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Posted by Robert Stroud on the Infrastructure & Operations Professionals Blog on January 7, 2016
Whether it's the growth of service providers transitioning to offer services, the emergence of Containers within Hyperconverged solutions, or the potential emergence of Google succeeding, the public cloud is set for a year of "hyper-growth"! That said we have to sort through the FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt), especially in security, to determine the appropriateness of public cloud for your organization.
The rush to cloud to date has clearly been within "systems of innovation," applications geared mostly to customer engagement (so-called "systems of engagement"). Enterprises leveraging public cloud are looking to get new innovative applications and services rapidly to market. These applications have been primarily driving customer acquisition and then fostering customer loyalty. These initiatives represent just the tip of the iceberg, the real opportunity is in moving "systems of record", or everyday work to the public cloud.
One example is GE which is in the process of moving 9,000 apps to the public cloud. As stated in the GE plan, the criteria is to select target applications based on the understanding of the risk associated. This posture allows GE to develop their cloud skills based on their learning with "low risk" applications.
Posted by Robert Stroud on the Infrastructure & Operations Professionals Blog on November 29, 2015
Since I joined Forrester 2 months ago, we have seen multiple announcements from public cloud providers. Amazon Web Services (AWS) numbers are now available. As reported by The Motley Fool, "at the RE:Invent conference a company representative disclosed "AWS is now on pace for a run rate of $7.3 billion -- up 81% year over year". Current market leader AWS, followed by Microsoft Azure and IBM, have confirmed that cloud for many enterprises is not only an option; it is the default for new initiatives for many enterprises. A "cloud first" policy is now commonplace in many enterprises.
The adoption of public cloud for production workloads continues to grow. Plenty of evidence exists to support this trend, including Forrester's Business Technographics® data. A poll of attendees on day 2 at the recent ISACA EuroCACS conference in Copenhagen identified that almost 36% of respondents are using public cloud for production workloads.
ISACA EuroCACS Polling Question
Are you using public cloud for production workload?
Posted by Richard Fichera on the Infrastructure & Operations Professionals Blog on June 25, 2015
In a world where OS and low-level platform software is considered unfashionable, it was refreshing to see the Linux glitterati and cognoscenti descended on Boston for the last three days, 5000 strong and genuinely passionate about Linux. I spent a day there mingling with the crowds in the eshibit halls, attending some sessions and meeting with Red Hat management. Overall, the breadth of Red Hat's offerings are overwhelming and way too much to comprehend ina single day or a handful of days, but I focused my attention on two big issues for the emerging software-defined data center – containers and the inexorable march of OpenStack.
Containers are all the rage, and Red Hat is firmly behind them, with its currently shipping RHEL Atomic release optimized to support them. The news at the Summit was the release of RHEL Atomic Enterprise, which extends the ability to execute and manage containers over a cluster as opposed to a single system. In conjunction with a tool stack such as Docker and Kubernates, this paves the way for very powerful distributed deployments that take advantage of the failure isolation and performance potential of clusters in the enterprise. While all the IP in RHEL Atomic, Docker and Kubernates are available to the community and competitors, it appears that RH has stolen at least a temporary early lead in bolstering the usability of this increasingly central virtualization abstraction for the next generation data center.
Posted by Charlie Dai on the Enterprise Architecture Professionals Blog on March 25, 2015
Have you seen the movie Birdman — the one that just won the Best Picture and Best Director Oscars? It's about a middle-aged man who was once a popular movie star but has been criticized throughout his career and how he finally achieved a breakthrough performance and found great success in a Broadway production of the play What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.
The story of Microsoft Azure is similar. Microsoft was hugely popular in the age of the PC but has sailed into troubled waters in the cloud era. But now — a year after Azure's commercial launch in China — CIOs and EA professionals must understand how and where Azure might impact their existing MSFT technology investments to achieve business transformation. Azure is one of the leading forces driving cloud adoption in China. We attribute this to the progress that Microsoft has made by:
Posted by Michael Barnes on the Customer Insights Professionals Blog on October 28, 2014
On Monday Microsoft officially announced the launch of two Azure Data Centers in Australia. This is big news for the many Australia-based organizations concerned about data sovereignty, as well as those who simply equate on-shore data residency with increased security and control.
Announced as part of TechEd 2014 in Sydney, Microsoft specifically called out Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google as it's key competition. In fact, Microsoft has gone to great lengths over the past year plus to consistently position these two companies as the only other viable longterm cloud providers. This is based on three cloud provider capabilities identified by Microsoft as critical: hyper-scale, enterprise-grade, and hybrid.
Overall it's a good angle for Microsoft. All three players operate at hyper-scale as public cloud providers. All three also offer enterprise-grade services, (although this definition varies based on workload). Most importantly for Microsoft, neither AWS nor Google have a primary focus on enabling hybrid cloud services.
In contrast, all traditional large infrastructure vendors (Fujitsu, HP, IBM, VMware, etc.), system integrators (Dimension Data, NTT, etc.), and telco's (Telstra) focus squarely on enterprise-grade services and hybrid cloud enablement. Rackspace, IBM and HP also have Australia-based data centers. But all these providers lack hyper-scale.


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In a first attempt at establishing a causal relationship between Twitter activity and TV ratings, Nielsen on Tuesday released a study that suggests that the social media platform can in fact have a meaningful impact on GRPs. According to Nielsen's "Twitter Causation Study," the volume of tweets related to a particular broadcast "caused significant changes in live TV ratings" 29 percent of the time. While Nielsen did not further quantify the impact of increased tweet volume on a given show's ratings—as was born out with Syfy's much-ballyhooed Sharknado, there isn't necessarily a correlation between rabid Twitter activity and actual deliveries—the research giant did break down its preliminary results by genre. Unsurprisingly, unscripted competition shows were the primary beneficiaries of real-time tweets , as hash-tagged conversations influenced ratings changes 44 percent of the time. Comedy (37 percent) and sports programming (28 percent) also seemed to be affected by Twitter volume, while drama (18 percent) appeared to be largely indifferent to social nattering. Conversely, Nielsen reported that live TV ratings had "a meaningful impact in related tweets" 48 percent of the time. Nielsen did not quantify what that meaningful impact might be, saying only that there was evidence to suggest causation. "Using time series analysis, we saw a statistically significant causal influence indicating that a spike in TV ratings can increase the volume in tweets, and, conversely, a spike in tweets can increase tune-in," said Paul Donato, Nielsen's chief research officer. "This rigorous, research-based approach provides our clients and the media industry with a better understanding of the interplay between Twitter and broadcast TV viewing." Nielsen analyzed live ratings and Twitter activity for 221 broadcast program episodes. According to the company's SocialGuide unit, Americans in the first quarter of 2013 generated 300 million tweets about 9,000 TV shows. Per SocialGuide, last week's top 10 most-tweeted programs were all on basic cable. The frontrunner, the July 29 episode of VH1's Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta, sparked 736,045 tweets and delivered 4.15 million viewers and a 2.3 in the adults 18-49 demo. (Both deliveries were tops in cable for the night.) But here's where trying to make a case for causation gets tricky. On Sunday night, Discovery Channel kicked off its beloved Shark Week franchise with the premiere of Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives. The special was the night's most-watched, highest-rated show on cable, delivering 4.82 million viewers and a 2.2 in the demo, and while it out-delivered Twitter king Love & Hip Hop by a 16 percent margin, it scared up less than half the tweets (325,408). The causation study comes on the heels of an earlier attempt to prove a correlation between Twitter volume and live TV ratings
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text: The National Rifle Association's Political Victory Fund has announced its endorsement of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan for President and Vice President. NRA's Executive Vice President, Wayne LaPierre, and NRA-ILA Executive Director, Chris W. Cox, made the announcement this week in Fishersville, Virginia, during a rally with both Gov. Mitt Romney (R) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) in attendance. Also attending, and performing at the press conference, was country music superstar and NRA Life Member Trace Adkins.


