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Alport syndrome
- Alport syndrome, X-linked
- Hemorrhagic familial nephritis
- Hemorrhagic hereditary nephritis
- Congenital hereditary hematuria
- Autosomal dominant Alport syndrome
- Autosomal recessive Alport syndrome
- Basement membrane disease
Your QuestionWhat causes Alport syndrome? Is it always inherited?
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Type IV collagen is also an important component of the organ of Corti, an inner ear structure that transforms sound waves into nerve impulses for the brain. Alterations in type IV collagen may result in abnormal inner ear function, which can lead to hearing loss. In addition, type IV collagen plays a role in the eye, where it helps maintain the shape of the lens and the normal color of the retina. Mutations found in Alport syndrome may affect the shape of the lenses and the color of the retina.[1]
How is Alport syndrome inherited?
In approximately 15 percent of cases, Alport syndrome results from mutations in both copies of the COL4A3 or COL4A4 gene and is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern. The parents of an individual with the autosomal recessive form of this condition each have one copy of the mutated gene and are called carriers. Some carriers are unaffected and others develop a less severe condition called thin basement membrane nephropathy, which is characterized by hematuria.[1]
Alport syndrome has an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance in about 5 percent of cases. People with this form of Alport syndrome have one mutation in either the COL4A3 or COL4A4 gene in each cell. It remains unclear why some individuals with one mutation in the COL4A3 or COL4A4 gene have autosomal dominant Alport syndrome and others have thin basement membrane nephropathy.[1]
Are all cases of Alport syndrome inherited?
Most individuals diagnosed with an autosomal dominant Alport syndrome have an affected parent. In some cases, the disorder may result from a de novo gene mutation. The proportion of cases of autosomal dominant Alport syndrome that result from de novo gene mutations in unknown. Each child of an individual with autosomal dominant Alport syndrome has a 50% chance of inheriting the mutation.[2]
Additional information about the different ways that Alport syndrome may be inherited (and how other family members might be impacted) can be accessed through GeneReviews. A genetics professional can help to better understand the risks for individuals and family members to develop Alport syndrome.
How can I find a genetics professional in my area?
The following online resources can help you find a genetics professional in your community:
- The National Society of Genetic Counselors provides a searchable directory of US and international genetic counseling services.
- The American College of Medical Genetics has a searchable database of US genetics clinics.
- The University of Kansas Medical Center provides a list of US and international genetic centers, clinics, and departments.
- The American Society of Human Genetics maintains a database of its members, which includes individuals who live outside of the United States. Visit the link to obtain a list of the geneticists in your country, some of whom may be researchers that do not provide medical care.
- Alport syndrome. Genetics Home Reference. April 2009; http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/alport-syndrome. Accessed 10/24/2011.
- Kashtan CE. Collagen IV-Related Nephropathies (Alport Syndrome and Thin Basement Membrane Nephropathy). GeneReviews. July 15, 2010; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1207/. Accessed 10/24/2011.
- Alport syndrome, X-linked
- Hemorrhagic familial nephritis
- Hemorrhagic hereditary nephritis
- Congenital hereditary hematuria
- Autosomal dominant Alport syndrome
- Autosomal recessive Alport syndrome
- Basement membrane disease


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The Electra: A bike designed for the rest of us
It's springtime. You're starting to see them everywhere: the girl on the Electra pink Hawaii, the dude wheeling down the Crystal Pier on his Tiger Shark beach cruiser, the aging hipster-prof pulling up to the Pannikin coffeehouse on his retro-modern Italian Ticino.
It's a revolution in casual wheels led by Benno Baenziger, 47, Electra Bicycle's co-founder.
Headquartered in Vista, Electra is now one of the largest bike companies in California, selling more than 100,000 bikes a year. Baenziger is the inventor of the Townie, a bike, he likes to say, that is "for the rest of us, not just for Lance's friends," meaning racer Lance Armstrong, of course.
Baenziger is the Steve Jobs of bikes. It's all about mating high tech with elegance to create the user-friendly experience, for Baenziger, as it was for Jobs, who, interestingly, was a major aficionado of cycling.
More than 20 years ago, Baenziger emigrated from Germany to Newport Beach and later to La Jolla. He fell in love with the iconic American Schwinn cruiser, which back then had been relegated mostly to antique stores. With Electra co-founder Jeano Erforth (a sales whiz who got his start selling pieces of the Berlin Wall) he took a tarted-up version of the cruiser to Germany, but buyers thought the gearing and brakes belonged pre-World War II. So the pair reinvented the cruiser to gear-head standards and painted Hawaiian flowers on the sides for L.A. and Black's Beach canyon ladies.
Electra sold 300 bikes the first year, 1,200 the next, then 5,000 and then — Schwinn, the giant, woke up, and began to remake their own cruisers, stalling out Electra's growth.
By this time Baenziger was finding himself rather angry with the cycling industry. "I felt they looked down on the regular person, the bike rider, as opposed to the cyclist. They were always trying to sell the latest trend, road-bikes in the '70s, mountain bikes in the '80s. Then they come up with the comfort bike. I hated the term. I am like, 'Wow, oh yeah, dude, I got a new bike.' 'What kind of bike is it?' 'It's a comfort bike.' Oh, really? A comfort bike!' "
He also noted that the comfort bike seemed to be only a mountain bike with a slightly higher handlebar, with a seat post suspension, a little bit bigger seat, and fewer knobs on the tires.
"I was so upset that they would keep on selling the same meaningless bike that they had been trying to sell for decades with slight modifications. I said, you got to give people a real reason to buy a new bike. It's like the biking industry was making a Sony Discman, and the next year it's a little bit smaller, and it skips less, and the battery lasts 20 minutes longer. But if you create the iPod, that's the reason to buy something new. So I was determined to design a new bike, the next generation, the real solution to the problem of why Americans didn't like to ride bikes."
Baenziger's glorious solution (if you like bikes as much as I do) was the Townie (MSRP $520). (The name Flat-Foot Technology came from a marketing friend, Barbara Mizuno, who had come up with the "Hydrate or Die" slogan for the Camelbak hydration system hikers use.)
The Townie was big, light, fast, fun and above all a showstopper, the new rangy thoroughbred of bikes. From San Diego to Key West, Denver to Berlin, it made biking cool for newbies. You didn't have to be Lance Armstrong. Julia Roberts rode an Electra in the movie "Eat Pray Love." Miley Cyrus bought about six, exclaims Baenziger. A majority of Electra's customers suddenly were women, unheard of in the bike industry.

