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For vehicle owners who have had their airbags serviced during the past three years at repair facilities other than new car dealerships, the Obama Administration suggests taking their cars to have their airbags inspected to be certain they are safe. This is termed an "extreme safety risk" as some airbags are failing to deploy and in some cases exploding on deployment with flying debris and shrapnel. Please read this article from the Asssociate Press dated October 9, 2012.
By JOAN LOWY, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of motorists may be driving cars and trucks installed with dangerous counterfeit bags and they should have them replaced at their own expense, the Obama administration warned Wednesday.
Most at risk are motorists who have had their airbags replaced over the past three years by a repair shop other than a new car dealership, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration officials said.
Only 0.1 percent of the U.S. vehicle fleet — about 250,000 cars on the road — are makes and models for which counterfeit airbags are known to be available, NHTSA said. Auto industry officials briefed by the agency said they were told that tens of thousands of car owners may be driving vehicles with counterfeit airbags.
In government tests last month of 11 counterfeit bags, 10 didn't inflate or failed to inflate properly. In one test, a counterfeit bag shot flames and shards of metal shrapnel at a crash dummy instead of inflating, said NHTSA Administrator David Strickland, who showed a video of the test at a news conference.
"It is an extreme safety risk," he said.
NHTSA is asking car owners to check a government website, www.Safercar.gov, for information on how to contact auto manufacturer call centers to learn if their vehicle model is among those for which counterfeit airbags are known to have been made.
No deaths or injuries have been tied to the counterfeit bags, NHTSA said. But it's unclear whether police accident investigators would be able to identify a counterfeit bag from a genuine one, industry officials said.
About 1.5 million airbags are deployed each year in police-reported tow-away crashes, Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, said.
"Airbags save several thousands of lives annually. But they can't save lives if they have not been repaired properly," he said.
NHTSA has compiled a list of dozens of vehicle makes and models for which counterfeit airbags may be available, but the agency cautioned that the full scope of the problem isn't clear yet and the list is expected to "evolve over time."
If a car model is on the list and has had its airbags replaced during the past three years by a repair shop other than a new car dealership, NHTSA is asking owners to take the vehicle into a dealership or repair shop to be inspected at their own expense to determine whether the replaced airbags are counterfeit.
Fees for checking out airbags — a complex and technical process — could run between $100 to $200, said Bailey Wood, a spokesman for the National Automobile Dealers Association, said. The cost of replacing a driver's side center column airbag is $750 to $1,000, he said. Other airbags may be more, he said. Some types of cars have as many as eight airbags.
The problem isn't the result of a manufacturing defect by automakers and isn't a recall, NHTSA and industry officials said.
"The bad actor here is the counterfeiters," Wood said. "Because of that, the cost to have an airbag evaluated and possibly replaced is going to be borne by the consumer."
The counterfeit bags typically look like airbags made by automakers and usually include a manufacturer's logo. Government investigators believe many of the bags come from China, an industry official said.
The bags are marketed to auto repair and body shops as the real deal, industry officials said. Auto dealerships that operate their own body shops are usually required by their franchise agreements to buy their parts, including airbags, directly from automakers and therefore are unlikely to have installed counterfeit bags, industry officials said.
But only 37 percent of auto dealers have their own body shops, according to the automobile dealers association. Many consumers whose vehicles have been damaged are referred by their insurance companies to auto body shops that aren't affiliated with an automaker.
Consumers who bought replacement airbags online or who have purchased a used car that may have its airbags replaced in the past three years were also asked to check NHTSA's list.
Counterfeiting of a wide variety of auto parts has long been a well-known problem, industry officials said. But recent incidents have escalated concern by government officials. In August, federal agents confiscated nearly 1,600 counterfeit airbags and arrested a North Carolina auto mechanic, according to a report by the Charlotte Observer. The mechanic was tied by federal officials to another counterfeit airbag case last year in Tennessee, the report said.
Dai Zhensong, a Chinese citizen, pleaded guilty and was sentenced in federal court in Chattanooga, Tenn., last February to 37 months in prison for trafficking in counterfeit airbags, according to a statement made at the time by the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Zhensong was a part owner and manager of the international department of Guangzhou Auto Parts, which made a variety of auto parts, many of which were counterfeit, the statement said. In 2010, he traveled from China to Chattanooga to sell additional counterfeit airbags and other auto parts.
The counterfeit airbags were manufactured by purchasing genuine auto airbags that were torn down and used to make molds to produce the counterfeit bags. Trademark emblems were purchased through Honda, Toyota, Audi, BMW and other dealerships located in China and affixed to the counterfeit airbags. The airbags were advertised on the Guangzhou Auto Parts website and sold for approximately $50 to $70 each, far below the value of an authentic airbag, the statement said.
