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R is a domain-specific language for analyzing data. Why does data analysis need its own DSL? What does R do well and what does it do poorly? How can developers take advantage of R's strengths and mitigate its weaknesses? This talk will give some answers to these questions.
GitHub consists of a bunch of employees who have worked at other companies in the past and despised it. Okay, maybe they weren't all terrible jobs, but a lot of us remain skeptical of most software development practices. We do things differently at GitHub. We don't have meetings, we don't have managers, we don't do traditional code review, and we aren't always in the same room, much less on the same continent. And we couldn't be happier about it. We ship code quickly, without a lot of red tape, and still maintain an incredibly high level of code quality. It's a great way to keep your developers happy, and we think it can work in your company, too.
SOA, service-oriented architectures, burst on the scene in the new millennium as the latest technology to support application growth. In concert with the Web, SOA ushered in new paradigms for structuring enterprise applications. At the Forward Internet Group in London, we are implementing SOA in unusual ways. Rather than a few, business-related services being implemented per the original vision, we have developed systems made of myriads of very small, usually short-lived services. In this workshop, we will start by exploring the evolution of SOA implementations by the speaker. In particular, lessons learned from each implementation will be discussed, and reapplication of these lessons on the next implementation. Challenges (and even failures) will be explicitly identified.
In most disciplines built on skill and knowledge, from art to architecture, from creative writing to structural engineering, there is a strong emphasis on studying existing work. Exemplary pieces from past and present are examined and discussed in order to provoke thinking and learn techniques for the present and the future. Although programming is a discipline with a very large canon of existing work to draw from, the only code most programmers read is the code they maintain. They rarely look outside the code directly affecting their work. This talk examines some examples of code that are interesting because of historical significance, profound concepts, impressive technique, exemplary style or just sheer geekiness.
The short answer is that everyone needs them. In order to learn from your mistakes (and what else is there to learn from?), you need to reflect on what happened as objectively as possible, and make a plan of action for what should happen next. And with the emphasis on retrospectives seen in the agile processes, it would be fair to say that most actually get a retrospective on a regular basis. But that is not the case, since facilitating a retrospective is like coding Smalltalk; a minute to learn a lifetime to master. This presentation will, in much less than a lifetime, get you some of the way to create useful retrospectives.
To get the most out of the hardware at our disposal today takes a deep understanding of the entire software and hardware stack. At no place is this more evident than the current CPU architectures. However, great gains are ripe for the taking when dealing with networks and the TCP/IP stack. In this talk, we will discuss some techniques that may be well known or unknown about how to get the most out of the TCP/IP stack of any modern OS. We'll discuss:
(1) how application level batching can be leveraged to remarkably avoid common TCP pitfalls,
(2) how the impact of UDP datagram size influences CPU and network efficiency,
(3) why the new OS system calls like sendmmsg/recvmmsg are so hot, and
(4) how easy it is to leverage asynchronous calls for fun and profit.
Graphs are a fundamental data structure much loved in the scientific domains of graph theory and network science. In recent years, there has been a surge of interest from developers in applying such techniques to solve real-world business problems. Drawing upon experiences with Fortune 50 organisations and time spent producing graph database technology, this presentation will discuss the developer-focused graph tools and demonstrate the types of problems that can be solved with graphs and the technologies that are currently being used to solve such problems.
Big Data has dramatically increased the complexity of building data systems. Big Data forces you to leave the comfortable world of ACID, transactions, and relations, and thrusts you into a challenging world of distributed systems, CAP, and restrictive data models.
You cannot battle complexity with ever more complex systems. This leads to to restrictive systems that are difficult to operate and have poor performance. The only way to reasonably address the complexity of Big Data systems is to fundamentally rethink your approach to avoid that complexity in the first place. A key insight is that the ability to store and process very large amounts of data opens up entirely new ways of building systems that were not possible pre-"Big Data".
NoSQL is not a panacea. Nor is Hadoop, Storm, or any of the other tools out there for Big Data. Yet there is a way to use these tools in conjunction with one another to build complete and robust realtime data systems with a minimum of complexity. These techniques are possible today and can be implemented and operated by small teams.
In this talk you'll learn:
- How a huge amount of complexity stems from the CRUD paradigm, and why you only need (and want) CR
- Why embracing immutability is the key to simplifying data systems
- Where NoSQL fits into the big picture
- The "Lambda Architecture": a generic approach to building data systems using a combination of batch processing and realtime processing
Which APIs stand the test of time, and which ones are breaking changes waiting to happen? It's an important question, because although APIs only account for a tiny portion of your code base, poorly-designed APIs can cost you massive amounts of money, delay your projects, and even hurt your application's user experience.
Netflix uses Javascript to cost-effectively target a wide range of devices from mobile phones to gaming platforms. We recently redesigned our client-server interaction model, and set out to create a framework that made it easy for developers to create enduring APIs. Along the way we appropriated a UI design pattern for use on the server, embraced reactive programming, and learned to love JSON.
The Agile movement shifted the relationship between clients and developers in a profound way. In waterfall processes, clients specified large amounts of functionality, then nervously faded into the background until the fateful day-of-delivery. With Agile, developers strove to engage with clients continuously, and delivered much more frequently against their needs. A new trust was established. At the Forward Internet Group in London, we are implementing a second major shift between clients and developers. The trust of the clients in developers evolves into a broader trust of the developers to deliver business value without resorting to a series of well-defined stories. In essence, the business has empowered the developers to do what they think is right for the business. This model, popularized by Facebook, has several labels, but the one we prefer for our flavor is Programmer Anarchy.
In the challenge to reach the lowest possible latencies, as we push the boundaries of transaction processing, the good old fashioned lock imposes too much contention on our algorithms. This contention results in unpredictable latencies when we context switch into the kernel, and in addition limits throughput as Little's law kicks in. Lock-free and wait-free algorithms can come to the rescue by side-stepping the issues of locks, and when done well can even avoid contention all together. However, lock-free techniques are not for the faint hearted. Programming with locks is hard. Programming using lock-free techniques is often considered the realm occupied only by technical wizards. This session aims to take some of the fear out of non-locking techniques. Make no mistake this is not a subject for beginners but if you are brave, and enjoy understanding how memory and processors really work, then this session could open your eyes with what is possible if you are willing to dedicate the time and effort in this amazing subject area. The attendees will learn the basics of how modern Intel x86_64 processors work and the memory model they implement that forms the foundations for lock-free programming. Empirical evidence will be presented to illustrate the raw throughput and potential latencies that can be achieved when using these techniques.
As developers we all like to use tightly couple systems where possible and loosely coupled ones where necessary. In the closed world of the pre-Cloud era, traditional relational databases have gained tremendous leverage from tight coupling of B-tree storage, transaction managers, and query optimizers, providing developers with an efficient, consistent, and easy to use ACID programming model. In the open, distributed, asynchronous, and heterogeneous world of the Cloud, we must consider more loosely coupled computational models that are designed with distribution and concurrency in from the get go, and accept that our knowledge of the world is never fully consistent. Actors as envisioned by Carl Hewitt fit the bill perfectly. In this talk we will show how highly-available stateful Actors provide a flexible and easy to use programming model for the Cloud on the outside, while still allowing for the traditional programming models on the inside.
Everyday we hear more and more about businesses in the "big data" space, but how many of us really understand how to build an engineering team driven by data? In this session I'll explore my experience building a data driven engineering team from the ground up. I'll walk through how a small team at Intent Media transitioned to using hundreds of terabytes of data a day to do real-time decisioning, dive deep on some of the tough technical issues that we faced, and discuss some of the problems that we're still dealing with, as well as some plans for the future. Most importantly, I'll show how data now drives almost everything we do, and how we're a more focused and productive team because of it.
