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I'm having some issues with my steering in my 2012 WRX premium and I'm at a loss for what it is. The Issue is this: When driving down the road, the steering wheel is slightly cocked to the right, it is in line with the steering column plastic, which is slightly off. It almost feels like the entire dead-zone has been shifted to the right. When I turn the car right, it takes much more input and experiences more body roll than if I turn to the left. Turning left feels okay with a firm steering response in both the wheel and on the road.
I recently had an alignment done and new tires mounted and balanced. I went back to the shop where the work was done, and spoke directly with the master tech who did the work. My family has been going to this garage for over 15 years, and I have full confidence in their mechanical abilities. However, they are not "performance oriented" in any way, so little things like "my steering is off 3 degrees" doesn't resound with them.
Anyhow, the alignment is pretty good, the car does not pull and drives dead straight. The only thing is one of the tires is at -0.01 toe, and the caster is fairly far out of where it should be.... It is also important to note that I am planning on replacing my front struts in the near future, as they are feeling a bit soft. The only mod done to the car is a SPT strut bar, installed by the dealer.
So I guess my question is, what is causing this? Is it the fact the wheel is just not centered? or Could it be soft struts? Caster?
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So I'm not happy with the update rate on the Torque app for measuring HP/Torque numbers. And the Bavarian Technic ECM reported torque #'s appear to be based on calculations of other engine parameters (and it's update rate is pretty slow as well).
So, I broke out my old GTech Pro. However I was unable to lock-on to an rpm signal when connected to the power outlets due to BMW doing such a good job filtering the noise. So I cludged together a way to power the GTech from the battery and got a crystal clear rpm signal.
Then I found a local car whose owner has a BT and a JBD that is modified for in-cab adjustability.
Last night was near perfect conditions. 70F and no wind. Said vehicle had just completed a DPF regen and had a full tank of fuel. The D is supposed to weight ~3804 lbs according to insideline (
) and with the driver and some items in the trunk it would be total ~4000 lbs.
The runs below are with the JBD at 0, 1 switch thrown (~65%), both switches thrown (~85%).
Procedure was over the same stretch of flat road (interstate), gently accelerating in 1st to 2nd then getting into 3rd gear before giving it the fuel, then letting up at ~80mph so I didn't run the risk of loosing my license if . . .
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, like a rolling dyno, but also the loss due to wind resistance. Looks like the Cd and A for the e90 is 0.26 and 2.17m^2. Using this (
) says that at 80mph there's roughly 21 hp lost due to wind.
I'll post some of the BT data later of some runs that has some interesting data. Unfortunately it was trying to record too much data and the time steps between readings is larger than I'd like. But things like EGT's, DPF pressures, injection timing, etc are there.
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A couple more pulls were performed after getting some local fuel back in the tank (~1/2 tank added after long drive the previous night). Think the other fuel was less than optimum based on these results.
Temp was more than 10F warmer than previous testing. Below shows comparisons of the remap stacked with JBD at 0 and ~65%. The "Main" and Run 1 are 0%, Runs 2/3 are 65%. Again, was being careful not to give full fuel at low rpm's . . .
Also showing some of the "speed" data which is interesting. For these 3rd gear pulls the full fueling is occuring between ~45-75mph. The 50-70 times are thus right in the main thrust of the test. The reported times are nice.
Also, still not seeing any engine parameters that are over stressed. Although the pulls happen so fast that this is somewhat expected. If you were continuing this kind of stress (towing or racing for example) it would likely be a much different story.
What is interesting between these two comparisons is that it appears the JBD alone set to 0% is only 17hp off the Evolve and JBD combo set to 0 and 8 torque off. One would think that having the Evolve tune would yield more of gain than that when stacked with the JBD. Perhaps it had something to do with not giving full fueling at the lower RPM range?
By any chance do you have data for Evolve alone? I might have missed it.
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Posted on Apr 6, 2010
By Amy Goodman
A United States military video was released this week showing the indiscriminate targeting and killing of civilians in Baghdad. The nonprofit news organization WikiLeaks obtained the video and made it available on the Internet. The video was made July 12, 2007, by a U.S. military Apache helicopter gunship, and includes audio of military radio transmissions.
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After photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and his driver, Saeed Chmagh, 40, were killed, Reuters demanded a full investigation. Noor-Eldeen, despite his youth, had been described by colleagues as one of the pre-eminent war photographers in Iraq. Chmagh was a father of four.
The video shows a group of men in an open square in Baghdad, leading the two Reuters employees to a building nearby. Noor-Eldeen and Chmagh are shown, each carrying a camera with a telephoto lens. A U.S. soldier in the helicopter says: "OK, we got a target 15 coming at you. It's a guy with a weapon." There is much back and forth between two helicopters and ground troops in armored vehicles nearby:
"Have five to six individuals with AK-47s. Request permission to engage."
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The helicopter circles around, with the cross hairs squarely in the center of the group of about eight men. WikiLeaks and its partner for this story, the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, added subtitles to the video, as well as arrows indicating the Reuters employees.
Sustained automatic-weapon fire erupts, and most of the men are killed instantly. Noor-Eldeen runs away, and the cross hairs follow him, shooting nonstop, until he falls, dead.
The radio transmission continues, "All right, hahaha, I hit 'em ..." and then, "Yeah, we got one guy crawling around down there. ..."
Chmagh, seriously wounded, was dragging himself away from the other bodies. A voice in the helicopter, seeking a rationale to shoot, said: "Come on, buddy. All you gotta do is pick up a weapon. ... If we see a weapon, we're gonna engage."