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Snow and Bulbs
So there's still about 6-12 inches of snow still on the ground where I planted tulip bulbs last fall. Should I be concerned since its now almost May and they have not come up? In Quebec Canada.
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They'll come up when the conditions are right.
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The bulbs are more patient than we are. They are sensitive to the conditions and will peek through when the time is right . Wait for them and enjoy!
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Hi guys.
I'm trying to install Zimbra in a machine with 8Gb RAM. I already had noticed that zimbra sets memory use for MySql and Java/Tomcat in percert to the total memory, 30 percent to Java/Tomcat and 40 percent to MySql. But only now I realized the error this could lead to.
Well, the thing is: 30% of 8Gb is 2.4 Gb and 40% of 8Gb is 3.2Gb. In a 32 bit system, one proccess can only have, at most, 2Gb of memory, because of addressing it with 32 bits.
So, what happened when I tried to install Zimbra with too much memory? Mysql and Tomcat simply didn't start. I tried to change the configs manually to 2Gb for each, but it seems that, once these servers didn't start (or at least MySql), installation didn't finish correctly, and I coudn't start them, even limiting the memory.
Any workaround for now?
Hope it can be fixed in the next releases and, if possible, on install let the user select the amount of memory to each server.


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Please visit the site at www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal.
Some key features include:
- A new "Downloads and fixes" portlet
- Ability to show/hide empty modules
- Ability to sorting product look up results by keyword relevance or alphabetically
- Changes in how language/location preference is managed
- New brands in the product selector
- Changes to System availability
- IBM n.Fluent machine translation
Defects resolved in this release include:
- 821: Result set of differs from search within troubleshooting and search
- 1247: Next reloads 1-20 on Safari under OS/X
- 1880: You cannot add modules to Service Request page
Enhancement requests implemented in this release include:
- 1043: PLEE-7NR4N8 - hide empty portlet is confusing
- 2082: PLEE-7VZS9V - Need to support different date formats
Key feature details:
Downloads and fixes portlet
A new "Downloads and fixes" portlet appears on the Downloads page. This portlet replaces the previous "Fix Central" and "Software and device drivers" portlets that used to appear on the page. The "Fix Central" and "Software and device drivers" will no longer be available in the portal.If you had previously customized your pages and added these portlets to another page, you will want to remove them.
Show/Hide empty modules
The IBM Support Portal dynamically searches for technical content based on several factors including: product selections, task selected, and available topics. If no content is found for a module, that module does not appear on the portal page. This may be confusing when you are adding or deleting modules from a page. The IBM Support Portal now enables you to show or hide empty modules by using the Show/Hide controls.
When a user selects the "Show empty modules" link, modules that are placed/located on the page but are not currently displayed will appear. The link name will also change to "Hide empty modules."
When a user selects the "Hide empty modules" link, modules that do not currently have any content will no longer be displayed, and the link name will change to "Show empty modules."
Sort product look-up results
Users can now sort the results of their product look up by keyword relevance or alphabetically. Only the first 100 results will be sorted alphabetically.
Changes in how language/location preference is managed
The default locale and language of the Support Portal is American English.
To set your locale, click 'change' at the top of the page.
You will be prompted to select a country and language. Once you select your country, you will be automatically redirected to the ibm.com homepage for that country. You can get back to the portal by using your browser's back button or re-entering the URL. Your country selection will be stored in a cookie and persist between sessions.
If you are a signed in user and the country selection at the top of the page has not been specified, the Support Portal will use the information saved in your IBM registration profile.
Finally, if none of the previous values have been set, the portal will use the language settings from your browser.
In summary, the language displayed in the IBM Support Portal will be determined by evaluating settings in the following order:
* URL (if it is set from a redirecting location)
* Country Selector at the top of the page
* Your signed in Profile
* Browser Language setting
New brands and products in the product selector
The following brands (with associated products) have been added to the product list:
Point of Sale
4690, AIX, and IBM i Operating Systems
Changes to the System availability section
There are several changes to note.
1. There are now two links to display outage details:
* The "Current availability" link will show details on any current outages that the IBM Support Portal is experiencing.
* The "Planned outages" link will show details of any future planned outages. This link will only appear when outages are scheduled.
2. Messages requiring users' attention will display in the new "Site availability & news" portlet. This text will appear in orange font at the top of the portlet.
3. News links about the IBM Support Portal have been moved to the new "Site availability & news" portlet from the "Flashes & alerts" portlet.
IBM Support Portal is now using IBM n.Fluent machine translation in "Translate this page."
Other notes:
1. The Warranty portlet does not support Norway as a locale in R3.2.
Support will be added in a future release.
2. Reminder regarding product selection
You do not need to select all products you are going to work with in the product selector or on the quick start page before using the IBM Support Portal. Your product list can be changed at any time within the IBM Support Portal. For an optimal experience and to maximize site responsiveness, you may want to limit the products that are active to 5 or less.


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Here is a small patch for the ZCS-5.0.6 French translation.
The patch corrects some minor contextual errors in the user interface, and installs the French spelling dictionary and the French date zimlet.
The problem with buttons labels displacing the Prev/Next arrows out of the window in small displays has been fixed (thank you Zimbra team ;-), as well as some of the labels modified with my patch in 5.0.5.
As usual, you can get the file from Fichiers WHM (user invite, password invite).
Otherwise a ZIP file with the patch is attached.


