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=== zfcpdump not available yet ===
zfcpdump kernel is not available yet, and will be made available as an SRU at a later date. Please see this [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1565841|bug]] for more information.
=== Install-time parameters are not propagated to the installed system ===
If installation is performed with special kernel paramateres, e.g. cio_ignore, these are not propagated to the installed system. Please edit `/etc/zipl.conf` to apply these and re-run `sudo zipl` to update the IPL. Please see this [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1571561|bug]] for more information.
=== PCI support ===
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These release notes for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) provide an overview of the release and document the known issues with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and its flavors.
Support lifespan
Official flavour release notes
Find the links to release notes for official flavors here.
Get Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Download Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Images can be downloaded from a location near you.
You can download ISOs from:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/ (Ubuntu Desktop, Server, and Snappy Core)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/releases/16.04/beta-2/ (Less Popular Ubuntu Images)
http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/16.04/beta-2/ (Ubuntu Cloud Server)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/16.04/ (Ubuntu Netboot)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/16.04/beta-2/ (Kubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/16.04/beta-2/ (Lubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/16.04/beta-2/ (Ubuntu Studio)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/16.04/beta-2/ (Ubuntu GNOME)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntukylin/releases/16.04/beta-2/ (Ubuntu Kylin)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mate/releases/16.04/beta-2/ (Ubuntu MATE)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/16.04/beta-2/ (Xubuntu)
Upgrading from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS or 15.10
To upgrade on a desktop system:
Open the "Software & Updates" Setting in System Settings.
- Select the 3rd Tab called "Updates".
- Set the "Notify me of a new Ubuntu version" dropdown menu to "For any new version" if you are using 15.10, set it to "long-term support versions" if you are using 14.04 LTS.
- Press Alt+F2 and type in "update-manager" (without the quotes) into the command box.
- Software Updater should open up and tell you: New distribution release '16.04 LTS' is available.
- Click Upgrade and follow the on-screen instructions.
To upgrade on a server system:
Install the update-manager-core package if it is not already installed.
- Make sure the /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades is set to normal if you are using 15.10, lts if you are using 14.04 LTS.
Launch the upgrade tool with the command sudo do-release-upgrade.
- Follow the on-screen instructions.
Note that the server upgrade will use GNU screen and automatically re-attach in case of dropped connection problems.
There are no offline upgrade options for Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Server. Please ensure you have network connectivity to one of the official mirrors or to a locally accessible mirror and follow the instructions above.
New features in 16.04 LTS
Updated Packages
As with every new release, packages--applications and software of all kinds--are being updated at a rapid pace. Many of these packages came from an automatic sync from Debian's unstable branch; others have been explicitly pulled in for Ubuntu 16.04.
For a list of all packages being accepted for Ubuntu 16.04, please subscribe to xenial-changes.
Linux kernel 4.4
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is based on the long-term supported Linux release series 4.4.
Python 3.5
Python has been upgraded to the 3.5 series.
If you have your own programs based on Python 2, fear not! Python 2 will continue to be available (as the python package) for the foreseeable future. However, to best support future versions of Ubuntu you should consider porting your code to Python 3. Python/3 has some advice and resources on this.
VIM defaults to python3
The default VIM package has been built against python3 instead of python2. This means plugins that require a python2 interpreter support from VIM will not work anymore. For this case alternative VIM packages are available that still use python2, for example vim-gnome-py2. They can be made the default via the alternatives mechanism:
sudo update-alternatives --set vim /usr/bin/vim.gnome-py2
Golang 1.6
golang toolchain was upgraded to the 1.6 series, and gccgo was upgraded to the GCC 6.1 release candidate 1. Thus the same level of standard library and compiler features are provided by both compilers on all fully supported architectures.
OpenSSH 7.2p2
Recent OpenSSH releases disable several pieces of weak, legacy, and/or unsafe cryptography. If you are upgrading a system remotely over SSH, you should check that you are not relying on these to ensure that you will retain access after the upgrade.
Support for the legacy SSH version 1 protocol is disabled by default at compile time. Note that this also means that the Cipher keyword in ssh_config(5) is effectively no longer usable; use Ciphers instead for protocol 2. The openssh-client-ssh1 package includes "ssh1", "scp1", and "ssh-keygen1" binaries which you can use if you have no alternative way to connect to an outdated SSH1-only server; please contact the server administrator or system vendor in such cases and ask them to upgrade.
Support for the 1024-bit diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 key exchange is disabled by default at run-time. It may be re-enabled using the upstream instructions.
Support for ssh-dss, ssh-dss-cert-* host and user keys is disabled by default at run-time. These may be re-enabled using the upstream instructions.
Support for the legacy v00 cert format has been removed.
Several ciphers are disabled by default in ssh: blowfish-cbc, cast128-cbc, all arcfour variants and the rijndael-cbc aliases for AES.
MD5-based and truncated HMAC algorithms are disabled by default in ssh.
lxd 2.0
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS includes LXD, a new, lightweight, network-aware, container manager offering a VM-like experience built on top of Linux containers. All the LXC components, lxc, lxcfs and lxd in Ubuntu 16.04 are at version 2.0
You can learn more about LXD here: https://www.stgraber.org/2016/03/11/lxd-2-0-blog-post-series-012/
docker 1.10
docker was upgraded to the version 1.10. Note that this requires migration of existing images to a new format which will be performed on the first start of the service. This migration can take a long time and put a high load on the system, see https://docs.docker.com/engine/migration/ for more information.
PHP was upgraded to 7.0. Note that this will require modifications to custom PHP extensions (https://wiki.php.net/phpng-upgrading) and may require modifications to PHP source code (http://php.net/manual/en/migration70.php).
- NGINX and PHP 7.0
Upgrading from prior version of Ubuntu with PHP5 FPM configurations and NGINX will require a manual configuration change (details at: http://dark-net.net/nginx-http2-php7.0).
Most PHP-dependent packages were either rebuilt or upgraded for PHP7.0 support. Where that was not possible, packages may have been removed from the archive. There was one exception, Drupal7.
Drupal7 does not pass upstream testing with PHP7.0 as of the 16.04 release (https://www.drupal.org/node/2656548). An SRU will be provided once upstream PHP7.0 support is available and verified. Until that time, the drupal7 package will not be installable in 16.04.
MySQL 5.7
MySQL has been updated to 5.7. Some configuration directives have been changed or deprecated, so if you are upgrading from a previously customised configuration then you will need to update your customisation appropriately.
Password behaviour when the MySQL root password is empty has changed. Packaging now enables socket authentication when the MySQL root password is empty. This means that a non-root user can't log in as the MySQL root user with an empty password. For details, see the NEWS file.
Juju 2.0
Juju and Juju UI have been updated to 2.0. The package name is juju-2.0. Juju 1.25.5 is available in the juju package for existing production environments. Please read the upgrade documentation before moving to 2.0
Juju now supports modelling workloads on AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Engine, Rackspace, Joyent, LXD, MAAS, and manual deployments.
The Juju Charm Store now has over 300 charms ready to deploy. Most of these workloads will deploy Trusty instances, but we expect 16.04 charms to start landing and being announced independent of Juju's release.
GNU toolchain
glibc was updated to the 2.23 release, binutils to the 2.26 release, and GCC to a recent snapshot from the GCC 5 branch (post GCC 5.3.0).
Apt 1.2
Apt 1.2 includes the new privilege separation features introduced in Apt 1.1. Importantly, the unprivileged "_apt" user is now used when making outgoing network connections and parsing the results for the various apt transport methods (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP).
Ubuntu for IBM LinuxONE
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS includes a new port to 64-bit z/Architecture for IBM mainframe computers. This is a practically complete port of Ubuntu Server and Cloud with circa 95% binary package availability. We are excited to enable OpenStack software, Juju, MAAS, LXD, and much more on this platform.
Ubuntu Desktop
The general theme for 16.04 on the desktop is one of bug fixes and incremental quality improvements ...
- GNOME is mostly upgraded to 3.18. GLib upgraded to to 2.48 (corresponding to GNOME 3.20)
- GNOME Software replaces Ubuntu Software Center. This brings a faster store experience and moves our archive metadata in line with Debian. It has been renamed "Ubuntu Software" to improve recognition for Ubuntu Software Center users.
All default applications and libraries ported to use WebKit 2
- GNOME Calendar is now included by default
- Empathy and Brasero are removed from the default installation
- Chromium upgraded to version 48
- Firefox upgraded to version 45
- Online searches in the dash are now disabled by default
- Improved HiDPI support in the greeter
Added more supported languages by default More info
- Multiple bug fixes
Unity & Compiz
- Improved launcher integration with file manager and devices
- Support for formatting removable devices from quicklist
- Improved support for gtk applications using headerbars
- Improvements to the switcher and spread backends
- Activate app spread by Super+Ctrl+W
- Unity control center option to always show menus
- Improvements to GNOME key grabbing
- New dash overlay scrollbars
- Better Dash theming support
- Support for scaling cursors in HiDPI environments
- Show icons launching state in launcher when apps launched elsewhere
- Launcher can be moved to the bottom
LibreOffice 5.1 brings a lot of improvements to the entire package. For more information on these improvements please see the LibreOffice release notes available here. You can see a video highlighting some of the new features here.
LibreOffice defaults to the Breeze theme in Ubuntu
Improvements in the Python scripting and language bindings http://conference.libreoffice.org/assets/Conference/Aarhus/Slides/MatthewFrancisPyUNO.pdf
- Support for WebDAV via HTTPS
Writer word processor
- Added support for whitespace hiding. A long standing feature request.
