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I noticed a little bit of water leaking downstairs in the laundry room. Looked up to see the subfloor wet in some places and dry in others. I thought I had some pipes blocked. I have now figured out that the water is coming from the base of the toliet around the caulk. Is this something that I can fix by myself? Any help would be appreciated! Thank you!
The question is where is the leak coming from? If it's a small bathroom (and the shower is near the toilet), maybe shower water is coming over the edge of the tub and puddles around the toilet and then drips below. Maybe the caulk needs to be redone. Or did the toilet overflow, then the caulk needs to be redone.
Or whoever installed the toilet may have used a cheap wax ring, which would have saved them about one dollar. It's best to use a wax ring with a rubber attachment to it. So pulling the toilet and replacing the wax ring would be the thing to do. It's not hard to do, empty the toilet, disconnect the supply line after shutting the water off, remove the bolts at the floor holding the toilet, lifting the toilet out of the way, cleaning off the old wax ring, replacing the ring with the right one, and then reinstalling the toilet. It's not difficult. And then recaulk the bottom of the toilet.
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You remove the white shipping protector, and that ring in the picture is upside down to the position it goes when installing it.
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Hi Lynn F.,
If you suspect that you have a leak below the toilet, you should make corrections to fix this leak as soon as possible so that further damage to the subfloor and other structural members of your home are not damaged further. Leaking water is a main cause of wood rot and this could be occurring in the subfloor in your bathroom.
The leak you have described may be occurring between the base of the toilet where it connects to the drain in which case you need to remove the toilet and replace the wax ring seal on the bottom of the toilet. Below is a link to step by step instructions on how to complete this task. This is a good DIY project but does require some strength as well some careful inspection of the subfloor, once the toilet is removed, to assess the extent of water damage to the subfloor and determine whether the subfloor in the area of the toilet should be replaced or not. Simply replacing the wax ring and reinstalling the subfloor may solve the temporary leak but if the subfloor is damaged your repair will need to be repeated in the future and will include replacing some areas of the damaged subfloor around the toilet and then reinstalling the toilet.
The above link starts by assessing where the leak occurs around your toilet and describes in detail how to assess the problem and then walks you through step by step what to do to fix the problem with tips along the way. It is 5 pages in length and includes some diagrams. On page 4 it lists all the steps in order making it easy to follow. On page 5 it provides links to some recommended supplies to simplify installation. The link to the specific parts it recommends is below and the parts can be found in most big box stores.
Below is a link to a replacement wax ring which you will need to purchase to make your toilet repair. You will note that this ring is thicker and this may require more force to seat it properly when reinstalling the toilet. However, this ring also has a flexible funnel shape embedded in the wax which extends deeper into the drain where the toilet discharge occurs which makes it less possible for a leak to reoccur. Standard sized wax seals are available with this same feature. I have found these style wax rings far superior to just a wax ring seal alone.
Using Google and doing a search using how to repair a leaking toilet will bring other sites which offer assistance quite a few with videos. Some of these may be of some help.
These are some thoughts to consider.
Good Luck!
this is a perpetual problem. YOU DO NOT CAULK AROUND THE BASE OF A TOILET! that forces any leaks down to rot the flooring. you WANT to see the water on top of the floor.
commercially, for sanitation purposes, NSF might require it. you DO NOT want that silliness in the home. you know your home is not full of drunks voiding on the floor, unlike a restaurant or store. if there is an issue, you want to see it so you can fix it.
the leak is almost certainly due to deterioration of the wax ring. the previous two posters have covered issues well. but in brief, you need to pull the toilet, make sure the floor and subfloor are not damaged or spongy, and reinstall with new rings. the toilet CANNOT be allowed to rock on the floor, that guarantees it will break the seal again.
I also agree that the "funnel ring" is worth doing. incidentally, if there is a flooring gap around the ring, I just seriously recommend you get another plain ring or two for packing any spaces with ring wax. the purpose is to make sure that any leakage becomes quickly apparent right where it's happening, at the base of the toilet, and does not seek its natural path down to cause damage.This message has been edited. Last edited by: swschrad,
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There are two thoughts -- to caulk or not to caulk, that is the question.
I use to 'not caulk', but have changed over the last years. Caulking a toilet base is not done to prevent leaks from coming out onto the floor. It is done to prevent overflowing toilets from putting contaminated water under the toilet and raining to the structure below or causing damage to the floor.
Also, for people that have a smaller bathroom, and the shower is near the toilet, if water runs down the top lip of the tub and spills over near the toilet, it can get under the toilet and start rusting out the toilet flange and the bolts. And I have had to do repairs on this type of situation. Therefore, caulking under the toilet is what I prefer to do.
And if the toilet is on the second floor of a structure, and the toilet overflows, the water will rain down onto the sheetrock below, damaging insulation and causing mold, or find a way thru the downstairs bathroom vent, and it will rain water on the bathroom below. How disgusting is that?
I have seen far more damage done due to 'not caulking' than I have from a leaky wax ring.
Therefore, I caulk.This message has been edited. Last edited by: Re-mdlr,
I learned to caulk all around the sides and front of the toilet base only. But always sure to leave the back uncaulked. This way one can still be alerted to a wax ring failure, but it makes cleaning and appearance much better.
Conrad and I must have gone to the same toilet caulking class - I do mine the same way.
