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Mr. Kirlin has been with the Dallas County District Attorney's Office since he began practicing law 24 years ago. In his role as Administrative Chief Prosecutor, he oversees 22 attorneys and 11 investigators. A native of Dallas, Texas, Mr. Kirlin earned his Juris Doctor at St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science at the University of Texas at Arlington. He specializes in criminal law and is a member of the State Bar of Texas and the Texas District and County Attorneys Association.

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Phil Parker is unlike any writer you've ever met - or read for that matter. That's because he doesn't write most of his books. Instead, the trained economist uses sophisticated algorithms that can pen a whole book from start to finish in as little as a few minutes. The secret is sophisticated programming mimicking the thought process behind formulaic writing. It can take years to create these programs, but once completed, new books can be churned out in minutes.
ICON Group International Inc - auto-writing more than a million titles, mostly nonfiction books on very specific subjects. But there's poetry, too - see an example at right. (Parker says most poetry is governed by strict formulas.) He claims he's basically applying 19th Century Taylorism to the publishing industry, emulating the famous auto manufacturer's process.This method has led to Parker's company -
Parker's work isn't publishing's first foray into auto-writing, but up until now, most, like companies like Chicago-based Narrative Science and North Carolina's StatSheet, focused on short, formulaic sports and crime writing for newspapers, not full-length books.
When ReadWrite spoke with Parker this week, he gushed about how much press he's gotten of late - and how often they'd gotten his story wrong.
Writing By The Numbers
ReadWrite: Tell me about the algorithm you created to auto-write books.
Phil Parker: The non-fiction algorithms and methodology are not original at all... The whole field is called econometrics. All the algorithms we did was mimic what economists have been doing for decades.
In the 1990s I was working on reports where you had to do a lot of economic analyses and I realized that most of what an economist does is itself extremely formulaic in nature. With the advent of larger hard disks, Windows, RAM, a lot of that process could be reverse engineered and basically characterized by algorithms and be used in an automated fashion. The methodologies are extremely old, just like the methodologies of writing haiku poetry are very old. An Elizabethan sonnet is 14 lines - that is a line of code if you think of it that way. The code is constrained. So all genres, no matter what the genres are, are a form of constrained writing.
ReadWrite: What kind of restraints?
Phil Parker: There are constraints to the length of the book based on page formats and font sizes and the expectations of readers. There's natural constraints that exist in all forms of writing. In the nonfiction area, the constraints are fairly understood by the people in that area.
Small businesses doing import-export businesses, they do it for very narrowly defined products. They don't do it for general products. That's why for Amazon and elsewhere, all these titles we created, very arcane categories, and that's because that's what people actually do business in. Nobody does business in hardware parts, they do it in 6-inch copper screws. So for those businesses, to hire a consultant firm to say 'Hey, can you give me a worldwide estimate of copper screws,' the firm would go out and spend a month or two basically doing the job an economist and a couple of researchers do. Those people then pass off the editorial analysis to a group of people who do formatting and copy editing and graphic design, who then pass it off to another group of people who do metadata, covers, spines, all that. All we did is reverse engineer that. But the methodology to do that already existed before the books existed.
ReadWrite: So it's not a new form of writing?
Phil Parker: I have not created any new way of writing. All I'm doing is writing computer programs that mimic the way people write. Going back to the Elizabethan sonnets, Shakespeare or one of his contemporaries created the 14-line iambic pentameter poem, where the rhyming pattern was 'a-b, a-b, c-d, c-d, e-f, e-f g-g.' G-g being a couplet at the end. By line 9 there has to be a turn in the poem, so there has to be a phrase like 'yet' or 'but.' The first line is typically a question, which acts as a title. All of them are 10 syllables in each line... they have to go in the rhythm of that pattern. If you do an analysis of sonnets, you'll realize that about 10% of sonnets violate those rules. But they do it only in a very particular way. Even that formulation of violation is itself constrained... Once you have all of those rules you then write algorithms that mimic those rules. It's a very different kind of philosophy from artificial intelligence.
All About The Algorithm
ReadWrite: Tell us about that algorithm.
Phil Parker: We created a system which we think mimics the human mind... The truth is, if you step back far enough, all of literature is highly formulaic, not just romance novels. Some of the genres are so forumalic that the publishers of those genres tell the potential writers how to write the books themselves.
ReadWrite: What do you mean by formulaic?
Phil Parker: A genre is defined by formula. What's interesting across genres, often you find the same formulas taking place in little twists, which throw them squarely in a different genre. But the twist is minute. A romance book can become a thriller by rearranging certain components of it. In essence, formulas of genres have patterns in them which overlap with each other. Think of a Venn diagram, and the intersection between them. The more genres intersect with each other, the more likely that recurring patterns can be observed.
We started using this graph theoretic approach to write dictionary definitions. I have this thing called Webster's Online Dictionary... I turned my algorithms on generating dictionaries... using cluster analysis and graph theory combined. It algorithmically mimicked what a lexicographer should do if they had access to such a large data base. The process involved first creating the linguistic graph that defines language and all of the relationships between words and the phonetics behind the language.
ReadWrite: Does it really take 20 minutes to auto-write a book?