Mailmerge in Writer can use spreadsheets as a data source http://vmiklos.hu/blog/mail-merge-embedding.html
- Spell check dialogue no longer auto closes
Calc spreadsheets
- Exponential and power trend lines handle negative Y values
- Performance improvements leveraging SSE3 for SUM functions
- Added support for PNG export
- Search for numbers as formatted/displayed
Impress presentations
- Slide transitions use OpenGL 2.1+ and new transitions added
- Keyboard shortcuts for navigation and sorting
- Screensaver inhibiting for KDE, XFCE, Mate
Ubuntu Server
New in 16.04, the kernel crash dump mechanism now supports remote kernel crash dumps. It is now possible to send kernel crash dumps to a remote server using the SSH or NFS protocols. Details of the new functionality are available in the Ubuntu Server Guide.
OpenStack Mitaka
Ubuntu 16.04 includes the latest OpenStack release, Mitaka, including the following components:
OpenStack Identity - Keystone
OpenStack Imaging - Glance
OpenStack Block Storage - Cinder
OpenStack Compute - Nova
OpenStack Networking - Neutron
OpenStack Telemetry - Ceilometer and Aodh
OpenStack Orchestration - Heat
OpenStack Dashboard - Horizon
OpenStack Object Storage - Swift
OpenStack Database as a Service - Trove
OpenStack DNS - Designate
OpenStack Bare-metal - Ironic
OpenStack Filesystem - Manila
OpenStack Key Manager - Barbican
Please refer to the OpenStack Mitaka release notes for full details of this release of OpenStack.
OpenStack Mitaka is also provided via the Ubuntu Cloud Archive for OpenStack Mitaka for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS users.
Ubuntu 16.04 also includes the first GA release of of the Nova driver for LXD ('nova-lxd').
WARNING: Upgrading an OpenStack deployment is a non-trivial process and care should be taken to plan and test upgrade procedures which will be specific to each OpenStack deployment.
Make sure you read the OpenStack Charm Release Notes for more information about how to deploy Ubuntu OpenStack using Juju.
libvirt 1.3.1
Libvirt has been updated to the 1.3.1 release.
qemu 2.5
Qemu has been updated to the 2.5 release.
See http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.5 for details.
Open vSwitch 2.5.0
Ubuntu 16.04 includes the latest release of Open vSwitch, 2.5.0. This is also an LTS release of Open vSwitch.
Ubuntu 16.04 also includes support for Open vSwitch integrated with DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) enabling fast packet processing through userspace usage of compatible networking cards - see the openvswitch-switch-dpdk package for more details.
Ceph Jewel
Ubuntu 16.04 includes the latest release candidate (10.1.2) of the Ceph Jewel stable release; An update to the final release version will be delivered as an SRU to Ubuntu 16.04.
For full details on the Ceph Jewel release, please refer to the upstream release notes.
Ubuntu 16.04 includes version 1.9.15 of the Nginx web server, with an expectation to provide the next stable release of Nginx, 1.10.0, as an SRU after release (which will be virtually identical to 1.9.15). This version of Nginx also includes HTTP/2 support, which supersedes SPDY support previously provided in the Nginx packages.
Known issues
As is to be expected, with any release, there are some significant known bugs that users may run into with this release of Ubuntu 16.04. The ones we know about at this point (and some of the workarounds), are documented here so you don't need to spend time reporting these bugs again:
Boot, installation and post-install
Errors about swap partition at install
There is a known issue regarding the creation of swap space during the install. In some cases the install will display the error message "Creation of swap space in Partition #n .... failed.". Please see this bug for more information. You may work around the issue by manually partitioning the disk and removing any existing swap partitions before then creating a new one.
Installing Xen host in UEFI mode
It is currently impossible to boot a Xen hypervisor from grub in UEFI mode. However the package does not detect this and will set the default boot to Xen mode. So for any machine in UEFI mode, do not install the Xen hypervisor (or enable legacy mode first). Please see this bug report for more information.
IBM z Systems and LinuxONE specific known issues
Fully automated preseed install
Fully automated preseed installation is currently not possible with only DASD drives at the moment. For zfcp installation s390-zfcp/zfcp preseed key can be used. For more information please see bug and bug.
zfcpdump not available yet
zfcpdump kernel is not available yet, and will be made available as an SRU at a later date. Please see this bug for more information.
Install-time parameters are not propagated to the installed system
If installation is performed with special kernel paramateres, e.g. cio_ignore, these are not propagated to the installed system. Please edit /etc/zipl.conf to apply these and re-run sudo zipl to update the IPL. Please see this bug for more information.
PCI support
Linux kernel needs an upgrade to the first SRU kernel post-release for a complete PCI support. For more information please see this bug for more information.
Unity 7
Sometimes Gtk application menus go missing https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1532226. You can workaround this by launching this from a terminal or Alt+F2 dash view:
restart unity-panel-service
Ubuntu Software
Sometimes doesn't update apps to "Installed" after installation via search https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1551599
Does some time-consuming operations without any indicator https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1572606
Missing some details for apps that aren't installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1564621 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1571414
Removing apps leaves dependencies installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1552792
Doesn't recognize self-reviews https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1564209
Review stars aren't clickable https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1549555
Doesn't use full deb descriptions or translations https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1559338
- Upgrades from previous versions can result in two Software Center icons in the launcher. One for the old Ubuntu Software Center and one for the new Ubuntu Software application. The Ubuntu Software Center icon can be removed if required.
Graphics and Display
The fglrx driver is now deprecated in 16.04, and we recommend its open source alternatives (radeon and amdgpu). AMD put a lot of work into the drivers, and we backported kernel code from Linux 4.5 to provide a better experience.
When upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04 from a previous release, both the fglrx driver and the xorg.conf will be removed, so that the system is set to use either the amdgpu driver or the radeon driver (depending on the available hardware).
More information is available here https://tjaalton.wordpress.com/2016/03/11/no-catalystfglrx-video-driver-in-ubuntu-16-04/
Official flavours
The release notes for the official flavours can be found at the following links:
Mythbuntu https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/Beta2/Mythbuntu
Ubuntu GNOME https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/Beta2/UbuntuGNOME
Ubuntu Kylin https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/Beta2/UbuntuKylin
Ubuntu MATE https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/Beta2/UbuntuMATE
Ubuntu Studio https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes/Beta2/UbuntuStudio
More information
Reporting bugs
Your comments, bug reports, patches and suggestions will help fix bugs and improve the quality of future releases. Please report bugs using the tools provided.
If you want to help out with bugs, the Bug Squad is always looking for help.
Participate in Ubuntu
If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list of ways you can participate at
More about Ubuntu
You can find out more about Ubuntu on the Ubuntu website and Ubuntu wiki.
To sign up for future Ubuntu development announcements, please subscribe to Ubuntu's development announcement list at:
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These rules are the first and final word on all things governing AE86DC.
Section 1 --- Posting on the Forums
A) Posting Languagei - When posting on AE86DC it is a requirement to use correct spelling and grammar. Shortening words (SMS Speak) won't be tolerated. It makes it hard for others to search threads if you can't spell a simple word. You look like a bloody idiot as well...B) Posting Images
ii - Racism will not be tolerated at ALL. That includes any harsh use of anything that refers to Aboriginals / Other races in a negative way (including the posting of racist videos). Not hard, use your brain.
iii - Defamation / Libel / Hate (towards an individual) in ANY shape or form will not be tolerated. use your common sense - If you can't post something nice, don't post anything at all.
iv - Defamation / Libel / Hate (towards ANY business) in ANY shape or form will not be tolerated. This includes starting threads like "Don't use these Businesses" or "Businesses that have ripped me off". We would prefer to hear about your positive experiences that don't leave us (AE86DC) open to legal recourse. This rule will be heavily enforced.
v - General bad / nasty language. We do not censor many words on AE86DC, but please used your discretion when using especially heavy / foul language. While you're not going to get banned for posting words like "Fuck", we do draw the line with heavier words and other degrading terms, especially when used in a personal attack. You have been warned.
vi - Other general "calling out" of members with the intent to cause trouble will be dealt with accordingly.i - Posting (embedding) images hosted on other websites should be avoided. Where possible, please mirror the files to your own webspace / image hosting and use those links instead. Posting lots of large images from other people's websites has the potential to run them out of bandwidth on their website.C) Posting Videos
ii - Image sizes should be kept to a minimum wherever possible. An acceptable size of images when embedding in forums is between 800x600 pixels -> 1024x768 pixels. Any larger than this and images will take a LONG time to view / won't fit on the forums page. This is a basic skill that most primary school children have mastered. Get with the times or read this tutorial.
iii - Vular and obscene images should not be posted fullstop. Use your imagination... Excessive gore / illegal or objectionable content = please ban me. And we won't hesitate to enforce that one.i - Embedding Youtube Videos directly into posts / threads is easy to do. This link will show you just what you need to do! click me...D) Posting Links
ii - Use your common sense. Abusive / Hate / Racist / Illegal stuff is just going to get you a warning (Infraction) or outright ban.
iii - Posting of burnout videos / illegal & reckless driving / illegal activites on public roads = warning or ban, even if you weren't the one in the video. This type of behaviour should be discouraged. You have been warned.
iv - Please try and keep videos to the "Youtube Chan" forum. This was created so that people wanting to watch videos could find all relevant videos in the one forum. There are lots of video threads there already - have a quick search first, and then post if you have to.i - If someone asks (directly) for a link to a certain business, you may post that link, however you are not allowed to randomly advertise your own business (website link) unless directly asked to without previous intent to draw attention to yourself or business.E) Posting Etiquette
ii - There is to be no posting of links to EBAY sales unless you are the SELLER OF SAID ITEM. It is not fair to draw the attention of such a large forum (7000+ users) to a sale that might not have had an all-in bidding war. This is not negotiable.
