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Kylie commented, 'I got a world subscription through FindMyPast.com, the USA site, because it was cheaper at the time than the Australian and the UK sites. I don't seem to get the same search results as if I searched from their Australian site or their UK site.'
I am not an expert, and FindMyPast may change in the future, but here are my thoughts.
* Some of the United Kingdom data may not yet be fully integrated into the World Collection. In that case the UK data would be best searched through the UK site or the Aus/NZ site. Work systematically through the UK record categories rather than trying to search everything at once (a tip I learnt from Rosemary Kopittke.)
* I have sometimes found a particular entry with a search on one site (eg, Aus/NZ) but not another (eg, UK). When I noted the country, collection and record set, then went to that country's site and that record set, I always found the entry even though it didn't appear in the initial search results.
|Searching UK records from FindMyPast's Australian site gives a result like this
(a Richard GIBLETT - but not this one - was my ancestor)
* On each FindMyPast site, look for links to 'search tips', 'video tutorials', 'help/advice' etc.
* Different search strategies are required with fully indexed records (where you use name fields to search) and digitised records that have been processed with Optical Character Recognition software (where the keyword field is important). This applies particularly to the Aus/NZ site. There is a good explanation in the book The New Findmypast.com.au: Gateway to the World Collection, by Rosemary Kopittke.
* Tips on how to best use FindMyPast.com.au:
Part 1 (Basic Searching)
Part 2 (Filtering)
* At Rosemary Kopittke's talks about FindMyPast (eg, at Unlock The Past events), you often get an excellent handout explaining search strategies for each site (not just the Aus/NZ one).
If you have any helpful hints about using FindMyPast, please add a comment below.


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recapitalization(redirected from E Type Reorganization)
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The act of changing a company's capital structure. For example, a highly leveraged company (one that is largely financed with debt) may repay most of its debt and issue stock so that it is financed with equity. On the other hand, a company may make a self-tender offer and buy back most of its stock while issuing bonds so that it becomes debt-financed. Some companies may believe that recapitalization can be advantageous, but the capital structure irrelevance principle states that a company's capital structure has no bearing on its profitability. Recapitalization is also called an e-type reorganization.
A change a company makes in the long-term financing mix it uses. For example, a firm may borrow long-term funds (that is, it may sell bonds) in order to acquire the money needed to repurchase a block of its outstanding stock. Because recapitalization will often affect the level and the volatility of earnings per share, it is of interest to stockholders. Recapitalization often occurs when a firm attempts to reorganize while in bankruptcy proceedings.

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Everyone is now using blogger on our course, and there's a nice community growing with people following each others blogs and helping each other with issues. Not everyone is linked up to each other though, and I thought a central blog for the course which everyone could post to would be a pretty nice idea. It would also mean that rather then relying on the slow blogfeed and having to surf through the 70 odd blogs that we have between us, we can just come straight to this one.
With a large knowledge base between everyone a lot of issues could be resolved fairly quickly, and so any problems can be posted here, and we will all have quick access to them.
Also if anyone has found any good tutorials, has started a new project blog, has had a breakthrough they're pleased with, or whatever else, they can whack it on here.
Just put a subject in the post title (eg. ISSUE - Blend Shapes, TUTORIAL - Advanced Rigging etc) and blog away.
If you want to join comment here with your email address (can't do it via linking) and I'll send you an author invite so you can post properly as with your personal blog. If you don't want your email address published then just send me one (email@example.com) saying that you want in.
When you've joined post saying hello, a link to your blog and whatever else you want.
Don't just follow, join in!
Cheers, hopefully hear from you all soon!
Liam x


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Ph34r my paperback
Jennifer Government hits bookstore shelves across in Australia and New Zealand today, as what may be the world's largest paperback. This thing is enormous. It's like one of those giant Fosters cans they put out in other countries to trade off the stereotype of Australians as hard-drinking beer guzzlers, even though in Australia Fosters cans are just the normal size. Ah, marketing. But I digress.
Later today I'm going to check out bookstores and quietly move all their Jennifer Government copies to more prominent locations. (Oh come on, other authors do it.) I just need to limber up first. They are really big paperbacks.


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Vikings' defense crumbles at hands of Bush
Jennings catches just three passes in purple debut
DETROIT — Reggie Bush didn't waste any time showing how well he fits into the Detroit Lions' offense.
Bush, who was signed away from the Miami Dolphins as a free agent, had 191 all-purpose yards and a 77-yard touchdown reception to lift the Lions to a 34-24 season-opening victory over the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday at Ford Field.
With perennial All-Pro wide receiver Calvin Johnson drawing away defensive attention, Bush found plenty of room to operate.
"It's definitely what we talked about," said Bush, who had 90 rushing yards on 21 carries and gained 101 yards on four receptions. "We talked about getting in space and just constantly being in situations where I'm mismatched on a linebacker or safety or cornerback, somebody in man coverage, while they're worried about Calvin and some other guys. Just taking advantage of it. We were able to do that today. You saw a bit of what's to come in the future."
Matthew Stafford, who passed for 357 yards with two touchdowns, is salivating at the prospect of having Bush as his primary back all season.
"The ability to run after the catch was huge for us today," said Stafford, who completed 28 of his 43 pass attempts. "Whether it's second and long and getting into a third and short, or converting a third down, the guy did it all. The more weapons you have as an offense, the more confidence everybody has that we're all going to get it done."
Joique Bell scored twice on short runs for Detroit, which finished 4-12 last year and lost its final eight games. Johnson had a relatively quiet day with four receptions and 37 yards Sunday, but had a potential touchdown catch overturned by replay and another close incompletion in which he barely stepped on the end line in the end zone.
Minnesota's Adrian Peterson scored three touchdowns, including a 78-yard run on his first carry. Christian Ponder completed 18 of 28 passes for 236 yards with a touchdown but was also intercepted three times.
"We had too many three-and-outs, we had four turnovers and I had three interceptions," Ponder said. "We've just got to play better, that's the bottom line. We understand we can't do it again next week (at Chicago)."
The Lions led 27-24 after three quarters. Bell gave them a 20-14 lead with a 1-yard scoring run after a replay review overturned an apparent Bush rushing touchdown, the first of two instances where Bush lost a score on officials' reviews.
"I'd like to throw a shout-out to the big homey Reggie Bush for donating to the Joique Bell Touchdown Club," Bell said. "He got me down to the one and all I had to do was punch it in."
Following Blair Walsh's 52-yard field goal, Stafford dumped a pass over the middle to Bush, who weaved through traffic and went the distance on the 77-yard connection.
Bush suffered a dislocated thumb and pulled his groin during the game, but that didn't slow him down much.
"Our strategy obviously wasn't very effective with what we wanted to do with Bush," Minnesota coach Leslie Frazier said. "We gave up some explosive (plays) to a running back and we've got to do a better job. We did a pretty good job on the back end against a star receiver but they had another guy we have to do a better job on and we didn't."
Peterson's third touchdown, a 4-yard scoring pass from Ponder, cut Detroit's advantage to three. Stafford's 1-yard scoring pass to backup tight end Joseph Fauria with 6:47 remaining made it 34-24. That drive was aided by two Minnesota penalties, including a roughing-the-passer infraction that extended the drive.
Peterson blasted through the middle and outran the defense on his 78-yard score that gave Minnesota a quick lead. His second touchdown, a 4-yarder, came after a 44-yard pass from Ponder to Jerome Simpson.
The Lions pulled within 14-13 on Bell's 2-yard run with six seconds remaining in the half. Bell leaped over the pile and just got over the goal line before the ball was knocked loose.
Notes: Simpson caught seven passes for 140 yards. … Nate Burleson had a team-high six receptions and 78 yards for the Lions. … Minnesota DT Kevin Williams, a five-time All-Pro, missed the game with a knee injury. Detroit RB Mikel Leshoure, who led the team in rushing yards (798) and rushing touchdowns (nine) last season, was inactive. … Stafford is the only Lions quarterback to make an opening-day start in each of the first five seasons of his career. He has reached 300 passing yards in 17 of his last 33 starts. … The Vikings lead the all-time series 68-34-2. Minnesota won both meetings last season.


