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This is a discussion on New Subaru Owner within the New Member Hangout forums, part of the Community - Meet other Enthusiasts category; Originally Posted by tlarkin Or use it as a surf board? I was going for submarine...but sure....
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Resident Clubdub Debbie Downer. I'd love your ideas if you kept them to yourself. Subarus suck, get a new wife.
Never argue with idiots. They'll drag you to their level and beat you with experience.
The Big 2011/2012 Mod Thread
Ooh,hang on. That is the throb of a turbocharged flat four engine. A sound which,all over the world,heralds the imminent arrival of a moron - JC.


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UNITED NATIONS – Russia-U.S. wrangling over a resolution to enforce the destruction of Syrian President Bashar Assad's chemical weapons cast a shadow Monday over the start of the United Nations General Assembly.
Western diplomats said Moscow's refusal to support a Security Council resolution giving legal backing to Syria's disarmament had held up a plan to put the war-torn country's chemical arms under international control.
A meeting between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday could prove decisive for the plan they agreed earlier this month to head off a U.S. military strike. Kerry also planned to meet Syrian opposition leaders Tuesday.
Russia has accused the U.S. and its allies of using "blackmail" over the resolution and of seeking approval for military force in Syria.

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And what is the RISP BA today?
And what is the RISP BA today?
If you can't be a good example... then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
Nothing tastes as good as being fit feels...
How nice was it for the Giants this series to know they had two automatic outs back-to-back with the 8th and 9th batters? Stubbs and the pitcher.
Amazing that Dusty kept running Stubbs out there every day when it was obvious to EVERYONE that Stubbs shouldn't have been playing. Stubbs started all five games of this series! This is after his pathetic regular season and even-more-pathetic postseason.
I hope I never see him in a Reds uniform again. Include him as a throw-in on a trade like we did with Volquez. Stubbs brings negative value.
The problem is the same as it's been all year. The team has a one dimensional offense and doesn't score runs consistently. And with Votto hurt the problem is worse.
And it's not just Drew Stubbs.
Nady pops out to 2nd.
Pagan pops out to 2nd.
"Since I've been with the Reds in 1989, we've never had a farm system this loaded," Bowden said. "If we were the New York Yankees and had unlimited dollars, we could have traded for Colon, (Jeff) Weaver, Rolen, (Cliff) Floyd, (Kenny) Rogers and Finley and gotten them all -- and still held onto our top five prospects. That's an amazing statement."
It's good to see the Reds having a good time out there. I know I sure am.
We found your stolen Prius, it was voting for Ralph Nader.
Goofy Hunter Pence.
Go Nats... If any team but the Reds, make it them.
Dusty is a really good manager from April to September. He is really good at keeping 25 guys on the same page and not getting too high or too low. In October in game decision making really matters and he has had a terrible series.
Calling a hit-and-run down 3 runs with 2 men on might be even dumber than Marvin Lewis kicking a FG down 4 points in the closing minutes of the 4th qtr.
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H.Amdt.1077 to H.R.5326112th Congress (2011-2012)
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|05/09/2012 On agreeing to the Webster amendment (A044) Agreed to by recorded vote: 232 - 190 (Roll no. 232).
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At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: SEC. ___. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to conduct the survey, conducted by the Secretary of Commerce, commonly referred to as the American Community Survey.
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Kivi's Underworld - Postmortem, Price-drop
Steven Peeler from Soldak writes in about a postmortem blog post on their casual action/RPG, Kivi's Underworld. They have also droped the price on the game to $9.99. Here's a sample:
And the part everyone actually wants to read, The Bad:
1) We made it - I know that's a strange statement. What I mean is that it was a mistake for Soldak to make the game. It's a game that would have been better for a different company to make. If you play the "which of these things doesn't fit game" with our 3 games everyone is going to choose Kivi. Other than being an action RPG (sort of), it's not very much like our other two games. It doesn't have much randomness, it doesn't have a dynamic world, it's not a hardcore game, and it's not very deep. It's not really a problem that it is different. The problem is that it doesn't fit what our Depths of Peril gamers wanted and the new gamers that we did bring in didn't stick around because our other games don't match their expectations either. Basically they are two very different crowds with very different expectations and we can't really please both of them.
Information aboutKivi's Underworld
SP/MP: Unknown
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: Hack & Slash
Platform: PC
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wikiHow to Tag People in a Facebook Status
Two Methods:Highlighting People's Name on the Facebook SiteHighlighting People's Name on the Facebook Mobile AppCommunity Q&A
Tagging your Facebook friends in a status is a fun way to show who you're hanging out with or to tell your friends that you're thinking of them. If you want to know how to tag people in a Facebook status update, just follow these easy steps and you'll be able to do it in less than a minute.
Highlighting People's Name on the Facebook Site
1Log in to Facebook. Type in your username and password.