iii - Unless you are a SITE SPONSOR, you may post ONE "non-hyperlinked" website address in your signature. No more than ONE... Links to AE86DC addresses are exempt from this rule.i - Use your common sense. This is just like using your manners, please & thankyou go a long way.F) Posting Private Messages
ii - Introduce yourself before you go on your posting spree.
iii - Keep it on-topic. If you can't, use the OFFTOPIC forum (sparingly) Do not make a habit of drawing people into flame wars / trolling people into going offtopic. If a thread is posted in the Technical forum, about a flywheel - you can talk about your flywheel but don't go off-topic and talk about other unrelated things. This will ensure that we can keep all RELEVANT discussion in EASY TO FIND places.
iv - Use the search button lots when you start out on AE86DC. We have accumulated more than 6 years worth of information on this forum. Unless you have an extremely rare combination of modifications, we can say that 99% of it has all been discussed before.
v - Do not post a thread like this "What engine should I put in my KE70?" For starters, it is YOUR car, it is YOUR choice. Do a search if you must. Open ended threads like this make you look like a n00b, you will get more respect by researching your own car build YOURSELF and THEN posting it. Give it a try...i - If you want to argue, do it by Private Message, don't do it in the public forumsG) Your Signature
ii - Threats made by PM will be investigated. Please report bad behaviour in PM to me (Nicko)
iii - Don't rely on private messages. If it is important info in your PM inbox, back it up (write it down). Private messages have a bad habit of becoming corrupt / going missing when we do upgrades. You have been warned.i - Please keep it compact, four lines of plain text would be awesome... Or a signature image and a line or two of text. Go overboard and we will warn / suspend / ban. use common sense.H) Reporting Bugs & Errors
ii - By all means, quote other users in your signature, but keep it nice, keep it clean. We shouldn't have to tell you what is OK and what isn't OK.i - If you experience bugs / errors, please report them in the Bug Tracker forum. There is no need to post them anywhere else.Section 2 --- Your User Account
ii - From time to time, the forum needs updates. An SQL error likely means that we are upgrading the database. If it is a very obvious error, it probably doesn't need to be reported.
A) Warnings (A.K.A Infractions)i - First Warning - If you do for some reason breach our rules, you will be served a warning by Private Message. Any infringing content will be removed.B) Account Suspension
i - Second Chance, Account suspension may vary depending on how badly you ignored our first warning. By default we will usually give a 7 day account suspension, if we feel that you have breached the rules badly enough, this time may extend to up to three months. During this time, you will have an error message saying "You have been Banned until [DATE]" and also specified a reason. It will be pretty clear by this stage what you have done wrong. Sending / Receiving private messages won't work.C) Account Bansi - We have worked with you, given warnings and suspended your account already, within reason we will then ban your user account. Account bans are PERMANENT. You will have no further access to Private Messages or personal user settings. Your account is locked for good. The only person who can overturn a permanent ban is Nicko.
D) Evading Suspension & User Bans
i - So, you've been Banned / Suspended. Creating additional accounts is not allowed. We will track you down (it isn't hard) and you will be removed.E) Changing Your Username
ii - Banned users logging in from other user's accounts is also very easy to track. When we work it out (and we will), you will be removed as well as the account that you gained access to - whether you had permission from that user or not. Evading bans can & will be enforced.
i - Changing your username is 100% possible. Only Nicko has the authority to change usernames. You may request a change by sending Nicko a Private Message with the details. Username changes can take up to 7 days to be actioned (it isn't our highest priority)
F) Changing Your Password
i - To change your password, click here
G) Recovering a Lost Password
i - To change your password, click here
H) Changing Your Avatar
I) Signup Process
J) Email Subscription to Threads & Forums
K) Giving other people your login details / password
Section 3 --- Sales & WTB Forums
a) Listing personal items for sale
b) Listing Cars for sale
c) Wanted to buy
d) Group Buys
e) Commercial Sales
f) Becoming a Website Sponsor
g) Bumping Threads
h) Interfering with Sales Threads
i) Reporting a dodgy buyer or seller
Section 4 --- Events
a) Posting an event
b) Code of conduct for members at an event
c) AE86DC Official Events
Section 5 --- Regional Forums
a) Region Leaders
b) Spotted Thread Rules
c) Posting Items For Sale
Section 6 --- AE86DC Official E-Mails & PM's
a) Merchandise
b) Events
c) SPAM Policy
d) Abuse Policy
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1. Does it cover failures due to wear and tear?
It's fairly obvious that every part of a car will simply wear out over time if you wait long enough. That's where the first huge benefit in cover appears with the MotorEasy car warranty plan. MotorEasy will cover failures as a result of a covered part failing due to 'wear and tear'. This means that we won't dodge claims by attributing failures to 'wear'. We will always ensure that you are protected against such risks.
Don't be confused. The term 'wear and tear' can often be attributed to parts that are bound to wear out in relatively short periods. These are generally referred to as service or frictional parts which need regular or ad hoc replacement such as brake
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pads, clutch plates, wiper blades, exhausts, batteries and tyres. These parts will never be covered as part of an extended car warranty but the vast majority of mechanical and electrical parts will be.
Manufacturers may offer extended car warranty cover through their dealers but they will be far less comprehensive than a MotorEasy car warranty and, most importantly, they
won't cover failures due to wear that become more prevalent as the car ages or reaches higher mileages. The same is true with most of the independent warranties out there. So watch out for any car warranty that doesn't cover or excludes failures due to 'wear and tear' - whether described as 'normal', 'gradual', 'expected', 'general' or 'premature'. Some will say they cover 'premature' wear but not 'normal' or 'gradual', which makes little sense, so beware!
Previous research has shown that as much as 70% of all claims can be attributed to 'wear and tear' either in part or in total, so a car warranty that doesn't cover it is of potentially little value.
2. Can I use the garage of my choice for any car repairs?
A manufacturer's extended car warranty will restrict you to using its franchised network for any car repairs.*
A dealer used car warranty will want you to return to the dealership.
Many independent aftermarket extended warranties will restrict you to a limited number of garages – and restrict hourly labour rates that they will pay to leave you with much of the bill.
The MotorEasy difference offers you real choice:
There are about 20,000 garages nationally that are involved with car service and car repairs ranging from franchised dealers, specialists, independents and fast-fits. Of these, MotorEasy has built an approved network of some 10,000 workshops. This network understands the MotorEasy philosophy and our processes to ensure all goes smoothly with any car repairs. Though it's network MotorEasy can also offer outstanding car service and MOT pricing along with collection and return of your car.
If, for any reason, you would prefer to use an alternative VAT registered garage of your choice this is possible too. All car repair work must be pre-authorised, whatever garage is selected.
* Many car warranty holders mistakenly believe they are also required to have all car servicing carried out at the franchised network; due to the legacy of the European Commission's Block Exemption Regulation, this is not the case. The MotorEasy network can carry out manufacturer's approved level of car servicing at up to 40% cheaper than franchised garages.
3. Does it cover overheating?
Overheating can lead to some of the most expensive car repairs. Therefore, if your car service and maintenance warranty plan doesn't cover it then you could be left with a big bill.
Most overheating is down to lack of coolant due to a leaky hose or the failure of the timing belt. Hoses are not usually covered by a car warranty but the consequence of one failing can be catastrophic. That's why a MotorEasy car warranty covers what is often referred to as consequential loss or damage. We might not cover the leaky hose but we will cover the blown engine – saving you thousands of pounds. It's the same with the timing belt. As long as yours has been changed at the manufacturer's recommended interval, MotorEasy will cover the damage that results from its failure.
4. What is the pay-out limit?
We have seen car warranty plans that feature a £100 car repair contribution (also known as an excess) and a £500 car repair limit (also known as a claim limit) – leaving £400 that's hardly likely to cover any serious bills. Even a £2,000 limit seems minimal for today's cars.
With MotorEasy the car repair limit is the value of your car which should cover almost every possibility.
5. Will the car warranty settle directly with the workshop?
Most extended car warranty providers will ask you to settle with the garage and reclaim the car repair costs, leaving you out of pocket and with the bother of administration.
MotorEasy has a network of some 10,000 garages that we can pay directly. They are familiar with our speedy car repair process and will ensure a smooth experience. Additionally, these garages will normally carry-out any other non-warranty work that you need doing at our negotiated and dramatically reduced hourly labour rate – meaning big savings.
To further enhance our product, we can receive and process car repairs online 24/7, with you and the workshop.
If you prefer to go to a non-network garage, we will endeavour to pay them directly but you will need to pay and reclaim if this isn't possible. They must be a VAT registered garage.
6. Does the car warranty cover failures identified by the workshop during a car service or MOT?
It is surprising that any car warranty could exclude such claims. After all, this might be the only time your car gets checked out each year and it is the most likely time to discover faults.
The MotorEasy car warranty plans include cover** for failures found on these visits to give you common sense and optimum protection.
**Car Warranty lite plans don't include coverage for failures found during MOT or car servicing, this is the reason we can offer dramatically reduced pricing on these products.


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"Celebrity Poker Showdown" (Bravo 6 p.m.) This once-cool show has officially jumped the shark by inviting "reality TV" stars like Jonny Fairplay, Trishelle Cannatella and Omarosa to compete against each other this season.
"Hidden Howie: The Private Life of a Public Nuisance" (Bravo 9 p.m.) So you're telling me that both Paulie Shore and Howie Mandel have their own TV shows now? Isn't there a list somewhere to prevent this sort of thing? ... I'm warning you, the second Carrot Top gets his own weekly show, I'm outta here.