Phil Parker: It could take 2-3 years to set up the algorithms, but once you've got it, the software has now been fully coded. Once you decide to write one on [a particular] topic, it only takes 20-30 minutes... I think the slowest one might take an hour or two, the fastest 4 to 10 minutes.
ReadWrite: How much does it cost to produce?
Phil Parker: The cost could be the equivalent of 2-3 man years of programmer time, and maybe an analyst or editors that might be required on that project... could be $200,000 to $500,000 to set up a genre.
ReadWrite: How many books have you written by hand versus with the algorithm?
Phil Parker: The ones I wrote by hand were academic books - they were like MIT press - it wasn't using algorithms. So 6 of them. And more than 1,000,050 titles using automation. It's a moving target by the hour... we put a lot out of print because they're dated after 2 or 3 years because they're statistical analyses... You cull the catalogue so to speak.
Humans Vs. Machines
ReadWrite: What's the big difference between human writing and machine writing?
Phil Parker: There's the classic turing test about a conversation with a robot: Can you tell the difference between a robot and a real human who's conversing with you? Is there something different about these topics? I don't think anybody would look at our crossword puzzle books and say, 'Oh my gosh, a computer wrote this,' because most crossword puzzles are so formulaic that you would expect it to be formulaic... If people find it useful to be in a formulaic format, so much the better. The goal isn't to sound better than an author. The goal is to deliver something useful to people. That's the end of it, no more. Otherwise, why bother doing it?
ReadWrite: So are human authors replaceable?
Phil Parker: Bloggers that we talked about earlier who read 3 different articles, read a Wikipedia page... those people can be replaced with computer algorithms, because they're doing formulaic work. What you're doing right now is not formulaic. Because you're probing, you're going to the depths of it.
There's been in the last 2 weeks about 10 articles written about what I've done and none of them talked to me about it. They're all copy and pasting from each other. I think it's very a interesting observation that they're using a formulaic method to deliver content and put their name on a byline, when in fact they've done a formulaic cut-and-paste. I would call those kinds of articles low on the creativity front.
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Home > Research > Publications > Annual Reports > 1999-2000 Annual Report
Research Archives
Charles E. Jones
The mission of the Research Archives is to provide quick and easy access to the corpus of published scholarship on the ancient Near East. During the year ending in June 2000 we have been able to push forward two projects that support the goals of this mission in new and interesting ways: the renovation of the reading room and the development of the on-line catalog.
Renovation of the Reading Room
Through the initiative of the Elizabeth Morse and Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trusts, and supported with ample and generous matching funds from a multitude of friends, we were finally able to proceed in December 1999 with the long-awaited renovation of the Elizabeth Morse Genius Reading Room and the electrical systems in the Research Archives.
For much of the autumn, electrical contractors worked behind the scenes, inching their way through basements, attics, hollow walls, and ceilings to find ways to bring new sources of power and acceptable wiring up to the library. Working in many cases with the original (and not always well charted) seventy-year-old systems they were able to replace and update all of the wiring serving this area of the building, and to prepare for the installations that would take place in later phases of the renovation project.
Some components of the Research Archives collection had been packed and stored last summer in anticipation of the project, but it was on the first day of the winter vacation that the serious work began. In order to remove the decaying cork floor, it was necessary to evacuate the reading room entirely: books, shelves, tables, and chairs. In addition, the library offices had to be packed and moved, and temporary office space claimed and set up on the upper level of the library - and all of this in a single week! Despite the time pressure, we were able to accomplish this job on schedule to allow the contractors to encase the built-in shelving in plastic sheeting and begin the machine shredding of the floor.
It was an interesting process to observe, and I'm pleased to say that we had a hard-working and imaginative crew on the job - they were able to offer interesting and useful solutions to many of the problems encountered along the way.
Once the wiring was installed, the flooring crew, plasterers, and painters were able to complete the projects in time for us to rebuild the bookshelves, replace the books, install the tables and chairs, unpack, reconstruct the offices, and prepare for the reopening as scheduled on 19 January.
The result is superb! The new cork floor, matching the original pattern of the floor, shines under its coat of wax. It brightens the room in a way I had not anticipated. It is also much cleaner - the old floor was so badly worn in many places that the cork was disintegrating and producing mountains of dust. The new appearance greatly enhances the pleasantly cool silence of the reading room. It is a joy to work here.
More importantly however, we are now able to offer users in the library a reliable and properly grounded electrical source at each table as well as 10baseT Ethernet connections. This gives readers in the Research Archives full and speedy access to the world of information and to the tools available in their own laptop computers, in the Oriental Institute's file servers, in the University of Chicago's resources, and in the world at large. It's a great leap forward. Getting up to walk into the reading room as I write this, I see nine such computers connected and in use, as well as the two public access terminals we provide.
Of the reading room renovations there remains a single component to complete. We await the reduplication and redesign of the original lighting fixtures (which are now installed in the ground floor corridor of Harper Hall) to replace the unattractive fluorescent fixtures installed some decades ago.