A van pulled up, and several men, clearly unarmed, came out and lifted Chmagh, ostensibly to carry him to medical care. The soldiers on the Apache sought and received permission to "engage" the van and opened fire, tearing apart the front of the van and killing the men. The weapon used was a 30-millimeter machine gun, used to pierce armor. With everyone in sight apparently dead, U.S. armored vehicles moved in. When a vehicle drove over Noor-Eldeen's corpse, an observer in the helicopter said, laughing, "I think they just drove over a body." The troops discovered two children in the van, who had miraculously survived. One voice on the military radio requests permission to evacuate them to a U.S. military hospital. Another voice commands them to hand over the wounded children to Iraqi police for delivery to a local clinic, ensuring delayed and less-adequate treatment.
The U.S. military inquiry into the killings cleared the soldiers of any wrongdoing, and Reuters' Freedom of Information requests for the video were denied. Despite the Pentagon's whitewash, the attack was brutal and might have involved a war crime, since those removing the wounded are protected by the Geneva Conventions. WikiLeaks says it obtained the video "from a number of military whistle-blowers." Wikileaks.org, founded in late 2006 as a secure site for whistle-blowers to safely release documents, has come under attack from the U.S. and other governments.
WikiLeaks has broken numerous stories and has received awards. It and members of the Icelandic Parliament are working together to make Iceland a world center of investigative journalism, putting solid free speech and privacy protections into law. The words of legendary journalist I.F. Stone still hold true: "Governments lie." Because of that, we need courageous journalists and media workers, like Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh, and we need whistle-blowers and news organizations that will carefully protect whistle-blowers' identities while bringing their exposés to public scrutiny.
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Amy Goodman is the host of "Democracy Now!," a daily international TV/radio news hour airing on more than 800 stations in North America. She is the author of "Breaking the Sound Barrier," recently released in paperback and now a New York Times best-seller.
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By BR549, April 7, 2010 at 6:10 pm Link to this comment
War casualty? The kids in the car were collateral damage? Hah, looks like murder
By don knutsen, April 7, 2010 at 2:06 pm Link to this comment
Over the years, during Vietnam we heard so much of this going on, mostly from soldiers who had returned home. It seems a predictable event when we are engaged in a war for all the wrong reasons. It is part and parcel of why we send young men and women to war. Because older, more experienced people for the most part would not engage in something as hideous as this. But why is there no discussion of how we are training our soldiers in the first place ? I believe the contempt bred into these young recruits in their training from the onset is done to a great extent by the wrong kind of individuals in the first place. They are being sent to Iraq with a predetermined mindset that allows this kind of behavior, or at the very least white-washes it when it occurs. The musseling of journalists, and in some cases apparently the out right murder of them, was done with the blessing of the Cheney administration to keep us from being aware of what we were really doing over there ( embedded journalists only ), as was the torture that he and his disturbed daughter so famously still cheerlead for despite the fact we hung other countries soldiers for using the same tactics after WW2. But there is no accountability, not from Cheney or Rummy who were calling the shots or our soldiers who so eagerly ended those dozen lives like playing a video game. In fact it appears that we are more and more waging war long distance with our drones controlled from a screen in some cases an ocean away..kinda takes the human equation out when you blow up a few families half a world away. We along the way have quit instilling any sense of honor in our soldiers, It can't just be honor amongst themselves…they have to carry a sense of honor in themselves as human beings to other human beings as well, otherwise thats all they are, killing machines. As long as that is how we operate, we will certainly never win over any hearts to our side in any conflict.
By Jeremy, April 7, 2010 at 1:23 pm Link to this comment
I am ashamed to be an American, but not because what I saw on the gun camera footage, or what I heard on the same. I am ashamed because we've become so polarized and ignorant that we just "pre-believe" whatever garbage the particular news agency we subscribe to shoves down our throats. Try doing some research before regurgitating some some polished marketing product that was carefully crafted to fit someone else's agenda.
When we watch the video, we hear the radio traffic and see only the gun camera footage. People fail to recognize that the pilots were also using their naked eyes and possibly other instrumentation or optic devices to take in what was happening in that neighborhood on that day. I think the pilots probably had a better perspective to see weapons and hostile intent than John Q Public sitting at home in their living room watching a grainy video tape edited by an organization with an obvious agenda.
Several other sites have analyzed the footage and discerned that some of the men did in fact have weapons, to include a rocket propelled grenade launcher and extra rounds for it. The fact that the men had these weapons was verified by US ground forces when they arrived on the scene immediately after the engagement. I have read that Wikileaks has un-redacted photographs of the weapons found on the scene but has not posted them because they don't support Wikileaks agenda.
As far as the language/demeanor of the pilots, it is war, and men and women that wage war develop a sort of cynacism to their work. One post suggests that the pilots seemed to enjoy killing those people. They probably did, because those people were the ones that were attempting to engage their comrades on the ground. That is the sole mission of Close Air Support. Their purpose is to protect our soldiers and strike at an enemy before than enemy can send our citizens home in boxes. I always hoped they appreciated their work when they were flying in support of my missions in Iraq.
Soldiers don't kill without ramifications. Those ramifications may not manifest themselves in legalities, but every soldier pays some price for what they've done. Regardless the status of those killed, the pilots acted in defense of their countrymen and followed the rules of engagement and shouldn't be demonized by a populace of sheeple that have no idea what being in a warzone is all about. You don't know what these men have seen or had to do. You don't know what nightmares they have or what price they are paying right now.
Question the government's reasoning for Iraq, but don't criminalize men for acting in defense of their own. And please, I beg of you, stop being ignorant and start looking at the world objectively and make your own decisions about the truth. Don't just take the pre-packaged ones that they want to give you because you think that they're the best ones for you.
By Yuvid 1, April 7, 2010 at 12:04 pm Link to this comment
The United States has become the leading fascist state for this era. It won't be long before our soldiers out-do the SS soldiers (in atrocities) of the Nazi era.
