game two minutes earlier.
- The Galaxy lead was back to two in the 87th minute when Nicolas Munoz converted a penalty kick for Metapan following a foul inside the box on Bryan Gaul.
- That goal was Munoz's fifth of the tournament and the first penalty allowed by the Galaxy since the second leg of their Preliminary Round series against Puerto Rico on August 4, 2010.
- Juninho rounded out the scoring with his second goal of the game in the third minute of second half stoppage time, to give LA a 5-2 win.
- He is the first-ever Galaxy player to score twice in a Champions League game.
- With his two goals, Juninho became the club's all-time leading goal scorer in CONCACAF Champions League play with four, equal to the amount of own goals that have been scored for the club.
- After having never scored more than a single goal in a game in his Galaxy career entering the month, Juninho has now done so twice in August.
- The Galaxy have now scored in second half stoppage time of a Champions League game twice, with each of them coming courtesy of Juninho.
- In addition to Keane being booked and sent off, A.J. DeLaGarza and Michael Stephens were also booked for LA, with Stephens collecting his immediately as he stepped onto the field.
- A total of 22 fouls were called on the game with 15 of them being whistled against the Galaxy compared to just seven on Metapan.
- The Galaxy are now 2-0-0 all-time against teams from El Salvador, with their other victory coming in the 1997 CONCACAF Champions Cup, beating Luis Angel Firpo 2-0.
- The attendance for tonight's game was 10,574 at The Home Depot Center.
- The Galaxy return to MLS action Sunday when they host FC Dallas at The Home Depot Center in a game that kicks off at 4 p.m. and will be shown live on the NBC Sports Network.
- The club will return to CONCACAF Champions League play next Wednesday, August 29 against the Puerto Rico Islanders. That game, which will be played at The Home Depot Center, will kickoff at 7 p.m. and will be shown live on FOX Soccer.


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Yes, we're all being told to make do and mend and embrace craftiness. But actually, making stuff yourself often isn't cheap. So let's hear it for Regina de Búrca, who offers a guide to being crafty on a budget.
I come from a long line of women who knit, sew and crochet. My forebears' sole purpose of making things was to saving money. My grandmother's Aran jumpers were undoubtedly beautiful yet their main function was a practical one, while my mother was a prolific dressmaker who made everything from our 'good room' curtains to my Communion dress. She taught me how to sew so that I could make clothes and repair them. But by the time I grew up, culture had turned disposable and the importance of skills she taught me had dwindled.
It wasn't until my grandmother's death in 2002 that I became interested in craft work. When we had the heart-breaking task of packing away her things, I was reminded of the significant role crafting had played in her life. We found her 'work box' – a hand-decorated box containing a wealth of supplies, neatly stored away with a half-finished jumper and blanket. I decided I couldn't let her legacy go to waste and so I took them all home with me.
My grandmother's forte was crocheting; something I'd had little experience of. When I went online to find resources to teach myself properly, I discovered that the world of handicraft had changed dramatically. Once an old-fashioned, staid pursuit, the art of crafting had become subverted; reclaimed by a dynamic, sassy generation who wanted to make things for the fun of it and had set up initiatives such as the 'Stitch and Bitch' groups.
I have been making things ever since then. But my approach to my hobby has changed over the years. At first it was simply a relaxing and rewarding way to spend my time. But as my salary has decreased and my expenses have gone up, I couldn't justify spending more on say, making a jumper, than it would cost to buy one, so I gave up crafting as an overindulgent hobby.
However, it wasn't long before I missed it. The last time I moved house, I happened upon my grandmother's work box. I thought back to the times when making things was a good way to save money, so I became determined to find a way that I could save cash while doing something I loved so much.
It has been challenging – there will always be cheaper alternatives to homemade clothes and accessories. It is impossible to compete with mass-manufactured low-price products. But what I have found is that the items I make myself endure longer than many budget items I have purchased, so in the long term they can work out cheaper.
Here are my top resources for craft supplies on a budget. Some are online, others based in Dublin. I would be very interested to hear of any other budget retailers that I don't know about, particularly around the rest of the country!
My first port of call for wool is always The Liberties Market in Dublin 8. It is the cheapest place I have found in the City, and the best choice when looking for wool for a pattern that requires a lot of the stuff.
The 'special offers' section of the Spring Wools website is a treasure trove of unusual wool and knitting kits. They deliver quickly, too!
Etsy's knitting supplies section is useful. it's the most economical place I've found for specialist wool, I've found some really unique types here in the past.
I keep an eye on Aldi's and Lidl's special offers – they often sell bags of wool.
Charity shops can sometimes stock it – a friend of mine once bought five balls of mohair wool for two euro in a charity shop on Capel Street! Granted, I've scoured all the charity shops in the area to find a similar deal but haven't… yet.