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Sometimes we wish that there was a magic button we could push — a restart button that would return things to the way they were before an accident. Unfortunately, there isn't one, and many personal injury victims find that their lives are permanently changed.
One thing our legal system does, however, is give financial compensation to personal injury victims. While no amount of money can ever make up for the loss of health, monetary settlements and jury verdicts give personal injury victims the chance to move forward with their lives. Favorable settlements and verdicts often mean that injury victims can get the medical care and accommodations they need to live the most normal and happiest lives possible.


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In December of 2007, Jeff Turner and I — in my Intensive-Coaching Workshop — determined that he needed to lose 25 pounds of fat (you can read the details in the article, Jeff Turner: I Want to Get Lean). Most of Jeff's fat was around his midsection. Approximately three months after beginning his diet, on April 4, 2008, Jeff returned to Orlando and I measured his progress. The results were as follows:
Before body weight: 210.5 pounds After body weight: 186 pounds Weight loss: 24.5 pounds
Before fat percentage: 22.7 After fat percentage: 12.0
Fat loss: 25.5 pounds
Before waist, 2" above navel: 41-1/4" Before waist, navel: 42-3/4" Before waist, 2" below navel: 37"
After waist, 2" above navel: 36-3/4" After waist, navel: 36-7/8" After waist, 2" below navel: 34-3/4"
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2" above navel: 4-1/2" Navel: 5-7/8" 2" below navel: 2-1/4"
From the above measurements, plus the before-and-after photo comparisons, you can see that Jeff lost the most from his navel area. But you can also see a difference in his face, neck, shoulders, and chest.
Going from a body weight of 210.5 pounds to 186 is a reduction of 24.5 pounds. But going from a body-fat percentage of 22.7 to 12.0 translates to a loss of 25.5 pounds of fat — which means Jeff added 1 pound of muscle. Remember, at 47 years of age, Jeff had been strength training and bodybuilding since he was 19. Not losing any of his muscle during the fat-loss process was one of Jeff's goals initially — so he was on-target in that area.
Jeff and I both believe he needs to lose at least 5 more pounds of fat. In fact, that's his new goal — and he wants to accomplish it by his birthday: May 5, 2008.
Thanks to Jeff Turner for doing a nice job of losing 25 pounds of fat, which was our predetermined goal. Granted, he had a few stretches of disappointing days with his eating, but he made up for them by staying on track with his water drinking — and perhaps most importantly, he never missed a workout.
I'm pulling for Jeff to get rid of his remaining subcutaneous fat and to begin enthusiastically the challenge of keeping his lost fat off — PERMANENTLY.
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The longer I am alive, the more it seems that life is
an endless roller coaster of good times and bad.
When it's good, it's so thrilling, we feel as though we may spontaneously combust.
Or, it can be an unexpected, horrific crash; effortlessly breaking, and crippling us.
Most of us plod through, doing the best we know how.
A common thread of being a human, together here on Earth for a very short time.
Another year of time, gone, never to be seen again.
This year has been a tough one, simmering steadily with loss.
As a result, the words, I love you, are perpetually locked & loaded on my lips,
ready to catapult forward with the slightest tug of a heart string.
I do believe that we co-create our lives, whether or not we 'believe' in that sort of thing. We are either conscious or unconscious of it. Being conscious is better.
So direct your thoughts to the positive, because the body is a follower,
and listens to everything the brain has to say.
Carefully choose your words, as they have an energy of their own,
and that energy will draw in more of the same.
Seize joy when it presents itself. Laugh hard.
Take baby steps toward what you want, while feeling any emotion that goes with it,
and the Universe has to respond. It's the Law of Attraction, and it never fails.
When I first started making soap,
I also started this blog, with the best of intentions.
With so many other responsibilities, and life's happenings, it's been spotty at best.
This year, my little snippets of free time have been insidiously sucked into a
vortex of Facebook soaping groups, craft fairs and local markets.
I try to choose carefully where I will be spending my time, and shlepping my heavy product to next. I enjoy the meet and greet part. Speaking with passion about the things I love, has always come easy for me. People seem to like it.
At a recent holiday fair, I met a vendor who has plans to open a turn-of-the century type general store this coming spring. He wants to carry my soap and candles!
The funny thing is, at first appearance, I judged the fair a waste of a Saturday.
Perhaps, he was the only reason I was at that fair?
I'm imagining good things, and I've saved up enough money from sales,
to buy myself a new, double-loaf soap mold.
It's an excellent mold; the Cadillac of soap molds 🙂
If it doesn't happen, well, that's ok, too. Life goes on.
I think that sometimes, when you're right on top of things,
or in the midst of them, it doesn't seem like much is happening.
But baby steps do add up. Baby steps matter.
They lay down the roots that we can't see, and slowly feed growth.
So whatever you're doing, don't be discouraged if you don't have instantaneous success. If you are fortunate enough to do what brings you joy,
you are already successful.
We are in charge of creating our own happiness,
so move in the direction of what moves you, for however long you are given.
Looking Forward To, And Wishing You, A Very Happy New Year!


