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The Atlanta Thrashers have reassigned defenseman Paul Postma to the Chicago Wolves.
The Atlanta Thrashers have reassigned defenseman Paul Postma to the Chicago Wolves.
POSTMA was recalled on Feb. 14 but did not appear in any games during his time with the Thrashers. He ranks fourth on the Wolves and second among American Hockey League defensemen with 29 assists and holds fourth on Chicago and is tied for third among league blueliners with 37 points in 56 games this season. The 21-year-old blueliner also paces the team with 150 shots on goal, which leads league defensemen.
The Red Deer, Alberta, native matched a franchise record for most goals by a rookie defenseman and finished third overall among league blueliners with 15 goals in 63 games with the Wolves during his first professional campaign last year. He also held second among team defensemen with 29 points.
The Wolves take on the Rockford IceHogs at the Rockford MetroCentre tonight at 7 p.m., before returning home to host the Texas Stars at the Allstate Arena on Saturday at 7 p.m.
For more information, or tickets to home games, call 1-800-THE-WOLVES or visit chicagowolves.com.


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At Purple Ghost Software we are committed to providing great apps with great support at very reasonable prices.
Purple Ghost Software consists of two people. That is, Mark Reddick and his wonderful wife, Sue. Mark is the developer of all the products and handles all support personally. Sue takes care of the business side of things.
It all started back in 2003 when I decided he wanted to get an MP3 player. After much research I decided I wanted to get an Apple iPod. I loved it but wanted to see if there was other things I could do with it. So I went online and ran across iPodLounge.com (now iLounge.com). This site provided me with much valuable information about the iPod and forums that had a lot of knowledgable, helpful and friendly people. Browsing the site I found several applications that did do some neat things with iPods but I found I wanted features of several different applications and many of them did a lot more than I wanted.
So, I thought about it and figured I should just try writing my own application that does everything I wanted and just what I wanted. So, I worked on it for a while and came up with what I named "iPod Agent". It didn't do a whole lot, but just the features I really wanted. I developed it with the intention of just creating it for my own use. But, I found it worked perfect for me and figured other people may like it as well. So, I put it up on my own personal website and posted information about it in the iPod Lounge forums. I offered it for free and asked for feedback. To my great surprise, a lot of people tried it out and really liked it. I got a lot of requests for added features and enhancements and I went ahead and added many of the requested features and often posted new versions. People liked it better and better and a lot more people started using it.
After a while, with all the requests people kept giving me, I found I was spending a lot of time working on this little project of mine. I figured if I was to continue working on it so much, I should see if people would be willing to pay for it to help me rationalize the time I was putting into it. So, I started selling it as shareware and was again pleasantly surprised to find people started paying for it. So, this encouraged me and so I continued adding features people requested and the sales kept increasing. I found as time went on that I was spending more and more time on this and most of my evenings after work were spent adding features and answering support emails from my customers.
I finally convinced my wife that if this was going to continue growing I'd have to quit my "real" job and do this full time. We were both a bit scared about doing this as we'd no longer have the security of knowing I had a steady paycheck coming. But, in 2005 we took the gamble and Purple Ghost Software, Inc. was born.
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Hospitality Properties Trust Declares Preferred Dividend
Tuesday, September 04, 2012
Hospitality Properties Trust Declares Preferred Dividend16:01 EDT Tuesday, September 04, 2012 NEWTON, Mass. (Business Wire) -- Hospitality Properties Trust (NYSE: HPT) today announced that its board of trustees has declared the regular quarterly dividend on HPT's Series D Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares. A distribution of $0.4453125 per Series D preferred share is payable on or about October 15, 2012, to holders of record at the close of business on September 28, 2012. Hospitality Properties Trust is a real estate investment trust, or REIT, which owns or leases 287 hotels and 185 travel centers located in 44 states, Puerto Rico and Canada. HPT is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts. A Maryland Real Estate Investment Trust with transferable shares of beneficial interest listed on the New York Stock Exchange.No shareholder, Trustee or officer is personally liable for any act or obligation of the Trust. Hospitality Properties TrustTimothy A. Bonang, 617-796-8232Vice President, Investor RelationsorCarlynn Finn, 617-796-8232Senior Manager, Investor Relationswww.hptreit.com


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eBook Description: If the Kazak Guardians had a recruiting poster, it would have read: WANTED: A select few insane men to fight professional Assassins with super-human abilities. Good medical plan provided. Because surviving the training program to graduation was dangerous, even the first challenge to gain entrance could get you killed. But training was the easy part. Staying alive afterward was the hard part. Kazaks guarded individuals whose lives were deemed critical to the security of the United States. These individuals attracted fanatics and the best professional Assassins money could buy--Liars who could tell lies you believed, Ghosts who could become nearly invisible, and Illusionists who could appear to be anyone, among others. But Lynn wanted no other life--the Kazak Guardians gave her life purpose. She had grown up in the foster care system, neglected and abused, at the mercy of people who didn't care. Even when she finally ran away, her freedom wasn't the renewal she had hoped. So when a friend told her about a unique organization that trained individuals to protect VIPs, she knew it was the life for her. She survived years of training and five deadly challenges to become a Kazak Guardian, and entered a world of extremists and assassins, where each assignment became a deadly contest between Kazak and assassin, with the prize the life of the VIP. In spite of the danger, she enjoyed every assignment with its interesting people, new environments, challenges, and best of all, the occasional opportunity to pretend to be someone other than a Kazak--a tiger in tabby garb.
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I sat on the ground, tears running down my face, clothes torn and dirty, and head spinning.
"Why me?" I screamed and pounded my fist into the sandy soil. On its impact, a small covey of quail burst into flight. A few seconds later, they hit the ground and scurried away in their strange fast-walking style. Where the hell are the police when you need them?
"Not here where they're needed!" I shouted, wanting someone to come along and help. Through my swollen and watery eyes, the lengthening shadow of a wispy acacia looked like fingers creeping toward me.
"What? You want a turn now?" I picked up a stone and threw it at the tree. Totally illogical but it felt good.
I'd been on my own for the past six months, having run away from the last of my many foster care homes. Actually, more like refugee camps for kids. We were provided two meager meals a day, slept crammed three or four in small rooms, and wore ragged old hand-me-down clothes. My many foster parents drove new cars, wore expensive clothes, and ate out regularly. I escaped a few months short of my seventeenth birthday with one hundred seventy dollars of their hard-earned money.
Not wanting to stay in Los Angeles, I'd planned to hitchhike to Las Vegas, where I'd hoped to find full-time employment at one of the casinos and disappear in the transient nature of the city. When I reached Barstow, I found that the Holiday Inn was advertising for a part-time maid and decided I should take every opportunity to earn money whenever I could. Vegas would not be cheap, and I would need money until I could find work. They let me go three months later when their regular maid, who had been on maternity leave, returned.
I left Barstow early in the morning and caught a ride with a middle-aged couple heading toward Vegas. They dropped me near a two-lane road that led to the town of Sloan, where they lived. An hour passed, and I still hadn't caught a ride. At the rate I was going, I would be in Vegas before I caught a ride. Everyone seemed in a hurry and flew by with near supersonic speeds. My hitchhiking smile faded when a black four-door sedan heading toward Barstow made a U-turn and pulled along side me. A man rolled down the passenger-side window. His face had a five-day stubble, a sneer, and narrow mean-looking eyes. No one I cared to share a car with.
