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Offering more than advice: consultancies in a nonprofit organization
Irvine, Helen J. (2005) Offering more than advice: consultancies in a nonprofit organization. In Accounting & Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ), July 2005, Melbourne, Australia.
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This paper explains the proliferation of consulting activities in nonprofit organizations, and illustrates it by a study of the external consultancies commissioned by one religious/charitable organization (RCO) within a twelve-month period. The qualitative study, conducted over one year, identifies the employment of external consultants as one manifestation of normative institutional pressures on nonprofit organizations to adopt corporate-style accounting and management practices. Within the nonprofit sector, there is scope for further research on the challenges involved for organizations in that sector as they attempt to analyse the pressures of the institutional environment in which they operate and assess the applicability of corporate practices recommended by consultants. While some research has been undertaken on consultancies in both the public and nonprofit sectors, there has been less attention paid to its role in the infiltration of corporate practices from the private sector, through the public sector, and into the nonprofit sector. By focusing on the institutional environment in which nonprofit organizations operate, and on one organization, insights have been provided about this process.
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How many different triangles can you make on a circular pegboard that has nine pegs?
How many different triangles can you draw on the dotty grid which each have one dot in the middle?
Can you find all the different triangles on these peg boards, and
find their angles?
How many triangles can you make using sticks that are 3cm, 4cm and 5cm long?
Place the numbers 1 to 6 in the circles so that each number is the
difference between the two numbers just below it.
Place the numbers 1 to 10 in the circles so that each number is the
difference between the two numbers just below it.
Investigate the smallest number of moves it takes to turn these
mats upside-down if you can only turn exactly three at a time.
Take it in turns to make a triangle on the pegboard. Can you block your opponent?
Use the clues to colour each square.
Can you cover the camel with these pieces?
Can you find all the different ways of lining up these Cuisenaire
How many trains can you make which are the same length as Matt's, using rods that are identical?
Use the interactivity to help get a feel for this problem and to find out all the possible ways the balls could land.
Can you work out how to balance this equaliser? You can put more
than one weight on a hook.
Here are some rods that are different colours. How could I make a dark green rod using yellow and white rods?
How many different ways can you find to join three equilateral triangles together? Can you convince us that you have found them all?
Use the interactivity to investigate what kinds of triangles can be
drawn on peg boards with different numbers of pegs.
What happens when you try and fit the triomino pieces into these
two grids?
Is it possible to place 2 counters on the 3 by 3 grid so that there
is an even number of counters in every row and every column? How
about if you have 3 counters or 4 counters or....?
How many different rhythms can you make by putting two drums on the
Cut four triangles from a square as shown in the picture. How many
different shapes can you make by fitting the four triangles back
Can you put the numbers 1 to 8 into the circles so that the four
calculations are correct?
Hover your mouse over the counters to see which ones will be
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Board Block game for two. Can you stop your partner from being able to make a shape on the board?
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have an even number of red counters?
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Jamaica's dynamic theater scene focuses on native writers and styles of performance. Music and dance are often integrated, producing a unique form of entertainment you won't find anywhere else. However, you will also be able to catch more familiar Western plays if you choose. In fact, Jamaica boasts a long theatrical history steeped in the classics.
Spanish Town most likely hosted Jamaica's first theater in 1682. In the next century, two theaters opened there, as well as one in Kingston. Kingston's impressive Theatre Royal debuted in 1840. All over the island, performances were also held in other buildings, such as private homes, stores, and court houses.
Jamaica's beauty attracted professional touring companies. Many were British and American, but other European companies occasionally visited. When the Revolutionary War began, some American company members fled the States and relocated to Jamaica.
Local amateur groups competed with the touring companies for performance space, often losing out. These groups were split along social and racial lines. Several all-black groups existed in the mid-1800s, but they didn't last. While most amateurs didn't aspire to a professional career, a few sought their fortunes on foreign stages.
Not surprisingly, the primary audience was the white upper class. However, slaves, servants, sailors, and wealthy and middle-class blacks and also attended. By 1813, segregation in the theater was commonplace.
Class was more important than race, with white sailors sharing the worst seats with slaves and servants. Nonetheless, segregation was not well-tolerated by the black middle class.
In 1815, black protesters denounced both segregation and racial slurs from the Theatre Royal's manager. The protest turned into a riot. Although the demonstrators received fines and jail time, theater segregation disappeared the following year.
This riot wasn't the only violence in the theaters. Audiences were rowdy. Patrons talked loudly and fought among themselves. And performances often ended early because audience members assaulted actors or destroyed the sets. Laws imposed steep penalties on such misbehavior, but offenses continued until about 1900.
Productions of Shakespeare and his contemporaries were most popular. However, other types of dramatic entertainment flourished.
When Kingston's Jewish population became more influential, companies catered to them with Jewish-themed plays. Meanwhile, the French community, quite large by the 1820s, put on their own comic operettas, vaudevilles, and melodramas.
Over the years, Jamaicans enjoyed operas, comedy shows, marionettes, ventriloquists, magic acts, acrobats, circuses, and blackface minstrels.
Indigenous Jamaican entertainment bore little resemblance to Western theater. Taíno ceremonies combined music, dance, and poetic songs to celebrate the heroics of their caciques (chieftains). A few historians believe some Taínos survived into the colonial period, moving into the mountains and intermarrying with the Maroons. So their traditions may have passed down.
African song, dance, and storytelling greatly influenced the black community. Their dances and games sometimes involved acting and role-playing. Fund-raisers called tea meetings resembled a variety show, with audiences dressed up in elaborate finery to parody Theatre Royal patrons.
Formal theater rarely presented tales relevant to island life. However, newspapers and journals published several early Jamaican plays.
In 1853, the Theatre Royal produced native-born Charles Shanahan's farce "The Mysteries of Vegetarianism." Theater-goers loved its satire of a vegetarian trend on the island.
As slavery became a more distant memory, black Jamaicans began telling stories that reflected their experiences. When it suited their narratives, storytellers used Creole language rather than English.
Still, theater remained largely westernized. On a visit in 1911, George Bernard Shaw advised Jamaicans to shun the foreign traveling companies and to write and act in their own plays. Otherwise, he believed, the theater would "vulgarize and degrade" them.
Change came slowly, but in the late 1920s, Marcus Garvey jump-started a shift embracing black culture. He wrote and produced several plays for the working class. And his organization UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association) founded Edelweiss Park, where nightly events entertained the masses. Plays, vaudevilles, follies, comedians, and elocution contests were all part of the fun.
Pantomimes began as an English import. They played sporadically beginning in the 1700s. But they only started to catch on with the introduction of Christmas pantomimes in 1898. Their combination of songs, dances, magic, and similar feats melded well with native traditions.
