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• 8-way power adjustable front seats w/driver seat power lumbar support
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- Manual Tilt/Telescoping Steering Column
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Prisoners 'must work harder' for privileges
Male prisoners in England and Wales must work harder for privileges such as TVs in cells, the government has said.
Inmates will be made to wear a uniform during their first two weeks in jail and their access to private cash to call home will be restricted.
Satellite and cable TV channels, currently available in some private prisons, will be banned altogether.
The Prison Reform Trust said "getting rid of tellies" was not going to cut reconviction rates.
But Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said: "I want the arrival in prison for the first time to be an experience that is not one they'd want to repeat.
"That means an environment where they arrive [where] standards are pretty basic and then they start to gain extras by contributing... and if they won't do it, then they can't expect to start gaining those privileges."
There are currently three levels of privileges available to prisoners - basic, standard and enhanced. Currently all inmates must be placed initially on the middle tier when they enter prison.
This allows them to wear own clothes, have a TV in their cell and gives them more family visits, access to private cash and potential to earn more from prison jobs than those who are moved to basic level for poor behaviour.
However, from November, all prisoners will spend their first two weeks on a new "entry" level, which more closely resembles the basic standard currently in place.
Their behaviour will be reviewed after two weeks and they will either stay at the basic level or move up to the standard level.
Other changes to the Incentives and Earned Privileges (IEP) schemes from November will include:
- A longer working day for prisoners
- A ban on films with an 18 certificate
- Extra gym time being dependent "on active engagement with rehabilitation"
The Ministry of Justice said it would also strengthen prisons' powers to recover money from inmates who cause damage.
When the new system is introduced, existing prisoners will not lose the privileges they already have unless their status is reviewed - other than the loss of the cable and satellite TV service available in some private prisons.
Officials are still working on possible changes to the privilege scheme for female prisoners.
Ben Gunn, who spent 32 years in prison for murder, told the BBC Mr Grayling was putting newly incarcerated people at risk.
"To actually bring people into prison and in their first two weeks, when they are at their most vulnerable and prone to suicide and self-harm, to then throw them in uniform so they're marked out from the rest of the population and restrict the money they can spend to phone home to talk to friends, family and lawyers is just absurd.
"It's positively harmful."
Abdulla Choudhury, who was released in 2011 after serving 13 years in prison, agreed vulnerable prisoners could become targets for bullies.
He rejected the notion that prison life was easy and said those with less opportunity to earn money working in prison were more likely to sell drugs.
Mr Choudhury, who now works with young offenders for charity User Voice, also questioned the timing of the government's announcement, saying: "They should focus more on training so prisoners can get jobs when they leave prison."
Noel "Razor" Smith, who was in prison for 33 years and is now a writer, said putting TVs into prisoners' cells actually helped reduce violence in prisons, because it gave inmates who could not read or write a way to occupy their time.
"You would think he [Mr Grayling] would start on drugs if anything," Mr Smith said. "It's easier to buy heroin on prison landings than on the streets."
But Max Chambers, from the right-leaning Policy Exchange think tank, said the moves were "exactly what taxpayers would expect from our prison system" and would improve behaviour in jails.
Prison Reform Trust director Juliet Lyon said it was "perfectly reasonable" to remove subscription TV channels but there was no evidence to suggest that a "so-called tough approach" would improve rehabilitation.
"But, to be more effective, you have to focus on employment and skills training, on making sure people have safe housing to go to and that they have good contact with their family."
The Howard League for Penal Reform, meanwhile, said it was "bizarre" to introduce "new layers of red tape which will only add to the cost of prison and demands on staff time".
"It is also astounding that the justice secretary spends his time policing what prisoners watch on DVD, to the point that Scary Movie 2 or series three of The Inbetweeners will be banned," chief executive Frances Crook said.
"Instead, Chris Grayling should look at taking our prison population back to a manageable level - giving non-violent people community sentences so something productive can be done with those who remain in prison."
Last month, MSPs warned that prisoners in Scotland's jails were spending too much time watching TV instead of taking part in activities to cut reoffending.

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Custom Windows can increase the value of your home by $1,470
There are a couple of reasons why custom windows Idaho Falls are an excellent choice for your home. Custom windows in Idaho Falls can be made to match your home's style and to reflect your own personality. They provide flexibility when it comes to design because of the many materials, sizes, accessories and colors that you can choose from. You can get a unique and intricately made window based on the architectural design of your home. Idaho Falls custom windows can also improve your home's energy efficiency. Since they are specifically built to fit your window opening, there will be no room for air leakages. You are assured that during hot summer days, the cold air produced by your air conditioner will not leak outside. Same goes during winter. Custom windows Idaho Falls have a higher rate of insulating heat inside homes while keeping cold air outside. They are also easy to install since they are made especially for your window. Easy installation can translate to less time consumed and labor cost. You can choose what materials to use in your Idaho Falls custom windows. That way, you can select quality materials that are durable, can withstand strong winds and are resistant to corrosion. This could significantly lessen the maintenance costs of your home's window.
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There is no definite way to estimate the cost of custom windows Idaho Falls. It will mostly depend on the size, the materials that you will choose, plus the design and accessories that will go with it. Most homeowners, however, are estimated to spend on average a minimum of $1,733 per window that can go as high as $2,289. The size of the home and the number of windows to be installed will also affect the cost of installing Idaho Falls custom windows in your home. A one story, three-bedroom house with 10 windows can cost around $5,000 to $20,000. Removal of damaged or existing window frames can also add to the expense.
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For race use only. Not admitted in the area of the German StVZO!
Get a grip on yourself - and your scooter! Motor performance and piloting are just the beginning. Control is the word and Brake Discs are the tools. Brake Discs are often forgotten when maintenance is done. Tuning is usually connected with faster, higher, further, etc. Scooters love to be tuned and pampered with high tech instruments, but mundane servicing has it's real place as well.
The stronger the motor and the older your braking system, the greater the necessity to make sure you optimize your linings and discs. That's why we recommend when you make pit stops, that you check your brake system and make adjustments as needed.
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Poor Roddick. His ground game has no penetration, he merely stands there and rallies and generally just hopes the other guy misses.
And when he comes up against an opponent with a serve as good as his he's clueless.
Serve and volley on the first point of a tiebreak against a guy with the quality of Lujbicic's passing game?
Way to go Andy.
I know the surface at IW is slow but Lujbicic was able to hit some high quality winners and not just rally, where was Roddick in that department?
Roddick had a first rate forehand once, where is it?
It's been buried under an avalanche of topspin and caution.


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Adam Lanza neighbor wonders, 'If I had reached out to them, would things have been different?'
NEWTOWN -- Ian and Nicole Hockley lived across the street from Adam Lanza, but they never got to know him or his family before the 20-year-old gunman killed their young son and 25 other people inside Sandy Hook Elementary School.
In the weeks since the Dec. 14 shooting in Newtown, the couple said they have wondered whether more community involvement in Lanza's life might have prevented the bloodshed.
"If I had reached out to them, would things have been different? I don't know," Nicole Hockley said. "I do have a regret there, without a doubt. But would it have made a difference? I will never know."
