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question on return duct
I am trying to figure out if I can reduce the size of my return duct in my kitchen.
My kitchen has a studded in return next to the refrigerator. The return is about 25x17 inches. The return is just a drywalled opening not a metal duct. Down in the basement the return is reduced to a 20x10 metal duct that attaches to my heat pump. I have been told by someone who works in HVAC that I can reduce the return in my kitchen to the size of the return that it reduces to in the basement (20x10). I am thinking that they made the return that large to make the space for the refrigerator. I would love to just run a 20x10 duct up because we are renovating the kitchen and are planning on moving the refigerator and need the extra space. Is this possible?
Don't know who told you that but it is against code to put cold air returns in the kitchen/
Try the bath room you wont mind recurculating air from there eather. :laughing:
Yup, kitchens and baths are no-no's for returns. Among many reasons you don't want those odors wafting around the house. It is time to move that return somewhere else as part of your remodel.
I am sorry I was not clear, the return runs up the wall of the kitchen, the grill is in the living room. I am trying to find out if I can reduce the size of the retun to the size of the duct for the return in the basement.
The hole in the floor is already restricting air flow.
Using a smaller opening in the wall will restrict it more yet. And shorten the life of your furnace.
I won't even WRITE what I am thinking.....jeeze
ok thanks, so just to make sure I am clear on it, attached is a diagram of the duct work. Do I have any other options on making the drywall return smaller? What is the reason the drywall return would be larger then the metal return?
Subtract the plate dimensions at the floor, and what size is the opening then.
The chaise has to have a frame.
Most likely made from either 2x4s or 2x3s.
When you frame around the hole, the drywall dimension becomes bigger then the hole.
So if they framed out the hole by keeping the frame on the outer edge of the hole, then that is the smalllest it can be.
Just messin with ya drac
The grill on your return has in the area of 50% free area meaning when you figure in the louvers and center bar and the frame your actual air opening is around 1/2 the rough opening. This is a guess to a certain extent because I do not know the specs on your ra grill but many residential grills are 50% free area.
If you need to make the return smaller could you add another return to another location. Say add a floor return to a livingroom or dinning room area That is not in the walking path.
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My name is Adam and I am 29 years old. In January of 2008, I enrolled my 6 year old son in the Future Champions Class at Best Way Brazilian Jiu Jitsu/ American Top Team with Andre 'Dedeco' Almeida. One month after my son began training, I expressed my interest to Dedeco in getting into shape. He invited me to attend his BJJ beginners class for a couple of sessions to see how I would like it. I was 336 lbs standing 6'3, never exercised and having no sports experience. A month after attending his classes on a regular basis twice a week, I could feel the difference in myself and I was hooked. As the months went by, my weight continued to drop and my self confidence continued to rise. I attended every class I could, along with every open mat available to me.
On June 15th 2008, I entered the Massachusetts Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Federation Tournament as a white belt and I took 3rd place in my division. If you asked me one year ago if I had ever thought this could be possible, I would have said you were crazy. I recently reached the rank of a blue belt and have moved on to Dedeco's advanced class. To date, I have lost over 100 lbs and feel better both physically and mentally than I did when I was 20. My self confidence has risen and my stress levels have dramatically dropped.
My son still trains twice a week in the Future Champions class and has reached the rank of junior yellow belt. His mother and I have seen the difference in his attitude and confidence. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu has become a large part of our lives and I feel it has brought my son and I closer together. So far, this has been a great experience for us with no end in sight. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu has given me a brighter outlook on the next 30 years of my life and I only wish I had discovered this sooner.
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On behalf of the Town of Weymouth Fire and Police Departments, we would like to extend our gratitude and appreciation for accepting the invitation to present our joined forces with an instructional demonstration of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu as part of the Weymouth Fire/Police Fitness Challenge. The reputation of Best Way Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and American Top Team as well as your own personal achievements gives us great confidence that each person in attendance will gain valuable insights into this very exciting and popular martial art. We are sure that this event will be the highlight of our Fitness Challenge. We look forward to the seminar in August and thank you in advance for your participation.
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I want to start off by saying Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, for what you, Andrew , Johnnie and Mike have done for my son. You all have such great patience with him and he looks up to you and is so eager to learn what you teach him. Let me give you a bit of my son's history and how far he has come. He has ADHD and sensory issues and this disability was almost taking him down a path I did not want to see him take. Until he came to you, This boy was always in fights he had no control over his sensory issues and it always turned into a fight. Instead of teaching him negative fighting you taught him how to control his body with positive fighting. Even his attitude has gone from negative energy to positive. I can see the control he has now, it is just amazing to see how far he has come. He is such a happier child and it makes me so happy to come to class and watch him move. As a mom it is wonderful to be able to bring your child somewhere that he loves to go. He has tried almost every sport and never stuck to it until we learned about this sport and how an impact it has made in our family. You are all like family to him and he feels that he belongs.
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text: Yesterday Chateau Marmont's patio was busy. You had Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson at lunch and you had Courteney Cox and a guy in a suit at night sipping on martinis. No pictures of the couple. Let me tell you a little something about the patio at Chateau Marmont. You can look at your cell phone, but the second you hold it up like you are going to take a photo someone will appear out of nowhere and tell you that no photos are allowed, and then ask if they can get you another $18 drink. Sure, you can be sneaky, but it can be tough to be sneaky and aim your phone in the right direction and still get a shot. I used to drink martinis a lot. I stopped though about the same time I realized I always ended up drinking them in two swallows. It is the design of the glass. I thought about asking them to be served in a highball glass, but then people ask you what you are drinking and you say a martini and then ask how come it is not in a martini glass and so at some point you get tired of telling the tale and order something different. Courteney and her guy stayed until midnight which is a pretty late night for her.


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By Paul White, USA TODAY
Brandon Morrow didn't join the five pitchers who have no-hitters this season, nor will his game Sunday be remembered as long as Armando Galarraga's near-perfect game this season.
But Morrow produced one of the most dominant pitching performances in major league history, coming within one out — and inches — of a no-hitter and striking out 17 in the Toronto Blue Jays' 1-0 win vs. the Tampa Bay Rays.
BIGGER LETDOWN: Brandon Morrow or Armando Galarraga?
"He was putting guys away better than anybody I've ever seen," said Rays third baseman Evan Longoria, who singled off the glove of diving second baseman Aaron Hill with two outs in the ninth.
It was reminiscent of a one-hitter pitched by Kerry Wood as a rookie for the 1998 Chicago Cubs. Wood tied the major league record with 20 strikeouts, and the hit was Ricky Gutierrez's third-inning bouncer off the glove of third baseman Kevin Orie. Wood allowed one other runner, a hit batter. Morrow walked two, and one other runner reached on an error.
Had Hill converted the play, Morrow would have been one strikeout short of the most in a no-hitter. Nolan Ryan had 17 when, pitching for the California Angels, he no-hit the Detroit Tigers on July 15, 1973. After Longoria's hit, Morrow struck out Dan Johnson to end the game.
