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Pdubya replied to sobaka's topic in Ford S-Max ClubFirst time brosing here as my S Max is giving us grief! We bought the car in September 09, a 56 plate 2.0 TDCI Titanium with 40k on the clock, in December 09 the flywheel failed and ford replaced under the warranty provided. Now 14 months and 10400 miles later the flywheel has failed again!! My dealer are being quite helpful but advised me to talk to "Ford Customer Relations", I think they best comment the guy said was "Well you are the second owner of the vehicle and it is out of its original manufacturers warranty" I read that as you bought it second hand so its not our fault, so should you buy an "approved" used Ford vehicle??? I said I understand that it is out of its original warranty but it is a "new" genuine Ford replacement part that has failed not an original part from when the car was new. Should a flywheel fail after 10400 miles???? He asked if I was going to accept the 50% contribution to the cost of the part, but when I said its £1400 and the part is not the expensive part he said thats all that was on offer and I would get a new warranty with the part, all well and good untill it fails again after 14 months!!! I added that if they do not accept liabilty and help me out I would probably chop the car in and never buy a Ford again...... Customer relations my eye!!! I also have the Turbo whistle, like a leak in an air pipe somewhere, the airbag light is on/off intermittently too. Time to get shot me thinks............ Any one else had probs with the flywheel issue ???

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(CNN) -- It's been a preseason of change at CNN-sponsored Caterham, with the team being rebranded after competing under the Lotus name for the past two years.
Caterham will want to celebrate this new identity with a breakthrough first point in Formula One, having failed to get off the mark in 38 races so far.
The Britain-based marque has avoided the ignominy of finishing bottom of the constructors' standings, out-performing HRT and Virgin (now known as Marussia) in 2010 and 2011.
A big problem last season was retirements -- nine in total -- but owner Tony Fernandes is hoping for a big progression after moving headquarters and incorporating KERS technology for the first time in the new CT01 vehicle.
Heikki Kovalainen
The Finn is entering his third season with the team and his best result in 37 races has been a 12th place at the 2010 Japanese Grand Prix.
Kovalainen has been in the sport since making his debut with Renault in 2007, and picked up the only race win of his career with McLaren at the 2008 Hungarian Grand Prix.
The 30-year-old finished last season 22nd out of 28 in the drivers' standings, one place behind his Italian teammate Jarno Trulli. His campaign was derailed by five retirements, four of which were mechanical.
Vitaly Petrov
Petrov made his F1 debut with Renault (now known as Lotus after a long-running wrangle with Fernandes over rights to the illustrious name) in 2010, becoming the first Russian to compete in the elite division of motorsport.
He made a fantastic start to last season, crossing the line third in Australia to grab his first -- and only so far -- podium position.
But the 27-year-old found himself out of favor at the end of the year, exiting as his team opted to pair 2007 world champion Kimi Raikkonen with Romain Grosjean.
Petrov was given another chance in F1 by Fernandes, who decided to release the veteran Trulli after 2012's opening testing session in Jerez.
Australia: Kovalainen DNF, Petrov DNF
Malaysia: Petrov 16th, Kovalainen 18th
China: Petrov 18th, Kovalainen 23rd
Bahrain: Petrov 16th, Kovalainen 17th
Spain: Kovalainen 16th, Petrov 17th
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Europe: Petrov 13th, Kovalainen 14th
Britain: Kovalainen 17th, Petrov DNS
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Hungary: Kovalainen 17th, Petrov 19th
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Japan: Kovalainen 15th, Petrov 17th
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India: Petrov 17th, Kovalainen 18th
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Ahead 6-3 early in the second quarter of their men's lacrosse contest on May 7, the Chestnut Hill College Griffins appeared to be scripting a happy ending to their 2011 season. The visitors from Lake Erie College turned the plot of the tale in a different direction, outscoring the hosts handily the rest of the way to depart with an 18-12 victory.
Each team entered the match with a 3-6 record in East Coast Conference play, and afterwards both squads were 7-7 overall.
"You give up 18 goals and you're not going to win," stated first-year CHC coach Brian Dougherty. "They scored almost every time they had the ball in the second half. Our defense broke down in a number of different ways, and there might have been some poor game planning on my part."
This was just the second season for men's lacrosse at CHC, and all the players are freshmen and sophomore with the exception of one junior transfer.
"Today was tough, but I told our kids I was really proud of how the season in general turned out," Dougherty said. "They played really hard, and beating teams like Mercyhurst and Dowling [ranked second and fifth in the ECC when Chestnut Hill defeated them] with a group of young players is an accomplishment."
In the team's final outing, Lake Erie played catch-up during the first quarter, going down 0-2 and then matching markers by the Griffins' Kevin Festa and Mike Landau. Another exchange of goals made it 3-3 going into the second period, but then the Griffins jumped in front 6-3. Bart Pierre moved the hosts ahead and then Mike Melnychenko, who scored once in the first quarter, completed a hat trick before the second stanza was three minutes old.
Chestnut Hill had posted six goals in 18 minutes, but would need the rest of the game – another 42 minutes – to double that total. After their outburst at the beginning of the second round, the Griffins could not muster back-to-back goals.
"They sat in their zone and they stopped us, and they went on their three or four-goal run," Dougherty remarked. "You've got to give credit to them and to their goalie [the Storm's Alex Wisner had 15 saves]. He played pretty well.
"It just wasn't our day," the coach continued. "It wasn't the shots or who was taking the shots; they just weren't going in. Our leading scorer [Melnychenko] had five or six shots saved, and that hasn't happened all year."
After Lake Erie cut the lead to one goal in the middle of the second quarter, CHC went up 7-5 and was still ahead at the interlude, 7-6. However, the Storm's goal at the end of the half proved to be the first of four consecutive strikes which thrust the visitors ahead, 9-7, less than five minutes into the third quarter.
The Griffins were unable to cash in during a man-up stretch in the middle of the period, but finally got their offense moving again when Melnychenko scored on a feed from behind the cage by Festa with 3:22 to go. The CHC defense kept giving up goals in little bunches, though. Two in the last 38 seconds of the third frame sent the Storm into the fourth quarter with an 11-8 advantage.
Chestnut Hill had the lead down to two points twice in the first five minutes of the concluding period (11-9 and 12-10), but Lake Erie dumped in six of the next seven goals to make it 18-11 with a little over two minutes remaining. Melnychenko got in his last licks with 1:37 on the clock to finish with a game-high five goals, but the winners received hat tricks from five different players. Festa accumulated six assists over the course of the afternoon, and he, Landau, and Pierre wound up with two goals apiece for the Griffins. Sophomore starter Dakota Maurer made a dozen saves in goal before understudy David Cutler entered the game in the final minutes.
"I'm going to let this sink in," Dougherty said afterwards. "Right now, I didn't want to talk to them about next year. We'll start focusing on that on Monday."
CHC's skipper observed, "One thing you saw this season was that we could come out and shock somebody once in awhile, but to do well consistently in a strong league like this we need more good players. That'll change next year; we have 13, maybe 14 kids coming in, and I'm looking forward to good things."


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SAN JOSE — The San Francisco Bulls are folding after running out of time to find new ownership for the ECHL franchise.
The team, which played its home games in the Cow Palace, was in its second season and had a limited role as a Sharks affiliate. The Sharks organization currently has five players with the Bulls, and general manager Doug Wilson said all will be reassigned shortly.
"The Bulls have been a great partner for our organization, both on the ice and as a partner in growing the game of hockey in Northern California," Wilson said. "We wish everyone involved with the franchise the best in the future."
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The Bulls, who fell 32 games short of completing their second season, benefited when their inaugural year coincided with the NHL lockout, but were not able to make a go of it financially.
