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About CSO
Company Profile
CSO is a mutually owned insurance company specializing in the debt protection market. The company's vision is to be the leader in debt protection products by providing innovative solutions and value to its client institutions, agents, customers and policyholders.
A solid history of successful business practice has provided CSO with an exceptionally strong financial base.
CSO is uniquely positioned to capitalize on the dual focus of credit insurance products and debt cancellation programs. These product offerings are marketed by its business partners consisting of automobile dealerships and financial institutions. CSO's extensive nationwide network of sales and training professionals and general agents allow for effective and responsive servicing of accounts. A commitment to service excellence is supported by:
- Personalized 'One Call' approach through an established helpline allowing callers to speak to a CSO Representative rather than an automated menu system. Representatives are available Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Central Time.
- Call abandonment rate of 1.21% with 98% of calls answered in less than 20 seconds.
- Processing an average of over $2 million monthly in credit insurance claims.
- Less than a 6 day average turnaround for processing credit insurance claims and debt cancellation benefit requests.
- Providing training support via several delivery systems to meet client needs.
CSO boasts a strong and proud history. With over 85 years of experience in the business of protecting debt, the company supports automobile dealerships and financial institutions and is considered to be a top provider of credit insurance products to the U.S. dealer market. CSO possesses the knowledge and skills required to extend superior service and products to its policyholders and business partners alike.
CSO and its subsidiaries, Censtat Life Assurance Company and Censtat Casualty Company, have an A.M. Best credit rating of A- (Excellent)*. For the latest rating, go to www.ambest.com. CSO has completed annual Service Organization Control (SOC) audits since 2012. CSO's SOC audit report covers the financial, information systems controls and related applications used by CSO for administration of its business partner's programs.
Based in Omaha, Nebraska, CSO employs individuals who are dedicated to supporting the needs of the company's client institutions, agents, customers and policyholders. CSO is proud to be a primary founder of workplace wellness and promotes a drug and alcohol free work environment.
CSO conducts business in every state (except New York), as well as the District of Columbia, Guam and Saipan. The company strives to be the provider of choice in the debt protection market with its motto, "To Care is To Grow" the guiding philosophy behind how business is done.
*A.M. Best's Financial Strength Rating is an independent opinion of an insurer's financial strength and ability to meet ongoing obligations to policyholders.
Company History
With two desks, two chairs and 100 people each willing to spend $11 on a health and accident insurance policy T. L. Kizer founded Central States. It was 1932, right in the middle of the Great Depression. Central States persevered, developing its product and services portfolio and growing its reserve base throughout the decades.
In the beginning, the company pioneered what was then called Deferred Payment Health & Accident Protection. Designed for borrowers, this plan of protection made the loan payments for the insured when death or disability made it difficult. This protection was the first of its kind in the Midwest, and it quickly propelled Central State's growth in the insurance industry. The company soon developed a hospital reimbursement policy, similar to modern major medical insurance, and expanded its business into Colorado and South Dakota by the early 1950s.
In 1957, Central States celebrated its silver anniversary and changed its corporate charter to a legal reserve life, health and accident company. Emerging with a new corporate name - Central States Health & Life Co. of Omaha (CSO) - the company now offered both life and health insurance and was licensed in 14 states. The new name was a more accurate reflection of CSO's diversified product lines.
CSO continued to experience growth and became a leading writer of credit insurance and various health insurance products. Statutory surplus grew from $1,000,000 in 1960 to over $5,400,000 by 1970. To accommodate the growing business, in 1976 a new headquarters facility was built on a 13-acre office site in Omaha, Nebraska.
An important organizational change occurred in 1977 when CSO formed a subsidiary: Central States Indemnity (CSI). Chartered to operate as a full line property and casualty insurance company, CSI focused on credit disability and unemployment insurance for bank credit card customers. At the same time, CSO's credit insurance, major medical and supplemental health lines helped fuel the company's growth. By 1980, statutory surplus exceeded $10,000,000.
It was not long before the company's continued growth prompted the construction of a second building. Completed in 1988, the five-story structure was built directly adjacent to the first building and was the first round office building built in Omaha. In December 1992, CSO's subsidiary, CSI, was purchased by Berkshire Hathaway Inc. As a result of this sale, CSO's financial condition was strengthened and its ability to compete in the insurance marketplace was enhanced. Statutory surplus now exceeded $37,000,000.
In the late 1990's, a strategic business initiative was set into motion designed to ultimately place emphasis on the company's core business: debt protection. The major medical business was sold in 1999. And, with the expanded ability of financial institutions to offer debt cancelation products, in 2002 an infrastructure was developed enabling CSO to support debt cancellation programs. The ability to extend both credit insurance and debt cancellation offerings solidified the company's position as a leader in the debt protection industry.
In 2004, CSO made a tactical decision to discontinue marketing its Medicare Supplement and other supplemental health insurance products. With the reinsurance and/or assumption of the supplemental blocks of business completed in 2005, CSO exited the health insurance market. These transactions resulted in statutory surplus combined with asset valuation reserve to reach a record high, in excess of $100,000,000.
With CSO's focus now 100% on its core business - debt protection - the company strategically established initiatives to grow its business. In 2006, CSO entered into an alliance with Jim Moran and Associates (JM&A) for the rights to market credit insurance to JM&A's dealership base. Later that year, CSO negotiated a similar agreement with Zurich. In 2007, CSO finalized an agreement with The Warranty Group to take over Resource Life Insurance Company (RLIC) credit insurance block of business. CSO quickly earned the reputation as an industry consolidator.
In 2011, CSO was again successful in aligning with American Heritage Life, (AHL). Like JM&A, Zurich and Resource Life, AHL decided to phase out their credit insurance products and form a strategic partnership with CSO.
As a result of these agreements, CSO established a national presence in the automobile dealership market. In addition, CSO continues to place strong emphasis on servicing and growing their business with financial institutions for both credit insurance and the evolving debt cancellation lines.
Total statutory surplus exceeds $150,000,000. CSO's vision remains to be the leader in the debt protection market by providing innovative solutions, exceptional service and value to lenders, agents, dealers and policyholders. CSO is uniquely positioned to capitalize on a dual focus of extending traditional credit life and disability insurance products as well as providing debt cancellation programs.
*A.M. Best's Financial Strength Rating is an independent opinion of an insurer's financial strength and ability to meet ongoing obligations to policyholders.
Mission Statement
Central States Health & Life Co. of Omaha exists to help people enhance their lives by offering quality products and services, thereby assisting people in minimizing their financial risks. In pursuit of this mission, CSO strives to:
- Maintain a strong financial base and be governed by its trustee obligations.
- Maintain a reasonable diversity of products, targeting areas where CSO is best qualified.
- Develop a highly skilled and productive group of professionals and create a working environment that supports their personal and career goals.
- Monitor the changing marketplace and incorporate that change into our products and people.
- Maintain constructive and informed relationships with regulatory groups.
In a desire to stress quality in all things and expand on a sound basis, CSO recognizes a theme of "To Care is To Grow" in every business decision. To fulfill this theme, CSO endeavors to:
- Instill a sense of fair play, equal opportunity and justice in all things.
- Inspire through the pursuit of professionalism and excellence a liveliness of mind and expression that promotes company loyalty and pride.
- Encourage the company and its employees to participate in the affairs of their communities, on local, state and national levels, and to make meaningful contributions to professional associations.
- Encourage people to take responsibility for their own health and to make wellness a way of living a longer, healthier life.
