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Wales braced for Pumas challenge
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November 8, 2012
Caretaker coach Rob Howley will guide Wales into battle against Argentina on Saturday © PA Photos
Wales caretaker coach Rob Howley will be hoping to lay down an impressive marker when he sends his side into battle against Argentina at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday.
Howley will take charge of the side for the Pumas clash and next weekend's date with Samoa with regular coach Warren Gatland set to concentrate on surveying his options for the British & Irish Lions before returning to the hot-seat for the games against New Zealand and Australia.
Wales enter their opening autumn international having failed to build on their Six Nations Grand Slam success on their summer tour of Austraila. Errors proved costly in a closely-fought series that eventually saw the Wallabies claim a 3-0 triumph and they require a swift return to winning ways if they are to push for a priceless top four spot in the IRB rankings and with it a preferable Rugby World Cup draw.
Argentina embark on their latest tour on the back of their debut alongside their southern hemisphere rivals in the Rugby Championship. The Pumas were unable to notch a win but a draw with South Africa and several other eye-catching displays more than warranted their promotion to the competition. Time will tell if that gutsy effort took its toll on the players with clashes against France and Ireland to follow in the coming weeks and the Pumas also in a rankings dog-fight in a bid to cement their pace in the second tier of the rankings - 5th-8th - for the eagerly awaited pool draw.
Wales - Player to Watch: With a high-profile move to France's Top 14 reportedly in the pipeline that may impact on his international chances moving forward, Jamie Roberts will be keen to underline his worth in what will be his first Test outing since the Six Nations.
Wales - Team News: Wales make seven changes from their last Test against Australia in June with Ospreys tight-head Aaron Jarvis handed his Test debut with Adam Jones sidelined by a knee injury. Elsewhere, Scarlets flanker Josh Turbull makes just his second start with the Dragons' Dan Lydiate (ankle) and the Ospreys' Ryan Jones (shoulder) also injured. Scarlets scrum-half Tavis Knoyle gets the nod ahead of Bayonne No.9 Mike Phillips and another Scarlet Scott Williams replaces his regional team-mate Jonathan Davies in the centre where he will partner Roberts. No.8 Toby Faletau and lock Ian Evans also return to the side in the place of Ryan Jones and Bradley Davies.
Argentina - Player to Watch: Felipe Contepomi returns to the Pumas' line-up having sat out the Rugby Championship. It was thought his international career was over but coach Santiago Phelan has welcomed the 35-year-old back into the mix. One of the world's best in his prime, can he still cut it on the international stage?
Argentina - Team News: Contepomi returns to the line-up in one of six changes to the side beaten by Australia last time out. Gonzalo Tiesi will partner Contepomi while Juan Martin Hernandez shifts from fly-half to fullback with Nicolas Sanchez handed the play-making duties. With Patricio Albacete sidelined through injury, flanker Julio Farias Cabello moves into the second row where he will link up with Manuel Carizza with Leonardo Senatore coming into the back row. In the front row Leicester's Marcos Ayerza benefits from the retirement of Rodrigo Roncero and the absence of Gomez Kodela to start on the loose-head side of the scrum alongside Eusebio Guinazu and Juan Figallo. The in-form Juan Imhoff takes the left wing slot from Horacio Agulla, with Gonzalo Camacho on the other wing.
Key Battle: Pumas talisman Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe was in inspired form for much of the Rugby Championship and is sure to rise to the occasion of his 50th Test cap - but how much change will he and his back-row colleagues get out of their Welsh rivals?
Trivia: There are nine Scarlets players involved between the two match day squads on Saturday, the first time this has happened to the region since the inception of regional rugby in 2003. Argentine replacement Tomas Vallejos is the only non-Welsh Scarlet. Ospreys hold the record for most players on international duty at any one time in Wales, having fielded 14 players twice during the 2008 Six Nations.
Stats: Wales could climb to fourth in the IRB World Rankings if they win in Cardiff, France lose to Australia and England lose to Fiji on Saturday. Alternatively, a win for the visitors and a loss for seventh placed Ireland against South Africa could see Argentina swap places with them in the rankings.
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"The dynamics of the team are important when you spend time together. It's about those marginal gains that you get. When you go to France and England (to play), you take yourself out of that environment."
"For this tour we had a special agreement with the French union about not taking more than two players from each club (for each game), and in some clubs we have more players so we had to think what was best for this game as they have club games in France."
Prediction: Wales look primed for a big end-of-year push that could see them usurp England in the top four of the IRB rankings - expect them to make a winning start but be pushed all the way by the Pumas.
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How many Avatar movies can James Cameron make? The answer is is probably "as many as he wants," because James Cameron has oodles of money after not just the massive success of the first film, but the licensing of the technology he used to make it. Ever since Avatar came out four long years ago in 2009 Cameron has been promising more movies set in that world, first one sequel, then two, and then at one point he started hinting at three of them-- the number seemed to change based on Cameron's mood.
Now he's finally committed to a number, and yes, we're getting three more. THR reports that Fox has announced release dates for three more Avatar movies, which will Cameron will shoot simultaneously when production starts next year. Avatar 2 is set for release in December of 2016, with the next two to follow in the same month of 2017 and 2018. Cameron proved that December could be serious blockbuster territory when Titanic opened just before Christmas in 1997, and he did it again with Avatar's December debut in 2009. Even more appropriately, Avatars 2-4 will be filmed in the same New Zealand studios where Peter Jackson made his Hobbit movies in a similarly grueling fashion, shooting all three simultaneously. Jackson has even joked that he's prepping his crew for the famously tyrannical Cameron's arrival. The Hobbit movies have sewn up December for last year, this year, and 2014; after a one-year break, another massive trilogy filmed in New Zealand will take over.
What will happen in Avatar 2? Again, it depends on who you ask, and at what point. Cameron has dropped varying hints about it for years, but we probably can't count on anything said before The Sarah Connor Chronicles veteran Josh Friedman was hired to write the Avatar 2 script… and that was yesterday. Friedman will collaborate with Rise of the Planet of the Apes veterans Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver and Armageddon's Shane Salerno on the script for all three films, which sounds like the craziest job this side of trying to jump inside a Na'vi brain and colonize a distant planet.
The four years since Avatar premiered have felt very, very long, bringing us constant innovations in motion-capture filmmaking and 3D effects that have made both technologies feel a little less revolutionary, and the thinness of Avatar's story and themes more glaring. Can three more movies set on Pandora recapture our imaginations the way the first one did? Logically, you'd say no-- Avatar had its moment, and that moment is gone. But James Cameron has routinely played by his own insane rules, over and over again making films that seemed impossible or ridiculous and turning them into gigantic hits. When he makes movies, he makes them specifically so they can become the biggest of all time. And you'd better believe he, at least, has all the confidence that three more Avatars can pull that off.

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First Take: BlackBerry shock? That Watsa wants to invest
The odd thing about the news that Toronto insurance company Fairfax Holdings won't buy BlackBerry in a $4.7 billion takeover isn't that Fairfax came to its senses about buying a company losing both money and market share.
The perplexing part is the investment deal the two companies are doing instead.
Fairfax, already BlackBerry's largest shareholder, is investing another $1 billion in exchange for debt that can be converted into another 16% ownership interest in BlackBerry -- at a price of $10 a share, Since BlackBerry closed Friday at $7.77, and fell to $6.50 in early trading Monday, that's a bet that's likely to be out of the money for a while, maybe forever.
BLACKBERRY:Drops sales bid, Heins out as CEO
The bet gets even odder in light of third-quarter market share statistics released by Strategy Analytics last month. In the third quarter, BlackBerry's share of the global smartphone market plummeted to 1% from 4.3% in the same quarter a year earlier, as units shopped dropped to 2.5 million from 7.4 million. All of its share loss appeared to go directly to the Android platform that has become the top rival to Apple's iPhone, the Newton, Mass. based market researcher said.