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Baucus stirs controversy on all sides
It's a tough time to be Max Baucus.
So tough that Baucus might feel like he's been in a train wreck.
Up for reelection next year, the Senate Finance chairman and Montana Democrat is taking heat from all sides after — within the space of a few hours — he slammed the health reform law he helped write and then cast one of only four Democratic votes against universal gun show background checks .
It all began with his widely reported comment to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Wednesday that he sees "a huge train wreck coming down" — meaning the implementation of Obamacare, the law he helped write and shepherded through the Senate.
( Also on POLITICO: Baucus worries about health law 'train wreck')
"His complaints are outrageous and blatantly hypocritical coming from someone who was one the key authors of this 'train wreck' law, which he shoved down the throats of Americans at the last minute," Jenny Beth Martin, national coordinator of Tea Party Patriots, said in a statement.
One commenter on a conservative blog said that if Obamacare is a train wreck, Baucus had been "the engineer driving the train."
A Kansas Republican in the House wrote Baucus on Thursday to welcome him to the anti-Obamacare club — but said his timing was a bit off.
( Also on POLITICO: Baucus has $5M for reelection fight)
"No one in the country bears more responsibility for the complexity of this law than you," wrote Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.).
Baucus was talking about his worries about implementation and public outreach — he didn't repudiate the health law itself.
"There should be no confusion about this. As Sen. Baucus said yesterday, he thinks this is a good law and he's simply holding the administration's feet to the fire to make sure they do their job implementing it correctly and informing people about the benefits that are available to them, which will bolster the efforts of folks working to implement it at the state level," an aide said Thursday.
Still, that's not what got ricocheted around Twitter and the blogosphere. And the perceived negative tone didn't make backers of the health law on the left too happy — and that was before the gun vote.
Baucus defended his vote against universal background checks as a reflection of the will of his constituents in Montana. But advocates were still furious.
"Max Baucus clearly cares more about bullets than bodies of dead children," said Rick Jacobs, founder of the Courage Campaign, which is urging supporters to withhold funds from Democrats who rejected the background checks. "He leads the 'Coward Caucus,' none of whom need come calling with their begging bowls when it's time to raise money."
On guns, Baucus has been through this before. When the Senate passed broader background checks in 1999 — after the Columbine high school killings and with then-Vice President Al Gore casting the deciding vote — Baucus was the only Democrat to vote against it. But the stance didn't derail him with Montana voters.
The "train wreck" comments about health law implementation and public confusion aren't just rippling across the national stage but also roiling Montana's Legislature's debate on Medicaid expansion. The vote was expected to be close and a Democratic sponsor of the expansion legislation said Baucus's remarks could scare off already-reluctant Republicans.
"I'm hoping that the Republicans can sort of understand that maybe Sen. Baucus was having a bad day," said the sponsor, state Sen. David Wanzenried. "They really take literally what he said, and that could have an impact."
Jason Millman contributed to this report.
This article first appeared on POLITICO Pro at 3:56 p.m. on April 18, 2013.


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Editors' note: This review has been updated since its original publication to clarify the difference between the Elgato and SiliconDust versions of the product. See the "two versions" section below for more information.
If powerful, inexpensive consoles such as the PS3 and the Xbox 360 turned the once-popular gaming PC into a niche product, then by comparison a rash of cheap set-top boxes have crushed the need for the already-niche Home Theater PC (HTPC).
Yet, despite the proliferation of Apple TVs and Roku boxes, many people still want to watch TV on their PCs--whether they're hooked up to a separate TV or not. In fact, a recent survey suggests PC users spend an hour and a half a day watching video content on their devices.
If you're serious about using your PC to watch TV, eventually you might want the flexibility of filling its screen with (legal) free, live TV channels from an over-the-air HDTV tuner. While USB tuners like the Elgato Eye-TV Hybrid are available, they can only be used on the PC they're plugged into, and are not mobile-device-friendly. To the rescue comes the HDHomeRun Dual, which offers two tuners and multiple viewing options.
Two versions
Before we get to the details of the product, let's clear up some confusion. The hardware is created and sold by SiliconDust--but it's also licensed and sold by Elgato. Here's a quick cheatsheet:
SiliconDust HDHomeRun Dual: The version sold by SiliconDust includes no software, and is designed to run with Windows Media Center, which is present on nearly all versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7 except the Starter Edition (usually found on netbooks). Retail price is $130, but it can be widely found online for $100. As a result, this version is best for Windows users (and for Linux users, who can use MythTV).
Elgato HDHomeRun: In addition to the exact same SiliconDust hardware listed above, the Elgato version of the product includes the EyeTV software for Macs. The Elgato retails for $180, but can be found for as little as $150. Because it includes the EyeTV software ($80 value), it's the best choice for Mac users--including those who want to stream live video to their iPad or iPhone via the EyeTV app.
With that out of the way, let's talk about the product itself.
Design and features
The HDHomeRun Dual is a twin tuner box that connects to your home network and can serve over-the-air TV to your PC, Mac or mobile device while in the home.


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Below are the confirmed and scheduled talks at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 (schedule subject to change).
Create your own Web 2.0 Summit schedule using the personal scheduler function. Mark the sessions, keynotes, and events you want to attend by clicking on the calendar icon next to each listing. Then click on "personal schedule" below and get your own customized schedule generated.
Reach business leaders and technology influencers at the Web 2.0 Summit. Call Kristen Nicasio at (415) 947-6283 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
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Denny L. Nester
City Auditor
On June 14, 2011, Denny L. Nester assumed the role and responsibilities of the City Auditor for the City of Colorado Springs. Denny has been employed by the City Auditor since April 2000. He had previously served the citizens of Colorado Springs as the Interim City Auditor and Assistant City Auditor. Prior to his relocation to Colorado Springs, Denny was a Senior Auditor for the City of Chesapeake, Virginia, where he had also worked as a Utilities Accounting Supervisor and Revenue Analyst. He had also worked as the Vice President and Controller for a small HVAC company in Suffolk, Virginia before beginning his public service career.
Denny Nester earned his MBA from Purdue University's Krannert Graduate School of Management in 1983. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Certified Internal Auditor. Denny also holds designations as a Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and Certified Government Audit Professional (CGAP).
Denny is active in local professional associations. He has served as President and on the Board of Governors for the Colorado Springs Chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors. He has also served on the Board of the local chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. Denny Nester is active in several national professional associations. Denny was on the Board of Directors for the Association of Local Government Auditors (ALGA), where he was the liaison for the Long Term Conference Planning Committee and Awards Committee. He is also a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) and the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA). Denny is the father of three children. He has one granddaughter and one grandson.
He enjoys his involvement with the music program at the GrandView Community Church. Denny also enjoys lure coursing and showing his Ibizan Hounds.