"Greg the Bunny" (IFC 8:30 p.m.) Greg got his first big break as a series of short, interstitial films on IFC. His cult sitcom couldn't cut it on FOX, so it's only fitting that he return to the network that spawned him for more short film parodies.
"Gene Simmons' Rock School" (VH1 9 p.m.) The Kiss kingpin stars in a reality show rip-off of Rock School, trying to transform a classroom full of proper British prep-schoolers into a fire-breathing metal band.
"America's Ugliest Living Room" (TLC 7 p.m.) Yeah, but can it really compete with America's Ugliest Bathroom?
"Connections" Marathon (KNME-5 1:30 p.m.) James Burke's 1980 series "
"Amazon Abyss" (Discovery 7 p.m.) The Amazon is one big-ass river, and it's filled with some seriously creepy creatures. This new series follows world-class underwater cameraman Mike deGruy and his team of explorers as they catch real-life aliens of the abyss on film for the first time, including primitive river dolphins, giant pink electric knifefish, a deepwater wolftooth and a six-foot long man-eating catfish. Apocalypse Now was right: Never get out of the boat!
"The Ultimate Fighter" (Spike TV 9:05 p.m.) Silly me, I thought the title "The Ultimate Fighter" was an absolute. But here we are at season two, looking for another ultimate fighter. Will this one be more ultimate than the last? Will that make last season's winner the penultimate fighter? Am I applying too much logic for a show on Spike TV?
Sherlock Holmes Marathon (TCM 6 p.m.) It's a whole bloody night of dastardly deeds and roguish behavior as Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Watson (Nigel Moore) star in a run of Sherlock Holmes and ... films including The Secret Weapon, The Woman in Green, The Terror By Night and Dressed to Kill.
"Eric Clapton: Session for Robert J." (KNME-5 7 p.m.) White boy bluesman Eric Clapton pays tribute to legendary musician Robert Johnson with this all-blues concert.


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Brett Favre's former teammate says he's tired of the drama
LeRoy Butler says it's time to move on
Brett Favre's former teammate, LeRoy Butler, says he's sick and tired of the whole drama that has resurfaced involving the retired quarterback and the Green Bay Packers.
Favre has given two separate radio interviews in the past couple weeks.
Both times he has taken part of the blame for the ugliness that happened between he and the Packers in the summer of 2008 when Favre tried to return to Green Bay after announcing his retirement earlier that year.
WISN 12 News spoke with Butler this week while he was in Downtown Milwaukee helping the Salvation Army with their Summer Meal Program.
The retired safety said it's time to move on.
"I'm just sick of hearing about it because every year it seems like everyone's apologizing. Get over it. Either come back, retire the jersey, or be through with it. Or lock him out for 50 years. Whatever just do it," Butler said. "You got players that would love to be a janitor in that building and they're begging a guy to come back you doesn't necessarily want to come back."


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Serendipity 3 is known throughout Las Vegas as being home to some of the most decadent and unique desserts on the Strip. If you look no further than the dessert menu you would be overlooking a flavorful menu as well as missing the opportunity to taste some ingredients that are being grown right outside of Serendipity 3's front door.
Serendipity 3 at Caesars Palace recently transformed its decorative floral and fauna into the Las Vegas Strip's first seasonal garden as a way to improve environmental sustainability. The garden features an assortment of vegetables and spices including; sunflowers, cherry tomatoes, globe artichokes, roma tomatoes, Japanese eggplant, bell peppers (yellow, red, green), rosemary, basil, cilantro, curly parsley, chives, mint, shallots, dill, marjoram, oregano, tarragon, savory, hyssop, anise, coriander and garlic.
This new garden allows Serendipity 3 Executive Chef Michael Wolf to incorporate homegrown produce into a number of Serendipity 3 dishes. The dishes on the menu that use ingredients directly from the garden include; the heirloom tomato salad (tomatoes and basil), the New York Steak of Mind (rosemary) and the margherita pizza (basil). In addition, several of the restaurant's cocktails contain ingredients from the garden such as the cucumber basil gin rickey and the madras mojito.
"Our seasonal edible garden allows us to help the environment while improving the quality and freshness of our food," Chef Wolf said. "Guests enjoy seeing where the ingredients are grown, especially since a wide variety of our menu items benefit from the herbs."
There certainly is no lack of freshness and flavor in the heirloom tomato salad even among the ingredients that are not from the Serendipity 3 garden. It had to be a bit of creative genius on the part of Chef Wolf to have such a flavorful selection of salads in a restaurant known for its desserts. What better way to have an amazing meal while still leaving plenty of room for a dessert that will surely overpower your appetite. The heirloom salad is also the perfect meal to combat the Las Vegas heat, light, refreshing and cool. The freshness in the salad brings out all of the subtle differences in the assortment of tomatoes while the true punch in this dish comes from the strong flavor of the buratta cheese, a perfect pairing. Combine that with the fresh basil, a nice crunchiness from toasted marcona almonds and the light herb vinaigrette and this leaves one salad that will keep you coming back time and time again.
The salad menu at Serendiptiy 3 is so ranging that no matter what you are in the mood for, you are likely to find it one way or another in one of their salads. The other salad that really will grab you in terms of flavor is the "Serendipity Chicken Chop Chop." One bite of this salad and you will feel as if you are in the middle of a garden with the wide assortment of vegetables featuring artichoke hearts, red peppers, hearts of palm, cucumbers to go along with mixed with chicken, almonds and a rich feta cheese.
While the salads are fantastic, you might be thinking to yourself "I didn't come to Las Vegas for a salad." I would start and end with the crab cakes as the one thing you must have off of the Serendipity 3 menu. Chef Wolf could give a class on how to properly make a crab cake, although why give out the secret to the best crab cake in Las Vegas. It is not just the fresh crab that makes that makes these so flavorful; it is the fact that they are probably 99% crab. Just enough ingredients to make sure it stays in once piece, this is one crab cake where all you really taste is the crab.
The rest of the menu takes you in any direction of your liking. You can order the "Hangover Omelette" that contains bacon, French fries, cheese and mushrooms, what a way to start your day after a long Las Vegas night. The Mac & Cheese certainly can be placed in the annals of the gourmet versions that have been created in the past few years. A great blend of flavorful cheeses that are drizzled with the essence of aromatic truffles and topped with panko crust, this dish alone will leave you satisfied. You will also come across steak, pizza and footlong hot dogs.
Before you even get a chance to look at the dessert menu, Serendipity 3 will try to entice you with something sweet. The Frrrozen Hot Chocolate is simply one of those items that you can't leave the restaurant without trying. This is no milkshake or frozen drink that just has the name frozen hot chocolate thrown into the description. If you took a cup of hot chocolate and sat down to enjoy it with a polar bear and let it sit for an hour this is what you would get. They must have created this for those 110 degree Las Vegas afternoons as you get the entire flavor of hot chocolate but perfectly chilled. Some of the flavors you can choose include; amaretto almond, orrreo, mint frrrozen, just to name a few.
Finally we are at that time of the meal when we get to peruse the dessert menu. Don't waste your time looking anywhere else, the Sundae list is where it all begins and ends. How can you go wrong with "Deep
–Fried Oreos and Ice Cream," "Carrot Cake Sundae" or the "Forbidden Broadway
Sunday," but at the end of the day the "Lookie, Lookie, Gimme Cookie" is the one and only choice. This Sundae gives you it all, chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream, hot fudge, whipped cream and an assortment of full-sized warm and soft cookies. You better have a few friends with you because the sundaes are huge and they don't skimp on the toppings.
You certainly could make a visit to Serendipity 3 to savor one of the lavish desserts to celebrate for any reason or simply because you are in Las Vegas. The better idea would be to make it an experience and take in the entire menu from start to end and enjoy the view of the Las Vegas Strip with friends while you do more than just satisfy your sweet tooth.
Serendipity 3 is open Sunday through Thursday 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. and Friday and Saturday 8 a.m. to midnight. For reservations, which are highly suggested, call (702) 731-7373.
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Avalon Beach House - Part 2
Timeless Interior Design
With a pastel palette and natural materials, this light-filled home has become a dream made in coastal heaven!
Kate Bell of Kate Bell Design helped the owner realise her vision for the interior, the two worked closely together to create the finished result. The owner wanted a sense of flow and to maximise the view. She also wanted to use natural materials, including oak flooring and natural stone, teamed with calming, pale pastels. Kate says they didn't want to create a beach house, but rather a home with a beachy feel, sophisticated but also warm and inviting. A sanctuary in harmony with its surrounds, with fluid, open-plan living spaces.
I love the end result, soothing and tranquil and although it is essentially traditional it also has elements that surprise us like the Moroccan-inspired laser cut screen at the entry, the soft green glass kitchen splashback tiles and the painted Chinese antique pieces. Classic architectural detailing, clean, contemporary furniture and raw, natural, textured finishes like sisal and wicker all sit in perfect harmony.
For more images from this stunning home, take a look at yesterday's post.
Melissah xox
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I don't know about you, but as a Paleo person I struggle with finding protein snacks I like.
Yeah, I know about protein bars, and I know I'm supposed to like them, but I hate'em.
They're too mealy for my taste.
Beef jerky isn't my cup of tea, either. Trail mix gets old fast. And hard boiled eggs?
Let's just say I've had my fill.
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Today, I just ignore the protein bar aisle, no matter how trendy. These homemade snacks and treats are way better.
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Fresh off their best ratings in five years, the folks at the Academy Awards are ready to take on the mighty NFL.
A plan under consideration would move Oscar night up nearly a month, placing it in direct competition with football's postseason. The new schedule wouldn't come until 2012, if at all, but there is momentum for the change.
