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Why does the speedometer go all the way round
The Vito is renowned for problems with the instrument cluster. It could be anything from the cluster itself has gone, the ribbon wire that feeds the cluster,, or the gearbox sender unit itself. I came across one that would multiply and info by 7, travelling at 10 mph the speedo was indicating 70 mph, and 7 miles for every 1 mile travelled. Having said that BMW instruments used to all go to maximum then back to zero as a self-test when first turning the ignition on, I don't know if they still do or not. Mick from Portugal
Submitted: 05/03/2017 20:32:10 | ID: 139527
Where is the flasher unit located of cdi 115 and how does it look like
On the older Vito's it was under the fuses that are below the steering wheel. It will be a square or rectangular box of black plastic with electrical terminals poking out of it that become visible when you unplug it. Mick from Portugal
Submitted: 02/03/2017 10:39:46 | ID: 139356
Only recently purchased my c111 & at first it behaved fine when parked and looked, then a couple of times the indicators set off flashing without any horns, this became serious when one morning the battery was dead and I was starting a new job! Anyway; Do we think someone has previously disengaged the horn? & my BIG Question is whether the sensitivity is adjustable and how /where is the magic screw I don't have a manual for identifying fuses either, and diagram is worn out. another Q; what's my options short term so I can get to work and lock it manually? It's surprisingly inconvenient having either no locks (tried it but rests automatically) or a flat batt!!! Cheers
Submitted: 14/02/2017 09:22:24 | ID: 138926
I have a Mercedes Benz Vito 115 2004 model cdi it got jumped started with the Terminals the wrong way around we. It blew the computer box and I repaired it then we replaced the Sam fuse box. Everything comes on, but it wouldn't start is there anything els to replace or what could be the problem please help.
Submitted: 05/02/2017 11:57:50 | ID: 138698
How may Booster pumps does the Merecedes Benz Vito 115 2.2 engine has?
Submitted: 30/01/2017 18:52:47 | ID: 138544
hi, i have a problem with my vito, it is not cranking, and it giving me a message on the cluster as start error. please advise
Submitted: 04/01/2017 17:04:39 | ID: 137807
how to disassemble alternator my mercedes w639 2006
Submitted: 11/12/2016 10:33:31 | ID: 137310
When we accelerator up to 2500.rpms there is a air blowing noise coming from the drivers side. Would like to know what maybe causing this noise.
Submitted: 18/11/2016 14:39:39 | ID: 136771
My Mercedes Vito 07 111 CD making pressure in water
Submitted: 15/11/2016 14:40:57 | ID: 136716
I have a Vito Sport 2007. Left interior light on which ran the battery flat over night. I got a jump start of a mate. We connected his Astra van to my van via the battery under the seat. My van started straight away but since then the mileage counter ( used to read 140000 or just over ) has just black lines running through it and it's also reads KM only. Also the break warning light is always on. Breaks are fine - all breaks were serviced last week. Can anyone help. Can I reset it my self ?
Submitted: 15/10/2016 15:58:51 | ID: 135968
how difficult or feasable to upgrade speedo on vito 639 model ie semi circular to twin dial ones??
Submitted: 20/08/2016 07:51:58 | ID: 134497
Hi, I have a confusing headlight fault. The dipped lights do not work but the drivers side fog lamp is illuminated all though the fog light switch is turned off or disconnected totally. The main stalk switch seems to be ok as the fuses are showing a live current at the correct times (side, dip and main) I tried to power up the dip bulbs from the fuse box with no luck . I have continuity through the connection blocks at the headlights. Any ideas would be gratefully received! Thanks
Submitted: 13/06/2016 18:44:07 | ID: 132625
what can be wrong with 2002 vito 112 cdi with 146000 miles . on my way home down motorway I was travelling along at 65mph all of a sudden there was a noise like a piece of metal catching inside engine as it was 11 o clock at night I left van parked up till next morning .on starting van without using accellorator smoke puthered out of back of exhaust and engine sounded like a bag of nuts so dare not run it due to its condition any ideas as to what it could be. thanks pchadwick
Submitted: 08/06/2016 17:18:28 | ID: 132448
Central locking not working, hope its just a flat battery? Can't find lock to use the key. Looked on all door handles and tail handle, prised off rear part of handles with no joy. Can anyone help, many thanks. Chris
Submitted: 08/06/2016 09:26:52 | ID: 132440
I had my Vito 1x piston burnt on its top, what would have been the reason for that
Oil distribution could be impaired causing temperature problems karl hill from Yorkshire
Submitted: 28/04/2016 14:23:14 | ID: 130921
Lost of power can only do 40mph
Submitted: 24/04/2016 21:05:24 | ID: 130772
my vito 208cdi van has lost power i hit a pot hole and lost power it will only run at 50 mph any ideas as to what could be wrong
Submitted: 18/04/2016 20:53:50 | ID: 130561
Sometimes Brake release light won't go off when I take off the parking brake if I drive get a high pitch buzzing Can anyone help
Submitted: 21/03/2016 22:29:27 | ID: 129316
Has the vito 2005 cdi 2.2 engine have a throttle body? And where is it located? Thank tou
Submitted: 06/03/2016 19:51:01 | ID: 128645
My Vito 2004, when started the engine goes well but there are no electronics working. sometimes it works perfectly and other times it give the above problem.
Submitted: 28/02/2016 08:45:33 | ID: 128272
hi, i have a merc.vito 108cdi on a 53 plate, i run the battery flat from the cig .lighter,accidently,so i jump it again with a set of leads, all started fine,but not upon starting ,it has developed no revs working,thermo needle and no fuel needle working,also battery light comes on at start up and nothing else,before this ,i had all the small icons on dash working,i.e coil light etc,now nothing??? any suggestions please....is it a easy job ,or do i have to get a merc specailist to fix?
Submitted: 23/02/2016 12:47:53 | ID: 128059
Hi there, I am wondering if you could help me. I have a 58 plate Transit with 237,000 miles on it. It's turning out to be a money pit now. I am looking to get a newer van. Either a Vito Dualiner or a T5 Transporter. Problem is I don't know which one. I am reading different reviews on line and going by what friends say. As far as I can make out a V/ Dub is all about the name. "Buying into a club" I have around £15,000 to spend. But with the VW, on many sites seems to be the more fancy the paint, Higher the mileage, higher the price. Also Cruise control and A/C aren't standard like the Vito. I want an Auto box, too which the transporter is more rarer. Vito wise they seem to have all the gizmos I want and what my Transit already has, but the reviews on here are a mixed bag. At the end of the day, It's my decision but a bit of advice to help me get there would be wonderful. Many thanks. Jim.
Submitted: 22/02/2016 23:14:30 | ID: 128050
can you install a 2011 vito stereo into a 2006 vito
Submitted: 17/02/2016 17:42:31 | ID: 127770
Heater plug on dash stays on all the time
Submitted: 04/02/2016 16:07:04 | ID: 127133
Hi I have a Vito van 2004 cdi 115 uses diesel. Swings but won't start. Diagnostic machine shows globe plug, camshaft and pedal sensor faults. I have replaced all. We cleared faults. Still won't start and all faults come back after swinging.
Submitted: 19/01/2016 17:17:28 | ID: 126389
I really struggling find any info on what this oil box is what its for all i no is the reading on the gauge for it is at min. Its a black oil vat box just behind the main engine oil fil that is done by the dip stick. any help on what this is and what oil for it would be helpful.
