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How much space do you have? While some of this decision may be out of your control, standard built-in dishwashers are 24 inches wide and have the largest capacity. Those who have less space can opt for a compact, 18-inch built-in. For apartment dwellers or those with no space for a built-in, portables come in a variety of shapes and sizes, including countertop and rollaway.
Are you looking to reduce energy and water use? If so, you'll want to consider a model with a sensor that can adjust cycles and water use according to the load's soil level. That allows the dishwasher to use no more energy or water than necessary. Most built-ins and even some portables have sensors.
Do you use oversized dishes? Some models have tines that are closely spaced to accommodate more dishes, while others have far-apart tines to accommodate larger dishes. Some also have upper racks that can be raised or lowered for greater flexibility for odd-sized items. If you have particularly thick dishes (think stoneware), you may want to take a place setting to the store with you to see if the dishwasher can easily accommodate your dishes.
Are you bothered by even small noises? Most of today's dishwashers, even cheap models, are very quiet. According to the experts at YaleAppliance.com, anything rated at less than 47 dBA will be more than adequate. However, we read few complaints that dishwashers were overly noisy even when evaluating reviews for the louder, less-expensive and portable models included in this report.
As we noted in the introduction to this report, proper loading of your dishwasher will improve cleaning performance and probably allow you to fit more dishes in the dishwasher. All manufacturers will include a loading guide somewhere in the owner's manual. If your dishwasher is struggling to get your dishes clean, try following loading instructions before calling the manufacturer -- or posting a negative review.
And one more word about capacity: Manufacturers exaggerate (okay, two words). Virtually all dishwasher descriptions include the total number of place settings the dishwasher can accommodate. However, in professional testing, that number is almost always lower, sometimes by two or three place settings. Whether the manufacturers are using tiny elf dishes or they have some other way of measuring, we don't know, but if you have a big family, or entertain a lot, you may want to buy up in number of claimed place settings.
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Best of ClojureWest 2012
I sat down to go over my Clojure/West notes and write some thoughts. An hour later, I had several long paragraphs and had only covered two talks. Clearly this process wasn't going to scale. So I pondered a bit on how to express the awesomeness of Clojure/West without writing "War and Peace". Based on a couple tweets I saw, I settled on a "Best of" approach.
Doing it this way is deeply shallow (?!) and silly. Hopefully, it's also more fun than paragraphs of my incoherent ramblings on Datomic.
So, in rough chronological order, my "Best of Clojure/West 2012":
- Best conference organizer: @puredanger aka Alex Miller
- Best design advice: "Choose immutability and see where it takes you." – @richhickey
- Most difficult word to type: datamic, er, datomic.
- Best hair: if you have to ask, stop reading now.
- Most overheard: "Do you get to use Clojure at work?"
- Most thoughtful reflection on Rich's keynote: "Holy Shit!" – @craigandera
- Special award for stepping into the den of the
(ns)macro and emerging, mostly, unscathed: @craigandera
- Best talk title: "Why is a monad like a writing desk?" – @carinmeier
- Best place to ask Rich about changes in Clojure 1.4: Men's room. Sorry ladies.
- Best feedback on my talk: "I didn't really want to go to your talk, but my boss made me. I'm glad he did."
- Best meme: "Don't build frameworks; build small, composable libraries."
- Best new development paradigm: Wikipedia Driven Development – @stuartsierra
- Best testing quote: "Unless your CI server has an unlimited supply of missiles, this is going to be difficult to test" – @stuartsierra
- Best Lorite: @rpg aka Richard P Gabriel
- Most incongruous moment: Strongbad yelling "Deleted!" in the middle of Richard Gabriel's lecture
- Best way to get rhythm in Overtone: "Probably by creating a small function" – @samaaron
- Best lifehack and use of duct tape: @tavisrudd's voice-driven Emacs setup, "via dragon natspeak + the python 'natlink' bindings and several layers of duct tape"
- Best observation of own demo: "It might not seem like a big deal, but that's really hard to do. I just wanna be sure we're clear. That was awesome." – @bradfordcross
- Best swarm-assisted discovery: "Go is a reduce of place-stone over a board and a seq of inputs." – @technomancy
- Best source of swag: @ghoseb. Just ask and he'll hook you up. Stickers, buttons, mugs, penants, dog sweaters, tea cozies, he's got everything, and not just Clojure stuff. :)
- Best leaf-smuggling-hobbit-inspired project name: Longbottom – @chouser
- Best channeling of Woody Allen while showing a picture of Batman riding a unicorn and telling a recycled joke comparing JavaScript to Russian literature: @fogus
- Best beer-driven keynote: @stuarthalloway
- And, of coure, best of the best: DATA!
