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Clerkenwell, located right in the heart of London, plays host to the city's best architectural, design, media and technology firms and the quirky bars and classy restaurants that set up shop to cater for them. This rental apartment is bright and contemporary throughout, very central yet quietly located, the epitome of modern city living - perfect for a business traveller needing easy access to the City or West End or as a wonderfully convenient, yet quietly located, vacation home.
Living & Eating
Overlooking a quiet courtyard, clean lines and warm wooden flooring characterise the living space, lending it a spacious and airy feel. A smart sofa and comfortable armchair give you ample relaxation room and the chic, modern kitchen is fully equipped with everything you need to make a good meal at the end of a busy day. There is a well-designed coffee table, which thanks to a simple handle mechanism, can also become a dining table to seat four. A generous balcony with table and chairs gives you your own private outdoor space in which to relax.
Bedrooms & Bathrooms
The bedroom is a tranquil spot, featuring a double bed (5ft wide) and generous fitted wardrobes. A spacious, sleek, modern fitted bathroom has a rain shower over the bath, WC, and washbasin.
Access & Living
This apartment faces away from the street, on the second floor with access via lift or stairs.Once inside, this apartment is arranged across one level.
My name is Guy and and I, along with my small dedicated team based in Chelsea, London, manage a collection of handpicked London homes.
We've been doing this since 2009 and have accommodated many thousands of happy guests in my portfolio of 120+ central London houses and apartments.
Guy van der Westhuizen purchased this apartment in 2012
- super-fast enquiry response time, 7 days a week
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- professional cleaning and home preparation by our team of dedicated housekeepers
- 5* hotel standard linen and towels and sundries
- 7 day/week maintenance support
We stayed in the Clerkenwell apartment for 16 nights and were very happy with it. It is clean, modern, well-appointed and the location is very good. The balcony didn't get much use due to the weather, but it would be lovely to use more.
The location is great. We were able to walk almost everywhere from Spitalfields Market in the east end, all the major attractions in the very center of London, Regents Park, Hyde Park, and just about everywhere else. I will admit we like to see the city by foot though. It was easy to get to 2 different Underground stations which I used to commute to work daily.
I would stay here again.
My wife and I had a very comfortable 10-night stay in the flat over the Christmas holiday break. It is small but very comfortable, well designed and very well built. While the small street it is quiet since it's an office area, it is safe and maybe 5 minutes walk from the very cool and useful Exmouth market. Great choices there: Gail's bakery, Caravan for coffee and breakfast, the Wilmington gastropub, etc.. While you can walk to the Farringden and Chancey Lane tube stops, the #19 and #38 buses run very very frequently along Rosebery Avenue and connect to town and the tube. Was easy to explore East London as well.
We appreciated the well equipped kitchen and washing machine. All appliances and bath fittings are top quality. While some Americans might not be used to the European style appliances and perhaps the relatively low pressure shower head, it all works well and the inside temperature was very comfortable given the underfloor heating system.
This small and well-appointed flat gave us a cosy retreat from our London explorations, and was even better than we expected. Ivy Lettings and the responsive staff took good care of us, from the initial enquiry until we left.
The bed was comfortable, with good pillows; lighting was well done, and the place was very clean and well put together.
The flat overlooks a yard off a quiet street. The terrace gets some sun and is a good spot for breakfast or tea.
Transportation by tube and bus is within easy reach.
We had great meals at Hix and St. John's, both nearby.
Yes, we'd recommend this rental and hope to return there the next time.
I was very pleased with the rental. Very clean, well appointed. The only trouble was it was very noisy in the early hours (3am) over the weekends. Otherwise, I was very happy with the space and the overall service I have received from Ivy Lettings has been superior. Cheers!
The apartment is on a quiet street, six or seven minutes' walk from both Farringdon and Chancery Lane Underground stations and within two or three minutes of bus stops with routes all over Central London.
Clerkenwell oozes passion and creativity and is one of the most historically and culturally rich pockets of the great metropolis. The warehouses which sprung up during the industrial revolution have been converted into chic design and architecture firms, trendy bars, gastropubs and restaurants. The area is a hit with foodies: Hix Oyster and Chop House is a favourite, Granger and Co for brunch, Ye Olde Mitre for real ale, Modern Pantry for dinner. Restaurants are plentiful on your doorstep - for those who simply cannot get enough of eating out, here are some more great finds: Moro on Exmouth Market is always a great night out, or why not head to the first ever gastropub, The Eagle on the Farringdon Road? Those searching for a funky cocktail bar will be very happy to find The Zetter Townhouse within a 5 minute walk of their new home. With a jazzy cocktail bar and equally good restaurant, many a fun evening can be spent here!
London's Legal District is a 10 minute wander away and is definitely worth a visit, absorbing its architectual, historical and literary significance as you go. For those in need of some retail therapy or seeking the West End's theatres, cinemas and restaurants, Oxford Street, Covent Garden and Leicester Square are all within easy walking distance or a quick tube or bus ride away, as is the British Museum, the Barbican Centre and St Paul's Cathedral.
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Orioles Prospect - Brandon Waring
May 3, 2010 10:01 AM ET
Waring had already had a monster year at Frederick, batting .273 in 128 games with 26 home runs, 35 doubles and 90 RBIs. He set career highs in every offensive category, and struck out 30 less times than he had the year before, despite stepping to the plate 32 more times. Acquired from the Cincinnati Reds in December of 2008, Waring was named the Carolina League Most Valuable Player in his first season in the Orioles organization.