For the people out there that choose to follow the military line, yeah you, go ahead and bury your head in the sand. This is similar to the folks that saw the Jew's being loaded into box cars and said and did nothing.
For starters, if you have any conscience at all, send this video to every person on your email list. That is easy and it is doing something. Sharing this information is important. Do you think FOX News will report on this and show the video.
By oldnyt923, April 7, 2010 at 11:50 am Link to this comment
Americans should hope that your government remains focused on foreign wars.
If you ever bring the armed forces home and stop making war on the rest of the world, the only people to disciplined and shot will be you.
The US armed forces are well trained, effective and loyal to their chain of command. They'd be all dressed with nowhere to go. Gotta use them for something.
Going after one's own citizens is often a sign of empire in decline.
By Anonymous Coward, April 7, 2010 at 10:37 am Link to this comment
I watched the video, ready in my mind to condemn trigger-happy Apache pilots and the inevitable cover-up.
Instead, what I saw was this:
Apache pilots, responding to a US convoy under small arms fire:
Under normal circumstances, the commander of the land-owning battalion ("Bushmaster Seven" in the video) would have access to the video feed of the choppers. Sometimes, they do not.
The Apache pilots sounds horrible in their radio chatter. Like aggressive, ready to kill cowboys. I have to stand against the comments and say that this is the swagger that these pilots typpically assume to balance out the life and death power of their weapons. Sounds counter-intuitive, but gallows humor is the only thing that keeps you sane in these types of situations.
Watching the video in real time, with no zoom, I saw what looked to be at least 1 Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) and at least 2 AK-47's. That's enough to engage, according to the Rules of Engagement at the time. Now, with the hindsight knowing two of the men were reporters, I can kind of see one item could be a telescopic lens. But when you take a covered fighting position with a suspected RPG, and begin to aim towards a known US convoy position (this is what the radio chatter describes), then the Apaches were justified to request and receive permission to open fire. I would have made the same call, at the time. A horrible, horrible decision to take so many lives, this is the decision these men and women have to make.
I am not going to make the same defense for the subsequent attack. I didn't see the things the Apaches were describing, but then again I only have the radio chatter and one video feed.
Before you ask, I was and still am against going into Iraq. I went over there because I wanted to fix the things I saw we were doing poorly or not at all. But that decision was made, and we can't stick our head in the sand or try to shake the Etch-a-Sketch and wipe the slate clean.
I know this is a long post, but I feel this forum is very one-sided, and I was dissapointed in the knee-jerk reactions. I know I am going to be considered bias because of my military experience, but this also gives me insight into what was going on in the minds of the Apache pilots, the soldiers on the ground and the commander making the decisions.
If we had the opinion of an Iraq reporter or civilian or insurgent, perhaps we'd have some balance to the discussion.
By Stephen Pitt, April 7, 2010 at 7:58 am Link to this comment
Don't even try it, propagandists.
The "AK-47" was the camera man's tripod. The camera and lens was the "RPG."
Clearly, there were no weapons, and any continuing reportage of them is simply bald-faced parroting attempting to cover up what we all saw.
The additional killing was a war crime on it's face. Murdering the wounded and those in the van-body/wounded retrievers-is a most serious violation.
So please don't waste your time inventing non-existent weaponry. This was murder.
By David Reese, April 6, 2010 at 11:32 pm Link to this comment
The video speaks for itself. No comment is necessary.
By Arm, April 6, 2010 at 7:31 pm Link to this comment
Disgusting!! They seemed to enjoy killing those people. We need to get out of Iraq and the rest of the world. We have become an imperialist country!! No wonder the whole world hates us.
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Decent, if expensive, in hotel restaurant. Front desk staff was weak and dishonest. When requested to provide a non-smoking room they said they would move to me one, but it was not actually a non-smoking room and it smelled. Then they said that there were no available non-smoking rooms in the entire half-empty hotel. Then another manager "discovered" that they actually had one, which they gave to me. General Manager's office promised that he would call me, but he never did. Conclusion: Weak management.
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I was satisfied with my staying at this hotel. It was clean enough and good-located. The only regret is that the breakfast was nothing special even though it was edible enough. But I can recommend this hotel with the exception of the breakfast.
Convenient start point for travel through Tunisia Disappointed at requests for low-value Tunisian change at bar having only just arrived in country
The Ambassadeurs Hotel was a good place to stay, the beds are incredible! The buffet breakfast was horrible! , the hotel is not well situated since is to far from the medina,souk and principal avenue that is nice to walk, there was a woman in the reception that was not nice at all since I made her questions about how to get to Sidi Abu Said and she answered in a bad mood, she doesn´t like occidentals, but the other guys in the reception were nice
The location of hotel give it the big advantage,and free high speed wireless connection is amazing. The Picture give a wrong imprestion of hotel status, i find the the disapplity sign in pictures but nothing in found in hotel.
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Avoiding crazy children with dumb parents
I took Rocky on his usual late night potty break before bed, around my apartment building. The lights are out so it is VERY dark and I always have my mace just in case. Rocky usually picks up on the tension and is very alert.
He has his leg lifted on a tree when from between two parked cars, someone runs up flailing their arms and screaming "OH MY GOD!!!!!!!! ITS A GERMAN SHEPHERD! *more high pitched screaming*
I thought Rocky and I were going to poop ourselves, we were so shocked.
Rocky doesn't have good night vision and doesn't recognize my boyfriend or I until he can smell us or we speak
So I said "SIT" in my firmest voice and stepped between him and what turned out to be a 10 year old girl.
