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The core temperature and sound level of the MSI GTX 650Ti BOOST Twin Frozr is just 65°C and 25.37dB when operating at full capacity, the perfect balance for an optimum gaming environment. Through MSI's exclusive Afterburner overclocking utility, the new Gaming graphics card's performance can be boosted by simply adjusting power and timing. NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround technology and up to 4 display outputs from a single card are supported as well, delivering the best gaming and multi-tasking experience that an enthusiast can have.
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The GTX 650 Ti BOOST Twin Frozr is the first product released by MSI in its new Gaming series of graphics card. The dragon on the box, MSI's Gaming logo, symbolizes the explosive performance lying dormant within that gives gamers the edge in their games. When combined with the Twin Frozr III cooling module, the perfect balance between temperature and sound makes the best possible gaming environment a standard part of gaming.
Twin Frozr III Thermal Design
MSI's Twin Frozr III cooling design has proven its worth through rigorous testing by professional media. The proprietary Propeller Blade technology, patented in multiple countries, incorporates special air-flow channels into the edge of the fan blades to not only increase cooling coverage but also boost air flow by 20% over conventional fan blades for even better cooling! Under a full load, the core temperature of the MSI GTX 650 Ti BOOST Twin Frozr graphics card is just 65°C and noise during operation is only 25.37dB as well, clear proof that MSI products not only help gamers stay cool but also keeps the noise down for the best user experience!
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In addition to supporting the latest DirectX 11 standard, 3D Vision Surround technology means MSI GTX 650 Ti BOOST Twin can create a triple-monitor 3D surround environment on just one video card. Players that have 3D display monitors and 3D glasses will be able to enjoy the full visual experience offered by 3D games or movies. With up to 4 display outputs from a single card is also supported, gamers can enjoy the multi-tasking benefits of multiple display setups while enjoying their games.
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- Device Type
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- Bus Type
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- Graphics Engine
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- Memory
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- Boost Clock
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- Effective Memory Clock
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- Memory Interface
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- Max Resolution
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- Max Monitors Supported
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- Interfaces
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- API Supported
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- Size
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- Effective Clock Speed
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- Bus Width
- 192-bit
- Included Accessories
- 6 pin power cable
- Cables Included
- 1 x DVI-VGA adapter
- Software Included
- Drivers & Utilities, Adobe Acrobat Reader, MSI Live Update Series, Microsoft DirectX, MSI Live, MSI Afterburner, MSI Dual Core Center, Norton Internet Security 2008 (60 days trial), MSI Live Update 5
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Issue 74: Summer 2013
Great recipes, wellness/training tips, good reads and smiling dogs.
From This IssueWellness: Recipes
Recipes: Picnic for Pups
Yummy Picnic Recipes
Wellness: Healthy Living
Fight Back Against Environmental Allergies
Is there something more we can do to help our pups?
Hydrotherapy: Dog Walk in Water
A fast-growing rehabilitation option
Wellness: Food & Nutrition
Dog Food Watch: Recalls
What's gotten into food safety?
Wellness: Health Care
Canine Orthodontics
Orthodontics—braces—are actually the most gentle way of dealing with a malocclusion.
Good Dog: Behavior & Training
Close Encounters in Dog Parks
How to handle trouble at dog parks.
Dog's Personalitites
Studies now suggest that personality in non-human animals can be measured and evaluated, just as in humans.
Culture: Stories & Lit
Dog Leading the Way Home
Lessons for a service dog in training
The Importance of the Gaze.
Look at Me
A Dog's Life
Darwin's beloved Polly
Ethics Lesson: Dogs in a Haitian Village
Standing up for a dog in Haiti
Culture: Reviews
Book Review: The Possibility Dogs
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Mr. and Mrs. Dog: Our Travels, Trials, Adventures, and Epiphanies
Published by Univ. of Virginia Press
Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts
Published by Scientific American/FSG
Book Review: Wilderness
Published by Bloomsbury
A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home: Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher
Published by Riverhead
E. B. White on Dogs
Published by Tilbury House, Publishers
The Soul of All Living Creatures
What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human, Published by Crown
You Tell Your Dog First
Published by Berkley Trade
Train Your Dog Positively
Published by Ten Speed Press
Reaching the Animal Mind
Published by Sunshine Books
Review: Hounded
Published by Center Street
Review: A Dog Named Boo
Published by Harlequin
Review: The Secret Life of Dog Catchers
Published by CreateSpace
A Million Years with You: A Memoir of Life Observed
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Culture: Science & History
Scientists Searching for Clues to The First Dog
Village dogs' genetic code may hold clues to canine evolution and health
Culture: DogPatch
Interview Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Dogdom's Grande Dame
Master Paintings of James Tissot
Celebrating the elegant life … with dogs.
