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Global Response to a Global Problem
Climate change is a problem that affects all countries- rich and poor. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) held its 16th annual Conference of the Parties (COP16) in Cancún, Mexico from November 29 – December 10, 2010. The ultimate goal of the Conference is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system. The Conference has nearly-universal membership with 20,000 delegates, NGO's (green groups), business and media in attendance from 194 countries.
One of the goals of the Conference was to make a realistic step in taking action on climate change and build upon the Copenhagan Accord by taking steps to better implement it. The Cancún Agreements made four major steps in achieving that objective:
1. Mitigation targets & actions: The Agreements provide emission mitigation targets and actions for approximately eighty countries (which importantly include all of the major economies) to reduce their emissions by 2020.
2. Green Climate Fund: A fund was proposed last year to help developing countries deal with implementing green policies to prevent climate change, and has a target of $100 billion annually by 2020. The World Bank is the interim trustee of the Fund, and its oversight board consists of representatives of the donor nations.
3. Tropical forest protection: One of the challenges facing the developing world is industrializing under environmental restrictions that developed nations did not. Through the tropical forest protection program, wealthier countries help prevent deforestation in poorer countries by working through market mechanisms.
4. Clean Development Mechanism (CDM): The CDM stimulates sustainable development while also reducing emissions in developing countries. It also provides industrialized countries flexibility in how they meet their reduction targets. The CDM allows emission-reduction projects in developing countries to earn emission reduction credits, which can be traded, sold, and used by industrialized countries to meet part of their reduction targets under the Kyoto Protocol.
The Conference made an extensive effort to reduce the carbon footprint of the event by doing everything from using renewable resources to planting over 10,000 trees and bushes in Cancún. Although there is always more that needs to be done to address climate change, the Conference was a successful in creating new initiatives.
As 2011 approaches, we encourage you to think about your carbon footprint and what you can do to make a difference!


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Dorian wrote:To close the loop on this, after trying after-market power cords with no effect, I've decided to return the JC3+ as I just cannot get rid of the hum. With apologies to Gene, I'm going to give Keith Herron a call and see if he thinks his VTPH-2 will be a good match for my system.
Herron's great stuff....very highly reguarded. I believe you have to change plugs to change loads...no switches to make adjustments.

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Genealogical paper trail gone cold? Spent years attempting in vain to verify your ancestry? This may be the answer you were looking for...........in 2003 I commenced a Brabazon Y chromosome matching project, hosted by FamilyTreeDNA website.
WHAT IS IT?The Y chromosome is passed from father to son and is traceable over many generations. Therefore, male descendants from a common ancestor will show common Y markers. There are five levels of testing: the basic 12-marker will establish a blood relationship and the 25, 37, 67 and 111-marker have the possibility of indicating how many generations back the division occurred.
HOW ARE DNA SAMPLES TAKEN?The DNA kit consists of two small brushes which are used to rub the inside of the cheek. They are placed in small sealed containers and sent to the lab for analysis. See below for details.
WHY DO WE NEED THE PROJECT?I have identified a number of reasons that this project will prove invaluable to many individuals and their families as well as to the Clan as a whole.
Firstly, there are many Brabazons who can only trace back a few generations with little hope of further success. The basic 12-marker test may establish a blood relationship to groups within the Brabazon Clan and the refined marker tests will assist in which area to concentrate research. I'm sure I don't have to spell out how much wasted time and money can be expended in fruitless dead ends.
HOW DO I SIGN UP?The website is www.familytreedna.com Go to the home page and search on Brabazon. Click on Brabazon. Order either the Y chromosome 12-marker or higher kit. By ordering it via the Brabazon project there is a reduction is price.
IS IT CONFIDENTIAL?As the project manager, I alone - besides the individual being tested - will have access to the results. There will be no disclosure of personal information beyond what the individual agrees to or requests.
Michael Brabazon


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About InfoVista
Actionable network performance orchestration at the service of better networks
InfoVista enables cost-effective orchestration of optimal network & application performance across the entire life-cycle and across all domains of the ever growing network: from the data center to the access network, across all services, and across all technologies for both CSP and large enterprise networks.
Our solutions help fixed, mobile and broadband communications service providers (CSPs), and enterprise IT organizations to improve the customer experience, reduce customer churn and deliver differentiated services, while improving the capital efficiency of their infrastructure. The real-time network and customer intelligence we gather from today's information-rich networks enables them to balance cost-efficiency and customer satisfaction by assuring service quality, managing network & application performance, optimizing network configurations, and planning the technology upgrades required to handle future network and service demands.
Our mobile network planning products enable mobile operators to map out the evolution of their RAN and backhaul networks in ways that maximize network performance while reducing network costs. Through a relentless focus on accuracy and innovation since the early days of mobile telecommunications in the late 1980s, we are proud that more than two billion subscribers across 120 countries are using mobile networks planned by operators leveraging our Mentum Planet, Mentum Ellipse and Mentum Fusion software.
Today, these trusted network planning and engineering solutions are also the most technologically advanced on the market. They offer full support for all radio technologies including LTE and LTE-Advanced as well as heterogeneous networks. As a result, InfoVista is uniquely positioned to help mobile operators overcome the challenges associated with growing mobile data demand, while minimizing their network costs.
Our interoperable network, service and application performance management products collect, process and correlate large volumes of heterogeneous performance data in real time from the network, and transform it into actionable network intelligence to ensure a high quality of service and quality of experience.
Through our real-time network visibility platform, our customers can manage their network, service and application performance, control and plan capacity build-outs, and troubleshoot and resolve network issues before they impact their customers. With more than 80% of the world's tier 1 CSPs relying on InfoVista's network performance management and application performance management products, we understand the operational challenges associated with the management of the most sophisticated networks, including those that contain hundreds of thousands of network elements in multiple domains – from the IP core to the edge/access network, with complete technology and multi-vendor coverage.
Our core and mobile network optimization products enable operators to increase their operational efficiency through the automation of their network optimization tasks. With full support for multi-domain (access and backhaul), multi-vendor and multi-technology networks, InfoVista's network optimization products can help CSPs better leverage their existing network assets and ensure that the growth in data demand will not be immediately associated with a degradation in service quality.
And with our customer-centric network optimization products that leverage network information alongside with subscriber insights, we enable mobile operators to troubleshoot QoS problems smarter and faster across all radio access network technologies, in order to cost-effectively deliver a consistent, high-quality mobile user experience.
Our industry leading, web 2.0 portal interface demonstrates the proof-point of CSPs' high-performing VPN, Internet and cloud services, to drive customer acquisition in the highly competitive business services market. With meaningful network performance management and application performance management KPIs that both enterprise and small to medium business customers can understand, plus collaborative, self-service visibility capabilities that they value, InfoVista's solutions enable CSPs to deliver differentiated services, resulting in increased market share and customer retention.
Whether delivering basic SLA compliance reporting for point-to-point services or advanced, real-time analytics with application performance visibility for high-value business services, InfoVista provides communications service providers with the best multi-domain, multi-vendor and multi-tenant service assurance and customer reporting solutions.


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All About BTC, LTC, ETH, ZEC mining as well as other alternative crypto currencies
Hashnest, the Bitcoin cloud mining platform by BitMain, has been having trouble with the hashrate provided by their partner UMISOO for the last few days and the problem apparently still persists. Starting around 12th the hashrate provider UMISOO apparently suffered a power failure resulting in some reduction in the available to the users hashrate. The hashrate drop however has continued and the problem is still present with the actual total hashrate provided by UMISOO reported by Hashnest at just 0.5 THS instead of the normally available 4 THS. This all means that all of the users that have purchased Bitcoin cloud mining hashrate are currently getting much lower actual hashrate than they have paid for. Our test account at Hashnest with 120 GHS shows an average of just about 20 GHS for the last 24 hours and in the last few days the average hashrate we got was not much higher than that number. Getting reported at just about 1/6 of what you have paid for and the problem continuing for days without being resolved is a reason enough for us to recommend to stay away from Hashnest for the moment and if you were considering to invest in hashrate in the platform to think again. There is some talk about the problem being with just the reporting of hashrate as well as compensations from the hashrate provider that will be distributed to the miners, but it is hard to keep a track of what is actually going on as the service operators are not doing great job at keeping the users updated with the current situation.
What do you make of the claim that this is merely a hash rate display issue, that earnings are not affected, and that after maintenance the display will be corrected?
The transactions log does seem to show that the is no problem with payments and fees, but the official forum posts at Hashnest do provide contradicting information and it is not very clear what is going on actually… and the graph reporting the hashrate as well as the personal numbers for purchased hashrate are showing lower numbers than they should be for days already.


