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Chicago Pet Rescue is dedicated to saving lives by rescuing homeless animals.
Chicago Pet Rescue started with a vision by a local Edison Park resident in 2010. Elena started out as a foster home provider but decided to expand and help much more.
CPR is a 501c(3) non-profit, foster home and volunteer-based rescue, dedicated to rescuing stray and abandoned animals. We do not have a central "shelter" as most of our animals are placed in foster homes until forever homes can be found. Our goal is to rescue as many animals as we can safely manage through foster homes. We rescue dogs, puppies, cats, kittens, birds and other small animals.
There are literally hundreds of unwanted animals out there who are abandoned or lost each year who need a temporary place to stay. These animals need a special place where their confidence and self-esteem can be rekindled and they can feel loved again.
The results of placing an animal in a foster home versus leaving them in a cage is enormous as it is important that people can select a new companion in an environment where the true personality of the animal is visible! You can rest assured that any companion animal adopted from Chicago Pet Rescue has had the individualized love of a foster home. When you adopt from us, your new pet will already have been used to a family environment, allowing them to become a great family addition. This attention to detail is very important to anyone who wants to enjoy many years of bliss with their new pet!
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I re-positioned the lip today, looks much better.
This is a discussion on MY '11 WRX 5-door...Progress within the Builds forums, part of the Tech & Modifying & General Repairs category; I re-positioned the lip today, looks much better....
I re-positioned the lip today, looks much better.
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Looks great. I'm getting ideas from your posts for my SWP 5-door...that is, when it arrives
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Yes i can still open the hatch. However, not 100% open. More like 90% open. The hatch spoiler hits the back of the box. I padded it with bubble tape.
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i have the exact same car.. color, year, rims, and hatch.. trying to decide what to do first..
How did the car perform on that drive? the drive to oyster farm with this car is what I think about day in and day out once my car is here~! Plan to do one trip stock and another with customer tuned and sways installed.
I completed my 2nd oil change over the weekend...
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You can save you some money by finding an alternative Downpipe and having it protuned or e-tuned (with much better results than OTS Stage 2) instead of the AP.
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not sure yet, I want to find a reputable and knowledgeable one. all though my mods are very basic. let me know if you preferred one over another or know soembody.
nice list there~! please update us with your progress, it's a beautiful thing when everyone share their experiences. I felt like I know so much about this car already, and I haven't even test drive the car. but I think that I've made the right choice to order it a month ago, haha...
BTW, elk grove subaru called me that they had the exact car I was looking for landed last weekend. I didn't take the offer because I think there might be issues with repairs and maintance through local dealer if I didn't get the car from them. That car was sold the next day when I called to tell them I didn't want the car through them.
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Scientist Says the 'God Particle' Will Soon Be Found
British physicist Peter Higgs said Monday he believes the discovery of a subatomic particle, whose existence he postulated about 40 years ago, would take place within the next year as a result of a race between powerful research equipment in the U.S. and Europe.
The particle, named "Higgs boson", would prove the existence of a force that gives mass to the universe and makes life possible, he said.
Higgs believes a particle, which originates from the force, will be discovered after a vast $2 billion particle collider at the CERN research center goes into full operation early next year. The massive CERN collider, under construction since 2003, was installed in a 17-mile circular tunnel under the Franco-Swiss border.
"The likelihood is that the particle will show up pretty quickly … I'm more than 90 percent certain that it will," Higgs told journalists, adding that his visit to the new accelerator over the weekend encouraged him that Higgs boson will soon be seen. It was the first time in 13 years Higgs had visited CERN.
Higgs' original work during the early 1960s to explain why the force, named the Higgs field, must exist was initially dismissed at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. However, today the invisible field's existence is widely accepted by scientists, who believe it began only milliseconds after the Big Bang created the universe 15 billion years ago.
Finding the Higgs boson would prove this theory correct.
CERN's new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) would simulate conditions at the time of the Big Bang by smashing particles together at near light-speed, theoretically unlocking many of the mysteries of the universe. CERN Scientists hope the process will produce clear signs of Higgs boson, called the "God particle" by some, to the dismay of Higgs, an atheist.
Higgs developed his theory as an explanation for the disappearance of mass as matter is broken down to its smallest constituent parts — molecules, atoms and quarks. He postulated that matter was weightless at the exact moment of the Big Bang and then much of it promptly gained mass, arguing this must be due to a field that stuck to particles, making them heavy after they passed through it. Had this not happened, matter would have floated freely in space, with planets and stars never having formed.
Higgs said he hoped the elusive boson would be identified before his 80th birthday next year. Earlier but less powerful colliders at CERN and the U.S. Fermilab had failed to detect the particle.
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Just as the popstar was having what he dubbed his "worst birthday," he was also receiving backlash for parading his bare chest around London while celebrating his 1-9.
Actress Olivia Wilde, 28, took to Twitter to call out the "Beauty and a Beat" singer on Friday, writing:
"Bieber, put your f***ing shirt on. (unless you lost all your shirts in a fire in which case my condolences and please purchase a new shirt.)"
Of course, the Incredible Burt Wonderstone star also received backlash of her own after posting the message. Beliebers from all over the globe fired back at Wilde, tweeting photos of the actress' famous scantily-clad GQ spread and telling her she should follow her own advice.
