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This is a discussion on 2002 WRX ... coolant smell underhood sometimes ... can't find leak ? within the General Maintenance, Troubleshooting & Accidents. forums, part of the Tech & Modifying & General Repairs category; Originally Posted by jonno Can you elaborate as to how you sealed the crack? Also after sealing the crack, is ...
Thanks. I was also just looking for a temporary solution while I buy a replacement. What do you plan on buying? Without funds for an all aluminum, I was looking at the Koyo OEM (alum+plastic, A2407 for the 02-07 MY), or a used one from a newer WRX.
I don't have funds for all alum. either. =( .... although I might just see if I pull it to spring for one, since plastic just ... sucks.
****, that sucks...I was kind of wondering about that, but figured if it was brand new it'd be packaged to account for that hopefully. I just ordered the OEM Koyo for 175 from rallysportdirect.com if you're interested, that was the cheapest I could find, and Koyo seems to have a good rep.
I have been using the OEM Koyo without problems.
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Yeah, one of the threads you were commenting in was one of the more prominent in my mind when I said "seems to have a good rep." I should get it within the week, and will be doing the install myself...any problems I should be forewarned about? Mine is an 02, so I'm still needing to figure out the T line fix with the second oil cap.
Mine did not have a rad cap so I kept my original configuration. If yours has a rad cap, just get yourself some heater hose of the correct internal Φ and a T fitting, and plumb both the old and the new rad caps into the same overflow container via the same line after the T. This is easier to see with the rad in front of you, much more difficult to explain. It's not difficult.
The rad will likely have a lower cooler chamber with fittings, intended for automatic transmission fluid. If you have a 5spd, ignore it.
The fan bolts may be slightly different, it depends on the rad model and car. Not a huge issue and mine were OK I think. I reused my old ones.
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Ha, yes...inebriated post-bbq posting. Thanks for the tip, I think I understand that based on the pictures I've found so far. I'll report back if I encounter any problems.
I've heard a lot of folks do it, but haven't read of the outcome.
Are there any problems that stem from having the 2nd cap go into the overflow tank?
Sorry for the delay in reporting, my install was delayed and then I kind of forgot about it.
In all, the install was very straightforward. I did it without having to lift the car up, so that was a plus. I had the no-cap stock rad, and replaced with the Koyo OEM w/ cap (they included a third party cap at 1.1bar, but I believe the stock capped rads have a 1.3 bar cap there and 1.1 on the fill tank. I may replace with a subaru 1.3bar cap.) Because of the new cap, I also went to the dealer and bought the two hoses and one metal pipe that are needed to T the overflow line from the new cap neck to the overflow tank. There's not much to explain beyond that, it's pretty self explanatory once you actually get in there and move around. Taking the overflow tank (white one) off right away help with access and visibility.
After install, filling with coolant went well, albeit very slowly. I filled from the fill tank (by the turbo) with the new top cap on the rad itself removed. I poured very slowly into the fill tank until coolant got up to the cap neck on the rad itself. I capped that, and continued to pour until it the level stopped falling after pouring more in. Then did burping cycles to get the air out.
Removal/install took about two hours, while refilling initially took what seemed about another hour. Burping took something like 5-7 cycles of driving and cooling over a couple days before it finally stopped dropping level at the fill tank.

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EXCLUSIVE: Roy Lee's Vertigo Entertainment is bringing on Adam Stone as President of Production. Stone comes to the Warner Bros.-based Vertigo from Mandalay Pictures, where he was SVP Production and Development; he joined the company in 2006. Stone and Lee collaborated recently on Mandalay's The Voices, and while at Mandalay, Stone also worked on the Daniel Radcliffe starrer Horns with Red Granite Pictures and football pic When The Game Stands Tall with Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions. He takes his new post at Vertigo at the start of September. Vertigo's slate includes WB's The Lego Movie and FilmDistrict's OldBoy. The company is in preproduction on crime thriller Run All Night and Poltergeist, which is set for domestic distribution through Fox. On the TV side, Vertigo is heading into season 2 of A&E's Bates Motel prequel and just signed a two-year deal with Fox 21 to develop new cable series.
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Wow, this is a great match. Congrats to both Roy and Adam.
Nice!! Great hire!
Stone is awesome. Great guy and gets things done.
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A Napier man is $2 million richer after checking a Lotto ticket which had been sitting in his wallet for almost two weeks.
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The Infiniti high-performance prototype super-sedan - the Q50 Eau Rouge - has finally come face to face with Eau Rouge, the signature highspeed corner of the famed Spa-Francorchamps racetrack in Belgium, and a fitting naming inspiration for the powerful GTR powered sedan sedan.
Sebastian Vettel, Infiniti's Director of Performance and four-time Formula One World Drivers' Champion for Infiniti Red Bull Racing, had the honor of putting the car through its paces as part of a social media powered race against US professional race driver Parker Kligerman and Nine-Ball World Champion snooker player Pan Xiaoting of China.
Spa's notoriously fickle weather was true to form with heavy rain dousing the track throughout Vettel's test run in the Q50 Eau Rouge.
Vettel has been involved in the ongoing development of the Q50 Eau Rouge prototype which was first revealed as a design concept vehicle at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January this year. The prototype was subsequently shown at the Beijing Auto Show in April.
"Even though it was difficult to get a proper feel for the car's performance due to the wet track, the engineering team have made definite improvements to the car in the areas of steering and suspension since I first drove it earlier in the year,"said Vettel. "There is definitely no shortage of power from the Q50 Eau Rouge."
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We have this type of drain stopper in our bathroom sink:
It does not prevent hair and loose jewelry from falling into the drain, so we would like to replace it with a sieve.
However, we cannot figure out how to remove the existing drain stopper. We attempted by twisting and unscrewing the stopper, but that didn't work.
Is there a way to remove it without disconnecting the pipes?
Is there a drain lever above it, covering the upper whole in the tub with screws in it? If so cover the bottom drain with a towel, first so the screws don't fall down into it..
Next remove the screws and lever (screw) as well, then pull out the whole mechanism,you should see a spring attached to the bottom of it. (That is what the stopper and rocking bar attach to.)
Anyway, this should then allow you to remove the stopper,( Can't you just pull it out?.. There should be a long bar attached to the stopper,( that is the rocking bar) You then simply put the mechanism back in place and reinsert the screws, you must be cautious and make sure you have the drain strainer in place at all times, otherwise you will have a large whole there any then anything can fall in there...Good Luck...
