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He usually begins, I paraphrase only a little, like this: "Last year I told the House there would be £100 in the kitty to spend on Christmas presents." Next, he seems to give bad news. "But this year I have to announce there will not be £100 to spend after all." Disappointment ripples through the Labour benches, as the chancellor leaves a pregnant pause. The voice resumes, gathering pace. "Instead, thanks to our prudent management and tight fiscal stance - taking summer holidays in Clacton and eating Polo mints for Sunday lunch - I am able to announce that there will be," bellowing now, "ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY POUNDS TO SPEND, a year-on-year rise of 50%, an increase unmatched since the 16th century! I commend this statement to the House!" Much waving of order papers ensues as Brown plops back into his seat, a hulk of crumpled suit and political triumph.
Not this year. Today the chancellor will have to reverse the pattern and admit that the sunny figures of a year ago have not quite materialised. Instead of cheerily declaring that things are better than expected, he will have to confess that they have got worse.
The pre-emptive response to the coming shift has been predictable. "The chancellor's reputation is diminishing as rapidly as his finances," gloats the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, Matthew Taylor. Yippee, "The wheels are about to fall off Brown's trolley", delights the Daily Telegraph.
The puerility of these attacks goes beyond their language. They are naive in their substance, too. For attacking Brown over the wobbly state of the economy in the current climate is like blaming Tony Blair for rain and grey skies: it is to ludicrously overestimate his power.
Of course the chancellor is not responsible for the change in economic outlook he will unveil today; credit for that goes to tectonic shifts in the global economy that stretch far beyond humble Britain. To think otherwise is fanciful, Harry Potter politics - imagining our politicians as sorcerers in capes and conical hats, able with a wave of the wand to change the way of the world.
To be fair, politicians fuel this juvenile delusion. They claim credit for the good times, so they can hardly complain when they get blamed for the lean years. And it's not as if they do nothing; Brown is not exactly playing golf while the economy runs itself. He has been an activist chancellor, taking several pivotal decisions aimed at making the best of the hand economic fate has dealt him. Besides the always cited decision to grant independence to the Bank of England, perhaps the most relevant Brown act was his use of the £22bn generated by the sale of next-generation mobile phone licences.
Sold at the peak of hi-tech hysteria, the chancellor got a good price. Better still, he resisted the pleas on all sides to spend, spend, spend his windfall. Instead he used it to pay off large chunks of Britain's national debt (more in one year than all the governments from 1945 to 1999 combined). The result was to lower the debt to such a level that Britain could borrow billions now - and still stay within the parameters of prudence. (Treasury officials say the acceptable debt-to-GDP ratio is 40%; thanks to the proceeds of the mobile phone sell-off, Britain's figure is 30%. That leaves a lot of wiggle room).
So there are moves politicians can make, but when it comes to the global economy they amount to shaking out the beachtowel in the face of a looming tidal wave. Pick some of our biggest economic brains and they all tell the same story: the current squeeze stems not from decisions taken by Brown but from changes across the globe.
The lead culprit is the "correction" that followed the runaway fervour of the late 1990s. Floating on a dotcom bubble, markets and companies alike got overexcited and overheated at the close of what had been a golden decade. In the go-go years they spent too much, buying things they didn't need - including lots of computers - believing that hi-tech always meant high-profit. It didn't, and when the profits failed to come, the stock markets got wary.
In the words of Stephen King, chief economist at HSBC: "They got a bad dose of indigestion and now they need to slim down." The result is that no one is in a mood to throw money around; even good projects can't find backers. Trust, the bedrock of every economy, has evaporated. (The wave of corporate scandals, the Enrons and WorldComs, didn't help.)
That trend was most pronounced in the US, but that made it our problem, too. The US represents a quarter of the world economy, but it accounted for half of world growth in that late-90s: a sneeze on Wall Street really did mean flu around the globe. Interestingly, most economists agree that 9/11 was not the decisive event popular mythology imagines it to be: most of the gloomy trends were already well established by September 10 2001.
Globalisation has played a part, too. Far from helping big, fat multinationals grow bigger and fatter, it has given companies some serious headaches. While they have been busy "outsourcing" production to cheap labour countries such as India or Pakistan, so have their international rivals - who are now, thanks to globalisation, ready to take them on in open, borderless competition. That has forced prices down, helping consumers, according to King, "but making life difficult for companies".
The result is an unfamiliar new world of deflation, where prices stagnate or fall. That sounds good, but it spells trouble for corporations and countries: the debts they owe don't get any smaller - they just loom larger as prices, and therefore revenues, shrink.
Nor can a British chancellor look abroad for help. As Treasury sources admit, "Japan is not playing its part" in lifting global fortunes. That leaves Europe to be the "engine of growth". But it's not much better there: 0.8% growth in the euro zone and half that in Germany.
And, of course, looming over the whole picture, is global, geopolitical instability. "There's a massive war on terror/Iraq effect," says one government official. Private companies are not daring to invest. They would rather wait; see how things pan out. When everybody does that, the economy can grind to a halt.
So this is the backdrop to the magic show Brown will have to put on today. He will insist that his fiscal set-up is so well arranged, it has left him just the flexibility to borrow that he needs to get through this current bad patch (unlike those foolish Europeans, who are bound and gagged by their stability pact). And, if the current downtown is a temporary dip, he's surely right. If, however, we are witnessing a permanent shrinking in Britain's coffers, the day will come when Brown either has to scrap his grand spending plans or tax more. Not even a fine display from a wizard chancellor will be able to magic that choice away.