Biebs had quite the tough weekend when he was criticized for bringing underage pals Jaden Smith, 14, and rumored new gal pal Ella-Paige Roberts Clarke, 17, to a nightclub — though the teenage heartthrob later said it wasn't the case.
According to Bieber's BFF Alfredo Flores, the paparazzi were the ones who put a damper on the festivities.
"I mean . . . I have no words. Paparrazi are disgusting. Wont even allow a 19 year old enjoy his birthday. Hurting fans? Makes no sense #ashame," he wrote on Twitter Friday.
Likewise, Bieber also took his frustrations to his Twitter account. He tweeted Sunday night:
Sometimes u just wanna vent and not be quiet. I love my fans though. Just gonna chill with friends. London shows this week
— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) March 4, 2013
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Device malfunction of the CardioWest total artificial heart secondary to catheter entrapment of the tricuspid valve. | |
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We report two cases at a single institution, a 52-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman, who had failures of their CardioWest total artificial hearts (TAH) from central venous lines that caused obstruction of the right ventricular inflow valves. Each patient was noted to have decreasing TAH outputs for a few days before this catastrophic device arrest. Both patients died; one suddenly and one during a protracted period, as a result of catheter entrapment of the disc of the Medtronic Hall right ventricular inflow valve. |
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The #Pakistan national men's cricket team has 63 men to manage it, the Pakistan women's team has only 1.
Note: As of Mar 2015.
The #Pakistan national men's cricket team has 63 men to manage it, the Pakistan women's team has only 1.
Note: As of Mar 2015.
There is a severe shortage of books by the movers and shakers of Pakistan. Yes, there are some books out there now, but many are fiction, or hagiographies like Musharraf's masterpiece of ego stroking or Fatima Bhutto's rosy retelling of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (both men which feature in Hashwani's life).
Hashwani's book is a breath of fresh air. Here is a primary mover and shaker writing the story of his life and country. Every mover and shaker in Pakistan moves about in such a fog of half truths, rumours and outright falsehoods that if you are outside the mover and shaker circle it is impossible to know who they actually are and how they got there.
How honest he has been is another matter, what matters is that this is his opinion on his Pakistan, through the story of his life. And it is an impressive life – Hashwani has built an impressive empire from relatively humble beginnings.
As a story of Pakistan and getting to understand the viewpoints of a significant percentage of the elite and upper middle class, this book is great. There are legions of drawing rooms all over Pakistan which have been saying much of what Hashwani puts down on paper here, whether it's the story about Zardari as a young man being kicked out of his hotel to blaming Zia for just about everything wrong with Pakistan today.
Hashwani says a few times that the books is for the youth of Pakistan – that left a slightly off taste in my mouth. Yes there is a bit about how Hashwani worked hard but if it is as easy to buy a hotel as saying I decided to buy the InterContinental chain and then I bought it then life would indeed be easy for the youth.
Be born to a good family, make sure they send you to school, have connections in the business community, get handed a job or a sales agency, combine that with hard work and grit and you too can make it. For someone who projects himself as so humble Hashwani stumbles to recognise that though he wasn't initially from one of Pakistani's elite business families, he comes from a family which put him squarely in the top one percent.
Hashwani glosses over a lot in his book – as a memoir, or to understand business in Pakistan I found it lacking. There is a lot of of text about how business is hard, but nothing about what Hashwani actually did to make it, besides the platitudes upon platitudes on hard work, honesty and pluck.
Hashwani lists his many accomplishments from working his way to the top of the cotton and grains exporting industry to become the hotel king of Pakistan, yet now while I know he became Cotton King, there is not enough there about the how, the whys and the circumstances.
Hashwani knows many Generals, from corps commanders to Chief of Army Staffs, and some are close personal friends – yet again the book is strangely lacking about these friendships. In a memoir, I expected more. There is hardly anything in the book about the many people who have helped Hashwani's meteoric rise. Hashwani might be a self made man, but as he says repeatedly, business in Pakistan has many non-business challenges – and all I got from the book is that if you walk the straight and narrow path, and have powerful friendships with powerful generals, things will be ok.
What actually happened along his rise? How did he deal with the politicians and bureaucrats who he says hindered him so many times? It can't have been just as simple as just saying I am a honest man over and over again. And if he is the rare case who did just that, that is amazing and all respect to the man, but even then I wish he had said more about his trials then just naming names and calling them corrupt.
I felt the book was a selected cataloging of incidents and challenges Hashwani faced, mixed in with his thoughts about Pakistan and the world, and missed out too much on his actual life and how he made it.
The more I think about the book, the more disappointed I am, yet I highly recommend it. I wish more people in the circles which Hashwani moves in write their memoirs. Regardless of how selective they are, it's still fascinating reading and there is a lot in it.