All (most) of the slides for Clojure/West can be found on github. If you get "blob is too big" for a file, you'll have to clone the repo and view locally :(
As a three-track conference, I missed at least 2/3 of the awesomeness of Clojure/West. What were your "Best of" moments?


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tda 2050 - heatsinking and schem
what do people use to heatsink large chips like the tda2050? and where do you buy them from?
anyone got any good schem/pcb's for the 2050 other than the app circuit in the data sheet?
What else??Larger heatsink!!!
Regarding schematics,those inside the datasheet are enough to put it to sing,dont you think????
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By Chris Harris
Arsène Wenger does not expect anyone to match Sir Alex Ferguson's feats in football.
The Manchester United manager is celebrating 25 years in charge at Old Trafford, a spell that has brought him 12 Premier League titles, five FA Cups, four League Cups, two Champions Leagues and a European Cup Winners' Cup.
Wenger is Ferguson's longest-standing top-flight rival having completed 15 years at Arsenal but the Frenchman would be surprised if the Scot's achievements were ever eclipsed.
"People are talking about it a lot at the moment and all you can say is that it his quality and consistency is remarkable," said Wenger.
"It is exceptional as well because I don't know anybody who has done 25 years at the top level with the same club. Certainly never anybody will do it again.
"Will I do it? The distance is a bit far, that would be 10 more years. I am already happy if I make this year a good season after all of this!"Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Kellan Lutz Parties It Up in LA
Happy to be back home on the west coast, Kellan Lutz imbibed on a night out in Los Angeles, CA over the weekend (January 29).
The Emmett Cullen stud was all dressed up as he joined a few friends in hitting up the night scene - looking a bit tipsy as he strolled down the street with the help of a fellow partier.
The outing comes as Kellan is just returned home from shooting "Breaking Dawn" in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Ending the southern stay with a night on the town with co-stars Robert Pattinson and Jackson Rathbone, a source told of the festivities, "After Rob and a few of the guys had shots with the bartender I noticed Kellan and Jackson were talking to a female bartender for a while. They stayed drinking and eating until the restaurant closed and then Kellan and Jackson went to a bar with the girl."
The insider added, "They partied for a few more hours, but Rob was not there."
Enjoy the pictures of Kellan Lutz out in LA (January 29).
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Pvilion, which was founded last year, says it has installed one of its stations, called the Solar Sail, in Pflugerville, TX, just outside of Austin. The company says Solar Sail's design allows the stations to be custom-built to a location's specifications because Pvilion uses lightweight materials such as solar panels that are just 1/8th of an inch thick. Pvilion CEO Colin Touhey says the stations cost about $85,000 and is promoting them as a way for companies and municipalities to promote their environmentally-friendly efforts.
Solar-powered EV stations are considered the ultimate in green transportation because they allow an electric vehicle to be recharged using renewable energy. Last summer, Mitsubishi Motors unveiled its publicly-accessible solar-powered charging station at its North American headquarters in California. That station, which was built with a system designed by Eaton and includes 96 175-watt photovoltaic modules, cost about $130,000 to build. SolarCity is another company working on this mission.
By 2017, about $4.3 billion will be spent globally on EV charging equipment, up from about $400 million in 2011, green-technology research firm Pike Research said late last year.