In the 1940s, the LTM (Little Theatre Movement) popularized pantomimes by fusing English elements with Jamaican folklore. Since then, pantomimes have evolved into exuberant performances with their own singular style. Currently Jamaica's major theatrical event, pantomimes run for several months, beginning in December.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Jamaican theater exploded as numerous groups formed. Small theaters such as the Barn Theatre sprung up, often in barns in back yards. And the Sistren Theatre Collective sought to empower poor, urban women by exploring their experiences through improvisation. Jamaicans had always loved bawdy comedy filled with sexual innuendo. Writers at this time further developed those conventions into "roots" theater, a style still popular.
Often considered the most famous and influential theater in the Caribbean, the Ward Theatre opened in 1912. The majestic building replaced the Theatre Royal, which had been destroyed several years prior in a devastating earthquake.
By the 1920s, the Ward had a prestigious reputation. Broadway plays visited the theater, and Broadway actors considered performing there an honor. Its heyday lasted well into the late 20th century. However, both the building and the surrounding neighborhood fell into a decline, which has discouraged attendance.
Recent revitalization efforts aimed at downtown and the theater have sought to bring back the theater-going public. The Culture, Health, Arts, Sports, & Education Fund allotted $3 million(JD) to a 2004 production of "Into the Woods." To increase attendance, they offered group rates and arranged a shuttle so people could park uptown.
Despite falling out of favor, the Ward Theatre continues to host a wide variety of performances, including plays, the annual pantomimes, and dance productions.
Kingston remains the hub of dramatic activity in Jamaica. Most of today's theaters are located there. However, companies such as Jambiz International tour productions around the island, often playing in school auditoriums.
Even in Kingston, because most theaters are small, companies sometimes stage plays in unconventional venues. For instance, the Redbones Blues Cafe hosted a 2002 production of Noel Coward's "Come Into the Garden, Maude."
Modern Jamaican playwrights usually write in patois (local dialects), which travelers may or may not understand. Roots plays and plays with social or political commentary prevail.
Although the number of writers, actors, and directors is limited, they generally produce high-quality work. Some have achieved international recognition, such as Trevor Rhone and Patrick Brown.
Experience theater, Jamaican style, at one of the following locations:
|The Barn Theatre
|5 Oxford Rd.
New Kingston
|Seats approximately 150. Most plays are suitable for families, though they occasionally produce adult fare.
|The Centerstage Theatre
|Dominica Dr.
New Kingston
|Small but cozy. Family-oriented musicals in patois.
|The Little Theatre and
The Little Little Theatre
|4 Tom Redcam Ave.
New Kingston
|Two theaters on the same property.
|The Pantry Playhouse
|2 Dumfries Rd.
New Kingston
|The Phillip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts
|Large auditorium on the campus of the University of the West Indies. In the greater Kingston area.
|Stages Theatre
|15 Knutsford Blvd.
New Kingston
|The Ward Theatre
|North Parade
|Large theater. Wide variety of shows.
While Kingston offers the most live theater, you still may find productions elsewhere. Remember to check local papers for performances happening off the beaten path. Your hotel may also be able to direct you. You'll discover much about the character of Jamaica with a night at the theater.
Help us improve! We welcome your corrections and suggestions.


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Lloyd McCormick, director of youth programs at ChildFund, will speak at the 2013 Women, War & Peace conference at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va. The conference will take place this weekend.
The title of his talk, scheduled on Saturday afternoon, is "Livelihoods and Economic Recovery in War-Affected Environments – Lessons Learned from Sierra Leone, Northern Uganda and Liberia."
The two-day conference will focus on women's roles in war and peace building in West and North Africa and how these issues can be transformed into opportunities for social and economic well-being.
The conference grew out of a partnership among VCU, the Richmond Peace Education Center, Virginia Friends of Mali and the Richmond Sister Cities Commission, all of which work to highlight Virginia's links with West Africa and to promote collaboration among the schools, universities, organizations and community groups working in the field of human development.
The conference will present films on women, war and peace; research on Africa with a focus on Mali; and opportunities for academic, professional and community development. If you are in the Richmond area, consider volunteering with ChildFund. We'll be on-site both days of the conference, Sept. 20 and 21. For more information, email Kate Nare.
Today, as people around the world celebrate the 2012 International Day of Peace, ChildFund Afghanistan's national director, Palwasha Hassan, reflects on the importance of caring for children during wartime.
War turns everyone's life upside down, but none more so than a child's. At ChildFund International, we strive to create environments in Afghanistan where children can learn, play and grow. We want them to have a safe, stable, normal childhood and to grow up in communities where they can become leaders of positive, enduring change that will help bring peace and security to the country.
Children in Afghanistan currently face many issues that impact their future. The mortality rates of infants, children under 5 and mothers are among the world's highest. Stunted growth due to malnutrition affects more than half of our children. Much of the country's population lacks access to safe drinking water, which leads to diseases that threaten public health. Child marriage and child labor are particularly prevalent. The life expectancy in Afghanistan is 48 years, compared to 78 in the U.S. Only one in five girls aged 15-24 can read and write.
ChildFund International understands the plight of Afghan children. We are working in this country to help fight these problems so that children can have a brighter future. We've trained parents, community leaders and government staff to recognize child protection issues; we've supported community-based literacy classes for children and trained their teachers. We've provided children with recreational areas in which to play, and we've developed health services that include training health workers in how to diagnose and treat illnesses. We've helped returnee families rebuild their lives. All told, we have assisted more than half a million children and family members with the support they need to take greater control of their lives and their future.
While many news reports focus on war, we must not forget about the children there. It is time for them to get back on their feet and move in a positive direction. It is the children who will determine Afghanistan's future.
The International Day of Peace, observed each year on Sept. 21, is a global call for ceasefire and non-violence.
Although war wreaks havoc on the lives of all in its path, children often suffer the most. Many lose parents and caregivers. Others lose their sense of security as critical routines such as school and playtime are disrupted.
Recently ChildFund talked with children and youth in our programs in Afghanistan about their daily lives, their fears and their dreams. Here's what they had to say:
by Julien Anseau, Regional Communications Manager, ChildFund Asia
Tomorrow, Sept. 18, Afghanistan holds elections for its lower house of parliament. More than 2,500 candidates are vying for 249 elected seats. Security concerns are high, and many Afghans live in areas deemed too dangerous to set up polling places.
No ready solution appears in sight for a county long mired in conflict. "War turns everyone's lives upside down, but none more so than children," says Anna Maria Locsin, ChildFund's national director of Afghanistan.
"We want children to have a safe, stable, normal childhood and to grow up in communities where they can become leaders of positive, enduring change that will help bring peace and security to the country," she notes.