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Since Hurricane Ike, I had a plumber come out to test the integrity of my gas system. He pressurized it and it leaked down pretty quick according to him. He didn't determine where the leaks are but left that to me to save some money. I need to know what kind of fitting to use to pressurize the system to go bubble checking. I have access to an air compressor and can get to a 3/4" or 1" cap on my supply. Thanks, Chuck
Disconnect your gasline from the meter if not already done. You can put a reducer coupling onto your gasline at that point. A plumbing supply house will set you up with exactly what you need if you tell them the size of your gasline where it connects to the meter. So for instance, if your house line was 1-1/4" you'd get an 1-1/4" X 1/2" reducer and a short nipple. The supply house will have a gas test fitting that has a gauge on it. Just connect that to the nipple and you're set. Just be sure all valves at the appliances are turned off and the gasline is disconnected otherwise you might ruin your appliance(s). Around here we pump the house line up to 30psi and make sure that holds for at least 30min (inspectors here require 15min) before we call it good.
thanks for the help. will be under the house next week checking for leaks.
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Use a spray bottle with soapy water. I use Dawn dish soap. When the gasline is aired up, liberally spray the fittings with the soapy water. Leaks will show up as bubbles that increase in size. Helps to have a flashlight as well.
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Targeting ducks: Ducks Unlimited works for waterfowl, but duck population dwindles
Dennis Anderson, Star Tribune
May 2, 2004ANDY0502
Crouched in a hunting blind with his dad many years ago, watching ducks buzz their decoys, Dan Fabian couldn't imagine passing the first day of waterfowl season without downing a mallard, wood duck or teal.
That happened to him on opening day last year.
Fabian, of Stillwater, and about 125,000 other Minnesotans who hunt ducks are part of a tradition that dates to statehood. Minnesota traditionally puts more duck hunters in the field each fall than any other state.
But that part of Minnesota culture is being threatened as never before.
The number of ducks killed daily by Minnesota waterfowlers has declined 20 percent since the 1970s, largely because of habitat losses attributed to urban sprawl, wetland drainage and agriculture expansion.
Ducks Unlimited volunteer Dan Fabian and son JaredCarlos GonzalezStar TribuneFabian, 42, knows such losses will continue. Yet he hopes that on some cool October morning he'll share a duck blind with his 11-year-old son, Jared -- their eyes cast to the sky, scanning for birds -- just as Fabian did with his dad long ago.
For that reason, Fabian soldiers on as one of thousands of volunteers who spearhead fundraising banquets for Ducks Unlimited, a 675,000-member organization with headquarters in Memphis. He's part of the reason Minnesota usually ranks third in money contributed to Ducks Unlimited. He has had a role in making membership increase. And he keeps working, although some duck populations have gone missing.
A drake mallardTom WallaceStar TribuneDucks Unlimited is at a crossroads. Duck numbers are down. Important prairie breeding grounds are being plowed under. Hunters are restless. And some critics say Ducks Unlimited isn't strident enough in its defense of wetlands and other wild areas.
The future of ducks and duck hunting depends, Fabian believes, on whether Ducks Unlimited succeeds in what it says is an unprecedented effort to save threatened habitats that, once lost, might be gone forever.
Which is why he and about 45,000 other Minnesotans belong to the group. They donate about $5 million annually to counter the effects not only of agriculture and development but, they say, of an indifferent public.
"Doing nothing is not an option," Fabian said. "My hope is that when my son's kids are old enough to hunt, there will still be ducks around."
Changing priorities
How and where Ducks Unlimited has spent its habitat-restoration money have changed many times since its founding in 1937.
Most of the group's decisions have been influenced by science, some by politics and some by self-interest.
Until the middle of the last century, Ducks Unlimited believed it could best help ducks by building dams and creating large water impoundments on Canadian prairies, where more than half of North American ducks are produced in most years.
Later it hoped to foster greater duck production by focusing on broader Canadian landscapes, including small wetlands and potholes.
But pressure from United States members in the early 1980s to restore lost duck habitat near their homes in part caused Ducks Unlimited to redirect expenditures to this country.
Today, only 10.5 percent (about $14.1 million in 2003) of the group's habitat money is spent in Canada, with 77 percent (about $104 million) spent in the United States.
That spending shift -- which some believe has placated Ducks Unlimited members at the expense of ducks -- reflects one of Ducks Unlimited's fundamental challenges: keeping its members happy while also trying to do what is best for ducks.
"We constantly have to fight a balance between raising money locally and educating our supporters that undertaking our work continentally is the secret to the long-term viability of these birds," Ducks Unlimited Chief Executive Officer Don Young said.
Conservationist Aldo Leopold made the same point a century ago, saying that duck management is problematic because the birds migrate in spring and fall, needing food and habitat in many places en route.
Moreover, wherever ducks land they meet people with varying duck-related expectations and traditions.
Cree Indians in northern Canada, for example, have for generations killed ducks not in fall, when they historically have been hunted by others, but in spring, when the birds are fatter and their feathers easier to pluck.
Far to the south, Cajuns living along Louisiana's bayous have long had a tradition, now mitigated, of killing hundreds upon hundreds of ducks, sometimes in a single outing.
And in Minnesota each spring, many residents eagerly await the arrival of these birds and enjoy watching them build nests and hatch their young.
Minnesota also is where hunters in recent years first reported skies not black with ducks -- as they were generations ago -- but nearly devoid of them.
Perhaps not by coincidence, Ducks Unlimited's membership among Minnesotans has been flat for about 10 years.
Resource in trouble
Duck and duck-hunting data compiled by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources paint a picture of a resource -- and a tradition -- in trouble.
The data also suggest the breadth and scope of duck-management issues facing Ducks Unlimited, as well as state and federal wildlife agencies:
• The number of duck hunters in Minnesota is down significantly from its peak in 1971 of 161,000, averaging, since 1994, about 120,000.
• The total 1997-99 duck harvest in Minnesota was 17 percent less than in the 1970s. The shortage is particularly troubling considering that duck populations continentally jumped 69 percent between 1993 and 1999.
• Minnesota hunters historically had ranked third behind Louisiana and California in total duck harvest. Beginning in the 1990s, they slipped to fifth.
Worrisome as well is that fewer states and provinces appear to be contributing to Minnesota's duck harvest than in the past, suggesting a shrinking of continental duck-producing areas. This is important for Minnesota hunters because about 70 percent of ducks they kill in the state each fall are raised outside the state.