The fabric wholesalers, TWI in Dublin's Mountjoy Square is the most budget-friendly walk-in fabric shop I've found – . It sells an amazing range of fabrics.
http://www.fabrics-n-stuff.co.uk/ is the cheapest online fabric retailer I've used. The service is fast and the shipping costs not too painful, so needless to say, I'm a regular. Their range isn't as extensive as most online sites, so often I enhance the fabric myself using batik techniques or sewing on collars or feature pieces (see vintage market in the 'Other' section, below).
The clearance page on Fabrics.com has some great deals. It has the best range of budget fabric that I've found online, so that excuses the postage costs… just.
The fabric supplies section on Etsy is an Aladdin's cave of fabulous materials of all kinds –
The 'Online Fabrics' special offer page has some good deals – but with £10.99 postage costs regardless of weight of the package, I only use it for a big order no more than once a year. Don't forget to request samples – they are 75p each for a fat quarter. Each customer gets a maximum of ten samples.
Best way to stock up on low cost fabric is to ask any backpackers you know who are jetting off – they can pick up stunning pieces in places like Morocco or India very cheaply.
My all-time favourite craft site is at Craftown. From patterns to easy to follow illustrated guides, the website is a fantastic resource for all other types of crafting.
The member-only http://www.freepatterns.com/ is a wonderful site. Once you sign up (for free) you can download their patterns in PDF format. They also have a e-newsletter service, which provides interesting tips on various kinds of craft work.
The All Free Crafts site is an amazing compendium of patterns. And with no login to set up, it's very accessible.
K & M Evans sells supplies for teachers and sells a huge variety of paper and paint and lots of other crafting tools, for much cheaper than high street art shops
Vintage markets are great places to pick up buttons, collars and other pieces of fabric that can be repurposed. I keep track of the fairs in Dublin through Vintage Ireland's Facebook page.
The Craft Council of Ireland has a 'for sale' section on its website that sells everything from pottery kilns to screen-printing frames.
The supplies section on Etsy is a super resource for all types of craft work.
Aldi and Lidl sell the cheapest sewing machines I've found. I got mine in Aldi a couple of years ago for 70 euro.
Freecycle is a great place to find crafting staples such as sewing machines and dressmakers' dummies.
DIY stores can be the cheapest places to find glue, wire and paints.
One of the main ways I save on my craft budget is by pooling resources with my friends. By sharing things like sewing machines, Lomography cameras, tile cutters (for mosaics) and bookbinding tools, we have access to far more supplies than we would normally. And it follows that we all have a shared knowledge base, so we save on tuition fees as well.
Handicraft in itself has added value because it can be so fulfilling -there is something very satisfying about making your own things. It brings me joy look at what I have made over the years, in particular the jumpers and blankets co-crocheted by my grandmother and I. I hope it's a tradition that will be kept up through this generation and future ones.
Regina de Búrca hails from the West of Ireland. She has been a Liverpool FC fan since the age of four. She writes books for teenagers and has a MA in writing for Young People from Bath Spa University. She currently lives in Dublin. Twitter: @Regina_dB


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Today in perversely satisfying news: A 59-year-old woman was going through security at Southwest Florida International Airport when she threw down her bags and theatrically groped a TSA supervisor's crotch. The woman, Carol Jean Price, says she was just demonstrating the aggressive groping she'd just received from a different TSA agent. That sounds weirdly...satisfying.
Price claims an agent grabbed her breasts and crotch during a screening at Southwest Florida International Airport, and that she was just demonstrating the aggressive treatment, when she was caught on camera.
"She did not touch the supervisor as intrusively as she was touched," Price's lawyer John Mills said, according to Florida ABC affiliate WZVN.
Yeah, says her lawyer! She didn't EVEN do it as bad as it got done to her! Plus, Price says, the groping she received was personal—she's a former TSA agent herself and was acquainted with her groper. And, as a former TSA agent, she's familiar with the standard pat-down procedure and this wasn't it. Price was removed from her flight (which, she implies, caused her to miss her brother's funeral) and faces misdemeanor battery charges. TSA claims that Price's original pat-down "was conducted correctly in accordance with our procedures."
Now. Obviously I don't have enough details to take a side here. The TSA agent could have been an intrusive creep or retaliating for some old slight; Price could be a crazy lady or just someone who snapped from frustration with airport security. Figuring that out is someone else's job.