Development of the On-Line Catalog
As we announced in the last Annual Report, we were then prepared to begin the installation and testing of the new Internet accessible version of the on-line catalog of the Research Archives. As users of the Research Archives will remember, we have had a locally accessible electronic catalog available for nearly a decade. It was a nice piece of software, easy to use, and reasonably easy to maintain, but it was platform specific (Apple), slow, and we were hampered by procedures we had developed to work around local cataloging problems. We had recognized for some time that we needed to develop the catalog to address these and other issues, and a year ago we had the machinery and the software in place. Shortly before the closing of the reading room for the renovation, we were finally able to install the server in the newly developed - and finally secure - server room of the Computer Laboratory. With John Sanders' usual energetic and indispensable assistance we put the catalog on-line, got it operational, and prepared for testing while the library was closed. Following quite a lot of work, we were finally prepared to announce it publicly at the beginning of February. It has been more successful than we had anticipated. To date the server had processed more than 125,000 queries from more than six thousand visitors (of whom about a thousand are repeat visitors) from seventy-eight countries. Clearly we are fulfilling a need. I urge you to visit the Research Archives on-line catalog at http://oilib.uchicago.edu/oilibcat.html. I welcome any and all comments on how we can make the catalog more useful.
It is likely that we will be able to double the number of records in the on-line catalog in the year to come. We are currently developing the procedures for more rapid data editing, entry, and indexing.
Taken together the rewiring of the Research Archives and the new accessibility of the on-line catalog are significant advances in both the consumer and supplier ends of the information revolution. Together they tend to increase the abilities of the scholarly communities served by the Research Archives and the Oriental Institute to interact with the resources available. The solid establishment of an electronic infrastructure also prepares the way for the development of new tools such as those discussed at last October's conference on Electronic Publication in ancient Near Eastern Studies.
Publications and Projects
In addition to the six publications listed below, several long-term publication projects are underway. We have nearly completed the initial editing of the first volume of The Oriental Institute Archaeological Newsletter, appearing between 1950 and 1973, which was the predecessor to the quarterly newsletter Oriental Institute News & Notes. These newsletters, usually letters from the field, give us a fascinating glimpse at the history of many of the Oriental Institute's projects overseas since the Second World War. I hope we will have this project complete within the next year or so. Several additional dissertation proposals are also in the works. We hope also to have a web-based version of the Oriental Institute Arabic Manuscripts Project, described in last year's Annual Report, available in the not too distant future.
- Abzu: Guide to Resources for the Study of the Ancient Near East Available on the Internet. By Charles E. Jones. Oriental Institute Research Archives Bibliographical and Informational Documents, Supplements to Oriental Institute Research Archives Acquisitions List 3. Chicago: Oriental Institute Research Archives, 1994-2000. We have added more than 700 entries to Abzu during the past year, and this index remains the most complete guide to on-line materials relating to the ancient Near East.
- Archaeology and Historical Problems of the Second Intermediate Period: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the Humanities in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. By Bruce B. Williams. December 1975. Thanks are due to Bruce Williams for his efforts in making the image files of his dissertation available. We believe he still holds the record for the longest dissertation in the Humanities at the University of Chicago - the paper version of this encyclopedic dissertation covers some 2,143 pages. Available exclusively on-line at:
- Plant Ornament: Its Origin and Development in the Ancient Near East: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the Humanities in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Oriental Languages and Literature. By Helene J. Kantor, March 1945. We are all indebted to Peggy Grant and Mary Shea for their extraordinary effort over several years in transcribing, editing, and checking the references in this enormously difficult manuscript, and to John Larson and the Museum Archives, which have custody of the papers of the late Helene J. Kantor, for making the dissertation available.
Available exclusively on-line at:
- Research Archives Catalog Web version of the Research Archives Catalog.
- Research Archives Recent Acquisitions (RABooks) Mailing List: This new list offers monthly postings of lists of acquisitions in the Research Archives. There is no discussion on this list. We welcome your membership. As of mid-July 2000, membership stands at exactly three hundred subscribers. To subscribe to the RABooks mailing list, send an e-mail message to:
In the body of your e-mail message, include the following line in the body of the message:
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You will receive a return e-mail confirming your subscription.
- Virtually all on-line publications of the Research Archives are under constant revision and updating; a list of such publications can be found at:
Acquisitions Lists
For many years, lists of recent acquisitions in the Research Archives were produced periodically and distributed informally. For a period in the 1990s the acquisitions lists were published more formally, but that ambitious project was abandoned in 1995. The development of electronic media offers us new opportunities to distribute acquisitions lists widely and in a timely and inexpensive manner. In June we announced the availability of the Research Archives Acquisitions List monthly - free of charge - by means of an automated e-mailing list called RABooks. We hope also to use this list to distribute topical lists, lists of dissertations, and other useful material from time to time as they are developed here. For information on how to subscribe to RABooks, see above.
Current Acquisitions
Following are the acquisitions statistics for the past year.
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This year's acquisitions statistics are consistent with the trends of the past few years. In our acquisitions policy, we continue to be committed to the mission statement articulated at the beginning of this report. We try to acquire all the basic published resources for the study of the ancient Near East.
I am honored to have three excellent graduate student assistants this year. Katherine Strange, second-year graduate student in Archaeology returned for a second year in the Research Archives. In addition two new assistants, Jake Lauinger, first-year student in Assyriology, and Mark Saathoff, first-year student in Egyptology, joined us last fall. All three of them shared office duties and covered weekend and evening hours for me. It is always a pleasure to acknowledge the help of excellent assistants, and this year is no exception. Each of them has taken on specific (and often odious) tasks with energy and imagination. This library simply could not function without them.