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Hunter cuts ties between family and players' union after charges of nepotism
Billy Hunter has drawn scrutiny for the NBPA's business practices. (Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)
By Ben Golliver
Billy Hunter has pledged to continue his work with the National Basketball Players Association after an internal investigation that questioned his practices as executive director, but his family members won't be joining him.
Bloomberg.com reported Tuesday that Hunter has cut ties between the players' union and his daughter, daughter-in-law and son, who each received union funds directly or indirectly.
The New York-based union paid almost $4.8 million to Hunter's family members and their professional firms since 2001, according to public records. Hunter makes $3 million a year as union chief.
"Hopefully this decision will alleviate any concerns raised by their employment," Hunter wrote in the letter. "These measures are being taken although the report noted that both of them were highly qualified, not overpaid, and were contributing members of the NBPA staff."
Robyn Hunter, the director's daughter, ceased working at the union on Jan. 25, according to the letter. Megan Inaba, his daughter-in-law and director of special events and sponsorships, will leave on Feb. 17 after the National Basketball Association's All-Star weekend.
Hunter, 70, also secured a letter of resignation from Prim Capital, which employs his son, Todd.
An internal investigation by the Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison law firm produced a lengthy report that called into question the presence of Hunter's family members on the NBPA's payroll, the legality of Hunter's contract, potential conflicts of interest and the possible misuse of NBPA funds.
"The facts do not show that ... Hunter engaged in criminal acts involving embezzlement or theft of Union funds," the report's summary stated. "Nevertheless, in our judgment, the facts do show that, at times, Mr. Hunter's actions were inconsistent with his fiduciary obligations to put the interests of the Union above his personal interests."
Hunter has drawn criticism from players and agents alike since the investigation's report was released publicly.
On Tuesday, TheNew York Times published a letter from super-agent Arn Tellem to one of his clients, advising that Hunter be terminated as executive director and that he be barred from All-Star Weekend meetings. Among Tellem's complaints: that Hunter "abused his position by hiring family members and by conducting business with friends and family that enriched his cronies."
You need a strong union to represent you, to protect your rights and to prepare for the next round of labor negotiations in five years. I urge you to ask your player representatives to instruct Mr. Hunter not to attend the players meeting during the All-Star Game so that he cannot continue to intimidate and manipulate. In fact, no union employee should be allowed to attend the event. This would ensure that the independent law firm can present its findings directly to the players and answer their questions. Players should meet the investigators with no outsiders present. Otherwise, players could be pressured while discussing and making recommendations about Mr. Hunter's future.
I implore you to hold Mr. Hunter accountable for his egregious behavior. The union belongs to the players. Mr. Hunter works for you, though he clearly doesn't realize it. If you don't act now, Mr. Hunter's treachery will stand and the players' ability to point their union in the right direction will be delayed and compromised to your continued detriment.
Earlier this month, Nets guard Deron Williams told CBSSports.com that he believes it's time for Hunter to go.
"I think change is needed, top to bottom," Nets star Deron Williams told CBSSports.com on Friday night, becoming the league's first high-profile player to call for Hunter's ouster as executive director of the National Basketball Players Association.
"I don't think things were getting voted on like they should have been," Williams said. "... I'm sure there's guys that are still with Billy, and some guys that aren't. We've just got to figure out what the next step is."


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Rockets fired from a US drone killed between eight and 15 people in north-west Pakistan on Monday, officials have said in varying accounts. It is the third strike in as many days after attacks on Saturday and Sunday killed a total of 12 people.
The latest strike targeted a militant hideout in the Hesokhel village of the North Waziristan tribal region, officials said.
US drones hit targets in the South Waziristan tribal region on Saturday and Sunday. There have been a total of seven strikes in less than two weeks.
The US and Pakistan are deadlocked in difficult negotiations for the reopening of overland supply routes to Nato forces in Afghanistan. No breakthrough is in sight.
Islamabad blocked the routes in November 2011 after 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed by cross-border "friendly fire" from Nato aircraft. To reopen the roads Islamabad wants an apology and an end to drone strikes but the US president, Barack Obama, is taking a hardline stand.
The latest attack followed closely on the heels of another drone strike on Sunday that killed 10 suspected militants. Two Pakistani intelligence officials said in that attack, four missiles were fired at targets in the village of Mana Raghzai in South Waziristan near the border with Afghanistan.
At the time of the attack, suspected militants were gathered to offer condolences to the brother of a militant commander killed during another drone strike on Saturday. The brother was one of those who died in the Sunday morning strike.
On Sunday, gunmen killed four Shia minority Muslims, a police officer and a bystander in a busy market of south-western Pakistani city of Quetta, said police officer Abdul Wahid, who added that the killings had a sectarian motive.


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A nice part of my work is that I get to drive all around Cornwall and I have spotted at least one green Favorit Estate, a Silver line Favorit hatchback, two pick ups, a nice yellow Fun and one rear engine S110. Would anyone be interested in a meeting with a view to forming a local Skoda club perhaps ? or just a the occasional noggin and natter.
I know a suggestion was made on the other forum and that a date / time / place was arranged for St Austell, but reading the thread a few people said yes but no one turned up. (I use to be apathetic but now I just can't be bothered).
This was before I bought my car and the thread is quite old and for all I know a bouncing Skoda club is active in Cornwall, if so I apologise I am not trying to split anyone up and would like to know where, when, they meet. Cornwall is a great place but most car shows take place up country and getting out of Cornwall during the summer months is an A30 ordeal best left alone.