I chastised her instantly, saying "Do not EVER run up to a strangers dog, especially at night! Where are your parents??" She points to her parents standing obliviously across the street, who don't even realize their kid is missing. I felt bad for chastising her and I said "I got my german shepherd because he protects me and scares away bad guys. If I let everyone pet him at night time then he will start wagging his tail when he sees people come up and a bad guy won't be scared away. Why don't you come back tomorrow in the day time and you can pet him and give him a treat?"
(Honestly, he just isn't comfortable with people petting him at night when he can't see them, but I thought the previous explanation was easier for the girl to understand)
The little girl said "OK" then RAN into the middle of the street back towards her parents, where a car slammed on its breaks and missed hitting her by about 10 feet. (too close in my opinion) I live in a college apartment complex where half the people are drinking and driving and most of the people are speeding through the parking lot.
What crappy parents. When she got back to where they were, her mom said "Oh, where did you go?"
I hope she remembers my stern voice telling her not to run up to strangers dogs in the future since she will obviously never hear this from her mom.
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text: TORONTO, March 10 /PRNewswire/ - Gammon Gold Inc. ("Gammon" or the "Company") (TSX: GAM) and (NYSE:GRS) wishes to provide an update on recent activities at the El Cubo mine. As previously announced on February 23, the labour disruption at the El Cubo mine was successfully resolved after a more productive and standardized Collective Agreement was negotiated with the union. Since February 22, management regained access to the mine facilities and immediately began an exhaustive infrastructural and ground control assessment to develop an operations plan that would allow production to recommence as soon as possible. This review has been completed and mine conditions were found to be better than originally anticipated such that the Company fully expects to begin development work in April. As part of the operations plan, the rehiring process is largely completed with over 250 workers undergoing a two week common core training program at the University of Guanajuato. Once finished, they will immediately be assigned to the mining workforce at El Cubo. "We are delighted with the progress we have made in such a short time period and that mine conditions were better than we had expected. We anticipate taking delivery of the majority of required operating supplies later next week and we began moving non-utilized underground mining equipment that had been previously stored at Ocampo during the labour disruption back to El Cubo." stated Russell Tremayne, Chief Operating Officer. He continued, "Additionally, we believe that the training programs will ultimately foster a work environment that supports both higher productivity and underpins our dedication to safety." On March 28, 2011, the Company will provide a more definitive timeline on when production will recommence as well as an updated operational strategy.


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Playing around with GRC for a few months now, sorry if this question is
from a dummy.
I've a bunch of rtl dongles laying around, and wonder if it's possible to
combine more then one to a single baseband signal.
The goal is to create a super cheap full HF band web reciever like or for
' websdr'
I managed to create multiple channels, where the 2nd dongle is tuned to an
offset, equal to the samplerate of the first. (for example 2 x 2 Msps = 4
Msps baseband)
Is such a thing possible with GRC?
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Imre Biacsics wrote
I've a bunch of rtl dongles laying around, and wonder if it's possible to
combine more then one to a single baseband signal.
We must not forget that each device has its own USB connection.
One reason that getting all in sync on a ' per sample' base must be
Still a multi user system like the websdr can achieved by overlapping the
channels and let the software decide what channel the user's choice fits.
For a nice graphical representation (Spectrum analyzer, waterfall) this
principle could work well.
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[MLS: Starting XI] New York and Seattle held on to their conference leads, while Portland earned a critical win in its bid to earn its first playoff berth. Eddie Johnson and Diego Valeri have been carrying the Sounders and Timbers, respectively, while Luis Robles continues to make big saves for the Red Bulls. Here's who we'll be talking about and hope to hear from on Monday ...
11. STEVEN LENHART. The Quakes forward didn't endear himself to Rio Tinto Stadium fans, pumping his fist in the air after scoring each of his
goals that gave San Jose a 2-1 win at Real Salt Lake that kept it in the playoff hunt. He was booed after leaving the game with his sixth multi-goal game of his MLS career.
10. C.J. SAPONG. The 2011 Rookie of the Year has regained his form after a mid-season trip to USL PRO's Orlando City, scoring his first brace of the season to lead
Sporting KC past Toronto FC, 2-1. He has three goals in his past two games after scoring just once in his first 19 games.
9. LEE NGUYEN. Nguyen
went from goat to hero, converting a late penalty kick to give New England a 2-1 win over D.C. United that moved the Revs back above the red line. The goal came about a half hour after D.C. keeper
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The Brazilian was benched after scoring just one goal in his last seven games, but he came on to score two late goals to clinch Vancouver's 3-0 win over Montreal. The goals gave him 16, tied
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7. CARYLE MITCHELL. The Trinidadian was shipped off to the NASL's FC Edmonton early in the season, but he has become a key member of the Vancouver backline with the
spate of injuries to its center backs. Alongside Jay DeMerit, starting his first game since the season opener, Mitchell helped shut down Di Vaio, who went
scoreless against Vancouver in three games this season.
6. MARCO SCHALLIBAUM. The Swiss coach has already been suspended four times this season and
will likely be suspended a fifth time after his outburst after the Impact's loss at home to Vancouver. Furious that a penalty awarded to the Impact was overturned after referee Jorge Gonzalez consulted with his assistant, Schallibaum told the Impact's French-speaking reporters, "C'est un scandale."
5. OSCAR BONIEK GARCIA. The Honduran international, who was instrumental in Houston's push to MLS Cup 2012 after arriving in mid-season, was scoreless this season
until he broke out for two goals in the Dynamo's 5-1 win over Chivas USA that left it four points clear in the Eastern Conference playoff zone with five games to play.
4. BRIAN BLISS. Bliss only carries the interim coach tag for now, but he is making a strong case for earning the Columbus Crew head coaching job in place of Robert Warzycha with three wins in four games, the latest a 3-0 victory over Chicago that kept the Crew within striking distance of a playoff berth.