Waterfowl managers also worry about excessive hunting pressure applied to ducks where they remain plentiful, noting that today's hunters often travel great distances to find birds.
For example, in North Dakota -- which has long been considered the nation's premier northern duck-hunting state -- nonresident waterfowl hunters increased from about 5,000 in 1990 to about 30,000 in 2002. About half of those hunters were Minnesotans.
Today's hunters also appear to be much more efficient than in the past.
In 1998, about 33 percent fewer duck stamps were sold nationally than in 1970. But the duck harvest was about the same in both years.
Courting members
In Memphis, far from his native Canada, Don Young has a lot on his mind.
Young, 50, grew up on a Saskatchewan grain and dairy farm and was first taken duck hunting by his father at age 2, the same age at which he introduced his two sons to the sport.
As Ducks Unlimited's CEO, hired in 1999, Young oversees a $163 million organization whose members willingly, even enthusiastically, give their time and money to a group they believe not only holds the prospect of increasing duck populations but also helps define who they are.
Proudly, those members display Ducks Unlimited stickers on their pickup trucks and wear Ducks Unlimited caps and other clothing, while anticipating the arrival of Ducks Unlimited magazine in their mailboxes with the eagerness of kids at Christmas.
Many also tune in to Ducks Unlimited's nationally broadcast radio and television programs.
Encouraged by a successful six-year membership and fundraising drive, Young says his group is better prepared than ever to fight to save ducks.
Adding members would buttress that effort even more, Young said, and he thinks he knows who those potential members are and where they are: non-hunters in the suburbs. In a break from tradition, Ducks Unlimited is going after that crowd.
"We believe that water and water conservation will be the environmental issues of the century, and we also believe that no other conservation organization is better suited to sell itself to the public as a prospective savior of these resources than we are," Young said.
Broadening Ducks Unlimited's membership also could offset possible dropouts among hunters who lose interest because of reduced opportunities to bag ducks.
But the group's bigger membership and fatter coffers haven't stilled some dissident voices, some more credible than others.
Two years ago, for example, Young traveled to Louisiana to dispel rumors among hunters there that Ducks Unlimited was stopping ducks from flying south by catching them in huge nets while they passed over Missouri.
Some hunters in Arkansas also have alleged that Ducks Unlimited is planting special crops in South Dakota and elsewhere to keep birds from migrating.
Others criticize Ducks Unlimited for not being tough enough, or perhaps radical enough, in its battle against agriculture and development.
"If Ducks Unlimited was really serious about being the world's largest wetland conservation group, as they say they are, they could do a lot more for wetlands than they do," said Tony Dean of Pierre, S.D., an outdoor writer and broadcaster who once produced the Ducks Unlimited television show.
Acknowledging that Ducks Unlimited lobbies in Washington for more balanced federal farm programs and other conservation plans, Dean noted that the United States is still losing as much as 100,000 acres of wetlands per year.
"With 700,000 members, imagine what Ducks Unlimited could do if they actually took tough positions on wetlands -- drew a line in the sand and said, 'No more drainage.'
"That approach would piss some people off, which they don't want to do because they worry it will cost them money. But if you want to save a resource, that's what you have to do," Dean said.
Dave Zentner of Duluth, a nationally recognized conservationist who belongs to Ducks Unlimited and other groups, questions whether increasing Ducks Unlimited's membership will translate into more and better conservation.
"Look at bluebills, canvasbacks, pintails, black ducks, wood ducks -- they're all in trouble," Zentner said. "Everyone knows Minnesota's duck habitat is bad. But it's not just us anymore. Call around and see if you can find the ducks. They're not in Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana. So where are they?"
Zentner continued:
"I know we need Ducks Unlimited to maintain a constituency for these birds, and as a business organization and a nonprofit fundraiser, they're awesome. But I also know we need a greater emphasis on creating public policy of the kind ducks need to survive in this country.
"Unfortunately, in this area, Ducks Unlimited has rarely weighed in."
Science is a guide
Young has heard it all before. And more.
What is closer to the truth, he said, is that Ducks Unlimited is using the best science and some of the world's best waterfowl managers to fight a habitat-destruction fire closing in from all sides.
Young acknowledged that Minnesota's duck habitat is in rough shape. But so are Louisiana's coastal wetlands, Mississippi's bottomland hardwoods, California's Central Valley and Manitoba and Saskatchewan's potholes, he said.
Especially threatened are North Dakota and South Dakota's grasslands, some of which are being sprayed with Roundup and other herbicides to kill native grasses, then planted with genetically modified crops for the first time.
"Our perspective is that we have to work for cooperative solutions with the people who own these lands," Young said. "We don't stand in the way of agriculture and development. Instead, we want to develop environmentally sound approaches to what farmers and business are doing."
Young said Ducks Unlimited will help save North Dakota and South Dakota grasslands by paying ranchers not to plow them, much as it has paid some farmers not to drain wetlands.
Similarly, Ducks Unlimited is funding research at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon to develop hardier varieties of winter wheat, Young said. Such crops could create broad landscapes of duck-nesting habitat on Canadian prairies.
And Young said President Bush's recent announcement promising to increase wetlands in the United States followed receipt by the White House of more than 20,000 letters from Ducks Unlimited members in a campaign organized by the group's headquarters.
"Good science determines how we direct our resources continentally," he said. "Then we look at opportunities in those areas to see how we can leverage our resources using state, federal and other funds. We tell our members that for every dollar sent to us, we'll multiply it seven times to do our work.
"It is a race against time. That's why we maintain an office in Washington to work with Congress, and that's why we believe growth is key to us. We want to sustain and expand our core customer base of hunters, while expanding our membership into other areas."
Meanwhile, as Fabian and a dozen or so other volunteers met the other night to plan a Ducks Unlimited banquet scheduled for Thursday in Stillwater, some of the men -- hunters all -- worried aloud whether ducks will ever return to Minnesota in reasonably high numbers.
