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Note: The following is a story that ran in Aspen Peak Magazine highlighting the historic Hotel Jerome's 120th anniversary. This year, the Powder Awards celebrate our 10th anniversary in the Hotel's Grand Ballroom and Antler Bar.
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As the Hotel Jerome celebrates 120 storied years, we salute Aspen's grand dame of hospitality.
By Cindy Hirschfeld
The Hotel Jerome has a special place in most every Aspenite's heart. Whether we've overnighted in one of the uniquely appointed rooms, attended a party or wedding in the ballroom, gotten biscuits for our dogs from the bellman's stand, partied at the J-Bar, worked in the catering department in our mid-20s or even met our spouses there, the historic building has become an essential part of our shared experience.
"It's always been Aspen's representative hotel," says longtime Aspenite Tom Egan, communications director for the Aspen Historical Society. "While it's become a more high-end place to stay, they still welcome everyone to use the rest of the facilities. It provides the town with a gathering place that remains."
As the hotel prepares to celebrate its 120th anniversary, we invite you to dive into the Jerome's past and present.
When Aspen mining tycoon and former co-owner of Macy's department store Jerome B. Wheeler unveiled his three-story, 92-room hotel on the eve of Thanksgiving 1889, its novel amenities— indoor plumbing, steam heat, an elevator and electricity— wowed guests from around the country. Wheeler's goal, which mirrored the aspirational outlook of Aspen during that heady time of the Silver Boom, had been to emulate the most lavish European hotels.
For a few years Wheeler's venture succeeded beyond what even he may have hoped. Wealthy travelers, prominent businessmen and theater stars—many of whom performed at Wheeler's nearby eponymous opera house—were guests of the Jerome. In 1892 he sold the hotel to Archie Fisk of Denver, who couldn't pay his taxes in the aftermath of the 1893 silver crash and eventually relinquished ownership to the county.
Even as economic hard times embraced Aspen, the Jerome was establishing its reputation as the hub of town's social life. An Aspen newspaper clipping from 1896 describes a party at the hotel given by Mr. and Mrs. S.I. Hallett as the "event of the season." The tradition has continued ever since, with gatherings like the Jerome Jazz Party in the '60s, raucous Halloween fêtes in the '70s and the Shitkickers' Ball today.
Aspen businessman Mansor Elisha leased the hotel in 1911, and the Jerome led a fittingly quiet existence during Aspen's "Quiet Years." Other than the occasional party, like the banquet and dance hosted by the Pitkin County Stockgrower's Association in June 1915 or the "welcome home" dance for veterans of World War I in 1919, the hotel hosted just a few guests and some long-term boarders.
During Prohibition the bar became a soda fountain, and legend has it that the Aspen Crud—a milkshake spiked with Bourbon—was invented then.
The Jerome got a second wind in 1946, when it was leased by modern town father Walter Paepcke and received a face-lift from Bauhaus designer Herbert Bayer. The brick exterior was painted white, with blue "eyebrows" over the windows. The restaurant served Swiss cuisine. The original, ornate maple bar was completely restored. In Aspen's first wave of modern celebrity culture, stars like Gary Cooper, Lana Turner and John Wayne visited. Mortimer Adler of the Aspen Institute held court at the hotel's pool.
And in the late 1950s, the place became a magnet for some of Aspen's younger residents. "Something about the Hotel Jerome sucked us in as young kids, and we became terrible pests to the management," remembers native Aspenite Tony Vagneur. Fascinated by the hotel elevator—the only one in town—young Vagneur and his friends loved to fool with the buttons and doors.
Vagneur and his pals also wrangled autographs from visiting stars of the silver screen, who stayed only at the Jerome when in Aspen—and almost always in the same second-floor suite. "It was almost a sure bet that if we knocked on the door, someone would answer that we'd seen on the big screen over at the Isis," Vagneur says. "We got an autograph from every person we recognized, which at the end of the winter amounted to a fair stack of personalized signatures."
In the 1960s the Jerome fell into neglect and was closed for a few years. When John Gilmore of Michigan bought it in 1968, its former grandeur was all but gone; beds could be had for about five dollars a night. Gilmore tried unsuccessfully to recruit investors to renovate the hotel. But locals were undeterred by the lack of luxe.
In 1976, during his first summer in Aspen, Egan lived in a log cabin along Castle Creek that lacked running water and electricity. He and others in similar living situations would sneak up to the hotel's third floor, which had dorms and a shared bath, to maintain some level of personal hygiene. "When we needed showers, we'd go to the Jerome, have a beer in the bar and take a shower on the third floor, until one day when someone got busted," he recalls. "I never stayed there until I got married in 2002. We stayed in one of the suites on the third floor, and I thought, 'Now I can take a shower legally.'"
Tim Mooney served drinks at the J-Bar during the mid-'70s, when the party was in full swing. "It was where everyone crossed through, where everyone met," he says. The Jerome also housed the Rocking Horse, one of Aspen's first discos, and a Moroccan-themed restaurant with belly dancers; the hotel pool became a notorious party spot.
The J-Bar's stools were filled with ski bums, college kids, working cowboys—and one daily regular who was parked all day at the end of the bar. Hunter S. Thompson would stop in after getting his mail at the Aspen post office so he could eat, drink, sort through his mail, drink, watch televised sports and the news (the Jerome was one of the few places with a tall antenna and regular TV reception) and drink.
reception) and drink. "Hunter would be at there at noon, when the bar opened," recalls Mooney. "He'd order breakfast, lunch and dinner all at the same time. It was his office. If people wanted to meet Hunter, they'd come to the Jerome." (Thompson's 2005 memorial was held in the Jerome's ballroom.)
The bar crowd, according to Mooney, also included Jack Nicholson, Jimmy Buffett and The Eagles. When Bill Murray stayed at the Jerome during the making of Where the Buffalo Roam, the loosely biographical Thompson film, the party often continued in Murray's suite long after the bar closed, with a Jerome bartender on hand to run up drinks.
The hotel's second revival began in 1985, thanks to Aspen real estate magnate Dick Butera and his group of investors, who bought the hotel the year before. The Jerome was painstakingly refurbished, with many fixtures restored and others customized to recreate the mine-camp Victorian style of the original hotel. Fireplaces, cherry doors and other interior elements came from an 1891 Victorian mansion in St. Louis. The hotel was once again one of Aspen's premier accommodations.
In 1998 the J-Bar was restored to its original appearance, from 111 years ago, with the help of historical photos.
The Jerome's latest face-lift, in 2002, involved a $6 million refurbishment. Ownership of the hotel has changed hands a couple of times in the past four years, but the commitment to providing topnotch lodging and service hasn't wavered. When he took over as general manager of the hotel in late 2008, Brendan Carlin recalled, "Everyone I ran into gave me their Jerome story. I'm proud to be managing the crown jewel of Aspen."
Egan adds, "It's almost like it's taken on a life of its own throughout the years. It's going to remain an Aspen landmark no matter what people are going to do."
Here's to another 120 years, and many more. For more on the Hotel Jerome, please visit: http://hoteljerome.rockresorts.com/.
1889-First owned by Jerome B. Wheeler, who hosts a grand opening on Thanksgiving eve. Rooms can be had for $3 to $4 per night.
1892-Hotel Jerome is sold to Archie C. Fisk of Denver for $125,000, the largest real estate sale to date in Aspen.