3. LUIS ROBLES. The New York Red Bulls haven't exactly overpowered their opponents en route to four straight wins that propelled them into the lead in the
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tied for the MLS lead.
2. DIEGO VALERI. The Argentine has the 2013 MLS Newcomer of the Year all but wrapped up. His 20-yard chip was the difference
as Portland beat Colorado, 1-0, for three points its desperately needed to stay in the playoff zone. How important has he been to Portland? Of the Timbers' last 17 goals, he has scored four and
assisted on eight.
EDDIE JOHNSON. With buddy Clint Dempsey scoreless since arriving in Seattle and now sidelined with a hamstring injury, EJ has been carrying the Seattle
Sounders with his prowess in the air. Johnson, whose header was the winning goal in the USA's 2-0 win over Mexico that clinched a berth in the World Cup finals, won games against Columbus and Portland
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U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita, member of the House Budget Committee, issued the following statement today on the 3rd anniversary of ObamaCare:
"Three years later, ObamaCare has failed to live to any of the promises made by its supporters. In fact, the bill has managed to do quite the opposite.
"Taxes have gone up, people have lost their coverage, employers aren't hiring, Medicare is more complicated for seniors and insurance premiums have risen. This is only the beginning.
"When the full force of this law goes into effect in 2014, it is hard to imagine the toll on our economy and our health. I will continue working with my House colleagues to repeal this monstrosity and produce consumer-driven solutions to improve our health care system.
"We must pursue responsible solutions like the House Budget that was passed this week that not only repeals ObamaCare and the job-killing medical device tax that comes with it, but empowers states to improved Medicaid through premium support and patient-centered health care," said Rokita.
As a member of the House Budget Committee, Rokita crafted key Medicaid reforms included in the House-passed budget, based on his State Health Flexibility Act. The Medicaid reforms advanced by Rokita would strengthen the program by giving increased flexibility to states, allowing them to tailor the program to their unique populations (click here to read Rokita's op-ed about these Medicaid reforms).
This would allow Indiana to expand the successful Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP) to provide health care to more needy Hoosiers. Under current federal law, in particular ObamaCare, Indiana must get explicit permission from the Obama administration before it can provide this crucial lifeline to Hoosiers. To date, the Obama administration has not provided this permission. The House budget would provide an innovative solution to this standoff between Indiana and the federal government.
Rokita, a member of the Medical Technology Caucus, has also helped lead the fight against the medical device tax. Along with members of the Indiana congressional delegation, Rokita hosted a medical device field hearing in Indianapolis last October, and is an original cosponsor of H.R. 523, the Protect Medical Innovation Act, which would fully repeal the tax. For more information on Rokita's efforts against the medical device tax, visit the health care section of his Red Tape Rollback annual report.
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The Hudson City Schools will offer the opportunity to all parents and residents to participate in an online community survey now until June 24. This survey follows the 2014 Community Phone Survey conducted the week of May 1-6. The results of the Phone Poll Survey are published on the new Hudson City School District website at www.hudson.k12.oh.us as "Featured News" and also may be viewed on the website under BOE – Watch a Meeting, June 9, 2014.
The survey presentation starts at approximately 7:30 p.m. The purpose of the online survey is to provide additional context to the official results of the phone poll and to allow additional people to participate.
The Hudson City School District conducts a statistically valid survey approximately every five years. The last survey was conducted in 2009. The community survey provides residents the opportunity to share their perceptions about the District, its vision, leadership, academics, finances, communications and facilities.
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First post. Looks very helpful! I've searched for answer to my question, but may have missed something due to being a newbie.
We've had a new LG 2455 washing machine for almost two months, and all is working superbly. It has loads of features, one of which is a Tub Clean Cycle designed to reduce any buildup of detergent residue that might lead to the mildewy smell. We haven't had ours quite long enough for anything to develop, but I was just trying to see how the cycle works. I've read the owner's manual, tried a bunch of different things, but just have not figured out how to get this cycle to start. Could anyone provide detailed, step-by-step instructions?
The cycle is supposed to be run with no clothes, no detergent, no fabric softener.
The owner's manual says to press and hold the EXTRA RINSE button for 3 seconds to activate the TUB CLEAN cycle. (The TUB CLEAN is on the same button as EXTRA RINSE). The display is supposed to show a message to add liquid bleach to the dispenser. When I press the EXTRA RINSE button for 3 seconds, the CHILD LOCK button (another one of several special function buttons) lights up, then nothing happens.
I'm probably missing or misunderstanding a simple step, so thought I'd try to find the answer online before calling the LG service number (and probably get someone who is reading the same manual as I).
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Jacey Brooks is entering her third season with the Golden Griffins after coming to Canisius in May 2010. Brooks works with the development of the team's backcourt players while assisting with the day-to-day operations.
Previously, Brooks spent three years on the staff at St. Bonaventure University. Brooks moved into an assistant coach role for the 2009-10 season after spending two seasons as the director of basketball operations at St. Bonaventure. As an assistant coach, Brooks helped with the day-to-day operation of the program, travel, video exchange and program organization.
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A 2006 graduate of Buffalo State College, Brooks played four years of basketball at Buffalo State, leaving as the program's fourth all-time leading scorer (1,219 points) and ninth all-time in rebounds (554). A two-time all- SUNYAC performer, Brooks helped lead the Bengals to three straight SUNYAC tournaments.
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Ireland's tourism sector fears having to go it alone
By Padraic Halpin
DELGANY, Ireland (Reuters) - Reducing sales tax for Irish hotels, restaurants and other tourist businesses has paid dividends, a fact the country's finance minister was reminded of upon checking into his hotel room for a party conference last month.
