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The "spring splurge" has given Hawke's Bay's property market a significant boost, local agents say.
"It's very busy, there's lots of buyers through open homes, and a lot of contracts being signed," Simon Tremain of Tremain Real Estate said.
Colliers International director Cam Ward said buyer activity was up noticeably from previous years.
"Certainly we are noticing a spring in the market in terms of activity considering the last three years have been a bit quiet," he said.
"We launched Sotheby's last week and have already had some good activity in that higher price bracket."
The QV Quarterly Property Report, released yesterday, shows the Auckland property market is again leading the way nationwide.
However, sale prices in the provinces, with the exception of Canterbury and Hamilton, have been stagnant or declining, with some prices down by more than 20 per cent compared with 2007.
The Hawke's Bay property market had been good through winter, with a 20 per cent increase on last year's sale volumes, Mr Tremain said.
"Winter's been pretty steady, but spring, I think is gonna be huge," he said.
During the market's low, 100 to 150 houses were sold a month in Hawke's Bay, but that figure had now increased to 200 to 250.
"The spring splurge is bringing lots more properties on," Mr Tremain said.
Mr Ward said: "There is definitely a spring in activity."
Nationally, 65 of the 118 towns and suburbs north of Turangi declined in the last quarter, with Hamilton providing the only encouragement.
The soft regional market reflects weak demand from buyers and inflated prices in some areas.
Auckland has been described as a sellers' market with sale volumes during winter (traditionally a flat time for sales and prices) returning to peak 2007 levels.
ASB chief economist Nick Tuffley said the housing market was seeing gradual improvement.
"A lot of the improvement has been in terms of sales turnover increasing and prices increasing out of Canterbury and Auckland," Mr Tuffley said.
"There's a degree of stabilisation in the wider market but what we've seen in those two regions is a lot more heat coming through."
That "heat" was driven by supply shortages and surging demand, Mr Tuffley said.
"Starting with Auckland ... building activity has been relatively moderate but the population has continued to gradually grow.
"Auckland tends to be the dominant destination for a lot of immigrants and there's often a degree of urban drift as well."
The population in Auckland had been growing, but house construction had not kept pace with demand.
"We've got too many people chasing too few homes," the economist said.
Mortgage rates were at record lows and Mr Tuffley said they were likely to remain low if the situation in Europe did not spark any spectacular crises with global implications.
There was limited scope for interest rates to fall any further, however a rise was not expected until mid-next year.


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From 1881-1908 Benjamin Tucker published the anarchist journal Liberty with the telling subtitle 'The Mother, not the Daughter of Order'. Tucker was an ardent defender of Individualist Anarchism. Individual Liberty is a collection of Tucker's essays and editorials. Many thanks to my friend Heidi for the copy of this scarce book.
Preface and Forward to the book Individual Liberty.
How Far they Agree and Wherein they Differ. Arguably Tucker's best essay.
The Relation of the State to the Individual How much
Allegiance do we owe to the State?
Liberty's Declaration of Purpose from Volume 1, Issue #1. of Liberty Magazine.
Anarchism and the State in which Tucker defines and defends Anarchism.
"I do not admit anything except the existence of the individual, as a condition of his sovereignty."
Resistance to Government Regarding pacifism and the legitimate use of force.
Liberty and Organization Individualism and Anarchism.
Liberty and Taxation The power to tax is the most vital power of the State.
Anarchism and Crime. Tucker answers the misconception that Anarchism would equate to chaos.
Liberty and Politics. Freedom is nothing if not total.
Liberty and Prohibition. From vice to tarrifs, liberty must be indivisible.
Anarchism and Capital Punishment. Interesting anarchist perspective on a disputed topic.
Liberty and Property Tucker gives his definition of property according to Anarchism.
Anarchism and Force Tucker explains his rejection of Pacifism.
Passive Resistance Violence is counter-productive.
The Futility of the Ballot The ballot as force on a social level.
Voluntary Cooperation a Remedy Society must be organized without privelege or invasion.
Capital, Profits and Interest Workers must own their products
with profit based on productivity.
Free Money First In a more advanced economy, free money, not free land, is the first goal.
Free Banking The banks must be demonopolized and submitted to competition.
The Abolition of Interest Interest is usury and must be replaced.
Necessity for a Standard of Value. Is a monetary system possible without a standard of value?
The Redemption of Paper Money. Mutual Banking and the idea of immediate redemption.
Government and Value. Government cannot fix value, but can and does affect value.
Henry George and Interest. Where there is no monopoly, there will be little or no interest.
Various Money Schemes. Critique of the Greenbackers, defense of Proudhon's Exchange Bank.
Land for the People. Regarding the Irish Nationalization of land issue.
