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July 13 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp., grappling with a profit-sapping yen, said it will combine its car-making units in northern Japan to boost efficiency.
Japan's biggest automaker and subsidiaries Toyota Auto Body Co. and Kanto Auto Works Ltd. have agreed to convert the two units to wholly owned subsidiaries through share exchanges in January 2012, the automaker said in a statement. Toyota will pay 0.45 share for each of Toyota Auto Body and 0.25 share for each of Kanto Auto, and may integrate the units with two others by July 2012, it said.
Toyota, which built 43 percent of its vehicles in Japan last year compared with less than 30 percent at both Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co., is aiming to improve the profitability of its domestic operations. The yen's strength cuts the value of repatriated earnings from exports.
"The merger is a necessary move," said Satoru Takada, an analyst at TIW Inc. in Tokyo. "The yen is trading below 80 yen, yet Toyota has kept its domestic output ratio high compared to its Japanese competitors."
Kanto Auto, Central Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Tohoku Corp. will begin discussions on integrating into Toyota Motor by July 2012, the automaker said.
Toyota has three production hubs in Japan -- Aichi prefecture, where its headquarters are based, Kyushu in southern Japan, and in northern Japan.
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Toyota said no jobs will be affected by the merging of its car-making units in northern Japan, according to Executive Vice President Atsushi Niimi in Nagoya, central Japan. The automaker will eventually scrap some antiquated factory lines, though the timing or how many will be shut is unclear at this point, he said.
The carmaker is pushing the merger to help maintain 3 million units of output in Japan, said Niimi, who is in charge of global production. The company is aiming to be profitable at an exchange rate of 80 yen to the dollar and prefers the 85 yen level as a manageable break-even point, he said. The yen climbed to as high as 78.50 yen per dollar today, the strongest since March 17.
"The manufacturing situation is difficult in Japan, but I decided we have to do what we can to secure our future," said Toyota President Akio Toyoda at a press conference in Nagoya. "We are clenching our teeth in trying to protect manufacturing in Japan."
While Toyoda has said he aims to protect jobs by keeping at least 3 million units of annual production in Japan, Chief Financial Officer Satoshi Ozawa said in May the carmaker needs to revise the balance of domestic and overseas output.
Toyota built 3.004 million units in Japan last year. Including truckmaker Hino Motors Ltd. and minicar maker Daihatsu Motor Co., the company produced 3.7 million units.
Toyota shares gained 0.3 percent to 3,365 yen as of the 3 p.m. close of trading in Tokyo.
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I have long group names in my /etc/groups file.
The longer the name the more crazy gridftp behaves.
*up to 8 chars is:
- ok
*over 8 up to about 25 or so:
- last 8 chars in name
*long names (40+ chars)
- segfault!
ran110@file2-per:/cem/compgeo> ls -la
total 16
drwxrwxrwx 8 root Computational_Geoscience 119
2008-05-07 10:02 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 20
2008-04-08 17:31 ..
drwxrwx--- 29 ran110 CG_Admin_Access 4096
2008-04-30 17:08 CGAdmin
drwxrwx--- 4 ran110 CEM-CGForcast 42
2008-04-30 16:47 CGForecast
drwxrwx--- 51 ran110 Computational_Geoscience 4096
2008-05-05 08:23 Comp_geosci
drwxrwx--- 22 ran110 Computational_Geoscience_Industry_Applications_Group 4096
2008-04-30 21:18 IndustryProjects
drwxrwx--- 3 ran110 Computational_Geoscience 18
2008-04-30 20:34 Inversions
drwxrwx--- 19 lec012 CEM-Model 4096
2008-05-04 22:19 ModellingProjects
guess which group makes gridftp crash?
I would be happy with anything BUT a segfault.
Thanks for reporting this.
I see an obvious cause of this in the cases where the LIST or STAT commands are
being used. Is that how you're hitting the problem?
every client we use issues:
and then list
and the server crashes and the clients are left not having a clue!
currently this looks like a buffer overflow and should probably be treated as
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Fixed and committed to cvs.
