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Bush Article of Impeachment XIX
In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution "to take care that the laws be faithfully executed", has both personally and acting through his agents and subordinates, together with the Vice President, violated United States and International Law and the US Constitution by kidnapping people and renditioning them to "black sites" located in other nations, including nations known to practice torture.
The president has publicly admitted that since the 9-11 attacks in 2001, the US has been kidnapping and transporting against the will of the subject (renditioning) in its so-called "war" on terror—even people captured by US personnel in friendly nations like Sweden, Germany, Macedonia and Italy—and ferrying them to places like Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan, and to prisons operated in Eastern European countries, African Countries and Middle Eastern countries where security forces are known to practice torture.
These people are captured and held indefinitely, without any charges being filed, and are held without being identified to the Red Cross, or to their families. Many are clearly innocent, and several cases, including one in Canada and one in Germany, have demonstrably been shown subsequently to have been in error, because of a similarity of names or because of misinformation provided to US authorities.
Such a policy is in clear violation of US and International Law, and has placed the United States in the position of a pariah state. The CIA has no law enforcement authority, and cannot legally arrest or detain anyone. The program of "extraordinary rendition" authorized by the president is the substantial equivalent of the policies of "disappearing" people, practices widely practiced and universally condemned in the military dictatorships of Latin America during the late 20th Century.
The administration has claimed that prior administrations have practiced extraordinary rendition, but, while this is technically true, earlier renditions were used only to capture people with outstanding arrest warrants or convictions who were outside in order to deliver them to stand trial or serve their sentences in the US. The president has refused to divulge how many people have been subject to extraordinary rendition since September, 2001. It is possible that some have died in captivity. As one US official has stated off the record, regarding the program, Some of those who were renditioned were later delivered to Guantanamo, while others were sent there directly. An example of this is the case of six Algerian Bosnians who, immediately after being cleared by the Supreme Court of Bosnia Herzegovina in January 2002 of allegedly plotting to attack the US and UK embassies, were captured, bound and gagged by US special forces and renditioned to Guantanamo.
In perhaps the most egregious proven case of rendition, Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen born in Syria, was picked up in September 2002 while transiting through New York's JFK airport on his way home to Canada. Immigration and FBI officials detained and interrogated him for nearly two weeks, illegally denying him his rights to access counsel, the Canadian consulate, and the courts. Executive branch officials asked him if he would volunteer to go to Syria, where he hadn't been in 15 years, and Maher refused
Maher was put on a private jet plane operated by the CIA and sent to Jordan, where he was beaten for 8 hours, and then delivered to Syria, where he was beaten and interrogated for 18 hours a day for a couple of weeks. He was whipped on his back and hands with a 2 inch thick electric cable and asked questions similar to those he had been asked in the United States. For over ten months Maher was held in an underground grave-like cell – 3 x 6 x 7 feet – which was damp and cold, and in which the only light came in through a hole in the ceiling. After a year of this, Maher was released without any charges. He is now back home in Canada with his family. Upon his release, the Syrian Government announced he had no links to Al Qaeda, and the Canadian Government has also said they've found no links to Al Qaeda. The Canadian Government launched a Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar, to investigate the role of Canadian officials, but the Bush Administration has refused to cooperate with the Inquiry.
Hundreds of flights of CIA-chartered planes have been documented as having passed through European countries on extraordinary rendition missions like that involving Maher Arar, but the administration refuses to state how many people have been subjects of this illegal program.
The same U.S. laws prohibiting aiding and abetting torture also prohibit sending someone to a country where there is a substantial likelihood they may be tortured. Article 3 of CAT prohibits forced return where there is a "substantial likelihood" that an individual "may be in danger of" torture, and has been implemented by federal statute. Article 7 of the ICCPR prohibits return to country of origin where individuals may be "at risk" of either torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
Under international Human Rights law, transferring a POW to any nation where he or she is likely to be tortured or inhumanely treated violates Article 12 of the Third Geneva Convention, and transferring any civilian who is a protected person under the Fourth Geneva Convention is a grave breach and a criminal act.
In situations of armed conflict, both international human rights law and humanitarian law apply. A person captured in the zone of military hostilities "must have some status under international law; he is either a prisoner of war and, as such, covered by the Third Convention, [or] a civilian covered by the Fourth Convention….There is no intermediate status; nobody in enemy hands can be outside the law." Although the state is obligated to repatriate Prisoners of War as soon as hostilities cease, the ICRC's commentary on the 1949 Conventions states that prisoners should not be repatriated where there are serious reasons for fearing that repatriating the individual would be contrary to general principles of established international law for the protection of human beings Thus, all of the Guantánamo detainees as well as renditioned captives are protected by international human rights protections and humanitarian law.
By his actions as outlined above, the President has abused his power, broken the law, deceived the American people, and placed American military personnel, and indeed all Americans—especially those who may travel or live abroad--at risk of similar treatment. Furthermore, in the eyes of the rest of the world, the President has made the US, once a model of respect for Human Rights and respect for the rule of law, into a state where international law is neither respected nor upheld.
In all of these actions and decisions in violation of United States and International law, President George W. Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and Commander in Chief, and subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States. Wherefore, President George W. Bush, by such conduct, is guilty of an impeachable offense warranting removal from office.
Eric Schmitt and Douglas Jehl, Army Says CIA Hid More Iraqis Than It Claimed, N.Y. Times, September 10, 2004.