Interview with Sue Halpern
Author of A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home
Q&A with Wilfred
TV's baddest dog gets philosophical
Q&A with author of Wilderness
In Conversation: Lance Weller and Katherine Griffin
Dog's Life: Humane
Earth Angels NYC: Dog Rescue
People Who Matter: Emelinda Narvaez, founder of NYC's Earth Angels
Running the Numbers
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Pets Trust: Miami Parternships
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Bark n' Bitches: LA's First Humane Pet Shop
Dog's Life: Work of Dogs
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1. Choose a bright, airy spot.
Plant tomatoes where they will get at least 10 hours of light in summer. And leave room between plants for air to circulate.
2. Rotate even a little.
Alternate your tomato bed between even just two spots and you diminish the risk of soilborne diseases such as bacterial spot and early blight.
3. Pass up overgrown transplants.
When buying tomato seedlings, beware of lush green starts with poor root systems. They will languish for weeks before growing.
4. Bury the stems.
Plant your tomato seedlings up to the first true leaves. New roots will quickly sprout on the stems. More roots means more fruits.
5. Water deeply but infrequently.
Soak your tomato bed once a week, or every five days at the height of summer. Water directly on the soil, not on the leaves.
6. Pinch the suckers.
Prune off these non-fruiting branches. This directs the tomato plant's energy into growing bigger, better fruit.
7. Stake them high.
Use 6-foot stakes for indeterminate varieties like the 'Brandywine' tomato. Put in the stakes when transplanting to avoid damaging roots.
8. Add compost and trim.
While the first fruit is ripening, encourage new growth and continued fruit set by scratching compost around the stem, and trim some of the upper leaves.
9. Plant again.
Three weeks after you plant tomatoes in your garden, put in another set so all of your harvest doesn't come at once.
10. Pick ripe, but not dead ripe.
Heirloom tomatoes that are too ripe can be mealy. Harvest them when they're full size and fully colored.
For more information about growing tomatoes, check out our Tomato Growing Guide.
Photos by Rob Cardillo
[1] http://www.organicgardening.com/learn-and-grow/grow-huge-tomatoes
[2] http://www.organicgardening.com/learn-and-grow/crop-rotation
[3] http://www.organicgardening.com/learn-and-grow/5-steps-sowing-success1
[4] http://www.organicgardening.com/learn-and-grow/trench-tomato-planting
[5] http://www.organicgardening.com/learn-and-grow/water-well
[6] http://www.organicgardening.com/learn-and-grow/6-great-reasons-compost
[7] http://www.organicgardening.com/learn-and-grow/succession-planting-keep-it-coming
[8] http://www.organicgardening.com/learn-and-grow/tomatoes-a-growing-guide


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Decorate a nursery that dances with dog balloons wall stickers designed to encourage creativity and inspire joy. Create a patch of pups or position a few lone balloons where the kids could use some color - this repositionable kit is full of possibilities. Peel and stick these brilliant static-free friends in classrooms and playrooms to add instant, commitment-free cute. Remove and reuse each wall decal without damaging surfaces in any space.
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WallCandy Arts' whimsical wall decor brings design-savvy fun to kids' rooms. The brainchild of East Hampton mom Allison Krongard, these wall stickers are the haute version of the window art decals you remember from childhood. WallCandy panels come in natural shapes like bees, trees, and dinosaurs as well as in educational themes like vibrant numbers and letters. Made from non-toxic materials and inks that never mar walls upon removal, these pieces can be endlessly rearranged to make nurseries and playrooms pop with life.


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Just as a parent becomes used to her toddler saying "no" to nearly everything for the past two years, now she is asking why. "Why is the sky blue? Why do the ants cross the sidewalk? Why do some dogs have long hair and other dogs have short hair? Why is the grass green? Why is there sometimes a rainbow after rain and sometimes there is no rainbow? Why are zebras black and white? Why are rocks heavy? Please, Mom, tell me why."
Why do four- and five-yea-olds ask so many why questions? Children by this age have acquired considerable motor control, language ability and intellectual competence. Now they run, climb and jump with confidence. Easily, they can be into everything. Their whole world becomes an adventure land they are determined to explore by touching and tasting nearly every waking minute. These little explorers find the world fascinating, exciting, and amazing. Fueled by endless curiosity, they begin asking seemingly endless "why" questions.
Logically, they figure, the persons who will know the answers to all their questions should be mom or dad. Children truly believe in the first three years of life that their parents are omniscient. By asking why, the preschooler begins to make a startling discovery. Her mom and dad are not all-knowing! In fact, they don't even know the answers to even the simplest of questions.
The fallibility of one's parents is a hard blow for both the parents and the growing child. Parents must adjust as this awareness will continue to grow with increasing certainty, reaching its climax around the age of 15. By then parents will know next to nothing and find themselves fondly remembering the brief period of time when they knew everything.
Rather than feel threatened, the good parent admits there is much that he or she doesn't know. By doing so, the parent is beginning to teach the child that the world is so big, so interesting, so fascinating, that a lifetime of asking why will barely scratch the surface. That's okay. Reaching for what we do not yet understand is what keeps life exciting. The desire to know, fueled by curiosity, is one of the richest joys of living.