Yep, that plumbing class I had 25 years ago at the local Community College....paid for itself 20 fold at least.
Sometimes it's also just good to know what you don't want to tackle (as in when to call in a pro).
Thank you so very much for all of your replies! I apologize, I had already determined that the water was not coming down along side of the shower wall. I will go and get a wax ring and recaulk the toliet -leaving the back open. Thank you again!This message has been edited. Last edited by: Lynn F.,
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i've successfully used TurboSIM with a OOTB FW 1.1.2 iPhone ( Carrier Orange / Switzerland ).
I'll post a complete tutorial including a video here in this thread tomorrow in the evening.
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where do we buy those turbosim?? :D
Here of course http://www.bladox.com/shop.php?lang=en
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hi,i just have a question if someone could clear it up before i buy one for my 1.1.2 OTB. i would like to use Vodafone UK in my iphone. Now to use the turbosim do i have to use a activated AT&T card or will the one that came with my phone ( not activated) be ok?
Please dont think i am dumb just want to clear it up.
Not so fantastic news after all :( I need a turbosim (pretty expensive btw), then cut my simcard to fit the turbo sim tray, then stick it into the iphone, then follow one of the tutorials to make it work...(just with the one you did the work with, not any simcard, as far as I read)....
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|Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry Finn, as depicted by E. W. Kemble in the original 1884 edition of the book.
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Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is a fictional character created by Mark Twain, who first appeared in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (set around 1845) and is the protagonist and narrator of its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (set around 1835–1845, although taking place after The Adventures of Tom Sawyer). He is 12 or 13 years old during the former and a year older ("thirteen or fourteen or along there," Chapter 17) at the time of the latter. Huck also narrates Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective, two shorter sequels to the first two books.
Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is the son of the town's vagrant drunkard, "Pap" Finn. Sleeping on doorsteps when the weather is fair, in empty hogsheads during storms, and living off of what he receives from others, Huck lives the life of a destitute vagabond. The author metaphorically names him "the juvenile pariah of the village" and describes Huck as "idle, and lawless, and vulgar, and bad," qualities for which he was admired by all the children in the village, although their mothers "cordially hated and dreaded" him.
Huck is an archetypal innocent, able to discover the "right" thing to do despite the prevailing theology and prejudiced mentality of the South of that era. The best example of this is his decision to help Jim escape slavery, even though he believes he will go to hell for it (see Christian views on slavery).
His appearance is described in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He wears the clothes of full-grown men which he probably received as charity, and as Twain describes him, "he was fluttering with rags." He has a torn broken hat and his trousers are supported with only one suspender.
Tom's Aunt Polly calls Huck a "poor motherless thing." Huck confesses to Tom in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer that he remembers his mother and his parents' relentless fighting that only abated with her death.
Huck has a carefree life free from societal norms or rules, stealing watermelons and chickens and "borrowing" boats and cigars. Due to his unconventional childhood, Huck has received almost no education. At the end of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huck is adopted by the Widow Douglas, who sends him to school in return for his saving her life. In the course of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" we find that he has learned enough to be literate and even reads books for entertainment when there isn't anything else to do. His knowledge of history as related to Jim is wildly inaccurate, but it is uncertain if he is being wrong on purpose as a joke on Jim.
In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the Widow attempts to "sivilize" (sic) the newly wealthy Huck. Huck's father takes him from her, but Huck manages to fake his own death and escape to Jackson's Island, where he coincidentally meets up with Jim, a slave who was owned by the Widow Douglas' sister, Miss Watson.
Jim is running away because he overheard Miss Watson planning to "sell him South" for eight hundred dollars. Jim wants to escape to Ohio, where he can find work to eventually buy his family's freedom. Huck and Jim take a raft down the Mississippi River in hopes of finding freedom from slavery for Jim and freedom from Pap for Huck. Their adventures together, along with Huck's solo adventures, comprise the core of the book.
In the end, however, Jim gains his freedom through Miss Watson's death, as she freed him in her will. Pap, it is revealed, has died in Huck's absence, and although he could safely return to St. Petersburg, Huck plans to flee west to Indian Territory.
In Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective, the published sequels to Huck Finn, however, Huck is living in St. Petersburg again after the events of his eponymous novel. In Abroad, Huck joins Tom and Jim for a wild, fanciful balloon ride that takes them overseas. In Detective, which occurs about a year after the events of Huck Finn, Huck helps Tom solve a murder mystery.
Huck is Tom Sawyer's closest friend. Their friendship is partially rooted in Sawyer's emulation of Huck's freedom and ability to do what he wants, like swearing and smoking when he feels like it. In one moment in the novel, he openly brags to his teacher that he was late for school because he stopped to talk with Huck Finn and enjoyed it, something for which he knew he would (and did) receive a whipping. Nonetheless, Tom remains a devoted friend to Huck in all of the novels they appear in.
Jim, a runaway slave whom Huck befriends, is another dominant force in Huck's life. He is the symbol for the moral awakening Huck undergoes throughout Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Pap Finn is Huck's abusive, drunken father who shows up at the beginning of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and forcibly takes his son to live with him. Pap's only method of parenting is physical abuse. Although he seems derisive of education and civilized living, Pap seems to be jealous of Huck and is infuriated that his son would try to amount to more, and live in better conditions than he did.