ChildFund has worked in Afghanistan since 2001, reaching more than 150 communities in the northeastern provinces of Badakshan, Baghlan, Kunduz and Takhar.
Consider these sobering statistics:
ChildFund is working in Afghanistan to help fight these problems so that children will have a brighter future. "Our programs prioritize the community-led provision of health, education, and livelihood opportunities while strengthening the protective environment for children," says Locsin.
Ultimately, it is the children who will determine Afghanistan's future.


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David Sweeney, the mastermind behind the now defunct Dynamic Dish, would be at the reigns for lunch service at Cakes & Ale. David has a bit of a cult following around Atlanta for his masterful work with food. Ask a foodie about their favorite Atlanta eateries in the past five years and Dynamic is sure to be at the top of the list. Kudos to Billy and the Cakes & Ale crew for bringing Dynamic Dave in to run lunch.
Billy and David working lunch
I hooked up with a couple of fellow local bloggers for lunch during the first week of the bakery's lunch service last week. We sampled five dishes over the course of lunch. The quinoa bowl is just delicious. Quinoa, tender beans, peas, and expertly prepared brunoise of peppers, onions, and herbs topped with fresh cheese. Coincidentally, my last lunch at Dynamic Dish featured a similar dish that was equally delicious last year.
Also incredibly tasty was the crostini topped with fresh goat cheese, butternut squash, jalapeno, and cilantro with a side of heirloom tomatoes dressed with balsamic.
We also shared an ultra-fresh and seasonal tasty green salad, as well as a rich and smokey trout spread on slider-sized brioche sandwich. The key here to the delicious food, as it always has been at Cakes &Ale, is the quality and freshness of the ingredients. Sweeney also demonstrates his genius again in how he builds flavor into seemingly simple dishes. Each bite tastes familiar; yet, each bite is also layered with rich, bright, pronounced flavors.
The lunch dishes are not big; you'll see prices that may seem cheap at first glance, but you'll need a couple of items to really feel full at lunch. That said, it will certainly be money well spent. I can't wait to return for more of this lunch goodness.


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Media Advisory Article from
MP Rota to Announce FedNor Investment to Enhance the Economic Outlook for North Bay and Surrounding Areas
North Bay, Ontario, February 25, 2016— Anthony Rota, Member of Parliament for Nipissing–Timiskaming, on behalf of the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, and Minister responsible for FedNor, will be in North Bay on Friday, February 26, 2016, to make a FedNor announcement in support of economic development and business growth in the region.
MP Rota will participate in a photo opportunity and will be available to answer questions from the media following the announcement.
Friday, February 26, 2016
11 a.m.
North Bay and District Chamber of Commerce
205 Main St E,
North Bay, Ontario
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Pros: Beautiful design
Cordless, long-lasting battery
Attractive charger
Powerful suction and brush
Picks up big pieces
Clean easy dumping
Light, extremely maneuverable
Cons: No accessories or hoses.
This little vacuum is sleek, beautiful, powerful, and super convenient in every way. (No, I do not work for Hoover, nor even know anyone who does.) I keep it (and its hand-held companion Hoover BH50015 LINX Cordless Handheld Vacuum) sitting out in the kitchen because they look like high-tech decor, as do their futuristic battery chargers. As their batteries are interchangeable (and long-lasting), when one battery finally runs down, the next one is ready to go. And they re-charge in just about three hours. The batteries are lithium-ion, so the vacuum doesn't slow down until all the charge is gone - full-power right to the end.
It may have a narrow spread, but the advantage there is that you can easily get into tight places, and you can move freely, vacuuming everywhere, without dragging an annoying cord around or looking for a plug. I never want a vacuum as wide as a bull-dozer again! What you gain in breadth in the middle of a room is NOT WORTH IT, unless you live in a mansion. And even then, you'll always need a smaller device to get into the tight spaces.
I have three cats and it handles their endless shedding and messy feeding area just fine (picks up sizeable kibble just fine). Plus it's so light that I can easily lift it up and vacuum the sofa and chair with it. And dumping the debris is as easy as pressing a button over the trash can. No knocking out paper filters or changing bags.
When the simple foam filter does need cleaning, which isn't that often, it's easily rinsed, squeezed and dried within a few hours.
At last, a product that I really can't find anything wrong with! Vacuuming with this is fun! And I HATE vacuuming!


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Marji.asgari needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 83 designs submitted by 18 freelance designers.
We manufacture and sell accessories - largely hair accessories, catering to both women and children. Our products are very feminine and girly and definitely luxurious.
You can go to my Canadian website to see some of what we make (although we have much more now and are more heavily dominated in the Swarovski crystal headbands, bracelets, etc.). The website is http://www.shopgirlygirls.com


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F-302 (paper model by Jaybats)
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|F-302 (paper model by Jaybats)
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|November 10, 2006
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|Chevron 7... Carded!
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The F-302 is a paper model made by Jaybats of the F-302 ship.
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The F-302 schemed with an USAF camouflage and operates from the Daedalus.
The model is provided in a 3 pdf pages. The instructions are not provided by the author.


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Like all eating disorders, anorexia is in a significant sense both a mental illness and a physical one. Its physical facets are more significant than those of some other eating disorders, such as binge-eating disorder and bulimia, because of the physiological-psychological feedback loop which is initiated as the body is starved. (The equivalent is observed in eating disorders leading to obesity, which has its own set of physical and mental consequences.) I've discussed in a previous post how the simple fact of physical starvation (or semi-starvation) can account for most of the symptoms of anorexia, from preoccupation with food to depression, low self-esteem, and inflexible thought patterns. All this means that in one sense the progression of anorexia rapidly evades the control of the sufferer: the obsession with food that accompanies starvation, for example, is not a straightforward desire to eat, but often involves the postponement and prolonging of eating, the hoarding of food, pleasure in watching others eat, and disgust or rapid satiety due to stomach shrinkage and other internal damage. Similarly, decreased self-esteem can make food seem something that is undeserved, or thinness the only thing that gives one value. Similar observations can be made of most of the symptoms of starvation and seem to point towards the conclusion that the anorexic is the victim of a disease which comes to control his or her mind and body and makes recovery if not impossible, then certainly very difficult. As I'll go on to suggest later in this post, however, it is possible to break out of this vicious circle of physiological and psychological cause and effect by making a simple series of decisions.
The interactions between the physical and the mental are complicated in anorexia as they are in other illnesses and in health: a certain mental state may bring about an inclination to eat less; hormonal responses to hunger may create a form of addiction to the 'hunger high'; feedback from society may encourage weight loss; prolonged inadequate intake may alter appetite and food preferences via bodily changes; bodily changes may in turn alter one's self-perception and social identity, and so on. Again, though, this complex intertwining need not mean that the sufferer must remain trapped by anorexia.
