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Case of theft opened against #NSFAS R14m student
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Election Day – November 8, 2016
Cameron County Assistance District Presentation
How will the funds be used?
Project 1: The County is creating an Ecological Nature Center to be located on 23 acres provided by the Town of Laguna Vista located just south of Highway 100 between the Laguna Madre Bay and the Bahia Grande wetlands. This unique area is home to animals such as the ocelot, plants and marine life that is not found anywhere else. This Center will house exhibits detailing the natural beauty of the region, it will have outlooks that will provide access to the many birds of the local wetlands, information about things to do and see in our coastal area, there will be kayak paddling trails and the Center will intersect the rural trails being created throughout the Bahia Grande.
South Texas Eco-Tourism Center on the Bahia Grande initial project cost estimate is planned to be $10 million for construction.
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Project 2: The Sea & Air Amphitheater is designed to accommodate visitors who gather to witness a rocket launch just across the ship channel at the Boca Chica launch site, or enjoy a concert featuring local musical artist or national entertainment acts. This multi-purpose facility is planned for construction at the Dolphin Cove site on the southern-most tip of South Padre Island.
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Who will pay the visitor tax?
Hotel guests visiting and staying in lodging facilities will pay this visitors fee. A 2006 study showed that a majority of those paying the hotel fee from this study were not from Cameron County. Guests who stay in hotels in Brownsville, Harlingen, San Benito or the other county cities are almost all from outside the county.
When can I vote on the visitor tax?
All registered voters in Cameron County can vote on election day, November 8, 2016, or during the early voting period in the days before the general election.
Where do I go to vote?
The general election polling places will be published in the newspaper prior to the election. For a list of voting locations consult the County website www.co.cameron.tx.us.
For More Information
Find out more about these projects by calling the County Administrative Office at (956) 982-5414.
What is a county assistance district?
A county assistance district is a governmental body created through an election by a majority vote of the registered voters within a described area. Registered voters decide on whether to implement a sales tax on eligible sales within the district to fund improvements or programs.
How much will that sales tax be?
The district is proposing a 2% sales tax. This potion will make the total sales tax rate to be 8.25%. This is the same rate levied by most cities in the county and the maximum allowed.
If you made a $10.00 purchase of products eligible for sales tax you would pay a total of $10.85, the same amount as you would in the cities of Brownsville, Harlingen, or San Benito.
How can the sales tax revenues be used?
A district may use funds for the following purposes:
(1) the construction, maintenance, or improvement of roads or highways;
(2) the provision of law enforcement and detention services;
(3) the maintenance or improvement of libraries, museums, parks, or other recreational facilities;(4) the provision of services that benefit the public health or welfare, including the provision of firefighting and fire prevention services; or
(5) the promotion of economic development and tourism.
Who can vote on this district referendum?
Only those registered voters who live in the district boundaries.
What are the district boundaries?
The district is county-wide except for those areas that are within territories of any one of the 17 cities, towns, or village within the county. Those living with in the cities of Brownsville, Harlingen, San Benito, Los Fresnos, La Feria, Port Isabel, Ranch Viejo, City of South Padre Island, Laguna Vista, Bayview, Los Indios, Combes, Primera, Santa Rosa, Los Indios, Indian Lake, and Rangerville cannot vote on the measure.
When Can I vote?
Election Day is November 8, 2016. Early voting will be held in the days prior to Election Day. A listing of polling places where you can cast your vote will be published in the Brownsville Herald and Valley Morning Star and also on the Cameron County website: http://co.cameron.tx.us/administration/elections_voter_registration/index.php
Are there many businesses located in the county that are found outside city limits?
The State Comptroller's Office has identified 1,136 sales tax permit holders who only collect at the 6.25% state only level.
What is the amount of the estimated eligible sales within the district?
The State Comptroller's Office estimates that the eligible sales could total as much as $47,500,000 in sales which could generate up to $950,000 annually.
Can these funds pay for street light and sidewalk construction?
Neighborhood street lights and sidewalks in the rural areas qualify under "the provision of services that benefit the public health or welfare."
For more information contact:
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Brownsville, Texas 78520
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Ecological audit is one of tools of ecological management system aimed for implementation of environmental protection measures in production process and strategic planning of enterprise. Ecological audit refers as estimation process of certain object by independent person or organization by collecting, analysis and evaluation of information about enterprise`s activity, methods and ecological management system for compliance the requirements of current Ukrainian legislation on ecological audit.
Conduction of ecological audit is necessary for impact estimation on environment of industrial company`s activity; for data collection about ecological special aspects of production and other processes for conclusion preparation on ecological audit; for effectiveness and purposefulness estimation of measures, that implemented on enterprise for environmental protection.
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Today we have author Rue Allyn visiting us in the Tearoom. I'm so excited to finally be interviewing a fellow writer from the Heart of Detroit, my home chapter of the Romance Writers of America!
Welcome, Rue!
Jennelle and all of the Teatime Romance ladies, thank you very much for offering me the opportunity to share with your readers. I'm thrilled to be here and look forward to all of your comments.
Have you always been based in Michigan?
Well yes and no. I was born in Michigan and it's been my state of residence for all but 13 years of my life (10 years in Delaware when I was a child and 3 in Florida as an adult). However, I also spent ten years in the US Navy, traveling the world while remaining a resident of Michigan.
You have two books that just came out, within days of each other: A True and Perfect Knight and One Day's Loving. How do you cope with such tight release schedules? Do you sleep?
Times like these I take it from minute to minute (I still have a day job and a family too) and do the best I can. Advance planning helps and sleep–even if it's only cat naps–is an absolute necessity.
One of my deepest loves is researching anything and everything about the Middle Ages. Can you tell us about your research for A True and Perfect Knight?
I'm a big fan of the Middle Ages myself. Once I decided when and where I wanted to set this story, I read everything I could about Edward I of England. Military service taught me that the culture and well being of any group follows the path of leadership. So If I wanted to know England in 1282, I needed to know Edward I. I added that research to what I already knew about the medieval period from my doctoral studies in Old and Middle English literature.
With all that research to back you up, is A True and Perfect Knight going to remain a standalone book or will there be more in a medieval series some day?
Right now A True and Perfect Knight is a standalone book. I won't say that I'll never write a story based on some of the secondary characters, but I have commitments for a number of projects that must be completed first. So writing any linked stories would have to wait several years.