Rent. Tucker defends Proudhon's ideas on Rent.
Economic Rent. "Occupancy and use is the only title to land..."
Liberty, Land and Labor. Occupancy and use, questions of rent, labor, interest.
Property Under Anarchism. Tucker's ideas on title and occupancy under Anarchism.
Occupancy and Use Versus the Single Tax. Single Tax criticisms, Property Titles under Anarchism.
George and the Single Tax. The Single Taxers derided, taxation equated with coersion.
Refusal to Pay Rent. The Irish Land League as an example of resistance.
The Attitude of Anarchism Toward Industrial Combinations. Attack on the Four Great Monopolies.
Strikes and Force. Comments regarding the tactics of the Homestead Strike.
Labor and Its Pay. Criticism of communist anarchism's disdain of selling one's labor as a product.
The Post Office and Private Mail Service. Competition and the Free Market.
Liberty or Authority. Anarchism contrasted with State Socialism and Communism.
Liberty and Labor. Free banking and Britain's labor troubles.
Competition and Cooperation. More discussion of Monopoly and privelege.
Liberty and the Boycott. The right of groups to assemble and boycott.
Anarchism and Copyright. Discussion of intellectual property and copyright.
Bibliography for Individual Liberty.
Hyperlinked Index for Individual Liberty.

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Before I bring you the next thrilling page, howsabout a nice long diversion into process and what makes story work, wherein I'll thrill you with the inner mechanisms of sequential art (which I only imperfectly apprehend myself) and why comic art is important…
…Or, I could just let you read the next sliver of story. Let's do that instead.
And you thought this scene would wrap up on a Friday. Psych!
Come back Monday. I'd say come back tomorrow, but nobody surfs on a Saturday.


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This Sumo was...a little surprised about something...
Did you know that Pinterest surpassed Google+, YouTube and LinkedIn combined in referral traffic?
I choked on my sushi taco after reading this bit of information.
And now...now I find out that it has beaten Twitter out in referral traffic. TWITTER.
This is insane...and yet sexily appealing. This is good information (and a huge motivation booster) to start using a free service like Pinterest to market your business.
Here's why...
● Drive a massive and consistent stream of quality traffic to your site
● Sends quality traffic that can turn into more sales. In the last six months, the retail deal site ideeli.com has seen a 446% increase in traffic from Pinterest and sales resulting from those visits have increased by 500%
● Provides a platform to establish your credibility, build relationships with prospective customers, and become a leader in your industry.
Can you even begin to fathom the potential to reach thousands of new customers for your business using this?
If you're unsure about HOW you can do that for your business or if this course is right for you...
Here are 3 surprising strategies you can use TODAY to see for yourself...
1. Create Effective Captions - People make the mistake of NOT using captions to describe their pins. Don't be like them, you're smarter than that.
Captions make it easy for people to find your pins and act as keywords. So if your pin falls under multiple categories like House Warming Gift and Wedding Gift, then use those in your description! Then give users a call to action like "Click This Pin to see more gift ideas". It works.
2. "Pin It" Button - Create a Pin It button to use next to any image on your site to let people pin items on your site easily and include "make to sure to pin this to let people know you like it".
Remember, sometimes you just have to tell people what to do to get a response.
3. Get your pins added in the "Gift" section on Pinterest. This lets people shop for your products on Pinterest.
But most businesses don't have a clue as to how they can get their Pins in the Gift section. All you have to do is write the price in the caption and a banner automatically gets added to your image. Shhh...it's a secret between you and I.
Go ahead...try it out. This is just a small example of what I've learned from this course...but there's soooo much moooooar!
Listen here Sumo-ling...
So let's dig in my soon to be Power Pinner...
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So when she speaks...or creates a course like this...you should probably listen and take notes because her info is digital gold.
And she's the one who's sharing invaluable information on how to be a Pinterest Power User in this Power of Pinning course. (If I DID have to place a value on this...I'd say at the very least $500)
After taking this course you'll...
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● Module 1 – Pinterest 101
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● Module 4 - Case Studies
● Module 5 - All About Branding
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...Chief Sumo thinks he SHOULD take $100 off so you'll only have to pay $97.
I like Chief Sumo solution.
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Way to copy people and pawn it off as your own.
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I thought this product would provide marketing tactics for Pinterest. Instead, it provided a tutorial of how to use it. You can either find this stuff for free or figure it out yourself...
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Yesterday I had to pick up a prescription at Target so while I was waiting I looked around to see if there was anything I could get for free or really cheap. I didn't find much of anything besides some gift bags that I'm always in need of marked down to 75% off. After I left Target I drove down the road a ways. I pulled over and decided to stop in a few stores instead of head right home. I pretty much walked in and walked out. Sure I saw a few things I might like but when I looked at the price tags and compared them in my brain to prices that I know I could pay for them at a thrift store or at a rummage sale it didn't even compare. And I don't really need any new clothing or shoes so I couldn't really justify the purchase.