While in the long term, CSO's success is measured in dollars, the company exists to serve the needs of its policyholders, client institutions, agents and dedicated personnel.
About Our Logo
CSO's logo reflects the appearance of the home office building, which was constructed in 1976. More importantly, it illustrates the company's mission as a leader in the ever changing insurance industry. The overall circle encompassing the image enhances the repeated circular motif. The perspective of the image grows from a small pillar to a much larger one and closer in appearance. This perspective exemplifies the idea CSO is a continually growing company, with a vision extending beyond any boundaries.
Annual ReportView the 2017 Annual Report
CSO is proud to be a primary founder of workplace wellness and also promotes a drug and alcohol free workplace. CSO offers a smoke-free workplace and does not hire individuals who utilize tobacco products (in states permitting such practice). For information on CSO's definition of tobacco products and on those states permitting this practice, please contact Human Resources at 402-399-3336 or toll free at 800-826-6587 extension 3336.
CSO employees have free use of the on-site fitness center – the William M. Kizer More Life Center. Equipped with cardio and weight equipment, the fitness center also offers instructor led lunch hour yoga and strength training classes. The company promotes wellness through its Wellness Connection program, encouraging employees to engage in healthy nutrition, physical activity and other core wellness programs. CSO is an active member of the Wellness Council of the Midlands and the Wellness Council of America and has consistently been recognized by these organizations for its wellness commitment. CSO has been named by the Wellness Council of America a gold-level well-workplace.
Since its founding in 1932, CSO has been providing challenging career opportunities in the clerical, administrative, professional, sales, and management fields. CSO's workforce culture is guided by its mission statement which specifically notes: to develop a highly skilled and productive group of professionals and create a working environment that supports their personal and career goals. CSO strives to provide careers which provide professional growth and personal balance.
CSO is proud to be a primary founder of the workplace wellness movement and promotes a drug and alcohol free workplace. We offer a smoke-free workplace and do not hire individuals who utilize tobacco products (in states permitting such practice). For information on CSO's definition of tobacco products and on those states permitting this practice, please contact Human Resources at 402-399-3336 or toll free at 800-826-6587 extension 3336.
To learn about current opportunities available and benefit offerings, please use the links below.
CSO participates in E-Verify, a Federal Program that helps to certify employees are eligible to work in the United States. Please read the attached notices for important information regarding applying to work with CSO.
T. Edward Kizer (President) and Richard T. Kizer (Chairman)
As grandsons of the company's founder T.L. Kizer, Dick and Ed Kizer today provide the leadership and oversee the strategic direction of CSO. CSO employs approximately 130 individuals who are dedicated to supporting the needs of the company's client institutions, agents, customers and policyholders.
Online Privacy
Effective 6/4/2001
At Central States Health & Life Co. of Omaha (CSO) we value the trust you have placed in us and maintaining this trust is a high priority for us. We pride ourselves on offering you top quality insurance products and providing you with excellent service. We do this while respecting your right to privacy and using your information only as we agreed. Our information practices for this web site are described below:
Your Personal Information:
When you come to a CSO web site, we log your current Internet address (this is usually a temporary address assigned by your Internet service provider when you log in), the type of operating system you are using, and the type of browser software used. In addition, we may keep track of what portions of the web site you are visiting. We aggregate this information to help us create a better experience for users of our web site. For example: we may upgrade those parts of the web site that are heavily visited or optimize the web site to work more efficiently with certain operating systems. This is all done without our knowing your name or other personal identifying information. When you visit a CSO web site, you are anonymous, unless you choose to identify yourself to us.
You are not required to provide us with personal information to use our web sites, unless expressly stated. For example, certain features may require you to submit some personal information in order for those features to function as designed. Such information might include name, address, E-mail address, and phone number. Certain portions of our web sites may require you to provide identifying information and use individual passwords in order to access personal information.
If you do choose to provide us with personal information, you can be assured that such information is kept in secured databases. CSO treats this information as confidential. However, we may disclose this information to third parties when we believe it is necessary in order for us to conduct our business, or where such disclosure is required by law. For example, we may disclose information to others to enable them to perform business services for us relating to the products and services we offer, or who help us to evaluate requests for insurance or benefits.
We may also disclose this information to others outside of the CSO family of companies, such as marketing companies or our agents, to assist us in offering our products and services to individuals who apply for or obtain products and services from us. We do not make any other disclosures of personal information to other companies who intend to sell their products or services to you. For example, we will not sell your name or E-mail address to a catalog company.
A cookie is a small piece of information that a web site sends to your computer, which is stored in a file on your hard drive. The next time you visit our web site, we may use the information stored in your cookie file to facilitate your use of our web site. For example, we may use your cookie file to store a password so that you do not have to input it every time you move to a different section of a password protected portion of our web site. A cookie does not tell us your individual identity unless you have chosen to provide it to us. Most cookies expire after a defined period of time, or you can delete your cookie file at any time you choose. In addition, you can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie so that you can decide whether to accept or reject it.
Privacy and E-Mail:
CSO uses no encryption (data scrambling) on certain portions of our web site, and up to 128-bit encryption on other portions. When you are on any web site that asks you for confidential information (your social security number or a bank or credit card account number, for example), you should check to see if the information being transmitted is encrypted in order to increase the security of your information. If you need to send confidential information and are concerned about the security of a web site, then you should consider providing it by phone or by regular mail instead.
At the CSO web sites we make no active effort to collect personal information from children under the age of 18. We believe that children who do wish to submit information to CSO should have permission from their parent or legal guardian.
Additional Rights:
Applicable laws may give you additional rights that are not described in this online privacy policy.
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California Resident General Privacy Notice, click here.
Montana Resident General Privacy Notice, click here.
AZ, IL, MA, ME, MN, NJ, OH, TX, VA Resident General Privacy Notice, click here.
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Dual Monitors - MIMO USB Powered
Dual monitors – are they the latest trend? Dual monitors are being seen in areas that you may have never thought of. More offices are using them and many home offices are beginning to as well. Internet gamers love them, accountants love them, and graphic designers love them. Why would anyone want two monitors on one computer? They want the extra real estate of course. Just hook two monitors to one computer and you can split the information between them.
Internet gamers like to have their game running on one monitor while their stats and voice communication software runs on the other. All MMORPG (massive multiplayer online role playing games) involve a lot of information that has to be monitored at all times. Often there is separate voice communication software running such as Ventrillo.
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Graphic Designers or those of us that like to edit our own digital photos and videos also love the ability to use two monitors at once. For example, I always make multiple folders for my vacation photos – you know – I am always afraid that something will go wrong with the first one. I try to decide how to file them – by date – by person - by event? After a while duplicate photos seem to creep into some of my folders. I like to display the same folder on both monitors and purge the duplicates. Software editing tools can be displayed on one monitor while the photo is displayed on the other. No more clicking back and forth – yea!
But, there is a downside to this dual monitor love fest. Space and video card comes to mind.
Space is always an issue. Flat panel monitors have improved the desktop situation (although many of them are over 19" widescreen) but when you add the second one space once again becomes an issue. Then there is the video card. Only the higher priced video cards have that second port. My husband has an Nvidia 9800 video card with the second port. Only problem is that if he hooks up a second monitor he has to reduce his resolution on the first one. Internet gaming is best with higher resolution so he decided against adding a second monitor.