This talk will provide a unique insight into the core design processes applied by the Creator design team at LEGO. John-Henry will cover all steps along the way, from concept generation to product verification, testing and sign-off. He will show you how real design thinking can influence not only product features, but also how your ideas could be perceived on a global scale. There is more to being a LEGO designer than meets the eye, and this presentation could change the way you think about challenges you might face in your daily work as well. It will appeal to anyone who has an interest in creative design, logical building, or just wants to be an 8 year old for half an hour!
You've seen them. You've probably made one: The architecture vision diagrams. The block diagrams, the message bus topologies... How many of these diagrams ever actually get built?
We never really finish constructing one of these grand visions before something interferes. Maybe it's a merger or acquisition. Maybe your company has a "regime change". (After all, the average tenure of a CIO is down to 18 months!)
The "end state" vision never gets built. Instead, we need to focus on how to flex and change, incorporating new technology, new principles, new business models, and even the last generation's legacy. Call it agile architecture, or meta-architecture, or "how I learned to love laminated stucco." It's architecture without an end state.
With Clojure on the rise it is time you learned how to properly wield your parens. Join Aaron as he walks you through building software with Clojure. You will walk through a real world example; building a library for working with Redis. Building beautiful abstractions on top of data has always been the lisp way, and this example will be no different. You will walk away with a better understanding of Clojure, interfacing with external services, and gain situational knowledge of when and how to use Clojure's macros to help you produce more powerful abstractions.
We live in an era of extraordinary increases in available bandwidth, disk space, and processing power, and an ever faster growing World Wide Web. Now, the Web is about to take a gigantic leap forward when it comes to Web communication and connectivity, a leap that will go very fast and most likely take the established World of Legacy Web solutions by surprise. We have already felt the beginnings of change; the Web is moving into its next phase morphing from a static and stale network to a live, interactive, and constantly changing mesh of communication and connectivity, a living Web. This new living Web will allow us to interact with our friends and colleagues at levels we couldn't have imagined 5 years ago, solve business problems that seemed impossible, continue to innovate using the Web as a foundation for new solutions benefiting humanity, accessing systems and share information at levels never seen before. The Web as we know it today was only the beginning, now the Web will change everything.
At the forefront of this (r)evolution is HTML5 and some of the new communication features associated with this new Web standard. Features that makes it possible for Web applications to be on par, or even exceed traditional desktop applications while at the same time reduce the burden on our Web middle-tier. This session will explore what is possible and how we might rethink our approach to Web architecture.
There is a question you have answered several times a day, at least since your teens.
It's the question you hear from everyone you meet, from all of nature.
It's the question you ask yourself when you look in the mirror, or look down from a tall building.
It's the question you'll ask yourself in the moment before you die.
Your answer to this single question, so common you've probably never even noticed it, shapes everything about you, and determines your success.
It is the most important minute of your life, and it is the doorway to your future.
Over the last 18 months REA and Hooroo have used cloud computing and continuous delivery to deliver new products to the market faster than any previous launch for their organisations. Come and learn from the real world experience of two Aussie success stories. Hear from a green field business and an established legacy high traffic organisation - two contrasting starting points moving towards a common goal. Learn about how they adopted cloud computing, continuous delivery, build pipelines and more.
Learn about:
- adopting continuous delivery in a green field business
- retrofitting continuous delivery into a complex legacy environment
- experiences adopting IaaS with AWS and PaaS with Engine Yard
- the challenges faced
- the tools and techniques used and developed
We are taught to program computers by using branching, loops and accumulators. When we write our loops we also mix in all sorts of other concerns. This makes for a very difficult situation re parallelization. I will present some ideas from the famous Array Programming languages APL and J and make the case that learning Array Thinking should be in your future.
Very few of the contributors that wrote the original implementation of the compiler that defined the CoffeeScript programming language had any prior experience with compilers. After over two years of hacking on the original compiler, it became difficult to work with, and actually started to hinder the development of the language itself. Michael Ficarra, a long-time collaborator on the project, realised that people had an incentive to fund the development of a newer, better compiler. In exchange for enough cash to keep his student loan creditors at bay, he applied the techniques he learned throughout his research career developing compilers to a new CoffeeScript compiler. In this talk, Michael will display the benefits of the formal compilation and declarative specification strategies he used, and describe how he implemented them in his rewrite of the CoffeeScript compiler.
"Mediocrity guaranteed." This sad tagline describes most of the processes we use today including typical agile process. It's easy to see why. Software development's an expensive risky business. To deal with the risk, the players involved adopt a client-vendor model where those in the client role give requirements and those in the vendor role estimate time and effort and agree to build what's asked for. In this model we clearly separate responsibilities so that we know who's accountable when things go wrong. Although we know things rarely go as planned, and innovative ideas rarely spring from such a relationship, we continue to work in processes where treating our coworkers as outsourced vendors is considered "best practice" and risking everything on the ideas of a select few isn't regarded as risky.
This talk is about an alternative way of working.
In this talk Jeff explores companies beginning to adopt a style of working where everyone in the organization gets involved with identifying and solving problems. You'll hear examples from real companies describing their practices for learning first-hand about customers and users, practices for collaboratively designing solutions for the problems found in the real world, and approaches to learning if what we created really benefited anyone. This new style of work is a process cocktail combining the best of agile development, lean software development and lean startup, user-centered design, and collaborative design thinking.
This style of work isn't the traditional client-vendor model where knowing who's to blame is the primary concern. It's a co-making style of work where everyone brings their skills and experience to the table and together takes ownership for making great things.
This talk looks at a range of use cases for Big Data and patterns for integration from real world deployments. We present a reference architecture for integrated Big Data processing based on Think Big's experience deploying dozens of Big Data solutions. We look at key patterns and questions based on real world use cases for processing petabyte-scale machine and online user data for batch and near real-time analytics. We address topics like:
* when to choose different technologies whether big data or otherwise
* streaming and batch import of data
* database integration
* query tools and languages
* security
* programming languages and frameworks
* cloud and dedicated hosting
* machine learning and data science tools
* getting organizational buy in
Big companies can create really big software disasters. Some of the worst commercial failures have come from undersized production systems. Millions of dollars get thrown into hardware at the last minute. Just moving to the cloud doesn't help. It lets you get the (virtual) hardware in place faster, but you still might spend a lot more than you expect for capacity. This session will present a technique for analyzing your system's capacity--either during development or as you contemplate changes. Using these techniques could save you a lot of embarrassing downtime and your company a lot of money.
Would you believe that the image of the famous Utah Teapot is rendered using just div elements and CSS without any OpenGL, WebGL, Canvas, or other "real" graphics capabilities?
In this fun talk, we will explain this glorious hack we first learned from a blogpost by Jeff Lau aka Useless Pickles, and that we subsequently used as a demo for our IL to JavaScript compiler project.
While the original Live Labs project has long gone to the happy hunting grounds of technology, we salvaged this little pearl as a timeless demonstration of doing a lot with very little.
The title software architect comes with many connotations, and often these are not good. Developers think of hand-waivers who inhabit ivory towers and have forgotten how to write code. Project managers think of technologists who are chasing perfection in initiatives that are serving obscure technical purposes. Yet, for the success of any software project architecture is crucial. In this talk Erik will present his experience on how to address this issue, introducing techniques that help teams come up with good designs and sustainable architectures without the need for a superstar architect. Topics include evolutionary architecture, the seductive power of abstractions, vertical slicing, software visualisations, and the need to experience the consequences of decisions.
This presentation discusses high availability at Heroku, the cloud application platform. We motivate the discussion with specific examples from our experience designing, developing, and operating highly available cloud services at scale. We emphasize that high availability depends critically on the interaction between development and operations, and highlight several patterns that we've found useful in our systems work at Heroku.
Of all the ideas of Lean, batch size reduction is the most important economically. Yet, few product developers understand it. Manufacturers handle physical objects and they can easily see their batch sizes. Developers handle information and batch size is frequently invisible. In fact, 97 percent of product developers have no systematic program to reduce batch size. In this keynote Don Reinertsen will discuss why batch size reduction is such an important tool, and how you can approach it with a bit of science. He will show you why popular manufacturing ideas like one-piece flow can make little sense in product development and how to think about the economics of batch size.
