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99 Jimmy Heater Motor?
99 Jimmy Heater Motor?
Does anyone know if the whole heater housing has to come out from the inside, or can the motor be removed from under the hood? Or is there anyway I can try & lubricate the bearing?
You can just see where the motor is by the firewall on the right hand side, from under the hood.
Looks like a big job! :uhoh:
Disconnect the battery negative cable.
Remove the VCM.
Remove the coolant reservoir.
Remove the rear coolant recovery reservoir mounting stud.
Disconnect the electrical connector from the blower motor.
Remove the blower motor access cover retaining screws. IMPORTANT: Cut through the cover as straight as possible because the access cover must be replaced. Part of this repair is visible to the customer. In order to prevent damage to the component, do not cut any deeper than necessary in order to remove the access cover.
Cut through the cover on the cut line (1) using a razor blade or a sharp utility knife
Disconnect the cooling tube from the blower motor.
Disconnect the electrical connector from the blower motor and fan assembly.
Remove the blower motor and fan assembly mounting bolts.
Remove the blower motor and fan assembly.
Install the blower motor and fan assembly. NOTE: Refer to Fastener Notice in Service Precautions.
Install the blower motor and fan assembly mounting bolts. Tighten Tighten the bolts to 4.5 N.m (40 lb in) .
Connect the cooling tube to the blower motor.
Install the blower motor access cover. IMPORTANT: Do not use RTV. Apply the adhesive bead as straight as possible. Allow the adhesive to set for 15 minutes or until the adhesive becomes tacky.
Seal the cut line using black weather-strip adhesive.
Install the blower motor access cover retaining screws. Tighten Tighten the screws to 2.5 N.m (22 lb ft) .
Connect the electrical connector to the blower motor.
Install the rear coolant recovery reservoir mounting stud.
Install the coolant reservoir.
Install the VCM.
Connect the battery negative cable.
good luck and enjoy
Don't waste your time putting the piece you have to cut back on. Mine crumbled in my hands in places anyways.
I agree with b1lk1...don bother with the cover, it will crumble to pieces.
Thanks for the quick reply! I was afraid I was going to have to remove the complete htr housing from inside the vehicle!
It's in the middle of winter here in Canada, & I have to work outside, so I'll leave the repair until spring.
The other morning the htr was screeching as normal, (until it warms up then it's quiet.) I decided to try a quick fix!
I could clearly see the motor housing on the right side of the firewall under the hood. I carefully drilled a 1/16" hole into the plastic housing right in the centre of the heater housing, in the little bump where I thought the bearing might be. I then squirted a bit of 3 in 1 oil into the hole and ????
Instant silence!!! The motor has remained silent ever since. :smile:
I'll keep you posted how long the repair lasts!
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Unbundling of the Job
Last week I posted a draft outline for my planned book on "The Coming Information Age" with a proposed chapter on the "Unbundling of the Job." This is an idea that first occurred to me when I attended a workshop at MIT on Work and Value in the Digital Economy at MIT in late 2012. At the time here is what I wrote:
Do people need jobs or can we deliver what jobs provide some other way and in a potentially unbundled fashion? The "jobs of a job" include income, structure, social connections, meaning, and at least in the US, access to healthcare.
Let me elaborate on this idea here. Whenever I mention the idea of a Basic Income as a way of addressing the impact of technology on the labor market someone will reply "but people have to work!" (usually in an exasperated voice). When you then ask "why?" you get one of the following:
1. Because people need structure in their lives. The benign interpretation of this is a genuine concern about people being bored if they don't have work. It is more likely though a secular variant of "idle hands make the devil's work" — a longstanding suspicion that people will be up to no good if they aren't working.
2. Because people need companionship and communication. It is absolutely the case that historically work was where we spent most of our waking time and was therefore the fulcrum for companionship and communication outside and possibly ahead of the family.
3. Because people need meaning and they get meaning from work. In the US it is common to ask people "what do you do?" to find out what kind of work they do. This is often followed (implicitly) by a conclusion about what kind of person they are based on their work.
4. Because people need healthcare. Thankfully with the Affordable Care Act we have started to unbundle healthcare from the job. By doing so we have moved healthcare into category #5 below.
5. Because people need to pay for food, housing, etc. That last objection is of course what the Basic Income is designed to address. I will write more about the math of that in a world of technological deflation.
None of these are really about work qua work. Rationales 1-3 completely ignore that other activities and networks can also meet those needs. More fundamentally they reflect a view that people are not capable of truly living in freedom, where freedom includes choosing what to spend one's time on. We have come to hold this limited and pessimistic view as a result of centuries of systems that relied on the control of (most) people's time and effort first for agrarian and then for industrial production.
In the upcoming posts I will write about alternative ways to address these needs without a traditional job. As a quick preview: people are creative (and will be more so if we change our education system) and will find interesting things to spend their time on. And importantly in an unbundling based on a Basic Income there can and will still be a market for labor — it is just that people will be in a very different bargaining position.
Posted: 17th June 2014 – Comments
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Technology, Time Preference and the Return on Capital (Companies)
Just as a quick recap. I have argued in Computers and the Return on Capital that having cheaper information flows will in the long run drive the risk free rate of return to the time preference. I then examined how technology is likely reducing time preference for individuals through a variety of different mechanisms. In reply to that post Marc tweeted
And yet tech companies keep raising giant rounds of funding and spitting off huge gushers of cash :-).
That would suggest tech companies need more capital (increased time preference) and that they are producing large returns on capital. The second part of this is I have already addressed, writing that in the short run (some) tech companies will produce huge returns on capital.
Today though I want to dig into the first half of Marc's reply and examine whether companies generally (and tech cos specifically) are needing more capital and how technology is impacting that in the long run. Here is the TL;DR I will conclude that overall technology acts to reduce time preference for companies as well but that in the short term (some) tech cos are raising larger sums due to potential winner-takes-most dynamics.
