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Posted: 14 October 2005 at 2:20pm
Allah's Earthquake Shatters Political Democracy
Allah the Exalted declares in Surat al-Hajj (22:74):
Within a few weeks of each other mankind has been struck by two natural disasters. In America, both the atheist and christian baptist population defined it as a natural disaster, the mushriks among them attributed it to their false god, Mother Nature. On the Indian Subcontinent the Muslim population, while they could not deny the Divine authorship of the tragedy, signally failed in all their public pronouncements to recognise the true nature of Allah's action. In the light of Tawhid the thinking Muslim cannot fail to see deeply into the nature of catastrophe, not only its causes and its inevitability, but the inexorable rightness of the moment when disaster strikes. One of the Names of Allah, may He be exalted, is the Patient One. Patience is one of His Divine Attributes. While our patience, as a borrowed attribute, indicates a tolerance over delay in an action, His Patience covers the matter of His preparation for an action. The Shaykh al-Akbar Muhiyyuddin ibn 'Arabi has reminded us that Allah governs the universe from inside the universe, that is to say, that His rule, far from being interruptive, far from being an intervention in affairs, is part of an immeasurably intricate web of processes which work themselves out, while functioning entirely under whatever set of physical laws incident requires.
Let us examine the Kashmiri earthquake through what preceded it along their varied paths before all these elements came together in one earth-shattering and punishing instant.
Let us examine the in-time processes that led up to the present tragedy from the point of view of a constantly unfolding and transformative set of events, events which could at any moment have taken a different direction, had men assumed the fullness of that responsibility which Allah had placed upon them. Allah the Exalted declares in al-Ahzab (33:72-73):
This was so that Allah might punish
What we are about to see is that in every moment of lived existence the individual, neither the Polity nor the Party, but each individual at each instant may change the course of human events, these events recognised as being but particles of the Event, which is Allah's action in the universe. While the Subcontinent was under Islamic governance, led by the Mughal Sultan Aurangzeb, upholding the Islamic Shari'ah, India was secure and massively wealthy. The rapacious English pirate-merchants set up a commercial capital among the hindus at Calcutta, and from there began to strip the Dawlet of its astounding wealth. The usurer-merchants soon formed themselves into an army, but as their expropriation of wealth continued they needed an English military presence to defend them. The oppression of the occupying force finally drove the Muslims to rise up. The situation that led to the Uprising could not have occurred if the Muslim nation of India had held to the sublime path of the great Aurangzeb. Ignoring the warnings of the Qur'an, they fell to fighting among themselves, a pattern which was to repeat itself at every stage of the disintegration and disgrace of their Islamic heritage. The obscene event of the assassination of the Mughal's sons and the murder of their father, Bahadur Shah II, brought to an end the practice of the compassionate Islamic Shari'at and with it the brutal end to the great Islamic civilisation that had spread across the whole of Central Asia, both to the gates and through the gates of kafir China.
In England the bastard Hanoverian Queen Victoria was declared Empress by her jewish Prime Minister, D'israeli. The commercial hindu capital was to be replaced by the once Mughal capital of Delhi. This choice of Delhi was to be, then and in the future, the overt declaration of the conquest of Islamic governance by the kafir and mushrik hordes, first by Britain and then by hindu India. Two major groups of 'ulama left Delhi and set up their bases in Deoband and Barelwi. What came out of these two places were two increasingly different, and in the end conflicting, schools of Islamic fiqh. What must be understood is that prior to the fall of the Islamic 'Amr, a governing Sultan represented an ongoing practice of Islamic fiqh. What came out of these two Indian villages was an academic exercise devoid of 'Amr, therefore it was by definition incapable of establishing the Deen. The truth is that when there was 'Amr there was unity under the Hanifi banner of the great "Fataawa'Al-Amgheeri", that six-volume witness to a living Islam. For the restoration of the fiqh, of the Deen of Islam itself, what was required was the restoration of Islamic power in Delhi.
As a result of this dichotomy we can trace in the two groups, once voided of Islamic 'Amr, not only a greater and greater divergence one from the other, but not insignificantly one group upholding false doctrines of Shari'ah, and the other, false doctrines of Haqiqa. Let me explain. The Deobandi, aware that they had been robbed of political power, were led by part of their movement to make concordance and compromise with the ruling British kuffar. Thus one half of their movement more and more succumbed to seeking the approval of Britain, and as a result embraced modernism, which in turn led to a submission to usurybanking and as a result the on-going impoverishment of India. The other part of the Deobandi movement found themselves more and more captivated by the wahhabi doctrines which sought to harden the hearts of men by a dual doctrine in place of the unity of the Deen. Abandoning the accepted Islamic doctrine of Tawhid they elected to teach only one aspect of it – Tanzih – the exaltation of Allah above all forms – of course, perfectly correct in itself, but meaningless without acknowledging – Tashbih – which permits us to state how His Attributes are borrowed from Him by us in an in-time metaphoric mode, as lucidly explained by AlAsh'ari and Maturidi. The present-day result of the surrender of this group of the Deobandi has led to a pro-wahhabi Imam in the Great Mosque of Delhi, and in its precincts a wahhabi headquarters. They have infiltrated from India down to South Africa, and from there have sown seeds of suicide from the Gambia to Malawi and Zanzibar. Thus wherever this group has proliferated, even in Britain, they are to be found not only defending but in some cases activating the doctrines of terrorism. They openly support and justify the act of suicide-bombing, proving that they have become totally divorced from the Deen of Islam.
Allah the Exalted categorically states in Surat al-Hajj (22:15):
The Barelwi, equally deprived of the compassionate practice of the Shari'ah, increasingly tried to preserve the element of the Haqiqa as if it could possibly survive without the Law. While their increasingly opposite number, the Deobandi, influenced by wahhabism, seemed first to diminish and later to denigrate the importance of the Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, the Barelwi began to exalt him in a manner which seemed to forget that he, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, spent his nights supplicating Allah, explaining to one of his wives, 'Am I not a grateful slave?'
Explaining Ma'arifa, Sayyiduna 'Ali, may Allah ennoble his face, said, 'I did not reach Allah by Muhammad. If I had reached Muhammad before I reached Allah I would have stayed with him, but I reached Allah by Allah.' Now the function of the Shaykh in Tasawwuf is to guide the Murid to Allah. In Ma'arifa, success is with one who has had success. So it is that if you examine the Silsilas of the great Sufic Tariqas in the Subcontinent, the chain of Ruhani inheritance, from Shaykh to Shaykh, is not from father to son, but rather from Shaykh to Murid. Thus throughout the Silsila the inheriting Shaykh is from another family, indeed often another part of India. Confirming this, one of our Shaykhs has said, 'The exception proves the rule.' Now what we find on examining these Silsilas is that after the collapse of the Shari'ah, there is an inevitable collapse of Haqiqa. After the fall of Delhi this claimed spiritual inheritance abruptly appears as being passed from father to son. In other words it is no longer the Divine Contract but the family business. Visit the tombs of the Awliya throughout the Subcontinent and you will find proof of this.