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Sacked Man United boss David Moyes in line for shock return at West Ham
DAVID MOYES is in line for a shock return to Premier League management.
The sacked Manchester United boss has been installed as the 2/1 favourite with Paddy Power to be named the next West Ham boss.
Sam Allardyce's long-term future at Upton Park is in serious doubt.
The Hammers board decided to keep faith with Allardyce at the end of last season despite a barrage of criticism over his playing style.
But now the club's top brass and Allardyce are at odds with each other.
The Hammers hierarchy have criticised Allardyce, dubbing the £15m signing of Andy Carroll a 'mistake'.
They are also in open disagreement over the future of Ravel Morrison.
While Allardyce wants rid of him, co-owner David Sullivan is keen for Morrison to stay.
Sullivan said: "Sam has said Ravel is not part of his plans but we do - as a board - see him as part of our plans.
"I think he said in a press conference, if I read it correctly, he's not part of his plans for this season.
"I think he said that in New Zealand but we don't agree with that. We would like to sit down and give him a longer contract.
"We do like him. We do see him as part of the long-term future of the club but we have to agree it with the manager because there's no point signing a player he's not going to play."
Chairman David Gold added fuel to the speculation that Allardyce was on his way this morning.
He favourited a tweet from one fan which said: "Is today the day we get rid of BFS ?? @davidgold fingers crossed"
BFS is a commonly-used internet acronym for 'Big Fat Sam' - a derogatory label used by some football fans.
Allardyce is the odds-on favourite to become the next Premier League manager to leave his post.