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The official language of Pakistan is native to neither of its old halves. Urdu – related to 'Horde', from the Turkic-Persian word for a military camp – started as the military dialect of the Muslim armies of the Indian subcontinent in the Middle Ages, a mixture of local Hindustani with Persian and Turkic words. It was never spoken by Muslims in Bengal – but then it has never been spoken by most of the people of what is now Pakistan either. It was the language of Muslims in the heartland of the old Mughal empire, centred on the cities of Delhi, Agra, Lucknow, Bhopal and Hyderabad, deep in what is now India. Urdu is the official language of Pakistan, the language of the state education system, of the national newspapers, and of the film industry; but the only people who speak it at home are the Mohajirs, people who migrated from India after partition in 1947, and who make up only 7 per cent of Pakistan's population.
A milestone came and went past this year, bigger than most – an elected government in Pakistan completed its full term. The PPP government wasn't thrown out by the army mid way, though it sure looks like the Army had a few half hearted attempts along the way. Even the Supreme Court got into the game of chucking the government out but only managed to get rid of the Prime Minister, who as everyone knows is just a little toady to the main man, Asif Zardari.
The puzzling thing about five years of the PPP government is how little of a main man Zardari was. That he survived five years is testament to his cunning, scheming, politicking and the many little duplicitous tricks he used to stay in power, but there is nothing else there. No signs of courage, of trying to do right by anyone not related to him, of honour, of attempts to change – nothing.
Continue reading Five years of Zardari
Imran Khan is a figure writ large into Pakistan, and now with fifteen years of being out in the political wilderness behind him, Imran Khan is once again the talk of the country. I'd never imagined I'd ever be reading a book by Imran Khan, and that too a personal history of Pakistan, but here it is. Continue reading Imran Khan wrote a book in 2011: Pakistan: A Personal History
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Vice, true to their name, sticks to all the vices of wherever they go, forgoing everything else, but that said, Karachi is changing from a city with a seamy underbelly to a seamy underbelly with huge slums and a urban jungle of a city hanging on for dear life.
Saw an interesting TED talk on happiness – says we work to achieve happiness – more pay, bigger house, etc etc – but research shows that the goal posts keep moving, so we never quite get there. The trick is to be happy first – and suddenly everything else gets better – including work – as you're more productive, open to opportunities, and so on. The positive brain is more productive, smarter, creative, open to learning – the list goes on.
Some ways to apply this:
– Write down a positive experience every day in a journal. This allows your brain to relive it, and over time you learn to remember and and look for positive things every day – seems are brains are wired to remember mostly the negative things.
– Random acts of kindness – as simple as writing a nice email to someone
– meditation
A blast from the past, from the 1971 past that is, where another Pakistan Army, which has moved on to raping entire governments not just it's own women, did this:
"Bangladesh says Pakistani soldiers, aided by local collaborators, killed an estimated 3 million people, raped about 200,000 women and forced millions to flee their homes. Pakistan has disputed the allegations."
Wikipedia has lots more... sadly there aren't many easily readable books on this period, but Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" is a good start to get interested in what happened then.
It is also interesting to note that members of Jamaat-e-Islaami, Pakistan's largest Islamic party than and now, are behind bars for raping and killing their fellow citizens. Not surprising, because the Jamaat is still active in these areas, but still jarring to note that the Jamaat's war against Pakistan dates back so long and is so consistent- from fighting against Jinnah, to using all the dirty tricks in the book to screw over East Pakistan, and nowadays supporting myriad terrorist organizations.
"According to my personal experience in Karachi, if, let's say, it is said that 100 people have died in target killings, when I did the investigation, I found that there were only 30 target killings," Malik said.
"Seventy per cent were those people who wanted to be rid of their wives and girlfriends or girlfriends who wanted to be rid of their boyfriends. All the figures are with me, they killed them," he added. #
Senator Rehman Malik. The truth published in Pakistani newspapers is often far, stranger than fiction.


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Calling insurers "dead wrong" for canceling or non-renewing homeowners who file a legitimate insurance claim, Commissioner John Garamendi on Thursday announced new regulations to protect homeowners from unfair "use it and lose it" practices
Calling insurers "dead wrong" for canceling or non-renewing homeowners who file a legitimate insurance claim, Commissioner John Garamendi on Thursday announced new regulations to protect homeowners from unfair "use it and lose it" practices
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LOS ANGELES – Calling insurers "dead wrong" for canceling or non-renewing homeowners who file a legitimate insurance claim, Commissioner John Garamendi on Thursday announced new regulations to protect homeowners from unfair "use it and lose it" practices.
"We all pay insurance companies to cover losses in case our homes are damaged or destroyed," said Commissioner Garamendi. "So why are insurers penalizing us for using the very coverage we bought? It is a reprehensible practice, and I will see that these costly and discriminatory claims games are stopped."
The Commissioner made his announcement at the home of Marguerite and William Strain in Faircrest Heights. The Strain's, 15-year Allstate policyholders, filed just two claims during that time – for a burst bathroom water pipe in 2002, and for a theft of tools from the couple's truck in 2003. Despite that record, Allstate has informed them that their policy will not be renewed when it expires.
To address problems such as that faced by the Strains, Commissioner Garamendi's new regulations will require that insurers clearly expose to consumers the conditions under which a policy may be non-renewed. "Knowledge is a consumer's best weapon in this fight for fairness," said Commissioner Garamendi. "I will require insurers to inform potential policyholders, up front, under what circumstances they will lose it if they use it."