But I do have to say, those TSA gropings are super intrusive and dehumanizing. I get pulled aside for them a lot, for some reason (I think because I generally have a pound of metal bobby pins in my hair), usually after they've already made me go through the stupid naked machine. If you've never gotten a pat-down, it goes like this: some lady you don't know takes her hands and then rubs all over your body, including your crotch and boobs. Then sometimes she gets a metal detector out and wands you, and then rubs you again. I don't freak out or anything—I mean, it's bearable, I'm a grown-up, I'm all for safety, I'm against profiling, and I get that the airport security people are just doing their jobs—but that doesn't mean I like a stranger searching my boobs for weapons like I'm committing a crime by just trying to get to my mom's surprise party. And the idea that I have to submit to a weird public fondling from a surly stranger for the privilege of doing this thing I paid $400 for just rubs me the wrong way. PUN INTENDED. OBVIOUSLY. (In case you didn't know, I'm a shapeshifter, except my only other shape is Andy Rooney.)
Because what does it even accomplish? How many vagina knives are they actually finding with their crotchal finger swipes? I went through airport security just a few days ago*, where I did the naked machine** and was patted down while my bags were x-rayed. When I finally got to my gate, I realized that I had accidentally left a full-sized pair of scissors and a razor in the front pocket of my purse. They went right through the x-ray machine, unnoticed, in a mostly empty bag. Good thing you guys checked me for exploding tampons, though!
Anyway, so what I'm saying is that I don't know what happened with that lady, maybe she totally batteried that TSA agent (and I am AGAINST BATTERY), but I can ever-so-slightly relate to the airport rage attack.
*I saw Stephen Hawking at the airport!!! I was hurrying to the security line, and a man in a motorized wheelchair and a huuuuuge entourage was blocking this narrow hallway, and I thought to myself, "What's with the entourage, buddy—who are you, Stephen Hawking?" And then I looked over and it was literally Stephen Hawking. He flies first class.
**Speaking of the naked machine, even though I am a 100-year-old coot when it comes to the groping, and I don't love going in the naked machine, I also don't give a shit about the naked machine. Like, when everyone was going nuts over the naked machine because they were convinced that the TSA employees were all going to be furiously masturbating at work? Like...you guys...I'm pretty sure the TSA employees are capable of finding ACTUAL pornography to masturbate to at work. They don't need a blurry hologram of your ghost-junk.


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The Gorham Fayette Board of Education has a new president in place following the organizational meeting Monday night.
Veteran board member Paula Schaffner was nominated and unanimously elected to serve as president. David Brinegar was chosen as vice president.
Volunteer committee assignments are as follow:
• Legislative liaison, Karen King;
• Facilities representatives, Brinegar and Kirk Keiser;
• Four County representative, King;
• Calendar Committee representative, Deb Leininger;
• Financial/Audit representatives, Brinegar and Schaffner;
• Student Achievement liaison, Leininger;
• Board of Education Policy representatives, Schaffner and Keiser;
• Village of Fayette Restoration and Development representative, Keiser;
• Negotiations representatives, Brinegar and Schaffner.
The negotiations team will play a role this year, said superintendent Russ Griggs, with teacher contracts expiring at the end of July.
The board voted to continue to schedule regular meetings at 7 p.m. on the third Monday of the month in the high school resource room.
The school board service fund will remain at $3,000. This amount generally isn't used, Griggs said, but with three new board members—Leininger, Kaiser and King—he expects more professional development courses than usual will be attended.


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Great movie. Lousy ending. How the latter doesn't negate the former is a tribute to the other 95 percent of the flick. Yet what its writer and director saw as a liability, namely the film's ferocity and driving doomsday demeanor, stirs the loins of CineSchlockers jonesing for an unapologetic, uncompromising return to gutwrenching cinema, which this George Romero-informed zombie rave nearly does before gingerly easing audiences off the proverbial meat hook. Now, as during its breakaway U.S. theatrical run, this lack of a proper ending has become a marketing hook. "Choose life. Choose a job. Choose any of these other endings we came up with." Three are included on this disc: The multiplex-screened "Rescue 911" version earns its merits by adding to the body count. As does a second version of the existing "Gilligan's Island" finale. Though the wildest stab is the unfilmed "Radical" ending that replaces the entire Day of the Dead quarter of the movie and is represented in riveting Mercury Theatre fashion backed by lively illustrations by Brendan Houghton. Though none of these would've been more appropriately severe, more in lockstep with the genre it so exuberantly reanimates, as the punctuating freeze frame ALREADY PRESENT before Fox financed costly 35mm reshoots. So maybe the greatest bonus feature of 'em all is actually the ability to gracefully punch out of the flick at timecode 1:44:35.