After decades of experience in the fabric architecture industry Todd Dalland, Robert Lerner and Colin Touhey started Pvilion in 2011 to create an all-encompassing design, engineering, and manufacturing operation in New York City. Based on the principles of Dalland's original company founded in 1977, Lerner's architecture experience, and Touhey's renewable energy engineering, Pvilion uses tensile structures as the basis for their designs, but to modernize, manufactures flexible PV materials, allowing the sun to generate power to for the structure. Pvilion uses materials that are lightweight and flexible, allowing the product to be manufactured and tested in a Brooklyn factory and transported to the structure's final location. Each design is completely customizable and dependent on the clients' wants and needs.
New York City-based Pvilion Inc. has completed a turnkey solar charging station for battery-powered cars in Pflugerville, Texas, a suburb of Austin, at its new, eco-friendly Renewable Energy Industrial Park. The Solar Sail's flexible, 1/8" thick solar panels are tensioned on flexible stainless steel sheets that provide electricity to the utility grid, even when cars are not charging. The founders of Pvilion, Todd Dalland, Robert Lerner and Colin Touhey designed and built the structure at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and installed it earlier this month. The Solar Sail is the first flexible PV panel charging station of its kind and serves to aide in the promotion of the City of Pflugerville and the Pflugerville Community Development Corporation. Floyd Akers, Director of the PCDC said, "The Solar Sail acts as a sculptural, solar energy 'gateway' to our city, as well as our new industrial park." In the past decade, the founders of Pvilion have worked on perfecting their flexible PV panel design and construction technology by working with the most efficient, durable and lightweight new flexible PV cell technologies available, and integrating them with their renowned lightweight building design and manufacturing skills.


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BULLSEYE: Hosting a SWAT Competition
By Warren Wilson
When It's Your Department's Turn to be in Charge
The sense of dread was overwhelming. I looked down at the mud on the knees of my camouflage fatigues and I wondered how I'd gotten my thigh rig so dirty during the excitement. I peeked up at our SWAT team's young operators with stunned silence as they celebrated and congratulated each other over our win. "Fools," I mumbled to myself, "they have no idea what we've done."
As a team leader, it was my responsibility to make sure this never happened. It had to be a bad dream, but it wasn't. It really happened; our team had won the 2011 Oklahoma SWAT Competition. We'd consistently placed between second and fifth the previous six years, but this time we'd taken top honors.
I was melancholy because the winning team is responsible for hosting the following year's competition. It's a gargantuan undertaking and I knew I'd be tasked as the event coordinator. In the past, the bigger departments (read: bigger teams with bigger resources) in the state won and hosted. They'd set the standard with their competitions and we didn't have the same resources or facilities. If only there had been some kind of guide at the time. The following is a guide as to how we handled it.
The first step in hosting a SWAT (or any type of firearms) competition is general organization. It doesn't matter if you're having a raid or a parade; preparation is the difference between success and failure. A competition should be handled like any other special assignment: with a solid plan. Also, never be afraid of delegation. It's just too much for one person to handle and the more people you have contributing, the more ideas you will have from which to draw.
Someone will have to design a logo for the challenge coins and T-shirts. That may sound easier than it is. It should appeal to everyone from patrolman to chief. Police administrators generally don't like being associated with pictures of flaming skulls and most cops I know avoid wearing rainbow-colored unicorn T-shirts. Shoot for somewhere in the middle. The larger T-shirt companies will do most of the heavy lifting in designing a logo via e-mail or telephone and may even send you a banner with the logo on it if the order is large enough. With that in mind, it's a good idea to have the same person or team responsible for the logo and the T-shirts.
Don't forget to get the local media involved. Try to release a story prior to the event as well as one after your competition is over.
Decide how many and what kind of courses you will have. Tactical competitions, pistol, carbine, sniper, obstacle and hostage rescue courses are common. Some of the teams more experienced in hosting competitions might develop complicated three-gun courses, but it's best to stick to the old K.I.S.S. principle and keep it simple your first time out. Assign the people best suited to develop their respective courses. The snipers should design the long-range rifle course; the sadistic fitness gurus should design the obstacle course, and so on. When they're finished with their designs, they can present a list of resources needed to complete the courses.