"This is the last bus to Vegas today. You're going to miss it if you don't run," the man said and smiled. The car...Why had I thought it was a car? It was clearly a bus, and it kept moving so I began to run, waving my hands for it to stop. I didn't want to miss the last bus to Vegas. But it didn't stop; it continued at a speed that kept it just out of my reach. I was breathing hard, my legs aching, when it finally turned onto a dirt road and stopped. I staggered to it and grabbed the door. I stood there gasping for breath, as a man opened the door. He smiled and pointed off into the distance.
"There's a small lake over there," he said, leaning toward me. His breath stank of tobacco and alcohol. When I turned to look where he was pointing, I saw the lake, the water glimmering in the middle of all that sand. "You're hot, sweaty, and dirty. Hurry, the water is cool and refreshing; run and dive into it."
I ran a few yards and dove. I screamed. My exposed arms burned as they scrapped along the rough caliche ground. A million needles pierced my skin as I slid into a cholla cactus. I lay burning with pain. It wasn't a lake. It was desert. The man had lied and I believed him. Again, I realized. Why? When I looked up, a gorgeous hunk of a man stood looking down at me.
"Let me help you up. My name is Marc. You're hurt. Come along with me, and I'll get you fixed up." He lifted me easily and supported me as we walked toward the car. Why did I think it was a bus? I shook my head, trying to clear it. Pain shot through my back, causing my knees to buckle. The man holding my hand changed into a very average-looking young man with a broad square face, flat nose, and scraggly brown hair. Before I could think, I heard something hit the ground and whirled around. A knobby two-foot tree branch lay on the ground. Nothing moved. Did someone throw that stick at me? When I turned back the young man had disappeared, and the golden-haired man again stood in his place. He had a beautiful face and muscular body. I couldn't see any sign of the other man. He had disappeared. My head ached.
"Come, we'll get you fixed up."
Hot pain seared the backs of my thighs. My legs gave way and I fell onto one knee. The young man again stood beside me smiling. When I looked behind me, no one was there. The same stick lay on the ground, almost at my feet. It should have been yards away. In frustration, I picked it up and swung it back and forth, wishing my attacker was standing there.
"Damn you, come out here and fight, you bastard!" I screamed. Still swinging the stick, I scanned the area, hoping to see something, and took a few steps back in the direction I had come. I hit something hard, and the air in front of me blurred for a second. Encouraged, I continued walking and swinging. I heard a thump and saw a small thin man with narrow eyes, tight thin lips, and a hawk-like nose lying up against a barrel cactus. His face twisted in pain. Slowly it turned into a smile so evil I stumbled backward and fell into a prickly shrub.
"Damn the bitch. Russ, her mother should punish her for attacking me," he shouted, looking toward the unshaven man next to the car.
"Your mother's here and she's going to have to punish you for hurting that nice man. You deserve it," Russ said as someone grabbed me. When I turned my head to look, an elderly woman had me by the arm. My mother? The woman who had abandoned me to people who didn't care. I hated her. I swung the stick and hit her...him...Marc in the face.
"Russ!" he shouted as his hand went to his face. Blood dripped from his nose.
"You are feeling safe and know we are here to help you. We're your friends." It was Russ's voice, clear but soft and reassuring. I felt safe, surrounded by friends.
"What's your name, girl?"
"How much money do you have, Lynn?"
"I have over three hundred dollars inside my shoe." I had managed to save an additional two hundred dollars while working in Barstow.
"Give it to the priest. He's collecting money for the homeless people, who need food and shelter." A man stood there in a black suit and white collar. The very spot where my mother...the young man...Marc had stood.
I hated priests. Well, one in particular. He was a regular visitor at one of my earlier foster homes and friendly with my foster parents--jail keepers. Coincidently--like the sun rising each day--he was always present when the state child-protection woman showed for her quarterly visits. He made a point of telling her how well we were being treated. He visited often, at least two or three times a month. When he did, he'd take one of the younger boys back to his church for alter boy training. When the boy returned, it was obvious it wasn't religious instruction he'd received. The boy would be quiet and withdrawn for days afterward and frequently cried all night. Priests didn't give--they took. In my rage, I saw all three men clearly. Although they looked amused, there was something vile about them.
My nightmare went on for hours. Russ's voice made his words seem like reality--a cactus became a leather chair, desert sand became water. Marc morphed into other people as Russ's words changed my perceptions of what was happening to me. And Karl's evil twisted face was always close by after my countless unseen attacks.
With my body racked with pain and my head spinning in chaos, I finally collapsed.
"Well, Karl, I guess the game is over. It was, however, a very interesting exercise. It's one thing learning theory but another seeing it in practice. There are some results that couldn't be easily demonstrated at school," the unshaven man said, while looking down at me.
"You're right, Russ. I knew when I was invisible, I couldn't do anything physical, like hit her with a stick. I had to become visible to do that; however, I didn't know I could be hurt when I was in that state," Karl replied.
"You did look funny in that cactus bush. It was a good example of how pain causes us to lose control of our magic. It also appears that if a lie or illusion strikes an emotional cord, it fails to work. I don't know what it was about her mother or the priest, but clearly it caused an emotional response that broke the spell."
"This was a very interesting and fun afternoon, but we need to get going. Our boss expects us in Los Angles in a few hours. I for one am looking forward to our first contract."
Now that I was bruised, bleeding, and exhausted, I was no longer needed and could be discarded. When two of the men turned to go back to the car, Karl remained. He stood looking down his hawk-like nose at me. I had seen that look many times before. He dropped down on his knees and grabbed me by my throat and began striking me across the face. I attempted to fight him off but he was stronger and had me pinned to the ground with his body. During the beating and rape, I blacked out.
When I woke, I lay there with my knees tucked into my chest, trembling. My clothes were wet, so it must have rained while I lay there. I heard a soft growling. When I looked up, a coyote stood some twenty yards away with fangs bared. Judging from the outline of his ribs, the growling might have been his stomach rumbling. I picked up a rock and threw it. I almost felt sorry for him as he trotted away.
Deciding I had to get moving, I staggered to a small puddle left by the rain and washed myself off as best I could. Then I retrieved my traveling bags, changed out of the torn clothes I was wearing, and headed for the highway. I had little choice but to continue on to Vegas, which I thought couldn't be more than five miles away.


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Khartoum — UNAMID chief, Ibrahim Gambari once again called on regional and international partners of Darfur peace process to put more pressures on the rebel groups to in order to join negotiating table and dissuade them from escalating violence in the western Sudan.
Sudanese government and the Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM) signed a framework document to achieve peace in Darfur last July. One of the three historical groups, Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) who did not sign the deal was part in the forum. But the two others, Sudan Liberation Movement led by Abdel Wahid (SLM-AW) and that of Minni Minnawi (SLM-MM), were not associated to the process.
Since his appointment as Joint Chief Mediator ad interim, Gambari believes that rebel groups should stop violence and give peace a chance, as he also repeats that the outcome of the Doha process lays down a good ground for peace in Darfur. He furthermore says concerned by the recent alliance between Darfur rebels and those in the South Kordofan and Blue Nile.
In a briefing to the African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) on Monday at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Gambari warned that the renewal of violence in Darfur would damage the progress made since the signing of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD).