Edward T. Pound, Iraq's invisible man: A 'ghost' inmate's strange life behind bars, U.S. News & World Report, June 20, 2004.
Dana Priest, CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons: Debate Is Growing Within Agency About Legality and Morality of Overseas System Set Up After 9/11, Washington Post, November 2, 2005.
Mark Benjamin, The CIA's latest 'ghost detainee': New details confirm a CIA prisoner disappeared in U.S. Custody for months, renewing suspicions the agency could be violating the law and using torture, Salon, May 22, 2007.
Syria: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Continuing serious abuses including the use of torture in detention, which at times resulted in death, 2004.
IACHR, Report on Terrorism and Human Rights, OEA/Ser.L/V/II.1 16 Doc. 5 rev. 1 corr. (22 October 2002), at p.53 ¶ 61; IACHR, Third Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Colombia, OEA/Ser/L.V/II.102 doc. 9 rev. 1, 26 February 1999, at 95, Part IV, para. 83.
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text: PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – Maine's congressional delegation remains undecided about military strikes against Syria, and none of the four lawmakers is eager to get involved in another conflict in the Middle East. Members of Congress will return this week to Washington, where the Senate is expected to take up President Barack Obama's proposal for a limited military strike to punish Syrian President Bashar Assad for using chemical weapons against his own people. Maine's delegation says calls from constituents are heavily against military strikes. Rep. Chellie Pingree says she's leaning against authorizing a strike, while Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King and Rep. Mike Michaud declared themselves to be undecided. Collins said she fears the military could be drawn into "a quagmire."

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Nowhere to Grow: Homeless and Runaway Adolescents and Their Families
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Oktober 1999
BeschreibungThis text is the result of a study of over 600 runaway and homeless adolescents and over 200 of their caretakers, who were from large to smaller cities in four midwestern states. It focuses on the family histories of these young people and on the developmental impact of early independence.
InhaltsverzeichnisPart 1 society's forgotten children: runaway and homeless adolescents in America; the Midwest homeless and runaway adolescent project. Part 2 The family lives of runaway and homeless adolescents: the early lives of runaways; troubled generations; getting along at home - the parent/caretaker-child relationship. Part 3 Taking chances -adolescents on their own: runaway adolescents; getting by - survival strategies of runaway adolescents;getting it on - sexuality, risky sex, and pregnancy; getting hurt - victimization and trauma on the streets. Part 4 Nowhere to grow - the developmental consequences of running away: internalization problems among runaway and homeless adolescents; substance use and externalization problems among runaway adolescents; a risk-amplification developmental model for runaway and homeless adolescents; growing up on society's margins.
Untertitel: 'Social Institutions and Social'. New. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: ALDINE PUB
Erscheinungsdatum: Oktober 1999
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closeness of the translation may be inferred from the fact, that not
only the whole play but every speech and fragment of a speech are
represented in English in the exact number of lines of the original,
without the sacrifice, it is to be hoped, of one important idea.
A note by Hartzenbusch in the last edition of the drama published at
Madrid (1872), tells that "La Vida es Sueno", is founded on a story
which turns out to be substantially the same as that with which
English students are familiar as the foundation of the famous
Induction to the "Taming of the Shrew". Calderon found it however in
a different work from that in which Shakespeare met with it, or
rather his predecessor, the anonymous author of "The Taming of a
Shrew", whose work supplied to Shakespeare the materials of his own
On this subject Malone thus writes. "The circumstance on which the
Induction to the anonymous play, as well as to the present Comedy
[Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew"], is founded, is related (as
Langbaine has observed) by Heuterus, "Rerum Burgund." lib. iv. The
earliest English original of this story in prose that I have met with
is the following, which is found in Goulart's "Admirable and
Memorable Histories", translated by E. Grimstone, quarto, 1607; but
this tale (which Goulart translated from Heuterus) had undoubtedly
appeared in English, in some other shape, before 1594:
"Philip called the good Duke of Burgundy, in the memory of our
ancestors, being at Bruxelles with his Court, and walking one night
after supper through the streets, accompanied by some of his
favourites, he found lying upon the stones a certaine artisan that
was very dronke, and that slept soundly. It pleased the prince in
this artisan to make trial of the vanity of our life, whereof he had
before discoursed with his familiar friends. He therefore caused
this sleeper to be taken up, and carried into his palace; he commands
him to be layed in one of the richest beds; a riche night cap to be
given him; his foule shirt to be taken off, and to have another put
on him of fine holland. When as this dronkard had digested his wine,
and began to awake, behold there comes about his bed Pages and
Groomes of the Duke's Chamber, who drawe the curteines, make many
courtesies, and being bare-headed, aske him if it please him to rise,
and what apparell it would please him to put on that day. They bring
him rich apparell. This new Monsieur amazed at such courtesie, and
doubting whether he dreamt or waked, suffered himselfe to be drest,
and led out of the chamber. There came noblemen which saluted him
with all honour, and conduct him to the Masse, where with great
ceremonie they give him the booke of the Gospell, and the Pixe to
kisse, as they did usually to the Duke. From the Masse they bring
him back unto the pallace; he washes his hands, and sittes down at
the table well furnished. After dinner, the Great Chamberlain
commands cards to be brought with a great summe of money. This Duke
in imagination playes with the chief of the Court. Then they carry


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AL-GOV: Bentley Squeezes Byrne from Both Sides
Bradley Byrne has a tough task in tomorrow's Alabama Republican runoff for governor. He has to defeat the candidate who is running to his right: Robert Bentley. He also has to defeat the candidate who is running to his left: Robert Bentley.