2Type your status into the status bar. You can find it on the top of your home page, in the white space that says, "What's on your mind?"
3Hit the spacebar and type in the "@" symbol. If you don't leave a space before the symbol, the process won't work.
4Type in the name of the person you want to tag. Once you start typing the person's name, a list of your friends will appear, and you can select the person from the list.
5If you want to tag multiple people, repeat the process. Just hit the space bar and the "@" symbol to tag another friend until you're done tagging. You should now see your message along with the tags you've selected.
6Click "Post." Read your status to make sure you tagged everyone correctly.
Highlighting People's Name on the Facebook Mobile App
1Launch Facebook. Look for the Facebook app on your mobile device and tap it to open.
2Log in. If you had logged out of your previous Facebook session, you will be asked to log in. Just enter your email address and password into the fields provided and tap "Log in" to continue.
3Open the Update Status window. Tap on your name on the header toolbar, and you will be brought to your Timeline or wall. Tap the "Write Post" button at the top of your wall, and a small window for "Update Status" will appear.
- You can also tap the "Status" button on the bottom toolbar of the Notification screen (default when you open the Facebook app).
4Tag a friend. Before you enter your friend's name, type the "at" symbol, or @, in front of it. Facebook will recognize that you want to tag someone, and it will make suggestions matching the first few letters you've entered.
- For instance, you want to tag your friend Kristine, type "@Kr" and Facebook will start finding matches.
5Select the friend. A list of possible matches will appear right below where you're typing. Tap on the name of the friend you want to tag and highlight. His/her full Facebook name will be added to your post.
Community Q&A
Does tagging a person only go to their timeline?wikiHow ContributorUnless you post on the person's profile and not your timeline timeline, the tag will also apprear on your timeline.
What do I do if my friend's name isn't showing up in the list?wikiHow ContributorAssuming you are already Facebook friends, they may have higher security measures so that they cannot be tagged. Consider asking them about it.
Why can I only tag 50 people when others can tag 99?
Why can't I tag people that aren't my friends?
- Be careful when you're tagging. You may have two friends with a similar name and should avoid tagging the wrong person.
- When you're tagging a friend, make sure it's appropriate. Don't embarrass your friends by tagging them in an inappropriate status.
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Adjunct Principal Lecturer
Appointment Details
- Title: Adjunct Principal Lecturer
- Job Class Code: 0160
- Service Period: 9 or 12 months
- Limitations on Appointment: Must hold a primary appointment as a Principal Lecturer in another unit at the University.
- Length of Appointment: Annual
- Eligible for Tenure: No
- Voting rights: N/A
- Allowable Earn Types: WOS, REG
- Salary Requirements: Generally paid on primary appointment. If paid on adjunct appointment, must match primary appointment salary rate.
- Full-time/Part-time: N/A
- Promotable: No
- Competitive Recruitment Required: No
- Required Approvals: AHR approval not required prior to OPUS entry, but paperwork must be in AHR office at time of entry.
New Appointment Details
- Educational/Experience Requirements: Determined for primary appointment
- Documentation Required:
- Dean/Chancellor's letter, or concurrence on Chair/Director's letter
- Chair/Director's letter, including faculty vote
- Chair/Director's letter from the faculty member's home department approving the adjunct appointment
- Letters of recommendation (3 preferred, 1 minimum)
Promotion Details
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Reappointment Details
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What if I told you that after the first five years of playing golf the odds of lowering your handicap by three strokes or more, is unusually rare? It almost never happens. The reason is because golfers revert back to our old habits. That's why trying a tip in the latest golf magazine or listening to the Golf Channel doesn't improve people's games. Here to help is golf's new training aid, the Benderstik. It's designed to help you consistently working on a better motion by giving you instant feedback.
The Benderstik is literally a stick that is adjustable, bendable, and has a large foam ball attached to one end. It can be set it up for each golfer's individual swing needs and if you revert back, there will be immediate feedback. You can set the Benderstik in the ground and adjust it where your head is against the foam ball to work on keeping your head steady or adjust it to avoid hitting the foam ball in the backswing or followthrough.
Golf instructor Mike Bender is the innovator of the Benderstik, Mike is the swing coach for Zach Johnson and Jonathan Byrd. In 2009 Mike was voted PGA National Teacher of the Year by his peers. Mike was also recently Voted fourth in the 2012 Golf Digest 50 Greatest Teachers issue, this was the largest jump ever in the top ten.
The Premise
Like every good invention I can think of, the Benderstik was born out of personal necessity. Mike went through a swing change early in his career, trying to get away from old habits that he thought were good. Mike would get the information that he needed from his instructor and work all week on feeling the changes. Unfortunately when he went back to his instructor, his swing looked the same! So Mike started to stick old shafts in the ground so that when he practiced he would receive as he calls it "negative feedback." (Positive feedback training aid are those that put you into correct positions.)