The MIMO USB powered mini LCD displays may solve this problem. You heard me right – USB powered monitor. Sure it is only 7" but it is a widescreen and it can swivel between portrait and landscape mode. There is an integrated Webcam, microphone and speaker output. The MIMO UM730 runs about $170. The MIMO UM740 runs about $200 – but it is a Touchscreen.
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HARRISON, NJ --- FC Cincinnati was unable to overcome a pair of first-half goals in an eventual 4-0 loss to New York Red Bulls II Sat. afternoon at MSU Soccer Park. The loss is FCC's (8-9-7) second straight in USL play as the team has been out-scored 9-0 in the last two league contests.
New York Red Bulls II got on the board in the 23rd minute as Noah Powder was bumped off the ball by Marco Dominguez in the FCC box, leading to a penalty kick for NYRB II. Stephen Bonomo slid the ball past Mitch Hildebrandt to put the home side ahead.
The second goal came in the 41st minute as FCC was caught on their heels on a set piece. A foul by Corben Bone led to a free kick and Andrew Tinari was shown the yellow card after taking the kick before the referee's whistle. Following the delay during the booking, Zeiko Lewis took the kick and connected with Hassan Ndam, who headed the ball past Hildebrandt for his first goal of the season.
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NYRB II used a 56-percent advantage to mount a nine-shot first period. Tinari had an early look at the goal in the eighth minute but fired the ball straight at Hildebrandt.
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NYRB II: 73rd – Junior Flemings (Florian Valot)
NYRB II: 74th – Junior Flemings (Kazuyoshi Shigenobu)
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Chicago Police detectives and SWAT members search a garage near the scene of a fatal shooting at 79th Street and St. Lawrence Tuesday morning. (Mike Anzaldi for the Chicago Tribune)
A 24-year-old man was shot and killed outside a store this morning in the South Side's Chatham neighborhood, police said.
Officers responded about 10 a.m. to a call of a person shot near 79th Street and St. Lawrence Avenue, said Chicago Police Officer John Mirabelli. Police found the man there, shot and unresponsive. The victim has not yet been identified.
The man was identified as Bobby Shine, 24, according to a spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner's office. The spokesman did not have a home address for the the victim.
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The different types of personal protective equipment include fall protection equipment and several other items that should indeed be part of your budget or even be asked in your company.Personal protective equipment in responsible for protecting workers and guaranteeing safety against risks that threaten their health and physical integrity. They are especially used in risk functions in production lines where the noise is large, or activities in heights above 2 meters from the lower level.
Getting to know the differentfall protection equipment
The types of personal protective equipment PPE used may vary depending on the activity to be performed or the risks it may bring the safety and health of workers and part of the body to be protected. This also includes fall protection anchors.
Types of personal protective equipment (PPE) most common are:
- Hearing protection: earmuffs noise and ear protectors;
- Respiratory protection: masks and filter;
- Visual and facial protection: goggles and visors;
- Head protection: helmets;
- Protection of hands and arms: gloves and hoses;
- Protection of legs and feet, shoes, boots and boots;
- Fall Protection: safety belts and belts.
It is the employer's responsibility to provide this protective equipment and workers' responsibility to use properly and when exposed to risky activities. Visit this site for more information : http://www.fallprotectionpros.com/
Importance of personal protective equipment Types
The Personal Protective Equipment also known as PPE is every device or product, individual character used by the worker, intended to protect against risks that may threaten their safety and health, including fall protection anchors. They are extremely important in work at high altitudes. They are critical in heights from 2.00 meters from the lower level where there is risk of falling.
Use of this type of equipment should only be done when you cannot take steps to eliminate the environmental risks that develop the activity, that is, when the environmental collective protection measures are not feasible, efficient and sufficient for mitigate risk.
What you need to know about avoiding risk at work
collective protection equipment – EPC – are devices used in the workplace to protect workers from the risks inherent in the processes, such as the acoustic enclosure of noise sources, the ventilation of the workplace, moving parts of the protection of machinery and equipment, safety signs, among others. Click here.
When working at heights, however, only the EPCs are not sufficient, even if we are talking about fall protection anchors. Therefore, it is up to employers to provide hearing protection equipment, respiratory protection, eye and face protection, head protection, hand and arm protection, leg protection and feet, fall protection and any device that ensure the physical integrity of the worker.
The bottom line
In order for you to avoid having issues at work it is essential that you ask for proper fall protection equipment. Using said equipment is the only way to guarantee you will be safe in the work environment. Do not risk it: if your employer does not provide you the proper fall protection equipment make sure you do not work, otherwise you might face a lot of risk.


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Love the X-up at 2:54. Don't see that trick much in a video.
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Yea backlit photography with sun-overpowering flash. Boris looks like a man-child in those skinny jeans, shoes and salt n peppa beard.
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Finally graduating to them big boy wheels.
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Those are not electric. They just velcro vinyl covers to keep grips from getting wet and dirty until you're in the start house. No greasy mechanic's hands will be touching those grips either to contaminate the rubber.
That Trek link has more to do with suspension than handlebar grips... Many teams have experimented with shock warmers to keep the shock oil near 25 deg C.
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Good thing she wasn't wearing a gopro camera.... UCI just saved her life.
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Sam loves cut spikes. He used them at Schladming for two wins. He uses them in deep, loamy wet dirt as well as in deep, moon dust dry tracks. Helps him slide on those inside lines.
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Must have been trying to win a Darwin award.
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The Eastern States Cup is doing great things for the sport in the Northeast. But having raced the ESC in 2010, 2011 and 2012, I was always surprised at the lack of safety--course marshals and crash pads included--at some of the stops on the series. It ... more »
Check out this Fox pdf to see the innards.
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A simple explanation is that the oil damper controls how much the spring is allowed to move. The oil has two pathways (HSC or LSC) when the fork is compressed and each of these pathways has a "valve" so to speak to regulate when the oil is allowed to take each compression route. Each compression pathway has a separate rebound pathway back to the main chamber which can be regulated (HSR and LSR).
When the shock moves slowly over a small bump the low velocity/impulse/force moves the oil through the low speed compression route. Usually this is stiff on the compression to resist movement (of the spring) and free flowing on the rebound to allow the spring's force to quickly get the shock back to its resting position ready for the next bump.
In the high speed compression situation the high velocity/impulse/force allows the oil to move via the high speed compression route. This route requires that the high speed velocity threshold to be surpassed. Once it is surpassed, the spring is free to move during the compression to soak up the huge drop, but will slowly rebound to resist the spring snapping back to its resting position and bucking the rider.
To answer your question, the high speed and low speed are separate situations and the fork will behave differently according to which path the oil flowed through. No, the LSR doesn't take over from HSR once the damping slows the fork's movement. When the fork is bottomed out the slow rebound damping is taking place because the oil has taken HSC and HSR oil routes.
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Nice write-up, more please!
Here is my somewhat similar story:
I used to love doing wheelies and also "working" on my bike, aka putting your bike upside down and turning the cranks with your hand, as well as the occasional oh-so-tricky removal of the wheel with the QR.
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What's the logic behind the opinion that a tighter track is a more compelling race to watch?
Think about it; is a race whereby at the first split, if the rider is one or two seconds down the race is over (i.e. like Leogang); is this more or less likely to keep you on the edge of your seat....
I'm with you.
The UCI could host Downhill races on a pavement slope--no turns. The race would be really tight. It also wouldn't come down to skill so much as to the tires, aerodynamics, bike weight, etc. for the win. Keeping it difficult and fast will make sure those who win won because of skill and fitness not because they had 29" vs. 26" wheels.
