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Jordan Epstein played in all 10 UCSB tournaments during his junior season...Had a pair of top-20 finishes...Shot a 2-under par and tied for seventh as he helped the Gauchos to the team championship at the Sacramento State Invitational...Finished tied for 17th at the Big West Conference championship...His best round of the year was the third at the Sacramento State Invitational when he carded a 3-under par 69...In all, Epstein recorded three rounds at or
Epstein played in a total of five tournaments for the Gauchos this year…Recorded a season best at the Bill Cullem Invitational at Cal State Northridge where he shot a 218 and averaged 72.66 over the course of three rounds.
Jordan Epstein played his freshman season at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas...only played three rounds and averaged 79.67.
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Epstein was a graduate of La Costa Canyon High School in Carlsbad, Calif...lettered four years with the golf program in 2009...selected to play on two international teams representing the United States- one team was in China in November 2008 and the other was in Australia in February of 2009...was named Future Collegiate World Tour All-American in 2007...a part of the team his senior year that won the California State Championship as well as the Avocado League title, CIF San Diego Section Championships and the CIF Southern California Regional Championships in 2009...earned academic awards as a scholar-athlete all four years of high school...was also a member of the National Honor Society.
Jordan Shea Epstein was born March 6, 1991 to Michael and Margo Epstein in Scottsdale, Ariz...majoring in Communication...has one sister, Rachel...would like to pursue a career in Broadcast Journalism...favorite sports teams are the New York Yankees, New York Jets, and New York Rangers...lists his favorite movies as 'Green Street Hooligans' and 'Austin Powers'...favorite athlete is Derek Jeter.

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Recognising the significance of benefits of strengthening collaboration in support of biodiversity and ecosystem conservation and management at the local level, cities, local and regional authorities and other urban actors have a critical role to play in implementing national and international biodiversity targets.
Highlighting the major threats that invasive alien species pose to native biodiversity in Europe, in advance of the Conference on invasive species in urban areas, in September 2013, IUCN will compile an overview of case studies that showcase approaches to control, manage and eradicate invasive alien species or to prevent their introduction and establishment in urban environments in Europe. We welcome examples from other parts of the world as well.
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text: Dimitri Batten led ODU with 18 Rick Voight ODU Beats South Dakota State In CBI Opening Round, 72-65 - Hosts Radford Monday March 19, 2014 By ODU Athletics MBB vs So Dakota St - Presser MBB vs. SDSU - Recap ODU vs. SDSU Gamebox Photo Album NORFOLK, VA—Old Dominion University red-shirt junior guard Dimitri Batten scored 18 points, including a three-point basket that put the Monarchs up for good with 4:27 left in a 72-65 victory over South Dakota State in the opening round of the College Basketball Invitational Wednesday night. The Monarchs will play Radford Monday night (7 p.m.) at the Constant Center. The Highlanders defeated Oregon State, 96-92. ODU is now 17-17 on the season while South Dakota State falls to 19-13. In all, four Monarchs scored in double figures tonight. Joining Batten was Ambrose Mosely with 16, Richard Ross with 12 and Aaron Bacote with 10. The Monarchs shot a blistering .594 (19-32) from the field in the first half and led, 48-33. Aaron Bacote led ODU with 10 points , followed by nine from Batten and Ambrose Mosley and eight from Jordan Baker. ODU had only two turnovers to SDSU's nine and the Monarchs scored 18 points off of them. In the second half the Jackrabbits rallied to take the lead, 63-62 on a three-pointer by Jordan Dykstra with 6:53 left in the game. ODU then got a three-pointer from Batten for a 65-63 lead with 4:27 left. Keenan Palmore hit two free throws for a 67-63 lead, then Batten nailed a jumper with 2:35 left for a 69-63 Monarch lead. ODU scored only 24 points in the second half on .240 (6-25) shooting from the field. Cody Larson scored on a layup for SDSU, but Ambrose Mosley knocked down three free throws for the final score of 72-65. ODU finished the game shooting .439 (25-57) from the field and committed only seven turnovers and dished out 17 assists. SDSU shot .414 (24-58) from the field and turned it over 14 times. The Jacksrabbits outrebounded ODU, 41-32. South Dakota State was led by Jordan Dykstra with 16 points, followed by Cody Larson with 14 points and 12 rebounds and Zach Horstman scored 15. ODU was led in rebounding by Keenan Palmore with seven. Palmore also dished out seven assists and only had one turnover on the night. Aaron Bacote added five assists.


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Actually, doubly so since, according to Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co analyst Chris Caso, cited by EETimes, one of Nvidia's mobile GPUs has found its way into the upcoming video-centric iPod about which there has been almost as much online speculation as the iPhone. The Nvidia deal was first suggested back in July this year.
Caso said he expects the iPhone - one to two mobile phone products Apple is said to be developing - to be announced late Q1 2007, which lengthens the odds on a January Macworld Expo introduction.
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At Forrester, Rick tells Hope he set up the press conference quickly because he owed her. Jarrett chats with Pam and Donna. Rick greets Thomas, who is still bitter. Dayzee and Marcus are there. Rick introduces Hope. She congratulates Rick on becoming president before announcing that the scandal surrounding Hope For The Future is over and they're back! She talks about her line until a reporter asks Thomas about Rick being president. Thomas answers professionally. Jarrett asks Hope about Liam. The press conference is cut short.
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Hope gives a press conference, Brooke works on Bill and Katie's relationship, and Steffy calls Liam.
Bill arrives at Liam's house to find him watching Hope's press conference. Bill realizes Liam's seen Hope since Steffy left and voices his opinion. Liam says Bill will just have to trust him - he has no choice.
Steffy watches Hope's press conference in Paris and puts her hand on her tummy. She video calls Liam. She says she knows Hope has been there and has made her case. She agrees they were lied to and kept apart by deceit - but also by his feelings for her and the complications Hope brought to the relationship. Steffy tells him they share something he doesn't with Hope. She doesn't like the idea of Hope coming to their house, but tells him to have his time with her, just not to cross any lines. Liam tells her not to get worked up about it. She says, "We share something very special. I love you." After, Steffy reminisces.
