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Soon the stockings will be hung by the chimney with care. The halls will be decked and Jack Frost will be here. But it isn't officially the holidays until Clara meets her Nutcracker Prince. There is something about seeing The Nutcracker come to life on stage that makes the magic of the season all the more magical. This year the Metropolitan Ballet Theatre invites your entire family to share in this timeless tradition.
The Metropolitan Ballet Theatre has been bringing life to this tale of holiday wonder with it's full-length traditional staging of The Nutcracker, since 1989. Year after year, audiences are enchanted by MBT's performances which feature student and professional dancers, fabulous costumes, and beautiful scenery – including a Christmas tree that seemingly grows forever, magical dancing dolls, marching toy soldiers, giant mice, a dazzling blizzard with dancing snowflakes and a land of luscious sweets.
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A New Era of Art essay
by Yi E, Researcher, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
After the founding of the People's Republic of China in October 1949, Chinese history turned a new page. It was also a new horizon for Chinese art, and the artworks produced at this time were vivid visual documents that recorded China's development.
A New Horizon: Chinese Contemporary Art includes 76 representative works from the past 60 years, which provide a window into the development of Chinese contemporary art. The exhibition is divided into three sections:
In the early years of the People's Republic of China, Chinese artists embraced the construction of New China. They took Mao's dictum 'Serving the people, serving the politics' as their motto, and their works reveal proud and happy workers and farmers. During this period, Chinese artists adopted 'socialist realist' modes of expression to depict the new face of China.
Chinese painting went through a series of transformations after 1949. Chinese painting had traditionally depicted the world in ideological rather than realist terms, and artists, often working in seclusion, were seen as separated from the real world. Now, art was being produced to serve the new political era, and took for its subject workers, peasants and soldiers. In terms of formal language, Chinese painting began to borrow painting techniques from Western realism. Chinese art began to represent and reflect the transformation of New China.
Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, landscape and 'flower-and-bird' paintings had been the most popular styles, expressing the philosophy that man is an integral part of nature, and a desire to be secluded from the rest of the world. After 1949, these styles lost their appeal, because they could not depict reality. In the mid-1950s, landscape painters and flower-and-bird painters began to search for ways in which they could combine their painting styles with this new desire to depict the real world. Artists, aspiring to eulogise New China, went out into the world to gain real life experiences to inform their art.
Even Chinese painters of the older generation, such as Qi Baishi and Huang Binhong, were inspired by the new times, and their works glowed with new splendour. Qi Baishi, whose works of art were appreciated by people from all walks of life, was included on a list of 'world cultural celebrities' in the 1950s. His flower-and-bird paintings combine intellectualism and rusticity, making him a master of his generation. Huang Binhong, in his later works, displays both a mastery of painterly skills, and a rich and sincere spirituality.
Other traditional landscape painters began to develop their styles to reflect the changing mood of China. Pan Tianshou eschewed the subtlety of traditional painting styles and developed a forceful and unique style. In his masterpiece, Flowers on Yandang Mountain, he adapted landscape and flower-and-bird painting techniques, combining ink-and-wash and oil painting styles with strong lines and bold colours.
Qian Songyan joined the Jiangsu Working Group of Traditional Chinese Painting organised by the Jiangsu Artists Association and embarked on a three-month journey to experience life and paint from these experiences. In the 1960s, after this ambitious pilgrimage, he created many landscape paintings that reflected the new Chinese society, including Changshu Farmland and Red Rock. He is seen as representative of the 'New Jinling Painting School', which advocated innovative landscape painting.
Lin Fengmian's landscape, flower-and-bird and still life paintings, which combine both Chinese and Western elements, were perfected in the 1950s. His paintings broke away from traditional forms to present a more accurate depiction of the landscape, imbued with an oriental poetic sensibility. In this way, a painting of birds in the night sky also represents the artist's deep personal feelings of loneliness. Lin's poetic expression influenced many younger generations of painters.
Realistic Chinese ink-and-wash figure painting thrived in the political climate of the mid-1950s. These paintings typically extolled the Communist party and workers, peasants and soldiers and reflected, in their literal and detailed style, the spiritual outlook of the broad masses of the people building New China. Consequently, they were extremely popular with the general public at that time.
These paintings absorbed the techniques of Western realism and were seen as a breakthrough in the development of traditional Chinese ink-and-wash figure painting.
In 1954, Zhou Changgu, an important artist of the 'New Zhejiang School of Chinese Figure Painting', travelled to the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, north-western China, and then Tibet, where he painted Two Lambs. The picture celebrates life through the chaste girl and the newborn animals. Produced in black ink with a touch of colour, the simplicity and spontaneity of the painting reveals the artist's extraordinary ability. In 1955, Two Lambs won a gold medal at the International Painting Competition of the Fifth World Youth Festival, and was quite influential at that time.
In the same year, Huang Zhou had a chance meeting with a group of geological explorers and their camels in Golmud, Qinghai province. Deeply impressed by dozens of robust camels and the energy and youth of the geological exploration team, he painted Snow in the Wilderness. The angle from which the artist paints the picture presents the geologists as heroes fearlessly marching on in the face of hardship. The painting techniques Huang adopted were quite innovative at the time, and this painting won a gold medal at the International Modelling and Practical Art Exhibition of the Sixth World Youth Festival in 1957.
Oil painting, which was originally introduced from Europe, was accorded great importance by the government and artists after the People's Republic of China was founded. It was seen as an ideal medium for presenting revolutionary historical themes. Artists enthusiastically embraced these new realistic styles to depict the construction of New China.
Ai Zhongxin's magnificent landscape, Road to Urumqi, was created in 1954, after Ai spent some time with the Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway engineering team in Wushaoling, western China. It depicts the strenuous working conditions in the imposing and precipitous Qilian mountains after the heavy May snowfalls.
Pan Shixun's Walking on the Road also drew on the theme of road construction. This painting depicts young Tibetan construction workers embracing their role in building a new socialist Tibet.
Dong Xiwen's Liberating the Ancient Land shows Tibetan farmers enthusiastically ploughing the land. The title of the painting has a double meaning: the tilling of the soil, and the liberation of Tibet.
Sculptors at this time also chose the styles of revolutionary realism to express historical revolutionary themes. Pan He's Hard Times is a very important representative work in the history of Chinese fine arts, and embodies the optimistic spirit of the revolution.
The Cultural Revolution was an extraordinary period in Chinese history and deeply affected Chinese art. Artists were urged to serve the political imperative, and works of art began to portray workers, peasants and soldiers as heroic figures, combining revolutionary realism and revolutionary romanticism.
Zhou Shuqiao's oil painting Spring Breeze and Willow is a representative work of this period.
The main figures in the painting are young educated people sent from cities to the countryside for re-education.
From 1968 until 1975, more than a hundred million young educated people left cities and went to the countryside and border regions to carry out revolutionary construction work. They became a popular subject for artists.