Submitted: 16/01/2016 19:31:54 | ID: 126264
Help...... I gave a friend of mine a jump start from the terminal in the fuse box and on body,all went well until I tried to start the next morning.I have a dual battery setup for camping fridge. both batteries seem to have lost voltage,and the fan which seems to be in the fuse box runs for a time after the engine has been turned off?A short charge with a very small battery charger got the voltage up to start.Drove around, next day and same thing. Is there a plug in part that i need purchase, or is it gonna be the expensive unknown look inside the cdi electro box and there go's ones holiday entertainment budget repair jobs. Any idea's .thanks.
Blown mega fuse in fuse box from alternator to batt plus just under where you clipped jump lead on 125amp Ferris from Greater Manchester
Submitted: 21/12/2015 21:43:06 | ID: 125011
My temp light will flicker & loss of power. Have changed temp gauge still the same place help.
Submitted: 11/12/2015 22:07:59 | ID: 124613
My temp light will flicke & its like the engine will cut out pls help
Submitted: 11/12/2015 22:04:16 | ID: 124612
Hi i have a Vito 112 that cuts out and immediately the cooling fan comes on, once this happens the car wont start. sometimes this lasts for seconds and minutes and sometimes it lasts for days. The minute the fan stops running the car will start again. the glow plug light goes dead if this happens. Diagnostics does not show any fault. However if the fault is present the diagnostics cannot access the ECU. please help with advise
Submitted: 10/12/2015 22:11:30 | ID: 124570
Hi i have a Vito 112, 2003 model the car al of a sudden just started to cut out, but just for seconds, and then the cooling fan comes on, but the second the fan stops running it starts again. the intervals became longer and longer. Then you leave it overnight and it repeats the same fault. diagnostics shows no fault. If the fault is on one cannot access the ECU to diagnose. What can cause this.
Submitted: 10/12/2015 22:00:40 | ID: 124569
Hi my Vito taxi has heating working in the front but but in the back blowers are working but just cold are but baking in front
Submitted: 20/11/2015 21:29:54 | ID: 123745
i have just bought the new Vito sport 119 bluetec and there is a noise coming from the engine when accelerating - it sounds like an air release or something. I have had it back to the dealer who told me this was normal but i am not convinced? They told me it was like a dump valve but someone else has told me that is a lot of nonsense. Any help or info would be welcome. It is a 65 plate, brand new van and i am already wanting rid of it, not the Mercedes Benz experience i was hoping for
Submitted: 10/11/2015 11:44:57 | ID: 123360
Hi my passenger side rear electric sliding door has stopped operating on my mercedes vito London kpm taxi. There is absolutely no power to it,not even from the operating button on my dashboard. I can only presume it would be simple case of changing a fuse but unfortunately I can not locate where the fuse is. I've checked in the engine where the fuses and relays are and they all seem fine. Normally the fuses are under the drivers seat,not in my case. Could you please tell me where I can locate the fuse. Driver side rear sliding is working fine.
I have got exactly the same problem can't find the fuses, if you do find out please do share it with me thanks muhammad from Middlesex
Submitted: 01/11/2015 19:23:52 | ID: 122993
Hi on my vito fuse keep blowing on right hand side light and rear light when I put new fuse Len warning light comes on oil abs evd speedo meter does not work can any one help me please Rgds ily
Submitted: 25/10/2015 23:27:03 | ID: 122728
I have a prblem on a Vito v280 benz which cannot strart on park but in nutral I cherked the fuse box and found one 15amp fuse blown,replased it, and now it still not starting on park , starting on nuetral but not idling and central locking not responding to remote.
Submitted: 23/10/2015 13:40:39 | ID: 122632
Vito driver side indicator stopped working after battery change ?
Submitted: 11/10/2015 03:10:01 | ID: 122170
Hi, I hope someone can help me ? I have a 2011 Vito DUALINER 204 Sport 3.0 V6 Auto and it's gone into Limp Home Mode. I've had a diagnostic done on it and the code that comes up is, P2015 $ 07E8 1/1 Generic Intake Manifold Runner Position Sensor / Switch Circuit Range / Performance Bank 1a Could someone please tell me what needs replacing, to get me back into normal running ? Any help will be really appreciated. All the best Baz
That engine has flaps in the intake manifold with plastic links check them for problems or damage Ferris from Greater Manchester
Submitted: 10/10/2015 19:07:43 | ID: 122148
my radiator light came on I stopped and discovered oil in the water cooler bottle,can anyone help me with advice PLEASE!!!
Submitted: 04/09/2015 08:53:05 | ID: 120757
hi a couple of issues on my 2006 reg vito sport 123 firstly the wipers and water on the signal arm just stopped working...signals ok, but nothing on the wipers/water at all !!!! even a couple of garages couldn't find the fault..so far .not been to a merc garage yet... also just the other day too unrelated i hope, the radio signal has gone from perfect to very bad and intermittant...any thoughts suggestions would be most gratefully accepted. cheers guys...jim
Submitted: 30/08/2015 10:33:09 | ID: 120537
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The NFL fines Mike Tomlin $100,000 for interfering with a play. Who pays this? The team or him personally? What is his salary? Is the amount just a drop in the bucket for him or does it hurt like a missed field goal to lose a game with 2 seconds left to play?
We'll assume he pays it himself, which brings us to the math part of your answer. Tomlin's annual salary is reported to be $5.2 million, which may not sound like much to some, but I'm told that's big money in Pennsylvania. A fine of $100,000 represents roughly 2 percent of his annual salary. Even without trying to find the calculator function on my phone, I know that'd be like $1,000 to a guy making $50,000.
On paper, that appears to be a real financial blow, except I'm thinking this particular 2-percent hit won't cause Tomlin to be late with the cable bill.
I'm thinking the NFL should go to two-handed touch when trying to tackle a QB. It's pretty close to that now. I don't think anyone on the defense has any idea what is legal and what isn't. Monday night a guy got flagged when he put his hands up and basically tackled with his body — knocked the QB down and was flagged for a blow to the head. It didn't look that way to me. The quarterbacks now look for a flag whenever anyone bumps onto them.
Here's something you probably know, but didn't even realize that you knew it. NFL quarterbacks, by and large, are the stars of the show.
If you ran Macy's this time of year, you wouldn't let Santa work with exposed wire or near the third-floor ledge. If you owned a new Ferrari, you wouldn't spend much time in a high school parking lot.
If you run a league where certain skill players are on the bulk of your promotional material, you try to prevent their premature beheadings. Taking helmets out of play is a cultural shift that will seem overbearing for a few years, until we reach a point where unnecessarily violent hits are remembered the way we recall duels and public-square hangings.
It looks like NASCAR chairman Brian France has seen the light when he recently admitted there aren't enough incentives in place to encourage Sprint Cup drivers to actually try and win races.
The problem is, anything that dramatically changes that calculation could negatively affect the recipe that gave NASCAR its corporate horsepower years ago. Teams need to run every race to maintain the status necessary to guarantee starting spots on a weekly basis. Also, to hopefully make the Chase . . . and then they need consistent finishes to possibly win a championship.
The weekly availability of all of its stars — compared, say, to the PGA Tour, where Tiger Woods plays less than half the events — is a major selling point for NASCAR. If you start making individual races more important than seasonal honors, you change the entire calculus.
However (let's make that HOWEVER!), make victory a huge deal in terms of purse and points, you should start getting crazy finishes, which make for great promo material, which . . . well, you get the picture.
Reach Ken Willis at firstname.lastname@example.com. Don't forget your "Daily Willie" among the blogs at newsjournalonline.com.
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quote:They cracking down. Need to get all the lights going on my trailers and get inspected.