"It is doubly important that the African Union and the international community stress in words and actions their opposition to the military means chosen to advance political objectives," he emphasized after mentioning the recent statements by the rebel groups on their determination to topple the regime.
Since the signing of the Doha document, the region witnesses a relative calm, at least no notable clashes between the government and the rebel groups. While the government said preparing to a national government before to launch the regional authority and hold a dialogue process in the region.
During a meeting with international envoys for Sudan in El-Geniena last October, Gambari went to suggest international sanctions against the non-signatory rebels. Nonetheless, the diplomats only condemned the "continued belligerent postures" taken by the three rebel groups, and urged them to consider a negotiated solution.
The non-signatory rebel groups are facing international pressures to negotiate with the government but for the time being there is no peace process proposed for the Sudanese parties. Khartoum also says the only option for the rebels is to join the DDPD.
The head of the UN peacekeeping department, Hervé Ladsous, told the UN Security Council last month they are preparing a new road map for peace in Darfur. He also said the findings of a workshop on Darfur held ten two week ago in Washington would contribute to define it.
During a meeting held Tuesday with the head of Darfur regional authority Tijani el-Sissii in Khartoum US Charge d'affaires Ambassador Mary Yates reiterated the US rejection of any tendency to overthrow the regime through violence, reported the LJM website.
Sissi also met with the French Ambassador Patrick Nicoloso who reaffirmed Paris support to the Doha peace document. He also pledged that France would seek to convince the rebel groups to join the negotiating table.
Members of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union said more attention should be paid to recovery and development projects to provide the peace dividends to Darfur people. They also stressed on the need to reengage negotiations between the government and the rebel groups.


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Entrepreneurs shouldn't expect any secret weapons to achieve financial success. But taking heed of a few tips to give your business a firm financial foundation is a good step toward a bright future. Lightspring / Shutterstock.com
All start-ups begin with a vision, but it takes a lot more to build a business into a successful enterprise. You'll need dedication and discipline to create or incubate an idea that has economic value. You'll also need funding and a team of expert advisors who can help you avoid legal and financial pitfalls.
My business partner, Jay Rossin, and I founded Kaufman, Rossin & Co. in 1962 with just $2,000. I'm proud that we have grown to be one of the top CPA firms in the country and are celebrating our firm's 50th anniversary this year. We've experienced our share of challenges, as all entrepreneurs do, and I've learned more than a few lessons along the way.
As I tell our entrepreneurial clients, there are no secret weapons in this business. Some entrepreneurs prosper with the right combination of timing and talent, but many don't make it. Here are a few tips to give your business a firm financial foundation and the best chance at a bright future:
1. Choose the right entity type. This will affect your tax situation, risks and liabilities, how you have to keep your books, even how you can pay yourself.
2. Assemble professional advisors who understand entrepreneurs. Your college roommate may be a great attorney, but if her specialty is real estate, she's not going to be the right choice to set up your corporation. A CPA who works with startup enterprises knows what you're going through; your uncle who does the family's personal tax returns may not be the best fit for your business.
3. Find out about regulations and laws that affect your business. This can be good news or bad. Are there restrictions that relate to your product line? Are there opportunities in the tax code? If you hire a scientist or engineer, for example, ask your accountant about research and development credits.
4. Have one year's expenses in the bank. If you're not prepared to finance this idea for a year, how committed are you?
5. Develop a business plan and projections. A good idea alone isn't a business, and having a plan can help you secure funding. There are books and websites with simple templates for your business plan. It should include:
6. Select accounting software that fits your needs. QuickBooks is easy to use and has versions for many specific industries. Ask a financial professional to train you and help you set it up correctly.
7. Consider various funding sources.
8. Get help from the SBA. The Small Business Administration offers free counseling and training for people like you, both online and in-person locally. Programs include everything from grants and loans to counseling and training. They can even hook you up with help in starting an export business.
Entrepreneurs who combine their vision with professional advice and capital sources will be off to a great start. Remember, there is a tremendous benefit to starting small and testing the market so you can learn how your product or services will be received. It's important to have the discipline not to overextend yourself by trying to grow too quickly. Tap into your available resources and learn from the experience of seasoned entrepreneurs who have walked the path before you.
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Apple updates iTunes Movie Trailers app with Fandango app ticket purchasing
Apple updated its iTunes Movie Trailers app on Wednesday with Fandango app integration.
"Movie tickets can be purchased using the Fandango app," wrote Apple in the app's description. Fandango is a US-based service that sells movie tickets via telephone or the Internet.
Apple also included HD and SD quality for users viewing a trailer on the iPhone, iPod touch or iPad with Retina display, as well as improvements to video playback.
"It now takes less time for a trailer to start playing," Apple explained. Today's update further listed unspecified improvements to performance and stability.
The iTunes Movie Trailers app provides movie previews, clips, trailers and featurettes for blockbusters and independent cinema, so users can explore movie releases, find showtimes, and get ticket information from their iOS device.
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FORT WALTON BEACH - A 25-year-old woman stopped for driving without a license was charged with trying to smuggle cocaine into the jail in a body cavity.
On June 23, an Okaloosa County Sheriff's deputy was patrolling when he saw Kimberlee F. Mercer getting into the driver's seat of a car. According to the arrest report, the deputy knew from prior encounters that Mercer did not have a driver's license.
The deputy pulled Mercer over and she was arrested for driving without a license, the report said. A vehicle inventory search found a syringe, a spoon, a baggie with opiates and two films of Suboxone.
After Mercer was taken to jail, a search was done of Mercer, according to the report. A plastic baggie of cocaine was found in one of her body cavities.
Mercer is charged with driving without a license, possession of a controlled substance without a prescription, possession of drug paraphernalia and smuggling contraband into a detention facility.
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9:45am Time for a selfie with @clickcleanbird!
@ClickCleanBird: A #selfie with a colleague. Aren't I cute? #greenegghunt #clickclean http://t.co/kSYag3e4NZ pic.twitter.com/0MixMT4GNg
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Twitter has over 200 million users–imagine the difference for #climatechange if all of them could #clickclean!
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Ask Twitter to commit to 100% renewable energy for its data centers making our Tweets green!
SAN FRANCISCO, Apr. 8, 2014 — Greenpeace activists unveiled a new logo for Twitter today outside the company's San Francisco headquarters: a person-sized, green version of Twitter's famous icon. The bird urged the company to join peers like Facebook in building a green internet by committing to 100 % renewable energy.
The activists arrived outside of Twitter's headquarters on Market St. at 9:00 am, wheeling a 6-foot tall green egg, which opened to reveal a person in a green costume styled after Twitter's bird logo. The bird, along with activists, handed pocket-sized compostable eggs to employees as they walked into the building, each egg containing messages like: "We love tweeting, but would love it more if it was green. Commit Twitter to 100 % renewable energy."


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Simon van Kempen: When LuAnn Is Being the Countess She Isn't "Being Real" – Exclusive
Former Real Housewives of New York House-husband Simon van Kempen never shies away from talking about insider drama on his former show. So, when Wetpaint Entertainment ran into him at STYLE360 Presents Gretchen Christine Collection by Gretchen Rossi during New York Fashion Week, we had to chat him up about all the drama going down on and off camera.
We already heard your opinion of LuAnn's St. Barts scandal. Care to elaborate further?