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Democrats continue to push for immigration reform in Washington D.C.
And now it appears a comprise could be in the works that could gain more support from some Republicans.
Two key points on the Republican side of the argument are increased border security and not allowing amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Two Republican senators have unveiled a new proposal, designed to beef-up border security in an attempt to win more support from other members of their party.
Sen. John Hoeven of North Dakota said, "I believe the first order of immigration reform is to secure the border."
The new amendment adds hundreds of miles of new border fencing, along with about 20,000 new border agents, and improves a federal program for employers to determine workers' immigration status.
Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee said, "Some people have described this as a border surge, and the fact is that we are investing resources in securing our border that have never been invested before."
Under the amendment 11 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally can start the pathway to citizenship, but won't be eligible for green cards until the security requirements are met. Many Republicans say that amounts to amnesty, which won't work, especially in the GOP-controlled House.
Speaker of the House John Boehner said, "Immigration reform must, and I mean, must, be grounded in real boarder security."
Pro-immigration groups are closely watching the debate.
Frank Sharry with America's Voice said, "I think Speaker Boehner would like to see the House deal with this issue. The question is whether his Tea Party members will allow him to. I think the future of the GOP depends on the answer to that question."
The Senate could vote on an immigration reform bill as early as next week.
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News Marlboro College Still Changing Lives
MARLBORO, VT - (August 28, 2012) - Marlboro College is pleased to announce that it is featured in the fourth edition of Colleges That Change Lives: 40 schools that will change the way you think about colleges, the perennially popular guide to profound learning experiences. Prospective college students and their parents have been relying on this indispensable guide since 1995, when author Loren Pope published the first edition.
The new edition states: "Marlboro is a transformative place that turns out the essential leaven of democracy: bold, clear thinkers; people of vision and character. Quite simply, the college fulfills the promise of liberal education."
"It is always gratifying to be included in each new edition of Colleges That Change Lives," said Nicole Curvin, Marlboro dean of admissions. "Not only has this important guide led many students to seriously consider Marlboro's rigorous, self-designed course of study, but it also is a constructive validation of our unique academic model."
Colleges That Change Lives profiles 40 colleges that, like Marlboro, outdo much larger colleges and universities, including the "Ivies," in producing successful students. For the latest edition of this classic college guide, reviser Hilary Masell Oswald conducted all new school tours and in-depth interviews, building on Loren Pope's original work to create a completely updated, more expansive work.
According to the guide, "Marlboro has figured out something most universities in this country have not: The essential work of teaching and learning doesn't have to be fancy—in fact, it probably shouldn't be—but it does take a lot of energy and focus on the part of students and professors." Students describe themselves as "curious, engaged, unconventional and comfortable."
Marlboro was also rated as one of the country's best institutions for undergraduate education in the 2013 edition of The Princeton Review's annual college guide, The Best 377 Colleges. Only about 15 percent of America's 2,500 four-year colleges are profiled in The Princeton Review's flagship college guide, which includes detailed profiles and rankings based on 122,000 student surveys.
"I dictate my own academics at Marlboro," said one student surveyed by The Princeton Review. "I have the freedom to seriously study most anything." Another says, "Students are on equal footing with teachers and decide their own academic paths." Faculty members are considered "incredibly sharp-witted and compassionate."
"We commend Marlboro for its outstanding academics, which is the primary criteria for our selection of schools for the book," said Robert Franek, Princeton Review's senior vice president, publisher and author of The Best 377 Colleges. Marlboro had an academic rating of 99 as well as a 99 in for "interesting professors" and a 95 for "accessible professors." It was included in the top 20 colleges for "class discussion encouraged" (#13), "professors get high marks" (#17), "students study the most" (#13) and "most liberal students" (#10), as well as more humorous categories such as "there's a game?" (#7).
"Marlboro's intimate academic environment and self-governing community can be hard to fit into categories typically used to rate colleges, but The Princeton Review does a balanced job of highlighting the college's strengths," said Curvin. "We are delighted to be counted among the top colleges by this leader in educational services."
Marlboro was included in the revised and updated Fiske Guide to Colleges 2013, a selective, subjective, and systematic look at 300+ of the "best and most interesting" colleges and universities in the U.S., Canada and Great Britain. Also in August, the college received a 4.5 out of 5 stars on the LGBT-Friendly Campus Climate Index published by Campus Pride, the national nonprofit organization for student leaders and campus groups creating a safer college environment for LGBT students.
Marlboro College has offered undergraduate education in the liberal arts for 60 years, with 300 undergraduate students enjoying an 8:1 student-faculty ratio, a voice in governing the community and individualized courses of study on a 300-acre campus in the hills of southern Vermont. Marlboro College Graduate School offers master's degree programs for working adults in the areas of education, internet technologies, health care administration, non-profit administration and an MBA in Managing for Sustainability, with courses designed around small classes at the downtown Brattleboro campus complemented by online work and close collaboration.


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The story of NDT abroad starts with Jiří Kylián's story about the creation process of his renowned ballet Sinfonietta in 1978. It was this ballet which made NDT famous worldwide. Sinfonietta marked the start of NDT's reputation as a worldfamous dancecompany which the company still holds today.