Galarraga missed a perfect game June 2 when umpire Jim Joyce mistakenly called a hitter safe at first base for what should have been the 27th out.
Other candidates for the most dominant games:
•The Pittsburgh Pirates' Harvey Haddix threw 12 perfect innings May 26, 1959, but lost 1-0 when the host Milwaukee Braves scored on an error, a walk and a double.
•The Los Angeles Dodgers' Sandy Koufax pitched a perfect game against the Cubs in 1965, striking out 14.
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In what ways did Lyndon Johnson finally fufill the liberal vision for the US?In what ways did Lyndon Johnson finally fufill the liberal vision for the US?
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The recent health care reform law, controversial as it is, was the first major attempt at reform in the industry since Johnson created Medicare in the mid-1960s, which was also very controversial at the time and passed by the slimmest of margins. Today, any politician that tries to cut Medicare does so at their political peril, and the program is very popular with liberals and conservatives alike. So one thing that Johnson had done to bring a liberal vision to the US was to convince the vast majority of Americans, liberal and conservative, over time, to support the liberal ideal of universal health care for our elderly.
Lyndon Johnson is rightfully famous for his "Great Society" war against poverty that involved various new legislation giving greater rights to the poor and elderly, some of which are listed above in #3. These definitely helped some of society's poorest who were unable to help themselves. However, although this attack on poverty was undoubtedly incredibly important, I feel his most important legacy was the way in which he achieved equal rights for blacks through the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act in 1964 and 1965 respectively. This definitely was a key move in advancing towards the liberal vision of the United States of America.
President Johnson's 'Great Society' war on poverty legislation definitely allowed him to fortify his liberal vision for the United States. They include:
1. Medicare-health insurance for those 65 yrs. or older
2. Medicaid- health insurance for those who could not afford it
3. The Office Of Economic Opportunity- to attack the problems connected with poverty
4. Job Corps- training high school drop-outs and the unemployed
5. Project Head Start- preoared children from disenfranchised children for school
6. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act- provided federal funds for schools in poverty areas
In addition, his success in Civil Rights with the Civil Rights Act 1964 and the Voting Rights Act 1965
I would point to two major ways in which Pres. Johnson fulfilled the liberal vision for the US. These have to do with the areas of civil rights and what might be called social justice.
Liberals wanted a society in which people of all races were treated equally under the law. It was under LBJ that this finally happened. Johnson worked hard to push the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 through Congress. These two acts gave blacks the legal equality that liberals wanted them to have.
Liberals also wanted a society that cared for its poor and elderly and tried to help them out. LBJ's Great Society programs were aimed at this very goal. Programs like Medicaid and Medicare were meant to ensure that there was a basic "safety net" that would prevent Americans from becoming poor. This goal was not achieved since poverty continues to exist, but Johnson did push the government to do more to promote social justice, just as liberals wanted.
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Washington's Cody Pickett threw an astounding 60 passes, completing 29 of them for 429 yards and three touchdowns, but his four interceptions overshadowed all of those statistics. Pickett was rushed, hit, knocked down, sacked four times, and had his timing thrown off by UCLA's defensive front four.
Chris Singleton started his first game of his Husky career and looked solid, picking up 92 yards on 20 carries. He looked quick to the hole and made some nice cuts once he hit the line of scrimmage. His play and the defense were the two lone bright spots in an otherwise dark Husky defeat.
UCLA got on the board first, using the old "swinging gate" play as a catalyst. After two false start penalties, UCLA faced a 3rd and 17. They broke the huddle quickly and lined up nine players to the left of the football, while Washington's defense scrambled to figure out what was happening. Mike McCloskey quickly snapped the ball side-armed to quarterback Drew Olson, who ran behind the wall of Bruins for a 34-yard gain. The drive would stall there, helped in large part by another Bruin false start penalty, and Nathan Fikse made a 27-yard field goal to make it 3-0 Bruins.
The Huskies came up with a big special teams play to get their offensive fire started. Reserve linebacker Tim Galloway came through on the left side of the Bruin punt formation to get a hand on Fikse's punt, which set the Huskies up on the Bruin 47-yard line.
On 2nd and 10 from the 13, Pickett stepped up to avoid a sure sack by DE Rusty Williams and floated a ball to the back of the end zone where Reggie Williams went high to snare it and get one foot inbounds while fighting tight coverage from Matt Ware. John Anderson's extra point put the Dawgs up 7-3.
It would be the last time the Huskies would have the lead.
UCLA answered right back, interestingly enough, through the air. With Husky safety Jimmy Newell sidelined with a knee sprain and Greg Carothers dinged, Olson went to work on young safeties James Sims and Evan Benjamin. He found Seidman for 21 yards and then for 17 more on a backside screen. The big play of the drive came on third and four when Tab Perry found himself open where the Husky linebackers and safeties had vacated. He picked up 23 yards to keep the Bruins in business. Three Tyler Ebell runs punched it into the endzone from 10 yards out to put the visitors back on top 10-7 to end the first quarter.
The first play of the second quarter was as interesting for it's choice as much as it was for the results. On third and two with Tuiasosopo in a one-back set, Washington showed little faith in their much-maligned offensive line and decided to throw for it. Pickett attempted to thread a quick slant to Frederick. The drawn in UCLA linebackers were in perfect spacing, as Spencer Havner got his mitt on the ball to knock it skywards and Marcus Reese intercepted the rock and returned it all the way down to the Husky one. Two plays later Ebell was in the end zone and the Bruin lead grew to 10.
Washington answered right back, and Pickett used his tight end to do the damage. The drive would last 10 plays travel 82-yards, and it got rolling with a Kevin Ware 21-yard post pattern reception to get the ball near midfield. On fourth and one, Pickett faked to Tuiasosopo and pitched the ball to Singleton just as the linebacker was arriving. Singleton picked up a big block from TE Joe Toledo and went 11 yards to keep the drive alive. Two plays later Pickett found Ware open for a 20-yard TD strike right down the middle to draw to within three at 17-14.
A UCLA three and out preceded a 21-yard shanked punt by Fikse and Washington would start it's next drive at midfield. However Washington came up empty.
UCLA responded by going 80 yards in seven plays to go back up by 10. A 22-yard Ebell run put the ball at midfield. Olson then made a big time throw. Despite having Kai Ellis on his chest, Olson threw a laser beam to Perry, who made the grab at the 26. A helmet-to-helmet contact penalty on Derrick Johnson moved the ball to the Husky 13. On third and four Olson sizzled one to Seidman, who caught it and dragged Evan Benjamin to the one. Ebell carried over right tackle for the touchdown.
Washington started their final drive of the half on their own two. UCLA gave Washington ample opportunities to answer, but to no avail. UCLA committed an offsides penalty at the UW 45 on third and one with 0:26 remaining in the half. They followed that by a Joe Hunter pass interference penalty on Charles Frederick, moving the ball into John Anderson field goal range, on the UCLA 26. Washington decided to take one final shot at the end zone, since they had one time out remaining. Pickett threw down the seam for Ware again but Ricky Manning cheated off of his coverage of Paul Arnold and easily intercepted it to end the half.