Potential Effects of Parent's Alcoholism[edit]
Alcoholism, while not itself a diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), is in the DSM under the category pertaining to Substance abuse. Studies have shown that there are many potential negative effects on the children of alcoholics (COAs) which can result from their parent's alcohol abuse. Families with an alcoholic parent are delineated as having a greater chance for parent-child conflict, as well as being more likely to have Child abuse occur within the household (Reich et al., 2007). Furthermore, COAs are more likely to view their parents as poorer role models (Reich et al., 2007). Essentially, COAs are characterized as having an overall poorer condition of living within the home environment when compared to non-COAs (Reich et al., 2007). Further studies have also indicated that COAs are more likely to exhibit externalizing behaviors such as fighting with other children, having tantrums, or struggling in school (Haberman, 1966). Studies have shown that the exhibiting of externalizing behavior in COAs can be attributed to parental alcoholism, more specifically the father being an alcoholic. The father's alcoholism leads to a lower "maternal warmth/sensitivity" which causes the COA to develop a poor self-regulation ability. Finally,as this progresses and the COA continues to develop, the problem manifests itself in the development of externalizing behavior in the COA (Eiden et al., 2007).
Huckleberry Finn's father, Pap, exhibits the characteristics of an alcoholic parent. He is regarded as a drunkard in his village, and he is very abusive toward Huck. Furthermore, the effects of his alcoholism can be seen through the demeanor and actions of Huck. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Huck speaks about the constant fighting that occurred between his mother and his father before his mother's death. Marital conflict is a prominent factor seen in many households with an alcoholic parent (Reich et al., 2007). Child abuse by an alcoholic parent is common for COAs, and Huck is abused frequently by his father during Pap's alcohol induced rages. Huck is regarded as "vulgar" and "lawless" by Mark Twain. These characterizations of Huck coupled with his constant lying and his absurd schemes, such as faking his own death, are examples of Huck's externalizing behavior. Pap's alcoholism coupled with the absence of Huck's mother ultimately attributes to Huck's extreme externalizing behavior. Huck's experience of a lack of warmth and sensitivity from his mother was only exaggerated by her complete absence due to her death. Huck's situation is more severe than many other COAs because he was entirely deprived of warmth and sensitivity from his mother (Eiden et al., 2007). Huck's lying, stealing, and absolute disregard for the rules are also clear examples of his externalizing behavior. Huck ultimately fakes his own death and runs away from his village to escape his father as a result of how poor of a role model he sees his father to be. The home environment with Pap is one of poor quality not just because of Pap's abusiveness but also because the house itself is a run-down cabin that is poorly maintained (Reich et al., 2007). Pap's alcoholism is the reason for Huck's rebellious and careless lifestyle.
The character of Huck Finn is based on Tom Blankenship, the real-life son of a sawmill laborer and sometime drunkard named Woodson Blankenship, who lived in a "ramshackle" house near the Mississippi River behind the house where the author grew up in Hannibal, Missouri.[1] The father of Huck, called "Pap" Finn, may be based on Jimmy Finn, a full-blown alcoholic who lived on the streets, and it is only through Twain's remembrances that Woodson is characterized as a drunkard. Twain left Hannibal and his boyhood at an early age and his memories of these people are colored by what he could have known and understood at the time, as a boy of less than 14 years old. Tom didn't attend school because there were no public schools at the time, and his family was too poor to send him to a private school. Left at loose ends in a busy household with six sisters and a mother who seems to have died when he was young, Tom was indeed "at liberty" most of the time.[citation needed]
Twain mentions his childhood friend Tom Blankenship as the inspiration for creating Huckleberry Finn in his autobiography: "In Huckleberry Finn I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had. His liberties were totally unrestricted. He was the only really independent person—boy or man—in the community, and by consequence he was tranquilly and continuously happy and envied by the rest of us. And as his society was forbidden us by our parents the prohibition trebled and quadrupled its value, and therefore we sought and got more of his society than any other boy's." – Mark Twain's Autobiography.