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Yesterday at the GM Meetings, Sandy Alderson spoke with reporters and emphasized that while he gets perhaps a little more payroll flexibility than he originally anticipated, that it still doesn't change much about the kinds of players they can acquire this winter, and that they still will be looking at the bottom of the free agent market pool.
Mike Puma of the New York Post added that with regard to catcher, Alderson also said they will likely be keeping Josh Thole because of how difficult it is to find just one catcher, let alone two.
Thole, who earned $498,000 in 2012, is arbitration eligible and could easily double his salary and earn close to one million dollars in 2013.
As we highlighted on Mets Merized Online, it's slim pickings at catcher. I keep hearing many Mets fans mentioning the name of Blue Jays elite catching prospect Travis d'Arnaud as a potential target for the team. But they have as much inclination to trade their top prospect as we do Zack Wheeler, so unless we're talking a swap of top prospects, it is unrealistic to view him as someone the Mets could potentially go after.
Any team that has a solid catcher that they are willing to trade understands the scarcity of quality at that position and would demand a premium in return and rightfully so. We would do the same in their position.
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The Mets are interested in bolstering their rotation. Better late than never. Among the names left in the market are Joel Pineiro, Jon Garland, Doug Davis, Pedro Martinez, John Smoltz, Ben Sheets, Chien-Ming Wang and Erik Bedard.
The Mets are talking with Smoltz which does nothing in terms of making them younger, but if he's on – at this stage he's a four or five – he could be valuable. He did pitch well down the stretch last year. Yeah, I'd like a young stud, but there aren't any out there.
Sheets, Wang and Bedard, coming off injuries, represent the biggest risk.


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- Jérôme d'Ambrosio
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Mario Andretti will open the Circuit of the Americas with a demonstration run for Lotus during the official opening ceremony on Sunday.
Lotus will be running the R30 - its 2010 car under its previous guise as Renault - on the circuit throughout Sunday, with Andretti driving first to cut the ribbon. It's the first time Andretti will have driven a contemporary Formula One car since his retirement from the sport in 1982, and he will then hand the car over to actor Patrick Dempsey for his run.
Third driver Jerome d'Ambrosio will complete the final demonstration run in the R30, having raced for the team once this season at the Italian Grand Prix as a replacement for the suspended Romain Grosjean.
The official circuit opening takes place just four weeks before the Circuit of the Americas hosts its first United States Grand Prix. The race is now the only one in the United States in either 2012 or 2013 after the Grand Prix of America was postponed until at least 2014.


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From start to finish, how long does it take you to complete a layout?
How long does a layout take?
I am so curious to find out the general scraptime used for a layout. I consider myself slower than slow, it takes me at least three hours...
@Mel, me too!! Much slower if I don't use a template, of course. I'm not sure if I'm over 2 hours or just under! But definitely in that range. Mostly because I'm so indecisive.
Thanks Lady! Means a lot to me that I'm not the only slow scrapper in da hood I did count the photo-adjusting too, since I think that is also part of a layout. I tend to spend a lot of time on photo adjustments too... so maybe the actual scrapping takes me about two hours a page, just over probably...
I'm really slow, but I know its because I have way too much stuff to pick through before I can start a layout. Now, once I have all the stuff I want to use, then the actual layout takes me about 1 - 2 hours. I consider that quick. I've spend a good 8 hours making a card. Sometimes a paper layout can take me about 3 days to finish...
@Cat, that is a good point. If I compare it to my paper-scrapping, I am light-years faster!! So, even though I wish I were a bit faster digitally, I'm still accomplishing more than I ever did with paper. lol
I enjoy the time I spend doing layouts, so it's a leisurely activity for me. 2 hours is a fast layout for me, and that doesn't happen often. I might be able to finish faster but why? Well, it helps to be retired and have the time. In fact that's one reason I scrap all the grandkids, my daughters are too busy as was I when they were young. Their childhood photos are just stuck in an album, no decorations. Maybe I'll get around to redoing them one day.
Sometimes I can spend all day doing a layout if things don't gel, other times things fall into place and a layout is finished very fast.
Layouts almost always take me at least two to three hours, but I've worked on a few that have taken days because I just can't get it like I want.
It really depends, sometimes things just come easily, especially the longer I've been scrapping and the more familiar I am with Photoshop. But then there are layouts like the one I did today that take forever because I changed all of the papers about 3-4 times to find a combo I actually liked, haha.
It depends. For me, it can be as little as ten minutes... if everything in the kit is just right... and if it is a CT project where I have to just use what is in the kit. Most of the time it is around 30-45 minutes. If I do a just-for-me layout where I mix and match things, it takes me much longer to get all of the little touches I want to add. But my Project Life pages take me FOREVER. It is ridiculous really.
I was just thinking about this the other day. I don't think I can make the pages any faster than I did when I was paper scrapping, because before I would lay out all the papers/elements/photos and make 4-6 pages at once. Typically I would make multiple pages of the same events or similar series of events, so even though I'd scrap for 4-6 hrs at a time, I'd get 6-8 layouts done.
With digital, I don't have multiple monitors, and I start to get confused after a while having so many windows open, so even if I am using the same kit for multiple pages I only work on one page at a time.
Where I'm saving the time is with CLEANUP. Just being able to shut down the program and turn off the computer and not have to sort and reorganize supplies and little bits of paper is SOOOO worth it for me.
*edited* I thought of something else though. I spend a LOT of time organizing all my files and folders. It's a good mental break for me to look at all the pretty papers and elements, and how awesome is it to shop from home ALL the time, but it does take a LOT of time to sort everything into a system I can work with.
I agree wholeheartedly Tina!!! about the differences in digi vs paper. I also think that I don't get to chat as much to anyone when I digital scrap as when I would go to an 6 hour, or all night crop, or weekend crop. You cold still paper scrap and think enough to talk. At least for me, I have to focus more scrapping digitally it seems, but the good thing is if I mess up it's way easier to fix. LoL So there are several give and takes to me.
BTW: I'm a sloooow scrapper if you guys didn't gather already. Except as Kimbelee mentioned, I'm the total opposite with PL pages, but I paper scrap those and keep them fairly minimal using pre-made kits like Becky Higgins and get them done in a decent time frame... but nothing too fancy... LoL
I'm also slow...at least 2 hours per page. My problem is I get caught in tweaking hell and I have to force myself to "put down the mouse!" LOL
Really depends... Sometimes a photo or photos just call out to me and let me know exactly what treatment they need to shine. Sometimes I start over multiple times or spend hours searching for just the right elements...
Layouts are like conversations. Some are quick and some can fill a day!
what a GREAT analogy Lori!!! Love it!!!
Layouts are like conversations. Some are quick and some can fill a day!
I need about 30-45 minutes per layout, and I like it that way... I don't rush or hurry through the process, and there's nothing forcing me to go that fast. I just like to keep the process swift- it's the same way I write my stories... just out with it in a huge gush. I always liked it best that way .
It usually takes me a couple of hours for a layout. However, I've got one I've been working on for months.
Hummm...once I'm actually able to sit down and scrap (I don't get to do anything scrapbook related during the day because of the dear girls), I usually spend half an hour to an hour on a layout. Though it really depends on how complex the layout is and how much shadowing it requires. That said, I never rush...just plug along and have fun.
I always gather the paper I want to use cut some into shapes pick frames and embellishments and put it together. I keep all scrapbook item that look good together so I don't spend mush time on color scheme or the theme I need. It is easier to keep everything related in the same folders, also choose multiple layout pages that would look good together and you could make at least 4 pages within 2 hours. If you look at my finished layouts the ones labeled brown only took me about 2 hours.