But no one worried about making money at the banquet.
"We sell out every year," Fabian said.
Dennis Anderson is at
Spending money in Minnesota
May 2, 2004MINN0502
Ducks Unlimited spends about $3 million a year in Minnesota.
About $500,000 comes from Ducks Unlimited itself, as part of the approximately $5 million that Minnesota members send to the group annually. The remaining $2.5 million is from state and federal wildlife and agriculture agencies.
Ducks Unlimited's conservation efforts in Minnesota are threefold:
• It encourages wild rice growth in northern Minnesota by, among other things, building water-control structures.
• It employs seven technicians to recruit farmers in key duck-producing areas of the state to enroll in the federal Wetlands Reserve Program, which pays for perpetual land easements and wetland restorations.
• It builds dams and other water-control structures to regulate water levels of shallow lakes.
As of Jan. 1, Ducks Unlimited had spent more than $21 million in Minnesota on habitat projects, affecting, it said, almost 165,000 acres.
Dennis Anderson
Ducks Unlimited history
May 2, 2004DUCHATTER
Founded in 1937, Ducks Unlimited initially spends most of its habitat money in Canada. The majority of North American ducks nest in Canada, and Ducks Unlimited believes it can make the most ducks for its bucks in that country.
Habitat losses in the United States intensify, as small farms yield to much larger operations. Urbanization also takes a toll, especially in Minnesota, where many fertile wetlands in and around the Twin Cities are transformed to storm-water holding ponds.
Members pressure Ducks Unlimited to spend more habitat money in the United States and less in Canada. Ducks Unlimited complies, but some critics say ducks suffer in the process.
Ducks -- and Ducks Unlimited -- face a new threat in North Dakota and South Dakota, the nation's most important duck-nesting states. Farmers and ranchers plow native grasslands to plant genetically modified crops, and biologists worry ducks might suffer irreparably.


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Community InformationMcKendree Village is an assisted living facility in Hermitage, TN. McKendree Village offers activities at their location for residents. These activities generally allow residents to maintain healthy lifestyles by encouraging movement and socializing with their peers.
Being able to chat with other residents becomes an important part of many peoples' lives and McKendree Village offers common spaces indoors to support that need. The benefit of living in an assisted living community is that making meals can be costly and time consuming process so McKendree Village provides meals for residents.
Staff is awake and available 24 hours a day so if any emergencies occur no matter the time, there will be someone ready to help.
Unique Features• Very large campus
• Indoor heated pool
• Exercise complex
• Library
• Reputation for quality services and care
The minimum age that a resident may be is 50 years old.
StaffingNurses on Staff24-Hour Awake StaffHomecare OnsiteVisiting Podiatrist
Additional ServicesDiabetic Care
This community offers diabetes care and can offer insulin injections, including sliding scale therapy.
Memory Care Offered
This community's memory care section can accept residents with major behavior issues. The community's memory care area was purpose built to care for residents with Alzheimer's and dementia.
Non Ambulatory Care
This community can provide a 1 person assisted transfer for residents who need help transferring, for example, from a bed into a wheelchair. This community can provide a 2 person assisted transfer for residents who need help transferring, for example, from a bed into a wheelchair.
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This community can accept residents who are an elopement risk. This community can accept residents who act out physically. This community is provides multiple levels of care allowing residents to remain at the community while receiving increasing care.
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MealsMeals ProvidedVegetarian
Activities ProvidedMcKendree Village offers trips on our 3 vans to shopping, grocery, museums, concerts, restaurants and individual doctor appointments within a 20 mile radius. Our full time Fitness Coordinator offers exercise classes both on land and in our therapeutic salt water swimming pool. The full time Chaplain leads Church School and Worship Services on Sundays and a weekday service and Bible Study throughout the week. The full time Activity Coordinator plans both trips and on campus activities.
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According to a Yougov/CBS poll The DFL in Minnesota should not be doing as well electorally as it is doing. Note that we are listed in the chart below behind Wisconsin and Michigan in scoring on progressive issues. I think the explanation must be that the DFL does better campaigning. When I personally crunched the numbers given in the spreadsheet to compare Minnesota to an average of all the states, Minnesota did not stand out that much.
The good news in the governors race first:
Mark Dayton 47%
Jeff Johnson 39%
Mark Dayton 46%
Jeff Johnson 31%
Only 33% indicated that they could change their mind in this race. Of course, this race may be closer because getting Democrats to actually vote is always an issue. In my personal doorknocking experience, Dayton is seen favorably because the Minnesota/Wisconsin comparison is hitting home.
The good news in the senators race next:
Al Franken 47%
Mike McFadden 39%
Al Franken 49%
Mike McFadden 34%
According to the polling, the ads are favoring Al Franken. I especially like the ad where the the guy says look at the place behind me with no jobs. McFadden is getting stuck with being an outsourcing Republican.
More likely to vote for Al Franken 34%
More likely to vote for Mike McFadden 29%
No difference 37%
Strangely even though the Democrats lead, the generic preference is slightly Republican.
19. Which party would you like to see control Congress after the election?
Democrats 43%
Republicans 45%
Don't care 12%
Issues are also queried in this poll. Only 13% of respondents believe in never having abortions which is good news. People believe that our state economy is better. 41% people oppose the Tea Party compared to the 19% who support them. 61% of people believe that economic system favors the wealthy. 49% want to kick out illegal immigrants. 49% of the people still just want to cut taxes while the rest while 40% most favor a mixture of raising taxes and cutting spending. 52% favor gay marriage.
This poll is weighted toward likely voters and does have more 3% more men that I would expect, so therefore any work that the DFL has done to encourage new voters may not be reflected in the results. This year 15% of voters expect to early vote or absentee vote which should help DFL results. This is the GOTV battleground year.