As a starting point it is useful to remind ourselves why companies need external capital at all. This was the favorite interview question of one of the first people I worked for after college. Most people answered something along the lines of buying equipment or paying expenses. But the answer he was looking for was more precise: paying for stuff before being paid by customers!
That's important because one way technology reduces the need for external capital is through the pre-purchase of products by customers as happens on crowd funding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. One way to look at this is that the company is effectively borrowing from its customers (ie getting capital in the form of loans rather than as equity). That, however, is only a semantic point. There is no separate opportunity here for a return on capital for someone who just wants to invest without buying the product.
Now obviously a bunch of companies that have done successfully avoided the need of capital initially through pre-purchase campaigns have gone on to raise lots of traditional equity capital, most notably Oculus VR. I will get back to that point later as it is part of the perceived winner-take-most dynamic. Before that I want to cover several other ways in which technology is reducing the need for capital for companies.
Companies, just like individuals, have less need for capital as technology is making (nearly) everything cheaper. I am typing this on a Macbook Air which gives me a ridiculous amount of compute power and memory by historic standards and yet costs less than $1,000. As I wrote previously, companies can also increasingly substitute technology for labor which as a result of this pressure is also becoming cheaper (at least at the unskilled end of things).
And, in another parallel to individuals, companies too are benefiting from assets becoming shareable and rentable by the minute or even second. Most startups today for instance don't buy their own hardware. They rent it as they need it, which again reduces the amount of capital that they require. Companies that achieve profitability early on can then rent additional machines out of current income instead of having to raise debt or equity. Our portfolio company Science Exchange is helping to bring this model to lab equipment which demonstrates that this trend is not isolated to computer servers.
If these are the trends, then why are some companies, and in particular tech companies as per Marc's tweet, raising literally billions of dollars in equity? For starters of course part of the answer is "because they can" meaning that investors are offering this money up even if companies could do without it. To dig a bit deeper though, there is a sense that more markets will have some level of winner-take-all characteristic where the leading company will be 10x, 100x or even more valuable than anyone else. And if that's the case it would be a great source of time preference, meaning if you can buy your way into that position by spending ahead of revenues it will still be worth it.
I do believe that this argument has merit due to network effects. It is still worthwhile though to remind oneself that some formidable network effects businesses have been built on relatively little capital (eg. Google raised only $25 million of venture capital) and that networks too can be disrupted. That can happen for instance when there is a technological shift or if the network operator is trying to keep too much of the economics of the network for itself (or its investors).
In summary then, I believe that technology largely acts to reduce the time preference of companies, ie reduces their need to raise external capital. The exception to this appear to be winner-take-most dynamics which to the extent that they are real and sustained will lead companies to want to spend significantly ahead of revenues (and investors to want to provide that capital).
Posted: 10th June 2014 – Comments
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Technology, Time Preference and the Return on Capital (Individuals)
In my post on Computers and the Return on Capital I made the point that cheaper and more ubiquitous flows of information will drive the risk free return on capital towards the time preference (assuming that capital can also flow freely). But I didn't really explain what that meant or how it was determined. Let's start with an extreme case to illustrate the basic idea. Suppose that everyone everywhere was happy with how much they can spend out of their current income (that includes individuals, companies, governments). In that case the risk free return on capital would be zero as nobody would be interested in having debt or raising equity capital.
For there to be a positive market clearing rate of return on capital it has to be the case that some people or companies or governments want to spend faster today than their income allows and so need to attract capital from those who have capital to lend or invest. Time preference is a catch all for capturing this desire to spend now rather than in the future. The relationship between technology and time preference is complex but I think there is fairly strong reason to believe that over time technology is reducing time preference.
Let's start with individuals. The major purchases for which individuals tend to borrow include education (biggest outstanding debt in the US today, greater than credit card debt), cars, homes and consumption more generally. We are seeing the beginnings of technology being used to dramatically lower the cost of education, in the extreme by making it available for free as in the case of Khan Academy, EdX, etc. So one way technology can reduce the need for capital is simply by making something a lot less costly. But there is another effect at work here. If I need to get all my education up front I may have to borrow, but if we are moving to lifelong and on-demand education I may be able to pay for it out of current income.
Another way that technology can reduce the need for capital is by making assets shareable. That's what we are seeing with cars which used to be incredibly inefficiently used assets (standing around idly 95% of the time). Whether it is through car sharing, ride sharing or ultimately driverless cars, technology can help shift from an ownership model (which may require capital) to an on-demand model which can again be paid for out of current income.
As far as general consumption is concerned, technology has been driving down the cost of many products so that more people can purchase them out of current income. Computers themselves are of course a great example of that with smartphones being a computer that almost everyone can afford now (not just here in the US but globally). Known deflation has another impact on time preference: unless you have an immediate need you are more likely to wait as products are getting cheaper and better over time.
The one place where for the time being technology has not yet had an impact is real estate. Many people borrow to buy a home and with urbanization still increasing the cost of homes has been on the rise. There is a great infographic showing the multiple of annual earnings required to buy a home in different parts of the UK with a breakout for London. Technology won't solve this problem in the near term but (unlike many others) I suspect that we are close to peak urbanization and will in fact see people spreading out more in the future. Probably a subject for another post!
A final impact of technology that is relevant to individual time preference is longer expected lifespan. My desire to get something today rather than say next year or the year after is likely to be lower when I feel I have more time. None of this is saying much though about individual preferences. There will likely always be people who are patient and others who are not.
In an upcoming post I will consider the likely impact of technology on time preference for companies. There too I believe that technology is largely acting to reduce time preference in the long run. So we might get all excited about a future of lower returns on capital and how this might reduce the impact of wealth inequality. That, however, would neglect the potential for external shocks. The one I am thinking of in particular is climate change. There is a scenario in which a lot of capital is required very quickly to deal with say rising sea levels. Time preference would go way up, eg we need a sea wall now, not over the next hundred years. If that were to happen there would be a spike in the returns to capital *if* this is financed by borrowing and investment in privately owned companies and infrastructure.