At Katie's house, Brooke tells Katie that Bill may drink because he's not being accepted for who he is. Katie's reminds her what he did to Hope. Brooke says it made Hope stronger. She thinks Bill is a fine man that needs to be forgiven and accepted the way he is. Katie notes how well Brooke knows her husband and regrets pushing them together. Brooke advises her to back off on the demands with Bill and spend more time in the bedroom. Katie admits they haven't had sex since she returned. Brooke's appalled - she prescribes a night in the cabin. As she's telling Katie exactly what Bill needs, he appears. Brooke says she'll make arrangements for their romantic night. Bill agrees - they need this.
Hope arrives at Liam's house feeling empowered from the press conference. She tells Liam it's their moment and goes on about needing to take back what was stolen from them. Liam says it's not that simple. She says this isn't about Steffy - they're not married or engaged. Hope wants to see what they have, and when Steffy returns, he can decide. Hope refuses to let it go.
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We've examined the difficulties faced by first-year athletic director Jeff Hammond, who inherited a multi-million-dollar budget deficit when he took over at Southern Miss. Complicating matters was the performance of the team, which went 0-12 under new head coach Ellis Johnson. Johnson had been hired under lame-duck AD Richard Giannini, with an inexplicable contract that gave him four years of guaranteed money. Firing the coach was the last thing Hammond wanted to do—Johnson would still be owed $2.1 million—but it became inevitable as Southern Miss continued to rack up the losses.
Our FOIA requests, which turned up evidence of Hammond filling out USM's future schedule to recoup some of its losses, also revealed a number of emails from angry fans and alumni—more often than not donors and members of the university's Eagle Club. We have scores of letters to Hammond from boosters, sent over the course of the season, demanding the termination of Ellis Johnson. Some threaten to withhold their donations if he's not fired; others offer to donate to a fund specifically to cover Johnson's buyout. The full email dump is at bottom, but here are a few of the highlights.
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Sent after USM is blown out by Memphis, finishing the season 0-12:
On Nov. 27, Jeff Hammond informs the Eagle Club that Ellis Johnson has been fired:
On Dec. 6, Auburn hired Ellis Johnson as its new defensive coordinator. On Dec. 10, Southern Miss announced the hire of former Oklahoma State offensive coordinator Todd Monken as head coach. For Monken, the bar for success is low, but expectations are high.
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This chapter introduces security tasks you can perform with Oracle Event Processing Visualizer, including managing users, groups, and roles, as well as managing HTTP publish-subscribe server channel security and SSL.
This chapter includes the following sections:
Section 20.2, "HTTP Publish-Subscribe Server Channel Security Management"
For more information, see "Configuring Security for Oracle Event Processing" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Event Processing.
Oracle Event Processing uses role-based authorization control to secure the Oracle Event Processing Visualizer and the
wlevs.Admin command-line utility. There are a variety of default out-of-the-box security groups. You can add users to different groups to give them the different roles.
Administrators who use Oracle Event Processing Visualizer,
wlevs.Admin, or any custom administration application that uses JMX to connect to an Oracle Event Processing instance use role-based authorization to gain access.
You can also use role-based authorization to control access to the HTTP publish-subscribe server.
There are two types of role:
Application roles: application roles grant users the permission to access various Oracle CQL applications deployed to the Oracle Event Processing server. You can create application roles and associate them with the task roles that Oracle Event Processing provides.
By default, administrator users can access any application and non-administration users cannot access any applications. Before a none-administration user can access an application, an administration user must grant the user the associated application role.
Task roles: task roles grant users the permission to perform various tasks with the applications their application role authorizes them to access. Oracle Event Processing provides the default task roles that Table 20-1 describes.
Users that successfully authenticate themselves when using Oracle Event Processing Visualizer or
wlevs.Admin are assigned roles based on their group membership, and then subsequent access to administrative functions is restricted according to the roles held by the user. Anonymous users (non-authenticated users) will not have any access to the Oracle Event Processing Visualizer or
When an administrator uses the Configuration Wizard to create a new domain, they enter an administrator user that will be part of the
wlevsAdministrators group. By default, this information is stored in a file-based provider filestore. The password is hashed using the SHA-256 algorithm. The default administrator user is named
wlevs with password
Table 20-1 describes the default Oracle Event Processing task roles available right after the creation of a new domain, as well as the name of the groups that are assigned to these roles.
Table 20-1 Default Oracle Event Processing Task Roles and Groups
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Has all privileges of all the preceding roles, as well as permission to:
Has all Operator privileges as well as permission to update the configuration of any deployed application.
Has all Operator privileges as well as permission to update the Oracle CQL and EPL rules associated with the processor of a deployed application.
Has all Operator privileges as well as permission to deploy, undeploy, update, suspend, and resume any deployed application.
Has all Operator privileges as well as permission to enable/disable diagnostic functions, such as creating a diagnostic profile and recording events (then playing them back.)
Has read-only access to all server resources, services, and deployed applications.
Once the domain has been created, the administrator can use Oracle Event Processing Visualizer to create a group and associate it with one or more roles: each role grants access to an application. When you assign a user to a group, the roles you associate with the group give the user the privileges to access those applications.
Using Oracle Event Processing Visualizer, you can:
Oracle Event Processing provides an HTTP Publish-Subscribe Server (HTTP pub-sub server): a mechanism whereby Web clients subscribe to channels (similar to a topic in JMS) and then publish messages to these channels using asynchronous messages over HTTP and subscribe to these channels to receive messages as they become available.
Using Oracle Event Processing Visualizer, you can specify which users can access HTTP publish-subscribe server channels.