Read the above post, from (Me) woodpecker, about doing the happy dance, and you will see what can happen when the stopper is removed....as I also removed the stopper you are talking about...YOU MUST MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE STRAINER FIRST, and insert it. or you may be sorry,
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Read the post by me. ...woodpecker..it is below this...:wink:
Thanks for the tip.
I tried unscrewing the metal lever that's attached to the sink stopper from under the sink, but it was exceedingly difficult to twist the lever.
I used a plier, and after an hour of intense twisting that almost broke my fingers, I gave up. I did make some progress, but it was too little to be encouraging.
Perhaps there is a better tool for this task?
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I recently purchased a new digital programmable thermostat to replace my old mercury one on my Carrier Weathermaker 8000
The old thermostat currently has only 2 wires running up to it and then there is a wall switch (with 2 wires) to force the fan on.
I'm not sure which wiring pattern pertains to my install:
Here is a picture of the controller(?) in the furnace where the old thermostat and fan switch are connected. Ideally, id' like to run the additional wire to the thermostat as well to control the fan there rather than the separate wall switch.
OK... I think I've got it straight by reading some other threads:
I will have to run at least one more wire for this thermostat for the C (common) as it is not battery powered?
..so minumim:
T-Stat -> Furnace
C -> C (Common)
W2 -> W (Heat)
RH -> R (Power for Hot)
And if I want to manually turn on fan from thermostat rather than switch:
G -> G (Fan override?)
And if I want the thermostat to be able to run the fan as cooling based on the temp?:
RC/RH -> R (Power for Hot and Cold)
Y1 -> Y (Fan - cooling?)
So ideally I want to replace the 2-wire with a new 5-wire (and jumper RC/RH on the thermostat) or replace with a 6-wire and connect RC/RH to R on the furnace side?
Also... will there be any difference between connecting G for the fan and using the furnace's delay setting? If I connect G will the fan start immediately on a call for heat or will the delay setting still take affect? If I disconnect the delay jumper will the thermostat handle the delay?
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Has anyone put a fleece back on a cotton front quilt and what were the results? Would a cotton batting be too much? Would it be too heavy? Help.
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Has anyone put a fleece back on a cotton front quilt and what were the results? Would a cotton batting be too much? Would it be too heavy? Help.
Very often, I use fleece for the back of a cotton quilt top. Sometimes I use batting, and sometimes I don't..... it all depends on the use of the quilt. It quilts nicely, too..
I have used fleece for backing on a cotton front with no batting and it actually quilts easily and is very light weight. I haven't tried doing it with batting in the middle and fleece on the back. I live in So. Cal so I'm thinking that would be too warm for our area.
I have made some with fleece and no batting for the charity I support. These are warm & cuddly without being heavy for the little ones and as the other ladies said it's easy to quilt.
I use fleece backings quite frequently. I will only use the anti-pill kind or Minkee, however. I find that what is often called "blizzard" fleece pills up and gets a matted look, and the longer super soft cuddle fleece is a real bear to work with --- slips all over the place, and sheds when cut; I sneezed a lot. I always use a lightweight cotton or poly batting, and they quilt very easily. Just make an allowance in your thread tension and presser foot pressure to allow for the extra thickness.
ive made plenty of quilts with fleece or minkee backs- (my granddaughter's call them-'get naked' blankies)
fleece does stretch-so it is important to just smooth it-not stretch it.
it quilts up beautifully!
as for batting some of mine have batting- some do not- that part is a personal choice- and who the quilt is for-where it's going- my son wanted minkee on one of his quilts- he lives in florida-no batting in that one-
the lonestar on my bed has minkee back- with batting
I am making king quilt with Polar-tec backing and batting. It is heavy and even though it is easy to quilt sliding, it has bulk under my quilting foot. We live in South Dakota so it gets cold here, and will be used for our winter quilt.
I have made many, many quilts with Fireside anti pill fleece as the backing and some Polar Tec. Only once at a customer's request did I put batting in. I think it makes it too heavy. However, long arm quilters like to add the batting because it helps stablize a stretchy fabric.
I prefer to do the quilts with fleece backing at home because the LAQ people tend to stretch the fleece which makes it pucker up when quilting is finished.
At home, I seam together as much as I need for width, first cutting off the selvages and using a fairly wide seam width. Lightly press the seam open and either baste the edges down by hand with giant stitches or just use a washable glue stick to hold the seams open (less bulk).
Then on a 30" x 60" table I clip the squared up fleece with large binder clips to the edges of the table starting with the middle of the quilt. I have toothpicks taped to the centers of all 4 sides of the table to help with centering.
Next smooth top of quilt over the fleece lining up the centers, etc. Smooth out any wrinkles and double check everything. Pull back the top a couple of feet and lightly spray baste ... very lightly. Smooth top back and pin the edges.
Keep moving the back and top around on the table to get all of it spray basted with no wrinkles. Pin the edges with safety pins.
If using stitch in the ditch, then do it now through the centers both ways and then continue back and forth around the blocks...first one direction then another to avoid distortion. Use larger stitches.
If using free motion quilting, then run some giant basting stitches either by machine or by hand through the centers of the quilt both directions and a few other places. Pull these out when your quilting is done.
Don't quilt too close together and use about a 3.0 or 3.5 stitch. Preshrink all fabrics for the top and the batting if you are using one.
This is just my way. Hope it helps.
I just used a fleece back for a quilt I am making as a gift and it is not turning out so great!! It was beautiful up until the point where I added the binding and then it warped and stretched!! Any suggestions?
Yes, I've done quite a few quilts with fleece backing and used wadding between the cotton front and the fleece. My Dad feels the cold so this gives extra warmth. Easy to quilt too.


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The loft bedroom is a large space with en-suite shower room and bunk beds and comfortably sleeps 2 children and 2 adults. Outside the house is the enclosed communal garden which is open to guests all year round and is a lovely place to relax and let the kids run free (without having to worry about traffic).
There is a large play house in the patio along with some toys and bikes for the little ones. If extra space is needed, there is always the larger St Marks Park which is just 5 minutes walk away. This park has some amazing activities and play areas which will keep the little ones busy for hours. There is also an ultra modern water play-park with changing facilities which is open spring and summer.