Here it may be useful to think about anorexia in the context of other physical and mental disorders, and to think about the factors that affect the beginning of anorexia and its ending. All illnesses and disorders are affected by both heredity and environment, and might be located somewhere on a spectrum according to the extent to which environment, lifestyle choices, and/or what we might call 'personal responsibility' play a role, in terms of precipitating or avoiding the illness - including heritable genetic disorders, for example, and heart disease with genetic predisposition to metabolic syndrome. (The question of how much environmental factors overlap with lifestyle factors, and these latter with personal decisions, is itself complex, but the issues especially relevant to anorexia are discussed below.) There is also another spectrum, overlapping with but distinct from the first one, which maps the distinction between illnesses that can be recovered from by successful intervention, and those which are terminal and/or untreatable. A given disorder may be highly heritable and untreatable, highly heritable and treatable, minimally heritable and treatable, or minimally heritable and untreatable.
Anorexia is highly treatable, and the core of its treatment is extremely simple. There is no need for complex and expensive drugs (although antidepressants are often prescribed to elevate mood and aid commitment to recovery), the risk of side-effects is real but manageable, and both physical and mental damage, from osteoporosis to depression, can often be wholly reversed, while precursors or contributing causes of the illness - perfectionism, anxiety, etc. - can be better managed when anorexia is no longer present. In my own case, although perfectionism and anxiety are still part of my life, I understand their dangerous potential better for having had anorexia and recovered from it, and see the process of gradually extricating myself from their grip as a continuation of my recovery from anorexia - as something which can be tackled bit by bit, and which gets easier as the years of anorexia recede further.
It is always difficult to disentangle genetic and environmental factors, and in anorexia there has generally been an overemphasis on social and familial factors at the expense of genetic ones: the espousal of the thin ideal in the fashion industry and the media has perhaps most notably been blamed, as has exposure to the disordered eating of family members. As Bulik (2005: 336) notes, 'Patients with eating disorders have consistently reported the presence of either frank eating disorders or suggestive traits in family members. Most commonly, the clinician hears of a relative who ate exceedingly sparingly or had quirky eating behaviours.' However, this need not necessarily mean that such environmental exposure is solely responsible for the development of an eating disorder in a relative. Studies using twins have yielded heritability estimates for anorexia nervosa ranging from 33% to 84% - although this is a broad estimate, there does seem to be a critical genetic risk for the disorder. Seen in interaction with environmental factors, we come closer to understanding why not everyone exposed to images of skeletal fashion models develops anorexia:
'According to [the gene-environment interaction] model, individuals are differentially vulnerable to an insult such as strict dieting because of differences in their genotypes; this differential vulnerability could then be the first step in the development of anorexia nervosa. For example, those with lesser genetic loading for this vulnerability might see slender models, try dieting, find it an aversive experience and return to normal eating. In contrast, those with a greater genetic vulnerability might find dieting to be particularly reinforcing - either by reducing negative or dysphoric affect or by providing a sense of control or accomplishment. These individuals, with their particular genotype and biologic and psychologic responses to dieting, would be at greater risk for anorexia nervosa' (Bulik, 2005: 337).
Other aspects of this model include the perpetuation of anorexia through generations, as premature birth and low birth weight increase the risk of anorexia, and anorexia in turn makes premature and low-weight birth more likely.
Some of these environmental risk factors can be reduced by, for instance, minimising one's own contact with images of very thin men and women (avoiding fashion magazines and certain TV programmes, etc.), or even distancing oneself from a friend or relative whose attitudes to food are upsetting. I'll conclude by exploring the most potent tactic of all: challenging the reinforcing effects of 'dieting' or starvation.
A reader recently made a comment which prompted me to write this post. She said that 'anorexia, despite being a "disease", also involves a series of very
bad decisions, for which we as the sufferers must bear some responsibility'. This made me reflect on my own experience, and the various 'points of no return' at which the development of full-blown anorexia became significantly more likely: the day on which I stopped eating breakfast, and started lying about having eaten it; the day when, after months of successfully regaining weight and practising healthier eating habits, I dealt with a difficult few months with relatives in Switzerland by reverting to my old ways; the day I decided that hot properly cooked food - pasta with a vegetable sauce and sprinkled with nuts or cheese - would no longer be part of my rotating menu of dishes, because there was too much potential for interruption when making it, and because I enjoyed it less than cereal; and many others of a similar nature, some more closely related to social interactions or academic concerns than to eating itself.
At any of these moments - before leaving the house for school before the non-breakfast, when at the Swiss supermarket or in the kitchen on my boat in Oxford - I could have identified the danger in what I was contemplating doing, and decided otherwise. In the first of these three examples, I had the 'excuse' of really not knowing where this could lead, although I knew that lying to my family about how I was living couldn't be a good thing; but in the second two examples I knew perfectly well what the consequences would be, and went ahead regardless. Yes, numerous physiological, situational, and emotional factors were contributing in each instance to that decision - a decision is not a freely willed thought act detached from its embodied context - but I did nonetheless have the capacity to do otherwise. Whether that doing-otherwise would on its own have significantly slowed or even halted the progression of the anorexia is impossible now to say, but it's clear that all three decisions did have the opposite effect.
Seen from the other side, there are the good decisions that might not have been made: most notably the day when I decided to ask my GP for a referral to the Oxford ED clinic, and the evening on which I decided to go to the supermarket with my friend and let him help choose the things that would make up 500 calories' worth of extra food for four days. Again, neither of these decisions was made in a vacuum - they came about in large part through my friends' input, for example - but each could have gone the other way, and I might never have felt 'ready' enough until it was too late, and my heart gave out, or I had an accident I was to weak to recover from.
I've talked before about the fallacy of waiting for the perfect moment at which one feels magically inspired to change and to eat again; it's unlikely ever to come. But in the course of every progression deeper into anorexia there are many points at which it is possible to say 'no, this far and no further'. It's much more likely that one will have the confidence to say this if one is well informed not just about the very real dangers of anorexia, but also about the almost inevitable nature of its progression from mild to more severe forms. It is very hard to say and believe, as an anorexic, 'how I am now is thin enough', or 'perfectly thin'. The rewards associated with thinness mean that ever greater rewards are sought through ever greater thinness, and the physiological-psychological feedback loops with which we began drive the process of emaciation onwards. Knowing this (whether through experience or as by informing oneself about the trajectory of the illness) is power, as is knowing that while each bad decision makes the next more likely, each good decision makes the next easier. As with any bad habit, change in both directions occurs only gradually, but does become self-reinforcing.
Whether you have developed clinically diagnosable anorexia nervosa or not, it is never too soon, or too late, to exchange a bad decision for a good one. Genetic and environmental factors are playing their part in how you are in all respects, but once you've identified that you have a problem, or even just a potential problem, you have the capacity to act in such a way as to reduce the relative potency of the genetic factors and change the environmental risk factors to which you're exposed, or the ways in which you respond to those you can't change.