About 2,500 counterfeit airbags have been seized by law enforcement authorities so far this year, John Morton, director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told reporters. Investigations are under way in several locations around the country, and further arrests and seizures are expected, he said.
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Risks of Repairing a Roof Yourself Without a Roofer
Homeowners will to try to repair their own roof sometimes because they want to save money. This can be very dangerous not to mention it can make things worse in some cases. A homeowner usually anticipates regular maintenance every year such as HVAC repair, painting or plumbing problems. With each call to a contractor to fix things around the house costs can add up.
Many homeowners also pay on preventive yearly maintenance contracts or home buyer warranty plans that only cover a selective range of problems. Above all things constructed on your home your roof is the most important. Some homeowners will try to save a few bucks by going to the local hardware store and pick up a bucket of tar or some shingles. No matter how much confidence you have in your home improvement skills trying to create a Band-Aid can lead to more potential problems down the road.
A Roof Repairs leak can be very harmful and cause an unsafe environment to live in. Even a small roof leak can cause a massive amount of black mold and wood rot. A roof leak can be ongoing for many years without any notice. Dampness can also attract termites and other annoying nuisances. Climbing up on a roof can be very dangerous for anyone without much experience. Roofs can be steep and they also have surface mold that is very slick to walk on. Attempting to do a roof repair without sufficient training or safety precautions is not only life threatening, it can cause a severe injury to occur. When repairing your roof it is always best to contact a specialist. A professional experience roofing contractor can examine your situation and help resolve any roofing problems that you might have.
Most roofers have certifications and many years of experience dealing with roof repairs. In fact many roofers have spent a great deal of their lives analyzing and conducting roof repairs on a day-to-day basis. A professional roofer will use his own fundamental troubleshooting steps to find out the cause and effect of your roof problem. Sometimes when a homeowner tries to repair a roof on his own it can cause additional problems or make the repair more complicated for the hvac contractors Houston. This is and can cause price of the repair to be higher than expected. If you have an emergency and the rain is coming in asked the roofing contractor to see if he can do a temporary repair to watertight your home until the repair can be scheduled to be done properly.
The roof over your head is the most important part of your home. It protects your belongings, the structure of your home and the health and safety of your family. A roof repair is not something to be taken lightly. Find a roofing contractor that you can trust to provide you with the best advice that will use many years of experience to correct your problem. Not all repairs of the same, each roof has a different design and installation flaws from previous contractors. Don't let your wallet guide you in the direction of making a hastily decision that you will regret in the near future.

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From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.
And I'm Audie Cornish. The White House tried to clarify its message on Syria today, saying it is still studying evidence that the government there has used chemical weapons. Here's press secretary Jay Carney.
JAY CARNEY: We are continuing to work to build on the assessments made by the intelligence community. The degrees of confidence here are varying, this is not an airtight case.
CORNISH: While the administration continues to investigate, there is growing pressure to intervene in Syria's two-year civil war. NPR's Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman looks at some of the military options available to the president.
TOM BOWMAN, BYLINE: Meeting with reporters yesterday, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel didn't want to talk about red lines or what could trigger American intervention or consequences for the Syrian regime. He stuck to what the Pentagon might have to do.
SECRETARY CHUCK HAGEL: My role as secretary of Defense is to give the president options. We'll be prepared to do that at such time that the president requires options.
BOWMAN: Senator John McCain, who is pressing for the U.S. to do more about Syria, outlined those options.
SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN: Now, I hope the administration will consider what we have been recommending now for over two years of this bloodletting and massacre. And that is to provide a safe area for the opposition to operate, to establish a no-fly zone and provide weapons to the people in the resistance who we trust.
BOWMAN: Three options - safe areas inside Syria for refugees, likely along both the Turkish and Jordanian borders; a no-fly zone to prevent the Assad regime from using aircraft to attack the rebels; and the last option, providing heavy weapons to the rebel forces. Anthony Cordesman, a defense analyst with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says all three have drawbacks.
First, safe areas. Cordesman says they raise practical questions.
ANTHONY CORDESMAN: One has to very careful about safe zones. Exactly what do you really mean? Are you going to be able to actually feed the people, house the people? Are you really going to be able to protect them?
BOWMAN: Protect them. The U.S. military or some other country's military having warplanes circle overhead.
CORDESMAN: It is not really what it sounds like, a safe haven. It is actually an intervention in a civil war, which would, one way or another, tilt the balance.