One of the pieces Bender worked on was getting the left arm to work deeper in the backswing rather than lift upwards. He would set one of the shafts up so that if he lifted his arm, it would contact the shaft. This gave him the proper feel for what he needed to do to start and change his swing for the better. The actual feel he had to have to produce the backswing he wanted was to copy Doug Sanders backswing, where the left arm was just above the level of the hips. Mike feels that a student having this kind of feedback allows them to improve three to four times faster. He says that The Benderstik is a perfect tool for creating feedback in order to know you are making the corrections properly. The more you practice with feedback, the more ingrained the new motion becomes and the more reliable the new swing.
Why should instructors use it? Mike Bender feels it's important for a good golf instructors to use tools to help their students. If your instructor doesn't use tools, training aids, and video, Bender thinks a student should look for someone else. The reason he feels so strongly about this is because he can't change a golfer's swing with his voice, he needs to utilize tools to guarantee results.
Since I've been involved with Golf Evolution I've been to dozens of clinics and schools and very much agree with Bender. At every event there are several students who can't believe how awkward a particular change to their motion or setup feels but when they see it on video, it looks great. With my own game, I would never have gotten the results I've seen if I just thought about getting into a different position, I needed the feedback from filming myself and using alignment sticks to trust that these exaggerated, weird feelings were actually correct. I was able to take what my instructor told me and recreate those same sensations when I practiced on my own.
I think if you're serious at wanting to be a good golf instructor you need to use tools like The Benderstik to help your students not only make swing changes but have them trust what they are doing is right because the proof will be evident in the video and the quality of the strike.
Here's a video of Mike using the Benderstik with a student:
How do you know what your swing flaw is? As I know from spending a lot of time on The Sand Trap, golfers aren't the best at diagnosing themselves. Here's what the Benderstik website says:
The steps to do it have recently been posted on the "Getting Started" page of the web site.
The key to this Mike Bender video is to go through the step-by-step process in the order Mike presents. Until you understand how to set up, you can't diagnose your back swing, and until your back swing is correct you can't diagnose your down swing. They all go together and Mike lays it out perfectly in the video.
The best part is if you follow Mike's Five Step process you will know what to be aware of in every part of the swing since people typically have more than one swing fault. Then you are only a practice sessions away from seeing real improvement.Mike Bender
The video is only for people who have purchased a Benderstik training aid and the pass code to the video is on the the cover of the DVD. In the DVD, Mike teaches you how to check and analyze your:
- Set-up
- Alignment
- Shoulder Turn
- Hip Turn
- Head Position
- The Top of your Back Swing
- Down Swing
- And, Follow through
Construction and Build
The Benderstik is a quality training aid. It's durable, won't damage if a club hits it and all the functions work. It's easily adjustable to fit what you want in your practice. There is bendable section near the yellow foam ball of the unit and the height can be adjusted. The picture above shows the adjustable knob for changing length. It's lightweight so it can be carried in your bag. A base is sole separately but it can still be used stuck in the ground using a spike that screws into the bottom of the stick.
Benderstik in Use
Setting up the Benderstik is very easy. If you're outdoors, attach the spike to the bottom of the pole and stick it in the ground. If you're indoors, attach the pole to the base. Alternately, you can put the Benderstik in your golf bag, a method that will work indoors or out. The Benderstik is extremely versatile, here's some of the swing ailments Mike says it can fix: flipping, swaying, sliding, losing posture, over-swinging, chicken winging, and I could go on, but you get the picture. You can bend it, shorten, lengthen it to fit your body and swing. That to me is the highlight of the Benderstik, while an alignment stick can satisfy similar needs for creating feedback during practice, it lacks the customization that the Benderstik offers.
On the downside, the Benderstik cannot be used inconspicuously. I usually have my own alignment sticks and camera out there with me anyway so I don't mind having other people watching me on the range, I know some may feel uncomfortable because others will stare. It also costs $99.95 for a training aid that performs similar tasks to that of a two dollar driveway stick. If you are serious about using it on a regular basis or are an instructor I think the cost is justified but definitely not a bargain.
We've all heard the term, "practice makes perfect" but Mike Bender, is an advocate for perfect practice makes perfect. But how do you know you're practicing the right motion if your instructor isn't there with you? That's where The Benderstik comes in, to help give you feedback and help maximize your practice potential. PGA instructor Mike Bender, feels his training aid that he uses with all of his students, will help you do just that. I agree and hope you get a chance to check one out this season. For more information check out the Benderstik website.


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Ok I am looking at upgrading my system in my STi. I am wanting to put a set of JL Audio Components up front. I am looking at the XR650's which are 6.5 inch speakers. Will I have a problem fitting these in the stock locations or will I just need a spacer, will depth be an issue, as I am not sure what the required mounting depth for the JL's are or what room I have behind the speaker locations?
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Airport Runway Cake
The Airport Runway birthday cake was created by Kidspot mum Pip Scotter after her son requested it for his 3rd birthday.