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Among the blots on American society is the use of torture by interrogators at various bases throughout the world. The United States once had a reputation as a nation which adhered to the rules of war until George Bush came on the scene with his inability to grasp how violation of the Geneva Accords cast America into the same category as Nazi Germany or Mugabe's Zimbabwe. A dozen retired generals met with president elect Barack Obama's legal advisors to plea for an end to detention , interrogation and rendition policies which violate human rights.
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Homemade Overhead Ambient Lighting 2006 WK Grand Cherokee Limited
My first vehicle after I graduated college was a 2002 BMW 540i. I had always liked BMW cars after I got to drive one in high school and was able to get one of my own a few months after graduation. This year, along with 2003 for the 5 series really started to incorporate the now popular BMW trademark details LED tail lights, adjustable HID front bulbs, Halo headlights, and on the inside red/orange ambient lighting. Kind of a cool feature, noticed as I was driving the car home that night (from Kansas City to north of Sioux Falls, SD). Made things easy to see but wasnt to the point of distracting.
I picked up an Infiniti M35x a little while after the BMW and this car had the same thing, but in the orange/gold color that Nissans have for interior lights. Again, was a nice feature to have, and didnt realize how much I missed having that little bit of light in the car after I traded the M in for the WK limited. Being that the car was a Limited, and finding out that the WK2s have this ambient light, I thought Id see about putting it my Jeep. And of course these little guys had to be green!
I started doing some research one morning about LEDs, resistors, Ohms law (scary reminder of college!) and by the time lunch came around, I was on my way to Radio Shack for supplies. That afternoon I made a spreadsheet that could calculate the required resistance based on the voltage drop of the LED and the input voltage. I made it with columns for each of the LED types that I picked up, and also made a second set of rows to calculate the required resistance based on a running car electrical system, 13.5V. Heres a screen shot, but if anyone would like the spreadsheet, shoot me a PM with your e-mail address and Ill send it over.
I found a 9V battery at home and used that as my test setup to get an idea of each of the LEDs outputs. One set had a very narrow light path, and 2nd set was just a little brighter than the 3rd set so I decided to use the second set for my overhead lights. Heres a shot of my test setup nothing pretty, but it made them light up.
I took the setup into a dark bathroom to test the light pattern, then took them out to the garage and turned off all the lights to test the light output inside the vehicle. They seemed to do well in the dark so I went though and wired them up. Based on my calculator, I needed to hit 375 ohms for the lights in series. Since I couldnt come up with a realistic way of connecting resistors to hit that resistance, I bumped it up to 400 and called it good. Testing the setup at 400 ohms:
After it tested out, I soldered everything together and applied the heat shrink to all connections.
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Next it was time to find a place to put these cool little lights. My original plan was to install them under the rear view mirror to best hide the source of the lighting. The biggest issue I was trying to avoid was being able to see the bulb while driving since LED lights are typically bright at their source. I took off the mirror a couple days back and couldnt get the thing apart. I didnt want to break it so I put it back in and started looking elsewhere. While looking online for ideas, I saw that the WK2s have the ambient light installed in the overhead console area right in the middle. With the help of a WK2 owner on another site I was able to get an idea of how the stock setup looks. Guess it was time for me to take out the overhead console and see what I could do up there. Heres the WK2 Setup:
The console just pops out with a little force. The front end comes down just by working your fingers under the lip, but with a good tug the entire thing comes undone. All thats left attaching it is wires. My suggestion is to take out the Homelink system (4 torx screws, two thin plastic clips on the forward part of the box) and then remove the grey plug in the middle and the white power plug for the dome lights. Both will require a flat head screw driver.
Once I got it upstairs, I realized I couldnt do much in terms of taking it apart without a little permanent modification. There are about 6 plastic welds that hold the black lighting system and the rigid part of the sunglass holder all together.
I took a small knife and broke/cut all of these off and removed the two torx screws in the middle and the whole thing came apart, minus the sunroof controls.
At this point I realized that I couldnt have the LEDs in the dead center like on the WK2s and with my two bulbs already wired and complete, there were going to be two holes on either side of the sunroof controls. I took out my caliper and measured half way between the light and the hole for the sunroof controls, then did the same from the controls to the opening for the Homelink. I made an X with the caliper, took my blade and put it dead center of the X and spun it around a bit to create a dimple so my drill bit wouldnt slip, and then drilled a hole with the smallest drill bit in my set. I then stepped up my drill bits 3 or 4 more times until I ended up with a 7/32 hole.
In my personal opinion, the hole is a touch too big, may be able to get by with a 3/16 bit, but I jumped two sizes thinking that the ¼ was my final hole size, but that was for the plastic LED holder, not the light itself.
Once the holes were finished, I tried a couple of methods to attach the bulbs and holders to the back side of the plastic console. Superglue wasnt working, and the soldering iron didnt have enough plastic available to weld them together. I had stopped by Harbor Freight on the way home and picked up a cheap glue gun and glue sticks since they were a total of 7 bucks, just on a whim, but ended up being the savior of the night. A little hot glue, hold them in place until they cooled, and I was set!
And of course, I had to test them out with my 9V battery
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The last part was putting it all back together. Since I has cut off the plastic welds to hold everything back together I had to find another way to get things back together. I borrowed some zip ties and self tapping screws from work a while back for my car audio installation and ended up using the self tapping screws. When the welds come off, they have an opening just like a threaded plastic piece would have, so the self tappers worked perfectly. Back in the car, I ended up having to bend the solder/wires/heat shrink a little in order to get the Homelink module back on the backside of the console, but it all fit back together as it should. Heres a few shots of the lights installed, views from the drivers seat, from the underside, and from the drivers side above the steering wheel.
You may have noticed they arent turned on. After poorly planning ahead, I was assuming I could tap into the wire that turns on the lights in the Homelink with the vehicle lights turn on. Unfortunately, the signals (from what I could find) are all CANBUS encoded through there and there isnt a true +/- setup. Guess Im going to have to run wires somewhere to find someplace else to tap.