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Joyal strong construction European Type Hammer Crusher
by xiaoyu chen Monday, March 14, 2011
Features of European Type Hammer Crusher
The European Type Hammer Crusher is of high capacity, high crushing ratio, simple structure, easy maintenance, easy operation, even output granularity and electricity-saving.In order to avoid blocking, the water content of materials are less than 10% - 15%.
Working Principle of European Type Hammer Crusher
The European Type Hammer Crusher mainly includes case, rotor, iron bearing, grate bars and other components. There are two parts in case: the upper one and lower one which are welded after cutting. The remaining parts are connected by bolts. Inside the case, there is high manganese steel liner which can be replaced after wear and bear. The European Type Hammer Crusher is installed on an array of spindles which forms the rotor together with rotary table and axis. The rotor rotates through motor and V-belt driven spindle. The hammer streths around as the centrifugal force generated by rotation, in that way, bulk materials feed into the crushing chamber and are crushed by the high-speed movement. The standard stones pass from the grate bars below and for those not standard will again be crushed in the case till they can pass from the grate.
Main specification of European Type Hammer Crusher
Model PC4008-75 PC4012-90 PC4015-132
Rotor diameter / mm 950 950 950
Rotor length / mm 800 1200 1500
Rotor speed r / min 800-1200 800-1000 800-1000
Max feed size / mm <200 <200 <200
The particle size / mm ≤ 10 ≤ 10 ≤ 10
Capacity t / h 25-40 35-70 50-100
Motor Power / Kw 75 90 132
Hammerhead Quantity / a 16 16 24
Equipment Quality / t 3.8 6.8 8.8
Dimension L * W * H / mm 1200 * 1250 * 1800 2200 * 1250 * 1800 2860 * 1390 * 1900
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"Bizzare" is an understatement to adequately describe the year 2017. Being the year of Donald Trump and Dhinchak Puja, we know the world is certainly not headed in the right direction. Looking back at the past 12 months, it's safe to say that Pedagoge has been nothing short of a madhouse either. Presenting, few instances we unanimously decided to share with the rest of the world!
1. When our website works perfectly well 24 X 7 but decides to crash the very day our CEO left us in charge to enjoy a vacation. That, my friends, is Murphy's Law 101!
2. When we introduced an award called "hustler" of the month and people repeatedly voted for themselves! Narcissistic much?
3. When someone requested for a public speaking teacher for a 2-year-old. We wonder if "goo goo" "gaa gaa" qualifies as public speaking!
4. When we spent an afternoon celebrating our love for minions. Yes, because that's what working adults do! Are you being 'Despicable' of this fact?
5. In order to become a lean organization, we had to become a 'mean' organization when we scaled down from 24 employees to 12 within a span of 2 months. From Hum Saath Saath Hai to Hum Do Humare Do!
6. Out of the 20 internship offers that we rolled out, only 2 candidates showed up! Talk about employment opportunities in India! No wonder this betrayal caused more pain to our HR than her last breakup.
7. When our wall took longer to repair than the great wall of China took to build. It's probably because we are running on "Bengal" time. FYI, it's still not complete, well, neither is the Kolkata metro.
8. No goal is absurd till you believe in it. This idea went to a completely different level when one of our interns confessed her goal for 2017 is to achieve the most perfect jawline. For those who don't know what a jawline is, it's that bone which got lost under your double-chin!
9. When we celebrated Halloween at work and looked nothing less than the crew of a low-cost production house from a Horror-Comedy play. Anyone remembers AAHAT from SONY?
10. When a candidate thought we are a poster making company because of this poster he saw in the waiting area. Just imagine, this is what we have to go through during our recruitment cycle!
11. When our workstation looked nothing less than a Las Vegas Casino. Except, it was month end, so nobody had the money to gamble. But, we sure did have fun!
12. When someone thought height was essential to qualify as a teacher. Yes, we do have certain criteria to register as a teacher, but height is definitely not one of them! Our only question to her is "What do you exactly teach??"
13. Let's just accept it, we are a bunch of hooligans! However, this one time, our loudest employee was so loud that we had to check whether our headphones were plugged in. Guess what we call her now, 'Doppler'!
14. When our advisor suffered the brutal consequence of a flaming shot. We strongly recommend you let the bartender assist you while gulping down those shots. Especially if you have a wedding to attend the day after!
15. When a 24-year-old male employee refused to be assigned a seat that was in between two women co-worker because he felt 'uncomfortable'! Parents, if you are listening, co-ed schooling is the need of the hour.
With everything being said and done, we hope 2018 is as crazy (or even crazier) than 2017.
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At 04:13 PM 4/12/99 -0400, Paul Prescod wrote: >Actually, I don't think we need to look at or care about XLink in >particular at all. Not all standards can be orthogonal but when they can >be that is best. Instead of looking at XLink, we can proceed from first >principles: > >XML is designed to allow the separation of semantic content from >presentation. This allows the two to be separately persistent or >ephemeral. This separation applies as much to links as to paragraphs and >emphasis. Okay, we _can_ go back to first principles, every time, but I think we're going to get into an ugly "what is semantic and what is presentation" argument that might be better avoided by considering the particulars of XLink and what it expects of style sheets. This gets especially messing in some data-processing applications where there is no 'presentation' in the usual sense of the word, though perhaps behavior is a good description. >Therefore a stylesheet language should be able to express a wide range of >presentations for the link ends of links. Ideally, we would use the HTML >presentational features as a starting point (as we do for presentation) >and add more sophisticated stuff over time. The problem here is that XLink is asking style sheets to do considerably more than present link ends; eventually, we're going to have to deal with the question of how those link ends are determined and which paths are traversable, if the current spec's language survives to the rec. >This implies that a stylesheet language should be able to express the >presentation and behaviour of the HTML A element type and the HTML IMG >element type. The LINK element type has never achieved popualarity in user >interfaces so it is arguably out of scope. We'll have to deal with LINK in the context of connecting style sheets to documents (if we ever want to move beyond PIs), but otherwise this is reasonable. >> * Handling inclusions, transclusions, and new windows because of the show >> and actuate axes of XLink. > >The stylesheet language should handle inclusions, transclusions and new >windows *in spite of* the show and actuate axes of XLink. Those are only >presentational hints, not instructions. > >As the XLink specification says, "ideally behavior is handled in a >stylesheet" (paraphrased). The XLink draft describes this as 'express a policy', not give a presentational hint. It would be simpler, perhaps, if XLink dropped these features entirely. On the other hand, it might make it more difficult to repurpose documents created with XLink for use with multiple style sheets. "Since XLink provides only the most general semantics for links, details of presentation, such as time delay or beep before forwarding, can be specified on a per-application basis using a style language." That doesn't sound like much is left to the discretion of the style language, but again, that could change. >If the XLink spec did not exist then there would be no question that >linking behaviors belong in the stylesheet language (as they do in the >dozens of existing SGML and XML stylesheet languages). If the spec. did >not mention behavior at all then it would be similarly easy to see that >behavior is a stylesheet's responsibility. That follows from the first >principles. If we accept your first principles as axioms, then perhaps. But remember that I don't see this distinction as plainly, and I still have yet to be convinced that non-presentational uses of XLink should be forced to rely on style sheets for processing. Seems like a huge waste of processing. For traditional document processing, fine, but for data-oriented applications, forget it. I know of several projects using XLink to describe relationships between objects - why on earth would they use a style sheet processor? (Because they could seems an inadequate answer.) >But the spec does mention behavior. Nevertheless, it is pretty clear that >the intention is not to let stylesheet languages abdicate their roles as >style determiners. I would say that the behavior attributes should be >observed only when there is no stylesheet or the stylesheet has nothing to >say about link presentation. Or, perhaps, the style sheet could be used to interpret the behavior attribute's meaning and process it accordingly. That seemed a popular argument on xlxp-dev last December. >The main problem is that you are not supposed to be forced to embed the >processing information in either your document or your document type. You >may want to embed definitions in one view of the document and make >hyperlinks to them in another view. Different stylesheets should be able >to express the different views. It sounds here like you want to overturn the entire attribute-based approach to XLink. In any case, I'd like to have some solid foundations in XLink that don't require the use of style sheets per se. Making them cooperate with style sheets is important, but making them disappear into style sheets seems like overkill. >Consider also the problem of print. If you use any combination of XLink >attributes *other than* show="embed" and acutate="auto" what does that >mean to a print rendition of the data? I hadn't thought of this much >before but I find it fairly disturbing. A more media-agnostic view would >be a single attribute: xml:link-type="embed|reference". Then the >stylesheet could handle replace versus new and auto versus user. Never had much use for print, frankly. If it can't keep up, it doesn't really bother me. Seems to me like the W3C is the World Wide Web Consortium, not the Hand-Typesetters Association, but I can't find difficulties in linking print that bothersome. We do, after all, have indices and tables of contents for such applications, and you can always transform your documents (XSL or architectural forms) if it's really that important. Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer Sharing Bandwidth / Cookies http://www.simonstl.comReceived on Monday, 12 April 1999 18:04:52 UTC
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Parsippany, NJ (MARCH 10, 2010) — Dialogic Corporation ("Dialogic"), a global provider of world–class products and technologies for multimedia and signal processing, and LumenVox, an innovator in speech recognition technologies, today announced the integration of the DiaStar™ Server, release 2.0 and the LumenVox Speech Engine. This integration brings all of the power and flexibility of the LumenVox ASR solution to Asterisk® developers building Voice and Video Applications with the DiaStar Server.
New / enhanced features of the DiaStar Server include:
These new features and enhancements continue to expand Asterisk developers' ability to utilize the DiaStar Server to create applications such as IVVR systems, Video Surveillance Systems, Video Gateways, Mobile Advertising and Banking, Multimedia Social Networking and basic Video Call Completion.
"This particular integration really highlights many of the benefits of the open source development model and the client server architecture used with the DiaStar Server," said Antony Martin, Director of Open Source Engineering at Dialogic. "We were able to leverage the previous work of LumenVox to integrate their products with Asterisk and get this integration working by only adding one simple function to DiaStar."
"This solution brings even more value to users of LumenVox and Asterisk, whether they are existing customers or brand new users," said LumenVox President Edward Miller. "With DiaStar's seamless integration, it is now simple to build a voice and video IVR with world–class speech recognition."
Project DiaStar™ is an open source project sponsored by Dialogic Corporation, providing access to Dialogic's enhanced media and signaling functionality from existing open source platforms such as Asterisk via the Woomera protocol.
To learn more about this integration and Dialogic's open source initiatives:
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10th Nov 2010, 10:00
Hello everyone!
I am servicing an 2000 Intrigue for a cousin. She just bought this car and now I'm thinking she may have made a mistake. Her problem is the blinkers are not working sometimes, but that's not all. Her high beams don't work at all. I have been all over this car and come up empty handed.
Any suggestions?
17th Nov 2010, 18:34
Man, you guys are scaring me! I have virtually owned my Intrigue since new. I bought it wrecked with an 'R' Title @ 3200 miles. I replaced a rear door, quarter & tranny. She was wrecked into a ditch and the driver tried to drive it out destroying the tranny. I've driven over 120k miles only replacing tires, brakes, filters & oil. A squirrel chewed through the tranny connections causing some shift problems 'til I found the damage. The only real problem happened today when a brake line rusted.
24th Nov 2010, 13:11
I have a 1999 Olds Intrique, and last night I noticed that when I turn on my heater or defroster, the light will start blinking and eventually go completely out.
Also, my horn has decided not to blow as well.
Any suggestions on accurate working remedies? I'm taking it to the shop on Saturday morning and I don't want to get ripped off.
16th Dec 2010, 19:24
I have a 2000 Olds Intrigue, and have had a couple of problems and fixed one. If you have starting or stalling problems, check your grounds as they may be corroded. Or if you burn oil or are leaking oil. some may have got into the wires, causing bad connections. Also may want to check the wire running to the fuse box to the alternator (corrosion).
20th Dec 2010, 15:21
2002 Intrigue GLS.
Beautiful car, terrible engineering/quality. I think I've paid for this car twice I think due to repairs. Have experienced all of the above, and just this week the climate control/cruise/heated seats and OnStar all failed.
Replaced the airbag sensor/control, because they put it under the passenger seat where the leak (see above) soaked the floor and corroded it. Nice.
ABS & Trac Control died at 150km, didn't bother fixing, would have been $1600+. The only thing I've never had a problem with is the engine. Still runs strong at 250km, but the transmission is now failing. This is my last GM, enough is enough. Even my mechanic is sick of seeing it!
21st Jan 2011, 08:35
I'm having the same starting issue. Bit to add to it is my cruise control doesn't work. My high beams are stuck on.
I'm reading a lot of people have the same issues, but does anyone have any solutions?
12th Apr 2011, 17:11
Hey, just wanted to throw this out... I have a 2002 Intrigue... about 6-9 months ago it had problems holding an idle.. changed air inflow sensor thingy, took it to a shop, and all they found was my battery low.. (also no engine check engine lights on). Put in a new battery and been running fine since??? Til this weekend, wife said it was doing it again. Put in a bottle of fuel injector cleaner, filled the tank, and still the same.. Took it to work this morning, and had to 2 foot it, because it wouldn't idle.. On the way home it started to run OK.. Gonna see what happens.. If anyone has any ideas, it would be appreciated... Thanx.
31st May 2011, 17:28
I have a 1999 Intrigue and it doesn't use a drop of oil. Maintaining fresh oil every 3000 miles is recommended for any vehicle. Change your oil regularly is the life of any engine.
26th Jun 2011, 16:11
My 16-year-old daughter recently bought a 2000 Intrigue GLS in mid-May 2011. Almost immediately she had problems with the turn signals not working properly, intermittently failing to register the signal on the dash. My son (who does have knowledge of electronic installations) recently upgraded her radio with a Sony radio/CD player, which consequently rendered the air/climate center/cockpit lights non-operational. That problem was traced to a blown fuse, which was replaced and the accessory lighting was fixed. Other significant information might include sparking from the battery during the process of installation.
Without intending to sound all doom and gloom, yesterday my daughter and I took a 150 mile (one way) road trip. We had just begun our return when she heard a pop, and it sounded like we were driving through gravel. I looked in the mirror and noticed we were blowing a trail of grayish smoke and told her to pull off the road. When she turned the ignition off, it became obvious the smoke was coming from the passenger side of the engine compartment; the smoke had a peculiar odor to it, somewhat reminiscent of hot electronics. We tried to unlatch the hood, but were unsuccessful, and wound up calling 911 for disabled vehicle service. While I was on the phone with the dispatcher, I saw flames coming from the area of the engine compartment close to the windshield on the passenger side.
Obviously at this point our options were limited, but we did elect to abandon her sweet little car. Some twenty minutes later the fire department arrived and extinguished the fire, with only the trunk area left intact. Traffic was backed up for at least a mile and a half to prevent other travellers from inadvertent risk, but we were quite fortunate none of the seriously volatile elements of the car exploded.
After reading about the history of electrical problems, not just with this particular car, but with pretty nearly all Oldsmobile models since the early 1990s, it is clear that this division of GM failed for a reason. Not only did they manufacture defective products, they refused to own up to them. My recommendation if you are considering buying this car or any other used Oldsmobile, is think again. We were lucky that no one was hurt. Someone else might not have the same experience.
16th Aug 2011, 09:38
I have an 2001 Oldsmobile Intrigue. It has 110,000 miles on it now. My turn signals, cruise control, and emergency lights have always worked off and on since I bought the car at 45,000 miles, but it gets worse every year.
I had to replace the transmission at 85,000 miles. My mechanic said that the transmission in these cars are so bad, that they quit using them.
I had to get my A/C replaced. I have had to get other things replaced also, but cannot remember exactly what they were. I can say, whenever something messes up, it cost lots of money.
The latest problem, is that my low oil light came on. I had 1,000 more miles to go before my next oil change at 3,000 miles. I put 2 quarts in, and took it to get a new oil change and looked at for leaks, or oil burning. Neither of these were going on. They cannot find anything, but did say my oil looked like it had not even been changed, that is was dark black and thick, like it had at least 7,000 miles on it, but it had been changed. I am going to watch it this time around and see if anything happens because, it has never done this before.
My main concern right now is the electrical system and my gas needle floating back and forth, working sometime and not sometimes. If anyone knows a way to fix this, or is going through the same problem, please let me know. My email is firstname.lastname@example.com
24th Jan 2012, 18:51
I have a 1998. In between oil changes, I still have to add a few quarts. Plus the light flickering problem started happening to my car about two months ago. I'm sad to learn that it's not fixable.
25th Aug 2012, 20:46
Put in a GM thermostat and bleed it. After market ones do not work and make your car over heat. It costs about 80.00 for the GM thermostat.
31st Jan 2015, 20:27
If the blinkers are not working, wiggle the flasher switch; usually those go bad. Replace it and it should fix the blinker problem.
19th Feb 2015, 01:51
From what I have been told and have researched, it is the inner (in dash) blinker switch. When your blinkers don't work, turn your hazard blinkers on, then turn them off and try your blinkers. This is how I found out it was in the dash.
Hope this helps.