Cillian Murphy is a London bike messenger who gets his brainpan split by a Sunday driver and wakes from a coma, nekkid as a jaybird, in a world gone mad. Literally. Although that's not immediately apparent. In this zombirific misadventure's most arresting moments, Jim wanders from chillingly vacant hospital halls, into vacant streets, past various silent landmarks, gazes into vacant storefronts and vehicles before reaching a not-so-vacant church. (Fortunately, Jimbo DID remember to put some clothes on before setting out on this doomsday walking tour.) It all started, well, 28 days prior with a bunch of lab monkeys strung up wide-eyed like Malcolm McDowell and forced to watch old tapes of grisly melees from "The Morton Downey Jr. Show." This coupled with someone's ill-advised scientific tinkering naturally leads to a rapidly proliferating outbreak of "rage" in the unlikely form of virulent cooties passed from one victim to another within 10-to-20 seconds of exposure. Soon the entire tea-sipping population of England is projectile puking plasma and mighty CRANKY about it! It's at that church where Jim first encounters a ragged congregation of these hyper-homicidal "infecteds" -- that's zombies to the rest of us -- who surely would've dined on his leaky melon if not for the pyrotechnic skills of fellow survivors. Enter Naomie Harris as Selena and her porcupine hairdo. She talks tough. She is tough. Best of all, she's got mad machete skills that'd even earn an undead nod from Jason Voorhees himself. Truly a horror heroine for the post-Scream era. No wonder Jimbo's sweet on her. But she ain't got time to bleed or get it on. No, the two head off on a perilous journey with a bear of a taxi driver (Brendan Gleeson) and his daughter (Megan Burns) in hopes that a mysterious radio message will indeed yield the salvation it promises. Although, thankfully, there's not much chance of any ruby slippers at the end of this rainbow. CineSchlockers who'd previously seen Chuck Heston tool around Los Angeles all by his lonesome in The Omega Man, while impressed, won't find themselves nearly so gap-jaw'd by 28's sobering, yet familiar opening scenes. In fact, both flicks owe deep thematic debts to Vincent Price's underappreciated turn as The Last Man on Earth.
Two zombie breasts. 1,008 corpses (give or take 58 million to 6.2 billion). Untethered wangdoodle. Rampant product placement. Multiple firesuit stunts. Ol' flat tire at the worse possible moment gag. Thumbs to the eye sockets. Gratuitous shopping spree. Gas station fireball. Oodles of civil unrest footage. Gratuitous dream sequence. Self-medicating. Flaming Michelin necktie. Angry amputation. Point-blank execution. Head crushing. Bloody kisses. Gratuitous skip-frame fast mo. Selena gets grim: "It started as rioting and from the beginning you knew this was different. It was happening in small villages. Market towns. Then it wasn't on TV anymore. It was in the street outside. It was coming through your windows. It was a virus. An infection. You didn't need a doctor to tell you that. It was the BLOOD!" Jim turns on, tunes in and drops out: "Oh grand! Valium! Not only will we be able to get to sleep, but if we're attacked in the middle of the night, we won't even care!" Stuart McQuarrie's Sgt. Farrell is an apocalyptic philosopher: "If you look at the whole life of the planet ... man has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So, if the infection wipes us all out, that is a return to normality."
Director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland offer a breezy commentary that's equal parts confessional and instructional. How do you make London look abandoned? Well, it's easier than you'd think at the dawn of rapid, multi-camera, digital photography and the cooperation of a pre-9/11 police force. (Seasoned with CGI shenanigans as needed.) To his credit, Mr. Garland is first to admit and seems the most uneasy about the flick's Romero homages. Meanwhile, the 30-minute "Pure Rage" featurette purports to be a "making of," but actually dwells more on the legitimacy of a mankind-eliminating pandemic. Hang in toward the end for some actual behind-the-scenes footage mixed among the requisite "greatest movie ever" soundbites from cast and crew. Beyond the aforementioned alternate endings, of particular interest to CineSchlockers will be the inclusion of gobs of Polaroids, shot for continuity purposes, that offer a better look at various blood-soaked characters. (2003, 113 mins, 1.85:1 anam, DD 5.1, Commentary, Alternate endings and deleted scenes, Featurette, Photo gallery, Music video, Trailers.)


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Local voters who show up at the polls on June 24 will be in for a surprise.
Both Grand and San Juan counties are switching to a vote-by-mail process this year, so primary and general election voters will no longer be able to cast their ballots in person.
Anyone who is currently registered to vote should keep an eye out for official-looking letters from the counties, since those notifications will include important information about the vote-by-mail process.
Grand County will be asking active voters to return signature verification cards. At the same time, it will also be mailing out separate notices to inactive voters who have not participated in the last two elections, according to Grand County Clerk Diana Carroll. Those who have not voted in the past two elections will be required to renew their voter registrations, according to information from the clerk's office.