Agile software development was born over a decade ago, with a gathering of industry luminaries in Snowbird, Utah. They were frustrated that so much ceremony and effort was going into so little success, in failed project after failed project, across the software industry. They had each enjoyed amazing successes in their own right, and realised their approaches were more similar than different, so they met to agree on a common set of principles.
Which we promptly abandoned.
The problem is that Agile calls for us to embrace uncertainty, and we are desperately uncomfortable with uncertainty. So much so that we will replace it with anything, even things we know don't work. We really do prefer the Devil we know.
For the last couple of years Dan has been studying and talking about patterns of effective software delivery. In this talk he explains why Embracing Uncertainty is the most fundamental effectiveness pattern of all, and offers advice to help make uncertainty less scary. He is pretty sure he won't succeed.
Connascence (noun) is defined as (1) the common birth of two or more at the same time; production of two or more together, (2) That which is born or produced with another, or (3) the act of growing together.
In software, we are told we should reduce the coupling between our modules so that our software is easier to maintain. But what is coupling? Myers (in "Composite/Structured Design") suggests that there are seven levels of coupling, but his nomenclature is developed during the days of Structured programming and does not deal well with objects and classes.
By identifying and classifying how changes in one portion of a software program can effect other places in the program, connascence attempts to define coupling in terms of ways software can changes. In this talk we will examine the different types of connascence and come to understand how coupling effects software development.
Driven by a desire for faster short-request processing and for near real-time responses to critical business events and made increasingly practical by commodity pricing of machines with terabytes of RAM and software to use it we are witnessing an industry wide shift to in-memory data management. In this session I will take you through the evolving landscape of In-Memory Data Grids, In-Memory Data Bases and CEP Engines. Key concepts and metrics will be introduced to equip you with a toolkit for applying in-memory data management. I will also cover emerging standards and make some predictions about the future.
Architecting a complex program out of simpler, independent building blocks has long been recognized as a means to higher programmer productivity and programs that work better. But creating independent, robust, high performance, reusable software components turns out to be remarkably difficult. Most schemes fall well short. I will show how a combination of features of the D programming language enables the creation of best-of-breed components that 'snap together' with ease, with plenty of headroom for user customization and compiler optimization.
Two tasks of increasing importance in distributed computing are:
(1) robustly tracking units of measure, such as weights, distances, energy, monetary currencies
(2) reasoning over data, such as answering symbolic queries
The problem of decoupling dependencies in software has been approached in various ways. Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control are ubiquitous patterns that attempt to address that problem. In this talk, we will take a fresh look at these patterns from the perspective of Functional Programming in Scala. Once we uncover their essence, we find that there is an exceedingly simple purely functional alternative. We identify a deep connection to monads, and discover that the process of creating systems of decoupled software components is ultimately the process of creating programming languages.
In four years, New Relic has grown from a dozen customers to over 25,000 customers, and from collecting hundreds of metrics a day to collecting billions a day. We've done this without a huge investment in hardware - which is very cool. This talk will cover some of the ways we built a system that has scaled so effectively. Sharding, of course, but sharding is not magic; caching, of course, but caching is not magic; hardware improvements, of course, but ... well, you get the idea. There is no one magic solution but a combination a number of strategic decisions.
Most programmers' experience with distributed consensus is either purely theoretical ("well, I read a bunch of Paxos papers") or based entirely on specific systems ("we solve all of our consistency problems with Zookeeper") and this has an unfortunate consequence: many production systems have behavior that is not fully understood by anyone at all. Justin will break down the barrier between theory and practice by discussing exactly what promises various real, deployed systems can make when it comes to consistency in the face of failure.


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The Miner Massacre: A Buying Opportunity?
The market is playing whack-a-mole with miners of all stripes today. There are the coal miners, with Alpha Natural Resources (ANR) and Peabody Energy (BTU) getting smacked. There are the base-metal miners like Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX), which have been hammered. And even gold miners like Newmont Mining (NEM) and Agnico-Eagle Mines (AEM) are down hard.
Sterne Agee's Michael Dudas and Satyadeep Jain explain why:
Broadly, metals and mining shares down 3%-4% while met focused names pressured 7-9%. While this morning's release of the February employment report has generated possible marginal confidence in a more hawkish Fed, and a dollar bounce, recent Chinese credit market concerns caused industrial commodity spot prices in copper, met coal and iron ore to retreat around 5%. We continue to recommend select metals ([Agnico-Eagle Mines, Coeur Mining (CDE), Gold Resource (GORO), Newmont Mining]) and coal names ([Arch Coal (ACI), Alpha Natural Resources, Peabody Energy, and Consol Energy (CNX)]) and would add to positions on this pullback.
Shares of Agnico-Eagle Mines have dropped 2.6% to $32.31 at 1:25 p.m., Newmont Mining has fallen 2.1% to $24.40, Alpha Natural Resources has plunged 11% to $4.87, Peabody Energy has dropped 4.7% to $16.81 and Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold has declined 4.4% to $32.33.

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Designed for the Minneapolis Collection. Shown here on Parlay, second photo shown with it's companion colors designed for colorworking/stripes: Heritage & Mighty Mississippi.
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Irene Franklin
Irene M. Franklin, age 89 of Ramsey, formerly of Princeton, passed away peacefully at her daughter's home on Aug 23, 2013.
Irene is survived by her sons Frank of Anoka, John (Nancy) of Princeton, Greg of Princeton, Les (Debbie) of Princeton and daughter Linda (Bill) Heiss of Ramsey; 10 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren. She is also survived by her brother William (Jane) Vetsch of Princeton; three nephews, two nieces, relatives and friends.
She is preceded in death by her parents, husband Robert and grandchild Jeremy Franklin.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 30 at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 1506 Main St. NW, Elk River.
Visitation is two hours prior to service at church.
Interment will be in Baldwin Cemetery, Baldwin Township. Memorials preferred.


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text: We show our view of normalized or adjusted profit for the quarter on Slide 7. Profit attributable to shareholders before adjustments was $218 million. The most significant adjustment is due to our debt refinancing, which resulted in a $329 million after-tax charge. Other unusual items were derivative gains and onetime labor settlement charges related to new collective agreements in our Quebrada Blanca and Andacollo operations in Chile. Adjusting for these items, profit was $504 million for the quarter or $0.86 per share.Turning to our operating results for the quarter on Slide 8. In our coal business, production was 6.3 million tonnes. The sales were 1 million tonnes lower as we have come through a weak point in the global steel production cycle. We certainly see the market improving now, though. The average realized price for the fourth quarter was USD $223 per tonne, about a 5% discount to the benchmark price of $235 per tonne for the premium brands of coal. Usually, the average realized price is about a 10% discount to the benchmark price due to the mix of our products, including some lower value PCI and thermal coals. First quarter 2012 unit site costs were $70 per tonne and distribution cost came in at $34 per tonne. This gave us combined costs of CAD $104 per tonne. Year-over-year, we have seen our costs decline by approximately 8%. On Slide 9, we continued to move towards our 28 million tonne production target from our existing 6 coal operations. As I mentioned, our 6.3 million tonnes of production equates to an annualized run rate of over 25 million tonnes. Total material moved in the quarter, combining raw coal production and waste rock, increased 15% on a year-over-year basis, and it's stabilizing at the rate necessary to achieve our production target.


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Post-2015 Development Agenda and the Energy Future We Want for All
Welcome to the online platform of the Global Thematic Consultation on Energy. This is an open and inclusive space to discuss the role of energy in the post-2015 development agenda.
The global energy consultation is part of a larger global dialogue with stakeholders across all sectors of society. It seeks to build a shared vision for a set of priorities and global objectives on energy that should be integrated within the post-2015 development agenda and related processes.