The initiative created over 15,000 jobs in two years and helped visitors to Ireland rise by over six percent this year, the minister and other members of his Fine Gael party were told in carefully-placed pamphlets by the Irish Hoteliers Federation.
But with a seventh round of austerity in five years on the way in next week's budget, Michael Noonan is not sure he can find the cash for an extension.
In the popular tourist county of Wicklow, restaurateurs say he risks undermining one of the few economic bright spots.
"Things have definitely stabilized but food prices have gone up astronomically, our electricity and gas bills are higher and the price you can get per dish has come down so there's the math," said Emma Stone, owner of the Romany Stone restaurant in Delgany.
"You've already hit our customers in their pay, I've been hit as a director of the company and now you're going to hit the VAT rate? It's perception and people will just stop spending."
Though not as a big a contributor to the economy as it is in Spain or Greece, tourism is more employment-intensive than the robust export sector. Hotels and restaurants employ almost as many people as the nearly one in ten who work for foreign firms like Google, Apple and Pfizer.
It has also been given a kickstart by a year-long government campaign to lure visitors with Irish roots. 'The Gathering' has seen North American tourists rise by a massive 16.5 percent. Continued...


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text: Christoph Cox is a critic, theorist, and curator of visual and sonic art. He is Professor of Philosophy at Hampshire College, where he teaches contemporary European philosophy and art theory. Cox is the author of Sonic Flux: Sound, Art, and Metaphysics (forthcoming) and Nietzsche: Naturalism and Interpretation(California, 1999) and co-editor of Realism Materialism Art (CCS/Sternberg, 2015) and Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Continuum, 2004). The recipient of an Arts Writers Grant from Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation, Cox is editor-at-large at Cabinet magazine. His writing has appeared in October, Artforum, Journal of the History of Philosophy, The Wire, Journal of Visual Culture, Organised Sound, The Review of Metaphysics, and elsewhere. Cox has curated exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston), The Kitchen (New York City), New Langton Arts (San Francisco), and G Fine Art Gallery (Washington D.C.), and the Brick & Mortar International Video Art Festival (Greenfield, MA). He has written catalog essays for exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Mass MoCA, Berlin's Akademie der Künste, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and other venues.


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My buddy Gus tagged me, so......, the rules of the game are easy. Just list 7 pawsome facts about yourself and then tag 7 other pals . You have to let them know they've been tagged, so drop'em a p-mail or give'em a rosette, after all, it's almost Christmas! Don't forget to include the pal that tagged you!!
1. I sleep in the closet...mom has a bed in there for me and it's like having my own room!
2. If I don't like a food that I am fed I will make a funny face.
3. I hate having my toenails trimmed! HATE IT!
4. I am quite bossy and expect everyone to listen to me!
5. I like going for car rides.
6. We get to go on vacation with mom because she hates the idea of leaving us behind.
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Saturday night, mom took us over to grama's work so that we could run around the gym for a little bit of exercise. Well, we were playing and mom went into the kitchen to get a snack. We all followed her in. Mom found a cricket in the floor so she went to the bathroom real quick to get some toilet paper. When she came back, she found me with an open package of D-Con in my mouth. She freaked out and took it away from me and got us all out of the kitchen. She went and found grama and they called the vet. Uncle Greggy (as we like to call him) told mom to give me some hydrogen peroxide to make me throw up. So mom ran to Kroger real quick and bought some. She came back and she and grama spent the next 15 minutes giving me nasty hydrogen peroxide. I threw up everything that was in my stomach. It ended up that I hadn't even ate any D-Con, which was a good thing. So Sunday night I got real sick after I ate my dinner and aunt April was up pretty much all night with me taking care of me. Yesterday and today mom fed me rice and extra lean ground beef (boiled) so that it wouldn't upset my stomach. I am feeling much better now. I learned my lesson. I will never put anything but toys and dog food in my mouth.
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The transit of Venus occurs when Venus passes across the disk of the Sun. Since the invention of the telescope, only 6 transits have occurred, and the seventh will take place on 5 June 2012. This will be only the fourth transit since astronomical photography began, and the second in which digital imaging will be the rule.
Following our successful expedition to Egypt in 2004 for the last transit, the Toronto Centre is mounting an expedition to Hawaii to observe this June's event. Members of the Society are welcome to join us for this event which includes a visit to Mauna Key Observatory as well as an opportunity to view the transit and take in attractions in Hawaii itself.
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U.S. Olympic Skiier Lindsey Vonn Withdraws From the Winter Olympics
Posted on January 7, 2014U.S. Olympic skiier Lindsey Vonn has withdrawn from the Winter Olympics in Sochi due to her ongoing kneed troubles. She posted the bad news on her Facebook page:
"I am devastated to announce that I will not be able to compete in Sochi. I did everything I possibly could to somehow get strong enough to overcome having no ACL but the reality has sunk in that my knee is just too unstable to compete at this level. I'm having surgery soon so that I can be ready for the World Championships at home in Vail next February. On a positive note, this means there will be an additional spot so that one of my teammates can go for gold. Thank you all so much for all of the love and support. I will be cheering for all of the Olympians and especially team USA!
XO Lindsey"
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Issue Research: Election 2008 | Globalisation | National Security
Endless Fake Terror Alerts: Fear Based Mind Control
Paul Joseph Watson
The ultimate form of control is fear and the fear that you could lose your life at any moment elicits a Pavlovian response towards those who claim they can protect you. Trauma based mind control is not a conspiracy theory and can be observed naturally after people have been subject to distress. The New World Order know this and that is why the U.S. and British governments issued a spate of fabricated terror alerts immediately after September 11 and continue to do so to this day. Concurrently we are reminded daily that it's not a matter of if but when the next large terrorist attack occurs.