Wise parents fuel their child's never ending desire to know by taking time to answer their why questions. If no answer is readily available, good parents seize the opportunity to join the child as together they seek to find answers that make reasonable sense to their child. Also, wise parents stimulate their child's natural curiosity by providing toys that challenge the preschooler to explore and discover such as puzzles, books, or even a large box that can become a store, an airplane, a slide, a hideout . . . Legos (or Duplos for the younger child) are some of the best toys ever made. Look for toys that stimulate exploration, initiative, and curiosity.
If parents fail to encourage "why" questions, the child can easily develop a sense of guilt concerning her desire to know. When questions are not answered (or answered harshly), parents can squelch the child's natural curiosity which may simultaneously destroy her desire to learn. Feeling guilt about wanting to understand our world may so discourage the child that she is either too afraid to ask why or too indifferent by the time she reaches elementary school.
"Why does Holly have green eyes and I have brown eyes?"
"Why is it cold in January and hot in July?"
"Why do we have vegetables for dinner instead of cookies?"
"I don't know. Let's find out. Come to think of it, maybe we need to question this whole vegetable and cookie thing."


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Cleats of many nations now rooted in Georgia clay
Released from apartments in this refugee resettlement zone outside Atlanta, some 75 children participated in the Jan 19 tournament on a recently resodded field. Go to more images » (© 2009 Maggie Lee | Clarkston Community Center)
Clarkston, Georgia | The Martin Luther King Day soccer tournament at Clarkston Community Center afforded easy parking—a privilege rarely possible at suburban soccer confabs once idling fleets of vans and four-wheel drives have set up base camp.
The streets of Clarkston, 11 miles outside Atlanta along a commercial railway spur, are blissfully quiet on the Jan 19 holiday. Yet even on this federally authorized day off, groups of dark faces stand at bus stops, staring forlornly at the horizon on their way to jobs around the metro area.
Atlanta, largely through efforts of a suburban YMCA and the evangelism of a North American Soccer League team, the Atlanta Chiefs (see 4 Oct 08), in the 1960s played a leading role developing soccer as American suburbia's sport of choice. The region now offers hundreds of ethnically based leagues, primarily of Latino players, but also a melding of nationalities as in Clarkston (25 Jul 07). As recently as 30 years ago, white people accounted for 90 percent of Clarkston's population; as of the 2000 census, the figure was 19 percent (25 Jan 07).
The change is evident when walking with community center executive director John O'Kelley through a beautifully refurbished high school that served as rallying point when the center began as a grassroots movement in 1994. Once scheduled for demolition, the building, constructed in the 1920s, features a renovated auditorium with cathedral ceiling, decorated in mid-January for the upcoming Chinese New Year.
On video loop in the entry hallway are black-and-white scans from old high school yearbooks, including white gridiron football players in flattop haircuts looking as if they might be considering a bottle of pop at the corner store after the game. Down the hall sit two women—O'Kelley is not sure if they are from Burma or Bhutan—knitting in dull winter light. In a nearby sewing room a volunteer works amid splashes of fabric with several refugee women from Africa.
Abdirahmam Osman of Somalia touts the benefits of pre-tournament Frosted Flakes™ and demonstrates that he is plugged in to developments in public relations. The sugar-saturated Kellogg's product the following week announced a field-renovation project; nominations of soccer and other facilities are accepted through Mar 31. (8:39)
Despite claims on the center's website, this is not America's most densely populated square mile—the honor likely goes to a section of Manhattan's Upper East Side, with an estimated figure of 150,000. Yet small flats with extended families—we met one boy who is living with 11 family members—create densities well above the American norm. The town is among the nation's most diverse. The influx of refugees since the 1980s has remade Clarkston's housing, schools, businesses, foodways and places of worship (see Warren St. John, "The World Comes to Georgia, and an Old Church Adapts," New York Times, 22 Sept 07).
Which brings us back to soccer.
Organizers of the MLK event said hundreds of schoolchildren were still isolated within apartments, even with the flush of publicity and cash for the locally based Fugees program—which, with corporate support, provides tutoring and manages four boys' select refugee teams and a girls' side. The Clarkston center aims its programming at both "long-standing residents and newcomers" to acknowledge the resentment that O'Kelley says refugees face from non-refugee residents in Clarkston. It has partnered with Decatur-DeKalb YMCA—historically an advocate for girls' and minority soccer—the nearby International Community School and Atlanta-based Soccer in the Streets (10 Jul 07) to create and supervise a soccer park, where gridiron footballers once attacked the blocking sleds. O'Kelley says:
We've all been concerned about so many kids with so little to do in the community. I've got a soccer field. We're all interested in promoting soccer—it's an international sport. So the question has been, How can we make it happen? How can we make it so that it's sustainable? You've got a low-income community. We don't have a lot of soccer moms to make it happen so we need each other to try to figure this thing out.
Community tensions and language barriers add to cultural isolation. Kids who love soccer also encounter the bane of pickup soccer players across America: lack of open, non-dedicated play space and resistance in some quarters to creating and maintaining public pitches. The cultural barrier to soccer can come across in subtle ways. A newspaper article in 2007 poignantly described recently arrived families from Burma trying to juggle American footballs included in their resettlement packages ("Myanmar Refugees Find Freedom in Atlanta," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 24 Oct 07; not available online).
