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- Breed: Chinese Crested/Chihuahua Mix
- Color: White - With Brown Or Chocolate
- Age: Young
- Size: Small 25 lbs (11 kg) or less
- Sex: Female
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I am already spayed, housetrained, up to date with shots, and good with dogs.
"I am three years young, mild mannered, sweetheart. Looking for a forever home that loves cuddling, and that would take me places. I am very small, about 4 pounds. I would be perfect for anyone who wants a awesome and low maintenance companion. I like other dogs, don't know about cats but I am sure I would be able able to live with them. Older children preferred as I am so tiny." If you are interested call Gerlinda at 760-267-5789 Adoption process includes application and home check.
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Tinkerbell, a Lucerne Valley Chinese Crested/Chihuahua dog was adopted! Here's how you can benefit by looking at adoption as an option to buying a Chinese Crested/Chihuahua for sale in Lucerne Valley, or seeking a Chinese Crested/Chihuahua dog from a breeder in Lucerne Valley.
- Rescues and shelter volunteers in Lucerne Valley already know the personality and tendencies of their pets. This means they can match you with the right pet. That will makes it much easier transition to owning a pet for yourself and your new pet.
- On average adoption fees are much less than you'd pay a Lucerne Valley breeder, or pet store. Plus most often rescue pets have already been to the veterinarian for a check-up, had a round of vaccinations, and are spayed or neutered. That is a lot of savings!
- You will become a hero, and give a needy dog or cat a loving home. In fact, there are even Chinese Crested/Chihuahua breeders who help with Chinese Crested/Chihuahua rescue. One puppy or kitten adopted in Lucerne Valley paves the way for another one to be saved.


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Check out the samples of our Topo maps using our software for Windows - Mac OS X and iPad, iPhone or iPod touch
Click on the appropriate links below to find the maps on the RouteBuddy Store.
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RouteBuddy offer 300 Digital IGN - France titles covering mainland France, Corsica and Overseas Départements and Territories (DOM-TOM) and, where possible, we offer all three map scales: 25K / 50K and 100K.
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March 2013 sees the launch of our first collection of digital Harvey Maps.
Starting with a selection from their popular British Mountain Map series, our new digital Harvey Maps can use all the functions and features that both the RouteBuddy mapping application for Windows and Mac OSX provide, as well as those on the RouteBuddy "Atlas" app for iOS devices (iPad, iPhone and iPod touch).
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With nearly 1000 Digital Ordnance Survey maps available in the RouteBuddy store you can find a map for anywhere in England, Scotland and Wales. Our Ordnance Survey maps are available in the scales of: 25K / 50K and 250K
Digital USGS maps are available for the 48 lower States are of the highest quality - quads seamlessly joined and unecessary artefacts removed to provide beautiful state maps for your desktop or iOS device.
* Note, these RouteBuddy versions of the USGS maps are very different to the free ones available elsewhere as none of the free maps have been corrected for safety.
Powerful and Flexible
RouteBuddy has taken the data provided to us by well respected sources and rendered it to the highest quality digital maps, providing the ability to zoom the map to a higher detail than normal when looking at a paper map. RouteBuddy's Topo maps surpass others, with pre-rendered map tiles offering a far smoother, and faster, zoom and pan. The latest collection of digital Harvey maps sits neatly alongside our range of over 700 OS Maps, our vector-based road map of Great Britain, and access to Bing aerial imagery. Similarly IGN France and USGS Topo maps also sit neatly alongside their TomTom Road map counterparts as well as Bing Aerial Imagery.
RouteBuddy software provides the unique ability to layer all of these maps so all the features on the maps are aligned - as they are all rendered to the WGS84 datum. This means that when a user generates, or imports geodata (waypoints, routes and tracks) it is layered over any of the maps they choose and users can then move between all layers, gaining the optimum perspective in utilising any of their maps for planning and analysis. RouteBuddy is a professional application providing a comprehensive range of tools for routing and tracking, adding and importing geodata, plus an excellent route and track printing function so that you only take the parts of the map that are needed en-route.
View your Topo maps from anywhere in the world in the same screen. Team this with the ability to see the same coordinates in an aerial view at the click of a button...
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Overlay Bing Satellite imagery to get the best from digital map route-planning.
Best Maps - Best Price - Best Value
RouteBuddy are the global leader in advanced and modern digital map software for your computer and mobile.
If you want to know more about our quality, value, service and support, as well as the advantages of using RouteBuddy then click on "Read More".
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The way we process our raw Topo map data gives you the highest quality and usability over other vendors, it doesn't matter whether they're on the desktop or mobile platforms we are, and intend to remain, the best.