Huck's adventure is in part based on an incident that happened to Tom Blankenship's eldest sibling, his brother Benson, a teenage fisherman who had his own skiff. He aided a runaway slave in defiance of the law, spurning a probable reward to instead bring food and other items to the slave, who was hiding in the wilderness near the river over the course of a summer. Eventually, bounty hunters chased the slave onto a logjam, where he drowned. Days later, Clemens and other local boys were exploring the logjam, when the body was dislodged and sprang up from beneath the water violently, frightening the boys. Some critics[who?] have also connected certain traits of Benson Blankenship to the character Muff Potter, from Twain's novel Tom Sawyer, such as his owning a skiff and occasionally sharing his catch with the boys of the town, and mending their kites.[citation needed]
Tom Blankenship has passed from history with few solid clues as to his ultimate fate. His sister told Twain near the turn of the century that both of her brothers were dead,[citation needed] and local rumor says that Tom perished in one of the cholera epidemics which swept up the Mississippi River in the years after the Civil War.[citation needed] Twain himself told reporters that he heard that Tom moved to Montana and was a well-respected Justice of the Peace, but this is thought to be wishful thinking by some historians.[citation needed] A Hannibal, Mo., old timer[who?] related that Tom "left Hannibal for the penitentiary."[citation needed] Mention is made in the local newspapers that he was arrested for stealing food repeatedly in the early 1860s.[citation needed]
No death certificate has ever been located for Tom, but census records indicate that Benson moved to Texas and started a family alongside his uncles and cousins by the 1860s.[citation needed] This suggests that there may have been a period when Tom and his father Woodson were more or less alone in Hannibal, as the daughters all married or entered into service with local families.[citation needed] No record of Tom's serving in the military during the Civil War has emerged as of this date, either.[citation needed] A local[who?][where?] was quoted as saying the family "played out" and disappeared from the area by the time the war was over.[citation needed] The ultimate truth seems to have passed into the unknowable realm, leaving us only with Twain's fiction.[citation needed]
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
- Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894)
- Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896)
- Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians – unfinished
- Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy – unfinished
Actors who have portrayed Huckleberry Finn in movies and TV:
- Lewis Sargent (1920)
- Junior Durkin (1930 and 1931)
- Jackie Moran (1938)
- Donald O'Connor (1938)
- Mickey Rooney (1939)
- Eddie Hodges (1960)
- Micheal Shea (1968 in the tv series The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
- Roman Madyanov (1973 in Hopelessly Lost)
- Jeff Tyler (1973 in Huckleberry Finn)
- Jeff East (1973 and 1974)
- Steve Stark (1979)
- Vladislav Galkin (1981)
- Ron Howard (1975)
- Ian Tracey
- Gary Krug (1985 in The Adventures of Mark Twain)
- Patrick Day (1986)
- Elijah Wood (1993)
- Brad Renfro (1995)
- Mark Wills (voice)
- Jake T. Austin (2013)
See also[edit]
- ^ (Washington, D.C.) Express, June 6, 2007
Reich, W,; Felton, E, et al. (1988), "A comparison of the home and social evironments of children of alcoholic and non-alcoholic parents", British Journal of Addiction 83 (7): 831–839, doi:10.1111/j.1360-0443.1988.tb00518.x, PMID 3207941 Haberman, Paul W. (1966), "Childhood symptoms in children of alcoholics and comparison group parents Trial: New Evidence and New Difficulties", Journal of marriage and the family 28 (2): 152–154 Eiden, R,; Edwards, E, et al. (2007), "A conceptual model for the development of externalizing behavior problems among kindergarten children of alcoholic families: role of parentingand children's self regulation", J Mol Biol 43 (5): 1187–1201, doi:10.1037/0012-16188.8.131.527, PMID 17723044


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DAHLONEGA, GA – Jacob Rickett has been named the Moe's Southwest Grill North Georgia Athlete of the Week after dominating the closer's role over the weekend for the Saints, making two appearances and picking up a win and a save.
Facing nine batters in two games last weekend, Rickett was untouchable, recording seven strikeouts and allowing just one. He tossed 1.1 innings on Saturday evening, fanning all four batters to pick up a save in a 7-6 victory.
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Poland: Piwowarski Serwis Informacyjny and Świat Piwa again in the first place of the Agape Contest
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In the 8th consecutive Contest of Company Bulletins organized by the Agape Agency, the Brewing Information Service of the Brewing Company was voted the Best Electronic Bulletin in Poland for the third time in a row. Moreover, the internal magazine The World of Beer was selected the best internal bulletin in the country, and in addition won the distinction of the Best Layout of the Year.
On October 16, the festive gala concluded the 8th Contest of Company Bulletins organized by the consulting and publishing agency Agape. At the Gala, statuettes were awarded in the following categories: the Best Internal Bulletin, the Best External Bulletin, and the Best Electronic Bulletin. For the first time this year, special diplomas were awarded for the Best Layout of the Year, the Best Text of the Year, and the Best Cover of the Year. The Best Cover of the year was selected from the nominees through online voting by the Internet users.
The Brewing Information Service of the Brewing Company won the contest for the third time in a row, winning 150.1 points out of 200.
"We are extremely proud of the success of the Brewing Information Service. The first prize for the third consecutive time is a proof that we do not sit on our laurels and always try to go forward, develop and meet the expectations of our recipients," said Katarzyna Wilczewska, Public Affairs Manager of the Brewing Company.
The World of Beer, an internal magazine addressed tothe employees of the Brewing Company, won the first prize in the category of Best Internal Bulletin. It was the sixth time that it made the best first three and for the third time won the highest prize. This year, The World of Beer won a record 191.35 points. In addition, the magazine was distinguished in the new Agape category, winning the award of the Best Layout of the Year.
"The World of Beer, for the third time in its nine years of existence, proved to be the best internal magazine in Poland. For the past six years, we have been consistently in the top of the corporate press which is proven by all the contests organized in our country, the Agape being a good example. Every consecutive win mobilizes us to a better work. The first prize, naturally, is something to be very proud of as by winning we serve as an example to follow for many other companies, as evidenced by the requests for copies of The World of Beer. It is nice to be a leader and a template provider," commented Wojciech Mrugalski, Manager of Internal Communications of the Brewing Company and the Editor–in–Chief of The World of Beer.
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As well as IE, I cover the Windows Shell and I've recently added MSI to my troubleshooting skillset.