With manpower from nonprofit playground builder KaBoom!, the Clarkston center's field in November was sodded with Bermuda grass. This followed years of the pitch being underused due to shortage of adult leadership—the would-be "soccer moms" in the area are all working. Although the grass was brown and the seams had not joined, kids on MLK Day raced about in a series of five-on-five matches and scrimmages.
Community celebrity Bill Clinton Hadam was playing, too. A 20-person team of Christian Science Monitor journalists, photographers, videographers, designers, researchers, translators and sub-editors, but mainly reporter Mary Wiltenburg, has been charting his school life and cultural adjustment since May 08. Born in the Congo not long after the U.S. Senate voted articles of impeachment against President Clinton in Feb 1999, Bill Clinton was named by his father, Hassan. According to the Monitor microsite, the name is to "remind him that even a big man can have big problems."
The ambitious multimedia blog occasionally touches on Bill's recollections of life in a Tanzania refugee camp, where children made soccer balls out of plastic grocery bags and string. "They played soccer all the time," Wiltenburg writes ("Kid's-Eye View of Refugee Camp—'Kinda Stinky,' " 26 Nov 08), "when they weren't playing hide-and-seek."
Asking questions of the children—I spoke to about a dozen, but not to young Bill—is delicate. Sometimes they stumble when naming their country of origin, perhaps confused whether they should supply the country of birth or the country where they often spent years in resettlement camps. A lithe 10-year-old boy from Angola, with loping strides and natural ball control, already has had to make home on three continents: he came to Atlanta after first resettling in Russia. (As of Dec 07, Russia hosted 160,000 refugees, most from Afghanistan and Georgia; the United States had 151,000.)
Some say, simply, that they come from Africa. Abdirahmam Osman, 10, was born in Somalia, yet many of his memories originate in Kakuma Refugee Camp in northwestern Kenya. The camp serves just under 50,000 refugees from Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Burundi, Congo, Eritrea, Uganda and Rwanda and has its own government, economy, school and cultural life. Ten thousand children participate in a football project run by the Mathare Youth Sports Association of Nairobi. Fifty thousand more Somalis are scheduled to move there this year.
Osman has lived in Clarkston four years with mother and three siblings; his father is still in Kenya. Hints of past stress lie close to the surface. Of the war-torn Somalia of his infancy, he says: "I remember when I was young and when my uncle died and my grandma and my grandpa. I remember that much." After which it seems inappropriate to ask more.
The Kakuma camp's own blog includes cartoons and interviews about refugee life and describes the institutions that emerge in confinement. "Living inside the camp is equally prison and exile," say the blog's editors. "Inside this small city at the edge of the desert, children age into adulthood and hope fades to resignation. To be quite frank, it's more or less a kind of hostage life for many refugees."
Such backgrounds have made the Clarkston children aware of contingency. They are gifted educators with linguistic skills and acquaintance with human good and grief. For those who have been subjects of enterprise media projects by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, New York Times, Sports Illustrated (19 Jun 08), ESPN and Christian Science Monitor, they know the stratagems of mass media and perhaps the ways in which their stories might be misheard, misinterpreted or exploited. Be wary of those who take your story from you.
"We know something of these children," reads a 2007 Observer article on the "lost boys" of Sudan, "but, at the same time, can we ever say that we know them—know what they feel, think, need or want in all their complicated interiority?"
They have a lot to teach. Oscar from Burundi, for example, tells me that the Swahili for football is mpira. A soccer ball is mpira wa soka. I write the names on a pad, double-check the spelling and apologize for my poor handwriting. He looks over my notes and, more benevolently than many teachers I have had, says that the letters look fine to him.
Mark Bixler, The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005); Jason Cowley, "Why We Have Fallen for Africa's Lost Boys," Observer, 29 Apr 07.
Cowley discusses recent books on the child soldiers of Africa: A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, What Is the What by Dave Eggers in collaboration with Valentino Achak Deng (who spent a decade at the Kakuma camp), and Child Soldier by China Keitetsi.


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AudioControl launches The Director® Model D4400 network, multi-zone amplifierwith 16 x 100 watts per channel of unrivaled power and performance
Seattle, WA - April 10, 2013 - The Director® Model D4400 multi-zone amplifier from AudioControl redefines the purpose of just being 'an amplifier'. The Director Model D4400 drives sixteen channels of high-power amplification that delivers 100 watts per channel, all channels driven. The D4400 features on-board digital signal processing, graphic and parametric equalization by zone, network monitoring, and programming and control. It allows individual channel and zone selection via standard TCIP, the ability to bridge the channels up to 200 watts per channel and operates stable into low impedances while delivering incredible power and performance.