Pip started with 1 large rectangular cake. Make 1 quantity of plain icing (she used the Edmond recipe) and divide into 2. Colour one half green and ice the cake. Using any left over, add red and blue icing to make a greyish colour) and ice the runway and taxiway.
Pipe white markings on runway and edges. Put some little red sprinkles in a line at right angles to the start of the runway, white ones along the runway and blue ones along the taxiway for runway lighting (Pip used Sun Valley Foods disco sprinkels. Sprinkle green jelly crystals on the green icing for grass. Support the plane with toothpicks so it looks as if it is taking off and also put terminal building on (you can make one from LEGO if you don't have something suitable) plus some trees if you have them.
Pip also put cotton wool on toothpicks at the ends of the cake to represent clouds but these cannot be seen in the photo.
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The History of the Scottish Stage - Interspersed with Memoirs of His Own Life (Scottish Thought and Culture 1750-1800)
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Archive for December, 2011
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year everyone!
Bye-bye 2011. You won't be missed.
As for 2012? Let's buckle-up and hold on to each other. It's going to be a rough year economically, environmentally and politically.
Rest up.
Let's See Near-Naked Men in 2012
Insofar as photos like this
are ubiquitous, come 2012, I want to see photos like this everywhere I look too:
All or none.
Enough of this:
Come on men. Show how big or small or toned (or not) you are.
Need Botox? Got Botox? Dye your hair? Need a Brazilian? Got one? On a diet? Excercise? No? Why not? Got fat? Why can't you lose it? Eat too much? What's your problem? No self-control? Let me see your nails. What! No pedicure? You're letting yourself go. Lazy thing!
Obama: Why I Might Not Vote For You In November / #17
Here's yet another act on President Obama's part that (don't forget, he's a "Constitutional lawyer") is making me think twice about how I'll vote in November:
Obama Makes It Official: Suspected Terrorists Can Be Indefinitely Detained Without a Trial
Despite having once threatened to veto the bill due to controversial language about the treatment of suspected terrorists, the president signed the controversial National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law on Saturday. Barack Obama did not keep his lingering concerns about aspects of the bill law a secret, however. In justifying his decision to sign NDAA into law, Obama said in a statement, "I have signed the Act chiefly because it authorizes funding for the defense of the United States and its interests abroad, crucial services for service members and their families, and vital national security programs that must be renewed." He continued, "The fact that I support this bill as a whole does not mean I agree with everything in it. In particular, I have signed this bill despite having serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation, and prosecution of suspected terrorists."
Obama: If you have "serious reservations" about a bill, you veto it. Period.
And bear in mind — nut cases could become president who could abuse this new law to no end.
More on how you and I might land in indefinite detention as a result of this bill here and here.
Oh, and talk about Friday afternoon DC "document dumps." This is even worse. It's Saturday and it's New Year's Eve. The White House is clearly worried about this yet hey, they think we're idiots and we won't notice.
Happy New Year!
Magic Animals
Look at that face!
It's just too tempting, isn't it? You see an unattended camera and before you know it, you're snapping away. Possibly that was what was going through this cheeky macaque's mind as he posed for this hilarious self-portrait in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, after photographer David Slater left his camera for a few minutes.
More here: From Anne the elephant saved by Mail readers to Boo, the world's cutest dog. 2011 was the year of animal magic.
Greenpeace: Year in Pictures
Greenpeace is so cool.
Greatest Hits 2011 — Republican Style
Yo, Republicans, you must be proud so proud (hee hee and wink, wink):
Newt Gingrich is Such a Kidder
Geezus, talk about pandering:
Last night during a tele-town hall hosted by Ralph Reed's Faith and Freedom Coalition, a caller asked Newt Gingrich if he would consider choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate if he wins the Republican nomination:
Gingrich: She is certainly one of the people you would look at. I am a great admirer of hers and she was a remarkable reform governor of Alaska, she's somebody who I think brings a great deal to the possibility of helping in government and that would be one of the possibilities. There are also some very important Cabinet positions that she could fill very, very well. I can't imagine anybody who would do a better job of driving us to an energy solution than Gov. Palin, for example. Tell her that she would certainly be on the list of one of the people we would consider.
Listen to the audio here.
Yeah, rrright. Newt, you expect us to believe this?


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The Old Bloemhof School houses the
Sasol Arts Gallery of the
Stellenbosch University
Painting by Hérine Fourie
Artists of the day:
Peter Höhsl, painter and film maker
Dr. Hans and Rosemarie Breuer 907 Helderberg Village, Somerset West
The university town of Stellenbosch is a very special place and home to many artists.