We'll just have to be patient then. Now, we're always up for a good success story and it appears that One Day's Loving has a great one to tell as the third book in your Wildfire Love series with Crimson Romance. How did the series come about?
The story of the Wildfire Love series is longer and more complex than we really have time for here, so I'll give the condensed version. Even that will be fairly long; please be patient.
I've always been a fan of "forced marriage" stories and the most common trope for that kind of story is the requirement to marry in order to inherit. However, I've never been happy writing to formula, so of course, I had to try to stand the trope on its head.
I thought long and hard about who would be force to marry (three sisters) and how that would happen (their misogynistic grandfather and guardian would not want women to inherit the empire he created). But nothing about the sisters or the grandfather or the circumstances of the action was unusual. I was on the verge of frustration when inspiration struck. If the usual formula is to require marriage in order to inherit, what would happen if marriage were not the requirement. Well most likely no story would happen because there's no conflict of goals. The sisters don't have to do anything to get the inheritance. Where's the fun in that? I did say inspiration struck and eliminating marriage as a requirement was truly inspired because it forced me to imagine what else might be required. Immediately the birth of a child came to mind. However, that doesn't exactly require marriage, but unless I'm writing a contemporary, forcing the sisters to have a child before they could inherit would present a conflict of goals. That realization helped me decide the timeframe and setting for the backstory–late 1860's Boston. Still I had to ask, in that day and age what kind of a person would require a child but no marriage? I couldn't come up with a single logical answer.
The whole premise of all three books was about to fall apart, until I realized that the absence of the marriage requirement didn't have to be intentional. The marriage requirement could have been left out of the will by accident. The whole thing was a clerical error that for reasons I explain in the books was overlooked until it was too late to change the will. Once I settled on the clerk's mistake as the cause of the problem, everything else fell into place. I wrote the first book, One Moment's Pleasure, and was halfway through book two, One Night's Desire, when Crimson offered publication on book one. When One Moment's Pleasure went into production, I proposed the second two books to Crimson's acquiring editor. I sent the first three chapters and a synopsis of One Night's Desire and the synopsis for One Day's Loving. I hadn't written a word of the third book when Crimson offered publication for both books two and three. I accepted the offer in time to add a series title to the first book and the Wildfire Love series was born.
You recently traveled to Toledo to share career tips and motivational advice with fellow writers. Is there advice you received before becoming published that you still hold close when you write today?
To paraphrase Nora Roberts: Sit your butt in the chair and write. Nothing else works.
Agreed! So, what other works do you have in progress? More cowboys, more books in your sexy sailors series, or perhaps something else entirely?
I have nothing currently contracted, and as I said earlier several projects in the works. The one that I am spending the most time and effort on right now is a contemporary tentatively titled, The Valentine Tycoon, which is the story of Mike Buddswell a secondary character in my contemporary romance, Deal of a Lifetime, published with The Wild Rose Press. Other projects include a third Sexy Sailors novella (I've just solved a major plot problem, so that will probably come next after The Valentine Tycoon); a couple of follow on books to the Wildfire Love series (Trey Trahern and Eulalie Collins are just to interesting to me not to get their own stories); another medieval stand alone; and when I find time a set of paranormal stories that have been in percolating for a few years.
How exciting to have such great choices on the way. Thanks for keeping us up to date! One last question we ask all Teatime Romance guests: if you were trapped in a burning building and could only save 5 books, which ones would you choose if your eReader was already melted into a shiny heap?
I'm going to cheat (sort of) and name some books that I have in my personal library. In no particular order, I would save:
- the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer
- the complete works of William Shakespeare
- the complete works of A. Conan Doyle
- the Bible (King James version)
- Gone with the Wind
Taking the complete works is sort of cheating since I get a larger number of stories, but technically it isn't cheating because I really do have single volumes that contain the complete works of Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Doyle respectively.
For more information about Rue and her books, contact her via email at firstname.lastname@example.com or interact with her on Facebook and Twitter. You can also visit Rue on the web at RueAllyn.com, on Goodreads, or on Amazon.


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Y'all, we need to have a serious talk about Harry Styles.
More: Harry Styles Wants to Be the Timberlake of One Direction With His New Music Teaser
Remember how Styles dated Taylor Swift and then allegedly broke her poor, innocent heart? Or what about when she wrote a few songs, like "Out of the Woods" and "Style," that people strongly suspected were about him despite having confirmation from Swift that only one song was about him? Finally, how could you forget that time she spent their romantic vacation alone on a boat while he kept partying?
Crucially, remember how he stayed quiet about it all, even when it was revealed that Swift is kind of a little bit (a lot) manipulative, especially when it comes to controlling her own image? Styles definitely got himself a lasting bad-boy reputation from that relationship, but now he's coming clean about his past.
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In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Styles opened up about his past relationships: "I think: Relationships are hard, at any age. And adding in that you don't really understand exactly how it works when you're 18, trying to navigate all that stuff didn't make it easier. I mean, you're a little bit awkward to begin with. You're on a date with someone you really like. It should be that simple, right? It was a learning experience for sure. But at the heart of it — I just wanted it to be a normal date."
He also addressed Swift's songs that were allegedly written about him, saying, "I mean, I don't know if they're about me or not, but the issue is, she's so good, they're bloody everywhere. I write from my experiences; everyone does that. I'm lucky if everything [we went through] helped create those songs. That's what hits your heart. That's the stuff that's hardest to say, and it's the stuff I talk least about. That's the part that's about the two people. I'm never going to tell anybody everything."
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Um, what? When did Styles turn into this mature, self-aware individual who is far more graceful at relationships than Swift has ever been? When did this happen? I was not excited about his solo album, but I sure am now.


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You decide how you would like to use this list. For example, you may want to export the list or tag all these opportunities.
Instead of a standard list, you may wish to create your own list by adding filters. For example, creating a list for following up opportunities that have had no action in the last 30 days:
To save a list for future use:
- Click on the Saved Lists drop down menu
- Use the option to Save list as…
- Name the list and then decide if you'd like the saved list to be shared with the rest of the team or just be visible to yourself
- Click Save and you will now be able to see the saved list displayed in the drop down menu
Find opportunities based on their value
It can sometimes be useful to find all your opportunities that are over a certain value. To use that:
Go to your Sales Pipeline List and then filter for [Value][is greater than] [USD -\$][10000].