Granted, BlackBerry does generate positive operating cash flow. But the deal is an odd one by nearly any standard of evaluating leveraged transactions.
The idea of taking a company like BlackBerry into private ownership is that it buys time for a talented management team to work on products and strategies that will turn the company around eventually, and which will work better if the company can execute without day-to-day criticism from stock analysts and public investors. And the deal's sponsors try to make their money by buying the company cheaply, with borrowed money.
In this deal, Fairfax is paying an above market price. It is replacing the CEO, undermining the idea that BlackBerry's management team can reverse its problems. Its latest product line is significantly less than a hit. And BlackBerry will remain a public company, its every re-investment subject to instant second-guessing. So what's wrong with this picture?
Better question may be, what's right with this picture. Fairfax boss Prem Watsa, who will become BlackBerry's lead director, is a billionaire, and Fairfax stock has risen 100-fold under his leadership. This deal will test his savvy.


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OAKLAND — Even at the end, when all that remained was the unwelcome final score, the sweet sounds of support soared from floor level to the upper reaches of Oracle Arena.
War-riors … War-riors … War-riors!
Even when the game itself was over and the Warriors were swept into the offseason by a 94-82 loss to San Antonio in Game 6 of the Western Conference semifinals, the crowd remained, standing and singing and clapping and cheering.
Not until Stephen Curry grabbed the microphone and addressed the audience — his audience — did the masses begin spilling out of the place they had so enjoyed visiting during the past seven months.
The deepest Warriors postseason run since 1977, which grew into the best story in the NBA playoffs, finally came to a close Thursday night. It died not without the spilling of blood, the application of stitches and the highest level of fan appreciation.
"We've got the best fans in the business," coach Mark Jackson said. "It was an incredible moment for them to acknowledge what took place this year and also for my guys to acknowledge that we don't take these incredible fans for granted.
"It's been a great ride."
The end was fair and fitting, the relatively inexperienced Warriors never quite able to catch a team that has been a postseason fixture for two decades. The team trying to learn how it's done could not overcome the team that knows how it's done.
"That's like a model for a team, for how you want things to be on any team," veteran guard Jarrett Jack said of the Spurs.
San Antonio shot only slightly better than the Warriors, rebounded slightly better and passed it with considerably more effect. That's why every Warriors rally, and there were many, each raising the decibel level at "Roaracle," ended without the desired resolution.
And yet, this night should not spoil what was a wildly successful season for a group of players, most of which are in the early stages of their NBA journey, who were unified from start to finish.
"That's the key for us," center Andrew Bogut said. "Everybody on this team is in it together. It starts with the coach and works through everyone else."
The Warriors were in the postseason for the first time in six years, and only the second time since 1994. Relatively unknown when the playoffs began, they became stars — especially Curry — before the eyes of a global fan base.
Underdogs in the first round against Denver, they won the series in six games. Underdogs again in the second round, the Warriors gave the Spurs fits.
One season ago, the Warriors spent the final weeks jockeying for advantageous position in the NBA draft. They finished with a 23-43 record, which left them in 13th place in the 15-team Western Conference. They finished 18 games behind the Lakers, an absurd 27 behind the Spurs.
That the Warriors were among the final eight teams in the postseason and were facing the Spurs graphically illustrates the scope of their bounce-back season, one of the most stunning turnarounds in league history.
And they did it without overhauling the roster around a single impact player — a LeBron James or a Kevin Durant — instead reshaping it around the core of Curry, David Lee and Klay Thompson.
General manager Bob Myers used the seventh overall draft pick to select North Carolina's Harrison Barnes, who became an immediate starter and this week was named to the NBA's All-Rookie first team.
They also made other significant moves, trading for Jack and signing veteran forward Carl Landry to a free agent contract. Neither player is an All-Star, but both are crafty and relentless and, moreover, positive additions to team chemistry.
Added to the growth of Curry and Thompson, along with the occasional but generally helpful appearances by Bogut, the Warriors were the surprise of the NBA for the first half of the season. It was enough to land them their first All-Star since 1997 (Latrell Sprewell) when Lee was selected for the game.
It all led up to Thursday night, with the building on fire, with CEO Joe Lacob coming out of his courtside seat, stomping his feet and shaking his fists during the furious late rally as the Warriors cut the deficit to two (77-75) with 4:28 left.
It was not enough, yet they did not go quietly — certainly not Barnes, who returned briefly after sustaining a laceration over his right eye that required six stitches.
Consider that an appropriate farewell-to-the-season symbol for a team that prospered in the face of an assortment of aches and pains and injuries. The Warriors can be proud. So can their fans, who saw them go out on their proverbial shield.
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We are awash in information. Our organizations house stupendous amounts of it, and even more of it is all around us, freely available to those who can find it. That's why IT leadership has been shifting its focus from deploying technology to extracting value from information. And it's why organizations intent on driving change and maximizing value are increasingly talking about enterprise content management (ECM).
So why all the fuss about ECM?
Partly, it's about the sheer volume of information and the value it represents. Researchers at the McKinsey Institute have come to the conclusion that companies with more than 1,000 employees store, on average, over 235TB of data -- more data than is contained in the U.S. Library of Congress. If organizations have library-like data stores, they might want to recall that a prime objective of libraries is to help people find information.
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Former U.S. President George W. Bush visited Starkey Hearing Foundation's Phase 2 Fitting Mission in Windhoek, Namibia on April 6, 2017.
President Bush and his wife, former First Lady Laura Bush, were on a trip to Botswana and Namibia to advance the George W. Bush Institute's work to improve the lives of women and girls in Africa, particularly in the areas of education and healthcare.
This was the former president's second Starkey Hearing Foundation mission. He previously joined the Foundation for a mission in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, in June 2013. This time around, he was accompanied by Mrs. Bush, Namibian First Lady Monica Geingos, and a contingency from the Bush Center's affiliate Pink Ribbon/Red Ribbon, which fights cervical and breast cancers in the developing world.


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M&A Valuation: What's a Company Worth?
Valuation (the price one party will pay another for a business in an M&A transaction) is based on what you can negotiate. And, as with most negotiations, valuation is more art than science. In fact, some call it alchemy because valuation is often subjectivity masquerading as science and logic.
Valuation is really the intersection of cash flow and time. In other words, how long will the Buyer take to recoup the cost of the investment? And how many years' worth of profits is the Seller willing to take today in exchange for giving up an infinite flow of profits from that business?
Keep in mind that cash flow and time aren't the only contributors. You also need to factor in the following:
Future prospects of the business: Is the business growing rapidly? Is growth stagnant and flat? This growth (or lack thereof) may affect how much Buyers are willing to spend.
The risk associated with the specific business: For example, are the company's products high quality, or has quality slipped? Is the company able to recruit, train, and retain good employees, or does it have a problem with excessive employee turnover?
Systemic risk: Systemic risk is risk affecting everything in the economy. The recent economic meltdown is a perfect example (unfortunately) of how the economy can affect everyone and every company. Plenty of well-run companies offering good products and services suffered due to a widespread downturn. Buyers feel a lot less generous in the valuation process when systemic risk is high.
Cost of capital: Cost of capital is another name for "what else Buyer can do with that money." If Buyer has other options, he deploys that capital in those deals that offer higher returns and less cost.
And, on top of all that, valuation depends on negotiating prowess. In other words, are you a good poker player, or do you fold and collapse when someone puts a little pressure on you?
Most often, valuation boils down to a small, simple valuation range: four times to six times EBITDA (or 4X to 6X in M&A code). The magic number in the M&A deal-making world is smack-dab in the middle: 5X. These numbers are known as multiples, so when you hear someone say "a 5X multiple of EBITDA," that person means a company with EBITDA of $3 million would have a $15 million valuation.