Sinfonietta is perhaps my most spontaneous work - not by aim, but because of the extremely limited time and conditions in which it was created. The company was floating and had no definite plans for the future. There was unrest among the dancers. During this time I received a telephone call from Joseph Wishy, then the director of the Charleston Festival, who had asked me whether I had ever heard of the composer named Janácek? I answered, that I always wanted to, but never had the guts to use his work, as the task seemed so filled with responsibility towards this music, which every visitor of our house was forced to listen to. My bones and reins were soaked in it. I was advised not to accept the offer to choreograph this work for the Charleston Festival, as the production time which was at our disposal, would be severely limited. Tickled by a sense of adventure and feeling that the time was right - I said yes. Walter Nobbe, the designer of this piece, held my hand when I took the decision to demonstrate his support. Sold to the devil - now we had to make it. Rehearsing whilst on tour in Israel, asking de dancers to work overtime and myself making impossible hours, we made it. And the result certainly reflects the spontaneity in which it was created, conditioned by the lack of time and the feeling of a balancing act. Nevertheless, the result was quite remarkable. The audience which was present at the premiere in Charleston had never heard of the music, because they already stood on top of their chairs cheering and throwing the programme books into the air. This was the moment that tore the company out of depression and this work where simplicity is one of the major characteristics, became a cornerstone of the repertoire of Nederlands Dans Theater, opening new possibilities for the company's future.(Jiří Kylián)
Ever since this breakthrough in 1978 NDT holds a firm position in the international field of dance. During the past decades the company has built a loyal audience from London, New York, Madrid to Singapore. Nowadays half of NDT's 150 shows is presented in theatres outside of NDT's homebase The Hague in The Netherlands.
The widely lauded group, which was here for the Singapore Arts Festival, has garnered quite a following among Singapore Audiences. (Singapore Times)


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SLC.edu / Undergraduate Catalogue / Creative and Performing Arts / Dance / 2012-2013
Dance/Movement Fundamentals
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This class is an introduction to the basic principles of contemporary and ballet practices. The fundamentals class will develop skills basic to all movement studies, such as dynamic alignment through coordination and integration of the neuro/skeletal/muscular system, strength, balance, and basic spatial and rhythmic awareness. Students may enter this yearlong course in the second semester only with permission of the instructor.
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- Labanotation/Repertory
- Lighting Design and Stagecraft for Dance
- Media in Performance
- Modern and Post-Modern Practice
- Music for Dancers
- Performance Project: Cross Reference, The Body and Gesture
- Performance Project: Martha Graham's 'Primitive Mysteries'
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- Teaching Conference
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1. To be eligible to participate in this contest, entrants must be Ohio residents who are 18 years of age or older and reside in the WTTE/WSYX viewing area.
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My TT boiler is cycling but it is skipping the space heating mode (3) and only heating the domestic hot water. The domestic mode (4) heats to as high as 204, according to the display, then shuts down having reached the temperature set point. The display then flashes 6200, followed by code b 18 (supply temperature too high). Am I not getting space heating because the supply temperature is too high?
If the TT is set for domestic hot water and unable to satisfy this first priority, it will not leave the task. Who set the boiler up?
It could be as simple as the temperature sensor for the IWH is not seated properly, or not working properly. Is the IWH temperature excessive?
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Reviews by atigerlife:
3.43/5 rDev +8.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Pours an amber color. Clear. No carbonation rising. Small white head that is creamy. Good lacing.
Aroma is sweet, malts, yeast.
Taste is crisp, light hops, bready and sweet. Somewhat bland.
Mouthfeel is light/medium. Smooth and creamy and cleansing.
Overall, a decent brew. Somewhat lacking in flavor, but very sessionable.
Serving type: on-tap
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3.25/5 rDev +2.5%
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3/5 rDev -5.4%
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3.85/5 rDev +21.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Appearance — Pours very syrupy; appears fairly carbonated; thin ring of head retention; medium lacing; very nice colour: somewhere between pumpkin and leather.
Smell — Toasty, almost woodsy; can't decide if this smells smoky or just very very toasty and woodsy.
Taste — Overwhelming blast of pretty much what was in the nose, with some additional malty sweetness.
Mouthfeel — Very, very smooth, almost creamy, consistency on the tongue is very pleasant; don't really feel the carbonation or the alcohol.
Overall — Not sure what an 'English Bay pale ale' is supposed to be, but this is a nice, very toasty, slightly sweet pale ale.
Serving type: bottle
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look: 4.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.25
341 ml bottle was poured into a pint glass.
Appearance: This beer poured a one finger head that reduced to a thin layer. It is a copper color with good clarity and vision of slow moving bubbles coming up through the glass. Spotty lacing on the glass as the beer was drank.
Smell: Toasted malts, caramel, a little fruity, and mild hop aroma. Nothing out of the ordinary.
Taste: Chewy toasted malts, some sweet caramel and pale malts, a little fruitiness, and mild hop bitterness.
Mouthfeel: A bit smooth, chewy, light, tasty, low to medium carbonation, and very drinkable.
Overall: Pretty standard and enjoyable pale ale. Very impressed with this beer based on how average it is.