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In New York City – Fresh Kills Park is Waste Space, Play Place
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For over 50 years Fresh Kills was the main landfill for New York City and the largest dumpsite in the world. In March of 2001 the site was closed due to pressure from the Environmental Protection Agency, only to be reopened temporarily in September of that year as the receiving site for the demolished World Trade Center buildings. Now the land, once a symbol of waste and environmental disrespect, is being re-developed as the largest park in New York City—at 2,220 acres it will be almost three times the size of Central Park. The site will be extensively landscaped with native vegetation and will provide natural ecological areas as well as space designed for a range of recreational activities such as mountain biking, trail running, kayaking, and horseback riding. The park will also be home to multiple renewable energy sites (photovoltaic, wind turbines, and geothermal), plus playing fields and playgrounds. The master plan was done by Field Operations. In keeping with the sustainable agenda, the park will be accessible by public transit.
I had a chance to visit the site last week with the NYC Planning Department, and was surprised to find that the landscape is quite dramatic. Three "mounds" (gigantic hills of garbage) define the main topography. Elevated to approximately 500 feet, the hills offer picturesque views of preservation wetlands and bird habitats, the Manhattan skyline, New Jersey industrial lands and Staten Island suburbs. The extensive landfill-capping process is still underway, with the first phase scheduled to be completed in 2010, with full build-out in 2030. The technology for sealing off the garbage is quite complex, and produces two interesting byproducts. First, "leachate", equivalent to the wet sludge at the bottom of your trash can, is siphoned off the bottom through piping. This allows the water to be purified and returned to the river instead of remaining contained with pollutants. Second, methane gas is captured, pumped, processed and sold to the energy grid, generating about $11 million in revenue annually to New York City.
Initiated in 2004, the Fresh Kills project is the product of unprecedented relationships between the city's Parks, Planning, and Sanitation departments as well as an extensive public engagement process. Although Fresh Kills is a visionary example of urban adaptive reuse, the city has been unsuccessful in dealing with their waste in a more sustainable manner. Since Fresh Kills Landfill was closed in 2001, each borough has been sending its trash south (by diesel truck) to other states such as West Virginia, and even as far as South Carolina. The Fresh Kills park is going to be an amazing place, but it will be truly amazing when New York does something about reducing or locally processing its 12,000 tons of daily residential waste.
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As the unişverse expands, it is conştinşuşally subşjected to energy shifts, or "quanştum flucştuşaştions," that send out litştle pulses of "sound" into the fabşric of spaceştime. In fact, the unişverse is thought to have sprung from just such an energy shift.
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A recent paper in the jourşnal Physşişcal Review Letşters reports a new mathşeşmatşişcal tool that should allow one to use these sounds to help reveal the shape of the unişverse. The authors reconşsider an old quesştion in specştral geomşeştry that asks, roughly, to what extent can the shape of a thing be known from the sound of its acoustic vibraştions? The researchers approached this probşlem by breakşing it down into small workşable pieces, accordşing to author Tejal Bhamre, a Princeşton Unişverşsity gradşuşate stuşdent in the Departşment of Physics.
To underşstand the authors' method, conşsider a vase. If one taps a vase with a spoon, it will make a sound that is charşacşterşisştic of its shape. Simşişlarly, the techşnique Bhamre and her coauşthors develşoped could, in prinşcişple, deterşmine the shape of spaceştime from the perşpetşual ringşing caused by quanştum fluctuations.
The researchers' techşnique also proşvides a unique conşnecştion between the two pilşlars of modşern physics -- quanştum theşory and genşeral relşaştivşity -- by using vibraştional waveşlengths to define the geoşmetşric propşerty that is spacetime.
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Adherence to Scheduled Sessions in a Randomized Field Trial of Case Management: The Criminal Justice–Drug Abuse Treatment Studies Transitional Case Management Study
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The Transitional Case Management (TCM) study, one of the projects of the Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS) cooperative, was a multi-site randomized test of whether a strengths-based case management intervention provided during an inmate's transition from incarceration to the community increases participation in community substance abuse treatment, enhances access to needed social services, and improves drug use and crime outcomes. As in many intervention studies, TCM experienced a relatively large percentage of treatment-group participants who attended few or no scheduled sessions. The paper discusses issues with regard to participation in community case management sessions, examines patterns of session attendance among TCM participants, and analyzes client and case manager characteristics that are associated with number of sessions attended and with patterns of attendance. The average number of sessions (out of 12) attended was 5.7. Few client or case manager characteristics were found to be significantly related to session attendance. Clinical and research implications of the findings and of adherence in case management generally are discussed.