Coming together has been a popular theme at vigils and concerts held in tribute to the 26 people killed inside the schoolhouse. For some of the families who lost loved ones, a renewed focus on community would be a silver lining to the tragedy.
The Hockleys are among the families working with Sandy Hook Promise, a local grass-roots group dedicated to the idea that community members could support each other and turn "tragedy into a moment of transformation."
Tim Makris, a co-founder of the group, said it has been facilitating community meetings, meetings with other communities that have been involved in gun violence, and meetings with groups on different sides of the political debates on such issues as gun control. He said everyone agrees the bloodshed should not have happened, and that is a starting point.
"We are creating a dialogue and different thinking, and therefore common ground," he said.
The parents of another shooting victim, Chase Kowalski, have started a foundation in the hope of building community centers in his honor, first in Newtown, and then in other communities.
"We would like to see families get back to core family values," Rebecca Kowalski told WTIC-AM. "It's not about dropping your kid off at some place to play. It's about going with your child and playing with that child and being an intricate part of their lives."
Lanza has been described as a loner who lived with his divorced mother and enjoyed playing violent video games. He killed Nancy Lanza inside their 3,100-square-foot home, shot his way into the school on Dec. 14, gunned down 20 first-graders and six educators, and committed suicide as police arrived, according to investigators.
The Hockleys, whose 6-year-old son, Dylan, was killed, have since moved to another neighborhood in Newtown.
They said they and others are now more focused on getting to know the people around them.
"This community has pulled tighter together and responded in helping not only the 26 families, but the survivors and the first responders, and just neighbors," Nicole Hockley said. "The way they are all reacting to each other, that isn't a short-term change. It's one horrible, tragic event, but it's not destroying this place. It's showing how perhaps we could have been more before, but also how we should continue to be going forward."
Monsignor Robert Weiss of the St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church said he's seen estranged families reconciling, strangers hugging on the street and neighbors meeting neighbors for the first time. Weiss, who officiated at the funerals of eight children killed in the shooting, said he hopes that can be a legacy of the tragedy.
"The civility of this society is really disappearing," he said. "I would like to go back to a gentler time. Life is hard; it's harsh. If in our everyday activities we are just so cruel and harsh to each other, how is that going to take us anywhere?"
The Hockleys said they also feel it is important, especially as people begin debating issues such as gun control, for people to put aside personal agendas and try to find common ground.
"There hasn't always been a lot of respectful conversations taking place, and I'm disappointed by that," Nicole Hockley said. "We'd like people to honor the Sandy Hook promise by listening more before jumping in."
Ian Hockley said he believes the world is watching to see how Newtown rises from the shooting.
"We want to be a part of that," he said. "I want people to come back in a year's time and see what we've become. Because, they were here at our very worst and to see the town in a year's time, what will change in terms of community and what we will build. Then you can be a template."
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Shawn Johnson Makes Big Money on Dancing with the Stars
The following was dug up by Reality TV Magazine when they found some court documents that details what Shawn Johnson was being paid to be on Dancing with the Stars. My commentary will follow:
According to the contract filed in court between Johnson and BBC Worldwide Productions, which produces the show, Shawn Johnson is being paid a guarantee of $125,000 to do the show, Access Hollywood has reported. The guarantee covers training, the first two weeks of Dancing With The Stars and her appearance at the finale.
Shawn Johnson will receive $10,000 for getting through the third and fourth weeks of Dancing With The Stars.
For weeks 5, 6 and 7, the gymnast will take home $20,000 a week. She'll earn $30,000 for weeks 8 and 9, and if she makes it to weeks 10 and 11, Shawn Johnson will earn $50,000 a week, for a grand total of $365,000.
If Dancing With The Stars chooses to produce specials of the show she can earn $30,000 for each one made.
The money doesn't end there either. Future Dancing With The Stars programming which would complement her Dancing With The Stars run would earn Shawn Johnson $10,000 per show, and $5,000 for each in studio interview promoting the possible new official programming tied into the show. She is not paid, however, to do publicity for the show.
Ok, so we all knew that Dancing with the Stars was paying a reasonably large amount of money for the stars to participate. It's just fun to see the actual numbers. Seems like a reasonable sum to me considering she's going out of her comfort zone and dancing in front of 30 million people LIVE each week. I'm really happy for her and I'm glad that she's getting paid. I'm sure she's doing alright for herself, but being a gymnast isn't the most lucrative job in the world I'm sure. Granted, she is probably the highest earning gymnast in America. Regardless I'm cool with the amount. Doesn't sound too outrageous to me.
What would be interesting is to know how much Woz and Mark Cuban got paid/are getting paid. They are both billionaires and so $365,000 (which they'll get much less) is just more than a rounding error for them. Hopefully they did something nice and gave it to charity.
I bet Melissa must be really happy. I wonder how much she's getting paid to step in at the last minute and do this. Enough for her to quit her job. I'm actually glad she's getting paid after Jason Mesnick screwed her over. There's always a silver lining.


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Gov. Paul LePage is now the proud owner of a unique record in Maine politics: most bills signed with a veto pen in a single session.
LePage beat the previous record holder, independent Gov. James Longley, by a healthy margin. He even managed to bring some flair to the very notion of the veto, by nixing roughly 30 bills all in rapid succession in what people seem to have begun calling, "veto rampage."
I'm not so sure LePage was angry at the pieces of paper as he "rampaged" through them, but if it helps Democrats to view the governor red faced, stabbing bills with the sharp end of a red pen, so be it.
For some reason, though, the Maine media seem obsessed with one question: Why so many?
To the guardians of Maine political culture, the idea seems offensive. How dare the governor disagree with the Legislature! It must be political. After all, the Democratic majority in the Legislature would never act politically.
They are used to unassuming, genial politicians occupying the Blaine House. Go-along-to-get-along nice guys, who prefer making friends and making deals with a smile on their face.
LePage has never been that person, and it confounds them and is the source of their dislike for him. He simply isn't playing the role they believe he should be playing, and they can't get over that.
The governor made clear his philosophy on governance in a recent statement, quoting President Calvin Coolidge, who said, "It is better to block a bad law than sign a good one."
That is not at all what the political elite of Maine like to hear. But it is a long overdue point of view in the Blaine House.
You see, undoing a law once it is on the books, much like trying to disassemble a government spending program, is a virtual impossibility. Preventing bad laws that will persist for generations is an important function and is why the veto exists at all.
Partisan Democrats in Augusta sent the governor partisan bills that they knew he would object to and dared him to veto. That makes them culpable, because rather than seeking consensus, they played politics.
LePage is not the first governor to be faced with a hostile Legislature, intent on shoving political bills down his throat, but he is the first since Longley to return the volley.
I personally may have even disagreed with a few of his vetoes (two bills on wiretapping and drones, for instance), but most of the governor's vetoes were justified and rightfully upheld.
LePage believes something simple, which I am dubbing The LePage Doctrine: You can't win if you don't fight, and fighting and losing is preferable to never having fought at all.