A short walk from the property lies Goldborne Road and Portobello Road leading to Notting Hill Gate, an are packed with wonderful boutique shops, and antiques stalls not to mention the vast array of coffee houses, bars and restaurants. At the end of Portobello, you will arrive at Notting Hill Gate tube station. A short walk from here is Hyde Park and very fast access into the city centre.
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Also this year my family (6 adults + 1 child) enjoyed the stay in one of Rowan´s properties! First the original booked house was not available on the confirmed date. But Rowan provided us a much better house in the same location - a really nice surprise! Peter and Rowan gave us a very good assistance before and during the stay. When you are looking for a good restaurant nearby the house you can ask Peter because he knows well about delicious places to eat! And of course the property was very clean.
we had a perfect stay in this lovely and quiet house ideally located (5 minutes walk to portobello , 10 minutes form tube station , lots of bus stop at 100 meters, supermarkets) . We were 5 adults and a 5 year old child who highly appreciate all the toys, DVDs, ... Highly recommended !
We had a lovely time in London, and the house was lovely too, it was so much more relaxing staying in a house than a hotel, the children loved the playhouse in the garden and reading the books before bed. We couldn't have picked a better time to come as the weather was glorious, the house was clean and had everything we needed.
We had a very nice stay in the house. Plenty of space, clean, well equipped and nearby the metro station.
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Es waren schöne Tage nicht nur in London sondern auch im Haus. Für eine kleine Familienfeier ideal und jede Generation fühlte sich wohl.
Sono stati dei bei giorni a londra, la casa e molto bella e adatta per famiglia con bambini.
We enjoyed the days in the house since
their are lot of toys in the house it is perfect for families with little kids.
The house is really comfortable and enjoyable. We were 8 (4 adults and 4 kids) and we really had a pleasant stay. The kids enthusiastically shared the bedroom on the top floor. The weather was really nice and we could also enjoy the backyard. The place is really quiet with a friendly neighbourhood.
We have some nice days in this beautiful house, which also was fine for children
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If the weather will be better next time, then all will be perfect
Our stay there was extraordinarily beautiful, the house was very family friendly, nice rooms,good heating system. we could easily park our car for £ 1 / hour (max. 12 hours it is free). Close to Edjwar Road and Oxford Street. Just outside the congestion zone.
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It appears that HSMPRess, the obnoxious and occasionally horrifying Twitter feed of al Qaeda-linked Somali militant group Al Shabab has been suspended. (A few possible replacement feeds have already emerged though it's difficult to tell which ones are actually linked to the group.) The Atlantic's Brian Fung posts chached images of the feeds last messages, which were threats to execute Kenyan prisoners. The Kenyan government has denied requesting the takedown, however.
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I created a new account with PSN on my pc. When I went to sign-in on my ps3 it said that I cannot sign-in using anothers sign-in ID.
I tried again to see if i mispelled my sign in id or password and it gave me the same message again.
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Create a new user on the ps3 system then go to signin and use the email and password for the new account. The system will not allow you to use a different signin on a user acount that is already on the system.
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After we checked into the hotel in Sydney, we wandered down to the closest watering hole and had our first Australian beers and wines. There is so much to choose from! Victoria Bitter, Tooneys, Coopers, Cascade, Hahn...lots!
Day 15: The hotel manager gave us a great tip. You can either pay A$40 for a cruise of Syndey Harbor on a big fancy boat, or you can pay A$4.80 to take the ferry that is part of the public transportation system and get the same views. It was a great day for a boat ride! We saw the sights of the harbour, including the downtown skyline, the Harbour Bridge, and, of course, the Sydney Opera House
After all that walking, it was time for a nice beer. We found a place called James Squire Brewery at Darling Harbour. This place makes many great beers that would rival the beers made in our beloved Northwest. No kidding! Our favorite one was a suspiciously light looking pale ale that came straight from the tanks to the tap.
One of our goals had been to see an Australian sporting event. Both Rugby and Aussie Rules Football finished their seasons in October, so we saw the next best thing. Basketball! We caught the Sydney Kings vs. the Perth Wildcats. The only player I recognized was C.J. Bruton, who some of you Iowa State fans may remember as the stud point guard who was supposed to play at ISU after finishing up at Indian Hills Community College but was ineligible to play in the NCAA because he'd played professionally in Australia
Day 16: Today we tried Vegimite. Wow. Yuck!!! I can't believe that in a country that is so similar to ours they actually like something that tastes like that. It is basically a brown salty paste that you spread on toast like jam. But it doesn't taste like jam, or vegetables for that matter. Imagine opening up a jam packet in your favorite diner and looking at a tub of brown stuff, spreading it on the corner of your toast, taking a bite, and then making the bitter beer face as your taste buds get overwhelmed with salty crap. Janell's face was similar to the one she made in Japan during our "traditional" Japanese breakfast.
That past us. We got another great tip from the hotel staff, and we got a day pass to all the Sydney public transportation for only A$15. We went everywhere!
First stop...the Olympic Park
Next stop...Manly. Manly is a little town right on the mouth of Sydney Harbour with a beach on both the Harbour side and the Pacific Ocean. This place was awesome! We had a nice stroll on the beach and spent a little time watching seagulls pluck sandwiches away from unsuspecting tourists. That was definitely worth the A$15 just for that.
Next stop...Bondi Beach (pronounced Bone-Die). We got there a little late in the day since the sun was going down, but it was still pretty nice. This beach was really big, and it seemed to be popular with the surfing crowd. The area reminded us a little bit of San Diego and Portland's Hawthorne District mixed together
Final stop...Darling Harbour and the James Squire Brewery, of course.
Day 17: We were in the mood for a good hike not involving concrete and bus exhaust, so we grabbed a train to go to Katoomba, the main little town in the Blue Mountains. It was the first cloudy day we had had in Australia. After living in Oregon, what a perfect day for a hike! Unfortunately, the views weren't quite what they are on a sunny day, but we enjoyed the hike anyway. The beautiful part about it is that we could walk to the trailhead from our hotel.
After walking along the cliffside trail for about 45 minutes, we came to the Three Sisters and the Giant Stairway. Well, it was too cloudy to actually see the Three Sisters, so we decided to descend the Giant Stairway
A great thing about Australia is the B.Y.O. system. This is just what it sounds like. For many restaurants, you can bring your own! Katoomba has lots of them, and they even tell you where you can go to get a nice bottle of wine or six-pack of beer. The wine store owner looked a little put out when Jason asked him what wine went well with pizza..."Well, any old wine to wash it down would do, wouldn't it?"