RouteBuddy's Topo maps surpass others, with pre-rendered map tiles offering a far smoother, and faster, zoom and pan. We take the raw raster map data (from any provider) reformat them all to the WGS84 datum, and by doing this extra processing work RouteBuddy users can not only view "all" the maps they own in one software application (no matter where in the world they are for) but can also layer vector road maps with them, as well as layer Satellite Imagery from Bing Maps over the map. When a users generated, or imported, geodata (waypoints, routes and tracks) is layered over any of the maps it is, uniquely, unaffected, and users can fade-in-and-out between all layers, gaining the optimum perspective in utilising any of their maps for planning and analysis.
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With a clear-pricing strategy RouteBuddy offer the best value-for-money for all of our maps.
What is never clear for map buyers, when looking for digital maps, is that "it doesn't always just come down to price alone", worse still we can see where other vendors set misleading prices. As industry leader for multi-platform digital maps we know the pitfalls, and where others shortchange the customer. Without going into tedious detail please feel free to ask us about comparing any map purchase, either via our Support link or publicly on our forum.
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Changing from one OS platform to another? Want to take your maps with you? No problem.
Want to use your Topo maps on iOS (iPhone, iPad or iPod touch)? No problem.
Want to use your Topo maps in RouteBuddy software on all platforms, Windows, Mac OS X and iOS? Coming soon - TBA. (Subject to individual map company T&Cs.)
RouteBuddy Topo maps, lower price and greater value.
Which country do you want maps for?
Great Britain
Ordnance Survey
Traditionally most map software, especially the UK, has limited the "views" of any purchased map to "one-at-at-time"; This doesn't apply in RouteBuddy, you load all of your maps, and can view all of your maps, switch the layers between map scales, view a satellite map overlay, or even change the map layer to view a vector-based road map in order to gain perspective. As we start to offer maps from other countries then planning that long "GR hike" across european borders with the big-picture will become reality.
USGS Topo's - paid for
Other vendors digital maps suffer from artefacts (where they've been scanned at a lower resolution) resulting in missing data (as it becomes blurred) and added artefacts from the low-resolution scanning (speckling) - in contrast RouteBuddy only use the highest-resolution scans available. Nor do RouteBuddy USGS Topo maps suffer from residue, such as where items like parts of the original maps "white collars" remain and, significantly, RouteBuddy's USGS Topo maps have been checked to ensure that our scanned quads are seamless. Surprisingly maps with these faults are available from our major name competitors in the US, as well as UK ones who offer USGS map; RouteBuddy may be a growing company on the US Topo map market, but we believe paying attention to detail in our products is what gets us customers, and customers who want the best they can get in digital USGS maps.
USA - USGS Topo's - free
These maps are rubbish; Not the maps per se, but the implementation.
In simpler USGS digital map software, free and paid for, and mainly mobile, you can download USGS map "free quads". These maps are not correctly georeferenced, nor corrected for annual declination and they are shipped as they come, often with collars as well as the errors. Worse still they also suffer greatly from being large cumbersome individual files, still appearing as the original downloaded quads, therefore not seamless. Without any pre-rendering, correct georeferencing and applying the necessary corrections, then these maps are next-to-useless for anyone who needs to rely on their digital maps and software. Worse still they are dangerous to use in that condition, it's one thing using an out of date map, but use a map riddled with errors, and not correctly showing location, that can be out by up to 800 feet in the USA, then you are risking your life when out in the back-country.
At RouteBuddy we work on the detail, so you can safely enjoy the trail.
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Hardware: PPC or Intel Mac
Software: Windows XP SP3 or higher
RouteBuddy Topo Map products that require RouteBuddy Software
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My name is Faith!
Facts about Faith
- Breed: Spaniel (Unknown Type) Mix
- Color: White - With Brown Or Chocolate
- Age: Adult
- Size: Med. 26-60 lbs (12-27 kg)
- Sex: Female
Faith's Info...
I am already spayed, up to date with shots, good with kids, and good with dogs.
Faith was found dumped in Fayette County by a good Samaritan. She has come a long way from when she first came to BSDR as a shy and reserved girl. She has come out of her shell and learned to trust humans again and is ready for adoption.
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Why Adoption is a Great Option
Faith, a Byhalia Spaniel (Unknown Type) dog was adopted! Here's how you can benefit by looking at adoption as an option to buying a Spaniel (Unknown Type) for sale in Byhalia, or seeking a Spaniel (Unknown Type) dog from a breeder in Byhalia.
- Rescues and shelter volunteers in Byhalia already know the personality and tendencies of their pets. This means they can match you with the right pet. That will makes it much easier transition to owning a pet for yourself and your new pet.
- On average adoption fees are much less than you'd pay a Byhalia breeder, or pet store. Plus most often rescue pets have already been to the veterinarian for a check-up, had a round of vaccinations, and are spayed or neutered. That is a lot of savings!