I'll admit it, I love to shop. That's one part of being frugal that's hard for me. I love to look around and see all the cute things that I don't have. I'm not really sure what it is, maybe it's just because I'm a girl and I love to shop!
I rarely go into stores that don't have something that I need. So basically I stick to grocery stores, Sam's Club, Target, Walgreens, and that's pretty much it. Like I've said before I only get to town maybe once a week or once every 2 weeks so I pretty much only hit up those stores. Occasionally I also get to Michael's to get a few crafty things like yarn.
Yesterday when I went into those few stores I felt a little weird. I knew I didn't want to spend my extra money on the things in those stores and yet I wanted to be in there anyways. Some of the stores have been there for about a year to 2 years and I had never stepped foot in them before.
So all this is fine and dandy for my daily life. The desire to shop is always there but I control it pretty well. I stick to only buying what I need and stay away from the "shopping for fun" thing. I think it's a good stratgy for everyday living and I'm sure it saves us alot of money.
So is there somethin wrong with shopping just to shop. Absolutely not. Sometimes it's ok to break that frugal streak and just have fun! For me, this is when we are on vacation. Alright now I'm going to tell you my vacation plans and you may think I'm crazy but hey, it's works for us!
When I start planning our trip I map out the roads. Then I head over to the surplus store directory. I look up the stores that might be on the road and I write down the addresses for those stores so we can stop. I also check out the grocery stores in the areas that we will be headed to. I will look up those stores flyers a few days before we leave and I clip coupons and write down things that I can get for free or super cheap. I'm also on the lookout for produce deals as it seems that our produce is very expensive here compared to other states and areas. Then I look up and ask around about stores that might be in the area that I want to go to. Those are non-grocery stores, and yes I will be shopping at them, for fun.
For me, it's part of vacation, to not only be able to take a break from my daily routine but my normal shopping routine too. We set a limit of what I can spend and what the hubby can spend. We are allowed to spend that amount on whatever we want without having to ask each other about the purchase first. It's just fun!
So I do 2 things on vacation. I find things to save money on that I might not normally find around our area but I also get to shop just for fun. For me, both things is fun. I love to save money and shop discount stores, and I love to shop for fun. It makes a great vacation for me and since we've already talked about it and set the money aside for both bargain shopping and shopping for fun.
What about you? Do you shop for fun? Do you set limits on shopping for fun like I do?(ie: only shopping on vacation)
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Power, ambition, sex, religion, daddy issues—themes that have obsessed Paul Thomas Anderson throughout his patchy but compelling career. You'll find them all here and more in The Master, a feverish snapshot of America at the dawn of the '50s, war fresh in its mind. Anderson's dazzling feature is also, notoriously, a thinly veiled portrait of the birth of Z-grade science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard's celebrity-endorsed religion, though less barbed than you might expect.
Credit for this nuanced approach should go to Philip Seymour Hoffman, who imbues title character Lancaster Dodd with a large dollop of avuncular charm. One gets the impression that "The Cause," Dodd's teachings that claim to have the potential to cure cancer and bring about world peace, is simply an outlandish bit of mischief that's gotten out of hand, a petty confidence racket that requires increasingly flamboyant lies as his followers multiply.
The film opens like a playful Beau Travail. WWII is nearing its end and on a golden South Pacific beach members of the U.S. Navy lark in the blue surf like they're in an Old Spice commercial. One of these sailors, Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix, gaunt, loose-limbed, in Two Lovers form), stands out from the wholesome crowd. Freddie is pure id, a volatile ball of bodily functions and uncontrollable urges. After entertaining his buddies by miming a sex act with an anatomically correct female sand sculpture, he wades knee-deep into the drink to jerk off. This is as close to contentment as we'll see Freddie for the rest of the film.
Anderson uses terse scenes and elliptical fades to black to usher us quickly through the first act, taking in the end of war and Freddie's miserable post-military existence. A career as a department-store photographer is cut short when he inexplicably beats up a middle-aged customer, and life as a farmhand is similarly short lived when he poisons a fellow cabbage picker with his paint-stripping homemade liquor.
It's while on the run from this crime that he sneaks on board a luxury yacht captained by Dodd. The svengali takes a shine to his uncouth stowaway. When he scolds his outrageous behavior ("scoundrel," "silly animal"), it's like a mother delighting in the antics of her cheeky newborn. Dodd welcomes him into the family to be his "guinea pig and protégé." It's as if he thinks that if he can steer this lost cause to the path of the Cause he can surely achieve anything.