Bradley Byrne has a tough task in tomorrow's Alabama Republican runoff for governor. He has to defeat the candidate who is running to his right: Robert Bentley. He also has to defeat the candidate who is running to his left: Robert Bentley.
Bentley, a state representative, was the surprise second-place finisher in the exceptionally close first round of voting. Byrne, who headed Alabama's community college system, was the frontrunner from the beginning. Doc's Political Parlor has a good rundown of who is supporting whom:
The GOP runoff for the nomination for Governor keeps getting more and more interesting with blurred lines of demarcation and strange bedfellows.
The former Democrat, Bradley Byrne, enjoys support of the GOP establishment. Lifelong Republican Robert Bentley enjoys the support of Democratic party Vice-Chair (and AEA chief) Paul Hubbert and welcomes Dems' votes. Ads funded by AEA hammer Byrne (though it's Byrne who has received more AEA money over the years than Bentley). And Scott Beason, one of the most reliably conservative voices in the state Senate, has endorsed Bentley.
The state GOP establishment has pushed back against the notion that Bradley Byrne is its gubernatorial candidate of choice in the GOP primary and runoff, but that pushback has disappeared in the closing days of the campaign. Republican Congressmen Spencer Bachus, Jo Bonner, and Mike Rogers have endorsed Byrne, as has retired Congressman Terry Everett. Gov. Bob Riley has indicated he supports Byrne.
Besides Beason, Bentley also has the backing of Mike Huckabee. On abortion, immigration and state sovereignty, Bentley is running as a conservative. Yet Bentley also is collecting institutional Democratic support because the teachers union, the most powerful Democratic group in the state, doesn't like Byrne.
Democrats are allowed vote in the Republican runoff. Many might. Democrats do have their own runoff tomorrow, but since the party already has picked Ron Sparks as its nominee for governor, Democrats lack many high-profile races (a runoff for the Democratic nomination in the 7th congressional district is an exception). Byrne has the support of the Republican establishment, but Bentley has the support of most of the people who don't like the Republican establishment, whether they're disaffected conservatives or Democrats.
Byrne has fought back, though, by explicitly noting Bentley's Democratic support. From the Associated Press:
But now Byrne is accusing the Alabama Education Association, led by two vice chairmen of the Alabama Democratic Party, of trying to steal the GOP runoff by encouraging crossover voting for Bentley.
"Our party is being hijacked by the liberal Democrat machine," the former two-year college chancellor said.
On Wednesday morning, it will be fascinating to look at some of Alabama's overwhelmingly Democratic precincts to see just how many votes Bentley won.
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Sagrada Famil Hastanesi Çift Kişilik Oda
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Floor No.3(with elevator)
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Maria had been a fantastic and welcoming host. Her apartment is clean, lovely and spreads a warm atmosphere. You should be somewhat tolerant to street noises, as your sleeping room is towards the street.
Maria is very kind and her hospitality is like feeling at home. The house is clean and nice, not a lot big but enough for an holiday and the room is comfortable. The place is near sagrada familia and near the metro so it's easy to arrive everywhere.
Good points
- location: pretty central and 2 blocks from the nearest metro stop. Most sights are 5-8 stops away.
- clean
- nice apartment
- Maria left the apartment just to us for all bar the first night.
- kitchen had stuff to use in it
Bad points
- no ventilation in the room; it got very hot and we couldn't get a fan.
- no locks on bedroom and shared bathroom doors
- couldn't contact host (who was not staying in the flat) when there was an issue. We were given an invalid mobile number.
- room wasn't ready when we arrived (at 2130)
The flat ist 200 m away from the metro station, some shops and supermarkets are nearby. The rooms are frendly, modern (IKEA) and clean, and the equipment works orderly. The hostess also lives in one of the rooms of this flat. We felt very well here und that is to thank the charme and the frendliness of our hostess.
We were staying with my sister for 5 days and the stay was very good!The location is perfect -close to Sagrada and there is a metro station nearby. Mireia is a nice person! The rooms are clean and there are always leans towels. Ww enjoyed staying in her apartament!
Very good situated location - metro, grocery stores, bars, cafeterias nearby . Less then 15 minutes walking to see Sagrada Familia. Room was clean and very cosy.
I can honestly recommend it. Thank you Maria!
We went to Barcelona on the 2nd of June, and we spent there 7 nights! The appartment is really nice and warm, Maria is really nice and friendly person! If we have the chance to go there we will be definitely stay at Maria's!
My friend and I had a very pleasant stay at Maria's. The location could not be better - La Sagrada Familia, a metro station, supermarkets, shops and cafés are within walking distance. The room is definitely big enough for two and the balcony is big enough so that one person can sit outside, it was also very useful to dry our clothes. Everything was nice and clean! We can only recommend to stay at Maria's! :)
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A grass-roots protest movement aimed at ending top-level corporate corruption, and the fair redistribution of wealth that has been hoarded by the top 1% who do everything in their power to keep the other 99% down. Is NOT about: Ending capitalism Ending corporations Ending people getting rich Liberals Conservatives Democrats Republicans
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Liverpool scored in stoppage time to beat Everton 2-1 in a dramatic Merseyside derby yesterday at Goodison Park as the hosts ended the match with nine men.