1911-Mansor Elisha, a local businessman selling cigars and stationery, first leases and then buys Hotel Jerome for the amount of the back taxes.
1918-1941-The "Quiet Years" in Aspen. Prominent Aspen couples live at the hotel to save on maintaining large Victorian homes. 1946
Following World War II, Chicago industrialist Walter Paepcke leases the hotel for the next 25 years.
1950s-The hotel becomes a popular watering hole for writers, avant-garde artists and screen stars, including Gary Cooper, Lana Turner, Hedy Lamarr and John Wayne.
1968-John Gilmore of Michigan buys the hotel following the death of Walter Paepcke in 1966.
1984-Hotel Jerome is sold to a group of major investors. They resolve to restore the property to its former grandeur 1986
The Victorian mine-camp flavor of the hotel is painstakingly restored
1998-With the use of 111-year-old photographs, the legendary J-Bar undergoes a face-lift to restore its original luster.
2000-Playboy names the J-Bar one of the "Best Bars in America."
2005-Oklahoma Publishing Company purchases the historic hotel.
2007-Elysian Worldwide and Lodging Capital Partners, both headquartered in Chicago, purchase the hotel and select RockResorts International to manage it.


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Too busy consuming to create
I tweeted earlier today that I've been finding it hard to find things to write about lately because the blogging scene seems to be saturated with so much great content. I've been stuck on the thought that just adding to the noise is pointless, so why do it?
Then it hit me. Matt put it eloquently in reply to my grumbling:
@ow Stop reading for an hour and write it anyway.— Matthew Panzarino (@panzer) April 25, 2013
I'm sure many that are reading this have experienced writers block at some point in their career. With so many great content creators online and such simple ways to surface killer content it's easy to fall into the trap of believing that the thought/opinion that you have has already been voiced (or perhaps that it's not worth voicing in the first place).
It's easy to discard a completely valid opinion that could result in a well orchestrated piece when content creators
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Fiesta ST- it's happening, but for the USA?
what do you think? the mules are testing, and from the looks of the spy photos, the test cars are actually wearing pre-production skin (not just a testbed engine in a normal fiesta chassis)
it won't come here. Not a lot of people around here in the market for a fast fiesta. Plus we just got the Focus ST
Makes no sense since this Fiesta ST would be just like the SVT was.
I'm expecting it to make it here, I'd an 80% chance. We've had the concept in the LA auto show, it's been approved for a lot of markets, they have test mules in Colorado (for high altitude testing), and even though Ford hasn't officially confirmed it, they haven't denied it either. It depends on how the Focus ST sells, if it does well, we should see the Fiesta ST. Keep in mind that we'll get the 5 door of course.
didnt we say this about the focus st a few years ago? and dont we still say this about the rs...?
give i time, it might happen. There is a market for it, its just not too big just yet
The 5dr B299 Fiesta ST will be sold in the US. That info has been released already.
There have been two independent unofficial statements from major players at Ford that the Fiesta ST is coming to the US. Then recently there were the spy pics of a 5 door Fiesta ST doing high altitude testing in Colorado. And one of our folks (NASTOC) spotted a 3 door Fiesta ST being tested at a private/secured location in the Detroit area. That's enough for me to believe that we're going to be getting the Fiesta ST next year sometime. 'bout time Ford!
I want it. so bad. dear LORD< I hope the production model keeps in the interior + exterior close to the prototype demo'd
wow. I will officially be getting it for my wife, but I'm gonna probably want to drive it a lot more than my gti. I ride a lot of motorcycles, so I am drawn to cars even smaller than the golf
My wife fell in love with the Fiesta ST. If it comes out then it will be our next car
Fiesta ST would be sick. At the risk of jinxing it, its really a no brainer for Ford to bring it to the US, considering how well the Focus ST has done so far. Americans are ready for an onslaught of hot hatches. We've been drooling over the Euro options for years, it's time.
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Ospreys Soar Past Gators on Diamond
North Florida (16-12) put across a tying run in the ninth-inning before hitting what would be a game-winning single in the 10th by senior Chad Knight to hand #13 Florida (20-8) an 11-10 setback on Wednesday night at Perry Field. For the Gators, it's their season-high third-straight loss as the teams combined for 32 hits and 21 runs.
Dustin Bamberg, making his initial collegiate start after three relief appearances, gave up four runs in an inning and a third. UNF exploded for five hits in the second and built a 4-0 margin. UNF enjoyed a 19-13 edge in hits.
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Miners Edged At North Texas, 2-1
Oct. 31, 2013
DENTON, Texas – Mackenize German scored her first goal of the year (83') but UTEP's late rally bid fell short in a 2-1 setback at North Texas Thursday. The Mean Green (12-6-1, 6-3-1 C-USA) built a 2-0 lead on goals by Kelsey Hodges (2:18) & Rachel Holden (57:28) and managed to hold on for the victory despite the Miners (12-5-3, 5-3-2 C-USA) enjoying advantages in both shots (15-8) and shots on goal (7-2).
UTEP will put the setback in the rearview mirror and begin preparations for the 2013 C-USA Women's Soccer Championships (Nov. 4-10 hosted by Rice). The Miners have a first-round bye in the event, by virtue of finishing third in the highly-competitive C-USA West Division.
"We were disappointed with the result today, and did not play our best soccer game," UTEP head coach Kevin Cross said. "We will learn from this game, and will be highly motivated for our huge opportunity in the Conference USA tournament on Wednesday. The girls have had a great conference season, and I am very proud of them."
UNT started quickly, with Hodges finishing her own rebound less than three minutes into the contest. The initial try was blocked, and redshirt-freshman GK Keigton Allen was unable to make the stop on the rebound.
UTEP regrouped immediately, firing two shots on goal in the next two minutes. Mean Green GK Haley Riley, who finished with six saves in the contest, turned away a shot from the far left side by German at 2:43 before denying Kenah Linger's blast from the top of the box at 4:10.
The Orange and Blue withstood a couple of corner kicks over the next 15 minutes before rededicating their attack in search of the equalizer. Three chances were wide in the middle of the period while German was denied at 30:19.
There was a very good look on a header by Angela Cutaia on a header at 40:40 but it was off the mark, and a little less than a minute later Azia Nicholson's shot was snatched by Riley.
In the second half the Orange and Blue continued to keep the pressure on, with Riley stopping Cutaia at 48:15.
Neither team was able to sustain much possession over the next few minutes before the Miners had a giveaway that put a dent in their comeback bids. Holden took away a ball at the left endline, and did just enough to have the shot find its way past Allen.
The Miners pushed the ball up the pitch quickly, eager to get a comeback in the works. Alexis Roberts tested Riley from the left side, but she was denied.
In the 66' Holden was issued her second yellow of the match, resulting in her being sent off. The sequence gave UTEP another spark, and it eventually led to German's goal in the 83rd minute.
She took the ball away from a defender, and lobbed it up and over Riley.
The Miners aspired to produce another tally in the waning minutes but UNT did well to prevent any true chances.
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Partners at equity markets advisory firm Makinson Cowell are set to pocket more than £10 million after being bought by accountant KPMG this morning.
It is understood that the four will immediately take home a few million between them, with the rest earned once targets are hit over several years. The company was co-founded in 1989 by John Makinson, who is chairman of both the National Theatre and the new force in international publishing being created out of the merger of Penguin and Random House.