Day 18: Since our original Sydney Hotel was booked on Saturday, we checked into Wake Up! upon our return to Sydney. This is a budget backpacker place. Ten years ago, this probably would have been our type of crowd, but it didn't take long to feel like the oldest people who had ever stayed there. Imagine a college dorm with a bar in the basement playing techno music...in a country where the drinking age is 18
The aquarium was pretty cool. The first room had a platypus exhibit. They look like a cross between a beaver and a duck. Seriously. Maybe it should be the new Oregon state animal! The shark exhibit was awesome (very similar to the one at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Vegas)! You walk in a tube underneath all the sharks, and there were plenty. There were also many rays there. There were other fish in there, too, that we like to call bait. No feeding frenzy while we were there, though. There was also a very cool coral reef exhibit, and we did find Nemo there.
After the aquarium, we went to an area called The Rocks for dinner. For you Portlanders, imagine about 10 places just like Kells in one area and that's The Rocks. They even had specials on Guinness!
The nightcap was back at the basement bar of Wake Up! It was definitely a back to college experience, except for the guys dressed like Superman and The Mask. Is that how guys pick up on college girls these days? Anyway, we got four beers there for what one cost us at The Rocks
Day 19: This was our last full day in Syndey, and it seemed like a good day to go see some kangaroos and koalas...at the Sydney Zoo. We had hoped to see some in the wild in Queensland, but we weren't taking any chances that we could leave Australia without seeing a damn kangaroo. Anyway, we grabbed a cab to the zoo and ended up with a very philosophical, and very talkative, cabbie. We got lectures about everything from regional politics to evolution to religious philosophies to how America is screwing everything up. At least it was entertaining.
The zoo is on the North Shore of the Sydney Harbour, and has outstanding views of the harbour and of the city. Also, it specializes in Australian animals, so there were a lot of cool things to see that we haven't seen in North American zoos.
After the zoo, we stopped back by The Rocks for beers and dinner. We found a raucous place with a live band...at 5:30 on a Sunday...and stopped in. Before long, we ended up hanging out with the first real Australian we had met in a week in Sydney, Bruce, and his American business colleague from Chicago, Bob. Jason asked Bruce why everybody in the place was hammered on a Sunday afternoon. His reply? "Because we're Australian!" Needless to say, it was a very entertaining evening.
Day 20: This was a travel day between Sydney and Cairns, so not too much exciting happened. See you in Cairns!


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Data by the people, for the people
Inspired by danah boyd, I decided to create a crib of my talk at HarambeeNet 2010. It discusses the boundaries between data and people, as well as our recent work on the Soylent project. Please let me know any feedback you have!
Data by the people, for the people: Powering interactions via the social web
When we're talking about social networks in computer science education, we have two methodological traditions to fuse. One is computer science, which we can see here through the lens of network science. It puts the network primary. Here is the first figure in the upcoming Easley and Kleinberg textbook "Networks, Crowds and Markets", of a 34-person karate club:
This quote from the introduction lays out the focus and formalism that this approach uses:
"In the most basic sense, a network is any collection of objects in which some pairs of these objects are connected by links." – p2, Easley and Kleinberg
This is an appealing definition and approach, because it provides a mathematical formalism that enables us to derive proofs, reason about groups at high levels and write interactive systems like Facebook. It doesn't matter than friendship is a fuzzy concept: so long as both parties have agreed that it's an undirected edge, we can do friend recommendation, build a news feed, and compute tie strengths (or as Facebook calls it, EdgeRank). It's a very top-down approach, because computer scientists are good at dealing with lots of data.
The other strong tradition in this space is characterized by social science: social psychology, sociology, cultural anthropology, and the broad spectrum of ideas and methodologies encompassed by conferences like CSCW. Where computer science approach may put the network primary, social science puts the person primary. The goal of this approach is to understand why those links form, what they mean, and how they are utilized. This can be very bottom-up: social psychology, for instance, tends to take the individual as the unit of analysis. It asks questions like, "Why do groups form and split?"
If we look at the original paper that Easley and Kleinberg got the data for this figure from, it says this (emphasis added):
"The analysis of patterns of social relationship in the group is then conducted on the graph, which is merely a shorthand representation of the ethnographic data."
The network is more an aid to the processes being investigated.
When cultures collide, if we naively follow our methodological training, expectations get mismanaged. In her keynote at WWW, danah boyd critiqued the approach that many computer scientists take when they consider network problems:
Many of you are sitting on terabytes of data about human interactions. The opportunities to scrape data – or more politely, leverage APIs – are also unprecedented. And folks are buzzing around wondering what they can do with all of the data they've got their hands on. But in our obsession with Big Data, we've forgotten to ask some of the hard critical questions about what all this data means and how we should be engaging with it.
[boyd, danah. 2010. "Privacy and Publicity in the Context of Big Data." WWW. Raleigh, North Carolina, April 29.]
danah is referencing ethical and privacy questions largely, but there is an even bigger implication for computer science in my mind: we cannot write crowd programs without really knowing what it is that the crowd is doing. Without this, computer scientists will ignore human aspects of our data, and social scientists won't be able to take advantage of computer science's toolset.
danah would talk about the de-anonymization of the Netflix dataset. I have another angle on the situation: understanding humans was what ultimately won the million dollars. Basic collaborative filtering techniques can get you so far. But one of the techniques that BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos used was temporality: it turns out that when people rate a bunch of movies at a time, they tend to be movies that they saw a long time ago. And those kinds of movies exhibit a specific kind of rating pattern, with older movies rated higher:
The authors speculate, but I think this has to do with cognitive psychology: that we are much more likely to remember events with high emotional arousal than those without, and more likely to remember remember positive events than negative events.
So it is when we program systems involving networks and crowds. We have a lot of data, and even more interest in that data, as demonstrated by the number of influential and award-winning papers that have been written by the amazing people sitting in front of me right now. When we talk about data, we are fundamentally bridging the attractive networks abstraction and the equally attractive social science abstraction. When we're successful like BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos was, it takes us farther than either process in isolation.
I'm a social computing systems builder: I build interfaces that are powered by social data and interfaces that encourage social interaction. To do this well, I have to get this balance right. I want to share with you a few ways in which I've been using the social web to develop new tools, and the ways in which we have wrestled with humans and algorithms simultaneously to make them work.
Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside
I want to start with a discussion of Mechanical Turk. For years, human-computer interaction researchers have used Wizard of Oz techniques to prototype interactive systems. This technique typically meant having one of the design team members behind a curtain simulating parts of an artificial intelligence that hadn't been built yet. But, we now have artificial intelligence for hire via services like Amazon Mechanical Turk, where you can pay cents for workers largely in the U.S. and India to perform tasks for you. The Soylent project asks: what happens when you embed those workers inside of an interface — when you have a Wizard of Turk? Can we help end users when interfaces aren't necessarily bound by AI-hard problems any more, but by humans?
Here are a few preliminary thoughts, which will show up at the ACM UIST conference this year.
We are focused on writing. We've learned to write since grade school; it's the stock and trade of how most of us exchange ideas today. I think we can all agree that writing is hard. Even seasoned experts will make mistakes: non-parallel constructions, typos, or just plain being unclear. If we make a high level decision like changing a story from past tense to present tense or shifting references from ACM format to MLA format, we have to execute a daunting number of tasks. And of course, when we have that 10-page limit and our paper is 11 pages, we spend hours whittling our writing down to size.
Let's take the example of trying to shorten a document by a few lines, via Soylent's Shortn component. Soylent gets a group of Mechanical Turkers to examine your paragraph, find sections that are wordy or verbose, and propose shorter alternatives. Then we can provide a single slider to let you shorten your paragraph to a desired length. In our evaluations we found that Shortn can cut a paragraph down to about 85% of its original length without making any major cuts to language or content.
Microsoft Word's proofreading capabilities are still quite poor — they miss all sorts of problems. But we can get Mechanical Turk workers to skim behind you as you write your document and flag errors that Word misses. They'll specify why it's a problem in plain English, as well as some ways to fix it. You can simply click on the underlined text in Word and replace your text with the suggestion.
The Human Macro
There are lots of tasks in Word Processing that would require complex macro programming to complete. Maybe you're trying to flesh out citation sketches into a real references section, or transform a short story from past tense to present tense — you need to execute daunting numbers of edits over the whole document. Instead, we can simply get Turkers to map over the entire document, executing these tasks for you. In our studies we've recruited turkers to find Creative Commons figures to describe a paragraph, find BibTeX for citation sketches like [Bernstein UIST 2010] and change the tense of a story. These requests written by users are unclear, misspelled, and worse, but Turkers can still make sense of them.
I can tell you that these features work — but they wouldn't if you naively asked Turkers to take on the tasks. Empirically about 30% of work on open-ended tasks where we ask Turkers to directly edit the user's data produce a bad result. This is unacceptable; we can't just push it on to the user. But since this is human data, we can try to get inside the humans' heads to see why it's happening. We'll illustrate via two personas: the Lazy Turker and the Eager Beaver.
The Laxy Turker tries to get away with as little work as possible. When given an error-filled paragraph from a high school essay site and asked to edit it, the Lazy Turker submits just one minor change to a mis-spelled word. Why did they make this change? Because it was underlined in red in the user's browser as a misspelling. The Lazy Turker wants to signal that they made a change, and do that with as little work as possible.
The Eager Beaver also wants to signal that they made an effort, but they overcompensate. Given the same paragraph, in addition to other edits, this Eager Beaver added newlines between each sentence. This would be problematic to return to the user.
So we can't just go ahead and give these results back to the user: we need a way to control and channel the efforts of the Turkers. These biases hold across the 9000 Turkers we've interacted with for this project. Turkers are looking for a way to signal that they made a contribution: for the Lazy Turkers, this means the smallest noticeable action, and for Eager Beavers, it means overcompensating. The situation seems comparable to the state of programming interactive systems before we had design patterns like Model-View-Controller to describe best practices.
We've developed one design pattern, Find-Fix-Verify, for tasks like Soylent's. Find-Fix-Verify splits open-ended tasks into three pipelined stages where each Turker can make a clear contribution.
The first stage is called Find. In Find, ten Turkers are asked to identify portions of the text that can be improved, but not to do any improvement themselves. We can then use independent voting to find patches of the text that multiple Turkers called out.
In the second stage, Fix, three to five Turkers are shown one of the identified patches and asked to provide an alternative. If 30% of the open-ended work is poor as I said earlier, then this is enough to provide at least one good alternative.
In the last stage, Verify, we do quality control. A third set of Turkers sees all the alternatives generated by the Turkers in the FIx stage and flag poor submissions. Each task may have different requirements: for example, in Shortn we want to flag submissions that introduce style errors and those that change the meaning of the paragraph.
Why do we need to split Find from Fix? If we didn't, then all the Lazy Turkers would fix the same problem, and we'd have wasted a lot of money. By running the Find stage first, we can utilize the Eager Beavers to find patches that the Lazy Turkers would ignore, then force the Lazy Turkers to work on those patches instead. A separate Fix stage also means that we know which edits are trying to fix the same underlying problem.
Why add Verify? Certainly, it adds lag to the process in return for removing poor work. But, we've found that the best way to do quality control is to use Turkers to vet the work of other Turkers — to put them in productive tension.
Soylent is just one example of an interface that is powered jointly by a human and an algorithm. We had to recognize the fundamentally human process underlying the technology and adjust our approach to match it.
Moving forward, when we research and teach social networks, we will benefit hugely if we remember:
1. Data is made of people: Soylent's human-crowd algorithms depend entirely on humans;
2. Data is made by people: a crowd created the humongous Twitter datasets we use today;
3. Data is made for people: the people in those datasets created the data to communicate with each other, not with computer scientists.
Thanks! The Soylent paper will be made public in a week or two.
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"Data by the people, for the people" is very related with one of the Web 2.0 characteristics that is user generated content…
btw, can't wait for the Soylent paper…


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As of 2012, a survey conducted on behalf of the Renfrew Center Foundation revealed that 58 percent of girls between the ages of 8 and 18 wore makeup and 65 percent of these girls started wearing makeup between the ages of 8 and 13.Continue Reading
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BATON ROUGE- A bidding war ended over a diamond ring connected to a drug investigation Friday.
The 2.5 carat engagement ring, valued at $25,000, was sold for $17,609 at an online auction of city surplus materials, equipment, and vehicles. The money raised from the sale of the ring will be split among city departments and the law enforcement agencies that participated in the investigation the ring was a part of.