For more information, see:
Chapter 24, "Managing HTTP Publish-Subscribe Server Security"
"Configuring HTTP Publish-Subscribe for Oracle Event Processing" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Event Processing
Oracle Event Processing provides one-way Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to secure network traffic between Oracle Event Processing Visualizer and Oracle Event Processing server instances, between the Oracle Event Processing server instances of a multi-server domain, and between the
wlevs.Admin command-line utility and Oracle Event Processing server instances.
You configure SSL in the Oracle Event Processing server
config.xml file. By default, the Configuration Wizard creates the
config.xml file in the
/config directory, where
ORACLE_CEP_HOME refers to the Oracle Event Processing installation directory (such as
DOMAIN_DIR refers to the domain directory (such as
my_domain), and
servername refers to the server instance directory (such as
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LOS ANGELES — Celebrating its 15th anniversary, the Harold Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at UCLA's Anderson School today formally announced the second $1 million Price Challenge funding campaign. Initiated with a $1 million dollar challenge grant from the New York-based Price Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, the campaign seeks to raise $1 million in matching funds over the next three years to support Price Center programs.
James B. Freedman, founder and managing director of the Los Angeles-based investment banking firm, Barrington Associates, will chair the campaign, which has an ambitious first year goal of $400,000. "We are so pleased to be able to start our campaign with the Price Institute's generous gift," said Freedman, "we are well on our way to meeting our first year goal."
Mr. Freedman, an Anderson alumnus and long time member of the Price Center's Board of Advisors, will be assisted on the campaign committee by Richard A. Spitz, Esq., leader of the Technology North America practice of Korn Ferry International; Christopher D. "Kit" Jennings ('80), of Roth Capital Partners, and Alfred E. Osborne, Jr., associate professor of global economics and management and director of the Price Center. The Price Center Board is chaired by Brian J. Farrell ('78), president and CEO of video game maker THQ, Inc.
The Center's namesake, Harold Price, was a successful entrepreneur who founded the Price Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies in 1979, to encourage the recognition, development and growth of entrepreneurship in America. Mr. Price, now in his 90s and retired, cherished meeting with Anderson MBA students. He wanted them to experience the realities of business and business people. Mr. Price believed that this type of experiential education could only occur outside of the classroom and was a valuable companion to students' academic education.
"Harold used to call it 'colliding with reality,'" remembered Prof. Osborne, who has led the Price Center since it's creation in 1987. "We have remained true to his vision. Our experiential programs are renowned the world over. Many of the activities conducted with the Entrepreneur Association have been a powerful differentiating factor for the Anderson MBA."
"It's been incredible to see the growth of the Price Center," said Mr. Farrell. "I get the same kick out of working with the students that Mr. Price did, and I'm honored to help continue his legacy."
"Interacting with Anderson students and Professor Osborne always energized my grandfather," notes Dr. Lisa Vitti, Chairperson of the Price Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies and granddaughter of Mr. Price. "We are pleased to be able to renew the Price Challenge at UCLA and look forward to continued excellence in service to students and entrepreneurs for many more years to come."
The new funds will be used to further the goals and programmatic objectives of the Price Center including:
- Curriculum development and entrepreneurial teaching initiatives
- Student activities hosted by the Entrepreneur Association
- Merit-based and experiential MBA student fellowships
- Management development programs for entrepreneurs and early childhood educators
- Research programs and conferences conducted by various members of The Anderson School
- Academic community, including faculty and doctoral students
- Administrative support for Price Center programs
The Price Center will celebrate its 15th anniversary with a series of events, seminars and gatherings that will bring students, alumni, and those who have been active in their experiential education to campus.
"We want to honor Mr. Price and the many students who have benefited from his commitment to their education of these many years," said Dr. Osborne. "Fifteen years down, fifteen more to come."
The legacy lives on.
About the Harold Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
The Harold Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies is consistently ranked among the best in the world for entrepreneurial education and has been rated #1 over the past two years by the Financial Times. The Price Center oversees all teaching, research, extracurricular and community activities related to entrepreneurship at The Anderson School. The Price Center strives to provide academic and extracurricular experiences that advance both the theory and practice of entrepreneurship.
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The Anderson School at UCLA is perennially ranked among the top-tier business schools in the world. Award-winning faculty renowned for their research and teaching, highly selective admissions, successful alumni and world-class facilities combine to provide an extraordinary learning environment. Established in 1935, The Anderson School provides management education to more than 1,400 students enrolled in full-time, part-time and executive MBA programs and doctoral programs.
The Anderson School's faculty includes outstanding educators and researchers who share their scholarship and expertise in such fundamental areas as finance, marketing, accounting, business economics, decision sciences, operations and technology management, human resources and organizational behavior, information systems, strategy and policy.
Recognizing that the school offers unparalleled expertise in management education, the world's business community turns to The Anderson School at UCLA as a center of influence for the ideas, innovations, strategies and talent that will shape the future.


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KALAMAZOO—Another two students participating in Western Michigan University's TRiO Student Success Program have met a challenge to get top grades for an academic year and as a result, earned lunch with WMU President John M. Dunn.
Raymond Enbody from Crystal, Mich., and Samantha Kulhanek from Brighton, Mich., won the challenge and were feted at an on-campus luncheon Oct. 9. Enbody, who also earned the honor last year, is a junior majoring in criminal justice. Kulhanek is a sophomore majoring in pre-nursing.
Their accomplishment was also recognized by state Sen. Debbie Stabenow, who could not attend the challenge luncheon but sent recognition certificates to the students.
Enbody and Kulhanek are the second group to meet the challenge and win lunch with Dunn.
TRiO Student Success Program
The TRiO Student Success Program helps first-generation, income-eligible college students and/or students with disabilities complete their bachelor's degree and transition to graduate school and professional life. Dr. Charlotte Giscombe, the program's director, says participants were challenged in 2010 to obtain a cumulative 4.0 grade point average for a minimum of one academic year.