"It's not a done deal yet," Academy President Tom Sherak told the Los Angeles Times. "I think we would like to do it. Progress is being made, but we don't have it all right just yet."
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The 2011 Oscars are slated for Feb. 27, and there's no indication that there will be any change on that front. Still, the Academy is hoping to set itself apart from he rest of the Awards Season crowd with a move right into the teeth of the National Football League postseason.
If you're naive enough to still be wondering why they would make such a move, the answer is simple: money. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But if they really want to boost ratings and in turn make more money, they should trim down the broadcast to three hours and give folks a show that moves. Film fans show almost zero interest in dance numbers for 364 nights a year and then along come the Oscars and we get the work of Hans Zimmer accompanied by breakdancers? Sadly, there's no indication that the Academy is ready for such changes.
"I'd love to have a three-hour show, but more important is giving them (viewers) a night that they'll remember," Sherak told Variety back in March. "Getting a show in at two hours and 58 minutes that doesn't include the stuff everybody loves isn't the answer."
Complicating matters further is the fact that the NFL is thinking about expanding their regular season by two games, Making late January the heart of the league's playoff season.
The way things are now, the Oscars are the final night of movie awards, following the Critic's Choice, Golden Globe, Screen Actor Guild British Academy of Film and Television Awards. But don't a lot of folks like to look to the other awards as bellwethers for their Oscar night prognostications? Has the Academy considered the fact that the way things are now they're the headliner? And if they move to January they're suddenly the opening act?
Another consideration for the plan is that it tightens considerably the window of time that voters have to catch up on seeing on the eligible films, which may force some distributors to move up the release of their films. Late-year releases are a time-honored tradition for Oscar hopefuls, like this year's "Blue Valentine," which is waiting until Dec. 31 to take a bow.
There's a lot the Academy could do to make itself more profitable, but trying to take on the NFL seems like a loser's bet.


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"I've been drunk and hungover and puked and all that stuff, so I know how to do that," laughed Jeff Bridges in discussing how he prepared for the role of bloated, alcoholic country singer Bad Blake in "Crazy Heart."
But there's more to Bad than McClure's whiskey, touches that helped bring the image of a road weary man into focus, like his perpetually undone belt. Each time we see Bad emerge from his truck, his buckle hangs open, his gut putting undue stress on his zipper.
"That (touch) was me – that's what I do when I'm fat and I'm driving," explained Bridges with another chuckle. Gaining 25 pounds for the role was something that he found easier to do than undo.
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"Eat that extra pint of Häagen-Dazs, have that extra drink … the weight comes on pretty quick," explained Bridges. "Then getting it off, it's tougher each time."
It was the late Stephen Bruton who, in addition to providing much of the film's music, offered pieces of his own life on the road.
"Stephen was probably my biggest role model," said Bridges, says of his old friend who died of throat cancer in May. "I remember one writing session we were sitting around and he said, 'You know, when I'm traveling around, I don't stop to take a leak. I'll carry a bottle.'"
The image of Blake emerging from his truck, pants open wide, to empty his urine jug, is as grim as it is funny.
With a budget of only $7 million, "Crazy Heart" was, by necessity, a grueling shoot with more than 140 scenes to do in only 24 days. Judging by Bridges' performance, it was worth it. Folks are calling him a shoe-in for yet another Oscar nod. While he enjoys the praise on a personal level, he seems more grateful for what the attention means for the film.
"It feels great to be appreciated, that feels wonderful," said Bridges. "And with a movie like this, that doesn't have too much money to get TV ads and print ads and stuff, you've got to look at other ways to bring people to the show. And certainly doing festivals and winning awards, that makes the movie stand out, so that's a good thing."


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Directed evolution is a powerful method for altering the properties of biological parts and systems. Directed protein evolution employs iterative rounds of mutation and artificial selection to generate new proteins with desirable functions.
Biological molecules have the ability to rapidly evolve in response to strong selective pressure. Protein engineers exploit this evolvability to generate new and useful protein functions through successive rounds of mutation and selection. This approach is known as directed protein evolution, and it involves four basic steps:
1. A parent protein sequence is selected. 2. The parent sequence is mutated to generate a library of functional variants. 3. Variants are evaluated for their ability to perform the desired function. 4. The process is repeated until the desired function is achieved.
The parent sequence is chosen based on its perceived similarity to the desired function, and a library of functional variants is generated using one of a variety of sequences diversification techniques. High-throughput functional screens and genetic selection methods are used to identify library members with enhanced target function, and those variants are used as parent sequences in successive rounds of mutation and selection.
Library construction
There are several common techniques used to construct libraries of functional variants
Error-prone PCR
Error-prone PCR amplifies wild-type sequences using a polymerase that has an error rate of up to 2%. The PCR can be made error-prone in a number of ways, including increasing the concentration of Mg2+, adding Mn2+, or using unequal concentrations of each nucleotide. After the amplification, the mutant sequences must be cloned. The size of a library generated by error-prone PCR is limited by cloning step. Common mutations resulting from error-prone PCR are point mutations, but deletions and frameshift mutations are also possible. There are a number of commercially available kits for error-prone PCR (link to Stratagene). Similar techniques also use mutagenic primers.
Recombination of homologous sequences
Computer-guided mutagenesis
DNA shuffling
Screening techniques
List of high-throughput assays for protein function
1. phage display 2. ribosome display 3. mRNA-peptide fusion 4. plasmid display 5. cell-surface display 6. genetics 7. n-hybrid systems 8. in vitro compartmentalization 9. spatial address 10. mass spectrometry


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- You may wish to consult
Torchwood (disambiguation)for other, similarly-named pages.
The Torchwood Institute (or "Torchwood" for short) was an organisation founded in 1879 (TV: Tooth and Claw) to protect the British Empire (later Great Britain) from extraterrestrial threat, to capture the Doctor (whom Queen Victoria regarded as one such threat) and to secure alien technology for Britain. (TV: Tooth and Claw, Army of Ghosts)
Torchwood had branches across the Empire. (TV: Everything Changes, AUDIO: Golden Age) The leading branch was Torchwood One in London. (TV: Army of Ghosts) After the Battle of Canary Wharf, leadership moved to Torchwood Three in Cardiff, which already had a more ecumenical agenda of protecting the world since Captain Jack Harkness had taken over in 2000. (TV: Doomsday, The Sound of Drums, Everything Changes, Fragments)
Owing to a series of crises in the late 2000s, Torchwood lost several bases (TV: Everything Changes, Children of Earth: Day Five) and by 2010 the Institute was defunct. (TV: The End of Time, The New World) A small successor team which formed in the wake of Miracle Day was briefly active in 2011 (TV: Dead of Night, et al.) but its operations were short-lived. (AUDIO: Red Skies, Army of One) However, Torchwood eventually returned in Cardiff by 2017, at which point it was seeking a new permanent facility in the city. (AUDIO: More Than This) Torchwood continued to be active in Cardiff up to at least the year 2069. (AUDIO: Asylum)
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After an encounter with the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler, Queen Victoria was grateful for their assistance in defeating a werewolf. However, she was unsettled by their cavalier attitude to the death and destruction surrounding them. She knighted the pair, as a reward for their bravery, and then promptly banished them from the British Empire, never to return. The incident had also made her aware of otherworldly threats to the British Empire, prompting her to charter Torchwood to defend against them - specifically, the Doctor. Seeing his power and knowledge, the Queen was wary of his potential danger. The name of the Institute was drawn from the Torchwood Estate, where most of the adventure took place. (TV: Tooth and Claw)
It was relatively common for the head of a Torchwood branch to kill all of their operatives, earning them a place on the Red List. (AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive)
Over time, the Institute accumulated much alien technology, reverse-engineering it and applying it to secret military projects within Britain. Within Torchwood an unofficial motto evolved: "If it's alien, it's ours." Under Yvonne Hartman, one of the objectives of Torchwood was to at some point re-establish the British Empire, for example, finding an alternate power source aside from oil, imported from the Middle East.
Hiding out in the open in Canary Wharf was Torchwood Tower, built to better access a weak point in spacetime that existed above London. The Torchwood Tower was only part of a much larger plan involving free energy (TV: Army of Ghosts) that backfired horribly and resulted in the deaths of many. (TV: Doomsday) This battle marked the end of Torchwood One. (TV: Everything Changes)
As London was home to Torchwood One, Cardiff was home to Torchwood Three, the maverick group led by Captain Jack Harkness. By the time of Gwen Cooper's recruitment into Torchwood Three, at least two other Torchwood branches were known to have existed as well: Torchwood Two and Torchwood Four. Torchwood Two was based in Glasgow, Scotland, and was comprised of one man whom Jack Harkness regarded as "very strange". Torchwood Four had been "lost". (TV: Everything Changes) Torchwood India was based in India and led by the Duchess of Melrose. It was disbanded in 1924, but continued in secret until 2009. (AUDIO: Golden Age)
Captain Jack declared the organisation "outside the government and beyond the police". (TV: Everything Changes) It was indeed different from most British institutions, having been created by royal decree and funded directly by the Crown. However, it was explicitly not "above" the government. HM Queen Victoria ordered:
Torchwood is also to administer to the Government thereof in our name, and generally to act in our name and on our behalf, subject to such orders and regulations as Torchwood shall, from time to time, receive from us through one of our Principal Secretaries of state.