Partners Bob Cowell and Howard Coates will take senior positions at KPMG, leading the team advising companies on how they are perceived by institutional investors and what this means for their shares.
KPMG senior partner Simon Collins said the deal meant he had "fulfilled my original dream". Collins joined the accountant in 1998 to set up a debt-advisory business and he said that adding a capital market consultancy meant that this "rounds up the proposition".
Makinson Cowell claims to have clients whose market value ranges from £200 million to £100 billion. The London-based business also has offices in New York and Paris.
Cowell said: "With KPMG's support, client base and global platform, we will be able to meet the growing demand from current and prospective clients."
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012 | | Display Garden, fall, sensory stimulation, weather, what's blooming, what's colorful, wildlife
Last Friday, after a mostly rainy-drizzly week, Gail and I spent part of a fog-burnt morning surfing the interwebs in the Display Garden. I know spiders are busy this time of year because I have peeled their webs off my face and out of my hair, but as the dewy network was illuminated, it was plain to see that no plant, no span, no airwave is left untraveled. Amazing.
(Click on pictures for a better view.)
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10 December 2010
Battersea Place Retirement Village
LifeCare Residences is planning to start construction next year on its first London retirement village, located on Albert Bridge Road adjoining Battersea Park. "We are excited to be progressing with plans for Battersea Place Retirement Village. We have designed an elegant village with contemporary, high quality finishes and fittings for the London market" says Peter Cotterill, General Manager Operations.
Battersea Place will provide the ultimate in central city retirement living for people seeking an independent lifestyle and will comprise of a range of contemporary one and two bedroom apartments fitted to the most exacting specifications. "Within the village, residents will also enjoy an extensive range of leisure facilities, including a restaurant, bar, lounges, library, cinema, billiards room, gymnasium, swimming pool and spa as well as concierge style services including shopping, meals, cleaning and laundry".
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Listen up, aspiring Internet fraud artists: If you're going to perpetrate a scam, you've got to sell it!
This truism was brought home to me Wednesday when I received two bogus emails. Now, having been online professionally since way back when Yahoo was the darling of Silicon Valley, I just don't fall for phishing scams. Most of us don't.
But every other year or so you still read about someone hopping on a plane to Nigeria to hand over their life savings to a mysterious government official or representative of royalty. So naivete lives on.
Still, scammers, you've got to have some game. Who's going to be persuaded by this email I received shortly after noon?...
Re: Starbucks Coffee GiveawayATTN Facebookers, Starbucks Corporation is giving out holiday gift cards! Rush, Don't waste a minute. Here is webpage http://ibfcdrvd.tumblr.com There only 52 left!
The sender is "Mohammad Al Zgoole," a not particularly believable name. Worse, the email recipient address listed isn't mine, or even close to it. Those are obvious red flags.
But red flags sometimes can be obscured with a little misdirection -- a sales job, lots of realistic-seeming details (for verisimilitude), etc. Mohammad doesn't even try, other than a feeble attempt to induce panic in email recipients that the coffee shop gift card that could be theirs will be gone forever if they don't act right now! Could the stakes be higher?
Now, I know there's a school of thought that poor spelling and other errors in a scam email can lull potential victims into a false sense of security. You know, "These people are so stupid, how could they possibly scam me?" But as a veteran scam target, I find sloppiness to be a turnoff. I only want to deal with competent scammers!
The other suspect email I received Wednesday was a much better effort, though still fatally flawed.
Rejected ACH transfer
The ACH transaction (ID: 2723917770989), recently initiated from your checking account (by you or any other person), was rejected by the other financial institution.
Canceled transfer
Transaction ID: 2723917770989
Reason of rejection See details in the report below
Transaction Report report_2723917770989.doc (Microsoft Word Document)
About NACHA
The NACHA Operating Rules provide the legal foundation for the exchange of ACH payments and ensure that the ACH Network remains efficient, reliable, and secure for the benefit of all participants. In its role as Network administrator, NACHA manages the rulemaking process and ensures that proposed ACH applications are consistent with the Guiding Principles of the ACH Network. The rulemaking process provides a disciplined, well-defined methodology to propose and develop and propose rules amendments to the NACHA voting membership, the decision makers for the NACHA Operating Rules.Established in 1974, NACHA �The Electronic Payments Association was formed by the California ACH Association, the Georgia Association, the New England ACH Association, and the Upper Midwest ACH Association, to establish uniform operating rules for the exchange of Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments among ACH associations.
This scammer is doing much more right than Mohammad the Starbuck's clod. First, he's appealing to a much higher-level fear: Potential personal-finance problems.
Second, he's got great details: A long transaction ID, an attached Word document report, and an explanation of NACHA, including lots of mission boilerplate and an organization history. Very official!
What really makes it seem official, though, is the fact that there actually is a NACHA. Here's the association's website. And here's its warning about the NACHA email phishing scam.
But do a simple Google search on "NACHA" and most of the top returns are about this email scam, which apparently has been kicking around since at least last March.
Even without doing a Google check, though, my suspicion was aroused by the sender's email address -- firstname.lastname@example.com. Hardly a NACHA-approved email address!
Needless to say, I didn't visit Mohammad's tumblr page, nor did I open the Word attachment from "NACHA." The vast majority of people who receive these emails don't. But some do, and that's why we'll continue to see them.


text: Kaya Scodelario, Joe Dempsie, Rory Kinnear, Eddie Marsan to star in C4 drama Southcliffe Four-parter about a small-town shooting to be Martha Marcy May Marlene director Sean Durkin's first UK television work Comments Written By Jack Seale 11:35 AM, 28 September 2012 Skins stars Joe Dempsie and Kaya Scodelario, Black Mirror's Rory Kinnear and acclaimed actor Eddie Marsan (Vera Drake, Tyrannosaur) are among a strong cast that's been announced for new Channel 4 drama Southcliffe. The four-parter, to be shown next year, explores the fallout from a series of shootings that take place in a single day in a fictional English market town. Bafta-winning actress Shirley Henderson (Trainspotting, Anna Karenina) is also in the drama's ensemble cast, along with Sean Harris (Prometheus), Anatol Yusef (Boardwalk Empire) and Nichola Burley (Wuthering Heights). Southcliffe is written by Tony Grisoni (Red Riding), produced by Derrin Schlesinger (Four Lions) for Warp Films, and will be the first UK television project for Sean Durkin, director of the 2011 independent US film Martha Marcy May Marlene. "Southcliffe is a fictional market town inhabited by fictional characters, but with similarities to many actual people and places in Britain today," Grisoni said. "Invisible people, anonymous places. The inexplicable chain of events at the dark heart of this four-part drama shatters time and space for Southcliffe's inhabitants. Violence and sudden bereavement confronts them with emotions they are unequipped to understand. Rather than analyse or moralise about our characters' actions, we share in them. Southcliffe is an anthem to ordinary people's ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness." Channel 4 head of drama Piers Wenger added: "Tony Grisoni's unique ability to convey the darkness and subtleties of human behaviour is in full evidence in these four brilliant scripts, and I'm delighted that Warp Films and Tony have found a world class director like Sean Durkin to bring them to life." Like this? Share it. Facebook Twitter Google Tumblr Pinterest Blogger Reddit VKontakt Print Email


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Get the smoke smell out
I just acquired an original 1930 Ford that had a small fire inside the car. I have cleaned the car but I'm still smelling the burn. Not sure what burned. All the wiring was removed along with the door panels and headliner. A friend told me he heard that "an ion treatment" will remove the smell. What is an ion treatment? Any ideas or suggestions?