The point at which a homeland for the Muslims was conceived proved to be also the point at which this collapse of Islamic teaching seemed to have reached nadir. Of this affair, two issues have to be mentioned. Every element of this narration yields a clear evidence that the determining factors took place by the abrogation of responsibility by Muslim peoples. Firstly the people, secondly the principle. Umar Ibrahim Vadillo in his monumental study 'The Esoteric Deviation in Islam' (available from [email protected]) in Appendix 4: Political Dates notes: '1947: Pakistan is born as an Indian reservation for the Muslim people of India. A secular ismaili is chosen as its first leader: Jinnah, often compared to Ataturk. The All-India Muslim League is the first successful model of a political party manoeuvring the Muslim masses.'
On the Muslim side the active protagonists are ismaili, Shi'a, modernist and qadiyyani, the Imperial power being represented by a Viceroy who twice deserted his ship and his men during World War II and was married to the daughter of the great jewish banker who had 'created' the Bank of Egypt, Edwina Cassel. As the adulterous lover of Nehru she played a significant part in briefing the hindus in advance of specific map-changes.
The principle on which Pakistan was founded is even worse than were the people involved. Every single treaty decision in modern history bringing an end to war or occupation has been determined with reference to the political past of the terrain. The historicity of the terrain had always been the determining factor. It was here that the kafir Jinnah and the Muslim League succumbed to the doctrines of a modernism, the political implications of which they had not the faintest idea. Anxious to create an entity which represented the principle of political democracy, the Founders of Pakistan determined its existence entirely according to zones which gave a population majority of Muslims. A state was to be founded on ballot-box clusters, yet even that principle had to be cynically abandoned to assure that Pakistan was strategically helpless and India left with dominant frontiers. After a series of blatant deceptions the land of Kashmir, despite its massive majority Muslim population, was handed over to India. Deep down below, the long, slow and eruptive power that moved under the Earth's fragile crust made the mountains shiver so that in the cool Srinigar nights a strange creaking could be heard among the hills.
The brutal attempt to impose political democracy on a Muslim polity proved to be a dismal failure. Again and again Pakistan's military had to step in to rescue the country from its inappropriate form of government. Since Islamic Law was never established there was no commanded Zakat to protect the poor, and the necessary re-distribution of land that would have been demanded by a move from a usury-capitalist economy to the just and highly successful Zamindar system of the Mughals never took place – the country began to fall into the anarchy that its hindu and British founders had already intended.
The doctrine that had been adopted to end the menace posed by Islam in the Subcontinent was the doctrine of Kemalism. Under a NATO programme, a forceful but basically stupid officer was selected to be the author of the de-Islamicisation of the Pakistani people. He was sent to Turkey. He learned the language. He was initiated into the masonic circles of the Turkish Military. He was taught the Kemalist method. Assassinate leading 'ulama. Close down the Islamic madrasas by Presidential Edict. Allow an influx of foreign capital. Promise peace on the frontiers. Move from an army-on-the-frontiers military and a passive police at home to a state with a passive army-on-the-frontiers military and an active (anti-terror) police at home. On a mere pretext the Sindi general – owing no loyalty to the Punjabi High Command – seized power in a coup d'état and then proceeded to 'democratise' himself through the usual political machinery. The operation was cleverly staged down to the last detail. In an interview, the U.S. President was to be questioned on how well he was briefed on world affairs. Asked to name the President of Pakistan he was to feign ignorance. It goes with the job. Better to be seen as politically ignorant than to be well aware of his masters' political calculations. Musharraf, the Kemalist kafir dog, started obediently to do his work. He insulted his own people in every way. He mocked his own helpless Parliament. The very worst of people received ministerial posts, and this in a country of spectacular genius. The dog barked at the Pakistanis, and wagged its tail at the Indians. Somehow, he had to give India Kashmir. He initiated the talks.
Deep down below, a turbulence that Allah had been preparing over these same centuries that we have surveyed historically began to reach its point of critical tension. Last week, at exactly the right moment, Allah shook the earth. He, glory be to Him, recognised no Line of Control between the two Kashmirs. From Islamabad and right across Kashmir, Allah shook the earth with a terrible and destroying power. Allah the Exalted says in Al-Qasas (28:57-58):
How many cities We have destroyed
It is a terrible warning. What has the disaster revealed? It has revealed that political democracy is a fantasy construct utterly devoid of any political content, of any power system, of any governance watching over a whole people. Political democracy has diminished the wealth of the people and handed over its commodities to foreign exploitation. It has handed over all substantive power not to any political system or person, but to a totally other force, a financial system of global wealth which has made itself utterly inaccessible, hiding itself as it does behind its fire-wall called political democracy. All the nation's wealth now lies at the service of foreign powers and institutions, and the once great Pakistani Army now rushes around the foothills of the Himalayas looking for an Arab terrorist who had been launched on his path of destruction by the Pakistani Intelligence Services, and who in all probability has been dead for some time.
When Allah's earthquake struck, the dog Musharraf and his miserable government, and his ruined social services, proved utterly helpless to rescue or to save. All the world media agree – it has been openly stated by CNN, by BBC, by Sky, by France 2 – there is simply no-one in charge. I repeat it. I call on the High Command of the noble Pakistani Army to pay close attention! All the world agrees. There is no-one in charge of Pakistan. Musharraf is not the servant of the Pakistani people – and he is certainly not the leader of the Pakistani people. Allah has revealed with an overpowering command His anger with the Muslim peoples of the area, with those responsible for the wellbeing, safety and protection of the common people. There is no-one in charge! Something must be done.
All democrats must want to see the usurper overthrown. All educated people must want to see a man of probity, judgment and concern, in place of the tyrant. The earthquake is not the disaster. The earthquake is Allah's metaphor – a metaphor He has taught us over centuries through His actions, and He, glory be to Him, has explained them in the Qur'an. It is a matter of responsibility. It is the matter of who will take the responsibility. The affair belongs to the one who fears Allah and dreads that he should be asked why he did not take that responsibility. I cannot but believe that from among the Punjabi people, and the Kashmiri people, there must be such men today ready to take the reins of power from the usurper and restore legitimacy, and restore civil order, and restore an active Islam. Today the Niyyat. Tomorrow the action. Allah the Exalted has said in Surat az-Zumar (39:67-70):
The Trumpet will be blown
And the earth will shine with the Pure Light of its Lord;
Every self will be repaid in full for what it did.
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You are out of your mind dude!!
The Earthquake was made by Allah?? A god who kills his own people is a god I'd not worship!
Aurangazeb was one of the worst, cruel kings in the history of the world!! Although he was complelty impotent when it came to maratha King Shivaji.
Please don't take anything I say offencivly, as I don't mean any disrespect.
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When the Generous appears with the Name Avenger
By Shaykh Abdal-Hakim Murad
Read from: http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/ahm/requital.htm
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"I am a slave. I eat as a slave eats and I sit as a slave sits.",
That life's gotta suck dude!!
Please don't take anything I say offencivly, as I don't mean any disrespect.