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Graphic novel revisits "forgotten" Gaza killings
By Mike Collett-White
LONDON (Reuters) - Comic book meets investigative journalism in "Footnotes in Gaza," a graphic novel by Joe Sacco that focuses on two days in Gaza in 1956 when Palestinians said hundreds of civilians were killed by Israeli forces.
Sacco and his researchers found almost nothing written in English about the episodes, despite U.N. estimates at the time putting the death toll at nearly 400 -- 275 in Khan Younis on November 3 and 111 in nearby Rafah on November 12.
In a bid to discover the truth about what he called a "footnote of history," the 49-year-old traveled to Gaza twice to interview people who witnessed the events.
Sacco, an award-winning artist and journalist who has produced a graphic novel about the West Bank and Gaza Strip and a comic book about the conflict in Bosnia, wanted to use the past as a way of exposing problems in the Middle East.
"People are so focused on what's going on now," he said in a recent interview.
"When I was growing up there was a lot of news about Palestinians on TV and it was always hijackings, bombings and always related to terrorism.
"I was never given the context, and what brought them to that unhappy point. Some younger Palestinians I met thought perhaps I should be focusing on the here and now. This is not an isolated incident. Is it talking about a people who have been hammered over and over again."
The novel, around 400 pages long and containing detailed, black-and-white drawings, jumps from Sacco's visits to Gaza between November 2002 and March 2003 to the events of 1956, and places them in the context of the Suez crisis. Continued...


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The core of this list was obtained from the Esso Jamaica road maps that I have. (Many editions were printed every few years starting in 1958.) Some earlier hotels are from my Collins Road Map of Jamaica from the mid-1950s. A list of the principal hotels extant as of 1952 can be found in this Handbook Of Jamaica starting on page 26. The cutoff date for inclusion here is early 1970s. Very useful in finding what is at a spot now is WikiMapia, where people identify what is seen in Google's satellite photos.
I was unsuccessful getting my high-end panorama stitching package to do a mosaic stitch of the Collins map scans. They don't fit in with the Esso maps linked to below, so here is the northern coast in four maps: Negril To MoBay and MoBay To Runaway Bay and Runaway Bay To Annotto Bay and Annotto Bay And East + Kingston. [Legend: The initials after a town note whether there is a: PS-Police Station, PO-Post Office, and T-Telephone.]
Since this page was created I have collected many more maps. They have to be checked for hotels that are not yet listed here, and to determine the years the hotels existed.
Postcard pictures were obtained from several sources. All of the Cards pictured here were for sale at one point. Most of the cards are for sale now. You might even have multiple cards of the same scene to choose from. For Jamaica collections see:
Hotel Brochures
I have also been collecting hotel brochures. Some have have been scanned. Most have not. They are noted alongside the hotels below. Or see list of all scanned hotel brochures.
If you have any information that you can add to this page, especially the year of openings, name changes, and closings, a link to my e-mail can be found at the bottom of most pages.
Hotels are listed in island clockwise-order. From each postcard picture page you can go directly to the next hotel.
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Disney Hits 100 Million Facebook Fans
Think your company is popular on Facebook? Think again. Burbank-based Walt Disney reported Sunday that it has just surpassed one hundred million fans across its network of Facebook pages. According to Disney, those fans are spread across more than 200 official Disney brands, property, and character pages, which the firm has been creating on Facebook since August of 2009. Disney said it is now seeing more than 5 million new fans per week on its Facebook pages.


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Adele's Grammy Tongue Lashing of Chris Brown
Posted Monday February 11, 2013 12:25 PM GMT
Four years after he beat her up, Chris Brown brazenly cuddled with Rihanna at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards last night (February 10). And Adele wasn't having it.
The "Rolling in the Deep" diva laid into the "Kiss Kiss" crooner during a brief one-on-one exchange at the Staples Center, though there's no audio to hear exactly what was said.
However, judging from Adele's demeanor and Chris' body language, it stands to reason that she gave him a stern talking to.
Brown also refused to stand and applaud rival Frank Ocean when he beat Chris in the Best Urban Contemporary Album cagegory.
Enjoy the picture of Adele and Chris Brown at the 2013 Grammy Awards (February 10).
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Kate Gosselin: Bed, Bath & Beyond Beauty
Enjoying a relaxing weekend in her home state of Pennsylvania, Kate Gosselin was spotted out engaging in a little retail therapy in Reading, Pennsylvania on Saturday (September 18).
Looking casual cute, the TLC reality star mom ventured over to the local Bed Bath & Beyond to pick up her household needs before heading back to the homefront.
Stirring up all sorts of speculation as of late, Miss Gosselin has been rumored to be dating married bodyguard Steve Neild after a trip to Cabo last weekend.
Denying a romance, Kate told press, "It's just absurd. I'm waiting for Mr. Right. It would be nice if somebody noticed me, sure."


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'A Twisted Heart'
On the surface, with its period settings and costumes, the new film Brideshead Revisited looks like a faithful adaptation of the classic novel by Evelyn Waugh. Underneath, it is anything but faithful. On the contrary, it presents a deeply flawed and inaccurate picture of the Christian faith that Waugh embraced.
Brideshead Revisited tells the story of the wealthy Flyte family as seen through the eyes of Charles Ryder, who attends Oxford with the troubled young Sebastian Flyte. Charles is an agnostic who cannot understand the Flytes' Catholic faith and the strong influence it has over all of them, even over the family members who rebel against it.
Even though these rebellious ones often seem happy, fulfilled, and free from restrictions, there is still something in them that craves the simple belief in God that they knew in their childhood. The book is ultimately the story of those lost family members gradually returning one by one to the Church. In the end, even the agnostic Charles finds himself drawn to the faith.
As Waugh wrote, Brideshead "deals with what is theologically termed 'the operation of Grace,' that is to say, the unmerited and unilateral act of love by which God continually calls souls to Himself." In short, grace and faith are at the very heart of the story.