In his famous "Citizenship in a Republic" speech, Teddy Roosevelt, our most famously confrontational president, laid out a very similar philosophy:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
LePage's critics may dismiss this attitude as contrary to the spirit of Maine, and they may believe that it will be responsible for his defeat in 2014.
But that belief misses the fact that he may very well be re-elected because of that attitude.
For every Mainer that is tired of a combative, aggressive governor who isn't playing nice like he is supposed to, there is a Mainer who believes that the career politicians who were playing nice all that time were abdicating their responsibilities to the people who elected them.
You may not agree with those people, but they exist, and that point of view crosses all political stripes. If the governor wins his re-election, it will be because of them.
And if he loses, at least he will not be counting himself among those cold and timid souls who never knew victory nor defeat.


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Most people are familiar with Garmin's many portable GPS devices, from sports watches to action cameras to PNDs. But the K2 is a different animal altogether — a complete "digital cockpit" that comprises multiple digital displays, on- and off-board voice recognition, smartphone integration, and optional embedded 4G connectivity.
The K2 is designed to give drivers simple, intuitive access to navigation, vehicle diagnostics, streaming media, and realtime Web information. It's also designed with scalability in mind, so automakers can use it to address diverse market requirements and cost targets.
According to Matt Munn, managing director of Garmin's automotive OEM group, "the QNX CAR platform has played a major role in helping us to achieve our goal of providing both world-class software reliability and flexible access to emerging consumer applications. From the proven stability and performance of the QNX architecture to the company's worldwide industry recognition, QNX was the logical choice."
Other key features of the K2 include a 3D-enhanced city model, a predictive services calendar, and remote personalization and control via a web portal or smartphone.
Here's the K2 at a glance:
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And here's a demo of the system, filmed by Engadget at 2013 CES:
For more information on this announcement, read the press release. And for more on the K2 itself, visit the Garmin blog.


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Note to self: Don't get on Chris Brown's bad side.
A valet in Studio City, Calif., learned that the hard way after the singer felt he was being overcharged after attending a charity event at PINZ bowling alley, TMZ.com reports.
The valet reportedly tried to charge him $10, although Brown apparently believed others had only charged $5. Brown demanded his car keys, but the valet wouldn't give them up without the money.
After Brown threatened to "Turn this whole thing on out," one of Brown's entourage stepped in and gave the valet the money.


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I managed to put on the borders for Hocuspocusville by Meg Hawkey of Crab Apple Hill Studio. I haven't decided if I will be doing the hand embroidering between the blocks. It's now on my design wall awaiting my decision.
However, I have picked the backing. I've waited for this fabric for a whole year and it has arrived at Fibre Junction.
The Ghastlies!
It is so perfect as a backing! Although the Shoppe has a few colour choices, I chose the dark grey! I first saw this fabric on Thimbleanna's blog and immediately fell in love with it! Oh yea, it's a beauty. ;o)
On a different note, I continue to plug away at the Farmer's Wife and have completed the following blocks:
Thanks for stopping by! Cheers!
Monday, August 22, 2011
Plugging away ....!
6 comments:
- Cardygirl said...
Love that fabric...ghoulish fun!
- August 22, 2011 at 11:08 PM
- WoolenSails said...
I love that backing, it is so fun and perfect for your quilt.
- August 22, 2011 at 11:44 PM
- Ale jc said...
Ghaslies has me over the edge..I just made a few things and a sewing cover that might interest you..
- August 23, 2011 at 7:50 AM
- Denise in PA said...
Yay for the Ghastlies! I just got my stash of it in and love it!
- August 23, 2011 at 10:21 AM
- Thimbleanna said...
Oh yeah baby -- the Ghastlies are PERFECT for that quilt back. That quilt is going to be SOOOO cute!!!!
- August 23, 2011 at 12:52 PM
- Needled Mom said...
Love the Ghastlies!!!
The blocks are looking terrific too. You are definitely making progress on them.
- August 23, 2011 at 4:40 PM
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Here is the link..
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business ... 8680.story
"(...) Robert Ripley was also an early comer to television, with a show that ended with a fatal, on-camera heart attack in 1949. The television show went through two revivals, including one hosted by actor Jack Palance that ran from 1979 to 1984. Although no new shows are in production now, the company says actor Jim Carrey will star a feature film based on Robert Ripley's life that is tentatively scheduled for release in 2009. (...)"
Maybe it starts production at fall 2008 or begining 2009, for an Oscar Race december release. I hope it to come truth and with Burton attached. It seems a good film for both Carrey and Burton. Maybe it take to home our long awaited Carrey Oscar.. Fingers Crossed


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The paper may not be the critical part of the problem. It could simply be that your colours are out of the printer's gamut whatever the paper. What rendering intent are you using? What colour space are you using? Do you select black point compensation? Try switching rendering intent back and forth between Perceptual and Relative Colorimetric and see whether that helps. If you are using a wide gamut colour space such as ProPhoto, try switching back to ARGB98 - sometimes that helps. One is looking for the combination of settings that achieves the most satisfactory gamut compression for the needs of the particular image. If none of that does the trick, which I have experienced quite often, I "custom-bake" the tones as close to what I want as I can by adding a Selective Colour Adjustment Layer. Then I go into RED, and reduce cyan, increase yellow and either increase or decrease black depending on what the result looks like. Then I go into YELLOW, and increase yellow, with small adjustments to C, M, K as needed. Alternatively, or in combination, you may add a Hue-Saturation Adjustment Layer, select the Red and then the Yellow channel and adjust H, S, B in each to taste. I make all of these adjustments with my soft-proof activated, so I am simulating on the monitor what should come out in the print. These manoeuvres are often a partially successful way of - in effect - manually creating an in-gamut (i.e. printable) range of colour in the troublesome hues that comes close enough to what is in your mind's eye to be satisfactory.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=56084\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
To answer your questions ... I am using ProPhoto RGB as my working RGB space. I have experimented with both Perceptual and Rel. Col. intents. I have not tried converting to Adobe RGB first before trying the gamut mapping -- I did not know that this might help, but I'll give it a try.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=56085\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
I have not noticed any stunning difference in colour rendition on Epson Enhanced Matte paper between the IP profile and the Epson driver/Epson profile, be it with a 4800 or a 9800. I have also had a custom profile made for my 4800, and eventhough it is a good profile, it doesn't really distinguish itself from the other two. So what does BIll Atkinson do that neither Epson nor Colorbyte do? I wonder whether Bill Atkinson will produce commercially available profiles for the 4800/7800/9800 series of Epson printers and papers?[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=56129\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
Yes, the issue I'm running into is that my colors are out of gamut (the PS soft-proof shows this), and this tends to happen more on the matte papers I'm using because their color range is more limited than that of, say, the RC papers. (The plots on drycreekphoto.com confirm this.)So I guess I should have rephrased my question this way: are there ways to massage the gamut compression / gamut mapping so that deep reds and yellows can be obtained when the original colors are out of gamut, or am I out of luck?[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=56085\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
I use a free program from http://colorlab.hig.no/ICC3D/ called ICC3D. It is a really great University project that has little documentation. I found it worth the effort to figure it out. It will allow you to load an image with it's color space profile embedded or specified separately. Then you can load the profile of the paper you want to compare your image to. It will then plot a 3D graph of your image with the limits of the color gamut of the paper overlaid and you can rotate the image around in three space. This lets me actually see where the printer gamut is falling down. Next it has 9 algorithms to "massage" the colors of your image into the color gamut of the paper/ink combo. You can then again see by rotating in 3d space how well the particular algorithm did at mapping the colors into the paper/ink gamut. ...