Prosecutors allege that former Clerk of Court employee William Bates Colvin purchased the ring with money he made from selling stolen drugs from the clerk's evidence locker.
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NC victim of salmonella tainted peanut butter
NASH COUNTY, WTVD-- - A local child was sickened after eating tainted peanut butter purchased at Trader Joe's.
Eight-year-old Nathan Lebron, of Nash County, is feeling better these days, but a few weeks ago he was a very sick boy.
Nathan's symptoms began in late August with stomach cramps and within days he had bloody diarrhea.
He ended up at Wilson Medical Center for three days.
The Lebrons are so upset they filed a lawsuit against the company that makes the peanut butter and Trader Joe's as well.
The salmonella outbreak prompted U.S. health officials to expand the recall.
Some of the country's largest grocery stores are pulling several nut butters and other products including peanut, almond and cashew butters.
The Centers for Disease Control said there are now at least 30 salmonella illnesses in 19 states.
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Wouldn't it be great if charging your cellphone in your car was as simple as tossing it on the dashboard and just waiting a while? No more messing around with tangled up wires and losing adaptors for the cigarette lighter?
Well, buy yourself a shiny new Toyota Avalon when it hits the showrooms next year, and you'll able to do exactly that.
Toyota's 'wireless car charger' is essentially just a special mat located on top of the dash that uses a special charging standard known as Qi. The feature, which the BBC says will eventually become standard in all Toyota cars, is part of the car manufacturers' "technology package", which buyers have to pay an extra $1,950 for when they drive a Toyota model off the showroom floor.
Toyota says that wireless charging will be fitted into its Avalon model when it becomes available in the spring.
To use it, all one has to do is place their phone on the mat and it'll automatically start replenishing the 'juice' in its battery. However, the feature won't work with all phones just yet – only those that have an integrated Qi protocol installed in them. Currently, 34 mobile phone models support Qi wireless charging, but Toyota said that it's planning an add-on system that will allow even more smartphones to make use of the system.
"Pioneering the ability to charge with no wires or connectors by simply putting devices in the car console is an intuitive innovation which reflects Toyota's continuing commitment to improve the consumer experience," explained Toyota engineer Randy Stephens, in a press release.
Qi works by using a technology known as 'magnetic induction', essentially transmitting energy via a magnetic field. It's not an old technology by any means – these charging plates have been around for a while, and some phones, such as the Palm Pre, even have them built in.
However, Toyota's development comes as the result of an agreement between the more than 100 phone brands that make up the Wireless Power Consortium, which called for an open standard for wireless power. The result of this is Qi, which allows any Qi-enabled phone to be charged up using any Qi charging pad, irrespective of the brand.
This new innovation won't be restricted to just cars and other vehicles. Over the next few years, we can expect to see wireless charging pads appear everywhere, and they won't just be used for replenishing our phones. An Israeli company, Powermat Technologies, has already began installing charging pads in places like Starbucks and other venues, while others are currently looking at the feasibility of developing much larger charging pads that could be used to power up electric cars.


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Mayor Kirk Caldwell plans to sign two bills Sunday that ban smoking at nearly 300 Honolulu parks and about 4,000 bus stops, his administration announced today.
Honolulu City Council members unanimously passed bills 25 and 28 on July 10. The bans take effect Jan. 1.
Penalties range from $100 for a first violation to $500 for three or more violations.
The bill signing will be held at 11 a.m. at Kuhio Beach on Kalakaua Avenue next to the Duke Kahanamoku Statue.
Supporters who spoke out at the City Council meeting said the bills would help the environment and make public recreational spaces healthier for beach and park-users.
Opponents contend the bills encroach on people's rights, and some have said they plan to exploit a loophole in the law that permits smoking in state waters along the shoreline.
The bills were initially scheduled to take effect upon the mayor's approval, but the Council pushed back the enforcement date to allow time for public education and for signs to be put up.
Caldwell will be joined by councilmembers Ikaika Anderson and Ron Menor, who sponsored the bills, and advocates from the state Department of Health, Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii, Surfrider Foundation, Coalition for a Tobacco Free Hawaii, and B.E.A.C.H. (Beach Environmental Awareness Campaign of Hawaii).


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Gibson.com's Top 10 Bassist List
The staff of Gibson.com have posted their list of the Top 10 Metal and Hard Rock Bass Players and at number-one is Geddy Lee of Rush. Other to make the list include Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones at six and the late Who bassist John Entwistle at seven. Metallica had two of its members make the list with the late Cliff Burton at two and their current thumper Robert Trujillo at 10.
1) Geddy Lee
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3) John Myung- Dream Theater
4) Blasko- Ozzy Osbourne
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Thats what happens if you don't know what your doing.
Ps: That server had an issue with rank which only showed you as 200 but still levels up as usual. I've learned it the hard way too but thankfully I haven't done any of these DNS madness on my main account.
At least nobody is rank 1 with -20689009814 I have to rank up just to level up to 2
The sooner Sony and R* start working together and console banning people using DNS servers the better. It's getting way too out of hand now. At first it wasn't as bad, no almost every lobby I join its some wannabe hacker on a DNS server.


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Robert Wheelersburg | Monday, 20 February 2006 - Sunday, 5 March 2006
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Dr. Robert Wheelersburg of the Anthropology Department at Elizabethtown College traveled to the University of Greenland and the University of Copenhagen. At both universities he held lectures about the Saami (Lapp) portrayals in popular media and on the Saami perspective on Swedish compliance with European community requirements for indigenous resource use rights.
During his visit, Dr. Wheelersburg also taught a lesson in the bachelor level course "Inuit Cultures" providing a comparative perspective of the Saami as an indigenous people of the Arctic. Additionally he conducted a workshop on developing teaching activities about North American Indians who live outside the arctic culture area.


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BofA Downgrades Watson Pharma
Watson Pharmaceuticals (WPI ) lowered its outlook. Banc Of America downgraded the shares to neutral from buy.