Key summaries for the consultation on energy and the post-2015 agenda include:
The "High Level Dialogue on Energy in the Post-2015 Development Agenda" took place in Oslo, Norway on 9 April, 2013. Convened by the Governments of Mexico, Norway and Tanzania, the dialogue concluded the above series of key messages.
The summary of the global energy consultations captures both the web-based consultation, as well as face-to-face events in Africa (Tanzania), Asia (India and Cambodia), Latin America (Mexico), North America (USA), the Arab Region (gathered with the help of the Government of Saudi Arabia), Europe (Norway) and UN organizations (UN-Energy), involving civil society, businesses, governments, and international organizations.
The "High Level Dialogue on Energy in the Post-2015 Development Agenda" took place in Oslo, Norway on 9 April, 2013. Hosted by the Government of Norway and co-convened by the Governments of Mexico, Norway and Tanzania, the dialogue was the culmination of four months of global consultations on why and how energy should be addressed in the post-2015 development agenda.
The event can be viewed fully via webcast:
- PART I of the Oslo High Level Dialogue on Energy
- PART II of the Oslo High Level Dialogue on Energy
- Press Conference on the Oslo High Level Dialogue on Energy
General Information on the Oslo Meeting is also available on the event website.
Face-to-face consultations will compliment the online discussions and will include various stakeholders from civil society, youth, businesses and governments. Such face-to-face consultations will be organized in several regiouns, including Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This will culminate in a high-level meeting that will be held in Oslo, Norway.
Upon completion of the online and face-to-face consultations, the results will be summarised into a final report with key recommendations, which will be shared to inform on-going processes, including the Secretary-General's Post-2015 High Level Panel as well as the sustainable development goals discussions. The final report will propose a set of recommendations and processes on how to continue to engage with key stakeholders towards 2015 at national, regional and global levels to help ensure the integration of energy into the post-2015 development agenda.
Please click below to hear Kandeh Yumkella, Director-General of UNIDO and Chief Executive (designate) of the Secretary-General's Sustainable Energy for All initiative, Former U.S. Vice-President, Al Gore, and international supermodel, Gisele Bundchen, explain the importance of sustainable energy for all.
Discuss: Meet the Moderators and participate in ongoing discussions
|Read the Framing Paper to learn more about the background and focus areas
|Join in via Twitter using #Energy2015
|Contact us with questions regarding the consultation or this web platform
This is a public, moderated consultation: information you post is public and may appear in search results.
Key Energy Resources
Executive Director, Energy and Climate, United Nations Foundation
Deputy Director and Deputy CEO, Internatinal Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Professor of Energy Economics, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)
Executive Director, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
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Lic. Rolando Zapata Bello, Gobernador del Estado de Yucatán, hablando en la consulta post-2015 en temática energética.
|H.E. Mr. Sospeter Muhongo, Minister of Energy and Minerals of Tanzania, speaking at the Post-2015 Thematic Consultation on Energy. Read the whole story here.
Lise Grande, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, speaking at the Post-2015 Thematic Consultation on Energy on the margins of the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2013. Read the whole story here.
UN-Energy and the Secretary-General's Sustainable Energy for All initiative will coordinate the consultation on energy, building on their work to-date. The consultation process on energy is organized in partnership with the governments of Norway, Tanzania and Mexico, and will be co-led by UNIDO, UNDESA, and the World Bank, with support from UNDP. Together these entities form a Steering Committee that guides the entire energy thematic consultation process. Resource organisations may be invited on an as needed basis.
Vote on My World 2015
Beyond 2015 - Coaliton of CSOs
Post 2015 - ODI: Overseas Development Institute
Civil Society Dialogue with the HLP on Post 2015


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Discover Delicious Currants and Gooseberries
Currants and gooseberries are shade-tolerant berry bushes that are a great choice for any garden.
Clockwise from top: 'Rovada' red currants on the vine; red andpink currants; gooseberries on the bush at Wisley Gardens inEngland; and 'Jumbo' gooseberries compared to a penny.
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I agree that this seems like an over reach, but I have yet to see what he actually posted just what the news reported (I haven't really looked for his posts).
But if the government doesn't like you they can make you have a really bad time
This is a discussion on Police -- acting under a state law that allows emergency, temporary psychiatric com.. within the In the News: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Originally Posted by Sig35seven There are some exceptions to the 1st amendment. One of these limitations is 'speech that 'incites imminent lawless action' which is ...
Threats of Violence Against Individuals :: First Amendment--Religion and Expression :: US Constitution :: US Codes and Statutes :: US Law :: JustiaMichaelThreats of Violence Against Individuals.—The Supreme Court has cited three "reasons why threats of violence are outside the First Amendment": "protecting individuals from the fear of violence, from the disruption that fear engenders, and from the possibility that the threatened violence will occur."980 In Watts v. United States, however, the Court held that only "true" threats are outside the First Amendment.981 The defendant in Watts, at a public rally at which he was expressing his opposition to the military draft, said, "If they ever make me carry a rifle, the first man I want to get in my sights is L.B.J."982 He was convicted of violating a federal statute that prohibited "any threat to take the life of or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States." The Supreme Court reversed. Interpreting the statute "with the commands of the First Amendment clearly in mind,"983 it found that the defendant had not made a "true 'threat,"' but had indulged in mere "political hyperbole."984
I agree that this seems like an over reach, but I have yet to see what he actually posted just what the news reported (I haven't really looked for his posts).
But if the government doesn't like you they can make you have a really bad time
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.
Hmmm.... some have said that Holmes in Aurora went off the deep end quickly, a psychiatrist reported him... Some have said we need better mental health care... Is this what that would lead to?
Just questions... no answers...
It could be worse!
I suppose
Mental illness cuts right to the quick of a LOT of concerns that gun owners worry about. We don't want wackos handling guns, but we're worried about giving the gov't the right to stop people. We don't want the police to be able to detain us, but we want those who're honestly, truly sick to be able to get help. I had to deal with a mentally ill family member, and it sucked. There was no way to get them help until after he'd hurt someone.
Honestly, mental illness is the twig in the spokes of a great deal of political theory regarding freedoms, good society, and good governance. I wish we could speed up research to defeat it ...
This issue strikes home with me because of what I was taught growing up in the sixties. It was constantly pointed out how while we had freedom of speech, expecially when it comes to political speech, other countries did not. That in those other countries people were locked up in Insane Asylums if they spoke out against their governments. They used their mental health policies to stifle unwanted speech.
Remember when the U.S. was actively working for the release of different dissidents in the Soviet Union who had been locked up in mental hospitals for years because of what the wrote or said.
This really isn't anything new. Involuntary mental evaluations happen on a pretty regular basis. There are a few ways that I am familiar with.
Family or friends can go before a judge and request an order. If they are able to meet certain criteria, then the judge issues an order for the person to be taken into custody and transported for mental health evaluation usually lasting 72 hours . Local LE receives the order and many times uses EMS to transport the person. At that point the person has no choice in the matter at all.
Family or friends call 911 and say that this person is threatening someone or themselves. Sometimes police are sent, sometimes EMS is sent and sometimes both. The person is interviewed, if the person displays a normal level of mental status and does not appear to be a threat, there really isn't much that can be done. The family/friends needs to go to court to seek an order.
However is person has a altered level of mental status, appears to be a threat to themselves or makes threats against others, then they will be transported. We always tried to talk the person into going in for a voluntary evaluation. It is simply easier and safer for everyone involved. If they refused to be transported, medical control would advise us to transport the person against their wishes for their own safety. They would be restrained and transported.
Then at the hospital, then mental health staff would start the evaluation process which could consist of a short interview or a confinement.
Don't do things you don't want to explain to the Paramedics!
Stupidity should be painful.
"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation."
--Thomas B. Reed, American Attorney
Second Amendment -- Established December 15, 1791 and slowly eroded ever since What happened to "..... shall not be infringed."
"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation."
--Thomas B. Reed, American Attorney
Second Amendment -- Established December 15, 1791 and slowly eroded ever since What happened to "..... shall not be infringed."