Posted: 2nd June 2014 – Comments
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Kenya: Impressions (Cont'd)
Since our trip to Africa was a family vacation and I really didn't want business to intrude I wound up not spending time with startups in Nairobi. But I did talk to a lot of people we encountered about their use of technology.
Mobile communication is almost everywhere. Only when we went into more remote Samburu territory did we not have a cell signal. Many people are still using feature phones but Android is making rapid headway. An iPhone is considered to be a real luxury item and very few people have one. I took a picture of downtown Nairobi that shows a big LG and an even more prominent Samsung ad (admittedly not a great picture so you have to search a bit).
M-Pesa, the mobile payment system, is used incredibly widely. It has had some very positive effects, such as being able to pay women who work directly as is done for example by the Leakey Collection who work with Maasai women. That in turn has had a dramatic impact in reducing domestic violence against women. Somewhat surprisingly though, the use of M-Pesa has not reduced corruption. In fact you can now bribe folks using electronic payment instead of cash and some people think that the added convenience has increased corruption. It seems that there is an important tradeoff between adoption and enforcement. If you started to track electronic transactions on M-Pesa as a way to crack down on corruption you might stunt growth of electronic payments (people would be a lot less likely to use EZ Pass if they got speeding tickets from it).
Another big surprise for me was how relatively underdeveloped solar energy is. In fact the official Kenya government policy we were told is to invest more in grid development and fossil fuels which if true is bizarre at best. Distributed solar generation has huge promise in Africa. Fortunately, there are now startups such as M-Kopa, that are focused on helping finance the acquisition of solar devices. We saw one solar lamp in particular that doubles as a mobile phone charger and is very affordable.
We also went to visit a school that is supported by the Lewa Conservancy. One of our kids had done a small fundraiser prior to our trip and bought school supplies. When I first looked at what he had bought — paper, pencils and other very basic supplies — I thought this couldn't possibly be what they needed. But it turned out to be spot on. When we went to the school we found it had 640 students and 18 teachers. The classrooms had 30-40 students in them with a teacher and a whiteboard. Basic supplies where exactly what was most needed.
Kenya has apparently announced a one laptop per child initiative. Based on our school visit though it would seem that subsidizing smartphones would be a much better route. Many of the kids walk long distances to school and it seems unlikely that they could carry a laptop back and forth. A phone in fact would make that walk safer. Also phones could have direct cellular data connectivity obviating the need for maintaining a local network. The school could add solar panels for charging the phones.
Overall I came away with a sense of optimism about the potential for Kenya. One of the most interesting questions though is what kind of society a country such as Kenya should be aiming for. I will have more to say about that as I shift my writing on Continuations to focus on my thoughts about the Information Age. I believe there may be an opportunity to leapfrog the industrial model.
Posted: 1st April 2014 – Comments
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The Big Questions About The Future (Transition to the Information Age)
At DLD earlier this week I gave a talk that's an illustrated and expanded version of my recent blog post about Entering the Information Age.
And here are the slides, including a final slide with image credits (most images come form flickr are CC licensed):
Looking forward to comments and suggestions. I am planning to expand this material over the coming weeks and months.
Posted: 24th January 2014 – Comments
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Tech Tuesday: Don't Fear Technology!
Last Tech Tuesday I wrote about how engineering led companies sometimes underrate the importance of marketing and sales. One of the comments on Twitter pointed out that the converse is also often true and I replied that I will write a post about that, so here it goes. Many companies founded by a pure business team tend to struggle with technology and fail to deliver the products or services they envision. There are at least three distinct failure modes that I have seen here over time.
The first are teams that outsource their initial technology development entirely. By this I mean that they don't have a truly technical person on their own team. This hardly ever works. I am sure people will post examples of successful counter examples but most of the teams I see who fall into this category are struggling mightily. Some of them fail to ever ship a product. Others ship something but it is delayed and a far cry from what they had in mind. Based on lots of experience my clear and unambiguous advice here is: if you don't have a technical member of your founding team stop everything else you are doing and find somebody (I will have a separate post on how to do this). In many situations you would be better off not continuing at all if you can't do this and instead take time out to learn enough technology yourself to build an initial version.
The second are teams that add a technical person early on but always treat engineering as a substitutable appendage to the company cycling through many engineering leaders and accumulating massive technical debt along the way. Things may look like they are going well initially, but over time the product development cycle for companies like this starts to slow down dramatically as the technical debt makes innovation harder and harder. Churn in the engineering organization also means that there is less institutional knowledge about why things were built in a certain way to begin with.
The third are teams that bring on board a technologist but then proceed to let that person build an engineering fiefdom that's disconnected from the rest of the organization. The failure mode here tends to be an over-engineered solution that invests heavily in technological infrastructure before having found product market fit. There may be no technical debt here in the classical sense but it generally won't matter because many of these companies never really get off the starting blocks.
The root cause in pretty much all of these situations is a lack of understanding of technology. It is unfortunately easy to go through business school and/or work on the business side of startups or large companies without ever developing any meaningful understanding of technology. That, however, is a recipe for mismanaging technology as it will translate into a fear of engaging and an inability to ask the right questions. If that happens to describe you, then you might want to go and read Tech Tuesday from the very beginning.
Posted: 24th September 2013 – Comments
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Tech Tuesday: Beware the Bleeding Edge
Today's Tech Tuesday is a relatively short note on the "Bleeding Edge" — technologies that are even beyond the cutting edge. Every technology tends to start life at the bleeding edge with early releases that are unstable and poorly tested, many different ways of doing something (instead of an agreed upon best way) and with upgrades that are not backward compatible. It is tempting for startups to embrace bleeding edge technology for several reasons: first, you are starting from scratch, so why not use the very latest? Second, if it works out well it can give you a competitive advantage. Third, it can be a recruiting tool for people who want to get on the next technology trend.