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- Adherence to Scheduled Sessions in a Randomized Field Trial of Case Management: The Criminal Justice–Drug Abuse Treatment Studies Transitional Case Management Study
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Volume 5, Issue 3 , pp 273-297
- Cover Date
- 2009-09-01
- 10.1007/s11292-009-9077-5
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- 1573-3750
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- Session attendance
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- Lisa Greenwell (1)
- Jerome Cartier (1)
- JoAnn Sacks (2)
- Linda Frisman (3)
- Eleni Rodis (3)
- Jennifer R. Havens (4)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California Los Angeles, 1640 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 200, Los Angeles, CA, 20025, USA
- 2. Center for the Integration of Research & Practice, National Development & Research Institutes, Inc., New York, NY, USA
- 3. Research Division, Connecticut Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services, Hartford, CT, USA
- 4. Center on Drug and Alcohol Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA


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The fact that Arizona State University recognizes a gay fraternity but not an association of Christian law-school students has the Scottsdale-based Alliance Defense Fund up in arms. And for good reason.
As the Tribune's Emily Gersema reported on Monday, the defense fund has sued ASU over its refusal to recognize the Christian Legal Society as a campus organization. The university says the society discriminates against non-Christians. But the Sigma Phi Beta gay fraternity, which has been in existence at ASU for five years and is seeking a national charter, is operated by and for homosexual students. That's not discriminatory?
Jeremy Tedesco, an attorney for the defense fund, told Gersema that it's just plain hypocritical for ASU to recognize one but not the other, and we agree.
We have no objection to either the gay fraternity or the Christian law-school group. After all, isn't this what diversity is supposed to be all about? If you embrace diversity as a good thing, why would you sanction one group but exclude the other?
Apparently ASU is virtually alone in blackballing the Christian Legal Society. Gersema reported that the organization has nearly 120,000 law-school students across the country as members, in 150 law schools.
The real issue here is not discrimination; it's free association. Diversity should not be about everyone accepting everyone else's point of view, faith or lifestyle. It should be about respecting the rights of others to think and act as free people, as long as they don't impinge on the rights of others.
Sigma Phi Beta is for gay students. Fine. The Christian Legal Society is for Christian students. Fine. Anyone who doesn't wish to join either group is free to go their own way. But they shouldn't oppose that group's right to operate as a student organization.
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Your Turn, NH: Public schools are undermining the foundations of our country
We do need the support of local elected officials. But the thought of simply throwing money at education is a sad joke. Since the inception of the U.S. Department of Education, we have gone downhill in our quality of education. What the government funds, the government controls. This is why they are legitimately called "government schools," a term Sullivan mocks. At the local level, Sullivan refers to the neglect caused by local officials. What the radical left calls neglect, the average God-fearing public calls stewardship.
The left cannot justify the need for more money by past performance. We need more school choice from every source we can find, whether charter schools or assistance to private schools. Last time I checked, every Catholic homeowner in this great city pays through the nose for property taxes! And for what result?
Thank God (another despised reference by the radical left) for those companies that did contribute to the fund to aid in tuition payments for private schools, whatever they happen to be. These education-conscious companies want the best for the students. The left has demonized anything out of state control for decades. We, the people, need to wake up. Since LBJ, the trillions of dollars spent on the war on poverty have had no effect. We are now at the highest poverty rate since the 60s due to liberal, progressive policies. How did we get here? The answer is simple to anyone who will keep an open mind to the following information.
Sullivan mocks the curriculum of religious schools, speaking of a "far right" agenda. Really? I urge all fair-minded readers, especially the under-40 crowd, to research the Humanist Manifesto. It was developed in the 1930s to remove God from American society and take control of our public education system, and they have all but succeeded. In today's public school classroom, social engineering trumps the three Rs. Secular humanism describes itself as the official state "religion," a religion that is publicly funded!