If the individuals who staff our intelligence agencies are unable to prevent large-scale terrorist attacks then they should be fired. And yet since September 11 nobody in a position of authority has been sacked and in fact the majority have received raises in addition to the millions of extra funding that has poured in to the FBI and CIA. They have been rewarded for their complicity in 9/11.
In December 2002 Senator Charles Grassly, a Republican, described as a "slap in the face" and "shocking" a decision by FBI director Robert Mueller to give an award for 'exceptional performance to Marion "Spike" Bowman, head of the FBI's national security law unit. The award is officially titled 'Presidential Rank of Meritorious Service' and includes cash bonuses of between 20 percent or 35 percent of each recipient's base salary. Bowman was instrumental in calling FBI agents off the trail of Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called '20th hijacker' whose arrest many analysts conclude would have cracked the September 11 plot before it was carried out. Grassly stated, "Unfortunately, this award continues a bad tradition. If the FBI is ever to reform, there must be accountability."
The head of the State Department's consular service Mary Ryan was awarded $15,000 in October 2002 as part of an 'outstanding performance bonus'. Her office issued visas to 13 of the 19 suicide hijackers, giving them entry to the country. In addition, Thomas Furey, who was consul-general in the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, was also awarded a bonus. The Saudi embassy was named by former Consulate officer Michael Springman as a conduit for Al-Qaeda members hired for CIA terrorist training in the 80's.
We have the dichotomy of the government being rewarded for protecting terrorists while at the same time issuing apocalyptic terror alerts. If I called in a hoax bomb threat to a government building I would rightfully be arrested and yet our governments have been doing the exact same thing on a larger scale without retribution.
In May and June of 2002 watered down evidence of the Bush administration's prior knowledge of the attacks emerged in the media. Despite the fact that the information was largely a whitewash it was still a source of embarrassment for a regime that had naively become used to saying and doing what it liked by dancing on the graves of the victims of 9/11. To shut down the dissenters and provide the media with a distraction to fill the headlines, the Bush administration released a hoaxed terror alert. They cautioned that terrorists had hatched plans to attack targets such as stadiums, nuclear power plants, shopping centers, synagogues, apartment houses, subways, and the Liberty Bell, the Brooklyn Bridge and other New York City landmarks.
What's even more incredible than the hoax itself is that they openly admitted it! The Washington Times calmly reported,
All the 'conservative' news outlets tried to bury the story by claiming that it was Dan Rather's opinion that the White House was releasing fake terror alerts. They could then dismiss it as an empty liberal sideswipe, blatantly ignoring the Washington Times report and Ari Fleischer himself acknowledging it.
In January of 2003 FBI and CIA whistleblowers told Capitol Hill Blue that the White House was scripting phony terror alerts to maintain hysteria, upkeep President Bush's approval ratings and milk extra defense funding. The report that five Pakistani men had entered the States via Canada and were planning on carrying out a dirty bomb or biological attack was completely conjured up by the Bush administration's black propaganda office. New York Harbor was shut down to visibly pump up the fear. One of the named suspects, Mohammed Asghar (pictured left), was tracked down to Pakistan by the Associated Press. He was a fat guy running a jewellers shop and had never even been to America.
World Net Daily commented,
Making hoax threats to carry out terrorist acts is punishable by law under H.R. 3209. This legislation outlines that any party doing so will be liable for a fine of up to $250,000 and a prison sentence of up to five years. So why aren't the Democrats exposing the fact that the Bush administration is engaging in criminal activity? Democratic strategist Russ Barksdale gives us the answer,
Days after this story broke and began to gain more attention, ABC News sprang into action and whitewashed the story so it could be safely swept under the carpet.
They reported that the fake terror alert was a 'mistake' as a result of an informant lying to the FBI, thus shifting the emphasis away from the FBI and CIA agents blowing the whistle on how the government was manufacturing evidence to heighten fear.
To legitimize SWAT cops in Darth Vader masks pushing people around on street corners, the government needed to convince the people that this was a successful method of fighting terrorism. So it was that we saw a wave of arrests and break-ups of 'Al Qaeda cells' from Spain to Italy to England. Maybe there really were dangerous mass killers around every corner and the government really just wanted to protect us. Not quite. These arrests were subject to a blaze of publicity and headlined the evening news. However, after investigations found no evidence to justify detaining those arrested, their release warranted only a paragraph in the back of the newspaper. A plot to release cyanide in the London Underground was 'foiled by MI5' and splashed across the front pages. The fact that no cyanide was ever found and most of the suspects were released within days was barely mentioned. Nine arrests were made under anti-terrorism laws and yet six of those detained were released within hours.
In late January 2003, 28 Pakistani men were arrested in a raid in the Italian city of Naples. The headlines shrieked that the men were plotting assassinations and bombings of NATO targets. They had maps of London, the U.S. consulate and American naval bases. They were a definite 'Al-Qaeda terrorist cell' in possession of 800 grams of explosives, enough to blow up a three-story building. Despite all this unfolding in Italy, it made the top story on both American and British news for two days.
Just two weeks later, the BBC quietly announced,
And so the story vanished.
In London, a plethora of arrests are made after police supposedly discover ingredients used to make the deadly ricin poison. Many suspects are later released and doubts emerge as to whether any actual ricin components were seized. The Algerian terrorist ring was said to have obtained the poison from a cave in Afghanistan, where large quantities were found. To know this was false took just a brief glance back in the archives and a story of March 2002. Under the headline 'Britain accused on terror lab claim - Story of find in Afghan cave 'was made up' to justify sending marines' – the London Observer reported,
The White House had to publicly admit that the story was fabricated to avoid deeper embarrassment because there was no actual evidence to support the claim. So the original source of the ricin was in actual fact based on a foundation of total fabrication.