Oh wow...ugh...I voted over 2 hrs, but it's more like 2 days, about 8 hr per day. I'm slow and was slow with actual paper stuff as well. I watch tv or listen to music. But I think my biggest trouble is my rickety computers! Some times I save something (GIMP) and my system takes it's own sweet time, 25 -30, a few times almost an hr...I try to keep other things around so I multi task, sometimes on the computer, reading about a tip. Man when we get some money we are going to have to update!
I am picky though and I usually have to invent a bunch of items in the layout. That's part of why I love it here, in the beginning all I was doing was working on layouts for a challenge. Acountability and deadlines!
@Laura: A fast computer makes all the difference in the world. I started scrapping on a netbook with a super small screen and slow everything else. Needless to say, I've upgraded a bit since then...
Anywhere from 15 mins to 1hour....only have a ever went over longer than an hour a few times, usually when using a template...I don't work well with those! Lol
I always take too many pictures. My biggest challenge, when doing a layout, is to decide which of those pictures not to use. I have never done a layout in under 3 hours! (However I am new to digital scrapping).
I can take me to 30 minutes to more than 3 hours, depending on the layout!
@Rhene, especially when scrapping non-digital the choosing of the photos has always been the hardest part for me! I think digital has freed me of that though. At this point I'm not really printing anything, but doing digital pages for digital viewing, from digital camera photos. So if I have several good photos of one event I don't feel like I have to leave some out never to be scrapped or seen again. Of course with my children being grown now, we don't usually have that many photos taken of one event. But I'm sure this is just a season and when they begin to marry and have children of their own I'm sure we will all have tons of photos again.


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Today we racked a 5 gallon keg of a new beer that Timperial and I brewed together. Our Imperial Cranberry Saison is not completely done yet, but with Thanksgiving making an appearance in less than 48 hours, we needed to pull a young version to compliment our Turducken.
As I tasted the young, incredibly sweet saison, I couldn't help but wonder what this beer would taste like after sitting in a white wine or zinfandel barrel. Barrel-aged beers are all the rage these days. Adding a woody, boozy, tart flavor to your beer makes a rather simple beer more complex. I became intrigued.
To my computer I ran. I did a little searching for barrels and found that it takes a sizable investment to grab a wine or whiskey barrel. Online merchants often charge upwards of $200-$300.00 for wine barrels. Used whiskey barrels often come cheaper, but must be purchased in large volume. There are options to get newly crafted white oak barrels at reasonable prices, but you would have to condition the barrel yourself.
A solution: tap into Washington's booze producing neighborhood. Take a look for instance at Seattle's backyard wine country — Woodinville.
Woodinville is about 20 minutes from Seattle and houses more than 50 different wineries. From massive Chateau Ste. Michelle to tiny Mark Ryan (our favorite, by the way), there is something for everyone. Remember, you can even grab a beer (or many) during a quick tour of RedHook.
But, it was the distilling that got me giddy. Imagine, no trip to Bourbon County is required! I have whiskey in my backyard.
Distillers starting popping up in 2007, when laws made it possible. By 2010, regulations had been loosened to allow distillers to finally sell their own product, making tasting rooms a possibility. Now, we finally have a craft distilling industry.
While I don't expect any distillers to be willing to hand off a barrel to me (most whiskey requires several years of aging — and these guys are young), I do hope to start seeing more of this amazing addition to the wonderful Washington craft booze industry.
We are starting to see a few pop up on the streets of Seattle (Sound Spirits is really good!) But, Woodinville already has a collective worth discussing.
Here are 5 distilleries that grace the streets of Woodinville. Check them out, next time you have a holiday weekend (oh wait, thats this weekend!):
Soft Tail Spirits
Soft Tail has been making grappa for some time. Now, they are producing vodka — and doing a damn good job. Soft Tail recently won a medal at the World Spirits Competition in San Francisco.
12280 NE Woodinville Dr. Suite C. Woodinville WA, 98072 Tasting Room Hours: Mon. — Sun. 12-5pm
Woodinville Whiskey Co.
Yes, Yes & Yes. Woodinville Whiskey Co. — thank you.
I have dreamed of consuming Washington sourced whiskey for quite some time. Oregon has been producing barley whiskey for some time — now we have one of our own.
NW whiskey is starting to carve its own niche. Typically, un-aged and un-oaked, the clear version of whiskey served by WWC is the base for a wood-aged bourbon that will sit in barrels for 4 years. They are also producing a vodka made from Washington wheat. This place is first on my visit list.
16110 Woodinville Redmond Rd. NE, Ste. 3
Woodinville, WA, 98072
Tours at 4pm or by appointment
Pacific Distillery
Would I joke about Washington made absinthe? Hell no. Its true. Just visit Pacific.
One night we were drinking bourbon at Zig Zag Cafe when legendary bartender, Murray Stenson, told me about Pacific. He poured me a whole drink of straight Pacific Absinthe and told me — its the best I can get. It was.
Pacific is also making a dry gin, which I am eager to get to try. Check them out, but make sure to e-mail first (no regular hours).
18808 142nd Ave. NE #4B
Woodinville, WA 98072
Project V Distillery & Sausage Company
Sausage. Thats about all I needed to know.
There is only one other booze and sausage place that I know of — and I'm in love with it. If you have ever been to Dick's Brewing's NW Sausage & Deli, you know what I am talking about. Smoked meats and craft booze is just plan good.
These guys are making vodka from Washington wheat. Check out their website (its a facebook page) for more information on when they are open. For now, it appears that they do not have hours.
19495 44th Avenue NE Ste A130 Woodinville, WA 98072 206-947-3667
JP Trodden Distilling
These guys are just off to the races, but about to do something amazing. JP Trodden will be making bourbon-style whiskey. Of course, they can't call it bourbon since its not made in Bourbon County, Kentucky. But they are going to try and replicate the style.
They are still a few years away from pouring their first batch in 2012. I'll be waiting.
18646 142nd Ave Woodinville, WA, 98072 206-399-6231
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Tom Green's 'Freddy' Named Worst Film
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- Tom Green needs all five fingers to count the number of movie booby-prizes he received for ``Freddy Got Fingered.''
His much-reviled comedy was named worst picture of last year on Saturday at the Golden Raspberry Awards, an annual spoof held on the eve of the Academy Awards.
Green also was chosen as worst actor and director for ``Freddy Got Fingered,'' shared the worst screenplay award with co-writer Derek Harvie and was cited for worst screen couple -- ``Tom Green and any animal he abuses.''
Green became the first actor in the 22-year history of the ``Razzies'' to show up at the group's ceremony to collect his prizes -- gold-painted, raspberry-shaped trophies whose materials include lids from iced tea jars, Super-8mm film reels and wood-grain shelf paper.
Razzies founder John Wilson said the awards cost $4.79 each and that he ``made them the other day on my patio.''
``I'd just like to say to all the other nominees in the audience, I don't think that I deserve it anymore than the rest of you,'' Green said as he accepted the worst picture award. ``I'd like to say that. I don't think that it would be true, though.''
Green, dressed in a tuxedo, rode up in a 1960-era luxury car, stepped out of the back and then rolled a length of cheap red carpet to walk on as he entered a magic shop with a small theater used for the awards.
Mariah Carey was dishonored as worst actress for ``Glitter.'' The singer's cleavage also had been nominated for worst screen couple, running second in that category to Green, whose antics included a lewd act involving a horse.
The Razzies are chosen by the group's 520 members.
For worst picture, ``Freddy Got Fingered'' handily out-polled Sylvester Stallone's ``Driven,'' Carey's ``Glitter,'' the war epic ``Pearl Harbor'' and Kevin Costner's ``3000 Miles to Graceland,'' Wilson said.