Despite Jack's tendency to stress Torchwood's independence, Torchwood Three, at least, often complied with the spirit of the Charter. He often spoke to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom and to UNIT in both an advisory and operational capacity. (TV: Everything Changes, Children of Earth: Day One, and others) On at least one occasion, an active member of UNIT, Martha Jones, was assigned to Torchwood Three for a time. (TV: Reset, Dead Man Walking, A Day in the Death)
Public knowledge regarding Torchwood seemed to vary depending upon the situation. By the 1950s, it was known by London police; (TV: The Idiot's Lantern) by the late 2000s, the name was known by the general public, at least in Cardiff, (TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang) and it could be cited with authority in much the way terms like FBI or Homeland Security (or UNIT) were used. (TV: Dead Man Walking) People were aware of the general location of Torchwood Three headquarters by Cardiff Bay. (TV: Children of Earth: Day One) By the early 2010s, it was known sufficiently to have the Battle of Canary Wharf called the Battle of Torchwood. (TV: Fear Her) However, as late as 2011 it was unknown to aspects of the United States government and the Central Intelligence Agency. (TV: The New World)
By the year 200,100, the Torchwood Institute had become the stuff of trivia questions. (TV: Bad Wolf)
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19th century Edit
Torchwood's origins dated back to an incident involving the Tenth Doctor, Rose Tyler and Queen Victoria in the mid-19th century. At Torchwood House in Scotland, a monastic group called the brethren stored a Werewolf, which menaced the countryside and the Queen. With the monarch's assistance, the Doctor and Rose killed the werewolf. Victoria knighted them for their service, then banished them from the kingdom, declaring the Doctor in particular a pontential threat to the Empire. Now aware of the reality of alien and supernatural life forms, Victoria ordered an organisation be created to protect the British Empire from the Doctor and threats such as the werewolf. She named the organisation the Torchwood Institute, after the location of the werewolf encounter. (TV: Tooth and Claw) She issued a royal decree establishing the Institute on 31 December 1879. (TV: Children of Earth: Day One)
In 1889, agents Eliza Cooper and Robert Lewis attempted to capture the Tenth Doctor when they realised he had been stranded in London. They came across H. G. Wells, and interrogated him about the Doctor. Wells led them to the TARDIS, which disappeared, apparently leaving the Doctor behind for them to arrest. (COMIC: The Time Machination) The man was found not to be the Doctor when he was dissected. (COMIC: Final Sacrifice)
By 1899, Torchwood Three, which was based around a rift in space and time, was founded in Cardiff. In 1899 Cardiff, Jack Harkness was recruited by two of this branch's operatives, Alice Guppy and Emily Holroyd as a freelance agent of the Institute. His first mission was to apprehend an intelligent blowfish alien; he succeeded, but was greatly disturbed when Guppy summarily executed the creature before his eyes. He continued to work for Torchwood largely against his will, having been told by a fortune-telling tarot card reader that he would have to wait more than a century before seeing the Doctor again. Meanwhile, he needed money to live. He continued to work for the organisation over the decades that followed, although he remained disturbed by the Institute's callous disregard for alien life forms. (TV: Fragments)
On 17 May 1899, the Life-stealer escaped from Torchwood London's base at the National History Museum and proceeded to feed on the youth of Londoners starting with Torchwood London director, Archie, who was left permanently incapacitated as he was rapidly aged, at the same time Torchwood was visited by Queen Victoria for her annual inspection of the Institute, resulting her sharing an adventure with Jack Harkness as she took to pursuing the creature. After Victoria killed the creature by exploiting its weakness against the elderly, both she and Jack declined their offers to each other to take command of Torchwood London, with the Queen retiring from public life while Jack returned to Torchwood in Cardiff. (AUDIO: The Victorian Age)
At some point, Victoria also established Torchwood India to collect all things alien in the British Raj. (AUDIO: Golden Age)
20th century Edit
In 1901, Alice Guppy and Charles Gaskell dug up a future version of Jack Harkness that had been taken from the 21st century and buried in 27 AD Cardiff. He told them to freeze him in the cryo-chambers so he could defeat his brother Gray. Subsequently, Jack's future self resided in the cryo-chambers even as his younger self continued to work nearby. (TV: Exit Wounds)
In 1906, Eliza Cooper and Robert Lewis used a machine they commissioned Professor Alexander Hugh to build to travel to another planet thousands of years into the future. Neither Cooper nor Lewis returned; the former remained on the planet while the latter was killed. Professor Hugh was returned home by the Tenth Doctor. (COMIC: Final Sacrifice)
Torchwood was planning to use alien weaponry during World War I, but eventually decided against it. (PROSE: Risk Assessment)
In 1918, Torchwood Three investigated ghost sightings in a hospital in Cardiff. As present and future blended, they caught glimpses of the 21st century. At this time they had a team of five, the leader being a man called Gerald Carter. They already had equipment capable of detecting disturbances in time. (TV: To the Last Man)
Circa 1919, Harriet Derbyshire, one of the investigators of the hospital sightings and in only her mid-twenties, died in action. (TV: To the Last Man)
Jack continued to work as an operative throughout the 20th century. In 1909, he was put in charge of a group of soldiers, (TV: Small Worlds) and in the 1920s worked undercover with a travelling circus in pursuit of the Night Travellers, though it would appear the latter mission was unsuccessful as he failed to find them for eighty years. (TV: From Out of the Rain)
In 1923, thanks to a Professor Livesy-Smythe, Torchwood found evidence that an alien race called the Pyroviles invaded Earth at Pompeii in 79 AD. (WC: Monster File: Pyrovile)
In 1924, Torchwood sent Jack Harkness to India to close down the branch there before the fall of the Raj. (AUDIO: Golden Age)
In 1927, Jack Harkness was sent on a mission to New York City in order to thwart a plot by the Trickster's Brigade to infect Franklin Delano Roosevelt with a Brainspawn and change the course of history. With assistance from his lover Angelo Colasanto, Jack succeeded in eliminating the parasite. (TV: Immortal Sins)
In the early 1940s, Torchwood operative LeDuc travelled to occupied Paris with his lover Gabriel to locate Torchwood's German counterpart, by then renamed Project Hermod. He had himself captured and interrogated by Oppenführer Hans Grau in order to get the information, a mission in which he was successful. He invited Berber to join Torchwood, which she agreed to. (AUDIO: The Dying Room)
According to Norton Folgate, Torchwood had to deal with a large amount of black market trading in alien artefacts as a result of the number of spacecraft shot down during World War II. However, they were mostly called out to the sites of unexploded bombs. (AUDIO: Ghost Mission)
By 1953, the London branch was influential enough that London police feared its involvement when investigating the strange occurrences provoked by the activities of an alien entity known as the Wire. (TV: The Idiot's Lantern)
In 1965, the government asked five highly ranked officers, including Jack, to give twelve children to the 456 as a gift. It was decided that the children would be taken from a Scottish orphanage as they wouldn't be missed. Despite eleven children being taken, Clem McDonald managed to escape. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Three)
In the 1970s several known cases were solved by Torchwood Los Angeles with a trio of agents, Marlow Sweet, Gabriella Martinez and Charlotte Du Bujeau. After Charley's death, Valerie Fox joined the trio. (AUDIO: The Dollhouse)
Circa 1984, Torchwood bought the London-based security firm H.C. Clements. (TV: The Runaway Bride)
In 1987, Torchwood sent Doctor James Greco to investigate Gabriel Tyler and his psychic powers, hoping to find a breakthrough in understanding the human mind. (AUDIO: Damaged Goods)
Circa 1997, Torchwood recovered a Jathaa sunglider and reverse-engineered weaponry from it. (TV: Army of Ghosts)
At the end of 1999, Jack became the leader of Torchwood Three when one of its members, Alex Hopkins, killed the rest of the team and himself after being driven insane by an alien artefact that revealed the events of the coming years. (TV: Fragments)
21st century Edit
Over the next few years, Jack rebuilt the Torchwood Three team, recruiting Suzie Costello, Toshiko Sato, Sebastian Vaughan (AUDIO: The Vigil) and Owen Harper. Disapproving the ethics of Torchwood One, Jack told Tosh of his plans to reform the organisation to greater benevolence. (TV: Fragments) Tosh was sent to London to investigate the alien lifeform recovered from a crashed spacecraft. Unknown to her, she met the Ninth Doctor during this time. (TV: Aliens of London)
On Christmas 2006, the alien Sycorax invaded Earth, using blood control and a ship built from an asteroid which hovered over London. (TV: The Christmas Invasion) Torchwood had developed a weapon for just such a contingency, based on alien technology scavenged from a Jathaa sun glider. At the same time, in Torchwood Tower, the Institute examined the Void Ship (though they did not call it by that name), an obviously alien artefact they struggled to understand; it was discovered that tapping into the resonance around it produced massive amounts of what seemed to be free energy. A side-effect of these experiments was the appearance of millions of "ghosts" all over the world: humanoid figures that glowed with an unearthly light.
The Tenth Doctor became involved. He explained to the then-administrator Yvonne Hartman that their experiments were weakening the barrier between dimensions, which would eventually lead to drastic problems in their own world, perhaps resulting in the collapse of their dimension. His warnings were not heeded, and the experiments continued. As a result, a massive invasion force from another dimension came through the "hole", allowing the Earth to be conquered by the Cybermen for approximately an hour.
At the same time, the Void Ship opened, revealing a hidden cadre of four Daleks, (TV: Army of Ghosts) members of the secret Cult of Skaro, come to Earth to help restore the Dalek race with a stolen piece of Time Lord technology called the Genesis Ark. They promptly killed a Torchwood technician while stealing his knowledge of current events. They saw the Cybermen as an impediment to their own return and began a war against them, despite an offer from the Cyber-Leader to form an alliance.