The Student Success Program is supported by grant funds from the U.S. Department of Education and is housed in the University's Center for Academic Success Programs. Each year, it offers scholarships, advising, tutoring, mentoring, job and leadership opportunities, and other services to around 200 students. Last year, 61.5 percent of participants maintained a 3.0 or better cumulative GPA. In addition, the program boasted an 89.6 percent retention rate and a six-year graduation rate, that at 59 percent exceeds the national graduation rate.
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We manufacture deepwater buoys of every size and shape and for every application. Very large buoys are composed of syntactic foam elements that are molded and tested prior to being assembled into the final configuration. With our design and engineering expertise, 30 years of service life is possible for deepwater buoys. Of course, we supply all hardware components required as well.
Distributed buoyancy
Engineered and manufactured to meet the stringent requirements of long-term service while minimizing installation time, distributed buoyancy modules maintain a pre-defined riser configuration—such as lazy, steep or pliant wave in flexible risers, umbilicals and SCRs. These modules allow the vessel a full range of surface movement without putting undue stress on the subsea lines.
Flowline buoyancy
We offer a broad range of flowline buoyancy products to meet the demands of deepwater and ultra-deepwater applications. Our flowline buoyancy offering includes: buckle mitigation, jumpers, and strakes.
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At higher temperatures and pressures, a pipeline's natural tendency is to relieve axial stress by buckling. To control the formation of lateral buckles along the pipeline and alleviate stress on those buckles, we have designed the buckle mitigation buoyancy module, a cost-effective and efficient solution that uses buoyancy to decrease lateral friction and reduce the severity of buckle bending.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does AFGlobal manufacture buoyancy with strakes?
Yes, we manufacture buoyancy modules with strakes to eliminate vortex induced vibrations. VIV strakes are the most common method of reducing VIV on jumpers, risers, or any cylindrical object. The buoyancy modules incorporate extending fins that breakup the vortex and help eliminate added stress on the structure.
Why is an internal clamp used to attach buoyancy modules?
Flexible risers may have an insulating layer causing them to be prone to creep over their life cycle. To help eliminate this issue, the buoyancy modules are attached to the riser using an internal clamp manufactured with syntactic foam. Syntactic foam is highly resistant to deformation under hydrostatic pressure and strap tensioning. As a result, the clamp designs allow the module to optimally distribute the clamping force to the riser, and accommodate variations in riser ovality. In other words, the clamp ultimately eliminates slippage.


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Pelznickel and Kristkind
Electronic mail message from Dr. William Wiest, Portland,
Oregon, January,
Hi Harold,
Thanks for the note about some of my questions. Your Dad's special memories about the Christmas tradition is very interesting. I noticed that you wrote concerning 'the scary guy,' "He was called the German name for Belzebub" and I wondered at the similarities among Belzebub, Peltzbube, and Beelzebub; the latter I remember vaguely as a Satan-related spirit from Bible courses in high school (private Mennonite school in Reedley called Immanuel Academy) as well as at Tabor College. I got the item below by googling 'belzebub.'
In the New Testament, the leader of the devils, sometimes identified with Satan and sometimes with his chief assistant (see devil). In the Old Testament Beelzebub was a fertility god worshipped by the Philistines and other Semitic groups (Baal).
I now remember that the term I was searching for when I first wrote 'belzbube' was 'pelznickel' or 'belznickel.' I found a number of relevant websites, now that I remembered the name we use in our local Oregon chapter of AHSGR (Belznickek or Pelznickel). See especially the last website I refer to.
"The figure Nast drew, which was based on Pelznikel, the St. Nicholas of his German ancestors, is the famous Santa Claus, now known to everybody in the country." (see http://www.germanheritage.com/ biographies/mtoz/nast.html)
The following is a web page of the Germans in Siberia; it is in Russian but has 'Pelznickel' in the index (in Latin Alphabet). http://rdhaus.rtime.ru/index.php?page=41
The website that I found most interesting is :
(http://dallashistory.org/phorum/read.php?2,52779), from which I copied the following: (There's much more there of interest)
Kriskind and Belznikel
When the German immigrants settled in colonies in the Volga River area of Russia in 1767, they were given a number of privileges. This included freedom of their religion, schools and the use of their mother tongue. It was natural that they retained their German customs.
Christmas was an eventful time of the year. During the celebration was the appearance of two individuals - the Belznikel and the Kriskind.
The name Belznikel is in two parts. Belz (actually spelled Pelz) is a pelt or fur coat and nikel is a nasty person. This unsavory person, using a switch would punish the boys who had misbehaved during the year. Sometimes he would also put them in a large sack and drag them away. Whenever a boy was being bad, he was warned - "Der Belznikel kommt" (the Belznikel is coming).


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uplanderguy Kent, OHPosts: 11,121No real tricks to it; just be very specific about what your car is doing or not doing and when it is doing it or not doing it. When I drop the car off the night before, I write very specifically what I'm dropping it off for, even though I've already called ahead to make the appointment and told the Service Writer ahead of time. Usually when I sign my receipt upon picking the car up, on the work order will be the notes 'see attached' and my note is attached.
For out-of-warranty things, a couple times over the years I have written an email to Customer Service at headquarters, politely explaining my situation, why I'm disappointed, and reiterating that I've had (fill in the number) of their new products over the years, and that my beef isn't with the dealer--it's this specific product. I also reiterate that I utilize the dealer for routine service stops.
I've had great luck just doing the above couple things. But then also, I don't 'turn the radio up' if something in the vehicle doesn't seem right. I get it in soon.0
"Shouting, writing angry emails in all caps and generally freaking out at customer service representatives are all tactics guaranteed to make your quest for a positive resolution a lot harder. And as one company's social media rep writes in to explain to Consumerist, often complaining customers aren't doing anything to help her help them.
People think that if they publicly complain, they will get their stuff fixed faster, but I would guess that most companies don't have staff that are solely dedicated to answering Facebook or Twitter comments. I get to it when I can (always within a few hours) but the whole process would be faster if people would go ahead and make their public complaints, but then send a direct message with their contact info."