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House passes bill to defuse debt crisis
January 23, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House overwhelmingly passed a bill Wednesday to permit the government to borrow enough money to avoid a first-time default for at least four months, defusing a looming crisis......
DaGreecymon is going ballistic. Must be dat Weed he be smokin, mon!
Greecemon, you be sofa-king dumb!
Now you go smoke dat ganja weed, mon and we be see'in u back here again in another Rat Rage shortly!!
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Goosy "duhhhRAT, so you use your Troll screen name to respond to an adult question I asked your duhhhRAT (aka NOSTRADUMAZZ) about?"
This is what Goosy calls an "adult question": "SO TELL US NOSTRADUMAZZ the source of your post "[daWraith quote]." REALLY? LIAR!"
Goosy, your "adult question is so full of "duhhhRAT duhhhRAT NOSTRADUMAZZ duhhhRAT" it's difficult to dig out the question from all the childish babble. Like watching someone else's toddler having a meltdown in a long supermarket line, though. Very entertaining. LOL
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Gooseman "Energy secretary Steven Chu, who while in London pitched an idea blah blah blah"
Are you actually pushing that loony BS? After we proved your "LIAR LIAR" rant was so wrong? Too funny.
Hey Goosy. Do your part and paint your bald spot white. Based on the size of your head, you could solve "global warming" single-handedly.
For God's sake don't wear white pants, though. You'll kick off an ice age. LOL
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Theres a reason they call him NOSTRADUMAZZ around these parts.
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"The thing is, secretary Chu actually understated the potential benefits of global whitewashing. The Lawrence research he refers to (which we wrote about last fall) says that white roofs and pavements could mean a one-time reduction of 44 billion tons of carbon dioxide. That, Art Rosenfeld said, translates to removing all the cars in the world for 18 years.
Of course, that's the best-case scenario. Most roofs are sloped, not flat. Using "cool colored" paint on sloping roofs—as California will require starting this summer—would lead to a global reduction on the order of 24 billion tons.
Proponents of the idea tout other advantages—reflective surfaces also reduce temperatures in urban "heat islands," and reduce the need for air-conditioning, which in turn reduces the demand for electricity, which generates its own greenhouse-gas emissions.
The idea seems promising as an economic stimulus, too—and not just for paint manufacturers."
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Goose rant summarized "duhhRAT, A LIAR,... I hate LIARS. Lowest scum on earth. SO TELL US NOSTRADUMAZZ... REALLY? LIAR!... SCUM... LIAR. duhhhRAT... duhhhRAT (aka NOSTRADUMAZZ) ... ****... NOSTRADUMAZZ... you slime... your lying post... little girl... your lies... Get lost loser!"
Seems someone has some anger management issues. Deep breaths, Goosy. Hope and change. Hope and change. ... LOL
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Wall Street Journal January 23, 2013
Energy secretary Steven Chu, who while in London pitched an idea from his former colleagues at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Painting roofs white to reflect sunlight can make a huge difference to global warming. From the Times of London:
"There's a friend of mine, a colleague of mine, Art Rosenfeld, who's pushing very hard for a geo-engineering we all believe will be completely benign, and that's when you have a flat-top roof building, make it white. "Now, you smile, but he's done a calculation, and if you take all the buildings and make their roofs white and if you make the pavement more of a concrete type of colour rather than a black type of colour, and you do this uniformly . . . it's the equivalent of reducing the carbon emissions due to all the cars on the road for 11 years."
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The Wrath Jul-11-11 6:59 PM "Ghadafy has to hold out for 90 days and he is THE WINNER!!! That is EXACTLY what I said would happen when it started back in April. He will be the new LEADER of the Muslim World then, he defeated NATO,USA. FAIL! "
TheWrath "Romney by a landslide".
You wouldnt know what a winner is cause youve been such a looser all your life.
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duhhhRAT, so you use your Troll screen name to respond to an adult question I asked your duhhhRAT (aka NOSTRADUMAZZ) about?
And you think you are being cute and fooling anyone on here?
Theres a****good reason you are known as NOSTRADUMAZZ around these parts, and Im sure, so sure, whatever parts you slime in.
Are you a man to source and stand up for your lying post or a little girl that thinks it cute to abuse the NR message board everyday with your lies, name calling, severe mental illness?
Get lost loser!
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Something else Chu, as a Nobel Prize winning Energy Secretary should know is that production of concrete produces enormous quantities of CO2. So conversion of all roads from blacktop to cement would produce large additional quantities of that greenhouse gas. Currently concrete production accounts for 8% of all man-made CO2. Can you imagine how much more CO2 would be produced if we resurfaced ALL the roads in concrete? Maybe Chu needs to rethink some of his brilliant "ideas." Like his ridiculous wish for gasoline prices in America to increase to match prices in Europe.
Obama can sure pick some winners, eh Goosy? What a loon. LOL
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Greeceman when you sober up, stagger over to a thread that is REMOTELY connected to your {bleeped} up ranting.
Does the Wheeling PD know this POS claims to own a bunch of guns??
How long until he gets so stoned he goes postal and makes it to the front page of the Register, not the blog section???
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@GooseDroppings.DaWraith is correct, and as usual you are wrong and being your stupid self. He has told more truths than you, Obozo's boy. Why don't you*****up to him some more and try and get a position with him, one more liar added to his staff. Obozo is tearing this country apart and you take up for him, what losers, you and him are.
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Goosy, Energy Secretary Chu suggested cement-style pavement for roads instead of blacktop style pavement, and replacing all the roofs with white roofs, and converting to white limousines. You can hear him say it here.
w ww.youtube.c om/watch?v=pLlxjYACa5U
This is actually MORE ludicrous than using white paint, as it would cost far more than white paint and would be equally irrelevant as far as global temperature is concerned.
I found that video as the third item of the google search results of "steven chu paint roads white." I'll let daWraith decide how he wants to ridicule you for not being able to find this for yourself, since you were so rabid in your rant about him. Have fun, daWraith. LOL
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duhhRAT, A LIAR, yesterday, today and tomorrow. I hate LIARS. Lowest scum on earth. SO TELL US NOSTRADUMAZZ the source of your post "Energy Secretary Nobel Prize winner Steven Cho suggested several years ago a solution to Global Warming would be to "paint the highways WHITE to reflect the sunlight(!!)" "Most suggested that he was an IDIOT, you couldn't see them in snow and you would slide off in rain or snow."
REALLY? LIAR! Now, I know you won't provide a source because you can't. Cho never suggested painting the highways. As you do everyday, SCUM, you seem to be just a LIAR.
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THere will be no "actual" spending cuts! We might get a promise of we won't spend as much as we where going to.....
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We had a "balanced Budget" amendment in 1987. How did that work out for everybody???
They will just kick the can until 2016.
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Anytime liberals use words period, watch out. It's telling liberals consider balancing a budget "a trick."
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Anytime they start using the words, "balanced budget," watch out.
It's a deception to hide what is really up their sleeve. Beware.
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Keep on kickin' it you no good SOB's.
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I have a few questions to which I need answers.
In 2008, the Onslow County Board of Education asked for and received $90 million for a school bond to build new schools and repair older schools. Assuming that it has spent all this money, can members of the board tell Onslow County property owners � i.e., those who are responsible for paying off this debt � exactly how this bond money was used? Can they account for all of it? I respectfully ask for some kind of balance sheet explaining how this bond money was used.
I also have heard that $70 million of this bond has not been paid back yet: When will this debt be paid in full?
Now just five years later, the Onslow County Board of Education is asking for another school bond, which would be paid for by property owners in Onslow County by increasing property taxes. It initially asked for $147 million but, according to The Daily News, the request has been lowered to $75 million dollars. The article also stated that the reduced amount will get the schools started on new school construction and repairs of older schools, but the board says it will still need another $71 million dollars to complete the projects by around 2018. Once again, I ask the board to be financially accountable to the property owners so we can be sure our property-tax dollars are being used properly.
Will the board give property owners of Onslow County access to the school system�s budget and show how it gets the various monies that are allotted to Onslow County schools? Who handles the money in the Board of Education budget? Does the school board ever receive funds from the lottery? If so � how often, how much and how are these funds used?
I believe all elected officials receive salaries: Who writes the paychecks for the Board of Education and county schools administration?
It is my understanding that the Board of Education had to vote to send the new bond request to the county commissioners. Did the vote have to be unanimous or a simple majority? Who voted yes and who voted no?
I sincerely hope that all of these questions will be answered in a timely manner.
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I have found the only draw back to RE ownership is that everyone always wants to talk to you about the bike. It is sometimes hard to get away from gas stops with all the attention. The old-timers, in particular, really seem to like the bike. I never tire of listening to the stories of the "old days", those guys were really hard core with the bad roads, no rain-gear, and few gas stops.
Hey Dew,I'm a newbie,too. I'm having all kinds of fun learning how the new forum worksand reading about eveyone's ideas and their bikes. Sounds like you have a righteousride. I have a 2000 Deluxe with the Goldstar exhaust, K&N filter, and re-jetted carb.I put a lycette style solo seat on mine for that vintage look, and made a birdsplitter for the front fender. There are a couple of pictures of it in "Members Rides" Would love to see a picture of yours. There is a motorcycle resort/hangout near me, 29 Dreams, and when I ride out there all the Harley and cruiser riders come over and want to know where Ifound the antique bike. Bullets have a class all their ownRide Safe, Tex
Yeah, our bikes are chick magnets. Its just one of those things one has to live with.....Dew.
Still another Newby. I just purchased a 2003 RE Bullet. I have ridden for 45 years, just retiring from my Suzuki Bandit 1200S go fast machine. I want to slow down a bit and enjoy the scenery. I live in the South Bay area of Northern CA. We have lots of freeways (superslabs), and lots of twisties as well. I have been a long distance rider on my 1993 BMW K1100LT, am wondering how the Bullet does for distance and speed? I have noticed a few upgrading or at least changing to a larger counter. When I get a chance I'll out in some pics of my new steed.
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WASHINGTON (WUSA) -- It's thought of as a "smoker's disease," but now more than half of all lung cancer diagnoses are in non-smokers. With 160,000 deaths a year, lung cancer remains by far America's top cancer killer.
Thursday morning, lung cancer survivor Joey Smith and LUNGevity Foundation President Andrea Stern Ferris shared some good news about the fight against this disease, and more on a special event Friday night.
See our interview with them above.
The Musical Celebration of Hope Gala happens Friday at 7 p.m. at the Andrew Mellon Auditorium at 1301 Constitution Avenue NW in D.C. Go here for more details: http://hopegala.lungevity.org/


