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Caroma® Gears Up to Take Center Stage at Greenbuild 2010
Surrey, British Columbia – Caroma®, the worldwide leader in high efficiency dual-flush toilets for commercial and residential use, will literally show attendees at the Greenbuild 2010 International Conference & Expo, how their WaterSense® labeled toilets preserve the world's most valuable resource – water. Greenbuild 2010 — presented by the U.S. Green Building Council and considered to be the world's largest annual conference & expo dedicated to green building— will be held in Chicago from Nov. 17-19.
Caroma will host a fun and educational promotion at Greenbuild to show attendees that Caroma's high-efficiency toilets use a minimal amount of water (1.28/0.8 gallons per flush) and are virtually unblockable. All those who visit Caroma's booth (#1601) at Greenbuild will meet with a Caroma representative and be entered to win Apple® iPads™, Nanos®, Shuffles® and Caroma promotional items worth more than $50. One hour before the exhibition closes each day, participants will reconvene at the Caroma booth, flush a selection of fruits down a Caroma toilet, and see Caroma's award-winning Smart Technology firsthand. Caroma's booth demonstrators will then slice open the fruits to reveal the prizes.
"Caroma strongly believes that one flush can make a difference in the world and we're ready to prove it at Greenbuild," said Derek Kirkpatrick, North American General Manager of Caroma. "In addition to being an interactive promotion, our One Flush iPad™ Giveaway aims to educate booth visitors on the advantages of installing a Caroma high efficiency, dual-flush toilet." Kirkpatrick continued, "If one person were to use a high efficiency toilet for one year, they'd save almost 330 gallons of water. As a tireless supporter of sustainable technologies for more than 70 years, we really hope to open customers' eyes to all the ways Caroma is changing the way bathroom water is used and conserved."
For additional information, rules and restrictions regarding Caroma's One Flush iPad™ Giveaway, visit www.caromausa.com/greenbuild.
Located at booth #1601, Caroma will also feature several of its new products at Greenbuild 2010, including the:
Sydney Smart 305 1-Piece Water Closet
Caroma's new Sydney Smart 305 1-piece Water Closets feature Caroma's industry leading Smart Technology. With two buttons for flushing, the half flush uses 0.8gpf/3L for liquids and the full flush uses 1.28gpf/4.8L for solids. The Sydney Smart 305 is one of the lowest consumption High
Efficiency Toilets (HET) on the market with an average flush of 0.9gpf (3.6L). The Sydney Smart 305 offers a modern design with an Easy Height bowl (16.5 inch/420 millimeter floor to rim) for comfortable seating, and is available in round and elongated bowl options that are suitable for ADA installations.
Somerton Smart 270 1-Piece Water Closet
Featuring Caroma's Industry Leading, Smart Technology, boasting 1.28gal/4.8L (full flush for solids) and 0.8gpf/3L (half flush for liquids), the Somerton Smart 270 is one of the lowest consumption High Efficiency Toilets (HET). The Somerton Smart 270's sleek, contemporary design includes an 'Easy Height' fully skirted bowl (16.5 inch/420 millimeter floor to rim) for comfortable seating. Easy to install with an adjustable connector, the Somerton Smart 270 is available in round and elongated bowl options that are suitable for ADA installations.
Caroma Flow Showerhead
The Caroma Flow high-efficiency showerhead with a nominal flow rate of 1.5gpm/5.7L at 80 psi, includes a precision engineered nozzle that pressurizes water to produce a uniform, and soft yet powerful spray of water; maximizing comfort while saving up to 10 gallons more water than the standard 2.5gpm showerhead for a 10-minute shower. Incorporating a unique easy-slide spray adjustment, ranging from a wide coverage bathing spray to a concentrated rinse flow, the Caroma Flow Showerhead is easy to install in both retrofit and new construction projects.