- You will become a hero, and give a needy dog or cat a loving home. In fact, there are even Spaniel (Unknown Type) breeders who help with Spaniel (Unknown Type) rescue. One puppy or kitten adopted in Byhalia paves the way for another one to be saved.


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noun (Concise Encyclopedia)Receptacle for maintaining aquatic organisms, either freshwater or marine, or a facility in which a collection of aquatic organisms is displayed or studied. The first display aquarium opened in Regent's Park, England, in 1853. Many of the world's principal cities now have public aquariums as well as commercial ones; other aquarium facilities serve chiefly as research institutions. Regardless of sizewhether a small one-gallon jar or a huge million-gallon tankaquariums must be constructed with care; many substances, especially plastics and adhesives, that are nontoxic to humans are toxic to water-breathing animals. The primary requirement for maintaining aquatic organisms is water quality.
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We have a laser printer, a ceramic heater, and a few other things plugged into a 15 amp circuit in our home office. We noticed the overhead lights dimmed when our printer surged, so we did some testing.
Specifically, the printer runs at 14 amps, but will peak at 24-26 when it surges. The floor heater pulls 14 amps when on "high". Both of these together do not trip a 15-amp breaker. We even added the television and paper shredder and all of them failed to trip the breaker. This is a brand new house, and we had asked for an extra 20-amp circuit for this room because we knew we'd have a lot plugged in. The builder failed to do that, so the electrician was out last week and ran another wire plus the 20-amp breaker. We asked him why the printer + heater + television didn't trip the breaker, and he said there's a cushion built in to handle surges, but we'd have to exceed 15 amps consistently and continually for the breaker to trip. This doesn't make sense to me. Can somebody explain why a 15 amp breaker doesn't trip when ya pull 16 amps? Thanks!! |
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There are two controls that determine if and when a breaker trips. One is heat. If the breaker passes too much current, the heat buildup in the breaker will cause it to open just like a bi-metaalic strip in a thermostat. The second control is magnetism. AC produces a magnetic field. The more current, the stronger the magnetic field. If not enough heat or not enough magnetic field are present, the breaker won't trip. 16A wasn't tripping your breaker because of exactly what your electrician told you. You may need to see 20+ amps continuously to trip that 15A breaker. That's normal. |
Thanks bigbird1. My husband asked me to add an additional question to my post... thanks in advance for any replies! The National Electrical Code specifies that a circuit should not pull more that 80% of the rated load of the circuit. This is 12.5 amps on a 15 amp circuit. If a circuit with a 15 amp breaker on 14 AWG wire must pull 20+ amps to trip the breaker, then it must run at almost twice what the NEC allows before it trips. Is this safe? |
For details on Square D tripping curves see this PDF. http://ecatalog.squared.com/pubs/Circuit Protection/Miniature Circuit Breakers/QO-QOB Circuit Breakers/QO-AFI/0730CT9801.pdf |
In re-reading your original post you state that the printer draws 14A. If you also have a heater operating at full current at the same time, and you're not tripping a 15A breaker, then I'd say you have a faulty breaker. |
Where did you get 14 A for the printer? They are a little power hngry for the fuser, but not usually that high. 15 A for a heater is not uncommon, but still at the upper end. Watch out for voltages on heaters. Many rate the wattage at 130 V (instead of the NEC mandated value for calculations of 120 V). The NEC does not directly apply to cord-and-plug connected appliances except for the cord material. NEMA has voluntary standards that are used for appliances. |
Brickeyee... We actually measured each item. The printer is a Brother MFC 9700, a known power hog (not known when we bought it 5 years ago, however!) Actual amps pulled were: 14 - 17 when printing |
The overload must continue for a significant period of time to trip the breaker. It's designed that way for user convenience. It's entirely safe. When you overload a wire, it gets warm. There are other factors to consider, but the one that concerns us here is that the greater the overload, the hotter the wire gets, and the faster it gets hot. If the overload lasts only a few seconds, there is no time for the wire to get hot and thus no real danger. Depending on circumstances, a large overload on the order of double or triple capacity may be sustained for several seconds without excessive heating. A moderate overload (50% or so) will most likely be OK for a few to several minutes. Circuit breakers are designed to take this into account. It depends on brand and type, but IIRC a breaker can typically carry double its rated current for anywhere from several seconds to a few minutes. Unless you're printing a major American novel, your printer is idling most of the time. I'd be very surprised if it were consuming 14 amps when idle - more like 2-3 amps at most, and possibly less than an ampere. This information may be in your owner's manual. (If it really does use 14 amps at idle, chuck that energy pig and get something more reasonable!) Thus your only continuous load is the heater (and the television set, if it's on all the time). This probably doesn't add up to an overload. I doubt that your situation poses any danger. But as a test you might try running a second space heater in this circuit. Based on my own experience, I'd say that the breaker should trip in something between 2 and 10 minutes. |