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Re: Using Win32::OLE and Excel - Tips and Tricksby ArmandoG (Sexton)
|on Jan 25, 2008 at 00:56 UTC ( #664186=note: print w/replies, xml )
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this tutorial has being my foundation on the project at work thank you, since that said, I am a newbie in Win32::OLE I got this problem I need to copy a cell and cant do it this is the code I am using:
but that did not work what is wrong? I take this from the VBA in the macro.
Oh. yes I am using only WIN32::OLE
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Very cool command, thanks for posting it.
I just tried it and noticed that it prints out the fields 3,1,6 but in the order 1,3,6. It went through a file with 10^6 lines in about 7 seconds and 2*10^6 lines in 10 seconds. So 10^9 lines should take about an hour. My test data only had 9 fields not 50.
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Posted 03 January 2018 - 02:02 PM
How do I navigate this forum? it is quite a different layout than I am used to. Two of the five other forums I'm apart of (this is the sixth) are through xenforo and the third is vbulletin, the others not sure but still have trouble navigating those as well. Thank you for any assistance you can give. I'll get the hang of it after a few months.
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Well, welcome to GV, but quite did not understand the question, can you rephrase please?
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I am not sure how to get from point A to point B. For example notifications, judging by the layout, you access the notifications via settings. In other forums running on xenforo there is an Alerts tab at the top right and a number will pop up, on forums running on bulletin, you click on a notifications tab that has a white number in parentheses. That probably doesn't make sense either, come Monday afternoon my brain will probably running properly:
Disregard this post I made, I messed around a little bit and I'm finally starting to figure out the forum layout.
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Re-enable virtual terminals on Ubuntu 12.04
In the past month I've been getting accustomed to Ubuntu 12.04, and all of the changes it brings to the user interface of Ubuntu. One issue I've been especially bothered by is the lack of virtual terminals, at least of users of NVIDIA's proprietary drivers (myself included). The issue seems to stem from the fact […]Also tagged bug, command line, GRUB, help, linux, nvidia, open source


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I tried to get some 200 grams - from a larger piece - of two years old Dutch hard farm cheese into shavings. The cheese has almost the consistency of old Parmigiano. No other ustensile than a gyuto. I did by scraping counterclockwisely with the left flat side of the knife. The obtained result was good, but it took some time. As a I'm a humble home cook, may I get any suggestion by the pros around here?


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A GROUP of Gwent gym users are hoping to row their way to thousands of pounds in fundraising this weekend, to help beat blood cancer.
Some 18 gym goers, known as The Blistering Rowers, are set to take on the Newbridge Charity Rowing Challenge at Newbridge Leisure Centre this Saturday to raise funds for Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research.
Those taking part in the indoor challenge will be rowing the equivalent distance of a half marathon distance on Concept 2 rowing machines, while at least five will be putting in a marathon effort by rowing 26.2 miles each.
Organiser and rower Helen Lodder said: "We managed to raise £3,500 last year, and we're hoping to raise even more this year for Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research.
"This is really just the start – it's only the second year, but this rowing challenge has the potential to be rolled out at leisure centres and gyms across the UK and become a national event."
Kate Giles, who has non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, will be one of those supporting the rowers this Saturday. She said: "This event is particularly poignant because it coincides with Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research's national Impact Day, and we're encouraging people to come down on Saturday and show some support for those taking part."
The Newbridge Charity Rowing Challenge begins at 9am tomorrow (sat). Supporters will be taking collections on the day and selling wristbands to raise funds. All are welcome to attend.
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2013 Indoor Track: Competed in the 200m dash, high jump and triple jump for the Blue Devils at the NEC Championships...Finished ninth overall in the high jump at the NECs registering a height of 1.83m...His NEC triple jump performance was a season-best 12.66m...Achieved his career-best high jump score of 1.94m three times throughout the season, the first of which was at the Army Crowell Open where he tied for third place...Also competed on the men's 4x400 relay squad.
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It is a Thursday morning and Nick Cave — tanned and beautifully suited — is receiving the press in the upstairs room of a charming gastropub in Brighton's Kemp Town. Born in Australia and variously resident over the years in Berlin, London and São Paulo, he has spent the past decade becoming one of the English south coast seaside town's most celebrated residents. Rock king Cave, as the local paper persists in referring to him, seems remarkably visible around the town, perhaps because — nothing if not a proper pop star — he declines to dress down.
I once saw him in DIY superstore Homebase dressed almost exactly as he is now: some years ago, a journalist who suggested he might consider kicking back in a pair of jeans and some trainers at weekends was given very short shrift indeed.
Brighton has even found its way into his new album, Push the Sky Away. The cover was shot in his bedroom, a few streets away from where we are sitting. It features his wife, model Susie Bick, naked — something Cave is at pains to point out wasn't his idea. He had walked in on his wife's photoshoot for a French magazine, the photographer happened to press the shutter button and that was that: "I was more reluctant to use it than she was, to be honest."
The city seeps into the lyrics too, on a song called Jubilee Street: the titular home of Headmasters' hairdressers, the Jubilee Library and a branch of Tesco Express rather improbably taking its place amid what you might call the more classic Cavian lyrical concerns of violence, sex and strikingly drawn visions of Armageddon.
End times
Cave remains rock's premier purveyor of the last, capable of seeing intimations of the end times in the most unlikely places. "Texting is apocalyptic on some level," he muses, when the title of Push the Sky Away's first single, We No Who U R is mentioned. "It's a reduction of things. Maybe the last book, the last thing that ever gets written is just a bye, you know, goodbye in text speak."
The thing is, he says, he didn't really want to move to Brighton: it was his wife's idea. Before that, his visits to the town had left a rather negative impression. "Brighton," he notes drily, "was where I used to come to try to get clean. So all I knew about the place was sweating it out in a hotel room for three days."
Cave has protested in the past about the cliché of journalists contrasting his past (dissolute, drug-sodden, given to punching audience members and interviewers alike, so bohemian in his personal arrangements that his two oldest children were born 10 days apart to women on different continents) with his latterday life as a happily married, teetotal, non-smoking musical elder statesman, charming and witty interviewee and polymath man of letters: the author not merely of 19 albums, but also two novels, the foreword to an edition of the Gospel According to Mark and two films: 2005's award-garlanded The Proposition and 2012's more coolly received Lawless.
But sometimes it's hard even for him not to juxtapose the present with the past. Push the Sky Away was recorded in a residential studio in France. In the video of the album's making, it looks rather beautiful, but it was nevertheless an experiment in communal living that even now he seems faintly astonished the band undertook.