Smoke leaves a sticky film on everything..soo it is scrub scrub scrub to get that film off..it is probably in the interior cavities as well..Sorry for your pain..:pain:
It is done with an "Ion generator". I have one that I used to use regularly back in the seventies..
It is a unit about the size of a battery charger. It emits an odor similar to the smell of a high voltage electric dyno.
Back in the day, I used to buy lightly burned or dead body smell cars. Remember the old tale of nothing removing dead body/corpse smells? It's a load of B S and this unit, along with a thorough cleaning with Tri-sodium phosphate (TSP), will remove all traces of odors.
The unit is heII on rubber parts. So they have to be removed/protected.
At the time I was the only one in northern Michigan with a unit. You may try an established, well equiped automotive trim shop or detail shop.
Thanks. I'll start looking for a source.
I had to clean some items that were smoke damaged, I tried everything and finally used some Westley's tire cleaner. The Westley's work the best, you will see the smoke wash away. The Westley's has a mild acid in it so try to keep it off your hands.
A search of Ionizers bring up everything for $11 to 109, can't believe any of these at that price are any good.
Do you guys have a model number? Also we have a section at work where I allow the guys to smoke and the stuff creeps everywhere and was wondering if these units would work out in an open area by the smoking table??
Also known as ozone generators My unit is a very old equiv of model PT109a Ozone Generators or try these guys Ozone Generator Testimonials - Air-Zone Ozone Generators
Thank you Bob, I just ordered the Pro-4, looks like that will work great in the smoking area.
We use the best HEPTA air and heat filters we can buy and we change them once a week throughout the plant but sometimes you walk in the offices in the morning and it smells like a bar and that may only happen once or twice a month, why I have no clue, as the areas are all on separate heating and air systems.
Hopefully, this will take care of the problem at the source as we will park it by the table and leave it running all the time.
Thanks again Bob!
Around here the rental stores carry them they refer to them as ozone generators.
This unit is set for delivery Tomorrow, will let you know how it works.
Another note, My mom in FL has a 2001 PT Cruiser with 27,000 miles and is perfect she is selling, One of my employees is going to buy it for his wife and like I told him, the only thing wrong with this car is the windows have never been down and it smells like a smoke factory.
So I'm thinking this unit will fix this problem, when we get the car here.
I have a ozone generator and they work well. I know guy's that use them when remodeling after a house fire. just don't expose yourself to it for a long period it will dry out your mucus membranes in your eyes and lungs.
I used to work as a porter on a car lot for four years and we would run our used units accross to the new side of the dealership and have an ozone machine ran inside for a while to remove bad cigarette odors out of the vehicles. The ac fan was turned on also to circulate the ionized air in the vehicle. The machine produced an odor similar to that of bleach. The odor of smoke left the vehicle and so did the smell from ionized air.
Ozone machines can dry your sinus and mucous membranes so dont breath the air in the vehicle for a little while after the machine has been ran in it.
This unit came in after I left yesterday, so set it up this morning, the unit is suppose to do about 3400 square feet and it is set up in a section that is about 8000.
With in 60 minutes and 3-6 guys puffing away on and off at the table you could not smell any smoke at all.
Even the worst critic walled out there and for the first time sat at the table with the guys to BS.
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HI All,
This is my first post so please be gentle :)
I am about to take delivery of a 61 plate (2011) BMW 320i M-Sport. I am trying to find out if this version has i-Drive fitted?
I am also confused about the model numbers (E90, E91...etc)...which version does my 2011 car fall under?
Can any one shed any light on my question....if possible.
Toby :thumbup:
Not sure if you can tell if iDrive is fitted without the VIN. If you know the VIN, there is a web site you can use to check the build sheet which will show you everything (on phone and don't have the URL handy).
The Entwicklung code (e-code) is a body style designator. E90 is a sedan, E91 is the touring (wagon), E92 is the coupe, and E93 is the cabriolet. Note that the Entwicklung code won't differentiate between engine models/lines, i.e. an E92 is a coupe, but could be a 328i or 335i.
Cheers Andrew,
I will see if I can get the VIN from the company.
If I can get it how can I check it? Is there a source to look up VIN codes on the net?
Yes, there is a place on the web. Am at a PC now and have the URL. All you need is the last 7 digits of the VIN, then go to this page:
Enter the last seven digits, do the simple math question, and it will provide you with the complete build sheet.
Oh, and welcome to the 'fest!
It is a cool site, but using any tool off a website based in Russia gives me the willies.
Toby, welcome! We're seeing more UK posters in the last few months.
There's an E9x Wiki way up on the center right side of the Bimmerfest banner. Take a look way up on the top line.
But it checks out, and they really don't get anything but the last seven of your VIN. I believe it is a Russioin BMW dealer's page.
Here's another vin site if the Russia site concerns you http://bmwvin.com/
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After a 5 hour ride on a bullet train we made it to Beijing! We arrived at our hotel around midnight on the 8th and went right to bed seeing as we had to be up in a few hours to climb the Great Wall.
We woke up early on the 9th and drove two and a half hours away to the outskirts of the city to see the Wall. We were all so amazed that we were given the opportunity to see such a famous site. It took us about two hours to climb up and down the wall and to see all the great views. It was definitely harder than the football stadiums that Jian Li makes us run back in Reno. Although we took many breaks to catch our breath and take pictures, we finally made it. At the top of the Wall it was well below freezing temperatures (Celcius). We were bundled up in scarves, hats, winter jackets, as well as gloves and boots. The river below the Wall was completely frozen over!
After making it back to downtown Beijing we rested up at the hotel for our next big day.
Today, (Jan 10) we got to see the famous Water Cube, Tiananmen Square, and the Forbidden City. The Water Cube was the site of the 2008 Beijing Olympics for swimming and diving. Ever since the day we watched the 2008 Olympics we have all been wanting to visit the Cube. Grace had already competed there for Olympic trials so she had seen it however, the rest of us stood in amazement once entering the facility. It was very beautiful and looked just as it had on TV.
After the Water Cube we got to visit Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City. It was very interesting to see Tiananmen Square and to learn more about the history of why it is so famous. We learned that in 1989 many students were protesting their freedom to learn more outside the education they were given. Mao Tse Tung, the leader of China, wanted students to strictly learn about everything about their country, however some students felt that they wanted to learn more outside of their land. Mao Tse Tung did not agree with the protestors and had them killed in Tiananmen Square. It was very interesting to not only learn more about it, but to actually see the site in person.
Next to Tiananmen Square is the Forbidden City. This is where are all the Emperors, Empresses, Kings, and servants had lived centuries ago. The buildings and artwork were beautiful. We were all amazed that it was entirely handcrafted many thousands of years ago.
After all of our site seeing, we went back to the hotel for a little bit before getting to meet the Chinese National Team. Normally foreign countries that come to China to dive never have the opportunity to meet or to watch the team because of private practices, however since Jian Li is best friends with the head of Chinese diving we were able to watch the practice and get to meet many Olympic gold medalists. We definitely considered this one of the highlights of the trip.