UCLA had 10 penalties in the half and still held a 10-point lead.
The second half began much like the first half ended. After Pickett found Williams for 17 yards, he once again attempted to hit Ware on a seam route down the middle. Freshman safety Jarrad Page read it perfectly and made the interception. He returned it to the UCLA 49-yard line.
UCLA looked like they would stall, but on third and 10 Olson found Seidman between the safeties for a 42-yard catch and run. The play set up a 23-yard field goal by Fikse to move the Bruins on top 27-14.
A Brandon Chillar crushing sack of Pickett and a 21-yard McLaughlin shanked punt set UCLA up on the Husky 48 to begin their next drive, but the Husky defense held once again.
Washington's ground attack showed some life, as Singleton grinded out 15 yards on three straight running plays. However as the Huskies neared the Bruin 40, David Ball came in to sack Pickett on the final play of the third quarter. Facing third and very long, Pickett dropped back and fired long for Arnold, who made a one-handed reception while falling down at the six-yard line. Three plays later (including a drop by Reddick that would've put the ball on the one), Washington was still five yards from pay-dirt. With 13:48 left in the game, Neuheisel opted to go for three. Anderson's 22-yard field goal split the uprights to draw the Huskies within 10.
Neuheisel admitted that if they were on the one, he would've gone for it.
At the time it looked like the right decision because the defense again held UCLA, and despite the punt bouncing off of Chris Massey's calf, the Huskies recovered and took over on their own 20 with 10:39 left.
It looked like more hard luck for the Husky offense as Frederick dropped what would've been a long gain. It was the seventh drop of the evening to that point, but Pickett found Ware for 10 on third down to move the chains. It would prove to be huge, as two plays later Pickett hit Paul Arnold on a quick hitter. The senior wide receiver took the ball in at the 40, stopped, faked inside and cut outside. He got around the corner past Joe Hunter and raced down the Husky sideline for a 66-yard touchdown to draw the Huskies to within three at 27-24. The Husky Stadium crowd erupted.
UCLA was able to grind out one first down but the Husky defense remained tough and forced a Bruin punt with 5:56 remaining.
With the crowd alive, Pickett quickly hit Paul Arnold for a gain of 22 yards. After a 9-yard completion to Ware and a Singleton 3-yard run, Washington was at the UCLA 31. Then came the definitive sequence in the game. On second and seven on the UCLA 28, Pickett was sacked by David Ball once again. This time it was a loss of 11 and took the Dawgs out of field goal range. After a third and 18 pass fell incomplete, Washington was forced to punt back to UCLA with 3:12 remaining in the game.
Derek McLaughlin's punt was a wounded duck that netted four yards. Instead of pinning the Bruins deep in their own territory, UCLA took over at their 35. When the Bruins punted back to Washington with 2:19 remaining, Washington was 87 yards from the goal line.
Pickett found Reddick for a 17-yard pick up, and then Frederick for a 10-yard gain. Then came his worst three throws of the game. On second and five Pickett threw carelessly to the right flat where UCLA's Keith Short should've picked it off. He dropped it. On third and five Pickett threw behind Ware when he attempted to baby the ball. On fourth and five Pickett once again threw for Ware. This one was picked off by Spencer Havner and returned 42 yards for the final touchdown.
UCLA improves to 6-3, 3-2 in the Pac-10, while Washington drops to 4-5, 1-4 in the Pac-10. For the second week in a row, it was a game where the much-maligned Husky defense played more than well enough to win. They held UCLA to just 13 first downs and 316 total yards, but it wasn't enough to overcome four turnovers and spotty special teams play.
Washington had 31 first downs and held the ball for nearly 34 minutes, both meaningless statistics in this tumultuous season.
Notes from the Press Box and Husky player quotes will be posted tomorrow.


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Amelia HTML version
Containing A Scene Of The Tender Kind.
"The doctor, madam," continued Booth, "spent his evening at Mrs. Harris's
house, where I sat with him whilst he smoaked his pillow pipe, as his phrase is.
Amelia was retired about half an hour to her chamber before I went to her. At my
entrance I found her on her knees, a posture in which I never disturbed her. In a
few minutes she arose, came to me, and embracing me, said she had been
praying for resolution to support the cruellest moment she had ever undergone or
could possibly undergo. I reminded her how much more bitter a farewel would be
on a death-bed, when we never could meet, in this world at least, again. I then
endeavoured to lessen all those objects which alarmed her most, and particularly
the danger I was to encounter, upon which head I seemed a little to comfort her;
but the probable length of my absence and the certain length of my voyage were
circumstances which no oratory of mine could even palliate. 'O heavens!' said
she, bursting into tears, 'can I bear to think that hundreds, thousands for aught I
know, of miles or leagues, that lands and seas are between us? What is the
prospect from that mount in our garden where I have sat so many happy hours
with my Billy? what is the distance between that and the farthest hill which we
see from thence compared to the distance which will be between us? You cannot
wonder at this idea; you must remember, my Billy, at this place, this very thought
came formerly into my foreboding mind. I then begged you to leave the army.
Why would you not comply?--did I not tell you then that the smallest cottage we
could survey from the mount would be, with you, a paradise to me? it would be
so still--why can't my Billy think so? am I so much his superior in love? where is
the dishonour, Billy? or, if there be any, will it reach our ears in our little hut? are
glory and fame, and not his Amelia, the happiness of my husband? go then,
purchase them at my expence. You will pay a few sighs, perhaps a few tears, at
parting, and then new scenes will drive away the thoughts of poor Amelia from
your bosom; but what assistance shall I have in my affliction? not that any
change of scene could drive you one moment from my remembrance; yet here
every object I behold will place your loved idea in the liveliest manner before my
eyes. This is the bed in which you have reposed; that is the chair on which you
sat. Upon these boards you have stood. These books you have read to me. Can
I walk among our beds of flowers without viewing your favourites, nay, those
which you have planted with your own hands? can I see one beauty from our
beloved mount which you have not pointed out to me?'--Thus she went on, the
woman, madam, you see, still prevailing."--"Since you mention it," says Miss
Matthews, with a smile, "I own the same observation occurred to me. It is too
natural to us to consider ourselves only, Mr. Booth."--"You shall hear," he cried.
"At last the thoughts of her present condition suggested themselves.--' But if,'
said she, 'my situation, even in health, will be so intolerable, how shall I, in the
danger and agonies of childbirth, support your absence?'--Here she stopt, and,
looking on me with all the tenderness imaginable, cried out, 'And am I then such


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Apple, Google Are Said to Be Among Companies Sizing Up InterDigital Offers
Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google Inc. (GOOG), aiming to bolster their patent portfolios, are among companies weighing possible bids for InterDigital Inc., a mobile-phone technology designer, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
The person declined to be identified because the matter is private. InterDigital, which has about 1,300 patents related to mobile-phone technologies used to transfer information, hired bankers as it considers a sale, the King of Prussia, Pennsylvania-based company said in a statement yesterday.