The bright colours and strong light in Spring Breeze and Willow emphasise the positive emotions in the painting and the title refers to new beginnings and the desire of these young intellectuals to embrace this new life.
View a slideshow of artworks from the New China period
After the reform and opening up of China that started in 1978 under leader Deng Xiaoping, new ideological trends began to emerge in the development of Chinese art. Artists were influenced by a huge increase in their exposure to Western contemporary art. They broke free from purely realistic styles and were encouraged to experiment in modernist art practices, and also began to re-examine traditional forms of art. The combination of the spiritual expression of traditional Chinese painting with Western modes of abstraction and expressionism created a dynamic and innovative style of Chinese art during this period.
Oil painting began to evolve in exciting ways. Artists experimented with Western techniques at the same time as they reflected on history, and various ideological trends emerged. In the late 1970s, Chinese people started to question the Cultural Revolution, and 'Scar Art' became the representative movement.
Cheng Conglin's Snow, XX 1968 is perhaps the most important example of the genre. In it, Cheng, using a critical realist approach, depicts a fictional street fight, set in 1968 during the Cultural Revolution. By underscoring the cruelty and stupidity of the event the painter shows his criticism of that period of history.
Another representative work of Scar Art is He Duoling's Youth, which portrays a young educated woman who has been sent from the city to the countryside for re-education. The subject of this painting, confused about the current situation and what her future holds, can be seen as representative of that generation of educated young people who were sent to the countryside.
During this period, artists broke away from previous stylised techniques of expression and began to produce epic works of inspirational appeal. Red Star Over China, a large-scale history painting by Shen Jiawei, is composed of six panels and portrays 124 people, of which 102 represent real figures in Chinese revolutionary history, including Chinese revolutionary leaders such as Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Liu Shaoqi and Zhou Enlai.
In the 1980s and 1990s, a number of ideological trends and painting styles gained popularity in artistic circles. These included 'local realism', which aims to represent the culture and traditions of rural life, 'neoclassicism' introduced from Europe, and 'expressionism', 'surrealism' and 'hyperrealism' that borrowed ideas from Western modernism.
Traditional Chinese ink-and-wash painting also underwent great change in this period. Pure realist styles and traditional brushwork techniques were re-examined, and Chinese painting began to take on a completely new look, openly borrowing ideas from Western art. The subject of the painting no longer drove the artistic technique, and artists began to pay attention to the noumenon of art. Wu Guanzhong's work, Spring Snow, uses large ink spots and rhythmic lines to create a semi-abstract expression of mountains covered by spring snow. In doing so he combines the Western painting language of formalism with the brushstrokes of traditional Chinese freehand painting.
Many works of this time used melting spring snow for their subject.
For example, Revival, painted by Song Yugui and Feng Dazhong, uses a light and elegant painting technique to depict ice and snow melting in early spring. It also expresses the painters' elation at breaking through traditional artistic boundaries.
Ma Shulin's Geese and Lu Yushun's Landscape, which also highlight the importance of formalism, were painted with exquisite lines and subtle colour to express the rhythm of nature.
German expressionism also attracted a large number of Chinese painters with its strong and subjective symbolism. Artists could now express themselves in uninhibited ways, and expressive ink paintings were created in large numbers. Rather than mimicking physical reality, artists adopted a deformed and exaggerated painting language to express their subjective feelings.
Taihangshan Steel Wall, painted by husband-and-wife team Yang Lizhou and Wang Yingchun in 1984, is an important artwork in this genre. This painting, which was awarded a gold medal at the Sixth National Arts Exhibition, is considered to be a masterpiece and was a breakthrough in the creation of the artists' unique style. The group of revolutionary leaders appear to have been carved out of the mountains, symbolising the resilience of the Chinese people.
Li Laoshi's ironically titled Lotus Pond without Lotus Buds is an important expressionist flower-and-bird painting. The lotus has always been a popular subject for traditional Chinese painters, as a romanticised and pure bloom emerging from the muddy pond. Li uses dark ink, scattered lines and thick composition to depict lotuses in various states: blooming, withered, fluttering in the wind — the lotuses truly reflect the painter's mood.
Since 2000, against the backdrop of globalisation, Chinese art has embraced international trends. Chinese artists' knowledge of world culture has rapidly increased. They have used this new global outlook to combine traditional Chinese artistic practices with Western art styles to create new, energetic and experimental forms of art that reveal the vitality, colour and multiculturalism of China today.
In the new century, Chinese ink-and-wash paintings have continued to display strong revolutionary awareness as well as a spirit of experimentation.
On the one hand, traditional Chinese painters are searching for a painting language that can convey all aspects of contemporary life with an expressive force.
On the other, they are devoting themselves to capturing the spirit of the times and protecting the artistic value of contemporary Chinese painting, in order to consolidate its place within the international art scene — globalisation has become the focus.
Traditional Chinese painter Liu Qinghe is a prominent figure in the use of contemporary ink-and-wash painting to reflect contemporary life. Skilled in expressing urban life, Liu vividly portrays the hopelessness of urban dwellers. His ink painting technique has broken through traditional constraints, and successfully portrays people's living conditions and mental states.
Oil painting has continued to proliferate in the new century, and realistic, expressive and abstract painting styles have flourished. Liu Xiaodong and his wife Yu Hong paint in a realistic style, portraying and critiquing daily life in modern China. Xu Jiang's work shows the influence of neo-expressionism, and he has created works that reflect the vicissitudes of history. Meng Luding's, Ding Yi's, and Li Lei's abstract styles reveal the contemporary painters' search for a pure painting language.
During this period the development of new art media has been prominent. New media artists, such as Miao Xiaochun, have applied emerging technologies to express their artistic thoughts and depict modern life. In addition, as artists began to combine various media and materials, the boundaries between different types of art have merged, making traditional art classifications no longer important. The application of varied materials in these artworks has not only broken through existing artistic boundaries but has also created a currency in these works. Shang Yang and Wang Huaiqing have made exciting achievements in this field.
New English Calligraphy, a series of works produced by Xu Bing, is innovative in a different way, presenting the Western alphabet in the style of traditional Chinese calligraphy. The boundary between sculpture and installation art has also become ambiguous.
Artists are now free to mix materials in any way they please, which allows them to create works of strong artistic expression. However, Li Xiangqun's Marching on the Road is a sculpture that uses traditional techniques. Li's hyperrealistic depiction of Chinese leader Mao Zedong is both imposing and elegant. But this sculpture endows the leader with human qualities, whereas previous sculptures of this kind portrayed the leader as a sacred figure.
Zhan Wang's series of sculptures entitled 'Rockery design' are representative of contemporary sculptural approaches. Zhan imitated the stones used in rockeries in traditional Chinese gardens but created them out of stainless steel, a material used in modern industry. Are the shining stainless steel rockery stones and the actual rockery stones used in classical gardens real or fake? The sculptures have, therefore, posed questions about tradition and modernism, nature and artifice, authenticity and forgery.