In our public schools, religion is ridiculed and banned. Some schools have adopted the International Baccalaureate program, which teaches anti-U.S., pro-socialist agendas. Public schools teach that Republicans are for the rich and Democrats for the common people. This is a lie on its face and "opinion" at best, but being taught in the public classroom as fact!
Social studies classes are pushing the Darwinist theories as fact. OK, please describe just one example of macro-evolution. Never happened! Explain the origin of life. Cannot be done. Our kids are being indoctrinated into the godless, socialist mold, which fails everywhere it is tried.
We all need to listen to Barack Obama's audio of his book "Dreams From My Father," in which he proclaims in his own voice that in college he hung with the radical students and sought out Marxist professors. America, we are in trouble. It manifests itself through the public education program and the mounting national debt. It is seen in our growing poverty rate and dead economy. God Bless America, please!
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that's a good observation.
I never have been a fan of calling 911 and letting things fall where they may until the law arrives. Yeah,I know its the only option that most people have, but there has always been something about expecting someone else to take care of you and your problems that has always stuck in my craw.
Your post reminds me of a sign on the Marshal's desk where I work...its says "WE are 911".


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The Office Review: There's Magic Out Thereby Dan Forcella at . Comments
It had been almost a month since the last episode of The Office aired, and its return confirmed the sad truth: this show has become a mediocre comedy this season.
"Welcome Party" was filled with a few heartwarming moments, and a couple of laugh out loud scenes here and there, but every new installment seems to make it more and more obvious that The Office is a shell of what it used to be.
Catherine Tate was pretty polarizing in her first few performances, but at least she was giving audiences an opinion. Here, her Nellie Bertram was neither hilarious nor detestable, and instead was used as a sympathetic character taking on the mean-spirited words of her coworkers. Whether Nellie deserved the hate from the office, or the love from Jim's defense, it didn't have much of an effect on our viewing pleasure.
The fake party for Nellie did bring about two of the funniest moments from the episode, though. There was this classic "Kevin is fat" hilarity...
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... and there was the even better "Ryan is a doucher" comedy. Honestly, if it wasn't funny enough that Oscar jumped on Darryl's code name for Ryan as "douche bag" with the fact that everyone would know who was being talked about, Ryan calmly agreeing had me completely losing it.
While this fake party was going on back in Scranton, Andy and Erin made their way back from Florida. Unfortunately, they had to stop in Southern Penn to break up with Jessica. Other than the fact that everyone at the bachelorette party believed Andy when he said he was gay, there weren't many laughs coming from this plot.
They continue to throw this relationship between Andy and Erin at us, and it still isn't working. They're not a couple that I can get behind, and I'm not sure why. Is it how annoying Andy has become? Is it that Erin's shtick has worn off? Or is it simply that they don't have the chemistry I tend to need in order to back a TV couple wholeheartedly?
There were a couple other nice moments from the episode worth mentioning:
- Erin thinking that you can get tired by looking at a turkey.
- Creed's original songs are not only bad, but 30 minutes long.
- Dwight jumping in on the Pam hate, even though he had no idea what was going on.
- Dwight needs a Tweeter account!
Check out all the best lines from the episode in our The Office Quotes section, and then head to the comments below and let us know what you thought of "Welcome Party."
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Nellie is a virus. She's horrible! Get her off the show or it will tank even worse than it already has this season.
Episode was nice, Story writer should understand the how Nellie's presence impact on show's TRP. Folks don't like to see Nellie in The Office. Andy is much better than her.
Episode started out poorly, got better as it progressed. Most poignant part of the episode to me - the staff asking "why is she (Nellie) here??" then the scene cutting immediately to Andy. Yep, that's why she's here! Andy's failure in the role of boss. I wonder if this juxtaposition was intentional. Like they're admitting they KNOW their character Andy failed to rise to the occasion as boss. Even the above 2-star review, which isn't too complimentary toward Nellie, still points out how annoying Andy has become. For the many vocal fans who won't even give Nellie a chance, agree on an alternative. Otherwise just shut your venomous holes. Nellie was a mixed bag in this one, but definitely great once she was actually humanized, during and after the breakdown scene. Looking forward to more of that. Catherine shows here that she obviously has the skills to pull off a lot of depth for her character, given the right material. Let's hope the writers actually manage to use it.