Five times EBITDA is an industry standard, a convention of deal-making. Nobody knows where 5X came from, but all you need to know is that it's a de facto standard. In good or bad times, that multiple may be a bit higher or lower.
As Seller, you can get a valuation higher than 6X, but you need to have a strong negotiating position. The best negotiating position is to have a highly profitable company in a rapidly growing industry.
For example, venture capital deals usually garner far higher multiples for Sellers than lower middle market and middle market deals do. In a venture deal, Buyer is willing to pay a higher price because he's expecting the company to grow rapidly; he's betting on the future prospects of the business.


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Crossed wires: Why aren't those power lines buried?
Days before Hurricane Isabel struck, a prescient reader wrote The Hook to suggest that burying power lines would make Charlottesville more attractive and– even more importantly après le déluge– eliminate downed power lines and loss of power during storms.
Then came Virginia's worst power outage ever. The Emergency Communications Center estimates 55,000 Charlottesville and Albemarle County residents lost power during the height of the hurricane, and 9,000 households were still without power September 22– four days after Isabel blew through.
With the buzz of chainsaws in the air and piles of tree limbs growing higher, a lot of people couldn't help but think that if power lines were buried, they wouldn't be enduring the discomfort of life without electro.
"I got three emails today," says City Councilor Blake Caravati on Monday, "and three calls over the weekend."
"It's cost-prohibitive to bury all the utility lines," says Dominion Virginia Power spokesperson Irene Cimino. She estimates the cost at "several million dollars a mile."
She also says it takes a longer time to find problems in underground lines because they're buried. The lines, which have to be put through a casing conduit, can be damaged by chemicals and salt seeping into the lines.
Cimino notes that many new subdivisions are going with underground electrical lines, which Dominion is happy to provide– if the developers or property owners agree to pay for them.
And yet, after last week's devastating storm, many powerless citizens are questioning the conventional wisdom that it costs too much to bury the lines. They point out the economic costs to others of being without power: the food wasted, the jobs not performed, the businesses closed.
"I'm not sure that's calculable," says Lloyd Smith, who has been advocating underground utilities for the past 30 years. "I could say it costs a couple of billion dollars a day," a figure he gives as much credence to as the power company's "several million dollars a mile" estimate.
"I'd be very happy to start a construction company and get a couple million dollars a mile to string wire," says Smith. He concedes that a downtown mall area requiring a lot of transformers would be more expensive, but "in Farmington or rural areas, it wouldn't cost that much."
"It's so obvious that if these lines were underground, this would be a different story," says downtown doyenne Kay Peaslee, a former newspaper editor who accuses City Council of caving in to the electric company by not demanding underground utilities.
"Of course the power company doesn't want to spend the money," says Peaslee, "and City Council is such a lamb."
Several years ago, Smith, a member of the Underground Utilities Group, showed councilors the city's 1888 franchise agreement that allowed the power company to put wires over and through the streets of Charlottesville as the duly constituted city authorities direct.
"I told them they could authorize underground utilities," says Smith, a founding partner of the law firm Tremblay and Smith. "I offered the city $5,000 to pay the National Legal Research Group for an opinion. The city attorney refused."
Caravati says Smith's opinion was not shared by W. Clyde Goldman, the city attorney at the time, nor the Virginia Municipal League. The City also looked into taking over electrical service the way Harrisonburg, which runs its own utility, does. But, says Caravati, again, the cost was prohibitive.
As for requiring burial of electric lines, "We have no statutory control over Dominion Power," he says. "And if they go underground, somebody's got to pay. There ain't nothing free. You and me are going to pay for it one way or another."
Both Peaslee and Smith mention that utility lines are buried throughout Europe. "Italy can put them through solid rock," says Smith. "The Netherlands, a country below sea level, buries them underwater."
In San Diego, four percent of the electric bill goes to pay for underground installation, and the utility, San Diego Gas and Electric, claims that underground lines are five times more expensive to maintain than overhead lines, according to the San Diego Union.
Closer to home, downtown Staunton buried its utility lines in the mid-1990s. "It cost us millions to do that," says Doug Cochran, who handles customer service for Staunton. "It was not done for pure reliability. It was more that in the design of a Victorian downtown, electric lines don't fit well."
Staunton used federal grants to help pay for the work, much as Charlottesville is doing at Court Square, where utility lines will soon be buried at cost of $700,000 in the overhaul of that historic quarter.
Smith believes there's another reason power companies don't want to bury their lines: "They don't want to do it because the equipment they've invested in is for overhead."
And a Locust Avenue resident, who asked a supervisor why they couldn't bury the power line being rerouted into her yard to accommodate the bridge rebuilding, says she was dismissively told, "Dominion Power is an overhead utility company."
Estimates of the cost of burying power lines vary widely. Ken Schrad at the State Corporation Commission says, "As a general rule of thumb, it's probably two times the cost of overhead lines, and– depending on the size of the line– it could be three times."
However, a Maryland Public Service Commission report issued in 2000 says underground lines can cost 10 times as much as overhead lines, according to the September 21 Washington Post.
Smith doubts power company estimates. "You never have an independent engineer come and estimate the cost," he says. "You always hear from the power companies about how expensive it is."
He proposes that City Council adopt an ordinance requiring the power company to do so many blocks a year. "It wouldn't be reasonable to say do it all at once," he acknowledges, "but any time you open a street, put in electrical conduit."
Over in Staunton, the power lines to Cochran's house a mile off the main road are buried, and he didn't lose power, though he sympathizes with those who did.
"As a citizen, when your power's out, anything is worth it to get it back on," he says. And he asks, "If the utility said that would cost an increased 10 percent on your bill, would you still be for it?"
Overhead lines are cheaper– for utility companies. Thousands of dirty and cranky powerless residents who had to toss a refrigerator full of spoiled food and who couldn't go to work because their employer didn't have power might not agree.


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Brake Change For Your Bass Boat Trailer
(Standard axle hub assembly)
First I would like to say that this is the "Shade Tree Mechanic's" version, as there are special tools that will make the job much easier. I will point out there the tools can be used in place of the elected tool I used.
Before you get started I would recommend that you contact the dealer that you purchased your boat from and see if they have replacement brake pads for your specific trailer. If you are as lucky as I am they will tell you with a little laugh that "You are going to have to go to a auto parts house and see if they can match them up". Unfortunately this presents a problem – the pads are still on the trailer. So you must first take them off and carry them to a parts house. My local parts house was very helpful in this matter; as a matter of fact I came to find out the brakes on my boat trailer are the same as the brake pads for a 84 model Ford Mustang.
Place your jack under your axle preferably at the point where your spring intersects the axle.
Raise the jack until it just contacts the trailer. Now loosen all the lug nuts on your wheel and tire assembly. Once that is done go back and lift your trailer with the jack until the tire is at least 1 inch off the ground. Now remove all the lug nuts from your wheel and tire assembly and then remove your tire. You should now be looking at your brake drum and hub assembly.
To save some busted knuckles, at this point take the time to bleed the any pressure that might be in your brake line by opening the bleeder port at the back of the brake assembly. This will allow you to pull your brake drum off easily when the time comes.
Next you will need to remove the cap to the hub giving you access to your axle nut and wheel bearings. Usually this cap will be pressed onto the hub. To remove it, tap the outside edge lightly with a hammer, as you are spin the drum and hub. After a couple taps it should start to separate from the hub it's self, at this point you can use a flat head screwdriver to pry it the rest of the way off.
With the cap of the hub removed you should be looking at the axle nut with a locking device (similar to what you will find on your outboard prop hub) and a cotter pin.
Remove the cotter pin, then the locking device and finally the axle nut.