Stay tuned for future updates, and also keep a look out for another project using more of these Green LEDs!
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I went back to this project a little bit more today to address some of the issues I wasn't too wild about. First off, although I was able to drill very clean holes in the plastic, I notices that there was still going to be some bright reflection from the inside of the hole that would create two very bright cylinders in my field of vision. Going back to the OEM version of the lights, I notices they had the light recessed a little bit more, and there was a taper to the hole to keep the reflections down. I took a trip to Harbor Freight to see what might work. This is what I came up with:
Wood/metal countersink set
tapping handles
45degree countersink bit
I ended up using the tapping handle (middle size) and the second to largest size in the countersink tap to make a hand held drill/countersink system. I cleared out both holes, then used the small bit to smooth things out a bit, again by hand. For this part of the project, I did everything by hand. This is what I finished up with:
Next I knew that I wanted to have the lights recessed a lot more. I was able to pick up some random plastic pieces from work the other day that had two holes already drilled in them. I have no idea what the odds are, but they were the perfect size hole and the perfect distance away from eachother. They were also almost a perfect fit on the width and the length but required just a little help to fit. I first chopped them down a bit to clear for the sunroof button:
Then glued in the first one
I did the same to a second piece and glued that one in too:
Next came the lights. I ended up breaking one of the LED's from the original set so I had to use the wired lights I had made for another project to complete this one. Don't have a picture of the back side, but it looked the same as before. Here's a shot with them installed before going back into the car:
And here's the shots of them installed in the car. Again, I couldn't get the wiring to work so still a little bit more to do on that end, but at least you can see how the bulb is completely hidden and adds a touch of OEM likeness to the holes. Let me know what you guys think.
After figuring out that the "grounding post" I was using inside the fuse box wasn't going to work, I decided to do a little testing to find out why. Turns out it's not a ground, and actually a positive post. No wonder it didn't work! I did some looking into the wiring diagram and found the dimmer wire that dims down in the interior lights from the multifunction stalk and then the ground. I had some free time tonight so I pulled out the instrument trim off (two clips at the bottom, just need to give it a good tug) and then there are two screws that hold on the gauges.
There is a plug in the center of the gauges that has both the dimmer light (orange w/brown stripe) and the ground so I tested it with the multimeter. Voltage drops by about 2v per detent as you turn down the interior lights. Perfect!
I had already run wires to the engine bay in hopes of tapping the fuses so it was actually fairly easy to pull it back out and shorten. I had originally run the wires down inside of the side dash panel so re routed them back up behind the gauges. Pretty easy once that panel comes off. Here's where the wire came out behind the gauges.
Using two of the simple clamp wire taps, I connected it up, hooked up the led wires to the other side and buttoned it all up.
Now for some finished shots:
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My sister's Acura TL has the ambient lighting up there that shines down on the center console and cup holders. It's a soft glow. I love it.
I might have to try this mod.
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Pretty cool mod but why the need for those 2 LED's? Why not just upgrade your dome lights? You would be set.
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Have you been in a car that has ambient lighting before (BMW, newer Acura, Infiniti, Land Rover)? It is designed to be the same ambient lighting that is in those vehicles.
Here's a couple BMW shots - where this is showing orange/red light, mine will be replaced with green:
And in this one, it would be the orange glowing on the seats (not from the doors at all... yet)
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for those who don't want to mess with resistors or if u want more leds in other places this site has everything. i cant wait they just came out with flush mount smd chips. our cars are a little to dark with how bright the nav is im working on the foot wells and door cards right now
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:thumbsup:pics for how much light they put out and what leds did u get.. were they rated any way... i just don't want to go to bright for like what u did but i want to do it with white light btw LOVE THE IDEA
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Great write up, can't wait to see light output pics.
As someone that has done a lot of LED work on my last 2 cars I applaud your work. I've never thought of doing this before but will most likely follow in your footsteps and do something similar.
Same question as zero, what mcd were the LEDs you used rated at?
Re: Homemade Overhead Ambient Lighting 2006 WK Grand Cherokee Limited
I'm going to say I honestly thought about it but didn't know how to go about doing it. I got the idea from my sister's Acura TL.
I applaud the guy too. I want more details on resistance and how he mounted the LEDs so I can give it a try.
Re: Homemade Overhead Ambient Lighting 2006 WK Grand Cherokee Limited
I'm trying to figure out how he kept the LEDs inside the holes. Notice how they don't protrude the hole. They sit inside and that is going to prevent the light from scattering which is actually how it is the the Acura TL.
Good job. I want to see the finish product.
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Aleksander Knavs could miss Slovenia's next three UEFA EURO 2004™ qualifying games after his club, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, confirmed that the defender would miss the rest of the season.
Shoulder injury
The 27-year-old damaged his shoulder in Saturday's 1-0 victory against Bayer 04 Leverkusen, which moved Kaiserslautern up to eleventh place in the 1. Bundesliga. Knavs tried to play on in the second half but the pain was such that the captain was unable to continue and had to be replaced by Harry Koch in the 47th minute. He was taken to hospital and underwent surgery immediately.
Cyprus next
Knavs will sit out the home match against Cyprus on 2 April, and is extremely doubtful for the trip to Malta on 30 April. One of Slovenia's most experienced and reliable defenders, he will retain hope of featuring against Israel on 7 June. The Slovenians are fourth in Group 1 with three points. They opened their campaign with a 3-0 victory against Malta before being thrashed 5-0 at the Stade de France by the defending champions.
Successive titles
Knavs began his career with NK Olimpija Ljubljana before moving to FC Tirol Innsbruck in 1997. After helping Tirol to successive Austrian championships in 1999/00 and 2000/01, he joined Kaiserslautern where he has been similarly influential. A regular for Slovenia, Knavs made two appearances at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and has subsequently taken his tally of international caps to 42.
