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Please note that as of August 4th 2015 we have amended the terms of this Policy.
Sometimes bidders breach the terms of their auction contract with an auctioneer, pay late and/or fail to conclude a purchase and 'default'. This has a detrimental impact on all parties involved from the auctioneer and the seller to the other potential buyers of the item subject to the transaction. It prevents us from providing a timely and efficient service to all our users.
Accordingly our services allow auctioneers to enter comments about you relating to your transactions and share this information with ourselves and other auctioneers in order to ensure those using our services conclude transactions properly and do not abuse our services or the services offered by auctioneers through our platform.
We therefore now collect and store additional personal data regarding transactions (including any defaults) and we may share this personal data with our auctioneers on an ongoing basis to ensure the integrity and reputation of our services and to protect auctioneers and sellers from future default. Auctioneers may also share this information with other auctioneers using our services and may also use this information in deciding whether to block a bidder and to inform other auctioneers about the block. This information we refer to as "Transaction Information".
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We may collect and process the following data about you:
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our sites www.antiquestradegazette.com, i-bidder.com, BidSpotter.co.uk and the-saleroom.com and those of third parties ("Third Parties") powered by our technology to which this policy is expressed to apply ("Our Site"). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, registering to participate in auctions, subscribing to our service or that of Third Parties, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a competition or promotion sponsored by Auction Technology Group or a Third Party, and when you report a problem with our site.
- Where we collect information for or in connection with Third Parties you agree that we are entitled to use the information as data controller as permitted by this policy and also to pass the information to the Third Party for the Third Party to use as data controller for its own purposes as communicated to you by that Third Party.
- If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
- We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
- Details of transactions you carry out through our site and of the bids (successful or otherwise) you may make during any auction.
- Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.
- We may ask you to provide information on your interests and/or preferences so that the information on our site is presented to you in the most effective manner.
- Where we receive unsolicited personal information, we will determine whether it would be reasonably necessary for us to store this information. If we consider that we do not require such information, we will destroy any unsolicited personal information that we receive.
Information Relating to Bidders
In addition to the information described above, we will also collect and process information regarding your transactions with auctioneers including;
- Details of when you registered on Our Site.
- The number transactions you have entered into with auctioneers through Our Site.
- The total value of the transactions you have entered into with auctioneers through Our Site.
- Where you have entered into a transaction through Our Site (i.e. you have placed a bid on an item and this bid has been accepted by an auctioneer as the 'winning bid') and;
- i. have failed to conclude the transaction with the auctioneer (for whatever reason); or
- ii. have breached your agreement with the Auctioneer in some other way
- this will be recorded by us as a transaction "Lot Cancelled". In addition to recording the number of Lots Cancelled we will   also record the value of each reported Lot Cancelled.
- Feedback from auctioneers in relation to transactions you have been involved with by way of comments which may be positive or negative based on objective criteria e.g whether you paid on time/promptly or were late, that you are a frequent buyer, that you made a payment card chargeback or whether you have been blocked by another auction house previously
2. IP Addresses
We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
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The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us, other members of our group, or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary and within our reasonable control to ensure that where we act as data controller that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy. Where we pass the information to Third Parties as permitted by this policy they are responsible for security of the personal data they hold and for compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 as data controller.
Information you provide to us is stored on our servers or those of our sub-contractors. We and our sub-contractors will take reasonable steps to protect your information. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a user ID and password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping your user ID and password confidential. We ask you not to share your user ID and password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
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We use information held about you in the following ways:
- To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
- To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented or otherwise agreed to be contacted for such purposes e.g. through opting in for direct marketing communications when you register with us or as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy or our Cookie Policy.
- If you choose to provide information to us regarding your interests and/or preferences we may send you content based on the information that you have provided to us. We may use the information provided by you to display information about products and services that we believe may be of interest to you. We do not share this information with any other third party save for an auctioneer should you bid on an item.
- To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service such as Live Auction Webcasts and Timed Auctions, when you choose to do so.
- To notify you about changes to our service.
- To supply auctioneers and other third parties (including Third Parties) with the required information for the purposes of payment and sale reconciliation (including credit card details), the entering into and enforcement of your contract with the auctioneer, communications with the auctioneer, and the conduct of and your participation in the auction(s) they are conducting. We are not responsible for the processing of your personal data by such persons including without limitation any Third Parties. This is a matter between you and the person concerned. We are simply acting as a communication channel for this information.
Except in the case of Third Parties (where their privacy policy will apply as far as marketing etc is concerned), we will not pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes without your consent.
We may also use your data to provide you with information about goods and services supplied by us or by selected third parties which may be of interest to you and we may contact you about these by post or email but only if you have consented or otherwise agreed to this e.g. through opting in for direct marketing communications when you register with us or as otherwise provided in this policy.
If you consent to the use of your data in this way please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data (the registration form).
We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users (for example, we may inform them that 500 men aged under 30 have clicked on their advertisement on any given day). We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target (for example, women in SW1). We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers' wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience.
5. Uses Made of Transaction Information
As explained in Section 1 we collect and process Transaction Information. We may use this Transaction Information to ensure that our services and those of the auctioneers we work with are not negatively impeded by bidders that default on one or more transactions or whose conduct poses a risk to the integrity or reputation of our services and/or the services of the auctioneers
In addition, through our services your Transaction Information may be shared with auctioneers who may rely on it when deciding whether to enter into a transaction with you in the future. They may also share this information with other auctioneers by using our services.
We will not notify you that Transaction Information has been collected regarding your transaction(s) through Our Site, however you may contact us at any time (as detailed in Section 10, below) and we will provide you with any Transaction Information that we hold regarding your transaction(s). You may request that we or the auctioneer correct any such information that we or they hold should it prove to be inaccurate
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We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
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- Our suppliers.
- In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
- If Auction Technology Group or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
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You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by leaving certain boxes unchecked on the forms we use to collect your data or by amending your details online. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at:
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text: On 14 Feb 2005, at 19:49, Rob Ross wrote: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Ashley Pittman wrote: >> On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 11:11 -0600, Rob Ross wrote: >> >> Maybe if you were using a channel interface (sockets) and all messages >> were to the same remote process then it might make sense to coalesce >> all >> the sends into a single transaction and just send this in the MPI_Wait >> call. The latency for a bigger network transaction *might* be lower >> than the sum of the issue rates for smaller ones. > > This is exactly what MPICH2 does for the one-sided calls; see Thakur > et. > al in EuroPVM/MPI 2004. It can be a very big win in some situations. I'll look it up. Presumably the win is because of higher bandwidth achieved by larger messages over a stream. I guess the MPI_Fence call copies data out of a receive buffer. >> I'd hope that a well written application would bunch all it's sends >> into >> a single larger block when possible though if this optimisation was >> possible though. > > We would hope that too, but applications do not always adhere to best > practice. As someone who maintains a MPI library I hope people do this, it's up to us to provide the functionality and application writers to actually make use of it. There are often times when it may well not be worth doing this, either because time to market demands or simply when experiments with differing algorithms. >> Given any reasonably fast network not doing anything until the >> MPI_Wait >> call however would destroy your latency. It strikes me as this isn't >> overlapping comms and compute though rather artificially delaying >> comms >> to allow compute to finish, seems rather pointless? > > I agree that postponing progress until MPI_Wait for the purposes of > providing lower CPU utilization would be pointless. It can be useful > for > coalescing purposes, as mentioned above. But certainly there will be a > latency cost. So potentially there is an optimization choice to me made, do you make the "noddy" application run faster at the cost of real performance for applications tuned to the particular library? That sounds like a whole can of worms. >>> All of this is moot of course unless the implementation actually has >>> more >>> than one algorithm that it could employ... >> >> In my experience there are often dozens of different algorithms for >> every situation and each has their trade offs. Choosing the right one >> based on the parameters given is the tricky bit. > > Absolutely! And which few of those dozens are applicable to a > wide-enough > range of situations that you want to actually implement/debug them? Implement? Most of them. Debug/support? no more than two or three seems optimal. There are some algorithms that just don't work on a given network and some that will only be best in corner cases. Then it's just a case of choosing the correct thresholds between the remaining few. For a given call *best* is absolute however for a given application tradeoffs have to be made. Ashley,


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By Lee Pfeiffer
In 1978, I was still in college and was happily fulfilling my duties as film critic for the campus newspaper. It was a good gig: I got to go to press events, advance screenings and meet filmmakers all for free, which fit comfortably within my discretionary spending budget that amounted to zero dollars. I had seen advance teaser ads for the upcoming mercenary adventure movie The Wild Geese, which boasted the kind of all-star cast that impressed even in an era when all-star casts were anything but unique. I attended the press screening in New York and was instantly blown away. Here were great stars like Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Kruger and Stewart Granger adding considerable glamor to a gritty British war movie that was in the best stiff-upper-lip tradition of great British war movies. Having been weened on the likes of Zulu, The Wild Geese immediately became one of my favorite movies, one that I knew I would revisit many times more in the years to come. Adding to the pleasure of the experience was the opportunity to attend a press conference with the film's producer, Euan Lloyd and Col. "Mad" Mike Hoare, the legendary real-life mercenary who served as technical adviser on the movie. I found Lloyd to be an extraordinary man: kind and appreciative of my comments. In an extraordinary gesture, he invited me to breakfast at the Plaza the following morning, a pleasure most struggling blue collar college kids would not enjoy. Lloyd read some of my reviews and said he was suitably impressed (or was kind enough to pretend he was.) We spent a couple of hours talking about film history and movie making before parting company. I would not see him again for about 25 years, but that one meeting was pivotal in convincing me to write about film as a living.