Waring was promoted to Bowie on Sept. 1, and was slated to bat fifth in the Baysox lineup. He wasted little time making an impression on his new fans, drilling a two-out, two-run double to center field in his first plate appearance. He followed the double with a three-run homerun in the fifth inning to drive in five of Baysox six runs in his first game at the Double-A level.
After leading all Orioles Minor Leaguers in home runs (27) and RBIs (96) last season, Baseball America named Waring the 18th best prospect in the Orioles system. The publication rated him the best power hitting prospect in the organization and stated, "Waring's raw power is well above-average and he can drive the ball out of the ballpark in any direction."
So far in 2010, Waring has been off to a great start for the Baysox. Playing almost every day at third base, Waring has only committed one error in the field through his first 23 games. He has also been a force in the middle of the lineup, and is tied for the team lead with five home runs through May 2.
If Waring continues his solid defensive play and continues to hit balls out of the ballpark, he could have a terrific opportunity to make the Major League club in the near future. Orioles third baseman Miguel Tejada's contract expires after the season, and either Waring or former Baysox slugger Josh Bell are the favorites to succeed him at Baltimore's hot corner.
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Date of Stay: March, 2013
Very pretty campground with lots of palms and oaks with Spanish moss hanging. Our particular site had no trees and was crushed rock, so it was not the nicest site we've ever had, but our motorhome is 38' and wouldn't fit on some of the nicer, treed, grassy sites. But other than that we really enjoyed staying here. The Wi-Fi worked great and the laundry room was clean. There is a dog park right next door which is great. There are many things to walk to from this campground. Staff is very friendly and helpful.
Date of Stay: February, 2013
We absolutely loved this campground. It is a lovely, wooded campground in the middle of the city. It is clean and has adorable cabins, a great playground and even the dog park has really nice agility equipment. It was too cool to use the pool area but it looked really nice. The staff is friendly and busy all the time keeping the campground looking it's best. The Wi-Fi was excellent also. We'll be back for sure.
Date of Stay: July, 2012
We camped here for 2 nights. We were hoping for a waterfront lot but there are none. We did get a wonderful view of the river though. The waterfront is actually too hilly to camp on, but we did walk along there and it's nice and shady. We didn't go to the beach area but it was quite busy and looked very nice. There are 2 lifeguards there at all times. The only negative was the scarcity of shade trees.
Date of Stay: July, 2012
We've camped here several times and love the shady, wooded campsites. The beach is clean and sandy and the lake is great for fishing. They often have bands playing at the pavilion on Saturdays and they have a playground and miniature golf for the kids. Internet is only available at the pavilion area. The only negative is that they charge you $14 to make reservations (this is not refunded).
Date of Stay: February, 2012
We stayed here for 2 weeks and loved every minute of it. The park is well-maintained and clean. The staff are all very friendly and helpful. We were travelling with our dogs and loved the off-leash dog area and the walking path around the perimeter of the campground. I can't comment on the internet because we didn't use it. There is some great shopping nearby. We'll definitely be staying here again if we're ever lucky enough to return to California. We paid the weekly rate so the price reflects that.


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KINGSPORT, Tenn. - A man was rushed to the hospital Friday morning after his Jeep hit a guardrail and rolled on I-81.
Just after 10 Friday morning Kingsport police told us the Jeep was traveling south in Interstate 81 when it hit the guard rail, flipped, and landed next to a tree in the embankment.
Officer Cliff Ferguson believes the driver may have been using an electronic device at the time but police are still investigating the cause. We're told the driver was taken to Holston Valley Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries.


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Posted by Richard Fichera on October 23, 2011
I just spent several days at Dell World, and came away with the impression of a company that is really trying to change its image. Old Dell was boxes, discounts and low cost supply chain. New Dell is applications, solution, cloud (now there's a surprise!) and investments in software and integration. OK, good image, but what's the reality? All in all, I think they are telling the truth about their intentions, and their investments continue to be aligned with these intentions.
As I wrote about a year ago, Dell seems to be intent on climbing up the enterprise food chain. It's investment in several major acquisitions, including Perot Systems for services and a string of advanced storage, network and virtual infrastructure solution providers has kept the momentum going, and the products have been following to market. At the same time I see solid signs of continued investment in underlying hardware, and their status as he #1 x86 server vendor in N. America and #2 World-Wide remains an indication of their ongoing success in their traditional niches. While Dell is not a household name in vertical solutions, they have competent offerings in health care, education and trading, and several of the initiatives I mentioned last year are definitely further along and more mature, including continued refinement of their VIS offerings and deep integration of their much-improved DRAC systems management software into mainstream management consoles from VMware and Microsoft.
Posted by Richard Fichera on October 4, 2011
In the good old days, computer industry trade shows were bigger than life events – booths with barkers and actors, ice cream and espresso bars and games in the booth, magic acts and surging crowds gawking at technology. In recent years, they have for the most part become sad shadows of their former selves. The great SHOWS are gone, replaced with button-down vertical and regional events where you are lucky to get a pen or a miniature candy bar for your troubles.
Enter Oracle OpenWorld. Mix 45,000 people, hundreds of exhibitors, one of the world's largest software and systems company looking to make an impression, and you have the new generation of technology extravaganza. The scale is extravagant, taking up the entire Moscone Center complex (N, S and W) along with a couple of hotel venues, closing off a block of a major San Francisco street for a week, and throwing a little evening party for 20 or 30 thousand people.