"14 - 17when printing" That is 1680 to 2040 Watts (technically V-A since we do not know the power factor) but it is way out of line. |
- Posted by petey_racer (My Page) on Tue, Feb 6, 07 at 21:51
That does not seem so out of line for a decent size laser printer. An ink jet yes, but laser....?? Kylie, your quote of the NEC is not at all accurate in general terms. It IS accurate for a continuous load. That said, VERY little in a home is considered a continuous load. I'd venture to say nothing in your home office is. A continuous load is a load where the maximum current is expected to continue for 3 hours or more. |
kylie- Something's not right here. I took a look at the manual for the MFC9700 and it says: Power Consumption You've either got a defective printer or you're not measuring correctly... |
We are not the only users who have experienced problems with this printer. This is from a reviewer at Amazon (not me): Third, as someone else noted in another review, Brother printers and MFC devices are power hogs. They make the lights dim and will trip your uninterruptible power supply if you are on a 15 amp circuit (20 amp circuits don't have the problem). This is actually a problem with most Brother printers and MFC devices, so its not unique to this problem. The real problem is that Brother gives no indication in the user manual of the real power draw involved with this product and the published specifications are highly dubious given what my electrician has told me. As far as how we tested, we plugged a Kill-A-Watt electricity monitor into the wall and plugged the printer into that. My husband verified it by using some thing-a-ma-jig he has (sorry, don't know what it is but I'll find out, lol). Again, we used this printer for years at our previous home and never had reason to question it-- most likely because it was not on the same circuit as the overhead lights. It was the dimming of the lights in our new home that started us researching this to begin with. First, because the builder had told us the room would be wired with either two 15-amp circuits or a 15 and a 20 (it's a home office and we requested that and obviously it wasn't done - the electrician apologized and ran the 20 amp circuit last week). Second, we are still under the one-year home builder warranty period and if there are any issues of concern, we want to get them corrected now while we have the chance. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Printer Review at Amazon
The thing in most laser printers that sucks power is the fuser. Even the high voltage supplies are pretty small. The fuser is just a straight resistance heater used to 'melt' the toner onto the paper ('fuser' just sounds fancier). As noted above the regualr breakers in a residential setting are thermal-magnetic. Diming lights are more an annoyance than anything else. |
Thanks Brickeyee. For the record, we have a lot more in this room than one computer and one printer. DH is a software engineer and does a lot of work at home. We have 3 computers plus 2 printers plus a television and a few little things like a modem and router. And we run the small portable floor heater on really cold days to add a little extra heat to the room. So, all this was on the same 15-amp circuit as the overhead light that has four 60-watt bulbs and a fan. That is why we specifically requested the second circuit when we bought the house, while it was still under construction and it was easy to drop the wire. |
I still think a laser printer drawing 945W peak, 3 computers, a second printer, a TV, 4X60W bulbs + a 1500W heater all running continuously should trip a 15A breaker. I still say faulty breaker. Does no one else concur? Maybe I should go back to electrical school :-) |
Yeah, that sounds weird to me too. I think that it's a good idea to try running two space heaters on the circuit - 2800W should DEFINITELY tripp a 15A 120V breaker. If it doesn't, yeah, defective or incorrectly connected breaker. |
- Posted by solarpowered (My Page) on Wed, Feb 7, 07 at 21:16
"I think that it's a good idea to try running two space heaters on the circuit - 2800W should DEFINITELY tripp a 15A 120V breaker. Why does the word "Chernobyl" keep coming into my mind when I read Perel's post? |
I still think a laser printer drawing 945W peak, 3 computers, a second printer, a TV, 4X60W bulbs + a 1500W heater all running continuously should trip a 15A breaker I bet the laser printer doesn't draw more than 50 watts when idle. Unless it's printing a big job the fuser will run for only a few seconds at a time. So, unless those are very efficient computers, we have a total of perhaps 2250 watts. This is about a 25% overload. Most breakers will hold for quite some time minutes at 25% over, and probably even longer if the breaker were located in a cold basement. But I agree now that I add up the loads - it probably should open at least once in a while. |
DH thinks it's a faulty breaker. We're going to put it to the test... by plugging in two of the little floor heaters on "high" plus add a blow dryer to the mix. If that doesn't trip it, he'll swap out breakers and we'll try again. I'll report back :) Thanks for all the help guys! |
Looking at the Square-D tripping curves mentioned earlier is surprising (to a non-electrician like myself). To trip the 15A breakers in 4-5 seconds requires 3-4 TIMES the rated current. To trip the breaker "immediately" requires something like 10 times the rating. Clearly the panel breakers are about preventing heat build-up. I think I want more GFCI and AFCI. |
- Posted by solarpowered (My Page) on Thu, Feb 8, 07 at 15:24