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The bedfellows politics makes are never strange; it only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. In Richard Nixon's case, notwithstanding his presence in national politics for the last twenty-five years, those courtships have remained remarkably unexamined—or, when examined, remarkably misunderstood—and as a result the bedfellows he has acquired have remained unusually obscure both to the public and to the political pundits who are supposed to conjure with such things. Certain obvious relationships, to be sure, have been given attention—the back-scratching of Nixon and his old friend and Pepsico chairman Donald Kendall, for example,1 the latest evidence of which is Washington's gift of the Soviet soft-drink franchise to Pepsi-Cola. But the wider pattern of his associations, the character of his power base, remains essentially obscure. This seems particularly dangerous in view of the evidence that these people will be influential in American government not only for the next four years but for the foreseeable future.
The Nixonian bedfellows, the people whose creed the President expresses and whose interests he guards, are, to generalize, the economic sovereigns of America's Southern rim, the "sunbelt" that runs from Southern California, through Arizona and Texas, down to the Florida keys. They are for the most part new-money people, without the family fortunes and backgrounds of Eastern wealth (Rockefellers, DuPonts, etc.), people whose fortunes have been made only in the postwar decades, mostly in new industries such as aerospace and defense contracting, in oil, natural gas, and allied businesses, usually domestic rather than international, and in real-estate operations during the postwar sunbelt population boom.
They are "self-made" men and women, in the sense that they did not generally inherit great riches (though of course in another sense they are government-made, depending, as in oil and aerospace, on large favors from Washington, but they hardly like to think of it that way), and they tend to a notable degree to be politically conservative, even retrograde, usually anti-union, antiblack, anticonsumer, and antiregulation, and quite often associated with professional "anti-communist" organizations. Whether because of the newness of their position, their frontier heritage, or their lack of old-school ties, they tend to be without particular concerns about the niceties of business ethics and morals, and therefore to be connected more than earlier money would have thought wise with shady speculations, political influence-peddling, corrupt unions, and even organized crime.
The political ascendancy of these Southern-rim people—those whom Carl Oglesby once called "the cowboys," as distinct from "the yankees" of old Eastern money—has taken place coincidentally with their economic growth in the last generation. Their power on a state level was solidified a decade or so ago, and they made certain inroads to national influence with Johnson's assumption of the presidency in 1963.2 But it was not until the election of Richard Nixon in 1968—and even more now during a second term…
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Rain forces MMSD to dump raw sewage, rain water into area rivers
The rain this week has forced the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District to dump raw sewage mixed with rainwater into local rivers and on to Lake Michigan.
It's the first overflow of the deep tunnel in nearly two years.
The flow of the Kinnickinnic River, which is often not much more than a trickle at parts, has been aided by the release of millions of gallons of untreated water from the deep tunnel, which simply can't hold all of the rain this week.
It was a calculated decision by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District when the 432-million-gallon deep tunnel filled up.
MMSD Director Kevin Shafer called it a tough but necessary decision.
"If it continues raining as hard as that was, it fills up the tunnel very quickly. So, it's a bathtub. It only holds so much water, and when it fills up, you just have to send the water somewhere," Shafer said.
MMSD said it is necessary or all of sewage would be bubbling up in people's basements, instead.
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Sewage in basements, he said, would cause an even greater health hazard, which is something neighbors here seem to agree with.
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Shafer told WISN 12 News if the rains overnight and into Thursday force continued overflows, it would still be considered one event.
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BECAUSE OF THE CONTINUED SLANDER OF RALPH NADER by Democrats in deep denial, we went back and looked at the actual poll results in the last months of the 2000 campaign. The chart above shows the change in the average poll percentage from month to month. You will note that except between July and August during a period of minimal change, there was no correlation between Bush's percentage change and that of Nader. From the Progressive Review 's Undernews July 2002
A STUDY by the Progressive Review of national and Florida polls during the 2000 election indicates that Ralph Nader's influence on the final results was minimal to non-existent.
The Review tested the widely held Democratic assumption that Nader caused Gore's loss by checking changes in poll results. Presumably, if Nader was actually responsible for Gore's troubles, his tallies would change inversely to those of Gore: if Gore did better, Nader would do worse and vice versa.
In fact, the only time any correlation could be found was when the changes were so small – 1 or 2 percentage points – that they were statistically insignificant. On the other hand when, in September of 2000, Gore's average poll result went up 7.5 points over August, Nader's only declined by 1 point. Similarly, in November, Gore's average poll tally declined 5.7 points but Nader's only went up 0.8 points.
In the close Florida race, there were similar results: statistically insignificant correlation when the Gore tally changed by only one or two points, but dramatic non-correlation when the change was bigger. For example, in nine successive surveys in which Nader pulled only 2 or 3 points, Gore's total varied by 7 points. As late as two weeks before the election, Gore was ahead by as much as 7-10 points.
Nationally, the Review's five poll moving average showed Gore steadily hacking away at Bush's 15 point lead until he was ahead by as much six points in September. But this lead rapidly disappeared until Bush was back in a narrow lead by early October. While Gore eventually won the popular vote, the election was so close that most polls projections were still within the standard margin of error.
During almost all of 2000, Bush led Gore with the major acception of a month-long period following the Democratic convention. During this high point for Gore, Nader was pulling a running average of 2-4% in the polls. While it is true that during October, Nader began pulling a running average of 6% at a time when Gore was fading, Gore continued to lose ground even as Nader's support dropped to its final 3%. In other words, despite the help of defectors from Nader, Gore did worse.
Further, as Michael Eisencher reported in Z Magazine, 20% of all Democratic voters, 12% of all self- identified liberal voters, 39% of all women voters, 44% of all seniors, one-third of all voters earning under $20,000 per year and 42% of those earning $20-30,000 annually, and 31% of all voting union members cast their ballots for Bush.
(Interestingly, the same critics who blame Nader for Gore's loss fail to give him credit for narrow Democratic victories in the Senate, such as the one in Washington state.)
Since the mythology of the 2000 election shows no signs of fading, a few other points are worth noting:
– According to exit polling, those who voted for Nader were disproportionately under 30, independent, first time voters, formerly Perot voters, and of no organized religion. In other words, many of his voters did not naturally belong to the Democratic party. In fact, half as many Republicans as Democrats voted for Nader. Six percent of independents and 7% of Perot voters supported Nader while only 2% of Democrats did.
– The public had a cynical view of both major candidates with 41% believing that both would say anything to win votes. Barely half considered either major candidate honest and trustworthy. And an astounding 51% had reservations about their own vote.
– Gore even lost his home state of Tennessee. This is like flunking a political breathalizer test.
– Perhaps the most important, but seldom mentioned, factor in the outcome was the impact of the Clinton scandals. 68% of voters thought Clinton would go down in history more for his scandals than for his leadership. 44% said that the scandals were somewhat to very important and 57% thought the country to be on the wrong moral track.
– In short, the individual who did the most harm to Gore (aside from himself) was Bill Clinton. If Gore had distanced himself from the Clinton moral miasma he would probably be president today.
– Clinton hurt in other ways, most notably in the damage his administration did to other Democratic officeholders, again something Democrats don't want to face. During the Clinton administration, Democrats lost over 1,200 state legislative seats. Further, the Democrats lost control of 9 legislatures and for the first time since 1954 the GOP controlled more state legislatures than the Democrats. In addition, the GOP won 45 seats in the House, 7 in the Senate, 11 governorships and 439 Democratic officeholders switched to the Democratic Party. Only three Republicans went the other way. In short, the Clinton administration was a disaster for the Democrats.
But even if Nader only took one percentage point away from Gore – the most that can possibly be claimed – some will say that the Greens should have known better than to take that risk. In a way, it comes down to a debate between Democratic situationists – I am what the polls tell me I ought to be – and Green existentialists – I am what I am regardless of the polls. The danger with the Green existentialist approach is that you may end up with a Bush (or a Clinton, for that matter) in the White House. The danger with the Democratic situationist approach is that you definitely will. In one case, you give up on democracy in favor of a 800-pound-gorillacracy; in the other case you still retain some hope that things can get better.
Ironically, if Nader had done much better – say 10 or 15 points – we would all be in better shape since politics tends to follow third party uprisings when they are powerful enough. In the most recent case, for example, both the GOP and Democratic parties still remain in the shadow of the Perot paradigm. But because Nader didn't do all that well, the Democrats can muddle along pretending that it wasn't their fault after all but some guy they wouldn't even let into the debate.
Democrats tend to think of Greens as wayward members of their party, which is why they try to browbeat them rather than convincing them. In fact, the Greens have less and less in common with the Democratic Party – especially since the latter refuses to stand up against the Bush war, greedy globalization, and the disintegration of constitutional government.
There are fortunately exceptions – Cynthia McKinney, Barbara Lee, and Chellie Pingree (who is running for the Senate in Maine) among them. If Paul Wellstone, for example, had followed the sensible model of these women he'd be more comfortable today.
But too many Democrats presume they can either ignore the Greens or hector them back into their pointless, spiritless, and morally dead confines. It won't work for the simple reason that, unlike the Democratic Party, Greens actually believe in something. And when you believe in something, you are willing to take a few risks along the way. – SAM SMITH
KEVIN ZEESE, LETTER TO WASH POST – George Will repeats the liberal myth that Ralph Nader — rather than George W. Bush — cost Al Gore the 2000 election. The facts show otherwise:
o Sixty-two percent of Nader's voters were Republicans, independents, third-party voters and nonvoters.
o Had Nader not run, Bush would have won by more in Florida. CNN's exit poll showed Bush at 49 percent and Gore at 47 percent, with 2 percent not voting in a hypothetical Nader-less Florida race.
o Gore lost his home state of Tennessee, Bill Clinton's Arkansas and traditionally Democratic West Virginia; with any one of these, Gore would have won.
o Nine million Democrats voted for Bush, and less than half of the 3 million Nader voters were Democrats.
o Ninety thousand African Americans were illegally and intentionally stricken from the voter rolls in Florida under the guise of felon disenfranchisement.
o The 5 to 4 Supreme Court decision stopped the vote counting that favored a Gore victory.
EMILY PRZEKWAS – More than 200,000 registered Democrats in Florida voted for George Bush and over half of the registered Democrats there did not vote at all.
Every one of the eight third-party presidential candidates in Florida received more than the 543 votes cited as the deciding factor in the election.
On some discarded ballots, voters both filled in the bubble for their candidate and wrote the candidate's name in the write-in-space. If these had been included in the count, Gore would have had a net gain of 662 votes, enough to win the election.
In the highly Democratic county of Palm Beach, an abnormally large number of votes were cast for the conservative candidate Pat Buchanan. Buchanan himself estimated that as many as 95% of these 3,500 votes were Gore's because of the faulty "butterfly" ballot. [6]
According to exit polls, over half of the Nader voters would have stayed home, 25% would have voted for Gore, and 15% would have voted for Bush. The rest would have voted for another third party candidate.