But mixed with the hoopla, which included wheel of fortune giveaways that had hundreds of people snaking around the already crowded exhibition floor in serpentine lines, mini golf and whack-a-mole-games in the exhibit booths along with the aforementioned espresso and ice cream stands, there was genuine content and the public face of some significant trends. So far, after 24 hours, some major messages come through loud and clear:
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In the IaaS market the open source torch has officially been passed from Eucalyptus to OpenStack, a community effort that is showing strong momentum in both vendor participation and end user interest. But now it needs to start showing staying power, and that's just what I expect to see at this week's OpenStack Design Summit in Boston. What started as an effort to leverage the open community to help advance the technologies started by Rackspace and NASA has now turned into a vibrant community advancing IaaS technologies at a rapid pace. What it was lacking up until this summer was solid go-to-market momentum. But now:


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We're number… 15?
Kevin Carmichael checks one of the Harper government's favourite rallying cries.
While a valid bragging point in the aftermath of the financial crisis, Canada no longer is an economic standout among its peers. The International Monetary Fund identifies 35 countries as "advanced economies," ranging from Australia to the United States. According to the IMF, Canada's gross domestic product will expand by a little less than 2 per cent in 2013. That bests only European economies coping with the recession in the euro zone. Australia, Estonia, Hong Kong, Iceland, Israel, South Korea, Malta, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, the Slovak Republic, Sweden, Taiwan, and the U.S. all are forecast by the IMF to outpace Canada next year…
Mr. Flaherty can accurately say that Canada's growth is projected to be strong compared to a group of recessionary European countries. He can no longer accurately put on positive spin on Canada's mediocre economic performance by seeking out favourable international comparisons. At best, Canada is in the middle of the pack.


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Specs are in my signature. Let me know what you guys think :biggrin:
I want them rear red bumper cover caps you got!! Thats the only chrome left on my truck except lug nuts, center caps and fender flare hardware. I dont think I can put them on my bumper though with the backup sensors.. Nice truck by the way dont forget to chime in on the Red truck thread..
I just had them installed about a week ago. I got them from autopartswharehouse.com, I just looked up the end caps for your model and embedded it in the link. Unfortunately they don't have the passenger side primered and you can only get chrome. When I bought them they had both sides primered for $60 each, and it looks as if the price went up significantly. I had my local shop fill the backup sensor holes with a weld and ground down then painted my body color. Try looking on craigslist for people selling the rear bumper ends and I'm sure you'll find something, or possibly eBay.
Thanks for the compliment and good luck!
Good looking truck. What kind of mud flaps are those? The look like the fit perfectly plus they stick out quite a ways and provide some good coverage. The ones I have do not do such a good job and have been looking for some much better ones.
When I bought the truck I had the dealer install them for free. Theyre the custom plastic molded ones which I think are a little expensive, but I had them throw in those, rustproofing, and something else ( I can't think of it right now) for free as part of the deal.
Well, they look good and like they do a good job. Thanks!
They look like they might be the same as mine which are "Weather-Tech No-Drill Mudflaps"
The are quite easy to put on or take off as well.
Thanks...I'll take a look. I appreciate it!
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Those are nice...I'm going to order.
:glasses: Sweet ride and great pics,,, I have always liked red trucks,,, hmm and black/white /silver maybe just trucks in general ... but yours would catch my eye quick that's a for sure......
Not sure if you have fender flares or not but you need to make sure you order the proper ones or they won't fit right.
I am considering taking mine off and painting them to match the body this weekend. Will see how I make out on the tailgate latch first.
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Cisco MC16E Universal Broadband Router Line Card
The Cisco® MC16E 8-MHz Universal Broadband Router line card allows the Cisco uBR7246VXR to support European Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications (EuroDOCSIS) (Figure 1). The card enables cable operators worldwide that use 8-MHz channel plans and want greater frequency options for the return-path spectrum to optimize their EuroDOCSIS networks. The Cisco MC16E supports the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) J.83 Annex A standard. The card is EuroDOCSIS 1.1-qualified.
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Cisco MC16E Line Card
The Cisco MC16E is an example of the attention Cisco Systems® gives to worldwide cable markets and to customers outside the United States. With this card, Cisco offers another choice for data-over-cable standards, where cable operators can offer data and video services in EuroDOCSIS environments to standards-based, low-cost cable modems and set-top boxes. The Cisco MC16E 8-MHz line card builds on the DOCSIS standard, adding support at the physical layer (PHY) for Phase Alternating Line (PAL) and Systemme Electronique Couleur Avec Memoire (SECAM) channel plans. The Cisco MC16E offers a similar port configuration to the Cisco MC16C line card, with one downstream and six upstream ports. The card differs, however, from the Cisco MC16C card by offering a greater upstream spectrum range of 5 to 65 MHz and an increased downstream channel width of 8 MHz.
Other Cisco cable line cards that support EuroDOCSIS include the Cisco 5x20U and 5x20 Broadband Processing Engine for the Cisco uBR10012, and the Cisco uBR7200 Series MC28U, MC16U, MC28X, and MC16X Broadband Processing Engine for the Cisco uBR7246VXR. For more information on these products, refer to their respective data sheets.