Sami Hyypia's own goal after 38 minutes gave Everton the lead in the 206th meeting between the city rivals but fortune favoured Liverpool after the break as two Dirk Kuyt penalties got their title challenge back on track.
The top seven in England all won with Arsenal maintaining their two-point lead over Manchester United thanks to a 2-0 home defeat of Bolton, who slipped to the bottom.
Kolo Toure from long range and a Tomas Rosicky tap-in broke Bolton's resistance after the break as Arsenal made it 11 wins in a row in all competitions.
United conceded their first goal in more than 10 hours as they fell behind at Aston Villa but stormed back with three goals in nine minutes before the break as Villa imploded.
Wayne Rooney was twice on target in the 4-1 victory with Rio Ferdinand and Ryan Giggs also chipping in. Villa had Nigel Reo-Coker and goalkeeper Scott Carson sent off after the break while Rooney had a penalty saved.
Didier Drogba's future at Chelsea has been under a cloud but he scored the opener for the seventh-placed Blues as they continued their improvement with a 2-0 cruise at Middlesbrough.
Manchester City remain third after a 1-0 home defeat of Birmingham City courtesy of another goal from Brazilian Elano.
Portsmouth, in fifth spot, beat Wigan 2-0 away while sixth-placed Blackburn Rovers beat Reading 4-2.
Derby County are off the bottom with a 0-0 draw against a Fulham side who played half the match with 10 men after Paul Konchesky was sent off for elbowing.
Fourth-placed Liverpool looked set for more misery at their neighbours after last season's 3-0 hammering when Hyypia crashed an attempted clearance past his keeper Pepe Reina.
They levelled after 54 minutes when Everton defender Tony Hibbert tangled with Steven Gerrard in the box to concede a penalty and receive a red card from referee Mark Clattenburg.
Kuyt scored from the spot to make it 1-1 and the Dutchman kept his nerve to convert another penalty in stoppage time after Phil Neville had been sent off for a flying save with his hand to deny Brazilian substitute Lucas.
Everton should have had a penalty of their own late on when Jamie Carragher appeared to wrestle Joleon Lescott down in the area.
Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez, under pressure after some poor performances in the league and Europe, withdrew Gerrard in the second half to boos from the away end.
"These games you need to play with the brain and we were playing with the heart," Benitez said when asked why he had taken off the influential Gerrard. "We needed to keep the ball and to pass the ball."
His Everton counterpart David Moyes was convinced his side should have had at least one penalty.
"Decisions are difficult for referees but that one wasn't difficult, it was a simple decision," he said.
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Spotify will finally launch in the US today with those who registered interest previously set to get invitations some time in the next few hours.
Last week we reported that the launch of Spotify in the US was imminent when the company updated its landing page to say the service was coming soon. And it has now been confirmed by chief content officer, Ken Parks, that today is D-day for US audiophiles.
"We were really adamant about bringing the service to the US, which means a really great, free experience. We wanted to be really careful about the way we did this, and the rights holders felt the same way. It took some time, but we're absolutely thrilled that all four major labels and a ton of indies are behind us, and we'll be bringing that Spotify experience to the US tomorrow."
The service will be practically identical to that offered to European customers with a free, limited version supported by ads; an ad-free Unlimited package costing $4.99 a month, and the Premium mobile package costing $9.99. Parks has said he believes that the model works and is constantly improving: "With each passing day, the model proves itself even more... It's a great way to engage people and get them to invest in it, and if it weren't, we probably wouldn't be having this conversation."
Update: Spotify has landed in the US but you'll have to wait for an invite if you want to get access to the free ad-supported service. Check out the new website here.
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Success in the Face of Sabotage — Alton's After-Showby Maria Russo in Shows, September 7th, 2014
There are days in the Cutthroat Kitchen arena when the challenges seem simply too great for any chef to overcome, but of course, all of host Alton Brown's evilicious sabotages have indeed been tested and proven possible, so surely victory is achievable, if only through sheer determination and perseverance. One chef learned that lesson firsthand on tonight's all-new episode after facing — and ultimately overcoming — what judge Simon Majumdar deemed "two of the most-heinous sabotages."
Chatting with Alton on the host's After-Show, Simon proclaimed, "I think this makes Chef Todd the best chef that's ever come into Cutthroat Kitchen" after he learned of the double-decker of doom that the competitor had to endure in Round 3's crepe suzette test. Not only did Chef Todd face a rotating work station that forced him to walk in circles as he prepared his dessert, but he was also saddled with a warped crepe pan. It turns out that, despite the contestant's difficulties, he managed to achieve the proper tastes in his offering, and often that's enough to earn the win on Cutthroat Kitchen. "I can fully understand why it was just a complete mess," Simon said of Chef Todd's finished dish, before adding, "but all the flavors I wanted were there."


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Basically, I spend over 2 hours waiting at wally world to get some tires put on; I live in an apt 3 hours from my tools/jacks, etc so it was my only option. The trip ended up with them saying they couldn't mount the tires because they are less tread than what I have on now and are really low in general. I don't disagree they're nearly junk but I just need them for winter, and even with less tread would be better in the snow that my current tires. I made them swap out a really really bad tire I had one, and the charged me $16 for it, 5 to mount, 3 valve stem and 8 to balance. I didn't tell them to balance the tire nor to put a valve stem in; nor did they ask.