Green ``set out to make something stupid and offensive. It's got bestiality, incest, child abuse. Uggh,'' Wilson said. ``If it is an intentionally bad movie, it is the `Citizen Kane' of intentionally bad movies.''
The only other Razzies winner ever to show up to collect his award was ``Showgirls'' director Paul Verhoeven.
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-- Worst supporting actor: Charlton Heston, ``Cats & Dogs,'' ``Planet of the Apes'' and ``Town & Country.''
-- Worst supporting actress: Estella Warren, ``Driven'' and ``Planet of the Apes.''
-- Worst remake or sequel: ``Planet of the Apes.''
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**** No!!! The POTA remake was not a poor one. Everyone in the company loves it, except for the way it ends, that's what brought it down. But that was a very good movie, and I DO hope that they make the Planet of the Apes II.
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Saturday, December 27, 2003
Escaping the ROI trap
A strong ROI is the key to getting management approval for new systems, right? Not always. With the weak economy over the past two years, I've observed a trend in which, many times, executives refuse to approve new system investments no matter how compelling the business case is. I call this the "ROI trap."
What it is
The ROI trap works like this. The user sees a pressing need for a new system and submits a funding request. Executive management reviews the request, agrees that a new system is desirable, but indicates that no funds will be granted without a clear and compelling business case. So the user launches a significant effort to gather data on the projected benefits as well as the expected costs. The user may also enlist the help of an outside consultant and the software vendor, who are all-too-happy to provide an ROI template and participate in the effort to gather data. To avoid surprises, the team interviews executive management to determine reasonable assumptions. The team finally puts together what they think is a compelling business case and makes the presentation to executive management only to see the project shot down, put on hold, or worse--directed to "gather more data."
Why executives don't believe ROI calculations
I've theorized that the ROI trap has to do with the nature of uncertainty surrounding most ROI calculations: that is, the benefits are uncertain, but the costs are absolutely certain. In other words, the decision maker isn't sure of the benefits, but he is quite sure of the costs. So the executive, deep down, doesn't trust the ROI, no matter how compelling it is. In the face of uncertainty, the safe decision is to say no--or, if the decision maker is timid, to ask for more data.
Recently, I've been reading Judgment in Managerial Decision Making by Max Bazerman (2002, John Wiley & Sons), which explains common biases in how managers make decisions. Bazerman's research indicates that people are "naturally risk-averse concerning gains and positively framed questions" and "risk-seeking concerning losses and negatively framed questions." Read that part in italics again, and think about it, because it is the key to understanding the ROI trap.
Bazerman references a study in 1981 where participants were asked to make two decisions. The first decision was between:
(a) a sure gain of $240, and
(b) a 25% chance to gain $1000 and a 75% chance to gain nothing.
Result: 84% of the participants chose (a)--the small sure gain rather than the potentially larger gain.
The second decision was between:
(c) a sure loss of $750, and
(d) a 75% chance to lose $1000 and a 25% chance to lose nothing.
Result: 87% of the participants chose (d)--the potentially larger loss rather than the smaller guaranteed loss.
Bazerman's research, in plain English, means this: when looking at benefits, people would rather choose a small benefit that is guaranteed rather than a larger benefit that is uncertain. On the other hand, when looking at costs, people would rather choose a greater loss that might NOT happen than a smaller loss that is guaranteed.
Bazerman points out that this is why insurance payments are called "premiums" instead of "guaranteed losses." Think about it. When you buy health insurance you are choosing a small guaranteed loss (the premium) over a great uncertain loss (a large medical bill). But if the premium were designated as a "guaranteed loss," there would probably be a lot less insurance sold, or people would choose higher deductibles (i.e. smaller guaranteed losses.)
In other words, when considering benefits, people generally like to "take the sure bet." But when considering costs, people generally like to say, "I'll take my chances."
Now think about how most new system investments are presented to management. They are presented in terms of guaranteed costs and uncertain benefits, exactly the opposite of what the decision maker finds most appealing. How much more attractive the business case would be if it could be presented with the costs as an "insurance premium" against possible great losses and, at the same time, with some element of "guaranteed benefits."
If Bazerman is correct, then the ROI trap is a threat to many investment decisions. But I suspect that the cash-constrained environment that many businesses have been operating in over the past few years has made the ROI trap more deadly.
How to escape the ROI trap
When you suspect that your new system request is threatened by the ROI trap, I would suggest the following:
These tips are no guarantee that the new system will be funded, but they should lessen the chance of your falling into the ROI trap.
- Emphasize problems with the current situation and the risks of doing nothing. Frame the business case to highlight the problems, including the worst-case scenario, of staying with the existing system, e.g. loss of vendor support, regulatory non-compliance, inability to meet the needs of the business, need to hire additional headcount, or loss of competitive position. If there are any disaster recovery or business continuity concerns, play those to the hilt. When you're facing the ROI trap, the most likely outcome is "no decision." So, build the case for action first. Otherwise, the rest of the business case will fall on deaf ears.
- Structure the deal to reduce fixed costs, especially up-front costs. See if you can move the deal to a subscription model, where many of the upfront software license and implementation costs are amortized over a three or five year period. Where this is not possible, a financing or leasing arrangement can have the same effect. Frame the remaining fixed costs as an "insurance premium" against the problems of the existing system, not as a cost to get future benefits.
- Build the ROI around the firm tangible benefits. Even better, show those tangible benefits as a discount against the fixed "insurance premium." For example, show the benefit of not having to pay license fees or maintenance on the existing system--a benefit that is indisputable.
- List intangible or soft benefits, such as "improved management decision making," as a secondary category. Let the decision maker himself pull any of those soft benefits back into the primary rationale for the decision. When the ROI trap is threatening, it is better to be criticized for being too conservative than too aggressive.
Update: Read Part 2 for more on this subject.by Frank Scavo, 12/27/2003 01:29:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Wednesday, December 24, 2003
Companies mum on savings from IT offshore outsourcing
Here's more on the impact of IT outsourcing. Computerworld observes that many large public companies, such as Microsoft, AT&T, and IBM, who are usually quick to trumpet their cost-cutting initiatives, are slow to publicize how much they are saving by moving IT jobs offshore, fearing an anti-outsourcing backlash. Furthermore, major Indian outsourcing firms such as Infosys, Wipro, and Satyam have stopped announcing new customers."The problem is that companies aren't sure if it's politically correct to talk about it," said Jack Trout, a principal at marketing and strategy firm Trout & Partners. "Nobody has come up with a way to spin it in a positive way."The article predicts that as many as 2 million U.S. white-collar jobs such as programmers, software engineers and applications designers will move offshore by 2014.by Frank Scavo, 12/24/2003 01:32:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Tuesday, December 23, 2003
Impact of offshore services on IT job prospects in the US
Stephanie Overby writing for CIO Magazine has some scary scenarios for the future of information technology in the US. Part of the problem is simply supply and demand:India graduates 75,000 computer scientists each year. The United States, 52,900. China, which currently brings 50,000 new IT workers into the world every year, could eventually provide 200,000 computer science graduates annually, according to Marty McCaffrey, executive director of Software Outsourcing Research.Read the whole article.by Frank Scavo, 12/23/2003 06:19:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Tuesday, December 16, 2003
Turning software validation into a meaningful exercise
Working with clients in the life science industries, I deal often with the issue of validation of commercial off-the-shelf software. But, because validation is an FDA requirement, companies often treat validation as nothing more than a documentation effort--an exercise in producing a large volume of paperwork that the company can point to during an FDA inspection. So, I've been thinking about what companies can do to make validation a "meaningful exercise," one that adds real value to the system being implemented.