But the movie makers seemed determined to do everything they could to undermine what Evelyn Waugh was trying to say. Original screenwriter Andrew Davies made headlines when he remarked that God would be the "villain" of his adaptation. Davies was later replaced by another writer, Jeremy Brock, who announced that God would not be the villain, but "theology" would. The story, to him, was largely about "religious guilt."
True to Brock's words, the film paints a very different picture of the Catholic faith than Waugh did. The religion of grace that he portrayed so powerfully in his novel is now shown in the movie as stifling and oppressive. Waugh was honest in his depiction of devout Christians as three-dimensional individuals with both faults and virtues, but the film portrays them as outright villains and fools.
The end of the book has Charles Ryder praying in the chapel at Brideshead. The film shows no such scene. Instead, it ends with Charles almost snuffing out the candle burning before the altar, then thinking better of it and walking away. Maybe that is the filmmaker's way of showing at least a grudging respect for religion. But given the film's poisonous portrayal of the Flyte family's faith, I doubt it.
As Barbara Nicolosi of the Christian filmmakers' program Act One puts it, "Every scene in the movie had the settings from the book, but with a twisted heart."
Even the New York Times got it right in its review of the movie. And I quote: "In Waugh's book . . . religious commitments and social relations were part of a thickly detailed, complicated and ancient lived reality. . . [T]his is what makes 'Brideshead Revisited' live and breathe as a novel. None of it registers with any force in this lazy, complacent film, which takes the novel's name in vain."
That is why the film is not worth your time. If your friends invite you to see the movie, instead invite them to read the book with you . . . so you can remind them that the Christian faith is not about guilt, but about grace.


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New York Times columnist Gail Collins weighs in on outlandish things politicians have been saying recently, for the latest installment of our series How Did Politics in America Get So Weird? Then, Nate Silver looks at incumbents running for re-election, and why so many of them may be at risk of losing their seats. And Pulitzer-prize winning historian and journalist Garry Wills talks about his life covering great events and the people at the center of them.


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Thanks to The Salt Lake Tribune for its continuing series explaining the Affordable Care Act to readers in a reasonably simplified manner, particularly the spread on Sunday, Sept. 8, "What consumers need to know about the Affordable Care Act"
The more we read and understand, whether in print or online, the more we can accept the benefits as well as the drawbacks of this admittedly very complex plan affecting nearly all of us.
Within 10 years, the ACA will be accepted as the norm, and even Republicans and tea partyers will have moved on to other issues.
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Kenmore Washer - Agitator not moving
The washing machine (Kenmore direct drive) in my rental unit is down, just as my tenants are leaving. I'm trying to diagnose the problem, and the probable cause, so I can determine whose going to pay for the parts/repair.
Here's the scoop ... when the machine runs, the agitator doesn't move, although I can hear the motor running. The agitator will move freely (but not overly loosely) by hand. Is it a bad coupling? Would this be caused by overloading?
Being a DIYer, I want to try to fix it myself ( I've rebuilt dryers, but haven't tackled a washer yet), but need some advise on where to begin.
Thanks in advance
I have now completed the repair. All was successful, but I thought I'd follow-up by saying ... the problem was definitely from overloading! Anyone who knows what the drive coupler is all about will know that usually as the part wears out the prongs start to get mangled. This washer was only a few years old, and when I got to coupling ... I noticed that the part looked brand new, but on closer inspection the body of the part that seats on the motor shaft was broken in half through the thickest part of the plastic, causing the motor shaft to rotate freely. That must have been some wicked load of laundry they were trying to move to break it like that ... guess who's paying for the parts? :thumbup:
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Japanese hair straightening?
This has been annoying me for a while, and I need some advice.
Back in the day, about 4 years ago, I had curly, somewhat bushy hair (between a 2c and a 3a). Around that time, I had my hair-stylist aunt retexturize it using a Japanese straightening method or something. The results were great, my hair stayed straight, and everything was good. She told me I would have to have it redone in 6-12 months.
6-12 months later, my hair's still straight.
1-2 years later, my hair's still straight.
Today, 4 years after the fact, MY HAIR'S STILL STRAIGHT.
For those who detest their curly hair, this may seem like a dream come true; hell, my hair is probably healthier now than it was before the treatment. However, it's a lot thinner than it used to be...And I'm just not into straight hair anymore. So, I've been trying 50 million different products that hold the slightest promise of bringing some of my curl back. None have worked thus far. I guess the question is: Is my hair permanently damaged? And if not, what can I do to fix it a little?
Any response is appreciated. :toothy7:
Hey I've had some experience with the Japanese hair straightening. I loved it while I had it, but unfortunately I had to wait for new hair growth to get my curls back
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rpm requirements are more air at higher RPMs, a bigger engine needs more air and even more air at high RPMs? how much power do you need,from what size engine?Its just math,,,, bigger engine can supply the greater power,,,sooner
what do you need?what are you hauling,,,,?maybe you need a turbo diesel?
|My main question, more or less, is if the Performer RPM is a bad choice for a stock 350 with vortec heads at my vehicles weight and cruise rpm and would it lend itself to future upgrades or will a plain jane performer or similar design do just as well for less money. If its a toss up, then fine. Was afraid the extended rpm range might be a little too high but the dyno sheets from Edelbrock don't indicate that quite so much. Nothing wrong with looking for real world experience. I'm doing the vortec upgrade and need an intake. Things may change before I go bigger.
|decide what you need,buy parts for that,towing will require(you fill in the blanks) build that once.Budget is not a word to use,decide what you need and buy the best parts to do that
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Intake Question For Vortec Swap And Future 383 Build
OK. This is the same 78 350 in a 5200# truck with 3.73 gears and 4 speed manual. Because of the tall tires my cruise is 2000-2200 rpm.
My end use will be a daily driver/tow/haul. I am on an extremely tight budget. My end result I think will be when I rebuild the engine and step up to a 383 build.
For now I am going to freshen up a set of used Vortecs and maybe a cam change.
I have been looking and reading about intakes and have a couple of questions. I want to be able to reuse the intake on a 383 but don't want to kill my 350. It looks like I need to stay away from the air gap type manifolds. Would something like the Performer RPM or similar manifold work well or is there a better choice? I didn't know if the runner size would kill my torque. I am not particular on brands. Is there much difference in tq/hp between the different dual plane manifolds? I am also looking at used parts for cost savings.
On a side note, will my Vortec heads be suitable for a 383 build or would I be much better suited with an aftermarket set? If aftermarket would be better, how much better on tq/hp would they be? This might dictate how much time and money I sink into a set of used heads. Thanks.