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(Hull) -- Four different fire departments responded to a fire at the Hull City Offices on Saturday morning. Upon arrival, the Hull Fire Department found the structure was fully involved in fire. The building suffered extensive damage. The cause of the fire is undetermined at this time and the state fire marshal will be assisting the Hull Fire Department in conducting the investigation. It took two hours to bring the fire under control. Assisting the Hull Fire Department were the Sioux Center Fire and Ambulance, Orange City Fire Department, Rock Valley Fire Department and the Sioux County Sheriff's office.
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We are going live this weekend on ZCS 5.0.16.
Can I move an existing BES server's configuration from Exchange to a Zimbra/BES Connector configuration? If so, how? The instructions detail an install from scratch.
My current BES setup:
10 BB handheld users.
Windows Server 2003.
BES 4.1.60 (uses MS MAPI/CDO API 1.2.1)
Exchange 2000
Is there a procedure to "switch" the BES to use the ZCB without a complete reinstall?


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How To Dissect Into A 340 Engine - Engine AutopsyWritten by on December 1, 2000 Dissecting a dead 340
Any rebuild starts with tearing down the original engine. Maybe it's the 440 from your GTX; the one that hasn't been run in years and smoked like a hippie at a Dead concert when it did. It could be just a core picked up at the local junkyard that turned over with a breaker bar on the crank. But what's inside? Who knows? In this case, it's the 340 that came in the trunk of a '70 Dart, an original Swinger 340 four-speed. What was the history of this particular smallblock? Its secrets were lost as the car passed, unregistered, from owner to owner over the last ten years, until $750 landed it in our shed. Out of the trunk and on the stand, a careful postmortem of the engine will at least provide some clues on how it died and what it will take to bring it back to life.
While it's tempting to go in and re-engineer one of Chrysler's finest engines for even more power, because of the rarity and historical value of the factory 340 muscle cars, this one will be built as close to dead-nuts stock specs as possible. Resto can be righteous, and that can be reason enough to go stock. With the wide range of speculation, rumors, myths, and even lies that surround stock musclecar engines-especially the 340-we've always wanted to build one stock and put it to the dyno. The factory rated it at 275hp, the automotive press of 30 years ago stated that it felt more like 320, while the NHRA decreed 300 for the '70 340 in Stock Eliminator. Once we settle that debate, we'll dress it out with an aftermarket induction, a modern cam profile no lumpier than the stocker, and headers, just to see what it does.
We'll take a budget approach to the rebuild, cutting costs wherever possible by making use of serviceable parts and keeping the machining operations down to the necessary items. What we won't do is compromise on the items that relate to power production and reliability at high rpm. So the inspection becomes even more important, raising questions that have to be answered before going any further. Are those decks flat enough to hold the head gaskets? Do we install new valve guides? Does the crank get ground? Right now, we'll get inside for a look at what we've got and then decide.
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Our first test is to see if the crank turns over smoothly, which it does. A locked-up engine can be a real bear to tear down unless the problem is found and it's unlocked.An inspection of the plugs can be telling. The pure white insulator framed by a sooty shell on ours means lean running. A full rebuild of the carb with an eye to finding the source of the problem (bad hot-idle compensator?) will have to be done before it goes back on. Slimy oil can mean worn bores or rings, and warrants a close inspection of the valve guides.We begin the internal inspection by removing the valve covers to get at the rocker shafts. Fairly clean in here, but the engine is obviously no virgin, at least up top. Indicators of previous abuse include silicone on the gaskets and near the front rocker-shaft hold-down bolt, which was drilled and tapped from the factory's 5/16-inch fastener all the way to 7/16 inch-ouch! Also notice the incorrectly matched pairs of rockers: the right and left rockers mixed up on cylinder #1, two lefts on cylinder #3, and two rights on cylinder #7. Finding this kind of ham-fistedness means trouble. From here on in everything goes under the microscope.Next, the intake manifold comes off. Again, a fairly clean lifter valley, meaning excellent maintenance (yeah, right), or the engine's been apart in recent years.The hydraulic lifters come out next. If they're varnished below the lifter bores in the block, they won't come up. Spray penetrating oil on them and work them up and down to free them. If they're really gummed, lift them up until they get stuck, and remove them by pushing them in after the cam comes out. Our engine had a couple of individual lifters replaced along the way, as evidenced by the mismatched oil bands on these two.The thick blue Felpro PermaTorque gaskets mean the heads have been off at least once since the '80s, when these gaskets were introduced. They may have come off for a valve job, or maybe a full rebuild.A look at the valves is the first bad news. Both the intake and exhaust valves are well sunk in the seats. The valve recession is not uncommon with early non-unleaded heads running unleaded fuel, and is accelerated by high load or the lean running indicated by our plugs (anything that elevates the valve's running temperatures). This will have to be fixed, or the heads set aside and replaced, since there's no way the engine will make power with this kind of valve seat recession. Replace 'em or fix 'em-either way it's going to add significantly to the cost of our rebuild.After the deck surface is cleaned with a wire-brush cup, we check the head-gasket surface with a machinist's straight edge or a precision-ground bar and a set of feeler gauges. Small-block Mopars use a composition gasket, which is pretty forgiving, and the service manual allows .00075 inch multiplied by the span length in any direction, which may be too generous. These heads have clearly been surfaced before, as evidenced by the machining marks, and they pass our own criteria for this type of budget build at .004-inch lengthwise, and .002-inch across. The block's decks can be checked the same way.Next, the valve guides are checked using the service manual procedure, spacing the valve open about half with some 7/16 nuts behind on the stem (after removing the spring). With a dial indicator rigged to the valve's margin (edge), rock the valve back and fourth to check the side motion. The service manual allows up to .017 inch; ours showed .014 inch with the old valves, and dropped to .010 inch with new valves. The guides were good, but we'll replace the valves, since the margins are ground thin from too many valve jobs.