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That insurers provide details on any information from a CLUE or A-Plus database report that has been used reject an application for insurance.
That insurers inform potential policyholders of any and all excluded coverages.
That insurers provide notification of any changes to rating or underwriting guidelines - before such changes takes effect - that may have a negative impact on the policyholder should the policyholder make a claim.
That insurers take reasonable steps to verify claims history database information used to rate policies.
That insurers file with the Commissioner, on an annual basis, a report detailing the "who, what, and where" of occasions when insurers apply use it and lose underwriting or deny eligibility where the potential insured has made a claim in the past.
"The insurance industry has challenged the Department on whether it can regulate an insurer's use of use it and lose it practices," said Commissioner Garamendi. "We may not be able to issue an outright ban, but I will make sure that homeowners know what the risks are before they become victims of a use it and lose it insurer."
The proposed regulations are subject to public review and comment prior to submission to the state's Office of Administrative Law for approval.
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Published: | 1978 |
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Star Wars, Star Trek, and the 21st Century Christians is a reference book written by Winkie Pratney and published by Bible Voice in 1978.
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- "Trust the Force, Luke!"
- Wouldn't it be wonderful
- If there really was a Force?
- Something of great and awesome power
- Available to anyone anywhere at any time!
- Who would pay the price to learn of its ways and surrender to its direction?
- Long, long ago, of a galaxy not far away,
- It was written
- "The Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by Force"
- Will you dare to lay aside your limits
- And trust your life and destiny to the wisdom that holds together the stars?
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Chris Kehas: In Manchester schools, we see the results of failing to plan
In the 1970s, Central High was allowed to become overcrowded, but we got "lucky" then. We were offered and bought the Girls Catholic High School-Immaculata, and we used it for 10 years. What to do after that? We made it an elementary school and closed some others. One was Straw Elementary, which had just been extensively remodeled and renovated. We closed it and sold it. Money well spent?
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Doesn't anybody know of any restaurants and/or guesthouses offering free wifi in Vientiane?
Or what about paid wifi?
There were none (that I noticed) when I was there in 2009.#1 Posted: 25/2/2011 - 00:13
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Joma has great coffee & baked goods & free Wifi. it's on the main street that runs parallel to the river, ( not on the river, the next one up) just near the big fountain (that's never running)
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Many cafes/restaurants and hotels in Vientiane have secure wifi, but it isn't usually "free". You have to be a paying customer in most cases, then get the password.
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As Bob said, most are secured so you need to buy something and they'll give you the password.
Many guesthouses/budget hotels also have free WiFi now. I stayed at the Lao Silk Hotel and the WiFi worked great, then at the Lao Youth Inn where it didn't. If it's important to have WiFi, confirm with the staff that it works before you accept the room.#4 Posted: 27/2/2011 - 03:03
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Thanks for your replies. Actually I had forgot about Joma and True which were there, but I think at that time you had to pay extra for wifi.
Anyway, that is good news that it is free and more widespread now.
Any other guesthouses people could recommend that have free wifi?
I'll check the listing for the Lao Silk Hotel.
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You pay at True Coffee, but not at Joma.
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Yup, Joma.
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I stayed at RD Guesthouse and they have wifi there.
Another place I forgot about that has it is Blue Bananas.
I've never really liked Joma. It's pretty over-rated in my opinion. But, yeah, they do have wifi...#8 Posted: 26/5/2011 - 13:36
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Not the fastest connection but you can't beat the views here. In theory you could read the signs behind the bar and not buy a drink...
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"Joma has great coffee"
I guess you are American. Joma actually has terrible coffee..#10 Posted: 27/5/2011 - 07:04
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The below website has the most up-to-date WiFi hotspots in Vientiane which is updated by the community.
http://www.worklivelaos.com/free-wifi-hotspots-in-vientiane-laos/#11 Posted: 26/5/2012 - 21:19
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There were plenty when I was there late 2011 / early 2012, I really relied on it though so I always went one further than simply asking about it when I checked in - I'd grab the password and check Google was reachable on my phone.
Often the Wifi DIDN'T work (not so much Vientiane, just in general) and I'd wander off to find somewhere else (or the owner would know a neighbours password once I was leaving!)#12 Posted: 2/6/2012 - 20:38
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Do you have a Vw Passat oil leak? Does your Vw Passat have a burning oil smell? In Blauparts' repair service facility we've noticed that Vw Passat's equipped with the V6 30 valve engine, often develop oil leaks with advanced age and high mileage. This page endeavors to simplify the difficult task of diagnosing Vw Passat oil leaks along with explaining why these oil leaks happen (especially on V6 30 valve engines). If you're getting ready to spend money on repairs associated with seals, gaskets, or breather hose replacement, please read this important Vw Passat oil leak information.
Vw Oil Leak PAGE TOPICS
The Four Most Common Vw Oil Leaks (V6 30 valve 2.8 liter engines)
- Vw Passat Oil Leaks - Cam Chain Tensioner Gaskets and Seals
- Vw Passat Oil Leaks - Valve Cover Gaskets
- Vw Passat Oil Leaks - Camshaft Seals and Plugs
- Vw Passat Oil Leaks - Front and Rear Crankshaft Seals
Basic overview of Vw Passat valve cover gasket and cam chain tensioner gasket replacement. [ Video ]
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If your vehicle has in excess of 100,000 miles on it it, the oil leaks may be linked to a blocked crankcase breather hose system.