Serving type: bottle
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look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Had a pint on tap at a Calgary pub in the NE. Arrived a nice reddish bronze color with around an inch and a half of off-white head. Subtle aroma was decidedly fruity with a little malt, MacIntosh apple and pear along with a little caramel. Aroma intensity did improve as the beer warmed up. Palate was also on the subdued and mellow side, with some brown bread, brown sugar, and again a lot of apple and pear fruit. Nil citrus that I could discern and the malts were there but decidedly downplayed, the English malt complexity crucial to this style is present but you have to go looking for it. Finish quite crisp and dry, with appropriate earthy hop bitterness and just a little lingering treacle sweetness. Insufficient body. A workmanlike effort that comes off as unfinished or insufficiently conditioned due to all the apple/pear esters trumping the malts on the palate. Decided devoid of all the "west coast character" promised on the label and instead tastes like a "small beer" from across the Atlantic. Granville Island is a lot like Big Rock here in Alberta ... They rarely produce terrible offerings but they do not typically blow anyone's mind either. There's probably a certain comfort in just barely clearing the mediocrity bar.
Serving type: on-tap
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473 ml can from LCBO purchased for $2.85 CDN. Served cold into a pint glass.
Appearance - Clear, copper/red color, 2.5 fingers of creamy white head with big time retention. Tons of bubbles present as well. Prominent lacing streaks on the glass.
Smell - Bready, with light grassy and grainy aromas mixed in as well. Everything is mild and subdues. Also detected the faintest whiff of fall fruits such as apple and pear.
Taste - Mild, light sprinkling of aforementioned apple and pear as well as grains. Low hop presence and malts aren't really noticeable either. A little bit of sweetness up front and a very mild and understated aftertaste.
Mouthfeel - High carbonation makes it a bit gassy, but feel and flavor as well as thick feel for 5% ABV. Not watery and not chewy or thick but good amount of fullness, i.e. you know you're drinking a beer with some substance.
Overall - Not a bad beer, definitely drinkable and enjoyable would not turn it down if offered, however for the price better beers in the style are usually available. Overall a little better than expected and good drinkability.
Serving type: can
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3.5/5 rDev +10.4%
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2.69/5 rDev -15.1%
look: 5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75
A - English Bay is deep copper in color with sort of ruddy highlights. Head is packes and cream colored with decent retention.
S - Aroma is malty up front with deep notes of brown sugar. Center has some barely discernable notes of fruit esters. There's just a tiny bit of fruit and leather. Sweet center fades into a finish that just drops into nowhere.
T - English Bay starts off sweetly malty, tasting more like brown sugar than caramel malts. The center gives more of the same brown sugar with hints of molasses. These flavors lead into a finish with barely any hop presence.
O - Overall English bay is straightforward in a way that goes beyond just being liniear. It's basic and doesn't really have a lot to offer.
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DPD deficiency may be diagnosed in various ways. In individuals with complete or profound DPD deficiency, laboratory testing can detect elevated levels of uracil and/or thymine in plasma or urine. Partial DPD deficiency is more difficult to detect, which has led to the development of a radioenzymatic test for the DPD enzyme. This test has remained the gold standard for diagnosing DPD deficiency even after the development of genetic testing for the condition, because of the complexity of the DPYD gene and the presence of multiple DNA sequence variations present in most affected individuals. Various types of cells and tissues can be examined this way.[1] More recently, a rapid, noninvasive, and cost-effective breath test was developed. This test permits the evaluation of DPD activity (normal activity and partial or profound deficiency) before the administration of fluoropyrmidine drugs such as 5-FU.[1]
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"I met Felipe eight years ago as a volunteer at Santa Clara, and we've been good friends since," said Cushman. "For the last six years we've remained in touch. We would usually catch up at meets or over the phone and check in on how our program's were both developing. Eight years ago, it felt like the Broncos were just starting something new, and I've been fortunate enough to see that grow over time, and see the team culture develop into the right place. I'm excited to step back in at the right time and continue to help this program evolve. The student-athletes have some great enthusiasm, and Felipe and I work well together, and I think we can help keep the ball rolling in a positive direction working together.
While at SFSU Cushman assisted in coaching the school's second-ever Division II All-American, as well as helping both the men's and women's teams achieve their highest finishes in school history at the conference and regional levels in 2011. Cushman is also a coach for the Impala women's running club in San Francisco. The Impalas had six women qualify for the US Olympic trials in the marathon in 2008 while 14 qualified in 2012.
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My tankless has been working fine for the past 5 years, until 2 nights ago we had no hot water (error code 12). So I reset the system and this morning I had no hot water... again it read error code 12 again!!! So I decided to do some research and found this great forum.
BTW I have city water.
Based on the info I got on this forum I turned the power off, cleaned the air mesh/filter, I also removed both flame sensors and cleaned them with a scouring pad; however as I was removing the sensors there was a a fiber-glass like gasket that disintegrated in my hand (so I guess I need to order one) the other issue and BIGGEST CONCERN is that there is a hole about a 1/2 inch wide, on the left side of the sensor that now has a fairly decent FLAME COMING OUT OF IT every time the heater is in use!!!
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I wouldnt say there unexpected. There is a plasitc that covers the viewer that prevents heat from escapaing. I guess that it fell at some point. I couldn't find it. Ordered both sensores, gasket and the plastic thingy for about $35 from Takagi.
I will keep you all posted.