Local residents can verify their voter information online at www.vote.utah.gov or by calling the Grand County Clerk's Office.
Ballots will be mailed to all active registered voters 28 days prior to the primary and general elections, and completed ballots must be postmarked no later than the day before the election, Carroll said. That means that for the Nov. 4 general election, all completed ballots must be postmarked no later than Nov. 3. Ballots that are not received by the clerk's office prior to Nov. 4 will be counted in the final vote canvass, which must be completed seven to 14 days following the election.
The city of Moab, which holds its municipal elections in odd-numbered years, has no plans at this point to follow Grand County's lead, according to Moab City Recorder Rachel Stenta.
"Right now, it's not an idea that we're exploring," she said April 23.
However, city officials will be keeping track of the county's experiences to see how everything goes, Stenta said.
Castle Valley Town Clerk Ali Fuller said the town has been researching the option of moving to the vote-by-mail system, but the Castle Valley Town Council has yet to make a final decision.
"They wanted to look into any other complications [that might arise] in case they didn't do it and the county does," Fuller said. "They might take action this year or they may see how this election goes for the county before deciding."
Fuller's research included discussions with the town clerk of Big Water, Utah, who said that community's voter participation increased by 25 percent once voting-by-mail was introduced.
"Our main reason for doing this would be for increasing voter participation," Fuller said. "We don't anticipate that we would save very much money because our costs are relatively low for elections."
Carroll, for one, does not see any drawbacks to the vote-by-mail process.
She anticipates that it will boost overall voter turnout, since every registered county voter will receive a ballot in the mail.
It should also help the county clean up its voter rolls, which currently include about 1,700 inactive voters, according to Carroll.
The move is also expected to reduce election-related costs, including travel to mandated training seminars for new clerk's employees.
In the past, Grand County has spent an average of about $25,000 to $30,000 on each election, and Carroll is hoping that the change will save the county around $20,000 per election.
"The primary will be the test," she said.
By switching to a vote-by-mail process, the county can also work its way around potentially expensive federal mandates that require polling locations to meet Americans With Disabilities Act provisions.
Before the county decided to implement the changes, Carroll said her office worked closely with officials in Weber and Davis counties, where vote-by-mail systems are already in place.
"It seems to be the way that most other organizations are moving," she said.
So, far, at least, Carroll said she hasn't heard any negative feedback from the public.
"Most everyone I talked to likes the idea," she said.
"More and more people have been requesting absentee ballots anyway, regardless of whether they're away from home or not," she added.
In fact, voters in the county's Elgin and Thompson Springs precincts already cast their ballots by mail. But up until now, the clerk's office relied on 45 to 50 election judges to help out at the remaining nine precincts.
However, election judges tend to be older nowadays, and it's often difficult for them to make it through the long Election Day hours, Carroll said.
For more information about the vote-by-mail process contact the clerk's office at 435-259-1321.
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Deaf children around the world deserve the same access to education as their hearing counterparts. In Afghanistan that is no different. Yet in a country that struggles to provide adequate access to mainstream education, the deaf are beyond the fringes, despite the hard work of the amazing founder, staff, and volunteers at the Afghanistan National Association of the Deaf (ANAD).
There are approximately 10,000 deaf children in AFghanistan. Of these 10,000, approximately 1,000 are being served in Kabul and Jalalabad with rudimentary primary education. The lack of teachers means that the focus is getting the children literate and competent with Afghan sign language. The amazing thing is that the Afghan sign language is a work in progress…the language is still developing and its fascinating to be witness to the creation and evolution of a language.
When we discuss the primary needs for the deaf schools and the deaf community as a whole the picture mirrors that of mainstream education in this country. Yes, schools are needed. Yes, materials and sponsorship is needed. More importantly, for the long term, teacher training and interpreters are needed. Across the board, those we speak with cite teacher training as the next roadblock to education. Quality education is lacking and its much more pronounced in the deaf community.
It isn't enough to provide literacy and sign language if there isn't also a basic education in math, science, history, and the like. Literacy on its own doesn't provide a door for opportunity. It is simply the first step in the journey. The first weapon in the arsenal. If these children are to become self sufficient, and contribute to society, they need to have the same education on offer as their hearing counterparts.
Now on my return visit, the solution became clearer. The first step is basic literacy and sign language communication for all of Afghanistan's 10,000 deaf. Working in tandem should be the effort to train teachers to provide higher secondary education beyond the fourth or fifth year. Not only does this improve those students directly affected by further levels of education, it develops a feeder system for a future teacher training pool from the same students first affected. Creating an opportunity for employment after school in a culture with few opportunities available for the deaf.
In an effort to tackle the larger question of opportunity beyond teaching, an effort must be made to train interpreters. This would allow for students to integrate into high school and university should they choose, as well as providing access to opportunities in hearing world unavailable at the present time.