Analyst David Maris says the company's second-quarter earnings per share outlook of 39 cents to 41 cents is significantly lower than his 51-cent estimate. The shortfall was attributed principally to weakness in Watson's women's health business and Oxytrol sales. Maris says he had warned about the negative pricing environment as well as threat to Oxytrol from recently approved Sanctura. He believes both of these issues make for more challenges ahead. The analyst also believes these uncertainties will be a challenge to manage, and with his patience worn thin, he downgraded the shares. Maris lowered his 2004 and 2005 EPS estimates to $1.74 and $2.00, respectively. He slashed his $46.50 price target to $24.


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Government spokesman Phay Siphan lashed out at opposition leader Kem Sokha over a proposal to slash ministry spending, saying that Sokha's "sad and surprising" policy was another indication that the CNRP does not know how to govern or develop Cambodia. The dissolution of the Ministry of Rural Development [MRD] will not only destroy the development of rural farmers who have never voted for the party, but will also affect civil servants . . . serving the masses," Siphan said on Facebook on Monday.
Cambodian People's Party lawmaker Chheang Vun yesterday accused the United States and four NGOs that run or fund programmes in Cambodia of working to foment "colour revolutions" in a detailed power-point presentation delivered at the National Assembly. Titled "Colour Revolution and War Destruction", the presentation was made to about 100 parliamentary staff members and aimed to encourage youth to "protect peace and stability", according to Vun.
Two journalists for the Cambodia Daily have been named in a complaint to authorities by villagers in Ratanakkiri for asking questions about politics, with the information minister subsequently posting one of the pair's passport details to Facebook as part of what he called a "reminder" to reporters during the election campaign. Labelled "a bit absurd" by the newspaper's general manager, the complaint was lodged with O'Yadav district authorities by three ethnic Jarai minority villagers from Pate commune.
Chinese language skills are in growing demand from companies looking to hire in Cambodia's job market as China's influence in the Kingdom is increasingly felt both in the business and tourism sectors, online job portal Everjobs said yesterday. Reflecting on trends noted during the firm's two years of operations in Cambodia, Niels van Klooster, Cambodia country manager for Everjobs, said companies are increasingly looking to recruit Chinese-speaking candidates, though language skill levels in the Kingdom remain low.
Opposition leader Kem Sokha said in an interview yesterday that his party is aiming to win more than 60 percent of the votes cast at the June 4 com
The bodies of four Cambodian peacekeepers killed by a Christian militia in Central African Republic were repatriated to the Kingdom and honoured in an airport ceremony on May 21.
As the name suggests, Ptsa Nak Battambang – which in English means Battambang's house – is the right place for those who want to try some of the province's typical dishes in Phnom Penh.
Officials from the government's Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) yesterday appeared to lay the blame for the delayed establishment of an independent rights body at the feet of civil society.
Cambodia's biggest sugar mill has finished its two-month production run, producing half a million tonnes of refined white sugar, nearly five times what the company predicted at the beginning of the harvest season, a company representative said yesterday. Kuy Yoeurn, an administrative manager for Rui Feng (Cambodia) International Co Ltd, said the second harvest season of its $360 million sugar plant in Preah Vihear province greatly exceeded the company's expectations. He said the mill produced 500,000 tonnes of refined sugar from an undisclosed amount of raw sugarcane this season.
In the yard of a house in Stok Prey village, in Takeo province, an audience gathers around a stage as a woman plays the chapey.
The second phase of the Metfone C-League season begins today with NagaWorld taking on National Police Commissary in an evening encounter under lights at the Olympic Stadium at 6pm.
Debts and tempers rose fast at an Oddar Meanchey casino where two visitors were arrested for assaulting a local punter on Monday.
Crossing over from Thailand, the two loaned cash to their new friend.
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Getting Ready for Passover at the White House
Rows of plates with matzah topped with freshly chopped haroset, the traditional Passover sweet condiment, welcomed guests to the White House on Wednesday afternoon for a special holiday cooking demonstration and discussion.
The event was organized by the White House Office of Public Engagement and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The latter recently funded an exhibit at the Jewish Museum of Maryland titled Chosen Food, exploring the history and cultural significance of food in the American Jewish Community.
As my friend Joan Nathan, the queen of American Jewish cooking, looked around the room she said: "If only my grandfather could see this. He would just… die!"
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Sunday is the final day of the women's soccer regular-season and no one has clinched a seed yet. Maine, UMBC, Stony Brook and Hartford have clinched top-four seeds and will host either quarterfinal or semifinal matches. Hartford is locked-in to either the No. 3 or No. 4 seed, with Maine, UMBC and Stony Brook still fighting for the regular-season title.
Binghamton, New Hampshire and Vermont are fighting for the final spot in the championship. The Bearcats and Catamounts will play on Sunday, and both could feasibly qualify with a tie and a loss by New Hampshire. The Wildcats do not have the edge in tiebreakers with either Binghamton or Vermont, and can only definitely guarantee a spot in the championship with a win or a loss by Vermont. Here is a look at the standings and the match-ups for Sunday:
Maine – 5-1-1 – 16 pts
UMBC – 5-2-0 – 15 pts
Stony Brook – 5-2-0 – 15 pts
Hartford – 5-3-0 – 15 pts
Binghamton – 3-3-1 – 10 pts
New Hampshire – 2-2-3 – 9 pts
Vermont – 2-3-2 – 8 pts
UMass Lowell - 1-6-0 - 3 pts
Albany - 0-6-1 - 1 pts
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Vermont at Binghamton – 1 pm
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- Binghamton is looking to clinch a playoff spot after missing the championship last season. The Bearcats can clinch with a win or a tie.
- Vermont is looking for its third-straight trip to the championship after failing to qualify from 2006-2009. The Catamounts can clinch with a win, or a tie and a loss by New Hampshire. Vermont holds the tiebreak over New Hampshire by virtue of their tie against Maine.
New Hampshire at UMBC – 1 pm
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- New Hampshire is looking to make its 12th-straight trip to the America East tournament. The Wildcats are only guaranteed a spot with a win or a loss by Vermont.
- UMBC has already clinched a top-four seed in the America East Championship. The Retrievers are the first team in conference history to finish in the top four after finishing last the year before.
- The top-four finish is the highest finish in UMBC history.
- The team has already had the best turnaround in America East history in both conference play (3 points in 2012 to 15 points in 2013 - tied with Drexel in 2001) and overall (.206 winning percentage in 2012 and .647 in 2013). UMBC can also become the first team to fail to qualify for the championship and then win the regular-season the next season since Hartford in 2006 (Binghamton also did it in 2004).