Help Us Help You: One Company's Social Media Rep Explains How To Get Complaints Resolved (consumerist.com)0
ray80 Posts: 1,655No tricks by me either. I always just try to be nice and explain what ever the problem is the best I can, perhaps adding some info if the problem 'seems' to have been experienced by others and posted at places like Edmunds. Even if I have to be persistent and it takes multiple trips I'll still be nice about it. For instance my daily driver had a situation where the brake fluid warning light would come on under certain circumstances (temps under 20 degrees or so) , not nice at oh-dark thirty in the morning on a cold day when trying to get to work on wondering if there was going to be an important failure.
Dropped it off at dealer two or three times only to get the 'could not re-create' answer, likely do to the fact that by the time they got to it the black vehicle had been cooking in the early morning sun and had gotten to warm to re-create. I did persist though and managed to take a lunch time ride to dealer on a really cold day when it didn't get warmed up enough circumvent problem and they had a tech walk out just to prove the light was on. Annoying , but got to where we needed to be to attempt fix.0
"Honda's recall of about 183,000 vehicles that might apply the brakes on their own was prompted by a woman who was frightened by having that problem in her own Honda and angry that there wasn't a recall.
Carrie Carvalho of Arlington, Mass., used a little-known tactic: Filing a formal defect petition with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, requiring the agency to review her concern."
Petition by Owner Prompts Recall of 183,000 Honda Vehicles (NY Times)0
subiebarb Posts: 1The mileage on sticker said 26-30, and my 2012 identical car regularly got 30-31 mpg. The new car has been terrible. Best mpg so far is 26.1 and I have 5600 miles on the car since purchase at end of December. Who do I complain to? I called the salesman and he blamed it on "winter fuel".0
boomchek Vancouver, BC, CanadaPosts: 5,440So your car gets the advertised mileage. I don't see what the problem is.
Winter driving will always consume more fuel especially if you live in a region where you have snow or slippery roads where your AWD is constantly engaged, therefore using more fuel.
boomchek: driven 10,000+ cars, sold 1000+ cars, owned 50+ cars0
bryan Northern VAPosts: 228With my 2004 Bonneville, the A/C would cycle on/off at weird times, and no codes were in the system. Like when I would accelerate to pass, it would kick on; it would kick off when I was just cruising. Drove me crazy, not to mention made me hot.
Of course, they could not replicate when I left the car on several occasions. This is a smallish GM dealer, and customer service is their hallmark. It's the main reason I do all my business there.
Usually the same mechanic works on your car, so I asked to leave the car and have the serviceman drive it as his personnel vehicle until it could be solved. In the third week, it finally replicated, and he had his OB? scanner plugged in, and got a code. It turned out to be a crimped wiring harness.
Car was returned completely fixed with a full tank of gas!
Then there was the time I got a seat on the last flight out of Atlanta because I was the only bumped passenger from the cancelled earlier flight that asked rather than demanded. The desk and gate agents made sure everyone at that gate waiting to be called for standby knew that my being considerate got me the last seat.0
nokia4me Posts: 1Literally, burned up. That's what happened to my 2000 Kia last night. My daughter had just started it up and had driven it about 1/4 mile when she noticed smoke pouring from under the dash on the passenger side. She quickly exited the vehicle and saw flames shooting from behind the dash on the driver's side and within seconds flames were shooting into the air. The drivers side is completely burned and the passenger side looks as though there was never a fire. We bought the car in December from a dealer with 61,000, we have had no problems and there were no warning signs of any problems. I am going to go to Kia, but from what I have read, it doesn't appear as though they will be of any help. Any suggestions.0
You should file a complaint with the NHTSA too. They won't act on individual complaints but if there's a pattern of similar problems, they'll investigate.
Safety Complaints0
"Laws give you more rights. Along with companies' express warranties, you also have "implied warranties" under state law. The Uniform Commercial Code, a set of laws adopted in much the same form by all states and the District of Columbia, provides an automatic "implied warranty of merchantability." That unwritten protection guarantees that consumer products are free of substantial defects and will function properly for a reasonable period of time.
What you should do. If you discover that something you bought is defective -- even after the written warranty has expired -- contact the retailer and manufacturer to ask for a repair, replacement or refund. It doesn't matter what the retailer's return policy is."
With warranty protection, you have more rights than you think (courant.com)0
"In a class action, thousands of consumers can benefit when a product they bought is judged to be defective.
In a typical lemon-law case, a lone consumer starts with arbitration, generally choosing among arbitration firms approved under each state's lemon law. If the outcome is unsatisfactory, there are provisions to appeal, including the courts.
But now a few automakers are trying to do away with those resources by taking advantage of something consumers have done for decades when buying a vehicle: signing an agreement with the dealer to use arbitration to resolve disputes. Some automakers — including Honda, Toyota and Mercedes-Benz — are arguing that these sales agreements cover them, too."
Automakers Push Back Against Consumer Protections (New York Times)0
ohenryx Posts: 285Literally, burned up. That's what happened to my 2000 Kia last night.
I am sorry to hear about your misfortunes, but I really don't think you can hold Kia to task for this. The car is 13 years old. Literally, exactly, unequivocally, 13 years old. Out in the real world, is there any manufactured item that we would hold the manufacturer responsible for after 13 years?
Offhand, I can think of one - Zippo lighters. You can run over a Zippo with a piece of heavy equipment, squash it flat, send it back and they will replace it. No questions asked.
There used to be one other. When I was a kid, back in the last millenium, my father always bought Sears Craftsman hand tools. Sears stood behind the Craftsman hand tools, no matter what you did to it, they would fix it or replace it. But that stopped several decades ago, and I no longer buy anything from Sears.
Back to your story - Do you really think Kia should stand behind their car 13 years later? I don't.0
Not sure if this was the catalyst but it probably didn't hurt:
Facebook - Scion tC and XB - Defective Trunk Hatch Handle.