Creed is AWESOME. End of discussion
When is Creed being removed from this show? Everything he says and does is incredibly annoying to me. Am I the only one that feels this? It feels like it's in his contract to at least say one line every show. It's always unnatural and not even remotely funny.
Nellie is super funny. I loved it!!!
I thought it was funny and entertaining. I was bored with Nellie in Florida but she's great in Scranton. Andy/Erin was a drag.
I didn't think it was that bad! But then I love Andy and Erin together. I think they make a perfect couple. I liked the way Jim messed up the magician's performance and then Pam caught on and together they drove the guy out. Nellie has been awful all along and she was awful when she arrived. It's not unusual to become more sympathetic to a difficult person when you find out more about them. So the whole thing made sense to me. She did appreciate what Jim and Pam did, and hopefully that will warm her up. She's funny, but so annoying.
Awful. no laughs only indifference. the show is phoning it in. The British women is a failure,
don't care for the character or the actress.
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Two of East Lothian's most prominent architectural firms, Chalmers & Co and Alan Sheerin Associates, are to merge, and aim to be East Lothian's leading architectural practice.
Alan Sheerin Associates are probably the best known firm of architects in the county. Chartered architect, Alan Sheerin, worked in East Lothian Council's Architects Department, at Campbell and Arnott, and at RMJM prior to establishing his own practice in Haddington's Sidegate in 1987.
He was involved in a wide variety of projects including housing, medical centres, cinemas and an overseas hotel and a conference centre in Tripoli in Libya. With East Lothian Council he was responsible for the design of a housing project which gained a Civic Trust Commendation.
For the last 26 years Alan has worked on projects across East Lothian, Fife and the City Of Edinburgh, and even in South Uist. Projects of all sizes have included private and housing association residential developments, steading conversions, medical and dental centres, The Haddington Abbeyfield Society home, the Museum of Flight at East Fortune and work for the National Museum on Chambers Street. The practice gained a Saltire Commendation for the development of sheltered housing and associated work to a nursing home at Hilton Lodge in Haddington.
Alan Sheerin says: "As a first step towards the formal merger early in 2014, we have decided to move into Chalmers & Co's offices at 48 High Street, Haddington. Steven White and I will continue to operate as Alan Sheerin Associates in the meantime.
"Having been based in Sidegate for such a long time, we thought it would be helpful to our clients if we moved to our new address prior to the official merger date. For a long time Chalmers & Co have been our 'friendly' rivals in East Lothian's architectural market, partly because my son, Fraser Sheerin, has been working for them for the last 8 years.
"I am very much looking forward to working collaboratively with Francis, David, Fraser and Jill, and continuing to promote quality architecture across East Lothian."
With roots going back to 1966 as East Lothian's original firm of chartered surveyors, Chalmers & Co set up an architectural team in 2002 under Eric Miller to complement the rural surveying, property letting and estate agency teams. Over the last 6 years, Chalmers & Co's architectural team has further developed under chartered architect David Brackenridge, and has been working in particular on house extensions and refurbishments, agricultural buildings and steading redevelopments. They designed the award-winning Dunbar Community Bakery.
David previously worked for Aberdeen City Council, Burnett Pollock Associates and for upmarket East Lothian property developer, Dunglass Ltd, prior to joining Chalmers & Co. He has designed and developed many different projects including city centre housing developments and refurbishments, care homes across West Lothian and won a commendation in the Midlothian Design Awards for the sympathetic refurbishment of North Penicuik Kirk.
David Brackenridge from Chalmers & Co says:
"I am delighted that we're merging both our practices because we have complementary client bases and experience. We have always prided ourselves on the level of service and care we provide our clients; with a larger technical team in house and a very strong network of local contacts, we'll be able to offer clients of both businesses an even better level of service than currently. Chalmers & Co can also provide complementary valuation, property management and estate agency services.
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Nina Karen Fitzpatrick of Costa Mesa died Monday afternoon at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, where she had been in critical condition since Thursday night.
A candelight vigil to honor Nina Fitzpatrick is scheduled for 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday at Laguna College of Art and Design, 2222 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach.
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LAGUNA BEACH – A 22-year-old woman has died four days after being hit by a car while crossing Laguna Canyon Road.