I guess my comment about "Chernobyl" was too obscure. Let me be more direct: The cause of the Chernobyl disaster was that they shut off several safety systems and deliberately created a fault situation in order to test one of the safety systems. We all know what the result was. Deliberately overloading a circuit in order to trip a breaker is a VERY BAD IDEA. People have in fact burned buildings down by doing exactly that. While the breaker is supposed to safely protect the wiring, if there are other problems in the wiring, such as a poor splice or damage to a wire somewhere, it is very possible to start a fire. (This is doubly true when it is suspected that the breaker doesn't trip properly.) And it may not occur immediately. In one case I am aware of, the wire and the wood around it smoldered for several hours before it finally burst into flames and started a major fire. |
My CB tester limits the time for testing based on what the breaker should respond to. You could dial in a longer time if you wanted, but there is no reason to. Find a curve for the equipment you have before you start playing overload games, and recognize the risk of this testing. |
You are probably better off just swapping out w/ a new breaker ($10 or $12) & seeing if you experience the same phenomenom. You could easily damage the wiring & connections doing it the way you described. You want to use a NON-destructive test for this situation. Don't assume this potentially non-working breaker will be the weakest link in your circuit. While it is designed to be if working properly you have already raised concerns that it may not be working properly. So why do this test that might result with the wiring getting to hot & catching the walls on fire. Of course, I guess that would prove the $10 breaker was not funtioning properly. This destructive test methodology has too many variables so is not a good idea. $10 new breaker 10 minutes of your time or $75 to an electrician. Watching your house go up in flames. Not exactly priceless. |
Oh, I should have added your "destructive" test may not result in the walls going up in flames immediately. It could be weeks or months down the road depending on the extent of the weakening of the circuit components. |
Just quickly checking in to let everyone know we heeded your advice and did NOT put the potentially faulty breaker to the test. We are planning on replacing the breaker this weekend. |
Glad to hear it - that was a drastic idea and not really a solution. Since you're putting a new circuit in (here in BC I don't think you're allowed to use a 15a circuit for power, it's only allowed for lighting) I'd suggest you put the printer on the 20a and keep the computer on the 15. I too wonder about the accuracy of the printer's draw but at the same time suggest you do consider replacing it, if you can verify that excessive draw. The 80% you were mentioning is more a thing of good housekeeping - for safety's sake, a circuit should always be de-rated as it were - just as with electronic components like capacitors, they're usually rated far above the operating voltage you should actually use. For example, I got a collection of capacitors from a surplus store very cheap because they were odd values - one is rated at 100,000 microfarads which is huge but rated only at 15 volts dc - I couldn't use it say, in a car as a noise suppressor in my stereo, as car alternators can put out as much as 13.8 to 14 volts, which would be too close to its peak rated voltage....its absolute limit would probably be 12 volts, but in practice, it'd be better for 6 or 8 volts. The other thing to note in the life of circuit breakers is they do not have an indefinite life, I've heard talk they should be replaced as soon as they've been tripped a few times, since they can start to act up like yours is, and not trip when they should....also, if you're running them at or above their peak, the likelihood of them failing to trip is increased. A really safety-conscious person probably ought to replace ALL their breakers every few years, although I doubt many do. |
A really paranoid person probably ought to replace ALL their breakers every few years. I fixed that sentence for you pjb. ;) Circuit breakers are designed to trip many many many times. Otherwise they would just be expensive fuses. Changing them every few trips is extremely excessive. |
"here in BC I don't think you're allowed to use a 15a circuit for power, it's only allowed for lighting" I doubt this is true for BC. It's not true anywhere else in Canada. 15a cc'ts are just as common for receptacles as lighting. "The 80% you were mentioning is more a thing of good housekeeping - for safety's sake, a circuit should always be de-rated" Derating in Canada is only required for devices that will draw a continuous heavy load, as in a baseboard heater running many hours straight. It's not necessary for any other type of cc't. If it gives you peace of mind, great, otherwise you're wasting your money by derating every cc't to 80%. |
One thing on this situation that has me puzzled is why you need a portable heater in a new house. If you are under a house warranty and that room doesn't heat well, won't they correct the problem for you? Electric eaters are a pretty expensive way to heat. |
For coolvt... why we run a portable heater: Our house heat works fine, I just don't set the thermostat hot enuf to suit him because I am a woman with hot flashes, lol, and I cannot stand the house too hot! So hubby will put this little heater (a small Holmes heater) by his feet if he's working on the computer for maybe an hour or so. |
hubby will put this little heater ... by his feet ... Methinks what he really needs is a dog. ;-) |
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As far as catfights go, this one is a doozy.