We present artists of the Stellenbosch area
These pages will be included in a book and on CD, Stellenbosch Artists. See an example
A work of art in its own right, this building would be immensely suitable to house an art collection (Hannes Meiring)
Red carpet show at Bruynzeel House, 3 December 2013
The exclusive evening celebrating the unveiling of Tretchikoff's Chinese Girl at Delaire Graff Estate on Friday 29th November 2013. Photos
Elise Bodley
The glorious Namibian nightsky
Sky at night by Florian Breuer
BBC: Most stunning pictures of the week:
The entries for CIWEM's Environmental Photographer of the Year were announced, including a similar picture of his Milky Way series
The Bruynzeel House is a work of art, celebrating 50 years
A photo exhibition at the Old Biscuit Mill, Woodstock
Stellenbosch enjoyed the exhibition of the great Paul Emsley at the Sasol Art Museum in March and April 2012
Art Schools
|Link of the day: Collection of Chinese Art
An amazing Chinese Art website.
A wonderful collection of traditional Chinese paintings. All paintings are originals and available for purchase.


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Tell me please, If I have one song in two different versions, I can combine them into one file and sell it? And how in that case, the assembly would cost?
Sorry for my bad english, and when I asked the question not where need.
As far as I know you have to sell the track in two different versions in ONE file! The file would cost the same, it is not more expensive because of two or more different versions. But it also depends on how different the version is. If it differs extremely from the original edit you are maybe allowed to sell the tracks as two different items!
Hope I could help you a little bit
I am very grateful to you for your response. Thank you very much
Maximum price will be 14 $
If the versions are significantly different, you can submit them separately, yes. One remix is allowed separately this way. If, however, the second track is a variation, with the same general theme, then they both versions must be submitted together, in the same upload, and you'll need to have both versions heard on the preview.mp3, and state the length of both files, in the description.
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When you say, "display cabinets", I'm assuming you're talking about the pretty wood cabinets that use glass in the front, sides and doors (gun cabinet). IMO, I would consider this to be an aesthetic piece with little to no real ability of providing security. With the front doors locked, it might keep the kids out but a burglar or thief is going to think nothing of busting the glass out to get your guns.
When storing your rifles, you may also want to consider the humidity in the air and protecting them from that as well. I'm not sure as to how air tight display cabinets are but I would assume that they're not, etc. By storing your guns in a safe or a tight case, you can place a dessiccant dehumidifier in with your rifle and this will help prevent corrosion. I'm not really sure how effective the dessiccant will be in a display case.
Like you previously stated, ultimately it will be your comfort level that will determine the storage solution you opt for in the end. For me, I believe the aesthetic that the display cabinet has to offer doesn't override the trade-offs you have to make when opting for that option. If it were me and I had the money to do so, I would opt for a nice safe. Although I don't have anything that has the elegance to be at home in a display case, I'm hesitant to display what I do have or own. Guns are very popular things to steal and in my mind's eye, a nice display cabinet full of guns is too much temptation for any thief or would-be thief to pass up.


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I just want to get my oem alarm activated and all three dealerships told me the same thing, there's a software update for the ecu that needs to be performed before they can do anything computer related on my vehicle. Problem is all of them want 6hrs labor just to do the software update alone. I called BMW NA but they said they are aware of the update and it is not a covered expense nor will it qualify under my CPO. Has anyone gotten the update for less than 6hrs labor or gotten BMW NA to cover the expense? My car is an 04 330Ci with 60k miles, thanks!
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I recently bought an '00 323i that I got a great price on, but had to spend a little to get it past the smog nazis in my state. Anyhow, I have an independent BMW guy in my town that I use for the stuff I can't do myself. I was having problems troubleshooting the many different Check Engine Light codes, so I had my guy look into the car's computer. He reflashed the program in the blink of an eye. He plugged in his diagnostic computer to the round plug in the engine bay and pulled the OBD II codes, and got more detailed information that I was getting on my two-bit scan tool -- he got the same codes, but he also got the operating voltages and other parameters that I could not see.
In any case, he said my car had the original program (firmware) in it, and that there was an update. His diagnostic computer pushed the updated firmware in, and did it in a matter of a few minutes. Seriously, he charged an hour and it took mere minutes. The same guy programmed my other E46 to take a factory alarm system that I bought on eBay and installed. He flashed that car and programmed the alarm system all at the same time. One hour labor -- maybe it was a half-hour labor on that car because he also got the job to put new lower control arms on and repair a power steering fluid leak.
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The "Breaking Bad" television program has brought a new awareness of the problem of methamphetamine abuse in the United States. The drug is a highly addictive concoction made of a nasty brew of chemicals including gasoline, drain cleaner, lye, battery acid and over-the-counter medications such as Sudafed that contain pseudoephedrine. Most of the ingredients are easily obtained, and cold medications containing pseudoephedrine can be found in nearly any drug store.
In attempts to cut meth use, some areas have restricted the amount of pseudoephedrine-containing medications a person can buy. So gangs of people team up, and go to drug stores, purchasing the maximum amount individually and pool the take -- a practice known as "smurfing." Shoplifting of the stuff has become so bad, drug stores now keep it behind the counter.