Expressing personal responsibility through action against anorexia is an act of freedom and of self-understanding. The striking simplicity of what is at the heart of any such step towards rejecting anorexia - the simple act of eating - was what made slipping into illness so easy, and is now what makes climbing out of it a process that is constituted primarily of those trivial-seeming daily decisions. Therapy tailored to eating disorders may be necessary to bring about the motivation for that decision, to sustain motivation and keep the progress of weight-gain occurring at a steady but safe pace, and in general to allow the sufferer to achieve what he or she cannot with a brain too compromised by starvation for such proactive decision-making (although one recent study counters previous findings of impaired decision-making in anorexia [here without depression]). But unless the extreme measure of intravenous feeding is required - in life-threatening situations - the same basic, repeated act is required of the sufferer, which no one else can do for him or her. Sitting down now with the meal which you have planned to eat, and deciding to take the first bite, may not be an easy decision to make, but the effects both of doing so and of not doing so are very clear, and the moment at which the decision needs to be made - does this fork go into my mouth now, will I swallow now? - equally evident. All the things that have led you to be sitting here at this table contemplating this plate of food are complex and often opaque, but now that you are here, right now, you can make a good decision or a bad one, and however much an inner voice may whisper afterwards to confuse you, you know which is which.


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well crap, didnt expect we would be picking so late in the first, lol.
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Solution: Replace the OT with Mark Barron (S, Alabama). Prototypical Giants DB.
If we get 4th and 5th round comp picks, package our natural 4th and 5th round picks together and trade for somebody's 3rd, and draft Doug Martin (RB, Boise St.) He's going to be the next Ray Rice/MJD, and he's an electric kick returner (averaged 35 yards per return IIRC, and got a TD on a return in their bowl game this year).
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ATLANTA -- Georgia Tech's (31-19, 13-12 ACC) Mott Hyde hit a walk off solo home run in the bottom of the ninth inning Friday night to down No. 1 North Carolina (44-5, 19-4 ACC), 5-4, in Atlanta.
The Tar Heels let an early 3-0 lead slip away Friday as the Yellow Jackets used a four-run third inning to take the lead.
Colin Moran hit his 13th home run of the year, a solo shot to dead center in the fifth inning to push things back level at 4-4.
That is the way the score would remain until Hyde hit his second home run of the year in the bottom of the ninth against Tar Heel starter Kent Emanuel.
Carolina jumped out to a 2-0 lead on the Yellow Jackets and starting pitcher Buck Farmer in the second inning.
After the first two Tar Heel batters in the inning went down swinging, Mike Zolk drew a two-out walk ahead of Parks Jordan.
Jordan fell behind 0-1 before connecting on a Farmer offering. The junior outfielder drove the pitch over the right center field wall for his first career home run as he put the Tar Heels in front, 2-0.
Carolina would tack on another run in the third when Chaz Frank lined a double the opposite way into the left field corner to open the inning. A ground out would move Frank to third and back-to-back walks would load the bases for Cody Stubbs.
Stubbs hit a high chopper to the first baseman who stepped on the bag at first for the second out of the inning as Frank scored from third.
Emanuel found himself in trouble in the bottom half of the third when Matt Gonzalez singled to open the inning before Thomas Smith followed with a line drive to center field. UNC center fielder Chaz Frank came in on the liner but the ball kept rising over Frank's head and reached the center field wall for a RBI triple.
Kyle Wren would follow with a RBI triple of his own to cut the Tar Heel lead to 3-2 with one out and the tying run at third.
Emanuel forced a shallow fly ball to right field for the second out of the inning but was unable to escape further damage when Zane Evans connected on a two-run home run to put Georgia Tech up 4-3.
Moran would knot things up at 4-4 in the fifth inning when he connected on a 1-2 offering from Farmer and sent it over the center field wall for his 13th home run of the year.
Carolina would put two runners on base in the sixth inning but were unable to score as the Tar Heels were held without a baserunner through the final three innings by Farmer and relief pitcher Daniel Palka.
Emanuel settled in after the shaky third inning and allowed just two base runners past first over the next five frames.
The loss was the second of the year for Emanuel as Palka improved to 1-0 on the year with the relief win.
Carolina will look to bounce back on Saturday as right-hander Benton Moss takes the mound for the Tar Heels who will be vying to avoid their first losing streak of the year. First pitch is set for 6 p.m.


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Genome Therapeutics (Nasdaq: GENE), which uses its own proprietary analytical tools to identify and characterize genes, jumped $4 1/2 to $13 1/2 after forming an alliance with American Home Products' (NYSE: AHP) Wyeth-Ayerst drug unit to develop therapies to treat and prevent osteoporosis. As part of the agreement, Wyeth-Ayerst has agreed to pay an up-front license fee and will provide milestone payments that could exceed $118 million if the multiyear research program is carried out to full term.
Web hosting and Internet data centers firm Exodus Communications (Nasdaq: EXDS) picked up $7 7/16 to $87 1/2 after PaineWebber raised its 12-month price target for the firm to $105 per share from $78 per share, citing higher revenue expectations.
Photographic products company Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK) gained $4 11/16 to $62 1/16 after naming former Unisys (NYSE: UIS) CFO Robert Brust as its new CFO. Unisys fell $1 7/16 to $30 15/16 on the news of Brust's abrupt departure.
Automated teller machines and data warehousing company NCR Corp. (NYSE: NCR) charged ahead $3 11/16 to $36 1/4 on news that it will be added to the S&P 500 Index. Two other new additions to the index rose as well, with oil driller Transocean Offshore (NYSE: RIG) climbing $2 9/16 to $29 11/16 and bank holding company First Security Corp. (Nasdaq: FSCO) advancing $1 5/16 to $29 3/4.
Online financial research portal Multex.com (Nasdaq: MLTX) moved up $8 3/8 to $38 3/8 after signing a multiyear, multimillion dollar agreement to develop research websites for institutional clients of brokerage firm Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER). As part of the deal, Merrill Lynch will take an undisclosed stake in Multex.com and transfer proprietary research technologies to the firm.
Networking products company 3Com (Nasdaq: COMS) shed $4 11/16 to $48 7/16 after warning that a Y2K-related revenue slowdown will lead to fiscal Q3 EPS flat with last year's $0.24, missing the First Call mean estimate of $0.32. SunTrust Equitable Securities and SG Cowen cut their ratings on the firm today.