Toyota had a TSB out but now they are paying for the fix via a warranty enhancement.0
Sometimes the car company decides it's smarter not to fight.
"Toyota Motor (TM) has learned to say "uncle" when it comes to sudden-acceleration claims. Just a few weeks ago, the giant Japanese carmaker was still talking tough in public about fighting hundreds of lawsuits alleging that its vehicles were prone to accelerate without warning, causing injuries and deaths. Not anymore."
"Despite nearly three years of litigating this case and unprecedented access to Toyota's source code, plaintiff's counsel have never replicated unintended acceleration in a Toyota vehicle and have failed to demonstrate that any alleged defect actually caused" accidents, she told me. But pretrial rulings by Judge Selna apparently made Toyota reconsider.
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He was a carpenter. Shaping wood, cutting, building. Taking nothing and forming it into something. How ironic that years later, the same medium that he worked would be used as the instrument of his death.
Another, unknown carpenter, took two large wooden beams and fashioned them into a heinous cross.
A device of death and suffering.
A hanger to drape a savior.
A place mark in a ledger.
THE line item that would record a single once and for all, lump sum payment for humanity's sin. Erasing forever the debt. Devine Destiny offered through salvation.
I am a metal worker. Self taught. Clumsy and common. I find myself shaping instruments of death. Small symbols to carry around the neck, close to the heart. I have one cross that serves a pattern for all the rest.
These crosses, they remind not to glorify death but to identify as a follower of the King. A King who modeled the path to exaltation. I Fall at the foot of the instrument. Crying out repentance to the bestower of everlasting life. Forsaking my desires… to make His Glory known. Following Him on a journey that starts with humiliation.
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. – Hebrews 12:2
He leads me to a rough hewn beam and beckons.
Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. Luke 9:23


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Bach's lifetime culminated the late Baroque period of music. Much of the music of this period sounds rich and grand. It was also, for the most part, based on long-established musical forms. Bach wrote in many already venerable forms and styles: the polyphonic forms of fugue and canon (weaving themes together according to strict rules); the German Protestant church Passion Music and cantata; the even older form of the church mass; and suites of dances, for solo instruments, or various instrumental ensembles (The only important kind of Baroque music that Bach did not write was opera. He left that to his contemporary Handel.) He crowned each, in turn, with a final touch of glory, just before they were superseded by the new and very different styles of the 18th-century Classical period.
Johann Sebastian Bach came from a family of several generations of musicians. He was born on 21 March, 1685 at Eisenach (in North Germany), to court musician Johann Ambrosius Bach, a fine violinist and organist. Johann was orphaned at the age of ten, and his brother and uncle saw to his musical education, as a choirboy, in composition, and in playing violin, harpsichord and organ. They helped to secure a position for Johann as a chorister at St. Michael's Church in Lueneburg in 1700.
From boyhood Bach was particularly drawn to the organ, and his first professional jobs were as organist (at Arnstadt, 1703-07; at Mülhausen, 1707-08; at the court chapel of Saxe-Weimar, 1708-17). During these years he wrote most of what are now his best-known organ works.
When Bach auditioned for the organist's post in Arnstadt, he was the first candidate to be interviewed. Normally, seven were considered before a decision was made, but 18-year-old Bach was hired on the spot. As organist in the church at Arnstadt, Bach's duties included organising the choir and church orchestra (although the young composer had little patience with the incompetence and casual attitude of many of the boys in his charge). At that time, an organist also had to oversee the maintenance of the instrument. When repairs were being made, he would suggest new pipes and stops to suit his style. Bach enjoyed this part of the job, and was always keen to improve an organ's range. In 1705, Bach took four weeks leave from his job as organist at Arnstadt to visit St. Mary's Church in Lübeck - home to the great organist Dietrich Buxtehude. Bach was captivated by the splendour of the place - its 40-piece orchestra and fine choir were in sharp contrast to his own humble church. When he returned to Arnstadt, Bach confused worshippers with the sudden key changes and elaborations, which he now incorporated into his organ playing. He ignored a letter of complaint from church authorities, but the writing was on the wall: Bach knew it was time to move on, and within a year, gave in his notice. In 1707 he took an appointment as organist at St. Blasisus Church in Mülhausen.
Bach's first productive period of composition came in Weimar, where, in 1708, he was made court organist and chamber musician to Duke Wilhelm Ernst. This is the epoch in Bach's life when he became a pre-eminent organ virtuoso and when he wrote many of his masterworks for that instrument. Here all the earlier tendencies in organ music were swept to their ultimate destiny, both as to style and structure. Most of the organ works by Bach with which we are most familiar today (whether in its original version or in transcription) comes from his Weimar period.
A complete change in Bach's life came in 1717, when he was appointed Kapellmeister (court musician) to the Prince Leopold of Anhalt at Cöthen.
Until 1723, Bach cultivated instrumental music, producing rich library of sonatas and concertos. This aristocrat liked his music instrumental and secular, and Bach served him for six years, pouring out orchestral concertos and suites, partitas and sonatas for flute, violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord, lightweight vocal pieces and dozens of solo keyboard works (including the six B Concertos, which were commissioned by the Margrave of Brandenburg in 1721).
In 1723 B was appointed Kantor of the St. Thomas cathedral-school in Leipzig, a job he kept for the rest of his life (27 years). His tasks were to supervise the choirboys' musical activities (teaching Latin and music), and to compose, rehearse and conduct music for the church of St Thomas itself and for its three daughter-churches. As he had in previous church appointments, Bach regularly grumbled about the inadequacy of the resources available (and equally regularly upset his employers by his uncompromising attitude to pupils, instrumentalists and congregations); his creative output was prodigious. It was during these Leipzig years that Bach composed his noblest church works, including many of his most important cantatas, together with the St Matthew Passion and the monumental B minor Mass. He also produced numerous anthems, motets, oratorios and sacred songs.