Today is a typical Tuesday for me, my busiest day of the week. It starts like any other, checking if any incidents have happened over night that might affect the team, looking through email communication and briefly triaging my cases and checking through my calendar to see what work I have to do today. What makes Tuesday different is that it's triage day for IE in the Global Technical Support Centre (GTSC), for which I am responsible. I start by compiling a list of Premier and Professional customer support cases that are currently with our frontline engineers in Bangalore before emailing it out to the team. This is followed up with a scheduled conference call between the UK and India teams, addressing each case to make sure it's on track, to highlight any issues, mark any that are due for escalation to the UK team and make sure both teams are aware of all the current cases. After the meeting, I report back with a summary of the current actions for these cases which are then logged against them. Typically we would triage 25-35 cases depending on how busy it is. Triage is a very important part of the week – aside from the fact that our customers benefit from having their support cases regularly discussed, the team as a whole has the chance to speak to each other by voice, instead of typing in an IM conversation, so it helps to build those team relations.
Around the triage activities, I need to focus on my own support cases which are all escalations from our front-line team in India or, from other front-line teams around Europe where volumes are particularly high or, from other escalation teams who need collaboration from an IE support specialist. A case load of around 15 is average but when it gets busy, or when colleagues go on holiday, I have gone up to 21-22 cases which can get pretty manic!
At the end of the day, it's good to do something different. I like going down to the on-site gym to relax my mind and revitalise my body to help keep a balance to the day.
Apart from triage, meetings and case load, on a weekly basis, a typical engineer spends time mentoring the front-line engineers or colleagues in the UK team to help bring them on, keep up to date with what's going on in the business and around their areas, look for opportunities to further develop their own skills or identify areas where we can help develop others or our products to increase market share. Being able to respond to high priority issues around security, cumulative updates and high severity issues is also required. It's all very customer focused, there's rarely any free-time, but always time to develop.
David Lynch EMEA GTSC UK Core IE Shell Support Engineer Microsoft Customer Service & Support
Coming next week: Microsoft Technology Centre intern and loveable geek, Jon Lickiss tells us about a typical day in the MTC. Let us know if you have a burning question for Jon – post it in the comments box below.
Huge thanks to Inframon's Sean Roberts and Gordon McKenna for this post.
Fighting the War on Cost with Microsoft System Center
Inframon was founded in 2005 which was right in the middle of what now can be described as the 'good times'. Since then we've had a major global economic meltdown and a number of our customers have been severely impacted by this with IT budgets slashed and head counts removed. Some of our customers have managed this change well and come out of this relatively unscathed as faster, leaner and better organisations. Others have not fared so well and have disappeared, merged or been restructured to something unrecognisable. None have remained the same.
The current economic state for the European Union is somewhat grim. This is clearly demonstrated in the Gross Domestic Product figures you can see on your screen. From 2007 to 2009 we saw a massive contraction of 9% in economic growth.
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measures the total economic output of an area. When this moves into negative figures as we see in 2008 the economy is contracting and therefore, we're in a recession.
This had some pretty far reaching implications for the economy as a whole:
1. Unemployment across the EU grew to 8.3% from 6.7% just a year earlier.
2. Foreclosures on houses quickened
3. Credit lines to business dried up
4. Business started going bust
The bottom line is – people are spending less.
Some countries were impacted more heavily than others such as Ireland, Spain, Greece and the Baltic states. It wasn't just the EU that was affected by this; the entire world was affected.
Whilst we can see a small recovery in the UK economy, overall it doesn't mean we're necessarily in the clear. Ireland for instance has now officially tipped back into recession (known as a double dip) and has recently been bailed out by the EU. We're not sure yet if other countries such as the UK, who responded to the crisis with massive stimulus packages and are now embarking upon slashing public spending, will also follow Ireland into the double dip, but there are increasing fears of 'contagion' amongst other European nations, including Portugal and Greece. Further to this the UK now faces the renewed challenge of above target inflation figures.
It is natural of course that the credit crisis and economic turmoil would have an impact upon ICT as a whole. Despite our best efforts the reality is that aside from a handful of businesses, IT is still regarded as a cost centre to the business.
Across all of our customers we have come to recognise that there is a war going on, this is the war on cost. At its essence the war on cost dictates that we must now deliver more value to our end users, with less resources and in less time.
There are a number of far reaching implications of the war; we've seen a huge swing from build to buy, from insource to outsource, from onsite to cloud. This war has forever changed the face of IT, from IT Professionals to Executives.
Recently Inframon hosted for the second time an event called The War on Cost (www.waroncost.com) at the Churchill War Rooms. This historic site set the theme for the day as a multitude of world class Microsoft and non-Microsoft speakers demonstrated how we can all fight the war on cost using the Microsoft System Center suite of products. Covering the current and future set of products attendees were able to gain unique insights and tips how to plan, architect and deploy System Center to help them fight the war on cost. Feedback from attendees was excellent and today we're happy to announce that those who didn't attend are now able to access the content at www.waroncost.com. You'll also find links to each session at the end of this post.
Hopefully you too can use System Center to fight the war on cost in your organisation.
If you need a little inspiration then remember the words of our wartime leader.
"We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down.
Give us the tools, and we will finish the job."
Winston Churchill - 9 February 1941
Sean Roberts\Gordon McKenna – Inframon
Inframon are a Microsoft Gold Partner specialising solely in the Microsoft System Center Suite of products. Their Microsoft MVP-led team help help businesses across the UK realise the true benefits of utilising Microsoft System Center to drive down costs across their IT infrastructure.