Be careful at this point as there is nothing holding your brake drum and hub onto the axle. Behind the axle nut you will have a large washer that separates the axle nut from the outer wheel bearing. Go ahead and pull that washer off.
Now slowly pull the brake drum and hub assembly off of the axle. The outer bearing will literally fall out of the hub as you do this so be prepared to catch it as you are removing the drum and axle assembly.
This is a good time to inspect your outer bearing and race for any damage. If you see any pitting or scratches on the bearing or on the race, it is time to replace them as well. Unless you have a new rear seal you will be unable to inspect the inner bearing. (Bearing inspection and replacement will be covered in a future article)
Also you need to look at your brake cylinder and inspect it for leaks, if you see any leaks you need to replace it. It's very simple, just two bolts and a tubing nut.
Now that the brake drum and hub assembly are removed, it's time to remove the springs and keepers allowing you to pull your brake pads off. This is where a brake tool will come in handy. It can be purchased at a local auto parts store. I use a pair of Vise Grips, which work just as well for me. Before you jump into removing anything take a good look at the brakes and housing assembly and make a mental note of how things are put together, if you need to take a Polaroid photo (hint: complete one side before starting the other that way you always have a finished product to look at if something gets confusing). The most important thing to remember is where the brake cylinder pin contacts the brake pad it's self, when you are putting the new brakes back on you want to make sure this contact point is the same.
Looking at the brake housing assembly, at the top, there will be a stud that the left and right brake pad springs connect too. These springs are 3-4 inches long and stretch from the brake pads to the center stud. Using a pair of Vise Grips clamped onto the uncoiled portion of the springs, pull it towards the stud and lift it off. Be sure to pay attention to which one is on top as they both connect to the same stud it will be easier to remove the one laying on top first. After both brake pad springs are removed, you will notice there is an oval washer, remove it to keep track of it.
It's time to remove the keeper springs. The keeper springs are the two regular coil springs just below center on the left and right side of the brake drum assembly. These are also easier to remove with the brake tool I mentioned earlier but I always like to do things the hard way. Not really the hard way but the way you have to do it if you don't have the special tools. This coil spring has a cap at both ends of it with a small slit in the center of the caps. There is a free floating pin that comes from the back of the brake drum assembly through the back cap then through the coil spring and finally through the front cap, the end in this pin is flat and will fit through the slit in both caps. To remove the coil springs take a pair of pliers and push the outer cap towards the brake assembly housing, while twisting the cap to line the flatten portion of the pin with the slit then release slowly as to prevent the spring from flying off. This step is much easier said than done, but with some patience it's not that bad. Going back on! Well that is a different story and is much easier with a third hand.
OK, now you can pull the brake pads from the brake housing assembly and lay them flat on the ground. You will notice that there is still one spring and a star adjustment cartridge holding the brakes together at the bottom. Simply remove the spring and cartridge, but make sure to pay close attention to which end goes to which side for reinstallation.
Before you start putting things back together with the new pads, you need to do some clean up work with the star adjustment cartridge. First take it apart. There are three pieces to it. The first is just an end cap that has probably slipped loose during the removal process. The second and third piece screw together, this is how your brakes self adjust. You need to unscrew these two pieces apart and clean the threads with a wire brush; sometimes you may need a pair of vise grips to get these two pieces unscrewed. When you are done they should screw together freely. Screw them together completely to create the shortest combined length and put the end cap back on.
Now match your new pads up with the old ones, you will find that one is larger than the other so you will want to make sure you reinstall them the same way. I like to lay my new pads next to my old ones and swap over the spring and star adjustment mechanism.
Install the star adjustment cartridge between the two pads and then install the connecting spring, make sure you have returned your cartridge to the shortest position possible.
Before you set your new pads up on the brake housing assembly, you need to do your self a favor. You need to retract the brake cylinder pin. The new brakes will be much wider than the old ones you just took off because they don't have any wear to them yet. It's not impossible but it will be very difficult to reinstall the brake drum if you do not retract the brake cylinder pin. To do this, simply push in on the brake cylinder pin while you open the brake bleeder port again.
(Could use a note to point out where to push)
Be sure to close the brake bleeder port before you stop pushing on the pin, this will prevent air from getting into your brake lines. Now you are ready to put everything back together. If you have a good memory the rest of this article is just the reverse of installation and should be easy to follow.
Set your brake pads with the spring and star adjustment cartridge installed up to the brake housing assembly. Make sure that the brake cylinder pin lines up with the cut away on the brake pad; this is the part that I suggested you try to take mental note of during removal.
(Could use a couple notes on this picture for the brake cylinder connection and the alignment pins)
Now slide the two alignment pins threw the brake pads and install the back coil spring caps (remember to twist it after pushing the pin threw to prevent the pin from falling out). Next put the coil springs on the alignment pins and finally the front cap. This front cap is going to be tight, because you will have to compress the coil spring with the cap to get the pin to slide through the slit, then once it comes through the slit you are going to have to twist the cap so that the flat portion of the pin is no longer inline with the slit and let the pressure off the spring. When both sides are done the brake pads will be held in place. Remember I said earlier that installing these springs would be much easier with a third hand. If you have someone to help you, have him or her hold the alignment pin from the backside of the brake assembly housing, keeping it still and straight.
Now install the oval washer over the spring stud and install your brake pad springs using the same Vise Grip method used during removal. It doesn't matter which one goes on first.
(Could use picture notes on the first one)
Once complete look over the brake housing assembly and make sure everything is installed correctly and not loose. When all the springs are installed every portion of the brakes will be very snug. While you are checking that make sure to wipe the spindle free from any dirt or debris that may have collected on it during this process.
Once the spindle is clean it's time to install the hub and drum back onto the spindle. Simply slide it over the spindle and over the new brake pads. If you compressed the brake cylinder enough this will be very easy. Next install the outer wheel bearing, then the washer and finally the axle nut. Now if you have a manual you might find a torque value for this nut, but if you had a manual you wouldn't be reading this. SO, lets go with the "Shade Tree" version. With the axle nut finger tight start spinning the hub and drum assembly and tighten the axle nut as the same time. When then hub starts to bind because the axle nut is to tight stop everything and back the nut off ¼ turn. Now spin the hub again, is it spinning freely? If not back the nut off another ¼ turn. If so check for in and out play. Grab a hold of the brake drum and pull it towards you and push it away from you, you should feel no movement. Now if the hub and drum assembly spins freely with no drag and there is no in and out movement you have a good manual torque, or what a "Shade Tree Mechanic" would call a calibrated elbow! Next you want to install the locking device and a new cotter pin. And finally install the hub cover by gently tapping it back into place.
Everything is together, all that is left is to lube the bearing and check the brake fluid. Your bearing grease level should be pretty good still but it is always a good idea to give them a couple extra shots of grease to make sure. To check the brake fluid level, find the reservoir cap that is usually in the tongue of the trailer and ensure it is full to the level suggested on the cap (usually with in ½ inch of the top).
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Firstly, many apologies for the lack of information since the original announcement earlier this year. Due to various other commitment issues, we have only just managed to get things moving with 'TRIPOLAR'.
We decided, in the end, to release the new album 'TRIPOLAR' as a series of three EPs on our own label, Pandephonium. EP 1 is being promoted to press and radio now, but we have taken the slightly unusual step to make it available to download at the same time. It can be purchased from all the usual outlets, including iTunes and Amazon. A full list of sellers can be found here. Please note that the 'purchase' buttons on the website do not work. You will have to visit the seller's site directly.
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EP 1 contains the tracks: The Man With No Name (Radio Edit), The Man With No Name (Full length version), Zero Vision, Thorns & Roses and Pennies & Change.
'The Man With No Name' is a sonically more refined mix of the version we have been previewing on the website. 'Thorns & Roses' is a recent mix of the original slow version of the track. 'Zero Vision' and 'Pennies & Change' are new tracks that have never been previewed before.