I guess I can get around the valve stem, whatever can't hurt, but the 8 bucks for ballancing just was enough; it's not the cost itself, it's the principal. That, and it took over 2 hours for them to figure that out. When I got there, there was only one other car in the garage. Bull pucking shoot it takes 2 hours for that kinda work
Am I then only one that has issues (not the 1st time something like this has happened, but i didn't have much of a choice); or the only dumb enough to go to walmart for tire services?
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No arrests have been made in a Saturday night shooting in East Palo Alto that injured two men, an 18-year-old from Menlo Park and a 19-year-old from East Palo Alto. Police said they were taken to the hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.
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Why no mention of the alleged road rage motive? Has that motive changed?
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So, how long will it take East Palo Alto politicians to realize that the Shot-Spotter with surveillance cameras focused on the limited number of entrances and exits to my community will enable law enforcement identification of vehicles leaving the vicinity?
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main cutoff valve does not stop water completely
I tapped my main water supply line with the lawnmower and it struck a leak at the threaded connection between the PVC that comes out of the ground from the city supply line and my main shut off valve (its old, galv steel I think, maybe brass). I'm pretty confident I can handle the pvc repairs and have some extra length of pipe, new male treaded fitting, etc. My problem is that when I shut off the city's cutoff valve at my meter to do the work, it does not stop the flow of water completely, and is still dribbling out of the leaky fitting. I am thinking I need completely dry pipes to do the repairs and work with pvc cement. I've been waiting on the city for a day to come out, and I'm guessing I need them to repair/replace their cutoff valve, but don't know what they will be willing to do when they arrive.
We've been without water now for a full day. Any help would be greatly appreciated! thanks
If you told them you messed with their curb stop, depending on the situation, prepare yourself for a repair bill from the city. You're not supposed to touch it. Maybe offer the city guy coffee and donuts when he comes out.. :thumbsup:
As far as a PVC repair, you don't need perfectly dry pipes. You should be able to make the repair even with water dribbling. With Hot Stuff (brand name) PVC cement you're supposedly able to make a repair completely submerged. I've never tried it "completely" under water, but a little dribble is no big deal.
Without water for a day due to an outside leak ?
Turn the water on, flush the toilets, fill some water jugs, take showers
Then turn it back off
Thank everyone for the tips. I have some bread on hand, but am a bit scared by that idea. I also have the blue cement. I tested it and it dries really fast and is kind of gloppy in consistency. The instructions on the bottle say to apply 2 coats of the stuff, but I'm afraid the pipes won't fit in the fittings with that stuff built up on them. (I'm also using a cleaner and a purple primer). Any thoughts?
As for turning the water back on temporarily, yes I could. But I battled that very stiff city valve with a wrench for a half hour yesterday as cockroaches circled me so I'm trying to mess in there as little as possible.
I hope you are successful in the repair. In my town the municipal water company charges $80. to shut off the main. I would not even attempt to mess with it. Sure, it can break (its a ball valve according to the water company so it should last a long time) but if the town breaks it it becomes their problem. I would never advise someone to be dishonest but be aware that if it is broken and you admit to touching it or there is evidence that you did, you face a charge that will make the $80. shut off fee look like peanuts.
How about using a dresser coupling? Glue what you need to above ground and use a dresser coupling to link it all up. I used to install water softeners and I used hundreds of these and never had to go back on one.
The bread trick does work. I've even used it on 4" lines. All you really need is to stop the water for what, 15 seconds? I've heard that Wonder bread is best and I know a commercial plumber with about 40 years experience and that's all he uses. For me, there's a surplus bread store nearby and I can get a whole loaf for 25 or 50 cents. Pass that PBJ!:thumbup:
Success so far...I turned my water back on yesterday evening and no leaks! I was getting impatient and ended up just using the blue cement I had bought. I convinced myself it was okay because it wasn't lumpy like jelly. Seems to have done the trick. I didn't do the bread because I was worried about clogging things, but I had my wife assist in pushing a plastic tube into the pipe, putting her thumb over the open end and yanking out to stop the flow for a few seconds while I applied the cement. If I had known they existed, maybe I would have saved myself the aggravation and use a dresser coupling:wink:
I appreciate everyones advice here. These replies were really helpful, even those of you warning me of the consequences of messing with the city's meter. You make good points, but the city still hadn't shown up yet when I canceled the service call last night. If I hadn't shut it off myself that would have meant at least a 2 day shower for the underside of my house.
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U.S. Resumes Deportations to Haiti—One Deportee Dies
Why did the U.S. government resume deportations to Haiti?
They tell us is it's all about public safety, keeping the American public safe.
What they told us at the time [that they announced the new policy] was they were going to be deporting the worst of the worst criminal offenders—axe murderers, rapists, that kind of thing. We subsequently learned that anybody who is labeled a criminal— and in Florida, for example, if you're driving with an expired driver's license for four months, you've committed a crime—that even individuals like that could be subject to removal under this new policy. So obviously, we were very concerned.
So far, one planeload of 27 Haitians has been sent back to Haiti, on Jan. 20. Who was on that plane?