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you said that you would not worship a god who kills his own people,and yet, you worship a god who killed his one and only son
"You will never attain piety and righteousness,(and eventually paradise)until you
spend of that which you love."(Al-Imran:92)
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No misery comes from God. God's wrath only comes to the very wicked places like Soddom and Gammorrah. I highly doubt that the poor and afflicted in the mountains of Pakistan and Northern India were punished for that great of a sin when no Earthquake has taken out far worse cities, countries and peoples.
God did not make that Earthquake. If it is by supernatural forces, then it was by Satan. But personally, I think it was a slip in the tectonic plates on this great Earth.
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It is the policy of the National Park Service to allow filming and photography consistent with protection and public enjoyment of park resources. Therefore, the primary consideration in the evaluation of permit requests in the Southeast Utah Group is the potential for resource damage and the disruption of normal public use and values. Aesthetic values such as scenic vistas, natural quiet and dark night skies are resources that we and the public value.
The use of model aircraft (unmanned, under 55 lbs, flown for hobby or recreational purposes within the line of sight of the operator) is prohibited for the protection of the park's environmental and scenic values and for avoiding conflict among visitor use activities.
Commercial filming is defined as digital or film recording of a visual image or sound recording by a person, business, or other entity for a market audience, such as for a documentary, television or feature film, advertisement, or similar project. Under P.L. 106-206 all commercial filming requires a permit and is subject to a location fee and cost recovery charges.
Permits are NOT generally required for:
A request for a permit may be denied if:
How to Apply
To apply for a filming permit within the Southeast Utah Group, please complete Form 10-931 [830k Word document]. Call 435-719-2123 with credit card information or submit a check or money order made out to National Park Service for $100 to:
Filming Permits Coordinator
Please allow sufficient time for evaluation by the park staff before the start date of the proposed activity to be conducted in one of the Southeast Utah Group Parks.
We handle all applications in the order we receive them. We need a minimum of 25 business days to process applications. Requests that involve multiple locations, complex logistics, and coordination with other NPS divisions or visitor activities will likely require a minimum of two months to process, but may take longer depending on workload. We also require a minimum of three months to process permits for projects that need additional environmental compliance.
For questions or additional information, please contact the filming coordinator at 435-719-2123.
Cost and Fees
Total minimum cost: $280. Location fees and additional monitoring fees to be charged after the shoot. Call 435-719-2123 with payment information.
The National Park Service is required by law to recover all costs for special use permits. All costs incurred by the NPS in conjunction with the permitted filming activity will be reimbursed by the permittee. A cost estimate can be calculated and provided once the Filming Coordinator has received all applicable information.
Non-refundable Application Fee: $100
Administrative Fee: $80
Hourly Management Fee: $50 per hour
(1) Monitoring – All activities authorized by permit require continuous, on-site supervision by the National Park Service to assure full compliance with all conditions of the permit. A minimum of 2 hours monitoring ($100) is applied to the cost of every permit upon issuance. The scope and complexity of the activity will determine the level and type of supervision. Fees include travel time for employees involved between activity location(s) and employee duty station(s).
(2) Interviews - All interviews of park personnel will be assessed at the hourly rate. This will not apply to pre-approved filming or photographing of NPS staff members performing their regularly scheduled work activities.
(3) Scouting – If a permittee requests a scouting trip with or by the Filming Permits Coordinator; staff time will be assessed at a rate of $40 per hour if on regular duty time, $50 per hour if it's overtime.
Extended Administrative Time: $50 per hour/per employee
Location Fees
The location fee is in addition to cost recovery charges that are currently being collected.
The applicant or permittee is required to notify the NPS of any delays or schedule changes at least 36 hours in advance, or as agreed to by the superintendent or his/her representative. Should the applicant or permittee fail to provide such advance notification, the applicant or permittee is responsible for paying all costs incurred by the NPS any time during the application, permitting, or operational process, including those due to cancellation, moving or rescheduling of the project. Such payment will include but is not limited to a non-refundable charge for each staff person scheduled for the affected activity.
Such charge will, at a minimum, be the equivalent of two hours overtime for each employee assigned. These costs may be recovered through the posting of a bond at the time of application, or though a bill of collection presented at any point after initial contact.
Performance Bonds
Sharing the Park
Restrictions and Conditions
The permit will specify the number of people and the types of equipment allowed. The NPS monitor on duty will not allow activities not specified in the permit.
Please note that the permit does not include authority to film or photograph park visitors unless agreed to by the visitor and a signed written release is obtained by the permittee.
Prohibited Activities
Termination of Permit
Call the commercial filming coordinator at 435-719-2123.
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Why was this changed? Not sure that it looks better then what we had.
The new mouse I do like though.
Edit - I see the fan section, missed this one at first.
Edit 2 - So I am guessing the button is supposed to stick out when highlighted and I didn't fix it?
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Do.it.all necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 94 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
Francois & Associates, Financial Services
We are a financial firm that advises clients on debt management, and retirement planning. We eliminate debt obligations, provide support services/ products and prepare our clients for their golden years. We are a group of experienced professionals and our ethics guidelines are second to none.
We proud ourselves on our customer service, communication and competence.
Our target clients are high-net worth individuals they are generally over 40 years old. They need a company that is there to support and guide them through a difficult time in their lives. Our clients are mature and don't like to be referred to as " OLD".
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The logo must be, Up-scale, Modern and clean, Contemporary and Professional
Although we prefer a light blue and gray theme, we are open to any color variations expect for "Green". We expect 2/3 colors.
Because of the length of the name we are open to see different variations of the name :
"Francois and Associates Financial"
" F/A Financial"
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also the web address is "FNAFinancial.com"
We do not want the following:
Please no cursive of older looking fonts.
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo.
We do NOT want anything too intricate, cartoonish, or flashy
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We will need all source files in both the major vector and raster formats. We need to hold the ability to alter colors at will and provide additional formatting at will.
We encourage you to be creative and unique and we will provide constant feedback during the precess.
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Concept : This code checks the whole list(List1) through a for loop and then add the selected items to the other List2
NOTE : Make sure that the multiselect property of listboxes is '1-Simple'
Private Sub CmdcopyToList2_Click() Dim i As Integer If List1.SelCount = 1 Then List2.AddItem List1.Text Else For i = List1.ListCount - 1 To 0 Step -1 If List1.Selected(i) = True Then List2.AddItem List1.List(i) End If Next i End If End Sub
Explanation : We are cheking selcount just for learning purposes(i.e, to learn the basic adding procedure).
If more then ONE items are selected, the loops checks each list item one by one and then adds the item if IT IS SELECTED.
NOTE : Step -1 is only for learning purpose, loop can be runned either way.
Private Sub CmdRemove_Click() For i = List1.ListCount - 1 To 0 Step -1 If List1.Selected(i) = True Then List1.RemoveItem (i) End If Next i End Sub
Explanation : Just as the previous one, this too Removes the selected Items.