Look, my opinion of the Countess is one opinion, my opinion of LuLu is another. LuAnn plays a character and she's allowed to take on her own persona. When she puts on the airs and graces she's false. I'm known for being real. I released a single called "I'm Real." And when LuAnn is the Countess she is not being real. She's admitted that the whole contretemps in St. Barts has affected her and Jacques. This is after Radar put out that story that her and Jacques are on the rocks and she denied it. I mean of course it has. These shows do affect her real life. Was she dumb to not turn off her microphone? Absolutely. Did she lie about the Italian? She admitted to that. She's now said that she's a liar. She called it a "white lie." Well no, it was a black lie, a bad lie, a stupid lie. LuAnn, after five years on the show, turn off your microphone. Don't speak French so doucement, so slowly.
Did she have sex with Tomas? I think she was too drunk to be able to do that. Who knows. Did Sonja? I don't know, I don't wanna know!
You're on Vh1's upcoming season of Couples Therapy. What else do you have going on?
Housewives gave us a platform. Would we be on Couples Therapy without Housewives? Probably not.
I talk to my Twitter followers that talk to me. And people said, Simon, you were critical of Bethenny when she went to a therapist on TV, and now you're doing it. All I'm saying to them is, watch the show. Me and Alex had three weeks of intensive therapy. It was a group therapy. And we were on with this weird couple called Courtney Stodden and Doug Hutchinson.
I love Courtney and Doug!
You love them?
Well, they are the campiest thing ever.
I can't say anything. I can't talk yet. The show will air. I say my piece. Alex shows her piece, so to speak.
You've been very vocal about RHONY's lackluster ratings this season. What do you think is the reason behind the dip?
For six years they've had a phenomenal franchise with the Housewives. Same with Top Chef. But Bravo is not getting any new hits. Miss Advised, Gallery Girls, Most Eligible Dallas — all their other shows are not cutting it. Bravo has an amazing watercooler sensation with Housewives. The amount of blogs that follow Housewives, from Wetpaint to Radar to Julie Klausner at New York Magazine, and so on. They all talk about Housewives. But RHONY, not even 2 million people watch. Last week, VH1's show [that went up against RHONY] had 4 million viewers, with a 2.2 rating in the demo versus RHONY which has a .8 rating.
Bravo is really in trouble. They were my friends for four years. They weren't my friends after they fired me. Or fired Alex and I had to go along with it. But we'll see what happens with Bravo. Bravo needs another hit. Housewives will have it's time, whether it's this year or next year.
But what do you think Bravo needs to do to get their next hit?
Bravo needs a show that turns back on the twentysomethings. RHOA and RHONJ rate very well, but demo ratings are not very great. I don't know what Bravo needs to do, but they need do something more than they're doing, because Top Chef and Housewives can't sustain them indefinitely.
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I pointed out back in June that men were more enthusiastic about voting in the midterm elections this year than were women -- even within party groups. I promised to return to this phenomenon later in the election cycle. So, here we are.
Analysis of our September tracking data shows that the basic pattern still holds, not substantially changed from what we found in June (and in the months previous). I looked at the 8,700+ interviews conducted with registered voters in the month of September. I found that 41% of men were very enthusiastic about voting in the midterm elections, compared with 28% of women. That's a 13-percentage-point gender gap. This actually represents a modest increase of enthusiasm among men compared with June, when we measured 36% male enthusiasm. Women have stayed virtually the same across time, 27% very enthusiastic then, 28% now. Thus, the gender gap has enlarged modestly.
The enthusiasm gap is particularly large among Republicans. Keep in mind that Republicans of most races, creeds, and ages are more enthusiastic than their counterparts who are Democrats. And keep in mind that enthusiasm among all Republicans has risen since June.
But Republican males are particularly more enthusiastic compared to Republican females. At this point in time (that is, September 2010) 56% of male Republicans are very enthusiastic about voting in the midterm elections, contrasted with 41% of female Republicans.
Compare that to the tepid levels of enthusiasm among Democrats in September. Here are the numbers: 32% enthusiasm among male Democrats, 25% among female Democrats. The gender gap is still there among Democrats, but more subdued than among the highly charged up Republicans. (There is a six-point gap among independents.)
These Gallup measures of voting enthusiasm are based on the responses to this question: "Are you enthusiastic or not enthusiastic about voting in this year's midterm elections?", with a follow up probe to ask if the respondent is very or somewhat enthusiastic.
By contrast, our procedures for calculating likely voters take into account the responses to seven separate questions:
1. Thought given to election (quite a lot, some)
2. Know where people in neighborhood go to vote (yes)
3. Voted in election precinct before (yes)
4. How often vote (always, nearly always)
5. Plan to vote in 2010 election (yes)
6. How certain to vote (absolutely certain)
7. Voted in last midterm election (yes)
Using these more sophisticated procedures to generate models of the likely electorate, we find a somewhat more subdued, but still extant, gender gap.
Among all registered voters in our Sept. 23-26 and Sept. 30-Oct. 3 polling, the gender distribution breaks 52% women, 48% men --mirroring the fact that there are more women than men in the American adult population (of which self-reported registered voters are a large part). Among likely voters, assuming a low turnout model for the moment, the gender composition flips, with a 52% male, 48% female composition. In other words, the group of Americans who are most likely to vote are more male than female. We can expect to see more men than women voting for Congress across the 435 congressional districts this year -- unless things change significantly in the last month of the election cycle.
By the way, a look back to the 2008 presidential election shows there were more women than men in the final likely voter pool, by a 53% to 47% margin. In other words, the male gender skew in the midterm election this year (so far) is a change from the gender skew that we found in the last presidential election.
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I pointed out back in June that men were more enthusiastic about voting in the midterm elections this year than were women -- even within party groups. I promised to return to this phenomenon later in the election cycle. So, here we are.


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Creativity is not a biological gift; it is earned through practice and application. It is important for teachers to foster creativity in the minds of young learners (Laureate Education, 1996).
This language arts lesson is an integration of the social studies topic U.S. Celebrations. First, students should brainstorm as many holidays as possible. Show the students the calendar pieces that represent the holidays. Talk about why the pictures might have been chosen to represent each holiday.
Next, tell the students they are to create a new holiday with a partner. Give the students about 15 minutes to name their new holiday and draw a picture to symbolize it with a blank piece of paper and markers. After the 15 minutes, allow students to share their holidays and their thinking when creating them.
The short activity described above has given the students a boundary of time to eliminate any editorial delay, and was opened ended to foster optimum creativity. There were very few materials, the activity also promoted social fluency, and ended with an audience for metacognition (Costa & Kallick, 2000).
Costa, A. L., & Kallick, B. (Eds.). (2000). Activating & engaging habits of mind. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
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I start the engine, wait is this thing on!? Damn how can you tell, a quick twist of the throttle, yeah its
running. This is an incredibly quiet and smooth running machine, I'd say it runs like a sewing machine but I
wouldn't want to cast aspersions at the sewing machine.
I will say one thing about this bike, it can pack it in, I put all my stuff in the hard bags and am ready for the
road. My first impression of this bike is that for a 1300 it sure is tame and easy ride, power is good to great
with a very smooth power curve, add to that the electric windshield, adjustable head light, relatively comfy stock
seat... not too bad.