Before you adopt the bleeding edge though, make sure you understand the downsides. In the worst case scenario you find yourself sitting on technology that is no longer supported at all. That will leave you with a tough decision between maintaining it yourself or migrating away. Even in the best case though you are likely to face changes that come from the external technology that force you to rewrite your code (because the changes are not backward compatible). There too you face a tough choice — if you stop upgrading you avoid any rewrite but in all likelihood you are not stuck with whatever version you have which at some point (often very soon) will no longer be maintained.
As a general rule then I suggest to folks that unless you absolutely definitively need it, wait to adopt a technology until it has started to settle down a bit with the vendor (or vendors) reasonably firmly established, the number of releases slowing down considerably and — most importantly — a commitment to avoid backwards incompatible changes unless absolutely necessary. The node.js project for instance seems to be settling down (there are drawbacks to this too as people who were hoping for a different module system were quick to point out), but in terms of adoption this is a big plus.
PS Apparently Thomas Pynchon is coming out with a novel set in Silicon Alley post collapse of the dotcom bubble and pre 9/11 that will be titled "Bleeding Edge"
Posted: 27th August 2013 – Comments
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Tech Tuesday: Multiple Programming Languages?
One of the questions asked by a Tech Tuesday reader was about using multiple different programming languages for different parts of a site. Back in the early days of the web that wasn't really an issue because you would write the page generation in something like Perl or TCL and that was all there was. Well, not really because even then you had to know HTML but of course early HTML was so minimal that it didn't really matter much.
Well along came more HTML, CSS and most importantly Javascript. So at that point you were almost certainly up to 2.5 languages (something on the server, Javascript and I am counting HTML+CSS as 0.5). Then more recently with progress using Javascript on the server you were potentially able to go back to 1.5. Then again almost everyone is also developing apps and if you want native performance you are potentially adding another two languages: Java for Android and Objective C for iOS.
So what should you do? For very small teams there can be some gains from using only one language and in an ideal world a single engineer would be able to do everything in Javascript (if and when HTML5 apps ever really make it). At a minimum it would reduce tooling and testing overhead which is an important consideration.
Having said that, I think the prime directive should be to use the right tool for the job even if that results in multiple languages. The benefits from a proper match will ultimately outweigh the added cognitive and tooling overheads. Also, you should be very suspect of any engineer who has only ever programmed in one language and does not feel comfortable or interested in picking up a new one.
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Posted: 11th June 2013 – Comments
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Tech Tuesday: Technical Debt
The topic fo today's Tech Tuesday is one that every startup I have ever seen struggles with: what to do about technical debt. First off, what is technical debt? The Wikipedia page explains it as "the eventual consequences of poor or evolving software architecture and software development" which result in more effort for subsequent work.This is actually quite good because it makes clear that technical debt doesn't just result from mistakes (the "poor" part) but also from "evolving." And as you may recall my advice has been to startups to evolve their technology as they grow.
The direct corollary from the above is: every startups has technical debt. And I mean every. Show me a startup that doesn't have it and I will show you a company that has vastly over-invested in engineering relative to their scale and relative to product market fit. So if every startup has it, the question becomes, what should you do about it? The answer here is not unlike what you should do with financial debt: don't try to pay it all back at once but also don't ignore it and let it pile up further.
Why not pay it all back at once? First, because often that will result in the temptation to do a complete rewrite, which as I wrote before is a very bad idea. Second, even short of a complete rewrite trying to pay it all back will tend to slow down development of new features or even plain old bug fixing too much relative to the needs of customers (and hence the business). The best way to think of it is that there is some natural level of technical debt that exists at all times.
Of course you shouldn't ignore technical debt either and especially not let it continue to pile up. If you do that, eventually making any change to the system gets so hard that your product becomes frozen. So instead what you need to do is allocate some fraction of engineering at all times to paying back some technical debt. This is one of the key reasons why your total engineering productivity (as measured from a user visible standpoint) will never be as good a year or two into the life of a startup as it was in the early days.
What is the right fraction? The answer is of course: it depends. But as a broad rule if you are a couple of years into it and you are not spending at least about a third of engineering time on rewriting some code (paying back technical debt) you are probably in denial about the extent of your technical debt. And conversely if you are spending more than two thirds of engineering resources on a sustained basis you are probably being overly aggressive.
If you have great examples of different types of technical debt that you have encountered, I would love to hear them. And of course if/how you managed to deal with them.
Posted: 4th June 2013 – Comments
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Tech Tuesday: There is No Silver Bullet
I still have quite a few great topics suggested by readers to work off for my Tech Tuesday series on technology in startups. But today I want to take on a different issue because it has been on my mind. I have now been programming computers in one way or another for over thirty years (yikes) and have seen a lot of technologies come and go during that period. So when something new comes along I tend to think of the great French saying: "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose" (the more things change the more they stay the same).
One of these constants has been that new technologies all too often wind up being seen as a silver bullet: something you can use to solve a difficult problem (werewolves, server scaling) with a solution that is simple and yet super effective. Unfortunately, technology silver bullets are as mythical as their werewolf counterparts. That's not to say that we haven't made progress and that every once in a while something that was previously hard becomes easy (or at least easier) but those are few and far in-between.
For a while recently people were treating node.js as a silver bullett and now it appears to be Go. So you wind up hearing things like "our xyz isn't scaling so we should rewrite it in Go." Now for some cases it may well be true that you need to rewrite a portion of what you have and use a tool that gives you more speed. But before you jump from there to the conclusion that you need the silver bullet du jour keep in mind that people have been writing high performance systems for a long time in existing languages.
So almost inevitably the answer is: you need to either restructure your existing team and/or hire some new folks. When you do that beware of anyone claiming to be an expert in a specific language or technology, especially one that is less than a decade old. If you need say a super low latency in memory server find someone who has written a bunch of those in whatever language rather than a self-declared expert in node or Go.
PS I spent a couple of hours over the weekend looking at Go and it does indeed seem like a promising alternative for situations in which you might have previously resorted to C or C++.