BOWMAN: Meaning the U.S. would be going to war, essentially seizing a portion of a sovereign country. The second option, a no-fly zone. Cordesman says to create one, you'd first have to take out Syria's formidable air defenses. That would take time. It took weeks and a massive number of U.S. and allied warplanes to destroy Libya's much less robust air defenses. And, again, things could escalate.
Finally, there's the option of providing more arms to Syria's rebels, who already are getting weapons from a number of countries.
CORDESMAN: We would be best off providing these men portable air defense systems and anti-tank guided weapons.
BOWMAN: Of course, the downside is they could fall into the wrong hands.
CORDESMAN: That's right. Again, we talk about options. The best of bad options is still a bad option.
BOWMAN: All three options have downsides and not one being discussed would deal with the issue at hand, chemical weapons. Tom Bowman, NPR News, Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Apple has unveiled a smaller, cheaper version of its popular iPad tablet. NPR's Laura Sydell attended the event Tuesday in San Jose, Calif., and got a hands-on look at the new iPad mini. Below are her first impressions.
When I picked up the iPad mini I almost tossed it over my shoulder because I'd been using a lot more strength than I needed to lift it. At .68 pounds it's actually half the weight of the larger iPad. But it felt lighter, as if I was lifting a large cracker and at 7.2 mm it's about as thin as some crackers. The new iPad mini actually seemed delicate to me, as if I might break it.
I've tried two of the other dominant players in the 7-inch tablet market, the Google Nexus 7 and the Kindle Fire HD. Both weigh slightly more. Yet neither one gives as much screen space as the iPad. The mini has 7.9-inch diagonal versus 7 inches for the Nexus and the Kindle.
However, there is a drawback to giving the smaller iPad the extra screen space. I found it a little clumsy to hold in one hand. I don't have particularly large hands and that's likely to be true for a certain percentage of other women out there. (Maybe they need more women designers at Apple?)
Still, it's small enough to fit easily in a purse and it's large enough for easy typing. An A5 dual-core chip inside makes the interaction smooth and fast. Just from my own short experience at the Apple demo it seemed to be faster than either the Kindle HD or the Nexus 7.
But, consumers will pay for the speed and features like the 1080p HD video, which is better than either of the other two competitors. The entry-level iPad mini costs $329 versus $199 for the entry level Kindle HD and Nexus 7.
The late Apple CEO Steve Jobs said he didn't understand why anyone would want a 7-inch tablet. But, the success of the Kindle and more recently Google's Nexus 7 has shown that there is a market. Apple clearly knew it was going to have to compete since its share of the tablet market has gone down by about 12 percentage points since 2010, the year of the original iPad's release.
The question is whether people will be content to lay out an extra $129 for the little extras and of course the cache of the Apple iPad mini. Wall Street didn't think so. After the announcement Apple's stock took a dive.
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A handy single serve Pocket Snack of Canadian organic cranberries. Hand harvested, infused with organic apple juice concentrate, slow air-dried, and lightly misted with organic sunflower oil to prevent clumping. Eden Pocket Snacks go easily to school, work, on errands, camping, and trekking. Keep them in the pantry for delicious, healthy snacking. No refined sugars, trans fats, sulfites, or preservatives. Unsalted and very low sodium. Delicious, sweet, and mildly tangy. Gluten Free and .
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Organic Eden Cranberries are wet harvested. The bogs are flooded with 12 to 18' of water. Ripe cranberries have air bubbles in them. When separated from the vines by a water wheel machine, they float to the surface. Harvesters wade into the bog and using a hand gathering device they corral the berries into a large thick red carpet of berries, which are scooped into trucks and taken to processing. The cranberries are cleaned, sorted, and quick frozen. When ready for drying the cranberries are thawed and infused with organic apple juice concentrate to reach just the right sweetness or 'Brix'. The infused cranberries are rinsed, low heat air dried, and very lightly misted with organic sunflower oil to prevent clumping.
Cranberries are native to North America and were widely enjoyed by Native American Indians. A versatile fruit used not only as a food, but also as a dye for rugs, blankets and clothing, and as a healing plant to treat wounds. Native American's had many names for the cranberry such as 'sasamanesh', ibimi', and 'atogua'. To the Delaware Indians, it was a symbol of peace. Native Americans believed the berries had a special power that calmed the nerves. Its current name comes from early Dutch and German settlers who named the fruit 'crane berry' because its small, pink blossoms resembled the head and bill of a Sandhill crane; and the Sandhills loved eating them also.