16 Channels of Unrivaled Power at 100 watts per channel, All Channels Driven!The Director® Model D4400 has the ability to reside on any network, allowing installers to control and monitor the operation and performance both on-site and remotely. The Director® is always in control, communicating with the network and producing great audio. Custom Installers can benefit from the Model D4400's browser-based user-interface to manage and control the amplifier on-site or remotely. The unique benefit of being able to walk the home with mobile devices setting configurable features by zone such as room equalization, bus inputs, establishing dedicated zones plus a multitude of other features that can be adjusted in real time. AudioControl CEO Alex Camara, talking at The Director launch event commented, "The Director® Model D4400 is one of the most flexible, high performance, best sounding network amplifier available today. With its unique design and feature set it has rightly been described as an audiophile performance powerhouse". Camara added "At AudioControl we have never forgotten we are in the business of entertainment. The Director® Model D4400 is a perfect example of the way our engineering team pour their hearts, engineering prowess and passion into how our products are designed and perform for our customers". The Facts and FeaturesThe Director's D4400's powerful audiophile digital signal processing (DSP) functionality drives a wide-ranging array of network features, putting control of The Director® right into the hands of the installer, including the ability to remotely or live on-site:
AudioControl's legendary 5-Year parts and labor warranty commitment backs the strength and reliability of The Director® Model D4400. All 'The Director®' models are designed, engineered and manufactured in the U.S.A by the team at AudioControl, based in Seattle, WA. The Director® Model D4400 is housed in a compact 3U rack unit with removable rack mounts as standard. Dedicated webinar training for The Director® Model D4400 is available direct from the team at AudioControl.
The Director Model D4400 and its sister The Director Model D3400 are both available in brushed stainless steel finish or black.
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About AudioControl AudioControl is a U.S. designer and manufacturer of the highest quality home theater processors and amplifiers, distributed audio amplifiers, car audio, signal processors and precise analysis products, celebrating nearly four decades of 'making good sound great'. The company's headquarters, including research and development, manufacturing, production, and training facilities continue to thrive in Seattle, Washington heart of the rainforest of the Pacific Northwest. For more information visit www.audiocontrol.com. Contact your local dealer or rep for more information or call the rainforest at 425-775-8461 for more information on ordering AudioControl products.
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tntrocker513 Posts: 5these are easy
1) pull out the speaker covers by using a falt head screwdriver.
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redalero Posts: 4here's what i did:
1. remove clip from your shifter knob. it is on the side closest to your a/c controls
2. remove the handle from shifter and remove the piece that says P R D 3 2 1. be careful when removing there is a connected wire to it.
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redalero Posts: 4It is the anti theft device in the stereo called theft lock some aleros have it some dont i believe it should say on your stereo. You CAN get it to work if you put it back. Its not that the stereo will not work it will ask for a password which if you dont have you can get from general motors. I never tried it but i saw this in another forum.
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Re: 6 DAYS AGO: Israel dismisses deputy envoy to US over media leak
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Date | 2011-10-11 23:27:09 |
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On 10/12/2011 12:18 AM, Kerley Tolpolar wrote:
Nothing on Dan Arbell in Wikileaks.
On 10/11/11 4:10 PM, Kerley Tolpolar wrote:
Good idea. Will do.
On 10/11/11 4:03 PM, Fred Burton wrote:
check wiki leaks
On 10/11/2011 4:00 PM, Sean Noonan wrote:
investigation took awhile i think.
On 10/11/11 3:55 PM, Kerley Tolpolar wrote:
The leak happened in 2009, so it probably has no connection to
today's events, but why Israel would dismiss the guy after 2
years?. The story was published 6 days ago and I didn't find it
in the OS list.
Israel dismisses deputy envoy to US over media leak
JERUSALEM, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Israel has dismissed its deputy
ambassador in Washington over an alleged 2009 media leak about
secret discussions involving the United States, diplomatic
sources said on Wednesday.
They said Dan Arbell, former deputy director for North American
affairs at Israel's Foreign Ministry, had been removed after
security investigators cleared another senior diplomat who had
been implicated in the case.
Israel's bedrock alliance with the United States has been
bolstered by common concern about Iran's nuclear programme, yet
cracks have appeared as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and
President Barack Obama disagreed on how to pursue
Israeli-Palestinian peace.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Ilana Stein said: "A senior
official is being returned after his tenure was brought to an
end." She described the move as unusual, but declined to
elaborate on the circumstances or the identity of the official.
A diplomatic source said the alleged leak was to an Israeli
reporter in early 2009, the year when Obama took office in
January and Netanyahu in March.
The previous suspect in the case, Alon Bar, served at the time
as the Foreign Ministry's deputy director for strategic affairs,
a role devoted largely to monitoring Iran. Following a
suspension, he was appointed ambassador to Spain.
Israeli commentators voiced concern about press freedom under
the conservative coalition government, whose foreign minister,
Avigdor Lieberman, is an ultranationalist with a penchant for
tough talk and policy spats with Netanyahu.
"Danny Arbell, one of the most seasoned and highly-esteemed
figures in Israel's foreign service (and there aren't many in
that category, believe me), is ousted in disgrace," wrote Ben
Caspit in the mass-circulation daily Maariv.