Both men are typical Anderson protagonists. Freddie (combustible, unlucky in love) shares DNA with Adam Sandler's hot-tempered salesman in Punch-Drunk Love and several of the angry child-men from Magnolia. Hoffman's Dodd, meanwhile, seems like an amalgam of Daniel Day-Lewis's oil entrepreneur from There Will Be Blood and Tom Cruise's male-empowerment guru, another from Magnolia's ensemble. As ever, Anderson gives his actors long leashes, and Hoffman and Phoenix pull on them tightly—just short of the breaking point. (It will be a brave Oscar bookie who gives long odds on either walking away with a gold statuette come next year's awards pantomime.)
Anderson and cinematographer Mihai Malaimare Jr., who earned his stripes with Francis Ford Coppola during his recent florid period, nail the fine-grained '50s detail and Sirk-like color schemes. Epic in scope but free of fat, The Master is, in the end, a fascinating companion piece to There Will Be Blood, another study in megalomania. It's also rich in humanity, a quality that can sometimes play second fiddle to Anderson's grand vision. For all the fiery head to heads that pulsate through the veins of Anderson's film, the scene to be locked away and kept for the ages is of Dodd sweetly serenading his prodigal son with a plaintive rendition of "(I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China." Scientology is a red herring: This is a father-son love story, and it's caustic, complex, and utterly compelling.
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Apr 2 Posted 5 years ago
Good post indeed!
What I find particularily evident is that because most companies feel this way, they tend to put the people they believe are "social savvy" or at least understand the technical tools in one social media team / task force, and thus separates them from everything else in the business, while what actually would provide more value is doing it the hard way - training and educating and supporting each business function to utilize social elements to reach their business objectives. Naturally you would need a support function (social / digtial services support, similar to IT support role), but the point being that ANYONE can do it, you don't have to be a social media wizard...
Thanks for posting! Your blog post showed up in my twitter monitoring as my blog has a fairly similar name: socialasusual.wordpress.com...
Mar 26 Posted 5 years ago
Great post indeed. One way of effective business is keeping active on several known social network site for
calling several costumers or buyers. This are the one cool strategies use by rampant internet marketers nowadays.
Mar 19 Posted 5 years ago
Thank you Alex. I appreciate your opinion.
You're conceptually right regarding social media marketing, brand awareness, etc.. but I was writing more from the side of small groups of people in social media- whether it is a department in an IT firm or a small group of your most trusted friends.
An average of only 18% of your friends on Facebook ever read what you post. The algorithm on Facebook is structured in a very natural way. The more you interact with a friend the more Facebook will push their content towards you. Why? Because that's what you would expect in real life. You don't walk around spending most of your life with people you barely know, you spend it with your closest friends and family. For the grand majority of us, the content we publish on Facebook is not really meant for the consumption of hundreds of people.
That's why social networks have also seen the value of custom lists (Facebook) and circles (Google+) because they know that to survive they must adapt to our natural way of communicating, not the other way around.
You're right that most people are now very careful about what they post and that's a good thing! But most of us are not carrying a megaphone all the time because the people we really care about are few and it's not an issue to be yourself with them. We spend most of our time here, in this small comfy room.
Mar 19 Posted 5 years ago
Thank you Colin.
Small business is a great way to show how social media can be a natural transition for the owners. Instead of writing "ad style" people are much better off talking about their business as they would to someone walking through the door for the first time. Just because your message has a farther reach doesn't mean you need to turn into a drone with a scripted message. If you can have a civil and informative conversation when presenting your business or products to potential customers, then you should have no problem writing about it to hundreds or thousands of people on social networks.
Mar 19 Posted 5 years ago
Conceptually right, but you seem to be missing the point that social media interactions are mostly public (or at least visible to a much larger group) than you would normally communicate in an offline social network (phone or email).
You will never have the same conversation with an even a casual friend, if you were talking to him on a stage in front of 100 people, which is effectively what happens in any social media interaction (Twitter or Facebook). This tends to make interactions affected and often artificial than what you would normally tell your friend one-on-one. Most people are inherently not comfortable in speaking over a megaphone and that's a key difference.
Mar 18 Posted 5 years ago
Good article and bang on the money. I keep reminding people that social media is called 'social' for a reason - just be social. A good example is to look at the good small business owners. Typically these people become very successful through the way they socialise; they know the locals and they know how to listen, and they intuitively know when to pitch their business proposition.
These people have 'Ready Made' skills for social media, it's in their DNA! However, social media platforms seem foreign to them and when they do eventually get on; they feel they have to push messages in the same way the put messages in Yellow Pages or the local classifieds. If only they could relax and act no differently as they would when talking to casual visitors, friends and business people who they meet 'face to face' daily, social media will become be very easy and commercially very good for them.