Table 1 Features and Benefits
|Provides 5- to 65-MHz frequency range on the upstream ports, offering an additional 23 MHz of spectrum for return-path service
|Translates the volume economies of DOCSIS customer premises equipment (CPE)set-top boxes and cable modemsinto cable markets with 8-MHz channel plans
|Gives cable plants running Annex A more efficient use of their available plant spectrum
|Provides IF output compliant with European upconverters (36.125 MHz); interoperates with existing 8-MHz upconverters
|Software is upgradable to DOCSIS 1.1
|Baseline privacy interface (BPI) and extensions to BPI (BPI+) provide secure link-layer communication over a shared hybrid fiber-coax (HFC) cable physical medium
|Supports all DOCSIS and EuroDOCSIS-required Management Information Bases (MIBs)
Technical Specifications
Downstream PHY
Table 2 Downstream PHY Values
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The following parameters are supported and transmitted to the cable modems by the CMTS:
- Symbol rates of 160, 320, 640, 1280, and 2560 ksym/sec
- Modulation: Quaternary phase shift keying (QPSK) and 16 QAM
- Upstream frequency range: 5 to 65 MHz, edge-to-edge
- FEC length (T = 0 to 10)
- Calibrated and widely adjustable upstream voltage level
- Total input power: less than 35 dBmV
- Operating power range: bursts within ±6 dB of commanded level
- RF performance stable to ±1.5 dB across -5 to 50°C
- RF spurs less than 5 mV on all inputs and output
Table 3 Upstream PHY Values
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12 Tips To Really Enjoy The Waste Mangagment Phoenix Open
So it's no secret that the WM Open will be busy! And if this is your first, second or 7th time here there is always something new.
Read below for some tips and tricks submitted by fans! Trust us, it's worth the read! Enjoy!
- If you want to get into 16...get there early (and stay late)....beeline it to 16 when you get there and get in the "stadium"
- PGA Tour banned caddy races, but 16 will still deliver.
- Other cool viewing spots (for golf): 17 (drivable par 4), sitting behind 18 tee (watching em bomb it over the water.) The practice range and putting green (if you want to get "up close and personal")
- Cool viewing spots (for people watching): 16, behind 18 green (lots of "walk thru traffic"), Birds Nest
- Best most coveted badges: Greenskeeper and VIP Birds Nest tix. How you get em...know someone who knows someone.
- Regarding the big expo tent at the entrance.... stop and give the exhibitors a minute of your time..they paid $10,000 for a 10x10 booth so humor them and at least act like you are interested.
- Things To Bring: sunscreen, shades, a lid, beer money.
- Phones are allowed, must be on vibrate and no photos are allowed.
- Wednesday = Pro Am day so you can see some celebs tee it up in the ProAm
- MUST DO: Hire a car, take a cab etc so you can enjoy it! A DUI is not worth it. Have a blast, but be safe!!
- Pre/post Tournament Viewing Days: tee it up at a Troon facility like Kierland, Talking Stick, Troon North, Phoenician.
- Dress for success: heels are welcome (and encouraged) if you are of the female gender. Men anything goes: Football jerseys, Ricky Fowler look a like unis are cool, bright colors, even knickers are sighted frequently. But Sat is the green out so wear green...whatever.


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RootsMagic 220.127.116.11 has been released.
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Planes to Venezuela: Come again?
Saturday, January 14, 2006
From today's International Herald Tribune:
The United States has refused to give Spain permission to sell military aircraft containing U.S. technology to Venezuela. Articulating U.S. opposition to the deal, embassy officials in Madrid said that the sale amounted to support for an oppressive regime that threatened to spread instability across parts of Latin America.
"Despite being democratically elected, the government of President Hugo Chávez has systematically undermined democratic institutions, pressured and harassed independent media and the political opposition and grown progressively more autocratic," the embassy said in a statement.
Wow, if you hadn't told me, changed C-h-a-v-e-z to B-u-s-h, I would have thought we were describing the current state of American democracy.


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Leak at mast wiring deck penetration
Yesterday, it rained really hard here. Really, really hard. When I visited my boat, I noticed a damp spot on the settee, and after removing some of the headliner, traced the leak to the hole where the mast wiring comes through the deck (it's a deck stepped mast). Unfortunately, I can't tell from the underside how the penetration is sealed (the wires run up through a small hole in the deck (about 1 inch diameter), and I can't see any obvious sealant), and the topside is obscured by the mast.
I've not noticed a leak here before, and there isn't any sign of water damage inside the headliner. So my guess is that the heavy rainstorm caused an unusual amount of pooling in the mast step, enough for the water to leak through the wire penetration.
Any ideas how I can prevent this, short of removing the mast?
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Does the hole properly seal the deck core? Water getting into the cabin is an annoyance but water getting into your deck core, especially around the mast step is serious. I'd look into it further and make sure the deck core is protected. If it's not, you'd need to do something about it. Over-drilling and epoxy potting is the best way. I don't have any ideas for doing this while the mast is up.
One thing not to do: Add sealant from below. This just hides the problem and forces even more moisture into the deck core if that's where it's going.
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What kind of boat do you have?
There should be a drain near the base of the mast (or as part of the mast step) that helps the water get out from inside the mast without going into your boat. On my Pearson 28-2 these drains are easily clogged and then water will follow the cables into the boat.
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Problem solved. PO had sealed mast drain hole with caulk. I removed caulk, and water drained out. Nice.
Re: Leak at mast wiring deck penetration
I spoke too soon -- cleaning out the mast drain hole didn't really solve the problem (although I'm sure it helped). Essentially, it appears that rain gets inside the mast, collects on the radar cable, and then the drips migrate along the cable into the cabin.
In looking at photos of mast steps on line, it appears pretty common for cables to enter the cabin through a hole in the step (as mine does), so what is the usual way to keep water from dripping down the cable into the cabin? Applying sealant around the cable is impossible once the mast is in place, so I'm guessing that's not the usual method. Perhaps a drip loop inside the mast? (I might be able to put a loop in place without removing the mast).
Other suggestions?
Re: Leak at mast wiring deck penetration
Scanstrut Cable Clam / Deck Seal
I use this for our Raystar 125 GPS antannae to go through the deck. Not sure this will fit in the sapce you have as by mast cables exit the mast inside the boat
Re: Leak at mast wiring deck penetration
Those deck seals look sweet -- unlike my radar cable, my VHF cable exits the mast above deck, and then goes through a similar device.