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UB Conquense 1-2 Racing Santander B (04:04:10)
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If I was to live in Spain on a permanent basis at my in-laws, then UB Conquense would be my local team. They play in the town of Cuenca, an hour away from my Spanish HQ in the village of Salinas del Manzana, Castilla-La Mancha. Evidently, supporting your local team isn't all the rage in Spain. Two thirds of its football fans support either Real Madrid or Barcelona and judging by the press coverage out there, it's as if no other teams exist.
Money is too tight to mention here as well. The recession has left both the clubs and the fans skint. Watch a round up of any Spanish football games and more often than not, they're played out against a backdrop of a half empty stadium. Only the very committed or mad go out to watch Third Division football here nowadays. I fall into both of those categories. I say Third Division, it's actually called the Segunda Division B, Group 2. A regional-ish Div 3 which is split into four groups.
Cuenca is famous for its culture, natural beauty, free tapas and wild fiestas. I like it so much I chose to get married here in 2005. The football team must be one of the remotest in Spain. A "local derby" for UB Conquense would mean a 330km round trip to Rayo Vallecano to the west or a 550km return to CD Castellon to the east. Locals are convinced referees conspire against them as they have to travel so far to officiate in their matches.
After a couple of days in Madrid, my wife and I travelled to this match by coach. Unless your route is covered by the AVE train (fast but expensive), coaches are the best way to negotiate Spain. That is if you can put up with the constant 80's tunes that get pumped out on the radio. If you thought you'd heard the last of Glenn Medeiros then think again. Nothing is going to change my indifference to him.
Calle de San Francisco seemed as good a place as any to kick off our pre match duties, what with it having 9 (nine!) bars in a row and all. Just round the corner from there on Calle Alfrerez is the El Quinto Pecado (The Fifth Sin). Presumably named as such due to the fact they were showing the Grand Prix live on the telly rather than the huge plate of paella they served us up for free with our cold beers. Talking of tapas, our next port of call - La Bodeguilla on Calle Fray Luis de Leon - has the best free tapas in town. A plate of quails eggs, jamon, salad and a couple of glasses of Consomé anyone?
With beer and food like that on offer in town, it was no surprise that only 900 of us made our way to the match. After paying 10 Euro to get in and walking past the UB Conquense Megastore, we meet up with a couple of friends in the clubhouse. 1 Euro a beer in there as well. Supporting your local club isn't so bad is it? Bizarrely, handball is more popular in Cuenca than football. A crowd of 1,900 had pitched up the night before to see those guys in action.
Give us our ball back.
Onto the match and the first thing to note was that 2 (two) away fans had bothered to turn up. In fairness to them they sang their hearts out for the first twenty minutes. A couple of passionate lunatics they may have been but good value all the same. The local Conquense ultras numbered around 30. They didn't have too many songs but then you try shoe-horning Union Balompedica Conquense into a little terrace ditty. I sat with them for a bit during the second half. The guy with the microphone was more interested in cracking funnies than starting songs.
Within three minutes of the start, the home side had been reduced to 10 men and had a penalty awarded against them. Those conspiracy theories I'd heard beforehand weren't too far removed from the truth. Raul (of course Raul) scored from the spot and within 180 seconds I'd learnt myself a whole host of new Spanish swear words and insults. The two away fans weren't bothered though. Best day of their lives.
Back in the bar at half time, the locals were busy taking the piss out each other and cracking funnies at every opportunity. I love football at this level. Nobody takes anything too seriously and having a few laughs is deemed more important than securing three points. With our half time raffle for a leg of ham unsuccessful, we ordered a couple more beers and some cheese and headed back out for the second half to pay fromage to our heroes. Actually, cheese = queso in Spanish but why let language get in the way of a good gag?
Within 60 seconds a catastrophic defensive error in defence allowed Raul to score his second for Racing. Am I allowed to say that the Spanish defenders got caught napping in the mid afternoon sun? We (I was now a fully fledged local) did manage to pull one goal back but the referee assured us that was all we were allowed as he'd had to travel from Valencia for this match and was non too plussed.
Bob Dylan had played a gig at this stadium a couple of years previous to rave reviews. The locals had turned out for that one in force. My cousins, who were going to join me for this game, chose instead to take advantage of the first day of the fishing season. It takes a lot these days to get Spaniards into a football stadium for a game that doesn't involve Real Madrid or Barca. Support your local team? Quizas, quizas, quizas......
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Ron's Hydroponics Bottle Garden
Let's begin where I began several years ago with this style of EBB & FLOW hydroponics garden. I wanted a garden that was small, medical marijuana legal, easy to maintain and a system I understood exactly how it works. There's dozens of designs out there, this probably won't appeal to everybody looking for free hydroponics plans, but for small entry-level hydroponics this is a forgiving system to learn on. You can click all pictures to make them bigger.
I learned about the bottle gardens from this web page:
from that main page take a look at the link "how to build Hydro Ron's 11 plant garden". Click on the JPEG link and enjoy a nice slide show type presentation even though you have to use your back button to navigate the entire show. There is even an interactive page where you can design your own garden at the "design a garden" link
This guy has some clever design ideas, one that really catches a new growers eye is this little 4 plant garden that wouldn't be too hard to copy if you liked that design and his $100 price tag is reasonable if you have money in pay pal. Check it out here and see what design ideas for growing Mary Jane you can come up with. Combine the ideas you get off Ron's pages with the proven techniques we've used to convert the design a for growing marijuana and you'll have a problem free garden that lasts grow after grow. If you are presently growing in soil and wonder about converting over to hydroponics we'll provide the basic info for those on that path as well. CLICK ALL PICTURES TO ENLARGE.
Small plants always look neat and tidy and the gardener has a chance to dial stuff in before things are less manageable
Medium sized plants can still yield over an oz.
Large plants can yield almost 1/4 pound
Is Hydroponics really for me?
YES! Growing marijuana with free hydroponics plans has been proven to produce plants faster with increased yields. Here is a short overview of hydroponics, it's very brief but there are other more specific resources at
Understanding the Ebb and Flow
The garden can sit directly on the top of the reservoir tub but it's easier to maintain if it's slightly above the reservoir. 2 standpipe overflow pipes should feedback to the reservoir and when flooding will aerate the reservoir when it drains back. This is all the aeration that's required because as the flood recedes the water lowering in the bottle act like a syringe drawing air back into the root zone.
Pumps and Equipment
Pumps are rated by how much they pump per minute or hour and how high they can pump. Expect a $20 pump to pump 1 gallon a minute to a height of 2 or 3 feet or nearly a meter. Most pump outlets are 1/2" like the PVC pipe so just use vinyl tubing to connect them to your garden at a T with hose clamps. I recommend one garden under HPS light and a part time garden under flours during rooting and the first weeks of vegetive growth. You want the gardens away from each other because if you purchase clones from a medical marijuana dispensary you need to quarantine them as they root. All new plants should be treated as if they are infected with powder mildew and sprayed with sulfur and serenade.
They call them 2 part mixes but most involve up to 4 parts as the growing stages progress. One major supplier offers the nutrients or 'nutes' I use in an intro pack for $17.95 at these are the BC nutrient line. Their nutes are PH buffered and easier for new gardeners
Advance Nutrients knows more than anyone about growing marijuana so check them out here they have a wealth of info.
I don't have fancy PPM meters or even a PH meter I use a $5 liquid reagent PH drop kit and I match the color of the sample to the color of another common household item Listerine. City water runs the PH 8 or 9 which is blue or green on the color scale. Yellow is PH 6 which is close enough. Tweak it a bit more with a bit more PH down to 5.8 or the color of Listerine. Go to far with the PH down and your sample will be orange or red, no good, start over. Plants needs change and you add more fertilizer as plants get bigger. Adding fertilizer generally lowers PH. Grow rock (hydroton) normally has a PH of about 8 when new, so soak your hydroton in PH adjusted water for a few days before using.
Tools and Safety:
Safety First
Since this is a hydroponics grow, there is no doubt that you need a Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI). Likewise, any place where it is likely or possible that someone may be standing in a puddle of water and will come in contact with a plugged in electrical device needs a GFCI.