This will find all your opportunities where the total expected value is over $10,000. That includes opportunities that are setup with recurring revenue e.g. where the expected value is $3,000/month over 4 months.
Filter opportunities by their currency
If you're working with multiple currencies then it can also be helpful to further narrow down the list to only opportunities with a specific currency. To do that:
Go to your Sales Pipeline List and then filter for [Currency][is] [GBP -£].
Sales Pipeline Dashboard
You can quickly get a summary position of your sales pipeline:
- Pipeline Forecast shows the estimated income generated from your pipeline. It is the Pipeline Value distributed by month.
- Pipeline Value is the sum of all open opportunities multiplied by their milestone percentages. This shows your pipeline's expected income.
- Total Value is the sum of all opportunities (excluding milestone percentages). This shows your pipeline's maximum income.
- Pipeline by Milestone is a count of all open opportunities that have reached each milestone. At a glance you can see if your pipeline is a healthy funnel shape.
- Conversion Rate calculates the number of successful opportunities against all opportunities that are being closed over the last month, quarter and year.
Using the Pipeline Forecast Graph
If you want to see your projected sales over time you can use the Sales Pipeline Forecast. The forecast graph will show you your projected sales based on open opportunities in your Capsule account.
In order for your sales opportunities to appear on the graph you need to enter an expected close date and an expected amount on your opportunities. Along with the milestone (and its expected probability) users can get an estimated value of their sales pipeline.
Both of these things are setup when you create the opportunity - it looks like this:
Once you have a few opportunities with expected values and close dates, your sales pipeline graph will look something like this:
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It's 10 pm, my chaos monkey mind is thinking about Python, software design patterns, CrossFit, and dogs all at the same time. On top of all of that, I was craving Dominos. Sound's familiar right? 🙃
Recently I had to upgrade Python on my local machine, that led me down the rabbit hole of how homebrew works internally, how to manage environments in Python and wishing I had
rbenv for Python. I learned a few things and as per my usual cadence I'm sharing it with the world 🌎
Installing Python
There are a few ways one can install Python onto your machines. It's going to be different depending on your OS but the idea is the same (there might be some other way I don't know of so don't see this list as the one and only way to do it):
- python.org - download straight from the official website
- [insert your package manager name] - depending on your OS you're likely going to have access to some sort of a package manager where you can pull python from
- [insert your IDE name here] - Some IDEs come with pre-packaged python with them. I've been doing a decent amount of ML recently and Anaconda is one of those examples.
Upgrading Python
Now that we have Python installed, there will come a point in time where you want to upgrade your Python version. This is where things become interesting. Here are a few different ways you can do this:
- Download new version of python from the official website
- Use your package manager to upgrade your python version
- Use your IDE to upgrade your python version
But what if you wanted to have multiple versions of python for different projects? 🤔
Enter the world of...
If anyone did Ruby development and had 3+ projects on their laptops they probably stumbled upon some sort of a version manager like
rbenv. It's not until a few weeks ago I stumbled upon amazing pyenv
It's super easy to upgrade python versions, have local and global versions etc. There is only one thing that you need to do before installing PyEnv and that is:
Unlink and delete other versions of python you have (unless they are from IDE)
I've spent a decent chunk of time trying to figure out why pyenv's version of python is not being used, where is it on my path and can I have both homebrews and pyenvs at the same time. At the end of the day, I had to delete old versions, unlink them and install pyenv.
Hopefully, this helps and have a great day everyone!
P.S. I'm working on an SSL cert so I can switch to HTTPS (I know long time coming 😬) but just did not get to it yet.


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ALBANY, N.Y., October 21, 2010 – Momentive Performance Materials Inc. ("Momentive Performance Materials" or the "Company") today announced preliminary results for the third quarter ended September 26, 2010.
Momentive Performance Materials expects to post third quarter 2010 net sales of approximately $662 million, GAAP operating income of approximately $65 million to $75 million and Adjusted EBITDA of approximately $117 million to $123 million and Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA of approximately $130 million to $136 million. In addition, the Company expects Adjusted EBITDA and Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA for the twelve-month period ended September 26, 2010 to be between $475 million and $481 million and between $525 million and $531 million, respectively, which will represent a new record for the Company. Adjusted EBITDA and Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA exclude the EBITDA of one of our subsidiaries that is designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary under our debt documents of $6 million and $14 million for the quarter and twelve-month periods ended September 26, 2010, respectively. Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA includes cost savings expected to be achieved under the shared services agreement that the Company recently entered into with Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc. of $13 million and $50 million only for the quarter and twelve-month periods ended September 26, 2010, respectively. Last year in the third quarter, the Company recorded net sales of $568.4 million, GAAP operating income of $44.1 million, Adjusted EBITDA and Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA of $93.5 million and Last Twelve Month Adjusted EBITDA and Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA of $231 million. Last year's Adjusted EBITDA and Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA excludes the EBITDA of one of our subsidiaries that is designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary under our debt documents of $1 million and $1 million for the quarter and twelve-month periods ended September 27, 2009, respectively.
Momentive Performance Materials also estimates that as of September 26, 2010 its total debt, net of cash and cash equivalents, will be between $2,645 million and $2,665 million, compared to $2,670 million as of the end of last quarter. The Company expects to be in compliance with all of the terms of the agreements governing its outstanding indebtedness, including the financial covenants, at the end of the third quarter of 2010. Momentive Performance Materials also announced today that it repaid $25 million of borrowings under its revolving credit facility in September 2010, leaving no borrowings outstanding under this facility.
"In the third quarter, we expect significantly higher sales and Adjusted EBITDA compared to the same period last year due to the recovery in our business and our cost initiatives during the recession," said Craig O. Morrison, Chairman and CEO. He added, "Inflation in raw material costs, though somewhat offset by pricing actions, and inventory reductions from our planned second quarter build up, however, negatively impacted Adjusted EBITDA comparisons on a sequential basis."
Momentive Performance Materials expects to file a more detailed press release regarding its third quarter 2010 results on Form 8-K as well as file its Form 10-Q for the three months ended September 26, 2010 in early November 2010, with an accompanying investor conference call to follow shortly thereafter.