Barbie, long the reigning queen in the doll world, has suddenly been thrust into the battle of her life. But Barbie's competitors look nothing like the blue-eyed, blond-haired, long-legged fashion icon. And they don't have the same baggage and old standards of beauty either.
They're Mattel's Monster High dolls, vampy teens that are patterned off the offspring of monsters like Dracula and Frankenstein and have neon pink-and-green streaks in their hair. They're the latest doll craze threatening 54-year-old Barbie's throne.
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Fremont youth brings an education 100 years in the making to school
The 7-year-old second-grader thought it would be pretty cool to bring his great-grandfather to Ellis School for a "show and tell."
"It was the 100th day of school and he's turning 100," Sam explained.
His great-grandfather, long-time Manchester resident Joseph F. Nelson, will celebrate his 100th birthday on March 2, which also happens to be Dr. Seuss's birthday.
"He's the oldest person I know," said great-granddaughter Sydney Toscano, a 6-year-old kindergarten student.
Others wanted to know what school was like. There was a collective gasp when he explained how there were no school buses and he never had snow days because kids walked to school.
Nelson was born at home in a blizzard and grew up in the Bronx. He moved to Manchester in 1968 to become the project manager for the Millyard.
When someone asked Nelson to share one of his secrets to a good life, he replied, "A good wife."
"I had a good life with my wife. She was my inspiration," he said.
Nelson had no trouble recalling the dates of milestones throughout his life. He remembered getting electricity for the first time in 1924 when he was in fifth-grade and his first color TV in the 1950s.
His favorite TV show was "The Ed Sullivan Show," his favorite dance step was the waltz, and his favorite baseball player was Babe Ruth.
"That's it?" a boy shouted out in surprise.
His great-granddaughter, fifth-grader Breanna Gates, 10, had no idea he was coming to school.
"I thought it was cool that he could remember all of that stuff," she said.
Second-grader Emerald Albrecht, 7, was surprised to learn that a dentist at school pulled some of his teeth.
Another student asked if there were bullies when he went to school.
"Every school has bullies," he said.
"Did the snow ever get so high that when you opened your door there was a wall of snow? I've always wanted that to happen," said 8-year-old Corbin Straw. Nelson couldn't recall encountering such a situation.
"I said, 'I'm so old I wonder if I can talk to the kids?'" But in the end, he was glad he came, told his story, and delivered free Dr. Seuss books to the second-graders in honor of next month's birthday.
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What's this? More spy shots of the same Porsche Macan test mule we saw a few months ago? Yes. But this time, we've also got a few glimpses into the interior.This Macan is also wearing different wheels, has roof rails, and sports quad exhaust pipes.
We're still waiting for some concrete information about Porsche's Audi Q5-based crossover, which goes into production next year, especially regarding powertrain. The obvious assumption is that the Porsche will be powered by a tweaked version of the Q5's supercharged 3.0-litre V6. New for 2013, it makes 272 horses, though we've also heard rumors of an S version with a more potent powerplant like the one in the Audi S4 that is rated at 329 horsepower. Then there's the mother of all rumors: The Macan might be had with a 370-hp, twin-turbo V6.
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Division V State Semifinals
Liberty-Benton vs. Coldwater
WHEN & WHERE: Lima Stadium, Saturday, 7 p.m.
RECORDS: Liberty-Benton 12-1, Coldwater 13-0.
LAST WEEK: Liberty-Benton used a pair of interceptions by Chase Cook and Anthony Webb to rally for a 22-21 win over Patrick Henry in the Region 18 finals. Coldwater scored 20 first-half points in blanking Covington 20-0 for the Region 20 championship.
COACHES: Liberty-Benton, Tim Nichols (6th year, 61-12); Coldwater, Chip Otten (3rd year, 35-8).
PLAYOFF APPEARANCES: Liberty-Benton 8th, Coldwater 18th.
PLAYOFF RECORD: Liberty-Benton 15-7, Coldwater 48-15.
NEXT OPPONENT: Kirtland (13-0) or Baltimore Liberty Union (11-2).
LAST MEETING: First meeting.