I have indeed seen The Wild Geese numerous times over the years. The film's release was somewhat botched in America but it was a mega-hit for Lloyd worldwide. The story, in the tradition of Dark of the Sun, is based on a novel by Daniel Carney. It involves four middle-aged, seemingly over-the-hill mercenaries who are hired by a London millionaire to rescue a deposed African President from his captors and restore him to office. Something about copper rights is at the heart of the scheme, but the mercenaries (Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris and Hardy Kruger) are largely apolitical and only get involved for their own self-interests. Only the Harris character is somewhat reluctantly drawn to the mission on the basis of human rights issues: the man he hopes to rescue will presumably replace the murderous dictator who had him deposed. The old friends are reunited and go about recruiting an eclectic group of hard-bitten fellow mercenaries who are parachuted into Africa to accomplish this deadly mission. All goes well until an unexpected plot development leads them stranded in a barren wasteland as an army of vicious Simbas advance upon them. Now the Wild Geese ust devise desperate plans to escape certain death.
This is the best movie ever directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, an old hand and pro at directing action movies. He is surprisingly at ease in this most British of story lines and deftly handles his talented cast, bringing out each actor's best qualities. The movie is so exciting that it seems unfair to provide many more details, as it might spoil at some of the film's many pleasures. Lloyd, a former protege of legendary producer Cubby Broccoli, hired many crew members from the James Bond series including editor John Glen, title designer Maurice Binder, stunt coordinator Bob Simmons and production designer Syd Cain. These were the best in their chosen professions and the film benefits greatly from their contributions. There is also a rousing score by Roy Budd and a fine title song written and performed by Joan Armatrading. One of the great joys of the movie is watching the three middle-aged leads accentuate their ages. Those who were amazed Burton could still carry off an action film with Where Eagles Dare were even more impressed he could do so again a decade later with this movie. The supporting cast is wonderful, with stalwart tough guy Jack Watson particularly good as the hard-as-nails R.S.M who whips his aging recruits into shape. Granger gives a fine, late career performance as the erudite baddie and the final confrontation between him and Burton is wonderfully written (the impressive screenplay is by Reginald Rose, who wrote Twelve Angry Men) and performed by the two seasoned pros. The film's scene-stealer is veteran British character actor Kenneth Griffiths, who plays an effete gay medic who nonetheless is a vicious warrior on the battlefield. Lloyd's films are filled with such progressive messages that denounce stereotypes based on sex, race or sexuality. The film's pleas for racial understanding come across as a bit too pat by today's standards, but this was edgy stuff in 1978 in the era of apartheid. (Lloyd broke racial barriers by hiring black actors and crew members and insisting they be housed, paid and treated equally- a rather controversial notion in Africa at the time.)
The most vivid image from the film is famous sequence in which the Geese free fall over Africa before landing by parachute. It's beautifully filmed and inspired Cubby Broccoli to use free-falling stunts as the opening sequence of his next James Bond film, Moonraker. The movie's breakneck-paced conclusion finds the Geese incurring major losses against a seemingly insurmountable army as Roger Moore's Sean Flynn attempts to use an aging airplane as a rescue vehicle. It's as exciting of a battle sequence as you can imagine and ranks with the best sequences in any film of this genre.
Severin Films, one of our favorite niche market DVD labels, has been largely dormant this year but has come back with a vengeance via this superb Blu-ray/DVD dual pak release. The film transfer is highly impressive and the bonus extras will be appreciated by fans. The release imports all of the special features from the previous UK release: a vintage, extended featurette about the making of the movie (all of the stars agree it was one of the best experiences of their professional careers), producer Jonathan Sothcott's excellent documentary about Euan Lloyd's life and career (most appropriately titled Last of the Gentleman Producers, a commentary track by Roger Moore, the original trailer and news coverage of the film's London premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square Theatre and the after-party at the Dorchester. Two new major features are unique to this release: recent filmed interviews with Andrew V. McLaglen and 94-year old mercenary Michael Hoare.
In all, a superb celebration of one of the great British films of its era.
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As with all McFarland Publishing ventures, this one is pricey ($45 for a softcover edition), but that's because the print runs are small and the books are designed to appeal to niche audiences. Author Albright has done his homework- and it shows. This book should be considered to be indispensable reading for anyone with a love of low-budget horror flicks.
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"The answer is self-deportation, which is people decide they can do better by going home because they can't find work here because they don't have legal documentation to allow them to work here," Romney said.
Twitter went crazy. The joke theme: Self-deporation? So I speed through a school zone. What to do? Pull over and write myself a ticket.
Joking aside, the debate over illegal immigration, the DREAM Act (allowing children brought to the United States illegally by their parents to become legalized U.S. residents) was more nuanced.
Here's the exchange, including National Journal correspondnt Beth Reinhard's question about the sensitive DREAM Act issue:
REINHARD: Speaker Gingrich, I want to move on to a slightly different topic, the Dream Act, which, as you know, would provide a pathway to citizenship for children who have been brought to the U.S. illegally if they attend college or enroll in the military.
Now, Governor Romney and Senator Santorum have both said they would veto this legislation. Would you do the same?
GINGRICH: No. I would work to get a signable version which would be the military component. I think any young person living in the United States who happened to have been brought here by their parents when they were young should have the same opportunity to join the American military and earn citizenship which they would have had from back home.
We have a clear provision that if you live in a foreign country, and you are prepared to join the American military, you can, in fact, earn the right to citizenship by serving the United States and taking real risk on behalf of the United States. That part of the Dream Act I would support. I would not support the part that simply says everybody who goes to college is automatically waived for having broken the law.
WILLIAMS: The questioning continues.
ROMNEY: ... that`s the same position that I have, and that is that I would not sign the Dream Act as it currently exists, but I would sign theDream Act if it were focused on military service.