Reconciliation of Financial Measures that Supplement GAAP
EBITDA consists of earnings before interest, taxes and depreciation and amortization. EBITDA is a measure commonly used in our industry and we present EBITDA to enhance your understanding of our operating performance. We use EBITDA as one criterion for evaluating our performance relative to that of our peers. We believe that EBITDA is an operating performance measure, and not a liquidity measure, that provides investors and analysts with a measure of operating results unaffected by differences in capital structures, capital investment cycles and ages of related assets among otherwise comparable companies. Adjusted EBITDA is defined as EBITDA further adjusted for unusual items and other pro forma adjustments permitted in calculating covenant compliance in the credit agreement governing our credit facilities and indentures governing the notes to test the permissibility of certain types of transactions. Adjusted EBITDA as presented in the table below corresponds to the definition of "EBITDA" calculated on a "Pro Forma Basis" used in the credit agreement and substantially conforms to the definition of "EBITDA" calculated on a pro forma basis used in the indentures. Adjusted EBITDA has important limitations as an analytical tool, and you should not consider it in isolation, or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. For example, Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect: (a) our capital expenditures, future requirements for capital expenditures or contractual commitments; (b) changes in, or cash requirements for, our working capital needs; (c) the significant interest expenses, or the cash requirements necessary to service interest or principal payments, on our debt; (d) tax payments that represent a reduction in cash available to us; (e) any cash requirements for the assets being depreciated and amortized that may have to be replaced in the future; (f) management fees that may be paid to Apollo; or (g) the impact of earnings or charges resulting from matters that we and the lenders under our secured senior credit facility may not consider indicative of our ongoing operations. In particular, our definition of Adjusted EBITDA allows us to add back certain non-cash, non-operating or non-recurring charges that are deducted in calculating net income, even though these are expenses that may recur, vary greatly and are difficult to predict and can represent the effect of long-term strategies as opposed to short-term results. In addition, certain of these expenses can represent the reduction of cash that could be used for other corporate purposes. Further, as included in the calculation of Adjusted EBITDA below, the measure allows us to add estimated cost savings and operating synergies related to operational changes ranging from restructuring to acquisitions to dispositions as if such event occurred on the first day of the four consecutive fiscal quarter period ended on or before the occurrence of such event and/or exclude one-time transition expenditures that we anticipate we will need to incur to realize cost savings before such savings have occurred. Adjusted EBITDA and Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA exclude the EBITDA of one of our subsidiaries that is designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary under our debt documents. Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA includes cost savings expected to be achieved under the shared services agreement that the Company recently entered into with Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc. on October 1, 2010 only for the quarter and twelve-month periods ended September 26, 2010, respectively.
EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA and Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA are not measurements of financial performance under U.S. GAAP, and our EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA and Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies. You should not consider our EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA or Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA, which are non-GAAP financial measures, as an alternative to operating or net income, determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP, as an indicator of our operating performance, or as an alternative to cash flows from operating activities, determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP, as an indicator of our cash flows or as a measure of liquidity.
Forward-Looking and Cautionary Statements
Certain statements included in this press release constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 under Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. In addition, our management may from time to time make oral forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical facts are statements that could be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the words "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "project," "plan," "estimate," "will" or "intend" and similar words or expressions. These forward-looking statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are based on currently available financial, economic and competitive data and our current business plans. Actual results could vary materially depending on risks and uncertainties that may affect our operations, markets, services, prices and other factors. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: our substantial leverage; limitations in operating our business contained in the documents governing our indebtedness, including the restrictive covenants contained therein; global economic conditions; difficulties with the integration process or realization of benefits in connection with the transactions with Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc.; and our inability to achieve cost savings. For a more detailed discussion of these and other risk factors, see our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009 and our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarterly periods ended June 27, 2010 and March 28, 2010 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary notice. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as otherwise required by law.
About the Company
Momentive Performance Materials Inc. is a global leader in silicones and advanced materials, with a 70-year heritage of being first to market with performance applications for major industries that support and improve everyday life. The Company delivers science-based solutions, by linking custom technology platforms to opportunities for customers. Momentive Performance Materials Inc. is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Momentive Performance Materials Holdings LLC. Additional information is available at www.momentive.com.
About the new Momentive
Momentive Performance Materials Holdings LLC is the ultimate parent company of Momentive Performance Materials Inc. and Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc. (collectively, the "new Momentive"). The new Momentive is a global leader in specialty chemicals and materials, with a broad range of advanced specialty products that help industrial and consumer companies support and improve everyday life. The company uses its technology portfolio to deliver tailored solutions to meet the diverse needs of its customers around the world. The new Momentive was formed in October 2010 through the combination of entities that indirectly owned Momentive Performance Materials Inc. and Hexion Specialty Chemicals Inc. The capital structures and legal entity structures of both Momentive Performance Materials Inc. and Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc. (formerly known as Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Inc.), and their respective subsidiaries and direct parent companies, remain separate. Momentive Performance Materials Inc. and Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc. file separate financial and other reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The new Momentive is controlled by investment funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management, LLC. Additional information about the new Momentive and its products is available at www.momentive.com and at www.hexion.com.
Peter Cholakis
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John Scharf
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University Sport and Recreation
Getting physically active can help to boost your energy, mental health and even help your academics, with representative and student-run sports offered at all levels. In our unique survey, we show what sporting facilities you can expect from your university, starting with an overview of what's on offer and why it's worth taking part.
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University sport at different levels
Universities recognise the motivation to do sport differs from student to student. Those who wish to compete seriously can join sports teams to represent their university, but there will always be other activities where fun and enjoyment are the primary motivators.
Below are the levels at which sport may be offered.
- Representative or performance sport (at varsity level, i.e. competition between universities).
- Intramural sport (competition level within your university).
- Social and recreational sport (informal participation).
- Health and well-being or lifestyle (e.g. gym, fitness, yoga and Pilates classes, swimming pool).
Trying a new sport at university
Don't worry if you've never played a particular sport or want to try a new activity. Qualified coaches will run most of the classes in popular activities such as badminton, golf, squash and aerobics. Any equipment you need, such as bows and arrows or racquets and balls, will be readily available.
- Most institutions offer both beginner classes and coaching for those who wish to improve. These may be run by staff employed in university sport and recreation departments, or by fellow students.