They need to lock him up and evaluate him; do we need to wait for him to kill some? FACEBOOK is public and anyone and everyone has the right to monitor it as it is here too.
It is not normal for someone to post "I am going to sever heads" and anti-government posts AFTER you been to war. Some say his rights are violated; I say tough! 30 days of his life is worth it if it means that it will save someone elses life
And if they want the can arrest him for breach of peace after all he did disrupt the public by posting hate messages
I just got back from the VA hospital and one of the first questions the nurse asked me did I feel depressed or wanted to kill myself or others. They are screening vets heavily for any sign of depression. I wasn't rude but I told her that I had a CHL and I was in no way feeling any of that and if she asked me continued with any form of that kind of questioning I was walking out. Thats all I need is for someone to write in my medical file that I am depressed and then have to use my gun in a self-defense situation. Great way to lose a court case
In some states, all it takes to lose your gun rights is being "involuntarily commited". I wonder what his court costs will be to clear this up, and who reported him.
I understand the need to be proactive, but "arresting" someone, but then not having it be an arrest, and held without trial or hearing for 30 days in a mental facility sounds like kidnapping and false imprisonment to me.
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The iPad mini is the tablet Apple said it would never make. Steve Jobs once said that tablets smaller than the 9.7in iPad just couldn't offer a proper tablet experience, but now we have the 7.9in iPad mini. Has Apple changed its mind?
It's possible that the Google Nexus 7 and co. changed its mind. The low-cost Asus-made tablet has become the best-selling Android tablet, and for good reason. It's fast, it's well-made and it's keenly priced.
But can Apple's latest really compete with the £150-odd Google Nexus 7?
iPad mini - From £269
Google Nexus 7 - From £159
The iPad mini is significantly more expensive than the Google Nexus 7. It comes as no surprise, and gives the Google tablet a little room to breathe.
Those who can afford a little more may not see the extra as too much of a hardship, though. It's still a lot cheaper than the full-size iPad, and has significant benefits, especially if you're already hooked up to iTunes for your music and video collections. And if you and your family are iPhone, iPod touch or iPad users, it's even better.
The iPad mini starts at £269, £110 up from the lowest-rung Google Nexus 7. This gets you the Wi-Fi only model, with 16GB of storage. The top model is the 64GB Wi-Fi plus Cellular version, which costs £529.
Apple's methods of construction for the iPad mini also warrant much of the extra cost. Both Apple and Google (and Asus, which makes the Nexus) deserve a round of applause for their consumer-friendly pricing.
iPad mini - Anodised aluminium, 308g
Google Nexus 7 - rubberised plastic rear, 340g
Asus, the maker of the Google Nexus 7, did a great job with the construction of the Nexus tablet. Although its casing is primarily made of plastic, it doesn't feel at all cheap because of the finish used.
It's carefully textured, giving the tablet the feel of a leather-bound book rather than a plastic tablet. The Google Nexus 7 is one of the swankiest-feeling 7-inch tablets around, and it's also one of the cheapest.
It can't quite compete with the iPad mini, though, which has a bonafide metal rear, using a similar construction to the full-size iPad. Its entire rear is a thin, crafted sheet of aluminium that snakes around to meet the glass front of the screen.
As with the full-size iPad, spaces for the connections are cut into this aluminium, giving it an immaculate unibody feel. It's also available in black and white finishes.
Using metal and a slightly larger body (and screen), it's a big surprise that the iPad mini is actually a little lighter than the Google Nexus 7. Both will be very comfortable to use one-handed.
iPad mini - 200 x 134.7 x 7.2 mm
Google Nexus 7 - 198.5 x 120 x 10.5 mm
These tablets are quite different in shape. The Google Nexus 7 is more widescreen in aspect than the iPad mini, which borrows the same basic shape as the full-size iPad.
The iPad have 3:2 aspect screens, stubbier than those of most Android tablets. Relatively speaking, they're wider, and less tall, although the height of these two is nearly identical.
The Google Nexus 7 has the classic Android widescreen aspect, which is perfect for watching movies on.
iPad mini - 7.9in, 1,024 x 768, IPS
Google Nexus 7 - 7in, 1,280 x 800 pixels, IPS
The most important aspect of any tablet is - arguably - the screen. And here's where the iPad mini and Google Nexus 7 differ a bit.
Apple is renowned for its top-quality smartphone and tablet screens, but the iPad mini's resolution is actually lower than that of the Google Nexus 7, even though its display is larger. Text and images will look slightly less sharp, although with 163dpi, it's absolutely not the Retina-grade display we've come to expect from Apple's mobile gadgets.
However, let's not forget that not too long ago we were perfectly happy with the screen of the iPad 2, which packed the same number of pixels into a 9.7in display, resulting in 116dpi pixel density.
Both tablets use IPS tech. This stands for in-plane switching, and supplies fantastic viewing angles and very good image quality.
iPad mini - iOS 6
Google Nexus 7 - Android Jelly Bean 4.1
Android or iOS? It's one of those questions that's been nagging away since 2008, and there's yet to be a conclusive answer. The iOS operating system is all about keeping things simple, with a look that's basically a window pane with a bunch of app shortcut stickers stuck on it.
Apple doesn't let its interfaces become too "deep" - there isn't a labyrinth of submenus to explore in here.
Android Jelly Bean 4.1, the operating system in the Google Nexus 7, isn't so obsessed with keeping things simple and friendly. Here, the apps menu and home screen are split apart, instantly making the Google OS a good deal more complicated. There are also many features that you have to delve a bit deeper to find.
Android is a great system for tech fans, as it lets you change parts of the OS completely. You can customise it far more than iOS, and drop gadgets like calendars, Twitter boxes and clocks onto your home screens.


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All it took for the New Jersey Devils to get back in the win column was their biggest period of the season.
A home matchup with the league-worst Buffalo Sabres could help them stay there.
The Devils try to build on a very impressive finish as they meet the Sabres for the first time this season Saturday night.
With five goals scored during a three-game skid and faced with a 2-1 deficit in the third period at Carolina on Friday night, the Devils didn't seem poised for an offensive outburst. But Andrei Loktionov scored the first of four unanswered goals and Jaromir Jagr capped the uprising with the 692nd of his career in a 5-2 victory.
''I didn't see (the big third period) coming,'' coach Peter DeBoer said. ''But I felt good about where our game was and our ability to get a couple of goals in the third period.''
Jagr finished with three points and Dainius Zubrus had a goal and an assist as New Jersey (10-11-5) matched its goal total from the previous three games.
The uncharacteristic offensive display benefited Cory Schneider, who needed to make only 16 saves for his second straight win.
Schneider told reporters he was "frustrated" with his lack of playing time after learning Wednesday that Martin Brodeur would make his third consecutive start in the Devils' 4-3 home loss to the Hurricanes.
It's hard to fault Schneider, who has allowed two goals or fewer in seven of his 11 starts while ranking among the league leaders with a 1.88 goals-against average.
DeBoer could come back with Schneider on Saturday or switch to Brodeur, who has posted an .890 save percentage during a personal three-game skid. Brodeur, though, is 10-2-4 with a 1.52 GAA in his last 17 appearances against Buffalo.
Jagr continues to produce for the Devils, tallying six goals and eight points in his last seven games. The 41-year-old, who is two goals away from tying Mark Messier for seventh on the all-time list, leads the team with 22 points - eight more than his closest teammate.
''I don't really chase anything,'' Jagr said. ''I enjoy my teammates and my linemates. I enjoy the game, the way we play. Our line, I like the way our line played. When I'm happy about our game, I know the goals are going to come."
The Sabres also enter this game after snapping a losing streak, beating Toronto 3-2 in overtime Friday to end a five-game skid. Christian Ehrhoff scored 38 seconds into the extra period to help Buffalo (6-20-1) win for the second time in seven tries under interim coach Ted Nolan.