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This level of shepherding is also evident in the applications themselves. For example when converting a video from DivX or Avi formats, to a PSP or iPod, both Nero's Recode, and Roxio's Convert Video applications guide the user from placing the video file in the application, to writing the converted video to the device.
Both take different approaches though. To use Nero you need to know exactly what you are doing, and what format you want to output to the device.
The PSP will play a variety of formats, including MPEG4 and the newer AVC format. Nero gives you the choice between these two formats, but guides users towards the older MPEG4 format. The best format of course is the newer AVC, but while Nero does have that encoding option right there on the main dialog box, it doesn't suggest that it's the correct format.
Roxio on the other hand doesn't give a wide variety of choices, for each format, you just choose PSP, which defaults the AVC, or iPod from the format list, drop your video file into the window and click burn. Both applications enable you to crop the video, cut titles or dead air from the start and end of you video, choose your own thumbnail, and queue multiple files for re-encoding and transfer.
How they transfer to the device is also very telling. Roxio is mega automatic. It
encodes the entire file, and after you've initially set up your folders, it transfers it to the PSP, telling you when to connect and disconnect your PSP. Conversely, you can set Nero to write the data as it's processed but the caveat is that if your PSP runs out of power, or is unplugged during the encoding process you can just reconnect it when the files are transferred. Nero writes to the branded PSP format on the fly, which saves a good few minutes of transfer time later on, but runs the risk of interrupting the encoding process or corrupting the video.
Both applications will encode a video to a target size or quality, but Nero definitely has the edge here with a wider variety of sizing options, as well as custom selection. Roxio simplifies the sizing to CD, DVD and the like, but you can create to a user-defined size very easily also.


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State of the University address
President Harvey Stenger, the vice presidents and the director of athletics presented the State of the University to the campus in January.
Provost Donald Nieman spoke about the growth in enrollment for both undergraduate and graduate students, as well as the addition of 34 net new faculty for the 2012-2013 academic year. He said 51 searches are underway for 2013-14.
The division's goals for the coming year include:
Enhancing the undergraduate experience by:
• recruiting even better-prepared students
• lowering the student-to-faculty ratio
• expanding undergraduate research
• enhancing the intellectual life of the residential communities
Increasing Binghamton's strength and reputation as a research university by developing transdisciplinary areas of excellence across the disciplines and cluster hiring in:
• smart energy
• healthcare
• citizenship, rights and cultural belonging
• material and visual worlds
• sustainable communities
Increasing graduate enrollment and the strength and visibility of graduate programs through:
• Graduate Growth initiative designed to increase enrollment in career-oriented master's programs
• Provost's Doctoral Fellowships designed to recruit the best and brightest PhD candidates
• more GAs to support research and teaching
Conducting a study on the academic desirability and financial feasibility of creating a pharmacy school, which Nieman said is one way to potentially make "a great University even stronger."
"I believe that pharmacy is an especially promising area for Binghamton University," he said. "We have not made the commitment to a pharmacy school. We have only made the commitment to study if it is right for Binghamton."
There are several reasons why a pharmacy school could be a good investment for Binghamton, Nieman said, adding that it would allow the University to increase its graduate enrollment with additional high-caliber students.
"By creating a doctoral-granting, research-oriented pharmacy school, it would allow us to enhance our research strengths in the life sciences and form productive collaborations with programs we have in behavioral neuroscience, biomedical engineering, biomedical anthropology, chemistry and nursing, among others," he said.
Nieman appointed a faculty committee including Associate Professor of Psychology Terrence Deak (chair), Professor of Chemistry Susan Bane, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Amber Doiron, Professor of Nursing and Anthropology Gary James, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences Karin Sauer and Interim Dean of the Graduate School Susan Strehle to study the academic merits of a pharmacy school. The committee has requested feedback from the campus. The Office of Institutional Research and Assessment will examine the financial feasibility.


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Hey Everybody. I've been stalking this forum for not too long now and I'd like to get some feedback or some suggestions on the direction of my car. I came from the Acura RSX community and one thing I've noticed is WRX and STi community is much more Functional/performance oriented. There's not a lot to do with our cars visually. Just some thoughts.
Everyone's ideas and critiques will be considered as I'm not to certain where to go from here with my car.
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All of the team are enthusiastic about teaching and training, undertaking both post graduate and undergraduate teaching. We would usually have 3 or 4 trainee doctors attached to the practice at any one time. The Practice also has Student Nurse placements.