Watch the War on Cost event videos on Showcase:
Attack the Costs and Complexity of managing mobile devices in your enterprise Microsoft Private Cloud Story Microsoft Keynote - Desktop and Security Convergence Keynote from Gordon McKenna, CEO at Inframon
Microsoft keynote - Datacenter to the Cloud Heterogenous Management with Operations Manager 2007 Operations Manager R2 and V.Next Service Manager - the Better Together Story System Center Configuration Manager v.Next Highlights Datacenter IT Process Automation (Opalis)
Updated with new resources.
Tech.Days online will be bringing you IT insights and debates most Tuesdays from February to June, between 2 and 3pm. Watch the teaser video from presenters Simon May and Andrew Fryer here. They'll cover the topics of desktop, private cloud and public cloud; and each webinar will contain clues revealing how you could win a Samsung 42inch plasma TV, Canon EOS 1000D camera and an LG DVD home cinema system. The links below take you directly to the sessions and the website will host on demand sessions for those of you who can't make it on the day.
08 February The Modern Desktop
15 February Microsoft cloud for the IT Professional
22 February What is Hyper-V cloud
08 March Practical Deployment
15 March Creating Your Own Private Cloud
22 March Security integration with the cloud using Active Directory Federated Services (ADFS)
05 April Desktop Virtualisation
12 April Automation and the Private Cloud
19 April Managing the cloud
03 May Deployment with the Microsoft Desktop Optimisation Pack (MDOP)
10 May Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
17 May Office 365 for the IT Professional
07 June The Dynamic Duo, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7
14 June Mixing and moving services between the private and public cloud
21 June Governance Risk & Compliance in the cloud
Get more info on TechNet.
Not only can you now evaluate Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2011 Standard, but the team have updated the Windows SBS website with new resources materials to help you find out how Windows SBS 2011 can assist your business.
Save a space in your diary for the upcoming Microsoft Business Intelligence Seminar 2011, taking place on 2 March. Here's an overview – if you'd like to know more you'll find the full agenda and registration details here.
Business Intelligence enables your organisation to turn facts and information hidden in your data into valuable insight. Companies that use BI perform and compete better than those relying only on instinct or casual analysis. Microsoft provides a mature and complete platform for building BI solutions that empower every knowledge worker in your organisation to make better business decisions.
Our BI workshop has been designed to give you a good understanding of Microsoft's BI strategy and its platform consisting of Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, and SQL Server 2008 R2. You will also hear about future direction for BI that takes advantage of Cloud Computing, the emergence of BI Appliances, and the newest innovation in powerful, advanced, yet easy to use analytics.
Have you taken advantage of our Windows 7 Deployment Learning Portal offer yet?
Take this free online assessment to help you identify the strengths and gaps in your knowledge around Windows 7 deployment and provide some targeted learning steps. If you take the assessment now you could get your mitts on a FREE Windows 7 Resource Kit (worth £54.99; while stocks last), along with 40% off a wide range of MS Press titles. If you've already qualified for one of the Windows 7 Resource Kits but have yet to claim, please do remember to do so by the end of February.
We're back! We missed you, so this fortnight's newsletter is a bumper edition all about making Windows server management easier. We've got a feature article from the lovely folks at Inframon, along with the usual round up of top stories and downloads, and no less than two chances to win some amazing goodies. We're also trying to track down the winners of our letters to Father Techmas competition. Where are you guys?!
Read the newsletter here and sign up to get your own copy every fortnight.
Are you a decision maker in your business? If so, Bing Maps and The Ridgian Group would like to invite you to join them on 1st February for a Live Meeting about Corporate Business Intelligence using Bing Maps. Come and find out how you can use Business Intelligence to address your key business priorities, such as:
Products discussed include Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft SQL Server, among others.
The agenda is as follows:
Register here
Last week I blogged about Windows Small Business Server Standard 2011 – you can find a more detailed summary here on the official SBS blog, including a list of the new and enhanced features.
Here are some more bits and bobs to help you find out more:
· SBS 2011 Standard learning snacks
· What's new in SBS 2011 and Migrating to SBS 2011
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This won't work with the 3" flush valve of the Cadet 3
It's meant for 3.5 or more tanks that use a 2" flush valve.
There is not a conversion kit to dual flush the Cadet.
Hi everyone,
Wow, I never knew there was soooo much to learn about
toilets, it's been an education!
I've spent some time looking around at toilets in person,
reading online, and after discovering this site last night,
I spent all evening reading these forums.
This is a great resource, by far the best I've seen!
Kudos to all of you for giving your time.
We are installing a new toilet in our bathroom (I should say
my husband is, there is no "we" about doing the work.... lol
He is not a plumber, but is reasonably handy and has tinkered
with our old one before.
I had looked around to find one, and had settled on an American
Standard 13L Cadet 3.
(from what I've read here it looks like I made an ok choice?)
There are two Drake dealers about an hour from me, but I really
don't think we want to spend a lot extra if the Cadet would work?
I'm not sure if it matters, but there is also a toilet downstairs,
directly below the one we are replacing (house is a split entry).
We are interested in a water saving kit, and I found one called
TwoFlush http://www.twoflush.com
It looks to be exactly what we want.
Would anyone be familar with it? (I did a search here on the forums
but didn't find anything).
Any opinions as to whether it would work alright with the Cadet 3 13L?
Thanks in advance if anyone can offer any thoughts or advice!