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Administrative Supplements to NIH Awards for Validation Studies of Analytical Methods for Natural Products (Admin Supp)
Administrative Supplements to NIH Awards for Validation Studies of Analytical Methods for Natural Products (Admin Supp)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) announces an administrative supplement program to provide funds to NCI- and NIDDK-supported research projects for validation studies of new analytical chemistry methods. These methods must have been developed or be under development by the awardees during the active parent grant. They must be methods used to identify and quantify constituents (bioactive and other chemical marker constituents and/or their metabolites, adulterants, or contaminants) in products intended for oral administration in humans or in biological specimens such as urine, plasma, or animal tissues. As test agents the products studied may be investigated in vitro or in vivo. The products under investigation in parent grants may be dietary supplements (including vitamins or other bioactive compounds), foods, and other orally administered natural products or their raw source materials.
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text: Previous Next Previous Next SOG PowerAssist $119.25; www.sogknives.com The PowerAssist is basically a mini toolbox on your belt with 14 tools: screwdrivers, pliers, knives (serrated and regular), wire cutters, and more. While it isn't spring loaded, we found the action smooth and accessing the tools on the inside is easy. The serrated and regular knife blades can be accessed from the outside, and while the locking/unlocking of the blades took a little bit to figure out, once you learn how it's quite easy.


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Selling off all my tanks
Hi all,
I posted this on the masi trading post but thought I'd go ahead and post here as well. After a few false starts last year I've decided to sell off my tanks. They've been sitting in the basement empty for over a year now and most of them were only used for around 6 month. All are in great shape. So, I have the following available:
55 gallon tank with pine stand (black), glass top, and strip light. Light has been retrofitted with a 2 x28w T5 fixture. I'm asking $75 for the whole setup.
10 gallon tank with glass top and a DIY fixture, 2x 13w CF from AH supply. $20
Two 20 gallon long tanks with glass tops. $20 each
And for anyone that likes retro tanks I have an old slate bottom, chrome frame tank, with chrome top that I'll sell for $10. This one needs to be re-sealed and needs a little TLC but it's a cool piece.
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Top 10: Luxury Car Clubs - Part I
A number of luxury car clubs in major cities are making up for lost time. Most function as members-only organizations, while one takes the next step and offers fractional ownership. Members can reserve cars for anniversaries, birthdays, celebrating promotions or just for smart consumerism. Even if you own a high-end car outright and are not making payments, yearly maintenance, repairs, insurance, storage, and depreciation figures can easily enter five-figure territory. Considering the amount of time most owners spend driving these cars, it isn't always a great return on your investment.
Here's an overview of some of the leaders in the luxury car club sector. Unlike golf or health club memberships, a luxury car club membership is one you'll actually use.
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Millionaire's Concierge, FloridaWe all know the value of a great concierge, and Millionaire's Concierge aims to please. Based in Florida and with services in Aspen, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and New York, Millionaire's Concierge caters to car lovers with an array of exotics in each location. For that matter, the company will gladly incorporate your exotic car rental into any of several getaways and activities.
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Saturday's Daily Times had a great op-ed from Wicomico County's favorite tree hugging statist – Mike Pretl. I'm not being facetious; it is a great essay. Pretl's piece is a well written example of political propaganda at its best; persuasive but seriously lacking in the fact department.
Pretl tells us that only those who refuse to obtain coverage will have to pay "the tax". Untrue. For starters, ObamaCare isn't just ONE tax. There are many taxes which we will be paying:
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- A Reduction in the Limits on Flex Spending Accounts
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It's small wonder that the bill was written so that these taxes don't take effect until AFTER the 2012 elections.
Pretl points out that there are many benefits to ObamaCare. He's correct. There are many benefits. Unfortunately, Pretl always fails to remember that there is no such thing as a free lunch. The end result of ObamaCare will be to put us all into a single payer system – socialized medicine. This is exactly what Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Martin O'Malley, AND Mike Pretl hope fore. That's fine. They, like you and I, have a right to their opinion. I just wish that they would all admit it. To his credit, if you have a conversation with Mike about this issue he will admit that he wants a single payer system. He just refuses to call it what it is – one more leap down the road to serfdom.


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Cuba will attract more tourists with U.S. deal, needs to modernize
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Salsa music and cigar smoke swirl round the grand courtyard of Havana's famous Hotel Nacional, and guests enjoy stunning views out over the "Malecon" seafront promenade and the ocean beyond.
But inside, many of its rooms are shabby and musty, the WiFi is costly and weak, customer service is often indifferent, and the food, while plentiful, is generally dull.
Although Havana is loaded with charm, great music and architectural jewels, there is a shortage of quality hotel rooms and restaurants, hire cars, taxis and other services.
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Comcast Boxes Slammed; Cable Giant Agrees to Listen
Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E complained about the small utility boxes pop- ping up around Georgetown of late, and the installer Comcast was taken aback, thinking it had full approval for the boxes' installation.
"This business is coming into our community and just making an aesthetic wreck of what we try to preserve in the historic district," said commissioner Tom Birch of the small refrigera- tor-sized boxes on the sidewalks.
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The Global Day of Jewish Learning was held on November 7, 2010 to mark the completion by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, renowned Jewish teacher and philosopher, of his 45 year long project of translating the Talmud. The goals of the Global Day were to unify the Jewish people around a shared culture of learning sacred texts, and to raise awareness of the Talmud through Rabbi Steinsaltz's historic achievement. 408 communities in 48 countries participated in the Global Day. This evaluation found that the Global Day filled a unique niche, providing a platform that promotes global Jewish belonging and peoplehood through a focus on Jewish learning and Talmud. Participating communities report the Global Day inspired their lay and professional leadership both by exposing them to other learners worldwide and by providing resources and support that promoted Jewish learning. Respondents also report the Global Day was a unique forum that encouraged local collaboration across organizations and denominations.
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Solving recurrence relations in two variables
DiscreteMath`RSolve` solves univariate recurrence relations.
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BMW CPO Woes - CPO Rescinded? - VIN-check "loophole" or scam? - Carfax fails me too!
Sorry about the length of this post. Only read it if you care about used car consumer's rights as this relates to buying a BMW CPO-described car that really may or may not be a BMW CPO even when a dealership pulls up the VIN to check it for you. Also, trust and rely on Carfax? You decide.
Regardless, if you are buying a CPO via an independent dealer and using a Carfax, this is worth a few minutes of your time...
Was I purposefully scammed by an independent (non-BMW) dealer using Carfax verbiage and a BMW CPO-loophole or was the indep dealer working off the same misinformation as me? Hopefully this thread will help me solicit more tangible facts over the next few days. If nothing else, I can help the "next guy" not make the same mistake I just made. (I will not use specific names of dealerships or whatever now. Not sure they are as relevant as the bigger picture issue here...but I can share offline with you if you think it is relevant.) You judge...
Background on me:
- I have purchased a BMW moto (R1150), three BMW 5-series cars and a Landcruiser via the internet during the last 10 years +or-. Until now, all good.
- I am a tenured, business professional who has extensive professional background managing large corp transactions. I understand "caveat emptor" and perform thorough due diligence before purchasing all higher-$ items online: cars, jewelry, electronics, etc. My DD for this car was thorough and described below.