View a slideshow of artworks from the New Century period
After the People's Republic of China was founded, Chinese contemporary arts have been closely related to social reality in China. Works of art have echoed the age, and artistic impulse has been consistent with the rhythm of the times. As rich visual documents, contemporary art has vividly recorded the development of Chinese society. I firmly believe that, through these splendid works of contemporary art, Australian people can truly know the vitality and vibrancy of China today.
Yi E
Researcher, National Art Museum of China


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Did you know that Texans researching their family trees have a public library Internet service that's free for the asking? It's TexShare, sponsored by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Just go to your local library and request a TexShare logon and password. When you get home and log on, you will find that you have access to HeritageQuest's census records and its other research materials.
Also, available to you will be Texas Digital Sanborn Maps, Handbook of Texas Online and Texas Reference Center.
And those are just a few of the many free available resources. If you want a printout to take with you to the library, go to http://www.texshare.edu/


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Aparato Jewelry Large Hoop Earring - Brass
$ 74.50
These bad ass earrings are made out of brass. T
he unique hoop is crafted by a special process that hollows the earring, lightening it, thus giving it less pull to the ear lobe.
Secured with a huggie hoop (hidden into its other side) backing.


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Guy scammed me/found out a way to meet him.
So I tried buying a fairly expensive guitar offline from what seemed like a reputable seller with pictures and previous posts only to be left without a response once the money was sent and I doubt Paypal is going to find it and refund it to me. Did some deep Googling on his e-mail and found on a forum that he was asking for oxy/downers and would meet somebody for them (stand up guy I know.) You all seem to be experts in the law/courses of action in these situations.
So OT... wat do?
Doesnt paypal cover this sort of thing? I thought that was the whole reason we used PayPal lol. If you do something like that (sting operation lol) you should probably get the police? Idk.
Phone pay pal right away, They always side with the buyer and will get you your money back, They are the middle man to protect you
call paypal but still run a sting operation
OP probably did not send paypal as a payment for goods ... and does not receive their purchase protection
How much?
So you want to confront a drug addict and demand cash money be returned that you sent electronicaly? Doesn't sound like it could ever come to a positive conclusion no matter how it went down.
Guitar guy probably allready sniffed a pile of oxys bought with your money while his hipster girlfriend and bros were laughing in his mothers basement about how good his scam works.
sent from my ATARI sc1224
I did send the payment for goods. I didn't know Paypal could still refund it I assumed that he had transferred it out of his account the day I sent it. I already filed my claim just like I said thought they wouldn't be able to find the money. Crisis averted.
so you came to e46 fanatics for justice with your first post?
Paypal won't do jack sh!t for you unless it was bought from ebay.
They will probably get your money back.
Do a charge back on your credit card. And meet him, beat the **** out of him then rob him. After you rob him, kick him in the balls and say karma is a biitch and walk away.
"So, you're saying that you think your billionaire boss is a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare fists. And you want to blackmail this man?"
I think you should meet him. Bring lots of guns. Maybe you should get drunk first too.
Reminds of the thread where F2B was going to meet a guy in a parking garage that owed him money.
What kind of guitar did you "purchase?"
In before both the OP and drug addict scumbag wind up in a jail cell, shuffling around with no shoe laces and eating bad bologna sandwiches.
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CANADA STOCKS-Futures point to flat start for Canadian stocks
June 19 (Reuters) - Canadian stocks looked set to open flat on Thursday, with June futures on the S&P TSX index <0#SXF:> up 0.01 percent at 0715 ET.
The index reached its highest level in six years on Wednesday and came within striking distance of its all-time high after the U.S. Federal Reserve shed some light on its plans to raise interest rates.
No major Canadian economic data is scheduled for release on Thursday.
Dow Jones Industrial Average e-mini futures were up 0.01 percent at 0715 ET, while S&P 500 e-mini futures were down 0.01 percent. Nasdaq 100 e-mini futures were up 0.07 percent.
(Morning News Call newsletter link.reuters.com/nex49s; The Day Ahead newsletter link.reuters.com/mex49s)
BlackBerry Ltd reported a narrower than expected adjusted loss even as revenue fell in the midst of the troubled smartphone maker's turnaround push.
Enbridge Inc said on Wednesday its CFO, Richard Bird, would retire at year end. It also said that its plan to replace the Line 3 oil pipeline carrying Alberta crude oil to the United States will be more expensive than originally estimated, pegging the cost at C$7.5 billion.
Quebecor Inc would consider buying small rivals to become a national wireless carrier that reaches most Canadians, its new CEO said on Wednesday. Continued...


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No need to visit City Hall! Home owners, property owners and contractors can use this process.
The Online Permits process allows property owners and licensed contractors to obtain simple no-plan Electrical, Plumbing and Mechanical permits for minor residential installations via the internet at their convenience. Online permits can be issued where work does not require any type of plan review. See information bulletin 103 at https://www.sandiego.gov/sites/default/files/dsdib103.pdf for details.
The following types of work may be permitted through On-line Permits:
- Electrical - meter reset, adding 15 amp circuits, miscellaneous wiring (relocate electrical outlets, re-wiring, etc.);
- Plumbing - water heater replacement, water or sewer piping repair, gas line repair, repair/ replacing drains, backflow preventer
- Mechanical - installation or replacement of Forced Air Unit (FAU) and Air Conditioner (A/C) units, exhaust fans, in a home or a unit.
Online permitting is open 24 hours, seven days a week. However, permits are processed only until 3:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. For additional information, please review our Frequently Asked Questions.
Please complete and Email the following information to [email protected]: (In order to make sure you receive our email, please add us to your safe sender list).
- A completed General Application Form (DS-3032) is needed in order to schedule the correct inspector for your project and to avoid delays in inspections, the project description should include a general description of the work to be performed, the use of the building and suite number (see examples below).
- An Electrical, Plumbing and/or Mechanical Permit Worksheet located in SimplEPermit Fee Worksheets (DS-145).
- Owner-Builders should also complete the Owner-Builder Verification form (DS-3042). Note: Signatures on the Owner-Builder Verification form must be notarized per state law.
You should receive the permit and invoice within one to two business days with instructions on how to pay your invoice online. An inspection may be scheduled once the invoice has been paid. Note: The inspection contact phone number on record is needed to access our online OpenDSD scheduling system. The inspection contact will be the contractor listed on the General Application or the property owner for permits issued to owner-builders.
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In order to schedule the correct inspector for your project and to avoid delays in inspections, the project description shall include a general description of the work to be performed, the use of the building and unit number (see examples below).
Replace furnace in a house/duplex
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New Hajdu essay published in anthology, 'In Their Lives: Great Writers on Great Beatles Songs.'