Everyone seemed to like the Andorra course and Schladming, why can't UCI learn from rider feedback and try to incentivize these type of locations into hosting WC races?
On a different note, any rider who complains in an interview is makes me want to turn the video off. I don't see how sponsors can have these riders flying their flag when they talk negatively on camera. Just makes me wonder how much crap they are talking when the camera if off. You're riding your bike (and getting paid or free gear). Be happy!
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What I don't understand is that Danny is a Schwalbe rider. So why didn't he have their new TU Bliss system? http://www.vitalmtb.com/product/feature/Good-Riddance-Pinch-Flats-Introducing-Dual-Chamber-Tire-System-from-Schwalbe,219
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7. Sven's new Canon EF 600mm f/4L IS II USM lens is this long.
8. How much the tape needs to be pulled in near the whoop section to make every rider man up.
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Name: Scipio, Lynn A.
Historical Note:
Lynn A. Scipio received a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in 1888. The following was taken directly from the Debris (Purdue yearbook), page 38, 1938. It is on a page devoted to prominent Purdue alumni:
'L.A. Scipio..1888..secured teaching position at University of Nebraska..accepted job developing engineering school in Turkey in 1912..school barely survived the war..after war students became more numerous and college improved..all technical education is given in the English language..carries on considerable work as consulting engineer in Greece..has been dean of engineering school of Istanbul American College for twenty-six years.'
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Wolves Tuesday: Ridnour recovering
MINNEAPOLIS – Luke Ridnour has been practicing with the Timberwolves this week after missing much of the preseason with a herniated disk in his back. Although a problem like that for a veteran such as Ridnour – at 31, this will be his 10th season in the league – could be a nagging issue, the point guard has assured coach Rick Adelman that he feels great.
And that's that.
At this point, it'll likely take a hard spill to knock Ridnour back onto the bench, Adelman said, and it seems things are progressing toward him being able to start at point guard on opening night. Ridnour isn't necessarily yet where he'd like to be, but he's practicing, doing extra work and getting his conditioning and timing back to where they need to be.
Adelman said he's noticed more of Ridnour's shots falling lately as the point guard gets back into the rhythm of the game, and having him healthy by Friday would be huge for the team. It seems like no matter what, the Timberwolves' roster is loaded with point guards, yet there's always a concern about who's going to go at that position. Last year, mass incredulity and Ridnour trade rumors followed the team's signing J.J. Barea, but by April, Barea was starting with Ricky Rubio and Ridnour injured. Malcolm Lee, who'd just had knee surgery in December and was hardly playing an NBA-caliber game, was backing him up. It was hardly ideal.
Which brings us to the fall of 2012. Rubio is still out. Ridnour is easing his way back in. Lee missed much of the summer with re-aggravated knee issues and much of training camp with a groin problem, and the one training camp invitee who remains on the opening day roster is (You guessed it!) a point guard, Will Conroy.
If Ridnour's back were to flare up again, there might actually be a very real need for Conroy, who's played the majority of his pro career in the D-League and overseas. But at this point, Adelman doesn't know enough about Lee to rely on him, except perhaps in specific scenarios.
"I think right now we would look for Will just because he's played more (than Malcolm)," Adelman said. "That would depend too on the situation because Malcolm is really good defensively. If you're going up against guys that give us problems, he might be the guy you go with."
With no chance of seeing Rubio in the next month, Adelman will have to work with what he has on hand, and while that might seem like a challenge, he's used to it. Yes, the Timberwolves' collapse last season was linked to Rubio's injury, but it wasn't due to poor point guard play. Barea and Ridnour aren't Rubio, but they held their own, and really, they were some of the team's best and most resilient players in the season's difficult final days.
"I think they're really important for us to get off to a good start," Adelman said. "They each give us something different. So I think you know, J.J.'s always been great with changing the tempo of the game. A lot of stuff we're going to do is going to be the same for both of them, but they each give us something different."
Extension time: In what was already a foregone conclusion, the Timberwolves announced Tuesday that they'd picked up the third-year options on the contracts of point guard Ricky Rubio and forward Derrick Williams. The deadline to do so is Wednesday, hence the timing, and the only surprise would have been if they hadn't done so.
Williams will make $4.8 million this season and $5.0 million next year. Rubio is set to earn $3.7 million this year and $4.0 million next.
Brandon Roy's minutes: After sitting out on Monday, Roy returned to the court on Tuesday for a scrimmage-heavy practice. Adelman admitted he was hesitant to let Roy play at first, but Roy insisted he was fine and performed as such. Adelman described Roy's knee issue as "a little bit of irritation," and though with the shooting guard's history it might seem like reason to pause (or panic), the coach remained optimistic.
Adelman said he hasn't yet reached a final target for Roy's minutes, but he's leaning toward a range from 30-32. The biggest trick, he said, will be to see how long Roy can rest without getting stiff and therefore unable to return to the game.
Starting power forward: Adelman gave no outright indication of who might get the start at power forward on Friday. The leading contenders are Dante Cunningham and Williams, though there's an outside chance Andrei Kirilenko might start there at some point.
Any decision Adelman makes will be subject to change depending on matchups, obviously. He did offer one hint at his leanings, though: When asked what he's looking for most at the position, Adelman said that defense and energy will be most valuable. And then he added this:
"D-Will gives us that option where he's more of a scorer, has more versatility. Dante is such an energy guy, a rebounder, defender."
My money is on Cunningham.
Baby boomer TV: When asked whether he'd be tuning in to any of tonight's NBA games, Adelman asked what day it is (Tuesday), and then explained that NCIS is on, so maybe not. Of course it was all in good fun, and you've got to know he'll be at least looking at the scores, but here's the bigger question: Why are 85 percent of baby boomers obsessed with NCIS? My parents DVR every single episode despite its constant rerun loop. They watch them all, and they're emotionally invested like nothing I've ever seen before. There has to be a larger sociological study here.
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Gout's no laughing matter. So why don't GPs take it seriously?
The one thing that really makes postman Neil Pert's blood boil are the sniggers and jokes his gout provokes.
Neil has suffered from gout for 12 years, and last year had to transfer to a desk job because he can't stand on his feet for longer than an hour without pain.
'I'm crippled by it, and had to have three months off work because the pain was so excruciating.
'My GP's attitude seems to be that it's all self-inflicted, even though I haven't had alcohol or eaten rich foods for years,' said Neil Pert
'My ankles and feet are particularly badly affected, and when I'm having an attack I can't bear any weight on them,' says 44-year-old Neil, who lives in Clydebank, Glasgow, with his wife Jennifer, 46, an assistant shop manager, and their daughter Hannah, 11.
'Yet I'm frequently teased about my gout.
'My GP's attitude seems to be that it's all self-inflicted, even though I haven't had alcohol or eaten rich foods for years, while colleagues think I use it to get out of work.'
A spotlight was thrown on severe gout recently following the story that Mark Cahill, a former publican from Yorkshire, underwent a hand transplant after his hand was paralysed following a gout attack that had led to an infection.
Although such cases are thankfully rare, doctors say they are seeing increasing numbers of patients with extreme gout and joint damage.
Hospital admissions have doubled in a decade to 4,400 cases per year, according to a recent study of GP practice records.
But experts say much of the misery of gout is entirely avoidable — with the right treatment.
Gout is a form of arthritis that causes sudden and very severe attacks of pain and swelling in the joints.