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text: At 03:19 PM 3/19/2007, Robert G. Brown wrote: >On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, David Mathog wrote: > >>After looking at the specs I believe that at least 4 of the 5 >>can be wired to shut down instantly. (Not sure about the one >>desktop size APC unit in the room, as it isn't mine so I don't >>have the manual). However it seems that turning off the >>tripp-lite UPS requires a positive voltage (12V) on the >>inverter shutdown line. Which means, that even after the >>power has been killed (overtemp, red kill button, >>or building power shut down) the fireman entering this room would >>still need to smack another (not yet extant) red kill button, and >>that button is going to need DC power in order to work. Ahh yess.. but, that low voltage DC (and 12V is actually quite low, most industrial controls use 24VDC) and would normally be wired as what is called Class 2 power limited, so it doesn't raise any safety issues if it gets rained on. >> Googling >>turns up other EPO installations requiring much higher DC voltages >>than the tripp-lite needs, for instance here: >> >>http://nonstop.compaq.com/TechPubs/PDF/Power_Requirements/TPSEC04.pdf >> >>where they specify 56 volts for the EPO, but only 5mA of current when >>the switch closes. That's pretty high. I wonder why they chose it. It's also a weird voltage. The only time I've seen that voltage was on a GPS time/frequency standard intended for telecom usage, and even there it's weird, because the telecom world uses -48VDC. >>Clearly a second red kill button (EPO for the UPS units) would be a good >>thing. Presumably somebody sells an EPO control unit that >>has all the pieces: McMaster-Carr or Grainger are your friend. >APC has a button -- it is spec'd somewhat in the pdf Jim and I passed >back and forth and you can look it up on their site. There are some >other companies that sell them as well. The actual buttons are sold by all the standard electrical equipment companies (Square-D, Honeywell, Allen-Bradley, Omron, etc.) >They don't look terribly easy to wire up, though, and say that they are >only to be installed by "professionals". I asked our "professional" >electrician today if he'd ever installed an EPO button, and he said no >and slunk out. They're easy to wire if you have the beast sitting in front of you. All industrial switches like this are basically built with modules that assemble. You'd have an "operator" which is the part with the mushroom head and the spring loading. This mounts in a standard 1-1/8" (I think) hole in an enclosure designed for such things with the plastic flap on the front to prevent the "oops I leaned on the kill switch" problem. On the back of the operator, you stack one or more contact modules, either Normally Open or Normally Closed. If you need 24VDC power, you get a UL approved Class 2 power supply (essentially a little module that plugs in) Ultimately it comes down to your fire marshall and inspectors. If they >say you need one, you need one. If they say not, then not. Unless you >get sued after a fire when somebody gets killed, in which case it will >almost certainly turn out that you needed one after all. > >I'm still hoping to put one in "needed" or not. If I can figure out >how, without spending a fortune. How as in wiring and full parts >diagrams, including what we need at the UPS end. See, for instance page 821 in the McMaster Carr catalog (online at http://www.mcmaster.com/) or, for a more build to suit, page 811 or pg 813, where they have a plastic shroud, Mushroom operators, etc Or page 817, in a bigger size Grainger (http://www.grainger.com/) has similar things. Look around page 288 in their online catalog. Mfrs like Square D (http://www.squared.com/) which sell through your local industrial electrical supplier For instance... http://ecatalog.squared.com/pubs/Machine%20Control/Push%20Buttons%20and%20Operator%20Interface/30%20mm%20Dia/9001BR9401.pdf (If I copied that correctly..) Near Duke, you might try Consolidated Electrical Distrs. Inc, Electric Supply Co of Durham, Graybar Electric Company, Grainger, etc. Near Cal Tech.. I used to use Royal Electric down in Vernon, All-Phase out in Burbank, Grainger all over the place. I see that Consolidated has a place on Foothill in Pasadena. Dawson Company is in Altadena. Norton Wholesale Electric downtown is another possibility. > rgb > >> >>AC in >>AC to DC conversion That would be a power supply.. a standard modular component. >>battery or capacitor backup of the DC voltage likewise, but you might not need a backup. >>a bunch of ports to plug in lines to control the EPO devices >> >>Who sells it? >>How much? >> >>Or is every EPO controller custom made??? Yes. In the sense that you basically mix and match the buttons, wire, and connectors to match your particular facility and your particular UPSes, which, as you've noticed, aren't standardized. Nor is it cheap... The operators will set you back $30, contact blocks are $10-20 each, the box you put it in is probably $50-100, etc. But, hey, if you're paying a union electrician $65/hr to do the work, the labor will dominate. Complicating this is that the terminology and nomenclature for industrial controls is a bit unusual, so you have a bit of a learning curve. And, of course, it's designed to be installed by electricians, not computer installers, so there's nary a 8 conductor modular jack/plug to be found. Your leatherman tool is your friend. James Lux, P.E. Spacecraft Radio Frequency Subsystems Group Flight Communications Systems Section Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 161-213 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena CA 91109 tel: (818)354-2075 fax: (818)393-6875


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Rebuilding the CAT 3208 Diesel
Since information from Caterpillar is always held very tight within the family it was very hard to get an accurate history of how the relationship all came about, so if I'm a bit off in my timeline, forgive me. I assure you, it won't affect the content of this article.
The bottom line is, Ford had a truck line with mammoth 477 and 534 cid gasoline engines and realized it needed a diesel for its fleet vehicles if they wanted to stay in the game. Somewhere in the late 1960s or early '70s Caterpillar seemed to have an interest in getting into the medium duty fleet truck engine business, or Ford coerced them into it opinions vary as to which is the most likely scenario. The point is, Ford had the trucks and Cat had the engines.
From 1968-1974 The Ford 6000 series trucks used the Caterpillar 1140 150 hp and 1145 175 hp diesel engines. In that same time, the 7000 and 8000 series had the Cat 1150 200 hp diesel. These early renditions were considered inexpensive "throw away" engines. There were very few oversize or undersize parts available, at least from the OEM. Obviously those were different times and certainly part of a much more vibrant economy, however the entrepreneurial spirit of engine remanufacturers and the automotive aftermarket never accepted the "disposable engine" mentality and so the story continued.
The 1160 was in the 8000 series Ford back in 1968 as well but became a lot more popular in 1970-1974. Then in 1975 the 3208 showed up in 7000 and 8000 series trucks and in the '80s gained phenomenal popularity. There was hardly a city fleet anywhere in the country that did not have a Ford with a 3208. Whether in city tractor trailers or garbage trucks they were everywhere. They also gained popularity in marine applications, power plants, school buses and construction equipment: if it needed a medium duty diesel engine, the 3208 was the one.
Ford and Caterpillar hit a home run with this combination, a partnership that lasted all the way through 1990. If my sources are correct 1992 saw the end of production, but there are still a lot of these engines out there. As I said, Cat plays a lot of things close to the vest, so I was never able to get exact production numbers so I can only venture a guess about how many of them are still being used. Especially in today's frugal economy, and I have not heard of a "Cash for Cat" program.
There is one thing that I would highly recommend, though, if you have any intention of working on, repairing or remanufacturing a 3208 or any Caterpillar engine: buy the Caterpillar manual. Caterpillar manuals are stellar and you will never find better information or specifications but they are justifiably proud of them and you will pay a premium.
With all that in mind, let's dive right in and look at the pieces of the 3208.
Cylinder Blocks
The turbo block has two vents for the lifter chambers of the block that the non-turbo does not have. Figure 1 shows the rear lower extremity of the "V" of both blocks. The non-turbo block is plain and just follows suit with the rest of the casting. The counter bored and threaded hole (red circle) is where the camshaft thrust bolt is installed. The turbo block on the right has a cast and machined turbocharger mounting flange in the rear of the block at the bottom of the "V" with oil feed and drain back in between the mounting bolt holes. In the rear of the blocks you can see the last cam bearing bore and the main oil galley plug threaded bore just above it and you get a better view of the breadth of the mounting boss.