I Hope this helped


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Tim Ronalds Architects' Colyer-Fergusson Music Building is warmer and more human than its Sevenoaks School Performing Arts Centre, but is it less disciplined? By Felix Mara. Photography by Christian Richters
It's easy for visitors to lose their way on the University of Kent's Canterbury campus. Like England's other plate glass universities, the design of its first buildings was entrusted to a high-profile practice, Holford & Partners, and it sits in parkland on the outskirts of a historic county town, but it disorientates because, despite spectacular views of the town below, it has no strong organising site layout and few architectural landmarks.
Its low-key, low-rise and generally low-budget pioneers of the '60s and '70s don't seem to want to talk to each other: two slit-windowed Holford Space Invader colleges here, an octagonal senate house there and, also by Farmer & Dark, the Gulbenkian Theatre and Cinema, now adjoined to Tim Ronalds Architects' Colyer-Fergusson Music Building, opened last month to provide the campus with a dedicated flexible performance and rehearsal hall with practice and teaching rooms.
Though three miles out of town, the campus is within reach of the deathly hand of Canterbury City Council's planners, who considered it their business to demand blockwork outer walls at Colyer-Fergusson to 'match and rhyme' with neighbouring buildings. Although it's good to see this form of construction return from the wilderness, this seems to have put Tim Ronalds Architects' nose out of joint.
'There's something weird about the scale of block,' says project principal Tim Ronalds, who wanted brick. As it happens, the practice rose to the occasion, developing bespoke blocks faced with pebble and flint, which is historically indigenous to the region, although these look dour and oatmealy on overcast days.
Ronalds is one of those architects who loathe compromise. You can imagine him as a hermitic Louis Khan figure, sleeping in his shirt perhaps, or a vigilant, harpoon-wielding Captain Ahab. His firm's PR is done in-house, evoking what some will consider the good old days. He's an architect's architect, devoted to his calling. Panofsky's Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism could have been dedicated to him.
'Each building is designed as a response to the one which preceded it,' he says. With this dialectic embedded in the practice's methodology, Colyer-Fergusson's design and construction process was unlikely to be happy-go-lucky.
The project that preceded it was Sevenoaks School Performing Arts Centre (AJ 24.06.10), which succeeded Watford Music Centre. Colyer-Fergusson's performance space is more versatile and, as project architect Kate Biro emphasises, its steel structure is hidden behind finishes and this complements a strategy which conceals services and acoustic performance regulators within voids in the construction. Sevenoaks was also more difficult and, by a factor of 50 per cent, more costly to build and you might ask whether Colyer-Fergusson involved too many compromises.
Externally, leaving aside the blockwork, Colyer-Fergusson is a very different animal to Sevenoaks, with less regimented fenestration and, fortunately, nothing that bears comparison with its steep, abrupt gable, which is stylistically beyond
the pale for some who consider themselves Modernists. That gable is nevertheless the consequence of a rigorous logic that refuses to gloss over the geometry of the performance space within.
That great proto-functionalist fruitcake AWN Pugin, another obsessive but with a remarkable talent for self-publicity, would certainly have been impressed, but might also have taken exception to Colyer-Fergusson's composed facades, its horizontal parapets, repeated on the skyline of the box that encloses the auditorium and overhead loft, which act as a buffer that absorbs its splayed rooflight reveals. The step in the east facade's parapet makes for a pleasing elevation but, seen obliquely, it just flaps about.
Internally, Colyer-Fergusson uses the same Douglas fir as Sevenoaks, chosen for its warmth and acoustic ambience. After the hair-shirt external blockwork, relieved by a jutting but friendly entrance canopy with retro signage, the long entrance foyer announces an interior that feels much warmer than Sevenoaks. It glows with the ambient light from endless arrays of diffusing ceiling fittings, including large-radius, domed numbers, whose cohorts also pervade the smaller rooms.
It's a linear space on axis with the Gulbenkian foyer, which it links to, and it pops up to first floor level traversed by a long staircase in two flights, which turns as it meets ground level and has lovingly crafted white steel balusters and timber handrails. Overhead, daylight drifts down between diffusing plastic-clad beams. You're almost in an Aalto foyer - congenial, Moderne, convivial and retro.
Passing from the foyer to the flexibly level floor of the auditorium - the alternative route is via the staircase - you enter a chasm between two banks of partially retractable seating. The rows of seats are cambered on plan, giving a more central focus to the space, but the bank on the left has a potential capacity of 400, whereas the other could seat 200, a choir perhaps. Despite the concealed services strategy, the auditorium's wall and ceiling surfaces seem to express their construction but in fact this is a grid of finely tuned acoustically diffusing facing rails. 'We negotiated the panels with the acoustician,' says Ronalds, dryly.
'The curtains do more than the overhead acoustic banners at Sevenoaks.' These curtains retract into cavities behind the wall finishes for longer reverberation times and an acoustic environment which is closer to a purely geometric paradigm. They are also double-sided so they can match or contrast with the Douglas fir finishes and they are carefully designed to avoid bunching. Although this auditorium's size is similar to Sevenoaks', it feels more human and approachable, more like a room, and it has large side windows as well as a rooflight.
What's missing is the spatial complexity of Sevenoaks, which may not be the National or the Lyric, but does take delight in the interconnection and drama of spaces and in their dialogue with exposed structure. Despite Colyer-Fergusson's softer, mildly intoxicating, oak-aged added warmth and humanity, you might ask whether you'd prefer something crusty, sharper and more disciplined, with more of the old Malvolio and less cakes and ale.
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A Web-based Intervention Study to Reduce High-risk Sexual Behavior by Persons Living With HIV AIDS (PLWH)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01198418
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : September 10, 2010
Last Update Posted : April 2, 2014
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|Condition or disease
|Sexually Transmitted Infections HIV Infections
|Behavioral: Experimental
|Phase 1 Phase 2
Design: CCTG 592 is a randomized, controlled study that will compare the efficacy of web-based intervention to reduce high-risk sexual behavior by persons living with HIV AIDS (PLWH).
Duration: 48 weeks
Sample Size: 200 subjects (100 per arm) that will be randomized
Study Population: HIV-1-infected men who have sex with men (MSM) at least 18 years of age who have a recent history of transmission risk behavior.
Stratification: Subjects will be stratified based upon their baseline antiretroviral use, whether they have a home computer and by site.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|181 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial of an Internet-based Prevention Intervention to Reduce STI in High-risk HIV Infected MSM
|Study Start Date :
|November 2010
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|August 2013
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|August 2013
|Experimental: Internet-based counseling
Behavioral: Experimental
Internet-based intervention that assesses transmission risk and provides prevention messages
|No Intervention: Survey Alone
- STI incidence [ Time Frame: Baseline and follow-up visits every 3 months ]
- To compare the composite STI incidence of syphilis or Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) or Neisseria gonorrhea (GC) at any mucosal site among sexually active HIV-infected men during 12 months participation in an Internet risk reduction intervention compared to those that receive a survey instrument alone.
- To compare the incidence of nonspecific urethritis by urinalysis and testing for Mycoplasma genitalum and trichomonas sp. among sexually active HIV-infected men during 12 months participation in an Internet risk reduction intervention compared to those that receive a survey instrument alone.