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Not everybody is happy about this. Over-the-counter remedies for allergy and colds are a $4 billion business, and making these drugs available by prescription only has been fought by the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) a pharmaceutical industry group, which is pushing an electronic tracking system.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Eating a Mediterranean diet rich in fish, olive oil, legumes, fruit and vegetables may strengthen the heart but the cost strains the wallet and may deter healthy eating, according to Spanish researchers.
A study by the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Navarra looked at the costs of Mediterranean and Western diets in more than 11,000 Spanish university graduates with a similar level of income.
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This "economic barrier" should be considered when counseling populations about following a healthy diet "because cost may be a prohibitive factor," she added.
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This absolutely thrills me!
I'm a little more impressed with teacherscount.org than even I was before. Not only did they respond to me, but they responded personally, thoughtfully, and promptly! Check it out:
Dear Mrs. Chili,
Thank you for your compliments on our mission and also for your thoughtful feedback regarding the grammar in the Virginia Madsen ad. We subscribe to Google Alerts, so we saw your blog entry on this subject as well. Despite getting a bit of bad press on your blog, I actually think it's great that you are such an energized and engaged contributor to the public dialogue on education.
I do know what you mean regarding the grammar in the ad. At the time of that ad's completion, we were working with an award-winning advertising agency that was responsible for writing the copy for all our ads. We did question the sentence fragments during the proofing process, but the agency told us that it's standard in the industry for ad copy not to follow the traditional rules of English grammar. An example of this argument can be found here:
As an English major myself, I admit to feeling annoyed at the erosion of good grammar and word usage perpetuated by pop culture, but the trend of casual copy-writing seems to be well established in the ad industry. We decided to "trust the experts" on this one.
As for the "me's", I find that to be a tough call. It was a direct quote from Virginia Madsen, so we had to find a way of putting it to paper. The concern with writing simply "mes" is that people might have thought it should be pronounced "mess" and not know what to make of it. While I realize this plural of me is neither possessive nor a contraction, there honestly did not seem to be another way to successful convey the quotation in writing.
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Isn't that GREAT?! I mean, yes, the ad is still being run with the rotten grammar, but there's something comforting to me in knowing that SOMEONE over there choked a bit on it before they put it out into the world. Now, if we could just get people like Lauren to work in the ad companies, we'd be much better off trusting the experts.
Thanks, Lauren! I very much appreciate that you took the time to answer, and that you did it in such a considered, thoughtful way.


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April 12 (Reuters) - Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc said on Tuesday that it received a notice of default from its bondholders as a result of a delay filing its annual report.
Centerbridge Partners LP issued the notice, but it is not expected to lead to a default, according to people familiar with the matter.
Centerbridge declined to comment.
Valeant said in a statement that it now has until June 11 to make the filing, under its bond agreements, but reiterated its intention to file it on or before April 29.
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Valeant's bonds were unchanged to half a point lower in late trading on Tuesday, according to IFR.
The Quebec-based drugmaker last week said its lenders had given it an extra month to file the annual report, providing breathing room for the embattled company as it tries to win back investor confidence.
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Planned DDOS campaign against DNS is meant to highlight piracy legislation issues
Al Gore may have finally met his match. While members of
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By cutting these off the Internet, nobody will be able to perform a domain name lookup, thus, disabling the HTTP Internet, which is, after all, the most widely used function of the Web. Anybody entering "http://www.google.com" or ANY other url, will get an error page, thus, they will think the Internet is down, which is, close enough. Remember, this is a protest, we are not trying to 'kill' the Internet, we are only temporarily shutting it down where it hurts the most.
In other words "we're not trying to kill the internet, but we're trying to kill it for a little bit," implies
The posting goes into the planned attack in explicit detail. The tool use will be the Reflective DNS Amplification DDoS tool. By spoofing the DNS server with small UDP packets which appear to have orginated from the DNS server itself, the attacker tricks the DNS server into sending messages to itself creating a cascade of failures. The "amplified" part comes from the fact that the sent packets are small, but they trigger a large barrage of data.
will reportedly try to shut down DNS servers worldwide at the end of the month.
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To protest SOPA, Wallstreet, our irresponsible leaders and the beloved bankers who are starving the world for their own selfish needs out of sheer sadistic fun, On March 31, anonymous will shut the Internet down.
Again, there's no confirmation this post is real -- it could simply be the work of a clever security researcher trying to scare the DNS servers into beefing up their security. Also, given that the Anons have explained their reported attack vector, it may be easier to block.
It's a bit hard to believe that they could actually take down the internet.