Back at Jab's for a dose of deja vu we finally move out, slabbing to Tioga Pass and camping in Yosemite. As I pull
up to the first stoplight we hit I look over at the car next to us and a nice older lady in an Oldsmobile is
staring at my bike, not just a quick glance either, she is staring at my bike like she's a cougar and I am sitting
on a giant silver rabbit, hmm that's odd they're usually averting their gaze from me.
As we head to Tioga Pass I am starting to notice a trend, the more experienced members of our population keep
looking at 'MY' bike, with a friendly wave or just to come up to say "Hi, where you headed?". This is quite
strange to me, I get it some when I am on my Guzzi but it is usually from other people on motorcycles, these are
just the normal natives rolling on 4 wheels. I have never associated the bike I ride with the attitudes of the
general public before, never noticed it I guess, until now.
We get to camp in Yosemite, I am out in the field setting up my tent and a guy walks up to my bike, right past Jab
and his GS, and says "HEY! how's the ST?" Turns out he has an ST and wants to talk a little shop. I tell him it's
actually a rental but I think it is a really good bike if a little lacking in the character department. He frowns
and says "well that's because you need to get some farckles!". He tells me a few tall stories and we share some
talk about riding position improvements. He departs after a while, turns out he wasn't even in our campsite he was
just driving by and saw the bike and decided to stop.
My spider senses are tingling...
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I have posted about my chickens before,Flo. I have ten and one cockerel. I have a lot of trouble with foxes and even though the fox can't get in where they are in the photo they still fly over the gate. I could clip their wings but they wouldn't get up on the perch then.
Glad you are feeling a bit better Maud and Frank also.
Lovely here in Cornwall. You've got sewage in the sea , Maud. We've got warnings about Portugese Man of War. Yikes.
I can't see that kitten moving out Flo. You will miss him when he goes.
There's a song that goes 'You're my favourite waste of time' and I think that applies to animals too. I could spend ages watching my chickens. They've all got different personalities. the life of chickens and pigs in little cages doesn't bear thinking about.
Hope Pam and Becks as well as Jess enjoy their holidays.
Jess seems very like my grandaughter. Her parents have given up telling her too far ahead about treats, holidays etc. as she drives them mad. Has she been on a plane before, Becks?
Yes,Kate, the owner was devasted and offered to pay for any vet's bills if needed.
Joys of keeping animals but I wouldn't be without them.
Where's Jean? I bet she has gone to the book shop.
Yesterday was a bit traumatic. I took my German Shepherd to the vets as he had a sore bit under his tail about the size of a ten pence. The vet said he thought it was an auto-immune condition that only affects this breed and the only drug, which isn't guaranteed to work, cost £500 a month, way beyond my means. I came away with anti- biotics and steroids and a bill of £152.
We used to have a vet near us who worked out of a shed in his garden and the rates were so reasonable. We queued up in cars outside and we trusted him. He never charged for wild animals or very small children's pets.
The black and white dog is my daughters and he was on a lead last night when he was attacked by a staffie. It took the owner and three others to get him off. He's not too badly hurt but has come over to me today while my daughter is at work as he was very frightened. So altogether yesterday was not a good dog day.
Jean, you've got to read it now and give us your opinion. I haven't read it but from what I've heard the first book is a bit boring. One good thing about it is that some of the younger ones who never read have bought this one.
Becks have a lovely time. I'm sure you'll enjoy it once you get away. It's the hassle of getting ready to go that is the worst part of holidays.
Good morning all. I was reading in the paper yesterday that chains and shackles were disappearing from Blackpool Tower Dungeon and they think it's people trying to recreate scenes from 50 Shades of Grey.
Perhaps David could bring you something back. Jean
Hope you are enjoying your few hours of peace, Becks. Most kids today look forward to going back to school. I hated it, always had loads of homework to do that I had been putting off all holidays.
Lottie, a few years ago a local demonstration garden, Probus, was being sold by the council and they were auctioning off the individual gardens. We bought the contents of the pond garden and a Japanese garden. They gave us about three days to come and dig or take away the plants in the gardens. We made quite a few trips back and forth but on one visit we found that some of the choice plants had 'vanished'. I thought gardeners would be honest people apart from taking the odd cutting . I did feel sorry for some of the gardeners who were mostly volunteers. they were devastated that the gardens were closing.
I hope you manage to get some nice plants, Lottie.
I'm with you flowering rose. It's lovely in the middle of winter to have a pudding made from the blackberries in the freezer. I do eat mushrooms that come up in our field but I know it can be risky. The family of Nichols Evens who wrote .The Horse Whisperer' was poisoned by mushrooms and I believe one of them is waiting for a kidney transplant.


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Severe weather slams various regions in the U.S.
Hundreds of dogs sickened by flu strain in Midwest
Frigid temps as snow buries parts of Rockies, Upper Midwest
Heavy rain brings mudslides to West Coast, flooding in Midwest
Extreme weather, rain in Midwest results in two deaths
More torrential rain worsened flooding in the Midwest, spawning high water that swept away an Iowa teenager, caused a traffic nightmare near one of the nation's busiest airports and threatened to swamp a Missouri town for the fifth time in less than a decade.
At least 35 killed by violent weather in Midwest, Deep South
Ruth Bennett died clutching the last child left at her day care center as a tornado wiped the building off its foundation. A firefighter who came upon the body gently pulled the toddler from her arms.
Strong storms hit Midwest, southern states
A tornado touched down on Sunday about 10 miles west of Little Rock, Arkansas killing 17 people, including 1 in Oklahoma, according to authorities.
Dangerous weather rips through South, Midwest
On Friday night, rescue workers in Carroll County, Kentucky are trying to reach a home and any survivors. But the massive mudslide continues pulling downward, making it an active danger zone.
Historic freeze could break Midwest temp records
It has been decades since parts of the Midwest experienced a deep freeze like the one expected to arrive Sunday.
Thousands still without power after winter storm
Forecasters say the Great Lakes and Midwest could get hit with more snow today, adding to the difficulties caused by a weekend storm that's left nearly 150,000 customers without power on Christmas Day.
Midwest heat wave prompts early school dismissals
An unusual, late-summer heat wave in much of the Midwest is expected to last through the week, putting some schools and sports events on hold. Many schools dismissed classes early yesterday and plan to do so today.
Massive storm system batters MidwestComment
The big storm that threatened to do serious damage from Iowa to Maryland hasn't been as ferocious as forecasters warned. Authorities in Ohio reported possible tornadoes and thousands in the Buckeye State are without power.
Storms pelt Midwest with rain, winds, hail; move toward Md., D.C., Va.Comment
A massive line of storms packing hail, lightning and tree-toppling winds began rolling through the Midwest Wednesday evening and could affect more than one in five Americans from Iowa to Maryland before subsiding.
Extreme storms wreak havoc in the midwestComment
Mother nature continues to wreak havoc on millions from the Dakotas to Tennessee.
Mississippi, other rivers crest as floods hit Midwest; more rain in forecastComment
Those fighting floods in several communities along the Mississippi River were mostly successful Sunday despite the onslaught of water, but an ominous forecast and the growing accumulation of snow in the upper Midwest tempered any feelings of victory.
Tornado in Tennessee, storms in Louisiana and GeorgiaComment
A powerful spring storm that brought tornadoes, hail and high winds to the Deep South is now making its way toward the Carolinas.