- Evaluate risk factors of STIs [ Time Frame: Baseline, follow-up visits every 3 months ]
- Compare:a)self reported levels of unsafe sex among HIV-infected men b)intention to start ARV among HIV-infected men not currently on ARV will increase during 12 mos. participation in an internet risk reduction intervention compared to survey instrument alone
- Compare self-reported among HIV-infected men during 12 mos. participation as measured by those reporting 100% disclosure in an internet risk reduction intervention compared to survey instrument alone
- Collect genital tract secretions of semen for future study
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
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|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV-1 infection, as documented by any licensed screening antibody test, such as ELISA, and confirmed by a second antibody test, such as Western blot, or detectable plasma HIV-1 RNA at any time prior to study entry. If an ELISA or Western Blot are not available, HIV infection may be documented by two HIV RNA values > 2000 copies/mL, drawn at least 24 hours apart. The HIV RNA assays should have been run at a CLIA approved laboratory or equivalent.
- 18 years of age or older.
- Male.
- At least one of the following:
- An HIV negative or unknown status sexual partner in the past three months.
- A sexually transmitted disease in the past 1 year (other than HIV).
- More than 2 male partners in past year.
- Unprotected anal sex in past 3 month.
- Capable of signing written informed consent.
- Read and comprehend English
- Adequate computer skills for study.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Uncontrolled psychiatric condition.
- Drug or alcohol users with use that in the opinion of the investigator, would limit follow-up and adequate consent
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01198418
|United States, California
|University of Southern California
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90033
|University of California, San Diego
|San Diego, California, United States, 92103
|University of California, Los Angeles (Harbor)
|Torrance, California, United States, 90502
|Study Chair:
|Sheldon Morris, MD, MPh
|California Collaborative Treatment Group
|Study Chair:
|Joel Milam, PhD
|California Collaborative Treatment Group
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|Responsible Party:
|California Collaborative Treatment Group
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01198418 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|September 10, 2010 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|April 2, 2014
|Last Verified:
|March 2014
Men having sex with men
Communicable Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Virus Diseases
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Damned whores and God's police
Penguin Books, Jan 4, 1994 - History - 549 pages
in 1975 Anne Summers set out to describe the way in which Australia's history and culture had limited women's participation in our own society. The result was a devastating and totally original view of Australia that had a profound effect on a generation of women, a book that stands beside the best of feminist literature and Australian history. Two decades after Damned Whores and God's Police was first published, Anne Summers has returned to her classic study, adding two substantial new chapters to the core of her book. Here she assesses what we have achieved and takes an impassioned and heartfelt look at the modern women's movement. in telling the story of the creation of that movement, Anne Summers provides a call to action for the generation born since Damned Whores and God's Police first appeared.
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Donald Hill-Eley has always told his Morgan State football players that life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond.
Now, after enduring as strange a few months as any college coach could fathom, Hill-Eley is striving to live by his own lesson.
In late November, following the Bears' third straight losing season, Hill-Eley accidentally received an e-mail outlining the university's plan to seek his replacement. For almost six weeks after that, as rival coaches ramped up recruiting for 2013, he heard nothing official about his status. Day after day, he reported to work but was not allowed to have contact with his team.
During the same time, the chairman of the university's Board of Regents attempted to oust Morgan president David Wilson, the man seemingly behind Hill-Eley's own uncertain situation. That coups was ultimately unsuccessful. In early January, Hill-Eley finally heard from Kevin Banks, the university's vice president for student affairs: Morgan would honor the final year of his contract and he would remain coach.
"I'm just going at it," Hill-Eley said in a recent interview. "It isn't the worst thing that's ever happened to me in my life, and I can't be sitting around moping. It's like I tell these guys, 'Life is about how you respond.' "
Banks said he could not comment on the errant e-mail or any talks about removing the coach but said of Hill-Eley: "We felt it was in the best interest of the university to honor his contract, particularly the best interest of the student-athletes, so they can have continuity."
Hill-Eley said his near-firing prompted serious self-examination. The Bears will have new offensive, defensive and special teams coordinators next season, and day-to-day preparations will include a new focus on the psychology of winning close games.
"It's almost like starting again from zero," said Hill-Eley, who has coached Morgan for 11 seasons. "I had to go back and think about how I could do things differently to meet the needs of the university. I can't just say, 'Oh, it's all the administration.' Some of their points are probably valid."
The uncertainty around Hill-Eley played havoc with Morgan's roster. Linebacker Elandon Roberts, a finalist for the Jerry Rice Award as the best freshman in Football Championship Subdivision play, transferred to the University of Houston for the spring semester. Top-tier recruits from the Mid-Atlantic region shunned the university. "Anybody who was privy to the information really didn't want to deal with being around it," Hill-Eley said.
The program also coped with the on-campus shooting of popular offensive lineman Tyrell Okoro in late November.
"It was tough," said sophomore defensive back Nathan Ayers. "It was a very frustrating time. We heard all these rumors that all our coaches were going to be fired, and then our teammate was in the hospital. It almost made you want to leave the situation."
Talk around the team was all about who would transfer and who wouldn't, said sophomore quarterback Robert Council, who considers Hill-Eley a mentor and planned to leave if he had been fired. "All that going on at the same time, it felt like the whole thing was going downhill," said Council, who was standing beside Okoro when he was shot
And yet, in many ways, things are looking up these days.
Hill-Eley jumped back on the recruiting trail after his hiatus and assembled his best class ever, according to From the Press Box to Press Row, a Sirius XM radio show that covers sports at historically black colleges and universities. Morgan's 29-player class was fourth best among all historically black schools in the radio program's rankings.
Stymied at home, Hill-Eley drew most of his best recruits from Texas and other southern states.
"We didn't even think we were going to have a class coming in," said Ayers. "But it just shows that the coaches were out there working, even with everything going on.
Hill-Eley got more good news recently when Okoro, who has largely recovered from his injuries, decided against transferring.
"Him coming back really brought me back," said Okoro, a sophomore from Queens, N.Y. "Because in my mind, I was gone."
Okoro spent 11 days in the hospital after being shot once in his side and once in each leg. He hasn't been cleared to resume contact because he's still taking medication to prevent blood clots. But he expects to be ready for football season.
"I just felt like I wasn't safe here, and on top of that, I didn't want to prove myself to a whole other coaching staff," he said of his transfer musings. "But now I'm real comfortable and feeling really hyped. [Hill-Eley] coming back really kept me here."
Okoro said Hill-Eley took a chance on him out of high school when others had turned away because of his poor grades. The coach also visited him twice in the hospital, an effort Okoro said the university's top administrators did not make.
"He's just a genuine, good guy," he said.
Morgan's program needs the kind of jolt that Hill-Eley gave it when he first arrived as the young wiz behind a new high-powered offense. As head coach beginning in 2002, he stabilized a program that hadn't played better than .500 football in more than two decades.
But after coaching the Bears to winning records in each of his first two seasons, Hill-Eley struggled to push the program past mediocrity. His overall record at Morgan is 54-69 and he has said that without more resources, he will be hard-pressed to make the Bears a perennial contender in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.