The factory guides are almost always shot on a tired engine like this; so why are ours OK? New inserts had been installed at some point prior (arrow), and they must have been good ones, since they've lasted.This is where it gets serious, back at the block. A check with a calibrated finger shows about .005-.007-inch taper in the bores, meaning the block will have to be bored. It's obvious that the engine had been gone through, but had it been bored? Replacement pistons are commonly (but not always) stamped with an oversize number, and we find the "03" stamped on these, indicating a +.030-inch block. A check with a dial caliper at the unworn portion of the bore above the rings confirmed the block was already at 4.070 inches. It's a shame they didn't go .020 inch over in the last build, which is a common overbore size for the 340, leaving +.040 as the next oversize, and possibly +.060 after that. While we surely can go .060 over this time, it would spell the last rebuild for this block. Though aftermarket pistons are commonly available at .060-over, the factory recommends +.040 as the maximum safe overbore. We'll wait and see if the bores will clean up at +.040-inch; it's going to be close.With anything under .010-inch taper in the bore (sometimes even more), the pistons will knock out without using a ridge reamer, which can gouge the top of the bore, spelling disaster-or a bigger overbore than you bargained for. After slipping a length of hose over the rod bolts to protect the crank, a brass drift is used on the rod's parting surface to drive the pistons out (a brass or aluminum tube over the rod bolt works even better). Banging on the end of the rod bolts, as some do, will often drive the bolt out before the pistons, which can cause a rod cap misalignment when the bolt is hammered back in place, requiring resizing the rods.The piston/rod assembly inspection begins with looking at the wear pattern in the bearings. This one shows a wear bias to the left, which likely means a slightly bent or misaligned rod.The same assembly shows the piston skirt wear is also biased to one side, but not horribly, confirming that there may be a slight misalignment in this rod which can easily be missed by the machine shop when the rods are reconditioned. These rods will have to be precision checked for alignment and resized before they go back in the engine. The rings are the cheapest cast iron rebuilder's specials, which tend to eat the bores at a rate of about .001 inch per 10,000 miles, indicating this 340 has probably done some 50,000-70,000 miles since 1976.Replacement bearings often carry key pieces of information on the back side, since most are marked with the date of manufacture and the size. These date to May 1976, and are .010 inch under. The major rebuild was done way back during the Bicentennial, when Jimmy Carter was a new face in Washington. It's likely that it was done years before the butchery at the top end of the engine, we hope by other hands, since the PermaTorque gaskets we found under the heads didn't exist when the bearings were new.Next, the front end. After the water pump, fuel pump, pulleys, and the damper are removed and shelved, the timing chain is found to be loose and floppy. However, it shows no sign of failure, being the tough double-roller type. Most non-HP original and replacement chains of this era used a nylon-coated cam gear, which eventually ended up coating the engine's internals with chunks of broken nylon. If a haggard nylon chain is found, the oil pump pickup will be packed with the remains and is best replaced.With the timing set off and the distributor's intermediate shaft removed, the camshaft retainer plate is unbolted and the cam withdrawn. It looks like the original cam was never changed. Here's what a worn-out cam looks like: The speckled dark spots on the lobes are where the surface of the cam has worn through the hardened layer, exposing the soft metal below. Remarkably, none of the lobes were wiped.
The journals on the crank look good, with no signs of scoring. The welded-up balance hole on the front counterweight (arrow), as well as some non-factory drillings elsewhere on the counterweights, indicates that the engine was balanced. The ground balance pads on the rods confirm this.The main bearings are the same vintage as the rods, and are also .010 inch under. The bearings show no unusual or uneven wear, indicating the crank is likely straight. We have a crank that's already 10/10, or ground down to its first undersize.From here we're basically stripped, with only a few minor items to remove to pick the block clean. The oil filter adapter, all of the oil gallery plugs, and all of the freeze plugs need to be removed. Use a fat punch at one side to knock one end in of the freeze plug, which will rock the plug over as shown. A pair of Channelock pliers pries the plug out.After we strip the block bare, we cart it over to Specialized Motor Service (SMS), where Jerry Goodale makes a precision measurement of the bores. Most are at .005-inch wear, with the worst being #8 with almost .008 inch. We want to try for a .040 inch over block, both for the thicker cylinder walls and to save at least one further overbore to the next size up of +.060 inch, the biggest practical overbore on a 340. Since the block is already at .030 over, taking it to +.040 means removing only .005 inch of material from each side of the bore at the unworn portion at the bottom of the bore, and having just over .001 of material thickness to work with at the most worn part of the cylinder at the top. "It's going to be close." Jerry said; "Load it in the CK-10 hone and we'll see if it'll clean up."Taking a worn block at +.030 inch to +.040 inch means that the boring operation can't be done because there's not enough material for a bore-and-finish hone. This is where experience pays off. Jerry plays that Sunnen honing machine like a fiddle, pulling the taper out of the bore and having it come square just as the top of the cylinder reaches the .040 overbore size we're shooting for. Opening a cylinder with .008 inch of taper only .010 inch doesn't leave much material to play with, but Jerry pulled it off.We brought our crank along to SMS and had Cameron check it with a micrometer. It measures between the high and low tolerances for a .010/.010 under crank, or on the split-which is where we would have had it ground to anyway if we went to the next undersize. The journals measure round and even across the bearing surface. We decided to not regrind, but instead, polish the journals and run it, saving the next undersize for a future rebuild, and the cost of a regrind in the bargain.


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It was working. It's in a VM (vmware player currently) and it had been working up till this weekend.
Checking /opt and found it was running out of space. Did a few things to releive it some, but that hasn't helped. Then noted the root partition is also very low on space. Will be working on fixing that too, but in interim no accounts or sending or receiving email. Note that all email being sent is either in drafts (web desktop) or in outbox (zimbra desktop).
So, is the low space on root preventing this?
Is there something specific I can do on root (other than give it more space, which I'm working on - may have to move it to a new VM) or is the expanding space the only way to fix it.
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It was a night of recognition in Kemper County for those who have made a difference in the community.
The Kemper County Chamber of Commerce and Kemper County Economic Development Authority co-hosted a special dinner to honor those who have stood out in the community this year. Awards were handed out for business of the year, industry of the year, and citizen of the year. That is in addition to the prestigious John C. Stennis award of merit.
Avon received the business of the year award. Prime Line Catfish was awarded industry of the year. DeKalb Police Chief Stephen Jackson was named citizen of the year. Finally, Mississippi Power received the John C. Stennis award of merit.
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I'm trying to migrate from an expired trial version to the OSS version, but zmbackup -f -a all fails with:
Error occurred: invalid license
I'm not sure just how long ago the trial version expired, but would like to revert to the OSS version for now (I'm still hoping to convince some customers to sign up for the network edition).
Is there any way to do a backup before I try installing the OSS version? There's a fair bit of my personal mail in there that I don't want to lose


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WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- Beginning next year, Abercrombie and Fitch will offer a wider variety of sizes, including plus sizes, in its women's clothing line.
Currently, the retailer does not carry women's sizes above a 10.
The shift comes as sales and profit margins took a dip. The company got slammed after comments from a 2006 interview resurfaced with CEO Mike Jeffries saying his clothes were for "cool" and "good-looking" people. He apologized.
Still, Abercrombie and Fitch would not provide details on the new sizes or when they will be available.