"An attempt is under way here to instill fear, an attempt is
under way here to deter people from talking to journalists."
Israeli media published closed-door comments last year by the
ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren, describing "a crisis of
historic proportions" in ties after the Obama administration
censured Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank.
Netanyahu has described such reports as overblown, noting
Obama's public support for Israel's military build-up and, last
month, its diplomatic campaign against a Palestinian bid to
sidestep stalled peacemaking by appealing for U.N. membership.
Some Israeli career diplomats have chafed under Lieberman, whom
Netanyahu has sidelined in contacts with the United States and
other key allies. The Moldovan-born Lieberman has focused his
activities on eastern Europe, Latin America, and Africa.
Arbell's profile on the website of the Washington mission
describes almost 20 years of foreign service dealing mostly with
North America. He is married and has four children. (Editing by
Alistair Lyon)
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Proponents and opponents have already lined up on the proposals by DFL state senators in Minnesota and President Barack Obama to make tuition free for community college education as long as students meet certain criteria, such as reaching a certain grade point average and staying in school for two years.
A woman next to me at a community meeting commented to the group of local residents assembled there that "no one reads newspapers anymore." I think she was being funny, while trying to needle me a bit since we knew each other, but it could very well be she also believed it since there are a lot of experts asserting the death of newspapers.
Likely few people who have made purchases in Fillmore County since Jan. 1 noticed they paid a new tax that was added to their total bill. The reason this new tax escaped notice is because a $10 purchase added just a nickel in state sales tax to their bill.
I typically write a letter to go in my personal Christmas cards each year to update people living elsewhere about our family. This year, I had a hard time with that task since our family really didn't do anything too exciting the past year and it seemed the year was full of mostly bad news, which is better left to myself as it wouldn't be a good fit for a cheerful Christmas letter.
The increasing gap between the "haves" and "have-nots" has been a national, even global, concern over the past several years. Minnesota school administrators, particularly those in Greater Minnesota, have started to raise concern about a similar gap in one particular area — deferred maintenance funding for schools.
Confusion has reigned in Spring Valley since the local solid waste service recently changed its schedule. Some residents have had their garbage totes out the wrong days and their recycling totes out the wrong weeks for the every-other-week recycling service.
Divining the mysteries of the economy seems to be about as reliable as reading tea leaves. Even among experts, there are different answers on how the economy in the United States is doing. Ask the average person, and the answer varies even more, depending on location and other circumstances.
The darkest season seems particularly cruel this year. Bitter cold and snow came shortly after Halloween. A string of deaths, including leaders in communities from Rushford to Spring Valley, continues. The announcement of the closing of Alco stores in Caledonia, Cresco and Spring Valley bolsters a trend of downsizing the business presence in our small towns.
Buildings in downtown Rochester are reportedly being sold for millions of dollars, some more than twice their estimated value, likely a result of the $6 billion Destination Medical Center project that is just getting underway. DMC isn't just about real estate speculation, though, as new hotels, senior housing units and office buildings are already going up in Rochester in anticipation of the growth the project will bring.
Former Tri-County Record publisher Myron Schober's obituary noted that when he returned to the Midwest, a region he valued for its high value on truth, honesty and justice, after serving in the military, he had a goal: "My life plan is simple — be good and do good...it's in the execution that the details get sticky."
The candidates taking part in a forum in Spring Valley last week — the only public forum in Fillmore County this election cycle — tended to agree on most issues raised, with only subtle differences in opinion. Since the questions came from the public, it would indicate there are no burning issues that are separating citizens, or candidates, in the county. For those divisions you have to get more local to items, such as the referendum in the Rushford-Peterson school district or the actions of the Wykoff City Council regarding its previous mayor.
Once again, many of our athletic teams are having outstanding years. Although it is too early to determine if any of them will make a run to the state tournament, several programs are creating a lot of excitement in the communities throughout our area.
Minnesota routinely leads the nation in voter turnout for elections. That has given the state an image of an engaged, politically aware population.
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Said foodie neglects her blog and the blogging community because she doesn't want to see, hear, or read anything that has anything to do with food. The weight gain quest is going great, but I am not too excited about cooking or taking pictures of food these days. So I don't have super cool Christmas treats for this post; instead, it's a déjà vu post with pancakes and failed Santa hats.