But as I sit here thinking about it, it occurs to me that when I first removed the cabin headliner to investigate the leak, I pulled the slack in the radar cable into the cabin. I'm thinking that "slack" might have actually been a drip loop. so while I solved one problem (by removing the caulk in the mast drain hole), I might have caused another (by removing the drip loop). Hopefully, I can put the drip loop back in (I can certainly push the slack back in the mast, but it may take some work to form a loop).
This also makes sense in light of the fact that there is absolutely no evidence that this leak is long standing -- no stains, no deterioration, nothing, even though this boat has been weathering Pacific Northwest winters for at least 15 years.
One good thing about all this -- I was able to identify that the plywood coring forming the deck penetration is rough and raw, and needs to be smoothed and epoxy sealed.
Re: Leak at mast wiring deck penetration
There should be a little tube that protects the plywood there. On my mast step (Isomat-brand on a Pearson boat) this tube is part of the step and you can see it from below. The mast is coming down off of my boat today (mostly to remove caulk and clear the drain in ways that couldn't be done from the outside) and I'll take a photo if you like.
The top of the tube sticks up about an inch from the mast step base to keep pooled water from finding this way out of the mast and to have it go through the drain hole instead. Since my drain hole has been clogged I made a wick that I hooked through the tube that pulled the water down to a pot sitting on the cabin table. This is a hacky fix, but is better than having water on the table and floor. This may be a temporary solution that works for you. I made this wick by taking 3 or 4 feet of 1/8" line, decoring it, and running thin wire (piano wire) up where the core was. The top of this was bent like a paper clip and hooked on the top of that mast step tube.
I think that drip loops on the electrical cables can't hurt, but my guess is that most of the water is wicked in via the halyards, not the electrical wires. Rope just makes a much better wick than rubber/plastic insulation.
De-stepping the mast to fix this is a major pain in the butt, but it'll be nice to have a boat that stays dry in the rain. I'm also in the PNW.
Re: Leak at mast wiring deck penetration
A few more thoughts for consideration: I wonder if I could use a zip tie to put a 180 degree bend in the cable before I push it back up into the mast. This would then form the top side of the drip loop (or "S" shape). Downside might be that the cable wouldn't like having a semi-permanent sharp bend. Or maybe some sort of removeable wire "hook" to encourage the loop into place?
Too bad there isn't a way to make the cable seek a looped shape by itself (like a self-coiling air compressor hose).
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Position will be open until filled; initial review of applications will begin on 27 June 2014.
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Federally funded interagency cooperation in Arctic research is more important than ever. Rapid changes are affecting the Arctic region's biodiversity and people in many ways, including by increasing access to the region for energy and mineral development, shipping, tourism, and military operations—human activities that may carry both risks and opportunities for the Arctic. Federal agencies are conducting scientific research to understand those changes, risks, and opportunities; policy makers are increasingly relying on that science to make decisions and form practical responses. The IARPC five-year research plan aims to support those decisions with enhanced interagency cooperation to address the most pressing needs in the Arctic.
The IARPC Project Coordinator and Web Content Manager will be responsible for maintaining the content of the IARPC public website. They will also be responsible for maintaining workspace tools used by Collaboration Teams to effectively coordinate interagency activities and communicate with external partners domestically and internationally. The qualified candidate will ensure a current and attractive website that highlights Federally-funded Arctic research activities consistent with the guidelines for websites provided by the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC). Administratively, the candidate will employ web-based tools to coordinate implementation team meetings, maintain a calendar of events, keep and maintain mailing lists, and manage documents through the website to ensure smooth and ongoing communication within and between Collaboration Teams and with the IARPC Staff Group. The Project Coordinator and Web Content Manager will be responsible for reporting on Collaboration Teams' activities to the science community and general public through website content and other means.
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STANTON — It took months of practice to come together as a team, and a long stormy day of riding, but all the hard work paid off as five Central Montcalm middle schoolers captured the Division B Equestrian Team Championship on June 16 in Big Rapids, beating out Greenville, Morley Stanwood, Pine River and Reed City.
The team was comprised of Danielle Clise, 14, of Stanton; Karley Wilkie, 13, of Sheridan; Alicia Kohn, 13, of Sidney; Nikki Wilkie, 12, of Sheridan; and the sole male rider, Keegan Moran, 12, of Stanton.
Equestrian teams are offered at several local schools, encouraging students at both the junior high and high school level to compete in team horseback riding events, or "meets." Part of the challenge of participating on a junior high or high school equestrian team is learning new skills and possibly riding in classes with little or no previous experience.
"It was mind over matter for things we didn't know," said Nikki Wilkie, who admitted she and several of her teammates had to try new things they wouldn't have to try to earn points for the team.
Clise said that the two big lessons she learned this season was to be "willing to learn to work hard" and to always get back on the horse when you fall off — which she did before one of her classes when her horse, Dusty, spooked so bad he reared up and fell backwards with Clise still on his back.
Thankfully, a sprained wrist and a broken bridle were the only "injuries" in the accident. Clise was proud to say that she got back up on her horse, rode him in the next class as planned and even placed.
"I knew the team was doing their best, had a great team spirit and were having fun all day long" said Coach JoAnn Dudenhofer, of Sidney. "I value these qualities as much as I do the final score of the day."
The junior high equestrian meet ended early because of severe weather, and computer failure kept the final team scores a mystery until the end of the day.
"We concentrated completely on the horses and riders, getting them into each class, and then ready for the next, so I didn't realize where we were in the standings until they announced that Central Montcalm had won the B Division," Dudenhofer said.