InterDigital joins companies including Nortel Networks Corp. and Eastman Kodak Co. in selling patent portfolios that will help would-be owners defend themselves against allegations of infringement. Google lost in a bid for Nortel's $4.5 billion portfolio to a group that included Apple and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)
InterDigital's patents in cellular technology are "deeper and stronger" than Nortel's, InterDigital Chief Executive Officer William Merritt said in April. The company has a market value of about $3.1 billion.
Evercore Partners Inc. and Barclays Capital will "explore and evaluate potential strategic alternatives" that may include a sale, InterDigital said yesterday.
Aaron Zamost, a spokesman for Google, declined to comment, as did Steve Dowling, a spokesman for Apple, and Jack Indekeu, a spokesman for InterDigital.
InterDigital rose $15.41, or 29 percent, to $68.67 at 4 p.m. New York time on the Nasdaq Stock Market, after surging 28 percent yesterday. Google, based in Mountain View, California, fell $7.20 to $595.35. Apple rose $10.05, or 2.7 percent, to $386.90.
The Wall Street Journal reported Google's interest earlier today.
To contact the reporters on this story: Jeffrey McCracken in New York at firstname.lastname@example.com; Brian Womack in San Francisco at firstname.lastname@example.com
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Jennifer Sondag at firstname.lastname@example.com; Tom Giles at email@example.com.


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Comodo Cleaning Essentials
REVIEW DATE : January 17, 2012
PROS: Effective removal of active malware traces in testing. Especially good against rootkits. Fully portable; no installation required. Includes malware-sensitive autorun analyzer. Includes advanced Task Manager replacement.
A PC protected by a quality antivirus tool should be pretty darn safe. Even if a brand-new threat isn't recognized, your security tool should keep it from actually doing harm. If the malware has already settled in, though, you have a problem. Active threats may well smack down any attempt to install or run security protection. That's where Comodo Cleaning Essentials (free) comes in. It focuses on cleanup, not ongoing protection, and it does a very good job of clearing out active malware. Not only that, it's free for personal or business use.
Portable Protection
Norman Malware Cleaner 2.1 (Free, 3.5 stars) and Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware Free 1.51 (Free, 4 stars) also focus strictly on cleanup. Norman doesn't require installation. Malwarebytes does, but none of my malware samples balked its installer.
At the end of a scan by any of the Norton products there's a link to click if you think some problems remain. This link leads to the Norton Power Eraser (Free, 4 stars) download page. You can also download the tool at will to clean up a persistent threat.
avast! Rescue Disc ($10/once direct, 3.5 stars) takes a different approach. To clean up a badly infested system you boot from the disc, without even launching the installed version of Windows. However, it's a little harder to carry around a CD in your pocket.
The Cleanup Process
There are just a handful of configuration settings, most of which you shouldn't change. If you suspect the possibility of a now-uncommon Master Boot Record (MBR) virus, or if you just want a really thorough scan, you might consider turning on the MBR scanner.
At the beginning of a full scan, the product needs to reboot your system. That lets it launch ahead of any rootkit threats, making it tough for them to hide. Next it runs a full antivirus signature update. Remember, this product isn't installed, so it hasn't had a chance to sit around downloading updates in the background. After updating it performs a thorough scan.
When the scan finishes, it simply reports the number of threats found. You can click for details, if you wish, and even change the action for any or all found threats. By default, it cleans each threat, disinfecting infected files and deleting wholly malicious ones. You can set it to ignore specific files, or to report them to experts at Comodo.
Once the antivirus has finished its cleanup actions, it requests another reboot to confirm that everything's now hunky-dory. Upon reboot it displays a list of all the threats and their Status, either OK or Failed.
On my standard clean test system, the whole process took just under an hour, about twice as long as the current average. You'll normally whip out this tool to solve a serious problem, so the time spent fixing it isn't as important as its success at killing off the active malware.
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The point of scanning with Comodo is to wipe out active malware, not to clean up every little trace, and this came through very clearly in my testing. Two malware-related processes remained running after Comodo's cleanup, but as far as I could tell they were powerless without the components Comodo did remove. Comodo left behind executable traces for a handful of other threats, and it left behind tons of non-executable traces for most of the remaining ones.
Leaving behind non-executable junk doesn't count strongly against a product's overall score. Comodo managed to score 6.8 points for overall malware cleanup, beaten only by Webroot with 6.9 and Norton AntiVirus 2012 ($39.99 direct, 4.5 stars) with 7.1.
Comodo's rootkit handling was especially impressive. In several cases, it detected and eliminated rootkits strictly based on their sneaky behavior, without help from antivirus signatures. Like Webroot, Norton, and quite a few others, Comodo detected 100 percent of the rootkits. Not a single rootkit remained active after Comodo's scan, and its rootkit score of 8.7 points beats all the rest except for Norton, which scored 8.9.
This is quite a contrast to some of the other cleanup power-tools. Avast! Rescue Disc managed 5.3 points, and using my previous malware collection Norton Power Eraser scored 6.0 points. Those scores aren't bad. But Malwarebytes only got 3.6, and Norman brought up the rear with 2.4 points. I consider this a significant failing. Rootkits are among the toughest kind of malware to remove, and hence should be a primary target for a standalone cleanup tool.
Like the vast majority of current products, Comodo detected 100 percent of the scareware (fake antivirus) samples. Quite a few competitors matched its 9.5 point score; Norton and Malwarebytes aced this one with a perfect 10 points. For a full run-down on where all these numbers come from see How We Test Malware Removal.
Comodo Cleaning Essentials malware removal chart
No Blocking, No Lab Results
As noted, Comodo Cleaning Essentials is strictly a cleanup tool, with no real-time protection component. The average user will run it to clear out active malware, install another antivirus that offers both cleanup and blocking, and put Comodo aside until the next emergency. A user with more technical expertise should definitely take a look at two useful bonus tools.
Autorun Analyzer
Autorun Analyzer reports the description and publisher of the automatically-launched process, when available. More importantly, it flags dangerous items launched at startup. You can disable or delete a malicious entry, or click to view the file or Registry location from which it's launched. And if those hundreds of items seem overwhelming, there's an option to hide the safe entries, showing only the problems.
Like the Autorun Analyzer, KillSwitch highlights dangerous processes. From the main menu you can suspend or terminate all unsafe processes. Line graphs along the right-hand side track use of system resources, with an option to display a full window of larger graphs and system information.
Not sure what process in the list corresponds to a particular window? Just drag the Find Window icon and drop it on that window. KillSwitch will highlight the corresponding process. You can also use it to launch any program or restart the system, just like Task Manager.
But wait! There's more! Many malicious programs manipulate system security in order to do their dirty deeds. KillSwitch's Quick Repair tool checks over 20 often-abused system locations, identifies any that have been compromised, and quickly fixes them.
There's even an option to have it replace Task Manager, so Ctrl+Alt+Del brings up the full power of KillSwitch. Clearly this is a tool to delight us geeks, not something designed for the average user.