After seeing how the Chinese practice, we now know where Jian Li gets all of her coaching skills and ideas from! It was very cool to see that. Jian Li told us that the dryland facilities in China are the best in the world, and we now fully understand why the Chinese are at the top around the world in diving. It was very inspiring to see such high level athletes. Generally we only get to see them on TV however meeting them in person was an experience that you could never put a price on.
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Hugh Cholmondeley
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|Saint Oswald's Church, Malpas, Cheshire, England
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Hugh Cholmondeley (soldier)
Sir Hugh Cholmondeley (1513 – 6 January 1596) was an English soldier.
Cholmondeley was the second son of Richard Cholmondeley (not to be confused with a cousin, Richard Cholmondeley) and Elizabeth Brereton. The Cholmondeley family had held the lordship of Cholmondeley in Cheshire since the time of the Norman conquest. He succeeded his elder brother who died in 1539.
He fought against the Scots in 1542 and for this he was knighted by King Henry VIII. In 1557 he raised one hundred men at his own expense and joined the Earl of Derby in his expedition against an invading Scottish army. Apart from his military career he was also High Sheriff (six times) and Deputy Lieutenant of Cheshire and High Sheriff of Flintshire (1582).
Cholmondeley married twice: firstly heiress Ann Dorman, daughter of George Dorman of Malpas and mother of his children and secondly Mary, daughter of Sir William Griffith and widow of Sir Randall Brereton of Malpas. Cholmondeley died in January 1596 and was buried at Malpas. He was succeeded by his son Sir Hugh Cholmondeley the younger, MP for Cheshire in 1585, knighted in 1588 and High Sheriff of Cheshire for 1589.
Sir Hugh the younger (1552-1601) married Mary Holford and had five sons and three daughters. Their eldest son Robert was created Earl of Leinster in 1646; another son, Hugh, was the ancestor of the Marquesses of Cholmondeley; while yet another son, Thomas, was the ancestor of the Barons Delamere. His wife Lady Cholmondeley gained fame in her own right for her lawsuit against her uncle George Holford over the inheritance of her father's estates.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Cholmondeley_(soldier)
- CHOLMLEY (CHOLMONDELEY), Sir Hugh (by 1513-97), of Cholmondeley, Cheshire.
- b. by 1513, 2nd s. of Richard Cholmley (d.1517/18) of Cholmondeley by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Randall Brereton of Malpas; bro. of Ralph. m. (1) Amy or Anne (d.1571), da. of Sir George Darman or Dorman of Malpas, 3s. inc. Hugh† 1da., (2) Mary, da. of Sir William Gruffydd of Penrhyn, Caern., wid. of Sir Randall Brereton of Malpas, s.p. suc. bro. 1539. Kntd. 11 May 1544.2
- Offices Held
- Commr. musters, Cheshire 1544, 1569, 1570, Denb. 1550, chantries, Cheshire, Lancs. and Chester 1548, relief, Salop and Cheshire 1550, goods of churches and fraternities, Cheshire 1553, eccles. causes, diocese of Chester 1562, piracy, Cheshire 1565; other commissions 1570-86; j.p. Cheshire 1547, q. by 1562, Salop 1582; sheriff, Cheshire 1547-8, 1554-5, 1565-6, 1572-3, 1588-9, Flints. 1582-3; member, council in marches of Wales 1560, v.-pres. 1569-71; dep. lt. Cheshire 1569, 1585, 1587; custos rot. 1579-d.3
- Cholmley had a long, but colourless career; little of a personal nature has come down about him and most of the other references to him are workaday. He was a second son but his elder brother died childless in 1539 leaving him the inheritance when he was in his mid twenties. Called upon in 1544 to supply 50 men (only two of his neighbours had to furnish more) for the Scottish war, he himself commanded double that number and so bore himself during the attacks on Edinburgh and Leith that he was among those knighted at Leith by Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford.4
- When he was preparing to set out for the north in March 1544 Cholmley had written to Hertford's right-hand man John Thynne, who was already at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 'if you lie upon a bottle of hay that you will be content to let me have part with you like as it hath pleased you to do all times when we have been together'. How and when the friendship between the two had originated can only be guessed at: Thynne's family home at Church Stretton in Shropshire was perhaps too far from Cholmondeley for it to have begun in their boyhood and no other early connexion between them has been found. For Cholmley to have known Thynne thus well, however, could have contributed towards his return for the shire to the Parliament of 1547, especially if, as is likely, his election was followed almost immediately by his being pricked sheriff: true, he belonged to the small group of leading gentlemen who claimed the knighthood of the shire in turn, but nearly all of them had also served with Hertford in Scotland and they may have been content to take their lead from him. Of Cholmley's part in the proceedings of this Parliament nothing is known, but since it was to be the only one he attended in the course of a long life he perhaps neither took to the Commons nor made any mark there.5
- Outside Parliament Cholmley was to render the crown lengthy and varied service. In 1557 he renewed his experience of border warfare by joining the army led against the Scots by the 3rd Earl of Derby. Under Elizabeth he became a member of the council in the marches, of which he was made vice-president in 1569 when (Sir) Henry Sidney went to Ireland: he was discharged from the council after 1571 but reinstated in 1575, and according to the council's historian 'there is no evidence that he played any very remarkable part in its history'. A like passivity seems to have characterized his religious outlook: having evidently conformed under both Edward VI and Mary, he was reported by his bishop in 1564 to adhere to the Anglican settlement, and 15 years later his religious disposition drew the comment, 'No man knoweth, but obedient'. After his son and namesake's knighting in 1587 it becomes difficult to distinguish between the two, but in view of the father's age it was probably the son who was discharging the duties then associated with the name. The father's monumental inscription in Malpas church, however, makes it clear that it was he who was once again pricked sheriff in 1588. Cholmley was well into his eighties when he died at his home on 16 Jan. 1597.6
- From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/cholmley-%28cholmondeley%29-sir-hugh-1513-97
- Sir Hugh Cholmondeley1
- M, #216572, d. 1577/78
- Last Edited=13 Mar 2007
- Sir Hugh Cholmondeley was the son of Richard Cholmondely and Elizabeth (?).2,3 He married Anne Dorman, daughter of George Dorman.1 He died in 1577/78.1
- He held the office of Sheriff of Cheshire.3 He held the office of Sheriff of Flintshire.3 He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) of Cheshire.3
- Child of Sir Hugh Cholmondeley and Anne Dorman
- 1.Sir Hugh Cholmondeley+1 b. 1513, d. 23 Jul 1601
- Citations
- 1.[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume III, page 200. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
- 2.[S37] BP2003 See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
- From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p21658.htm#i216572
- CHOLMONDELEY, Hugh (1552-1601), of Cholmondeley, Cheshire.
- b. 1552, 1st s. of Sir Hugh Cholmondeley† of Cholmondeley and Malpas by Anne or Amy, da. of George Darman or Dorman of Malpas. m. Mary (d. 15 Aug. 1625), da. of Christopher Holford of Holford, 4s. inc. Robert 3da. Kntd. 1587; suc. fa. 1597.
- From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/cholmondeley-hugh-1552-1601
- Sir Hugh Cholmondeley
- M, #44552, b. 1514, d. 6 January 1596
- Father Richard Cholmondeley, Esq. d. 1518
- Mother Eleanor Dutton
- Sir Hugh Cholmondeley was born in 1514 at of Cholmondeley, Cheshire, England. He married Anne Dorman, daughter of Sir George Dorman and Agnes Hill, circa 1550. Sir Hugh Cholmondeley died on 6 January 1596; Buried 31 Jan 1596 at Malpas, Cheshire.