One key point is to understand the meaning of the word validation. Validation is ultimately to ensure that a system meets its requirements. Most validation professionals understand this. But too often the validation team interprets "requirements" as nothing more than "what the users want the system to do." So they conduct a series of interviews to ask users what they want the system to do.
Unfortunately, when users are asked what they want the system to do, most leave out many important things from a regulatory perspective. A better approach, in my opinion, is not to start with what the users want the system to do but what the applicable regulations require the users to do. I have found great value in sitting down with users, walking through the regulations line by line, and asking, "Do you want the system to help you do this?"
For example, FDA regulations for medical device manufacturers require users to ensure that raw materials are only purchased from approved suppliers (21 CFR Part 820.50). If the user wants the system to help him do that, then he probably needs the system to maintain an approved supplier list and prevent production materials from being procured from suppliers that are not approved to supply that material. Once I have established such a system requirement, it is a no-brainer to validate the system against that requirement. I simply test whether I can purchase material from a non-approved supplier. A series of tests such as this, that challenge the system to directly address true requirements, is the only way to uncover design flaws and false assumptions of the developer, implementer, and user.
How much more meaningful is this type of validation in contrast to what I see too often: the validation team writes a long series of test cases in excruciating detail to see whether the user can add, change, and delete a vendor master, whether a user can add, change, and delete a purchase order, whether a user can add, change, and delete a line item, etc., etc.,--but never test to see whether it is possible to order material from an unapproved supplier. No wonder they seldom discover anything interesting. They are not testing the system against its requirements--they are testing it against its design specification. That might be considered a system test, but I would not consider it a meaningful validation.
The lesson: start with the regulations, use the regulations to derive system requirements, and use system requirements to design test cases.
There is much more I could write on this subject, but I'd like some feedback. What is your experience with software validation? How do you ensure that validation is a meaningful exercise?by Frank Scavo, 12/16/2003 07:38:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Thursday, December 11, 2003
Clash of the titans
CNET has a long article on the behind the scenes battle between SAP and Microsoft in the enterprise systems marketplace. The article highlights a $10 million win by Microsoft over SAP at Esselte, a $1.1B office supplies manufacturer. The win is the largest in the short history of Microsoft Business Solutions. While Microsoft is increasingly reaching up into such larger deals, SAP is reaching down with its SAP Business One offering to small businesses, Microsoft's home turf.
The article also highlights what I think is a more significant battle: the fight over for resellers. Resellers are the key to success in the small business ERP market, and SAP, it seems, has been courting a number of Microsoft business partners. SAP, which relies mostly on a direct sales channel, does not have anything close to the reseller channel that Microsoft picked up through its acquisitions of Great Plains and Navision. If SAP were to win over some of those resellers, it wouldn't have the big splash of Microsoft's win at Esselte, but the impact ultimately would be greater.by Frank Scavo, 12/11/2003 09:01:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Tuesday, December 09, 2003
SCO ordered to put up or shut up
The SCO Group, which owns the IP rights to UNIX, has been stirring up a cloud of uncertainty and doubt about the open source Linux operating system. Earlier this year SCO sued IBM for allegedly incorporating UNIX source code in the Linux kernal. Linux supporters have been frustrated that SCO, for the most part, has been unwilling to reveal the "millions of lines of code" in Linux that SCO claims came from its intellectual property. The problem for enterprise system users is that the confusion undermines any motivation to migrate to Linux.
But the cloud may be about to lift. A US federal court judge has given SCO 30 days to show what proof it has.
Quoted in an Internet Week article, Eben Moglen, professor at Columbia Law School says, "This is the big moment in the factual determination of what's in SCO's hand, if there are facts to support the claim that SCO has made concerning literal copying from Sys V Unix into the Linux operating system kernel -- this is the moment where we find out. Provided that IBM is not prevented by court order from sharing that information, it will be possible for everyone to know what SCO claims is theirs."
This ZDNet article has more details.by Frank Scavo, 12/09/2003 08:57:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Friday, December 05, 2003
SSA's obituary was a bit premature
The Chicago Sun-Times ran an article (no longer available online) on local company SSA Global (SSA), pointing out that SSA, once given up for dead, is now in terms of annual revenue the fourth largest ERP vendor, after SAP, PeopleSoft, and Oracle. Quoting CEO Mike Greenough,"In the mid-market ...everybody wants to be Number 1. But I'm there, and I don't intend giving it up and I think you can tell from my personality, I'm not the kind of guy who is going to roll over ... People laughed, thought I was delusional two and one half years ago. People thought we couldn't go to $300 million, then they said I couldn't get it to $500 million. We haven't even begun to fight. I just started rounding up the troops."For more on SSA's strategy, see my article on Sep. 26.by Frank Scavo, 12/05/2003 04:16:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Thursday, December 04, 2003
B2B is hot, outsourcing not
Evans Data, a technology research firm, is reporting two interesting statistics in its Fall 2003 Enterprise Development Survey:
What does this all mean? Line56 draws its own conclusions. Let me draw mine. I take the decline in outsourcing as a very positive sign. Companies are finally confident that the recession is past. They are less interested in pursuing cost-savings from outsourcing and more interested in taking control of IT and increasing in-house competencies. I see this already in some of my clients that are planning major projects for 2004.
- B2B is alive! Business-to-business e-commerce projects increased a whopping 40% in the last six months, going from 11th place in last year's survey to first place this year.
- Outsourcing is so 2002. The survey indicates that outsourcing actually decreased in the last year by more than 20%. There were 56% of businesses outsourcing some development, down from 71% in the year prior. Only 7% of companies report that they are outsourcing a majority of projects, compared to 12% in the previous year.
Furthermore, I take the resurgence of B2B as a sign that we are well past the hype phase of Internet commerce and that companies see real payback from connecting electronically to customers and suppliers. Companies aren't pursuing e-commerce because it's cool but because it's good business. The Evans survey points to an increase in projects involving Web services, but I see it also in traditional and Internet-based EDI. I'm sure that some of this is due to Walmart's mandate for Internet-based EDI (EDIINT AS2) on its suppliers and similar initiatives by other major channel masters.
This mainstream adoption of Internet commerce is also seen in the B2C side. This past Thanksgiving-day weekend had retailers reporting a huge surge in electronic orders, with consumers just saying no to long lines at brick-and-mortar stores. E-business is just becoming business as usual.
The full survey is available (at a price) from the Evans Data web site.by Frank Scavo, 12/04/2003 05:18:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Wednesday, December 03, 2003
Could FRx become a back door for Microsoft?
The trade press has written much regarding Microsoft's entre into the enterprise applications space with its acquisition of Great Plains and Navision, along with its development of its own applications such as Microsoft CRM. Such developments are perceived as a competitive threat to application software vendors that partner with Microsoft. But what is not often discussed is Microsoft's presence already as an application provider to over 100,000 companies due to its ownership of a widely used financial report writer called FRx.
FRx Software, which was acquired by Great Plains prior to Microsoft's acquisition of Great Plains, is probably the most widely implemented financial report writer among small and mid-sized businesses. It's a good product. So good, in fact, that a number of mid-tier ERP vendors include FRx as a complementary product or in some cases as their only option for financial reporting. Some of these vendors, such as Epicor, Ross Systems, Best Software, Expandable, Made2Manage, and MAPICS, are constantly going head-to-head with Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) for ERP sales. Yet they turn around and offer a Microsoft application as part of their own offerings.