According to the U.S. government, they were folks who had been found guilty. They had all finished serving their sentences. It may be that some of these Haitians had serious criminal histories, but we also know that a number of them did not. In the vast majority of cases, they had already been released by immigration and customs officials and were abiding by all the requirements of their release. They didn't get into trouble again. They were doing everything that our government was expecting them to do, and then the next thing they knew, this new policy went into effect and they were rounded up, sent to different jails across the country, and the first planeload of Haitians left Louisiana and arrived in Haiti on January 20th.
Many Haitians and other detainees have told us they pled guilty because they were advised to do so by their attorneys. They were told the sentence would be light and they'd get out of jail sooner. They didn't understand the serious repercussions of a guilty plea with respect to their immigration status.
We know that first flight that went back included folks like Roland Joseph, whose entire sentence was six months. Nonviolent offense. Regardless of the criminal history, if someone has served their time, served their sentence, they shouldn't be sent back to a country where they could well be facing a death sentence.
What happened to the people who were returned?
The Haitians who were returned were placed in four different jails outside of Port-Au-Prince. Our government has repeatedly told us that they've been working on a viable reintegration policy so that when Haitians are sent back they're properly cared for. I can tell you, the reintegration policy is practically nonexistent. They've reached out to a group, Alternative Chance, a nonprofit operating on a shoestring budget, and they can't begin to provide these detainees with the help they need.
What have you heard about conditions in the jails?
We know that conditions are horrific, and one of those 27 Haitians who were sent back unfortunately died. Imagine the worst-case scenario, and that's it. Recently there was a cholera outbreak in the jails. Not surprising, given the crowded and unsanitary conditions.
If you don't have family or friends to bring you clean water and food, you don't eat, and you don't drink clean water. You don't get anything unless you have family there to care for you. In the best case scenarios, these (deportees) have distant family members or family members they haven't seen in a long time.
What do you know about Wildrick Guerrier, the deportee who died?
It's our understanding that he was sent back at the last minute. Shortly after he arrived in Haiti and was jailed, his condition quickly deteriorated and he wasn't getting proper treatment. He [had been a lawful U.S. resident since 1993, when he arrived as a teenager, and ] had no family in Haiti, so an aunt who lives here in South Florida flew to Haiti, realized he was deathly ill, and insisted they release him. They released him on Jan. 27th and he died shortly thereafter. We know he had cholera-like symptoms—uncontrollable diarrhea and vomiting—but we don't know whether he died of cholera.
Guerrier had served less than two years in a U.S. jail for a conviction on a charge of possessing a firearm by a convicted felon while he was working as an security guard. Earlier, he was accused of committing battery on a police officer during a traffic stop, but he only got probation. There was a probation violation and that's when he got one year, six months, suspended. When we interviewed him over the phone, he said his lawyer made him plead guilty (and) he wanted to clear up his immigration record.
[The remaining deportees were released from jail in Haiti on Jan. 31].
What do you know about the logistics of how these Haitian were detained by immigration officials?
Immigration officials went to their homes in the early morning hours and at gun point arrested them, detained them. One hundred of these Haitians were at the Krome Detention Center (in southern Miami-Dade County) early on and we had a number of attorneys wanting to meet with them, but rather than permitting us to do that, the Haitians were transferred to three jails in Louisiana, where it's virtually impossible for them to get legal assistance.
We have asked the government to bring the Haitians back to Miami or other places where there are viable pro-bono programs so they can get proper representation. We believe some of these Haitians are eligible for relief from removal, but it's extremely difficult for us to help them given that they're in Louisiana and we're not.
Deportations have been suspended in the cases of immigrants from other countries after natural disasters and political upheavals. Do you think Haitians have been singled out for particularly harsh treatment?
Here at the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center, we represent folks from all over the world. I know of no other group that's been discriminated against to the extent that the Haitians have. They just want to be treated like human beings. Federal courts in the past have said that Haitians have been singled out for discriminatory treatment. Other immigrants whose countries are in dire conditions such as Haiti do not have to go through this.
What could be done to change the deportation policy?
Right now this administration can say, well, we're not going to deport these Haitians at this time because it's the wrong thing to do and there's nothing right about this. That can be done in a heartbeat. It's just unconscionable that our government is sending anybody back to Haiti at this time. We have repeatedly said this could amount to a death sentence, and sadly we were right.
What is the status of other Haitian immigrants?
A number of Haitians arrived post-earthquake because their homes had been destroyed. Their kids were living in tents in the street, and we are asking this administration to permit those Haitians to apply for Temporary Protected Status, so that if Haitians arrived here in the aftermath of the earthquake in order to survive, they have an opportunity to remain here temporarily. A lot of these Haitians had jobs in Haiti, their kids were in school, that's the country they love and the country they want to return to. But they need a temporary reprieve. We have applied for deferred action for a number of these Haitian families and in most cases we've gotten no decision, so we fear that those cases are going to be denied.
We're also very concerned about the Haitians in Haiti whose relatives in the U.S. are lawful permanent residents and U.S. citizens, who had applied to get visas and come here legally. Those visa petitions have been approved, but those Haitians aren't being allowed to come here because there's a quota system and there are backlogs and so they could wait five or ten years. I talk to Haitians here and they say the visa's been approved, but my loved one is living in a tent. Why can't I bring them here? Haitians here who have family members in that situation are traumatized because they feel helpless.