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Wii U Production Likely Ending Soon
Nintendo is now denying this, and says Wii U production will continue through the next fiscal term and beyond. However, they have also said similar things about other rumours from this source, and quite a few of those rumours have turned out to be true.
It's not been a good time for the Wii U. Launched in 2013 to a fairly tepid reaction and then quickly being overshadowed by Sony and Microsoft's systems just months later, the console has mostly struggled on at a rate far below that of its predecessors. Indeed, as of December 2015, only about 13 million Wii U systems had been sold, a number just over half that of the Gamecube.
Above: Even Super Mario Maker and Super Smash Bros couldn't really save the Wii U
But now, it seems the end may be coming for Nintendo's eighth gen system. A respected Japanese magazine has said that Nintendo will stop production of the Wii U before 2016 is up, and that the Nintendo NX is going to be revealed very shortly. They also say a few of the Wii U's accessories have already left production.
Is this confirmed? Not really, but it definitely seems like the Wii U's time is just about up. It didn't really sell, and Nintendo just wants to move on to their next system.
Still, what do you think about this? Are you disappointed the Wii U is likely to be discontinued before the end of the year? Or do you think the system was doomed to fail from the get go?


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Katherine of http://kitkatzmeow.blogspot.com/ tagged me and well I've not done this for awhile so here goes.
But first, the rules:
- Link to your tagger (see above), and also post these rules on your blog.
- Share 7 facts about yourself (random or weird) on your blog.
- Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
Let them know they are TAGGED by leaving a comment on their blog.
... and 7 facts about me:
- I love buttons, ribbons and trims! They're better than candy.
- I can't stand smokers! I've the urge to snuff out their ciggies in their face.
- I use this very old chinese fine bamboo hair comb. (I know it's weird! But it reminds me of my beloved grandmother)
- I have a very short fuse. (My husband says so.)
- I've a wandering eye. (LOL! I look at everything around me - in detail!)
- My feet are huge - I think they're still growing.
- I've a wild imagination. I get my ideas - daydreaming.
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First look at William McGregor's gothic drama Gwen
The film was selected as part of this year's Great 8 showcase in Cannes.
Endor Productions and Great Point Media have released a first image from William McGregor's highly anticipated debut feature Gwen. The picture had been previously working under a holding title of The Dark Outside.
The film was selected as part of the Great 8 showcase, an event brought to Cannes by the BFI, BBC Films, Film4 and British Council. In its second year, the initiative introduces feature films from eight of the most exciting new directors working in the UK today. This year's showcase also included Craig Roberts' Ffilm Cymru Wales-supported film Eternal Beauty, which stars Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water) and David Thewlis, and will shoot in Wales this summer.
Gwen is centered on a close-knit family, led by BAFTA nominated actress Maxine Peake (Funny Cow, Peterloo, The Falling). The young actresses playing her children are Eleanor Worthington-Cox, the youngest recipient of the best actress Laurence Olivier award for her role of the theatre production of Matilda, and newcomer Jodie Innes. The supporting cast includes Richard Harrington (Hinterland, Poldark), Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (The Commuter, Ghost Stories) and Mark Lewis Jones (Yr Ymadawiad, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Game Of Thrones).
In the stark beauty of 19th Century Snowdonia a young girl tries desperately to hold her home together. Struggling with her mother's mysterious illness, her father's absence and a ruthless mining company encroaching on their land. A growing darkness begins to take grip of her home, and the suspicious local community turns on Gwen and her family.
Gwen has been developed by the BFI and Endor Productions, a Red Arrow Studios company, with Endor's Hilary Bevan Jones and Tom Nash as lead producers. The BFI's Lizzie Francke, Paul Grindey and Charles Moore of Viewfinder Films, Fergus Haycock of Great Point Media and Adam Partridge of Ffilm Cymru Wales act as Executive Producers. The production is co-financed by the BFI, awarding funds from the National Lottery, and Ffilm Cymru Wales.
Nada Cirjanic, Head of Sales for Great Point introduced the film to buyers at this year's Marché Du Film in Cannes.


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Hi all I am certainly not a CAN BUS expert but I have had some success diagnosing or repairing the network. I have written a list that has helped me, It's more of a reminder of what I have done previously - that has worked. Please feel free to add to it any tips or tricks you have picked up along the way. This list is not what you would normally find in the books or on the training courses.
1. Battery reset using test light wait 10 mins.
2. 60 ohms on network : Not all 16 pin DLC have the high speed CAN going straight on to pins 6 and 14. CAN gateways involved.
3. Check wiring diagram as some ECU'S CAN wiring runs THROUGH another ECU
4. If 120 ohms is found go to suspect ECU and do ohms measurement on that plug with it UNPLUGGED to prove that the 120 ohms is at the other end of the network and wiring is good.
5 if messages are present but corrupt suspect a failing ECU start by unplugging them one by one starting with the easiest first. ALWAYS check powers and grounds when you find suspect ECU.
6. Do a full scan of the car with a scan tool to see what is and isn't communicating to get a guide on where to look.
7. PERFORM WIGGLE TEST WHILST MONITORING SCOPE. (Wiring, connectors and ECU plugs)
8.Check the presence and voltage of the data whilst on road test as an intermittent short or open may be triggered by a bump in road, do not use a trigger as you may miss the event.
9. Try not to have scan tool connected when measuring CAN with scope as this could be corrupting data.
10. Weak battery, when cranking goes below 5 volts
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Indonesia is a predominantly agrarian livelihood as a farmer. So many islands and the mainland make agriculture growing very rapidly.
Support climate and good weather is also a factor driving this sector advances. To increase agricultural output, using the tools and agricultural machinery is the best solution.
Technology can not be separated in the human life. The presence of technology can simplify the entire field of human life. So is the case with the field of farming.
With the use of appropriate technology, every process in agriculture will save a lot of time and effort. Of the results obtained will also be the maximum again.
Various Equipment and Agricultural Machinery
Starting from the processing of land, agricultural tools and machines can already be used. If the ancient farmers harness the many animals such as buffalo to plow rice fields, the current use of tractors would be easier and more efficient.
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For that need government intervention to help the funding and capital to farmers so that their lives become better again.