- In late July of 2011, I found an independent dealer (non-BMW) in Florida offering an '08 550. Nice car marketed as having an included BMW Certified Factory Warranty "CPO".
- The Carfax the independent dealer sent me showed the car history and that the car had been offered for sale in April as a BMW Factory CPO car.
- Since other BMWs I had purchased in the past were also out of state CPOs, I knew the routine. I should call the BMW dealership where the car had been previously serviced (in this case FL) and my local BMW dealership (TN) to confirm said CPO-status for myself.
- Either July 26th or 27th I talked to the local Florida BMW dealership that had CPO'd the car. The service tech rep there verified CPO through 2014 (or 100k of course) and gave me a quick service synopsis of the car.
- The same day, I also called my local BMW dealership (in TN) with the same VIN to hopefully learn more about service history, if available. TN BMW Dealer Customer Service Tech also verified the CPO end-date of 2014 and a few of the same service items that the FL BMW dealer service tech rep had confirmed as well.
- I also hired a third-party car inspector to physically inspect and drive the car at the independent dealer's lot. That checked-out fine too.
- I purchased the car and had it delivered a week or two later. Nice car. Now fast forward the things 6 months to today...
- Today (01/23/2012) I drop off the car at my local BMW dealer (same one I called to re-verify CPO above) to have them replace a few, small nuisance-things under CPO. Surpise, the BMW database now shows no record of this car as a CPO. None. Zero. Squat.
- I asked to see the Head of Service (BMW TN) and explained things as they transpired. He pulled a brand new Carfax (I didn't ask, he just did that), which still shows the car offered as BMW CPO in April of 2010. Still shows it went to auction in June too. Both things I knew. He used the Carfax to deduce car history trail, I am guessing.
- My local TN BMW Service Tech Mgr calls the FL BMW dealership and talks to someone who checks their local (FL BMW) records. Initially FL BMW says (while I am there listening to the call) that they (FL BMW Dealer) CPO'd and filed that April-08, 2011. FL-guy would verify things on his end, find out why it was not showing in the BMW system and call my dealer rep back.
- Hour later, FL BMW calls TN BMW back to report that they had filed that CPO when they offered the car for sale at the authorized BMW dealership. It didn't sell locally, so FL BMW auctioned car in June and somewhere along the line they "rescinded" the filed CPO.
Remember, at the end of July I called two separate BMW dealers who both took my VIN and verified CPO through 2014...no mention of "filed CPO" or "pending CPO that could be rescinded"...both verified a BMW CPO thru 2014 using the BMW Dealership computer system. Again, I verified CPO at the very end of July...yes, July is after April (dealer-listing as CPO) and after June (dealer-auction.)
- So today after TN BMW verified to me FL BMW's "rescinded CPO" and no existing CPO, he became less-helpful and would answer no more of my questions other than suggesting I call BMWNA. Click.
- An hour call with a BMWNA CSR and also a BMWNA CSR Mgr...even more nothing. VIN never shows-up in their BMWNA CPO system. Sorry, consumer. (BTW, if I wasn't the owner of the VIN, they would not have shared that info in the first place.)
- If it never was a CPO fine, but why-why-why did it show up as a CPO verified by two different BMW Dealerships in two different states? Why?
- What else can a consumer do except rely on a dealer to verify the CPO pre-purchase regardless of who offers the BMW for sale at anytime? BMW CPO stays with car, not owner.
- BMWNA suggests that maybe the BMW Dealerships use another system for sharing CPO info (but that he wouldn't know for sure.) That makes less than little sense, but he just wanted me off the phone and to quit asking him questions.
- BMWNA CSR Mgr also says that BMW Dealers should only give out CPO and service history info to BMW owners anyway. He is not sure how the inaccurate CPO info was shared and I am on my own now.
- I just called the independent (non BMW) dealer who sold me the car. He claims he called BMW when he first bought the car from auction (June), and FL BMW verified the CPO info to him as well and that is why he included it in his marketing.
My questions/concerns:
- Carfax boldly listed (and still lists!) this car as "BMW Certified Pre-Owned" because the FL Dealer listed it as that in April of 2010 before they decided to go to auction and evidently strip the CPO back-out. Carfax then (and today) makes this car appear CPO-valid even if it is not. In my opinion, Carfax helps perpetrate this misinformation/fraud (hopefully unknowingly). How in heaven's name would a consumer know to doubt this as anything other than once-a-CPO-always-a-CPO? Especially as this is validated by Carfax verbiage.
- WORSE TO ME than the Carfax debacle...a pending or filed CPO-qualification must get into the BMW Dealership computer network as generic CPO info at least for a short period of time. This is what I think sucks most of all! 'Caveat emptor' made me dismiss Carfax and the claim by the independent dealer. What is the most thorough way then to validate BMW CPO when buying a purported BMW CPO car? Call an authorized BMW dealer, right? Better yet, call two BMW dealers to validate. Peace of mind or so I thought.
Anyone more familiar with the authorized BMW Dealer network of CPO info sharing to help me out or to better understand what just happened to me on BMW side-of-things?
Anyone been similarly "frauded/duped/misinformed" by an independent dealer actively working the same "loophole" using Carfax CPO verbiage and the BMW network database info flow?
Is Carfax really just that useless or does anyone else see them listing this as a BMW CPO vehicle equally misleading...bordering on used car information 'malpractice'?
Thanks in advance. Any help and/or constructive suggestions are appreciated.
To my understanding, CPO will be offered only if you buy the vehicle from the dealer or it should be transferred from other party.
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icuc, the CPO certification follows the vehicle not the owner.
To the OP, on the DAVIS report it probably said under CPO status PENDING. If I'm following your time line correctly, the BMW dealership wholesaled the vehicle to an independent and then never filed the final CPO paperwork to the final RETAIL buyer as they, the BMW dealership never had one. Why would they spend over $2k when they never needed to. The dealership will send the final paperwork AND payment when the vehicle is delivered to the retail buyer.
The indy actually misrepresented the car and, again if I'm following your timeline correctly, AND you have the P&S stating that this is a BMW CPO vehicle, you have a good cause of action in a small claims court in Florida for misrepresentation.
When a BMW dealer puts a car for sale on their lot as a CPO, they do the inspection and then put it for sale. During that time, it is in "CPO Pending" status and it is not actually a CPO car. Only if the dealer sells it to a retail buyer and reports it sold as a CPO car will the CPO warranty be "activated" and then (and only then) does it become a CPO car.
In your case, based on the timeline, the dealer couldn't sell it and shipped it to auction. When they do that, they unenroll the car from the CPO program and it removes the "pending" status. They are not rescinding coverage since it was never retailed as a CPO and the warranty was never activated.
Shame on the two dealers you called for not noticing that it said "CPO: Pending" instead of "CPO: Active" when they pulled up the service history, but there really is nothing you can do. You didn't buy it from a BMW dealer and a used car lot has no ability to sell an actual CPO BMW (they can only sell cars that were previously retailed as CPO and still retain the warranty for future buyers... which is not the case on your car).