- 50% off Caroma toilets
- ADA compliance
- Adelaide toilets
- AutoDesk Revit (.RFA)
- Caravelle 305 Round Front Plus
- College Gardens Apartments
- dual flush technology
- dual flush toilets and sinks
- Earth Day
- Earth Month
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- Global Green
- green building technology
- high efficiency toilets (HET)
- LEED certification
- One Flush Can Make a Difference
- Sydney Smart toilets
- water conservation


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Car Review
2011 Lotus Elise: Overview
- Go-kart handling makes for a great track car
- Supercar styling for less than half the cost
- Toyota engine means good reliability and cheap parts
- Extremely tight cabin for even medium-sized drivers
- Unknown future for Lotus as a brand
- Safety is a concern due to small size and low weight
What's new: The 2011 Lotus Elise received major changes for its last year on the market. A new front end was the biggest, integrating its front lights into one unit for the first time. New wheel designs were also available, as were several special editions - an Elise signature.
The British-built Lotus Elise debuted in the US for the 2005 model year. All Elise models are mid-engine, rear-wheel drive two-seaters, and all featured a six-speed manual transmission. The Elise offered a removable roof, while its Exige stablemate was sold as a track-oriented hardtop, lacking even a rear window.
The Elise used a Toyota-built 1.8-liter four-cylinder engine that produced 189 horsepower. An available supercharger increased that figure to 217 horses. While that may not seem like much power, the Elise's paltry 2,000-pound curb weight meant it could reach 60 mph from a stop in around five seconds.
The 2011 Lotus Elise started around $52,000. Opting for the available supercharger added about $3,100 to that figure, while the upscale Roger Becker Edition started around $58,000 and included the Touring and Sport packages as standard equipment. By comparison, the track-focused 2011 Exige started at nearly $66,000.

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In 2003 Dr David Kelly was found dead in the woods. Caught in a political vortex, Dr Kelly had been forced to appear before a televised government committee investigating whether he had accused British government figures of planting in a dossier the questionable claim that WMDs could be unleashed from Iraq in 45 minutes. The Hutton Inquiry concluded that Dr Kelly took his own life. But did he? This blog takes a closer look.... Contact: email@example.com


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A full account of her case from March 2003 through December 2008 can be accessed here.
Numerous follow-up articles discussed subsequent events to the present. All are posted chronologically on sjlendman.blogspot.com.
Wrongfully persecuted, she was sentenced to 86 years in prison on September 23, 2010, a gross miscarriage of justice since her March 30, 2003 abduction, imprisonment, torture and witch-hunt prosecution, providing no evidence whatever to convict.
Supporters want her freed. The web site freeaafia.org posts updates on her case and status. It has petitions to sign on her behalf as well as actions to take, including writing her as follows:
Aafia Siddiqui
# 90279-054
FMC Carswell
Federal Medical Center
PO Box 27137
Fort Worth, TX 76127
It also asks those able to contribute to her legal defense and investigation into the disappearance of her son, Suleman, missing for nearly eight years.
Suburban Boston-based Elaine Whitfield Sharp represents Aafia. So does the New York-based International Justice Network (IJN), the only organization representing Bagram, Afghanistan detainees. It:
"leads human rights initiatives around the world by providing direct legal assistance and expertise to victims of human rights abuses and by creating a global network of legal professionals, (NGOs), and community-based human rights advocates in order to protect and promote human rights and the rule of law."
Its November 30 press release headlined, "Kidnapping Attempt on Children of Aafia Siddiqui," saying:
Armed gunmen broke into her family home in Karachi, Pakistan. "The incident was apparently a failed attempt to kidnap Dr. Siddiqui's two minor children - both of whom are US citizens, but now reside with relatives in Pakistan."
Since US authorities released her eldest son, Ahmed, in August 2008, he's been living with his grandmother and aunt in Karachi. Pakistani police provide round the clock protection, so it's unknown how the men gained access. They also managed to avoid capture, suggesting perhaps authorities aren't as protective as they claim.
IJN's Executive Director Tina Foster said:
"Those responsible for the March 2003 kidnapping of Dr. Siddiqui and her two children have yet to be identified and held to account. But there can be no doubt that the Pakistani government would bear responsibility for any harm that comes to (her) family (because) not only does the government have a general duty to protect the safety of its citizens, but in this case it also has affirmatively undertaken the responsibility for the Siddiqui family's safety and insisted on the security procedures now in place at" their home.