Past attacks on DNS servers
have failed to accomplish the unthinkable -- worldwide internet outage. And
's purported past claims -- such as a threat that
Facebook would be taken down
(a claim later denied by some members), an
attack on the NYSE
, and a
DDOS attack on BART
all failed to have the intended level of service disruption. On the other hand
help take down Sony
Corp.'s (
) digital properties as well as the
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
public homepage
Thus it's a bit premature to start panicking, but it couldn't hurt to grab a few IP addresses of your favorite sites, just in case things get anywhere close to as crazy as the post promises.
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My point I guess is people think I am nuts when they see my baggies drying on a special line in my kitchen window, and my big backstocks of things like toilet paper and laundry powder that I only buy when extra cheap and then stock up. They think since I am earning similar incomes to them I should be able to spend a lot more. I am sort of frugal by necessity, as if I do not save then I will get no where, but I do save a lot of my earnings as I want to be able to buy a house one day (goal for end of next year at the moment).
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My answer is both.
Right now by necessity as DH is once again layed off - Trucking Industry is slowly getting hit. I am also frugal by choice because I want to always be debt free and have a little stuck back for retirement.05-04-2008, 06:13 AM #3
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Currently by choice but frequently in the past by necessity.05-04-2008, 07:46 AM #6
I am the oldest of 8 children and my dad was/is a teacher. Got married young and DH was enlisted in the USMC, and was for 10 yrs. I have very frugal roots but lost my way after he joined the civilian world and started making more money. I got lazy over the last 9 years and went from being extremely frugal to not caring because we had the money. It's only been since the first of the year that I've been returning to my frugal ways. While frugality isn't a necessity, it has made us feel more at peace.05-04-2008, 08:04 AM #7
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It's been back and forth between the two over the years, but right now, it is by necessity. It's not extremem necessity, but it could easily be and that's why I'm frugal today...to stop that from happening. Lots of changes going on in dh's work and in the world in general. Need to stay frugal to stay on top of it and not let it take us over.05-04-2008, 08:16 AM #8
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By choice. My DH sometimes thinks I'm nuts for being so frugal but he appreciates it when he sees how much further our money goes.
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By choice - like AmyBoz, I'm trying to be proactive should hard financial times ever hit our household. Also, we have a very aggressive savings goal related to wanting to leave corporate life and do other things at a relatively early age. Since neither DH nor I is going to inherit vast sums of money, frugality is my tool of choice to reach this goal.05-04-2008, 08:40 AM #10
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The amswer os "both" for me as well.
My income has increased dramatically over the past five years. Frugality has allowed me to pay off all of my debts except the house. Things are easier than they were before, so once in a while I go a little crazy with the spending.
But overall, I remain frugal because I am a single mother and I never want to be as poor as I used to be. I have had my utilities cut off for lack of payment and I have had to eat Kraft dinner for a month straight.
"Poor" is doing without because there is no other option.
"Frugal" is going without because that is the option you pick.05-04-2008, 09:24 AM #12
We are frugal by choice...by making good sound choices, we have been fortunate to have it be a choice rather than a necessity. Ever since we married 23 years ago, we lived on only one salary. Whatever the business profited we banked, and my title officer pay was used for bills. We continued this our entire married life...saving has always been a hugh priority as well as debt free type living. Take care, Katy05-04-2008, 09:55 AM #13
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Being frugal on the things that aren't as important to me, has enabled me to have two houses. We don't eat out, I watch the grocery bill and I walk to work. Some would say that it is too much of a sacrifice. But then those are typically the ones who wonder how we afford it. I think it is all about choices, but then our jobs have never been in jeopardy....05-04-2008, 10:37 AM #1405-04-2008, 10:50 AM #15
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I'm sort of an obsessive saver. So I'm sure I could blow through a lot more cash if I wanted, but the idea of buying stuff just for the sake of having the latest and greatest kind of makes me ill. In my life, I've found that the people who have all the latest toys, designer this and that, flashy cars and McMansions tend to be in debt up to their eyeballs. While, some of the wealthiest people I know look like average joes.
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Memes evolve, and even creationist memes are no exception. It used to be that they denied things like antibiotic resistance in bacteria and pesticide resistance in insects even existed, but now most of the ones that actually end up "debating" sane people seem to agree that "micro-evolution" happens, but "macro-evolution" doesn't.
The distinction is meaningless, of course, and the argument amounts to nothing more than "I believe in small changes over a small period of time, but not large changes over a large one". The implication that there is some invisible barrier to speciation, though, still tends to stump many of the people they're debating, because it's not necessarily easy to come up with an example that's simple enough for the wilfully ignorant to understand, and examples of observed speciation in bacteria doesn't tend to impress people who only barely believe bacteria even exist, much less that it's meaningful to speak of different species of them.
Ring species, however, are such an example. They demonstrate a gradual process of speciation, and they manage to do it in a way that's observable in real time.
Put simply, with ring species you have a series of populations along a line or open ring (often a coastline or a river bank, actually). Each of these populations can breed with itself (obviously) and with its slightly different neighboring populations. Perhaps some populations are classified as different subspecies of some overarching species; it's difficult to point down where one subspecies ends and the next begins, though: the populations basically form a continuum.