"I don't think any of our parents thought we would win," Karley Wilkie said with a chuckle. "But what you put into things is what you get out of it."
The team's assistant coach is Rachel Piper of Stanton.
Practices for the Central Montcalm High School Equestrian Team began July 11, but space is still available on the team for interested district students. Contact Dudenhofer at (989) 328-6353 for more information.


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Playbill: Three shows to see in Denver this weekend
The Central City Opera brings The Sound of Music to the Ellie in Denver.
Photo by Kira Horvath
In addition to Adam Stone's experimental work at Buntport, a cat circus and square product theatre's multidisciplinary work in Boulder (see below), this weekend yields a unique playwriting festival, a classic musical and a one-night ode to old-time radio. Check out these onstage diversions.
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The PlayOffs 2014 The Atlas Theater, First Divine Science Church 8 p.m. Thursdays, July 31 through August 28 $8 per show in advance, $10 at the door $30 five-show package
Horse & Cart brings back its five-week Thursday-night playwrights' reality competition, The PlayOffs, with a brand new set of contestants from Colorado and across the nation. Each week, the playwrights riff on a theme with help from a local actor at breakneck speed; audience members vote on their favorites and eliminate losers, Project Runway-style. "These shows will be a blast simply because we have no idea what the writers are going to turn in," says Horse & Cart director Michael Emmitt. "We will literally get their weekly challenge submissions every Tuesday, rehearse on Wednesday and put the show up on Thursday." The last playwright standing walks off the stage with a $500 cash prize and the opportunity to have a work stage by Horse & Cart in the doing year.
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The Central City Opera brings its big operatic voices to Denver for seven performances of this family-friendly rendition of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music. Directed by Ken Cazan (who also directed the CCO's modern opera Dead Man Walking this season), the classic will also feature a live orchestra and everybody's favorite songs, from "My Favorite Things" to the title ditty itself.
One Night Stand Theater, Tune in Tomorrow Vintage Theatre 7 p.m. August 3 $8
One Night Stand mines the Golden Age of Radio for this evening of live staged readings, complete with commercials. Titles include such riveting genre material as "The Black Figurine of Death" and "The Planet Man," as well as the company's own stab at radio scripting in two episodes of "One Night Stand Mystery."
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"Austin Nichols" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Re: st: Re: ivreg2
Tue, 6 Feb 2007 15:24:25 -0500
A few much belated comments
follow these quoted posts:
On Feb 4, 2007, at 2:33 AM, Sandra wrote:
(1) If the bias of the IV estimates cause them to
approach the (inconsistent) OLS estimates (which
are significantly positive), then if I get larger
IV estimates (compared to the OLS estimates) does
that mean my estimates would be even larger if I
had strong instruments? In other words, would
that imply my IV estimates are biased downward?
(2) I read a review by Stock and co-authors, and
they mention that if I estimate my equation using
liml, then my results will be more robust to weak
instruments, further, I noticed that the
Stock-Yogo critical values are much lower, when I
use LIML. Am I making a correct intepretation of
their text?
(3) In the review by Stock and co-authors, they
mention that the rule of thumb is that an F-test
should be greater than 10. They also mention in
the context of multiple instrumental variables
the Cragg-Donald F statistic and the Stock-Yogo
critical values. Does this Cragg-Donald
statistic also work in a one instrument context?
This is because, when I look at this statistic my
instruments seem to be higher than the 10%
Stock-Yogo critical value. If each of these
statistics work as a sufficient condition (rather
than a necessary condition) for having strong
instruments, then I would rather report the
Cragg-Donald statistic, considering this is
statistically sound.
My problem is that it is very tough to get
exogenous instruments for my variable, and this
is the only instrument I have managed to come up
with, so I would like to stick to it, if at all
On 2/4/07, at 9:00 AM, Kit Baum <email@example.com> wrote:
(1) That sounds sensible.
(2) As I understand it the distribution of the
S-Y critical values differ depending on, among
other things, the underlying estimator. So I
would not make much of the fact that the CVs
differ between IV-GMM and LIML.
(3) In the context of a single FSR, the notion
that the ANOVA F should exceed 10 is a rule of
thumb suggesting that the FSR is reasonably
strong. The first example in ivreg2 help shows a
model with a single endogenous regressor for
which F = 13.79 (zero pvalue). The Anderson
canon. corr. LR stat. is 54, with a pvalue of 0,
ad the Cragg-Donald min eigenvalue stat is 56,
with a pvalue of zero. The null for each of
these tests is underidentification, with
rejection indicating that the model is
identified. The latest version of ivreg2 (soon
to be released) reformats these results to make
the underlying hypotheses clear. However that
same model has a significant Sargan test
statistic, suggesting that the overidentifying
restrictions are soundly rejected by the data.
This implies that the instruments are inadequate
and must be replaced. So you can have
sufficiently strong instruments but still fail
the Sargan (or Hansen J, in IV-GMM) test. I
would worry about that in your model.
Now my comments:
(1) It may sound sensible, but it ain't
necessarily so. With weak instruments, you can
get some quite wacky estimates, and remember
also that the variance of your IV estimate is
high in part because you have weaker instruments
than you would like. If you had a very good
instrument, you could expect to see the variance
of your second stage estimate drop, and the
point estimate to change--whether the point
estimate would go up or down is impossible to
(2) The S-Y critical values are for the "vanilla"
linear IV only, and should be used only as rules
of thumb--remember that the measures of
the predictive quality of the first stage might
on average result in your bias being 5% of the
OLS bias--but your mileage may vary!