Desktop software maker Corel Corp. (Nasdaq: CORL) dropped $5 3/8 to $13 3/16 after saying it will report a fiscal Q4 loss of $0.14 per share, down from last year's profit of $0.10 and short of the First Call mean earnings estimate of $0.15. The company said sales into the distribution channel of $77 million amounted to only $61 million of recognizable revenue in the quarter, which is a nice way of saying that Corel has been stuffing the channel like Julia Child stuffing a Christmas goose.
Pagers and wireless e-mail products developer Research in Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) was ripped for a $3 1/4 loss to $43 after the company reportedly told analysts that shipments of its interactive pagers to client BellSouth (NYSE: BLS) are being delayed from January until April as the Baby Bell sorts out an inventory imbalance, according to Bloomberg News.
Print shop roll-up firm Consolidated Graphics (NYSE: CGX) tumbled $5 7/8 to $14 1/2 after warning that weak industry conditions will lead to fiscal Q3 EPS of $0.56 compared to $0.60 a year ago, falling shy of the First Call mean estimate of $0.70. The company also said its results in Q4 will be comparable to Q3.
Medical products and outsourcing services firm Colorado MEDtech (Nasdaq: CMED) slid $5 7/16 to $8 after saying its fiscal Q2 EPS will fall short of the First Call mean estimate of $0.19 due to product shipment delays.
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AOL Hunts for Eyeballs With MapQuest.com
Brian Graney (TMF Panic)
Online services giant America Online (NYSE: AOL) has carved out a name by offering a popular way of navigating the vast expanses of the online medium. Now, the company is branching out to help users find their way around their own neighborhoods and the most direct route from Flagstaff - Tallahassee.
This morning, AOL announced that it is acquiring online mapmaker MapQuest.com (Nasdaq: MQST) in a stock swap valued at about $1.1 billion. Under the deal, each MapQuest share will be converted into 0.31558 of an AOL share, which works out to a value of $26.82 per share based on AOL's closing price yesterday. That's roughly the same price as the closing price of MapQuest's shares last Friday, prior to the stock's 21% run-up over the past two trading days ahead of the deal. Not surprisingly, MapQuest's shares quickly gave back most of this week's gain this morning as buy-on-the-rumor traders completed their time-worn Wall Street pas de deux by selling on the news.
As part of the required sales pitch to investors, AOL management stressed the important role it sees MapQuest playing on the local commerce level. "Eighty percent of purchases occur 20 minutes from home and MapQuest will give us additional strength in this critical local market, with maps and directions driving
new increases in local commerce,'' said AOL executive Ted Leonsis. The idea is to add AOL advertisers on the local level, weaving AOL even further into the fabric of its users' everyday lives.
New-age PR firms and consultants may get weepy upon hearing such a strategy, but the prime rationale behind the purchase most certainly is Internet business at its cut-and-dried best. MapQuest has one thing that every Internet company -- even a 20 million-member powerhouse like AOL -- covets: eyeballs, and lots of them. According to Media Metrix, MapQuest is a top 50 website in terms of reach. It also delivers its mapping services to almost 1,000 websites and is linked to by almost 170,000 sites.
In this sense, AOL is not looking for MapQuest to provide incremental earnings to the bottom-line right away. Rather, it wants the incremental eyeballs, which may be used to generate more earnings at some point down the road. Shelling out a chunk of the company for potential earning power instead of kinetic earning power is nothing new in the merger and acquisition game, but the stock-for-eyeballs aspect of deals like today's AOL-MapQuest link-up adds a new twist.
Valuing Internet companies is still more art than science -- some would say an abstract art at that -- but there is little doubt that eyeballs are playing a big role in determining today's valuations. A recent Credit Suisse First Boston report found that the largest sites on the Web also attract the most traffic. In an index of 400 pure-play dot-com companies, the report's authors also found that 40% of the total market capitalization of the index was supplied by the four largest firms.
If this "biggest site wins" theory continues to hold in the years to come, then buying up eyeballs might be the most effective way for large Internet firms like AOL to influence their short-term market valuations. But unless all of the old valuation rules of yesteryear have been thoroughly wiped out by the Internet, at some point earnings from those eyeballs will need to support those valuations.
Everybody Wants to Get Into the Venture Act
Dave Marino-Nachison (TMF Braden)
Hotcha! Enthralled by the never-say-down stocks of e-incubators CMGI (Nasdaq: CMGI) and Internet Capital Group (Nasdaq: ICGE), companies are flocking to the Internet venture business like Kleenex salesmen to The Schnoz himself. As a result, there are about as many ways for investors to play the sector as there are comic bits in which Jimmy Durante butchers the English language.
Best known are the big-dollar pure plays such as CMGI and Internet Capital Group. Let's throw Safeguard Scientifics (NYSE: SFE) into the mix as well, since it's a stock we've written about quite a bit.
But there are plenty of other ways to get involved, and the attraction is obvious. Companies in the venture business hope the cash they use to get new businesses rolling will eventually pay off many times over when they sell shares in those companies either to the public or to other interested parties. The practice, in theory, lets venture capitalists with new enterprises running low revenues and long losses rack up earnings out the wazoo even as their assets are just establishing their footing (see this old CMGI article for more).
What investors are essentially paying for here, though, is not so much a company and its operations but a management that has a sense for how, where, and when to allocate capital, evaluate business models, and gauge market sentiment. It's a different sort of risk than many investors are accustomed to, though the potential rewards are significant to say the least. But today's movement of venture companies to the public markets means investors can get a piece of the action with ease. Two of today's hot stocks highlight the interest in these opportunities.
Shares of Harris & Harris Group (Nasdaq: HHGP) jumped more than 40% today. The stock has risen rapidly over the last several weeks as the company has kept investors abreast of developments at its 12-company suite of investments, which includes stakes in online scientific equipment marketplace operator SciQuest.com (Nasdaq: SQST) and e-business software company Silknet Software (Nasdaq: SILK).
Hoping for a pop is Wit Capital (Nasdaq: WITC), which we covered in November when it bought SoundView Technology to bolster its research offerings. Investors are also watching everything from Winfield Capital (Nasdaq: WCAP) and FrontLine Capital (Nasdaq: RSII) -- formerly Reckson Services Indus. -- to lightly traded over-the-counter stocks like Cozmoz.com.
But venture capital isn't just the province of venture capitalists, as many companies have decided they want to cash in on the market's enthusiasm for fast-growth start-up businesses in a move not only to fire up revenues through investment-for-business partnerships but to reclaim investors' attention during bullish times.
Telecom billing and customer management systems developer Intasys Corp. (Nasdaq: INTA), meanwhile, rose nearly 30% today as its recently launched "incubator" division celebrated the first IPO filing of its investments: interWAVE Communications, a compact wireless systems developer, which filed to raise more than $86 million by selling 7.5 million shares to the public. Intasys owns 715,000 shares of the company, plus warrants to buy another 715,000 for a buck apiece.