- The emphasis is often on Sport for All and an encouragement to try something new.
- If team sports are not your thing, there is usually a broad range of classes and recreational programmes on offer.
- The scale and range of taught recreation programmes varies from one university to another. Some offer over 100 classes a week! They provide an ideal opportunity to grasp the basics of a sport or a range of activities both cheaply and without any long-term commitment.
- Many universities offer coaching courses and provide leadership and volunteering opportunities for students.
For more, see our section on Representative and Student-run sports, and Sporting Excellence.
Disability and university sport
BUCS (British Universities & Colleges Sport) is keen to promote inclusion in sport, noting that 17% fewer disabled students take part in sport at university than their non-disabled peers.
Some universities have more on offer – examples of best practice listed by BUCS includes the University of Bath who have a Disability Sports Day. In Sheffield, a Disability in Sport week is run by the student unions of the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University.
Contact your university – or the Student Union there – about what activities may be available to disabled students.
University sport – the benefits for you
You may feel that you will be too busy with your studies to prioritise doing sport. However, research suggests that actually, those taking part in physical activity may get better grades. You'll also benefit in other ways.
The British Active Student Survey 2018, conducted by BUCS, Scottish Student Sport (SSS) and ukactive, surveyed nearly 6,891 students. It found the following:
- Active students were more likely to get a higher grade, with 95% expecting a 1st or 2.1. This was 10% above the expectation of inactive students.
- Active students were more confident about finding a job shortly after graduation.
- Active students also felt less socially isolated, with few feeling left out or that people didn't know them.
- Active students also felt less anxiety.
Academic performance and anxiety may be helped because physical activity can reduce stress levels from course deadlines and exams. Sport can also hone your powers of observation and the ability to focus. Employability skills are enhanced, such as working towards targets using strategy and drive, as well as requiring good communication and teamwork. Social isolation decreases through widening your circle of friends outside of the subject you study.
Another benefit of joining a gym, or playing sport at university, is the cost. Participation can cost you very little compared to private facilities, often subsidised by the society or the institution itself. Keeping fit and having fun needn't break the bank.
Starting university – moving from home, living with people you've only just met, and studying in a different way than you're used to – can be stressful. Taking part in sports, particularly team sports, helps to boost your mental health and beat stress.
The Complete University Guide ran a survey among all UK universities on their sporting provision for students. To find out the results, go to University Sport Facilities.
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29 August 2009
Travers Day Washout & The Play Of The Day
With conditions sure to be ultra-wet it is doubtful that even the graded stakes turf races will stay on the grass. The good news is I have a few mudders picked out that are sure to run well tomorrow at square prices.
Race 5 - Liscarroll
Race 6 - Mr. Unstoppable & Richland Creek
Race 7 - Selva
Race 10 - Music Note & Tar Heel Mom
Race 11 - Capt. Candyman Can (Play Of The Day)
Race 12- Warrior's Reward
Play Of The Day - Kings Bishop GI
Capt. Candyman Can is going to win the Kings Bishop. He loves the mud and it will take a horse to freak like Quality Road freaked in the Amsterdam to beat him.
Race 11 Win #3 Capt. Candyman Can
The Stats
39 14-7-3
strike rate 36%
cumulative return 103.10
4 comments:
- Mark Ripple said...
SAR # 7) 6 Furlongs Fillies 3YO Grade III stk/hcp $100,000
1 Bold Union
8 Sara Louise
7 Selva
SAR #12) 1 1/4 Miles 3YO Grade I stk/hcp $1,000,000
1 Hold Me Back
4 Quality Road
6 Summer Bird
Think Inside the Circle!
Mark Ripple, Author
Handicapping the Wall Street Way
- August 29, 2009 at 8:58 AM
- SaratogaSpa said...
Summer Bird, Hold Me Back exacta. It will be cloudy with a good track by Travers Post time (lets hope anyway:)
- August 29, 2009 at 9:27 AM
- G. C. said...
Good picks in the Travers for SaratogaSpa and Mark Ripple. Look at how SaratogaSpa picked it cold, that is cold money capping.
Capt. Candyman Can absorbed a agregious foul near the wire and was rightfully moved up by the stewards. The $9.80 win price was fair. Hard to agrue with the DQ and the play of the day single unlocked untold riches for yours truly.
The Stats
40 15-7-3
strike rate 38%
cumulative return 112.90
- August 29, 2009 at 7:09 PM
- SaratogaSpa said...
Nice win Power Cap on Capt. Candyman Can, from my vantage point in the stands it was a fair DQ and win for the Candyman.
Thanks for the congrats on the Exacta. I don't often pick it cold, but every time I looked at the PP's and played the race in my head it came up Summer Bird/Hold Me Back.
- August 30, 2009 at 12:19 AM


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rise again
September 5, 2017 § Leave a comment
when the ocean falls
but rises like a bird dives
then rises as a carousel dips
and rises to the falling winds
which rise like a smile turns
and rises like the sun sets
but always, always rises.
September 5, 2017 § 2 Comments
sometimes the wonder
is just all too great to hold
so, I write a poem
spoken word at the uptown arts bar
October 24, 2014 § 2 Comments
they stood beneath the spotlight
underneath the dancing dust
that drifted and fell in lazy patterns
and clung to their lashes like snow, yet they stared ahead
they stood beneath that heavy light
and took hazy swirls of smoke
upon their shoulders, they stood
so serenely
beneath the light that blinded
them from the crowd
they stood and spoke
in an effortless tongue that felt
and fell upon surrounding ears
and I could never see
myself in them. They were another species,
I, just a detached observer
taking in a spectacle,
like animals at the zoo.
they stood beneath the spotlight
that cast so much blinding light
onto every inch of who they were
and they couldn't hide
behind the rusted microphone stand
and when they spoke
they were anything but caged
they were so
very, very free
July 18, 2014 § 2 Comments
is an empty page just waiting
for meaning to fill it
July 2, 2014 § 1 Comment
anyone can talk about beautiful things
puffy white clouds and shiny jeweled rings
good hair days and your five year plan
how far you and your dog just ran
but it takes a certain kind of guts
to tell the whole world that your day sucks
what if truth was shared on Instagram
about how you baked those brownies without the Pam
and how you spent your paycheck way too fast
and worry about things that are long past
how you fear you'll fail when you let others in
how you still regret turning down that boy with the grin
but what if into the wind self-consciousness was tossed
and we all talked freely about fear and loss
what if we shared real moments while forgoing a guise
and looked each other right in the eyes
a world without the pretense and the shiny veneer
would this reality intrude on how life should appear?