(sorry to be so long, but I wanted to give any pertinant details).
This won't work with the 3" flush valve of the Cadet 3
It's meant for 3.5 or more tanks that use a 2" flush valve.
There is not a conversion kit to dual flush the Cadet.
Thank you so much for your quick reply!
hmmmm..... I was afraid that was going to be
too easy.
Are there any recommendations for 13L Toilets
that could have a dual flush kit added?
I did like the look and style of the TwoFlush kit.
Any of the others I've seen are top of the tank,
and I don't like that at all.
You would be well served to buy a toilet with the dual flush already in it!
found that have the dual flush are 6L/4L combos.
Also, and this sounds so picky but.... I really don't
like the flush being on top of the tank, and that is
all I've seen (although again, they have all been low
flush which we don't want anyway).
We definitely want a 13L and we don't have any water
shortage issues so we can definitely support one, but there
are a "lot" of "liquid/tp" flushes per day, so it only seemed
right to use a dual flush if possible.
I really appreciate the responses, it's been very helpful!
I had no idea what was involved when I redid the bathroom
to white fixtures and tub enclosure, and the current toilet is
I thought it would just be an easy swap... live and learn.
Where did you find a new toilet that uses 13L? What a waste...must be old stock, or you misquoted as it has been years, or you don't live in the USA.
Jim DeBruycker
Important note - I'm not a pro
Retired Defense Industry Engineer; Schluter 2.5-day Workshop Completed 2013, 2014
I am in eastern Canada, and 13L toilets are still
available here (somewhat surprising, as recycling
has been done for a long time in this area, and
has ramped up over the past few years to include
quite a number of things).
In any case, we would like to have a dual flush,
as we do realize that 13 L's is a waste for the
majority of flushes used.
I've just read and heard too many bad things about
the low flow toilets to go that route, and honestly,
if we can get a dual, that 13 L's will only need to be
used a small percentage of the time.
Because of that.... I just don't want to set ourselves
up for a potential headache when the ability to have
both is there, you know?
The bad reports about low flow toilets are carry overs from the early days. While not every low flow toilet is a good one, there are a number to choose from. Toto, the worlds largest manufacture of toilets, has a number of models in a wide range of prices and all of them work well. I would urge you to go to the home page of this site and get into Terry's Report on Low Flow Toilets, especially the Toto line. Scroll down until you come to the Toto Shopping Cart. This will give you a full list. These are not the cheapest toilets you can buy, but they sure work like they should and are environment friendly.
I'm willing to have an open mind.
I will check out the low flow a little more today.
When I checked the other night, the closest Drake
dealers are Gold Level dealers, which I think means
they have a good number of models available.
Thanks to everyone for your opinions and advice!
I'm on a mission to search again today.
The showrooms will charge retail.
Plumbers also buy from showrooms, and sometimes you can get better pricing that way.
I can't think of many old toilets that actually will flush better than some of the new ones.
I used to plunge the old bowls on a regular basis.
Old toilets used lots of water, a lot of it, was water slowly going down the drain, after the flush. The extra water wasn't flushing anything, it was more like leaving your kitchen tap on, and reading the newspaper.
New ones, USE the water for the flush. They are much more efficient with it.
Now that I have new toilets, when they do need plunging, I have to remember if the plunger is in one of the trucks, or in the garage. It's a long time between uses now.
Are you sure they make Cadet 3's with 13 liters per flush? If you mean the older Cadets for 3.5 then maybe you could. But on the contrary if you have one of those 3.5's I would go and buy the Drake. Less water, high performance.
This is an old thread, and yes, they do make a 1.28 Cadet 3
That would make it a Watersense product, and the need to dual flush it doesn't make much sense.
Bowls are typically designed with a flush valve in mind. When you start changing those things, performance can suffer.


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"Don't Fail Me Now" Is A Total Failure
Melanie Amaro needs help and fast! Her debut single, "Don't Fail Me Now," has critics shocked. Take a listen and tell us what you think.
The X-Factor winner Melanie Amaro just released her first single, "Don't Fail Me Now." The track comes eight months after she won Simon Cowell's version of his highly successful X-Factor show from the United Kingdom. Unfortunately, the verdict is in: Amaro's song is a total dud.
Epic deal for The X-Factor champ Melanie Amaro >>
"Don't Fail Me Now" is auto-tuned, which is a shame because Melanie Amaro has pipes. Her time on The X-Factor led to countless comparisons to Christina Aguilera, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. Amaro even covered many of those icons' legendary songs -- usually to standing ovations. The worst complaint Melanie received on the show was that she was a little boring. "Don't Fail Me Now" isn't boring -- it's just straight up awful.
Melanie Amaro: Simon Cowell made a mistake >>
With a recording contract worth $5 million and access to the best producers, how did "Don't Fail Me Now" even make it out of the studio? I was shocked to learn Livi Franc, who has worked with Britney Spears and Kelly Clarkson, wrote the song and major producer Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins produced it. What happened?
The song has potential. It seems like a perfectly good song in its first 10 seconds. The lyrics aren't that bad. Yet, it seems to stifle the very best of Amaro. It limits her ability to shine. Even worse, "Don't Fail Me Now" can't decide if it's a dance track or a ballad. I'm confused just listening to it -- about one minute into the song the beat begins to rise as if it's a club song, but at its peak it stops and brings in soft piano music. Huh? That's the problem with "Don't Fail Me Now" -- it's not Amaro's voice that's troublesome, it's the production of the song.