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...and you can see the painting I did at the end of the video :)
Friday, November 20, 2009
...and you can see the painting I did at the end of the video :)
16 comments:
- Max Fiumara said...
- November 21, 2009 at 12:05 PM
- Bubbashelby said...
I've been staring at the freeze frame of that pic for hours - so awesome - any chance of a print becoming available?
Aslo, can you tell us all who is in it? There's some contention about who is on the far right between Dr. Mid-Nite and Mr. Terrific :)
- November 21, 2009 at 3:55 PM
I want it in my wall dammit!!!
- November 21, 2009 at 6:42 PM
- Steve Younis said...
Any chance you can post the artwork image for us all to see clearly?
- November 21, 2009 at 7:39 PM
- Rodolfo Migliari said...
Max, Thank you my friend! You are complete Awesomeness! :)
Bubbashelby, Thank you! I don't know about the print. But I can give you a list of the JSA members in the painting :) from left to right : The Golden Age Star Spangled Kid, Wildcat, The Golden Age Atom, The Golden Age Sandman, The Spectre, The Golden Age Flash, Hawkman & Hawkgirl, Doctor Fate, The Golden Age Green Lantern, The Golden Age Hourman, The Golden Age Dr. Mid-Nite, the Golden Age Black Canary and the Golden Age Mr. Terrific.
Anonymous, :)
Steve, Sorry, I don't think I will be able to post anything until the episode airs.
- November 21, 2009 at 9:22 PM
Wow! This is very cool and exciting. Congratulations! - Matt
- November 22, 2009 at 12:00 PM
- Pavada de Historieta! said...
AI do no spikinglish, bat congratuleiyons, chabon!!!!
no podia ser de otra manera, no way, jose!!!
donde uedo ver el picture en cuestion?
- November 22, 2009 at 1:01 PM
that's a great pic. GA Black Canary looks like SV Black Canary. what was your influences for this painting?
- November 22, 2009 at 4:01 PM
- Rodolfo Migliari said...
Thanks, Matt!!!
Que grande Sergio! jajaja! Nos debemos un encuentro! La pintura no la voy a poder subir a ningún lado creo hasta que se emita el capitulo en Estados Unidos.
Micheal, Thank you! The idea for the painting was to do combination between Leonardo Da Vinci's "Last Supper" and the cover from All Star Comics #3. I hope that answers your question :)
- November 23, 2009 at 9:21 PM
A print would be awesome!
- November 24, 2009 at 5:02 PM
No me gusta realmente mucho Smallville, pero soy fan de Geoff y el único otro episodio que escribió para Smalville me encantó, así que éste no me lo pierdo.
Esperaré también para ver con mayor detalle esa imágen, se ve que está de lujo.
- November 26, 2009 at 8:31 AM
- Rodolfo Migliari said...
Thanks Miles!
Arturo, Gracias de nuevo :) A mi me encanto el otro capitulo escrito por Geoff, y seguro Absolute Justice va a ser genial tambien!
- November 27, 2009 at 2:12 AM
- Tara said...
A print would rock
- November 28, 2009 at 8:30 AM
- frasky said...
Can u upload this video on any other source.Actually i am facing problem with You tube. I really want to see your painting that you have made on Smallville
- December 8, 2009 at 11:19 PM
- Rodolfo Migliari said...
Frasky, try my facebook videos ;)
- December 19, 2009 at 11:23 AM
Smallville is a great television show. I like this show very much and always watch this show online.
- September 23, 2010 at 7:56 AM


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The grind to Supernova Elite
I've been writing frequently in my posts about my goal of reaching Supernova Elite in 2013. Well, I did it! Here's a tweet I sent out shortly after I finally got there: Just got Supernova Elite @Pokerstars. Can't describe how happy I am. Worked really hard for this http://t.co/NdkAcNYKeH— L...moreon January 23, 2014 8:09 AM
My crazy image
I've been grinding a lot lately, pretty much staying in what I call "full on vampire mode" while working towards SuperNova Elite. I'm ahead of schedule for that now. I did get out of the house for a while not long ago, though, to play in the Master Classics of Poker at the Holland Casino in Amster...moreon December 18, 2013 6:35 AM
Managing the space on the screen... and between my ears
The WCOOP ended not too long ago, which was quite a grind as I played a lot. But it was also a perfect excuse for me to log more hours and collect more VPPs as I continue with my attempt to make Supernova Elite this year, because while playing events I also would often play 12-14 cash games, too. ...moreon October 22, 2013 7:52 AM
Climbing the VIP ladder the right way
I've been playing a ton online lately. That was my plan heading into the summer -- to play only a little at the WSOP and try to put in a lot of volume online in June and July -- and it worked well. Even in Holland where I sometimes have a lot of distractions, I was able to play a lot and am please...moreon September 16, 2013 6:56 AM
My big WSOP change
I am writing from Toronto. I came here right after EPT Monte Carlo to play SCOOP, and I continue to play a regular schedule online. I start at 11 a.m. and in most cases will finish around 10 p.m., so it's like a normal working day. I eat meals at a regular time, relax in the evening, and have a n...moreon June 21, 2013 7:57 AM
I spent some time in Canada this spring trying to get in some relaxation time. I've been playing a lot online, but also trying to take breaks, too, to keep myself alert and focused. One thing I like to do when not playing is to watch various television series like House of Cards, Vikings, or Surviv...moreon May 15, 2013 9:26 AM
Finding the On/Off switch
I don't really believe in new year's resolutions. For me if you want to quit smoking or lose weight, you should just do it and not necessarily look to the calendar to prompt you to make a change. That said, now that we're already more than a month into the year, I am kind of thinking of 2013 as a ...moreon February 12, 2013 6:26 AM
Relaxing in Toronto with no NHL
Greetings from Toronto, where I'm spending the holidays this year. Toronto is kind of like the Bermuda Triangle for me. That is to say, it's a place where I can go and feel like I'm unplugged from responsible life -- like a vacation, but with all the luxuries you have at home. This is where I f...moreon December 27, 2012 9:04 AM
The importance of keeping fighting fit
Someone was asking me the other day if I'd been doing much kickboxing since the big match with ElkY. It's hard to believe that was almost a year ago. That fight was a pretty intense experience, really. For the couple of months leading up to it my profession essentially changed entirely from poke...moreon November 22, 2012 4:32 AM
Lex Veldhuis: Staying active during the grind
Team PokerStars Pro Lex Veldhuis is known for his prowess at the poker tables but did you know he's also become quite the tennis player? We chatted with Veldhuis about his passion for tennis, including a potential prop bet with poker pro Brandon Adams. How has your tennis fit in with your poker s...moreon June 20, 2012 7:14 AM


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ooh, second post!
so today liz sent me a message about smart tiles, which i've now been obsessed with figuring out what i want to put in my kitchen. i'll need 37 sheets of the stick-on backsplash tiles to do my entire kitchen under-cabinet area. i can't decide on what color scheme and type i should put on it though.
i really like the shape of the white ones and the idea of white. the top option picks out my kitchen colors really well; however, i think it's too busy. so, the bottom one, even though it's not the shape i'd prefer, has a little more interest than the white ones.
i got samples of the bottom two to be sent to me. home depot sells these in 6 packs. weirdly enough, the top option is on sale right now for half price, and i could buy my 37 tiles for $120. sadly, i'm not sold on the pattern. grrrr.


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Frequently Asked Questions
What times do the race start?
The half and full marathon start at 9am, whereas the 5K and 10K start at 9:15. The kid's race starts at 3pm on Saturday.
How long is the Run Toto Run Kid's Race?
1/4 mile for 2-4 yo; 1/2 5-8; 1 mile 9-12 yo.
What if I have a discount code for registration?
Click on the registration button on Eventbrite. Before selecting our distance look for the blue letters that say Enter Promotional Code. Click on this and proceed.
Do you offer refunds or bib transfers?
There are NO refunds once you register. However you can transfer your entry to another participant up to three weeks prior to the event. Contact us for instructions.
When and where do I get my race packet?
Packet pick up will be the day before the race. Your swag, race bib and lots of seminars will all be happening at our expo. Take a look at our Plan Your Race page for the full details.
Where is my timing chip?
Timing chips are affixed to the back of your race bib. This is already done for you.
Can I wear headphones?
Yes, you can wear headphones, however, you must be able to hear all athlete instructions from course marshals, fellow athletes and remain courteous to other runners.
Do you allow strollers?
Yes, we encourage moms and dads to run with their strollers.
Is there an age limit for runners?
No, we encourage runners of all ages to participate as long as they can complete the course within the specified time limit for each event.
Can my dog run with me?
No, due to the congestion on the course we do not allow dogs to participate in this event.
What is available at the aid stations?
Typically we have water and energy bars available at all aid stations. On half and full marathons we also provide a selection of snacks on the last half of each course, as well as gatorade at each station!
Where do I park?
We have ample parking adjacent to the start finish line on River Street. We also provide free bike valet if you choose to ride you bike to the race.
Do you have a question that's not listed here? Contact us and let us know >