Although folklore and anecdotal accounts of cranberries' healthful properties (especially the benefits to urinary tract health) have been touted for centuries, it is only recently that science began confirming how healthful cranberries can be. Packed with antioxidants and other healthy nutrients, cranberries are truly a health food. USDA recently found the high phenolic content in cranberries delivers a potent antioxidant punch, rating it one of the highest out of 20 fruits rated.
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Dragons are highly-intelligent reptilian creatures that—from a human perspective, at least—appear to live forever. Many different varieties of dragon exist, each with their own unique qualities, habitats, and behavior. Adolescence in dragons is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling's wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the beginning of maturation. In Galsreim, dragons and humans coexist peacefully.


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Princeton University has established a strategic partnership with Humboldt University in Berlin that will support research and teaching collaboration spanning the disciplines.
The agreement is a further example of Princeton's internationalization efforts, outlined in the 2007 "Princeton in the World" report. In November, Princeton signed a strategic partnership with the University of São Paulo in Brazil. Such agreements expand upon the many institutional partnerships already in place including faculty fellowships, student exchanges and study abroad programs.
Jeremy Adelman, director of Princeton's Council for International Teaching and Research, said: "Bringing Princeton and Humboldt together will create opportunities to fund faculty initiatives for research and teaching collaboration that will sustain undergraduate, graduate student and faculty exchanges across the two institutions and involving all disciplines." He noted that the fund will be approximately half a million dollars for the launch year.
An international memorandum of understanding governs the strategic partnership with Humboldt, and a joint governing committee comprised of faculty and senior staff from both institutions will seek out and review project proposals. The proposals must be reciprocal academically and geographically, with academic units from both universities participating and a flow of people to both countries.
Individual faculty initiatives will be the driving force behind the development of projects.
"In considering whether to enter strategic partnerships with international universities we use a 'bottom-up' approach," said Humboldt President Jan-Hendrik Olbertz in announcing the collaboration in Berlin.
"Only when we can identify opportunities for outstanding, across-the-board disciplinary cooperation between researchers at our university and colleagues of a foreign institution can our leadership actively support intensified collaboration within the framework of a strategic partnership," he said.
Adelman, who is also the Walter Samuel Carpenter III Professor in Spanish Civilization and Culture, said the agreement solidifies "strong existing interests" in Humboldt and in Berlin due to the prestige of the university and its prominent place in German higher education, as well as the importance of the city. "A lot of people want to go to Berlin," he said.
Strong ties already exist between Princeton and Humboldt in the humanities —including the launch of a dual Ph.D. program in the humanities in May — and physical and materials sciences.
"The partnership with Humboldt University will have an immediate impact on a number of departments at Princeton," said Michael Jennings, the Class of 1900 Professor of Modern Languages and professor of German. "German, philosophy and the history of science are already involved in cooperative endeavors, including not just faculty and student exchange, but collaborative research and publication projects. The strategic partnership will now provide a fuller range of departments with a structural framework and funding incentives to broaden our cooperation with one of the leading European universities."
From the vantage point of the German department, Jennings said it already enjoys firm links to Humboldt. It is a charter member of the Ph.D. Network Literature and Knowledge, which offers graduate study opportunities between Princeton and Humboldt as well as Harvard University and the University of California-Berkeley. Currently, the German department has two students studying at Humboldt, and four students from the German institution are at Princeton. The department also includes Professor Joseph Vogl, who teaches both at Humboldt and at Princeton, and is, said Jennings, "one of the cornerstones of the broader Princeton-Humboldt cooperation."
A.J. Stewart Smith, dean for research and the Class of 1909 Professor of Physics, pointed to shared work in condensed-matter and polymer science and long-term cooperation among mathematical physicists. "We are delighted to partner with Humboldt, an institution that shares Princeton's research strengths broadly and where we already enjoy strong collaborations in the physical and materials sciences," he said.
Added Smith: "I look forward with enthusiasm to expanding faculty and student exchanges in these fields, and to creating new opportunities for world-class research in areas of high priority to both institutions. Obvious fields like neuroscience come to mind, but the successful activities will ultimately originate 'bottom-up.' It's then our job to nurture them so they can grow and thrive."
Daniel Garber, the Stuart Professor of Philosophy, said the partnership "comes at a good time" in building upon existing initiatives. These include a working group on ancient philosophy, a summer seminar for undergraduates studying German philosophy, ongoing graduate student collaborations and workshops, and faculty exchanges. One of the current Global Scholars at Princeton, Dominik Perler, is a philosophy professor from Humboldt who will visit campus at intervals over a three-year span hosted by the Department of Philosophy.
"The strategic partnership with Humboldt University will allow us to take the relationships we already have to the next level, and encourage further exchanges of faculty and students," said Garber.