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Perfect Game has put out their top Recruiting Classes for the 2009 season with Arizona State University ranked in the Top spot. The top recruit for the Sun Devils is Eric Hosmer as he is one of eleven players ranked in the Top 200 in the country to sign with Pat Murphy's squad. The Georgia Bulldogs are listed in the runner's up spot as they have signed 20 players with Michael Palazzone as the top recruit in the class. North Carolina comes in with another strong class after their second consecutive CWS championship series appearance. The Tar Heels top recruit is Tim Melville as they have signed 12 players with 10 of them ranked in the Top 200 in the country. SEC rivals Florida at number 4 and Vanderbilt at 5 round out the Top 5. Some of the best players in the country with Perfect Game's number 1 prospect signed with the UCLA Bruins while number 2 prospect Tim Beckham with the USC Trojans. A couple of oddities on the list is UCF being ranked with the seventh ranked class in the country while Oregon comes in at number 28 where 2009 is the Ducks first season since bringing back the program. The full list of all 234 schools is available here.
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XPO Logistics is a non-asset based truck brokerage firm, much like CH Robinson Worldwide (NASDAQ:CHRW), and through a series of acquisitions and cold starts, it has grown rapidly, including 137 percent in its last quarter. Albeit, the $1.3 billion company has more than $700 million in revenue during the last 12 months, and it is currently on a $2 billion revenue run rate for the next 12 months.
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Publication Acceptance Date: 3/21/2005
Publication Date: 5/1/2005
Citation: Nicholi, V., Polashock, J.J. 2005. Genetic manipulation of cranberry fruit and leaf anthocyanin glycosylation.. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 130(5):711-715 Interpretive Summary: Certain pigments of American cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon Ait.) fruit are beneficial for human health. When naturally combined, or conjugated, by the plant with sugars, these pigments are particularly beneficial, and pigments conjugated with glucose are especially beneficial. Unfortunately, in American cranberry fruit the pigments are conjugated mainly with the sugars arabinose and galactose, with less than 8% conjugated with glucose, and so it would be beneficial to increase the proportion of pigments conjugated with glucose. Luckily, the fruit of another cranberry species, V. oxycoccus were found to contain the same pigments conjugated with glucose. We have carried out plant breeding experiments and biochemical analyses with these two species of cranberries to see if the hybrids would have a greater proportion of pigments conjugated with glucose than the traditional American cranberry. The hybrids were in fact intermediate to their parents in the proportion of pigments conjugated with glucose. This means that standard breeding methods can improve the nutritional of quality cranberry fruit. Fruit from these crosses can only be produced for evaluation three years after the seed is sown, which would slow the breeding program. However, we also found that the proportion of glucose- conjugated pigments is the same in cranberry leaves and fruit. Because leaves of cranberry hybrids can be tested for pigment conjugates after only one year of growth, our breeding program can make progress more efficiently. This research is primarily useful to other researchers in the field and has potential benefits leading to more nutritious food products.
Technical Abstract: The flavonoids of American cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon Ait.) are reported to be beneficial for human health, with anthocyanin glycosides contributing to the antioxidant potential. The anthocyanin glycosides of V. macrocarpon fruit are mainly galactosides and arabinosides of the aglycones, cyanidin and peonidin, with less than 8% glucosides. Flavonoid glucose conjugates have been reported to be more bioavailable than other sugar conjugates. The fruit anthocyanins of another cranberry species, V. oxycoccus were found to be largely glucosides of cyanidin and peonidin. Leaf anthocyanin glycosylation was found to correspond to fruit glycosylation in the two species, except for the complete lack of peonidin derivatives. Interspecific hybrids between these two species, and BC1 (to V. macrocarpon) and F2 generations were produced. The interspecific hybrids were intermediate to the parental species in the proportion of both leaf and fruit anthocyanin glucosides. Segregation in the backcross and F2 populations supports a single locus incomplete dominance model for leaf and fruit anthocyanin glycosylation. Leaf and fruit glycosylation was consistent for 60 BC1 individuals suggesting the same locus or two highly linked loci (< 5% recombination) confers both leaf and fruit glycosylation. The lack of peonidin in leaves indicates anthocyanin methoxyltransferase is not expressed in the leaves. In this study, we demonstrate the genetic manipulation of anthocyanin glycosylation in cranberry using interspecific hybridization, resulting in dramatically increased glucose-conjugated anthocyanins.


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As promised, Algeria's rulers have lifted a 19-year state of emergency in the face of protests at home and across the region. But the government continues to ban demonstrations in the capital.
News that the emergency was lifted contributed to a late pullback in the price of oil. After New York trading at $103 a barrel, April crude closed at $97.28.
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced three weeks ago that the state of emergency would be lifted, and it became official today. The decree was imposed in February 1992 to contain a guerrilla war after the government nullified local elections Islamists won.
The AFP news agency writes that the decree "gave free rein to security forces that effectively served to repress political freedom. The 1990s war turned into a bloodbath, killing up to 200,000 people, according to official figures."
Bouteflika, 73, has been in power since 1999. Last month, Algerians, inspired by events in Tunisia and Egypt, took to the streets to call for his ouster and for changes.
Before the lifting of the state of emergency, Interior Minister Dahou Ould Kabila announced that marches in Algiers are prohibited because the capital "is targeted by leaders of terrorist groups (because) it gives them media impact," according to the Associated Press. Marches outside Algiers must be approved three days before.
Earlier today, a top U.S. diplomat arrived in Algiers for a meeting with Bouteflika. Algeria produces 1.26 million barrels of oil daily, slightly less than Libya. Here's a look at major oil producers in the region.
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Hallo everybody,
I just started to study Vray rendering in Maya and I noticed that in Render Elements are any AO pass (Ambient Occlusion).
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Where are they now? - Amber Campbell - CHS 2001
Amber Campbell recently won the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Award for 2006. Amber is a graduate student at Emory University at Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from CHS in 2001 and completed her undergraduate degree at Kansas State University in 2005.