A release for Ep 2 is planned for early next year followed by EP 3 a few months later.
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Back when Sony's February PlayStation 4 unveiling concluded without actually showing what the console itself would look like, I actually defended the company. After all, the look of the plastic shell surrounding the new PlayStation hardware didn't actually matter as much as the games on display. After seeing today's teaser trailer promoting the PS4's E3 press appearance, though, I have to think that Sony is just trolling us at this point.
I mean what other conclusion is there to draw from the 39 second trailer above? It shows the system as a far off black rectangle that looks like it was shot through a jar of vaseline. What are we supposed to make of intercut split-second extreme close-ups of things like a shiny PlayStation logo against a Matte plastic background or a numeral 4 etched into more matte plastic? Is that a set of circular air vents or a colander? It's hard to say for sure.
Of course, now Sony can technically say it managed to show off some version of its system shell before Microsoft has its big Xbox announcement tomorrow. The timing is undoubtedly a deliberate attempt to keep Sony on the radar during a week that will be full of Microsoft news. Still, this kind of extended strip tease for the PS4's case seems destined to frustrate as much as it titillates.
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Snapshot and replication are important tools in building a foolproof disaster recovery plan. This article helps you pick the optimal solution that fits within your budget and is best suited for your company's individual backup needs.
College students may be too busy partying in the wee hours of the night to notice when the university servers go down, but Lou Ramirez isn't. Every night, administrative systems at the University of Southern California (USC), in Los Angeles, are shut down for nearly four hours while approximately 1TB of Sun Microsystems StorEdge T3 array enterprise storage is backed up. Servicing more than 28,800 students and 3,800 faculty spread over 50 USC departments, the administrative systems--custom-built applications based on UniVerse databases running on more than 30 Sun servers--manage student records and grades, university financials, alumni communications and other critical information.
For Ramirez, associate director of administrative information services at USC, the four-hour backup window meant the applications were staying down much longer than she liked. Aiming to close the window to a mere crack, USC recently implemented Sun's StorEdge Availability Suite to begin doing backups using point-in-time snapshots.
The move has reduced downtime and laid the foundation for a more robust data availability model. In this model, databases are quickly duplicated using Sun's StorEdge Instant Image snapshot software. One mass data copying job will initially establish the working data set, while regular delta updates will ensure the snapshots stay up to date as data changes.
Once the snapshot has been made, USC will back it up onto tape--a process that is no longer time-sensitive because the primary system no longer has to go down during the backup. Maintenance of a complete audit trail of point-in-time backups will allow the system to be restored to its condition at any point in the past.
"It's going to provide higher reliability and protection when it comes to data recovery," Ramirez says. "We can be back up and running within half an hour using the snapshot, and get our users back onto the systems faster."
|Getting your data from here to there
Both software and hardware vendors offer a number of snapshot and replication solutions. Here are the tools to look for, depending on your need.
Different types of snapshots
As data volumes steadily increase, the need to back up that data--often within shrinking timeframes mandated by a growing demand for 24 x 7 operation--has made snapshotting and replication critical tools for storage managers. Both have been available for some time as features of proprietary storage management applications, but their use has become easier thanks to their integration deeper into enterprise storage systems.
Depending on the technology in use and the dictates of the storage environment, snapshotting can take several forms. Volume-based snapshots work by maintaining a mirrored secondary volume. When the snapshot is executed, it's logically split from the primary volume and this volume can then be backed up. Because data remains internal to the storage unit, the procedure is completed within seconds or minutes, compared with minutes or hours using conventional tape-based backups.
|Providing more flexible snapshots
Snapshots are a quick way of putting some distance between the real-time data processing environment and the army of tape drives or near-line disks being rolled out to manage backups. If a snapshot is copied to faster near-line disk, it can also be used as a data source by other applications for tasks such as data mining and reporting. This approach is valuable because it provides a stable data set for analysis while the primary database continues to process transactions.
Snapshots can also be file-based, a more granular approach in which changes to specific directories or files are recorded, then duplicated onto remote copies once the snapshot is executed. This is a faster method of replicating just the data that has changed, and keeps snapshot times down to a minimum.
In a point-in-time snapshot, systems maintain an ongoing log of changes to the volume. This log--rather than the full data set itself--is duplicated at snapshot time. This approach provides a full record of data changes and the ability to roll back the data environment to any point in the past.
Snapshotting is a simple, elegant solution that's saving USC and many other organizations precious hours nightly. Its considerable value to customers has made it a standard feature in broader storage volume management suites from EverStor, FalconStor, Legato, StoreAge, Veritas, and many other independent software vendors (ISVs).
But they're not alone: Leading storage hardware vendors--including EMC, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, Network Appliance, and Sun Microsystems--have all embedded proprietary snapshot capabilities into their respective storage boxes. This has allowed for highly optimized snapshotting, but has also restricted snapshots to use on the same host platform because there's currently no standard for snapshot structure.
Some ISVs have gone part of the way towards resolving this issue by providing support for snapshots from specific vendors. But Microsoft is aiming to eliminate this problem altogether with the creation of Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS), which will debut in Windows Server 2003 and may become a de facto standard for snapshot structure.
Live replication
Snapshotting isn't the only option for time-starved storage managers. Increasingly, it's being complemented by live replication, which synchronizes data between two or more computers in real time. Replication has long been possible through use of dedicated mirroring interface cards, within RAID arrays or as a software component on many key enterprise systems.
Both embedded and software-based approaches have their respective benefits--vendor independence is a key benefit of software solutions. For application hosting provider BlueStar Solutions, of Cupertino, CA, software replication--in the form of Veritas Volume Manager--has helped customers replicate their data between BlueStar data centers in Dallas and Phoenix.
The company's customers--which include Autodesk, eBay, and Solvay Pharmaceuticals--use a wide variety of storage devices including EMC Clariion, Hitachi 9500, IBM Fast, and other boxes totaling more than 150TB of storage. Given the broad range of devices it had to replicate between, software-based replication was the natural choice for BlueStar.
"We have customers with a RTO [Recovery Time Objective] of four hours or less, and the only way for us to do that is to give them an environment where there's replication between our data centers," says Bill Augustadt, BlueStar's CTO.
However it's implemented, replication occurs in either a synchronous or asynchronous manner. In a synchronous setup, data is replicated between primary and secondary storage arrays continuously and in real time over the fastest path available--Fibre Channel in a SAN, any IP network when data is being moved between sites or the device's backplane when replicating between volumes.
However, synchronous replication is inherently unsuited to covering longer distances--many set 10 km as the practical limit--because latency and interference on intervening cables can disrupt the smooth flow of data. Furthermore, closed-loop replication only tends to work with a second, similarly configured box from the same vendor. This may be fine for many companies, but can present problems in situations where mergers and acquisitions have introduced a heterogeneous storage environment.
"People are really looking at disaster recovery plans and realizing that their traditional tape back or restore strategies may not meet RTOs or backup windows," says Matt Fairbanks, senior manager of technical marketing with Veritas, which incorporates replication as a pay-to-use option within its Volume Manager software.
Answering the cost question
The need to maintain an identical secondary storage array is a major problem for storage managers wanting to introduce replication. This approach presents a major expense that may be difficult to justify if the equipment is intended to just sit and wait for a disaster.
In a recent survey of storage managers, StorageTek, of Louisville, CO, found that just 9.4% were mirroring all their data; 37.7% mirrored critical systems; 35.8% mirrored some critical systems and 17.0% weren't mirroring data at all. When asked why they didn't mirror more systems, 83.3% of respondents named the cost of storage as an inhibitor to their fully mirroring data volumes, while 53.8% cited implementation costs as a culprit.