Distribute agendas and maps to the competitors who will assist in getting them to your facility. That's just one less thing that can go wrong on the day of the event. Make sure they have detailed course instructions so they know what equipment they'll need to bring.
Dollars and Cents
Herein begins the real challenge. Evaluate the resources of your department because an event like this will cost money. There will have to be prizes, food, props, targets, trophies, and the previously mentioned challenge coins, T-shirts, etc. Charging teams an entrance fee can help, but with a standard of around $100.00 per team, it won't offset much. Selling shirts and coins during the competition can help make up some of the costs, but the up-front expenses still need to be secured.
Is there a special fund that can be tapped? Possibly, but police budgets aren't exactly bursting with discretionary funds these days. This is where your community comes into play. A large collection of small donations from local businesses can actually carry the entire project. Be sure to solicit the sponsors as early as possible. Many businesses have set budgets for donations and your department will want to be at the top of the list.
Holding a Sponsor Appreciation Day before the actual competition can be very helpful in encouraging donations. Your average businessperson might be more willing to part with some cash or product if it means a day of flash bang demonstrations, submachine gun training, and some really well-made burgers. Of course, this is a separate event and must be supervised by experienced officers who can ensure the safety of the participants. Offer to hang the sponsors' banners around the facility the day of the competition and make sure they're being mentioned in any media coverage leading up to the event.
The first thing to consider spending money on is the acquisition of trophies. A statue for the overall winning team and trophies for each event are expected by your participants, at the very minimum. Additional prizes for winners and runners-up are common. Vendors and sponsors can donate knives, shooting mats, BDUs, holsters, ammunition, and even firearms for those individual and team competitors who place and show. A hint with the firearm prizes: Just ask the vendor/sponsor to provide a gift certificate for the gun and let the winner go to the shop to complete the required paperwork. That way there is no concern about a "straw purchase." T-shirts will be the most popular item overall, so be sure to have plenty in all sizes. Giving away challenge coins memorializing the event to competitors and the VIP sponsors and vendors is also guaranteed to be a hit.
Another consideration is your department's facility. Do you already have a range set up for a competition? How many people do you anticipate attending among competitors, brass, vendors, sponsors and volunteers? Is there sufficient space for the courses and a staging area with a public address system? Everyone designing a course will need to keep within the allotted space. The event coordinator will need to be responsible for dividing up those areas.
There must also be sufficient room for parking. Frankly, without appropriate parking, the event can be a failure before it even begins. Participants will be lugging a lot of equipment, probably in large vehicles and trailers. Figure on space for at least three portable toilets per 100 visitors. It will take a lot of manpower for those departments that don't already have elaborate facilities to construct their courses. It cuts into SWAT practice time, and operators will have to become painters, lawn care professionals, and carpenters for a while. Doing the work utilizing your own manpower is the most cost-effective route, but may not always be possible. Heavy machinery and properly trained operators will be needed to build shooting berms, parking areas or (as occurred in our case) a concrete dividing wall to separate the pistol and carbine courses. If given sufficient notice, public works or other departments may be able to assist you with the larger projects.
The Big Day
Schedule the check-in period with enough leeway to account for the inevitable stragglers. Conduct the course walk-throughs and safety briefings. Ask the participating teams to assign one person to each course walk-through so you won't end up with too large of a crowd. That person, in turn, will brief his/her own team. When the courses begin (hopefully on schedule), try to have planned for contingencies. Teams may run out of targets. Props may break. You may even have a medical issue. One of our team's operators suffered a serious knee injury during a previous year's competition. Thankfully, the host team thought ahead and had medical personnel standing by during their event.
It's pretty obvious that lunch will be the most important consideration of the day. I recommend being married to the supervisor of a local restaurant franchise. That person will be able to organize the food and other volunteers to guarantee a smooth meal period. If one does not have such a luxury, an administrator can probably handle the assignment.