A buddy told me every boat owner at the Mississippi River boat launch near St. Francisville got a ticket last week for not having valid inspection stickers on their boat trailers. The fines are just North of $250 bucks. Does anyone else have similar stories, or was it a rouge rabbit sheriff dick move isolated to that area?
I'll have to ask around then. I like to drink a little beer when I'm in my boat, so the less interaction at the boat ramp, the better. I want one that is large enough to see from a distance.
So if I keep my boat in a shed on private property and launch the boat at the same private launch, can I be given a ticket even though my trailer never hits a public road/highway?
I guess our ATV's are next.
Those trailers, just like the raggedy vehicles you see on the road, will never see an inspection station.
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Keeping your lawn healthy is among the most important aspects of maintaining your home. Frequent maintenance not only enhances curb appeal, it also prevent damages from water and pests. By keeping the grass even, soil healthy, and edges trim, beautiful lawn care can increase the value of your property and your neighborhood.
It's important to be consistent in performing lawn case, as new problems can resurface every season. It may be worth it to hire professional lawn care in Jacksonville, especially with the amount of tools, products, and equipment required to get lawns into good shape. You can achieve a renewed appearance for your lawn and have the time to enjoy it year-round. Below are additional facts about commonly used lawn care techniques:
Mowing— Among the most common mistakes made in lawn care is mowing at the incorrect height. Depending on which season it is, various grass types require different mowing schedules. Cutting your lawn too short could scalp the soil and destroy the roots and stems. In order to stop lawn damage, grass should be cut according to the recommended height for the type.
Watering— Although plants need water to thrive, overwatering could prevent the roots from growing to its fullest potential. This can lead to lawns becoming more susceptible to weeds, diseases, and other lawn problems. Still, it's important to water on a needed basis, particularly during droughts. In most cases, it's better to water lawns deeply and occasionally as opposed to pouring it over the soil at once.
Fertilizing— Another key lawn care practice is fertilization. There are several factors to consider, such as climate, grass type, and type of fertilizer. Fertilizers can be organic, made from materials like food, compost, and grass clippings, or synthetic with nitrogen, potassium, or phosphorus. Remember that using more fertilizer doesn't necessary mean the grass will grow faster. This is a common misconception that should be avoided.
Aerating— Even though aeration is mostly used on lawns with compacted soil, healthy lawns can still benefit from it. As it breaks up the soil, aeration permits oxygen, water, and nutrients to distribute easily throughout the soil. Regions that experience regular rain or lawns with heavy foot traffic have a greater need for aeration.
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In most areas, including Jacksonville, lawn care methods and schedules change based on the season and type of grass you have. For most Southern states, the prevalence of warm-season grass types entail frequent maintenance in the spring and summer and low maintenance in the fall and winter. Among the most common grass types found in the South are:
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Establish a mowing schedule once the fertilizer has been applied and the weather warms.
Before it gets too hot, apply pre-emergent herbicide if you need. Applying it under hot temperatures could actually damage the plants.
Test drive the lawn mower and make any maintenance tweaks to prepare it for the summer growth season.
Summer is the time for Southern lawns to grow and flourish. Be prepared to mow more frequently and combat pests and diseases. Consider performing overhaul tasks such as aeration, dethatching, and fertilization to strengthen grass against the summer heat.
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Scale back any watering to around 10 minutes twice a day to allow the new seeds to grow. Avoid mowing more than once a week or growth will be hindered.
Stop all watering if your lawn has gone dormant and wait for the grass to grow and strengthen. Dormant lawns can still be mowed, but scalping should be avoided.
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Weeds can sometimes sprout in the winter. Dig them up manually or apply spot-spray to keep them from spreading. For taller weed varieties, a lawn mower will have to be used to get rid of them. This is the only time you should use a lawn mower in the winter.
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My S2 in the last 2 days has suddenly turned off while in my pocket. It's happens sometimes, Once, Twice a month.
Anyone else experiencing this?
My S2 in the last 2 days has suddenly turned off while in my pocket. It's happens sometimes, Once, Twice a month.
Anyone else experiencing this?
Mine does it a couple of times a month........................It was doing it about eight or nine times a day, I updated to latest firmware and then did a factory reset. Cured it enough to not have any affect on me. It only turns off then on again when in standbye. It's never done it while being used.
Mine shuts down frequently for no apparent reason. Several times a day. It is very annoying as I keep missing calls! For a quite expensive phone I'd expect better.
Mine also did this could be 4 times in a day and then fine for a week. Since the ICS upgrade a couple of weeks ago it has been fine though
These phones are very good but you have to have a clear-out every so often.
Cached game files, video's and pictures take up a lot of memory and can lead to crashes.
To be honest, you need to factory reset your phone and clear cache and it will be fine.
My S2 keeps crashing then coming back on in a few minutes claiming it has 'critically low battery', how can i go about stopping this without resetting the phone?
My phone have been doing this like 4-5 times in a day and it is extremely annoying, I have also factory reset the phone like 4 times in a week and still no change. What I have also realized is that the apps automatically download again as soon as I turn the phone back on, so annoying.
As for the Google Play problem of auto loading apps on your phone I had something similar, here's a thread I posted - Google Play - Auto Restore apps
The option which should stop the auto install of apps is: Menu > Settings > Backup & Restore > Untick 'Automatic Restore'
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I'm also taking for granted that the update you got was from Android 2 to Android 4. Because the update was a big step for your phone it has been recommended to all people that a factory reset is carried out.
You've carried out a factory reset already so something else must be causing the phone to slow down.
Just trying to narrow a few things down here.
How many apps have you installed on the phone?
How did you install the software upgrade? Samsung Kies, OTA or Odin?
Could you please dial *#1234# and report back what appears.
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10. Chemical Research
The following morning I found Kennedy up ahead of me, and I felt certain that he had
gone to the laboratory. Sure enough, I found him at work in the midst of the innumerable
scientific devices which he had gathered during years of crime detection of every sort.
As usual, he was surrounded by a perfect litter of test tubes, beakers, reagents,
microscopes, slides, and culture tubes. He had cut out the curious spots from the towel I
had discovered and was studying them to determine their nature. From the mass of
paraphernalia I knew he was neglecting no possibility which might lead to the hidden
truth or produce a clue to the crime.
"Have you learned anything yet?" I asked.
"Those brownish spots were blood, of course," was his reply as he stopped a moment in
his work. "In the blood I discovered some other substance, though I can't seem to identify
it yet. It will take time. I thought it might be a drug or poison, but it doesn't seem to be--at
least nothing one might ordinarily expect."
"How about the other spots, not the Chinese yellow?"
"Another problem I haven't solved. I dissolved enough of them so that I have plenty of
material to study if I don't waste it. But so far I haven't been able to identify the substance
with anything I know. There's a lot more work of elimination, Walter, before we're on the
road to the solution of this case. Whatever stained the towel was very unusual. As near as
I can make out the spots are of some protein composition. But it's not exactly a poison,
although many proteins may be extremely poisonous and extremely difficult to identify
because they are of organic nature."
I was disappointed. It seemed to me that he had made comparatively little progress so far.
"There's one thing," he added. "Samples of the body fluids of the victim have been sent
down by the coroner at Tarrytown and I have analyzed them. While I haven't decided
what it was that killed Stella Lamar, I am at least convinced that it has something to do
with these towel spots. They are not exactly the same--in fact, I should say they were
complementary, or, perhaps better, antithetical."
"The mark wasn't made by the needle which scratched her, then?"
"That's what I thought at first, that the point used had been wiped off on the towel. Then I
decided that the spots had nothing to do with the case at all. Now I believe there is some
connection, after all."
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Hope you guys have played with autodesk's 123d Create software.