During the twenty-seven years that he spent as Kantor (director of music) at St. Thomas's Church school in Leipzig, Bach led an extremely busy professional life: in addition to playing the organ and composing a vast number of works, he made frequent trips to other German cities to test and inaugurate new organs; he gave private lessons on the keyboard and composed a range of pieces specially designed to help his pupils practice each aspect of technique, such as Orchestral Suite in D Major. He seems to have used keyboard-playing and instrumental writing as something of a relaxation.
Bach served a split tenure (1729-37 and 1739-41) as Director of Music at the Leipzig Collegium Musicum. The Collegium, an association of professional and student musicians that gave regular public concerts, had been founded by Georg Philipp Telemann in 1704 and enjoyed an excellent reputation for the quality of its performances. After occupying himself almost exclusively with sacred composition for so long a time, and working with limited forces to get his music performed, Bach was eager for the chance to return to the sphere of orchestral composition and to work with topflight instrumentalists.
Johann Sebastian Bach died in Leipzig on 28 July, 1750, and was buried in an unidentified grave in the churchyard of St. John's Church - his contemporaries, his own sons as well, were prepared to consign him to permanent anonymity. To Bach's immediate successors, he was the voice of a dying, or dead, musical epoch. Now, however, we see him as less an innovator than the bringer to culmination of a glorious tradition, and the fact that he shunned musical fashion may partly explain why his compositions were ignored, outside his own small circle, throughout his life. After his death, a few of them lived on (Mozart and Beethoven, for example, admired his keyboard works). Surprisingly little of his music was published during his lifetime, and the great works for which he is revered today--works such as the B minor Mass, the St. Matthew Passion, the Brandenburg Concertos - existed only in manuscript or fair copies at the time of his death. Insiders like Mozart and Beethoven, who encountered Bach's music via these sources (or through contact with his students and sons), may have had an inkling of his greatness, but the public at large would begin to "discover" Bach only after a revival of interest in his music got underway early in the 19th century.
It was the St Matthew Passion that first set into motion the revival of Bach, which finally lifted the master out of the obscurity into which he had lapsed following his death, and in which he stayed for almost a century. This happened in Berlin on 11 March, 1829, when Felix Mendelssohn revived the St Matthew Passion, which had not been heard since Bach's own time. Bach's works began to be sought out, published (often for the first time) and regularly played. It remains a mystery why, although Bach's work was admired in his day by many, including Handel, it took almost two centuries after his death for his true greatness to be universally recognised.
In 1894, Bach's coffin was finally recovered and reburied within the church.
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I stoked up the chocolate sponge with some dark chocolate chips. The idea behind this was to add extra flavour and texture. I always like it when you get little pockets of chocolate in a sponge. The sponges were beautiful even before they acquired their cloak of buttercream:
I am rather proud of my decorations that I made for the top. They are plain chocolate discs, topped with a splodge of buttercream, topped with a Malteser (or Whoppers depending which side of the Atlantic you reside. I wish they were called Whoppers in the UK – I love the idea of going into a shop and asking the person behind the counter if they have whoppers!)
Just so you don't expect such good quality photos every week I should point out that the photos in this post that look like they could be in a cookbook were taken by the CCBF, who knows his way around a camera and doesn't randomly point and click like I do. That's why he will be the official photographer at Iron Cupcake London.
Happy birthday CCBF!
For the cake:
225g unsalted butter, at room temperature
225g caster sugar
4 eggs
175g self raising flour
50g cocoa powder, sifted
1-2 tablespoons milk
100g chocolate chips
For the Swiss meringue buttercream:
4 egg whites
250g caster sugar
250g unsalted butter
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
How to make:
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan oven 160°C/350°F/Gas mark 4.
- Line two 20cm loose bottomed sandwich tins with baking paper.
- Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Do not skimp on this stage as it's the key to a lovely sponge.
- Gradually add the eggs, flour and cocoa powder until fully combined and you have a smooth, thick batter.
- If the batter is too stiff i.e. not dropping consistency, add two tablespoons of milk.
- Stir in the chocolate chips.
- Divide the batter evenly between the two prepared tins. Level the surfaces.
- Bake for approx 30 minutes until a skewer inserted into the cakes comes out clean. Mine took 35 minutes.
- Leave to cool for 10 minutes in the tins before removing from the tins and leaving to cool completely on a wire rack.
- The sponges can be made the day before and stored in airtight containers.
- Now make the swiss meringue buttercream. Place the egg whites and sugar in a bowl over a pan of simmering water. Stir pretty much constantly to prevent the egg from cooking.
- After 5-10 minutes, when the sugar has dissolved (when you cannot see any crystals on the back of the spoon), remove the bowl from the pan of simmering water and whisk until the meringue has puffed up and the mix is cool.
- Add the butter and vanilla extract to the meringue and whisk until the butter has been completely incorporated into the meringue. At first it will look a disaster – it will collapse and look curdled but don't worry! Stop when the mixture is smooth, light and fluffy.
- Place one sponge on the serving plate and top with a third of the buttercream.
- Place the second sponge on top and press down gently to ensure the buttercream has levelled out.
- Use the remaining buttercream to cover the top and sides.
- Decorate as required.
- Bask in glory at the wonderful thing you have made.
- Eat.


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This additional layer of product safety is vital because underwear comes in direct contact with the skin, according to Hans-Peter Grosch, senior department head raw material management at Triumph. "Precisely in the sensitive product area of lingerie, underwear, sleepwear, and swimwear, which is always worn next to the skin and usually for many hours, it is important that harmful ingredients are consistently excluded from the outset," he says.
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German-Russians on the Canadian Prairie
Rußlanddeutsche in der Kanadischen Präire
Peters, Victor. "German-Russians on the Canadian Prairie." Globus Spezial, n.d., 191-192.