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Pecan Tarts
Why have a slice of pecan pie when you can have your own individual tart? A thick, gooey pecan mixture is cradled by flaky dough, and then baked to perfection. You can make these in advance and display on tiered cupcake holders or serving platters for an elegant presentation.
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hey i getting a p00420 code saying my o2 sensor is bad, im running rich. any way a mechanic said before i buy a $200 sensor i should take it out and clean it off. will this work?
hey check out my O2 sensor, the place that swapped my motor pulled a fast one dont you think? I Need Your Help!!! Im I Getting Ripped Off?
Wow, that's really crappy!!! The housing looks bent as hell and the wires are obviously damaged. Who did this?
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What shop did the install??
I would demand for some cash.
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well i went back and they were like "this isnt our work we would at least have sodered it" then they magically came up with a o2 sensor well they just gave me that one and it works fine.so now im happy but i wonder if i needed all the other parts they said i needed and did they install them at all?
What shop is this?
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who's up for the Lake Superior Performance Rally ???
"I can resist everything except temptation."
I'm looking for a turbo legacy aka legacy SS or a brat. Runny D aka jeremy sold his SS. If anybody knows of one could you let me know.
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I will be there crewing for Team Ballast!!Originally Posted by vincent77
I am really looking forward to it!!
great I am trying to get some people to go up with, leaving from lansing, would be great to get a caravan of wrx and have a fun drive.Originally Posted by yeah4me2
"I can resist everything except temptation."
Just joined the WRX ranks yesterday w/ a 2006 WRX TR.
Any of you in the Grand Rapids area?
I live right downtown. There is a pretty tight group of us up here with 5 wrx/stis. Always looking for more to join.
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+1 for GROriginally Posted by White Out
I am not sure about the tight group part... I don't like Nick very much
welcome to the subi world!!
Your just pissed because my car is across the street.
I also own the slowest subaru out here right now.*waits for corey*
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Hover Craft
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This year a popular local craft institution came to an end. After ten years, Art vs. Craft held its final event last weekend. Thankfully, there's still another local marketplace where shoppers can buy unique handmade goods directly from Milwaukee-area businesses, craftspeople and artisans: Hover Craft, which this year will feature dozens of vendors at Turner Hall Ballroom. Among the goods: singular pillows, knitted hats and mittens, silk scarves, unusual bracelets, boutique baby accessories, quirky terrariums and even craft mustard.


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Stylophora pistillata, a reef coral in the Northern Red Sea, thrived in simulated global-warming conditions.
Speaking of Microbiology
June 21, 2016|
A selection of notable quotes from the American Society for Microbiology's annual meeting
June 21, 2016|
A selection of notable quotes from the American Society for Microbiology's annual meeting
June 20, 2016|
Kids often acquire cavity-causing bacteria from non-family members, researchers report at the American Society for Microbiology annual meeting.
June 16, 2016|
Analyzing the gut microbiomes of children from birth through toddlerhood, researchers tie compositional changes to birth mode, infant diet, and antibiotic therapy.
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Researchers repurpose a bacterial immune system to be a molecular recording device.
June 1, 2016|
Researchers derive cardiac precursors to form cardiac muscle, endothelial, and smooth muscle cells in mice.
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Pooping into a petri dish is becoming standard practice as part of some college biology courses.
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In failing hearts, cardiomyocytes change their fuel preference.
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Lacing insect food with microbes encoding double-stranded RNAs can suppress insect gene expression.
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While the heart cells normally burn fatty acids, when things go wrong ketones become the preferred fuel source.
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Where Beisbol Is The Stuff Of RevolutionMark Hyman
PITCHING AROUND FIDELA Journey into the Heart of Cuban Sports
By S.L. Price
Ecco Press 288pp $24
FULL COUNTInside Cuban Baseball
By Milton H. Jamail
Southern Illinois Univ. 182pp $24.95
Last year, I snagged an unusually exotic assignment--even for a journalist who often gets such juicy stints as covering Major League Baseball owners' meetings in places like Kansas City, Mo. I spent three days in Havana, chronicling the visit of the Baltimore Orioles and trailing Orioles owner Peter G. Angelos. I returned with stories of friendly people, crushing poverty, and athletics. You cannot visit Cuba without being surrounded by sport and struck by the country's devotion to it.
I decided that the perfect souvenir of my visit would be a baseball cap. Not just any cap, but the team cap of the Industriales, the favorites to win it all year after year--Fidel's New York Yankees, as it were. But where to buy one? There certainly are no Wal-Marts or even state-run baseball-memorabilia stores in Castro's Cuba. As I thought about my wish, I recalled seeing not one Cuban wearing a hat or T-shirt of any local team. But perhaps I was looking in the wrong store windows. I met a teenage ballplayer on a dusty sandlot one afternoon and put my question to him: Where can I get an Industriales hat? He looked at me blankly. "The Industriales players have them," he said. "Ask one." I can't recall ever feeling so dumb.