She also said "this kidnapping attempt is simply the latest in a series of incidents which suggests that there are individuals - who remain at large - (who) would stop at nothing to prevent the truth about what happened to Dr. Siddiqui and her three children to be revealed." It's not unlikely that Pakistan's government is involved, one of many services performed for Washington.
An October 25 IJN (ijnetwork.org) posting quoted the ACLU saying a same day federal court ruling affirmed the Defense Department's right to withhold key information about hundreds of Bargram detainees. The court denied an ACLU FOIA lawsuit for public disclosure.
Names of 645 prisoners were released, but nothing about their citizenship, length of imprisonment, and location and circumstances of capture. The ACLU accused the Defense Department of "improperly withholding these basic facts."
ACLU's Melissa Goodman said:
"Despite concerns that Bagram has become the new Guantanamo, the public remains in the dark when it comes to basic facts about the facility and whom our military is holding in indefinite military detention there. The public has a right to know...." No transparency "is even more disturbing considering the possibility that the US will continue holding and interrogating prisoners at Bagram well into the future."
The right-wing US District Court for the Southern District of New York went along, violating international and US law, including provisions of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions prohibiting:
It's well known that Pentagon/CIA prisoners at Bagram, Guantanamo, and other American torture prisons are brutalized, at times murdered, and denied all basic rights under international law that automatically is US law under the Constitution's Supremacy Clause, Article VI, Clause 2. It states:
"This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary, notwithstanding."
On December 22, The International News (thenews.com) headlined, "Counsel urges unity to bring to bring Aafia home," saying:
Tina Foster said Muslims get second class justice in America, and unless Pakistan pressures Washington to send Aafia home, all Pakistanis will be at risk.
Others as well everywhere, including American citizens at home or abroad. Washington's extremism is so out-of-control that US and international laws don't matter, nor do those of other countries violated with impunity on their territory.
At the Lahore Press Club, Foster said Aafia's court-appointed attorneys would appeal her sentence, challenging both her conviction and 86 year imprisonment. If all Pakistanis and political parties were united on her behalf, she said, Washington might listen.
"The United States claims to have arrested Aafia in Pakistan (so America) should have sent her (there). But instead, they took a Pakistani sister and illegally transferred her all the way to the US," after torturing her for years at Bagram.
Foster added that Washington claims the right to imprison Aafia for life far from home and family. If Pakistan lets this "stand, the US government would have a green light to hold any Pakistani citizen traveling abroad and illegally send them to the United States, a country where Muslims get second class justice. If Pakistanis don't stand up for Aafia, no one will be able to stand up for other Pakistanis at their hour of need."
In fact, most Muslims get no justice. They're illegally entrapped and imprisoned for crimes they never planned or committed. Yet America's media affirms guilt by accusation.
Reports vilified Aafia when she was charged with offenses never included in her indictment. Foster stressed her appalling confinement, for months in isolation in a small prison cell. She's now at FMC Carswell, a so-called medical center, known more for punishment than proper care.
Kevin Cooper's case is also disturbing, an earlier article reported in more detail.
A Black American citizen, he was framed and wrongfully convicted of four June 1983 murders. Evidence proved him innocence, yet he's languished on death row ever since, and faces execution without gubernatorial clemency, pardon, or commutation of his sentence to life.
On December 23, the Los Angeles was supportive in its editorial headlined, "Governor, save inmate's life," saying:
"Even supporters of capital punishment should object to the execution of someone whose guilt is in serious doubt." Since judicial action didn't save him, "the burden is on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger...."
California has 717 inmates on death row. With near certainty, many there are as innocent as Cooper. However, no one intervenes on their behalf because they're poor, Black or Latino - throwaway people out of sight and mind until lethal injections painfully kill them.
"Much of the evidence against Cooper has been seriously questioned, most comprehensively in an opinion by Judge William A. Fletcher of the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, who dissented from a decision not to hear" Cooper's appeal. The above link covers his dissent in detail and his belief that Cooper is innocent, saying:
Based on convincing evidence, Cooper "is probably innocent of the crimes for which the state of California is about to execute him."