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- Starring: Esteban Gottfried, Tal Lifshitz, Fira Kantor, Abraham Mor, Dana Reiter, Clara Stav, Vladimir Fridman and Gilat Ankori
- Written By: Erez Kav-El , Leon (Leonid) Prudovsky
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- Country: Israel
- Language: Hebrew
Like A Fish Out of Water
Directed by: Leonid Prudovsky
Marcelo is a non-religious young man, an actor and a single parent to his eleven years old daughter, Lucy. He`s desperately looking for someone to help him improve his Hebrew accent so he can pass the auditions for an Israeli Soap Opera. Anat, his religious teacher, is probably the best solution, but she hates soap operas and is not so fond of her pupil either. Besides, Anat has her own problems, mainly her mother Bruria: an energetic, pushy lady frantically seeking a perfect match for her daughter who has already passed the proper age to marry.
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Dromore Amateurs gave second placed Dunmurry YM the fright of their lives on Saturday.
The locals had been two up through Beattie and Haslem but the high-flying hosts showed their class and came back to snatch a 2-2 draw
It said it all that 10th placed Dromore came away feeling a little disappointed with their point.
Dromore started well and should have taken the lead inside five minutes when Haslem chested off to strike partner Rowan on the edge of the box and he let fly with a great strike which the keeper did well to tip round the post.
Dromore continued to press and it was the locals who created the next chance when good play in midfield from Fletcher and Beattie resulted in Haslem being put through on goal only to see his shot fly over the bar with only the keeper to beat.
At the other endm the Dromore defence was standing firm to the hustle and bustle of the two big centre forwards.
Rowan had to go off midway through the first half with Stephen Downey coming on in his place and the big striker started to cause havoc in the Dunmurry defence.
Dromore's dominance told five minutes before half-time when Beattie got the final touch in a scramble to put the Amateurs one up.
Dunmurry pushed for the equaliser after the break but it was Dromore who got the second goal. Good play from Gilliland and Tinsley released Haslem down the right and he made no mistake from 12 yards out with a crisp finish past the advancing keeper.
Dromore even had the chance to put the game to bed when Haslem broke on the right but shot wide when a pass to Beattie with the goal at his mercy might have been the better option.
And Dunmurry made their visitors regret their misses. They got one back through a clinical one-on-one finish and got the equaliser 15 minutes from time when a long throw wasn't dealt with and the striker capitalised.
Dunmurry pushed for the winner but Dromore had two chances of their own.
Substitute Maguire teed up the impressive Downey whose left foot shot slide the wrong side of the post then when a bad kick out from the keeper was intercepted by Maguire, the keeper redeemed himself with a good save down low.
Dromore defended stoutly in the last few minutes throwing their bodies on the line, notably Gilliland and Gareth Rowan, to earn themselves a much deserved point.
Manager Brownlee said he was "proud of the effort and commitment shown by his players on a very difficult playing surface" and commented that in weeks to come, if performance levels are the same, more points will be picked up.
At the time of going to press, Dromore had no fixtures scheduled.
AMATEURS: Coady, Walker, McMurray, Martin, G Rowan, Gilliland, Flecther, Beattie, S Haslem, M Rowan, Tinsley, McDonald, Downey, Maguire


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Plot Summary:"After the group suicide of four people, journalists Yuu and Rie investigate the reasons behind an endless cycle of suicides, blamed on an infamous Suicide Manual, hidden in a tag-less DVD disk. Said manual is shot in an infomercial fashion, with examples of the best methods to kill yourself and demonstrations by real people. When investigating further, Yuu and Rie find out that in Buddhist beliefs, when a person kills himself, he or she is sent to a certain hell, from which they induce other people to commit suicide. But is this what is really happening?"
This latest low budget Asian horror sees a TV cameraman and his assistant track down the maker of a suicide manual in DVD form, which has seen a rise in the number of teen suicides.
The pair learn that the DVD has spawned a cult of followers and they soon become obsessed by the manual's presenter, Rickie.
What follows is a bland and strangely acted film with some poor CGI and effects work and an equally poor and utterly redundant score.
The film had a decent enough premise as the filmmakers set out to explore a current phenomenon and managed to blend it with new technology. The film failed to sustain my interest however, as it moved far too slowly and the effects sequences were so obviously CGI that they had no impact whatsoever.
Not the worst Asian horror movie I've seen lately but one of the most banal. Let's hope the sequel manages to up the ante.


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Previously aiming for it, developer Dontnod confirmed today that Life Is Strange Episode 5: Polarized is coming to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC on Tuesday, October 20.
You can get a brief teaser for Polarized in the above trailer.
The finale of Life Is Strange, we don't know quite what to expect from Episode 5, but Dontnod has said in the past, "There will be a sense of closure at the end of episode five. We have ideas for a season two, but we don't want to end with a huge cliffhanger. There is an ending."
Are you excited for the finale later this month?
[Source: Life Is Strange (Twitter)]


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History is history, and the Bedlington origin remains a mystery!
It seems from recorded historical writings, that the most likely main origin of the Bedlington Terrier is the Rough Scotch Terrier, said to have been brought to the hilly and pastoral Border Country of England and Scotland by Scotsmen relocating to work on the mines in the region. Another likely theory is, that different Terrier breeds, that were popularly used in hunting, were sold to various breeders from different regions or countries, and the offspring then produced, usually acquired the name from where they came. In the case of the Bedlington, the true origins are rather difficult and confusing, but it is factually accepted that they hailed from the rocky, hilly country bordering England and Scotland. One of the earliest mentions of a Bedlington-like dog, appears in a diary of a Hungarian nobleman, Z. Molar. He writes of a visit to the Rothbury district in 1702, where he participated in a hunt. In a gypsy encampment on the way, he noticed Agar-like dogs (Hungarian greyhounds), with hair like a lamb! He was told that they were great for hunting hare and rabbits and were also kept by some people for sport. Mr. Molar described in his diary, that these dogs were "the red of bricks" – I guess one could say like today's reddish liver Bedlington. Maybe this is the earliest recording of Bedlington ancestors.
In the 1860's, letters were published in "The Field" referring to the Cowney Family dogs that were "pale headed Rough Scottish Terrier type dogs". One of the Cowneys who moved to Morpeth about the 1800's, took some of the family dogs with him. Morpeth is only a few miles from Bedlington, in the Northumberland Region, where development of the breed took place in the 1820's. At that time, the dogs were bred mainly for their positive trait of hunting ability, but were also bred for sport. The true terrier, from the Latin word "terra" meaning ground, were excellent dogs who dug out and caught rats, rabbits and other vermin – a necessity for country living and especially for workers on the mines.
The Bedlington, being fast and agile, became a keen favourite of the gentry (elite) at that time, when Lord Rothbury became an enthusiast of this little dog, and its popularity spread throughout the country. There were quite a few breeders in that region of Northumberland and Rothbury, and in those years, the breeds were referred to as Northumberland Terriers or Rothbury Terriers to name a few. It is not certain which breeds actually played a part in the development of the Bedlington, but there is speculation on the Dandie Dinmont, the Old English Terrier with crosses to the Otter Hound, and even the Whippet.
The name Bedlington Terrier was used by Joseph Aynsley, one of those breeders from the town of Bedlington in the Northumberland region , and has been in use for more than 170 years. However, the actual recorded birth of the breed was in 1825, when Phoebe, the bitch that Joseph Aynsley acquired from Ned Cotes on his death, was mated to James Anderson's liver dog Old Piper. The male puppy born of this mating, was also called Piper and he was the first dog to be called a Bedlington Terrier. It is considered that the progenitor of the modern breed was "Old Flint", whelped in 1782, from whom Phoebe and Piper were descended. This is the pedigree that applies to every Bedlington today.
Around the early 1900's, better records were being kept. The Bedlington started to be bred as a companion and a show dog.
The first Bedlington Kennel Club was established in England in 1869. The oldest club today is the National Bedlington Terrier Club registered by the England Kennel Club in 1898. Other major Bedlington Clubs are in America and Scandinavia. The American Bedlington Club was formed in 1932 and the Scandinavian Bedlington Terrier Club in 1977. The first dog show with a class for Bedlington Terriers, took place in Newcastle in England, in 1879.
The Bedlingtons have spread to different parts of the world, but yet they remain a rare breed. The very first Bedlingtons to enter and register in Israel, were Isotop's Felicia and Toolbox Freestyler in 2003!
May Bedlington history continue!