Spring snowstorm hits midwestComment
A storm that has dropped as much as six inches of snow in Ohio is expected to leave a similar amount in Pennsylvania -- and even more in higher elevations.
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Travelers facing canceled flights and closed roads were hoping to finally head to their holiday destinations as a widespread snowstorm that dumped more than a foot of snow in parts of the Midwest moved across the Great Lakes toward Canada.
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has expressed support for the tens of thousands of protesters in Iran's capital, saying they deserve to have the same rights that they saw being played out in Egypt and are part of their own birthright.
"Let me, clearly and directly, support the aspirations of the people who are in the streets in Iran today," Clinton told reporters after meeting with the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner.
"What we see happening in Iran today is a testament to the courage of the Iranian people, and an indictment of the hypocrisy of the Iranian regime—a regime which over the last three weeks has constantly hailed what went on in Egypt," Clinton said.
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If you model your business career after the sport of triathlon, there really are four critical things you should think about. The first is preparation - in a business situation you need to be able to pull a file, work with information, and know how to use the data. Getting organized in life is worth a solid 10% gain in what you can achieve.
The second is transitions - you need to know when to make the transition from something that didn't work and wasn't generating revenue to creating something that does. Too many times people throw good money after bad, or chase losses with time and resources.
The third is training and learning - You have to stay on the cutting edge of technology, in sport and in business. With the knowledge base for almost anything becoming deeper and more universally available, staying on the cutting edge becomes more important.
Number four is networking - You become like the people you surround yourself with. We need to align ourselves with people who have sought success, made mistakes along the way and learned from them. Hang out with triathletes who know how to set goals and achieve them, and voila! You will too.
Align what you love with your work. That makes a dynamic difference. A successful career comes from a mindset where you don't want work to be something you have to do. You want work to be something you want to do because it's your passion. It's your life; it's your career. Just as Henry David Thoreau wrote, many people live lives of quiet desperation and don't know what to do about it. I lecture at the University of San Diego, Stanford University and UCLA and I often encounter students and recent graduates who say, "Hey, I'm bored working in a cubicle."
I'll then ask them how many people work in their organization. And they'll say, "Oh, there's about 200." And I'll say, "How many do you know?" And they'll say, "Three." And so, my challenge to them is this: "Have a breakfast, a lunch, or a coffee five days a week minimum with someone new. Even if you just meet one different person in that organization every day – you can cycle through the lessons and the lifestyles and the connectivity with the 200 or 300 people that work there in a year."
The value in a business isn't typically putting something in an envelope and mailing it to someone so they pay you something for it. The diamonds we all seek are buried in the relationships we build. Too many people go to work and simply do whatever they're told. As opposed to going to work to build connections with people that they're going to end up spending 30 percent of their day with. Interacting with others and learning the life intelligence they have garnered over the years is essential for success.
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OFPP Closing the Contracting Officer Training Gap Between Civilian, DOD
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Federal contracting officers now have a consistent set of certification requirements no matter where they work.
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy updated the Federal Acquisition Certification in Contracting (FAC-C) policy May 7 to bring civilian agencies more in-line with the Defense Department.
The new memo details about eight major changes to the education and knowledge requirement for contracting officers. It also calls for more than just training but a deeper knowledge of acquisition roles, responsibilities and tactics for success.


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Much as we humans can be picky about the spaces we inhabit, so too are the 200 species of birds who call Portland home—or just drop in from the Pacific Flyway for a quick roost and refuel on their way to the abundant steppes of Patagonia. In the past century, as the Willamette Valley has been systematically developed and deforested, the places birds call "home"—natural "nesting cavities" like decaying trees and wooden fence posts—have become an increasingly narrow and competitive market for local birds. In the 1940s, a longtime favorite—the dainty and warbling Western Bluebird—was forced out of the valley and into higher elevations in search of nesting sites. With the help of local advocates like the Prescott Bluebird Recovery Project, though, Western Bluebirds are slowly trickling back into the fringes of our city. All it takes is some simple, small-scale homebuilding on some good land to lure these winged house hunters back into Portland's backyards.
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- One standard 4-foot-long 1-by-6 board
- One standard 10 ½-inch-long 1-by-10 board
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Air Force Opens NCBA Tournament with 5-3 Record
April 3, 2014
WEST POINT, N.Y. - The Air Force boxing team collected five victories in eight quarterfinal bouts during the opening night of competition at the 2014 National Collegiate Boxing Association (NCBA) Championships on Thursday, April 3, at West Point's Eisenhower "Ike" Hall.
Air Force opened the night with back-to-back to victories over boxers from Washington, as freshman Adam Sumait earned a 119-pound decision over Devin Bell and senior Stephen Bittner took the decision in his 125-pound bout with Alan Vu. The Falcons added another pair of victories by decision, as sophomore Jacob Berggren defeated California's Gerald Santos at 139 pounds and junior Brandon Pitts earned a victory over West Virginia's Jeff Fuss at 175 pounds.
Senior James Monk easily advanced out of the quarterfinal round, after claiming a technical knockout in his 156-pound contest with Shippensburg's Tylik Guilford.
Three other Falcons also competed tonight in the quarterfinal round. Junior Roy Taylor suffered a narrow loss-by-decision to Army's Jeremiah Ortiz in a 132-pound bout, while sophomore Gytenis Borusas dropped a close decision to Nevada's Garrett Felling at 185 pounds. Freshman Matas Leckas rounded out the list of tonight's contenders, falling to Lock Haven's Drew Gensimore in a referee-stopped heavyweight contest.
Four other Falcons - sophomore Mateus Arcano (112 pounds), senior Sean Cork (147 pounds), senior Denis Vorobyov (165 pounds) and freshman Laurynas Galdikas (195 pounds) - earned advancements into tomorrow's semifinals after being uncontested on the opening night.
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I'm back from Comic-Con! Getting to work as "staff" on the Exhibitor Floor is always…interesting. ;) I dare say it's definitely a memorable experience. It's also exhausting. But despite the challenges, the craziness and the "OMG WTF" moments, I had fun with my "crew", as always. Even if my supervisor tried to kill me with her crazy cart driving!
Anyways, I did get to try out a couple of new places for dinner and I finally got some Vietnamese eats Monday for lunch before heading home. But I didn't get a lot of pictures so you'll have to make do without visuals for some of the spots. I'll try to be super-descriptive…
After Preview Night ended on Wednesday, some of the crew headed to Candelas on 3rd and J. This is a great little eatery with a whole lot of ambiance. The front section serves as the bar area while the back is the official dinning room. When we arrived, we opted to stay in the bar area. There wasn't much of a crowd so we got to have the full attention of the bartender who was AWESOME. We didn't catch his name but he was from Nashville and had spent the year traveling abroad. I discovered a new drink: Sweet Tea vodka with lemonade. Arnold Palmer with a kick anyone? ;) Just what I needed to make me forget about my already aching feet. Not a good sign…
The cuisine at Candelas is of Mexican influence. The bar menu offered up some soups, salads and dishes such as tacos, enchiladas and quesadillas. I opted for the grilled quesadilla which had wild mushrooms. Served with a side of black beans and a green salsa, this really hit the spot for me. It was rich with mushroom flavor and perfectly cheesy without going overboard. And the portion was just enough to satiate my appetite without making me feel overly stuffed.