It's caused by excessive amounts of uric acid in the blood, which forms needle-like crystals in and around the joints, most commonly in the foot (particularly the big toe), but also the knees, fingers, forearms and elbows.
The crystals form in the extremities, as the body temperature there is slightly cooler (crystals grow at lower temperatures).
Uric acid also accumulates in the kidneys, forming kidney stones.
Uric acid is a chemical produced when the body breaks down purines (compounds found in certain foods including red meat).
It's normally excreted by the kidneys, but some people don't clear it as well.
High levels of purines are also linked to a rich diet, or as a side-effect of medicines such as diuretics prescribed for high blood pressure.
Gout is a form of arthritis that causes sudden and very severe attacks of pain and swelling in the joints
Other risk factors include obesity (partly because of extra pressure on the joints and chemical changes as a result of the fat), and heavy alcohol consumption, particularly beer (which is high in purines).
It usually first appears between the ages of 30 to 60 and becomes more common with age, affecting 7 per cent of men over 85 and 3 per cent of women. (The hormone oestrogen speeds up the excretion of uric acid, so gout is less common in pre- menopausal women.)
An estimated 800,000 Britons have gout, but the number is rising due to obesity, our diet and the ageing population.
'It's now the most common chronic inflammatory rheumatic disease — more common than even rheumatoid arthritis,' says George Nuki, of the UK Gout Society and professor emeritus of rheumatology at Edinburgh University.
'Although gout's effects can be very severe — as serious as the worst deformities caused by rheumatoid arthritis — it really ought to be both preventable and curable by the medical treatments now available.'
This means medication, combined with simple lifestyle changes and avoiding purine-rich foods.
'It is so frustrating because it is possible to reduce uric acid to such low levels that the crystals dissolve, but unfortunately not enough patients are getting effective treatment,' says Professor Nuki.
'Gout is largely managed in general practice, and I'm afraid it isn't being done terribly well.
'There is lack of understanding among both doctors and patients about the importance of reducing uric acid levels and maintaining them at a low level.'
The risk of untreated or undercontrolled gout is joint damage caused when the crystals clump together, forming a chalky substance called tophi.
Tophi are often painless at first, but they can be quietly damaging the joint. Some people develop tophi and joint damage without ever experiencing an acute gout attack.
Eventually, the damage severely limits movement, affecting walking and the use of the hand. A damaged joint is also more prone to infection.
The main drug for preventing gout is allopurinol, which blocks the enzyme that converts purines into uric acid.
GPs are supposed to start patients off on a low dose and then gradually adjust it upwards until blood tests reveal uric acid levels are reduced enough so that the crystals dissolve, and new crystals stop forming.
'But research has revealed that less than 10 per cent of patients receive the follow-up blood tests, so many people stay on the low dose that does not reduce their uric acid levels sufficiently and crystals continue to grow and can damage their joints,' says Professor Nuki.
Sometimes, too, gout patients stop taking the allopurinol because they feel better, even though crystals could still be growing.
Or they stop taking it because of the drug's side-effects (such as skin rashes), or because the drug can sometimes initially make gout worse before then improving symptoms. In such cases there are, in fact, alternatives — febuxostat and benzbromarone.
Neil Pert's story highlights the problems with gout treatment. When Neil's first symptoms appeared 13 years ago, his GP said he could be prescribed allopurinol, or try to tackle his uric acid levels by modifying his lifestyle.
'The GP said the side-effects of allopurionl could be "nasty" and that put me off it,' recalls Neil.
'At the time I weighed 22st (I'm 5ft 11in) and drank fairly heavily, so I decided instead to try a low-purine diet and give up alcohol for good.'
Neil lost six stone and his healthy lifestyle has made his severe gout attacks less frequent.
However, the low-level pain in his feet, ankles, elbows and hands has worsened, and he's now in pain every day.
He hopes now to see a specialist. 'Perhaps I do need drug treatment as well, after all,' he concedes.
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Ian Sole, American Woodmark's Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, To Speak At 3rd Annual Manufacturer's Breakfast at K/BIS 2005
Ian Sole, senior vice president, sales and marketing, American Woodmark Corporation is a featured speaker at the National Kitchen & Bath Association's (NKBA) third annual Manufacturer Representatives/Manufacturers Networking Breakfast on Thursday, May 12, 2005, held during K/BIS 2005. This dynamic annual event is designed to provide an interactive forum where industry and manufacturer representatives meet to discuss the latest trends and products, develop contacts, and create business partnerships.
Developed by the Manufacturer and Manufacturer Representative Advisory Councils of NKBA, this event enables manufacturers to meet qualified, professional independent representatives who are interested in representing their company, as well as allowing for interaction with fellow NKBA professionals who are looking to grow their businesses.
This event takes place at the Las Vegas Convention Center on Thursday, May 12th, from 8:00 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. This year, Mr. Sole has been invited to give a presentation on the importance of kitchen and bath designer education and training, an industry issue with which American Woodmark is acutely concerned.
"As leading cabinet manufacturers to the kitchen and bath industry, we have an obligation to our industry to remain committed to the education and training of future kitchen and bath design professionals," says Mr. Sole. "Creative people with fresh ideas on how to construct and utilize space in kitchens and baths can only have a positive impact on our business."
Today, the kitchen and bath industry is experiencing exponential growth. According to the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association (KCMA), over 107 consecutive months of growth have been recorded. These figures, when combined with the simple fact that the kitchen has become the most important room in the home with cabinetry its most important component, show strong growth potential for this industry.
As a leading kitchen and bath cabinet manufacturer in the United States, American Woodmark understands the value of trained kitchen and bath designers and recognizes the need for top notch certified kitchen and bath designer training programs to support the growth of the industry nationwide.
About American Woodmark Corporation
American Woodmark Corporation, located in Winchester, Va., is the third largest manufacturer of kitchen and bath cabinets in the United States and Canada. Offering more than 230 cabinet lines in a wide variety of designs, materials and finishes, American Woodmark products are sold through a network of dealers and distributors and directly to home centers and major home builders. The Company, celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, currently operates 15 manufacturing facilities in Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, as well as various service centers across the country. American Woodmark shares are traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol "AMWD." To find out more about American Woodmark, and view its vast array of cabinet styles, visit its Web site atwww.americanwoodmark.com.
About the NKBA
The National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) is a non-profit trade association that has educated and led the kitchen and bath industry since 1963. With more than 24,000 members and growing, NKBA owns the world's largest trade show and industry event. The mission of NKBA is to enhance member success and excellence by promoting professionalism and ethical business practices, and providing leadership and direction for the kitchen and bathroom industry. For more information, please visit the NKBA Press Room at www.nkba.org/press.


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I thought she was barking at the deer. As I stood at the back window watching the herd of deer down below, and a few of them taking notice of my American bulldog's deep-throat warning, she kept barking from the side porch off more to the North. The deer slowly started feeling spooked and eventually split off into two packs and trotted--one back to the woods, the other south down the river. My dog came in eventually but was hankering soon to go back outside. I let her out again and she just sat on the east porch giving a continual stream of warning barks.
I finally figured I better check what it was she was barking as and my wife peered through the trees and said, "That's not deer. I think those are horses."
So I got dressed, left my breakfast and grabbed the camera to check it out. Taking my dog, I discovered four steer in front of the cabin enjoying the wife's flower-bed. My bulldog was happy to see them meander on down the hill toward the river. I don't know whose cattle they are and I'm not a cowboy with a horse that can go round them up. I guess I'll just wait till next time I hear my dog's bark--and try to respond a little sooner.