The "hole" in space time created by the Void Ship also allowed a resistance army from another dimension to cross over, initially with the intention of stopping the Cybermen. With the advance of the Cybermen and Daleks, a rather sudden and uneasy truce began, with Torchwood militia and the Preachers fighting together against the Daleks and Cybermen. This turned Torchwood Tower into a battleground. The fighting did not end until the Doctor found a way to reverse Torchwood's power machinery and send the Daleks and Cybermen into the Void. Rose Tyler was recruited by the version of Torchwood that existed on the parallel Earth nicknamed Pete's World, having been trapped there after the reversal sealed the gap between N-Space and Pete's World. (TV: Doomsday)
With the vast majority of the Torchwood administration in London killed or 'upgraded' by the Cybermen, the organisation was crippled. [additional sources needed] Following the battle, Jack recruited Canary Wharf survivor Ianto Jones. (TV: Fragments) Some time later, Sebastian was killed by a cortex leech (AUDIO: The Vigil) and Suzie shot herself, after which Jack hired Gwen Cooper. By the time of Gwen's recruitment, Torchwood Four had disappeared. (TV: Everything Changes)
A major event occurred with the opening of the Cardiff rift, resulting in massive temporal displacements and the release of the demon Abaddon. (TV: End of Days) Shortly after, team leader Captain Jack Harkness mysteriously disappeared. (TV: Utopia) Subsequently, Saxon sent Torchwood Three on a "wild goose chase" mission away from Great Britain to the Himalayas. (TV: The Sound of Drums)
After a few months had passed for Torchwood Three (and about a year for Jack, who had lived through the Year That Never Was) Jack returned to Torchwood Three. Although Gwen had taken charge during his absence, Jack resumed command. (TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang) Some months later, the Torchwood Three team was depleted by the deaths of two members (TV: Exit Wounds) and the survivors became involved in helping the Tenth Doctor restore the Earth to its original location after it was moved by the Daleks to the Medusa Cascade. (TV: The Stolen Earth/Journey's End)
Perhaps due to their influence during alien invasion, by the late 2000s, Torchwood was beginning to be known by the public at large, although more by name and reputation than by actual purpose. (TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang)
In 2009, the Institute was left in disarray due to an intentional effort by the British Prime Minister Brian Green to destroy Torchwood to prevent the revelation of previous dealings between the UK and the alien race known as the 456, in which Jack had been involved. The Cardiff Hub was destroyed by a paramilitary unit headed by Agent Johnson, and attempts were made on the lives of the surviving members of Torchwood Three. (TV: Children of Earth: Day One) Files held by the British government indicated that by this point, Torchwood Two had been disbanded. (TV: Day Two) Despite this, Torchwood was instrumental in the defeat of the 456 with Jack finding a way to defeat them with help from Johnson.
After the defeat of the 456, Torchwood was left with only two surviving operatives: Jack and Gwen, the latter pregnant. Six months later, Jack, having spent some time travelling the world and beyond on his own, made the decision to leave Earth, leaving Gwen — now heavily pregnant — as the last known Torchwood operative. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Five) It was at this point that the Institute disbanded. (TV: The New World)
In 2011, during the events of Miracle Day, Jack returned to Earth, and while the Institute was no more, he and Gwen, along with several new members, formed a new team that continued to use the name "Torchwood". At one point during the crisis the team established a relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency (for whom newly recruited members Rex Matheson and Esther Drummond were agents) though Jack resisted the CIA's efforts take control. Shortly after the resolution of the crisis, which resulted in Esther's death, (TV: The Blood Line) Jack left Earth and Rex returned to work as CIA agent, (AUDIO: Red Skies, Army of One) and Torchwood once again ceased to exist.
By 2012, the name (if not necessarily the function) of Torchwood was widely known to the public, to the extent that the Battle of Canary Wharf had come to be known as the "Battle of Torchwood". (TV: Fear Her)
By 2017, Torchwood had returned to deal with temporary holes in space time which brought through new alien phenomena in Cardiff despite the apparent closing of the Rift years prior, which they weren't sure was a sign of the Rift reopening or simply the position in Cardiff being vulnerable. At this point, Gwen, who dealt with most of these incursions with assistance from PC Andy Davidson while Rhys looked after their daughter Anwen, approached Roger Pugh, Planning Officer for Cardiff City Council, in order to establish a new Torchwood Cardiff facility which would replace the long-gone Hub. After Gwen had shown Roger a day of her work first hand, he gave her his support. (AUDIO: More Than This) At some point Jack Harkness returned to his old role as leader and a civil servant, St John Colchester was assigned to the team to assist with Torchwood's reestablishment. (AUDIO: Changes Everything)
After the government funding for Torchwood's reestablishment was cut following a report that stated the Rift was no longer a threat, the team moved back into the ruins of the Hub and owned a Smart Car. They were often assisted by disgraced journalist Tyler Steele, a rejected potential recruit. (AUDIO: Changes Everything) An alien, Orr, also joined Torchwood. (AUDIO: Orr, Superiority Complex) An Yvonne Hartman from a parallel universe arrived and took over Torchwood, framing Jack as a terrorist. (AUDIO: Poker Face) After being split from Ng, who had been in control of Gwen's body, Gwen left Torchwood to start a new life. (AUDIO: Herald of the Dawn)
Following the flight of the Sorvix, (AUDIO: Future Pain) Torchwood covered up the invasion using Brent Hayden. (AUDIO: The Man Who Destroyed Torchwood) Norton Folgate joined the team (AUDIO: Flight 405) after Yvonne attempted to make a hard-light projection of Ianto. (AUDIO: Night Watch) The two both worked for the Committee but later attempted to stop their plan, (AUDIO: Eye of the Storm) resulting in severe damage to Cardiff. (AUDIO: A Mother's Son) As a result of this, Torchwood was discredited and Jack, Ng, Orr, Tyler and Colchester fled the city whilst Yvonne was arrested. (AUDIO: Thoughts and Prayers)
At the beginning of the 2020s, the Thirteenth Doctor believed Torchwood to be gone alongside UNIT. (TV: Spyfall)
By the 2060s, Torchwood Three was capable of controlling the Rift. (AUDIO: Asylum)
Post-21st century Edit
The Institute still existed, as the Torchwood Archive, in the 42nd century. (TV: The Satan Pit)
The Great Cobalt Pyramid was built on the ruins of the Torchwood Institute. (TV: Bad Wolf)
Torchwood branches Edit
Britain Edit
The Torchwood Institute was known to have four offices across Britain and an international branch. In 2007, Torchwood One was destroyed. (TV: Army of Ghosts / Doomsday) By 2009, Two, Three and India had also ceased operations. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Four, AUDIO: Golden Age) Torchwood Four ceased operations, by virtue of disappearance, prior to 2007. (TV: Everything Changes) From 2011, the Institute's two surviving Torchwood agents simply represented "Torchwood". As fugitives, or self-styled "freedom fighters", the name Torchwood was simply a word which connected its team members. (TV: The Categories of Life)
Torchwood One, headquartered Canary Wharf, was destroyed during the battle with the Cybermen, and consequently abandoned. Last director was Yvonne Hartman. (TV: Army of Ghosts / Doomsday) Had properties and bases across London. (TV: The Runaway Bride, Children of Earth: Day Three, et al.)
Torchwood One also had a base under the Thames Flood Barrier and owned the security firm "H.C. Clements" used to recreate Huon particles. (TV: The Runaway Bride)
Torchwood Two was run from above a bank (PROSE: The Twilight Streets) in Glasgow by a "very strange man" (TV: Everything Changes) called Archie. (PROSE: The Twilight Streets) Closed down prior to summer 2009. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Two)
Torchwood Three operated in Cardiff, set above the Cardiff rift. (TV: Everything Changes, et al.) Led by Captain Jack Harkness since 2000. (TV: Fragments) Cardiff headquarters destroyed on orders of the UK government circa 2009. (TV: Children of Earth: Day One) After the defeat of the 456, (TV: Children of Earth: Day Five) Torchwood Three ceased, though two of its members continued operations. (TV: The New World)
Torchwood Four, lost, but in the words of Captain Jack Harkness, "We'll find it someday". (TV: Everything Changes)
International Edit
Torchwood India, operating in Delhi to collect all artefacts in the Raj. Closed in 1924 by Captain Jack Harkness, though the facility, and some of its members, continued to survive, unageing due to an alien artefact, until 2009. (AUDIO: Golden Age)
Torchwood Los Angeles, operating at least during the 1970s, saw to the protection of the United States' west coast from alien intrusion. (AUDIO: The Dollhouse)
Parallel universe Edit
Pete's World, a parallel universe's version of Earth, also had a version of Torchwood. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen, Doomsday)
Behind the scenes Edit
Torchwood website Edit
On the series 1 version of the Torchwood website, a case file outlined the fall of Torchwood One. It suggested after a massive loss in life and technology, that it was recommended to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for "the immediate closure of Torchwood One, together with the formation of a steering committee to fully examine future options."[1]
On the series 2 version of the Torchwood website, Owen Harper did a report on the "wild goose chase" Torchwood Three went on that was mentioned by Harold Saxon during TV: The Sound of Drums. At 5am, Ianto Jones picked up a phone call telling Torchwood about "[s]omething funny going on in the Himalayas", which Ianto specified was in Pakistan. Ianto claimed to Owen that the call came from UNIT, who were "already there", calling for "all four of us" — Owen, Ianto, Toshiko Sato and Gwen Cooper, and that according to them it was connected to Abaddon.
Torchwood were briefed that there was apparently another space-time rift, halfway up K2. While Tosh was setting up rift-detecting equipment at the location on K2 that was given, a humanoid doll resembling their missing leader, Captain Jack Harkness — described by Owen as "quite a good likeness" — was rigged to jump out of the snow from a spring at the moment the equipment was activated. Owen dubbed it a "Jack-in-the-box", adding, "How bleeding hilarious." The team realised it was a set-up. After two days waiting for transport, Torchwood Three headed back home.