'Love for Sale' named one of Best Books of 2016 by Publisher's Weekly.
Excerpt from 'Love for Sale' published in 'The Chronicle of Higher Education.'
New book by Hajdu published: 'Love for Sale: Pop Music in America.'
Read reviews of 'Love for Sale.
Song by Hajdu and Fred Hersch, "The Christmas Tree," on new album "A New York Holiday."
Choral work by Renee Rosnes and Hajdu, 'Still,' recorded by the Boston Conservatory Choral Ensemble.
Waiting for the Angel, concert of songs with words by Hajdu, staged at Rockwood Music Hall.
First album of songs with Hajdu's lyrics, Waiting for the Angel, released.
Read Hajdu's writing for The Nation.
Hajdu signs with W.W. Norton for his first work of fiction, a satiric faux biography, 'The Song Was He: The Story of an Unsung Star.'
News: Hajdu joins The Nation as Music Critic.
Hajdu wins Lifetime Achievement Award.
Essays by Hajdu included in four anthologies.
New York Times Magazine editors pick Hajdu's 'Lush Life' for list of 100 best nonfiction books of all time.
Musical collaboration with Jill Sobule, 'Dottie's Charms,' presented by Harper's magazine.
Graphic essay by Hajdu and artist John Carey published in new anthology.
Songs by Renee Rosnes and Hajdu in concert, 'The New Wave: The Best of the Rising Songwriters'.


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Overview of Federal Statutory Health Care Provider Conscience Protections
The federal health care provider conscience protection statutes protect health care provider conscience rights.
They prohibit recipients of certain federal funds from discriminating against health care providers who refuse to participate in certain health care services on religious or moral grounds.
The Church Amendments
The conscience provisions contained in 42 U.S.C. § 300a-7 et seq., collectively known as the "Church Amendments," were enacted in the 1970s to protect the conscience rights of individuals and entities that object to performing or assisting in the performance of abortion or sterilization procedures if doing so would be contrary to the provider's religious beliefs or moral convictions. This provision also extends protections to personnel decisions and prohibits any entity that receives a grant, contract, loan, or loan guarantee under certain Department-implemented statutes from discriminating against any physician or other health care personnel in employment because the individual either performed, or refused to perform an abortion if doing so would be contrary to the individual's religious beliefs or moral convictions.
Public Health Service Act § 245
Enacted in 1996, section 245, contained in 42 U.S.C. § 238(n), prohibits the federal government and any state or local government receiving federal financial assistance from discriminating against any health care entity on the basis that the entity: 1) refuses to undergo training in the performance of induced abortions, to require or provide such training, to perform such abortions, or to provide referrals for such training or such abortions; 2) refuses to make arrangements for such activities; or 3) attends (or attended) a post-graduate physician training program, or any other program of training in the health professions, that does not (or did not) perform induced abortions or require, provide, or refer for training in the performance of induced abortions, or make arrangements for the provision of such training.
The Weldon Amendment
The Weldon Amendment was originally passed as part of the HHS appropriation and has been readopted (or incorporated by reference) in each subsequent HHS appropriations act since 2005. It provides that "[n]one of the funds made available in this Act [making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education] may be made available to a Federal agency or program, or to a state or local government, if such agency, program, or government subjects any institutional or individual health care entity to discrimination on the basis that the health care entity does not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortions." It also defines "health care entity" to include "an individual physician or other health care professional, a hospital, a provider-sponsored organization, a health maintenance organization, a health insurance plan, or any other kind of health care facility, organization, or plan."
The Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act (Pub. L. No. 111-148 as amended by Pub. L. No. 111-152) includes new health care provider conscience protections within the health insurance Exchange program. Section 1303(b)(4) of the Act provides that "No qualified health plan offered through an Exchange may discriminate against any individual health care provider or health care facility because of its unwillingness to provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortions." A recent Executive Order affirms that under the Affordable Care Act, longstanding federal health care provider conscience laws remain intact, and new protections prohibit discrimination against health care facilities and health care providers based on their unwillingness to provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortions. Executive Order 13535, "Ensuring Enforcement and Implementation of Abortion Restrictions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" (March 24, 2010).


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I have officially added--via a gun show deal!--a CZ P-06 to my carry rotation! :danceban: First, some gun porn starring what I think is a fantastic firearm:
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I really enjoyed shooting this .40, possibly even more than my Glock 23 (jury's still out)! I've put something like 300 rounds through it so far with only 2 'failure to feed' when shooting bagged ammo I bought from the same gun show--last time I do that--where I bought this CZ. I have had no issues whatsoever with my new carry ammo (HST's) or Federal range ammo.
Possibly most important of all, I feel more accurate with this firearm than my Glock-- barely need to pull the trigger to fire in SA!
And this is also my first exposure to night sights (uh, no pun intended) and I'm kinda diggin' em:
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Now, a quick question for those already in the CZ 'know':bowdown::
This firearm has a decocker lever, thus the three positions the hammer can be in are: DA/SA/half-cock action. In the pictures you can see DA then SA; half-cock action puts the hammer about 60-75% toward the DA position from full SA mode.
From a quick search on the forum, I found this written by Cloudpeak on another thread:
With this post (and practicing it unloaded), I'm fairly confident I can lower the hammer to full DA position without the round being fired. But I'd like to have the general CZ crowd help prevent me from wrecking my so-far-clean accidental discharge record. Also, I'm pretty sure I'd break a couple fingers in the process if that slide ran through them, and that'd be no fun at all. So can the hammer be manually lowered to the DA position from the SA position safely, or am I risking phalanges?Quote:
To clarify: On DA/SA CZ's, you can manually lower the hammer (on a live round. Practice doing this with an empty pistol and be safe) and then fire the pistol double action for the first shot. It's a long, heavy double action. The safety can't (and doesn't need to be) engaged when you do this. All following shots are single action. Or, you can carry with the hammer back and the safety engaged as you would a 1911.
Thanks for the help guys and gals :wave:


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French and Russians fight Alzheimer's disease with Chess and TelePresence
Last week, the French Embassy in Moscow and Cisco successfully completed a Russia-France virtual chess tournament that wasn't exactly your average everyday chess tournament type.
The tournament aimed at increasing awareness and research to fight Alzheimer's disease. The two day event was supported by Cisco, IBM, The French Presidential Commission On Alzheimer Disease, French Ministry of Healthcare, Moscow State Healthcare University, University Hospital of Nice, Chess Federations of Russia and France. Additionally, the tournament was attended by Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess grandmaster and winner of the multiple world chess championships, French Grand Master Joel Lautier and Anatoly Weisser, current world champion in the seniors category.
Over the course of two days, Russian and French teams of eight chess players competed in an immersion collaborative experiences using Cisco TelePresence rooms located in Cisco offices in Moscow and Nice. Simultaneously, players were closely observed by medical specialists who monitored their cardiac and cerebral reactions.