Wire your plug in strips just outside the grow area and up off the floor. Away from the grow so the LED's on the power strip don't interfere with the plants dark cycle (important!) and off the floor in case of flood. It's possible to pull a plant out of this garden for just a minute and have the flood cycle hit pumping all the nutrient solution on the floor while your back is turned so always unplug the pump and isolate all sources of power before performing any maintenance operations. A shock from a plugged in device can be lethal, take all possible precautions.
Use only HPS or Fluorescence light as they are safer than Metal Halide. Always use a glass cover with your light hood and always have a smoke detector inside the grow.
You don't need a lot of tools to build or maintain the garden. Buy a good pvc pipe cutter that leaves a razor cut so that pieces slide together easily making design and testing a snap. You'll need a drill to make the holes through the top of the Rubbermaid reservoir lid so the overflow return pipes can dump back into the reservoir. Avoid letting the drill's plastic waste get back into the reservoir system. You will also need a hole for the pump feed tubing and one for the pump's electrical cord. A screwdriver is needed for the hose clamps for the pump install and the bottle assembly. A dremel tool can enhance the look of the finished product on top of the lid but it's optional. 1/2" inside diameter vinyl tubing most likely is all the hose you need to make the pump to garden connection and perhaps make return overflows more flexible. You also need hose to pump the garden's nutrient solution out into a bucket and those fittings are from the simple parts noted further below
Converting the design for medical marijuana
In case you didn't't get it this garden is built from PVC pipes and fittings and utilizes 2 liter soda bottles for each plant location. So my first suggestion is when you make your garden cut the 2-liter bottles so they are as big as possible. Marijuana is known to make huge root balls for huge plants. Many systems use 3 to 5 gallon containers, this uses just 2 liters so make sure you at least get the whole 2 liters. The photos at Ron's shows the bottles cut in half, and that's no good for Mary Jane. More on this later.
Another issue I have is the way his bottles tap into each location. There is a more secure way than using the old bottle lids with a few parts in the PVC section of home depot, which you'll be getting to know a lot about if you're considering this.
Make 2 gardens, and if your plant limit is 12 make each garden hold 8 plants. This sounds somewhat shady but a mistake I made was building this for exactly 6 plants which is ½ the limit only to find out I had no additional taps to FILL and DRAIN the system. You'll want extra bottles and extra tap plugs when you build it. You'll use the extras for maintenance and light poles. Another mistake I made was using ½†PVC pipe when you can get the same sized headers in 1†PVC as well. I made 2 over flow stand pipes on my design to compensate this, that's not a bad idea anyway.
This is also a garden that's ideal for this article 'Stealth Closet Cabinet Tutorial'
Parts list and approximate costs per 8-location garden
Most DIY home improvement centers are one-stop sources:
Home Depot (home de pot), Lowe's, Ace Hardware, etc all carry a complete line of PVC fittings in the plumbing isles. You can get everything in one stop at Home De Pot except maybe the bottles.
Qty 8 Desc 2-litre soda bottles 10 for $10 on sale
10 feet ½†PVC pipe under $2
10 feet 1†PVC pipe under $3
PVC Glue and Primer $5-$7
PVC pipe cutter $10-$12 (a good cutter is worth the price)
Qty 10 hose clamps (one for each bottle – 2 for the pump hose) .79 cents each
5 Pipe to pipe-to-pipe T .79 cents each
5 pipe to female header to pipe T .79 cents each
10 male headers (male adapters) for bottles and drain and fill connects and plugs $.79 each
4 corners with female header $.79 each
3 'Plugs' to insert into males headers for when you're not doing maintenance
5 Elbows for overflow standpipes .79 cents each
1 GFCI system for electrical shock and smoke detector $48
Vinyl Hose to connect the pump to the Garden sold in pre-cut lengths $12 I use ½†inside diameter hose
Vinyl Window Screen material for bottom of bottles, smallest amount is $10
Submersible pump like a garden fountain pump you can plug into the wall and throw into water $22
Building the bottles
To build the bottles you'll need 8 male adapters and 8 short pieces of PVC pipe (2") and of course 8 bottles. Clean the bottles pretty good except don't take the label off of them. The label will makes the bottles more opaque and we'll be painting the bottles later so our root zone is in total darkness, even under bright lights. Cut the bottom off the bottle so it retains it's original size. When you lay out the pieces you'll notice the 1/2" PVC pipe fits into the top of the Male adapter and the neck of the bottle equally well and this is the basis of the design. Use a piece of pipe that's about 2" long that seat's fully on the male adapter and goes to the end of the bottle's neck. This is pretty easy, use PVC primer and glue on the connections on both ends of the PVC pipe. The bottle end will get primer and glue and a hose clamp over the area that used to be the screws for the bottle cap.
After you have that set up you can glue a 2"x2" piece of vinyl screen over the bottle neck hole so all grow rocks and hydroton are kept in the bottles. Roots will grow right through the screen, I often roll up some screen and put in the neck as well. Roots tend to grow right through and into the plumbing and your garden should be checked for roots plugging the bottle necks every month or so. I normally trim roots the week before I flower them, after their vegetive growth is about finished. I've found no other root trimming is needed.
Once the assembly is dried I buy super cheap spray paint, a can of black for opaque undercoating and then a coat of white so they reflect light on the outside. Use skeleton pieces of the garden to hold the bottles while painting and drying between coates. In some of these pictures the bottles are covered with thick paper around the outside to further reduce light emitting into the root zone. Remember roots don't like light.
Design on the fly to meet your needs
The garden uses the style of pipe used in residential plumbing and is very reliable and easy to fit. With the proper cutter and some planning you can create designs on the fly and pretest the entire design without gluing anything. I have overflow pipes in my garden that are adjustable and have never been glued and have lasted several grows. After you have pre-tested your design you should glue it together. When you begin you don't really know your needs for your space and environment. People in wheelchairs for instance may design in special considerations to make changing the oil an easier one-person job.
As far as saying cut 12 pipes this length and make 2 half's then glue it all together I think it's better to turn you lose with this adult style 'Lego Set'. If you screw up and you have a good set of pipe cutters you can insert missing items or make small additions or design changes. Get the basic garden up and tested and use what you learn as you go.
Changing the oil:
You should change the nutrient solution every week, or every 2 weeks but never longer than 2 weeks. You should mix fresh solution and check the PH. I flush for one day with plenty of fresh PH'd water between nutrient changes, it doubles the work but prevents salt build ups. Pump the old solution into a bucket using a tap you make for the purpose. Never dump your old nutrient solution down a drain or public sewer. Always dump it on outside plants instead. Unplug the pump and sources of power for nearby fans, Work safely.
Root Bound:
You will need to trim some roots and open some blocked bottle necks, normally just once per grow will suffice. The roots can take up the whole area but plants vegged 3 or 4 weeks shouldn't be a problem as far as getting severely root bound and all may plants seems to finish okay, even the moms that were in bottles for months.
I had some clones brought in from a medical dispensary that were infected with powder mildew. Since then I set up the 2 garden approach and keep them away from the flowering chamber under quarantine. I use sulfur, Neem Oil and Serenade. Neem and sulfur don't mix, use them several weeks apart. Serenade is beneficial bacteria you can spray on all the time but smells like pig vomit. So I do spray it around the plant base and inside the reservoir tank a bit too, it's good bacteria that eats bad bacteria for breakfast.
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Apple has just walked home with six new patents, one of which details an iPod shuffle-like remote control. The image may not tell us much, but a reverse side clip is clearly visible, as is some form of circular control, which could be a scroll wheel or four way control pad. The iPhone comes with a basic in-line remote; could this be a more sophisticated offering? The other four patents described the following. Update: These products do not seem to be bringing anything new. The lanyard looks to be an iPod nano peripheral; both iPod shuffle iterations indicate the current model, and the remote has a striking similarity to the current iPod remote control, with integrated FM radio. The image technology may still be a note worthy patent acquisition.
A lanyard design, two iPod shuffle variations and a technology that allows production of smooth motion compensated frames by combining multiple interpolation results. Information is scant beyond that, but we do know the remote control patent was filed back in March 2007, and has just now been cleared. Bearing that in mind, the idea may have made it to the scrap heap, but we shall watch this space nonetheless. [ipodnn via Mactropolis]