"I'm currently working on a number of papers including one on female genital schistosomiasis as a risk factor for HIV infection, one on the statistically validity of a popular discriminant function program in forensic anthropology and one on whether human hairlessness is an adaptation or an exaptation and just what one would have to prove to come to a solid conclusion on that question. Hopefully, I will finish all of them by May 5th so that I'm finished with the semester before I leave for my DNA training in Canada. I don't have much in the way of plans for the rest of the summer, but I have heardstirrings that one of my friends may know someone looking for someone with osteological knowledge to help out on an archaeological dig in South America somewhere. We shall see if that works out."


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Every once in awhile there comes along a recipe that is so good, that even as I am eating it, I am sitting there thinking about when can I make it again. How often can I actually make this without it losing it's charm? Well, that was what it was like with this stuffing. As we were eating it, we were talking about all the different things we could have it with. Really it could be anything, because it wasn't stuffed in the turkey, and there is nothing in it that screams make-me-only-at-Thanksgiving. Maybe was different for you, but Thanksgiving in my midwestern home did not include pancetta and Parmesan cheese.
One thing I have to mention, I searched in vain for jars of roasted chestnuts. I went to three different grocery stores, before I finally gave up. I thought about buying whole chestnuts and roasting them, but since I have actually never roasted a chestnut, only sang about roasting them, it didn't sound like something I wanted to attempt at Thanksgiving. So, I left them out. I didn't even substitute anything, just left them out. But I am here to tell you that even without the chestnuts, it was amazing. This is now my stuffing recipe, forever and ever, and not just for Thanksgiving.
You can find the recipe on-line: Ciabatta Stuffing with Chestnuts and Pancetta courtesy of Giada and The Food Network, you can also find it in Giada's Family Dinners.
Ciabatta Stuffing with Chestnuts and Pancetta
Serves 8-10
6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) butter
8 ounces pancetta, cut into 1/4-inch dice
2 large onions, finely chopped
2 carrots, peeled and finely chopped
3 celery stalks, finely chopped
2 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary leaves
3 garlic cloves, chopped
2 (7.4-ounce) jars roasted peeled whole chestnuts, coarsely broken
1/4 cup chopped fresh Italian parsley leaves
1 pound day-old ciabatta bread, cut into 3/4-inch cubes
2/3 cup freshly grated Parmesan
1 cup (or more) canned low-salt chicken broth
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 large eggs, beaten to blend
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Butter a 15 by 10 by 2-inch glass baking dish. Melt 2 tablespoons of butter in a heavy large skillet over medium heat. Add the pancetta and saute until crisp and golden, about 10 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the pancetta to a large bowl. Melt the remaining butter in the same skillet over medium-high heat. Add the onions, carrots, celery, rosemary, and garlic. Saute until the onions are very tender, about 12 minutes. Gently stir in the chestnuts and parsley. Transfer the onion mixture to the large bowl with the pancetta. Add the bread and Parmesan and toss to coat. Add enough broth to the stuffing mixture to moisten. Season the stuffing, to taste, with salt and pepper. Mix in the eggs.
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Unprecedentedly, ICBC, China Construction Bank, Bank of China and Agricultural Bank of China are all in the top five banks by Tier 1 capital worldwide. But the good news does not end there for Chinese banks, with many putting in a strong performance further down the ranking.
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Top 1000 World Banks – Western Europe's global standing diminishes againJune 29, 2016
A patchy economic performance in western Europe in 2015 saw its lenders slide further down the global rankings. HSBC is clinging on to its global top 10 position, however, while there is some good news for Greek and Italian lenders.
Top 1000 World Banks – Global capital assets ratio sees improvementJune 29, 2016
The global capital assets ratio average has improved on The Banker's 2015 ranking, with Bahrain's First Energy Bank leading the way.
Top 1000 World Banks – US banks' move to Basel III drives rise in regional RWAsJune 29, 2016
Risk-weighted assets have jumped in North America as a result of the move among its banks to Basel III. Elsewhere, western Europe also saw an RWA-to-total assets ratio percentage rise.
Top 1000 World Banks – China and US stay ahead in highest movers listJune 29, 2016
As was the case in the 2015 ranking, China and the US are producing the fastest growing banks in the world, with the US's LegacyTexas Group leading the way in first, ahead of Taiwan's KGI Bank and China's Bank of Tangshan.
Top 1000 World Banks – Brazilian banks take profitability hitJune 29, 2016
Brazilian lenders still monopolise the top of the Latin American and Caribbean table, while banks from Panama, Argentina, the Dominican Republic and Mexico benefit from instability in the Venezuelan economy.
Top 1000 World Banks – National Commercial Bank retains Middle East leadJune 29, 2016
Middle Eastern banks continue to show impressive Tier 1 capital growth, with Saudi Arabia's National Commercial Bank and Qatar National Bank breaking into the global top 90 for the first time. Among the rest, National Bank of Abu Dhabi is the region's big winner.
Top 1000 World Banks – Asset quality still proving a headache for EuropeJune 29, 2016
As has been the case in most recent rankings, European lenders have continued to wrestle with asset quality issues.
Top 1000 World Banks – US banks challenge Latin Americans for best returns on assetsJune 29, 2016
High returns on assets are often shown by emerging markets, but this was not always true in the 2016 Top 1000 World Banks Ranking, with the US showing strongly in this field.
Top 1000 World Banks – Asia-Pacific and North America pull down loan to deposit ratioJune 29, 2016
The trend in falling loan-to-deposit ratios continued in the 2016 Top 1000 World Banks ranking, as the aggregate ratio dipped.


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ICrash is a prototype game concept for a 2.5D platform game on the iPhone. In this game your iPhone crashes and you must repair it. Because we wanted to keep the controls simple there are only two possible actions. Turning the iphone controls the gravity and by pointing and draging you can let the character jump.
Players: 1
Duration: 15 minutes
Team: 3 people (Emiel Bransen, Erik van Wees)
Role: Designer & Project Manager
Development time: 3 weeks
Platform: iPhone/XNA