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On the other hand, if malware keeps you from installing Norton, Webroot, or another security tool, then Comodo is exactly what you need. It does exactly what it promises, and it does so much better than equivalent products. System experts will love the two bonus analysis tools. And it's free! We're naming Comodo Editors' Choice for cleanup-only antivirus.
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I have this page i keep a print out of at home. Maybe it can help some people.
"Can We Tape?"
It is legal to record in Tennessee. I don't record with the cell phone only a dvr. It has came in handy both times I have needed it.
The police record also. I have gotten police dispatch, complaint calls, my own calls, and in car video from information requests. Just make sure the request goes in immediately and do not count on them as they can be erased or lost.
I didn't record it but once when I was pulled over by a LEO I pushed talk on my cell phone and my mother-in-law was on the phone and heard everything. Long story short I was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon within a vehicle (I stored my gun improperly). They found out where it was because I was honest and told them that I had guns in my car when they asked me to step out. The officer lied on his police report and my mother in law was an audio witness to what she heard. His story didn't match mine and her story did. She told her story to the police station before me and her got a chance to talk so it couldn't have been rehearsed. The officer was since fired from that department but I'm not sure how much this situation had to do with it.
For Oregon, it references ORS 165.540 (1)(c), which states that a person may not:
Seems to indicate that, if in Oregon you're stopped by LEO and are surreptitiously running a recording device on that conversation, you're in violation of ORS 165.540 and subject to arrest and charge on a Class A Misdemeanor.Quote:
ORS 165.540(1)(c) Obtain or attempt to obtain the whole or any part of a conversation by means of any device, contrivance, machine or apparatus, whether electrical, mechanical, manual or otherwise, if not all participants in the conversation are specifically informed that their conversation is being obtained.
This pretty much matches a recent case I'm aware of from 2009, in which someone I know recorded himself being stopped/interviewed by LEO while being stepped on for (legally) openly carrying. The only thing that stuck was, IIRC, a charge of recording without informing.
OK on NC you can tape your conversation as long as one person knows so I guess if I hit record I know. Lots of people get confused with wire tapping. So know I have my phone set and I can video record my conversation and it will automatically send the recording to an internet storage just in case my phone gets lost
In CT you can tape people without them knowing just as long as you are part of that conversation. Found this out through a Lawyer during a suit that I was involved in, when I should of had a recording device.....go figure always find out that about something helpful after the matter. I am now looking for one for my truck that also takes vids.
that would be nice to have one mounted on my truck or car
Yeah, I have been saying the same thing for many years. It is a win-win for the LEO's and for the citizens. It would end many frivolous complaints against officers, and would encourage the officer to act professionally at all times. Private citizens are at a great disadvantage when it comes to LEO confrontations. If anything goes wrong, the courts will most always side with the officers testimony. If there was a audio/video recording of the incident, I betcha it would settle virtually all those cases without the "he said - she said" LEO vs citizen credibility battle.
I think it would take too long to activate your cell phone for the audio recording. I have often thought about carrying a discrete recording device, similar to this, which can be deployed much faster: 640x480 USB Pen Spy Camcorder/Web Camera with 8GB Memory/Hidden Camera(LSW001) - US$ 68.99
Here, it is legal to record any conversation in which one person in the conversation agrees to being taped. As long as you are involved in the conversation, you can legally record it... at least here.
I've even been to court on that issue, and 3 people decided it was in their best interest to recant their testimony and tell the truth. ... or the tapes got listened to by the Judge and DA ... for perjury charges to be filed against them.
I have the capability but have not had a stop to use it. Hands free Mic that sits on a table or car console and has auto sensing mic. I am next ready to install a Video camera to back that up. Just installed 8 Video Cameras at my home community. 4 at the front gate, only way in or out, with pictures of every car front and rear TAG entering and leaving and 4 more to enter the Pool, restrooms and tennis courts. All timed to match the Entry Codes you push to go into these areas. Nothing is missed. It only took 8K for the cameras and recorders and 4K for the Trilogy 3 Locks. I can place Full Color Prints of Suspicious persons at the Exit Box to the street....
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This item on Okla refers only to taping. Are there different regulations involved when using video? I think we all have seen the famous videos where people filming police have been ordered to give up their cameras.


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What if I told you that there was a voluntary federal program that has resulted in saving 5 billion gallons of fuel, cut fuel costs by $16.8 billion, and reduced carbon monoxide emissions by 52 million tons since the program's inception in 2004? You probably wouldn't believe it.
Although we hear stories about government boondoggles, very rarely do we hear about those programs that work and may even exceed expectations.
Let me introduce you to the Environmental Protection Agency's SmartWay Transport Partnership. As noted on EPA's website, the program "is a market-driven partnership aimed at helping businesses move goods in the cleanest most efficient way possible." In the case of this program, the phrase, "I'm with the federal government and I'm here to help," actually rings true.
SmartWay has realized astounding success without mandates and with limited funding. Why is this program so successful? First, rather than dictating specific processes, EPA acts as a partner with the freight sector. It helped to identify and provide a menu of options for the freight industry toward becoming more fuel efficient and reducing emissions. These technologies include idle reduction, aerodynamic technologies, alternative fuel vehicles and others. Overall, these technologies can increase fuel savings up to 25 percent.
Second, SmartWay recognized that the "one size fits all" concept does not work. Instead of mandating strategies, SmartWay, through encouragement of the private sector, the marketing of success stories, and proof that "going green" could even help a company's bottom line, has achieved tremendous success.
Third, EPA served as a true partner. It independently analyzed different technologies to reduce emissions and improve fuel efficiency. EPA then educated the freight sector on the value of adopting these strategies. They articulated not only the benefits to the environment but also made a business case for the technologies. As further encouragement, EPA even provided a limited amount of seed money to offset some costs associated with these technologies. Finally, EPA made a point of annually recognizing industry leaders in SmartWay.
In Colorado there are over 70 trucking fleets and shippers that are SmartWay partners. While this includes a number of large companies, SmartWay is not only for big businesses. One of the greatest success stories in the state involves a small trucking company with less than 50 trucks, who in the past five years reduced its fuel consumption by over 10 percent and its greenhouse gas footprint substantially, despite an increase in miles traveled. In Colorado, SmartWay has not only substantially reduced emissions and fuel use but has led trucking operators to think in a new manner. It has made environmental sustainability less abstract.
Could the SmartWay approach be a model for other federal and state programs? The answer is a resounding, "yes." While there will always be a role for certain mandates and regulations, SmartWay has proven that a different approach, one which makes a business case, appeals to the best instincts of companies, and provides incentives versus penalties, may result in very successful outcomes.
For SmartWay, which is celebrating its 10th Anniversary, the best years appear to be ahead. With the program's success, more companies in Colorado will join the partnership. As a result, Colorado will benefit as emissions and greenhouse gases are reduced, businesses and consumers realize cost savings, and our country gets closer to energy independence.
Greg Fulton is the president of the Colorado Motor Carriers Association.
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Find all real solutions of the equation (x^2-7x+11)^(x^2-11x+30) = 1.