• Our detailed and illustrated Vw Passat Crankcase Breather Hose System page explains how engine buildup happens and how to fix it.
• Our detailed and illustrated Vw Valve Cover Gasket / Vw Cam Chain Tensioner Gasket page explains how to repair leaks. [ Including Repair Videos ]
Many Vw Passats have a rough service history.
Blauparts classifies the term 'rough' to be:
Many owners have bought their Vw Passat without knowing the oil-change history or the type of driving conditions the vehicle was subjected to. If you own or have recently bought a used Vw Passat with over 100,000 miles and have oil leaks, the crankcase breather system should be treated as suspect and checked. An abundance of resinous accumulation (broken down motor oil) in the valve train area indicates the system already has heavy amounts of oil sludge build up throughout the engine and crankcase breather hoses. This engine buildup is most commonly caused by using the incorrect motor oil specification for your model, or incorrect oil change intervals for the type of driving style. Our detailed and illustrated Vw Passat Crankcase Breather Hose System page explains how this buildup happens and how to fix it.
Years of rough service history, as mentioned above, causes major engine contamination. When the crankcase breather system becomes clogged, the air flow generated within the engine crankcase is restricted and doesn't allow the system to breath properly. Too much pressure built up in the crankcase causes oil to push out and leak from the weakest parts of the engine (front and rear crankshaft oil seals).
Please Note: The information and pictures refers to a Vw Passat equipped with a V6 2.8L engine. However, this information can also be applied to other Vw models and engine configurations. For example many Vw Passat models with 4 cylinder 1.8L turbo, Vw Jetta, Golf, or Beetle models with 4 cylinder 2.0L, or 5 cylinder 2.5L gasoline or diesel engines, have been subjected to rough service history. All Vw Jetta, Golf, and Beetle engines and configurations have crankcase ventilation breather hose systems. If your Vw Jetta, Golf, or Beetle has oil leaks from the front or rear crankshaft seal areas, there is a strong possibility that the vehicle has experienced a rough service life. Technicians should inspect the crankcase breather hose system for restriction caused by a build up of oil varnish and sludge. A previous rough service life doesn't have to mean the end of your car's engine. Take action and immediately start using the recommended Vw oil specification in your car.
To prevent this buildup, Blauparts recommends using Ravenol motor oil in your Vw Passat. Made in Germany, Ravenol is an advanced synthetic motor oil that is specifically engineered to meet Vw Passat oil specifications extending Vw oil change intervals, while fighting against sludge build up in the valve train area. Varnish and sludge build up eventually leads to crankcase breather hose restriction, excessive crankcase pressure, and subsequent Vw Passat oil leaks. Ravenol's unique oil formulation has the ability to substantially reduce internal engine friction, resulting in increased fuel mileage, reduced emissions, and extended engine life at an affordable price.
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When the Vw Passat camshaft adjuster seals and valve cover gaskets leak they typically cause a burning oil smell. The passenger side cam chain tensioner seal is located on the backside of the cylinder head and will drip oil onto the down pipe causing this smell. This Vw Passat leak is best seen through the passenger side wheel well as pictured (Image 1). The driver side cam chain tensioner seals will leak down onto the A/C compressor and oil filter area (Image 2).
When the Vw Passat valve cover gaskets are leaking you will get a leak along the entire outer edge of the valve cover, which then begins to leak down onto the exhaust manifold. There will also be significant leaking into the spark plug chambers of the cylinder head (Image 3).
Recent oil designed for IV and V vehicles that call for or require extended long life oil change intervals. VW 504 00 oil quality standard is the successor to older VW 503 01 oil specifications.
When the Vw Passat front crankshaft seal is leaking you will see a trail of oil down the front and side of the oil pan. This is many times misdiagnosed as a leaking Vw Passat oil pan gasket (Image 5). The rear Vw Passat crankshaft seal will cause a collection of oil to accumulate and drip from the bottom of the bell housing area (Image 6).
Crankshaft seals are made of very reliable materials and as a rule don't fail. The root cause for their failure is almost always due to a blocked crankcase breather hose system. With a clogged system, crankcase pressure with in the engine is not released. This pressure along with the engine oil is then driven out of the crankcase past these front and rear seals.
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Ben Sollee is a classically trained cellist who started playing when he was in elementary school in Kentucky. Though his background is classical his music is a blend of folk, bluegrass and jazz. In 2005 he joined The Sparrow Quartet, which released its first album in 2008. The same month he released his own EP and the next month a full-length solo album titled, Learning To Bend. Ben wasted no time in getting his music out to the public.
Dear Companion is Ben Sollee's new album with Daniel Martin Moore that isn't only about the music. The album was inspired and created to bring awareness to Mountaintop Removal coal mining (MTR) and its detrimental affects to the people and heritage of central Appalachia. If you purchase the album 100% of the proceeds will go to the organization Appalachian Voices. Good music, good cause. You can't go wrong with buying this album.