''Ever since Ted (Nolan) got here, the guys are just building on each and every game,'' said Luke Adam, who scored his first goal since April 5. ''We feel a lot more confident as a team, as players, when we come to the rink every morning for practice. That's carrying over and we're playing a lot better.''
Three goals represented an offensive explosion for the Sabres, who entered averaging a league-worst 1.62. They scored once in each of the previous four contests.
One problem preventing Buffalo from making much progress is its slow starts. The Sabres have been outscored 33-6 and outshot 351-192 during first periods this season.
Ryan Miller has remained a bright spot for the Sabres and was solid again with 22 saves Friday. He's 6-2-2 with a 1.59 GAA in his last 10 games against the Devils.
New Jersey is 4-0-3 in its last seven meetings versus Buffalo.


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There's a handful of PMPs out there already that have integrated gaming capabilities, but I would have never expected the mating of digital picture-taking with world of shotguns, monsters, and rocket launchers. Thanks to some guy that has a little too much time on his hands, you can now upload a version of DOOM, one of the pioneers in the first-person shooter genre, onto any Digita OS camera.
You might be wondering about control options? Well, the guy that ported DOOM also mapped a number of game keys to match up with your favourite digicam, like those made by Minolta, for example. All you need to do is throw a commercial or shareware WAD file onto a CF card, install the necessary software, and you're thrown into the action handguns blazing.
Unfortunately, if you have a Kodak DC220, you're out of luck. But if you have any other Digita OS camera, you can go ahead and download DOOM here.


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Three-time Olympic gold medalist Rebecca Soni is watching the Winter Games in Sochi from the comfort of her living room. The former USC swimmer has felt the ecstasy of the moment, so she can relate to the triumphant skiers, skaters and curlers (well maybe not the curlers).
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Carter elected to International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science
Emily Carter, the Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Applied and Computational Mathematics, has been elected a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.
The members are chosen from among the scientists of all countries who have distinguished themselves by the value of their scientific work, their role of pioneer or leaders of a school in the broad field of quantum molecular science.
Carter was elected to the academy during its 46th annual meeting held in on June 2009 in Helsinki, Finland.
Carter received her B.S. in chemistry from University of California Berkeley in 1982 and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Caltech in 1987. She spent the 16 years on the faculty of UCLA as a professor of chemistry and later of materials science and engineering. She joined the Princeton University faculty in 2004 as professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and applied and computational mathematics.
In her research, Carter creates state-of-the-art computer simulations that model complex phenomena in chemistry and materials science. The ultimate practical goal of such work is to engineer new nanomaterials -- materials designed on an atom-by-atom level -- that perform better than existing materials or replace them altogether.


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Taylor Swift & Dianna Agron's Dominick's Dinner Date
With their friendship still going strong, Taylor Swift and Dianna Agron paired up for a late night dinner in West Hollywood on Tuesday (May 15).
The "Mean" singer and her "Glee" gal were both decked out in colorful dresses while surrounded by bodyguards while opting to chow down at American/Italian restaurant Dominick's.
Prior to the girls' night out, Miss Swift sounded as if she had quite the enjoyable afternoon, as she tweeted to her millions of followers, "eating cheeseburgers, scribbling on guitars, writing songs with @edsheeran. :)"
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A Study to Assess the Safety, Tolerability and Efficacy of Ertapenem Sodium in the Treatment of Complicated Urinary Tract Infections (0826-048)
This study has been completed.
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety, tolerability and efficacy of ertapenem sodium as initial therapy for the treatment of complicated urinary tract infections, including pyelonephritis in indian adults.
|Urinary Tract Infection
|Drug: ertapenem sodium
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: No masking
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Prospective, Multicenter, Noncomparative, Open Label Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability and Efficacy of Ertapenem Sodium in the Treatment of Complicated Urinary Tract Infections
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Further study details as provided by Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Safety and tolerability [ Time Frame: 14 Days ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Compare signs and symptoms of urinary tract infections at 14 days after treatment compared with signs and symptoms before treatment [ Time Frame: 14 days after treatment ]
|Study Start Date:
|June 2005
|Study Completion Date:
|May 2006
|Primary Completion Date:
|May 2006 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
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Arm 1: ertapenem sodium
Drug: ertapenem sodium
ertapenem sodium as a single dose of 1gm I.V. was infused over a 30 min interval for a minimum of 3 days to a maximum of 14 days.
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Patient has a complicated urinary tract infection
- Patient has acute pyelonephritis with fever, flank pain, pus in the urine, and positive urine culture
- Patient is indian and 18 years of age or greater.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patient had a kidney transplant
- Patient had been given antibiotic therapy for condition
- Patient had poor liver function
- Patient has complete obstruction of urinary tract
- Patient has history of serious allergy to antibiotics and multivitamins
- Patient is pregnant
- Patient not likely to respond to 10 to 14 days of antibiotic therapy
- Patient not likely to survive 4 week study period
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Communicable Diseases
Urinary Tract Infections
Urologic Diseases
Anti-Bacterial Agents
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On the 8th, TRIANGLE club Nishi-Shinsaibashi, Chuo-ku, Osaka featured an OTADAMA Otakusong Spirit concert featuring comedian/blogger/commentator and famous Asuka cosplayer Saki Inagaki doing some MCing and DJing, and, perhaps weirder and more awesome, the robot idols of nyoROBOtics performing a cover of "Shoot!," the theme to loli basketball anime Ro-Kyu-u!.
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If you're in Japan, the group has performances planned for this weekend. See their website for details.
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Contract negotiations between the Rockford Public School Board, the Rockford Education Association (REA), and the Rockford Education Support Professionals Association (RESPA) concluded quickly this year in an attempt to balance the district's budget in the face of more funding cuts from the state.
Rockford Public Schools' (RPS) teachers and support staff accepted two years of compensation cuts that average around $7,000 per employee. These cuts come on top of last year's concessions of about $3,000 per employee.
Cuts were agreed upon in the form of pay freezes, loss of steps (years of service compensation), additional contributions into health care benefits, and a weaker benefits package. With the state legislature threatening bargaining rights and the district's low fund equity balance, REA and RESPA took some of the deepest cuts in the county in order to maintain programming and smaller class sizes. Rockford administrators took the same cuts negotiated by REA.
During this two-year contract, both sides are hopeful that better economic stability will allow staff to recover some of their sacrifices. REA and RESPA are encouraged by Dr. Michael Shibler and the school board's commitment to
RPS teachers, administration and support staff.
"We need to be able to offer competitive compensation for our employees so we can attract the best teachers, administrators, and support staff we can hire," said Dr. Shibler, Superintendent of Rockford Public Schools.
With the concessions made at the bargaining table and other budget decisions by the school board, Rockford will be able to call back nine of the 25 teachers who received pink slips at the beginning of June.
"It is a difficult time to be in education right now," said Linda Spencer, REA vice president and head of the Bargaining Committee. "People go into education because they love kids and want to give them the best education possible, but the political climate right now makes it very difficult to keep morale high."
REA, RESPA, administration, and the school board will be working together to maintain RPS' standards of exemplary education even in the face of very difficult economic times.
Ultimately, the district's budgetary fate lies in the hands of the state legislature. Public school funding is neither equitable nor consistent. Just for one example, Forest Hills Public Schools receives $8,800,000 more per year from the state than Rockford Public Schools. Rockford residents need to contact their legislators and demand equitable funding for all public school students. With equitable funding, Rockford could recall all of its teachers and reinstate full programming K-12.


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Upon arrival, Dude explained the process and did a quick walk through of the house to understand the current situation and to let me express concerns I had about the house. He then set up a sealed-door blower in the front door, to suck air out of the house, creating negative pressure, which let cold outside air come into the house through the various small leaks.
Methodically going around the house, he viewed every square inch through an infra-red camera, which showed the hot and cold spots. Cold spots with clean edges represented places where insulation was lacking, and cold spots with streaked edges indicated air leaks, which you could easily confirm by sticking your hand on the spot. You wouldn't normally notice the air leak, since you don't usually have a high negative air pressure in the house.