- Family Anne Dorman
- Child
- Sir Hugh Cholmondeley, Sheriff of Cheshire+ b. 1552, d. 23 Jul 1601
- From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1482.htm#i44552
Sir Hugh Cholmondeley's Timeline
Age 40
Malpas, Cheshire, England
Age 42
Chester, Cheshire, England
January 6, 1596
Age 84
Saint Oswald's Church, Malpas, Cheshire, England


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It wasn't enough that the Cubs drastically underachieved in 2005 and missed the playoffs, fans had to endure the dreaded St. Louis Cardinals celebrating a division championship with champagne and beer at Wrigley Field. They also had to endure their cross-town rival Chicago White Sox celebrating their own division championship. They had to deal with local razzing from all the South Siders who decided to come out of the woodwork and jump right aboard that White Sox fair-weathered bandwagon. And they had to hide from Cardinals fans looking to boast yet another division championship.
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That brings us to the 2005 Major League Baseball Playoffs. The suffering for these Cubs fans continues, long after the season has ended. And it is far from over. There are two major baseball depressions brewing in the League Championship Series. The first depression is quickly picking up momentum and has taken the form of a steamrolling White Sox team. The ChiSox took it to the defending World Champions, sweeping the Boston Red Sox and their foolish, repeat-thinking fans right out of the American League Division Series. The second depression appears to build up strength, give the false sense that it is weakening, and then intensifies. It does this over and over again, and it has taken the form of none other than the St. Louis Cardinals, who swept the San Diego Padres on their route to the NLCS.
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Last season, Cubs fans at least got to cheer for the Boston Red Sox against the Cardinals. But a White Sox and Cardinals match up would mean they would have to either not watch the series at all or quietly cheer for the team they wanted to lose least. Many baseball fans were forced with a similar decision in choosing a team to root for in the 2000 World Series when the infamous "Subway Series" pitted the New York Yankees against the New York Mets. But Cubs fans would tell you that choosing a team in that series was like choosing between a Bud Light and a Miller Lite… compared, that is, to the choice of jumping off the Sears Tower or lying down in the middle of the Dan Ryan Expressway, which is what choosing between the Cards and Sox could be compared to.
Yes, misery loves company. And if anyone knows misery, Cubs fans do. They might have their fun at games and enjoy their team, but when it comes down to it, they don't want anyone in their vicinity to win if they can't win. They don't want White Sox fans happy if they can't be happy, and they surely don't want Cardinals fans happy. Just the thought of one of those clubs' fans being able to hold a recent World Championship over them is a complete nightmare. And if Murphy comes to fruition and takes aim at Cubdom, that nightmare is going to come to life.
So as the LCS get going, Cubs fans will be hoping the weathermen, a.k.a. the sports analysts, are all wrong. And they'll do so while rooting for two teams: the Houston Astros and the Los Angeles Angels. For these battered fans, the perfect World Series would be a PG-rated show on Fox, full of references to Disney characters and Minute Maid juice boxes. Yes, they're hoping, praying that the perfect storm called Murphy dissipates in the LCS. But if the law the storm is named after holds true, Cubs fans are in trouble and should start evacuating now.
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Tennessee safety Eric Berry has his seat reserved for a return to The Home Depot ESPNU College Football Awards show from Disney World near Orlando.
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Berry also is a finalist for the Bronko Nagurski Trophy, given by the Football Writers Association of America and the Charlotte Touchdown Club to the nation's top overall defensive player. This year's dinner is the night of Dec. 7 from Charlotte's Westin Hotel.
Berry was a finalist for last year's Thorpe Award en route to making every major All-America team. This season, the Vols star has played a different role on Monte Kiffin's defense yet still leads his team in defensive big plays with 16. He has two interceptions for seven yards, three fumble returns for 48 yards, leads in special teams tackles with 13 and twice has been named Lott Trophy National Defensive Player of the Week.
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Ok so i have given my st 170 a rest and she drives once every two weeks since i bought my self a fiesta st 150 bhp ,the car now feels super lazy ,it throws cell code imrc stuck open ,well i got a mate to start the car and the clip moves forward and returns to its original position so i guess the imrc does work alto if i jus turn the key without starting ,theres no movement , im sure its high time for a tune ,i have also read that the DSI controll can be altered via a tune for it to kick in at around 2.5k compared to the 5k ,what difference will this make ,im ready financially for a tune , i plugged in the sct 9600 and it gave me thisvehicle strategy code ujaha s2 ,i cannot find any other codes on the ecu ,help pleeez , btw if i had to ziptie the imrc on the short runners permanently ,wot will be the effect ,thanks guys
So, are you asking about tunes for your ST170?
There is a gentleman here under the name 1TurboFocus (Turbo Tom) that tunes the MK1 Zetec / Duratec engines.
You can find him here and get some answers to possibly remote tune your ride.
CLICK HERE - > To visit Turbo Tom's area on the site.
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When you strt the SVT is the IMRC doesnt go forward and stay then there is something wrong
Tom whats the between wideband and tuning using the xcal 3 , how aggressive of a tune can the st 170 handle without hurting the motor ,do i need to supply you with a dyno sheet before you write a map or is it one map fits all , wot do you need for us to get started besides the dollars lol , my understanding of you writing a custom map for my car ,you will first have to knw how the car is performing etc before you write a map ,sorry for all the noob questions
I would send you a base tune , then we would datalog and make your tune a full custom tune to your car
I do not do aggressive tunes , I do safe tunes first then look for better driveability then performnce
I would need to mail you a xcal or if you have a flasher email you a base tune file
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The factory in Lawrence, Mass., was supposed to be an ordinary harvest. They'd heard of the shuttered plant through a woman at a cocktail party whose late father had worked there. Once upon a time, it had been inhabited by the Dillon Machine Co., a firm founded in 1890 to produce paper-milling equipment. Now its owners were liquidating everything inside, and for $5,000, Carter Anderson and Glen Stone could take whatever they wanted.
The two men did this often — visiting old, shuttered factories, salvaging what they could and turning it into new furniture. When they arrived, the milling machines were gone, sold already to another buyer who would either repurpose them or break them down for parts. Hardly a surprise, except that virtually everything else had been left untouched.
"People have usually gone into these factories they've liquidated," says Stone. "We might find old cabinets or a few pieces of old machinery. But this one just had everything in it. The offices were still intact. The infirmary was still there, with the bed set up, doctor's tools, medicine cabinets with medicine in them."
Then Stone and Anderson found their way to the basement.
Filling the room were tens of thousands of meticulously hand-drawn blueprints tucked away in imposing wooden cabinets. "Beautiful" didn't do them justice. The designs, for a set of giant paper-making machines, hadn't been touched for decades. It seemed too much of a waste to leave them; the factory owners wanted nothing to do with the plant any longer. So Anderson and Stone loaded them into a 53-foot tractor trailer along with their real prize — the plant's abandoned furniture — and brought much of the cache back to their warehouse in Alexandria.
If tech blogs had been around in 1890, this is what they would've written about.
Somebody actually drew these!