All players were senior citizens who were at least 60 years old. One of the French participants was 94 while notably, another chess player from Russia, born 86 years ago was a decorated WWII veteran.
By the end of the tournament, a trilateral press conference was held with journalists participating from Moscow, Paris and Nice on TelePresnece and WebEx who discussed topics related to the fight against Alzheimer's disease and the role technology can play in advancing the research to defeat it.
Journalists engaged in lively conversations with speakers that included Karpov, Weisser, Lautier and senior healthcare experts from France and Russia. Weisser referred to TelePresnce as a fantastic technology, while healthcare specialists from both countries described this project as a breakthrough in terms of increasing research and effort to prevent Alzheimer disease.
The French counselor for social affairs at the French embassy in Moscow called the event as an "excellent conclusion of the Year of France in Russia and Russia in France".
I will leave you below with some snapshots from this amazing event!
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Asus claim up to 18 hours of HD video playback with the Prime's dock, or 12 hours without. If these numbers seem unlikely for a quad-core tablet, it's important to remember that, unlike Tegra 2, its successor is a fully scalable architecture. Not only can Tegra 3 dynamically balance load across all four of its main cores (which can clock in at up to 1.4GHz for a single core or 1.3GHz across all), but it can completely turn them off too. Yes, all four of them. You see, there's actually a fifth 'companion core' integrated into the chipset, which can handle idle modes or low-level tasks such as word processing. This unit uses less power than a single 'regular' core, allowing Nvidia to accurately claim its latest quad-core chip will consume less power than Tegra 2's dual-core arrangement (and indeed those of most rival chips) in many scenarios. In other words, anyone who thinks tablets don't need quad-core, here you get better performance married to better battery life, so there's no reason for complaint.
Indeed, the Transformer easily matches the best of the competition where battery life is concerned. We measured over nine hours of SD video playback (sans dock), and in a test simulating average use (screen brightness at 50 percent, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on, some standby periods) the tablet alone managed a whopping 14 hours! Throw in the dock and this extends even further, though battery life won't double as it did for the original Transformer since the dock's battery size (and thus capacity) had to be reduced to maintain its slimness. It's worth pointing out that the dock actually charges the tablet while the two are connected - as long as it has charge to give, obviously, otherwise it drains the device.
So how does Asus' new Transformer Prime compare to the rest of the market, and perhaps more importantly, to its predecessor (which will continue to be available at a reduced price of around £380 with dock as a budget option)? Well, aside from kicking the stuffing out of Decepticons, the Prime also pretty much beats every other Android tablet out there without exception. The only tablet that offers more versatility than the Prime is Lenovo's ThinkPad tablet, which includes a pressure-sensitive stylus in addition to a keyboard folio case that's great to type on. But it's nowhere near as slim, light, stylish or powerful, nor is its IPS screen as good.
As a tablet, meanwhile, Asus' second Transformer is thinner and nearly as light in the hand as the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, while offering a brighter screen and far more connectivity, storage and power. And as mentioned in our Transformer Prime VS iPad 2: Battle of the Tablet Titans piece, it beats the mighty iPad 2 in many regards too, especially if you're more interested in productivity and video playback than app choice and gaming.
The craziest part is that, if the UK MSRP of £499 holds up, it will cost only £20 more than a 32GB iPad 2, and that's with the keyboard dock included, making it an absolute bargain.
So is the Prime the perfect tablet? Not quite. Until the aforementioned update to ICS arrives, Apple's iOS still offers a smoother and more attractive tablet OS. Android's app selection and security is also several levels below what you currently get with the iPad, though this situation is improving. On the hardware front, meanwhile, there's still no sign of a 3G option in either original or new Transformer. We also feel that despite its better build quality and more attractive design, the dock has taken a few steps back compared to its predecessor: the keyboard is shallower and we really do miss that second full-size USB 2.0 port. If you don't need the benefits Tegra 3 brings to the table, you might be better off with the £380 original.
However, at just under £500 the Prime's really a bit of a bargain. It can even be used as a netbook or laptop replacement if you're happy with its limitations, and dare we say should run Windows 8 beautifully when that OS comes out, expanding its flexibility further.
Asus' Tranformer Prime is a thing of beauty. Despite being easily as thin and light as most rivals, this aluminium-clad tablet is far more powerful thanks to its quad-core Tegra 3 internals. This also means that smooth 1080p video playback on a tablet and console-quality gaming on Android are finally realities, and the Prime shows them off on the best tablet screen we've yet seen.
The keyboard dock is the icing on a very tasty cake, and though there are a few concessions compared to the original Transformer's dock, it's still an amazing add-on that not only makes the Prime one of the most versatile devices on the market, but also one of the longest-lasting. Quite simply, the Transformer Prime is the best Android tablet available and arguably the best tablet per se.
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If I was Google, I'd be working my butt off to make sure that my tablet/phone OS was extremely Desktop friendly. What I mean is hurry up the VLC Media Player guys to release for Android, with Google Music or something like it, make an interface like iTunes so sync between your tablet and phone and PC. (Make software that comes with the OS that syncs music between your tablet and ipod for that matter, something Apple refuses to do for their iPad.) Create drivers that work with things like Samsungs USB external DVD writer... If Google don't knuckle down and get to work on this, they will have their heads kicked in when Windows 8 get's released for the Asus Transfomer Prime....
This is EASILY the best tablet on the market! beats any tablet/pad! - Quad-core yet excellent battery life (fantastic achievement) - Superb design, top-notch performance. - Super slick and smooth UI! all this for only 499 euros Love it!
This does look like a gorgeous bit of kit. Hats off to Asus!! However, (inevitably) I do have a slight gripe! Inferior dock, smudge prone metal, top heavy screen and poor speaker position.......you still give it 9/10 for design!?!? All the other catogaries I would say fair enough.
I have been waiting for this tablet for what seems like an eternity. Just ordered it (from Ebuyer, you cannot beat them when it comes to quick shipping). I just hope it arrives before I spend some time in hospital in mid-January.
Even though Honeycomb isn't quite sufficient to make me give up replacing my iPad with the next model (although that's as much down to my purchased apps as anything), this makes me incredibly hopefuly for Windows 8 and a world where I won't need both a laptop and a tablet but one device that does both tasks perfectly well. Bravo Asus.
1080p playback on a 1280x800 screen? Um. Am I missing something?
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No 3G is the deal breaker. NBG.
Agree completely @jsg, I can't fathom why Google won't make a proper media player for Android, for example. After all, if Samsung can get most 720p video to run smoothly on Tegra 2 with a little extra programming elbow grease, why can't Google who actually make the OS?
Waiting for that day too. Lenovo's ThinkPad Android Tablet came so close to being an all-in-one champion (review will be up soon), just wish it had Tegra 3 inside... Regardless, I predict Windows 8 will be the driving force behind a higher level of (blessed) device integration, which we're already seeing on the hardware side with the likes of the Asus Prime and PadFone.