Areas which were leaking in our house were:
- Chimney clean-out panel
- Electrical breaker panel
- Trim around windows
- Baseboard trim
- The giant hole in the wall from when I once considered fixing some plumbing
Dude pointed out areas on the ceiling where the rafters did and did not have insulation piled on top of them. Real easy to fix, simply by adding just a bit more insulation, or just evening out what is currently up there. He also explained how to fix the other various leaks.
Last, he went around and replaced every single incandescent light bulb with the proper CFL bulb (19 total bulbs, some spiral, others look like regular bulbs), and replaced the shower head with a low flow one (~40% more efficient, and has massage mode!)
After the excitement died down, he pulled up graphs galore of our past 2 years of gas/electrical use, and the expected annual cost savings which could be achieved by fixing various things – more attic insulation $44, wall insulation $20, crawl space $9, air leaks $200, CFL bulbs $?, and some other things which I have since forgotten. Luckily, he'll be emailing me a copy of the entire report, along with pictures from the IR camera.
In conclusion, I think it was a pretty swell deal, and I recommend you go sign up too.
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Crashing, log attached. - Death-Axe - 2012-04-09 00:21
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Getting random crashes, sometimes it will just says program has stopped working, today it came up with a red error box said something about library dll. I THINK this is related to trakt utilities as it seemed to start happening after Isnstalled that. Can anyone confirm? I'll just get rid of the addon if it is.
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TRAKT is the last thing in your log. I'd disable it and see what happens.


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Barceló was born in 1929 with the vision of a decanter Julian Barceló, young Spanish entrepreneur, founded Barceló & Co. in the city of Santo Domingo in 1930. The brand quickly became a reference between local rums and one of the largest and most prestigious Dominican enterprises.
Barceló is among the 10 brands chosen by the IWSR (International Wine & Spirits Research) to form part of the exclusive Elite Brand's List. This award is granted to alcohol brands of all categories that sell about over 1 million cases worldwide, with 40% of its sales outside its core market. Barceló here has achieved the highest growth rate among all brands with which it shares this distinction.
Also it's important to highlight that only two brands of rum are in the Elite Brand's List being Barceló the only Dominican brand there in. Our products have competed with big international brands being elected, to satisfy even the most demanding taste panel of the most recognized organizations such as the San Francisco World Spirit Competition, Beverage Tasting Institute of Chicago and International Wine Spirit Competition..
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Overnight, the NYPD cleared out Zuccotti Park, attempting to attract as little media attention as possible. Helicopters were banned from the airspace above so no video was taken. BBC America had it covered long before CNN. Something seems fishy here.
In the clear out, over 5,000 OWS Library books were destroyed. Our freedom of speech is dwindling in these days. Believe what you will about what Occupy Wall Street is really about, but the way it has been handled by the government and media is a disturbing look at our future.
As a former journalist and now librarian, fighting for the power of free speech is innate with me. Seeing what the government is doing to silence it has me saddened and enraged at the same time.
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Hi, I'm planning on changing my valve cover gasket this weekend and I have all the tools and materials ready. I've done my research and feel confident I can do this project successfully. I just wanted to know if anyone knows the correct torque for the bolts. I know the criss cross tightening pattern however I still can't figure out what the correct torque for the bolts are. Anyone have any insight?
Surprisingly the TIS does not give the values in the valve cover document (normally they provide a link to torque values), you need to go into the tightening specs area to find the values. And over there they just give a value for each screw type.
I've attached the instructions and torque specs from my local copy of the TIS.
FYI 645Ci and 650i have identical instructions.
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Be careful getting the valve covers off. They will be stuck pretty hard. There are 2 Eccentric Shaft sensors on the back. It you lift the valve cover up from front to back, you can break a sensor. They cost 480.00 list price. Once again, be careful with these sensors. If you need any help, I will be glad to offer you any advice. Be prepared for 8 to 12 hours work! I would suggest changing the timing cover gaskets while you are act it. Make sure you have both male & female torx sockets, you will need both.
Good Luck
Thnx guys. I appreciate all the advice. I decided not to change the valve cover gasket yet. I think I'm going to do the timing cover gasket as well. So I need to gather some more stuff, do a bit more research, and I'll change both while I'm in there. I'll keep you all posted.
I used a small flat pry bar, & worked carefully around the corners. There is 1 bolt on the very back of the valve cover, that is kind of hard to get to. You will have a very hard time getting the valve covers off, if you do not remove the center section on the firewall. On the driver side, you will have to remove the fuel line & injectors. be very careful with the 2 vent tubes, that go to the front of the valve covers. The will most likely break getting them off. The heat takes a toll on them.
Good Luck!
are these the timing cover gaskets? all 3 of them?
Just get the top 2. The bottom one will require the engine to come out. They are cheap at your local BMW store. Should be no more than 30.00 for both!
I am just starting to do my research now I have to change my valve cover gaskets this weekend for sure judging but the constant stream of oil coming out. How much harder is it to replace the timing gaskets? It looks like you need to move a lot of hoses in order to get to all the bolts. I am not sure that I need the timing gaskets yet but the oil is coming from the corner of the valve cover and timing cover (appears from valve cover only). I want to be prepared to do all the work in case I have to fix it all. I will be working in a shop on a military base so the planning and time is very important.
The valve cover gaskets are around an 8 hour job. The 2 top timing cover gaskets add around an additional 2 hours. When removing the valve covers, be careful not to damage the 2 rear cam sensors. The firewall center piece must be removed to get the valve covers off. Make sure to replace the 2 cam sensor o-rings while the valve cover is off. Below is a link in case you need it. Have a magnet available if you drop any bolts!
Good Luck!
Hey guys I started working on the vehicle today my plans were to do the valve cover gaskets, timing cover gasket, and the alternator bracket gasket. As of right now I have worked on the vehicle for approximately 3 hours and have Been able to take off the driver side valve cover gasket and started working on the timing cover gasket. I have been running into a problem locating an easy way to get out the fifth bolt on the timing cover gasket. It appears that the bolt is located behind the alternator bracket. Is there an easy way to get this out without removing the alternator bracket or do I need to remove the alternator bracket in order to get out the last bolt on the timing cover. It seems like I am doing something wrong because everywhere I see it only calls for approximately 2 hours to replace the timing cover gaskets. I think what I am going to do tomorrow is start working on the alternator bracket to completely free up that area and see if I can get to the bolt on the timing cover gasket easier. Any advice would be helpful thanks.
I replied to your post int he other thread. Hopefully the reply will help you out.
Good luck.
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If you plan on replacing the alternator bracket gasket, go ahead & remove the alternator bracket. That is the hard part of getting to the o-ring. I don't think that you have to remove the alternator bracket, to get the timing cover off? I think that 1 bolt is hidden very well, that you might have missed.
In order to get The timing cover gasket off on the driver side I had to remove the alternator. I might have been able to get away with just unbolting the alternator, but I was having difficulties getting to the bolt so I took it out. I figured that since I was doing the alternator bracket I needed to take the alternator out anyways And this saved me some time. Yesterday I got the driver side valve cover and timing cover gasket completed and started working on the passenger side valve cover gasket. All that I have left on the passenger side is to put the sensors back in and put the bmw covers back on. You guys weren't joking when you said that the driver side is the worst valve cover gasket to do. I don't know if it was because I was going slow or not but the driver side took me approximately 5 hours to do. I have been working on the passenger side for approximately an hour and 15 minutes and it's almost done. So far I am sitting at about nine hours of work with roughly a half an hour of set up time for the last two days. Today I am going to finish up the valve cover gaskets and start working on the alternator bracket. I will let you guys know how things worked out. Thanks again
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I'm following your trail Medicus . Lots of work getting the gaskets done but you are gaining some valuable DIY knowledge. I wouldn't worry too much about the time it's taking you but making sure you do it right and making sure you replace all that you can replace while having it apart. This is your first time doing it so take your time and let us know how this turns out.