On the trip back, they learnt Saxon had won the election, murdered the American President and was himself murdered by his wife. Owen noted from this that "a week really is a long time in politics".[2]
Other websites Edit
To promote the broadcast of Bad Wolf in 2005, the BBC Doctor Who website was redesigned, resembling what websites of United Kingdom reality shows like Big Brother looked like at the time. It ostensibly showed the profiles of surviving housemates of the Big Brother house, including Strood. Strood stated his "home" in the year 200,100 as "Torchwood".[3] In Bad Wolf, "Torchwood" was briefly mentioned as the answer to a question on The Weakest Link. "Torchwood" was also what the Doctor Who production team labelled tapes as "as a security measure" while they went from Cardiff to London,[4] but the name had yet to be properly established as an Earth-defending institute or as the TV series starring John Barrowman the following year.
Other matters Edit
- "Torchwood" was a code name for series 1 of Doctor Who when it was in production, partly to keep it secret, partly to keep people from absconding with videotapes before it was produced. The word "Torchwood" itself is an anagram of "Doctor Who".[4]
- Torchwood is also the name of a spin-off series from the BBC set in the Doctor Who universe.
External links Edit
Footnotes Edit
- ↑ Report: Closure of Torchwood One. Torchwood website. Archived from the original on 26 August 2007. Retrieved on 24 July 2013.
- ↑ Harper, O. Episodes - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Mission Report #2008/043. BBC - Torchwood. Retrieved on 24 July 2013.
- ↑ Front page for the episode Bad Wolf. BBC - Doctor Who (June 2005). Retrieved on 24 July 2013.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Doctor Who spin-off made in Wales. BBC News (17 October 2005). Retrieved on 24 July 2013.


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An audit of Illinois' Central Management Services agency released April 13 shows multiple deficiencies in the agency's operations, including misspent funds and numerous accounting errors.
The audit, from the office of Illinois Auditor General William Holland, shows CMS made unnecessary emergency expenditures and accounting mistakes in several areas, and the department continues to pay too much for expired state office leases. Out of 19 findings of "material weakness" and "significant deficiency" in the audit, 18 were repeated from previous audits. CMS handles multiple duties for other state agencies, such as procurement, technology and employee benefits.
One of CMS' duties is property management for other state agencies, but 116 of the state's 525 property leases – 22 percent – are expired, meaning the state pays month-to-month rental rates on leases that could be renegotiated for better terms.
"The department is not actively managing its leased space or occupancy, nor bidding and renewing, or consolidating its existing leases resulting in a substantial number of leases that have not been timely renewed or terminated," Holland wrote. "Many of these leases have been in this status for over five years …. The department has not assessed effective utilization of the space and has not negotiated terms that may be more favorable to the state."
The Illinois General Assembly passed a law effective July 1, 2010, that limits such "holdover leases" to six months.
"We fully anticipate that we will be in compliance with the holdover lease provisions of the act by its effective date," CMS told auditors.
CMS has reduced its backlog of holdover leases from 300 in 2006 to 116 currently, and Holland notes that the remaining work is complicated by "staffing issues," including the retirement of experienced staff and the subsequent hiring of inexperienced staff.
Rep. Raymond Poe, R-Springfield, says he'd like to see negotiations done sooner.
"This thing is continuing, and as a person who is leasing, I think we should be renegotiating those leases right now," Poe said. "People are willing to give us better deals, so we should take advantage of the market right now."
Holland says CMS made improper emergency procurements for cell phone service that could have been avoided. The state's master contract for cell phone service had to be canceled and renegotiated, he notes, resulting in CMS' acceptance of uncompetitive bids on an emergency basis beyond the 90-day time limit allowed by law.
"Proper planning and foresight would have allowed for these services to be competitively bid," Holland wrote, adding that the department "circumvented the bidding process mandated by the Illinois Procurement Code." He says CMS spent $5.7 million on cellular services from January 2009 to September 2009, and $33.6 million for Internet service from December 2008 to December 2009.
"These services should not have been an emergency and should have been competitively procured," Holland wrote.
The audit also points to multiple areas in which CMS financial records were not kept properly. In one instance, CMS was found to owe the federal government more than $5 million because of regulations on how much excess federal grant money could be kept in reserve before it must be paid back. The audit revealed that department's substandard accounting practices led to miscalculation of costs in several areas, such as a $125 million understatement for worker compensation in FY2008 and a $4 million overstatement in the same fund for FY2009. CMS also listed expenses under one fiscal year when reporting to the federal government and another fiscal year when reporting to the state, according to the audit, which shows that some costs charged to the federal government were not allowed under federal regulation.
CMS agreed with most findings in the audit, saying the department was aware of many issues already and is working to resolve them.
"We have made significant improvements to our process," CMS told auditors, "but we acknowledge that no process is perfect, so we will continue to assess our operations and implement improvements as needed."
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Backpacking through Mexico last year, I ate all kinds of tacos. It was always easy for me to find things to eat – if the restaurant or street stand did not have a veggie taco on the menu, it was easy enough (with my limited Spanish) to have one made.
The street food was by far the best I've ever had, anywhere. One night we convinced a cab to drive us around until we found the cart we were looking for – then made him park the cab so we could buy him dinner!
Amazing tacos filled with fresh vegetables, with that artful flick of the pineapple from the top of the al pastor stand – caught in midair into the taco and handed over to me.
Since that trip, I have been more adventurous and creative with my own tacos at home. No, I don't have the vertical spit in my kitchen, and I'm not wielding my knife at the whole pineapple perched atop.
These tacos? Miso? Flavors far removed from the street food of Sayulita and San Pancho (San Francisco, Nayarit).
These tacos are what I look for, though – creative and colorful, simple and flavorful.
Seeing that it is zucchini season, that one is a given for me – I love zucchini. Onions are always good, and mushrooms – I cannot resist those baby 'bellos.
Use your favorite vegetables – just chop/slice them all in a fairly uniform size for even cooking, and you cannot go wrong.
miso roasted vegetables
adapted from this Cooking Light recipe
dairy and gluten free, vegan
2-3 tablespoons miso paste (I used red)
1 tablespoon water
juice of 1 lemon
2 tablespoons olive oil
2-3 zucchini (depending on size), sliced in rounds
1 pint baby portobello mushrooms, sliced or quartered
1 orange bell pepper, sliced
1 sweet onion, sliced
salt + pepper
In a small bowl, whisk together miso, water and lemon juice. Add olive oil, whisking to combine. Set aside. Chop all vegetables. Place a large piece of foil on a baking sheet, pile all vegetables in middle of foil. Gather sides and corners of foil, creating a bowl with the foil, and pour miso mixture over vegetables. Crimp foil to close, cook in a 350 degree oven for 30-35 minutes.
veggie taco assembly:
corn tortillas
1 recipe easy tomato Spanish rice
miso roasted vegetables
miso sauce
Warm the tortillas in a skillet over medium heat. Spread a layer of Spanish rice down middle of tortilla, top with miso roasted vegetables and drizzle with miso sauce.
Taco Tuesday? Taco every day.


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Heard about My Kitchen 6th anniversary give-away event? Check it out before 15 May 2011, it is open to all readers.
Awhile ago mil sent us some food items from Japan included a packet of seasoned kelp with salt and dried plum (shio konbu to umeboshi). It was sitting in the pantry for long just was not know what to do with it except using it for rice topping. T suggested to use it in bread baking since I bake bread quite often.
Instead of adding konbu in the bread dough like I did before, I used it as topping this time. It tasted better this way all six buns gone in half a day.
Ingredients (6 buns):
200g bread flour
140g fresh milk
15g unsalted butter/shortening
20g sugar
¼ tsp salt
½ tsp instant dry yeast
30g butter, melted
2 tsp icing sugar
½ tsp salt
1 tsp milk
1 tbsp chopped salted kelp (shio konbu)
1 no. egg yolk
1 tbsp milk
- Place all ingredients for dough EXCEPT butter in bread maker and select Dough mode. Once dough is formed (after 5-7 minutes), add in butter.
- When the cycle is completed, turn dough out on lightly floured surface and divide into 6 equal portions. Shape each portion into a small ball cover with plastic wrap and rest for 10 minutes.
- Shape each ball into oblong or oval shape, put them on a slightly greased baking tray. Cover with plastic wrap and rest for 30 minutes or until they are doubled in size.
- Use a sharp blade or knife to make a long shadow slit on the surface of each bun, let them rest for 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, preheat oven to 180ºC. Prepare topping by mixing all ingredients for topping together until well mixed.
- Eggwash and add topping into slit on each bun.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes. Cool on rack.


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Are there any new news on the no-tell motel?
And "Mollaney Investments" appears to be a BS dummy corporation name.
Owner info, found in the public records of DOB for 360 W 42nd:
Owner: Martin Sanders, General Manager
578 Ninth Avenue Associates, LLC
Phone: 212-307-0887
Signature Bank (which gave him the recent $3,100,000 loan) should be interested that he's in violation of the law. Given the specifics of the mortgage agreement (also public record at DOF) the bank could have liability, too.
Are there any new news on the no-tell motel?
Papaya Dog restaurant at the Elk Hotel has closed
That place was just as disgusting there as it was when it was across the street.
The clientele also not the savoriest.
I'm all for nostalgia and whatever but...good riddance!
And that's from a 30+ year resident of the neighborhood.
I'm still pissed about Stiles, but the pizza joint reopened right next to this dump, and the meat market
(although slightly more expensive and cramped), reopened just a block or so away from where it was.