And for the record, this is one of the reasons why BMW does not want dealers sharing service histories. They do not want to get complaints when there are misunderstandings like this. Trust me, it happens A LOT... I used to see this stuff all the time.
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so the next point is... what can be done about it?
You can't buy CPO. And there is absolutely zero-zilch-no-way-in-hell chance you will get the car CPO'd at this point.
Provided you are still under factory warranty (sounds like you might be), you CAN buy a BMW extended warranty that will have essentially the same coverage as a CPO. You can work with the dealer where you bought the car to see if you can convince them to share some (or all) of the cost given that they contributed to your confusion and potentially misrepresented the vehicle.
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Sarafil, you are thinking what I am thinking at this point too...FYI, I have 60k on this 2008 550 now. I think the independent dealer is the car professional in this instance, who clearly misrepresented the car (intentionally or not) as a BMW CPO (touted on his website that I have cached and in his email correspondence with me.)
The Carfax docs are still misleading as hell and BMW dealers failed my redundancy too. However, if I botch an M&A deal purposefully or not, I still have a fiduciary duty to my clients and would expect their same response. Not sure if FL small claims will agree with me, but maybe the dealer will step-up and that will not be necessary. Hm.
I had a very similar scenario, but different result, when I was buying my 550i. One of the cars I was looking at was at an independent dealer here in Los Angeles that specializes in late model BMWs (typically have 50+ BMWs in their inventory at any one time). This car, along with many in their inventory, had a banner across the windshield stating it was a BMW Certified Pre-Owned Car. The advertisement on the Internet said the same (that the car was a BMW CPO car), but also stated that the car was only covered under the original factory warranty, and gave the expiration date. When I went out to test drive the car, the salesman told me that they had purchased the car on auction from a dealer that had previously offered the car as a CPO used car, which is why the banner was on the windshield, but decided to auction it after it didn't sell (this car was a manual transmission car, which are hard to sell, according to many salesman). He was extremely clear that the car did not have any warranty other than the remaining factory warranty, although I could purchase an extended warranty from him if I wanted.
In my opinion, for what it is worth, the dealer that sold you the car made a mistake when he told you the car had a CPO warranty. Whether he acted in good faith on bad information, or whether he intentionally mis-lead you, may be a decision that a judge will have to make, if you decide to pursue this.
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If an ebay seller (not a big outfit by any definition) knows about this, there is little reason that any more established used car dealer would know less. In any event I agree that OP should go back to the dealer whom he bought the car from to resolve this.
OP now thinks the licensed dealer knew (or certainly should have).
After my call, he sounded too buddy-buddy with some guy from that authorized BMW dealership.
If you make your living buying and selling BMW's, you know the system.
OP also thinks BMWNA and the local dealership were both far too quick to disclaim any understanding of CPO and pending-CPO in the main BMW Service computer system.
It is my understanding now that CPO can be full or pending in the BMW system.
Whether BMW should be able to tell a prospective buyer or not about CPO and previous history (they should, I sincerely believe).
They did tell me something incorrectly or not fully..twice in two authorized BMW dealers in two states.
I made a buying decision based on what should be infallible...BMW corporate VIN-validation.
OP's thoughts on Carfax? Don't get me started.
Post "Certified BMW Warranty" in big-bold, certified lettering across your report...WTF?
Wrong. Why do they sell an expensive consumer-focused report and assume no reliability whatsoever for right/wrong in that consumer report?
Especially something like so potentially ambiguous and potentially misleading as "Factory CPO"?
Regardless, I thought I had all three due diligence ducks in a row (dealer, BMW, and Carfax.)
Come to find out I didn't have any of the three. Wow.
Check back for more details as they emerge.
Please keep ideas/thoughts/strategies coming because the OP does appreciate it all!
Sorry to hear about your problem OP but I dismissed Carfax long ago as a waste of money and unreliable at best for any information on any vehicle at any time. Now BMW Dealer that's another story but since it wasn't a car on their lot they were very careless on how they divulged information to you. Ultimately its between you and the Used car dealer and you know how upfront and honest they can be especially if they're from FL, dealers in FL are mostly thieves and lier's and I'm being nice, thats been my experience unfortunately!
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I gave up on Carfax after (just for kicks) seeing perfectly clean Carfax data on my own truck, that I knew had been in accidents while I owned it.
Still, this gives any one buying a used BMW from a non-BMW dealership pause when claims of CPO status are given. As the saying goes, get it in writing.
Sorry to hear of your predicament.
However, since you've bought CPO BMW's in the past, you also know all of your CPO paperwork shows up in your mailbox a couple of weeks after you buy the car.
That missing paperwork was your red flag.
I bought my first BMW off a very good Independent BMW used car dealer but they have a stellar reputation for sales and service and are highly recommended by BMWCCA. There are good ones out there, you just have to really do your homework, especially if its an out of State Dealer.
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If they point out a problem --that can be relied upon !
No problems pointed out---carfax is meaningless except for where the car has been used.
This is an excellent discussion.
Makes me understand the value of new car purchase compared to used.
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Especially seeing how expensive CPO cars are lately.
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So, is there an update to this predicament?
Oh, and thanks to the OP for sharing this story. It's good information for all of us to know, especially when buying a used car of any kind. I too had a CPO used car issue once, but fortunately mine was resolved without any bad consequences.
In this case the OP appears not to have understood the details of the system -- easy to do given the way BMW describes the CPO program (emphasizing the pre-sale inspection) and the way ignorant/unscrupulous independent sellers claim CPO status.
I have a somewhat similar situation, just with a twist on dealer. I purchased a "CPO" BMW 5-series from a BMW dealer. Now, at the end (a couple weeks of supposed CPO warranty left) of the CPO period I find out the vehicle isn't actually CPO'd. It was represented as such (on their website and by the salesman) including a CPO folder with CPO brochure-type inserts and a warranty history print-out with CPO "pending" in it. They had to have known it wasn't CPO --- since they've done half-a-dozen "warranty" repairs since my purchase and never said a word.
My first time at an out of area dealership I found out it was never CPO'd. It went from "pending" to nothing sometime after I purchased it... Their solution (place I bought it from) was that they'd put it on a flat-bed and take it "home" to their dealership to complete the repairs.
I refused and contacted a lawyer.
Any thoughts on what I can expect to recover? I'm hoping for full purchase price refunded and keep the car to sell on my own after the fact. Am I in the ballpark? Has any one else experienced misrepresentation from an ACTUAL BMW dealership?
Thanks for any insight.
Asking for the full purchase price PLUS keeping the car is out of the question and quite rediculous TBH. The law is meant to put you in your contractually agreed position, you are not entitled to be tens of thousands of dollars ahead.
I'm no lawyer, but that's just common sense.
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I'm sorry, but your story makes absolutely no sense. What repairs were made by the selling dealer under the CPO warranty?
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Same Problem. Anyone have any outcomes to share?