I have been having some troubles with modeling geometry to match images takes in say nuke or maya or whatever.
i then stumbled apon this 123d catch, and was able to quper quickly make a model of a building by taking several photos. now i can toss that model into my application and camera project onto it so i can make a camera projection setup.
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also made a model of my head very quickly and simply.
so my question is.... besides using this free app from autodesk. whats the "professional" way of doing this? i know nuke can take footage and track it, make a point cloud, then you can make a mesh from that. but how about from several images? and have it somewhat automated?
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deank is pumping out more updates then we can keep up with. Just three days ago, version 04.14.03 was released with a stealth version following yesterday. Today, there is another update that brings in some new features and fixes some bugs. Version 04.14.04 implements the 80010009 error fix that we reported on earlier, support for installing .PKG files from NTFS drives, among other things. Check out the changelog:
- Added support for fixing 80010009 errors for games with updates (like FIFA 2013 v 1.04)
- mM will check the game backup, the installed update (on internal HDD and in GAMEI on external USB HDD)
- It will 'fix' all .self/.sprx files and EBOOT.BIN
- This feature allows you to 'fix' game updates even if you play from the original BD game disc (install the update, load the game from the [disc] icon in mM and it will check if you have installed incompatible updates and will fix it)
- Added support for installing PKG files from NTFS drives in mmOS
- Added support for installing game updates after download on 4.30CFW ROGERO 2.03
- Improved display of game titles in all modes (no double refresh/redraw)
- Fixed covers issue in 8×4 display mode
Looks like a great update as always. You can grab the latest version through multiMAN or by downloading it below. Remember that the stealth version requires an extra step to installation:
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Slow is Fast – 2013 Book Tour Dates [Updated with Event Photos and Ordering Info]
By Dan Malloy
We are so stinking stoked to announce that our book Slow is Fast is finished! Starting on
August 2nd, Kanoa, Kellen and myself will tour our new book (and the moving
pictures DVD that comes with it) from Mill Valley to San Diego. Please join us if
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Hannigan down south), we will screen the movie, talk about the trip, answer
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figured out a price yet so just bring your whole piggy bank.
A huge thank you to all of the Patagonia folks
in japan who made our recent tour over there so much fun, especially Lisa Iida!
[Above: Slow is Fast book trailer. Video by Woodshed Films. Hit the jump for some DVD outtakes, production photos and the book tour details. All photos courtesy of Dan Malloy. Update 7/29: added new book tour dates and photos from each event at the bottom of this post. Update: 10/21: the book and DVD are now available to order. Details at the bottom of this post.]
Slow is Fast Book Tour 2013
Proof Lab Station – Friday, 8/2
254 Shoreline Hwy
Mill Valley CA 94941
Tel. (415) 888.2553
Event start time @ 6pm
Live music: The John Stewards
Mollusk – Saturday, 8/3
4500 Irving St
San Francisco, CA 94122
Tel. (415) 564-6300
Event start time @ 8pm
Live music: The John Stewards
Harmony House Yoga – Monday, 8/5
991 Price St
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Tel. 805-773-0380
Event start time @ 7pm
Live music: Occasional Mustache
Food + drink by Honeymoon Cafe
Full of Life Flatbread – Wednesday, 8/7**
225 West Bell St
Los Alamos, CA 93440
Tel. (805) 344-4400
Music – Todd Hannigan + Xoco Moraza
Event start time @ 7:30pm
** Purchase tickets for $35 at slowisfastatfulloflife.brownpapertickets.com. A Full of Life Flatbread dinner will be included in the price and will include local/seasonal ingredients + alcoholic beverage.
Mob Shop Ojai – Saturday, 8/10
110 W Ojai Ave
Ojai, CA 93023
Tel. (805) 272-8102
Event start time @ 7:00pm
Live music: Todd Hannigan, Xoco Moraza + Fernando Apodoca
Food by The Blue Owl
Patagonia Cardiff – Tuesday, 8/13
2185 San Elijo Ave
Cardiff, CA 92007
Tel (760) 634-9886
Event start time @ 7pm
Live music: Todd Hannigan, Xoco Moraza + Fernando Apodoca
Bird's Surf Shed – Wednesday, 8/14
1091 W Morena Blvd
San Diego Ca 92110
Event start time @ 7pm
Live music: Todd Hannigan, Xoco Moraza + Fernando Apodoca
Patagonia Ventura – Tin Shed Courtyard – Friday, 9/13
235 W. Santa Clara St.
Ventura, CA 93001
Event start time @ 7pm
Live music: Todd Hannigan and friends
Patagonia Santa Monica – Wednesday, 9/18
1344 4th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Tel. (310) 395-6895
Event start time @ 7:30pm
Live music: Todd Hannigan and friends
Patagonia Portland – 9/19
907 N.W. Irving St.
Portland, OR 97209
Tel. (503) 525-2552
Event start time @ 7pm
Patagonia NYC Bowery – 10/17
313 Bowery
New York, NY 10003
Event start time @ 8pm
Live music: Todd Hannigan and friends
To order…
Slow is Fast (book + DVD) is now available through Patagonia.com, select Patagonia Retail Stores (please call for availability) and Mollusk Surf Shop in San Francisco. International orders, please email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Dan Malloy
is a Patagonia ambassador and one of most respected figures in
professional surfing. He lives with his wife near Lompoc and is a
believer in the self-sufficient, well-rounded life, with farming and
ranching keeping his hands busy between surf sessions.
Still not sure what Slow is Fast is all about? Check out Dan's dispatches from the road: Part 1 & Part 2.


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Re: st: question with MLE and complex model
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Re: st: question with MLE and complex model
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:56:42 -0400
It appears that the model you are trying to estimate (in principle) is a finite mixture of 3 normal densities - your code is not quite that, however. Unless you are sure yours is the model you want, I suggest you estimate a standard finite mixture model for the problem you describe. You can code that up yourself or use -fmm- . -findit fmm- will get you to the link to install it.
Jonathan Hanson wrote:
I am working on an MLE procedure to use in situations where there may be distinct, or at least mostly distinct, causal processes at work for different parts of the sample. For example, suppose there are three different states of the world, and the coefficients on key explanatory variables vary across these states. Additionally, suppose that there is a set of variables that determines (probabilistically) the extent to which to a particular case falls into each state.
In other words, I have three linear models: mod1, mod2, and mod3. Also, I have a weighting function, similar to that used in multinomial logit, that estimates a set of weights that sum to 1: p1 + p2 + p3.
I am fairly new to ML programming, so I started with the ML version of a standard linear regression (with adjustments to s_e suggested by Gould and Sribney) and incorporated the three linear models with their corresponding weighting functions. The trouble is, when I try to estimate the model, Stata goes through thousands of iterations, nearly all of which report "not concave". Convergence is achieved only rarely, and it depends very much upon specification.
program define stage3ml
args lnf mod1 st1 mod2 st2 mod3 ctrls s_e
tempvar den p1 p2 p3
quietly gen double `den' = 1 + exp(`st1') + exp(`st2')
quietly gen double `p1' = exp(`st1')/`den'
quietly gen double `p2' = exp(`st2')/`den'
quietly gen double `p3' = 1/`den'
quietly replace `lnf'=ln(normalden(($ML_y1 - `p1'*`mod1' - `p2'*`mod2' - `p3'*`mod3' - `ctrls')/exp(`s_e'))) - `s_e'
ml model lf stage3ml (mod1: y = x1 x2 x3) (p1: z1 z2 z3) (mod2: x1 x2 x3) (p2: z1 z2 z3) (mod3: x1 x2 x3) (ctrs: ) ()
Any advice on what steps I should next take would be greatly appreciated!