Intasys is anything but alone in branching out. Just this month, we've noted in Foolish news columns how embattled information technology consultant Cambridge Technology Partners (Nasdaq: CATP) plans an initiative to build and fund start-up application service provider companies or e-business firms with eyes toward taking them public. And IT services giant EDS (NYSE: EDS) said even more recently it will establish a $1.5 billion fund for investing in Internet and business-to-business companies.
Individual investors trying to profit from the recent flood of money into new enterprises through publicly traded venture investors or companies with investment arms have a bevy of factors to consider as they need asses not only a company as a whole but its assets and its ability to develop them into viable businesses -- at least long enough to sell the shares. A good place to get started is always the Fool's message board: Nico's Internet Nook might be a good place to look for more information.
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The Price of a Dream
Selena Maranjian (TMF Selena)
-- It's not often that I read a book that's a page-turner and also gives me many insights into the business world. I just did, and I'd like to tell you a little about it. It's The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank by David Bornstein. As you probably know, we're in the last stretch of our third annual Foolanthropy charity drive here at the Fool. We asked members of the community to nominate charities and we selected five to raise money for this holiday season. One of the charities in our group is the Grameen Foundation USA.
Bell Atlantic Going, Going, Long
Richard McCaffery (TMF Gibson)
-- The Federal Communications Commission is expected today to grant local telecommunications company Bell Atlantic (NYSE: BEL) permission to enter the long distance phone market in the state of New York, making it the first baby bell to provide long distance service in its own market. If it happens -- and the FCC has been widely reported as leaning in favor of approving Bell's bid -- consumers and shareholders should see rewards quickly. The system isn't perfect, but competition always makes companies smarter and leaner.
More FoolishnessFools debate whether it's just child's play at 4Kids Entertainment... Applied Materials' Chairman talks about the notoriously cyclical semiconductor business...
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Silverware Sorter Drawer
Finally, a space for my medium and mini dessert forks. Also, a slot for butter knives and tea thingies!
Cooking Utensil Drawer
I used to have all of these things in a vase, but now that I've gone minimalist and have the extra space I stuck them all in a drawer. Before the dividers, with daily use, everything would slowly migrate to the middle and tangle.
Knife Drawer, revisited
A safe haven from children for all of my sharp things. Slots for steak knives, cheese knives, chef, bread, mezzaluna and other large specialty knives. The last slot is for the sharpening rod (or whatever it's called). Skewers get tucked on the side opposite of zesters, baller, peeler and a cork screw. I originally wrote an excruciatingly detailed description here about how the idea came to me and how I made it... but let's just cut to the drawer photos, no?
In the bedroom... jewlery drawer
I did this a long time ago and never had a reason to post it. I used an IKEA Inreda DVD drawer insert, and some ice cube trays to keep all my bling organized. Further on the right, not pictured, are additional ice cube trays, and a small pillow for pin parking.
So.... what should I organize next?
[insert mad scientist laugh here]
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FOR RELEASE: Immediate, Tuesday, February 22, 2000
Hudson Valley Community College's Automotive Program and the DaimlerChrysler Corporation Fund recently cemented their ongoing partnership, which is geared at ensuring that the Troy college continues to send qualified auto technicians into the workforce.
Gary Vleck, a DaimlerChrysler technical advisor and the Chrysler/Dealer Apprenticeship Program coordinator, visited Hudson Valley Community College on February 15 and presented Chrysler Automotive professor Harold Matthews with a $10,000 check from the DaimlerChrysler Corporation Fund. The money is part of a grant.
"We know that now, and in the next five years, we need technicians," Vleck said. "There's a shortage of quality technicians, and this is one way that we can recruit good technicians and continue to service automobiles."
"There's a shortage of about 68,000 technicians in the United States," Matthews said.
To that end, the job placement rate after graduation from the Automotive programs at Hudson Valley Community College approaches 100 percent. Beginning salaries range from $25,000 and up, and some technicians are commanding salaries of more than $60,000.
"These are good jobs," Matthews said. "They don't call them mechanics anymore. They're technicians. They work with computers quite extensively."
In addition to the $10,000 grant, DaimlerChrysler regularly donates vehicles to Hudson Valley Community College. The college's Automotive department currently boasts 15 automobiles courtesy of DaimlerChrysler, including Jeep Grand Cherokees, Dodge Neons and Dodge Intrepids. Students disassemble and reassemble the vehicles, learning to work with each model. DaimlerChrysler also contributes computer systems, tools and textbooks.
And DaimlerChrysler recently donated a Dodge Viper, valued at $68,000.
"We won't really get into tearing that apart," said Matthews, laughing as he walked by the cherry-red sports car. "That's more of a recruiting tool."
According to Matthews, the $10,000 grant will be used primarily to purchase new equipment. He said the money allows Hudson Valley Community College to keep up with cutting-edge technology. A portion will also go toward recruiting new students.
"There's good support from local dealerships," said Vleck, referring to the apprenticeships many of Hudson Valley Community College's Automotive department students perform. "The students get a lot of hands-on experience through the dealerships. They're assigned a trained technician who oversees their work and guides them. Then, after they graduate, the students can become employed full-time at the dealership."
"DaimlerChrysler is looking at the end product when they donate automobiles and money," Matthews said. "The end result is that our students are trained on their vehicles."
Hudson Valley Community College, located in Troy, offers more than 50 degree and certificate programs in four academic divisions; Business; Engineering and Industrial Technologies; Health Sciences; and Liberal Arts and Sciences. One of 30 community colleges in the State University of New York system, Hudson Valley has an enrollment of more than 9,000 students each year, and is known as a leader in distance learning initiatives and worker retraining.


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Emmanuel Adebayor has a busy summer ahead, but, to a certain extent, it won't be a happy one.
The Togo international will end the season as one of the Premier League's most prolific marksmen, but other than his inclucion in the PFA Team of the Year, Adebayor is largely empty-handed. For him, his goals are worth little without trophies at the end.
"If somebody said to me, 'you will only score 10 goals this season, but you will win the league', of course I would go for that," he told the matchday programme. "No matter how many goals I end up with, it looks like I will go on my holidays this summer empty-handed, so it's very difficult to say I am pleased with the season."
And while many of his team-mates head to Austria and Switzerland for the European Championships, the Arsenal striker will be heading home to Africa. He has matters to address both on the field, and off it.
"I have two World Cup qualifiers for Togo at the end of the month," said Adebayor. "Then I'll have my holiday afterwards, but I'll also be quite busy this summer.
"I won the BBC African Player of the Year, so as part of that I will be travelling back to Africa for a tour to meet some young lads out there and help give them ambition. I know a lot of boys in Africa have dreams of doing what I am doing now. They saw me when I was young in Togo and they can see where I am now.