After all the events are done and the scores have been tallied, gather everyone at the staging area. Publicly thank your sponsors, vendors, volunteers, administration and whoever else assisted with the event. This must be done before prizes and trophies are distributed or there will not be an audience for it. Brevity will be appreciated as many, if not most, competitors will still have to travel home. Be sure to also thank all of your competitors, especially those who didn't win or receive a trophy.
The Aftermath
Hosting a competition at your department can take a lot of time and resources, but the benefits far outweigh the hard work and cost. Strong relationships will be built with other law enforcement agencies and members of the community. The department's range equipment and appearance will undoubtedly result in upgrading. The positive media attention certainly can never hurt and it's another opportunity for your community to see the police in a positive light. Most importantly, the host team will have a shared experience that will better prepare them for their next win. PM
Warren Wilson is a Lieutenant with a municipal police department in Oklahoma. He is a SWAT team member/leader and has been in law enforcement for over 17 years. He can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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What is your colour theme throughout your home??
Do you like bold and bright colours (red, bright blue, oranges, etc.) or warm, subdued colours (taupes, rose, soft greens)?
My home is pretty much done in the warm, earth tones ~~soft yellow, sage green, burgundy (deep) with the original woodwork. Our bedroom upstairs is more cottage/country in soft blues, yellows and rose.
Sometimes I see real bright/bold colours and would love to try it but I chicken out and I don't think it would look right in an old farmhouse!!
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Well right now, I don't have much color because we redid all the upstairs (new insulation, etc) and I haven't decorated up there.
My kitchen is partially light blue and white and will remain that color once were finished with it.
My living room is white, but that color will change once we insulate the room - not sure what color yet.
Our m/bedroom is a dark burgundy and will remain that color when were finished insulating it. I have the paint already for that room.
I can hardly wait to get all the insulating done in order to get some decorating done.05-09-2003, 09:09 PM #3
All our rooms are pale colors, too. Apple green in the kitchen, pale blue in the living room, my bedroom was pink, but we changed rooms and will change color, too. I'm not sure yet, which color, though....Sponsored Links Remove Advertisements05-10-2003, 09:43 AM #4
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My entire house was brown and blue, dark brown carpet and paneling, yuk! We brightened up the bathroom some and painted the bedrooms light, bright green! (the little one is painted, the baby came before the nursery got painted, we're going to wait until fall to finish)05-10-2003, 09:49 AM #5
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Kitchen, red and blue, cherries and apples motif
Living room, western, lots of wood indians etc.
M/b dark pinks blues and purples
M/bath dark blue and purple
Guest bath red white and blue americana
diningroom, still decideing
kids, general chaos
I think thats all the rooms!05-10-2003, 10:46 AM #6
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Our new place is a decorator's nightmare. Practically every room is off white walls. All floors are hardwoods except in the livingroom and diningroom. (which have off white carpeting) The moldings are all stained and the windows sills are dark wood and unpainted.
I plan to eventually work room to room and paint etc in each room. I love greens, terra cotta colors. Real earthy tones with a touch of an off color to give it a nice mix. (example lavender)
I'm not much for themes except for the kids. I hope to have the baby's room in faeries and garden themed and Zachary's to be mystical with elves and woodsy.05-10-2003, 10:07 PM #7
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Most of my house is Burgandy, hunter green and navy.05-10-2003, 11:42 PM #8
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The only room that I have redone to suit me is our living room and Dining room. The chair rail is a deep burgandy and we have light colored wood waines coating. I tend to lean towards the burgandy and Williamsburg Blue. I like Hunter Green as well, but I don't have anything in my house that is green. Mostly Blues and burgandies and mauves. We will be doing our two bathrooms soon, and I would like to do one in a Williamsburg or Navy blue and one in Hunter Green. We did paint the one a light blue and put in new flooring, but I don't like it. Besides the flooring isn't lasting. So that is a perfect excuse to redo it the way I want it.05-11-2003, 12:01 AM #9
My house is such a mish mash of colors and furniture that it is actually embarassing. We have neutral colored carpet through out and most of the wood is light colored, my furniture is a horrible combination of second hand castoffs, I have my mother in laws lovely orange living room suite. I planned when I got it to purchase nice slip covers for it but here it is 2 years later and I am still sittting on orange furniture, LOL. I am saving now for new living room furniture and a new dining table. I would like to get a nice khaki colored leather living room suite. When I get that I will be doing my living room in earth tones, I love terra cotta and may do my walls that color. I am doing my kitchen in 1950s cherry motifs. Our room is white walls with a green wrought iron canopy bed with green bedding. My bathroom is a nautical theme and the kids rooms are decorated in a teenage disaster motif, LOL. My sewing room has turned into the kids computer room so it is undecorated right now.