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The ideal gas equation is a simple equation which can be used to model certain gases under certain conditions. In this question, assume that it is always applicable. The equation is as follows:
$$pV = nRT$$
$p$ = pressure
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$n$ = number of moles
$R$ is 8.314 JK$^{-1}$mol$^{-1}$
$T$ = temperature
I vaporise a diamond using a laser, such that the gas fills 55000 cm$^3$ at a pressure of 900 mmHg and a temperature of 49$^\circ$C.
How many moles of carbon are there in my original sample of diamond? Note that data for this question are at the bottom of the page.
Assuming that the diamond can be modelled as a sphere of density 3.52 $\times$ 10$^{9}$ mg/m$^3$, what would the radius of my diamond have been in cm?
I now cool the vapour to -20$^\circ$C at a constant volume. There is no other heat transfer to or from the gas.
What is the new pressure in Nm$^{-2}$?
If I allow the volume of the gas to double (against a vacuum), what would the new pressure be?
If the expansion had not been against a vacuum, would the new pressure be larger or smaller than that calculated previously? Why?
The gas is now returned to its original temperature and volume, and 5 moles of air are introduced into the container.
What is the new pressure of the gas in container?
Given that air is 0.93% argon (by volume), what is the partial pressure of argon?
If the argon molecules are evenly distributed in the container, what volume does each molecule occupy?
I now try to compress the gas into the smallest volume possible.
Making suitable modelling assumptions, estimate what this smallest volume would be.
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Maybe not, at least on the cosmic scale. But as Friends of Dean Martinez finishes up its tenth year of creating, playing, and recording, there remains a lot to be said about the band itself - its surprising longevity, its stately aesthetic, and especially its decade's worth of releases culminating this year with the exquisite Lost Horizon.Following On the Shore, the performance lineup of Friends of Dean Martinez began coalescing into the form it takes today: Elm on guitar and keyboards, Semple on guitars, and Andrew Gerfers on drums. It's this trio, for the first time without aid or need of sidemen, that created the music on Lost Horizon.
It makes the best kind of sense that Lost Horizon - Friends of Dean Martinez's tenth record in as many years - is not only the band's most confident record, but also its most cohesive. In most respects, this is the first time in FoDM's history that a stable group, one with a history of collaboration and several performances under its collective belt, has entered the studio to produce an entire album.
Taken individually, instrumental albums may, as Elm suggests, speak largely for themselves. And each FoDM album has indeed exhibited characteristic touches, like Random Harvest's murkier tonal colors and On the Shore's aggressively experimental conceits. But Lost Horizon's testimony is especially serene and rewarding since it sounds from the first notes like the work of musicians who've had time to internalize each other's strengths, and who've learned how to listen closely to each other throughout the album. The level of tight interaction on Lost Horizon feels both perfectly natural and hard-won, as in the interplay between the minor chord circles and gritty lead parts on "Dawn," the jittery interweaving of blistered Spanish progressions with skeletal percussion on "Heart of Darkness," or the austere plucked acoustic guitar and high-end electric fills on "Dusk."
That Lost Horizon is the work of the trio alone - no guest players - is understandably a point of pride with Elm. But one of the (perhaps) unexpected benefits of the band's recent stability is the new album's consistency even past the disparate styles featured on it - and Lost Horizon, it should be said, features virtually all of the performance styles in the band's playbook. The growling opening phrase of "Hidden Out of Sight" swerves into a hard-metal hook layered with a distorted wah-wah melody, while the clean and radiant lines of "All in the Golden Afternoon" move at a grand, unhurried pace. "Somewhere Over the Waves," opening with a simple three-note statement over a descending chord pattern, shimmers and flows with just the barest reverb effect smoothing out the whirling ambient noise that runs just beneath the music. "Somewhere...", incidentally, comes from Friends of Dean Martinez's recent composition and performance of a simultaneous score for Stuart Paton's 1916 silent film of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, screened at Austin's Alamo Draft House Cinema. It's a project the band has undertaken before - a previous score for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari yielded part of the music on Random Harvest - but the unity of purpose on "Somewhere...", as on Lost Horizon itself, emerges from Elm, Semple, and Gerfers having had the time and space to play off each other's performance styles.
Once the basic tracks had been recorded and produced, the band handed the finished tracks off to veteran Austin producer Stuart Sullivan, who'd previously manned the boards for dozens of acts ranging from Jello Biafra and Junior Brown to the Meat Puppets and Sublime; Sullivan mixed the tracks into their final versions. "I have to give [Sullivan] total credit for the record's sound," says Elm. "He didn't even know our music, but it was great to hand it off to someone else and not know what we were going to get back." With a light touch of plate reverb and a little softening of the original music's dynamics via a mix-down-to-tape, Lost Horizon gained whole fathoms of depth; to hear the finished record seems to belie the fact that all this music was performed by only three players.
In case you were wondering, Lost Horizon's title is copped from the James Hilton book of the same name (as was Random Harvest before it). But where Hilton's book contrasted the mythical perfection of Shangri-La deep in the Tibetan mountains with the grotty workaday world we all inhabit, Friends of Dean Martinez's music finds the mythical in the everyday. That's not meant to be a sweeping philosophical claim, only an observation that Lost Horizon sounds like the familiar world taken apart and reassembled -the sort of music that begins in recognizable forms, but soon departs from our zones of comfort.
It's a quality Bill Elm attributes, at least in part, to the band's trust in its own instincts: "When you're recording, it's easy to think you can always go back and redo things. Our last record took about eight months to put together. And I noticed at the end, after all that rerecording, what I was doing was going back to the first version for the final mix. It felt like a waste of six months. This record was really drawn from our experience playing together over the last four years.
"You're probably at your best as a player, anyway, when you're not thinking about it," Elm muses. "That's when the real version of you comes out."
1. Landfall
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3. Heart Of Darkness
4. Somewhere Over The Waves
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6. Two Hundred Miles
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Whether they're hoping to meet a life partner or just looking to go out on a few dates, more and more people are using
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According to Dr. Gian Gonzaga, eHarmony's Director of Research, you want to play up your fun side wherever possible.
"A really good profile is a combination of some great pictures and a paragraph or two that shows you off to your best advantage," he says. "The people who get the most attention online are the people who look like they have a really interesting and fun-filled life."
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I spotted this Osprey nest 13 miles south of Dubois, Wyoming. It is a fake utility pole next to a real one. When I first saw the Osprey it had a fish in its claw but I didn't have my camera ready so no photos. This nest is next to the road so I just stayed in my vehicle to get these shots.
Tomorrow I will show you an Osprey in flight.
The Osprey tolerates a wide variety of habitats, nesting in any location near a body of water providing an adequate food supply.


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Conservative Groups Seek Veto of Florida Energy Bill
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Tea party groups and other conservative organizations are urging Gov. Rick Scott to veto Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam's energy legislation.
Groups ranging from Americans for Prosperity to the John Birch Society on Friday released a letter to Scott.