Clearly, a better value proposition will increase the chance of getting funding. If you can plan on using some of the backup data center's capacity to receive and process snapshots--particularly if those snapshots are going to return business value by being fed into data mining applications--the cost can be spread over several important applications.
In this model, the disaster recovery (DR) site becomes not just a big warehouse of idle disks, but a secondary data center where storage of snapshots allows analytical applications to conduct backup and detailed analysis of point-in-time data copies. Recruiting all this extra computing capacity to the cause makes a DR investment a little more palatable.
"We've been seeing people saving millions of dollars over a traditional hardware-based approach," says Fairbanks. "If you deploy replication at a disaster recovery location, [the location] serves two functions. That makes it much easier to justify the cost as opposed to having a completely dark data center that's not normally used."
As the current uncertain political climate forces companies to assess and reassess their disaster recovery plans, the need to physically separate copies of data is becoming an issue. However, stubborn distance limitations--and the high cost of the fiber that gets around them--have hindered implementation of synchronous replication across long distances. Instead, more distance-tolerant asynchronous replication--embodied in standalone software solutions from various vendors--is proving to be a much better answer. (For more information on the pros and cons of synchronous and asynchronous replication, see Marc Farley's "Cost-effective business continuity")
More bandwidth means faster replication but, of course, costs more. "We can calculate [usage] and build a pipe that allows us to meet RTOs with a master file that drains to a slave at a speed that guarantees we have no more than an hour, for example, in the pipe at a time," says BlueStar's Augustadt, who says customers typically budget for 80% utilization of their replication links. "Bandwidth determines how fast the log can drain, not how fast you write to it."
In some cases, companies assume that if they have a big database to replicate, they need a fat bandwidth pipe. That's a misnomer: Replication should ideally be performing delta updates, and therefore transferring just a small subset of the entire database.
Most companies focus on optimizing their replication rather than throwing bandwidth at the problem, says Kelly Polanski, vice president of application availability marketing with Legato Systems. "It's very rare that we find companies capable of investing in lots of bandwidth," she says. "That means efficient use of the network--throttling, scheduling so that the network can be shared with WAN usage--is very instrumental in getting a disaster recovery plan in place. Replication provides a way to get data offsite as fast as you can."
Getting data out the door
A high-speed metropolitan connection was just the ticket for America West, America's eighth-largest airline, which is currently setting up a data replication strategy that will improve its business continuity planning.
With some 6TB of EMC Symmetrix storage in place, America West has long relied on EMC's TimeFinder snapshotting tool to generate two hourly snapshots of its Systems Operations and Control (SOC) center, a Phoenix facility that uses custom applications to manage myriad details of every flight.
In its current configuration, the snapshots are copied from one Symmetrix volume to another. A backup server can be booted from the snapshots if necessary. "This is a key component of our business continuity plan," says Joe Beery, senior VP and CIO of American West. "These systems drive the daily operation of the airline, and they're what we consider to be our mission-critical applications."
As the company's recent SAN investment takes hold, its replication is being shifted onto four T1 lines that link the SOC with a secondary data center 6.5 miles away. Other types of data, including data from the airline's Unisys mainframe, will eventually be replicated as well by using an Inrange Technologies ESCON interface that moves the mainframe data over the T1 lines.
Snapshot and replication tools have become important allies in the fight to ensure business continuity. By mapping out business processes to identify which applications need to be fully replicated and which can be backed up less frequently, it's possible to bring a high level of redundancy to key applications at a manageable cost--and then expand the scope of data protection as disk space and corporate priorities allow.
Remember, however, that replication only works well if you have tried-and-true procedures for failing over your primary data center to the secondary site--and back again.
"It's very easy to use this stuff wrong," says James Staten, director of marketing for networked storage with Sun Microsystems. "The majority of customers think they have a DR plan in place, then realize they've never tested it and don't know for sure that it's going to work."


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Very good pack animal with decent attack power. Can gather berries in large quantities
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If you ever catch these guys in the wild and wonder why their heads are glowing red, you should probably run because there's a Rex/Spino in the area.
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With the new TLC, it has OUTSTANDING thatch collecting ( 1000 in 4 trees with a max charge. ) Upvote so Dodex can see this!
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I can not stress enough to my friends how useful the trike is. Early game it makes a great pack animal. Late game in groups of three or four it can be used as a decent battle mount. Taming a trike early on can be a great way to start a large base and keep you well fed with berries.
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A triceratops is a very special dinosaur in this game. It is easy enough to tame at a low level, yet powerful enough to take on raptors that could kill you easily. It can collect enough berries that you would never go hungry again, and still have some berries leftover to help tame more trikes. They are very slow but it can make up for it if you increase the weight, attack, and stamina stats. It is an extremely good pack animal because it can carry a lot, but still defend itself, especially if it is in a large group. Overall, the triceratops is one of my favorite and most versatile dinosaurs.
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The best way to utilize the trike when tamed or untamed when tamed it can gather loads of berries for you or when it's untamed you can use it as a shield for instance like a carno is running after you and there's a trike try to run for the trike to get the carno to fight the trike so you can escape unharmed


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大将軍八神社 Daishogun Hachijinja Shrine
It is said that "Daishogundo"was built on the north-west corner of Imperial Palace to break evil of unlucky direction, which depend an onmyodo belief.
At first it was called "Daishogun-do",because it was built for an onmyodo-temple.
In Edo period, it was deified for a village-shrine in Daishogun village,and at the same time it was called Daishogunhachijinjya shrine.
The main deity was only "Daishogun" which was not for ancient japanese deities.
In Meiji periodo,the faith of Shinto was become the established religion by "Shinbustu bunrirei" It means "Law of Deity and Buddha must be separate faith " After this matter,this shrine is called"Daishogunhachijinjya"means Susanou no Mikoto( japanese myths), his five sons , three daughters deities,and together denified Emperor Kanmu.
The first data is in an old diary "Sankaiki"-AD1178 on 12.November, Kenreimonin(Empress of Takakura)was delivered,then messangers went on an errand to wish her easy labor to go many temples and shrines. Daishogunsha was written one of 41 temples and shrines. Another data " Meitokuki" showed the place of "Daishogunsha" like this "Ooashi Jirozaemon・・・over 500 samurai on their horses were running to east from Umezu through Ninnaji temple and came infront of the torii (shrine's gate) of Daishogun・・・"
In these distress time , example for The war of OninnoRan , it was highly revered and worshipped by many people. Also in Edo period, it was popular to go 12 shrines to break direction evil and unlucky.
Even now there is a monumental stone which was built in age of Tempo11(AD 1840)
又、その頃からそれまでの北斗妙見信仰から太白精の信仰に移り暦神と習合して 「大将軍八神宮」とも称した。
祭神を素盞鳴尊とした理由は 、 1433年伏見宮貞成親王の日記「看聞御記」より、
初見の資料としては『山槐記』に治承2年(1178) 11月12日高倉天皇の中宮建礼門院の安産祈願の際、
大将軍社の所在を示す文献としては『明徳記』「山名方の配備」に 「大葦次郎左衛門・・・五百餘騎上梅津より
又、江戸時代には方除厄除12社参りが流行し 、その際に建立された天保11年の標石は現在も門前にある。
The eight islands of Japan sprang into existence through Divine Intervention.The first two gods who came into existence were Izanagi no Mikoto and Izanami no Mikoto, the Exalted Male and Exalted Female. It was their job to make the land for people to live on.They went to the bridge between heaven and earth and, using a jewel-encrusted halberd, Izanagi and Izanami churned up the sea into a frothy foam. As salty drips of water fell from the tip of the halberd the first island was formed. Its name was Onogoro.So far, so good. But when Izanagi and Izanami first met on their island, Izanami spoke to Isanagi without being spoken to first. Since she was the female, and this was improper, their first union created badly-formed offspring who were sent off into the sea in boats.The next time they met, Izanagi was sure to speak first, ensuring the proper rules were followed, and this time they produced eight children, which became the islands of Japan.I'm sure you did not fail to miss the significance of this myth for the establishment of Japanese formal society.At present, Japan is the financial capital of Asia. It has the second largest economy in the world and the largest metropolitan area (Tokyo.)Technically there are three thousand islands making up the Japanese archipelago. Izanagi and Izanami must have been busy little devils with their jewelled halberd...Japan's culture is highly technical and organized. Everything sparkles and swooshes on silent, miniaturized mechanisms.They're a world leader in robotics, and the Japanese have the longest life-expectancy on earth.Text by Steve Smith.