"I can show them that if I can do it, then they can too. The secret is to believe in yourself. That is the message I always say. No matter what happens, or what others say, you must believe in yourself, and also work hard.
"If you do that, you will be successful in life."


text: I have these 2 rusty crusty barn finds. I need wheels to fit 26 x 2.125 tires - or wheels with nice tires. The wheels need to have good working hubs with coaster brake and true. Pick-up in North Central Texas west of Fort Worth - or I have family near Waco, in Kerrville, and near Austin. 1945 (possibly a little earlier) Champ GONE Wards Hawthorn - clean and straight cut on rear fork


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Can I fit a non airbag steering wheel to my coupe with an airbag?
simply cos the original standard one is it shocking condition and I want an M3 style one. Do I have to shell out for a fancy one with an airbag or can I fit a non airbag one?
Can I fit a non airbag steering wheel to my coupe with an airbag?
simply cos the original standard one is it shocking condition and I want an M3 style one. Do I have to shell out for a fancy one with an airbag or can I fit a non airbag one?
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depends if you want to live? lol thats a bit blunt, but basically if you remove your steering wheel and fit one without you will need to disconect the steering wheel and remove it, sounds simple but i bet its not, and then also if you do have a crash you might feel a bit more pain if its a bad one :P
but you can do anything you want mate also the insurance company will want to know
Airbag light isn't currently an MOT failiure... I am sure that it will be one day soon (if the Ministry get their way)...
Therefore, I think that it might be better to source a steering wheel that will fit, is in better condition and also retains the all important safety device
obviousy it would be better and I plan getting one at somepoint I just want something that is in better nick for now, I can always remove the airbag bulb if necessary. obviously you desconnect your battery for about 20 mins before unplugging any airbag feature. But I just wanted to know if it will fit.
It will fit in your car as long as the wheel you will be using is suitable for the E36. I wouldn't worry too much about using a non airbag type. I certainly wouldn't be counting on an airbag 16 years old to deploy correctly, if at all!
Removal of the wheel is very straight forward. Simply remove the front centre of the steering wheel to uncover a large bolt, undo this and the wheel should just slide straight off, make sure to disconnect the battery and connections behind the wheel.
ya I've changed wheels in the past, jsut wanted to know if the non airbag/airbag ones were compatiable, obviously I'lbe getting one that's comeoff an E36 so should be no problems. Just wanted to know if the airbag can just be left unplugged.....
I hope so because my airbag isn't connected. The previous owner butchered the airbag connection on the car so I'm running it totally unplugged.
hehe, I'm watching a few on ebay, found some with airbags too so hopefully I'll get one of those then wont have to worry. If not then I now it's ok to run without one.
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text: Does anyone actually think we won't get the #1 pick from Miami? Think about it for a moment. BP lives by this unwritten code of ethics that you don't go after a former teams players. He refused to bring in Vinaterri (sp?), after he left NE, because of his former relationship with Bellicheat. Also, he "chastised" Sean Payton publicly for attempting to sign Dallas' free agents and players. BP has often talked about the unwritten code, and I feel that this code also extends to front office personnel as well. The fact that JJ is being so accommodating in BP's efforts to "take" most of our scouting department to Miami, tells me that there must be an agreement between the two. If not, then BP would lose considerable face among his peers for not living up to the code that he has preached for coaches to honor. I've watched/listened to BP for many years now and one thing that I always respected about him is that he's not a liar or a hypocrite. I can't remember any interview in which he's told one lie. If he's asked a question that he doesn't want to answer truthfully, he usually just finessed his way around it w/o lying. This shows me he's a man of integrity that lives by a certain standard. The only way BP can come out of this "raiding" of our front office, with his name and reputation intact, is to show his peers that this was done with JJ's approval by trading away the #1 pick to Dallas. JMO, what do you guys/gals think?


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Learning how to improve your handicap can go a long way towards improving your overall golf game. However, one of the first things that you need to remember is your handicap is not actually the score of a single game. For example, if you play a single game of a 10 over par, then it [...] Read more
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If you have ever looked lonely onto a golf course and wished that you were capable of playing just as well as the professionals do, or if you have ever found yourself watching television wishing you could play along with them you may have the idea of golf lessons in your head. This is a [...] Read more
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Learning to golf successfully is not something that you can really learn while playing a video game. This news is sometimes a crushing blow to those who have spent hours playing Nintendo's Wii Sports but it is in fact the crushing reality. Learning how to play golf in real life is sometimes very complicated and [...] Read more


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Posted by Phil Murphy on August 31, 2011
In Champions Of Change: The App Dev & Delivery Role In 2020, we began to think about the business climate in the year 2020 and how it affects the application development and delivery role. Building on that theme, turn your attention for a moment to your existing application portfolio.
UGH! Yes, that dark, dank, ugly bucket into which you've been dumping applications, enhancements, and upgrades for decades - that place where even though it is overflowing, only a few intrepid souls have the courage to look. What do you see? Duplication? Yes. Waste? Yes. Needless heterogeneity? Yes. A tangled mess of point-to-point, siloed, marginally integrated apps and data seething and roiling with cost, complexity, and other innovation-crushing-demons?
If you are both truthful and like most of your peers, there is only one answer: Yes, to all of the above! OK, so let's stipulate that's at least partially true for all of us and that there is a chasm between that "place where demons be" and where your business leaders would like to be today. How will you begin to sort it out, state its health and future usefulness, then reshape it toward the future that awaits us in 2020? Do you even try? Here are a few schools of thought meant to spur debate:
Scenario 1 - You don't even try, because you know you'll rewrite all those apps before 2020
Posted by Phil Murphy on August 23, 2011
Can you remember what life was like 10 years ago? How were your personal life and professional life different than they are today? Here are a few reminders about life in 2001:


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Eurotunnel today slammed the Competition Commission's "incomprehensible" decision to bar the Channel Tunnel operator from running ferries on the Dover to Calais route, after the watchdog provisionally ruled it does have the power to introduce the ban.
Eurotunnel set up MyFerryLink after buying three of collapsed operator SeaFrance's four vessels for €65 million (£54 million) in 2012. Last June, the commission said it would force Eurotunnel to close down the business, but the continental trains firm won an appeal of that decision. Since January, the commission has been musing whether it has jurisdiction over Eurotunnel's purchase of SeaFrance's assets.
Today Alasdair Smith, commission deputy chairman, said the deal was a takeover and "it would have faced a much longer, more expensive and riskier process to get the service up and running if it had tried to buy alternative assets in the market". The final verdict will be published in May.
Eurotunnel said the decision was "completely contradictory to that expressed previously by the French competition authorities" and said MyFerryLink had not negatively affected the market.Reuse content