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The seventh in our series on interiors by Katie McCrum, a member of the British Institution of Interior Design (BIID) and founder and MD of London Rooms Design & Development Ltd >>
Interior design changes just like the fashion industry, so here's a little glimpse at what's in store for 2014:
Yellow is the hot favourite, and other strong players will be teal blue, apple red and khaki. Pastels are also back on trend. Soft delicate pastels in natural hues are offset with unexpected primary colours or neutralised with greys creating contrasting bursts of life to a room. Pistachio green, powder blues and cupcake pinks have gone from baby to brilliant. Not surprisingly, the matte black finish of the car world will now also be entering the world of interiors.
Those patterned curtains your grandma used to have alongside chintzy wallpaper and the vintage sofa textile are making an even bigger comeback in 2014. Moving on from the floral prints that were popular this year, we will also see more explosive, exciting geometric patterns in primary colours. Think vivid shapes, bold wall hangings, rugs and cushions. This look is not about matching things up by colour or design, it is transient and fun with a reference to childhood innocence. This includes prints of woodland creatures, especially foxes and birds.
Furniture & Surfaces
Expect to see organic curves,geometric shapes and skeletal furniture pieces with wire frames. Raw materials such as wood and marble will be used to ease out the sharpness that some of the geometrics might bring. The manmade finishes will be concrete, glass, steel and coloured Perspex.
Cord lighting is here to stay, but look out for even thinner, finer cables in pendant lighting and coloured cords that follow a somewhat linear path, combined with light features that are spherical or triangular in shape.


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The theme, 'Machinic Processes', refers not only to new digital fabrication processes, such as CNC milling and 3-D printing, but also to the innovative use of new parametric and algorithmic design techniques. Since 2004 the adoption of these techniques in China has been rapid. The design of buildings such as the Birds Nest stadium would not have been feasible without the use of new parametric modeling techniques and Building Information Modeling software. Meanwhile, although the construction industry in China has relied heavily on manual labor in the past, digital fabrication technologies are beginning to play an increasingly important role in the construction of buildings throughout China, and are set to play an even more significant role in the future. (Source)
Curators: Neil Leach / Xu Weiguo
Curators: Neil Leach / Xu Weiguo
West Coast (curator: Elena Manferdini)UK (curator: Alisa Andrasek)
China (curator: Xu Feng)
East Coast (curator: David Ruy)
Australia (curator: Roland Snooks)
Europe (curator: Marta Malé-Alemany)
Asia (curator: Lisa Iwamoto)
Latin America (curator: Matias del Campo)
International (curator: Francois Roche)
Machinic Processes
Architecture Biennial Beijing 2010
Exhibition: Oct. 15 - Oct. 20, 2010
Opening Ceremony: 19:00, Oct. 15, 2010
Location: 798 Space, Beijing
Conference: Oct. 16 , 2010, Beijing DongHuangKaili Hotel(NO.16 Guangshun Nan Avenue, Chaoyang District, Beijing)
Curators: Neil Leach / Xu Weiguo


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The best system in the market expandes it's value
The mainframe is the most respected system in most data centers. The discipline and management is why it is the mission critical and strategic system of choice. This sounds like it will help with the nightmare most customers have with "distributed" systems. I for one have always had the most respect for centralized systems. Larry has customers over a barrel and is becoming the new Computer Associates in the industry. IBM is fair, has the best technology and is not trying to lash together technology to charge customers millions in RAC software.
It was fun while it lasted, but dont trust Larry.....your company should not be paying for the Americas cup.


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Our Timeline
The Indiana PA Food Co-Op had its first open community meeting in July 2015. Our Steering Committee and three sub-committees (Fundraising, Membership, and Planning) formed in August 2015 to guide our efforts. The Steering Committee and sub-committees meet each month. In addition, we will be holding regular community meetings and fundraising events. We are currently working on initial fundraising and a feasibility study in the Fall of 2015.


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I can't believe I've made it far enough to have just had my baby shower! This pregnancy has certainly not flown by. But, the time for baby's arrival is getting closer and closer regardless!
The second weekend of the month, our dear friends Johnathan and Mel flew all the way out from California for our baby shower. Mel and my good friend Laura were the organizers. (I will admit that I picked the party's theme and a few other things…) It was important to me that we had a co-ed shower that was more of a party. More than half of my friends are guys, and I really wanted Danny by my side.
The party was great! Mel and Laura outdid themselves, and I hope I get to repay the favor some day. Danny and I arrived at our neighborhood's community center to find it perfectly decorated in my aqua and orange rock n' roll theme. There was an amazing spread of food, thanks to Laura and our friend Rebecca, super tasty cupcakes from Georgetown Cupcakes, and a craft table for decorating baby onesies. (My craft tables at the parties I host are rather notorious, so it was fitting that they have one for me!)
We kept the games to a minimum, but they were a lot of fun! The first was to see who could drink beer from a baby bottle the fastest. Hah! Obviously, I didn't not partake. The other game was that everyone cut a length of ribbon to what they though my baby bump size was. My adorable little niece Cassie got it dead on and was the winner!
I was really sleepy by the time we were to open presents. Cassie helped Danny and I open them. We got so many adorable clothes and baby books, as well as some practical items. (Slide Show)
The best part of the weekend was having our friends stay with us. I miss them so much now that they are gone!
After the shower, we had to take stock of what we need before baby arrives. While we got great stuff, there was a lot of important things missing. We pooled Christmas money and a few returns of duplicates and ordered some of the bigger items off of our registries. We are registered at Target, Amazon and Babies R Us if you want to get something for the little one in lieu of a Christmas gift for me. Babies need so much stuff!
Originally published in my journal, Stephanie's Thoughts. Leave me a comment!


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''The Hebrew Hammer'' is the story of Mordechai Jefferson Carver (Adam Goldberg), a Jew who by the time the opening credits are done has grown from a tubby, victimized young schoolboy into an avenging, street-smart superhero, with a wardrobe and a theme song ripped off from ''Shaft.''
The blaxploitation movies of the 70's have been revived, remade and sent up countless times in the past decade, but there is nonetheless a certain novelty in folding their fight-the-man bravado into the tradition of Jewish self-mockery. In the case of ''The Hebrew Hammer,'' which opens today in New York and Los Angeles and is written and directed by Jonathan Kesselman, that novelty lasts about as long as those credits, after which the movie, which would have worked brilliantly as a five-minute late-night comedy sketch, flogs its premise for nearly an hour and a half, generating too few laughs to justify the enterprise.
That is too bad, since there are some promising ideas buried in the scattershot, secondhand shtick. Mordechai's mission is to save Hanukkah from a renegade Santa (Andy Dick) who has killed off the previous Santa, his tolerant father, and begun a campaign to stamp out the rival winter holidays.
To combat this diabolical plan, the Hebrew Hammer joins forces with the Kwanzaa Liberation Front. That group's leader is played by Mario Van Peebles, whose father, Melvin, directed the seminal fight-the-man picture ''Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song'' and shows up briefly to confer his blessing and receive Mr. Goldberg's homage.
The Hammer, meanwhile, must contend with his guilt-tripping mother (Nora Dunn) and the burdensome expectations of the head of the Jewish Justice League (Peter Coyote, with a Moshe Dayan eyepatch and a Jackie Mason accent), whose daughter, Esther (Judy Greer), is the hero's glatt kosher love interest.
As you might have gathered already, some of Mr. Kesselman's jokes are as old as the Catskill foothills, and his attempt to present them in the cool, savvy pop-culture style of the moment fails more than it succeeds. The funniest moments belong to Tony Cox, who plays an angry, foul-mouthed elf who loses his job at the North Pole because of the new Santa's racist labor policies.
Whether Mr. Cox, the leading African-American dwarf in movies today, is a talented comedian or a walking sight gag is an open question, and perhaps an unfair one. With two angry-elf movies in theaters -- ''Bad Santa'' is the other -- Mr. Cox has made a disproportionate contribution to rescuing the holiday movie season from sentimentality, sensitivity and bland good taste.Continue reading the main story
''The Hebrew Hammer'' is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian) for profanity and mock violence.Continue reading the main story