Once MBS has sold FRx into an account, it could use the FRx relationship as a back door into the account to sell its enterprise applications, such as Great Plains, Navision, Axapta, and Solomon. Or, they could simply mine the huge installed base of FRx users that already exist. I've not yet heard of MBS resellers attempting to exploit the FRx installed base to sell other Microsoft applications. But, if readers have any stories to share on this subject, please let me know.
Update, Dec. 4: A Microsoft reseller and a Microsoft competitor that resells FRx have both given me some feedback, and maybe my idea is just ahead of its time. The Microsoft reseller writes:People here seem to agree that this would be a tough back door. One of FRx's selling points is that it doesn't really care what ERP system you're running, it can provide you with good financial reporting. So our going into an FRx account to talk about ERP is sort of contrary to that. As you note, FRx probably got into the account via the company that sold them their ERP system, so there wouldn't be any real MS relationship because of FRx.My source at a Microsoft competitor has this to say:We are also a reseller of FRx. I see no attempt on the part of Microsoft to leverage the FRx installed base. In fact I see nothing from Microsoft that would suggest using this as a tool to gain access. I dont think they have a clue on how to do this. The Microsoft application software groups are so removed from each other it is a wonder they even know each other exist. At all the Microsoft shows that I have been to, FRx was never mentioned. I know people at Great Plains and they never bring up FRx either.Update, Dec. 9: A Great Plains reseller has confirmed what others are saying: "As a VAR we have no visibility into the FRx installed base. Also, I am not aware of any campaign for MBS to go after the FRx installs with an alternate ERP offering."by Frank Scavo, 12/03/2003 07:59:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
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In the saddle as a runner-hunter
That epic 3 500km ride covered one-third of the journey in Freedom Ride: 10 000km by Mountain Bike Across South Africa. This is an edited extract.
Some years ago I read about The Great Dance, Craig and Damon Foster's documentary, which filmed Karoha, a Kalahari Bushman, as he ran down his prey.
I tried to track it down, and made enquiries on and off, but without success.
Then I found it on YouTube and was fascinated by this exploration into another age. I have run 11 Comrades marathons and wondered whether I could claim to have run down that many kudus.
In the meantime, Christopher McDougall's book Born to Run popularised the idea that the ability to run, sometimes covering great distances over many hours of exertion, is one of the basic building blocks of humanity. McDougall writes that distance running gave us the ability to run down our prey; it ensured that we both survived and thrived. "We were born to run; we were born because we run."
McDougall credits Louis Liebenberg, a South African who studied mathematics and physics at university, as one of the researchers who developed the persistence-hunting hypothesis. Frustrated by the inability of science to answer his questions, Liebenberg turned to the bush for his answers. In The Art of Tracking: The Origin of Science, Liebenberg wonders whether science had its origins in the tracking of animals. Tracking, he reasons, involves the interpretation of signs to make predictions. He theorised that tracking could be the basis of scientific reasoning as we know it and that the human mind and hunting had co-evolved.
During the course of his 20 years of close observation of Bushman trackers in the Kalahari, including persistence hunting, Liebenberg developed the idea that, before they hunted with spears, bows, arrows and dogs, our ancestors ran down their prey. He believed that this ability could stretch back as far as two million years. By comparison, our ancestors only hunted with dogs from as recently as 15 000 years ago, used bows and arrows from 60 000 years ago and spears or sharpened sticks from 400 000 years ago. Indeed, we have only been human for about 200 000 years.
At the peak of his fitness, aged about 30, Liebenberg tried persistence-hunting. He ran himself close to death's door and had to be rescued by his fellow Bushman hunters, one of whom ran 10km to their camp to fetch water. When the hunter returned with the water, Liebenberg was not allowed to drink it as this would almost certainly have resulted in his death. It was instead used to bathe his head, which brought down his temperature. Eventually it was deemed safe for him to start taking the smallest sips of water.
Persistence hunting resonates in modern times in endurance sport. Our ability to run, paddle or cycle great distances comes from our runner-hunter ancestors. We can do these sports because of the way we evolved; when we do, we celebrate this aspect of our humanity.
This celebration is best pursued in wild, little-visited places. The choice of sport — running, cycling or paddling — matters little, but trail riding has the edge for me as it allows the athlete to cover greater distances, which is important in a country as large as South Africa. We also have much richer diets and more sedentary lifestyles these days, and we do not have the lightweight physiques of the Kalahari runner-hunter, so sitting down is the way to go.
Last year saw the kind of epic struggle that the trained athlete with a focused mind can endure. Martin Dreyer, a seven-time winner of the Dusi canoe marathon, and Alex Harris, an adventurer of high pedigree, slugged it out at the front of the annual Freedom Challenge, the most gruelling of expedition races. Such is its toughness that 40% of the 50 athletes who started the event pulled out along the way. Dreyer and Harris averaged more than 200km a day at the coldest time of the year, climbing a cumulative 37 000m each. For the first few days of the race they averaged three hours of sleep a night, then cut this back to two for the next few days and, in the last stretch, relied on intermittent cat naps to keep going. Coming down Ouberg Pass into Montagu, Harris fell asleep and woke up in a ravine.
Dreyer was the quicker of the two and covered the 2 300km between Pietermaritzburg and Wellington, where the race finishes, in just 10 days, 16 hours and 40 minutes. Harris, the previous winner and record-holder, completed the race in 10 days, 23 hours and 57 minutes. Dreyer's winning time meant that he had averaged 8.47km an hour non-stop for 256 hours.
Liebenberg has made me want to understand my own limits better. These are distinctively modest, you will understand, compared to Dreyer and Harris.
My endurance journey first took me to the Comrades and Dusi marathons and later to the biking adventures during which I rode more than 10 000km on a set of off-road rides between Beitbridge and Cape Point. These included a 1 800km ride along the Drakensberg from end to end and a 3 500km ride between these two points on a ride inspired by the Great Divide ride along the Rockies in the United States.
Trails continue to be developed. Jaco Strydom completed a 66-day, 3 550km ride from the Cape to Beitbridge by following the Freedom Trail before turning his bike back towards the Cape and riding along the Limpopo River and the border with Botswana.
In March last year August Carstens rode from Kilimanjaro through Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique during his planned 7 000km ride to the Cape. He overcame a bout of malaria along the way, reaching Durban with about 2 400km still to go. From Durban, he ran the Dusi Trail Run to Pietermaritzburg. He was also planning to ride the Freedom Challenge, but he injured his knee on the run and was forced to rest. He reached the Cape in late September last year.
There is now also a supported version of the Beitbridge to Cape Point ride, during which riders are followed by a 4x4 vehicle.
Endurance sport can be experienced as part of a multitude, like when you line up at the start of the Comrades with thousands of other runners who have trained for months with the single goal of completing the race, or as a solo athlete such as the trail biker who will ride with not another soul around for a radius of 50km or more.
People do endurance sport for different reasons. For many it is about better understanding their own limits and challenging these. For some it is about being off the beaten track, an opportunity to break the pace of normal urban life. Some will chase records, whereas others will be happy just to soak up the experience.
The competitive athlete will barely have time to wave hello should they come across people, whereas others will stop for a chat. Many will enjoy the minimalism of bike travel — there is a big incentive to cut things down to the real basics, to enjoy a simple, uncluttered life, at least while you are on the trail.
My expedition riding has no greater goal than trying to understand my own limits better while taking in parts of the country that I would not normally visit. Above all, it is about enjoyment. I am not looking to find any particular meaning in the experience but, at its very best, trail riding is where I today celebrate the ancient capabilities of the runner-hunter.
Freedom Ride: 10 000km by Mountain Bike Across South Africa is published by Jacana.
For video on riding from Beitbridge to Cape Point, the Freedom Challenge and Louis Liebenberg on runner-hunters, see mg.co.za/freedomriderza.