Posted: 28th May 2013 – Comments
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Oxford Nanopore raises $59M for pocket-sized molecular analysis
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AllSeq, DNAnexus share data from Illumina HiSeq X Ten
While early adopters of Illumina's $1,000 genome machine the HiSeq X Ten have been testing the system for months, researchers from less wealthy organizations have had no access to the technology. In a limited way that changed this week, when the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, DNAnexus and AllSeq teamed up to share data from a HiSeq X Ten.


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So, I bought a leather jacket a couple of weeks ago on my day off up in Andersonville…
Alarmingly broken-in and well-loved, this motorcycle jacket ended up in my hands right once I walked in. I mean, if this jacket could talk, I can imagine raucous stories of women holding on to it for dear life as the owner careened around the curves of mountain roads somewhere.
Alongside my brown leather "Member's Only" jacket and a padded grey leather one, black completes the series. So I strolled up to my favorite nook in Andersonville…
Rad Vintage is the place to go, people. It's stocked full of reasonably priced and well-curated options. You'll spend a handful of minutes sifting through their selection from the bossman, RJ. He's got a great eye and know's what he's doing. Check them out on the interwebz or head up their to the store one of these days.
While doing some vintage shopping on the Sabbath in Wicker Park, I bumped into the lovely Ms. Trés Awesome. She kindly asked to take my photograph for her street style website and I was flattered. She kindly sent over some extra photos to make this post happen. Tada. You're the boss, Emma.
Unfortunately, the jacket has already been snatched by Katie. I'll get it back tomorrow, hopefully…if she doesn't pass it off to Shani.
Black leather motorcycle jacket from Rad Vintage ($60); Fair Isle reindeer sweater courtesy of Topman; blue chambray button down by Gant Rugger; slim white denim from spring 2011 by A.P.C.; classic white sneakers courtesy of Vans; purple laces from the 'Crewcuts' section of J.Crew; black frame eyeglasses by Gant Rugger; slouchy dirty grey beanie from my floor; vintage 1950s monogram shopper by Louis Vuitton from eDrop-Off.
Photos courtesy of Trés Awesome.
Love the look- The LV bag is the Sac Plat from the "French Co." during a time when LV became popular in the US in the 70′s- the bag probably isn't any older than 1976 though.
The motorcycle jacket with the white jeans really works – even (especially) in winter.
That jacket looks like it feels like butter! Love.
What iPhone case is that?
PLEASE LOSE THE BAG! Reminds me of the Kanye impersonator in my audio recording class at the art institute. (theres a reason she left it out of the post on tresawesome….)
Lookin good Mr! xoxoxo
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great find, what a gem!
awesome jacket man! Lucky you for finding one, I had to resort to a not-leather one from zara, as my go-to biker jacket. Yours is jsut rockin' dude, I kinda feel bad about my recent purchase now. lol
The look is somewhat OK, but the Louis bag is corny as fuck. And those used black and brown leathers together looks horrible
Merry Christmas, y'all.
I'm sure you're all coming down from your food comas and/or worn out from exploring the full utilities of your copious amounts of swag, so I'll keep it short.
We got back to the farm from our yearly Christmas visit to my dad's childhood Episcopal church and decided to go for a Sunday afternoon ride. We were losing light, so rather than waste time changing out of church clothes, I threw on some jeans and called it good.
Meet Fuerte, our Peruvian Paso Fino gelding.
On Seth: Chambray work shirt (Michigan Avenue Bloomingdales, sale $50 reg. $115) by Gant Rugger; neck tie passed down from grandfather; Mad Men cardigan courtesy of Banana Republic; "Walker" raw denim courtesy of JBrand; brown herringbone socks courtesy of Falke; "Beeswax" desert boots (Nordstrom Rack, sale $50 reg. $110); "Weekender" watch (Amazon.com, $30) by Timex; fish-hook tie clip ($20) by Buckshot Sonny's; deadstock copper latch bracelet with holes (gift from Jeff—what a friend).
Great photos! And great horse…I know from experience!
Love your shoes… I will definitely look for those next time I'm at the rack! Hope you had a very merry Christmas,
So, everyone has an iPhone, right?
Well, you need to protect it, so you might as well dress it with style.
I'm a guy who likes to have unnecessary multiples of practical things. You know, like multiple iPhone cases. One is just fine, but it's fun to have another! This obsession or desire could also be the same condition that most women face regarding handbags, eye makeup, high heels and anything else that women buy…
(See also, my collection of totes of varying handle lengths, multi-colored watch straps, various shoe lace colors, different colors of Field Notes, the list goes on…) #hoarders.
Why own one, when you can own two? GOTTA CATCH 'EM ALL. Here are our picks for the best cases of the season.
First batch: Wallet + iPhone case.
Pros: Everything all together, convenient, less to carry. You can watch it age and brag about how much it's changed since you bought it. Cool, cool.
Cons: You get mugged or you lose it, you're done-zo.
Clockwise: Natural leather iPhone wallet by Kenton Sorenson; "Madison" iPhone wallet in cognac with green stripes by Landmarks & Lions; "Little Black Book" iPhone case by Pad & Quill; "Book Book" for iPhone by Twelve South.
Second batch: Obviously, the fun ones.
Pros: Hello, everyone needs a Marauder's Map.
Cons: Nothing. You win—you just win.
… Jeff, sugar pie, I think we may need to have a conversation about the differences between 'clockwise' and 'from left to right.'
I have the black version of the cassette tape case on my phone right now. It's so awesome looking and always seems to confuse everyone.
I must get the Landmarks & Lions iPhone case!
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What fucked up clock are you organising that iPhone case link list by?
I have to add those to my Xmas wish list…. specially the tweed one… Cheers!
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Remember when you that uncool guy in your high school was, well, uncool until he turned 16 and bought an Acura and pimped it out with lights and shit and then became "cool"?