"I don't think anybody of our age, settled in our ways, wants to go and live with a bunch of other guys like that for three weeks in a place where you can't even leave the grounds. You're in this room, then when you've finished in the evening, you go up the stairs, go to sleep, then come back down the stairs and go straight back into this room. It was intense. It's like fuckin' rehab or something like that. Like happy rehab if such a thing exists."
He frowns. "Actually, let's forget happy rehab because that's going to end up the headline. It wasn't actually like rehab. But the intensity of the experience was. I really liked it."
Had they ever tried anything like the whole communal living thing before? He raises an incredulous eyebrow. "Are you kidding me?" Then he laughs. "I mean, there were certainly times in the past when no one was able to leave the studio. Tony Cohen, who produced a lot of Bad Seeds and Birthday Party stuff, was a case in point. One time he went missing for two days. We thought he had gone and scored and OD'd or something; he just didn't come back. And then, two days later, he emerged from the air-conditioning unit. He had crawled in there and passed out. He just sort of came out of this big pipe — oh, there he is — and went: 'Anyway, where were we?'"
Light and air
Cave says the surroundings influenced Push the Sky Away's "journeying and atmospheric" sound: it feels markedly different from either the churning garage rock of its predecessor, Dig Lazarus Dig!!! or the visceral din of Grinderman, his side project with fellow Bad Seeds Warren Ellis, Jim Sclavunos and Martyn P Casey. He was keen, he says, to "move away from guitar-orientated music and that classic Nick Cave ballad style, to let a little bit of air and a little bit of light in". Still, as he points out, some things never change. "I don't think the lyrical concerns have altered particularly."
The deluxe edition comes with a facsimile of the notebook in which Cave worked out the album's lyrics. "Some of it's dreadful and painful to read, but I just thought — what the fuck," he says, before getting the actual notebook out and offering me a brief precis of his working methods. "Pages and pages of absolute shit," he says, sighing, turning them over. "Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit. And just every now and then something, little tiny ideas, start to come out."
Certainly, the book provides an insight into the formation of Push the Sky Away's denser lyrics, including Higgs Boson Blues, a phantasmagoria of apocalyptic imagery that takes in not merely the discovery of the subatomic particle by the Hadron Collider, but also Robert Johnson, the assassination of Martin Luther King and Miley Cyrus. The Disney starlet ends the song "floating in a pool", apparently the latest addition to the burgeoning cast of ladies who meet grisly ends in Cave songs.
"Well, I don't know that she's face down," he says, frowning. "Maybe she's on a lilo. In some ways, if she is lying on a lilo then it's even more of a devastating image, considering the nature of the song and the absolute spiritual collapse that's happening all around her. No, let's say she's just on a lilo. Let me just say: I've got nothing particular against Miley Cyrus. The whole thing came about because I was in Madame Tussauds with my kids and they were hugging Miley Cyrus's waxwork. Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra was in the next room. They were groping Miley Cyrus and I'm going, well, hang on a second, you've got Elizabeth Taylor here. 'Who?' And that had some impact on me and that's why she's floating in the pool."
Dog work
Cave once said that he became interested in scriptwriting because "it's a more effective medium for violence than songs". Today, however, he not only seems unsure about whether he still thinks that ("I must have said that to the American press," he deadpans) or even whether he still wants to write film scripts at all. On the one hand, he has "dear friends" in Hollywood and there is "still a lot of talk" of making a film of his novel The Death of Bunny Munro, about a drink-sodden travelling salesman in early Noughties Brighton. On the other, he says, scriptwriting is "fucking dog work".
"It's bottom feeding," he says. "There's an element of it that's interesting and I can do it and I can do it fast, but now that I've worked it out, it doesn't really hold much appeal for me. I don't see what else I can do in that area that's of any interest. It's really doing something for somebody else."
He appears to have been slightly worn down by the experience of working on Lawless, which apparently involved much rewriting. "On Lawless, there was an unbelievable amount of note-taking. I think it was in the end compromising … in the end I wrote things that I'm embarrassed about. I mean, they're not going to like me saying that, but fuck it. There's just a couple of things here and there, but it only takes a line or two and that's all you can hear. I still think Lawless is a great film, I'm really, really pleased with it. But sometimes too many people get involved, I think. What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood."
For an artist with a remarkable body of work behind him Cave occasionally seems a surprisingly self-doubting character. After 30 years of live performance, the prospect of getting on stage still fills him with "fucking dread". Whenever he releases a record, he says, he finds himself gripped by the fear that he is "going to be exposed, people are going to realise I was never really that good anyway, someone's going to come round and find out I was supposed to be a different person or something like that".
Much as he doesn't like the subject, it may be at least partly linked to the sheer disparity between the extremes of his life. A few years ago, he says, he was given a doctorate by the same university he had dropped out of 30 years earlier.
"There was some sort of dark energy I was tapping into because I had failed, I had basically failed the school that's giving me the doctorate. And as I was stepping out the door to pick up the doctorate, I said so to my mother. And my mother …" His voice trails off. "She'll kill me for saying this, because she's a very dignified woman. But my mother said: 'Head high and fuck 'em all.'" He laughs. "She's 85."
There's part of him that would like to retire, he says. "I think that's the greatest feat of artistic honesty there can be. To lay down the gloves and say, that's it. But I don't feel I'm there, I don't feel I've arrived at the finishing line. Maybe that's how everyone feels who just goes on and on and on and you think, fuck, I wish they would stop. But I would love to be in a position to retire, to just say: 'Okay, I love the life that I have and I love the people around me and I'm quite happy to spend time with them and not do anything.'"
But his output seems more torrential than ever: since he turned 50 in 2007, he has made four albums — two with the Bad Seeds, two with Grinderman — scored and recorded seven film soundtracks, published both a novel and his collected lyrics, and written a film. "To a fault, I get overexcited by things. So someone says to me: 'Do you want to do this?' And I'll go: 'Oh yeah! I can do that! I can do that! Sure!' And then a week later, I'm like, oh fuck, I've got to do that fucking thing. It's a bit of a problem for me and it's a problem for the people I work with. I say yes to things when I'm not supposed to be saying yes to things."
He smiles and says, rather heavily. "But now I've fucked up my entire screenplay-writing career singlehandedly with this one interview, I've probably got loads of time on my hands. Anything out there? I do theatre, stand-up." — © Guardian News & Media 2013


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For a refreshing side dish (that could also be served as a dessert), try Frozen Cranberry Salad from Rita Goshaw of South Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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- In a food processor or blender, process cranberries, sugar and pineapple until the cranberries are finely chopped. Pour into a bowl; let stand for 10 minutes. Fold in whipped topping. Spoon into four foil muffin cups; sprinkle with pecans. Freeze. Remove from the freezer 15 minutes before serving. Garnish with cranberries and mint if desired.