The players, however, are feeling optimistic after surviving a tough season and its harrowing aftermath."I can say it's a new beginning," Ayers said. "Everybody's tired of losing."
They've rallied around their embattled coach, gathering for spirited weight lifting sessions and counting down the days until spring practice. "Now that he's back," Council said, "everybody's coming together."
The situation is far from perfect, Hill-Eley said, noting that he still doesn't have the budget to offer benefits to all of his assistants and that he's had to combine some positions so he can offer decent salaries. He's three coaches short of a complete staff. And he has yet to meet with Wilson to discuss the program's future, though he's scheduled to speak with the president later this month.
When asked about Hill-Eley's budget concerns and his future, Banks said: "It's an ongoing assessment. We're still looking at everything."
Hill-Eley said he's trying to keep his focus on day-to-day work with his team. "I haven't even thought that far ahead," he said when asked about the likelihood he'll be at Morgan past this season. "My biggest goal is nothing more than to take this adverse situation and make it a rewarding one."
His contract includes two university option years beyond 2013. But Hill-Eley still isn't sure what lay behind Morgan's apparent plan to seek a new coach after last season.
"They never explained it or said it was a misunderstanding or anything," he said. "It's almost like it never happened."


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3) Establish and maintain a network of colleagues who will engage in ongoing dialogue about student achievement
Alumni Workshops
Members of the Division for Leadership Development develop and implement workshops for principals who have participated in the yearlong Maryland Principals' Academy from its initial year of 2001 until the present. Participation is voluntary. The content is based on the Maryland Instructional Leadership Framework and is aligned with the Academy content.
Maryland Principals' Academy Regional Chapters
The purpose of the Maryland Principals' Academy Regional Chapters is to establish professional learning communities based on the Academy goal of building leadership capacity for improved student achievement. These networks of former Principals' Academy participants meet twice a year to continue the learning that takes place in the yearlong Academy program. Participants design and implement these networking experiences to reflect their school-based and district-based learning needs and interests.
Academy Chapter Outcomes:
1) Provide a forum for Maryland Principals' Academy participants
to continue their work together as a professional learning community
2) Continue dialogues about continuous school improvement for
student and adult learning
There are twelve regional chapters representing all 24 jurisdictions.
The Chapters are as follows:
Aspiring Principals' Institute
The Aspiring Principals' Institute is a yearlong learning experience for potential school leaders who have been chosen by their superintendents to participate. This institute was established in the 2007-2008 school year and is co-sponsored by the Eastern Shore of Maryland Education Consortium and the Division for Leadership Development at the Maryland State Department of Education. A second Aspiring Principals' Institute was established in July 2010, co-sponsored by the Leadership Development branch of the Division of Academic reform and Innovation and the Western Maryland consortium of Washington, Allegany, and Garrett counties. Using funds from the Race to the Top grant, new Aspiring Principals' Institutes will be established in 2011 in both southern and central Maryland.
International Learning Communities
The Division for Leadership Development has established unique partnerships with a number of entities in an effort to create a variety of international learning communities dedicated to developing instructional leadership worldwide. The newest of these relationships is with the People's Republic of China as a result of a China-U.S. Education Leadership Conference in Beijing. Also the International Leadership Centre Network has accepted the Division as a member, thus enabling the Division to form ongoing relationships with organizations around the world. The Division's longest standing partnerships have been with the World Bank and the British Council. In the fall of 2003, Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) collaborated with Prince George's Community College and South African educators to enhance educational management and instructional expertise in South Africa. These relationships have resulted in substantive collaboration in global leadership development.
The Governor's P-20 Leadership Council of Maryland
The Governor's P-20 Leadership Council of Maryland brings the Maryland State Department of Education, the University System of Maryland, the Maryland Higher Education Commission, the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation, and the Department of Business and Economic Development together to work on strengthening educational achievement from pre-school through college, and beyond. Also, the Partnership has created programs to encourage students to consider and to prepare for college, and it works at the PreK-12, college and governmental levels to improve teacher quality.Go To Program
Leadership Learning Series
The Leadership Learning Series are professional development workshops designed to provide Maryland principals, assistant principals, and potential leaders with the skills, strategies, and content needed to be effective instructional leaders who build leadership capacity in their schools. The Leadership Learning Series is derived from the outcomes and evidences in practice found in the Division's Maryland Instructional Leadership Framework.
The Leadership Learning Series are delivered at the request of the local school system superintendents, and follow-up experiences are provided by their school system executive officers.
Executive Officers' Network
The Code of Maryland Regulations (COMAR) defines executive officers as those who evaluate and supervise principals. In local systems, these staff members have a variety of titles, such as assistant and associate superintendents and directors. The Division for Leadership Development has established a statewide network of these system leaders so that they can come together to exchange and gain information on critical issues related to school leadership in Maryland. Issues such as leadership succession, the content of professional development, and evaluation criteria are catalysts for the ongoing discussions during network meetings.
PreK-12 Principals' Advisory Council
The PreK-12 Principals' Advisory Council meets three times a year for the purposes of (a) advising members of the Leadership Division and the Department on matters of policy, (b) exchanging information on leadership issues, and (c) discussing promising practices in regard to student achievement. One principal from each local jurisdiction serves on the Council, and each member is chosen by the system's superintendent.
In accordance with the No Child Left Behind Act, the Division for Leadership Development and the Division of Instruction work collaboratively with local school systems which have schools in the improvement continuum to provide professional development for school leaders and their leadership teams.
The goals of this partnership are to:
1) provide curriculum and leadership content to central office staff
and school leadership teams based on the needs of the school
system; and
2) build the capacity of central office staff and school leadership teams
to provide job-embedded professional development at the system
and school level in both curriculum and leadership content to
increase student achievement.
Through collaborative planning, district personnel and MSDE staff design a series of professional development activities that address school system needs in the areas of reading, mathematics, science, algebra/data analysis, biology, English, and government. The activities focus on content and instructional strategies in a specific content area and include workshops, classroom visits, and lesson study. MSDE staff members also provide coaching support for leadership teams from selected low-performing schools by collaboratively planning with teachers to apply content and instructional strategies.
Targeted Participants
This service is designed for teams composed of elementary, middle, or high school principals, assistant principals, coaches, special education lead teachers, English Language Learner lead teachers, and department chairs. The intent is for the school leadership teams to provide training, practice, and coaching with their teachers.
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Sacred Heart upsets No. 1 UMass Lowell in hockey
It took Sacred Heart four months to win its first men's hockey game last year. It took 60 stunning minutes to win its first this time around.
Trumbull's Alex Vazzano made 35 saves Friday in his first game as a Pioneer as Sacred Heart stunned No. 1 UMass Lowell 2-1 at Tsongas Center in Lowell, Mass.
Vazzano, a sophomore, had to sit out last year according to an NCAA rule after transferring from Vermont.
The River Hawks won Hockey East last year, losing in overtime to eventual champion Yale in the national semifinals. The Pioneers were 2-30-4 last year, opening 0-26-2 before finally beating Holy Cross on Feb. 19.