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Monkey Business Kidogo the Gorilla Amazes with Tightrope Act
Zoo gorillas have earned a reputation for doing a whole lot of nothing, often just sitting against a tree for hours at a time. But Kidogo, a silverback in the Krefeld Zoo, has earned sudden fame for his penchant for performing a number of tricks, including tightrope walking.
Expectations placed on Kidogo weren't particularly high. The 12-year-old silverback was brought to the Krefeld Zoo in April from his home in Denmark to serve as a male companion to Muna and Oya, two female gorillas. The hope is that the trio will expand, and that the zoo's lowland gorilla enclosure will soon be bustling with baby apes.
But King Kodo, as Kidogo has come to be known, appears to have developed a fondness for the spotlight as well. To the amazement of zoogoers, the gorilla has demonstrated an unusual degree of agility -- and has even taken up tightrope walking.
"He is unbelievably athletic and acrobatic," says Petra Schwinn, director of public relations at the zoo in western Germany. "He is still young and playful. He really demonstrates a strong degree of joie de vivre."
Schwinn says that Kidogo has performed his tightrope heroics a number of times, though certainly not every day. Indeed, news of the gorilla's special talent only began to spread in recent days because a professional photographer was able to capture Kidogo on the rope in mid-December. Schwinn then sent out the image as part of a holiday greetings email to friends of the zoo. Since then, she has been busy answering press inquiries from around the world.
She also says that Kidogo has performed a number of other tricks that make him rather unique. In the spring, despite exhibiting signs of homesickness after his move, he sprinted into the enclosure after a heavy rain and did a series of somersaults. He also jumped elegantly to the ground, arms calmly at his sides, from almost four meters (13 feet) up in a tree.
"For a gorilla, his behavior is really unusual," Schwinn says. "You can't say at all that he is a normal animal. We are very excited about it."


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Belgrave Finance auditor loses bid to throw out accusations of negligence
Accounting firm Hayes Knight has lost a bid to throw out accusations it breached its duty of care in signing off on Belgrave Finance accounts and is one of several parties being sued by the receivers of the failed lender.
Associate Judge John Matthews dismissed an application to strike out Belgrave's case against Hayes Knight, provided the claim was amended to more clearly demonstrate the auditor's alleged culpability, he says in a November 7 judgment.
Belgrave has filed six causes of action against former directors Shane Buckley and Steven Smith, their associate Raymond Schofield, solicitors Davidson, Armstrong & Campbell and Hayes Knight.
The judge agreed with Belgrave's lawyer, Bruce Stewart QC, who argued the losses were caused "by the very fact of continued trading" and that it was an issue for a trial to determine, rather than a strike-out application.
Belgrave claims that had Hayes Knight done a "careful, diligent and professionally appropriate" audit, the lender would not have issued the 2007 prospectus and would probably have been placed into receivership earlier than it ultimately was in 2008.
From the time of the offer document, the lender advanced some $3.8 million, including to Mr Schofield and related entities, and received $4.9 million from debenture stockholders which it was unable to repay.
Mr Stewart "acknowledges that the plaintiff will have to prove these contentions at trial, but says that if proved the losses claimed are the recoverable consequence of Hayes Knight's negligence", the judgment says.
Judge Matthews ordered Belgrave to "clearly plead relevant facts to show that the losses claimed were the result of the decision to continue to trade".
Costs were reserved, though the judge says his immediate view is to let them lie where they fell.
In August, former Belgrave director Buckley was sentenced to three years in jail after pleading guilty to 19 charges of theft by a person in a special relationship and four charges of false statement by promoter under the Crimes Act.
He also pleaded guilty to one Securities Act charge of making an untrue statement and one Companies Act charge of making a false statement to a trustee.
The Serious Fraud Office has levelled similar charges against Messrs Smith and Schofield, who are due to stand trial in April next year.


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The mother of a teen accused of murdering a man for a pair of expensive headphones says police have nabbed the wrong person.
"I know for a fact my son was home and they're accusing him of murdering this boy that he don't even know," Lakasha Hardy said as tears streamed down her face.
Flanked by two of her other children, the mother of 19-year-old Arkel Garcia came to NBC10 on Tuesday morning to say the teen could not be the person who shot Christian Massey on Saturday, Nov. 30.
Massey, 21, was walking to a nearby friend's house just before 5 p.m. when he was confronted by a robber in an alley near 58th Street and Lebanon Avenue in the Wynnefield section of Philadelphia, according to Philadelphia Police. Witnesses say the robber demanded Massey's Dr. Dre Beats headphones, which retail for $300, and when the man tried to run, the robber opened fire.
Massey was hit in the chest and left bleeding on the ground. The suspect ran, leaving the headphones he'd sought next to Massey's body. When police arrived, Massey was still conscious and told officers an unknown male tried to rob him, officials said. He was rushed to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and later died.
Police eventually arrested Garcia and, this week, charged him with Murder, Robbery and related offenses.
Hardy, who lives on the same block where the shooting took place, tells NBC10 that Garcia was at home watching movies on the front porch at the time of the shooting. She says her 14-year-old daughter also saw him there.
"I told him about the murder, because I seen it on the news that morning. He said 'I don't know.' He was like 'I was here,'" she said. "It's at the corner of my block. There's no way he did that. I searched his room, there are no weapons in his room."
Hardy says her son spent time hanging out with his girlfriend at the house and did not leave except for two hours on Sunday.
Tyrell Smalls, Garcia's older brother, says he was talking to the teen on Saturday evening and nothing seemed out of sorts.
"I think if he would have done something like that he would be a little different or something because I don't think you could do something like that and not be acting your normal self," he said.
Garcia has a past criminal record for possession and is currently on probation. Hardy says the teen has been working hard to stay out of trouble since that incident – only going to school to get his high school diploma and to a court-ordered drug treatment program.
On Saturday, Dec. 7, a full week after the murder, Hardy says her son went missing. Thinking the worst, the mother says she spent several days calling police, hospitals and the morgue searching for Garcia. But Hardy says she later learned he wasn't missing, but rather in police custody, after the teen's friend told her he had been arrested.
She says officers at several districts in her area said they did not know of the teen's whereabouts and that he was not in their custody prior to learning about his arrest.
"I feel like they should have come to me and let me know that they had my son in custody," she said. The mother also says police have yet to speak with her about the case.
NBC10 reached out to Philadelphia Police about Hardy's claims. Police spokesman Lt. John Stanford said in Garcia's case, like every other, evidence is collected and presented to the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office. Prosecutors then decides whether charges should be brought forth.
"Our homicide unit does an outstanding job and if they have enough evidence to bring forward charges, they bring that evidence to the District Attorney's Office," he said.
Lt. Stanford also said the department has no obligation to keep a defendant's family abreast of case developments.
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BlackBerry Turns to Indonesia to Make Turnaround Push
Canadian Phone Maker Introduces Latest Handset, the Z3, in Jakarta
JAKARTA, Indonesia—BlackBerry Ltd.'s latest stab at keeping its storied brand alive is starting here, at a launch event for its $191 smartphone, in the capital city of Indonesia.