Yes you are, the video is still in 1080p, it's just downscaled; the processing required doesn't become less intensive. Also of course, you can output to a Full HD TV or monitor through HDMI to show off 1080p content with all its pixels intact :)
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There have been rumours of a 3G version coming in the near future and you can use a dongle with the dock, but I do agree that right now it's very annoying not to have the option integrated...
I do agree with you, but perfect products are far and few between, and that's why it's 9/10 rather than 10/10. As a tablet the Prime well deserves that score, as it's one of the sleekest, best-built and best-looking models available despite its love of fingerprints. Also, most of the niggles concern the dock which is a detachable bonus.
This tablet is very nice for the price I paid. Don't expect the brightness and clarity you see on an Apple iPad which costs $100-150 more, but you won't be disappointed with the screen. The tablet is very responsive, apps open quickly and touch functionality is very adequate. I've had no issues with wi-fi or GPS. If you have wi-fi connection issues, it could be your brand of router or your router security settings (try different security protocols, WPA-AES, WPA-TKIP, etc.) What I like most about the Android OS is the freedom to customize the device, as well as the ability to easily copy pictures, music and other data from a PC to the device. Connecting the Transformer to a PC allows you to do this without any additional, cumbersome software (i.e. iTunes).
Nvidia plan to incorporate a 3G modem into their upcoming SOCs, so perhaps the Asus Transformer Optimus of 2013 with a 2400 by 1600 screen will have the 3G option built in. I wouldn't be surpised to see this in a year's time (that's if the economy hasn't collapsed), as Asus seem to be on a twice-yearly update schedule for their tablets.
From what I can gather, an integrated 3G option is planned before then. Mmmm, Transformer with 2400x1600 screen [drools]
well so much so this android tablet - the price is really high for both 32gb and 64gb and that dock not included in either case......i have acer iconia w500 which is a FULL windows FULL touchscreen computer and guess what dock comes included in the w500 package and one more thing the display is almost as good as transformer....need i say anything further !
i want asus to lower the price of these new TFs as they are just tablets NOT FULL OS [windows] computers , mind u
A nice review.... Thanks!
I had a play with one at Currys yesterday (with ICS). All that you say about the beautiful construction and display is true.
Where my experience became disappointing was:
1) the apps. The beautiful screen only served to highlight the substandard quality of many of the essential apps (for eductional purposes). Akin to a webcam jpeg blown up to poster-size. (Not the fault of Asus, one hastens to add)
2) the virtual keyboard in landscape mode was like an enormous, trackless waste (No Country For Old Typists)
3) for nimbleness and efficiency when working with academic materials from a range of sources to a range of destinations, I remain to be convinced that the Android approach (as it stands) gives anywhere near the benefits of IOS (where everything works together to facilitate mobile online research and education).
A beautiful machine, undoubtedly. But, as I played with it, I found my eyes wandering to a nearby 'budget' Macbook Air which, with university educational discount, is not that much more expensive.... And with which I think you are probably getting somewhat more..
It might have been nice if you had given greater emphasis to the current weakness of the Android experience when apps are taken into account.
If you like it that much you'll have visited your own site and noticed that you're not serving Android tablet users the desktop version.
Any chance? You are almost as bad as The Guardian.
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Rory McIlroy posted a three-over 75 in his first round on American soil since The Masters when, well, no need to beat a dead horse. We all know what happened on the last nine holes on Sunday.
After the disappointing round, Rory and Ian Poulter proceeded to entertain us on Twitter with some playful banter, a la trash talking. It started with Rory recapping his round with this Tweet:
"Not the start I was looking for! Struggled with my balls striking today which is unusual for me. Hit it better on the range afterwards."Ian took the opportunity to take a little jab at the fact Rory was not playing next week at The Players:
@mcilroyrory well you better pull your finger out or you can come help me iron my outfits for TPC over this weekend. Keep you busy.Rory responded to Ian's trash talking with a little of his own:
@IanJamesPoulter not really, there will only be 2 outfits to iron ;)In your face, Ian! You got that, he's saying you're going to miss the cut! Not to be outdone, Ian delivered the knockout punch with this Tweet and the picture posted.
Read very closely @McIlroyRory this will definitely help.The best part about Ian and Rory's exchange is some people responded to Ian saying he was being a jerk for posting that picture. Ian defended himself saying:
Guys you need to lighten up it's called banter between mates. It's fully acceptable and expected it's how we all have so much fun.I agree with Ian, people need to relax. Even Rory thought the picture was funny:
@IanJamesPoulter when did you get that sign?? You have to make the weekend to use one of those!! Must be last year's issueAh, Twitter is great! If you guys still don't have a Twitter account, you're really missing out. Until I'm convinced every oobgolfer has a Twitter account, I will continue to fill you in on the goings in the world of Twitter.
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lol it's good that Rory can joke about it. I hope it doesn't become a habit with him though... the choking that is. it was painful to watch and as good as it is to just get over it and move on, hopefully it lot a fire under him to work on his closing an keep a better mental mindset.
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While the cat's away the mouse will play right? Apparently Zayn Malik thinks so and while his girlfriend Perrie Edwards is busy working in America, he's only gone and got himself another tattoo….. and a big one at that!
The One Direction star is turning his body into a bit of a gallery for talented tattoo artists and another inking has been unveiled this evening on Twitter.
Zayn is in the middle of a week off from all things work related and today he journeyed down to Brighton to visit Bob Done's studio, Magnum Opus, and had a dark and scary skull drawn on his left shoulder.
The skull is wearing a quirky looking top hat, has horns and is smoking a cigar.
Bob shared a photo of the tattoo on Twitter with the caption:
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Zayn has had eight tattoos previously and the inkings include a playing card, a microphone, a Yin Yang symbol and a pair of crossed fingers. He has now added a skull to the list.
Malik follows in the footsteps of his bandmate Louis Tomlinson, who unveiled two new tattoos yesterday, one on his chest and one on each ankle.
One Direction fans don't seem to be very appreciative of the excessive body art though and one tweeted:
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Boston University is officially on top of the college hockey world after beating No. 3 Northeastern 5-2 for their record 29th Beanpot crown. Zach Cohen scored a first period power play goal, Nick Bohino (the Beanpot's MVP) scored the second for his third goal of the tournament, and a third period goal from Jason Lawrence to put the Terriers ahead for good. BU added two late shorthanded goals at 13:54 and 14:24 from David Warsofsky and Colin Wilson, respectively, to put the game out of reach.
Mike McLaughlin and Tyler McNeely scored for the Huskies, but their effort was not enough as Terriers goalie Kieran Millan was sharp. Millan finished with 23 saves on 25 shots, including 12 saves in the third period alone as the Huskies scrambled to score.