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The Incoming Wave Must Take Out a Walz, MN-CD1
[promoted from the diaries by haystack-good work in here eburke… more of these please folks?!] Barring a miracle (or unprecendented vote fraud) it would appear that the reign of Nancy "We Have to Pass the Bill to Find Out What's in the Bill" Pelosi will be washed out to sea on November 2nd by a wave of voter discontent with the far-left policies of the Pelosi-Reid-Obama cabal. | Read More »


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Hi guys,
I have two questions:
1) if i create an account for a user "A", and i want to create a user "B", is there a way i can "copy" the A user and only change some little things (rename it, and some other stuff) so that it be the user B? i think this could acelerate user creation when you have some things already setup.
2) If in a company there are departments, is there a way you can limit the address book so that a person that belongs to one group only can see the address book from his department?


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Sydney Bacon Williamson was born on April 15, 1865 in Lexington, Virginia, the son of VMI Professor Thomas H. Williamson. He was graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1884 and shortly thereafter began a distinguished career in Civil Engineering. Most notably, he served as Division Engineer of the Pacific Division of Panama Canal from 1907-1914. Williamson was responsible for wet and dry excavation of the Pedro Miguel and Miraflores locks; he also helped design and oversaw construction of the Pacific Terminal docks; and the water supply, sewers, roads and streets for the towns of the division including the city of Panama.
The bulk of the collection documents Williamson's engineering assignments in Panama, South America, and the United States, and his service on the Interoceanic Canal Board. The collection consists of the following series: Biographical and historical materials; Correspondence; Project and Planning Files; Engineering Drawings and Specifications; Reports, Papers and Speeches; Photographs; Printed Materials and Miscellaneous. The sizable group of material relating to the construction of the Panama Canal is of particular importance. Included are numerous photographs recording in detail the massive task of constructing the Pedro Miguel and Miraflores locks, as well as images of President William H. Taft's inspection visits. Many of these photographs are unpublished.


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Since it had been heralded as a "raunchier" version of Bridesmaids, I was pretty damn excited to see Bachelorette. I also love Isla Fisher and Lizzy Caplan. I will not get into how strongly I feel about Adam Scott and I being meant to be, because I don't want anyone to feel jealous about our obvious soulmate status.
As I'm not a movie critic, I'm not here to talk smack about the movie. Yes, I loathed it. Yes, it was far more crass than Bridesmaids (not in a good way), but it also lacked the necessary wit and humor to hold its own especially when compared to such a spectacular and hysterical movie from the year before. However, my disdain for Bachelorette aside, there were more than a few occasions where I laughed out loud because of the pop culture reference that were completely geared toward my generation. From My So-Called Life to Fast Times At Ridgemont High to Pretty in Pink and others, it was a delightful walk down memory lane of the 90′s and late 80′s.
Here are a few of the best references that, if you're in your 30′s or mid to late 20′s, you'll totally get and absolutely appreciate.
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Strike Up The Bands, as in college bands at college football games.
Maybe those channels are for the overflow games while the main channel will be in the 600's?
Or maybe the PAC 12 package is real and it will be a premium option. Hence in the 700s next to college sports premiums that already exist. Maybe with a mix channel?
Might as well shoot for the sky at this point.


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Tivoli's commitment to the midmarket
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When people think of Tivoli, they think of enterprise solutions. True, Tivoli rocks in large enterprises! :) However, we're also committed to midmarket solutions. Just check out our recent press release on our new Tivoli offerings announced at Pulse 2008.The main buzz right now is on IBM Tivoli Monitoring for ... [ + Read more ]
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Sacramento, CA (Sports Network) - O.J. Mayo had 24 points, 10 rebounds and
five assists to give Dallas a 117-112 overtime win against Sacramento on
Vince Carter scored 23 points and added five rebounds while Shawn Marion
posted 19 points with 10 rebounds for the Mavericks, who snapped a four-game
DeMarcus Cousins scored 29 points and added nine rebounds for the Kings, who
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Hi Everyone,
I know this is not related directly to Zimbra, but I thought some of you could give me a few hints.
So, Zimbra is installed and running. I have both the Admin + Webmail. I can send email using my ISP SMTP relay. But I can't receive...
-Running on Ubuntu
- Into the DMZ
- Using Custom DNS from DynDNS with my own domain name
- Added a MX record
The fact:
- I know that my ISP block port 25, which seems to be to issue there
- I google around to find that port 587 could (possibly) also be used
- I telnet localy to 587 and it seems to work
- I run a port scanning and 587 is not blocked by me ISP
The questions are:
- do I need to specify something to get my mail on port 587?
- Or I must absolutely use Mailhop Relay?
Help very appreciated, thanks to all.


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Pots de Creme
From the kitchen of The Family's Heidi Prahl
1¼ cups scalded Half and Half (really hot, not quite boiling)
1¼ cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
2 large egg yolks
2 tsp. vanilla
Sweetened whipped cream or whipped topping
Heat ½ & ½ in a small pan over moderate heat until it almost comes to a boil. (or microwave for 2 minutes)
Using the low setting on a blender or food processor, combine the egg, chocolate chips and vanilla just to chop the chocolate and mix egg yolk.
Slowly pour in the ½ & ½ in a steady stream (the hot milk will cook the egg and melt the chocolate).
Blend 1 minute, until smooth. (it will be frothy)
Pour into 4- 6 pot de creme or other small cups, ramekins or tea cups. Chill at least 3 hours or over night.
Top with whipped cream just before serving.
Note: Vanilla can be replaced with 1 tsp. of espresso powder or 3 Tblsp. of brandy.


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Ned Yost media session: July 7
Prior to Thursday's 7:10 contest vs. the Detroit Tigers at Kauffman Stadium, Royals manager Ned Yost spoke with media about left fielder Alex Gordon's improvements throughout the season. The skipper explained that Gordon's adjustments on his swing during the off season have contributed to his approach at the plate, keeping his approach much more relaxed and his swing spending more time in the strike zone. The Royals manager has also been a big supporter of the "Final Vote for Gordon" social media campaign.
"I think Alex Gordon is extremely deserving," Yost said. "More than anything I think it's an opportunity to do something special with our fan base."
Yost explained that the campaign provides positive incentives by connecting the fans with the Royals organization. With combined efforts during the social media campaign, the fans and the team build a relationship to make something happen. With rookie right-hander Aaron Crow selected as an American League All-Star Game representative, Yost boasts about his confidence in Crow.
"We have taken Aaron Crow up until this point and inserted him in points of the game against the toughest hitters that the opposition has…and he has handled it superbly," Yost said.
It was announced by Yost that catcher Jason Kendall, who has been on the 60-day disabled list due to right shoulder surgery, has suffered another tear in his right shoulder and is scheduled for surgery next Wednesday, July 13. Kendall is out for all of 2011.