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TO JOURNALISTS OF INTEGRITY, blacklist is the vilest word in the dictionary. Nothing corrupts a free press like conspiring to silence a man. And when the conspiracy results from arm-twisting by extremists, it is not only corrupting, but cowardly. This is a story of blacklisting at National Public Radio. On Aug. 20, NPR's popular Talk of the Nation dealt with breaking news: the US raids on Osama bin Laden's terror facilities in Sudan and Afghanistan. One of several guests interviewed by telephone was Steven Emerson, an investigative journalist and a leading expert on Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. Emerson has reported in detail on Islamic extremism, and has focused public attention on the network of terror cells and front groups operating in the United States. His 1994 television documentary Jihad in America won some of journalism's most coveted awards, and he has repeatedly been invited to testify before Congress on Islamic violence and US counterterrorist policy. "It may be," the FBI's former assistant director of counterterrorism has written, "that Mr. Emerson is actually better informed in some areas than the responsible agencies of government." In short, Emerson was an ideal guest for NPR's show, and his brief on-air conversation with host Melinda Penkava was unobjectionable. Unobjectionable, that is, to anyone except the Islamic terrorists and their supporters whom Emerson has done so much to expose. In recent years, he has been the target of a brutal campaign of vilification and defamation. The Council on American Islamic Relations -- a radical group that warmly defends Hamas and other terror outfits -- has led the way in demonizing Emerson as an anti-Arab racist. CAIR's world view is simple: Criticism of anything linked to even the most fanatic wings of Islam is bigotry. (For example, it labeled a "hate crime" the arrest of Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman, ringleader of the World Trade Center bombing.) Its approach to press relations is also simple: Deluge media outlets with protests, invective, and cries of "Racism!" when they publish or broadcast stories unflattering to Islamic extremists. Because Emerson has shed so much light on the operations of these zealots, his appearance drives them into a particular froth. Right after his NPR interview, CAIR urged its adherents to go on the attack. One of the many attackers was Ali Abunimah, a leader of the Chicago-based Arab American Action Network. Judging by its web site, the AAAN's chief project is condemning "the genocidal policies of the US government toward the people of Iraq." But Abunimah has a pet project of his own: Lobbying NPR to blacklist Steven Emerson. In June, he e-mailed NPR's news division to say he was "horrified" that Emerson had been used in a story on Mohammad Salah, a reputed Hamas fund-raiser. Emerson is an anti-Arab bigot, he said -- witness his comment in April 1995 that the Oklahoma City bombing bore "a Middle Eastern trait." It was intolerable to "have to listen to such a blatant, sickening racist." Abunimah demanded that NPR "not allow this to happen to Arabs . . . again." He pressed his vendetta up and down the NPR food chain: To the network's national news editor, Michael Fields; to the general manager of the affiliate that had produced the story; to Jackie Northam, who had reported it; to Loren Jenkins, NPR's foreign editor. The network caved. Fields assured him that quoting Emerson had been a "mistake" and that "it won't happen again" -- i.e., that Emerson would be blacklisted. But on Aug. 20, Emerson appeared on Talk of the Nation. Livid, Abunimah fired an e-mail to Ellen Silva, TOTN's producer. "I am shocked and disappointed," he wrote, "that TOTN had Steven Emerson on its call-in show today as a guest. Mr. Emerson is a well-documented anti-Arab, anti-Muslim racist. When he was last on NPR on June 24, in a report by Jackie Northam, there was a public outcry. . . . This should not have happened again. . . . Last time, I accepted the explanation that it had been an innocent error. But how many errors can be innocent? This is a very serious matter and will require an appropriate response." Abjectly, NPR caved again. The following exchange ensued: ---- NPR's obsequious surrender speaks for itself. That an expert who testifies before Congress would be barred from the airwaves of the radio network Congress subsidizes is too scandalous to need elaboration. It remains to add only that, late last week, I learned of the Abunimah-Silva correspondence and asked NPR to explain its blacklist policy. Silva retracted everything. "I was wrong to use the word 'policy,'" she said. "I misspoke. We don't have a policy on Steven Emerson." I asked several times why NPR was repudiating its words. Silva declined to answer. (Jeff Jacoby is a columnist for The Boston Globe). -- ## -- Follow Jeff Jacoby on Twitter. Related Topics: Islam and Islamism, Media, Terrorism receive the latest by email: subscribe to jeff jacoby's free mailing list |
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In ten years India will be among our top three markets, says LVMH official.
One of the hottest trends in the luxury market is the shifting focus from soft luxury (leather accessories and apparel ) to hard luxury items such as watches and jewellery. The latter segment is also where high-end French brand Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH) hopes its growth will come from in India. The market is strong in the big cities but non-metro growth has been slow. In an interview with TOI-Crest, Franck Dardenne, general manager, LVMH watch and jewellery, India talks about why India is a strategic market for the maker of Tag Heuer, Dior and Zenith watches. Excerpts:
How big is the luxury watch market in India currently and how fast is it growing?
The luxury watch segment is at a nascent stage in India. There is, however, steady growth in sales for us. There is a need for us to first create awareness about the segment. Even for LVMH, growth is being driven by only the top seven cities (THE FOUR METROS AND.... ) despite our presence in over 27 cities.