You also need to pay attention to the #1 main bearing housing bore register in the block. If it has a center bearing tab locator (Figure 2) you will use the three hole main bearing since that register also has a groove cut into it. If it has the offset bearing locator tab in the main bearing housing bore the block will have a plain single hole main bearing bore register.
Turbo blocks also have piston-cooling jets/nozzles that feed off of the main bearings (see Figure 3). You may find non-turbo blocks that have been machined for these nozzles but actually have plugs installed.
Early 3208 non-turbo blocks had a slightly steeper main bearing cap parting line angle. I was unable to determine a serial number break as to when that happened but if you're salvaging main caps for block repairs you will want to be aware of it (see Figure 4). One worldly piece of advice on main caps: they need to be tight in the register in the main saddle. If you have a cap that is loose (one that slides in and out with little or no resistance), it has stretched and is out of round. If you have a main cap that is "kind of" loose but still measures in spec, you will probably have a premature main bearing failure at that location. If the caps are tight enough that you need to struggle to get them out of the register, preferably having to wiggle them back and forth, you will be perfect.
If you need to, reclaim the register area of the cap and mill the register face back to a dimension that will keep the cap good and tight in the block register. Then align bore the block, but remember that you have a stacked gear train with this engine, so you shouldn't be moving centerlines if you want your gears to work.
I know that this information is a "feel" dimension and I have not given you a specific press fit but I am unaware that there ever was a published specification, I can only share a "school of hard knocks" lesson.
The 3208 engine utilizes a forged steel crankshaft with true ground radii they are not rolled. Pick this crankshaft up once and you will know why they are not. There was no scrimping on metal on this Caterpillar crank. You can have an 8- or 10-bolt flywheel flange (Figure 5) and they both have the same bolt pattern. If you use an 8-bolt flywheel on a 10-bolt crankshaft be sure to install two plugs with sealer into the unoccupied holes or you will leak oil badly.
There is a somewhat unique oiling to this crankshaft the connecting rod oil holes join to one common oil passage coming from the main journal to the rear of it. So the 1-2 rod throw is oiled by #2 main, and so on. Therefore, the #1 main bearing journal does not feed any connecting rods and does not have an oil hole in it. Crankshaft thrust endplay is controlled at the #4 main bearing position and it uses one single bearing half that is flanged to control crankshaft endplay. This engine is externally balanced so make certain that flywheel index is correct.
Camshafts and lifters
In its first iteration, the 3208 was a naturally aspirated engine with a flat tappet/lifter camshaft made of cast iron. Take a look at Figure 6 and you'll see this camshaft in the middle (letter B). The end of the camshaft has an inset photo to help you identify the lobe profile.
The second camshaft was the flat tappet cam in the turbocharged engines and is identified by the letter A. Again the lobe profile is superimposed on the end of the camshaft. Take note of the much gentler lobe peak profile this is also a cast iron camshaft. The last and final camshaft (letter C) was the roller lifter camshaft. Made of steel, this camshaft is hardened to withstand the point contact of the roller lifter.
The lifters are readily identified by their appearance and there is nothing too confusing about these (see Figure 7). In the center is the roller lifter and on the right is the flat lifter. The roller lifter is used in combination with the steel camshaft. The roller lifter is secured in the lifter bore with a clip to prevent it from turning. These are mechanical lifters only: there are no hydraulic lifters used in a 3208 engine.
Connecting Rods
Connecting Rods
There are three different connecting rods used in the 3208, and as with all the other components what you'll use depends on what you have. Figure 8 explains the differences.
The first series connecting rod is shown on the left. This rod is used with a piston that has straight-sided wrist pin bores in the ID of the piston (see Figure 11). The second connecting rod was a tapered pin connecting rod used with pistons that had additional material up under the piston crown creating a tapered wrist pin boss on the ID of the piston. Many remanufacturers today will machine straight pin boss rods to a tapered pin rod to reduce part numbers and rod core management for naturally aspirated engines. You can put a tapered rod into a straight pin piston but not vice-versa.
A word to the wise, however: even if you purchase the correct fixture tooling to install the tapered pin bushings you still run the risk of having a bushing turn in the rod eye (as a warranty) due to bushing distress and distortion. Heat the pin eye and nitrogen the bushing, index the bushing and drop it in the rod. The last connecting rod on the right is the turbo rod. This one features an enhanced beam and increased strength.
Cylinder Heads
The cylinder head for the 3208 is pretty uncomplicated and yet complex. The only real difference between the head casting for a turbo and non-turbo engine is that the lift bracket holes on the cylinder head are different. The non-turbo cylinder head is 3/8? x 16 pitch thread and the turbo head is 1/2? x 13 (Figure 9). That is the simple part, however when it comes to the valves, springs and valve seat inserts, that is dependent on the serial and arrangement number.
Early 3208 engines used 6 ID dash lines on the head of the bolt and were torqued at 95 ft.lbs. while the 7 dash (one mark is a letter) head bolts are torqued to 110 and 120 ft.lbs., depending on their location.
Fuel Injectors
There have been three fuel injectors used on the 3208 engine (as shown in Figure 10). The one on the far left is referred to as the "S" injector because it was the injector used on the "40S" serial number series engines. You must use the hold down shown with this injector. It is .500? tall with a smooth OD of the spacer barrel. You will also need to use .063? ID fuel lines that you can identify by the smooth OD line nut also shown.
The injector and components shown in the center belong to the "Y" injector because its use was primarily with the 32Y serial number series engines, although it did bleed into the 51Z engines as well and some turbo engines (02Z and 03Z). This injector requires a different hold down with a spacer that is .475? tall as indicated by the groove on the OD of the barrel. This injector also uses the .063? ID fuel line with the smooth line nut. Another quick identifier for these two injectors is the black gas seal on the "S" injector and the yellow seal on the "Y" injector (an easy way to remember is "Y" for yellow seal).
The "7000" series injector is completely different in appearance and there is no chance of mixing this one up. This injector must use a .072? ID fuel line that can be identified by the "Notched" fuel line nut as shown. When this injector is used in the lower horsepower naturally aspirated 3208 engine it will have an injector tip orifice diameter of .290 mm and when used in the higher horsepower turbo engine the injector tip orifice has a diameter of .315 mm. Other diameters of orifice sizes are also used for various different specific applications.
Pistons and Rings
The piston bottoms shown in Figure 11 show the straight pin bore piston on the left that can be used with either a straight pin or tapered pin connecting rod. The piston on the right has the tapered pin bore and, as you can see, there is a substantial amount of additional support for the piston head. Only the tapered pin bore connecting rod can be used with this piston.
The piston on the left of Figure 12 is a non-turbo piston with a fuel swirl bowl volume of approximately 54cc, while the piston on the right for the turbo is approximately 59cc. Mixing them up can render poor results in runability.
The pistons shown are all three-ring pistons. Caterpillar produced a three-ring piston only for some turbo application but never for a naturally aspirated engine. Instead, two-ring pistons were used in these versions. The two-ring piston was only available as a conventional type ring groove while the three-ring pistons use a top Keystone ring (see illustration).
Use the three-ring piston as your choice of piston: it's a superior replacement for the two ring and you'll never use a two ring in place of a three ring. Naturally aspirated pistons come with three different compression ratios: 16.5:1, 17.5:1 and 18.2:1. Turbo pistons primarily have a compression ratio of 16.5:1, though there are some lower horsepower turbo engines for California applications, which have a 17.5:1 compression ratio.