Stony Brook at Maine – 1 pm
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- Maine can clinch its first America East regular-season title with a win or a tie against Stony Brook.
- Stony Brook can clinch at-least a share of the title with a win over Maine. The Seawolves would be the No. 2 seed if UMBC won but would be the No. 1 seed with a loss or tie by UMBC.
UMass Lowell at Albany – 1 pm
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- UMass Lowell won its first Division I game against UMBC last Sunday, overcoming a two-goal deficit to win in overtime.
- Albany is looking for its first conference win of the season. The Great Danes goalkeeper Alana Brennan is first in the conference and in the top 10 in the country in saves per game at 7.80.


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GREENVILLE, N.C. - UAB's attempt to salvage game three of its C-USA series against East Carolina was unsuccessful, as the Pirates continued to swing hot sticks en route to a 12-2 win at Clark-LeClair Stadium on Sunday.
Despite the loss, the Blazers (18-34, 5-16 C-USA) still remain in the hunt for their third straight conference tournament appearance. ECU (32-20, 10-11 C-USA) has now won four in a row, and for the second straight year have swept UAB in league play.
Head coach Larry Giangrosso's squad managed only three hits on Sunday, with Phillip Bell, Ryne Lovdahl and Donnie Muth reaching base safely with singles. Muth and Lovdahl also contributed the only two RBIs on the day for the Blazers.
ECU got out to an early lead for the third consecutive contest, this time around putting up four runs in its first trip to the plate. A three-run homer by Adam Witter highlighted the scoring, and staked the Pirates to a 4-0 advantage.
UAB attempted to rally in the top of the second, as three straight batters reached base via walk. The Blazers failed to capitalize, however, as ECU starter Dustin Sasser struck out the next three hitters to get out of the inning unscathed.
The Pirates continued to swing the bats, plating seven more in the second to chase UAB starter Drew Murray from the game. ECU had five hits and two more home runs in the frame, and stretched out the margin to a commanding 11-0 lead.
They would add a single run in the third, extending the lead to 12-0. UAB finally struck in the top of the seventh, scoring two runs. Steven Turner kicked things off, reaching first by an error. Jorge Gutierrez was hit by a pitch, putting two runners on base. Donnie Muth delivered, rifling a RBI single up the middle to plate the Blazers first run of the contest. Ryne Lovdahl's sac fly brought home the final run, as the game was called after seven innings due to the mercy rule.


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Corporate Hospitality – Making Clients Offers They Might Refuse
The usual summer season of corporate hospitality sporting events is in full swing. Rupert Wright, a corporate services lawyer with Charles Lucas & Marshall, explains why legislation may be prompting some companies to think twice about accepting an invitation.
As well as Ascot, Wimbledon and Henley, the season of corporate entertainment has a major addition this year with the London Olympics. For companies looking to build relations with clients and suppliers in an effort to retain or secure new business, these events can present useful opportunities.
However, the introduction of the Bribery Act 2010 (the 'Act') in July last year has meant that companies which offer corporate entertainment to their clients now have additional factors to consider.
The Act contains an offence which is relevant to provision of corporate hospitality by companies, namely that of offering a bribe to an individual in the private sector, or to a UK public official.
The bribery offence applies in two cases: first, where a person intends the advantage to bring about improper performance by another or to reward such improper performance. Second, where a person knows or believes that the acceptance of the advantage offered or promised, itself, constitutes the improper performance of a relevant function or activity.
The law refers to the provision of a 'financial or other advantage'; a gift or an invitation to a sporting event could, potentially, be caught by both of these categories.
The Ministry of Justice has provided a guidance note on the Act. It recognises the important role that hospitality plays in business and states that there is no wish to criminalise such behaviour.
The difference between legitimate corporate hospitality which is lawful and an unlawful attempt to bribe someone lies in the intention of the provider/giver to influence and secure a business advantage. The intention of a person is judged by what a reasonable person in the UK thought.
The guidance note states that the 'more lavish the hospitality or the higher the expenditure…the greater the inference that is intended to influence a business advantage in return'. In its view, an invitation to foreign clients to attend a Six Nations fixture at Twickenham as part of a company's PR programme and targeting its clients would be extremely unlikely to constitute an offence under the Act. This is because there is unlikely to be the required evidence of an intention to induce 'improper performance'.
So, hospitality which is reasonable and proportionate to what is generally accepted as normal by an industry sector and achieves a 'legitimate business purpose' is therefore unlikely to fall foul of the Act.
New laws often bring uncertainty for those affected by them – notwithstanding the comforting words of the Ministry's guidance note. It might therefore not surprise you to hear that some companies have erred on the side of caution by trimming hospitality packages – and have found some clients who are now reluctant to accept offers of hospitality they would previously have taken up without further thought.
For further information contact Rupert Wright on 01635 521212 or email@example.com


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Abu Kasim, N.H. (1997) Effect of thermocycling on the fracture toughness of composites. Journal of Dental Research, 76 (5). p. 1211. ISSN 0022-0345
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Fracture toughness has been recognised to be one of the most important mechanical property for retorative materials. It is the aim of this study to investigate the effect of thermocycling an fracture toughness of a range of dental composites; P50(P)1 , Silux Plus(S)2, Heliomolar(H)3, Clearfil Photo Posterior-light activated(CLA)4 and Clearfil Posterior-chemically activated(CC)3. 110 rectangular pre-notched specimens was prepared for each material utilising a stainless steel mould. The specimens were divided into 11 groups of 10 each. Test groups 1-6 were subjected to 0, 250, 500, 750, 1000 and 10,000 thermal cycles respectively. All specimens were subjected to a 3 point bend test and loaded at a crosshead speed of 1mm/min-1 on an Instron Testing Machine. The fracture toughess of all materials decreases with the number of thermal cycles and length of water storage except for CC where the fracture toughness increases during the earlier stages of thermocycling and water storage. However the lowest fracture toughness values were for groups 6 and 11. One way analysis of variance showed that Group 1 was significantly different from groups 6 and 11 (P<.05), the thermally cyled and the water storage groups were not different from each other for al materials. The decrease in fracture toughness exhibited by all light activated composites could be explained by interfacial stress formation and resin-filler debonding while the increase in fracture toughness during the earlier stages of thermocycling and water storage of chemically-activated composite be explained by continued polymerisation. Thermocycling did not cause any significant in fracture toughness composites over and above by water storage.
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