There's another story. On my second day, I was in a taxi back to my hotel after an excursion to Havana's old city. The driver and I struck up a conversation, and, upon learning I was in Havana to cover a baseball game, he asked in a conspiratorial whisper: "Do you have a...Sports Illustrated?" I dashed up to my hotel room and returned with that week's magazine, which I gladly presented to him. I wondered if I would have been doing him a greater favor had I come back with diamonds.
I had run headlong into the two seemingly incongruous yet dominant themes of Cuban sports: the alluring purity of the games themselves, with no trace of the logo-marketing and beanie-baby-giveaways of the world beyond; and a "Big Brother is watching you" context, in which the regime seeks to control all information. Castro's tentacles reach everywhere in Cuban sports, influencing matters as petty as whether batting statistics are published in the government-run newspaper. This is a world foreign to most American sports fans, whose only knowledge of Cuban athletes is what they see at the Summer Olympics and on the mound at Yankee Stadium when Orlando "El Duque" Hernndez is kicking high.
Two notable books go deeper in telling the story of Cuban sports, including what compels many of the country's best athletes to flee and why others never will. Pitching Around Fidel: A Journey into the Heart of Cuban Sports by S.L. Price, a Sports Illustrated senior writer, and Full Count: Inside Cuban Baseball by University of Texas lecturer and baseball journalist Milton H. Jamail, are not the first to look into Castro's sports machine. Last year's The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball by Yale University professor Roberto Gonzalez Echevarra touched some of the same bases.
But unlike that weighty tome, these books are part travelogue, part social commentary, and, in Price's case, part journey to the private places where Cuba's athletes strive and struggle under Castro's yoke. Of the two new books, Price's takes the wider view, poking its nose into the politics and culture of Cuba every few pages. Price also has an easy, lyrical style that elevates his work beyond the usual sports fare. Jamail employs a more nuts-and-bolts approach, and, for the student of baseball, his book is a welcome resource.
Prior to this volume, Price has written extensively about Cuba and its athletes for Sports Illustrated. He knows the Byzantine rules imposed by the Cuban government on journalists visiting the island, and he evades them all: applying for a journalist's ID card and having one's movements and interviews monitored by government sports officials. Price roams the island eating salty ham sandwiches and riding in old jalopies as he searches for the great athletes of Cuba and their stories.
In Pitching Around Fidel, Price explains how sports came to be a symbol for the Castro dictatorship, and how the regime continues to emphasize Cuban athletes' achievements in global competitions as a way of underscoring the vitality of a revolution now in its fifth decade. When Cuba's 10-year winning streak in international baseball competition ended in 1997, jobs were lost and careers ended in disgrace, Price reports. And he offers insight into the agonizing quandary officials face when picking athletes for international competition: They must choose those who will bring home the best results. Yet they fear that, once out of the country, these stars may never return.
Price's first-person narrative hits its stride when he tells about his odd, occasionally surreal encounters with the elite of Cuba's athletic world. He meets Alberto Juantorena, a double gold medalist in the 1976 Summer Olympics and now a high-ranking official at the Cuban Olympic Committee, and gets an earful about the shameful defections of El Duque and others. "Only people without vision run after money," says Juantorena. "They believe they can go to the U.S. to become millionaires, but inside they are empty. They are merchandise. We prefer to stay and fight and support our system. We prefer to die here."
Price gets a different perspective in the tumbledown apartment of Hilda Maria Fiallo, the ex-wife of New York Mets shortstop Rey Ordonez. When Ordonez defected in 1993, he left her behind along with their son, Little Rey. Fiallo has spoken before to American journalists, but Price captures her anguish and isolation. Of her son, she cries: "He knows his father is far away. He always asks: `Why doesn't my father call me?' It's incredible that Rey is such a great baseball player and such a bad father. No. He's not even a bad father. He's no father."
Price goes on to interview such top Cuban stars as the country's greatest women's track champ, Ana Fidelia Quirot, and aging baseball pitcher Lazaro Valle. The journalist's greatest coup is wangling an invitation to boxer Teofilo Stevenson's 46th birthday party. The result is one of the most intensely personal portraits of the enigmatic Stevenson I have ever read--down to Price's wry observations of the ex-pugilist's preparing fish stew for guests, his cigarette at one point tumbling into the boiling pot.
In contrast, Jamail's book is all baseball and all about the remarkable passion the game arouses in Cuba. Since 1979, Jamail has made numerous trips to the island, and it would appear that he is accepted if not embraced by its baseball authorities. He refers to broadcasts he has made on Cuban radio talk shows and describes what seem to be good relations with government sports officials.