Total imports of Swiss watches in India were up by only 5 per cent last year, which is meager compared to the 16 per cent increase worldwide. There has also been a change noticed in the demand for watches in various price segments. For instance, watches priced above Rs 5 lakh were driving growth until five years ago. But now they contribute to only 3% of the total category growth. Demand has picked up at lower price points from Rs 0. 5 lakh to Rs 5 lakh.
For LVMH, how important is the Indian market as compared to your markets overseas?
For us, India is clearly not the easiest market to be profitable in. The import duties are huge leading to high costs for us. We are investing more here instead of just looking for returns. So the investment to profit ratio is big. We are definitely looking at growth from this market, but sometimes it is more important to look at revenues instead of the profits. The cost incurred for a typical LVMH watch is significantly higher for India than in other foreign markets due to the excise duties. We cannot hike the end prices in parallel. But we are sure the government will look into this.
India opened its doors to 100% foreign direct investment in the single brand
retail sector late last year. Do you think independent entry into the market would prove to be a more successful model for you?
What is problematic for us is the 30 per cent sourcing clause from small and medium enterprises (SMEs). All our manufacturing is done outside India and we import 100 per cent of our products sold here. FDI does open a window of opportunity for us and we could look into it. But we do not want to lose our partners. Sometimes local partners are better as they know the market well. Definitely the new rules are a good signal.
So what is the biggest challenge you face in India currently?
The key challenge here, besides legislation, is infrastructure. We also need clarity on various rules. India still contributes a very small percentage of our total business. But in ten years India will be among our top three markets (currently, it's number 25). Our aim is to make it one of our major markets as it has a special status. For instance, we have Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan as one of our brand ambassadors for Tag Heuer among all our other international ambassadors.
Despite being present in the country for long, you rank third after Omega and Rado.
We are working on being among the top two brands in the next three years. We are focusing on coming up with at least three big boutiques very soon.
You recently took over Italian jewellery brand Bulgari. When will we see the brand in India?
Very soon.
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We are beyond thrilled to say that we have officially launched our behind-the-scenes video from our 2014 trip to Paris with the fabulous Christine Penny! If you haven't seen her website go check it out immediately. This was such a cool collaboration, and we were so honored to work with Christine again. We had so much fun traipsing around Paris, spending hours together, with 5 looks and locations, and capturing some beautiful images and video footage. So without further ado, here is the Premier of "Jour a La Nuit":
Christine, we loved capturing these images and creating this fun video with you. You are so freaking talented and we loved having the opportunity to work alongside you with this project! Until next time… :) xoxo, K&M
A little random combo of a post on this lovely Thursday. Today I sit in a Cafe in Encinitas, loving the ambiance but also kinda wishing I had chose a spot with some AC. It's hot as heck in this little beach city and all I am thinking about is the ocean. Kimberlee is in what I am assuming is much cooler Anacortes, Washingting plugging away (I am visiting her next week and stoked about it). She writes this as the first part of our combo post…..
YAY MIAMI!!!!! We are so excited about this… can't believe it's about a month away! If you are thinking about joining us, we'd love to connect with you via email (firstname.lastname@example.com) or our Facebook Group. Or visit all the details and booking page here. In case you'd like to see exact dates, here's a little calendar for you. Keep in mind there are only TWO SPOTS LEFT for boudoir shoots in Miami! If you want to snag one, go ahead and email us to get it booked. Note that we are open to booking a shoot on a consult date if that's where the demand leads us….
And now onto my part of the post, our funny #TBT to what I think was 2006. Kimberlee and I made our first video ever on our little point and shoot, this was one of the first shoots ever in our new studio. The comments are particularly hilarious, and while I do agree with some of them actually, I still somehow managed to come out of this shoot with an image that won an Accolade of Excellence Award from WPPI. So glad I didn't listen and submitted the image. Kinda proof that you should never listen to your critics. Or at least only listen to the ones you trust ya know, never internet trolls. Sorry about the ad at the beginning, the you tube account is so old I can't even remember the login to change it. Go ahead and laugh at the video, we sure are. High five to just going for it before you totally know what you are doing right Kimee? ;)
Here's the image that won….
So just in case you are new to our blog, we are boudoir photographers and we have a lovely studio in San Diego. BUT we are also a little bit of a traveling circus, as we love to go to our favorite cites and book client shoots. We have taken our traveling circus to Paris, Italy, Spain, Peru, Africa, Caribbean, and most of the larger states in the US and A. Next up on our list, Miami and Scottsdale!!!
If you haven't had a boudoir shoot, well it's one of the best things you can do for yourself. We know that a lot of the audience that reads this blog ARE bou photogs themselves, and yes, we are still very much talking to you ladies!!! Yes this is the perfect gift for a special occasion like a wedding gift, or anniversary gift, however we have plenty of women who come to our studio to a book a boudoir shoot simply because they want to do something special for themselves. They want to take a step towards being kinder to themselves, feeling good in their own skin, and have a damn good time doing it. If you are a photographer you especially need to have a photo shoot, as I assure you that core belief in your product/experience will be a pivotal changing point in your business. I know what you are thinking, 'I hear testimonials all day, I get it.' Trust us when we tell you, you have no idea what your clients are experiencing until you have been in the hot seat yourself.