Well, that's not how I felt nor was I ever that guy. But I do want to just pimp out this jacket with hoods and zip-in vests. Ok, I've already said pimp twice in this paragraph. Let's pretend like I didn't and just watch another episode of "Pimp My Ride."
Breaking in the Baldwins.
Also, the best part about the hood is the copper wire that is embedded around the edge of the hood, so you can pry that puppy around your sweet little face and it won't fly back when the wind/haters are in your face.
Christmas came early with J.Crew's Black Friday sale.
Above: This summer, it was leather on the wrists. For now, it's metal.
On Jeff: "Bedale" waxed jacket with snap-on hood by Barbour; obnoxious button-down by Gant Rugger; glasses by Gant Rugger; the slim-straight "Henley" selvedge by Baldwin Denim; "8878″ moc boot by Red Wing. Accessories: Canvas tote by Filson; Timex "Weekender" with bright yellow nylon strap; brass Giles & Brother railroad spike cuff; sterling silver arrow cuff; deadstock latch bracelet with holes.
Photos by Carolina Mariana Rodriguez.
did you stay true to size on your Bedale? it looks nice!
Love what's happening with the hair. Also, that bright button-up under the Barbour jacket looks perfect.
I bought mine off ebay for cheap. There are a ton of vintage ones from the UK.
How the f-word did you get a Barbour jacket? I want one but we have to eat.
What size is the Bedale? I've been thinking about getting a 36, but I'm afraid it's gonna swamp me and I'll be unable to alter it.
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This photo certainly gives some perspective of the size of Mt McKinley (Denali) in Alaska. This mountain is so large that it has its own weather system. This is nature at its pristine best….untouched wilderness. If you look closely you can see 14,000ft camp below on the plateau. This was on our way up to 17,000ft camp. It was an awesome day as you can see, totally blissful and there was no other place I would rather have been at the time, but I may have changed my mind a few times during the expedition though. :0)
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Pet Peeves For Cg Owner/managers
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We have a great thread going about pet peeves as campers so I think maybe one from owner/managers might be a good thing. I know I see things differently since I started managing campgrounds compared to when I was just camping. We always cleaned up our sites and tried to follow the rules but I'm sure we did things that irked the managers.
One of my big ones is people that bend the rules. "My dog won't run away if not on a leash" kind of thing, another is "I only took a couple of puffs on my cigarette in the no smoking bathroom".
I know that if I go back to just camping I will make more of an effort to see things from the CG's perspective.
Any other owner/managers want to add something?
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I can imagine most campground owners have seen it all. It does bug me when I am following the rules and other campers are not. I always hope the get caught but the never seem to. Last trip it was the dogs on a leash. Sometimes it is the cars on a site, when it is one or two and they put more and they hang in the street etc. I could go on but since I am just a camper...


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We welcome group visits to Bodiam Castle, where you will receive a warm welcome from all our staff and volunteers.
If you are looking for an interesting place to visit, or a fun outdoor event and picnic, Bodiam Castle can offer everything you need for a great day out.
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- Group discounts available for pre-booked parties of 15 or more
- Adult group rate: £6.40; child group rate (5–15 years): £3.20. Free coach parking
- Non pre-booked groups are charged at normal admission prices plus £5 for coach parking
- English-speaking guided tours by prior arrangement
- Free admission for National Trust members and group leaders
- Menus available on request from the Terrace Room – up to 50 seats
- Groups are welcome to picnic anywhere in the grounds
- Our shop has souvenirs, gifts and books
- Groups are welcome throughout the winter season by prior arrangement
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Sit back and enjoy the wonderful views of a 45 minute journey, as you steam gently through the beautiful East Sussex countryside on the Kent & East Sussex Railway. Trains run from Tenterden Town to Bodiam station throughout most of the year. The estate is a 5-minute walk away from Bodiam station and is a great way to approach the castle.
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To bring the castle to life, English-speaking guides wearing medieval costume will tour the castle with you.
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- Email us to check availability then complete the booking form in our information pack
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GRAND PRAIRIE — Jockeys, signaled by the Call to Post, returned to work atop the mammal beasts at Lone Star Park on Thursday evening for the start of the track's spring meeting, which opened with nary a glitch.When all the formal ceremonies marking the track's 17th thoroughbred season were complete, Triumph and Song darted from the gates, turning each and every would-be rival in the $50,000 Premiere Stakes into instant long shots.Guided by veteran jockey Jamie Theriot and trainer Bret Calhoun, the colt made owner Victoria Ashford a first-time stakes winner at Lone Star."The track was great and the horse felt fine," said Theriot, who made Triumph and Song a winner for the third time in three 2013 starts.His first time in stakes company was no different than easy victories in January and February at Fair Grounds in New Orleans.Triumph and Song, whom oddsmakers made an even-money bet, paid out $2.60 on the win, $2.20 on the place and a $2.10 show.Texas Air, who went off at 6-1, paid $5.60 on the place. Solar Charge, under jockey Roman Chapa, paid $2.10 on the show.Trifecta bettors earned $29.20 on a $2 wager. The $2 superfecta on the collection of Triumph and Song, Texas Air, Solar Charge and Tahoka paid out $175.80.Triumph and Song has earned $80,400 in 2013, including $30,000 on Thursday night in what turned out to be more workout than race."I kind of asked him to run the last eighth of a mile to try to get something out of the race," Theriot said. "And he finished strong."Lone Star Park officials were feeling like winners, too, on the first of 50 dates this meet.A day after rainfall drenched Dallas-Fort Worth, the horse gods stepped in, parted the clouds, and said, "Let there be racing."A bearer procession of a large Texas flag preceded renditions of God Bless America and the national anthem as part of the opening ceremonies."The racing gods were shining down on us," said G.W. Hail, the track's vice president and assistant general manager. "Perfect weather. If it would have happened [Wednesday], it would have been all bets off."Spectators were greeted with $11 million worth of renovations to the park and Bar and Book simulcast pub, including a new large video screen on the infield and a new track surface."Hope springs eternal," Hail said. "Everybody is undefeated. Everybody is a winner, nobody has lost anything yet."If you do lose, the great thing about our game, is 20 minutes later you can come back and fire again."