Dr. Erin Marcus is associate professor of clinical medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
Posted Mar 5 2011
Well its so sad to see it or even hear about. This is very bad policy, it's not a new thing its tarted since; the third president thomas jefferson u s president . That nobody likes haitians; because they are the only nation that defeated the white man in the face of the earth. Also they were worried about that the haitians would cause the slaves to revolte agains their masters back in slaver., But the U S has forgotten that those are the same people who help them succeeded agains the British in savannah Georgia . In conclusion its simply the wrong thing to do at this time and do they even remember what the word of God says do not mistread the aliens! Shame shame Shame on them!
Posted Apr 14 2012
My husband is facing this situation now. We have to go to Phoenix Tuesday for an ankle bracelet, which he will refuse. My question is, If he is deported by US, how long does the Haitian government hold them in prison down there? He has been in the US since he was 17 and now he is 43, his whole family is here in the US.
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A product used in oil spill clean-ups around the world could provide a non-toxic alternative to the controversial chemical dispersant Corexit, New Zealand scientist Shane Carter says.
Mr Carter, who works for Morrinsville-based company Interface Chemistry, began investigating Elastol before the 2011 Rena disaster.
He said the product, which caused oil to stick to itself on the surface of water, was non-toxic, cheaper than oil dispersants and easy to use.
In an ocean environment Elastol could be sprayed on to an oil spill, and mixed through any wave action before being skimmed or vacuumed off the surface.
"It basically turns oil into a really runny chewing gum ... You can get almost 99 per cent of the oil," Mr Carter said.
Maritime NZ general manager safety and response services Nigel Clifford said the organisation was not aware of Elastol and did not have the resources to identify or investigate all such products.
Elastol appeared to be a "herder" of oil and such products were not generally considered for use in the open ocean because they required the oil to first be contained in a booming system, he said.
"If a booming system works in those conditions, the approach would be to recover oil using what are known as skimmers, without the addition of any other product," he said.
Mr Carter said Elastol could also be used to help clean up oil on sand and for cleaning oil from birdlife.
The challenge would be getting a maritime or port authority to accept Elastol as part of an oil spill plan, he said.
Manufactured in the United States, Elastol had been approved by the United States Environmental Protection Agency for oil control since 1993, Mr Carter said.
It was used in Russia on an oil tanker spill off the Crimean Peninsula in 2007.
It was first used in Australia in the 1990s by hovercraft company, Hover Mirage and was used by private companies in the United Kingdom and Europe, he said.
Two New Zealand companies were looking at using Elastol, which could also be used on diesel and petrol spills, as part of a "really effective spill kit", he said.
Mr Clifford said Maritime NZ was constantly reviewing options for oil spill response, but it had received no scientific information, or advice from overseas agencies, indicating a specific review of the status of Corexit products was warranted.
Three-thousand litres of Corexit, the oil dispersant used during the Rena clean-up, was being stored in drums at the Port of Tauranga.
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It's been a while! As a collective we've been working mainly offline over the past few months, but we are excited to unveil our latest project: Justice for Marissa t-shirts. We hand screened these last night and will be selling them to help raise funds for Marissa Alexander's legal defense. Stay tuned for details on how you can purchase one (or more) soon.
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October is also the Month of Resistance to Mass Incarceration. 75% of women in New York state prisons suffered severe physical violence by an intimate partner during adulthood. 67% of women sent to prison in 2005 in New York state for killing someone close to them were abused by the victim of their crime. The Free Marissa Now campaign is making connections between domestic violence and mass incarceration with its October action. You can download this brochure and circulate it to raise awareness about Marissa Alexander's case and the links between domestic violence and state violence.
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Save your money for the 204bhp which runs a dde5 edc16 Ecu
Tuned write these will give a m5 e39 a bit of s hard time from 40-80mph as the torque you can get from them
The 184bhp which has a dde4 edc15 ecu is good for about 230ish any think more will make them smoke alot
I think you'd do well to drive a 'normally' remapped 184 and 203bhp 330d. Honest question, have you done so?
Setting yourself an arbitrary power target of 300hp might be a bit silly. I'll tell you for nothing that a 230bhp diesel feels a lot faster than a 230bhp petrol in the same chassis. I'd be lying if I said that I have ever needed to use all of the power in ours in order to make seriously swift progress. It'll dispatch most things at 2/3rds throttle, and that's not even 300hp :(
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You are the Strokes. You've been hailed as the saviours of rock on the basis of a single, remarkable LP. What do you do for an encore? Dorian Lynskey examines Difficult Second Album Syndrome.
Every now and then a new record is treated as if it was far more important than a mere bunch of songs. Managers scurry back and forth across the Atlantic with advance copies handcuffed to their wrists, critics are required to sign contracts promising that they will not so much as hum the contents to their nearest and dearest, and the music press acts as if the world is about to witness the most significant release since Nelson Mandela's.
Previous examples include the Stone Roses' Second Coming and Oasis's third album Be Here Now. One of the stranger sights in Britpop documentary Live Forever is that of fans gibberingly clutching copies of Be Here Now as if they were fragments of the Berlin Wall. Then they went home and played the accursed thing, and second-hand shops nationwide braced themselves for the deluge.