The LA Times "opposes the death penalty under any circumstances, and....wouldn't object if the governor commuted" all 717 death row inmates. "But execution is especially outrageous when the prisoner may be innocent. Gov. Schwarzenegger should commute Cooper's sentence."
In fact, he should pardon him (and others wrongfully convicted), make full restitution for nearly three decades of injustice, and provide substantial aid to help him readjust in society, free at last and fully exonerated.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. His blog is sjlendman.blogspot.com.
Listen to Lendman's cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.
Mr. Lendman's stories are republished in the Baltimore Chronicle with permission of the author.
Republication or redistribution of Baltimore Chronicle content is expressly prohibited without their prior written consent.
Baltimore News Network, Inc., sponsor of this web site, is a nonprofit organization and does not make political endorsements. The opinions expressed in stories posted on this web site are the authors' own.
This story was published in the Baltimore Chronicle on December 24, 2010.


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|All the Nb sputtered medium beta cavities installed up to the last year in ALPI were produced by upgrading of old previously Pb plated substrates. For the first time this year we had the opportunity to test on line four 160 MHz, β=0.11 QWRs which were designed and built in order to be Nb sputtered. These resonators were sputtered in between 2007 and 2008 and they were tested at low fields (up to 3 MV/m) just after their production when they showed Q-zero values exceeding 1xE9. They were then stored for about three years in plastic bags and installed in ALPI only this year. The on line tests that we performed after installation showed Q-zero values reduced of about a factor five with respect to the ones measured in laboratory. It is the first time we could pick out a Q deterioration caused by storage in air. So far we have not recognized any Q–degradation both when the sputtered cavities were maintained in vacuum for many years and also when they were open to air for a few weeks for cryostat maintenance. In such a case, as it happened in the maintenance of cryostat CR19 housing high beta resonators, we could instead find some improvements in the Q-curves.


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How to change the banner in osCommerce
Banners are typically used for the purpose of advertising in osCommerce. It is a graphic that can also be used for the purpose of identifying a website's brand, or to pass on announcement. However you use it, the banner is a useful element that can be controlled from the osCommerce interface. The following article explains how to add a new banner within the osCommerce Administration interface.
Adding a New Banner in osCommerce
Before viewing the instructions for changing/adding a new banner, let's identify the location of the banner:
- Log into your osCommerce Admin dashboard.
- Scroll down on the left hand side of the screen until you find the TOOLS button. Click on this button and the menu will expand.
- Click on BANNER MANAGER and you will see the osCommerce interface for managing banners.
- Click on the NEW BANNER button to proceed.
- The NEW BANNER menu includes the following fields:
Banner Title, Banner URL, Banner Group, Image, Image Target, HTML Text, Scheduled At, and Expires On. The table below explains each option.
Option Description Banner Title Add banner name here - this is a required field Banner URL URL used if the banner is clicked by a website visitor Banner Group Select an existing group, or create banner groups to organize multiple banners Image Click the Browse to use this interface to upload a banner image. You can also use a URL location for the image Image Target (Save To) Define where the banner file will be saved HTML Text You can use text instead of a graphic file for the banner. The banner can also be formatted using HTML. Note that if you have text defined here, it will override an existing image as the text has priority. Scheduled At Schedule when a banner appears by placing a date here. Expires On You can also define when a banner expires by scheduling it in this field.
- When you have finished adding your graphic or text for the banner, go to the bottom right hand corner and click on SAVE in order to save your entries.
This completes the tutorial on adding a new banner into osCommerce using the osCommerce Administrator interface. Here are examples of what you would see if a new banner were to be inserted. Note that the banner will differ based on the theme that you are using. The default osCommerce theme banner is 486pixels wide by 50 pixels tall. Additionally, as per the description above, HTML text that is entered will have priority over the image.
Default osCommerce theme
osCommerce with a new banner added. Note that the banner was created at 486px by 50px.
HTML Text entered as a banner. HTML has priority over the images
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