The designs mostly describe a product sold by Dillon Machine called the Jordan. Looking at it on paper, nearly a century later, you can almost watch the wheels turning, the chains clanking, everything a perfectly choreographed series of well-oiled motions.
Some of the oldest blueprints were preserved on a cloth-like paper whose fibers were plainly visible.
Others showed signs of erasure where somebody made a mistake.
Still others bore hand-scribbled notes, like "Changed like this when we made base larger."
The ones Anderson showed me were drawn in the 1930s. There are blueprints I didn't see that are even older.
This is what the Jordan looked like: The jagged lines in the middle denote sharp metal blades that churned pulp. Along with the blueprints, Anderson and Stone recovered both a person-sized mold of the Jordan and a miniature model that was used in the company's patent application.
Occasionally, another contraption would make an appearance.
Everything was drawn to exacting specifications. There were no photocopiers then.
What makes these artifacts of another age so remarkable isn't just the clear evidence of craftsmanship, but how easily an observer from the 21st century can intuit how the contraptions were meant to work. Cogs and gears and ratchets are instantly comprehensible in a way that even our most common gadgets today are not. Our cars are essentially giant rolling computers. Our smartphones are magical bricks. If an alien visited Earth long after we'd gone and picked up a mobile phone, it would have no idea what to do with it. Our technology is as sophisticated as it's ever been — but it's also more opaque than it used to be.
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Anderson is a cross between an antique collector and an artisan. He's filled half his warehouse with cast-iron frames, creaky metal lockers and bowling-alley floorboards. Some of it dates to the 19th century. All of it is destined to become furniture.
Desks and coffee tables might not sound like they have a lot to do with technology. Indeed, for much of the '80s and '90s people like Stone and Anderson were restoring quaint old country-style beds and dressers in a fashion known as shabby chic. But the country's transition to an information economy has turned the last 15 years into a massive race to find the remnants of America's industrial heritage.
"Everyone's fighting over the skeletons of the Industrial Revolution," says Anderson. "In 10 years, it'll all be gone. ... Ninety percent of it will be scrapped or sent overseas."
For the reclaimed-furniture industry, it's as much a competition against the clock as it is a fight among craftsmen. Ironically, the pressure is only likely to grow as some companies begin moving manufacturing jobs back to the United States. That's because the kind of work these companies do — assembling Apple's Mac Pro, for instance, or Google Glass — isn't the type of manufacturing that defined much of the 20th century. Still other companies are dumping their old equipment on the market simply because they're doing well and need to expand. Anderson helped relieve Hershey, the candy company, of machinery that it didn't plan to relocate to a new factory it had built in Pennsylvania last year.
Anderson has an encyclopedic familiarity with the goods he often finds in factories around the country. He points out a greenish set of lockers to me.
"They only made furniture with this handle for about 10 years, from 1920 to 1930," he says. How does he know that? "I've been doing this for 25 years. And I talk to a lot of old guys."
In an indication of our appetite for economic origin stories, Stone and Anderson's eight-man company, Carbon Industrial, does around $1 million in sales every year. The refurbished products rarely look anything like the crumbling factories they came from. The metal is practically reflective; the wood is golden. Yet there's no mistaking it — the stuff has clearly arrived from another time.
Anderson still isn't sure what to do with the blueprints he and Stone recovered in Lawrence weeks ago. He's considering donating them to a museum. Unlike cast-iron baseplates and old steel rods, you can't turn paper into a kitchen island.


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Flickr is still my favorite site, hands down. There is no other website on earth that does it for me quite like the fantastic images that I discover in the many photo streams there.
I think it's important to use our time wisely, even when it comes to mundane pursuits and what others may consider "time suckers" when referring to hobbies involving entertainment – like watching movies, television, surfing the web, etc. I have to defend this by saying that to me, it's not a time sucker if it's productive in even a small way. If you're parked in front of television, glazing over as you half watch a program, that's a bit of a waste. One would be better using their time sleeping as that is at least repairing the body! But if you are watching a program that, when you walk away from it, leaves you feeling energized and refreshed, then that's positive, and that is using free time wisely. Sure, we can't over-analyze everything we do because that's no fun. But if we are devoting considerable time to something, it's good to ask whether or not it really is refreshing or is it simply a time sucker, energy sucker, and altogether draining. This spans everything, from friendships to hobbies, even career, but I'm focusing more on websites and the time spent online. And this leads me back to Flickr.
On Flickr, I see people living life. Tons of images showing families spending time together, great food shots from devoted cooks and newbie chefs trying out a recipe for the first time. Pet photos, images of handmade crafts (lots of soft toys!), and travel shots that will take your breathe away. It's also fun to peek inside the homes of others, even to look at the self portraits people snap of well, themselves. When I look at all of these images from my nearly 1,300 contacts, I walk away feeling like a new standard for living has been set.
It's not about just accepting what we've been given. It's about being more.
To borrow from the army, Be All That You Can Be. I like that expression. I walk away from Flickr feeling inspired to bake more, plant more, and just be a little more than I may be today. Not in a do-it-or-die self-promoting way, but in a let's take it up a notch way. This is what I call finding refreshment from the whole online experience. For me, it's through the blogs I read and the lovely Flickr site.
Your turn. What are your thoughts on this? Do you have Flickr favorites that you would like to link to in the comments below? Go for it!
I have to mention that this post is a result of a lovely conversation that Marisa and I had today. She is wonderful. :)
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"So much of the response protocols that we have are really sort of consensus documents by experts, and we anticipate that in an actual event we will do a lot of learning on what are, in fact, the best responses to make," Mastrangelo said. "If this rapid learning goes on, then what's necessary is to rapidly disseminate that information across the country, and the only way you can do that is with modern computing and telecommunications equipment."
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The network is built with industry standard technology as opposed to "proprietary architectures designed specifically for this purpose," said Bryan Wood, vice president and general manager of Dell's government segment. "That really brings a number of benefits, not the least of which are the rapid ability to scale and the reliability - and perhaps more importantly, it's cost effective and efficient."
Adherence to industry standards also points to future interoperability, Mastrangelo said. "Off-the-shelf technology meets the needs for fast deployment. Industry-standard technology means that as we bring on new partners, interoperability of equipment will be more likely. We need to build on the base of the health network to include more partners to assure continuity of operations during a national emergency and to build reliability into the system."
Ultimately, Texas officials want the network to facilitate communication not only with e-mail and faxes, but also through wireless devices such as cell phones, pagers and PDAs, enabling health officials across the state to analyze data more quickly.
Of course, achieving that vision will demand more funding.
"What we're facing now is we need to convince our political leadership that we can take advantage of this tremendous infrastructure by tying it all together logically and getting a real jump start in that connectivity with hospitals," said Wayne Farrell, district director of the Bell County Public Health District.
So far, the network has taken advantage of a $52 million grant the state received through the CDC. In addition, five local health departments recently received $800,000 each from the Texas Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund Board. But as far as the connectivity some officials envision for the future, the case has yet to be made.
"We're doing the best we can to educate some of our state leadership to work toward that goal," Farrell said. "The shortfall that we have right now is the local connectivity to law enforcement, and at this point we can't really identify a funding mechanism to bring on those local law enforcement agencies."
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These days, with the barriers to entering the business world lower than ever, countless companies are getting their start not in a boardroom but in the dorm rooms of their business-minded founders. Getting started in college doesn't mean you're going to be a success, mind you: As with traditional businesses, most dorm-based businesses fail, says Ryan Caldwell, an online entrepreneur who runs College-Startup.com.