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Just cleaned my igniter for the second time in 6 years of having the T-KD20." Love this unit " Looking at the life span of the fiberglass seal around the ignition panel/sight glass I was informed that this unit has been discontinued. Any Idea of a parts place for this unit ?
One thing I do regularly is remove the igniter and blow the residue off the burners that the gas leaves behind. Very low air flow from a plastic straw. You can see the difference in the diffusion of the flame after cleaned.
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great brunch, great price – i was really impressed. the food was a good twist on standards, albeit the menu was limited for brunch. the fruit smoothies were good too, and the eggs loose which is a rare but simple treat to implement in a restaurant. i went to foreign cinema which is in the same neighborhood...the food at foreign was definitely better (by a small margin), but the cost of universal made it more of an every weekend brunch joint. the only issue was the insane wait.
Universally Icky Cafe – I have lived in the 'hood for five years and been a loyal customer of Universal all that time. Today's brunch experience changed that. An "intimate space", huh? Not at brunch it isn't. OK, in all fairness, a gentrification has been brewing in the neighborhood and it seems that Universal is feeling that effect. Brunch at Universal is a most unpleasant experience. I used to go and hop a seat at the bar, order my food and chit-chat with the two friendly wait staff there. No longer. It's find the list, sign your name, hope someone calls you and then squeeze yourself into a spot too small to eat. The cafe seems to have no realization of their own space constraints. They cram far too many people into too small a space. Today I sat at the bar and the space was so tight that I could not lift my fork to my mouth to eat my $20 brunch without bumping my neighbor and either spilliing her coffee or loosing my eggs to my paper napkin'd lap. Loose the fancy flower arrangement folks or find another place for your juice on the counter. Folks need space to eat. One thing about Universal, the food is good. But, as good as it is, it is still just french toast, eggs, bacon, fruit and coffee... brunch, folks....all served in an atmosphere as comfortable as a seat in any New York diner costing half the price. The noise level in the place is reminiscent of that too. The staff at Universal is totally over-worked. They have little time to recognize you and your needs much less be pleasant. The only time I saw the wait staff was to order, get my food and receive my check. And that totalled only a few seconds...yes, seconds. It would be nice if your coffee could be presented to you in as pleasant and fast a manner as your check. So, if your thing is a eating $11 eggs in cramped quarters with a "casually chic" crowd, have at it. I'm gonna walk a few blocks to Reds and save my money, my nerves and my good mood.
A cozy, modern space serves up fresh New American fare to a casually chic crowd. – In Short
This longstanding Mission eatery echoes the industrial feel of its out-of-the-way locale in a warm and sleek way. Art-lined walls and an open kitchen balance cool steel fixtures and track lighting. The dining room can get noisy as 30-somethings slip into tightly spaced tables. The service is relaxed, but adequate. The kitchen's inspired menu offers a seasonal selection of rustic dishes.
Good place for brunch – I was impressed with the food here. The service was good. Though, the location itself is not where I would like to be for dinner. I would recommend for Brunch on Sunday.
Great reviews, too busy to get in or even get a to-go order – I use to be able to go here and get food to-go. It was on my list of fav neighborhood places. Tonight I went, and they turned me away. Said they were not taking to-go orders as they were too busy. Very disappointing, especially to local regulars who liked to visit the place.
Great food in the Mission! – Great food in a fun environment. They use the best, freshest ingredients. Eaten here twice - first time for brunch and second time for dinner. Food and service was great both times. Looking forward to my next dining experience here.
Graet Time and Great food and Great Service – I love spots like this!!
You will have to plan on finding this spot, and it will be time well spent. Grat brunch menu and wonderful staff. i was very impressed with the experience, and you will be also!!
another crew of horrible service – Why do these restaurants hire these people and where do they come from? Waited two hours to be sat for brunch when we were already comfortably seated at an outside table just waiting for someone to ask if we would like to eat where we were, but no. Even though others were eating at other outside tables, I guess we had to wait for a inside table. When we finally were acknowledged we received some of the worst service ever from people whose brains must have been in the scrambled eggs. The food is bland and uneventful. I really liked the sound of this place and the area its in. Its too bad. I'll never go back, I'd recommend you do the same.
Bad Service – I had a vegetarian pasta dish that was terrible and only tasted of butter. The wait staff approched us several times to ask if we had finished eating. The bus boy actually took my plate away while the fork was in my mouth. We were given the check immediately. A few minutes later, while we were enjoying what was left of a great bottle of wine, the owner approached us and asked if we would like a complementary glass of wine at the bar. I told him that we we were finishing the bottle we ordered, and that we did not want any more wine. We took this as a cue that our table was needed for other customers. This was after dining for 1.5 hours. We left immediately. Other customers who arrived prior to us, were still enjoying drinks and conversation. Will not return. The bill was over $100.
really really good! – this chic little spot never fails my wife and me. easy parking, DELICIOUS food, and reasonable prices. service is always friendly albeit casual and the wine list offers lots of options from high brow to table wine. if you're looking for really good fare in a relaxed atmosphere this is the place. one of SF's best kept secrets.
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Just two weeks after the 2012 election, Maine Democrats are already talking about the next one, specifically the 2014 race for governor.
Their message? Third place is not an option.
"The Democratic Party is going to run a serious, well-financed campaign," said state party chairman Ben Grant. "We're not backing down from any challenge, whether it comes from (Gov.) Paul LePage or Eliot Cutler," the presumed independent candidate.