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Though he spent a few years developing the high profile Halo film that never came to be, director Neill Blomkamp burst onto the film scene in a big way with his stellar 2009 sci-fi pic District 9. Not only did the film include some truly killer effects work, but it was actually about something and tackled social issues like segregation and xenophobia on a sci-fi platform. It's been three long years since District 9 opened, and fans are eagerly awaiting Blomkamp's follow-up, the futuristic thriller Elysium. Plot details have been firmly under wraps, but we know that it fits squarely into the sci-fi genre and stars Matt Damon, Jodi Foster, Wagner Moura, Sharlto Copley, William Fichtner and Diego Luna.
A full synopsis for Elysium has been brought to our attention, giving us a much better idea of what to expect. The film is apparently screening for preview audiences tonight and the ticket includes a fairly detailed logline for the pic. As with District 9, it appears that Elysium will also be dealing with grander issues than space guns and aliens. Hit the jump to read the synopsis. Elysium is slated to open on March 1st, 2013.
Here's the synopsis, followed by an image of the preview screening ticket:
In the year 2159 two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes (Jodie Foster), a hard line government official, will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve the luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium. That doesn't stop the people of Earth from trying to get in, by any means they can. When unlucky Max (Matt Damon) is backed into a corner, he agrees to take on a daunting mission that if successful will not only save his life, but could bring equality to these polarized worlds.


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Cha-ching! It really does pay to DiscoverSeptember 27, 2012: 12:23 PM ET
Talk about getting some cash back.
Discover Financial Services (DFS), whose claim to fame is offering consumers cash back when they use a Discover credit card, is having a good week.
After issuing a mea culpa (and $200 million of refunds) to more than 3.5 million customers for deceptive telemarketing tactics, Discover reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue early Thursday.
The earnings news was enough to push Discover's stock higher and grab the attention of StockTwits users.
lamonicabuzz: Guess it does pay to Discover. Card company's profits top forecasts. News follows $200M refund to consumers earlier this week. $DFS up 3.7%.
pwvandoorn: Discover blows out Q3, ROE 28%, increased reserve release offsets FDIC settlement expense: http://t.co/JFG2fK0w $DFS
stephanie_link: Another impressive Q from $DFS - better credit, loan g, and an increase in NIM - tough to do in this environment.Contins to bb stock w$350m.
Good point about the loans. Discover keeps growing its loan portfolio by an impressive 9%. And credit card loans are up 4%.
But there's always a downside.
NAPManagement: Only bad thing I have seen so far for $DFS is the increasing interest rates. Possible future increase in delinquency?
That may be putting the cart before the horse. Discover's credit card loan delinquencies are at historic lows.
And Discover's stock is faring better than some of its rivals.
Shares of Visa, MasterCard and American Express are up roughly 20% to 30% this year. That's not too shabby but it pales in comparison to Discover's stock, which is up an impressive 60%.


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A Wish and a Prayer: A Blessings Novel
Anyone worried that living in a small town could be boring certainly hasn't lived in Henry Adams, Kansas. From the wealthy divorcÉe who saved this historic town founded by freed slaves to the romantic entanglements that have set tongues wagging and hearts fluttering (and everything in between), there's plenty to keep the lovably eccentric townsfolk busy.
Preston Miles is happy living with his foster parents, but an e-mail from his maternal grandmother is about to change all that. . . . Riley Curry, the former town mayor, is convinced his pet hog, Cletus, acted in self-defense when he sat on—and killed— a man. Now Riley just has to prove it in a court of law. . . . And as for Rocky, she has already had a lifetime of hurt. Will she risk opening her heart—and her life—to Jack?
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Mystery to the origin of long-lived, skin-deep immune cells uncovered
Scientists at A*STARs Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) uncovered the origin of a group of skin-deep immune cells that act as the first line of defence against harmful germs and skin infections. SIgN scientists discovered that these sentry cells of the skin, called the Langerhans cells (LCs), originate from two distinct embryonic sites - the early yolk sac and the foetal liver.
LCs are dendritic cells (DCs) found in the outermost layer of the skin. DCs are a critical component of the immune system because they are the only cells able to see and alert other responding immune cells to initiate a protective response against harmful foreign invaders. Like sentries of the immune system, DCs are strategically positioned where they are likely to encounter harmful pathogens. Identifying the source of these specialised immune cells may hold exciting possibilities to novel strategies for vaccination and treatment of autoimmune diseases and inflammatory skin disorders.
In contrast to other DCs which are constantly replaced by a circulating pool of bone marrow-derived precursors, LCs has the interesting ability to maintain themselves throughout life. While it is established that these long-lived sentry cells of the skin arise from precursors that are recruited to the skin prior to birth, this is the first time that the exact origin of the precursors of LCs is revealed through advanced fate-mapping technique (a method of tracing cell lineages to their embryonic origin).
In this study, published in the June issue of Journal of Experimental Medicine, Dr. Florent Ginhoux, and his team demonstrated that adult LCs originate from two distinct embryonic lineages in two succeeding waves. The first wave of precursor cells from the yolk sac seed the skin before the onset of the foetal liver. Interestingly, the team discovered that at the later stage of development, the yolk-sac precursors are largely replaced by a type of white blood cells from the foetal liver.
Said Dr. Ginhoux, Principal Investigator of SIgN, Whether this unique dual origin of Langerhans cells influences their ability to maintain skin integrity or dictate their specialised immune functions in response to microbes and vaccines needs to be examined. But having identified their origin surely opens new possibilities of using them as novel vaccination strategies or as therapeutic tool for treating inflammatory skin diseases like psoriasis.
Scientific Director of SIgN, Professor Paola Castagnoli said, This discovery sheds light on understanding the complexities of the immune system, in particular the relationship between immune responses and human diseases. It will bring us closer to our goal of discovering novel ways of treating and preventing a range of immune diseases that will impact healthcare.


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The Central Institute for the Deaf-Max A. Goldstein Historic Devices for Hearing Collection at Washington University Bernard Becker Medical Library was started by Max A. Goldstein, MD (1870-1941), a St. Louis otologist and founder of Central Institute for the Deaf (CID). The collection contains over 400 hearing devices dating from 1796 and represents one of the largest collections in the world. Associated with the collection is archival material dating from the 19th century including photographic prints, catalog illustrations, advertisements, patents and related ephemera.
The hearing devices in the collection include small hand-held trumpet type devices; long conversation tubes; large London-dome shaped trumpets; animal horns; acoustic fans; parabolic trumpets; walking sticks; a leather and metal device manufactured to resemble a water canteen; telescopic devices that could be discreetly folded within a pocket; vases; headpieces for women; beard receptacles for men; the first electronic hearing device model; devices that resemble radios or cameras; devices hidden within barrettes and eyeglasses; early cochlear implant models; and many more. There are few duplicate devices with many representing the only known extant models.
Many of these hearing devices are featured in Deafness in Disguise: 19th and 20th Century Concealed Hearing Devices [ http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/did/index.htm ], a digital exhibit that showcases hearing devices from the 19th and 20th centuries that were designed to be concealed or camouflaged. It was literally a work of art to combine the elements of disguise and functionality in a hearing device that was aesthetically appealing and yet useful for those with a hearing loss, whether incorporated within everyday items or worn on the person. Created for viewers of all ages and backgroundsfrom the layperson to the scholarthe exhibit combines over 500 digital images of hearing devices, rare books, photographic prints, illustrations, advertising literature and patents to provide a unique glimpse into the evolution of hearing devices over the past two hundred years.