(3) I agree with Kit's concern about the results
of an overid test. On your original question
(3), none of the available tests are sufficient
to conclude with certainty that you don't have
weak instruments. Stock and Yogo
(http://www.nber.org/papers/t0284) indicate
(p58) that the min eigenvalue of the CDstat when
you have one endogenous regressor and three
excluded instruments should be greater than
13.91 to reduce bias to 5% of the OLS bias in
simulations. This does not say what the bias of
your particular IV application is, but can serve
to reassure readers if your first-stage F is 22.
(4) In her first post, Sandra asks "if stata
contains any routine that would provide
estimates robust to weak instruments." I
believe she means "can Stata provide tests of
correct size in the presence of weak
instruments?" and the answer is yes, for the case
of a single endogenous regressor--just type
net describe condivreg, from(http://www.stata.com/users/bpoi)
and install the program, which follows the implementation of
Anna Mikusheva (Harvard University) and Brian P. Poi (StataCorp LP)
"Tests and confidence sets with correct size when the instruments are
potentially weak." Stata Journal 6(3).
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Chrystia Freeland, the digital editor for Reuters, spoke to Ezra Klein about Obama's first term, in which Republicans made it their goal to slow him down to the point thta he wouldn't be reelected. Freeland says Obama is culpable too, for causing the GOP to be so hostile to him. What? Didn't Obama go easy on conservatives and corporate interests? Comedian Jimmy Dore and political analyst Ben Mankiewicz (Host, Turner Classic Movies) break it all down on this installment of The Jimmy Dore Show.
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Re-watching Dirty Rotten Scoundels (1988) last month was an interesting experience for me. I had seen it once a couple of years after its theatrical release, and I was surprised how much of it I remembered the second time around. Apart from making me unjustifiably proud of my memory, it also reminded me that once upon a time comedies had interesting stories and characters, not just funny actors.
Michael Caine plays Lawrence Jameson, a suave Englishman living in the French resort town of Beaumont-Sur-Mer. Jameson makes a very comfortable living bilking naïve female tourists. He poses as the exiled ruler of a foreign kingdom raising money for freedom fighters.
On a train, Lawrence watches Freddy Benson (Steve Martin) con a woman into a free lunch with a sob story about his sick grandmother. Worried that this crude American grifter will poison the waters in Beaumont-Sur-Mer, Lawrence tricks Freddy into leaving town. After meeting one of Lawrence's victims on the plane, Freddy figures out the con and threatens to expose him unless Lawrence agrees to teach him the art of big money conning.
did you notice Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) as the butler?
After working together for awhile, the two make a bet: whoever cons their next mark for $50,000 stays in Beaumont-Sur-Mer while the other leaves town forever. Their target is "Soap Queen" Janet Colgate (Glenne Headley). Lawrence and Freddy go to ridiculous lengths to close the deal with the Soap Queen. Freddy poses as a disabled Navy officer and Lawrence as the only doctor in the world who can cure him.
Scoundrels is a pretty funny movie in large part because of the characters. Freddy, the less sophisticated of the two, is a pretty easygoing guy, but he goes all in when he's working a con. On the other hand, Lawrence takes himself seriously at all times and it's hard to tell the difference between him and his fictional roles. Much of the humour derives from the way the rivalry between these polar opposites plays out and how each becomes a little bit more like the other to get the job done.
It's far from a perfect movie. Most glaringly, the plot is not bulletproof. Even in a pre-Wikipedia world, one would think at least one of the con victims would eventually figure out that Lawrence was a fraud and return to confront him. Also, both Freddy and Lawrence's cons are so outlandish that their purported success rates are hard to believe. Still, as a lighthearted comedy, it's very good.
What struck me the most on second viewing twenty years later is that, although it was made at a time when Steve Martin was one of the biggest comic box office draws (Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Three Amigos, etc), the movie's comedic value didn't just depend on Steve Martin showing up on screen and being goofy (except for maybe one scene). Although I'm sure I'm over-generalizing, comedies of more recent vintage seem more likely to take big name actors and create a movie around their personalities instead of the stories. While the latter type can work out (if you like Will Ferrell, you'll probably like Anchorman and The Other Guys), I much prefer a movie where the humour flows from story and the characters.
According to Wikipedia, Soundrels was also remade into a Broadway musical starring John Lithgow in 2005. Now that I gotta see!
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I really enjoyed this when I was a kid and made Leah watch it recently, you're right it stands up over time.ReplyDelete
Michael Caine really is a great actor (as seen as the only plus point in DKR recently) yet as you pointed out about comic movies in the 21st century being star vehicles I also can't imagine that kind of actor getting that kind of role or that kind of billing in a movie made today.
Perhaps thats just rose tinted glasses?
I loved this movie and laughed at it quite a bit. It was one of the first Martin comedies I liked precisely because he wasn't playing an idiot (i.e. The Jerk). The bit where Caine is "trying to heal" Martin's character so he can walk is absolute gold, especially getting a running start with the whip.ReplyDelete
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Jason Molina, A Folksinger Who Embodied The Best Of The Blues, Has Died
By Delaney Utterback On March 18, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In National Public Radio, River
Blues music is supposed to be cathartic — a way to process and package pain in ways that make it palatable; to take our hurt and ache, set it outside ourselves, give it a tune and rhythm that makes it tangible and real yet somehow less terrifying.
Jason Molina, who died Saturday at 39, of what his label, Secretly Canadian, calls natural causes, wasn't a blues singer, exactly. In a prolific underground career spanning more than 15 years, his songs mostly took on the form of confessional folk music — a man and a guitar, or a man and a band, singing bruised and barren songs of longing and lost salvation like so many others before and since.