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How to install and setup Eclipse for PHP debug
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The PHP Development Tools (PDT) plug-in, when installed with Eclipse Europa, gives you that ability to quickly write and debug PHP scripts and pages.PDT supports two debugging tools:
- XDebug and
- Zend Debugger
This post contains a brief description (along with links to various tools and S/W used) of how to go about setting up a complete PHP development & debug environment alongside a WAMP (Windows Apache, MySQL, PHP).
What you will need:
- WAMP (assuming you are using Windows) – http://www.wampserver.com/en/download.php Version 2.0i as on 6th July 2010. Includes
- Apache 2.2.11
- MySQL 5.1.36
- Phpmyadmin 126.96.36.199
- Eclipse Helios for PHP – http://www.eclipse.org
- Xdebug – http://xdebug.org/
Time for action:
- Install WAMP. Before you dive in, make sure you do not have a previous version of WAMP installed. If IIS or Skype are installed, please stop/close these as they may be using port 80 that WAMP needs!!
- When ready, double click WAMP installer executable and follow instructions on screen to install. Default install location is C:\wamp.
- Once installed, an icon in the right hand side of the windows task bar allows managing the WAMP Server.
- Change default port 80 that Apache listens on, to say 8080 if you have other applications that need to use the port 80. This can be done by editing C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.11\conf\httpd.conf file and replacing 80 with 8080 (or any other free port that you can/wish to use). Restart Apache after you have saved the changed httpd.conf file.
- Install Eclipse – extract the downloaded ZIP file to a location of your choice and you are done. To launch the Eclipse application, double click the eclipse.exe. This file is located in the folder where the ZIP file has been extracted to.
- Copy the "php_xdebug-2.1.0-5.3-vc6.dll" file (downloaded from xdebug.org) to C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.0\ext. Replace "C:\wamp" with the folder path if you installed WAMP in a non-default location. Now edit the C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.0\php.ini file and append the following to it.
zend_debugger .allow_hosts="127.0.0.1, 10.0.1.3″
zend_debugger .allow_hosts="127.0.0.1, 10.0.1.3″
Restart Apache Web Server
You should now be all set to start using Eclipse with Xdebug to help with debugging PHP scripts/web pages.
For a complete and detailed guide on "Debugging PHP using Eclipse and PDT", please visit http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/articles/debugger/os-php-eclipse-pdt-debug-pdf.pdf


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Madrid: The Union of European Football Assocations (UEFA) is collecting more information on the incidents at the match in the second round of the Champions League between Atletico Madrid and Benfica, which saw a fire started and the throwing of fireworks onto the pitch here, before opening disciplinary procedures.
UEFA sources confirmed on Friday to Efe that the Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Committee will not begin this process until they collect more specific data on the facts, on the number of flares which were lit in the Vicente Calderon Stadium and the damage caused by it.
UEFA has the report of its delegate at the match, the British Mark Blackbourne, to whom Atletico expressed its "distress and concern" over the incidents caused by the fans of Benfica, which endangered several fans and caused damage to various areas of the stadium.
After 36 minutes of the game, fans of Benfica located in the north end of the Vicente Calderon fired at least five flares down at the stands of the fans of Atletico and onto the grass, at the time in which Argentinian Nico Gaitan scored the 1-1 tie goal for the Portuguese side.
After Benfica scored 2-1 in the 51st minute, another flare was lit in the area occupied by the fans of the Lisbon team and some seats were broken.


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8 May: detentions in the center of Minsk
Riot police forces were thrown in Minsk center in the evening of 8 May. Many people, both opposition activists and passers-by, were detained.
The Charter'97 press center learnt it from Artur Finkevich, leader of the Young Belarus organization. According to him, dozens rot militiamen arrive to October square at 5.30 p.m. They started to arrest people walking in Minsk center. They detained youngsters who usually meet at Kastrychnitskaya metro station, near Tsentralny supermarket and the McDonald's restaurant.
'I was going to a drugstore with my girlfriend. Riot policemen in mufti caught me when I was walking by McDonald's, guarded me to a police station at Kastrychnitskaya metro station. There were 25 or 30 people. Someone had a guitar, someone did shopping... There were 6 Young Belarus activists, the rest were just passers-by,' Finkevich said.
The people were kept at the police station till 7.00 p.m., their passport details were written down, and then they were set free. All people were said in a menacing tone they shouldn't go to the square on 9 May, where the war veterans rally in the presence of Alexander Lukashenka would be held.


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Sunday 13th March, 2011
2:50pm to 3:30pm
Hosted software is expensive to run. That is why free software is usually installed, rather than hosted. But as the world moves from installed to hosted software, we see free software move to the background, and a handful of powerful monopolies (google, facebook, apple) take control of much of the software we use. Unhosted is a project that tries to stop this from happening, by providing a very scalable paradigm. It is a move away from the client-server relationship. The server you run will only serve up the source code you write. All dynamic communication between client and server is eliminated. Processing is moved to the browser, and storage is moved to per-user encrypted storage nodes.
Michiel de Jong is a scalability engineer, and founder of the unhosted project. In this talk he will explain how you, as a developer, can take advantage of the unhosted web to drastically cut down the running costs of the websites you program. Using a step-by-step example, he will show you how to turn your existing hosted website into an unhosted web app, and how the per-time and per-user hosting costs drop drastically in each step.
Browser-based apps with no server backend leave users in control of their valuable user data and privacy. bio from Twitter
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Freaking Awesome Photo of four U.S. F-15C Eagle jets Breaking the formation
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Stunning air-to-air image shows a four-ship formation break.
The top image (click on this link for the high resolution version) shows four F-15C Eagle jets belonging to the 493rd Fighter Squadron, based Royal Air Force Lakenheath, UK, as they break the formation during flying operations on Jul. 22, 2015.
The 493rd FS recently received the 2014 Raytheon Trophy as the U.S. Air Force's top fighter squadron.
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SDCC '12 | The terror of the Court of Owls!
As unsettling as those featureless Court of Owls masks are in the pages of Batman, they pale in comparison to the real-life versions given away by DC Comics at Comic-Con International. If the Warner Bros. tote bags are the must-have accessories of the convention, then the masks are the must-wear, nightmare-inducing disguises. Look at that sea of blank faces in the above photo by Scott Snyder — they're a terrifying blend of Excalibur's Warwolves and Communion's alien greys — and just try to sleep.
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Roots Manuva - New Video For 'Crying' and Record Store Day EP 'Switching Sides'
Roots Manuva announces a brand new EP for Record Store Day 2016 in style with a new video for single 'Crying'.
Inspired by the legendary Omar of HBO's The Wire, you can check the new video below. Make sure to get down to your local record shop on the 16th of April and pick up a copy of new EP 'Switching Sides'.


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Leeds United lost 1-0 to Rotherham United this weekend.
Chris Wood #lufc pic.twitter.com/ZCflGExvIV— LUFC Pictures (@LUFCPictures) November 21, 2015
Leeds United could not make it three wins from their last three Championship matches as they lost 1-0 to Rotherham United on Saturday.
Steve Evans' side had climbed to 15th in the table after overcoming Cardiff City and Huddersfield Town prior to the international break, but they fell to a Joe Newell goal as the visitors climbed off the bottom of the table.
Leeds had defender Gaetano Berardi sent off after he got involved in a fracas with Rotherham loanee Leon Best and it was an afternoon to forget for the Whites.