Gear Train
In Figure 13 you can see that the CAT 3208 used one of three camshaft drive gears and three different type injection pump timing advance units. On the left, the narrow drive pin set for the advance unit (notice how close the pins are to the center hole of the gear) shows these gears are for a naturally aspirated engine. The unit in the center has the wider pin location for the cam advance unit and is used for turbocharged applications. Note that both of these timing gears have a higher count of teeth and a shallower profile. The gear on the far right is the last rendition with fewer teeth and a much more aggressive tooth pattern and was used for high horsepower applications.
There are only two crank and injection pump timing gears. As shown in Figure 14 you'll find either a fine tooth or a coarse tooth gear in this position.
The 3208 diesel engine had three different oil pump gears. As shown in Figure 15 from left to right, the early shallow gear oil pump corresponds with the like front cover and pump bushing. The center gear is the taller, higher volume oil pump with the matching front cover and bushing as well. Both of these gears have the higher count shallow profile teeth and the last gear is the same height, however, it has the coarse, more aggressive tooth pattern. Since many of these components may potentially be changed out in the field, knowing the appearance of all of the variations could save a lot of grief and sorrow because an incorrect tooth pattern component was installed. The oil pump tooth pattern always has to be matched to the crank gear pattern. However you may find the tooth pattern can split between coarse and fine pattern on the same engine. Example: Crank gear, cam gear and oil pump fine gear pattern and advance gear and injection pump gear have a coarse pattern or vice versa.
Fuel Injection Pump Timing Advance Unit
The 3208 Caterpillar engine has a fuel injection pump drive gear that is driven off the front of the camshaft. This drive gear will usually be an injection pump timing advance unit as well. This gear may also be zero advanced, used primarily in constant speed engine applications.
When "0" advanced is used in naturally aspirated engines it is a solid gear and for turbo engines it will appear as any other advance unit, except it is marked as "0". In naturally aspirated engine applications there are 3°, 5° or 8° advance units used. Turbo engines use 3.5° or 8° advance units.
The dowel size and spacing are different between an advance gear for a naturally aspirated and turbo engine (see gear train info). The turbo dowels are bigger in diameter and further apart. The advance unit in the lower portion photo as shown in Figure 16 is an assembled advance assembly for a naturally aspirated engine that is 5° advanced, as evidenced by the 5 that may be scribed or stamped into the cover plate. Note the four red dots: these are the location of the 4 rivets that, when drilled out, expose the internals of the advance unit as shown in the upper portion of Figure 16. The four red circles at the top are those same drilled rivet locations. The upper portion shows a turbo advance gear, size of the holes in the slides and spacing.
The weights (two red arrows) show the two sliding tapered parallels (note the 5 stamped on them) that are driven by two slides between them. Those two slides are driven by the two dowels off the front of the camshaft timing gear. As centrifugal force of the unit's rotation speed increases the weights push against the force of the springs which will cause the slides to make a change in the angle correlation between the injection pump camshaft and the engine camshaft, thus advancing the injection pump timing the amount indicated on the face plate.
The light blue arrows show the resistance springs. As shown in the inset image what looks like one spring is actually two, one fitting inside of the other. These can break and without drilling this unit open you will never know, until you get improper advance of the injection pump resulting in poor power or possible white smoking. The green double arrow shows you the center hub of the unit that has narrow ledges which centers in the cover plates. You can also see that if the narrow ledges fracture (inset image right) that will also result in improper advance action.
These units were not designed to be disassembled but to be replaced, so if you are not inclined to drill and rivet, my suggestion is to replace. Just because it worked before does not mean that it will work again after the reman process. Lubrication oil for the timing advance unit comes from drilled holes that connect with the front bearing for the engine camshaft. The function of the advance unit can be checked with a dynamic timing device.
Early 3208 engines used a Schwitzer turbo that required a riser that bolted to the block and the turbo then bolted to the riser (see Figure 17). This riser required ports for oil flow for the turbo and added an additional surface that could potentially have a leak. It sat higher and required more hood clearance. Air Research designed a turbo specific to the 3208 that mounted directly to the block and sat lower down into the valley (see Figure 18). Again the serial number and arrangement number will tell you which one that you have. They do not interchange without making a lot of modifications.
Figure 19 shows the three most common bellhousings used on the 3208 engine. Bellhousing A is used on both turbo and non-turbo applications. It is an SAE 2 and is double-drilled at the top on the inside (which would be on the bottom of the image) this bell housing uses a paper gasket seal to the block. B is the early design SAE 2 used with non-turbo engines and is single drilled at the top for mounting bolts and also uses a paper gasket to the block. C is the latest light weight bell housing used and is also a SAE 2 and double drilled at the top and uses sealer only between the bell housing and block.
There are some SAE 3 bell housings used in off-road applications and of course the serial number and arrangement number will give you that information. It is absolutely critical that the bell housing be dial indicated in relationship to the crankshaft for alignment prior to final torque. Failure to do so will result in bell housing fracture.
Oil Coolers (Download pdf image chart here)
The oil coolers on the Caterpillar 3208 came in three different varieties. Depending on the application and engine specification, the cooler cores can come with or without mounting studs (early style versus late style) as shown here. The oil cooler bases need to be matched up with the cores. To assemble a core without studs to a cooler base with openings for the tree studs, the base can be modified by plugging the holes with pipe plugs. All coolers incorporate a cooler by-pass valve and later styles also a filter by-pass valve.
The 3208 engine can be a good contribution in your remanufacturing product line as evidenced by Reviva, in Minneapolis, MN, to whom I am again indebted for their hospitality, expertise and general attitude of sharing, a standard that many can aspire to. Their continued pursuit of excellence in the use of Kaizen and Six-Sigma implementation is awesome to watch in action. I also would like to make special mention of Franz Riesterer for his knowledge and insight of the 3208 engine.
About the Author
Roy Berndt has been in the automotive engine rebuilding and remanufacturing industry for over 30 years. He is an ASE Master Machinist and co-author of SAE documents and Standards. He is the Program Manager for PROFormance Powertrain Products, a PER in Springfield, MO. [email protected].


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UNION CITY — A third-grade teacher who faces dozens of child molestation charges for allegedly kissing and fondling female students has been placed on unpaid leave.
Michael Howey, 47, who teaches at Alvarado Elementary School, was arrested May 1 in connection with the allegations and has been held on $750,000 bail at the Santa Rita Jail since his arrest. The move to freeze his pay came Tuesday night during a unanimous vote by New Haven Unified School District board members, said Derek McNamara, the chief personnel officer for the district.
The 5-0 vote came during a closed session of the board's monthly meeting.
Howey had been on paid administrative leave since the allegations were reported on April 12, but the board decided to make the move after learning he'd been formally charged, McNamara said. He was arraigned this week on 17 counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 and 23 counts of annoying and molesting a child.
Police say Howey made sure he had extracurricular activities for girls — specifically arts and crafts — during recess for a choice group of students who made his "cutiest (sic) girl list."
Court documents show he sent the other girls and the boys to the playground and after isolating his nine select female students — whom he told he was "rewarding" for being good students — he would give the girls long hugs, rub their bellies and kiss them on the mouth.
The behavior went on until April 12, when police say another teacher reported seeing him kiss one of the students during recess. She alerted the school principal, who interviewed his students and then alerted police.
Howey has worked for the district for 14 years; he was hired in 1997 but had taken a couple of years off, school officials said. He has taught at Alvarado Elementary, Cabello Elementary and Cesar Chavez Middle School. School officials said Howey had no disciplinary incidents on his record.
Howey, who police say has no criminal history, is due back in court June 5 to enter a plea in his case. His lawyer also plans to ask the judge to reduce his bail, records show.
Contact Natalie Neysa Alund at 510-293-2469. Follow her at Twitter.com/nataliealund.