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Imagine you are suspending a cube from one vertex (corner) and
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water until it is exactly half submerged. What shape does the
surface of the water make around the cube?
Imagine you have six different colours of paint. You paint a cube
using a different colour for each of the six faces. How many
different cubes can be painted using the same set of six colours?
A standard die has the numbers 1, 2 and 3 are opposite 6, 5 and 4 respectively so that opposite faces add to 7? If you make standard dice by writing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 on blank cubes you will find there are 2 and only 2 different standard dice. Can you prove this ?
We received only one correct solution to this
There are only 49 winning lines, which no
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BeschreibungBy reading the plays in technological contexts, Cohen offers new insights into some of Shakespeare's key metaphors, his methods of character development and plot development, his ideas about genre, his concept of theatrical space, and his views on the theatre's role in society.
InhaltsverzeichnisWhere We Lay Our Scene: The Critical Landscape and the Elizabethan-Jacobean Technology Boom Englishing the Globe: Navigational Technologies on and around Shakespeare's Stages "We Live in a Printing Age": Shakespeare and the Print Revolution Weapons of Fire and Shakespeare's Dramatic Trajectory The Clockwork Self and the Horological Revolution Shakespeare's Halls of Mirrors Conclusion: Surveying Technological Confluence
PortraitADAM MAX COHEN is currently Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where he specializes in Shakespeare, early modern literature and early modern cultural studies.
Pressestimmen'Cohen's book...sensitizes us to traces of a significant early modern mechanical culture in Shakespeare's plays, a culture too often and erroneously assumed to be 'rude'.' - Karen L. Edwards, Renaissance Quarterly
Untertitel: Dramatizing Early Modern Technological Revolutions. Auflage 2006. Sprache: Englisch.
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It will be 3 years this July we lost Rocky to a ruptured tumor on his spleen. We tried everything we could to save him. He was 13 yrs. when he passed. Truly one of the best dogs I've had. Gentle, smart, strong, protector, fun, just a great companion. My wife misses him the most probably because he was a momma's boy. He loved his momma. We were all present when he received the shot. I myself will never forget the look on his face when they gave it to him because he was looking directly at me when he went. We all had the chance to say goodbye.
After his passing, it was extraordinarily tough. Rocky stepped into our lives as a replacement from our breeder for another pup who tragically passed on us. He filled a hole. He filled that hole in our lives and then some. Rocky himself had been rejected from another buyer who was intended on breeding him. But one of his testicles failed to drop so he was returned to the breeder. Then we came along. It was like we were destined to be together. We had him fixed and all was good for 13 yrs.
We had the same routine every morning. Rocky was so woven into our daily lives we didn't noticed until he wasn't there anymore. He had a full run of the house, whether we were there or not. He was a great dog. So he was everywhere with us. He was part of our morning routine as well. I usually got down to the kitchen first and he stayed with my wife while she got ready for work then they both came down the stairs. I knew she was about to come out because he would shake his head setting off the jingle from his tags before the door opened. then he'd come down and outside to potty. The morning after and continuing for several months, I would still hear the jingling sound before my wife came downstairs. I could still hear his usually "huff" when he laid down in our bedroom. It just made the letting go part harder, but at the same time, sometimes easier. Hard to explain really.
Do I believe in "the Rainbow Bridge"? I don't know. I think it's there to help cope with the loss. Do I believe in an existence beyond our world? Without a doubt. I've been told by people who I've shared this with that the sounds are a product of so many years of routine. But, I refuse to believe that. I think Rocky was still around after he left. Even though they have faded, I still hear things sometimes and it's almost 3 years now. In my mind, he's still around. I think the emotional ties are as strong now as they were then. I've had a lot of other dogs, mostly Shepherds. Rocky, was one of those dogs, that was just different. He was special.
Has anyone else heard sounds after a passing or still are? Or am I certifiably kooky?
Not kooky. After my heart dog died I swore I would never get another dog, for a long time after I could feel him lie down next to me, hear him jingle, I even swore he was messing with the cat, and all of this happened even after I got another dog. When that dog passed last year due to cancer I heard his toenails on the floor all the time, I could feel his presence at night, and I swear he was the one who led me to adopt the dog I have now. I think if they are in your heart, they will always be around!
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I am sorry you had such a loss and I know it must have been so difficult, I cannot even imagine my life without Titan, but I imagine I will be making a similar post when the time comes.
I haven't lost a dog yet.. not at least to that extent. I lost a puppy once and she hasn't been replaced yet.. but she wasn't yet woven into my daily life at the time.. we were still bonding.
I will comment on my beliefs though.. I do believe in an afterlife of sorts. I am a Christian and fully believe that God sends down spirits (or whatever) to look after us/comfort us/ etc. I fully believe this to be true even when it comes to a loss of an animal and don't think you're crazy. To me, and my beliefs, it says that God has sent Rocky to be a guardian of sorts and he makes himself aware at some points, jsut to let you know he's still around... now you can call me a kook :p but your story sounds nomal to me in that sense.
certifiable, no doubt...
but take that with a huge pile of salt from a fellow kook who still talks with creatures large a small who no longer grace this plane with a meat coated skeleton! we lost a way too young little one a few weeks ago, and I swear I felt her nestling in the crook of my bent knees as I napped as she always would jump up there and fluff about before joining a snoozefest...it woke me up, made me tear up wondering was I simply having a psychotic episode, or what was it? nobody knows for sure, and it was the realization that can't really happen anymore that made me sad. Our memories will only become more cherished as time goes by, and after hosting dogs for over 4 decades, I've gone through this several times. It's the unexpected too young to go tragedies that are the most shocking, but they all shake our imagined realities to the core and rattle our routines. Once I kept finding myself staring into an open fridge, until I realized that very interested nose nudge simply wasn't going to happen, no matter how many times I tried...
if we are nuts, at least it's good to know we have lots of company!
Another can't replace our angels, but we'll get some new routines and learn some new stuff along the way, and that will help.
When I go to the bridge, it'll be a huge party, no doubt.
Our last gsd Omy loved being outdoors even though she had full access to enter the house. She would make a bed in the leaves outside of the sliding glass door in our bedroom. I heard her crunching through the leaves, turning around and around to pack them down, then lie down in them with that same huff. I heard her do that every night after we had to put her down. I still hear it occasionally and now it makes me smile.
I heard my cat meowing after he died.
Certifiable, and so am I. My Dane, Freeway, still rests in her urn near my bed. For months after her passing I would hear, even feel her brush past my hand. On a few occasions the bed behind my legs would be warm when I woke up.
Sabs urn has now joined Freeways-I joke about my 'dog in a box' collection-and I have yet to move her bed from beside mine, largely because in the window between sleeping and waking I still hear her muttering and snoring. I still feel her head pressing against me sometimes and I am often caught off guard by the sound of her padding along beside me through the house. In fact my husband swears he has seen her standing in the bedroom doorway twice, and he is a definite non-believer.
Someone on a radio show I was listening to years ago said 'Your dog was your best and most loyal companion in life. Why would something as small as death change that?'
I don't believe they ever leave and I think that when we need them they are but a whisper away. All we need to do is listen with our hearts.
For me it was a cat I was deeply bonded to. That cat slept beside me every night while we were together. Every night he would purr me to sleep.
Then after he passed (mind you at the time I was definitely a non-believer in after life) I'd see a small shadow, here and there. I'd brush it off as my imagination. At night as I was dozing off I would feel the bed move, just the slightest movement as of a cat jumping up to settle in beside me.
That went on for several weeks.