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David Lanning, Jr. needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 316 designs submitted by 116 freelance designers.
Glamour411 is in the business of making women feel and look thinner, trimmer and more shapely. Our best selling product is a Brazilian Waist Cincher that instantly reduces a womans waist by 1-3 inches by means of graduated, controlled compression.
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Large - colorful - easy to assemble - for creating a light bright expandable world large enough to play in and around!
After nearly 60 years, the Eames Office has reintroduced one of the most sought after Eames collectibles for people of all ages to enjoy and experience. The Eames Toy is a large-scale building toy that echoes the Eamesian principle of modular systems.
Create your own world by building an endless variety of colorful structures in which to play. It's as simple as connecting vibrant triangle and square panels with honest materials such as wooden dowels and craft pipes.
The Eames Office designed The Eames Toy for adults, teenagers, and children to use as sets for amateur theatrics, as room decoration, or as tents for other toys and objects. The instructional sheet explains:
The Eames Toy is designed for many colorful hours of fun for the whole family, and each member can share and enjoy The Eames Toy in his own way.
The baby** as a bright world to grow in-
the small child as houses and tunnels and tents to play in-
the boys and girls as towers, puppet theaters, large and exciting structures-
the high school age as brillant party decorations, plays and pageant sets-
in college as campus and house decorations, fantastic and brilliant hanging objects to hover over a junior prom-
young men and women, clubs, civic organizations, floats and festivals-
The Eames Toy gives each one the means with which to express himself in big structures and brilliant colors.
Charles and Ray Eames first produced this product in 1951 for Tigrett Industries. It was the first toy that they manufactured and sold in retail outlets. The Eames Office explored many options while developing The Toy, just as they did with all their projects.
They starting by experimenting with cardboard triangles, as seen in the well-known photo of Ray outside the Eames House. Later, they added squares to allow larger structures to be constructed. When The Toy first went into production, it was made using a recently developed plastic-coated paper. Later, The Toy was made with vinyl--the same material that this re-released product is made with today.
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NAME: Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter, Jr. (Captain, USN)
NASA Astronaut
BIRTHPLACE AND DATE: Born August 15, 1947, in Macon, Georgia, but considers Warner Robins, Georgia, to be his hometown. His father, Manley L. Carter, Sr., and his mother, Elizabeth C. Carter, are deceased.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Brown hair; blue eyes; height: 6 feet 1/2 inch; weight: 165 pounds.
EDUCATION: Graduated from Lanier High School, Macon, Georgia, in 1965; received a bachelor of arts degree in Chemistry from Emory University in 1969, and a doctorate of Medicine from Emory University in 1973.
MARITAL STATUS: Married to the former Dana Powell of Jacksonville, Florida. Her mother, Mrs. Sara Powell, resides in Jacksonville, Florida. Her father, Mr. John Powell, is deceased.
CHILDREN: Olivia Elizabeth, May 27, 1974; and Meredith Corvette, December 3, 1976.
RECREATIONAL INTERESTS: He enjoys wrestling, golf, tennis, L.A. Dodger baseball, and old movies. Carter was a professional soccer player from 1970-73, for the Atlanta Chiefs of the NASL.
ORGANIZATIONS: Member of Sigma Delta Psi, Alpha Tau Omega, the Marine Corps Aviation Association, and SETP.
SPECIAL HONORS: Recipient of the Air Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Navy Achievement Medal, Meritorious Unit Citation, Marine Corps Aviation Association Special Category Award 1982, and NASA Meritorious Service Medal 1988, and NASA Space Flight Medal 1989. Carter was the guest of Honor at the 215th Marine Corps Birthday Ball.
EXPERIENCE: Carter graduated from medical school in June 1973, and completed a straight internal medicine internship at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. In July 1974, he entered the U.S. Navy and completed flight surgeon school in Pensacola, Florida. After serving tours as a flight surgeon with the 1st and 3rd Marine Air Wings he returned to flight training in Beeville, Texas, and was designated a Naval Aviator in April 1978. He was assigned as the senior medical officer of USS Forrestal, and in March 1979, he completed F-4 training at VMFAT-101 Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma, Arizona. He was subsequently reassigned as a fighter pilot to duty flying F-4 phantoms with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 333 at MCAS Beaufort, South Carolina. In 1981 he completed a 9-month Mediterranean cruise aboard USS Forrestal with VMFA-115. In September 1982, he attended U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN) and then served as 2nd Marine Air Wing standardization officer and F-4 combat readiness evaluator at MCAS Cherry Point, North Carolina. He then attended U.S. Naval Test Pilot School graduating in June 1984. He has logged 3,000 flying hours and 160 carrier landings.
NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected by NASA in May 1984, Carter became an astronaut in June 1985, qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on future Space Shuttle flight crews. Carter was assigned as Extravehicular (EVA) Representative for the Mission Development Branch of the Astronaut Office when selected to the crew of STS-33. The STS-33 crew launched, at night, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on November 22, 1989, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. The mission carried Department of Defense payloads and other secondary payloads. After 79 orbits of the earth, this five day mission concluded on November 27, 1989 with a hard surface landing on Runway 04 at Edwards Air Force Base, California. With the completion of his first mission, Carter has logged 120 hours in space.
CURRENT ASSIGNMENT: Captain Carter is assigned as a mission specialist on the crew of STS-42, the first International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-1).
Died April 5, 1991, near New Brunswick, Georgia, in the crash of a commercial airliner while on NASA business travel.
Planned shuttle LDEF (Long Duration Exposure Facility) recovery mission. Cancelled after Challenger disaster.
Manned five crew. Deployed a classified payload. Orbits of Earth: 78. Distance traveled: 3,218,687 km. Landed at: Concrete runway 04 at Edwards Air Force Base, Cali. Landing Speed: 368 kph. Touchdown miss distance: 570.00 m. Landing Rollout: 2,366.00 m. Payloads: DoD Mission - third space shuttle night launch.


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Stephen King Slams 'Hunger Games,' 'Twilight,' 'Fifty Shades of Grey'
Horror master Stephen King apparently doesn't think very much of some of the top-selling authors of the 21st century–and singled out three prominent women writers for criticism. King, who recently released the novel "Doctor Sleep" (a follow-up to his 1977 book "The Shining"), slammed "The Hunger Games," "Twilight," and "Fifty Shades of Grey" in an interview with the Guardian. King called "Twilight," the popular vampire franchise authored by Stephenie Meyer, "tweenager porn." As for his take on Suzanne Collins's "The Hunger Games," the 66 year old King said after reading it he "didn't feel an urge to go on." He added that the book was " not unlike The Running Man"–a satire about TV game shows that he published in 1982. How about E.L. James' "Fifty Shades"? "I read Fifty Shades Of Grey and felt no urge to go on," King said. "They call it mommy porn, but it's not really mommy porn. It is highly charged, sexually driven fiction for women who are, say, between 18 and 25. But a golden age of horror? I wouldn't say it is." He concluded his survey of modern pop fiction by saying "I can't think of any books right now that would be comparable to The Exorcist." A representative for King did not immediately return a request for comment. What do you think, Speakeasy readers? Are these women authors giving King a run for his money?


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I don't like it that high for my tastes, but I've always thought of 70F as the fusel "breaking point", esp. if its already rising on its own.Its easier to keep control than take control.
you guys have had good success controlling temp on this strain? IME it has not liked me controlling it. I pitch low-mid 60s and let it go as soon as I see activity. Small beers done quickly, big beers rise to nearly 80. Hmm, yet another experiment I need to make I guess. cheers----Michael


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Ohlone College has taken a major step toward altering the look of its campus, as it has chosen a developer to build more than 300 homes along Mission Boulevard.