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MIAMI, FL -- For nearly a decade, 61-year-old Sharron "Kay" Thornton was blind.
Last year, the Mississippi woman became the first American to give up a tooth for an eye.
Dr. Victor Perez at the University of Miami's Bascom Palmer Eye Institute extracted Thornton's tooth, put it in her eye and used the tooth to anchor a prosthetic lens, which gave her back her vision.
She couldn't believe what she saw later.
In a denial letter from Humana Insurance, the company wrote "medical records did not show that the eye surgery....was medically necessary and reasonable."
When the TODAY show contacted Humana to ask them how it was possible that giving a blind person their sight back was not medically necessary and reasonable, they said they'd investigate.
Humana later said, in part, it "...will pay the outstanding physician claim."
But without a standard among insurance companies, Thornton worries that other patients waiting for this unique surgery may also be refused coverage.
"They can't do it," she said. "They can't afford to do it and if they have insurance [companies] that are saying 'This is cosmetic surgery or experimental surgery and we're not going to pay for it,' they're not going to have it done. They will stay blind for the rest of their lives."
Thornton said she thought she would never see again. She lost her sight, hair, nails and much of her skin when she developed a severe skin disorder called Stevens-Johnson syndrome in 2000.
Nowadays, she said, "I feel wonderful."
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In keeping with the DoDEA mission to "provide an exemplary education that inspires and prepares all our students for success in a dynamic, global environment", the DoDEA Curriculum Content Standards and the Community Strategic Plan (CSP) provide the framework for academic excellence. Our curriculum translates the standards in to a sequenced series of statements about what students will learn through their school experiences.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — It's a way of buttering up LeBron James. The NBA star is returning to the Cleveland Cavaliers and some of the ecstatic fans want to honor James — in butter.
The American Dairy Association Mideast is running a contest for the most creative name for the butter cow and calf sculpture at the Ohio State Fair.
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Natural ingredients are going to be gentler on your animal's body when compared to synthetic chemical ingredients or medications. The proper natural constituents are able to provide the body with what it needs to heal and get better. This is in direct contrast to synthetic ingredients or medications that can be especially hard on the liver and kidneys. Medications are also designed to have a symptom suppressing action in line with the principles of allopathic medine which is to create a diagnoses and then use drugs to suppress symptoms. Using this course of action can never result in true healing and is not meant to.
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|Extension Corner
|Written by Linda Langelo, Golden Plains Area Extension
New Year's Resolution: Change your lawn care practices
With the extreme drought in 2012, which is continuing into 2013, we need to change our previous practices. In 2013, it is predicted that we will stay in a persistent drought.
Do any of us know how long we can depend on the underground water source: the Ogallala Aquifer? Some predictions state the Ogallala Aquifer will last until 2050 while others say 2035. For every nine gallons we use from the Ogallala Aquifer, we only replace one.
What has been replaced in 2012? Do we understand that there is little to no subsoil moisture? In parts of Nebraska and Colorado, tests have discovered that we need to go to a depth of 3-8 feet to subsoil moisture.
What does this mean for our lawn practices? Let me cite one example from the City of Aurora Water Department. Their water restrictions limit watering the garden and grass to three days a week year-round. They are also reminding people that you should not water your grass until May. In fact, waiting until that time keeps the grass dormant and helps build deeper root systems.
What can you do to test your lawn to see if it needs to be watered? Before watering your lawn, I would take a screwdriver and poke it into the soil. If the screwdriver can be pushed easily into the soil and can be pushed where the handle of the screwdriver is at ground level, do not water your grass.
On the other hand, if you cannot push the screwdriver even an inch into the soil, then your grass needs to be watered. If the screwdriver can be pushed even halfway into the soil easily, your grass still does not need to be watered.
Another indicator to test whether your lawn needs to be watered is by walking across the lawn and examining what happens with your footprints. If your footprints remain after several minutes, your lawn needs to be watered. If your footprints disappear immediately, the grass is well-watered.
In order to practice the best lawn care, you must understand what type of soil you have that is supporting your grass. If you have sandy soil, your grass will need to be watered more than the same grass which is growing in clay or loam soil.
Loamy-clay soils can be irrigated less frequently. They do require larger quantities of water, according to Colorado State University turf specialist Tony Koski and horticulture agent Skinner.
In addition, Koski and Skinner recommend not applying all the water in a short period of time. It is more effective to apply only a portion of the water by switching stations to allow time before returning to that station for the water to soak into the soil.
Water between the hours of 10 p.m. and midnight or 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. Studies show that watering at night does not encourage disease development.
Once you understand the soil you have, the next step is to understand the type of grass you have. If you have either a buffalo grass or a blue grama turf, these grasses can stay green without watering for weeks. I would recommend checking into some of the newer cultivars of buffalo grass, which have a greener look. You could save not only on water but on fertilizer as well.
If you have either a ryegrass or bluegrass turf, you may have to apply 2.25 inches of water a week in dry weather. Lastly, if you have a tall fescue lawn, this would be the same amount of water per week as a bluegrass lawn to keep it healthy.
Keeping a lawn healthy can be a full-time job. I have always considered turf to be a high maintenance crop. Like any other plant, what you put into it is a reflection of what you get out of it. In the teamwork between humans and plants, proper timing on fertilization and irrigation will give you a better looking and healthier turf that is disease- and insect-free.
Even though in Phillips County we are not limited to a three-day watering schedule all year-round, I would recommend practicing this for the sake of our future and in consideration of others, like our children and grandchildren.
If you are interested in more information on irrigating your lawn, check out Colorado State University Extension Fact Sheet number 7.239 titled: "Operating and Maintaining a Home Irrigation System." Go online to CSU Extension Fact Sheets and Publications at www.ext.colostate.edu.