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"Set in the woodlands of Holland, the program of Villa 1 is oriented optimal towards the views on the terrain and the sun. Half of the program is pushed below ground to meet local zoning regulations. This creates a clear dichotomy in the spatial experience of the house – a glass box ground floor where all mass is concentrated in furniture elements and a "medieval" basement, where the spaces are carved out of the mass."
Via Jamie @ Design Milk
Spaces: Villa 1, Holland, by Powerhouse Company
Posted by switch-smith at 7:30 PM . Thursday, July 30, 2009
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- Olga said...
The house is truly amazing, I like the environment too.
- August 1, 2009 at 5:54 AM


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In the wake of the Vision Forum scandal, HSLDA and others abandon the appearance of patriarchy in high demand Christian homeschooling while ignoring the problems in the culture.
Dangerdust @ Twitter and Etsy
Not long after Doug Phillips "resigned" from the now defunct Vision Forum, his cohorts were quick to abandon him. Scott Brown who heads up the Family Integrated Church group quickly denounced Phillips. One almost imagines that some of the big names in this group were thrilled to hear of his failure.
As the discussion unfolded concerning Doug Phillips, some lesser players in the movement began to suggest that in addition to abandoning Vision Forum and Phillips personally, the term "patriarchy" should also be abandoned. I don't know what on earth one would replace it with – as this leopard would be forced to change its spots if it were called something else. This group will never abandon it's basic assumptions of a father "taking dominion" properly over family as the panacea for all that ails the world, and it remains "alive and" thriving (but never well). How they wish to shed the rightful connotation which has come from the foul fruit of their movement! And the term "Complementarianism" has already been devised. Those who coined it did not want associated with the likes of the people who followed "Biblical patriarchy."
3PM Addendum: "Covenantal headship" may be the new term introduced by Kevin Swanson. HT to Suzanne at Kevin Swanson Watch.
The Essential Patriarchy
Several years ago, I read two books written by Michael Farris, the founder of the Home School Legal Defense Association and of Patrick Henry College (PHC). The primary premise of those books was built entirely on patriarchy. I was amused recently upon reading some reviews of one of these books as it was characterized as both patriarchal and formulaic. Some chap even decided that he needed to enact a detailed plan that would take several months to correct his life as the book directed him. (I would suggest reading more HERE and HERE if your view of HSLDA is particularly glowing.)
I also recall the patriarchal messages in the film about Patrick Henry College called Come What May. (You can find it streaming online for free.) The film conveyed several mixed messages about life at the school and of what I assume they saw as the ideal Christian life. A young woman can attend there, but the film suggests that the true ideal involves the proverbial Mrs. degree. The protagonist's mother, an attorney who works outside the home, finds herself in an ethical quandary which parallels her son's better moral choices. I felt that this echoed complementarianism's idea that all women are easily deceived. The film's message brings home the idea that it would have been far better if Mom, Esquire had stayed home to serve her family instead of her adultery outside the home – the adultery of serving a man who was not her husband by holding a job. If you follow PHC's unspoken ideal plan, life becomes wonderful. Going against the proper order for family causes difficult problems and divides families. The film illustrated the prevailing patriarchy at PHC quite well.
Scapegoating to "Save" Homeschooling
Knowing of Farris and his long history of following the patriarchal ideal, I found his recent statements surprising – but not really. He was quick to distance himself and HSLDA from Doug Phillips soon after the matter went public, and I understand that they were not thrilled with him in private for quite some time. It makes me think of rats fleeing the sinking ship of Vision Forum. What surprises me given his own patriarchal bend is that he has also sought to scapegoat patriarchy as the bane of homeschooling. (Thanks to Kathryn Brightbill and Homeschooler's Anonymous for providing the audio clip and transcript of the quote.)
Michael Farris' statement:
And so the idea that people are going to create generational patriarchal legacies, that didn't work out for them very well. We're not seeing that. You erect a false view of god for your children, don't be surprised if they reject god entirely. That's what's going to happen. So what do we do as a movement first I would suggest that we run as far away from patriarchy and legalism as we can.
(Thanks to Kathryn Brightbill and Homeschooler's Anonymous for providing the audio clip and transcript.)
It's much easier to scapegoat someone or something to explain away problems – particularly when you're pushing a social engineering paradigm. While patriarchy has been a large part of high demand homeschooling set through the influences of men like Doug Phillips, Jonathan Lindvall, and their predecessor, Bill Gothard, the problem isn't solely that of patriarchy. It's a symptom of a deeper problem – that of the spiritually abusive dynamics of the movement (for those circles within the movement that are abusive). Rather than educating children, the option becomes a means of raising the fantasy family where kids turn out to be the adults that their parents desire. On a larger scale, many view the Christian homeschooling effort as the factory for the fantasy family, and these fantasy families will then take over the world for Jesus.
Homeschooling: "You're Doing It Wrong"
I've had some interaction with Mary Pride a couple of years ago after I posted a quote of hers on No Longer Quivering's old forum. Somehow, even Mary thinks that she's not patriarchal and wrote to me to ask me to say otherwise. I called her the "high priestess of patriarchy" in my post there. Somehow, because Mary doesn't like Vision Forum and the "stay at home daughter" concept, she expected me to be convinced that she's not patriarchal. Apparently, Vyckie Garrison had the same experience with Mary which she notes HERE.
Mary' quote subtitled "Evangelism Through Reproduction" (pg 80 in my copy of her book The Way Home):
We Christians can sometimes be inconsistent. We'd fight and scream if someone tried to stamp out our evangelistic efforts....Let's say that Christians are 20 percent of the US population. If each Christian family had six children, and the humanists, feminists, and others kept on having an average of one.....then in twenty years there would be sixty of us for every forty of them. In forty years, 90 percent of America would be Christian! That is without outside evangelism. All we'd have to do would be to have children and raise them for Christ... [T]hen in two generations...we would be over 40 percent of the population.
We also see the same idea elsewhere online among those who have abandoned only some of the sacred cows of this end of Christian homeschooling, but they don't want to abandon them all. In the end, it seems that they just argue like Mary Pride did: Their version of the system and their way of doing things is superior to the failed attempt of someone else. And most often, I've seen that the "better way" of their superior version of a paradigm only rehashes some element of the ideology that was originally promoted as a panacea for family. They are nothing more than ways to get that fantasy family about which so many of these hopeful yet fearful parents dream. No Longer Quivering (HERE and HERE), Homeschoolers Anonymous, Kathryn Elizabeth, and Love Joy Feminism offer a deeper discussion of this phenomenon. It has also become a theme of discussion at Spiritual Sounding Board. As some people have described it, many of these folks still have "one foot in and one foot out" of patriarchy.
Ultimately, if homeschooling yields unreliable results, what we see among all of these groups is the message that parents failed to follow the appropriate plan. If you are a parent with an adult child that rejects some or all of the desirable profile that homeschooling was supposed to engrain in them as children, you're to blame for doing something wrong or failing to do something right. All of this builds on the assumption that these parenting plans are foolproof, particularly if they are believed to be a pure interpretation of Scripture. If the paradigm fails, in the minds of these parents, it is synonymous with failure of God's promises in Scripture – and that can never be. It can't be the "branding" that some homeschooling guru tried to establish as a new take on "doing Christianity better" and how homeschooling becomes a function of that better way.
Bad Apples, Bad Staves or Bad Barrel Design?
And it seems that if the "failures" can't be attributed to patriarchy or paradigms, their parents find themselves with no want for advice from other do-gooders who come around like Job's friends. There is no dearth of them in Christian homeschooling. Scapegoating individuals as "bad apples" seems to be the last resort. Confirmation bias makes it quite easy to serve up the "homeschool apostate" and these "bad apple" individuals on homeschooling altar to preserve parental comfort and convenience under the guise of piety. And it's just not right.
Patriarchy was a tool and a symptom of the homeschooling panacea, but it was not the disease. Using Zimbardo's analogy, it was not patriarchy that made too many apples in the barrels go bad. (It isn't due to "one bad apple" either.) Patriarchy was never the barrel. It was only a component of the barrel. The barrel itself is the high demand culture of some homeschooling circles that seeks to create a fantasy world where wishes come true. Patriarchy was just a means to an end which allowed some to grasp at their version of the ideal world.
Many strive to only pull out a few barrel staves rather than going back to the proverbial drawing board to take a closer look at their barrel design.
It saddens me that too many fail to grasp this concept about this subgroup of homeschooling's ideal of the "greater good." It's not Christianity's integrity that is at risk for them. It is the integrity of their paradigm of homeschooling, and it is lacking.