or would it provide something else completely freeing,
the beauty of truly connecting with another human being
On the tragedy of words
May 14, 2014 § 1 Comment
The tragedy of words
is simply the many
that remain unsaid
the eras of feeling
and novels of truth
and epics of heroism
caught within
nets of hesitance
they struggle and pry
trying to find
a way to pour out
freed from reluctance
without fear of effect
they wish, but remain
and the tragedy
remains too
May 14, 2014 § 1 Comment
the same song
every time, a familiar sound
pushing me swiftly through
a tunnel of light on runaway pavement
turning time into traveled miles
and wind, sharp and cold and alive
making hair dance and lifting
hands skyward, that same song
we played that nervous night
in the rain, I always hear it when
I see superheroes and blue dice
and parking lots at night, a road ahead
and stars


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Sprout will be joining the Reebok Be More Human Project at their 12 Hours to the Tower challenge event on Saturday September 30th. Teams of two people will take turns racing up to Namsan (N-Tower) and back as many times as they can over a 12 hour period! This type of extreme performance needs performance nutrition and fuel so Sprout will be providing a special menu for these athletes to help them perform at their best.
Pre-order your snacks and meals for the event here
Sprout Performance Nutrition Menu – 12 Hours to the Tower Event
Meals 8,0
Mexican Burrito
Whole wheat tortilla, chipotle hummus, peppers, red onions, lentil meat, black beans.
Hummus BLT Whole Wheat Wrap
Made with Tempeh Bacon
Salad Bowls 8,0
Thai Vegetable Curry Bowl
Made with Thai Red Curry Sauce over Jasmine Rice, mixed bell peppers, carrot ribbons, mixed leafy greens, chopped purple onions, cherry tomatoes topped with crushed peanuts.
Enchilada Bowl
Made with Enchilada sauce over brown rice, mixed beans, and lentils topped with sauteed zucchini, mixed bell peppers, eggplant, onions, and fresh mixed greens and tomatoes with a side of sour cream.
Caribbean Quinoa Bowl
Made with Jamaican Jerk Marinated Tempeh, over a bed of coconut quinoa and beans, mixed leafy greens and peas.
Snacks 5,0
PB Oat Protein Bars
Protein Packed Black Bean Brownies
Chocolate Chip Chickpea Blondies
Trail Mix – A mixture of raw nuts, seeds, raisins and chocolate chips.
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Whether you are vegetarian, vegan or just looking for convenient and delicious meals that are ready to eat and packaged to go, Sprout is the perfect solution. All healthy meals by Sprout are 100% Vegan. No animal products are used in any Sprout dishes. Sprout uses Whole Food Natural ingredients and avoids the use of processed or over processed ingredients. Sprout does not use white flour, refined sugar or white rice. We believe that a healthy clean eating diet is the best way to improve and maintain your overall well being as well as part of a performance nutrition regiment for athletes.
The Sprout healthy food menu is published every week on Tuesday for delivery and pick up / takeout on Sundays and Mondays. Sprout delivers everywhere in Korea! Each week we change the menu to keep your meals diverse and satisfying, never boring!
Low Cal – Low Calorie
PRO – High Protein
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Water supply in Chingoni, Malawi
This project is finished. Please do not donate for this project.
Project information
The people do mainly live from agriculture. Other jobs are not this region. Many live from less than $1 per day.
The water supply of the large convention center is unreliable because ailing. It has supplied the living near people with water.
In the forest there is a source that has a sufficient spring flow. It was troublesome to use this water because the source is a few hundred yards uphill (25 meters altitude difference) and was overgrown with grass and reeds. This water is so clean that it can be drunk without being boiled.
Together from anamed Malawi we have assembled a tapping of a springusing local available stones and we also set a 300m long water pipeline (HDPE) for anamed center. We have also built three standpipes where water can be fetched now. Beneficiary is the population in the near by the anamed center. It can now enlarge it's educational garden with medicinal plants.
anamed stands for "Natural Medicine in the Tropics". anamed Malawi trains local people in the cultivation of tropical medicinal plants and their benefits in treating various diseases, such as Malaria, diarrhea, AIDS and cancer.
anamed Malawi is a branch of anamed international e.V. in Winnenden, Germany.
The materials for the water supply had to be transported fromLilongwe to the project place. Cement and sand were bought locally.
Project costs: about 1,100 Euro


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| 12.1°C Dublin
THE All-Ireland camogie programme usually includes a series of vox-pops with some high-profile players.
Thankfully the women tend to eschew the boring 'train hard' and 'Shawshank Redemption' cliches that their male counterparts use to put us all asleep.
We were particularly tickled by the contribution of Wexford's senior corner-back Karen Atkinson. Asked what six sportsmen she would invite to dinner, Atkinson was pretty straightforward with her choices.
"Rob Kearney and Tommy Bowe -- only because of their rugby ability of course; Tommy Walsh and JJ Delaney to get some hurling tips; Nadal to give him some underwear advice; and Cristiano Ronaldo to see if he really does love himself!"
Now lads, that's the sort of answer worth hearing, but do remember to make different choices to Karen.