Despite the broad and challenging picture of the long term needs of Afghanistan's deaf community, taking the first step is actually very simple. Literacy, schools, teacher training, all working to grow in tandem to the benefit of all. In the specific case of the ANAD, and its school of 250 children, its a simple matter of funding. They need to build a sustainable school that can house a larger school for more children and space for a teacher training program. As teachers become trained, model schools can open in the key cities of Afghanistan; Mazar i Sharif, Herat, Bamiyan, and hopefully in the south should security allow. Each school educating the deaf children, as well as their families and communities.
Parween, is one of Afghanistan's biggest advocates for the deaf. A petite woman, usually wearing a lavender headscarf, with a warm smile, Parween is an amazing woman who works full time with UNESCO and still finds time to play a key role in advocating for and guiding the ANAD and its school forward. She passionately guided me around on my first ever visit, acting as interpreter, and explaining long term vision of the ANAD and the deaf community as a whole. This visit she reprised her role as interpreter, taking time away from her family to meet with me after work to brainstorm solutions and where Mountain to Mountain could facilitate ANAD's desire for a sustainable program for deaf education. I even received the honor of getting my own sign…a sign that represents my name to speed things along when we are all talking.
As ANAD, Parween and Mountain to Mountain brainstorm and make plans, it is our hope that the hearing impaired community in our own country will come to embrace Afghanistan's, and work as a role model for what the deaf community can hope to achieve in the future.
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There's a relaxed, unforced, melancholy sweetness and swing to this modest iteration of the "Big Chill/Return of the Secaucus 7" formula, a pleasing directorial debut for screenwriter Jamie Linden (We Are Marshall).
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OK for kids 15+
Pals reconnect in reunion-set dramedy; some iffy stuff.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that 10 Years is a high school reunion-set dramedy that's full of nostalgia for the way it was and what might have been. Teens may find it interesting to see adult characters looking back on their teen exploits, though the movie doesn't really make high school -- at least the high school the characters (including teen faves Channing Tatum and Justin Long) went to -- sound all that fun. Expect some swearing (including "s--t" and "f--k"), plenty of drinking (sometimes to excess), references to getting high, and some conversations about bullying (though it's played for laughs). There's also a fair bit of sex talk, though not much action beyond kissing/making out.
Messages: Good friendships and relationships can weather any crisis, as long as everyone is honest and supportive of one another and respectful of one another's personal journeys.
Role models: For the most part, the characters are well-intentioned (if flawed), though one married man flirts with a woman who's not his wife and is called on it by a friend.
Violence: One character discusses past bullying and apologizes to some of his victims. But while he's busy making things right, he insults them again.
Sex: Lots of talk, but little action beyond a few kissing and make-out sessions.
Language: A couple uses of "f--k," plus "s--t," "damn," "a--hole," etc.
Consumerism: Not applicable
Drinking, drugs and smoking: References to smoking weed, plus many scenes in which characters drink to excess before, during, and after a high school reunion; some of them wind up plastered drunk.
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I'm trying to get my while loop to include negative numbers except -9999.
I could get my code to read positive numbers like 5 having a sum of odd numbers of 9, but trying to get negative numbers never worked such as this:
This code works for positive numbers, but not negative. I couldn't get it to work for negative numbers, as it would give me like -2362970237907 or something similar.
I've tried several different ways including getting an output of really high negative numbers when entering -5.
This is the best I could do with the code although it doesn't give me an output for some reason when i enter a number like 5. Why isn't it?
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Maple syrup is one of my favorite sweeteners. It is expensive so I don't use it often for baking. The best type of maple syrup to buy is grade "B" because it is less processed than grade "A." It is also thicker with a more rich, decadent flavor.
I've been working on this loaf for several weeks and I am very proud of the final product. I will be making this loaf often. It's actually a very quick yeast bread to make. It bakes in about 40 minutes and only takes about an hour of rise time in a closed, slightly warmed oven.
The next time my mom-in-law comes over for dinner, I will have this loaf baking in the oven! The wonderful aroma this bread creates is warm, sweet, and welcoming!
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Dry Ingredients
1 1/4 cups GF certified oat flour (I grind my oats in a blender)
3/4 cup millet flour
1/2 cup tapioca flour
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1 Tbsp. xanthan gum
1 1/2 tsp. salt
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1/4 cup warm water (for proofing yeast)
1 tsp. sugar (for proofing yeast)
2 1/4 tsp. active dry yeast
1/2 cup maple syrup
1 1/2 tsp. white wine vinegar
1/2 cup club soda, room temperature
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3 Tbsp. butter, melted
1 egg white
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- Preheat oven to 200 degrees. Cut off IMMEDIATELY after 5 minutes.