The punchline, though: though each population can breed with its neighbors and produce fertile offspring (which, according to a popular definition, makes them the same species), the populations at the ends of the line cannot. They are, in effect, different species.
The canonical example is the herring gull complex around the north pole.1
The ring starts on the shores of the northern North Atlantic with the herring gull Larus argentatus. It can interbreed freely with the American herring gull Larus smithsonianus,2 which occurs, surprisingly, across North America.
The North American herring gull can interbreed with the Vega gull Larus vegae, which is a subspecies of the East Siberian gull (the only other subspecies is the Larus vegae mongolicus, which isn't relevant to our story). That in turn can interbreed with Heuglin's gull, Larus heuglini, which can interbreed with the Siberian lesser black-backed gull Larus fuscus heuglini, concluding our trip across northern Siberia.
The Siberian lesser black-backed gull can interbreed with the lesser black-backed gull Larus fuscus, which bring us back to Europe, mostly around the Baltic Sea, though they share some territory with the herring gull.3
These gulls form a species continuum, as you can see, but the herring gull cannot interbreed with the lesser black-backed gull.
It's hard to tell where one species ends and the next begins, but it's undeniable that the herring gull and the lesser black-backed gull are different species.
This is just one mechanism of speciation (allopatric speciation; these gulls inhabit much the same niches, so this is nearly entirely down to genetic drift, too), but it's a plainly obvious one.4
Of course, most creationists would just reply "but they're all still birds", which is a level of ignorance against which little can be done.
Some of the more literate ones might point out that not only are they all birds, they're all still in the genus Larus, moving their non-existent barrier to speciation to a barrier to "genusiation", but that's no more to the point than to point out that all new growth on an old tree seems to happen at the bud level, with only new twigs being born, and that no new massive boughs have been added to it in decades.
(Incidentally, there's an interesting parallel in linguistics, with the dialect or language continuum. Flanders is a good example of it, with most of its many, many dialects being intelligible to its immediate geographic neighbors, but people on one end of the region not being able to understand a damn thing people on the other are saying. It can probably be argued that the Limburgs dialects make Dutch form a language continuum with German.)
1 I'm aware of the Liebers/de Knijff/Helbig paper, and I slightly disagree with its conclusion that the Larus species complex does not represent a ring species. Regardless of how it was formed, it's a ring now. There may be contexts in which it's not useful to speak of it as a ring species, but that isn't relevant here.
If you want to argue about this, by all means do.
2 And, indeed, is almost indistinguishable from it to the untrained eye. The American herring gull is a bit bigger, though.
3 The taxonomic story is actually a bit more complex than that, obviously. For instance, the gulls in the eastern part of the range of the Heuglin's gull are often considered a separate subspecies (Larus heuglini taimyrensis, or the Taimyr Gull), but some people believe these to just be the result of interbreeding between Heuglin's gulls and Vega gulls; and of course most species names are in dispute: the Vega gull is sometimes classified as Larus argentatus vegae, and people seem to be confused over what the Siberian lesser black-backed gull actually is.
This is something for taxonomists to squabble over, though, and I'm not convinced it's a productive use of anyone's time.
4 If the Liebers paper makes you nervous, there are other, less controversial examples of ring species, including Ensatina salamanders around Central Valley in California, and greenish warblers around the Himalayas.


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Old windows are so versatile in the garden. I've seen them made into greenhouses, tables, hanging on sheds and turned into planters. I decided to spruce mine up with some stained glass. To do this project all you need is a sharp knife to help remove the glazing around the window (I used a 5-in-1 painter's tool), some needle nose pliers to remove the glazing points, a glass cutter, stained glass, new glazing and glazing points.
Once you have removed all the glazing from the windows you will need to remove the glazing points with the needle nose pliers. This window had six glazing points per pane. At this point you should be able to remove the glass. If you can't, then you haven't removed all the points or glaze.
Once the glass is out, finish cleaning up the edge and it should be ready for new glass. I took the old pane and used that as the pattern for the new glass, just make sure you cut out the glass using the inside of the mark, so as not to make your new glass too big. I also used a ruler to help me cut a straight line, as I am new to glass cutting, but that is not necessary. If your glass has a pattern, make sure all your glass is facing the same direction for a more uniform look. I was unable to do that due to size of the glass I had, but I think it would have looked better if they were all going in the same direction. I also didn't want to have to buy anything new, so I went with what I have, and I like it just fine.
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I saw this idea at the 2010 Rochester Flower Show. All they did was take a poster, cut it into squares and paste them to the backside of the window. If you use a decoupage medium and paint on 5-10 layers of outdoor polyurethane, I bet these could hang outside for many years. A great idea if you are not a good painter. I would also spray the front of each image with a UV protector before gluing them to the glass.


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