It argues the bill (HB 7117) would "circumvent the free-market and consumer choice" and allow the state to pick winners and losers by restoring expired tax credits for renewable energy projects.
Putnam denied it would pick winners and losers because all types of renewable energy, such as solar, wind and biomass, would be eligible.
He says it's "technology agnostic" and businesses would be eligible only after spending capital, creating jobs and producing energy.
A Scott spokesman says the governor was still reviewing the bill.
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Oil Industry and Food and Farm Groups Sue EPA Over Increase in Ethanol BlendBy Scott Doggett November 9, 2010
By Scott Doggett, Contributing Editor
The American Petroleum Institute and nine food and farm groups today sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over last month's ruling that E15 - a blend of 15 percent ethanol and 85 percent gasoline - can be used in some newer vehicles.
The API and the food and farm groups, in two separate legal challenges, contend that the EPA's approval - technically a waiver that allows for E15 to be used in cars, light trucks and sport utility vehicles from model year 2007 and thereafter - violates the Clean Air Act.
The waiver does not mandate the use of E15 in these vehicles, but rather it gives the green light for its use in them. Since 1979, a blend of up to 10 percent ethanol has been used for all conventional cars and light trucks, and non-road vehicles.
Ethanol is widely used as a gasoline additive to increase combustion and, recently, there has been increased pressure on the federal agency from the powerful ethanol industry to increase the percentage of the controversial fuel in the blend.
API's group director of downstream operations, Bob Greco, called EPA's decision "premature" and said it "puts consumers at risk." He said that testing by the oil-and-gas industry, automakers and the Department of Energy on whether E15 is safe is not yet complete.
"Results so far have revealed potential safety and performance problems that could affect consumers and the investments they've made in their automobiles," he said.
A coalition of major auto and motorcycle makers as well as manufacturers of gasoline-powered off-road products such as jet skis and emergency generators have opposed the idea of increasing the blend from E10, saying that the additional ethanol - an alcohol fuel - could damage metal, plastic and rubber parts in older vehicles' fuel systems and non-automotive engines that were not designed to use ethanol.
Nine food and farm groups - including the Grocery Manufacturers Association, the American Meat Institute, the National Council of Chain Restaurants and the National Pork Producers Council - also filed a lawsuit today against the EPA's decision.
In response to a request by Green Car Advisor for comment regarding the lawsuits, EPA Deputy Press Secretary Betsaida Alcantara said the agency's "decision was based on strict adherence to the Clean Air Act and was grounded firmly in science. The agency relied on rigorous testing that the Energy Department did on 19 car models, in consultation with automakers and fuel suppliers. This decision is sound, and the agency is confident that it will withstand legal challenge."
Growth Energy CEO Tom Buis, whose company has led the ethanol industry's push for EPA to approve the E15 blend, attacked the food and farm groups in a statement today, claiming that "in 2008, these big food companies gouged consumers while trying to shift the blame to America's ethanol producers and farmers, so we're not surprised by their actions today."
"Having been unable to dispute the overwhelming science in favor of E15, they are now turning to the legal process to slow progress on renewable fuels," Buis said. "We will fully evaluate their lawsuit, but the expansion of renewable fuels in America should be based on science. As extensive testing has shown, E15 is a good fuel for American motorists."
The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 mandated an increase in the overall volume of renewable fuels into the U.S. marketplace reaching a 36 billion gallon total in 2022. Ethanol is considered a renewable fuel because it is produced from plant products or wastes and not from fossil fuels.
The E15 petition was submitted to the EPA by Growth Energy and 54 ethanol manufacturers in March 2009 under a Clean Air Act provision that allows EPA to waive the act's prohibition against the sale of a significantly altered fuel if the petitioner shows that the new fuel will not cause or contribute to the failure of the engine parts that ensure compliance with the act's emissions limits.
EPA also might soon decide whether the higher ethanol blend is suitable for cars and light trucks in model years 2001 through 2006. The DOE is expected to complete testing on those model-year vehicles this month.


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Property Location
Located in Roseville (Roseville - Rocklin), Extended Stay America Sacramento - Roseville is convenient to Marco Dog Park and Golfland Sunsplash. This hotel is within close proximity of Tower Theater and Fountains at Roseville.
Make yourself at home in one of the 122 air-conditioned rooms featuring kitchens with full-sized refrigerators/freezers and stovetops. 32-inch flat-screen televisions with cable programming provide entertainment, while complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected. Conveniences include microwaves and coffee/tea makers, as well as phones with free local calls.
A complimentary continental breakfast is served daily.
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Featured amenities include a 24-hour front desk, laundry facilities, and a safe deposit box at the front desk. Free self parking is available onsite.
Hotel Facilities
- 24-hour front desk
- Year Built 1998
- Free breakfast
- Free WiFi
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Total number of rooms - 122
- Laundry facilities
- Number of floors - 3
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- Safe-deposit box at front desk
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- Weekly housekeeping provided
- Stovetop
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- Kitchen
- Coffee/tea maker
- Refrigerator
- Free WiFi
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- Microwave
- Premium TV channels
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
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- Private bathroom
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- Phone
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- Flat-panel TV
- Free toiletries
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- Children 17 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.
- Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section).
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Pet fee: USD 25 per pet, per day (maximum USD 150 per stay)
- Weekly housekeeping provided; fees apply for additional cleaning
- Rollaway beds are available for an additional fee
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
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The garage door opener Mclean believes in, we're installing and upgrading garage door openers in Mclean and all around. We work with Mclean's best team of garage door technicians to provide not just the best automation solutions, but upfront quotes and better mechanical and technical solutions to any garage door issue. We fix noisy, stuck or older garage doors and we can automate them, too.
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Loose scratch coat?
Wondering what has gone wrong or is it wrong?
I am applying real stone veneer on an interior wall as a hearth around a gas stove. I demo'd the sheetrock and screwed cement board on the studs. I applied a scratch coat of S mortar over the cement board and allowed it to dry at least 48 hours.
I have been buttering the stones and then sticking them to the wall and all has been fine. It seems that at the 6 foot mark on the left side of the wall one of my stones is loose. Upon further inspection it is not just the stone/mortar not setup properly but the scratch coat it has adhered to seems to not have adhered to the cement board.On further inspection the scratch coat in this area did not stick to the cement board!
What could have cause this? Something on the cement board not allowing the mortar to stick? Was my S mortar mix too dry when I applied it? Too wet?
Can I just peel this defective layer off and re-apply a new coat over the cement board?
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Throwing-out the 1st Pitch at Citifield!
Thanks SO much to The Mets and our own Joe DeAngelis for making this happen. For the record: From the rubber, a strike to d'Arneau down in the zone.
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DAVID Cameron was slammed in Parliament today for his "grossly offensive" comments about the families of Liverpool football fans killed in the Hillsborough disaster.
The Prime Minister was quoted as saying bereaved families pressing for the release of more information over the 1989 tragedy, in which 96 Liverpool FC fans died, were hoping to find something which did not exist.
He reportedly said: "It's like, what's the saying, it's like a blind man, in a dark room, looking for a black cat that isn't there."