Deafness in Disguise was inspired by Max Goldstein's handwritten notes in describing his intent for the collection, " such a collection should serve a more dignified and useful purpose than simply that of an exhibit of the many curious forms and devices created to exemplify the ideas of inventors."
The Image Gallery in Deafness in Disguise contains digital images of the bulk of the hearing device collection and includes all types of hearing devices, both mechanical and electronic, and can be searched by keyword or type of device. A drop-down menu of device types is available for the user to select from.
Select mechanical and electronic hearing devices from the collection can also be found in Exploring Object Virtual Reality: A Manual for Libraries and Museums [ http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/3D/index.html ] ,which features interactive, three-dimensional "movies" of 20 of the devices.
The hearing device collection is housed at the Washington University School of Medicine Bernard Becker Medical Library. For more information on the collection please contact Cathy Sarli email@example.com at Becker Library.
The Central Institute for the Deaf Max A. Goldstein Historic Devices for Hearing Collection at Washington University Bernard Becker Medical Library web site is located at http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/did/index.htm.
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COMMERCE CITY, Colo. — Chris Wondolowski's record-breaking hat trick helped the San Jose Earthquakes to an easy 4-1 win over the Colorado Rapids on Saturday night while helping San Jose take a step closer to the Supporter's Shield on an unseasonably brisk evening at Dick's Sporting Goods Park.
Wondolowski's three goals helped him break San Jose's franchise record for all-time goals scored, and also helped the Earthquakes move six points above Sporting Kansas City for the Supporter's Shield with two games to go, although Sporting plays Columbus Sunday afternoon and have three games left on their schedule.
Marvin Chávez's goal 95 seconds into the match along with Wondolowski's simple 11th-minute finish allowed the Quakes to start fast and never look back. The win pushed San Jose to a league-high 64 points on the year, matching a club record for points in a season, and the Earthquakes also tied a club-record with their 19th win of the season. The win also officially sealed San Jose as the top seed in the Western Conference.
Meanwhile, the 9-19-4 Rapids, who were eliminated from playoff contention mid-week, struggled defensively against the Earthquakes' fire-powered trio of Wondolowski, Steven Lenhart and Alan Gordon, who started together for the first time all season.
On a brutally cold night in suburban Denver that even included some pre-game snow flurries, the Earthquakes wasted no time in warming up the scoreboard. On Sam Cronin's second minute free kick, Rapids defender Marvell Wynne and Wondolowski both went up for a header that deflected out to Chávez, who whipped in a hard strike from 18 yards out for his second goal of the season.
San Jose doubled their advantage on the counter-attack less than 10 minutes later. Rafael Baca sprinted upfield along the left wing and centered for Wondolowski, who chested home for his 23rd goal of the season and a 2-0 Earthquakes lead.
The Rapids came close to getting on the board at the half-hour mark with a Luis Zapata shot and Omar Cummings' 33rd minute blast, but both missed the target and the visitors remained firmly in control at halftime.
On the other side of the break, Wondolowski put the game to bed with a 51st-minute finish to make it 3-0. San Jose's star forward gathered the ball at the top of the box after a failed clearance from Wynne and unleashed a shot that deflected off of Rapids defender Drew Moor and into the net.
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Finally, in the 84th minute, Wondolowski capped his scoring with a clean finish just inside the penalty box. The goal was Wondolowski's 25th of the season, toppng Ronald Cerritos for the franchise all-time scoring record with his 62nd goal as an Earthquake while also moving Wondolowski within two goals of Roy Lassiter's all-time MLS-best 27 goals in 1996.
Andre Akpan scored a consolation second-half injury time penalty kick for the Rapids, and on the penalty, San Jose's Jason Hernandez received a straight red card for a challenge from behind, automatically suspending him for the Quakes' next game.
The Earthquakes and Rapids will both a couple of weeks off, but San Jose return to action for an October 21 clash against the LA Galaxy (1 pm ET, Galavisión), while the Rapids will travel to The Home Depot to take on Chivas USA on October 20 (10:30 pm ET, MLS Live).
Scoring Summary:
SJ - Marvin Chavez (unassisted) 2'
SJ - Chris Wondolowski (Alan, Gordon, Rafael Baca) 11'
SJ - Chris Wondolowski (unassisted) 51'
SJ - Chris Wondolowski (Sam Cronin) 83'
COL - Andre Akpan 2 (penalty kick) 92+
Disciplinary Summary:
COL - Hunter Freeman (caution) 32'
SJ - Marvin Chavez (caution) 32'
COL - Kamani Hill (caution) 80'
SJ - Jason Hernandez (ejection) 90'
Colorado Rapids lineup: Matt Pickens (Stew Ceus), Hunter Freeman (Kamani Hill 46'), Marvell Wynne, Drew Moor, Luis Zapata, Hendry Thomas, Jeff Larentowicz (Tony Cascio 46), Brian Mullan, Martin Rivero, Omar Cummings, Andre Akpan
Subs not used: Tyrone Marshall, Tyson Wahl, Joseph Nane, Chris Klute
Referee: Jose Carlos Rivero
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Are you making the most of your property wealth?
PUBLISHED: 09:17 09 November 2018 | UPDATED: 13:51 16 November 2018
This week, financial columnist Peter Sharkey looks at how equity release could solve your downsizing dilemma.
Long-term neighbours, people with whom we've been friendly for years, threw a 'topping out' party recently after work on their new extension was completed.
Over the past couple of months, vans displaying the names of local bricklayers, carpenters, electricians, decorators and several other trades have become a constant daytime feature of our normally quiet little cul-de-sac.
Granted, I won't miss the brickie who managed to wake everyone up most Saturdays, his early morning arrival accompanied by unnecessarily fierce blasts of Radio One, but otherwise, it's been good to see a project employing local tradesmen, all of whom described themselves as 'manic' (aka extremely busy) whenever asked if, once they were finished, they could do some work for me.
The new extension looks fantastic as it's been added to a previously underused dining room. The installation of bi-fold doors and wide windows on two other sides has made what is now a huge space look fantastically light.
During the course of the party, also deemed a 'thank you to neighbours for putting up with two months of upheaval' (it really wasn't a problem: the guys doing the work were as good as gold), I asked Tony, the soon-to-be-retired man of the house, why, after so many years, had he and his wife decided upon an extension? Was he considering becoming an artist and taking advantage of the wonderful light that now streamed through his south-facing windows?
He smiled and shook his head. "No, nothing like that. We had all of this wealth wrapped up in our house and thought, 'why not make use of some of it?' After all, we can't take it with us."
The couple had mentioned this to a friend who briefly outlined the benefits of equity release.
"Following this, we made a few enquiries and were introduced to a really helpful chap who visited us to explain how it works," said Tony. "The process was actually much simpler than I imagined it would be.
"Barbara [his wife] had wanted an extension for ages and as the kids have long flown the nest, we decided to take the plunge. The great thing is, the money we've released is tax-free and we don't have to make any monthly repayments for the rest of our lives, so we have no concerns when I retire next year."