Translation from German to English by Claudia Müller, Halle, Germany
There are two main reasons for major immigration waves of the German-Russians to the Canadian and the American West. In the 19th century an enormous increase in population with a resulting price increase of acreage was observed in European Russia. A large majority of Germans in Russia were farmers. Impoverishment, taking up land in Siberia or immigration to America became alternatives for many of them.
Also in the 1870s, compulsory military service was introduced in Russia which was the last impetus for emigration. On the other hand, there had been no military conscription in America, Canada as well as in the USA and America had vast uninhabited areas in the West which made it possible for immigrants to purchase land for little money.
In some cases Germans had already moved from Russia to North America before 1870. The introduction of compulsory military service frightened especially Mennonites who reject military service as a religious principle. That's why they started the initiative for organized immigration. The Mennonites in Russia have always had connections to Mennonites in North America as the first Germans settling in groups in the USA (in Pennsylvania since 1683) as well as in Canada (in Ontario since 1875) were Mennonites. When they sent a scouting delegation from Russia to America in 1873, the delegates traveled to Manitoba and to the states of the American West. Their companions had been Mennonites from Ontario and Indiana.
After the Czarist government had made several concessions to the Mennonites, a great majority of them decided to remain in Russia. 18,000 Mennonites emigrated; 8,000 of them immigrated to the almost unpopulated new province of Manitoba. Their decision to settle in Manitoba was made because the Canadian government agreed to their demands to settle in groups and to manage their own German schools.
The first villages of Mennonites had been established in Manitoba in 1874; as early as 1877, the Canadian General Governor, Lord Dufferin, visited this eastern colony near Steinbach. Afterwards Lord Dufferin delivered a speech in Winnipeg before representatives of the government and entrepreneurs; he described his impressions. According to the then new paper, the Winnipeg Free Press, he said:
"Even though I traveled much all over Canada, I rarely experienced such a spectacle with such a very promising future as the colony of Mennonites. They've been in Manitoba for only two years but on a long ride I made through the prairie that only yesterday looked poor and scanty, inhabited only by wolf, badger and eagle, I rode from colony to colony, farm to farm equipped with all kinds of European conveniences and signs of highly developed agriculture; I saw cornfields ready for harvest and herds of cattle on meadows and pastures that reached all the way to the horizon."
Most German-Russians of non-Mennonite denomination preferred to settle in the Western parts of the United States. Only some Lutheran and Catholic families went to Manitoba together with the Mennonites frequently settling in close proximity to them. Only later when land in the USA became more expensive, did German Catholics from the area of Odessa settle in Saskatchewan (1886) and later yet, Lutherans moved to today's Saskatchewan and Alberta. (The western territories had been established as provinces only in 1905.) At the turn of the century, many German-Russians moved together with ethnic German- Americans from the [United] States to the "new West" in Canada.
The main contribution of the German-Russians to the development of Canada had been the introduction and cultivation of new grain cultures. The winter wheat of Kansas as well as the hardier spring wheat of Manitoba had been imported from Russia by German immigrants as well-tested grain.
For many years these types of wheat became major export products of Canada and the United States and gave these countries the reputation to grow the best wheat in the world.
Until World War II most German-Russians had been living in rural areas. Only after this war did they start businesses especially in industry and construction. German-Russian immigrants exhibited a spirit of enterprise which left their marks of achievement on all larger cities in the Canadian West. Nowadays, German-Russians are represented by all professions (physicians, professors, architects, lawyers, technicians, civil service, etc.), not so much in politics. However, at an event in Winnipeg in 1973 celebrating the 100th anniversary of German-Russian immigration, three opening letters were read: One by Premier Schreyer from Manitoba and one each by the governors of North and South Dakota. All three politicians were of German origin and were either German-Russian themselves or had family ties to them.
In the cultural domain German- Russians produced several writers such as Arnold Dyck, Fritz Senn, Gerhard Toews, Rudy Wiebe, Paul Hiebert, Jack Thiessen and others. Worth mentioning is also Hermann Rempel known for his Mennonite-Low German dictionary. In addition to them, there are historians such as Adam Giesinger (history of the Germans from Russia), Gerhard Lohrenz and Frank Epp (Mennonite history), Gerald Friesen (Canadian history) and others.
There are approximately 2 million German-Russians in Canada and in the U.S.; the same number is still living in the former Soviet Union today mostly in the republics of Central Asia. Even South America and Mexico are homeland to several ten-thousand German-Russians. Since World War II, Germany has become again home to many German-Russian refugees; many ties exist because of connections and visits to relatives, because of letters and newspapers. A few years ago an umbrella organization of German Russians with headquarters in Bismarck, North Dakota, was founded. The first honorary member was Dr. Karl Stumpp who died in Germany. This organization strives to preserve and to promote the cultural heritage of German-Russians.
Reprinted with permission of Verein für das Deutschtum im Ausland
Our appreciation is extended to Claudia Müller for translation of this article.


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TAMPA, Fla. - Chris Kunitz scored two goals and Marc-Andre Fleury stopped all 21 shots, leading the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 3-0 victory against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Friday.
Sidney Crosby had assists on all three goals for Pittsburgh, which extended its winning streak in the series to eight games. Pittsburgh halted Tampa Bay's bid to tie a club record with an eighth consecutive triumph on home ice.
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Brandon Sutter scored the second Pittsburgh goal on a power play midway into the third period. Sutter took his own rebound behind the net and banked it off the skate of Lightning defenceman Victor Hedman on the opposite side.
Tampa Bay had several excellent scoring chances. Richard Panik got loose in front of the Pittsburgh net just before the second intermission, but was rejected by Fleury, who earlier stopped Nikita Kucherov on a partial breakaway.
The Lightning also came up empty in three man-advantage situations.
Bishop, who finished with 26 saves, has lost twice in his last three games despite stopping all but three of 107 shots.
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- Canadians views about the CBC
- CBC Mandate
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- Charting CBC cuts isn't pretty
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- Independent review on F-35s says fighter jets could cost $20-million more per plane
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