NOTES: Simply put, the Cavaliers defense is outstanding. Coldwater has shut out five opponents this season and is allowing an average of just 6.4 points per game. … The school picked up the 500th win in its history with a 7-0 win over Anna in Week 7. The Cavs have an overall record 506-232-22 from 1936 through 2012. … Coldwater linebacker Zach Dickman, the AP Northwest District Division V Defensive Player of the Year, leads the defense with 121 tackles, including three quarterback sacks. Other defenders to watch for include linebacker Derek Collet (97 tackles) and defensive back Brody Hoying (44 tackles, 5 interceptions). … Coldwater also boasts the Division V Northwest District Offensive Player of the Year in quarterback Austin Bruns. The 6-4, 215-pound senior is 183 of 251 passing for 2,682 yards with 31 touchdowns and just three interceptions. He's also run for a team-high 565 yards on 158 carries. … Bruns' favorite targets are Caleb Siefring (43 catches, 783 yards, 14 touchdowns) and Josh Huber (40, 586, 5). … Liberty-Benton hasn't dominated in the postseason but the Eagles have been amazingly resilient, scoring close wins over Liberty Center (16-7), Lima Central Catholic (24-17 in OT) and Patrick Henry. … L-B struggled offensively last week against the Patriots, picking up 161 yards through the air but being held to minus-13 yards rushing. … The Eagle defense came through in the clutch, though, forcing three Patrick Henry turnovers. … Quarterback Mitch Linhart leads the Eagles' offense as he is 122 of 214 passing for 1,862 yards with 19 touchdowns and five interceptions. He also has added 898 yards rushing on 122 carries with 15 touchdowns. … Austin Combs has 798 yards rushing on 121 carries and 11 scores for the Eagles. … Speedy deep threat Chase Cook has 54 receptions for 1,120 yards and 14 touchdowns to lead Liberty-Benton's receiving corps.
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Division VI State Semifinals
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LAST WEEK: McComb scored three fourth-quarter touchdowns to rally past Delphos St. John's 28-21 in the Region 22 championship game. Marion Local built a big lead over St. Henry and held on for a 28-21 win in the Region 24 final.
COACHES: McComb, Kris Alge (15th year, 133-41); Marion Local, Tim Goodwin (13th year, 151-40).
PLAYOFF APPEARANCES: McComb 16th, Marion Local 15th.
PLAYOFF RECORD: McComb 17-14, Marion Local 46-9.
NEXT OPPONENT: Newark Catholic (11-2) or Mogadore (13-0).
LAST MEETING: Marion Local won 41-20 in a 1999 regional quarterfinal.
NOTES: Both teams have been regular participants in the postseason, but this is as far as McComb has gone since the Panthers won a state championship in 1983. Marion Local, meanwhile is making its sixth semifinal appearance in the past seven years. The Flyers have won five state championships, all since 2000, including last year.
EXTRA POINT: Marion Local has won back-to-back state titles two times and is gunning for a third run of consecutive championships this season. The Flyers won the Division VI crown in 2000 and 2001, and won Division VI in 2006 and Division V in 2007.


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The analysis from consulting firms, the business blogs, the Press reports and the tomes from academia are all looking back at the past seven years and explaining how it was that the planet fell into the economic mess that we are now experiencing. In November of 2000, my good friend David told me to get out of growth stocks and move into gold (of all things). I didn't listen, of course. Later, when it turned out he knew something I didn't, I took his advice and made sure that I invested in some of the things he was doing, and when he told me that housing was an asset bubble just like the stocks he'd suggested dumping, I made sure I was in bonds and treasuries. I know nothing about economics. But I didn't claim to see around corners with my software, either.
Where has all of our IT investment in data mining, analytics, forecasting, and measurement gotten us? Did it help your company anticipate trouble? Has it cushioned you adaquately from current conditions? Is morale higher in your workforce now than before the massive IT investments? Do employees have more leisure time?
Is it time that you broke out your Thorstein Veblen work, "The Theory of the Leisure Class" and gave it a re-read? In a vibrant service economy, more and more people made more and more money not based on their labor, but on their ability to extract money without producing anything whatsoever – by creating instruments to 'leverage' in the form of derivatives and loans and swaps and esoteric funds and buyouts: things you can't eat, or build with, or wear, or travel in, or manufacture with. And many of them made billions taking their slice of the fictional wealth and profits that they conjured.
And how, exactly, did IT track, identify, perceive, illustrate, communicate, or work to prevent rotten loans and false premises about future growth and profit and shaky forecasts? Or predict that tour faith in the systems that created the profit and wealth was quixotic? What we are now reading are all of the post-mortems where the pundits decompose the steps leading to the crash and unemployment and systemic piling of new debt. Timing is everything, eh? Maybe we all get to enjoy a period of humility within which we acknowledge the narrow scope of how technology helps us understand the most-likely future. It has been a great force in streamlining and standardizing and optimizing processes, but IT is still a long way from acting as an accurate predictive tool guiding business leaders away from turbulent waters.
Maybe we will see a new generation of tools that look at business pattern sensitivity and give all of us the warning beacons that keep us off of the rocks.