One of our crew ordered a chicken salad which originally came with a blue cheese. Not being a fan, he was able to substitute queso fresca instead. Another person ordered spicy shrimp enchiladas which she said did have some heat to it.
It may have been our ravenous appetite but no one left their dish unfinished and everyone was happy with the flavors and portions.
This place definitely is on my radar as a "go-to" spot for next year. It's close enough to the Con to walk to but not on the crowded paths which means it doesn't get the long waits and crazy crowds like other restaurants do, at least not on Wednesday night. Hrm, do I really want to share this place?
I give Candelas 4 NOMs. And as our Governator once said, I'll be back…next year.
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Installing an Acewell speedo/computer on an airhead --
I have now had the pleasure of "doing" two airheads, one a 1976 non-running R60/6 that became my little cafe; and the other a franken-beemer that had been sitting unused, but "was running when parked". Fun projects, both.
I guess that in the natural "evolution" of these bikes, and our tastes, and our desires of what we want (or think we want!) we all play with different combinations of this, that and the other thing.
So, it ends up that I put an Acewell electronic speedo/tach computer (sorta..) on Frank N. Beemer.
Yes, I am liking the result. A lot!
For those looking around for an alternative to the BMW instruments, for whatever reason, this is an excellent alternative. For those who don't know an Acewell from a hole in the ground (groan....), this is the Acewell unit:
Nice looking, in a modern but sorta-retro way.
Also under consideration had been several other possibilities. The Vapor has been widely used by the GS and offroad crowd. It does some similar functions, but definitely has a more contemporary look:
The Vapor has a few more "computer" functions meant for rally riding, etc, but pretty much works on the same principle: a little magnet and sensor on the front wheel and forks count how many times the wheel goes around, and computes the speed of the bike, based on rolling circumference and time. Simple concept, simple execution that works. Precisely.
And, there are other very nice, very retro-looking electronic speedos that could be mounted in much the same way. The only difference being that they are speedos, period. So, if you want a tach, and the usual cycle idiot lights, you have to add them.
One speedo that got serious consideration is from VDO, available in either black or white, and several other styles, but I liked these:
http://bpeckm.smugmug.com/BMW-R100/B...97_o8TNV-M.jpg http://bpeckm.smugmug.com/BMW-R100/B...06_Sbs3R-M.jpg
Nice looking units, each of them, but about 3" in size, and there is a matching tachometer as well.
Cost? The Acewell, all up, is about $130, maybe $150 for the Vapor once you add in the surround with the idiot lights:
The VDO's were not horribly expensive at about $120 plus the sensor, but then you have to add the tach, and the lights, and.... In the end, you are back to a pod of some sort. Nice, very nice, but not really what I was after.
And then there is the always-classic solution that was specific to the /5, and truly elegant:
So, those were some of the things that had come up while looking around and seeing what works. I found some truly gorgeous $800 speedos, but.... that ain't gonna happen, not in this lifetime..... :huh
But then, if money were no object, maybe the beauty of perfection would shine through:
I really do like the /5 solution, in spite of its shortcomings (the usual BMW speedo issues, and the broken needles, and the squirrely-acting cable),
(looks r e a l l y nice in white....:thumb)
but the clincher was....
the headlight. :confused
I happen to like a nice, big headlight. I love these 8" headlights, clean up the lens and put in a new H4 bulbs, and they work! Now, I am not an 80mph-at-night rider. No, my night rides are simply because, here in Florida, in the summer, it is absolutely delightful to feel the balmy breeze of the night air. Daytime: hot hot hot. Night time: perfect! Plus, the bluehairs have already gone to bed, or are downing their cocktails, so the roads have only the young, the rowdy and the drunk.... and I will take my chances with them ANY DAY rather than the bluehair set. Plus, the 8" headlight has good presence during the daytime, when the blue-set is out and holding back traffic......
So this is what I ended up with:
It looks good, works great, and took some work.... hence the thread to get some of you'se guys on the right track.....:D
We (Frank N. has been sold, and the new owner wanted me to install the Acewell for him (!)) ordered the unit. There are a couple of places that handle the Acewell, it seems, but Electrosport seems to have the full selection, a nice website, and an efficient way of getting the product out. Good things to say about them!
There are several choices of models, we chose the Ace 2803, as it seemed to have the look, the lights and the options that we wanted. The various models give you combinations of idiot lights including turn signals, oil pressure, genlight, high beams, and fuel level. The 2803 has all of them except the fuel level (we airheads are resourceful... we open the filler cap and look in!).
Frankly, if it did it again, I might just order the 2802 since it does away with the genlight... more on why, later.
You must select a speedo adapter at the same time, so we ordered the "S" model: the universal front wheel magnet. They also make specific speedo-cable adapters which, I hear, can be easily modified to use the BMW speedo cable output. The whole package came to something like $130 iirc.
This is what showed up:
As you can see, the unit is quite small. It has a nice heft, though, the casing feels very solid, and it has a small bracket attached to the bottom, with a wire/harness hanging out. My first impression was of a good, solid unit. Their promo stuff states that it is 100% waterproof, vibration-tested to 8g's, and impact-tested to 100g's....!! Time will tell, but it is designed for this application, it is not a light-duty bicycle unit.
Before I go too much further into the nitty gritty, I have to acknowledge that I have been a fan of what fellow-ADV'r MIOB has been doing over in Holland, and he was quite insistent that the Acewell was the unit to use.....
This bike is THE essence of cafe, to me:
Clean, one of a kind, and reflecting MIOB's vision and taste of what a bike really IS ...:rayof
Good site and good prices - some sellers are adding EU35-for the cable adapter , on top of prices a good bit higher.
The little 50mm tacho on my G/S has flickered its last -anyone know of a 50 mm unit that will work on a Beemer , at a sensible price.
After admiring the new unit, the first step was to test the wires on the bike and figure out what would go to what....
So I clipped together the "harness" that is supplied with the Acewell, and used their wiring diagram to help diagnose....
Yes, those lovely plastic plugs come with the unit... I cannot imagine how or why anyone would use them, but for me they were handy so that I could simply strip the ends and stick them into the pod harness: the square rubber jobby that plugs into the back of the BMW /6 and /7 pod. Yes, each of those little holes are for a specific wire, and knowing which is what, is key to the whole shebang....
We are, in a nutshell, trying to get the wires on the left to hook up to the wires within the plug on the right... something like breeding a cat and a dog, methinks....:scratch
I was fortunate enough to have a couple of extra square plugs, so I simply used an ohm-meter to test which color wire goes to which # plug.
Above are the table of how to match the color wires plus the "pin" number to be able to test whether this will work with your harness. Note that the pins seem to be common to both my /6 and 1981-vintage wiring harnesses. BMW has used a common color/wiring system (which actually is a common Euro-designated color scheme) which you should be able to transpose as necessary to the different airhead wiring harnesses (harnii? :huh...)
I guess one cannot cut and paste a Word document, so I scanned and saved as a .jpg. Hopefully you will be able to "steal" the photo in a large enough format to be able to save it and read it.
Feel free to PM me with your email address and I will gladly email you the Wrod document in ".doc" format.
NOTE: As noted in the scanned document, the little triangle (gen warning light) does not work, due to the different way that BMW uses the gen-light as part of the alternator-excitation circuit.