Inherent in such a declaration is the admission that Democrats settled for third in this year's U.S. Senate race and that a similar finish in the 2014 gubernatorial contest is a possibility.
The party's candidates scored significant electoral victories this year, keeping both of Maine's congressional seats and taking back the Legislature after losing it in 2010. Nonetheless, big challenges loom in a governor's race that could replicate factors that left Democrats third in the past two statewide elections.
"They have to be really nervous," said Mark Brewer, an associate professor of political science at the University of Maine. "If you come in third place in three elections in a row, that is not good."
Grant is acutely aware of the dynamics, which center on the possibility -- if not likelihood -- that Cutler, who finished second in 2010, will run for governor again. It's why Grant, emboldened by the legislative victories, is talking up 2014 now and assuring party loyalists and opponents that Democrats will invest heavily in the race.
Grant is pinning the party's hopes on its stars or a meteoric rise by lesser-known candidates. He also is urging the newly elected Democratic majorities in the House and Senate to resist the urge to joust with a Republican governor who often appears to spoil for a fight.
"I think Mainers want to see adults in Augusta," Grant said. "I don't think anyone is interested in two years of mudslinging, and I don't think our party is going to do that."
Democrats have spent the past two years blasting Le- Page and, in some instances, fundraising off his controversial statements. Grant said tempering that criticism is the "right thing to do."
"It's important for us to work on our own agenda and show people on an ideas level what we're trying to do," he said. "The governor's actions will speak for themselves."
There's also a political calculation: Two years of gridlock and sparring with LePage will bolster the message advanced by Cutler and other independents that the two-party system is the problem.
U.S. Sen.-elect Angus King made hyper-partisanship the staple of his campaign this year, and Cutler did the same in 2010.
Cutler, of Cape Elizabeth, has not announced his 2014 candidacy but has maintained a high profile since finishing a close second to LePage in 2010.
Soon after the 2010 election, Cutler established OneMaine, a group promoting independent candidates and centrist politics. He also served on the board of directors of Americans Elect, the national group that was established to put an independent presidential ticket on the 2012 ballot but later bought campaign ads on King's behalf.
Brewer, the UMaine professor, said he believes that Cutler will run in 2014. His campaign apparatus is in place with OneMaine. A divisive political climate in Augusta could make another run even more enticing.
"You can't definitely say that the next two years is going to be nothing but fights over vetoes and really nasty Maine politics, but you can certainly make the case that that's how it's going to go," Brewer said. "If it goes that way, that just makes it even easier for Cutler to run as this outsider candidate, this pragmatic person that's going to force both sides to get things done for the greater good."
The race is also set up well for LePage, who, as Brewer noted, likely needs a viable third candidate to pull off a repeat of 2010.
Nobody appears certain that LePage will seek a second term.
His supporters set up his re-election campaign committee in January, and the group Maine People Before Politics has been the governor's political arm since his inauguration. But the governor, whose favorability rating has remained mostly steady according to periodic polling, has not said that he definitely will run. Last week, he told Politico that he was unsure.
If Cutler is in the race, it may not matter to Democrats if Le- Page seeks re-election; the party could still face the prospect of an independent dividing the unenrolled and progressive voters.
Democrats also have a candidate problem.
U.S. Reps. Chellie Pingree and Mike Michaud are established stars. But will they run for the Blaine House? Too soon to tell, Grant said, but either would immediately change the contours of the governor's race.
Pingree is married to S. Donald Sussman, the majority shareholder of MaineToday Media, which publishes the Portland Press Herald, the Kennebec Journal and the Morning Sentinel in Waterville.
Brewer isn't convinced that Pingree, who represents Maine's 1st Congressional District, is a good statewide candidate because of the conservative 2nd District. Michaud is another story.
"If I'm Ben Grant, the first thing I do is get on the phone and I beg Mike Michaud to run for governor," said Brewer. "He's the one Democrat who could easily be viewed as the front-runner in a race with Eliot Cutler and Paul LePage."
Grant dismissed suggestions that Michaud could face pressure from national Democrats not to give up his seat in the U.S. House.
"(For) the same forces that would want him to stay in Congress, there are equal forces that would want him to run for governor," said Grant, referring to the Democratic Governors Association. "He can have a huge impact from the Blaine House."
Absent a run by Michaud or Pingree, the party would have to draw from a pool of candidates who may not be ready, or known well enough, to run for governor.
The party's losses in 2010 hampered its ability to fortify its bench -- state commissioner positions or constitutional officers -- and elevate its public profile.
Grant hopes that the party's control of the Legislature will fix that problem.
He said it will evaluate the presumptive favorites to become the state's constitutional officers, Matt Dunlap (secretary of state), Janet Mills (attorney general) and Jeremy Fischer (state treasurer), as well younger figures: former House Speaker Hannah Pingree, current House leader Emily Cain, incoming Senate President Justin Alfond and incoming House Speaker Mark Eves.
It's not known whether any of those prospective candidates will be ready for prime time by summer of 2013, when Grant hopes Democrats will begin uniting behind one candidate.
Nonetheless, he said the party, and opponents, should know that Democrats won't sit out 2014.
"We can craft a long-term, well-thought-out plan and execute it," he said. "That's what's happening right now."
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