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You might have seen that last week the Money & Investing section of the Wall Street Journal featured an article titled "Entrepreneurs Win Tax Case Versus IRS." A Tax Court decision would now allow investors in LLC and LLP companies to deduct losses against salary and investment income. The decision could still be repealed and its effects are different for entrepreneurs facing losses and for those that are profitable, but I wanted to mention it because it highlights the relationship between the tax system and entrepreneurial activity. Taxes influence decisions regarding hiring, financing structure, and ownership structure (e.g., LLCs and LLPs have been the preference for most new businesses in part because of the benefits of freedom from double taxation). Taxes also often affect the very decision to launch a business. Given these incentive effects, yet another important task for this Administration should be to question whether our taxes are helping or hindering entrepreneurially-driven economic growth.
Last Thursday, the House Committee on Small Business held a hearing on the Research and Experimentation Tax Credit, commonly known as the R&D tax credit. Rep. Glenn Nye explained that roughly 40 percent of the businesses that claim this credit are small firms. However, the witnesses denounced that the constant uncertainty surrounding the credit's reauthorization and its costs of compliance and administrative burden deter small businesses from using this benefit. There is a clear opportunity for strengthening this incentive for risk-taking and innovation among our small businesses.
Everybody wants lower taxes. When I was a staffer for a Congressman on the Ways and Means Committee, I learned this was far from simply about paying more or less. Let's remind ourselves that the tax code is a policy tool of the government. Right now, we know that entrepreneurship is key to recovery. If there was ever a time when taxes on entrepreneurial activity should be lowered and tax incentives easier to implement for entrepreneurs, it is now. Entrepreneurship offers so many public benefits: jobs, innovation, economic growth. Why deter a beneficial activity with unnecessary barriers?
The Small Business Administration found that lower marginal rates on entrepreneurial income boost survival rates of young firms. Yet, our current tax code contains several anti-entrepreneurial incentives. The U.S. Department of Treasury explained, for example, that replacing the corporate income tax with a Business Activity Tax (BAT), which is consumption-based, is expected to increase economic output by up to 2.5% in the long-run. In fact, the U.S. has the second-highest statutory corporate tax rate among developed nations. This certainly produces negative effects. For example, by reducing a mature firm's value, the corporate tax diminishes the incentives for effort and advice among VC investors in a start-up.
We are also making the mistake of taxing jobs. Both the federal and state government collect unemployment taxes from all employers. This represents a perverse incentive against hiring, as well as a burden on small businesses seeking to grow. Moreover, Federal Unemployment Taxes (FUTA) raised $6.1 billion in 2002, but only a little more than half ($3.5 billion) was spent on FUTA-related expenses. The rest was used for non-related government programs at the expense of entrepreneurship. And there is health care where 60% of Americans who do not have health insurance belong to families with a head of household that is self employed or works for a small business. Small businesses can treat employer-based health benefits as non-taxable income, but discriminating against the self employed does little to encourage risktaking among bootstrapped entrepreneurs.
Our tax system does contain examples of pro-entrepreneurship thinking about taxes. By banning taxes on Internet access, Congress has enhanced America's online businesses' competitiveness. And key changes in the tax system have helped spurr the availability of start up money.
As with so much of the opinion voiced in this blog, I simply argue that all we ask for is that policymakers consider the needs of the entrepreneur. Being supportive of entrepreneurial firms, is being supportive of advancing American innovation, productivity, economic growth and job creation. It is supporting the "good capitalism" pioneers that built this nation. The pundits tell us there simply aren't the votes to pass a second top down stimulus package to spur growth. Perhaps this time Washington will consider a bottom up approach by supporting permanent changes to the codes that provide the incentives and make the path easier for those that want to risk their own savings to make jobs and solve problems.
Jonathan Ortmans is a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation where he focuses on public policies to promote entrepreneurship in the U.S. and around the world. In addition, he serves as president of the Public Forum Institute, a non-partisan organization dedicated to fostering dialogue on important policy issues.
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The North American Retail Dealers Association (NARDA) said it finds Consumer Reports' national ad campaign on extended service warranty programs to be misleading, a disservice to consumers, and a threat to NARDA members who sell these programs. NARDA will respond with several initiatives. In partnership with industry veteran and warranty expert Gary Chaves, NARDA developed member information to be used at point-of-sale with consumers. The information will help sales associates respond to negative feedback they receive from consumers as extended service warranties are discussed during the shopping experience. In addition, NARDA responded with a letter to the editor of Consumer Reports challenging the publication's position on extended service warranties. "We think that Consumer Reports slanted the data they collected and did not present a balanced point of view," said Tom Drake, NARDA president and CEO. "We are not going to let our members be taken to the woodshed for offering their customers the opportunity for protection. Extended warranties are not for everyone and certainly retailers make money on selling them. However, a simple fact of life is that everything eventually breaks, whether it's the human body, a refrigerator or a television. Extended warranties offer consumers the opportunity to have peace of mind as well as save time and money." NARDA will continue to provide education and training on extended service programs at NARDA University, The 2007 Service and Retail Convention (SRC) and the NARDA VISION program.
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