Then I had a very vivid dream, my cat (a beautiful maine coon cat) was there in my house, happy, healthy, vibrant. I'm not one to have such vivid dreams that I remember as though it was a movie I had just watched. When I woke up I remembered every moment of the dream and just knew my beloved pet was O.K. and I didn't need to feel so bad or mourn him so much. I still missed him greatly and still tear up if I think about him and it did test my beliefs.
I think we have pets come into our lives that I call 'soul pets'. They seem to connect on a deeper level with their human family.
I have a suggestion Jafo, if you'd like to try it. Get a digital recorder, the type students use to record lectures and such. At the times you hear the sounds run it for awhile, then play it back and see if you can capture the sound. Then you'll know it's not just your imagination if it can be recorded.
Or....you can just let it be a nice reminder of your Rocky....too.
Thanks for sharing Rocky's story. :)
Thanks for sharing. I don't know the genre of music you all listen to, but mine is mainly rock music. There is a group called Alter Bridge who's lead singer Myles Kennedy wrote a song in remembrance of a mentor. It's called "Blackbird". It's a very emotional song, but there is a verse that is in the song I'd like to share that to me is very strong with emotion.
Ascend may you find no resistance
Know that you made such a difference
All you leave behind will live to the end
The cycle of suffering goes on
But memories of you stay strong
Someday I too will fly and find you again.
If you are kooky, I'm ready for the bounce house
After our Jack passed, I heard nails on the hardwood floors, the jangle of tags, and his sigh from when he would flop down for a nap. Heard the sounds for months and months. I would wake up swearing I'd heard his nails on the floor and thinking, "he needs to go out." I'd be in the kitchen ready to open the door before I remembered he was gone.
It made our house so sad and lonely to hear the ghost sounds that we hating being home without Jack and found lots of excuses to not be home. 6 months after he passed, we sold the house and moved! While there were a few other reasons for moving like wanting more space, being tired of the rental across the street-- a full 50% of the reason for moving was the loss of the dog.
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Symptoms vary from individual to individual. Some people with allergies have severe reactions, whereas others barely notice a thing. A new, free App from the MedUni Vienna's pollen warning services takes this fact into account and calculates how badly an individual is likely to be affected: a personalised pollen alarm, including a forecast for the next three days.
Sorry, Europe only at this point.
- Medical University of Vienna
Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services in Las Vegas has discharged and bused more than 1,500 patients across the country during the past five years.
The top destination? LA. The map (Tableau) paints a scary picture.
Analysis by the Sacremento Bee suggests the busing relates to budget cuts.
In recent years, as Nevada has slashed funding for mental health services, the number of mentally ill patients being bused out of southern Nevada has steadily risen, growing 66 percent from 2009 to 2012.
Officials in the program say that the vast majority of patients are stable and are heading towards friends or family at the end of their bus journey. However, some end up in strang cities, knowing no one, without medications.
A new report by the United Nations Children's Fund, on the well-being of children in 35 developed nations, turned up some alarming statistics about child poverty. More than one in five American children fall below a relative poverty line, which UNICEF defines as living in a household that earns less than half of the national median. The United States ranks 34th of the 35 countries surveyed, above only Romania and below virtually all of Europe plus Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
A static thematic map accompanies the story.
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text: Here's the deal, I am working on a friend's truck he just bought recently. An almost showroom looking 1984, that's right a 27 year old Chevy, K30 one ton 2WD camper special, pick-up with a 454 engine. Brought it to me and it was running like crap. I did the basic tune up to it. Plugs, cap, rotor, and fuel filter, set timing. It was extremely lean. Idle mixture screws were out 7 full turns, almost to the point of falling out of the carb. Oh, did I mention it has a rebuilt carb on it? Number traces out to a 1980 454 truck. Ordered a rebuild kit for the carb and he had to make a trip with the truck. He Calls me from Maryland a few days later he's heading back to PA and the truck will not go over 45 mph with out backfiring. He does in fact make it back. Truck is missing bad, backfires if you try to accelerate and has no power. We (I have another friend helping me) think he might have burned a valve or melted a piston. Compression test shows 70 in #6 and 150-170 in the rest. I put air into #6 and no air comes out the exhaust or out the intake???? I pull the valve cover off of that side and I find no push rod on #6 intake valve. A fishing expedition with a magnet gets me a bent pushrod missing 2". Order pushrod, install, crank over engine, see valve barely move, also notice #2 intake is barely opening. Tell owner he needs a new camshaft. I call around for parts and hear alot of stories on how the new engine oil ( API spec SM) kills flat tappet cams due to its lower zinc and phosphorous levels. Cannot talk him into a roller cam. Install new Summit cam with bottle of break in additive and tell him to use offroad oil or always add a bottle of additive to it at every oil change. Start truck break in cam at 2500 RPM for 30 minutes and tackle carb. End up drilling main jets from 74 to 78, drill idle dip tubes from 40 to 46 drill idle ports (when screws go) from 78 to 95 and epoxy air bleeds and re-drill to 50, they were 70. all sizes in thousands. Mixture screws are now out 2 turns truck idles nice and smooth, runs great with no bogs. I am still not sure carb is setup as well as it can be. Not sure if my epoxy job will last. I am trying to get him to convert the truck to fuel injection. I think gas mileage will improve and so might power. Even the best carb tune-up is really only good for one day a year when the temperature, humidity and barometric pressure is just right. If I do a factory TBI swap from a newer truck closed loop should take care of all that. SO.... Will it get better mileage? What will I need? IF I can find a 454 TBI truck in the junk yard and pull the whole setup off, what else will it take, this truck has dual gas tanks so I'm thinking an inline fuel pump after the switch valve. There is already a fuel return line from the mechanical pump, so that's covered. Do I need a speedometer connection? I can weld in a bung and add the O2 sensor to one exhaust, truck has duals. Should I use the 4BBL manifold and put an adapter on it or swap to the the TBI manifold? If it will get 1 or 2 MPG better it should pay for itself in a short time. comments. All I can find searching the forums is TBI to carb swap posts, I prefer to do my tuning with a laptop and EPROM burner.


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Engraved Baseball Bat Glass Display Case
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Erika Luna is a thirty-something scientist living and working in Miami. When her marriage ends in divorce, Erika's practical nature leads her down the strangest of paths. What is a scientist to do with a pain so deep it interferes with her breathing? Erica begins mixing potions and uses herself as a guinea pig as she tries to create a pill that will rid the world of heartbreak.
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Delgado adds a few twists to the breakup lit formula in her chronicle of Erika Luna, a research scientist at a Miami pharmaceutical company who develops a pill to blunt "bad love." Burned by her cheating husband, Erika turns to a rambunctious cadre of family and friends for support. Her out-of-the-closet father, Gilberto, and his partner, Benjamin, offer fatherly advice; her friend Lola recommends self-help books; attorney Consuelo advises "divorce without vengeance"; and Pedro Juan and Darien offer companionship. When Erika's heartbreak over Martin and some surprises in the wake of her failed marriage threaten to engulf her, Erika puts her Ph.D. in chemistry to use: she identifies the physiological chemicals associated with romantic feelings and creates a pill to regulate them. While standard romance elements are in abundance, there are also some great scenes and funny lines. Fans will have fun easily suspending disbelief throughout. (Apr.)


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Trojans Take Tournament Title With 74-64 Win Over Aztecs
Dec. 19, 2010
LOS ANGELES, CALIF. - The USC women's basketball team weathered a second-half storm from San Diego State in pulling off a 74-64 win over the visiting Aztecs to wrap up the championship of the Women of Troy Basketball Classic at the Galen Center. Ashley Corral led all scorers with 23 points on the night, helping lift the Trojans to their third straight win and a 7-3 overall record. San Diego State goes to 4-5 overall.