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May 12, 2011 — gave us an update on her recent accomplishments and her ongoing goal to make it to the 2016 Olympics in Brazil.
When we last spoke, Wolf had only been seriously boxing for a couple years but was gaining a reputation on the female boxing circuit as a major contender. Her reputation, however, worked against her as other boxers refused to fight her, especially after they would see her 6-foot frame and strong physique. At the time, she had only been able to schedule four fights — all of which she had won.
Things have turned around, however, Wolf said. She recently returned from Venezuela, where she won the welterweight division at the Continental Championships, which featured top female athletes from North, Central and South America. Before that, she won her division at the USA Boxing National Championships and was invited to join Team USA. She has been visiting training camps, including at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs and has been meeting with sports management companies and sponsors.
"I'm shopping management right now, updating my website, meeting with a lot of big names," she said. "I met with a lot of people in the [United States Olympic Committee] in Colorado. There have been some crazy good things happening."
Wolf, a Pacific Beach resident, isn't slowing down, either. She's hoping to attend the Women's Golden Gloves National Championships in Florida next month, after which she'll travel to Finland, Ukraine and China with Team USA. Between that, she's hoping to attend several national tournaments, though her biggest obstacle at the moment is funding.
"There are still a lot of tournaments that I have to pay to attend," she said. "I'm hoping to get sponsors to help with some of that."
Meanwhile, she'll be featured in Pacific Magazine in July, meet with investors and potential sponsors and keep training hard every day to meet her goal.
For more information on Wolf or to donate funds for her training, visit www.thehungryboxer.com or email email@example.com.


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CBS Press Release:ONE TEAM FINDS ITSELF IN TROUBLE WITH THE LAW, WHILE ANOTHER RACER BURNS BRIDGES WITH OTHER TEAMS WHEN HE LIES TO IMPEDE THEIR PROGRESS, ON "THE AMAZING RACE 13," SUNDAY, OCT. 26 "Do It Like A Madman" - One Team finds itself in trouble with the law as they watch precious time tick away, while another Racer doesn't hesitate to lie while standing in one of the most religious places on earth, on THE AMAZING RACE 13, Sunday, Oct. 26 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
You know that Chateau is completely right on this but that brings up another issue. Terence and Sarah should never have had the opportunity to beg for or be offered $500 nor should any other racer. Notice that they are not showing those activities on the normal episode because World Race Productions and CBS know how their audience feels on this issue. Begging and accepting gifts should be banned, as driving over the speed limit. These activities demean the Amazing Race because they take away the level playing field essential to a good race!
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Pat Moore's can put it up. But he's also down to keep it closer to the snow. Nothing better than some low-impact lip tricks to break up the monotony of double overhead airs in the pipe. Case in point: The Tripod.
It's one of Pat's favorites and he's here to share it with you.
1.) Learn to do Tripods on the flat ground, the best way is to be on your toe edge looking uphill and hop to your nose with your hands on the ground and balance like that.
2.) Go up your toe side wall in the pipe, carry only enough speed to hop out of the pipe.
3.) When you get to the lip, suck the transition up as if you were exiting the pipe.
4.) Aim for a foot or so past the lip on the deck and land in a tripod, this is where you can throw in any variations you wish—bipod, sleeper, tripod to block, etc.
5.) Keep an eye on the lip and start to direct your motion towards it, as you get close to the lip, pop out of the tripod and push your body into the transition. Be sure to keep your eye on the lip though so you dont catch and flip and die.
6.) Land it with speed and head to your heel side wall for an alley-oop!


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Despite being sidelined by surgery, Dwayne Johnson is still one tough guy.
The actor and wrestler, better known as The Rock, had an emergency hernia operation on Monday, which kept him from attending the Los Angeles premiere of his latest flick, "Pain & Gain." But a photo he posted from the hospital shows he's still a man of steel.
Outfitted in a Superman T-shirt and surgical cap, the 40-year-old channeled another superhero, The Hulk, in the animated picture, which showed him flexing his buff arms as he sat in a hospital bed amid medical equipment.
"Surgery a success," he tweeted. "Dr repaired 3 hernial tears (fun pain). Superman is on the mend. #WeFallWeRise"
Johnson's injury didn't take place on a movie set. It was sustained in the ring when he faced off with John Cena during a WrestleMania bout to defend his WWE championship title. Not only did the action movie star lose the match, he seriously injured his abdomen.
"In the middle of last night's Wrestlemania match I tore my abdomen & abductor muscles off the bone. Just part of the job," he tweeted in early April. Then on Sunday, he announced that he was going under the knife, and his doctor had to "push my intestines back thru the tear in my abdomen. Kinda romantic."
Johnson was missed by his "Pain & Gain" co-stars at Monday's premiere, although Mark Wahlberg and Anthony Mackie had a few laughs at his expense, which you can watch here:


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xbay wrote:Niners defense DID WORK!
31 points.
Guess all that talk about you guys hoping the Niners' defense get manhandled by the Cards upset them. 8 takeaways!
Warner 2 INTs, 2 FUMs. Wells, Hightower, Stephens-Howling, Boldin... all with one fumble.
All adding to a grand total of 31 fantasy points.
Stupid Cards. They sucked.
Oh well, looks like I'll have to try and find a way to stop the Crackerz juggernaut.


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California Department of Transportation
Date: May 14, 2014
District: 12 – Orange County
Contact: Caltrans District 12 – Yvonne Washington – (949) 724-2644
OCTA – Joel Zlotnik – (714) 560-5713
IRVINE – Caltrans and the Orange County Transportation Authority today celebrated the completion of a wide range of transportation improvements on the Orange Freeway (State Route 57) that should make the daily commute easier, lessen vehicle emissions, and dampen freeway traffic noise.
"The completion of this project is good news for hundreds of thousands of commuters who travel the Orange Freeway every day. The new lane, along with improved bridges and ramps, will make driving less stressful and allow motorists more time to do things they enjoy rather than being stuck in traffic," said Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty.
The centerpiece of the project is a new five-mile-long lane that opened today on the northbound Orange Freeway between Orangethorpe Avenue in Placentia and Lambert Road in Brea. The average daily traffic volume along this busy section can reach as high as 150,000 vehicles in the northbound direction.
The project includes an extensive range of additional improvements that will benefit motorists and also residents: a new five-mile-long soundwall will diminish freeway noise for nearby residents; and 12 freeway bridges and 12 ramps were widened to improve the flow of traffic in and around interchanges, making it easier and safer to get on and off the freeway.
The $104 million project was primarily funded with $82 million from Proposition 1B, a 2006 voter-approved bond. To date, more than $17 billion in Proposition 1B funds have been put to work statewide for transportation purposes. Measure M, the county's half-cent sales tax for transportation improvements, provided $22 million in funding for the project.
"The 57 freeway is a vital link for drivers in Orange County, and we at OCTA are thrilled to see this addition open," said OCTA chairman Shawn Nelson, also the chairman of the Orange County Board of Supervisors. "We're putting Measure M money to good use by easing congestion and helping drivers get where they need to go more quickly."
A second segment of northbound SR-57 is also currently being widened along a three-mile section from Katella Avenue to Lincoln Avenue. That project is scheduled to be completed this December and will connect with the new lane that opened today.
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Hi Slaven & Co
Is there anything planned in the direction of supporting the Google Desktop Search?
Google natively offers indexing Outlook, Outlook Express and Thunderbird/Netscape mail. Other software vendors can provide a plugin for Google Desktop Search, e.g. Becky has already done so.
For details, see: http://desktop.google.com/plugins/c/email.html
I am aware of the discussion about Archivarius 3000. Yet, I really like the Google Desktop Search and would love to see Pocomail support of it one day or another.