Chris Wood had chances to equalise for the hosts and add to the six goals he has already scored this season, while Stuart Dallas was replaced in the second half by Jordan Botaka, who himself could have rescued a point for Leeds only to waste a great opportunity.
Wood and Dallas were snapped in action during the match in images posted on Twitter account LUFC Pictures and they will be hoping to do better when Leeds travel to Queens Park Rangers next weekend.
Stuart Dallas #lufc pic.twitter.com/GYqwCQbUg0— LUFC Pictures (@LUFCPictures) November 21, 2015


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2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: Brake Pad, ABC and Check-Engine Warning Lights
February 9, 2015
When last we reported, our 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG was back in the shop. It was there with three warning lights:
- Brake pads
- Active Body Control (ABC) fault
- Check engine light.
The day after our CL's flatbed arrival, the dealership sent us this $16,000 estimate for repairs. Take the jump to see what happened next...
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: Another ABC Fault
January 26, 2015
Stop me if you've heard this one. Our 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG hitched a ride to the Mercedes-Benz dealership on the back of a flatbed trailer. Here is what happened...
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: Pitted Windshield
January 5, 2015
Every time I drive towards a rising or setting sun in our long-term 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG, my vision is blurred by some serious pitting in the windshield. Those little specs act like water spots that have dried on the glass, intensifying the sun's reflection, limiting forward visibility. They aren't just in the lower left corner there either, they're spread across the entire windshield.
I've replaced windshields on my personal cars that weren't nearly as damaged, and while this one isn't even close to dangerous, I wanted to see what the cost of replacing it was. Try to guess before you read on.
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: Detailing
January 2, 2015
When it comes to cars, I'm drawn to shiny parts and I don't mind manual labor. So when I signed out our long-term 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG and noticed a few parts that needed attention, I decided to get out a can of elbow grease (along with some metal polish) and give the AMG-stamped hardware a new lease on life.
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: 15,000 Miles
December 24, 2014
Before I worked here, I followed our old long-term Ferrari 308. You remember, the thing that started this whole "I could buy a reasonable car, or this crazy used sports car for the same price!" deal. I loved the idea and when I got on board, I vowed to do anything I could to support it and to add a used AMG to the fleet. In December of 2013, six years (and some really awesome used long-termers) later, we finally got a 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG.
Now, one year and 8 days after Takahashi and I raced a snow storm out of Reno, we recorded our 15,000th mile behind the wheel. That's 3,000 more than our "Everyday Supercar" NSX and only about 4,000 behind our CLA250 which was new and had satellite radio and never leaked green stuff on anyone's anything.
Clearly, a celebration was in order.
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: Dead Battery
December 22, 2014
Let's be clear: This was my fault.
As I was leaving for work in the morning I found our long-term 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG had a dead battery and it was my fault. The car had nothing to do with it.
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: Broken Seat Trim
December 17, 2014
It has been about 6,000 miles since our long-term 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG has seen any shop time. Since August our big Benz has been Camry reliable without any of the boring.
Still, this is a nine-year-old car, so you gotta expect some little things to crop up. And I mean little things.
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: Misaligned Trunk Lid
December 15, 2014
Several pieces on our long-term 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG are showing their age. I noticed the pitted windshield first, then as my mother was admiring the CL's unbroken window line, I spotted the quarter-inch panel gap on the trunk lid. I opened and closed the trunk a few times, checking for obstructions, finding none and hoping that the panel gap was an anomaly. Even after several open-shut-open repetitions, the gap remained. "Ruh roh," I thought out loud, "this is gonna be 'spensive."
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: Needs More Oil
December 8, 2014
Once again, our long-term 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG �is asking for a liter of oil. Since this is something we've come to expect in the CL65, there was already a quart (0.946 liters) of 0W-40 waiting in the trunk when the warning light came on. I bought a replacement quart but I also wondered how much oil the CL had gone through in the last eleven months.
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: Oregon Road Trip Part 3
September 9, 2014
It is absolutely worth the drive to Crater Lake. Like with most national parks, the term awe-inspiring gains new meaning when you first experience the majestic views and connection with nature it provides.
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: 10,000 Miles
September 4, 2014
In mid-December, we bought our 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG. Nine months later, we hit 10,000 miles.
With our new cars, we do everything in our power to hit 20,000 miles within a year. With our fun ones, things like maintenance and general levels of comfort usually keep us from hitting this mark, but we try. Our Acura NSX got 12,000. Our beloved, dearly missed 2002 Corvette Z06 hit 18,000. Even our museum piece Buick Grand National hit 10,000. So we needed to clear SOME milestone with the most powerful car we've ever had in the long-term fleet. We bought it with 56,413 miles and have had 66,413 burned into our brains ever since. We had to hit that.
Cue James Riswick taking a road trip to Oregon.
Cue the fanfare.
What did it take for us to hit this mark? Money. How much?
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: Replacement Tow Hook Cover
August 25, 2014
Whether it's using brushes, rollers, pinstripes or aerosol cans, painting is fun. If you make mistakes, you can make them birds. Yeah, they're birds now. And as Riswick previously mentioned a nefarious character hijacked the tow hook cover from our long-term 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG and the replacement we ordered needed some paint. I volunteered to do the work and here's how it turned out.
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: Missing Tow Hook Cover
August 20, 2014
For quite some time now, the little plastic cover that conceals the rear tow hook of our �2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG has been missing. We're not really sure when or how, but I'm guessing it was stolen. Why? Because as I discovered, the replacement part is $95 (they originally quoted me $135) with another $45 needed for the paint.
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: Multiple Cylinder Misfires
August 18, 2014
Our last update of the 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 ended with an all-too-familiar picture of the AMG parked in the service drive at the W.I. Simonson Mercedes-Benz dealership. I want to tell you it was back in action the next day. Or three days later. Or even ten. But I can't. That's because we didn't see it until 12 days after Mike dropped it off with a check-engine light. So what happened? The picture is part of the answer...
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: Back in the Shop
July 24, 2014
In the likely case you don't follow me on Twitter, you're probably unaware that our 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG is back in the shop.
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: New Rear Tire
July 23, 2014
We couldn't have placed a nail in the tire of our 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG any more perfectly. Didn't lose any air, and was still too close to the sidewall to be repairable!
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: B-Service
July 15, 2014
With the frequent unexpected problems that arise in our 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG, it's nice to see our big coupe at the dealer for a normally scheduled service for once. We showed up at our local Mercedes-Benz dealership for the CL's B-Service.
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: Road Trip Ramblings
June 18, 2014
Last weekend I drove our long-term 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG to what is probably its primary adopted North American habitat, a swanky resort in Santa Barbara.
On the grounds were variously brand new Range Rovers, Bentleys, other Benzes galore, and...pickup trucks. Yes, the trend of full-size pickups as the personal transport choice of the rich has arrived on the west coast, after a long gestation in the Midwest.
Most common of all were BMWs, and not necessarily the largest or most expensive. Plenty of 3 and 5 Series and X3s, oddly enough. Everything was pretty late model. No cool old cars at all. I was disappointed by the lack of imagination.
Anyway, when I arrived, I pulled up to the entrance where I was greeted by a flotilla of valets. As soon as I stepped out one of them asked, with genuine enthusiasm, "Hey, how fast have you gone?"
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: Big New Battery Saves Idiot
June 16, 2014
Fellow editor Brent Romans recently replaced the battery in our long-term 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG.