But junior forward Drew George's second goal, with 14:11 remaining, put Sacred Heart ahead for good Friday.
"I thought we played a pretty structured, disciplined game," Pioneers coach C.J. Marottolo said in the school's press release. "I liked our energy level throughout the whole game."
Sacred Heart faces No. 15 RPI on Saturday at 1 p.m. at Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport. Admission is free.
George scored on a power play 3:48 into Friday's game, and Vazzano and the Pioneers protected that lead into the third period.
Sacred Heart killed off a long power play early in the third, including a 16-second five-on-three. But Joseph Pendenza tied it 4:24 into the period.
It took George 85 seconds to break the tie off Ben Lake's faceoff win.
"The turning point in the game was our guys' response to the Lowell score," Marottolo said. "You could feel the energy level in the building rise, and we responded with a quick goal."
The Pioneers beat then-No. 8 Yale 7-6 in a zany evening Nov. 22, 2011, at Webster Bank Arena. It was their first and, until Friday, only win against a ranked opponent, a win they hoped would be a defining moment, but they were 7-47-7 since.
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Records: Sacred Heart 1-0; UMass Lowell 0-1. Goals: SH--Drew George 2; ML--Joseph Pendenza; Assists: SH--David Iacono, Ben Lake; ML--Michael Kapla, A.J. White; Goalies: SH--Alex Vazzano (35 saves); ML--Connor Hellebuyck (23); Shots: SH--25; ML--36


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Swimming Pool Blog
by Sean Griffin, April 15, 2010
Top 5 Swimming Pool Cleaner Problems
Knowing and understanding how your pool cleaner operates and common problems that arise will give you the tools to make sure your cleaner is working 100%. A troubleshooting guide is usually found in the owners' manual (see below) to assist you. There are numerous cleaners out there and each make and model differs in design. Learning your cleaner's ins and outs will also assist you if you ever decide to upgrade or are in need of a new unit. Manufacturers improve on their cleaner designs on a yearly basis. The headaches you have with your unit might have been rethought and resolved on a newer model. For a selection of the state of the art pool cleaners on the market check out our pool cleaner comparison page.
Every pool is designed differently and your options as to the style of pool cleaner may be limited. There are pools that are plumbed with a designated pool cleaner return line. This gives you the option of running a pressure cleaner and to utilize a booster pump as an option. Other pools only have return lines that are ran off the same line so you would be a candidate for a suction cleaner that runs off the pool filter pump suction. Certain cleaners are designed for above ground units while others are designed for concrete, vinyl, or fiberglass finished in-ground pools. Pool builders often include a cleaner as part of the building agreement to get you started down the right path.
So you own a cleaner and you are having problems. Some of the most frequent issues can easily be attended to by the homeowner. My cleaner gets stuck in the corner, the cleaner is tangled, and the cleaner will not move, are all very common issues regardless of what cleaner you own.
1. Pool Cleaner Hose gets Tangled
- This could be a result of hanging the hose on a hook all winter, or wound up too tightly, which creates a memory. Spread the hose out in the sun.
- Swivels not swiveling - check that all hose swivels are functioning properly.
- Too much hose for the pool size. The cleaner should be able to reach the farthest point of the pool, plus 3 feet.
- Hose floats are waterlogged, causing the hose to sink below the surface. Replace hose floats.
2. Pool Cleaner moves very slowly
- Pressure or Suction cleaners need to have a clean pump basket and clean filter to operate at top speed.
- Pressure cleaners have debris screens, usually at the wall attachment. Check these regularly, and clean.
- Wheel bearings, Tires, Tracks all need to fit tightly and properly to prevent slippage.
- Pressure cleaners need full pressure, obviously, check the feed hose for any leakage of water pressure.
3. Pool Cleaner does not move at all
- Small sticks and stones can become lodged inside the throat of a pressure or suction cleaner.
- If belt driven, like the Polaris 380, check that the drive belts have not snapped or become overly worn.
- If booster pump driven, disconnect the cleaner at the wall, and ensure that good water pressure is coming out of the wall.
- For suction cleaners, again, make sure that the pump and filter are cleaned.
4. Pool Cleaner gets stuck in one spot
- Most pressure cleaners have a backup valve to prevent this, make sure that this is operating, every 3 minutes.
- If your hose is too short for the pool, this can prevent the cleaner from turning.
- Pressure cleaner wheels that are loose can cause spinning.
- Suction cleaners can get stuck on high spots in pool plaster or on a drain cover. For the latter, a pool cleaner drain cover can be used.
- Ladders are notorious cleaner traps. Most manufacturers have "ladder guards" that you can use to prevent this.
5. Pool Cleaner does not reach all areas of the pool
- Pressure cleaners can track different patterns by making adjustments to the Thrust Jet on the rear
- Ray-Vac cleaners have jets shooting out of the hose swivels. Adjusting this will change the cleaning pattern
- If your cleaner gets stuck in the deep end, you could have a pressure problem. See item 2-3 above.
- Suction cleaners may have an internal issue with their gear box which prevents full travel around the pool
- Water flow from your pool returns can prevent pool cleaners travel into certain areas of the pool.
- Most pool cleaners will not climb steps or reach loveseats.
All cleaners require some type of maintenance. There are some commonly replaced pool cleaner parts you should have on hand, or order when you need them.
For those homeowners who have tried cleaners that operate on the pool filtration system but still havn't found the right cleaner for your pool you might want to consider a robotic cleaner. Robotic cleaners operate completely independent from the pool plumbing. A roaming filter that operates on a low voltage and can simply be plugged in and dropped into the pool. They have come down in price in recent years, and are now available for above ground pools at a lower price, ranging from $300 - $1500.
If you currently own a malfunctioning unit or are just considering adding an addition to the pool to help with the cleaning duties the right solution is out there. Know your cleaners limitations and take some time to research and explore all the current features available to get you on the right track.
Visit our other pool cleaner information pages:
Pool Cleaner Info:
- Automatic Cleaners
- Lo Pressure Cleaners
- Pressure Cleaners
- Robot Cleaners
- Suction Cleaners
- Kreepy Krauly Help File
Pool Cleaner Owners Manuals:
- Aquabot Pool Cleaner Owner's Manuals
- Baracuda Pool Cleaner Owner's Manuals
- Hayward Pool Cleaner Owner's Manuals
- Jandy Ray-Vac Pool Cleaner Owner's Manuals
- Pentair Pool Cleaner Owner's Manuals
- Polaris Pool Cleaner Owner's Manuals
- Smartpool Pool Cleaner Owner's Manuals


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Scrum Sevens
An Englishman, a Scotsman...
ESPN Staff
February 14, 2013
Sir Ian McGeechan celebrates with Jerry Guscott following the series triumph in South Africa in 1997 © Getty Images
Lions head coach Warren Gatland caused controversy this week by hinting that a large English contingent in this summer's tour to Australia could bring unwanted media scrutiny from press at home and Down Under.