Pumpkin-Ginger Pancakes 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour 2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp ground ginger 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1/4 tsp salt 1/4 cup pumpkin puree 2 tbsp oil 1 tbsp maple syrup 1 tbsp molasses 1 cup to 1 1/4 cup soy milk* 1- Whisk dry ingredients together. 2- Whisk together the pumpkin puree and the liquid ingredients. I needed 1 1/4 cup of soy milk, but you might want to start with 1 cup and add more later if you need it. 3- Add the liquids to the dry mix and stir until smooth. 6- Lightly coat a nonstick skillet with cooking spray and preheat. 7- Spray the inside of a metal gingerbread man cookie cutter with cooking spray and place it on the hot skillet. From now on you should use tongs to handle the hot cookie cutter! 8- Using a large cookie scoop, pour a scoopful of batter inside the cookie cutter and cook over low-medium heat until the bottoms are golden brown. 9- Carefully and using your tongs, pull the cookie cutter up. If you didn't spray it enough, you might need to use a knife to separate the edges from the cookie cutter. 10- Flip the pancake over and cook until the other side turns golden brown. * You will need at least 1 cup of milk, how much more you might need depends on how soft your pumpkin puree is. They should be soft enough to easily pour the batter inside the cookie cutter but not too soft that most of the batter leaks out of the bottom of the cookie butter. This recipe makes 10 gingerbread-man pancakes using a 10 inch long cookie cutter. |
I used the last bit of pancake batter to make a gingerbread house pancake.
It would be so pretty decorated with candy! Candy for breakfast? Well, it's just one day!
Anyway, here are the failed Santa hats. They don't resemble hats so much when they are made with raspberries, and the buttercream brims (thank you Aimee!) should be really tiny for this to work. I definitely like my Strawberry Santa Hats better. By the way, the cupcakes are the basic vanilla cupcakes from VCTOTW.
We're having the little meatless meatloaves tonight, so I'll have a recipe and hopefully a picture of Christmassy loaves for my next post. Plus, I opened a can of pumpkin to make the pancakes, which means I'll be making the mini pumpkin pies really soon.
The super cuteness that is Miss. Jo has given me a lovely award! Isn't she sweet? Thank you so much for thinking of me, Jo, you just made my week!
"This blog invests and believes the PROXIMITY - nearness in space, time and relationships! These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers! Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award."
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At one point, more than 30 members of Barbara Cannistra's family worked for Dominick's.
Her brother-in-law, her husband's niece and great-niece all met their spouses working for Dominick's. Two other married couples in her extended family also met as employees in the grocery's aisles.
It happened that way because Dominick's was a family-oriented firm, Cannistra said.
"I loved it when Mr. Dominick was alive," she said Thursday, recalling Dominick DiMatteo Jr., former president of the company and son of the founder.
"It was like a family, we all helped one another," said Cannistra, who worked as a cashier for 25 years and knew DiMatteo. "He was happy with the money he made and he didn't have to worry about big stockholders like the corporations today. He was more interested in the family and the people who worked for him."
Cannistra's late brother-in-law, Joseph Cannistra, was the first family member to join Dominick's. Over time, he helped other family members get jobs at the company.
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BTN & DISH Agree to Deal (was BTN, Dish Network negotiation at stalemate)
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Posted 20 September 2012 - 09:56 PM
Most of the time you'd be right... that DirecTV seems to have less disputes... but they seem to be getting smarter and joining the fray in fighting the channels... so I expect to see DirecTV more like Dish in the coming months and years.
That's one way to look at it. I'd say DirecTV has been smarter about it all along...hence the lack of lasting disputes and legal battles by comparison.
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No Uplink Activity yet to restore the channels ... but that is good news.
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Posted 22 September 2012 - 11:29 AM
DISH Customers Can Watch BTN Football Games Starting Today
ENGLEWOOD, CO -- (Marketwire) -- 09/22/12 -- DISH Network L.L.C. (NASDAQ: DISH) announced today that it has reached a new, multi-year agreement with FOX, part owner of Big Ten Network, for the rights to resume broadcast of Big Ten Network and its coverage of college football games and other sports content.
The agreement makes the BTN broadcasts available on DISH in time for today's games. DISH customers have not received the channel since Sept. 14 when a contract between the two companies expired.
"With BTN in our portfolio, and with the recent addition of Pac-12 Networks, we now offer more college sports than any other pay-TV provider in America," said Dave Shull, DISH's senior vice president of programming. "We think our customers will be delighted that they can watch all Big Ten games this weekend and for years to come; and we are proud to offer our channel lineup at the lowest everyday prices in the industry."
BTN is available on channel 439 in DISH's America's Top 120+ package in most areas of states with Big Ten Conference schools. The channel is also available nationwide in DISH's Multi-Sport Pack for $9 per month with a qualifying core package.
Terms of the agreements between DISH and BTN were not disclosed.
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Posted 22 September 2012 - 12:30 PM
Week 1: You will lose BTN if Dish doesn't straighten up and fly right! but for the moment we are still negotiating.
Week 2: Dish is evil, say goodbye to Dish... oh wait, nevermind, Dish is still cool and we have an agreement in principle for long-term.. Yay Dish!
Week 3: Dish sucks... BTN will never ever be on Dish again... they are NOT cool, and you should switch to DirecTV today or else you will never ever see college football that matters again!
Week 4: Dish is the best! Tell all your friends how cool Dish is, Big Ten forever! Dish + BTN = BFF!
And they (both Dish and BTN) couldn't have just done all this without the angst and the prodding of customers to "act" on their behalf?
Glad to see BTN back... but could have done without all the hyperbole and stress they wanted to induce over this negotiation.