And it's a good thing, too, because I'm an idiot.
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: Another Quart of Oil Requested
June 13, 2014
Make that a liter. Our long-term 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG popped up an alert on the instrument cluster to "add 1.0 liter of oil at filling station." But all I had was a quart...
Since said quart of 0W-40 Mobil 1 was previously placed in the car by some thoughtful editor (probably Herr Riswick), it made my job that much easier. Thanks, person!
So, why is the CL65 consuming oil?
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: Replacing the Battery
June 11, 2014
After the battery died in our 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG it was time to get a replacement.
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: A Dead Battery Stops Even the Most Powerful
June 3, 2014
"It'll be fine."
This was me telling my wife about leaving the long-term 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG parked at the airport while we went away for a trip. Originally, a friend was supposed to give us a lift. But he couldn't at the last minute so I decided we'd just take the CL. It did seem a little undignified to leave it parked, but I also considered that it's a nine-year-old car that Edmunds bought for less than $40,000. Plus, nothing can break on it if the car's just sitting, right?
Famous last words.
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: Adding Oil...Again
April 14, 2014
Our twin-turbo V12-powered long-term 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG is using oil. About a quart every 1,000 miles.
We bought the car back in December with 56,000 miles on it. It was a CPO car and had just been serviced by Mercedes-Benz of Reno, NV. However, we've already added oil to the big V12 four times: a quart at 58,500 miles, 59,000 miles, 61,000 miles and now at 62,000 miles. Per the car's spec we used Mobil 1 0W40 full synthetic European Car Formula, which ain't cheap.
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: License Plate Light Bulb Replacement
April 11, 2014
Our 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG has finally developed a problem that doesn't require a dealer visit and a spare $3,000 to correct. A warning bell from the instrument panel display alerted us to a burned out license plate light bulb. I grabbed a pair from a local auto parts store and set to work.
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: Plate Light Out
April 9, 2014
One of the lights illuminating our license plate is out and our 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG was nice enough to not only let us know, but let us know which one.
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: Tow Hook Cover
March 21, 2014
I love driving this phenomenal car, but it makes me nervous. I keep bracing for the next problem. This morning I discovered the cover for the rear tow hook fell off. It leaves a small but unsightly black square in the right side of the rear bumper.
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: White Glove Treatment
March 20, 2014
Exploring our long-term 2005 Mercedes CL65 AMG is like going on a treasure hunt. Everywhere you turn there's some nice little touch to pamper you.
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: Adding the Right Oil Is a Challenge
March 19, 2014
I was halfway into a 160-mile trip when I got a stern warning telling me to add 1 liter of oil to the 2005 Mercedes CL65 AMG. I knew that Mike Schmidt had added oil only 1,879 miles ago so I wasn't completely surprised. But checking the oil level and responding to this message wasn't easy.
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: Active Body Control Failure and Repair
March 13, 2014
We knew going into our test of the 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG that its Active Body Control (ABC) System was a potential crutch. The life of its components averaged about 60,000 miles according to many owners. When the ABC system acted out for the first time at 58,900 miles, we weren't completely surprised. Now, just 1,500 miles later, it's failed again...
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: Something's Leaking
March 12, 2014
It was only the second time I drove our long-term 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG. Not 10 minutes after I got to my desk, somebody stopped by to tell me something was leaking from it in our parking garage. At this point I've taken to calling it the Silver Plague.
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: It Won't Start, Part 2
January 31, 2014
We towed our 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 to Fletcher Jones Mercedes-Benz in Newport Beach after it left us stranded. "I called to tell you that we received your car," started our advisor. "I walked up to check it out and the car fired right up. There was a stored misfire fault code, but no check engine light." We discussed our potential next steps...
There weren't many options. We decided to leave the car overnight to see if the dealer could get it to fail again. No luck. This will have to be something we monitor. Maybe it will never happen again. Wishful thinking is okay, right? While the CL65 was in for this service, we also asked to have an unusual dashboard clicking noise investigated.
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: It Won't Start, Part 1
January 30, 2014
This is our 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65, parked on pit row at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California. We had just completed a series of routine performance tests. The same tests we do on all long-term cars. And our CL65 did great.
We parked the car and came back about 20 minutes later. When we turned the key this time the CL65 wouldn't quite start. Instead, it shuddered violently. We shut it down. Then this happened (take the jump for video)...
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: Consuming Oil?
January 29, 2014
I recently read an update James posted mentioning that our 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 was low on oil. It was down about a quart at 58,500 miles, so he added as much. Here we are, 500 miles later and I get a warning that the Mercedes is low another quart-and-a-half. Curious, I looked around...
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65: ABC Warning Light, Part 2
January 22, 2014
Earlier this week we towed our 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 to the dealer for service following an Active Body Control (ABC) system failure. Here is what happened next.
As mentioned previously, Dan, our advisor at Fletcher Jones Mercedes-Benz, called us once roadside assistance dropped the car off to him. He called again the next morning to tell us what they found and the cost to repair it. His third call brought good news, "Your car is ready."
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65: ABC Warning Light, Part 1
January 21, 2014
Before we get to this picture, let me give some back story.
I was on my way to the grocery store when the Active Body Control (ABC) warning light on our 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 illuminated. I drove the remaining half-mile, bought my milk and quietly hoped the light would be out when I returned. It wasn't. Four miles later I was back home, pulling into my driveway. That's when I first smelled it...
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG: Checking and Adding Oil
January 9, 2014
Before heading out on a road trip, it's always a good idea to do a simple spot check of your car, especially an older and infinitely complicated one like our 2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65.


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Soccer Saturday crew take 'best selfie of all time' in hilarious Oscars spoof
MEMBERS of the Sky Sports Soccer Saturday team have recreated the most retweeted selfie on the web with joker Chris Kamara at the centre of it.
Football pundits Kamara, Paul Merson, Phil Thompson, Charlie Nicklaus and presenter Jeff Stelling gathered last night ahead of today's show to get in the funny snap.
Kammy posted the snap to his Twitter account, captioning it: "The best selfie of all time ha ha"
The latest 'A-list' celeb snap stands in competition against Ellen DeGeneres' Oscar selfie that has been retweeted 3.3million times – and reportedly broke Twitter for a few minutes.
Sadly, Kammy's photo has only received 6000 retweets – but there is still time.
If only Bradley's arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars pic.twitter.com/C9U5NOtGap— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) March 3, 2014
"Selfie" support @PrincesTrust thx 2 @benkingsley @JeremyIrons @PixieLott @DominicWest @LukeEvans_ @News @VernonkayR1 pic.twitter.com/9Iii0bPy1a— Joan Collins (@joancollinsobe) March 12, 2014
Group selfies have become the latest craze since the Oscar shot.
Spoofs of the group together have been re-done in the most weird and wonderful ways.
Joan Collins attempted one with some slightly less high profile actors.
.@TheEllenShow Oscar® Selfie: A wider view. #thesimpsons pic.twitter.com/4rOSejhycW— The Simpsons (@TheSimpsons) March 5, 2014
The real #Oscars #selfie…sort of #Oscars2014 @ellenDegeneres_ pic.twitter.com/PNSFiN1VXJ— The LEGO Group (@LEGO_Group) March 4, 2014
While the likes of Simpsons and Charlie Brown animators have done their versions of the popular pose.
Even LEGO have made their own spoof.
Twitter users have even resorted to creating their own – one with Kevin Spacey's head on everyone's body.