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Exacta 6-4 12.60
Trifecta 6-4-3 29.20
Superfecta 6-4-3-2 175.80
Winning Jockey: Jamie Theriot
Winning Owner: Victoria Ashford
Winning Trainer: W. Bret Calhoun
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Posted: 20/01/14
Alice In Chains is pleased to announce that they will be a part of this year's Sonisphere Festival in Basel, Switzerland on July 4, and in Warsaw, Poland on July 11. Tickets for both shows are now available and can…
Alice In Chains at Rock In Roma
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Alice In Chains will be joining Metallica at Rock in Roma on July 1. Tickets are already on sale, and can be purchased HERE .
Alice In Chains in Singapore
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Alice In Chains is pleased to announce their first show ever in Singapore. They will be performing at the Singapore Rock Festival at Fort Canning Park on March 6. Tickets are now available HERE .
5th Annual Alice In Chains & Friends Fantasy Football League Charity Auction
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As part of their 5th Annual Alice In Chains & Friends Fantasy Football League Charity Auction, Alice In Chains has partnered with Music for Relief to auction one-of-a-kind items and memorabilia to raise funds for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan in…
Sonisphere Festival
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Alice In Chains is pleased to announce that they will be performing at this year's Sonisphere Festival in London, UK this July 4-6. Click HERE to purchase tickets, which are now on sale.
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When I described the opening of 32 Candles to a friend –poor, dark-skinned, black teen obsessed with John Hughes films and their happy endings dreams about being the star of her own fairy… Continue reading
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finally is done ;) 2 more challenges to go
finally is done ;) 2 more challenges to go
you told me we should spend more time together because you are leaving. but what the hell have you done now? i just want your companion. if you think that you cant do that just tell me earlier. so i wont hope so much.
fuck my fucking life. i made the wrong decision am i. i fucking retard to sacrifice this fucking worthless acts.
how i wish i can turn back the time. things would not go so wrong. life would be more happier.
i think i made a huge mistake in my 19 years existence living in this world. bigger than that form 1 accident.
it reminds me of October 30th.
I know you are lazy to come down here to see me. I know u lie. So please just say the truth. Don't keep saying you have to do this or that.
you told me you are coming to see me at 9 today. you lie again.
i told you i dont want to see you tomorrow. i really do not want to see you.
i know you are coming to see me tomorrow because you are going to college. kill 2 birds in one stone. nice. but im not your second-thought.
if you treat me as your second-thought, then you will be forever down in my priority list.
ha. i hope you understand!
i have been trying my best not to breakdown every night. not to sob at the simple little things. not to shed tears thinking about things that should be the past.
I'm selfish and petty. i know but that's only towards you as i put so much hope in you yet you are just no differences from others. i purposely stay so long here just to spend more time with you yet you left me alone. thinking how long we could stay together before you left for Australia, i lie to my parents. i tried to book late flight. i never went back home a week before Christmas. usually i will be at home at the early December. but because of you, i delay it. however, you never seems to care. you never seems to make effort. i know you are busy. i know you have a big circle of friends. but can you please do that after i left?
you demand me to spend time with you in the past 3 weeks. but when i demand you to do the same to me, you reluctant to do. we always end up trying not to fight every night after phone calls.
i wish you know what i feel. i never cry for someone for so much before. never. i told myself i will never cry for you again. just give me time then i will be cold-hearted to you. by that time, don't blame me for being like that. that's my shield to prevent me from being hurt deeper.
i might be want to break up with you if this going on further because it doesnt make any different when im with you. im not freaking happy or pampered when im with you. i just became more and more emotional. that's not good.
you promise me so many things. fortunately, i have a bad memory to remember all of them. but still, i never want to believe in your promises now. when you fail to fulfill your promises, it means you lie. and u have lied so much. im just getting numb each passing day now.
not seeing you for 1 day last time was a torture. now i hope I'm not seeing you for the next 2 weeks. because you seem to have so many reasons not to come to spend time with me. so why not you just go and spend time with your friends now and when that 2 weeks is approaching, I'm already going home.
now, im trying to erase things that remind me of you. when im able to forget those things dont blame me for you are the one who drives me to take that action.
your present was ready since days ago. yet, you still don't want to collect it. fine then. when i don't feel like giving you, i will just give to someone who really will treasure it.
i really hope you are reading this, but i know you wont. ha. never mind. i just need somewhere to pour out all these thoughts that have been lingering in my brain.


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As more and more kids lie about their ages to get on Facebook, the social networking site has to consider how to deal with the legal implications of access.
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WASHINGTON — Facebook is working on technology that would permit children under the age of 13 to use the social network site with parental supervision, people familiar with the effort said on June 4.
Facebook currently requires members to be at least 13, but the new effort is being made because many children lie about their age to get access Facebook and its 900 million members, a source told AFP.
A Facebook spokesman told AFP no decision has been made on any policy change.
But a statement from the spokesman said the California company was exploring ways to handle children using Facebook.
"Many recent reports have highlighted just how difficult it is to enforce age restrictions on the Internet, especially when parents want their children to access online content and services," the statement said.
"We are in continuous dialogue with stakeholders, regulators and other policymakers about how best to help parents keep their kids safe in an evolving online environment."
The effort by Facebook to allow younger children, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, would use technology to allow parents to determine who their children can friend and what applications they could use.
The report noted that that many youngsters lie about their age, putting the company in an awkward position regarding a federal requirement to obtain parental consent before collecting personal data.
The Journal said the move may exacerbate privacy concerns about the massive social network, but that the company has little choice but to look into ways to establish controls that would take into account the site's use by younger children.
A source familiar with the effort said Facebook would comply with laws in the United States and other countries on child protections. These laws vary for country to country, with some being similar to U.S. law and others having no law on online use by minors.