Nina Karen Fitzpatrick of Costa Mesa died Monday afternoon at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, where she had been in critical condition since being struck Thursday night, according to the Orange County coroner's office.
Fitzpatrick was a fine-art student in her final year at Laguna College of Art and Design. The college plans a candelight vigil for her Thursday.
"We are all deeply saddened over the loss of our dear friend, Nina Fitzpatrick," Hope Railey, the college's chairwoman of fine arts, said in a statement. "She provided life to our campus through a constant smile and a genuine passion for life. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends across the world and here at LCAD. Our lives forever will be touched by Nina."
The college also plans to rename a grassy area on the main campus Nina's Park in Fitzpatrick's honor, the statement said.
The school is providing counseling to students affected by her death.
Fitzpatrick was injured when a Minnesota woman driving toward Laguna Beach on Laguna Canyon Road struck her in a crosswalk outside the art college, said Capt. Jason Kravetz of the Laguna Beach Police Department. The driver was not arrested or cited.
Preliminary information suggested the driver didn't see Fitzpatrick, police said. Drugs or alcohol did not appear to be factors, Kravetz said.
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Atelier CMJN recently unveiled plans for the new Great Fen Visitor Center, a wooden sustainable structure set halfway between the wetlands and dry lands in Cambridgeshire, UK. The organic shelter is made from locally sourced wood and takes advantage of wind power, a water heat pump and rainwater collection.
Atelier CMJN's Great Fen Visitor Center opens up to the surrounding environment. It's designed to show visitors how the landscape and water levels change, connecting them with this special rhythm of live. Heating will be produced by a water heat pump, an eolic turbine will generate clean electricity, and rainwater will be collected in a central reservoir.
The furniture inside is minimal and designed to adapt to change like the building itself. The architects state: "There are so many things that we cannot predict about the future that creating a fixed building or landscape in this type of environment would prove a waste of time. Such a project needs to be fully adaptable to this unpredictable environment."
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Hi, I want to purchase this intake adapter.
I have a sn 95 gt I purchased a gt40 explorer intake.
Does this elbow have the vacuum hole ? I don't care about the EGR hole, that's disconnected.
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Apple & blackberry rice
Cooking timePrep: 10 mins
Skill levelEasy
ServingsServes 4
This simple no-cook dessert is great served hot or cold
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- 175
- protein
- 4g
- carbs
- 39g
- fat
- 2g
- saturates
- 1g
- fibre
- 2g
- sugar
- 31g
- salt
- 0.14g
- 425g can rice pudding
- 185g jar good-quality apple sauce
- 150g punnet blackberries (or use frozen and defrost)
- 2 tbsp soft brown sugar
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Layer rice, apple sauce and berries in microwave-proof glasses. Cook on High for a couple of mins, then serve with extra berries and sugar on top.
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If you have mild to moderate hearing loss, you may not have to invest in new, pricey hearing aids.
No, I'm not talking about a miracle cure. You can have a pre-owned hearing aid reprogrammed to fit your needs.
Improved technology and better designs have made the repurposing of used hearing aids more feasible, said Margaret McCabe, an instructor and audiologist at the University of Maryland in College Park.
"People can, indeed, think of today's digital aids as little computers in their ears, with software that can be tweaked over time," said David Myers, a psychology professor at Hope College in Holland, Mich., and author of "A Quiet World: Living With Hearing Loss."
Refurbished hearing devices are available from some manufacturers at a fraction of the cost of new ones. Friends and relatives also can pass along aids they no longer need.
When she recently upgraded her hearing aids, McCabe gave her old devices to her sister, who had them reprogrammed and now uses them for her mild hearing loss.
I was able to secure a nearly new pair left behind by my father, who died this year at 91. The cost to me? Not counting my $35 insurance co-pay for the diagnostic exam: $0. The savings? Roughly $2,500.
Like many people around my age, 54, my hearing had been in decline for a few years. Once I turned 50, everyone I knew began to mumble, or so it seemed. This included friends and colleagues I spoke to face to face and by phone, as well as the voices on TV. Asking people to speak up or increasing the volume didn't always help. Sometimes it just made the muffled voices louder.