As a little inspiration to get you excited about your potential upcoming shoot, take a look at one of our latest shoots. Meet Hannah who has kindly allowed us to show of her images…..
Email us at firstname.lastname@example.com to book your Miami or Scottsdale boudoir photo shoot!!
Yipeeeee! This is our favorite announcement of the year!
We are launching our Paris shoots for May 2014. You probably know that every spring we find an excuse to go our favorite city in the world, and this year we will be doing photo shoot on the streets of Paris for any daring lady that may want one. Last year we spoke at a photography conference and did 3 shoots for Tenley Molzahn of The Bachelor and had one of the most amazing times of our lives, see her videos below, one still to come in the future.
We LOVE this city, and we adore photographing women here, so if you can "dare to dream" about the possibility of a photo shoot in Paris, well than it just might be realized. Click below to learn even more about this unbelievable experience…
If you'd like to snag a spot and book a photo shoot with the Divas in the City of Light, simply shoot us an email for more details! firstname.lastname@example.com
xoxo, M&K
Hey everyone, we are excited to let you know that we're going to be in SEATTLE next week! Marissa and I will be hanging in the city, planning for 2014, working on some new projects, and… SHOOTING!
We've already booked up quite a few of our spots, but I believe we might be able to squeeze in one or two more ladies.
So if you live in the Seattle area, and you'd like to give your guy the SEXIEST gift this Christmas, email us asap for more details (email@example.com). Hope you have a fabulous weekend, and we can't wait to see a lot of you ladies next week! xoxo, K & M
The Holidays have the potential to be one of our best seasons for our business, but it seems that every year they sneak up on us a bit. So this year we made it a point to plan all of our marketing early (see previous blog post)! And not only that, since we were going to launch one of our biggest sales ever, we wanted some hype to go with it. So we set up two commercials in hopes to get our potential clients excited, thinking and planning about Christmas earlier in the Fall. It's not too late fellow Bou Photogs! What are you going to do to maximize your holiday? A sale, a marathon, mini sessions, a new set, a new product that has quicker turnaround so you can continue to shoot closer to Christmas?
Our goal with this one was to inspire ladies to make this holiday a little sexier than the norm. And those of us that have been married a long while know that romance can take some planning!
And this one…. well A) we wanted to goof off and B) we wanted to announce our sale in an excited and different way!
It was a chilly fall morning when we took Peggy (our gorgeous and talented hair and make-up artist!) to the outskirts of San Diego for a just-for-fun outdoor boudoir photo shoot. Pegs was recently hitched, so we took this opportunity to snap some shots of her in her beautiful, vintage wedding day garb with our own boudoir twist! With Halloween right around the corner, we feel this shoot perfectly captures the "spirit" of the holiday. Thank you, Peggy, for getting up at the crack of down with us to play around in the wilderness. We love you. <3
We get asked all the time, "so how do you create your sets?"
Well that's kinda of a complicated answer actually. You see our sets are put together by all kinds of different components. We really like our sets to be three dimensional, to have layers so you feel like you were in a very cool room, or in a mysterious location. Most of the pieces are from garage sales, antique stores, flea markets and thrift stores. Another key factor is my mom, as she loves to frequent all these places and find little gems for us, then she reports back to us, sometimes even re-upholstering items for us. But as we mentioned, we use many, many ingredients, and one of those common ingredients we seem to use A LOT is a drop it MODERN backdrop. Sometimes it's used as the fancy looking wallpaper backdrop, sometimes it becomes the hip looking floor, or sometimes it just used as a nice little pop like this shot above. Over the years our obsession with drop it MODERN has led them to ask us to pass on some killer deals to you, as they see that question get asked over and over on our social sites, "where do you get your cool boudoir sets?" So they gave us this little goodie to give to all you boudoir photogs…….a $25 off discount code! YES PLEASE!
So maybe it's time for a new boudoir backdrop … yes? 'Cause it's all about NEW at drop it MODERN! They have so many cool new options for us photographers…..
From fresh new prints to the new simple solids, there's seriously a backdrop for every style and genre, especially boudoir photography. Be sure to check out 'Gatsby' in 8 different painted glitters. Yes GLITTER!
Also back in stock are the 2 best damn backdrops in the biz; 'Spangled' and 'Mermaid'! The most amazing sequins lined drops in Gold and Silver. They're a studio MUST! See for yourself in our shots below with the Spangled Gold Backdrop.
And since everyone loves a deal, drop it MODERN has an entire section dedicated to 'DEALS'! Some backdrops are priced as low as $30, WOW. Obviously there are plenty of backdrop companies to chose from but no one offers the amazing quality, prices, and crazy fast delivery like drop it MODERN. Their backdrops are built to last through all of our in-studio or on-location destination boudoir photos shoots, and we put them through the ringer, haha.
Visit their site at www.dropitmodern.com and use this exclusive Boudoir Divas code: DIMLOVESDIVAS for $25 off.
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Vintage Easter Chalk Rabbit $ 30.00 Darling 3 3/4" vintage chalk Easter bunny sitting up holding a basket of eggs. These type of items were done crudely.
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