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GERMANTOWN, Md. (WUSA) -- Maryland State Police say a three-car accident left some with serious injuries.
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Shale Gas Fracking Getting Improved Reviews
Drilling for natural gas is fracturing many communities. But a recent study by the University of Buffalo, NY is concluding that most major environmental events tied to "fracking" can be nearly mitigated by company action.
It all centers on shale gas and the chemicals used to ply loose the commodity that is embedded in rocks and deep underground. While the industry says that such drilling methods are safe and that they present no danger to the public, environmentalist and community activists counter that the process is destroying their drinking water. Just how this issue is resolved will have huge implications on the country's energy picture -- one estimated to see shale gas comprise 46 percent of all natural gas production by 2035.
"This study demonstrates that the odds of non-major environmental events and the much smaller odds of major environmental events are being reduced even further by enhanced regulation and improved industry practice," says the Buffalo study, which is peer-reviewed and which includes researchers from the University of Wyoming and Penn State University.
Simply, the the report's authors looked at about 3,000 violations from 4,000 natural gas wells processed by Pennsylvania's regulators in a three year time period ending in August 2011. About 62 percent of those violations were administrative while 38 percent were environmental issues.
About 25 of those were classified as major ecological events, meaning there was serious contamination of local water supplies or major land spills. In all but six cases, the resulting environmental impacts have been addressed, say the authors. Lead author, Tim Considine who teaches economics at the University of Wyoming, says that the state regulatory construct is working and that the number incidents is declining each year.
Importantly, the federal government is saying that it, too, has a role in the oversight of the shale gas industry. Among the proposals outstanding are ones to mandate drillers to divulge the chemicals they are using to frack as well as another to force them to capture -- and potentially sell -- their methane releases, which are considered the most potent of all greenhouse gases. All told, 12 states have rules on their books that require shale gas producers to report the chemicals they are using to frack; 206 companies are complying.
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Nowhere is that process more contentious than in the Marcellus Shale. As much as 500 trillion cubic feet of natural gas is estimated in the area, which stretches from New York and Pennsylvania and into Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio.
New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo, for instance, signed an executive order about a year-and-a-half ago banning fracking until that state completes its own investigation into those methods. The state is now in the process of lifting that moratorium and some expect drilling to proceed in 2013. Pennsylvania, meanwhile, has been at the center of acrimony over fracking, prompting major litigation there as well as regulatory investigations.
"Gas drilling in Pennsylvania has skyrocketed in recent years," says Earth Justice. "And along with the gas rush have come disastrous industrial accidents and poisoned drinking water -- earning the state a reputation in the region for gas development gone wrong."
But a high-powered cast of energy experts recently advised the U.S. Department of Energy that with more transparency, producers might better connect with the communities in which they are located. It is also saying that the industry must keep with "best practices" to always improve.
The American Petroleum Institute is emphasizing its safety record, noting that hundreds of thousands of wells have been drilled using hydraulic fracturing and that there are few accidents -- claims that are generally backed up by two additional studies from the University of Texas and Stanford University. The institute is also citing a recent MIT study that shows that the natural gas can supply all of this country's resources for 100 years from shale gas.
"When we go out there and do a site, we cordoned off the whole area," says Scott Rotruck, vice president of Chesapeake Energy. "Nothing gets out." The process is taking place a mile-and-a-half below the earth's surface, he adds, noting that current methods typically capture 20 percent of the available shale-gas. "So, the opportunity for innovation is limitless," if only they are allowed to drill.
The community concerns are valid and the pressures they apply are working to improve industry standards. But the choice, for now, is to find better and safer ways to explore -- not to ban drilling for shale gas.
EnergyBiz Insider is the Winner of the 2011 Online Column category awarded by Media Industry News, MIN. Ken Silverstein has also been named one of the Top Economics Journalists by Wall Street Economists.
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Fracking doesn't make sense from the get go!
Starting with the average of 1.5 million gallons of water per well (and as much as 4 million gallons of water per well) fracking just doesn't make sense!
The EROEI (energy return on energy invested) factor just isn't high enough for it to make sense for us to take the risks that fracking involves!
Natural gas, as a whole, only has a EROEI of between 2 and 4. Meaning that for every btu invested, we can expect to get between 2 and 4 btus back out.
When you factor in the additional energy inputs required in fracking, such as trucking those 1.5 + million gallons of water to the well, manufacturing the 10,000 gallons of fracking chemicals and delivering them to the well, along with the tons of sand, as well as powering the giant diesel pumps that provide the pressure to fracture the formation, then the energy required to recapture as much of the used fracking fluid (which is now considered a hazadous waste) back up the hole, then truck it to a recycling center, then the energy to recycle the water back out of this stuff, that EROI figure starts to look pretty dimunative! If you don't believe me, think about the amount of energy that you just used to read that run on sentence!
Factor in the increased seismic activity associated with fracking and the danger of water contamination (4000 violations in 3 years???) and it just doesn't make sense!
Bob "The Clean Energy Guy" Mitchell
Fracking costs
You bring up very interesting points which I would like to explore a bit deeper.
For example: to drill one well,
Assuming 1,500,000 gals water needing to be brought in, assuming 9,000 gal tankers with 400 gals diesel fuel capacity using all there fuel to deliver and return, that would be 167 tankers and use 9,280 million BTUs.
10,000 gals chemicals could require 10,000 BTU's per gal to produce? I do not have a good number, do you? which would be 100 million BTUs.
If the well produced 20 million cubic feet (again don't know if that's a good number for say 1 year (is this a good time period) do you have a better number?) tht would be 21,000 BTUs assuming all is Natural gas.
So, the energy out / energy in in this very simplified analysis is 21000 / 9380 or ~ 2.2 which agrees with your range. Would you say this is true? I would like to see what numbers you would use and what other significant energy items you would include.
Because, if I get more than 20 million cubic feet from a well and if I get propane and other "wet" products, the BTU yield goes up and the ratio goes up. Do you agree that the cost benefit improves?


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I am a doing my masters in Health Systems. Took my undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from India and worked for around 3 years in IT industry in India. I now work as a GRA with Emory Health Care. I enjoy reading and also like to learn about history and other cultures. I also enjoy music.
My expectation about the class is that I would be able to learn a lot through the interactive sessions. Being an international student I can understand the systems and practices followed in the US and also in other countries through these interactions.
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An extremely general observation would be that, assuming this is a equiractangular projection, your polar land masses will be visually stretched by the projection, which doesn't seem to happening here. It might also be more useful to label latitude zones as tropical, subtropical, temperate and polar as very simplified climate zones. The world also seems to have most of its habitable land surface in the tropical to subtropical zones. Another general question would be the size of the planet in question.
After those general observations, we head to the continent where you have some serious river issues, with two that seem to go from sea to sea. Also there is a river that hooks around some hills after heading for one ocean, suggesting a downward terrain which then hooks all the way back to another body of water, suggesting a pretty major shift in terrain that would require some explanation we aren't seeing in the map. And even appears a bit counterintuitive when compared to the height indicators we're provided.
Such a land sparse world would have (potentially) very simple ocean currents with the arctic zones being very isolated from warmer currents, not sure of all the implications so many straight currents might have.
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First tanks for taking the time to even looking at this request. I am new to, literally anything published.
Project Scope: I have a basic drawing of what I would like but, I would like a better map This would be a large scale project.
Setting: Medieval times, but parallel world that has nothing to do with ours.
Design Concept: I'm trying to get maps of each city and castle that I have included in the world map and I can provide descriptions for each city and castle.
Style: Black and white maps are what I was thinking, nothing too complicated, however if I get some master map maker that is willing to do this for the measly rate I'm offering I won't turn you down. After a quick Google search I have an idea of what I'm looking for:
Number of maps: One over-wold map.
Three Castles, 8 cities, 4 house type things that aren't really describable without large amounts of detail.
Copyright/Payment: I'm not sure how this would work, I don't expect to be finished with this book for several years, and I wouldn't mind to give you a commission around 5% for the first few years after I publish (open to debate). However I need permission to show this map to a verity of people and to reproduce the map as needed.
Deadline: I have none.
Thank you, from what I've seen this is a wonderful community of great map makers.
I will respond to any questions here or via email as soon as I am able.