Frankly, I kind of like the AMC situation much better. The channels went dark, and we know they won't come back until a longterm deal is reached. No jerking around of the customers.
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Posted 22 September 2012 - 03:22 PM
So, to summarize: ........
Week 4: Dish is the best! Tell all your friends how cool Dish is, Big Ten forever! Dish + BTN = BFF!
Frankly, I kind of like the AMC situation much better. The channels went dark, and we know they won't come back until a longterm deal is reached. No jerking around of the customers.
Posted 23 September 2012 - 12:35 PM
That's one way to look at it. I'd say DirecTV has been smarter about it all along...hence the lack of lasting disputes and legal battles by comparison.
If by smarter you mean charging higher prices to keep/get programming then yes. And they do have more subscribers so they are doing something right. But while these disputes do get old, I am paying considerably less then my friends with Direct with maybe even more programming, and indeed with nothing looking good for the economy one is ready to switch, another has talked about it. One may give up Mets games to pay less with DISH and get a couple of channels in HD. The challenge for Dish imho is to keep a clear difference in cost. That said, they have added most of the new sports channels from CBS and NBC, along with BeIn, etc... and have both the BTN and PAC12 now, Direct TV does not have both.
Posted 24 September 2012 - 01:32 PM
DirecTV does seem to settle these things quite quickly. The Viacom thing was quite surprising when it happened. But if you look, DirecTV is also more expensive for identical programming than Dish, and that is in part because DirecTV errs on the side of programming over price. Dish holds the line hard on price and is willing to kiss unreasonable programmers goodbye. In essence, Dish is doing the heavy lifting of keeping prices down.
The Viacom thing was more or less surprising mainly due to the coming out of nowhere. However the Versus span of time before being back on the air does seem to be a forerunner of the way these things will be going in the future. Add that to the PAC12 and it looks like DirecTV is starting to take a hardline too.
Posted 07 October 2012 - 08:48 AM
Don't jump to conclusions. Do you know if BTN is worth an extra 5 cents? As far as I am concerned, BTN is worth as much as the home shopping channel to me, and that is bupkus ($0).There is no way this was all just about 5 cents. It wouldn't even be in the Big Ten's interest to bother negotiating for just a 5-cent increase... as it probably costs them more to spend time negotiating than that would benefit them in revenue.
I agree we aren't getting the full story, though.
Posted 07 October 2012 - 12:57 PM
Don't jump to conclusions. Do you know if BTN is worth an extra 5 cents? As far as I am concerned, BTN is worth as much as the home shopping channel to me, and that is bupkus ($0).
You completely misread what I had posted. I didn't say whether BTN was worth another 5 cents... I said it wouldn't make sense for BTN to pull their feeds over a matter of 5 cents. They would lose more money over pulling the signal than they would make back if they get a 5-cent increase.
Moot points anyway since Dish and BTN came to a long term agreement.
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So you're looking for a night out are you? A couple of drinks you say? Maybe you want to cut loose on the dance floor, but aren't sure where to go? Our handy list of 20 of the most popular clubs and bars in the Mother City will help you on your way then! Enjoy! -
Mixing it up for the J&b Met: Your last minute shopping guide
The J&B Met is mixing-it-up and with the dawn of 2015 we are all Made For The Mix – which means anything goes! If you're still looking for the perfect outfit, these stores need to be your last-minute stop before a day at the races. -
Clovelly Golf Course is a hidden gem
Dan Nicholl
Founded by Raymond Ackerman, the Clovelly golf club was the first South African sports facility to break down apartheid's strict regulations in the 1970s. Today, it's better known as a short but challenging layout that's gentle in still conditions, but a fierce test when the wind gets up.
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Cape Town Naked Bike Ride 2014: Share share your #WeLoveCapeTown messages
The 2014 Cape Town Naked Bike Ride takes place on Saturday, 8 March – and it's a fantastic (and cheeky!) opportunity to show how much #WeLoveCapeTown.
MC Hammer in Cape Town: Can't touch this!
MC Hammer hosted the second awards ceremony of the 34th annual Loerie Awards in Cape Town. Watch a video of him busting a few moves, as well as one in which he shares his thoughts about Cape Town.
Loerie Awards 2012: Saturday night review
Last night the Cape Town International Convention Centre hosted the first awards ceremony of the 2012 Loerie Awards.
Top gay travel destinations: Cape Town recognised in Out Now survey
Cape Town is among the top 20 gay travel destinations, according to a survey conducted by Out Now Business Class,who specialise in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender market. This comes after Clifton 3rd was last year named among the top 10 gay beaches in the world by GayCities.com.
Loerie Awards 2012: It's all happening in Cape Town this week
The 34th Annual Loerie Awards is underway and there will be a large amount of activity taking place in Cape Town this week, with the awards evenings taking place on Saturday and Sunday.
CNN world's 10 most loved cities: Cape Town is there
CNNGo, the travel wing of CNN International, has listed Cape Town as one of the World's 10 Most Loved Cities, adding to the Mother City's long list of accolades.