In fact, the extension has probably added a large chunk of value to Tony and Barbara's house, an unforeseen and hugely beneficial side effect of equity release.
Indeed, it's little wonder that equity release schemes have become so popular among people aged 55 and over in recent years.
According to a survey conducted by The Right Equity Release, one of the UK's leading companies in the equity release sector, freeing up tax-free funds in order to make home improvements consistently ranks as one of the two main reasons why people access the wealth built up in their homes. In part, says the company, this is because home improvements are essentially an investment, a fact with which long-standing homeowners are obviously familiar.
However, as my neighbour Tony pointed out, he and his wife didn't build their new extension to add value to their home; that's a happy consequence, not the principle reason. The couple have lived in their home for years; the prospect of downsizing or moving elsewhere never crossed their minds.
"This is where our children were born. Where our friends are. We didn't want to walk away from that," Barbara told me.
In addition to the deep-rooted emotions that tie us to our homes, however, it's also fair to say that as the period we can expect to be officially 'retired' continues to lengthen, many people conclude that when seeking to improve their home and make it more comfortable, equity release schemes come into their own.
The survey conducted by The Right Equity Release revealed that, on average, grandparents spend nine hours a week looking after their grandchildren. Naturally enough, a burgeoning number of folks releasing equity from their homes do so to make it more accommodating and welcoming for their young relatives.
"The concept of releasing equity from your home to secure a better retirement can no longer be considered a niche solution, but a specialist retirement option," according to The Right Equity Release, a conclusion with which Barbara, Tony and tens of thousands of others would no doubt agree.
You can read more about equity release on the Moneymapp.com website.
Alternatively, for further details and to receive a FREE guide to equity release, telephone 0800 612 6755 and quote reference LIFEM1.
According to the Equity Release Council (ERC), a total of 38,912 people released tax-free equity from their homes during the first half of 2018. The majority of these people used the funds to either helped loved ones or spent it on home improvements.
•£3.06 billion
Equity release lending broke the £3 billion barrier for the first time in 2017. As more people access wealth built up in their homes, the figure is expected to be significantly higher by the end of December 2018.
Research by Property Reporter suggests that up to 316,000 UK parents will have a hand in their children's first property purchase. Tax-free equity release is becoming one of the most popular solutions available to parents looking to give their offspring a leg-up onto the housing ladder.
Data supplied by upmarket estate agents Savills shows that people aged 55 and over have an estimated £2.8 trillion wrapped up in their properties. The average amount of wealth built up in each home equates to more than £270,000.
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Q. What is the best way to deal with leaked paint froman electrocoat system that ends up in containment, from an environmental, economic and safety point of view? 1) Treat it in wastewater, 2) have it pumped out and disposed of as hazardous waste, 3) filter through bag filters and return to the paint tank, or 4) another option. T.F.
A. To determine the best alternative from all standpoints, first pump the leaked paint out into a holding tank and have the electrocoat supplier take a sample for lab testing (percent solids, conductivity, pH, etc.). Also, ask your supplier to perform several panel coat-outs at different voltages and to mix ratios of raw electrocoat to recovered and filtered electrocoat. This will determine the chemical condition, visual deposition quality and overall suitability of the electrocoat paint.
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Most of the time, depending on the level of dirt and oil contamination in the containment area, the paint can be filtered through normal bag and oil filters until no fish eyes or craters are found on the panels. After the visual quality is acceptable, the paint can be fed back into the tank a little at the time until complete recovery is accomplished. The feed rate would be calculated based on the lab studies performed by your electrocoat supplier. This is always a critical decision after complete recovery of a large spill; typically, the slower the better.
If the electrocoat paint is contaminated beyond repair and is deemed unacceptable and unusable, it is best to dispose of it instead of treating it in your own waste treatment system. Typical waste treatment systems are not designed to treat organic waste. Because current electrocoat technologies do not use heavy metals and have very little solvent, and this solvent is not considered flammable or combustible, the electrocoat paint usually can be disposed of as general industrial waste and not as hazardous waste. If the paint contains some metals or significant amounts of solvent, it should be incinerated as hazardous waste.
In my experience running e-coat systems, I always was able to recover spilled electrocoat paint after intensive filtering through bag and oil filters. Typically within one week the paint was ready to be fed back into the bath.
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Commitment to quality is a key element in Teel's strategy to distinguish itself and its products from the competition. Quality is a commitment that starts at the top. "Teel believes that by bringing science into the products and processes within the company, we'll continuously be able to improve the quality of the products we produce," says Jay Smith, owner and CEO.
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While almost everyone in manufacturing touts their ability to produce quality parts, Teel has put its money where its mouth is, starting a testing laboratory in 2010 to support quality assurance and new product development and to troubleshoot manufacturing issues as they arise. "The laboratory produces valuable information for the company, but the value of that information is tied to the accuracy and repeatability of the test methods," adds Joel Lischefski, laboratory supervisor. This entails having tests performed "by qualified personnel on quality instruments," he says.
To that end, lab personnel that oversee the testing at Teel are all degreed scientists. The lab uses testing and measuring instrumentation of various types from the likes of Waters Corp., Mettler Toledo, Arizona Instruments, and Testing Solutions Inc., among others.
Test methods are taken from authoritative sources (such as ASTM) when available, and are validated. "The validation process, though time-consuming, is often ignored but is critical to defining how well the test method performs," states Lischefski. "For instance, a test method used for process control would be inadequate if the variation in the test method is as wide as the expected variation in the process. Without validating the method ahead of time, and as an ongoing process, the method variation is an unknown, and the manufacturer can spend endless amounts of time and money trying to determine why it has so much process variation when it is the test that is producing varied results."
When testing samples in a laboratory, it is inevitable that at some point a test result will be reported that flies against all expectations and seems to make no sense, Lischefski points out. "At that point someone is bound to ask, 'How do you know the data is right?' It's the process that goes on behind the scenes in a laboratory that ensures that data is produced accurately and reliably.
"A good laboratory method will routinely check the calibration of the equipment to ensure that the instrument results are accurate. It will test and confirm a reference sample to ensure that all sample preparation steps are within established limits; test and confirm a duplicate sample to prove that the results can be repeated within established limits; and, if applicable, check a blank sample to test for equipment contamination," says Lischefski.
In an example illustrating the importance of ongoing method validation, one of the products produced by Teel is monitored for a compounded additive critical to the product's performance. During routine testing, lab personnel noticed that there was more variation in the results than there had been in the past. All of the results passed the established limits of acceptance, but the variation was higher.
Because the lab continuously monitors the test-method variation, it was able to rule that out as a cause of the change and alerted the manufacturing staff that there was an abnormality in the manufacturing process. After investigating, it was found that a mixer in a tank had been intermittently turning on and off due to a fault in the controls. The problem was identified, isolated, and fixed within a couple of days.
"The validation showed that there were no changes in the test method and that the numbers being produced were attributable to changes in the samples being received—something that would not have been possible without proper, ongoing method validation," says Lischefski.
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