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In its entirety, here is Matthew Tully's essay from the IndyStar. Next, we'll check back with State Representative Ed Clere to see what condition his condition is in.
General Assembly should drop proposed ban on same-sex marriage
This is the time of year, these early days before the General Assembly gets down to work, when reports come out almost daily about some misguided idea advanced by some misguided lawmaker in a misguided attempt to legislate his or her vision of Indiana.
In this and past years, the ideas have often been laughable: Arm college students! Fine people for singing the National Anthem poorly! Go after the Girl Scouts!
The worst of these bills don't usually make it very far. They land in the legislative garbage can, killed off by common sense. But some misguided ideas survive like weeds, regardless of the damage they threaten to inflict on the state, and no matter how bad or counterproductive or mean-spirited of a message they send.
This brings me to the drama over perhaps the worst piece of public policy the legislature has considered this century: a proposed amendment to the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage. Put bluntly, this amendment would put into the sacred state constitution a public endorsement of discrimination.
Now, same-sex couples are already prohibited by law from getting married in Indiana. And as wrong as that law is, slipping the measure into the more concrete constitution would be worse, and it would be contrary to the fundamental spirit behind the existence of constitutions in this country: to protect and guarantee freedom.
As questions surrounding the amendment fill the Statehouse, Republican leaders find themselves in a tricky spot. Although the measure, which must be passed by lawmakers twice before heading to voters, passed easily in 2011, there is a new reality in place. Public opinion on gay marriage has shifted quickly, leading to serious questions about the political wisdom of putting this proposed amendment on the ballot during the 2014 midterm elections.
The measure might still pass in Indiana -- I suspect it would in 2014, if not a few years later -- but the fight could spark increased turnout from young voters and others who often sit out non-presidential elections. Meanwhile, business groups are largely opposed, fearful it would hurt efforts to market Indiana to the visitors and bright minds it needs to continue to attract. Most voters, meanwhile, rank as their top concern the economy, and not who is marrying whom.
With that in mind, Indiana House Democrats this week urged the Republican majority to call a truce on social issues. The message is welcome, but let's not forget that Democrats at the Statehouse gave the gay marriage prohibition plenty of votes in past years. It's a lot easier to take a principled stand after the poll numbers shift.
But the political reality of this debate really shouldn't matter, because in a more perfect Indiana this would not be about cynical things such as poll numbers or electoral calculations.
What would it be about?
For many Hoosiers, it would be about learning to accept that not everyone is like the person you see in the mirror, and that this is a diverse state whose diversity is worth celebrating. It would be about understanding that lectures about liberty and small-government shouldn't be limited to issues of guns and taxes. It would be about a belief that everyone deserves to pursue his own happiness, and that constitutions should offer hope and not discrimination. It would be about learning from the discriminatory mistakes of history.
And it would be about something else -- something my Mom liked to talk about when I was growing up: minding your own business.
There are plenty of silly proposals offered at the Statehouse every year. This isn't one of them. This is a dangerous idea that lawmakers should assign to the trash can of history.
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
Indiana constitutional same-sex marriage ban 1: Tully right and eloquent in the IndyStar.
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For some, it comes once a lifetime. For others, it never comes.
For Vaughn Walker, it came on an ordinary day in May 2009, as the San Francisco-based retired federal judge was digging through a pile of paperwork.
That was when the "quietly but openly" gay judge found out that he would be called to rule on Perry vs. Schwarzenegger, the challenge to Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage, according to the San Jose Mercury News.
"That's when I had the 'Oh (my) moment,'" Walker told the newspaper.
Walker was close to retirement when the suit was filed, but he stayed on the bench -- and set into motion a chain of events that will culminate next month, when the challenge to the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage is heard at the United States Supreme Court.
Walker in 2010 ruled that the ban was unconstitutional, without social justification and singling out same-sex couples for discrimination -- unequal treatment under the law, the newspaper reported. A federal appeals court largely agreed.
Prop. 8's backers have put forth a weak case for defending their law, Walker says -- only two witnesses appeared in court to try to defend the law, he noted, and later, it seemed Prop. 8 backers' best effort to overturn his ruling was to point out that he is gay and therefore biased.
"It was their Hail Mary," he said.
Judge Who Struck Down Prop. 8 Has "Aha" Moment
The judge who struck down Prop 8 was surprised by the weakness of supporters' arguments.
For some, it comes once a lifetime. For others, it never comes.


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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has confirmed that a website related to the 2010 TV program Making Australia Happy was breached with 49,500 audience usernames and hashed versions of passwords leaked.