BU, on the strength of a first round Beanpot win over Harvard and a conference win over UMass-Lowell, earned 49 of 50 first place votes and 999 total points in the latest USCHO.com/CBS College Sports Division I Men's Hockey Poll. Notre Dame remains second and took the remaining first place vote. The Terriers are unbeatable at the moment, winning eight straight and 13 of 14 as they cruised to a Beanpot win against Northeastern.
The Huskies dominated BC in their Beanpot semifinal and defeated Merrimack in league play to retain their ranking. No word on whether their loss against BU will affect next week's ranking. Michigan and Vermont complete the top five and Cornell, Miami, Denver, Princeton, and Yale round out the largely unchanged top ten. New Hampshire fell one spot to 12 and BC dropped three to 15 to complete the five Hockey East schools represented in the polls.
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- The Miami Hurricanes baseball team took part in a special exhibition Saturday night at Alex Rodriguez Park, facing off against the Wounded Warriors Amputee Softball Team in a seven-inning softball exhibitiion.
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Senior Jeff Parkinson (Aurora, Colo./Smoky Hill), junior Aaron McLachlan (Arvada, Colo./Pomona) and sophomore Craig Chapman (San Antonio, Texas/Robert E. Lee) each notched victories to lead the Frogs. Parkinson earned the victory in the 200-yard freestyle in 1:42.19. McLachlan followed with a win in the 200 IM (1:54.59), while Chapman rounded out TCU's triumphs by taking the 100 back in :50.76.
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It is kind of counter-intuitive isn't it?
OK here's what I do & it seems to work. I find B/P easier to clean than smokeless & have yet to use or need any bore brushes.
Take a plastic bucket big enough to hold the whole pistol. (this is to stop small parts going down the drain.)
Drop into the empty bucket a cake of regular old soap, the same stuff you wash your hands with. (Personally I use Ivory because it floats & is easy to retrieve).
Fill the bucket with HOT water, as hot as you can stand putting your hand into. (This will dissolve plenty of soap making hot soapy water.)
Remove the wooden grips & set them aside.
Remove the cylinder from the frame.
Remove the nipples from the cylinder.
Throw the whole mess into the bucket of hot soapy water (except the wood grips).
Get your tools while the gun soaks for a few minutes.
Old toothbrush.
Cleaning rod, & loop type tip.
Paper towels.
Super cheap hair dryer ($10.00 from wally-world.)
Your preferred preservative, oil grease or whatever.
Take a patch & soap it with the now soft block of soap.
Run the patch through the bore 5~6 times with the pistol mostly submerged still.
Fish out the cylinder & do the same to each chamber.
Find the nipples , stick the toothpick in the hole, & scrub them with the toothbrush.
Use the toothbrush with more soap on it to scrub everything on the pistol. (make sure you get the loading rammer & it's links in both the OPEN & CLOSED positions.)
Lay out 3~4 layers of paper towels, or an old towel.
Fish out everything & sit it on the towels, make sure to count all the nipples.
AFTER checking you have everything dump the hot dirty soapy water.
Refill the bucket with fresh hot water, no soap this time.
Soak swish & dunk everything to remove traces of soap.
Retrieve, count & check as before & fling dirty rinse water. (use fresh, dry towel or paper towels.)
Shake, blow wipe & generally remove as much water as possible from everything.
Put on an insulated glove (clean oven mitt is fine but anything to protect your hand will do.)
Set the hair dryer to "LOW & HOT", or HOT. You need heat for this next bit.
Blow the living daylights out of all the parts. The cylinder, frame & nipples, Remove the toothpicks from the nipples so the hot air gets up inside. Keep going till all the metal is soaked with heat & uncomfortably hot to touch. Remember to cock the hammer & blow down inside the frame, blow up through the trigger guard & into the rear of the frame from the pistol grip.
lubricate everything with your favorite oil, be generous,not shy. Don't forget the bore & chambers.
Grease, not oil is used on the axis pin, the hole in the cylinder for the axis pin & the sliding piston of the rammer. Put a little on the threads of the nipples. (Another toothpick helps as a holder here too.)
Let everything sit till it is cool & reassemble.
You'll hear about how bad petroleum-based lube is for the B/P guns but this only aplies to those areas where there is direct contact with hot powder gas. (bore, chamber & inside of frame). Use of a synthetic oil/grease will solve the problem, or you can use regular old "oil" & remove it with an alcohol wet patch just before firing.


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I debated for years what to get to complement my well flogged 330 and finally chose a lightly optioned 535 (hoping to ward off electronic gremlins post year 7). I'll be the test monkey for long term ownership most likely as nearly everyone in the F10 forum is on a "3 year lease and turn it in plan" it appears (between shopping for $30k watches and debating 1st class/Business class flights).
A whole 3 weeks and 500 miles later I haven't regretted it. I can fit at least 5 bodies in the trunk, has plenty of power, is comfy as hell (especially coming from a tweaked out E46), handles great, the stereo/iDrive/integration stuff is fantastic, and it gets nearly 30mpg on the highway. Plus, my 64 year old mother can ride in it and not get carsick within 30 seconds and start complaining. That being said I'm still adding springs and an exhaust soon!
If budget allows the 330 will be replaced with an E46 M3 in about a year.
Also: Dan Neill was on that short lived Adam Corolla "The Car Show" not TGUSA, unless he was involved in the test pilot incarnations that Corolla was part of.
With the newer models, it`s a real tightrope act between buying used (and letting the PO take a huge depreciation hit) and taking your chances on possible repairs, and selling your left testicle to purchase/lease something new. A couple years back, I was casually pricing out the cost of building a fairly-well-optioned 535i Touring, (just for ha has), and almost puked when I saw the MSRP had jumped the $70,000 mark (!). Definitely have to re-think the logic on that one....
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WBA mini flyweight champion Giovani Segura (23-1-1, 19 KOs) scored a third round TKO over Walter Tello (14-4, 6 KOs) on Saturday night at the Discoteca El Alebrije in Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico. Both fighters went right at each other in round one with both landing good shots. The champion had the upper hand as the two-way action continued and referee Luis Pabon finally jumped in to protect Tello in round three. Time was 1:56.
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Lightweight contender Urbano Antillon (27-1, 20 KOs) scored a third round stoppage of Luis "Vampiro" Arceo (22-10-2, 15 KOs) after their bout was halted due to a bad cut suffered by Arceo. The cut was ruled to be caused by a punch, so TKO Antillon. Time was 2:25.
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2012 Engine mods?
Just wondering if anyone did anything to there '12 yet Im having a tough time finding parts for it like exhaust etc.
Word is FSWerks has mods ready for production but are waiting for more 12s to be on the road. When they determine that...I have no clue.