It's not unusual for people in their 50s to begin noticing their hearing start to fade, but it's far more common in older people. About one-third of people between ages 65 and 75 have a hearing loss, according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Among people 75 and older, it's 40 to 50 percent.
I resolved to get to the bottom of this worsening annoyance, and got an appointment with the Rockville, Md., hearing specialists who had treated my father.
After ruling out infection or injury, my audiologist, Jennifer Kincaid, concluded my hearing problem probably was age-related – the effect of decades of daily exposure to traffic sounds, construction noise and, yes, loud music. I had the classic signs of presbycusis, the medical term for age-related hearing loss. Kincaid thought hearing aids might help.
The bad news was that I'd been laid off from my job five months earlier and hadn't budgeted for this kind of costly purchase. Channeling my inner cheapskate, I asked about repurposing my dad's old aids. My audiologist said sure.
It didn't matter that my father's hearing was much worse than mine. Kincaid said she could configure them simply by plugging the aids into her computer and replacing data from Dad's hearing tests with mine.
Kincaid says she is asked to do such reprogramming about a dozen times a year, and she provides the service free to patients' family members. She'll reprogram the device as many times as necessary for the life of the device – typically, about five years.
Insurance may not pay
The device I inherited has a tiny speaker that sits deep inside my ear canal. After doing the reprogramming, Kincaid just switched the size of the cap covering the speaker and the hearing aid was ready for me to use.
Oticon, the company that made the device, agreed to continue honoring the warranty, including unlimited servicing and one replacement.
Even if your health insurance covers a hearing test, and even if a test shows you're a good candidate for a hearing aid, don't count on your insurer paying for one.
"The number one call we get is from people looking for financial help paying for hearing aids," says Barbara Kelley of the Hearing Loss Association of America in Bethesda, Md. "Cost is clearly a barrier for a lot of people."
The group offers advice on paying for hearing aids at www.hearingloss.org.
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Police ID 2 found dead, third person shot
Updated On: Nov 11 2013 10:31:09 AM CST
Authorities have released the names of a man and woman slain inside a Sioux City house last week.
Police identified the pair as 35-year-old Michael Delgado, of Sioux City, and 35-year-old Yolanda Valdez, of Orange City.
Police say another man shot at the home on Thursday, 33-year-old Luis Sanchez, of Sioux City, has undergone surgery and is expected to survive.
Twenty-six-year-old Juan Nino-Estrada, of Sioux City, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder. He was arrested early Friday at his girlfriend's house. He'd suffered a gunshot wound to his right leg.
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Tops used as weapons.
Needs a Better Title. It moves too fast to touch, yet it stays in one place. It's so stable, military jets use them to stabilize themselves. And it's so cheap and plentiful, every toy store's bargain bin has them. It's the gyroscope, also known as the top. And in the world of fiction, there are some who decide to weaponize them. There are two different ways to go about this: The first is to spin some tops, then throw them. They will either throw them at the opponent, counting on the impact force plus it being a rapidly-spinning object; or they will throw them at the ground, where they will either stay in place and deal damage to anyone who touches them or drift around along the ground, making it difficult for opponents to maneuver around. Tops differ from other ground-based obstacles in that they trace irregular paths and will move faster when they touch each other. In rare instances, it's not so much that it spins as much as the spinning creates something more dangerous, such as whirlwinds or lightning. In these cases, a top is the optimum shape for something to spin around real fast without any additional input of energy or anything to hold on to the object. The other approach is to actually spin themselves like a top as an attack. This is distinguished from ordinary Everything's Better with Spinning in that the fighters are either shaped like a top by default or can convert themselves into a top-like shape, with a point at the bottom. They follow top-like movements and may have a long stick over their heads. May overlap with Spin to Deflect Stuff in this sense. Whether they deploy tops or spin like one, there is always the option to make them even more painful to touch by modifications, such as spikes or blades along the rim to create a makeshift and portable buzz saw, using durable materials to be reused again and again, or to tweak the weight for maximum kinetic force. In any case, expect these characters to have very good balance. Subtrope of Improbable Weapon User and Everything's Better with Spinning. When the axis of rotation is turned parallel to the ground and a string thrown in, it's Killer Yo Yo. Anime and Manga
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