A hacker going by the Twitter handle of Phr0zenMyst claimed ownership of the attack and said it was a response to the recent appearance on ABC's Lateline program of right-wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
"The aim of the hack was to hurt ABC for allowing Wilders to spread hate, apologies for any harm caused to others," tweeted PhrOzenMyst yesterday.
As soon as the company was made aware of this breach, the website was shut down.
An ABC spokeswoman confirmed that it has now written to the 49,500 people that were affected.
"The ABC has sincerely apologised for the incident and assured the users of the Making Australia Happy site that immediate action has been taken to contain the breach and a review of the safeguards is underway," she said.
The spokeswoman added that some reports about the hack were incorrect.
"There was a survey on the site that was designed to measure how happy people are. The only information that was hacked is the information users provided to register for the website. Responses that users gave to the survey have not been exposed."
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The Christmas Season
Today is the sixth day of Christmas. Though many folks have been celebrating Christmas since the day after Thanksgiving, according to tradition we are only half way through the real season of Christmas. Despite pre-Christmas advertising campaign countdowns to the contrary, the twelve days of Christmas actually begins on Christmas Day and continues through the celebration of Twelfth Night on January 5, until the Feast of the Epiphany on January 6 begins a new season.
Though we are truly only in the middle of the Christmas season a long trail of broken or discarded candy canes have already made their way into my kitchen. Candy Canes seem to have become more of a decoration to tie onto packages than a seasonal treat that anyone actually eats. Or maybe that's just my family. Instead of being consumed they collect in a sad pile in my kitchen while my family's traditions of thrift inspire guilty feelings whenever I consider tossing them in the trash.Repurposing Candy Canes
That's why I saved the recipe for White Christmas Dream Drops from the December issue of Sunset magazine. This year I am recycling those candy canes in a pretty meringue cookie. Reading through it I had to smile. It is based on the same basic recipe and technique as my mother's Chocolate Chip Meringue Cookies, a recipe that makes a relatively soft centered meringue that is often hollow inside. I have seldom seen it anywhere else and here it is again, substituting bits of crushed peppermint candy for the nuts, white chips for the chocolate and adding a few minutes in the oven once it is turned off to set the meringue with a little added crunch.
These delightful cookies are gluten free, easy to make, low in fat and require only a few ingredients. They are a great way to use up leftover candy canes and are a good choice for celebrations late in the Christmas season and beyond, when you want a bite of something sweet but without the weight of butter-rich cakes and cookies. These cookies are instead a light and fresh way to enjoy the tastes of the season.
Peppermint Dream Meringue Cookies
from the December 2011 issue of Sunset
2 egg whites, at room temperature
1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/8 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon vanilla
¾ cup sugar
6 ounces white chocolate chips (about 1 cup)
1/3 cup plus 1½ Tablespoons coarsely crushed peppermint candy
Preheat oven to 250F.
With an electric mixer beat together egg whites and cream of tartar just until soft peaks form. Add salt and vanilla. Continue beating at high speed as you add the sugar one Tablespoon at a time, allowing 10 seconds or so between additions. (Very stiff peaks should form). Fold in chips and 1/3 cup peppermint candy.
Cover two cookie sheets with parchment paper. Drop meringue by Tablespoonfuls onto the parchment paper. Sprinkle cookies with remaining 1½ Tablespoons of peppermint candy.
Bake at 250 degrees for about 30 – 35 minutes or until cookies are set and dry to the touch but still pale. Turn the oven off, prop open the oven door and allow the cookies to stand in the oven another 10 minutes. Remove pans from oven and allow cookies to cool on the pan.
Notes: I drop these cookies on the parchment paper using two spoons, one to scoop up the desired amount and the back of the other to push the batter onto the parchment. These could also be made, and might look more uniform, if the cookies were formed using a gallon sized Ziploc bag. To try this, simply scoop the meringue into the bag, seal it, then cut a 1-inch opening across a lower corner of the bag. Use it like a pastry bag to pipe meringue onto the parchment paper in Tablespoon-sized dollops.
These cookies are extra pretty dipped in or drizzled with dark chocolate for contrast. To do this dip the lower half of each cooled cookie in melted chocolate allowing the excess to drip back into the pan before placing the dipped cookie on a parchment (or wax paper) lined cookie sheet to set. When the cookie sheet is full place it in the refrigerator for a few minutes until the chocolate is firm.
Or, place the melted chocolate in a small Ziploc freezer bag and snip ¼ inch from a lower corner of the bag. Drizzle the chocolate over each cookie. Place cookies in the refrigerator until the chocolate is firm.
This meringue could also be piped into heart shaped cookies like Valentine Meringue Cookies. To do this I would suggest chopping the white chips before adding them to the meringue so they will be easier to pipe.


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