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In the mood for some stargazing or astronomy lessons? Then head to the Cincinnati Observatory's annual "SCOPEOUT" all-day telescope festival. It runs from noon to 11 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10 at the Observatory, 3489 Observatory Place. The day is broken down into three parts. Here's the schedule from the Cincinnati Observatory: 1) Noon – 5 […]
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It's Working Out, a new fitness studio in Columbia Tusculum, is offering a "happy hour" discount from Monday, Sept. 5 to Saturday, Sept. 10. The "happy hour" classes will begin at 5:45 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. It's Working Out is located at 3546 Columbia Parkway, between Allyn's and Starbucks. The phone number is 207-6933. Here's […]
Small airports see changes after Sept. 11
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By Lisa Wakeland • firstname.lastname@example.com Remove your shoes before stepping through the metal detector. Place all liquids – 3 ounces or less only – in the plastic bin. Most Americans know about the wave of security changes at commercial airports that came after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The security improvements are less obvious […]
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Arrests/citations Dwayne H. Smith, born 1973, disorderly conduct, 5832 Bramble Ave., Aug. 3. Jamie Blair, born 1984, possession of drug paraphernalia, 5812 Madison Road, Aug. 3. Jamaar D. Byrd, born 1992, possession of drugs, 4269 Plainville Road, Aug. 6. Darryl Eugene Wynn, born 1965, city or local ordinance violation, 1201 E. McMillan St., Aug. 8. […]
New antique store opening on Kellogg Ave.
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By Lisa Wakeland • firstname.lastname@example.com There is a new place for area residents to find a large cache of interesting items. Hole in the Wall Treasures and Antiques, 4612 Kellogg Ave., in California, will have its grand opening Labor Day weekend, Friday, Sept. 2 to Monday, Sept. 5. After years of operating booths and managing […]
Barbecue festival to benefit East End garden
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By Lisa Wakeland • email@example.com With a little love and a lot of care the East End Veteran's Memorial Garden has grown tremendously in the past decade. East End residents, and those from nearby neighborhoods, can celebrate the garden's 10-year anniversary during a community barbecue Saturday, Aug. 13. "My hope is to establish a Cincinnati […]
Cincinnati Police National Night Out Aug. 2
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The Cincinnati Police District 2 National Night Out will be held 6-9 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 2 at Owl's Nest Park, 1984 Madison Road. The event is free. There will be food, drinks, music and other attractions, including the bike patrol, canine unit, child fingerprint and identification program, DARE car, fire safety house, the SWAT van […]
Local theater group will perform at Dayton Celtic Festival.
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The Irish American Theater Company, based in Columbia Tusculum, will perform segments from its award-winning production, "What Happened Bridgie Cleary?" at the Dayton Celtic Festival Saturday, July 30. The performance begins at 6:30 p.m. Saturday on the University of Dayton stage, near the festival entrance. Katelyn Groh won best actress for her portrayal of Bridgie […]
Neighborhood meet and greet tonight
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Three local community councils are hosting a meet and greet tonight, Tuesday, July 19. Members from the Linwood, East End and Columbia Tusculum community councils will meet at 6:30 p.m. in Tostado's, 3500 Eastern Ave. Peter Huttinger, neighborhood gardens coordinator at the Civic Garden Center of Greater Cincinnati, will be the guest speaker. Other discussion […]
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ANKARA [MENL] -- A Turkish-produced fire control system is being consideredfor installation in the U.S. M-60 main battle tank.
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ANKARA [MENL] -- Turkey has confirmed a resumption of negotiations withIsrael for the upgrade of the M-60 main battle tank.
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ANKARA [MENL] -- Turkey has agreed to an offer from an Israeli company tosupply self-defense systems for Turkey's fleet of air force helicopters.
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LONDON--The cost of the U.K. Royal Navy's two new aircraft carriers has risen to 6.2 billion pounds ($10.0 billion), but under a new agreement any additional expenditure on the huge project would be split equally between the state and the contractors led by BAE Systems PLC (BA.LN), Secretary Of Defense Philip Hammond said Wednesday.
In a statement in parliament, Mr. Hammond said the new figure had been arrived at following detailed analysis of costs already incurred and future costs over the remaining seven years of the project. The defense budget would remain in balance despite the increase, he said.
"Crucially, under the new agreement any variation above or below that price will be shared on a 50-50 basis between government and industry until all the contractor's profit is lost, meaning that interests are now properly aligned driving the behavior change needed to see this contract effectively delivered," Mr. Hammond said. Under the original contract 90% of additional costs would have been borne by the taxpayer with the remainder paid by the contractor, he said.
The minister said the increase in the cost of the project should not come as a surprise. When he announced in May 2012 that the government's defense budget had been balanced he did so having made a provision in the equipment plan for a cost increase in the carrier program above the GBP5.46 billion total reported at the time, he said.
"And I did that in recognition of the inevitability of cost drift in a contract that was so lop-sided and so poorly constructed," he said, blaming the previous government for drawing up the initial terms.
The cost of changes to the launch and recovery system for jets that use the carriers and to reinstate the ski-jump needed had dropped to GBP62 million and possibly lower still from an earlier estimate of some GBP100 million, he added.
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If you had to find a CD by Tommy Castro, chances are you'd find one (or all) of them in the "Blues" section. But with his most recent release, The Devil You Know (Alligator Records), the 59-year-old California native who has been making records for 20 years consciously wanted to do something differe ... More >>
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In another era, James Brown was the Hardest Working Man in Show Business. Today, that title crown might just fall upon the hirsute head of Warren Haynes, simply based on the sheer amount of musical projects currently on his plate. The 53-year-old is a singer/guitarist with the Allman Brothers Band, ... More >>
According to Warren Haynes, singer-guitarist-songwriter for Gov't Mule, it is the first time something like this ever been done by any band -- and he's probably right. Shout!, The group's first studio album in four years and debut for a new label (Blue Note), is a two-CD set. The first contains 11 ... More >>
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