Mr Cameron also sniped about the media coverage Labour MP Andy Burnham was receiving, telling the Liverpool Echo: "It was this Government that agreed to release the Hillsborough documents. Yet every time I hear the word 'Hillsborough', I see Andy Burnham on the TV."
Margaret Aspinall, chair of the Hillsborough Families Support Trust, told the Mirror yesterday : "The people who should get the credit are the families and the people who have campaigned for 22 years. He is going to upset an awful lot of people if he's whingeing about not getting enough credit."
Now today in the House of Commons, Labour's Liverpool Wavertree MP Luciana Berger called on Mr Cameron to say sorry.
Speaking at Prime Minister's Questions, she said: "Yesterday it was reported you compared the families of those who died at Hillsborough to a blind man in dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there, and claimed you weren't getting enough credit for the release of Government papers relating to the tragedy.
"Will you take this opportunity to apologise to the relatives and friends of the 96 victims for these grossly offensive comments?" Mr Cameron said:
"It is this Government that has done the right thing by opening up the Cabinet papers and trying to help those people find the closure they seek."
A Downing Street spokeswoman later said: "The Prime Minister regrets if any offence has been caused. He didn't in any way mean any offence.
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The author, director of Innovation in Congregational Learning for the New York Board of Jewish Education/SAJES, notes a difference between innovation in the Jewish community and innovation in the secular world. In the lexicon of the Jewish people, innovation has an additional essential dimension: holiness. A decade ago, John Ruskay defined innovation for the Jewish community similarly. To engage the next generation, he called for the creation of "compelling Jewish communities of meaning and purpose." The agenda set by Ruskay ten years ago and continuing today requires us to imagine, invent, adapt, create, and generate in service of a purpose higher than productivity, efficiency, or even for the sake of survival alone. More than the existential is at stake, according to Ruskay. The agenda: innovate to elevate, so that every Jew can live with purpose and meaning as God's partner.
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A CAD interface for GEANT4
Poole, Christopher, Cornelius, Iwan, Trapp, Jamie, & Langton, Christian M. (2012) A CAD interface for GEANT4. Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, 35(3), pp. 329-334.
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Often CAD models already exist for parts of a geometry being simulated using GEANT4. Direct import of these CAD models into GEANT4 however,may not be possible and complex components may be diffcult to define via other means. Solutions that allow for users to work around the limited support in the GEANT4 toolkit for loading predefined CAD geometries have been presented by others, however these solutions require intermediate file format conversion using commercial software. Here within we describe a technique that allows for CAD models to be directly loaded as geometry without the need for commercial software and intermediate file format conversion. Robustness of the interface was tested using a set of CAD models of various complexity; for the models used in testing, no import errors were reported and all geometry was found to be navigable by GEANT4.
Funding source: Cancer Australia (Department of Health and Ageing) Research Grant 614217
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There has been a lot of great activity in the Windchill community lately and I'm happy to see everyone connecting and communicating on ideas and issues. During the PTC/USER Technical Committee sessions at PTC this week, I was asked to setup a ProjectLink sub-community under Windchill to focus on PJL related items and topics. I have submitted the request for the new sub-community, but while we're at it, would people like to see other sub-communities created for Windchill?
I don't want to end up with 25 micro communities. That will not help anyone. I would like to hear ideas and proposals from the community. Do you have suggestions for sub-communities that would help break down Windchill into more focused areas of interest?
My biggest vote would be for "Installation, Configuration & Customization" as the first new sub-community.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- Crude prices fell Friday as Libya is reportedly prepared to boost oil output.
A spokesman of the Libyan National Oil Corporation said Thursday that the country's largest oil field which has an output capacity of 330,000 barrels a day is expected to resume production within two or three days.
Currently oil output in Libya has slipped to about 250,000 barrels a day from the 2011 level of 1.5 million barrels a day before the civil war.
Energy Information Administration (EIA), the Energy Department' s statistical arm, on Friday released its report covering U.S. crude supplies of the week ending on Dec. 27.
Crude inventories fell 7 million barrels to 360.6 million barrels, bringing the five-week decrease to 30.8 million. Market expectation is a drop of 2.9 million barrels.
Meanwhile, the report showed that U.S. supplies of distillate fuel and gasoline climbed. Analysts attributed the drop of crude supplies to a tax incentive that encourages oil companies to draw down inventory at year-end.
The U.S. dollar posted a strong performance recently on speculation that the Federal Reserve would reduce stimulus. A stronger U.S. currency makes dollar-denominated crude less appealing as an investment.
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Remember my mood board for our new living room that had some very specific harder-to-find antique furniture?
To be precise, see the wood and marble coffee table in the middle?
Well now it's sitting in the middle of our living room!
All of this came about when I was perusing online all local upcoming auctions for the week and saw one of my favorite auction houses was having a furniture sale [see my best resources for finding your local auctions and estate sales here]. Pictures were already up of most of the items that would be for sale, so I started looking through and...nestled between some bigger pieces...there it was!
Bidding started and we moved our way down rows of furniture. Most pieces were going for fantastic prices. I bid on a drafting table that Karl wanted and scored it for $15.
Got to say, nearly everyone bidding at auctions plays it so cool and nonchalant. They flash their bidder's card, they calmly give slight nods to acquiesce to the price being asked, and perceive the difference between when the auctioneer is fishing for a higher bid or asking them for one.
I wish I felt as collected as they looked. It's nothing short of amazing how from the time I go from listening as a bystander to the auctioneer to actually participating in bids how suddenly my understanding of what the auctioneer is saying goes out the window.
When I'm bidding on an item, I'm excited! I can grasp what the going price is, but feel a bit lost as to whether I'm winning or not with all the vague head nodding happening. It's something I'm working on.
Life goals, yo.
As we came closer to the coffee table, I was a bit concerned as I had tried bidding on a similar table back in March at a different auction house that was in less favorable condition and it had gone for $75 - more than I'd wanted to pay for something I'd have to fix up and regrettably I'd had to bow out.
Bidding started on the coffee table. Auctioneer's opening offer started high but went low before someone else took the bait (good rule of thumb - never accept the auctioneer's first offered price). From what I could tell it was just myself and that person interested in the table, and we went back and forth a few rounds.
I won.
Winning bid?
A steal at...$15.00.
Told ya I liked this auction house.
Karl, not very interested in the auction now that he had his drafting table but more interested in when he'd get to load things and go home, popped his head up from his phone a few moments after I'd won the table and asked if I had bid on it. I was tempted to tell him "Yup, we got it for $200! Great, right?"...but he knows me too well and that kind of comment would have made him pause for only 2 seconds before realizing the jest...not to mention the happy dance I was doing kind of tipped him off that we'd gotten a bargain. ;)
Being the awesome hubby and gentleman that he is, he took on the arduous task of lugging the HEAVY marble top into the pickup and then into our living room that night.
...and now here it is!
I still can't get over how quickly things happened from the time I posted my mood board here on the blog to scoring this table, not to mention the price!
Now to find that empire bookcase...
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