Edit by robin: I've removed the duplicate thread


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WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- If a hillside Tudor in Bronxville looks familiar, that's because it recently had its 15 minutes (or more) of fame.
The home, at 29 Prescott Avenue, was featured on CBS New York's "Living Large." The segment followed Listing Agent Kathleen Collins of the Julia B. Fee Sotheby's International Realty Bronxville office and reporter Emily Smith on a tour throughout the home, which is currently on the market for $5,300,000.
Located in the town's historic and sought after Lawrence Park Hilltop enclave, the home enjoys commanding views as far as the Manhattan skyline along with a gracious interior built for entertaining.
The exterior evokes a European villa style, complete with multi-tiered stone terraces, a pool, spa and cabana along with flowering perennials, lush shrubbery, and a cascading waterfall.
Other highlights include restored original features, a spacious kitchen and a sitting room with glass-fronted wine storage for 1,200 bottles. A state of the art Crestron system controls the home's audio, lighting, security and temperature from multiple panels, as well as from mobile devices.
Living Large airs on CBS2's evening news at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and is rerun during the Sunday 6 to 9 a.m. local news.
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Lamb Industries needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 398 designs submitted by 88 freelance designers.
Looking for a logo that can be used for all materials, web, business card, letterhead, promotional products(branding), etc
An exciting new venture in the "alternative energy" sector are looking for creative (but professional) logos that capture their innovative vision. Fresh, relevant, solution oriented company will focus on helping consumers make more responsible and value-based (both economic and environmental impact) decisions regarding their energy consumption and alternatives. This company will assist potential customers with the resources they need in meeting their desire to become energy efficient in the truest sense. Renewable sources are socially responsible and we plan to provide solutions to meet these needs on many levels.
This entity will focus on delivering end-to-end solutions, which include consulting, financing and construction project management services to help corporations, academic institutions and government organizations and private industry reduce their energy usage, decrease their CO2 impact, save money and integrate technologies providing renewable forms of energy.
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One of my first assignments in the World Bank, some 13 years ago, was in a small and complicated country, better known for coups and mercenaries than for statistical capacity. Before I set off to the Comoro Islands, my then manager (now an established World Bank Vice-president) gave me the following priceless advice: "When you get there, make sure to get a lot of data. It may be difficult to get and sometimes even flawed, but data has one great advantage: It cuts through a lot of crap."
Numbers are indeed beautiful. They can help bring clarity to our lives and save us time as well as resources. But raw data can be messy and you also need a good system for deciding which numbers to use and how to interpret them. Last week's launch of the 2014 Doing Business rankings reminded me of the advice my then boss had given me. Doing Business started from the premise that companies are the backbone of any economy but that investors often lacked knowledge of the conditions in "frontier economies". With the benefit of an annual assessment of the business environment in each country, investors could make more informed decisions. As for policy makers, they could more easily attract investors, provided they made a genuine effort in cutting red tape and supporting businesses.
Over the years, the Doing Business team has put together one of the most thorough systems of collecting, analyzing and aggregating data on the business environment across the world. The dataset now covers an impressive 189 countries, including many small states like Comoros, for which data are often scarce. The countries are rated across ten dimensions: Starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, and resolving insolvency. The ratings are aggregated and converted into one single index according to which countries are ranked.
The countries I now cover – Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia – are performing reasonably well but would still need to improve further to attract major international businesses (see figure 1). One of this year's positive surprises is Kosovo, which is being recognized as a "top reformer". Macedonia is also consistently ranked in the top group. However, Bosnia & Herzegovina, remains at a pitiful 131st rank, between Bangladesh and Uganda.
The example of Western Balkan economies shows that, with sustained effort, even small countries with a difficult past can position themselves as possible investment destinations. At the same time, halting or even slowing the pace of reform is not an option. Most Western Balkan countries still have a 30-40 percent gap to the top performers, many of which are from Eastern Europe and thus natural competitors.
Some countries were disappointed with their rankings and even expressed concern to the World Bank about disclosing them. Their criticism is often directed at the methodology. They take issue with how the data are collected and the topics selected; they also point out that some countries "game the system" by targeting those reforms that will help them improve their ranking rather than truly responding to investor needs.
In fairness, finding ways to capture the ease of doing business is no easy task. Does it make sense to focus on how long it takes to open a business, how difficult it is to construct a building or how many taxes one needs to pay – and how professional are those officials collecting them? It would be tempting to look directly at actual investments but that would be misleading because there are many other factors –beyond sound policies- that drive investment decisions (such as the size of the economy and the growth prospects of the market).
The beauty of Doing Business is that it focusses on areas governments can actually improve. It makes it also extremely clear where a country stands and how it could progress in making easier to do business. There is a trade-off though: the index provides a clear big picture snapshot, but is washes away nuances and doesn't do justice to countries that may perform well at a more granular level.
While critics of the index make many valid points they are yet to come up with a better alternative. It takes a lot of effort and hard work to establish the right model, collect all the necessary data and then aggregate it into an index that everyone buys into. Doing Business has achieved it, despite some of its limitations. Moreover, the solution cannot consist in going back to impressionistic assessments and no comparability. Breaking life down to numbers involves simplifying it which is both good (because it makes complexity manageable) and bad (because some flavor inevitably is lost). This is probably why Doing Business is at the same time such a powerful tool and disliked instrument.
Thanks for your really
Thanks for your really interesting article, it is genuily simple as well as duely informative. Congrats for the quality of the content! Best Regards
Good job on th topic you
Good job on th topic you chose to exposit. However I think more should be done to consider the contentious issues raised by the critics. Though I am able to discuss this matter innmore detail I am not sure how interesting for you it would be to look at the issues of bias raised by the critics. Most important for me is how to reduce the level of subjectivity embedded in the perception surveys that underlie the indexes ultimately used for ranking these countries. How, for example, do you take into account the nature and strength of the government- private sector relations in any country and it's correlation with the level of political and economic freedom in any particular country in influencing the perception of those interviewed. Is there a way in which the actual monetary cost of these rankings can be included in the report , say for CODB 2015? Am available to discuss some of theses ideas further.
Thanks Eric,
Thanks Eric,
happy to discuss your points.
Doing Business does not sample firms for two main reasons. The first pertains to the frequency with which firms engage in the transactions captured in the indicators, which is generally low. For instance, a firm goes through the process of starting a business once in its existence while an incorporation lawyer may do several dozen such transactions in a year. Therefore, the experts providing information to Doing Business are better suited for assessing the process of starting a business than individual firms. Second, most of the information gathered through the Doing Business questionnaires is of a legal nature which firms are unlikely to be fully familiar with.
This method does demand a very rigorous review of the responses of more than 35000 experts around the world. Even if it was methodologically possible to sample firms directly, it would be practically near impossible to create meaningful ratings at the country level as one would need a huge random sample.
Those of us who support
Those of us who support evidence-based policy making are heartened by the current emphasis on and investment in data. But as with all things, there are caveats:
1. Your data should measure what matters, otherwise we risk what's measured becoming what matters.
2. Data must be used wisely, particularly where causality is not proven, and should support not undermine other aspects of a good policy-making process, particularly consultation.
3. Data should be as robust as possible, cross-checked and honest about any short-comings.
According to a recent review by an expert panel appointed by World Bank President Jim Kim, Doing Business currently falls short on all three of these tests. (See their findings on www.dbrpanel.org and civil societies recommendations for change at http://www.cafod.org.uk/content/download/12931/99953/file/Doing%20Better.pdf).
A good tool to provide governments with information on whether their business environment is helping or hindering entrepreneurship and investment is invaluable. Doing Business could become that tool, but only if its supporters resist the urge to become defensive in the face of criticism and instead embrace the changes that are needed to make Doing Business a tool fit for purpose.