Irish Independent


text: 29th June 2018, Pigne d'Arolla – Chamonix Rock Climbing – Mont Blanc – Monte Rosa June 29, 2018June 29, 2018 hmgrob Our Chamonix Alpine Intro team have also had an action packed week with mountaineering training on the Mer de Glace; a glacier trek and scrambly ridge on Aiguilles d'Entreves on the French / Italian border, accessed from the Skyway Monte Bianco; Chamonix valley rock climbing, rope work training & hut trip planning day and finally a 2 day expedition via the Dix Hut culminating in an ascent of the Pigne d'Arolla on the summit at 0800 this morning. Conditions are good – impressively snowy! Teams also doing the Voie Normale on the Mont Blanc de Chielion and the traverse of that as a loop from Dix Hut, or even via the Pigne from the Vignettes Hut. Our Chamonix Alpine Intro Mountaineering Course On The Summit Of The Pigne d'Arolla at 0800 this morning in great conditions The weather continues to be warm and sunny in the Mont Blanc Massif with some great conditions for everything from high altitude snow couloirs to valley rock climbing! We have been doing plenty of both with lots of teams seeking a break from the high altitude snowy glaciers to enjoy some cruising on sunny warm valley rock! We have had intro, intermediate and learn to lead courses running in Chamonix and Les Contamines with action packed rock days on the valley crags of Les Gaillands, Servoz and Duchere in Les Contamines. With the Plan Praz and Flegere lifts now open there is good access to the middle mountain rock in the Aiguilles Rouges also albeit with still plenty of snow lying around on some approach slopes / couloirs. Lead climbing coaching in Les Contamines with Trad Legend Twid Turner. Whilst the Midi and even Plan de l'Aiguille lift remain shut, the latter is going to open this weekend and the former a week afterwards, at least that's the plan anyway. More details here: https://www.montblancnaturalresort.com/fr/aiguille-du-midi Our last Mont Blanc course before the mid summer pause got all team members to the summit and they enjoyed great snow conditions before stopping at the Gouter Hut on the way down. This was appreciated by the team both for reasons of tired legs and some afternoon stone fall in the couloir. La Chamoniarde (office de haute Montagne in Chamonix) are now recommending crossing the couloir before midday: – Grand Couloir et accès au Nid d'Aigle : la traversée du couloir est encore en neige/glace, le câble est en place. Respecter les horaires et ne pas s'y engager après 12h. – Dôme du Goûter et arête des Bosses en bonnes conditions. https://www.chamoniarde.com/montagne/conditions-montagne# We still have a couple of places left for an ascent in September either via a warm up on the Gran Paradiso or Weissmies. Stop Press – Due to cancellation we also have 1 space available on a 3 day Climb The Weissmeis Course starting in Chamonix on Monday 2nd July. Team Shrewsbury Pompiers On The Summit Of Mont Blanc. Good conditions in late June 2018 Likewise we have a place left on a Monte Rosa Mountaineer course in late August and there has been plenty of activity in that Massif also, again with excellent snowy early season conditions as these photos from Stefano show. Good for most of it apart from the impressive rocky 'Cresta Rey' on the South Face of the Durourspitze which we are hoping to climb later in the summer season. See photo below. The magnificent Cresta Rey – the lovely slender rocky pillar – on the South Face of the mighty Dufourspitze, Monte Rosa Massif. Note the snowy early season conditions! The remarkably high altitude (>4500m) Margherita Hut high on the Italian – Swiss border in the Monte Rosa Massif Sunset at the Gnifetti Hut on the Italian side of the Monte Rosa The enormous NE face of Liskamm (4527m) from the Monte Rosa. The traverse of this snow ridge is one of the classic high alpine snow routes of the Alps


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One of the biggest highlights of this years Bloodstock Festival, King 810 will at last be touring in the UK in February and you don't want to miss out on an opportunity like this!
Releasing their brilliant La Petite Mort (Or A Conversation With God) back in 2015, I almost felt a little left out as we haven't had the chance to see the band bar their incredible performance at Bloodstock. Now the band will be hitting up UK venues alongside a London performance.
Kicking off on Valentine's Day (what's more romantic than Dave Gunn shouting at you!?) and leading up to February 24th where the band will finish their tour with an Oxford show. The band have a different take on the tried and tested Metal formula and I for one love it! To be able to see the band in a headline capacity no less will be such a great experience, it'll be like Gunn will be right there in front of you and just you. I can't wait!
Tickets will be available Monday 27th November at 9 am.


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Mozilla CEO John Lilly have finally unveiled Mozilla´s plans for the upcoming Firefox 4.0 development effort. John Lilly admitted that Mozilla have to get rid of old habits and to switch to Qt4 as the underlying GUI framework of the new Firefox release as well as to drop the Gecko rendering engine in favor of Apple´s WebKit rendering engine. Furthermore Lilly regret that this decision have not already been made one year ago. So Firefox 3.0 could already use this superior technology. Lilly pointed out that keeping Gecko alive until now was the "biggest mistake since U.S. Navy´s decision to install Windows NT on a warship which had to tow the crippled ship back to port". Google´s choice to use WebKit for its mobile phone framework Android was primary driven by the fact that Gecko´s code base is in a completely unmaintainable state and -- Lilly concluded -- "have more (memory) leaks than a rubber dinghy I have bought on Ebay for 1 USD".
Firefox switches to Qt4 framework and drops Gecko in favor of the WebKit rendering engine
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- Anonymous6.8.08
Is this your April Fool's joke or is there any substantial evidence for that?ReplyDelete
In fact what makes it really hard for me to shift to KDE4 is the lousy integration of Firefox :(
Konqueror might be ok for geeks but lacks user-friendliness.
Yes, it is/was an April Fool's joke :)ReplyDelete
To my mind not the user-friendliness lack of Konqueror but its compatibility issues with several sites are the key problem.
I miss the suspend access and ACPI functionality. These are the missing features holding me back from switching to KDE 4.1.
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You knew it was going to happen. We have had The Bachelor. We have had the Bachelorette. Now, according to Reuters, we have "Who want's to Marry a US Citizen?"
It trivializes marriage (I don't know if they will challenge civil unions.) It trivializes citizenship. I can remember that Green Card was playing around the time our oldest had a French jazz musician boy friend and that gave us pause. But, at least we knew that it was a fantasy rather than trying to pass itself off as a documentary.
The thought that passed through my mind just now came from an old Pete Seeger anti-war song.. "When will they ever learn." I guess, in this case, the answer is "never."


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There were four essential Green Deal providers. These were the companies who were approved by the government and included:
Some of these providers would have been in a position to offer a one stop shop meaning you would have been able to get them to arrange everything on your behalf. From setting up the finance, arranging the assessor and even installing the various technologies and approved products.
Alternatively there will be providers who would have worked with other Green Deal companies to offer different aspects of the scheme.
All the installers also had to be fully accredited and had to comply with the Green deal code of practice ensuring good quality and professional installations for everyone who took part in the green deal scheme.
All the companies were monitored and checked to ensure the scheme worked as efficiently as possible and that you got an accurate inspection, the highest possible standard of installation and as pain free a service as possible. Unfortunately the uptake with the scheme simply wasn't there and the government stopped funding it in 2015.