Corral was joined in double figures by Christina Marinacci with 14 points and Briana Gilbreath and Jacki Gemelos with 13 points apiece as USC shot 40 percent from the floor in the game. San Diego State shot 41 percent, getting 18 points from Paris Johnson and 16 from Coco Davis. Gilbreath was named the tournament MVP, with Corral and Davis joined on the All-Tournament Team by Colorado's Brittany Spears and Dayton's Justine Raterman.
In tonight's championship game between USC and San Diego State, Ashley Corral accounted for USC's first 10 points of the game, draining a pair of 3-pointers in the process to boost the Trojans to an early advantage over the Aztecs. Corral's hot streak continued with another long one to hold her at a 5-of-5 effort before five minutes had even ticked off the clock. She got up to 16 points by the 17:35 mark of the second half when she got banged up and had to go to the bench. Fortunately, Corral would check back into the game at the 12-minute mark and got a steal for the Trojans a minute later.
San Diego State cut a 15-point USC halftime lead down to four thanks to a couple timely runs as Paris Johnson and Coco Davis moved into double figures for the Aztecs. Briana Gilbreath stopped the first at 6-0 with a 3-pointer at 12:40, but the Aztecs moved closer later and pulled to within four, down 58-54 with 8:55 on the clock. In the next stretch, San Diego State had several opportunities to cut in further, but it was USC that caught a late spark. Free throws and another three from Corral were followed by a steal and a three from Christina Marinacci, as the Women of Troy jumped back ahead with a 70-58 lead with 3 minutes to go.
USC's next action takes the Trojans to Fresno for a nonconference clash against Fresno State on Jan. 29.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.–The west coast International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) grain handlers have ratified a contract with Louis Dreyfus Commodities, United Grain Corp and Columbia Grain.
That contract is separate from the main one that expired July 1, but its troubles have interrupted larger talks several times as the union leadership had to turn its attention to the grainhandlers contract, American Shipper reports.
The vote ends a lockout at Portland, Columbia Grain and Vancouver, Washington United Grain facilities that had been going on for more than a year.
Now the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and the ILWU can focus entirely on contract talks that cover 20,000 dockers at 29 west coast ports.


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[UK] [email protected] knocks 30% off 10215 Obi-Wan's Jedi Starfighter UCS
[email protected] in the UK has knocked 30% off the price of this set, taking the total cost down to £66.49. This is a much more reasonable price that the RRP of £94.99. I understand that the sale price is valid until the new year. Link.


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Billy's Entertainment Report 04/29/14
IHeart Music Awards are this Thursday night and will be live on Kiss.
Beyonce and Jay Z announce a tour date at Gillette Stadium. There may be talk of a second show at Gillette.
Miley Cyrus is released from the hospital and talk about it with Ryan Seacrest
Paula Dean announce a 20 city tour which will include cooking demonstrations and games with the audience.
Kristen Merlin is still around on the voice. Will she make it past the cuts tonight?


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Re: st: I have a problem with estimation using panel data random effects
"Clive Nicholas" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Re: st: I have a problem with estimation using panel data random effects
Thu, 17 May 2007 01:47:39 +0100
On 16/05/07, Ghita, Mihaela <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
I have a similar problem. I am working with panel data and I have discovered
problems of heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation in my data. Thus, I have
used xtgls..........panel (hetero) corr (ar1). However, I am not very sure
this is the model I should use. I have also tried using random effects with
robust standard errors as well as the Mundlak approach (including the within
group mean of the independent variables). When using the last 2 approaches,
the Hausman test (for FE and RE) allows using RE models.
Yet, the results from FGLS are better. But can I use those results or is
better to rely on RE models?
Much of it depends on how many observations (or, perhaps more
accurately, degrees of freedom) you have to play with.
In general, the larger your df, and the more confident you are that
your data was drawn at random from the population of origin (or, even
better, it _is_ the population!), the more reliable your parameter
estimates, standard errors and model diagnostics are.
So it goes for any kind of regression model, really.
Clive Nicholas
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Small businesses often under-insure because of lack of risk-awareness.
How does an SME go about getting the insurance it needs?
Small businesses should get advice on their insurance cover from a broker as most of the insurance they will need is not sold directly. If you're talking to a broker, also ask what fees or commission they get, so there is transparency regarding the product they recommend to you.
Don't be afraid to ask "Am I covered for this or not?" You don't want surprises later. If unsure of the liabilities or actual exposure your business faces, you may want to consider getting legal advice.
Where do businesses cut corners on insurance?
Rather than cut corners, small business are generally unaware of the risks they face. The following check-list includes many of the insurances a business will need:
material damage to property, including assets, buildings, plant and equipment
business interruption, covering gross profit, wages and redundancy payments along with the additional costs for reinstating records or loss of rents
directors and officers of the company and any wrongful acts they may commit including any legal defence costs
public and product liability to cover legal liability to pay compensation to third parties for personal injury or damage to their property and costs of investigating and defending claims or prosecution
employers' liability to cover claims made by employees for injuries or illness suffered at work that are not covered by ACC
statutory liability to cover fines and legal costs incurred for breaches of statutory regulations
motor, to cover any vehicles your company owns
travel, to cover domestic and international travel flight disruptions, lost property or health issues that arise while overseas.
Where businesses do cut corners, it is usually regarding cover for buildings or assets, thinking they might get away with a lower premium by under-insuring.
Is it just a matter of getting insurance cover to protect your business in a time of disaster?
No. Insurance is vital, but it's only one aspect of risk management. Small businesses should ensure buildings have a fire sprinkler system and avoid occupying premises that are earthquake-prone. The experience in Canterbury was that earthquake-prone buildings with relatively minor damage were "red-stickered".
Also have a contingency plan in place if you need to move to other premises.
What are some of the lessons from Canterbury?
Canterbury has taught everyone that business interruption coverage needs to be carefully thought about. Many businesses took this out for six or 12 months with coverage triggered from the date the earthquake occurred. Canterbury had over 11,000 shakes in two years preventing rebuilds, so consider having a longer coverage period.
Has Canterbury brought about policy changes?
As a result of the Canterbury earthquakes, insurers now look far more closely at the earthquake rating of a building and the ground the building is on. Earthquake prone buildings built on soft soil or reclaimed land will attract higher premiums and some insurers will not provide full replacement cover for older buildings.
Tim Grafton is chief executive of the Insurance Council.


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The Break Presents: Jigg
Standout: "Rich N*gga Dreams"
Also Check Out: "Runnin Away" ft. Mowet
And: "I Do This"
Name: Jigg
Age: 27
Reppin': Miami
My style and/or skills have been compared to: A few great artist
I started rapping: 4 years ago
My standout moments/records have been: Releasing my mixtape HighGrade last year which was executive produced by DJ Folk and then winning "Mixtape of The Year" by an Independent and my stand out record is "Rich N*gga Dreams" produced by Megaman.
I'm gonna change the game by: Showing the public my diversity and consistency
I'd like to work with: Kanye, Tip, Fabolous, Alicia Keys, etc.
My goal in hip-hop is: Take my music and my brand to the masses and to be well known and respected for my craft.
I'm going to be the next: I'm not going to be the next no one. I'm going to be the first Jigg
To check out more of my music you can go to: YouTube.com/Jigg305online & follow me on Twitter @Jigg305… also please stay tuned for HighGrade2 cuz it's dropping soon!


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This post is all about installing WSS v3 in parallel to WSS v2 on your SBS. Now, the Microsoft provided documentation does a good job of walking you through this, but there a few things they don't provide solutions to that you need to think about in advance.