The ties do not prevent Jamail from offering a complete and, at times, devastating picture of the life of a Cuban baseball player. He explains that, in the broken Cuban economy, no citizens can rely on monthly wages. Even neurosurgeons must take second jobs--driving taxis or waiting tables--to rake in some tourist dollars. Baseball players are resigned to living meagerly on their $30-a-month salaries. Jamail quotes a fan in Havana who explains: "A doctor can get another doctor to cover his shift while he goes to his job as a waiter. But a ballplayer can't say, `Hey, would you play first base while I go do something else to earn dollars?"'
Neither Jamail nor Price nabs the prize that would have made his book complete: an interview with Castro. In fact, there is no suggestion that either even tried to get one. But both tackle the oft-asked, never-settled questions of El Comandante's own baseball talents and whether, as some have speculated, they were of major-league caliber.
Through the years, it has been reported that, if it weren't for his preoccupation with the revolution, Castro might have ended up as a pitcher for the Washington Senators. Jamail thinks that's unlikely, while Price regards it as almost comical. "Considering the play it has received in the United States, the most curious aspect of Castro's supposed brush with the big leagues is that no one in Cuba mentions it," he writes.
Of course, it is in the nature of this closed, suffocating society that there will always be secrets, even about sports. But in these books, Jamail and Price have unlocked a few.


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Grilled Oysters with Tabasco-Leek Butter
"Oysters on the half shell can wobble on the grill," James Holmes says. "That's a good thing—some butter will spill onto the coals, which smokes the oysters at the same time."
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- Servings: Makes 2 dozen oysters
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 medium leek, white and tender green parts only, very thinly sliced
- 1 teaspoon sherry vinegar
- 1 large garlic clove, minced
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 tablespoon Tabasco
- Salt
- 2 dozen oysters on the half shell
How to make this recipe
In a skillet, melt 2 tablespoons of the butter. Add the leek and cook over moderate heat, stirring, until softened and lightly browned, 8 minutes. Stir in the vinegar, transfer to a bowl and let cool. Stir in the garlic, lemon juice and Tabasco. Soften the remaining 4 tablespoons of butter and combine thoroughly with the leek mixture. Season with salt.
Light a grill. Place a dollop of leek butter on each oyster. Grill the oysters over high heat until just cooked through and the butter is melted, about 1 minute. Serve right away.
Make Ahead
The Tabasco-leek butter can be refrigerated for up to 3 days. Let soften before using.
Suggested Pairing
Beer Fresh, light Oregon pale ale: Full Sail.
Wine Herb-scented Sonoma Sauvignon Blanc.


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Does Eczema Ever Go Away on Its Own?
Will childhood eczema go away with age?
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Most cases of eczema resolve by the age of five. However, some go on, localize behind the knee and the crrok of the arm for years. Also, commonly people with childhood eczema will have sensitive skin all their life. Many of the cases of hand dermatitis that we see as dermatologiss, began as eczema years ago.
So chances are very good that his eczema will go away, but linger around in the form of sensitive skin.
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Earth Science
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Difficulty Level
Safety Issues
People with soil allergies should probably avoid this one.
Project Time Frame
6-10 weeks
This project explores the process of biodegradation.
Project Goals
- To examine the ways in which different materials decompose underground.
- To encourage the development of new and improved biodegradable products.
Materials and Equipment
- Computer with internet access.
- Gardening Gloves
- Shovel
- Digital camera
- Magnifying glass
- Microscope (optional)
- Typical office/craft supplies (such as paper, pens & poster-board)
Biodegradation is the disintegration (chemical breakdown) of organic materials, due to prolonged exposure to earth's natural elements. There are several different ways to measure this process. One of these ways is by simple observation.
Research Questions
- What does it mean to be biodegradable?
- How is biodegradation measured?
- What are the effects of nature on various materials buried in earth?
- How can we predict a material's biodegradability?
Terms and Concepts to Start Background Research
Experimental Procedure
- Read overviews of related concepts (see bibliography)
- Collect 10 or 20 small, unwanted items of different types. Foods, fabrics, plastics, leaves, packaging materials… Use your imagination when selecting these items.
- Photograph each item individually.
- Bury each item separately in the same type of soil, with at least six inches of dirt on top.
- Mark each spot with a sign describing what is buried there.
- Once a week, unearth each item, analyze it, photograph it, and rebury it.
- Continue doing this every week for 5-8 weeks.
- Interpret results in a detailed report.
- Show results visually using photos taken throughout the course of the experiment.
- Include the remains of each item in your science fair display.
Wiki article: "Biodegradable"