So this week Scrum Sevens looks at the compositions of the previous seven Lions tours, dating right back to 1983, revealing a strong - if expected - link between the Six Nations champions and the Lions touring squad.
The call went out for Lions legend Sir Ian McGeechan to restore their pride against the world champions South Africa after a traumatic tour of New Zealand in 2005. McGeechan closed ranks, scaled back personnel and tried to create a close-knit touring culture reminiscent of Lions tours of the past. Whether by accident or design, there was a more even spread of accents in the squad. Wales head coach Warren Gatland, Welshmen Rob Howley and Neil Jenkins and Englishmen Graham Rowntree and Shaun Edwards were all part of coaching team charged with toppling the Springboks.
After securing their first Grand Slam since 1948, Six Nations champions Ireland provided the biggest contingent of tourists with 13 while Alan Quinlan, Tomas O'Leary and Jerry Flannery were originally selected but never made it on to the plane. Wales were also well represented with 13 players making it out to South Africa and Tom Shanklin withdrawing from the squad before departure. England, who had finished second in the Six Nations on points difference, supplied just eight tourists - a figure that rose to 10 with Tom Croft and Tim Payne being called up as replacements. Despite the fact there was a Scot at the helm, they had just four players in the squad with two of them, Mike Blair and Ross Ford, late call ups. McGeechan's Lions won many plaudits for their attacking rugby and tremendous spirit but a Test series victory eluded them for a third series running.
World Cup winning coach Sir Clive Woodward was given free rein to create the most sophisticated and professional Lions outfit ever seen. He called on Andy Robinson, Gareth Jenkins, Eddie O'Sullivan and McGeechan as his assistants, assembled a squad of 44 players - which would rise to 50 with injury replacements - and famously went as far as recruiting former government spin doctor Alastair Campbell as head of communications. While Woodward sought to break new ground in some areas, he kept faith with many of England's old guard who had won him the World Cup two years earlier in Australia.
Woodward selected 20 Englishmen, which would rise to 23 during the tour, including Lawrence Dallaglio - who was retired from international rugby at the time - and Jonny Wilkinson who was struggling for form and fitness. Wales, who had swept the Six Nations a few months earlier, were expected to form the nucleus of the squad but they provided just 12 tourists and there was little seen of the flowing, infectious rugby that had won them Grand Slam. Again four Scots made the journey to New Zealand while 11 Irishmen were involved, including captain Brian O'Driscoll who was ruthlessly dumped out of the tour by Keven Mealamu and Tana Umaga. Welshman Gareth Thomas took over the captaincy as the elite tourists struggled to save face from a tour that led many to question the future of the Lions.
The Lions' last tour of Australia saw New Zealander Graham Henry, who was also the Wales coach at the time, call up 20 Englishmen in total. England were approaching the peak of their powers under Woodward and had won all four of their Six Nations matches months earlier with their Grand Slam decider against Ireland postponed until October. Martin Johnson was entrusted to lead the Lions for a second time while O'Driscoll and Jason Robinson added flair to some solid foundations. Henry selected 11 Welshman, including Rob Howley who teamed up with Wilkinson in the half-backs. Ireland's Rob Henderson and Wales' Dafydd James were somewhat surprise inclusions in the Lions starting side but impressed in Australia. Eight Irishmen, including the influential Keith Wood, travelled Down Under while Scotland accounted for five of the tourists.
After going 1-0 up with victory in the opening Test in Brisbane, the tour swiftly went sour. English scrum-halves Austin Healey and Matt Dawson caused their Kiwi coach some headaches by writing controversial newspaper columns which were said to incite the Wallabies, who went on to win the final two Tests to claim the series 2-1.
The Lions toured South Africa for the first time since the end of apartheid in an historic tour on and off the pitch. McGeechan chose Johnson, who at the time was not the captain of England, as his skipper to stare eye-to-eye with the world champions' Gary Teichmann. Again England, who had finished second to France in the Five Nations, dominated the touring party with established stars such as Jerry Guscott alongside more left-field picks like John Bentley.
In a smaller squad to those that would follow, there were five Scots, five Welshman and four Irishmen hunting the Springboks. But they had a big influence on the Test team with Gregor Townsend installed at fly-half, Wales' Neil Jenkins providing his metronomic goalkicking from fullback, Scott Gibbs providing thrust in midfield and props Tom Smith and Paul Wallace anchoring the scrum. After winning the first Test in Cape Town, which included a terrific try from Dawson, the Lions clinched the series victory with Guscott slotting a game-winning drop goal in the dying minutes in Durban.
The '93 Lions celebrate their second-Test victory over the All Blacks © Getty Images
The Auld Enemy put old rivalries aside to lead the Lions to New Zealand in the last tour of the amateur era. The team was managed by Englishman Geoff Cooke, coached by countryman Dick Best and Scot McGeechan and captained by fellow Scot Gavin Hastings. The two countries made up the majority of the touring squad as well with England supplying 17 players and Scotland, who had finished second to France in the Five Nations, providing a quarter (eight) of the party.
Five Welshman, including key players Ieuan Evans, Robert Jones and Scott Gibbs, went on tour while Mick Galway and Nick Popplewell added an Irish flavour to the squad. After losing the opening Test in Christchurch, 20-18, the Lions won the second test 20-7 to set up the decider in Auckland. But the tour ended in disappointment as the All Blacks triumphed 30-13 at Eden Park.
Again there was a strong Scottish influence as McGeechan, Scotland coach at the time, took charge of the squad for the first time while countryman Finlay Calder captained the side. Gary Armstrong, David Sole, Craig Chalmers and the Hastings brothers were among the nine Scots in a 33-man squad for a 12-match tour. Englishman Roger Uttley acted as McGeechan's number two and England provided 12 tourists, including backs Guscott, Will Carling and Rory Underwood, while there was a hard English spine of Brian Moore, Paul Ackford, Mike Teague and Dean Richards in the Test side.
Behind the pack was the classy Robert Jones at scrum-half and elusive winger Evans, two of eight Welshman in the squad. Giant lock Donal Lenihan led an Irish contingent of four, at the start of what would prove to be a lean period for Irish representation with the Lions. It was the Lions' first tour of Australia since 1971 and proved to be an historic one on the pitch as Calder's men rallied after losing the first Test to win the Test series 2-1.
The 1983 tour to New Zealand saw the most even representation of countries of the last seven with 10 Englishmen, eight Scots, nine Irishmen and nine Welshman. Lions legend and proud Irishman Willie John McBride managed the tour while Scot Jim Telfer coached the squad and Ireland's Triple Crown winner Ciaran Fitzgerald was skipper. The tour was a long and ultimately unsuccessful one, lasting two months and 18 matches and ending in a 4-0 whitewash in the Test series against the All Blacks.
The Lions, who had Scotland's Roy Laidlaw and Ireland's Ollie Campbell at half-backs, were afflicted by a long injury list and selection controversy as they struggled for any cohesion against a fearsome All Blacks side. The opening Test was a tightly fought contest, which the All Blacks won 16-12, but the subsequent matches proved more one sided as the hosts triumphed 9-0, 15-8 and 38-6.
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