First, I'm going to go out on a limb and think that you are probably planning on using the search functionality within WSS v3. The nice thing about v3 is that you do not need full-blown SQL in order to get full-text search. The down side is that if you upgraded your companyweb database to a full SQL backend to get search functionality, this breaks the search in WSS v3. However, we can fix this – but it means that we aren't going to have search on our WSS v2 sites. If you're like me where you're moving everything to v3, this isn't a big deal. However, if you determine you need to keep full-text search on your v2 sites, or if you're running SBS Std you can go ahead and skip this post
(Edit: There's mixed reviews on just what does break search in WSS 3.0 as Susan mentions here. Short story is that we know search works if you're running SBS Std. We know search breaks if you upgraded your companyweb to full SQL 2000 Std. What we don't know is if search breaks if you upgraded your companyweb to full SQL 2005 Workgroup. I'm going to try to find a box to sacrifice and test this scenario. Until then – let me know what you've seen out there)
So here's the plan: In order to get full-text search working on WSS v3, we need to effectively downgrade our existing WSS v2 to use WMSDE instead of full SQL. The high-level overview of this process is that we're going to backup our WSS v2 site(s), remove the intranet component from SBS, uninstall the SHAREPOINT SQL instance, then re-install the intranet component and restore our WSS v2 sites. Simple, right?
Step 1: BACKUP!
I like to be extra safe with this, so I'm suggesting two backups of each site – one with STSADM and one with SMIGRATE. An stsadm backup is great because it keeps all of our security, etc. in tact. An smigrate backup is great because it gives us the flexibility of restoring to any machine running WSS v2, not just the machine the backup was taken from. So, to backup your companyweb create a new directory somewhere on your server, with two sub directories – stsadm and smigrate. (On my server the directory I created was D:\wsstemp)
Open a command prompt and change your working directory to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\bin
Enter the following command:
stsadm -o backup -url http://companyweb -filename D:\wsstemp\stsadm\companyweb.dat -overwrite
Be sure to replace D:\wsstemp\stsadm with your local path. When that command is finished, you'll run an smigrate backup from the same working directory:
smigrate -w http://companyweb -f D:\wsstemp\smigrate\backup.fwp -y
Again, be sure to replace D:\wsstemp\smigrate with your local path.
Repeat this for each WSS v2 site you have. You can store multiple stsadm backups to the same directory, as each stsadm backup is contained within a single file, just be sure to use a different file name for each site . However, you will want to save your smigrate backups in a separate folder for each site, as the smigrate backup can be split among multiple files depending on the size of the site being backed up)
Step 2: Remove intranet component.
Now that you have your WSS v2 site(s) backed up, we can remove the intranet component from SBS. To do so, go to Add/Remove Programs and locate Windows Small Business Server 2003, and click Change / Remove.
When the Small Business Server Setup Wizard starts, click Next until you get to the Component Selection screen. On this screen, click the Action column next to Server Tools and select Maintenance. Then, click the Action column next to Intranet and select Remove.
Click Next and finish the SBS Setup wizard.
Step 3: Remove the Sharepoint SQL instance:
Once the SBS Setup wizard completes, you will return to the Add/Remove Programs window. Locate the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (SHAREPOINT) entry and click Change/Remove. Follow the wizard to completely remove the Sharepoint SQL instance.
Once you have successfully removed the Sharepoint SQL instance, close Add/Remove Programs and reboot your server.
Step 4: Re-install SBS Intranet component.
After your server reboots, you are ready to reinstall the SBS intranet component. This process is virtually identical to the removal process we went through in step 2. The only difference is that when you get to the Component Selection screen, you will select to install the Intranet component, the finish the wizard.
Once the wizard has finished, verify that you can navigate to http://companyweb and that you get a new, stock companyweb site.
Step 5: Restore your existing companyweb site.
At this point, our easiest restore is going to be using our stsadm backup. Open a command prompt and navigate to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\bin then enter the following command:
stsadm -o restore -url http://companyweb -filename D:\wsstemp\stsadm\companyweb.dat -overwrite
Be sure to replace D:\wsstemp\stsadm\companyweb.dat with your local path and filename of your backup. Once this completes, navigate to http://companyweb and verify that your original site is in-tact.
There you go – you have successfully downgraded your companyweb site from a full SQL backend to a WMSDE backend, which will allow search to function when you get WSS v3 installed.


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Site Map for SAA-Phoenix.org
|Home Page
|The home page of Central and Northern Arizona SAA. A quick overview of the program is presented. Look for announcements of interest at the right of the page.
|About SAA
|A brief word about the program of SAA. Gives directions to the official website of Sex Addicts Announcements®.
|About This Site
|A page in the form of an FAQ (frequently-asked questions) describing this website and the purpose behind it.
|A description of the local online fellowship newsletter which can be received by those attending meetings in the Phoenix area. This page contains links to archived versions of the newsletter, but those archives are only accessible with a password available to those already subscribed.
|A special page for newcomers to our fellowship. You will find a welcome and a QuickStart guide designed to get you started in recovery.
|QuickStart Guide
|The QuickStart guide has some suggestions for starting out in SAA, including a list of titles appropriate for those just discovering what sexual addiction is and how it affects people's lives.
|Information about meetings organized in different formats. Includes a glossary of meeting terms.
|Complete List
|This page contains a list of all meetings in Central and Northern Arizona. They are sorted by day of the week. Each entry shows the meeting name, day of the week, time of day, location, and meeting format. Note that some meetings request attendance be restricted in some cases (for example, Men-Only or Women-Only meetings).
|This page has a map showing all meeting locations in Central and Northern Arizona. By clicking on one of the locations shown, information on that particular location will be displayed.
|Home Pages
|A page containing links to custom home pages for individual meetings in Central and Northern Arizona
|For Women
|A special page on our website for women in SAA.
|This page explains what an SAA event is and how Non-SAA events are considered for posting at our website.
|Events officially "of, by, and for" the SAA fellowship.
|Events of interest to the recovery community, but not officially related to or endorsed by Sex Addicts Anonymous.
|Things usable in recovery.
|12 Steps
|The Twelve Steps of SAA, adapted from those of AA.
|12 Traditions
|The Twelve Traditions of SAA, adapted from those of AA.
|Identifies literature used in SAA and explains what SAA "approved" literature is.
|A brief listing of official SAA literature.
|Related Links
|Links to other "anonymous" organizations
|International Site
|The International Service Organization (ISO) site. This is the official worldwide website of Sex Addicts Anonymous ® (SAA).
|A page containing contact information for Central and Northern Arizona.
|Site Map
|This page.
|A summary of the Central/Northern Arizona Intergroup of SAA describing what it is we do and why we do it.
|A set of guidelines for starting and running an Intergroup. From the International Website .
|A suggested set of guidelines addressing membership in a local intergroup. From the International Website .
|Members Only
|A page for the exclusive use of members of the Central/Northern Arizona Intergroup of SAA (a password is required to access this page).
|Privacy Notice
|Explains the privacy and anonymity policies of this website.


text: El Diablo Inc. is a commercial prop construction studio specializing in the fabrication of three-dimensional sculptures. The company was founded in the year 2000 by special-makeup-effects artist Dave Trainor (see Bio), and his talent and experience (he has been involved in the industry at a senior level since 1986) are the cornerstone of the business. We mainly produce realistic, life-size, human figures, and cater to the motion picture, museum, and commercial display industries. In addition to the experience Dave brings to the table, El Diablo Inc. draws on the talents of numerous artists with various skills to produce high-quality work.