He recorded under a variety of names — his own, Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co., to name a few — but in all, he wrote in his own unique symbolic shorthand. The moon, for example, lurked in countless Molina songs as a figure of both menace and light. In one of my favorites, the 2006 solo song "Get Out Get Out Get Out," he sums up so much of his work and worldview with a string of elegant laments: "Something must have happened to both of us / Something must have happened, something always does … I lived low enough so the moon wouldn't waste its light on me."
Still, Molina's songs wove that self-pitying sadness — songs of a man cowering under a sky he cursed, or peering into horizons that seemed empty — into expressions of bracing, strangely soothing beauty. His open, aching voice could convey overwhelming emotion with the slightest inflection; if you loved his music, you'd swear you could feel a word or phrase or hook in your blood.
I got to meet Molina once, back in 2005. I'd heard stories that he could be prickly and unapproachable, to the point where I hesitated to say hello, but decided to suck it up as an act of selfishness; I just couldn't resist the chance to tell him how much I'd come to love his music. The man was sweet and warm to the point where, when we parted, he reached into his bag and handed me a sheet of paper. He'd been scribbling some strange drawings — a little reminiscent of Dinosaur Jr's album covers, but primitive and drawn in black pen — on the back of loose paperwork while bored on tour, and figured I might like one as a keepsake. He was right.
That sheepish generosity, coming from someone whose relationship with the world could be so difficult, stuck with me, and always will.
In 2007, I recorded a piece for Morning Edition to profile a then-new box set of Molina material; before his publicly acknowledged struggle with alcoholism and money woes started slowing him down a couple years later, the singer churned out so many songs, he couldn't be contained by just an album each year. As I was putting the story together, I reached out to the singer Glen Hansard, with whom I'd once exchanged stories of shared Molina fandom. (Hansard recorded a split 7″ with the singer, and a few times brought him along on tour with his band The Frames.)
"There's something about the sensibility of what he does that's so incredibly traditional, and yet so modern," said Hansard, who discovered Molina's music while driving late at night, having bought one of his CDs thinking it was by someone else. "It's like that Leonard Cohen thing: incredibly melancholic music that for some reason leaves you with a smile — not a smile, but leaves you with a kind of sense of hope."
That lingering thread of hope which survives in Molina's music is what I try to embrace in his music; it's the idea that the singer lived to process his hurt and put it into all the beautiful, meaningful songs he could while he still could. I never thought a day would come when Molina's music could get any sadder, but here we are. I'll still celebrate it — and still find warmth and comfort in its worn, weary grace. But it hurts like hell that he's gone.
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The number of students taking Advanced Placement tests hit a record high last year, but the portion who fail the exams — particularly in the South — is rising as well, a USA TODAY analysis finds.
Students last year took a record 2.9 million exams through the AP program, which challenges high school students with college-level courses. Passing the exams (a score of 3 or higher on the point scale of 1 to 5) may earn students early college credits, depending on a college's criteria.
But the findings about the failure rates raise questions about whether schools are pushing millions of students into AP courses without adequate preparation — and whether a race for higher standards means schools are not training enough teachers to deliver the high-level material.
"The standards don't teach themselves," says Stanford University's Linda Darling-Hammond, a noted teacher-quality expert who says schools shouldn't treat AP as "another silver bullet" that will raise standards and assure academic success.
"You have to build the whole system. You can't just bring in one thing and think that it's going to solve everything," she says.
The newspaper's analysis finds that more than two in five students (41.5%) earned a failing score of 1 or 2, up from 36.5% in 1999. In the South, a Census-defined region that spans from Texas to Delaware, nearly half of all tests — 48.4% — earned a 1 or 2, a failure rate up 7 percentage points from a decade prior and a statistically significant difference from the rest of the country.
College Board officials say it's misleading to lump all scores together because different tests have vastly different historical pass rates. Scores on AP Physics tests, for example, are consistently up; those for AP English Literature are dropping.
The physics success builds through a sequence of courses, says Trevor Packer, a College Board vice president who oversees AP. He also says enrollment growth means the raw number of students earning passing scores is climbing, even if the overall failure rate is up.
Statistical models predicted a rise in failure rates, because students took about 1.8 million more AP exams last year than in 1999. Typically, standardized test scores fall as more students — many of them with weaker academic records — take them.
Once a hallmark of elite, college-bound high-schoolers, AP has exploded in the past decade because of higher student aspirations as well as efforts by reformers to push students into challenging courses. Enrollment has grown from about 704,000 students in 1999 to 1.7 million last year.
Data suggest that more students, rewarded by weighted grades and, in some cases, cash payments, are taking the bait: 76% of AP students sat for an exam last spring, up from 66% in 2000.
Joan Lord of the Southern Regional Education Board says there's more than meets the eye to the South's AP results. For instance, while College Board data show Arkansas has the USA's highest failure rate (70.3%), she says it has made the most progress of any Southern state, boosting participation among seniors from 11% in 2003 to 33% in 2008. And the percentage of students who passed at least one AP exam rose from 6% to 11%.
"We've democratized the test and haven't dropped the scores," Lord says. "We're excited."
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Actually, what I did was disable the WordPress gizmo that sends a ping back to a previous post on the same site, mostly because I thought it looked like clutter, and self-important clutter at that. (I want pings and trackbacks from the rest of you, not from me.) This has bothered me for some time, and now apparently it bothers Google:
Linking back is always good, however WordPress displays these links using the "nofollow" attribute. So is it good to allow a nofollow linkback to your own website? Considering Google's new policy changes with regards to nofollow links, and how you might eventually lose ranking over it, adding an additional linkback to your own blog with a nofollow link definitely does not gauge well.
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