Other than that, some have posted the K&N filter numbers here somewhere I remember. I was considering fabbing up my own CAI box and just using the existing hose for the MAF sensor and K&N filter. As far as exhaust, I'm strongly thinking of ordering a Magnaflow and taking it to one of the many Tuner shops here that TIG stainless and have my own done for the same price as a prefab with generic muffler.
Just some ideas for ya.
i think we have to wait 2 years before products come down in price aswell
Holy old thread revival.
Going to close this since we have more recent threads asking the same thing.
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Oh, boy. Mom is packing my bag again. We must be leaving for Santa Fe soon! I will miss Tika and my friends here, but a dogs gotta do, what a dogs gotta do and I just gotta keep ramblin on.
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June 20th at Stork Club with Purr Gato and Nerd Revolt
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I am remodeling a 2nd floor bathroom and 1st floor kitchen. Let me see if I can explain this correctly and make sense.
2nd floor bathroom the tub, toilet and sink all emptied into a 4" waste line which also when out the roof for venting. the tub also had a vent cut in approx 10" past the trap which vented into a separate 2" pipe going through the roof. I have left all the 4" cast iron and just going to replace the WC and tub drain. Since the tub drains into the 4" waste line which is vented do I have to reinstall that separate 2" vent.
I am rerouting & putting in a new sink in the kitchen, the drain is going to drop into the basement and tie into the main 4" waste line. this 4" line goes all the way out the roof for venting and picks up the 2nd floor fixtures on the way out. Is this a good enough ( safe and according to code) vent for the kit sink.
I think you need to draw a picture to get answer... it is too much reading to understand the situation...
Yes a drawing would be great help.
I drew a little sketch, not he best drawing. I cannot figure out how to attach it.
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Where are you tieing the vent in at for that kitchen sink?
There was a 2" vent which vented the tub, since I have the hole in the roof I was going to replace it...I can tie the Kitchen sink into it. Can I tie it in the basment, it would be below the Ptrap if not I would have to notch alot of studs on the same floor as the sink..
Vent can not be below the p-trap, get out the drill and sawsall.
Ok, If that's what I need to do... what is considered a wet vent. Also with respect to my 2nd floor tub. Is it okay to just run the 2" drain to the 4" waste line which runs vertical from the basment thru the roof.
A wet vent is a drain that dumps into someother fixtures vent this using it's vent for the fixtures vent your connecting.
Rules apply to a wet vent.
One pipe size larger then the fixtures requirment. example: Kitchen Sink Wet Venting into a toilet vent, KS requires 2" so to wet vent into a toilets vent, pipe will need to be increased to 2 1/2", since there is no 2 1/2" pipe, pipe will need to be 3"
Your code book will say if your allowed to wet vent or not, here we can.
For the tub yes you can connect to the 4" and if your drain is 2" pipe for the tub you can run up to 5' before vent, if the drain is 1 1/2" then 3'6" before a vent.
Now if your tub will tie onto the 4" vent within said distance then you can use that 4" for it's vent.
Remember this is codes we use, and maynot apply to your area. You have to read your codes, your codes may not be a strict as ours here.
Thanks Ron, I appreciate your help as always. In the kichen Im using 2" pvc for drain. the should be 1 1/2 " can that be safely notched into load bearing beams. In the bathroom Im installing a whirlpool tub 22" deep. what is a good height for the faucet, knobs and showerhead.
You should not notch beams, or drill. Go around them and run the line in the walls if possible.
For valve height, use your best judgement, we do set shower head at 80" off floor, for valve, hold it up there, for spout, we set then 4" off tub edge.
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What is a simple, no-cost way managers increase the performance and engagement of team members?
If you answered annual performance reviews, shame on you. Most companies still make annual reviews the cornerstone of their performance management system. The problem with end-of-year reviews is the fact that they only take place every 12 months, are tied to a lot of generic standards and values, and are linked to compensation.
Annual reviews also enable non-confrontational managers to delay feedback. I should know. I used to avoid conflict like the plague and was a terrible, passive-aggressive manager.
Wow, Shane has been really messing up lately. I should talk to him about it. But I don't want to upset him, and we're on that deadline this month. I'll just wait 9 months until his annual review comes around and bring it up!
No wonder managers and direct reports alike hate annual reviews.
As a leader, you should think not just about performance and short-term job goals, but also the growth of your team members. Time and again, research shows that growth is one of the top three drivers of employee engagement.
Employees don't actually need new titles, new pay or a higher run on the mythic ladder. What they need is to be learning new things, a sense of being challenged and the hope that they are progressing.
The answer to both increasing engagement and maximizing results-against-goals is the mid-year one-one-one career path meeting.
Late June is the perfect time for one-on-one meetings with each of your direct reports—half-way through the year and the end of another quarter. While you definitely want to review goals and performance, these meetings should include larger career-path topics. Consider these conversation starters:
- Do they think they can accomplish those goals within your organization?
- What knowledge, skills, experiences and relationships do they need in order to get there?
- Where would they like to be, career-wise, in 3-5 years?
- How are they performing against their annual objectives? What else do they need in order to hit their annual objectives?
As the manager, it is not your job to guarantee that they will hit their goals. But as their manager it should be your job to coach them in their current position and develop them for future positions.
Ways you might assist them on their career path include finding a mentor for them within the company, helping them to find a coach from outside the company, or suggest training, seminars or books to read. You could also think about developmental opportunities—perhaps there are projects that they could join, not necessarily because they'll make big contributions, but because they'll learn and make new connections.
The daily routine can make it hard to do continuous coaching, but waiting to check progress and goals until annual reviews is lethal. June is the perfect time to schedule one-on-ones with your direct reports. Feel free to call these meetings "Goal Checks" or "Career Conferences" or just "lets-grab-coffee-and-see-how-we're-doing meetings". Regardless of what you call them, you'll get great results from mid-year check-ins.
Go ahead, send out those calendar invites to your team members. You won't be sorry!
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Mothers Against Drunk Driving Ready To Tie One On
Armed with a new national survey, "Mothers Against Drunk Driving" is kicking off their 27th annual "Tie One On For Safety" Red Ribbon anti-drunk driving holiday campaign, which runs now through New Year's Day.
The survey found 73-percent of adults, or three-in-four 21-and-older say they have seen someone try to drive home after drinking at an event.
However, Michigan M-A-D-D Executive Director Tyler MacEachran says attitudes are beginning to change, with many now attempting to stop them.
MacEachran says almost half of those 46 percent surveyed drove the person home themselves 41 percent took away their keys 40 percent told the party host, and 25 percent called a cab for the person in question. Still, MacEachran says 20 percent did nothing and that's where their "Red Ribbon" campaign comes in.
When a ribbon is displayed it pledges the wearer or driver will plan ahead and designate a sober driver during the holidays and stop others drinking and driving.
He says there were nearly 37 thousand drunk driving arrests and nearly 300 people killed in drunk driving crashes between Thanksgiving and New Years Eve last year in Michigan.
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