The phone maker based in Waterloo, Ontario, unveiled its latest handset, dubbed the Z3, before several hundred people in a packed five-star hotel ballroom on Tuesday. An Indonesian hip-hop trio warmed up the crowd before BlackBerry's new chief executive, John Chen, took the stage to introduce the phone....


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Solo wrote:Don't make me quote Yoda in here.
Mister Ed wrote:Say what you will, I doubt anybody will be able to convince me that it wouldn't be a LOT easier to knock up something good, be it big OR small, with a larger selection of pieces to draw from.
buriedbybricks wrote:If you aren't challenging yourself, or at least enjoying yourself then you're missing the point.
Ultron32 wrote:jackal76 wrote:Hello all,
I humbly submit my entry for Mech Madness.
I chose the Crimson Dynamo, a villian from the Marvel universe.
That thing is awesome! I love it! So much detail...can't wait to see the rest!
meanwhile, I still have the bottom half of mine to finish...and the arms to correct...and I have very little time to work on it each week...
Olymprix wrote:You're better off than I am... I still need to start!
bartosza6m wrote:Ok, here is my entry: "MAD HATTER'S MECH".
Ultron32 wrote:Olymprix wrote:You're better off than I am... I still need to start!
not too bad...you still have about a month and a half...just make sure yours isn't too ambitious. I'm personally hoping to get mine done by comic con...which is in 20 days! I'm sooo excited, can't wait. who knows, you may even see my mech there. (if you're going, that is)
Olymprix wrote:I'm probably going with Captain America... still need to order some parts and the Cap minifig...
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The trouble with blueberries isn't what to cook with them—it's how to keep them tasting like blueberries once you do.
Blueberry pie usually delivers on the blue, but less so on the berry. Or close your eyes and take a taste of blueberry ice cream—without noting the color—and you might be hard-pressed to identify just which berry you're eating.
So I was excited to see a blueberry jam recipe in the New York Times that called for adding cinnamon and lime to the pot, not just for their complimentary flavors, but because lime and cinnamon contain terpenes, the volatile flavor compounds in blueberry skins that account for much of the berries' inherent flavor. Terpenes cook off quickly, but in theory adding those ingredients should restore some of the berries' essential berryness.
I can't say I'm experiencing the Totality of Blueberries with this ice cream recipe—all that cream adds a certain cobbler flavor, for starters—but I can say that the end result tastes pretty good. It's full of berry depth offset by lime peel and juice for a certain tartness. The cinnamon's role is subtle, but it contributes to the whole baked-pie feel of the ice cream. And there's a low thrum of star anise too, because I can't help but add the spice to dark fruits like blueberries and plums. We'll call it an optional but highly recommended addition.
Berry ice creams, even those with plenty of pectin, egg yolks, sugar, and fat, set up a little harder and icier than those made without, so let this one rest on the counter for a few minutes before digging in. Try it in a reverse pie a la mode: vanilla pound cake topped with a scoop of the blue stuff.
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March 2004 Journal of Geoscience EducationVolume 52, Number 2
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Assessment, and the Journal of Geoscience Education
Dexter Perkins
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URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/mar04.html#v52p113
The Effects of Multiple Formats on Understanding Complex Visual Displays
Holly Taylor and Erwin Choi, Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Carl Renshaw, Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Related Web Sites: Oceanographic Data
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/jan04.html#v52p115
A Field-Oriented Volcanology Course to Improve Earth Science
Stephen Mattox, Department of Geology, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI
Janet Babb, Project LAVA, Volcano, HI
Related Web Sites: http://home.earthlink.net/~projectearth 'ProjectEARTH'
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/mar04.html#v52p122
A Problem-Based Learning Exercise for Environmental Geology
S.M. Lev, Department of Physics, Astronomy, and Geosciences, Towson University, Towson, MD
Related Web Sites:Maryland Department of the Environment
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/mar04.html#v52p128
Enhancing GIS Education with Student-Crated Labs and a Peer Reference Manual
Jennifer Rahn, Department of Geology, Baylor University, Waco, MD Lisa Zygo, Center for Applied Geographic & Spatial Research, Baylor University, Waco, MD
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/mar04.html#v52p133
Watershed-Based Integration of Hydrology, Geochemistry, and Geophysics in an Environmental Geology Curriculum
Karen Salvage, Joseph Graney and Jeffrey Barker, Department of Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/mar04.html#v52p141
Multimedia Model for the Utilization of Geoscience Educational Resources in Public Parks near Urban Centers, Hudson Highlands, New York
Alexander Gates, Mercedes Walker, Erica Grant, and Aaron Dubrow, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/mar04.html#v52p149
Using Food to Demonstrate Earth Science Concepts: A Review
Mark Francek, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Central Michigan University, Pleasant, MI
Jessica Winstanley, Amberly Elementary School, Portage, MI
This paper categorizes over one hundred print and web resources that use food to demonstrate earth science concepts with the goal of placing these resources in a more usable format for K-12 earth science instructors. Most activities: 1) are found with nearly equal frequency from journals and from the web; 2) feature geologic rather than weather-,water-, or space-related themes; 3) are designed for a primary and middle school audience, but are adaptable to almost any education level, including introductory college classrooms; 4) meet the "Structure of the Earth" middle school National Science Standard; 5) require less than 30 minutes of instructor preparation; 6) cost less than $20 in materials for a class of 25; and 7) are adaptable for variety of group sizes.
Outstanding examples of edible earth science include using candy bars to demonstrate weathering concepts, orange peels to mimic plate tectonics, and cookies to demonstrate mining and environmental reclamation. These activities are interesting, promote active learning, facilitate the teaching of the K-12 National Science Standards, and offer opportunities for interdisciplinary education. The main disadvantages of using this approach are safety concerns and, in some cases, extensive preparation.Related Web Sites: Cookie Mining, The whipped topping Ozone demo, The Trouble with Textbooks, Edible Conglomerates, Mount Rainier Birthday Cake, Modeling Ohio's Geology, Snap, Crackly, Jump, Edible Rocks, Splitting the Smartie, National Science Education Standards, NASA/Ames Research Center, National Science Foundation, Can I Make Raisins?
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/mar04.html#v52p154
Sustaining K-12 Professional Development in Geology: Recurrent Participation in RockCamp
Thomas Repine, West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey, Morgantown, WV
Deb Hemler, School of Science and Technology, Fairmont State College, Fairmont WV
Robert Behling, Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Related Web Sites: Evaluation of a district-wide inservice professional development program for teaching science: challenges faces and lessons learned, Collaborative Learning in Adult Education, Learning Communities, New Ways of Learning in the Workplace, Situated Learning in Adult Education
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/mar04.html#v52p161
Service-Learning Practice in Upper Division Geoscience Courses: Bridging Undergraduate Learning, Teaching, and Research
Lanbo Liu, Anthony Philpotts, and Norman Gray, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Related Web Sites: Service-learning in Geology
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/mar04.html#v52p172
Eighth Grade Student's Understandings of Groundwater
Daniel Dickerson, Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
Karen Dawkins, Center for Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/mar04.html#v52p178
Online Near-Real-Time Seismic System for the Classroom
Joseph Gerencher, Jr., Department of Physics and Earth Science, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
Michael Sands, Essent Corporation, Easton, PA
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/mar04.html#v52p182
Incorportating GPS Technology with a Campus Geology Walking Tour
Daniel Weiss, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
James Walters, Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/mar04.html#v52p186
Soil Science and Geology: Connects, Disconnects and New Opportunities in Geoscience Education
Edward Landa, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/mar04.html#v52p191
Comments on "The Lifestyle Project"
Dexter Perkins
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URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/mar04.html#v52p197
Hypothesis Testing in Introductory Laboratories and Conceptual Change Theory
Jeffrey Owen
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URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/mar04.html#v52p198