For all scholars, and especially those immersed in cross-cultural work, the partnership also is expected to open doors, said Leonard Barkan, the Class of 1943 University Professor of Comparative Literature and chair of the department.
"Humboldt University is particularly appropriate for this partnership because it is both intellectually and geographically cosmopolitan; and with its strong interest in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies, it dovetails beautifully with what many of us think is so distinctive in the work we do at Princeton," Barkan said.


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Liverpool have been expected to bolster their ranks further in January and after the signing of Daniel Sturridge, Inter starlet Philippe Coutinho is on the brink of becoming the next arrival at Anfield.
Coutinho came through the youth system of Brazilian heavyweights Vasco da Gama, a club he initially joined at just seven years of age.
Before he even made his debut for the club, the playmaker was already making waves. His exceptional performances in the youth team and internationally for Brazil Under-16 and 17s ensured he was quickly developing an impressive reputation.
Real Madrid were amongst the big European clubs who circled for his signature, although it was Inter who eventually won the race, paying €4.2 million for the then 16-year-old in 2008.
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The Serie A club allowed him to stay with Vasco da Gama on loan until he turned 18 in 2010, when they made his transfer official and brought him to San Siro.
By that point he had played over two seasons for the first team at his boyhood club, in the second campaign becoming a regular and important contributor to the side.
He spent an initial 18 months in and around the Inter squad, making his debut in the Uefa Super Cup defeat to Atletico Madrid, although he never really established himself as a first-team regular.
"Coutinho has always impressed with his technical qualities, but he's always been considered too inexperienced to make a real mark during his time in Italian football," explains Goal.com Italy's Maurizio Piano.
"That means a lot of his most brilliant performances have come during friendly matches in pre-season. In senior games, he didn't get picked to play too often and, when he did, it tended to be from the substitutes' bench."
For the second half of the 2011-12 season, Coutinho was loaned to La Liga outfit Espanyol and he impressed under Mauricio Pochettino, now manager of Southampton.
He played 16 matches as he helped the Catalan club to a mid-table finish and scored five times, two of which were particularly spectacular efforts – a free kick against Malaga and a volley against Racing Santander.
Since returning from Spain, Coutinho would have hoped to improve his fortunes with Inter on the back of the confidence gained in La Liga, but most recently, an injury has also hindered his progress as he tries to force his way into the team.
Now, despite the player's stated wish to remain at Inter, it seems the club are determined to move him on, as they have done with Wesley Sneijder, to raise funds for new pursuits in the market.
Maurizio added: "Coutinho has never really been seen as a certain starter for Inter. Now, the Nerazzurri need money to try and buy Paulinho from Corinthians.
"Just like Ricky Alvarez, Coutinho is seen as one of the expendable players Inter are prepared to sell in order to raise money that allows them to buy in this transfer window."
The Reds have been in the market for an attacking midfielder this month after allowing Nuri Sahin to leave Merseyside and rejoin his former club Dortmund, the Turkey international having failed to make an impact at Anfield.
Wesley Sneijder was a Liverpool target until the Netherlands playmaker chose to leave Inter for Galatasaray.
The 28-year-old was thought to be holding out for an offer from the Premier League, but could not be persuaded to wait for an offer from Anfield and joined the Turkish giants in a €7.5 million deal.
Where Sneijder is a pass-master, Coutinho is a completely different kind of player, but is not lacking the kind of creative spark that saw the Dutchman regarded so highly.
The Brazilian has often found himself lining up on the left-hand side at Inter and Espanyol, a position that has been rotated between youngsters Raheem Sterling and Suso at Anfield for much of this term.
Possessing a lightning-quick burst of speed, but typically South American close-control, Coutinho is a flair player who will not think twice when taking a man on, with a penchant for lobbing his man.
When cutting inside on to his right foot, the 20-year-old is an accurate finisher; indeed, his return of 15 goals from 96 career games is impressive for a youngster who has featured in a wide role in most of those appearances.
With the teenaged Sterling feeling signs of burn-out after a whirlwind introduction to the Premier League, and Suso seeming to lack the speed required for the top-flight, Coutinho could be a happy medium between the two.
Maurizio certainly feels he could be a success story at Anfield if the deal goes ahead, saying: "Even if at Inter he has been used at times as a midfielder, he really is more like an attacking midfielder or even outright attacker.
"He may not be particularly physically strong but he is certainly fast and agile. He has good vision, strong dribbling skills and can certainly be a prolific creator of chances. I think he could do well in the Premier League, since he is quick and has great skills."
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