After a while the blatantly fake terror alerts that never preceded a terror attack were beginning to lose their gravity. People largely ignored them and were not imbued by fear. The next government threat had to be backed up by physical action.
It was at this point that Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge announced that the Orwellian terrorism threat level had been raised to orange, one notch short of full out police state takeover. Armed police and the National Guard swarmed the streets of New York and Washington, helicopters and military jets patrolled the skies, Tony Blair considered putting troops on the streets of Britain, tanks were already rolling around Heathrow airport and the M25 motorway, airport screeners made sure more 70-year-old men took their shoes off to be searched. TV networks rabidly hijacked the fear and revelled in the panic, highlighting interviews with people on the street commenting on how this downtown Beirut military occupation was acceptable because it was part of the 'new America' (or new Amerika). People were encouraged to buy first aid kits and duct tape to seal their windows.
Yet again, there was no reliable information to indicate a potential terrorist attack (one not carried out by the CIA that is). Many observed that the alarm was merely a show of force to frighten the people into supporting an impending war on Iraq. The government was again terrorizing the citizens.
The measures were put in place because the government had, once again, been lied to by their informants. Or so we're told. And once again, ABC News rushed out to whitewash the story,
I don't believe for a second that the criminal CIA had at any point believed New York, Washington or Florida had been, according to this lying informant, targets of a dirty bomb attack. As we were warned before by the responsible FBI and CIA agents, the government was again scripting hysterics to bully us into submission. Even though the whole thing was admitted to be a false alarm, the orange terror threat status still remains in force days and weeks after.
Retreived 01.03.2006 from http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_watson_021703_faketerror.html
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By Stephen Galloway
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The sequence was vast: A long walk across war-torn France, with thousands of extras, German bombers, tanks and artillery strewn across the landscape -- the kind of scope that would have made David Lean proud.
There was just one problem: The scene in "Atonement" was going to cost $4 million. As depicted in Ian McEwan's novel, the journey incorporated "hundreds of thousands of refugees in the roads and the strafing of those refugees," said Joe Wright, the director of the World War Two-era tragic romance.
"It was a big, epic thing. I was very excited to try and achieve that. But it was costing us a lot of money. So I went one day to (producer) Tim Bevan and said, 'I need an extra $4 million to realize the walk to Dunkirk.' And Tim said, 'I won't give you a dollar over $30 million for an art film."'
Bevan's words had a curious and quite unexpected effect.
"The idea that I was making an art film suddenly liberated me," Wright recalled. "I said, 'If you are calling this an art film, then I can really follow my intuition and instincts totally?' And he said, 'Yes.' And I said, 'I accept that!"'
Accepting reality is a crucial part of a director's work, which -- arguably more than that of any other artist -- requires functioning within the limits of the possible.
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Greenville, county to team up for road work
GREENVILLE — The city of Greenville and Road Commission for Montcalm County are teaming up for a chip and seal project to be performed within the city.
During Tuesday's Greenville City Council meeting, the council approved a contract with the Road Commission for Montcalm County for street sealing in the amount not to exceed $146,257.
"We have a good working relationship with the county," said Public Services Director Mike Chesher.
The county's bid will cost $1.82 per square yard and will included fog sealing — a second layer of emulsion over the newly chip sealed streets.
Chesher said only one other company responded to the bid request and was going to charge $2.25 per square yard, plus an additional $0.45 per square yard for fog seal.
"Most of the businesses we had do it in the past are out of business," said Chesher, noting not many businesses offer this type of project anymore. "It's an excellent bid the county submitted for us."
The funding will be split between two funds — the local streets fund and the major streets fund.
The streets to be done under the major streets fund include:
• Grove Street from Franklin to Hillcrest streets.
• Montcalm Street from Franklin to Hillcrest streets.
The streets to be done under the local streets fund include:
• Cherry Street from Summit to Van Deinse streets.
• James Street from Grove to Montcalm streets.
• Baldwin Street from Grove to Orange streets.
• Orange Street from Barry to Bower streets.
• Cass Street from Hillcrest to Franklin streets.
• Barry Street from Washington to Benton streets.
• Benton Street from Nelson to Ruth streets.
• Benton Street from Barr to Franklin streets.
• Benton Street from Clay to Webster streets.
• Ruth Street from Benton to Oak streets.
• Judd Street from Cedar to Maple streets.
• Crescent Street from Greenbrier to Crestview streets.
Councilwoman Jeanne Cunliffe said Cass Street was becoming dangerous for Danish Festival parade walkers and is happy it is getting redone.
"Thumbs up for getting that ready and for the people who live here," Cunliffe said.
Councilman Mark Lehman asked how often the roads are done. Chesher said ideally it is done every either to 10 years and roads are usually done in the same general area to help with costs.
Chesher said partnership between the city and the county for this project is good to have.
"It's a cooperative effort between the city and the county," he said. "The state is looking for that when it comes to revenue sharing."
The projects are projected to begin after July 1, but to be finished before the Danish Festival in August.


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The Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT) is an exam utilized by the DoD. While not its primary function, it has been evaluated by ACE for credit. The credit recommendation is here:
To my knowledge, testing is only available to a select few civilians who work directly for the DoD. It is open to all military members.
Until recently, the Navy only allowed most military members to test for the Listening and Reading portions of the exam. A recent change (June 2008) has opened up the possibility for the Oral portion to also be taken. A score of 3 must be made in both Listening and Reading categories to be eligible for the Oral portion. If the scores are met, a form can be filled out and turned into the Testing Control Officer.
Full details for Naval personnel can be found on the Navy Advancement Center under the Defense Language tab.
The credit that can be earned is huge. For example, when taking the Korean test if one were to score a 3 in each category (Listening, Reading, and Oral) one would earn 45 credits.