Bought an X5 listed as CPO by Florida wholesaler who bought it for me at auction 02/2013. Said CPO warranty was good til 08/2015. Come to find out now that it was never certified despite saying so on Carfax. Has anyone who had this problem had any success with cooperation from the dealer you bought it from or any success from the courts? I'm just beginning my battle and would love any advice.
I had a similar problem with a Porsche that I bought directly from the second owner who had purchased it as CPO. When I went to the dealer to verify the warranty before buying it (in hindsight, you probably should have done that as well), we discovered that the selling dealer had never sent in the paperwork. They rectified it, and later I had a warranty claim and it was handled without a problem. Natch this was easier because the actual person who bought the car CPO was able to motivate them to fix the problem.
You have no recourse against Carfax because they have a disclaimer on the contract when you buy a report. Your claim is against the wholesaler who told you that it was CPO and it is not. He/she needs to resolve this with BMW or buy you a comparable aftermarket warranty or refund some of your money. Hopefully you have this in writing somewhere.
Best of luck.
I also am having this problem. I paid extra in order to have my BMW dealership sold 335i convertible sold as CPO. I find out later from a dealership where I get servicing that it is not a CPO vehicle. The dealership will not return my emails or my voicemails. BMW North America says there is nothing they can do, only the dealership. So, I guess I need to find a lawyer for this as well...
Just a friendly reminder: Any warranty is a contract. It should exist in writing even though it follows the vehicle. It should declare what exactly is covered in detail, who will perform repairs and when. If there are transfer costs, forms need to be obtained and complied with and the fee paid. A warranty I.D. card may also be required. Any thing else like a computer read out is not binding because it can be altered.
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Study on the microwave curing of adhesive joints using a temperature-controlled feedback system
Yarlagadda, Prasad K. & Cheok, E.C. (1998) Study on the microwave curing of adhesive joints using a temperature-controlled feedback system. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 91(1-3), pp. 128-149.
Past experiments have shown that the microwave curing of epoxies reduces the curing time and has favourable effects on the mechanical properties of the epoxies. The objective of this paper is to investigate the effect of the microwave curing of epoxies using an Infra-red thermometer as a means of controlling the temperature of the samples during the time when they are subjected to microwave radiation. A precise temperature control strategy is important, as inaccuracy often leads to uncontrolled thermal run-away resulting in the destruction of the material. The proposed control system incorporates a temperature feedback control mechanism to control the temperature and the exposure time of adhesive joints during microwave radiation. Microwave energy at a frequency of 2.45 GHz was used to cure various engineering thermoplastics bonded together using two-part epoxies. The samples were exposed to microwave power inputs of 300, 450 and 600 W in a slotted waveguide. The bond strengths achieved by the microwave-cured samples were then compared to those of samples cured under ambient conditions. The results obtained indicate that the microwave cured samples achieved a higher bond strength and at a fraction of the time needed for ambient curing. The proposed control system was able to provide a precise temperature control strategy for the localised hot spots commonly associated with microwave heating, thereby increasing the efficiency of microwave curing whilst improving the bond strength and the quality of the adhesive joints
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The 2013 Indiana Arborist Association Tree Climbing Championship was held on September 21 at Lafayette's Murdock Park. Seventeen climbers entered the competition including eleven in-state competitors. We can thank the long list of volunteers, many coming from out of state, and the wonderful weather for a great event this year.
After the preliminary events, Wes Moore, John Montgomery and Jeff Clark competed in the Master's Challenge to determine the Indiana representative for the international competition. The scores were very close revealing a very good masters competition. However, due to the narrow margins, an official protest was claimed and the scores from the Master's Challenge were re-tabulated. Through this process, it was revealed that John Montgomery was the 2013 IAA Master's Challenge winner. He will represent Indiana in the 2014 International Tree Climbing Championship in Milwaukee Wisconsin.
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Manhattan is one of the great places in the world to ride a bicycle and for instance tonight it was Myra's birthday so she and Chana, her girlfriend, and I rode to Film Forum and then to the East Village for bubble tea. It was very social and just beautiful out tonight. But sometimes a bicycle is an interruption and you ride it somewhere to meet someone
but afterwards do you want to walk with them with your bike in crowded weekend sidewalks stopping and starting and just having an extra body along when you want to feel intimate. It's a decision you weigh – whether to leave your bike in Chelsea or Chinatown or on 10th St. all night or not. There are seasons in bike thievery – entire decades, the 80s for instance when to own a bike was to be endlessly buying a new one. And moral questions about whether it was okay to buy a hot bike when you had lost so many. Weren't you just buying your own bike back after all so THAT'S okay, right? It's calmer out there now so what generally happens is a bicycle hangover. The next day I run out of my apartment ready jump on my bike cause I'm late and it's not there. It's at Broadway/Lafayette. You are thinking she lost her bike but I didn't. I instead walked up Houston Street on such a gorgeous sunny day so beautiful you could cry. I need fruit I thought for this walk and the guy who sells fruit on 1st and 1st was there and I bought figs and pears. Figs & Pears! That sounds like a poem title. And up the street, penless, I thought about what might go into this poem. Lines tearing out from all angles, about shirts, and an ending came to me but I knew I would never remember that but the jounce of the day seemed likely to hold many of the lines and I rode home swiftly weighing whether I dare do one errand before I got home wondering if that would be the disintegration of the poem or if I simply had it and it would go on until I was ready. I decided to play it safe and I parked and I saw John. I've lived in my building intermittently for 32 years, longer than the house I grew up in which was 18. That's really scary only nine years did I live anywhere else. Hi John. There's a cadre of us who have lived in my building for many many years. People like us live all over Manhattan and you could say we like to talk. Most of the ones in my building are gay men and they feel like brothers. John said hello back. The day was so great. How are you? Why was I playing it wild. He could only answer. Could he ever. John began and I could have said I left something burning upstairs, I'm so sorry I have to go to the bathroom, I'm late. Maybe it was the look in his eye that he really needed to tell someone the thing he was telling me. Plus I think to some extent the poem you need to protect is already not a poem anymore, is already gone. Maybe this poem was just glorious feeling, a great day to put a poem in, but not a poem at all. I slapped some lines down on an index card, but they weren't even friends. I now have the vaguest thought to take a very deliberate walk each day not so much to reproduce the poem, but to make failure into a kind of friend and see what she will give if I meet her regular.
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Love this post, Eileen. In ref to the bikes…the post made me flashback to the summer I watched a bike being stolen from Broadway / Lafayette in the summer of 1988. I was standing there waiting for a friend and this guy walked up and said "is this bike yours?" and I said no, so very businesslike, he pulled a 2 x 4 from his bag, stuck it into the Kryptonite lock, twisted, and pop. Then he rode off on it. I hope it wasn't your bike. I was a very bad citizen, but I was sort of inexperienced and flabbergasted at the guy's openness. And he had a 2 x 4… Daisy
I love biking. It shrinks the city down to a village and September is the most beautiful time to race through Manhattan, dodging trucks and cabs and pedestrians but I also do get frustrated in the evening when I must park my bike or walk my bike with my walking friends and then it becomes a burden, nudging that bike along on the sidewalk, trying to talk and smoke a cigarette at the same time. I had three bikes stolen in total. The last one (beautiful and blue with a spring seat) in front of McNally Bookstore after I popped in to read a book for ten minutes. When I came out, it was only a tire. My new bike looks like one of those beat up delivery bicycles so it never gets stolen.