It is hard to explain unless you have been into the wiring and understand the BMW system, but essentially, the gen-light is "on" when the green/black wire has +12vDC (ignition "on", but bike not running) and the blue wire has no power yet. This provides a small current THROUGH the filament that excites the alternator field, and once the engine is running with an excited alternator, the blue wire has "it's own" 12vDC, cancelling out the green/black 12vDC, and the light goes out.... Simple and effective, but there is no way to wire this function into the Acewell since there is no way to get the blue wire to the negative side of the indicator: Acewell uses battery ground as the negative side.
I bypassed this problem, as noted above, by picking up the blue and the black/green from the harness and running the two of them to a separate indicator. That is the red light underneath the Acewell.....below:
It functions as it does on the BMW pod: inition "on" and light comes on, start and blip the engine, and the light goes out. Simple, effective.
I think that, unless someone clever comes up with a way to use the internal gen-light function, I would order the unit without the gen-light, and use the separate indicator, again.
Still, could not be more satisfied with the unit, the way it is built, and the way that it is working.
Once I had identified each wire, at both ends, I simply stuck them together temporarily to "test" my system prior to making them up together, permanently.
That was the first power-up, note the 0.0 miles... but the real deal was just seeing the various lights do their thang......:rayof
Once I had confirmed the wiring, the "real" wiring took place. I left the nice and neat harness from the Acewell intact, with the ends stripped. Then, I had to steele myself to cut off that lovely square nub, strip back the cover and bare the individual wires so they could be stripped on the end...
I dissected the head, and was impressed with how well and securely the wires were attached/embedded into the rubber. Felt a little like CSI-BMW:jump
I did not want to simply crimp the wires, so I soldered them. It was in an awkward spot, just below the neck of the bike, so I first slid a piece of heat-shrink up the wire, then twisted the two wires together, and soldered them together. Then bent the soldered joint back parallel to the wire, slid the heat-shrink over it, and heat-zapped it.
Pic shows a joint that has been soldered, but prior to bending it back and parallel to the wires (note the heat-shrink slid above the joint), and some "done" joints in the back ground. There are actually twelve wires, so you want to make them as small and as consistent as possible so that they will look at least sorta right when it is all said and done :thumb
Pic of the joint, done:
After all the joints were soldered, it was test-it-again time, and all was well, so I gathered all the wires and wrapped them with what we used to call "friction tape", a sticky, thick wire wrap.
Not 'xactly lovely, but functional. I ordered some Tommy Tape, which I will use for the final waterproof wrap. btw, that stuff is amazing, I had never used it before, but just did up a couple of other harness-splits: it comes with cellophane on one side, and sticks to itself almost like it is welded together, so if you stretch as you go, it will wind on itself, and stick together... good stuff!
this is great. very much appreciate the effort to post this up! :thumb
Next I installed the sensor. I chose to use the universal-fit (Type S), as I had heard that it was pretty idiot proof.
The conundrum was to figure out how to mount the magnet on the wheel, and the sensor in a place that would be "disturbed" by the magnetic field of the magnet-on-the-wheel. This took a little bit of fussing, but in the end was pretty easy, and succesful.
This is the way that I first installed the parts:
You will have to look carefully, but the sensor is nice and neatly installed in what turned out to be the WRONG way. The sensor, with the wire coming out of it, actually has 2 sensors in it, one at each end of the cylinder. With this arrangement, the magnet was tripping both sensors. I was very astute in noticing that the speedo said I was doing 120mph going up A1A :scratch when I reckoned I was doing, maybe, 50....
I resolved this in two ways: first, I figured I could get away with more distance from the magnet, so I remove the "spacer" under the sensor (actually a nut) and went back to mounting it flat against the fork tab. And secondly, I rotate the sensor so that only one end would be close to the magnet. The combination worked great, and I got relatively-reasonable readings, though they were still not at all accurate.
This next photo shows how I mounted the magnet. The kit comes with two magnets, of different magnetic ooomph. I chose the larger magnet, not knowing how much "field" I would need to trip the sensor.http://bpeckm.smugmug.com/BMW-R100/B...88_M4XsF-M.jpg
Note that the magnet is at the end of a lovely little curved tab, which is firmly bolted to the wheel hub with one of the four disc bolts. I simply took a little piece of flat aluminum from the scrap bin, drilled the appropriate size holes at either end, and shaped the piece to get the magnet somehwere near the sensor as it rotated, AND provided some "nut room" behind the magnet for the nut that secures it. Clever, eh? Rattle-can black and it disappeared nicely!
Next step was to calibrate. The instructions are ambiguous at best regarding the wheel diameter. I am still not sure whether they mean wheel, or tire, diameter with the guidlelines that they give you. They give you a number to plug in, which is quite easy to do when you get into the menu. So, I went to Anton's site to research the actual-and-correct RPM vs. speed: I have a 33/11 rear end, which says that I should be doing 70mph at 4005 rpm. Since the local constabulary frowns on doing 70mph up and down A1A, especially since it is bluehair season, I did some mental calculations to see what speed I should be doing at 3000 rpm in 5th gear, and came up with.... 3/4 of 4000 = 3000 rpm, so 3/4 of 70 = 52.5 mph. Cool!
And since there is a digital readout function for the tach, I simple scrolled through 'til I could get a tach reading (accurate to 100 rpm), of 3000 while I noted my indicated speed. Pulled over to the side, scrolled into the menu and adjusted that "magic number" by trial and error, until I got it just right. It took me four or five "stop and scroll"s at the side of the road, and by the time I got back home, it was spot-on. Perfect!
So, at this point the unit is temporarily installed, simply by zip-tying it neatly to the clutch and throttle cables. Tested out, works great!
I like Acewells, I have one on my Armstrong and one on my Guzzi.
The number you put in is the circumference of the tyre in mm. On my Guzzi I just balanced the bike upright, measured from the floor to the centre of the wheel spindle, multiplied by 2 then by 3.142 and stuck the number in. GPS said 106mph, Acewell said 107 - good enough for me.
*edit* Lovely looking bike btw
I'm seriously interested. Mebbe this would be good in a /2.
Sparkymoto: thanks, a pleasure. And WELCOME to the LoonBin, and btw, cool avatar!
Datch: keep in mind the lack of oil pressure sender, though you could get some functions if you convert to 12v. Cetainly the speedo part would work great! Still, the /2 needs a /2 speedo... mine was actually very accurate, and ya gotta love the way they wind "backwards"....
Throbbing Missile: 106! Yowza! Got any pics of your installs that you might post up, here....??
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|Dane Sanzenbacher WR Ohio State
|Ht: 5'10″
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|A smart, fundamentally sound player. Great route runner. Best hands of anyone in this year's draft class. A tough runner after the catch. Elite quickness; can easily shake the coverage of less athletic corners with a quick move.
|Lacks the elite speed to stretch the field. Undersized; will struggle against bigger, more physical cornerbacks. Limited ability as a blocker.
|Sanzenbacher isn't a No. 1 receiver and his upside is limited, but he is a safe bet to develop into a quality 2nd or 3rd option. More and more teams are looking for the next Wes Welker – a reliable receiver who can line up in the slot and make things happen after the catch – and Sanzenbacher fits that mold perfectly. In the right system he could be an instant-impact player.
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