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Failure To Launch: Parents Are Barriers To Teen Independence
While most parents say they are doing enough to prepare their teen for adulthood, they gave low rankings of their teen's ability to handle basic tasks. Read the article here.
While most parents say they are doing enough to prepare their teen for adulthood, they gave low rankings of their teen's ability to handle basic tasks. Read the article here.
Tim Elmore discusses some skills that you should work to develop in your teens before they move out of the house. Read his blog here.
What Did the Most Extensive Longitudinal Study Discover About Kids? Read the blog post from Tim Elmore here.
In this article for the New York Times, David Brooks says, "People in their 20s seem to be compelled to bounce around more, popping up here and there, quantumlike, with different jobs, living arrangements and partners while hoping that all these diverse experiences magically add up to something."
Read the rest of the article here.
Nebraska senator Ben Sasse wants parents to get serious about shepherding kids into responsible adulthood. Read the article from Christianity Today here.
In the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don't like. Here's why that's disastrous for education—and mental health.
Read the article here.
This article from the Chronicle of Higher Education takes a look at what we lose when we expand adolescence. From the article:
"For some time, we've been seeing a curious trend: Young adults are attempting to delay adulthood, while preteen children are hurrying—or being hurried—into the roles and attitudes of young adults. It's no accident that child psychologists have extended their definition of adolescence into the 20s or that primary-school kids are pushed into beauty pageants where they are dressed like Miss America."
Read the full article here.
George Will writes the following in an opinion piece on Philly.com:
As Penn State historian Gary Cross says, adolescence is being redefined to extend well into the 20s, and the "clustering of rites of passage" into adulthood – marriage, childbearing, permanent employment – "has largely disappeared."
Read the full article here.
College students report experiencing a lot of stress, due to things like academic pressure and finances, and also report having little time to hang out with friends. Read the article here.
Common Sense Media conducted a national survey of teachers about the role of entertainment media in students' academic and social development.
Key Finding 1: "Many teachers think their students' use of entertainment media has hurt their academic performance."
Key Finding 2: "Among teachers who say their students' academic skills have been hurt by entertainment media use, the media most often cited as problematic are texting, social networking, video games, and television, depending on the students' age."
Key Finding 3: "The biggest problem area teachers see in terms of their students' skills is in writing."
Read more "key findings" here.
Download full report (.pdf) here.


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Over the past couple of weeks the crusier has been drinking a little bit of clutch fluid, initial visual examination showed no fluid running down the firewall inside the cabin or in the engine bay, around the master cyl.
A check of the slave showed the same thing, then I got my fingers dirty and touched the black circular going into a square base attachment on the bottom of master cylinder and sure enough it was wet, also the master cylinder is located directly above the chasis rail making it harder to see the spillage, I then tightened the 4 bolts at the bottom of this black piece but I'm still losing fluid.
1. What is the purpose of this black attachment?
2. Will replacing this gasket likely fix the leak?
3. Or is something more complicated involved?
Common problem. The "black thing" is a accumulator, its where extra clutch fluid goes when you press the pedal down and the slave has too much forced down there. Inside is a rubber cup and a spring along with a very thin paper gasket which seals the fluid in.
Newer versions have a round one, late models none at all.
The gasket is not available as a part, you have to buy it all.
I made up a new gasket out of proper gasket paper and fixed the leak. I have done about 50,000 km since and its still OK. Cost NIL.
Toyota must know of this problem as they have a part which replaces the whole of the accumulator. Part number is 31490-12010. It is basically nothing more than a large bolt with a hole. It fixes the problem but is priced at a ridiculous $98.15. Wait till you see it and you'll wonder what the hell they are charging for.
Garry Joice


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This evening we had dinner at the same restaurant as Capt. Chesley Sullenberger, the hero pilot of the US Airways plane that landed in the Hudson River (is it really a landing if you come down in water?). We left at the same time, and I was about 4 feet from him as he posed for a picture with the restaurant staff. He looks much older than 58.
EDIT: I see he went to see South Pacific. We were next door at the New York Philharmonic. We see South Pacific next Saturday--Valentine's Day.
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LaCie's Raid Manager software has been redesigned so has to make RAID selection and implentation easier as well as improving RAID management.
The Overview page is where you see any RAID arrays displayed. Double clicking on the array displays that arrays information page. If you hold the mouse curser over the array, a pull down menu appears with Info, Upgrade, Add Spare and Delete options on it.
Under the Settings tab there is a group of sliders which allows adjustments (from low to high) to the priorities given to the RAID processor. By default this are all set as equal but adjustments can be made for Initialisation, Synchronisation, RAID Rebuild, Upgrade and Disk Check jobs. Also on this page are options for turning on and off Auto rebuild and Poll SMART status.
The RAID Manager can be configured to send email updates on the health of the 12big. By default these are sent via LaCie's server but you can configure them to be sent by via another service under the Notifications page. The Update page allows you to check for updates for the RAID, system and USB firmware's as well as updates to the RAID Manager itself.
There are two ways of creating an array within RAID Manager. The first is via the Quick Setup which gives two options, two disks – RAID 1 or three or more disks, RAID 5. The second way of setting up an array is by using the Custom setup.
The Custom RAID creation wizard part of Raid Manager is one of the best, if not the best example of an easy to follow RAID creator we've come across. The graphical interface is easy to follow and shows in one clear picture what happens with every array you choose; how much disk space will be available after the array is built, how much is being used for mirroring and how much is used for parity. Brilliantly simple but so effective.
After choosing the type of array, the next step is to configure it. There are options to rename the array, add a spare drive, enable or disable disk caching (it's enabled by default), choose a Stripe size and finally choose which type of RAID initialisation required: None (No effort to fix potential sector errors, the fastest option as the array is available immediately), Fast (Minimum effort to fix potential sector errors) and Background (Fixes sector errors that can lead to corrupt data).
If you choose Background be prepared to wait a long time for the array to be initialised. For example it took 45 hours to initialise a RAID 5 array which may seem like a life time but really isn't bad for a 96TB array.
Other software downloads available from the LaCie website are; Intego Backup Manager Pro for Mac's and Genie Backup Manager Pro for Windows as well as LaCie Private-Public which enables the creation of a password protected volume using AES 256 bit encryption.