However, "the ones who are patient enough, and are willing to improve themselves, are the ones that most commonly succeed," says Caldwell, who has built more than 20 profitable websites since college, including PopCrunch and TheBestCollege.org.
We asked Caldwell for his tips for finding success running a college-based startup.
- Make schoolwork a priority.
Caldwell has met plenty of students who skip classes and homework to focus on their business. "That's really the wrong way to go about it," he says. "Because sooner or later, when the euphoria of a new project settles down, it's easy to feel overwhelmed with sagging academic performance combined with the reality of a whole lot of hard work ahead of you." Plus, in case that business fails, you don't want to lose your scholarship or flunk out of school.
- Identify your unique selling point.
Many college students have grandiose ideas about creating the next Facebook. Hey, why not aim high? But realistically, you don't have to create something radically different to be successful. "The purpose of a business is to make money," says Caldwell, "and there are many ways to just slightly improve upon services and products that already exist and are proven money makers. The only job you'll have is to identify the one thing that will make your services and products stand out from your competitors." If you can do that, then you're well on your way to success.
- Think outside your dorm room.
A few successful startups like Facebook and DormAid (also created by Harvard students) cater to college students. But as Caldwell points out, students tend not to be flush with cash, so they may not make for the best customers. He says the best startups right now are internet-based businesses "because the market is so large. Sure, the competition can be fierce, but because the market is so large (assuming you target a large enough swath of the population), all you need is a small chunk of the pie to become quite wealthy." As long as you have a professional-looking website, your customer may not know (or care) that you're still in college.
- Enjoy the freedom to fail.
One advantage that most college students have over other business owners is that they can afford to fail. As Caldwell says, "You aren't hinging your entire well-being on the success. You will be exposed to more ideas during college than at any other time in your life. And this can really spark the creative juices." Even if your business doesn't take off, you'll gain some valuable experiences in the process: the kind of real-world business lessons you can't get from a textbook or classroom.
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Platts, a leader of the Maine Green Independent Party, responded with understandable frustration on Wednesday, describing the move as "legal shenanigans" and issuing a statement saying, "I once worked in the Democratic Party, for candidates like Dennis Kucinich. I left the Democratic Party because I saw disgusting skulduggery like this all the time. They're so afraid they'll lose if voters hear from young working class candidates with real world experience and proven, real-world policy solutions, that they are willing to use their lawyers to deny voter choice by keeping folks like me off the ballot. I was attracted to the Green Party because they have long advocated for more democracy, more citizen participation, and more choices at the ballot box — not limiting choice for voters, like I have seen the Democratic Party do using legal maneuvering, over and over."
In an email from Rachel Irwin, communications director for the Maine Democratic Party, Irwin wrote, "Based on the information available, Asher Platts did not meet the requirements for ballot access as set forth by the Secretary of State. The law is the law and this filing rule applies to all candidates, including Platts."
Just a few hours later, Trundy, who worked for the Maine Democratic Party for several years before 2010, decided to drop the challenge. In a statement issued by the Maine Democratic Party, Trundy said, "Information has come to light that Asher Platts has enough signatures to qualify for the ballot, for that reason and given this new information, I'm withdrawing my request."
So in the end it boiled down to free press for Platts and pettiness for the Maine Democratic Party.
John Eder, Platts' campaign manager (full disclosure — he also helped me out in my campaign for city council this past fall), reacted to Trundy's revocation, "I'm sure the Dems realized they were giving Asher press so they decided to just drop it."
Eder continued, "The Dems said they were 'surprised' by our strong reaction to their attempt to kick our candidate off the ballot after a couple hundred hours of hard work by unpaid volunteers to get him there. That type of activity is so commonplace for them, that they don't even realize how bad or ugly it looks to voters to use lawyers to block the democratic process. They're so steeped in the muck that they just don't get it. That's one difference between us Greens and the other two parties, we'd never do that. We respect the democratic process and we want to use it for good — not evil. I mean geez, get out of Mordor once and a while!"
I'll admit, I had to Google the Mordor reference (think "Lord of the Rings"), but Eder makes a good point. The amount of time and effort that it takes for a Green Party candidate to get on the ballot — for a seat in the state legislature, for a statewide position such as governor, or for a Congressional seat — is exponentially more daunting than the work that a candidate for the Democratic or Republican party must put in.
This is because, for some reason that I can't explain without sounding like a conspiracy theorist, Maine has some of the most difficult stipulations for getting on the ballot in the entire country. But regardless of the Maine rules, Democrats and Republicans never have any trouble getting on the ballot. This is partially due to the fact that each major party is extremely well funded and strategically organized, but more due to the fact that petition signatures for nomination of candidates running as a member of a party (meaning everyone except Independents) must come from voters registered in the same party as the candidate.
Sounds simple enough, right? Wrong.
In a call to Tom MacMillan, a Green Party candidate running for state representative out of Portland's District 38 who also is the current chairman of the Portland Green Independent Committee, he said, "Greens have always had trouble collecting enough signatures because we have to get the same number as Democrats and Republicans even though we have a much smaller base to collect those signatures from. So it ends up where a Green state representative candidate has to spend weeks of concerted effort to go get signatures in the middle of winter just to get on the ballot. On the other hand, a Democrat or Republican can usually get all of their signatures in a day or two. So in Maine the way it breaks down is, if you're not in one of the two major parties you've got to either be independently wealthy and able to hire paid collectors or you've got to devote an absurd amount of time to get them on your own."
I asked him if he thinks the inequities in the system are there by design or by negligence. He replied, "I think neither Democrats or Republicans want Independents, or Greens, or Libertarians to run for office. I think that's well established."
Following a referral from MacMillan, I emailed Richard Winger, editor of Ballot Access News which is based out of California. On its website, ballot-access.org, Winger is billed as "the nation's leading expert on ballot access legal issues."
Here's what Winger had to say: "Maine is the only state that requires a substantial number of signatures, restricts signers to members of that candidate's party, and does not take into account how many members that party has."
He continued, citing unconstitutionality, "If the U.S. Supreme Court ruling Storer v Brown were enforced, the Maine law would be unconstitutional as applied to members of the Green Party. Storer v Brown, 415 US 724 (1974) said the way to evaluate petition burdens is to divide the number of signatures by the number of eligible signers, and if the resulting answer is over 5 percent, the law is unconstitutional."
This statement by Winger is particularly alarming when you take into account MacMillan's comments on the percentage issue, "I had to collect signatures from about 5 percent of all the registered Greens in my district, and that's in the West End where we have a lot of support comparatively. Over in the North Deering area we've got Sam Chandler running for State Rep. in District 36, he had to collect signatures from roughly 12 percent of the Greens registered in his district."
So if Anya Trundy is reading this — since she's so concerned with the nomination process — I wonder if she'll file a formal complaint about this Maine law that is apparently unconstitutional, arguably unethical, and obviously unfair.
Probably not.
(Chris Shorr is a lifelong Portlander who works on a lobster boat, advocates for the marginalized and downtrodden, and occasionally ruffles feathers in City Hall and Augusta. He blogs at tides.bangordailynews.com and writes this column for the Weekend Edition of The Portland Daily Sun. Contact Chris by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.)


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