The focus most recently was on Room on Fire, the second album by New York quintet the Strokes. The band's debut EP, The Modern Age, arrived in early 2001, a time when rock music lacked a centre, polarised between nu-metal tantrums and polite melancholy. The appearance of a band with lean, spiky songs, high cheekbones and excellent trousers was therefore the cause of considerable excitement, to which they mischievously alluded in the title of their debut album, Is This It. To extend the gag, they might have called the follow-up No Seriously, Is This Really It? Mojo magazine devoted a remarkable 13 pages to Room on Fire even before it was completed.
The story can be summed up thus: touring was exhausting, sessions with the first producer (Radiohead's Nigel Godrich) didn't work out, and frontman Julian Casablancas is a terrible worrier. "I feel like I will break under the pressure that I put on myself," Casablancas told Mojo. Room on Fire's gestation doesn't sound devastatingly traumatic but sufficiently so to qualify it for Difficult Second Album Syndrome.
DSAS is a modern affliction. Many of the biggest bands of the '60s and '70s didn't hit their peak until a few releases down the line. Revolver was the Beatles' seventh album, Pet Sounds the Beach Boys' ninth. Those that did manage genius opening shots, such as the Velvet Underground and Nico, or Nick Drake's Five Leaves Left, were often so coolly received that pressure wasn't an issue.
The past 20 years, however, have seen the rise of the cult of the debut. When a debut receives more praise than its creators can bear, they're headed for a fall. The Americans have a phrase for it: the sophomore slump.
Sometimes there's nothing an artist can do to avoid an anticlimax. Massive Attack released Protection, the successor to the much-loved Blue Lines, in 1994. A fine album, it had the misfortune to emerge at the same time as Portishead's startling debut Dummy, to which it was unfavourably compared in almost every review. Three years later, Portishead released their own second album, which was arguably better than Dummy but met with a similarly mixed response.
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Pretty nice, very Audi A5ish, but definitely looks like a Lincoln. I only started colouring my cars maybe... A month ago, so I am progressing fairly quickly.
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Looks great man. The side profile is beautiful but the front end falls a bit short IMO. It does not look bad at all but I think it needs to be slightly more dramatic to match the rest of the cars beauty. Honestly I see a bit more SLS in the body then I do A5 (not a bad thing).
I like it, but I'm gonna challenge you: I see a Lincoln coupe as something competing with, say, a Bentley Continental (ironic name) GT or a BMW 7 series... GT/touring like, bigger, imposing, sexy. Not as boat-like as the Continental MK II or III, but not Audi TT. Don't get me wrong.... it's your drawing, not mine; Hell, I wish I could draw as well as you!
@ Wizman Im inclined to agree with you. Perhaps I will come up with something. I like Lincoln's design language right now, I think it is something they can evolve over time quite nicely. I want to go back to the drawing board with this car and come up with a car that competes with the Audi A5, then maybe I will come up with a halo coupe, a proper Mercedes cl competitor.
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During a bargaining session on Tuesday, officials from the Amalgamated Transit Union and the City of Gainesville failed to reach an agreement on how much RTS bus drivers should be paid.
Members of the union local -- who say RTS drivers are already some of the lowest paid transit workers in the entire state -- rejected a previous plan by the city to give all drivers a 1.5 percent pay increase. Instead, the union asked for a gradual 'pay-scale' plan -- or automatic raises based on time served.
"They're stuck at base pay. There's no path for pay progression in the current contract," said Mary Frances Folz-Donahue, president of ATU Local 1579.
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But city leaders were reluctant to go along with the union's pay-scale plan, saying it is too expensive in this current budget cycle.
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I'm glad I found this site, I have another issue going on now.
I have a 'Goodman' heater, and it sounds like it keeps restarting.
but if I look closer and listen, the fan is not stopping, but it sounds like the gas will not stay on...
You can see it light up, and hear some other noise, which sounds like a fan, but that is what keeps restarting, the pilot is on, but the fire only stays on for a few seconds.
I don't know how to test this thing, but here is what I have done:
1. I turn the temp. all the way down and the heater stops like it should.
2. I have turned the temp all the way up, but the fire will not stay on.
You can hear and see the pilot starts the fire, but it goes out...
or if I try and say it another way.
The fan blows fine, when it's time for the heater to start to work, the pilot should start the fire, it should get to the desired temp. and then the fan should blow thru the house. The one pipe that goes into the chimney should be too hot to touch.
It's not too hot to touch
the fire does not stay on long enough to build up to the desired temp to blow thru the house
yet the fan is not stopping.
There's a metal rod,called a flame sensor, that sits in front of the left burner. Clean it.
Hey marty,
I kinda hi-jacked another thread. Got pics and stuff, if you want to read it
It's back to working now, but I really can't say how I so called fixed it.
all I did was remove the door, and it started working. Im scared to put the darn door back on.
Clean flame sensor/thermocouple like Marty advises.
If cleaning the flame sensor doesn't work
You might try cleaning the vacume port for the flue pressure switch. It is fairly common for scale to build up in the small orifice on the induced draft blower housing. If cleaning the sensor doesn't fix your problem then the induced draft blower is the round blower connected to the flue pipe just inside the burner compartment. Turn off the power to the furnace and look for the rubber tube connected to the side of the blower. Remove that end of the hose and use a small piece of thermostate wire or something of equivilant size to push through the hole. Reconnect the tube and restart the furnace.
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