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A friend recently posted on Facebook an observation that several friends had "Liked" a posting relating to the case of the war veteran who went missing from his Hove care home in order to attend the D-Day celebrations. What concerned my friend wasn't the underlying story; it was that that the posting in question had been placed by an organisation which is an offshoot of the BNP. No, I'm not going to add to their publicity by naming it, but you can find some discussion by following the Costa Connected link below.
My friend has a strong antipathy to the message of spurious British-ness, not least because of having a marriage partner whose family were recent immigrants – from what used to be referred to with pride as a Commonwealth country. Having lived in east London for over twenty years, and enjoyed the variety and splendour of a multi-cultural society, so do I. But that's not the point of this post.
The point is one I've made before: when one assesses a piece of content, especially online, be careful. Especially especially [read that carefully, it's not a mistake] if one proposes to share or Like it. It's important in serious or academic reporting, which is why ITasITis postings always look behind the news reports. Media often do little more than repeat the press release, or they contain unintentional inaccuracies. Go back to the original source, look for other independent reports of the work.
But this highlights that it's equally important in the easy world of social media.
It's so easy to Like a Facebook posting, especially now that FB drops a lot of things into your stream that have nothing to do with your friends. It's easy to re-tweet something without really looking. But the organisation that made the initial post, in this case, gets to count those Likes and give itself an air of unwanted respectability.
Oh and incidentally: the media reports were way over hyped. It was made out that Bernard Jordan had had to "escape" from his care home. Yes, there are people who are diagnosed as EMI (Elderly and Mentally Incompetent) who have to be protected by not being told the code for the door to the outside world. But not in this case. What actually went on was that Mr Jordan was too late to join any of the organised travel parties. So he decided to make his own way. He simply forgot to tell the home he was going and, quite rightly, they got worried when they realised he'd disappeared. Thanks to media (social and conventional) he was quickly located, but there was no suggestion that he wasn't then safe. BBC reporting, especially locally here, was more balanced: see the links. Escapade, yes: escape, no. Another case of going behind the high-profile headlines.
But to return to the main theme: Look carefully at what you're Liking, and equally carefully at who.
• What It Really Means When You Like or Share Content from [name deleted], Costa Connected, 7 Jun 2014 (thanks to my Facebook friend for this link)
• Disappeared D-Day veteran back in UK, BBC News, 7 Jun 2014, featuring an interview with the Chief Exec of the care home
• Bernard Jordan: City honour for veteran's 'heroic escapade', BBC News Sussex, 10 Jun 2014


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