Very nice topic. I read
Very nice topic. I read recently that each business regulatory reform is associated with a 0.15 percent increase in growth rate of GDP. interesting finding, see here http://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/jjieco/v26y2012i3p285-307.html . Certainly, these numbers are beautiful, helping us in reform effort here in Ethiopia.
Thanks much Mike,
Thanks much Mike,
Indeed a better business climate helps to reach higher levels of growth. Just think of Singapore which is now wealthier than most Western countries and always ranks among the top in DB.
Keep up the good work.


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Entertainment » Television
Watch: Commercial Featuring Sweet-Smelling Jockstrap Prompts Grins, Grousing
A commercial for Gain laundry detergent presents a homey scenario in which two boys attempt to play a joke on their napping father by draping a jockstrap over his face.
The boys evidently expect the jockstrap to be smelly and gross, as they are carrying it with a stick. But, as the narrator notes, once the jock is on Dad's face he smiles in his sleep and snuggles with it thanks to its having been washed with Gain.
The boys, disappointed, take a sniff for themselves and then throw the freshly laundered jockstrap aside in disgust as the narrator declares, "That, boys, is the sweet smell of defeat!"
The internet exploded with viewer reactions that ranged from amusement to condemnation and, from there, to defense of the commercial's humorous sensibilities.
A comment posted to advertising review site Pissed Consumer took Gain to task, with the person making the post complaining, "This commercial seems to imply that a man's genital area smells unpleasant, and maybe it does, but using mean spirited pranks, and poor social skills of kids, is probably not the best way to present your product."
Over at QVC's community chat board, the commentary pro and con flew thick and fast. "just can't describe it in words," one poster wrote. "you'll have to be lucky and see it for yourself!"
Others called the spot "disgusting," "just nasty," and "as immature as the children involved."
One sharp-eyed commentator groused, "What is it with Proctor and Gamble. They ran a commercial for Tide for well over a year, making fun of Grandma's underwear and having Grandpa walking around without his pants. And now Gain does this?"
Another individual summed up their reaction by writing that maturity had little to do with it; rather, it's a gender thing: "it's mostly the XY chromosome," the individual wrote. "And yes, the XY chromosome purchases laundry detergent, as well."
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Which week in September 2007 is "National 5 A Day Week"? Have you changed the name?
Yes, the name has changed. It is now the full month of September and the name is "National Fruit & Veggies Month". It's a great opportunity to promote fruit and vegetable consumption at home, school or work. Watch for ideas on this site and check out our online catalog for helpful resources.


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Deal Profile: Oracle to Buy Acme Packet
Oracle Corp. made its first purchase of 2013 and its biggest deal in nearly three years.
The company's deal to buy Acme Packet is worth $2.01 billion deal, when accounting for options and restricted stock. (Oracle said its purchase is worth $1.7 billion, excluding out Acme's $355 million in cash and short-term investments.)
Acme Packet is a telecommunications technology company that makes equipment that manages the flow of voice and video data traffic across Internet networks.
At the $2 billion level, Oracle hasn't made a deal of that size since its 2009 deal for Sun Microsystems.
Here's a Deal Profile courtesy of our friends over at Dealogic on the sale:


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Here are the winners of the Panoramio monthly Contest for June 2008 edition. Those photos were uploaded in June and voted in July. The sponsor ATP will contact the winners during the next days in order to send the prizes.
First Prize of Scenery category
taken in Switzerland by tiopepe8
First Prize of Heritage category
taken in Hungary by Szekér
First Prize of Travel category
taken in United Kingdom by Faintlightofdawn
First Prize of Unusual Location category
taken in Russia by Б.Ярцев
Full list of winners
Congratulations to all of them!


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|Head Coach
|4th Season at USMMA
|Brooklyn, N.Y.
|Previous College:
|St. Mary of the Plains '71 / Kansas State '72
|B.A. - English and Physical Education / M.A. - Health, Phys. Ed. & Recreation
In his four seasons at the helm of the United States Merchant
Marine Academy men's basketball team, Coach Danny Nee has
guided the Mariners to a 52-51 overall record, a 28-28 conference
record, and two berths in the Landmark Conference semifinals.
Nee has also coached one NCAA All-American, one Landmark
Conference Player of the Year, and four All-Landmark Conference
Nee, best known for revitalizing the men's basketball programs at both Ohio University and the University of Nebraska, has coached at the NCAA Division-I level for a quarter-century.
Overall, he has notched a career record of 462-432 (.517) and compiled a 410-381 record in his 26 seasons as a head men's Division-I basketball coach, which included stints at Ohio (1980-86), Nebraska (1986-2000), Robert Morris (2000-01) and Duquesne (2001-06). He also served as the Director of Player Development at Rutgers after two years as a scout for the National Basketball Association's Utah Jazz. Most recently, he was an assistant coach at Towson University for the 2009-10 season.
Nee got a start to his coaching career at Notre Dame from
1976-80 under the legendary Digger Phelps. He received his
first head coaching position at Ohio University, where he started
his reputation as a program-revitalizer. Nee built a 107-67
(.615) record in his six seasons while guiding the Bobcats to a
pair of NCAA Tournament berths (1983 and 1984) and one NIT
appearance (1986). He was named Mid-American Coach of the Year
twice. His 1982-83 team recorded a program-record 23 wins en route
to the Bobcats' first NCAA appearance in nine seasons. He was
inducted into the Ohio University Athletic Hall of Fame in
Nee went on to become Nebraska's winningest head coach with a 254-189 (.573) record spanning 14 seasons. He was elected to the University of Nebraska Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009 amassing seven 20-win seasons, five NCAA tournament appearances, and six NIT berths; including an NIT Championship in 1996. Throughout his tenure at Nebraska, Nee coached 10 1,000 point scorers, three NBA first-round draft picks and earned league coach of the year honors in 1991. Prior to his arrival in Lincoln, the Cornhuskers had participated in one NCAA Tournament in 48 years.
He also served as head coach at Robert Morris and Duquesne out
of the Northeast and Atlantic 10 Conferences, respectively, adding
to his experiences of coaching in the MAC and Big Eight.
A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Nee was a high school teammate of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at Power Memorial High School. He was a member of the late Al McGuire's first recruiting class at Marquette. Nee was captain of the Warriors' freshman team before answering the call to serve his country in the United States Marine Corps. He received Combat Air Insignia Medals and was honorably discharged in 1968 after serving in Vietnam.
Following his two-year tour of duty, Nee resumed his education at St. Mary of the Plains College in Dodge City, KS. where he earned a degree in English and Physical Education in 1971. He completed work for a Master's degree in Health, Physical Education and Recreation from Kansas State University in 1972.
Nee began his coaching career at the high school level, directing programs at New Jersey's Red Bank Regional (1972-73) and Brick Township (1973-76) before taking the assistant's job at Notre Dame where he recruited and coached 10 NBA players.
Nee is married to the former Janet Scheib and is the father of three children – daughter, Nora, and sons, Patrick and Kevin.


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Obamas, Clintons to visit JFK gravesite Wednesday
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will visit John F. Kennedy's gravesite this week and pay tribute to two of Kennedy's lasting initiatives as the nation observes the 50th anniversary of his assassination.
Obama and his wife, Michelle, will be joined by former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary, at a wreath-laying ceremony Wednesday at Arlington National Cemetery.
Clinton is one of 16 recipients scheduled to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Wednesday. Kennedy created the modern version of the award in the months before his death.
Obama is to speak about Kennedy's legacy at a dinner attended by recipients and members of the Kennedy family.
On Friday, Obama plans to meet privately at the White House with leaders and volunteers from the Peace Corps program that Kennedy established.