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I cant seem to get the power steering pump to come loose. I took the 2 bolts off in the front but it seems like it is still bolted in. Need advice
There is a allen head bolt up under the back side of the pump. If you raise the motor & remove the alternator, you can get to it a lot better. It is really hidden!
Well I had to give up on the alternator bracket for a little bit because I was running out of time before I had to go back to work. I had a little issue with the driver side valve cover not seating right so I had to re do it. As of right now it looks like I have to replace the vacuum pump o-ring and just burn off some oil that shot out from the first time I started it. I pulled out my helmet camera to look down into the engine bay and it appears that the valve cover gaskets are doing okay and that it is just oil around the exhaust smoking. I never had a smoking problem so I am really hoping that there isn't something else wrong that I did during the change. I haven't driven it much because I am also getting a code p0393 which was an issue before the change. The car still runs good under normal driving conditions its only at low idle when it messes up.
BMW 750Li 4.8 Liter Valve Cover Leaks Gasket Seal Replacement.
Please Note: I Replace right Side Left Side New Valve Covers.
Please Note: I Replace All 8 Spark Plug Tubes With New Spark Plug Tubes
Please Note: I Replace 4 Cam Sensors 2 On Each Valve Cover" With New Seals"
Depending on Miles May Be Good Time to Install New Spark Plugs And Coil Packs.... This one had 92,000 miles So 8 New Plugs.
NOTE NOTE NOTE - Warped Valve Covers - Major Cause Of Leak : http://www.fcpeuro.com/ - Purchase Valve Covers From fcpeuro.com
Note: Remove The center engine cover and Looking at your Plastic valve covers pop off the right and left side Valve cover facial covers, now on the drivers side Valve cover left side rear move your fingers slowly where the valve cover sits on the head .....Can you feel the gasket ..?? The Gasket is a Rubber seal TAKE NOTE: These plastic Valve Covers Warp .....there are 4 spark plugs tubes between the covers and the heads and the covers sitting on these tubes help cause the Warping ..
Take Note: Looking at the valve covers Bolts"..2 center by vanos piston and the 2 bolts with half moon notch on the heads These Bolts have to return back to where they removed from because the stops on them are different sizes to keep from cracking valve cover and insure the lower side of the valve covers will seal tight against the heads.
Caution tighten valve covers bolts in Multiple steps torque sequence
Up on replacement with new valve cover I set the new valve cover on head then from the top center of valve cover installed the new bolts and Lock seals just getting them started then the long front bolts then the 1 rear bolt that hides back at the cam sensors.
Now take one of the old top bolts with the half moon and get the bolt started center of lower side of the cover .....began to tighten the bolts Keeping in mind the Spark Plug tubes are holding the valve cover up and will set and seal as you tighten bolts in sequence starting from the center then out toward the ends.. Began to install new lower Valve cover bolts, when the valve cover spark plug tubes are seats into valve cover enough to allow lower bolts to reach and grab the studs threading .....Remember to Remove and replace the old half moon bolt you install on lower side of valve cover we use for valve cover with spark plug tube seating ..replace with new bolt and seal with shorter stop shank.
Take Note": This is not a fun job to do so I would Purchase new Valve Covers and New Spark Plug Tubes and when installation I used see through coat of lithium grease on the seals of the spark plug tubes and made sure there sitting completely in the head on reassembly. Also wiggle each spark plug tube when setting the new valve covers back on head to insure the tubes are aligning with new valve covers..
Disconnect Battery neg. terminal
Remove the Engine covers
Remove the Cabin Air Filters Covers
There is a metal Flex Lock on top of the inlet ducks use crow foot and release ducks from firewall.
Remove the rear center cross over 2 - 10 mm bolts left and right side
Remove the plastic locking seat 1 10 mm bolt from right passenger side Cabin air filter lock tab .....this is sitting over main wire harness box.
Remove the main wire harness box cover
Pull up on the main wire harness allowing you to move the wires to firewall
Remove the 2 torex bolts from center engine cover mounts, this will allow more travel for main wire harness to firewall use a bungee cord to hold out of way of valve cover ..
Remove the 2 cam sensor Male torxe screws and wiggle sensors our of cover
Remove 2 Screws holding plate on eccentric sensor remove the plate.
Stop--------------------------------Vanos Piston Removal-------------------
Mark the vanos piston and mount with marker or paint for reassembly 2 half's
Loosen 4 Allen bolts slowly there is pressure on piston
Hold down on piston when removing last Allen bolt then slowly lift then it will click releasing tension
There is a seal ring for Piston to mount seating I apply lithium grease reassembly
Remove the 4 toreax screws from Vanos piston mount and lift mount off valve cover up out of seal.
Remove the right / left engine air filters and 2 screws from the Ducking now remove Ducking.
Remove 2 Screws from the Antifreeze overfill bottle lift up to release from wheel well
Remove the large Vacuum line off Air pump right front of head going to Power Brake Booster Diaphragm .
Got to Left side back at power brake booster there is a cover 2 torex screws holding this cover keeping this vacuum line in channel support Remove.
Unlock this Vacuum line from power steering reservoir bottle and remove this vacuum line from car
Remove the Vacuum line from the Throttle body that travel to secondary air up over the power steering reservoir ..
Remove the 2 10 mm bolts holding the power steering Reservoir freeing the Bottle from mount.
Right side passenger unplug the coil packs and using flat edge unlock the harness and move harness over the engine
Loosen the ABS Pump
Remove 4 coil packs from cover there tight so take your time may need to move Abs Pump
Now Take your time ......The essentric Sensor stick up out of Valve cover back at cam sensors.
Remove the Valve cover bolts Keep in mind you have the 10 mm bolt that is back at the cam sensor
All bolts Removed wiggle and lift and wiggle valve covers up off spark plug tubes
These Valve covers have to come up over the Esentric Sensor in rear of valve cover first and when reassembly has to go over first ..... .....
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Remember of reassembly wipe the oil from spark plugs tube seats because this will cause misfire of engine .....
U can use light see through lithium grease on new spark plug tube seal for reassembly
The Left valve cover is the same TAKE NOTE:----------
On Removal of left valve cover there is 2 coolant hoses heater that will need to pushed under valve cover once free from spark plug tubes or you will have to disconnect the upper hose .....but makes mess with coolant.
Remember the cover lifts up over the Rear Esentric Sensor mount first and goes back over first on Reassembly.
That is about it .....Just take your time, force the valve cover off spark plug tubes, keep in mind of the 1 10 mm bolt back at cam sensors
My New Valve Covers Arrived With New Seal And Bolts.
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In the States, Amazon has done better in convincing the courts that the Amazon "appstore" name will not confuse Americans looking for the Apple App Store. As we reported, back in June a federal court in Oakland, California denied a request from Apple for a preliminary injunction against Amazon's use of the "appstore" name for its online repository of applications for Android phones. The court ruled that Apple had not shown a "likelihood of success" in the legal battle with Amazon.
U.S. District Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton wrote in her ruling that the court did not agree with Amazon that the "appstore" term is generic. At the same time, the court said that Apple's claim that the term "App Store" suggests its own online applications store is not the case, "as there appears to be no need for a leap of imagination to understand what the term means," wrote the Judge. The Judge also noted that Apple's basis for its legal action is the fear that Amazon would let inappropriate content, malware and viruses to enter its appstore and therefore harm the reputation of Apple's App Store. But the Judge says that this is not a valid concern for Apple since the Amazon appstore does not offer apps for any Apple device.
The U.S. portion of Apple v. Amazon, Inc. starts this coming October and before the fun and festivities start, you can expect Apple to challenge Amazon's use of the "appstore" name in other countries. After all, Amazon has seemed to cater a bit in Germany giving Apple brass the idea that if they rattle the cages a bit, Amazon will retreat for the moment although it does say that Apple's case is without merit.
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