The college's board selected San Francisco-based Carmel Partners, which proposes building 314 housing units and 25,000 square feet of retail on 15 acres. Ohlone also will grant the developer control of the property for 60 years, with a 30-year option.
In return, Carmel will give the college an initial payment of $1.2 million. After that, annual lease payments will be $600,000, but they could increase after five years.
The deal is not yet complete, however. The developer still must receive approval of key details from Fremont planners and elected leaders before construction can begin.
Carmel was one of two companies that submitted bids for the project. Clark Realty Capital was not selected, despite having been in talks for several months with college leaders about the property.
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Good maintenance depends on good drawings.
Maintenance is an information-driven undertaking. The four cornerstones of the information "building" are drawings, equipment data, test measurements, and training. This information building is shaky if drawings aren't what they should be, and the maintenance function will suffer as a result.
How long does it take you to locate the energy source for a given piece of equipment? Once you locate it, how sure are you that locking it out will make that equipment safe to work on? What will de-energizing that equipment do to the production process? The answers to these questions are always better answered when you have good drawings than when you don't. Let's look at three fictional scenarios to illustrate that concept, and then consider ways to maintain good drawings in your facility. Keep in mind that today many people maintain many drawings electronically—sometimes embedded in control systems—but you also must often work with drawings that aren't strictly electrical just so you can do your electrical work.
Lockout/tagout. Betty has to replace the motor on the rollup end (output) of a large extruder because insulation resistance tests show it's going to fail soon. She can follow lockout/tagout procedures to de-energize the motor quite easily—all she has to do is shut off the disconnect that's within sight of the motor. But that doesn't mean she'll be able to safely work on that motor. The extruder has heating barrels and a feed motor, plus the whole system has various alarms and 120V switches. If she leaves the extruder in service, she could inadvertently damage a live 120V lead to a switch or suffer injury from some process action, so she must de-energize more than just that one motor.
In the continuous process environment, electrical workers have traditionally used piping and installation diagrams (P&IDs) to see the process sequence and inter-relation of vessels, valves, mixers, and other major equipment. Today you can usually call up similar information in the PLC or DCS that controls the process. So in this case, Betty can look on the motor for its equipment ID and search for it in the PLC interface. In seconds she'll have a drawing that shows her what equipment her motor ties into. This search will also reveal that she has to disable a "rollup stop" alarm that trips on loss of power to the motor. She can do this by "forcing" the output in the PLC. There are other alarms she'll have to disable as well. Once she's taken care of not giving false alarms to the operators, she'll have to determine which devices to de-energize. By not de-energizing all of the barrel heaters, she can more quickly return the extruder to service.
This same scenario could apply in a variety of circumstances where the equipment is integral to a process. You must first understand the process, then understand the role of the equipment in that process, and then understand which equipment to de-energize and how to de-energize it. The more accurate your drawings are, the easier this is.
Upgrade a motor. In an extruder application like Betty's, the motor is the right size for the application because the extruder is designed as a unit. But suppose you have a different application, such as a mixer. A recent product change means the same vessel now holds more viscous product and the impeller must rotate 25% faster. The increased viscosity means you need more torque, achievable with a gearbox. However, torque multiplication means a speed reduction, and this process requires more speed. The only solution is to use a larger motor and control the speed with a VFD. But if you're replacing a 10-hp motor with a 50-hp motor, you're going to go from a NEMA 1 to a NEMA 3 starter. Where's the starter? And what about the breaker supplying this motor? You're going to increase your current draw from about 15A to about 70A—will you exceed the wiring ampacity?
To upgrade this motor, you must do several things beyond just replacing the mounting hardware. You'll need to go to the system drawings to find which bucket in which MCC feeds the existing motor, and you'll need to see if that bucket can carry the additional 55A. If not, you'll need to locate a bucket that can. Your drawings will tell you which circuits do what and will identify them by number. You'll also need to locate the pullboxes for that conduit run. These should be on an installation diagram. If they aren't, you'll have to walk the plant and look for them.
Troubleshoot a nuisance trip. Suppose Betty gets calls that one breaker keeps tripping. How would she determine why it trips? The most effective way is to look at the drawings and identify the major loads. Then, using the drawings, she can determine certain things about those loads, such as the presence of overload units. Suppose she finds two phases are carrying excessive current. This would indicate a loss of phase in a motor, and the drawing would tell her which motors to look at and give her some basic information on each one. If she needed to isolate a ground fault, the drawings would tell her which connection points to investigate, which cables to test, and which loads to check. She would also know the breaker size, settings, and location without having to hunt for that information.
Maintaining drawings. Given the power of good drawings, why are bad drawings so prevalent? More importantly, what can you do about that in your facility? Eric Smart, a maintenance expert who has consulted at dozens of facilities, notes that the excuse for poor drawings is almost always the same and runs something like, "We've upgraded over the years, so our drawings are just out of date." He also points out that even though contracts call for as-built drawings, few firms ever enforce them, so they don't get good drawings to begin with. This creates a treadmill situation where losses in efficiency caused by outdated drawings prevent you from updating them or ensuring they're good to begin with. Not all facilities encounter this problem, though. For example, nuclear power plants aren't susceptible. The following steps are used by plants to reduce maintenance errors and increase efficiency.
Make updates quick, easy, and coordinated. One procedure involves marking up a drawing and sending it to a central place (plant engineering department) for approval. Once the central authority determines that the proposed change won't conflict with other requirements, it issues an updated drawing that shows pending field changes. The change should then be made in the field to match the drawing. To get compliance, set up a system that requires minimum effort from field technicians.
Practice version control. 'Pack ratting' means someone will always have outdated drawings to work with. Storing drawings electronically in a central location and then printing date-stamped drawings on demand eliminates drawing obsolescence. A good system notifies you when a revision comes out.
Make access easy. Crews need access to the drawing system around the clock. Even if your facility doesn't run around the clock, maintenance and construction operations take place on weekends and holidays. Plus, you want drawing access in case of emergency. One way to make this work is to have all drawings available on a central server. Whatever your system, make sure it doesn't make people stash paper copies rather than go through the hassle of getting a new drawing. Many field service firms now provide wireless access to all documentation related to a customer. Construction firms are now using enterprise-wide project management software that ties all related documents to a given task. And plant maintenance technicians in some manufacturing plants have wireless access to all documentation related to a given equipment ID
Remember, good drawings are essential to doing good work in a cost-effective fashion. If you don't have a system in place now to ensure you'll benefit from the power of good drawings, you have an investment choice to make. Are you willing to lose the revenue that results from stretching equipment downtimes far longer than they would be if you had good drawings? If not, your choice is clear.


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MIDDLEBURY — It may be summer vacation, but 30 students will be traveling halfway around the world to attend classes at Middlebury Union High School later this month.
Those students will be coming from the cities of Chongchiang and Guizhou in southern China, through a program coordinated by Burlington-based SPIRAL International. Founded in 2010, SPIRAL International is a non-profit educational organization that promotes inter-cultural learning, understanding and relationships through international student placement services and exchange programs.


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Let Spotify be the soundtrack of your drive with MINI.
Which car models are supported?
Any MINI, regardless of model or year, equipped with the MINI Connected apps feature as part of MINI Connected.
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Note: Make sure you have the MINI Connected app installed on your iPhone or Android device.
- Log into the Spotify app on your phone.
- Connect your phone to your car using Bluetooth or your car's USB port using a lightning cable (like the one that came with your phone) or with a custom snap-in adapter (which is available as an accessory for iPhone 4/4s and iPhone 5/5s).
- On the Media menu of your MINI Connected navigation system, select Spotify.
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