The Los Angeles TImes seems to agree. Music critic Gerrick D. Kennedy writes, "More puzzling is this need to push Amaro into dance territory, which is currently overcrowded by almost every pop/R&B diva. It was never in her wheelhouse, something her team should have realized…"
"Don't Fail Me Now" will likely be a forgotten single and disappear from radio airwaves as soon as it shows up this week. The cheesy single doesn't suit Melanie Amaro with her powerhouse voice and classic style.
Listen to Melanie Amaro debut single "Don't Fail Me Now" below. Do you think it's a good choice?
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Yann BeauvaisYann Beauvais has been working in the field of experimental cinema since the 70s. Not only an accomplished filmmaker whose work features in collections of such institutions as New York's Museum of Modern Art, he is also an impassioned curator, programmer, teacher and figure on the European arts scene. At the beginning of the 80s, he and New Zealander Miles Kingsley McKane founded Lightcone in Paris, which was to become one of Europe's leading avant-garde filmmaking cooperatives. The collection of experimental and avant-garde film maintained by Lightcone, and the distribution services on offer, provide an invaluable resource. Under the auspices of Lightcone, Beauvais has curated many programmes of experimental film for museums such as the Georges Pompidou Centre. Invited to present his work and give lectures in Europe, the USA and Asia, he is frequently absent from Paris, his home, where he still manages to ensure the weekly programming of experimental film, Scratch.
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Airbus, EADS and ENN make a push for new generation aviation fuels
Zhuhai, 14 November 2012
- Microalgae are a very promising feedstock for biofuel
- Speeding up commercialisation and production
- Test Flights in 2013
Airbus, EADS Innovation Works and ENN, one of the world's leading Bio-Energy companies based in China, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the China International Air Show in Zhuhai. The partners aim to explore innovative solutions for alternative aviation fuels. The scope of the collaboration includes technical qualification of aviation fuels based on Algae Oil and the promotion of their use for aviation in China, one of the world's fastest growing aviation markets.
In phase one, the partners are collaborating on maturity assessment of Algae Oil technology, on oil testing and analysis and on the development of tools to assess the environmental, economic and societal impact of this technology. EADS Innovation Works supports this initiative based on its expertise on new generation fuels. In parallel, ENN has already developed the production plant of Algae based oil, one of the most promising new generation alternative fuels for Aviation.
In the second phase, the objective is to plan test flights for 2013 in China with Algae Oil produced by ENN.
Airbus supports and sustains fuel tests and qualification activities including the deployment of sustainable alternative fuels for commercial flights. With this purpose, Airbus coordinates the participation of external partners in China including major engine manufacturers and Airlines.
The pilot plant developed by ENN is one of the most advanced in the world and is able to produce more than 10 tons of algae-based oil per year. From 2013 onwards, the partners will look at scaling-up the alternative fuel production process to achieve sustainable quantities of aviation fuel for flight use.
"Microalgae are considered to be one of the most promising pathways for the production of biofuels for Aviation," said Jean Botti, Chief Technical Officer of EADS, who attended the China International Air Show in Zhuhai. "We have already proved that it is technically possible to fly with Algae Oil. Now we need to demonstrate that the industrial production of algae based biofuel is both ecologically and economically viable."
"We are privileged to be working with ENN to determine how we can best contribute to a sustainable aviation sector in China," said Frédéric Eychenne, Airbus' New Energies Programme Manager. "The commercialisation of new generation alternative fuels is one of the essential ingredients in our quest to achieving ambitious environmental targets in aviation."
"Sustainability is crucial to our environment and the global community. ENN, as a clean energy provider, and Airbus, as an energy consumer, have been striving to make sure that algal jet fuel can be delivered and used to reduce carbon emissions for the airline industry," said Dr. Zhongxue Gan, CTO of ENN Group, "Applying algae biotechnology to produce clean energy using industrial waste, including CO2 and wastewater, is part of our carbon recycle programme. With ENN's systematic approach, energy, environment and resources will be integrated as an ecosystem which will certainly benefit our society."
Certain species of algae contain high amounts of oil. This oil can be extracted, processed and refined. Microalgae reproduce rapidly and create at least 30 times more organic substance per cultivation area than, for example, rapeseed. Their cultivation does not compete with food production. Algae can be grown on poor quality land using non potable or saltwater. Their main advantage is that microalgae are consuming large amounts of CO2.
The partnership agreement is one of the initiatives to develop a complete sustainable aviation bio-fuel production capability in China, using only sustainable resources. Airbus is leading an ambitious global program connecting farmers, refiners and the end user (airlines) to form regional sustainable alternative fuel "value chains". Airbus' goal is to have a value chain in every continent. So far, Airbus has six value chains in Latin America, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and with the Chinese value chain, Asia.
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EADS is a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services. In 2011, the Group – comprising Airbus, Astrium, Cassidian and Eurocopter – generated revenues of € 49.1 billion and employed a workforce of over 133,000.
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Great pick.
I love Yoakam's music, but he has zero stage presence. I saw him perform in Atlanta at a major country bar/dance hall and he mailed it in. He looked like he wanted to be ANYWHERE but on that stage. Music was great, but he didn't interact with the fans at all.