I've lived for 41 years in my cottage in west central Berkeley. Actually there are two cottages, I eat and type in front and sleep out back under the redwood tree, with the garden in between. I still have tomatoes and kale and the second shift of raspberries has come in and new mustard and lettuce I planted in the moon's first quarter. From here I can ride my bike as far as Point Pinole or my granddaughter's house in Temescal, or with a lift from BART to the Center for the Art of Translation office south of Market, near the ballpark. As my friend Donald Schenker once remarked, "there are poems all over the place, it's practically embarrassing."
Everybody has a bike story. I love bike stories. When I was a staff writer for the Phila. City Paper in the mid-90s, I did a piece called "Tell Me About Your Bike" in which I walked around Philly and stopped bikers and asked them questions about their bikes and biking. Everybody I asked had something to say.
ps, and sometimes the stories really were bike stories, but often they were just pretending to be bike stories, and were about something else. of course.
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Wiring for 30/50 Amp
My shop is wired for 220 off a 30Amp breaker from the main box to a breaker box in my shop. The reason we didn't wire for 50Amp is because I hadn't used a heavy enough wire and didn't want to dig it up and start over. At the time I only needed 220 for my large compressor. It's about 30 feet away from the house.
I have a Lincon Arc Welder that will pull variable voltage, depending on manual settings. I normally use only 75 or less. The welder has a 125V plug on it.
What I want to know is what can I do to use the welder at the shop. I have a 50Amp outlet below the main box at the house, but don't want to weld everything over there or drag out my SUPER HD 50A extension cord.
Can I not wire a 50Amp receptacle from a 30Amp breaker? Or can I not use a 50Amp breaker on the 30Amp bars? (At the shop).
I'm probably not wording this correctly, but I hope you can understand what I'm trying to do
If I cannot do it, I'll just run 50Amps (overhead - no more digging) to the shop.
Any advice greatly appreciated.
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I operate my Millermatic 180 MIG welder from 30a breaker and #10 wire - works fine even on higher settings. I have a extension cord for the welder that converts from the 30a recept to the welder plug. When not using the welder other things use the 30a recept - such as a shop heater.
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I also have an extension cord to run 50A from the house box, but it's as big as your leg :).
My real question is "what" breaker to put in the box in the shop. It has 220V, but at this point, I have only used a 30Amp breaker because the wire from the main box wasn't heavy enough (??) to handle 50 Amps. I think it was only 12 Gauge.
Many thanks,
WEll...a 30 amp breaker should have 10 ga. wire....not smaller. If you truly have 12 ga wire you need to either change it or replace the breaker with a 20 amp. (and the welder just may work on the 20 amp breaker) And your welder always draws the same voltage, it's the output you are controlling, not the input. You said the welder has a 125v plug on it? Now I'm confused.
If you were to install the 50 amp receptacle off the panel that is fed by the 30, it would still be limited by the 30 amp breaker that feeds the panel.
Devices are shown with ratings of 125/250 volts even tho the system voltages are 120 and 240.
I bought the welder used and the guy was using it on 30Amps, so I know it will work on 30A. It will just be limited in that respect.
So........doesn't that mean that I could use a 30A breaker in the box in the shop rather than a 50A breaker?
You can have a circuit protected by a 30a breaker - using #10 wire - going to the 50a recept appropriate for your welder.
A 30 amp circuit requires #10. A 50 amp would be #6.
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Michaela, Michael and Lois Sones
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Our Journey into Wine
Michael and Lois Sones met in the mid-1980s while working at sea on the Carla Costa cruise ship – he, a social photographer; she, a massage therapist on break from medical social work.
Michael is British, born and raised in England, the biggest per capita wine market in the world. Soon after completing a course in photography, Michael joined the cruise ships as a photographer. Good food and good wine play a big part in life aboard cruise ships, and in this social, maritime environment his love of wine developed.
Zinfandel grapes at Wiedeman Vineyard
After 15 years at sea, Michael came to California, where he completed a degree in Fermentation Science at U.C. Davis in 1995. As Michael, Lois and their daughter, Michaela, make their home in Santa Cruz, Michael turned to the Santa Cruz Mountains to develop his winemaking skills. He began his wine journey at Ridge Vineyards as a Cellar Assistant; then joined Bonny Doon Vineyard, first as Cellar Assistant, followed by Cellar Master, then as Assistant Winemaker. Next he moved to David Bruce Winery as Cellar Master and member of the winemaking team. Currently he is Winemaker at Bargetto Family Winery in Soquel.
Lois is a native Californian. She grew up in a social family where good food was the norm at every meal. As an adult, she learned how the pleasures of good wine enhance the experience of good food, especially when shared with friends. One of her early and most pleasant wine memories is of good friends, a balmy summer's evening on a boat in the Sacramento Delta, lovely French cheeses with a crackly baguette, and a 1978 Ridge York Creek Zinfandel. Lois, an avid cook and one-time caterer, brings an understanding of the sensory aspects of wine blending and aging. Before Sones' first release in 2006, Lois worked in the tasting room of Pelican Ranch Winery in Santa Cruz.
Thus began the journey into Sones wine ….
We use a variety of oak barrels, including French, Hungarian and American. This is oak being split in Hungary for Trust barrels, one of our favorite European cooperages.
Our Varietals
Our initial selection includes Petite Sirah and Zinfandel because we believe that these varietals flourish locally and produce distinctively Californian wines. Both have been grown in California since the late 1800s, have survived prohibition, phyloxera and trends in popularity, and more of both are grown in California than in any other part of the world. As Sones increases its production, we will add another varietal or two, including a white, but will maintain our focus on Petite Sirah, a varietal we both love and believe to be under-appreciated in California.
Our Production
We plan to limit our production to a size where it remains a personal enterprise, made by our family. Our intention is to produce fine wines that fit our notion of wine as a social drink best enjoyed with good food and good friends.
Sones wines are available only in selected fine wine shops, restaurants, at local events and directly from us. We hope this approach will foster a personal connection with our customers.
Our label represents the blend of traditions that informs our winemaking.
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As we met at sea, the image of a figurehead, a forward-looking, magical and protective being, is one with which we both resonate. This Minerva, with wine grapes in place of a shield, represents the California wines we make as well as the origins of each of our family members. Minerva is depicted on the Great Seal of California, Lois' home state; and the image of Britannia comes from the Anglification of Minerva during the Roman occupation in Britain. Thus, Minerva represents Michael's Britain, Lois' California, and our daughter Michaela's blend of the two.