I guess that is my house in a nutshell. I forgot to include the lovely cobweb condominiums decorating all corners of each room for that little insect ambiance.05-11-2003, 12:24 AM #10
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The main colors in my house is burgundy and hunter green. Dh and I are going to change the bathroom to navy, though.05-15-2003, 03:15 PM #11
Kitchen, dining room, living room, family room - pale yellow
Master bedroom and bath - seafoam green
Foyer - Turquoise but more on the green side rather than blue
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Hey Kathy-we have the exact same corner decorations LOL I love that outdoorsy look The rest of the house is country eclectic!!! Which means NO theme at all...... castoffs,whatever some one gave us. The good news is-you can put your feet up at my house ANYWHERE05-15-2003, 06:10 PM #13
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Ours is done in various shades of green.Sage,khaki.I love it it used to be brown so this is a lot of color for me,but very calming.
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Big Pharma caught spying on the WHO
From Wikileaks
December 10, 2009
By Kaitlin Mara (Intellectual Property Watch)[1]
Confidential documents related to the World Health Organization Expert Working Group on innovative financing for research and development surfaced today, revealing the group's thinking as well as pharmaceutical industry thinking about the WHO process. The documents immediately raised concern about possible undue access to the process by industry; the WHO told Intellectual Property Watch the industry group was not supposed to have the documents.
The documents appear to have come from the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA), and include draft reports on innovative financing mechanisms from the working group as well as an analysis by the IFPMA on the reports' contents. They were released on Wikileaks, a website that anonymously publishes sensitive documents.
"IFPMA was not supposed to have working drafts of the expert working group in their possession and they were not given these documents," said Precious Matsoso, director of Public Health Innovation and Intellectual Property (PHI) at the WHO, under whose auspices the expert working group falls. "It was understood by the working group that its report is intended for the director general and WHO members", she added.
Public health advocates reacted strongly to the leaked documents. "The IFPMA document confirms much of what had been feared," that there is "a larger WHO strategy to protect the status quo, particularly as it relates to intellectual property issues," said James Love, the director of Knowledge Ecology International, a non-profit group focussed on transparency in policymaking and which has been advocating for prize funds, a biomedical R&D treaty, and other initiatives to fund R&D.
An introductory letter included with the documents addressed to the Public Health Advocacy Committee at IFPMA says "the overall result [of the working group's report] is in line with most of the industry positions on this matter," but says that "there is still room for them to introduce new language" as the documents date from before the final working group meeting concluded on 2 December.
The Expert Working Group's "comparative analysis of innovative financing proposals for health R&D," available from Wikileaks here [pdf], divides aspects of drug development into six categories and then lists the ideas from "least likely" to "most likely" to work.
The six categories are: fundraising, research and development capacity building in developing countries, basic research and product discovery, product development, manufacturing and distribution, and efficiencies.
The leaked documents are all available from Wikileaks here.
Expert Analysis
The draft reports available on Wikileaks do not contain final recommendations. These will be available only in the final report, expected to be released this week (IPW, WHO, 7 December 2009). Instead, it contains an analysis of all proposals made thus far, through two calls for advice from the public, and ranks them on efficacy and feasibility.
Within "fundraising," proposals considered "least likely to work" include diverting existing resources to health, reducing tax evasion and havens, levying new charges on services or access rights. A proposal for a "Green IP" system (IPW, Inside Views, 27 June 2008) is currently "too hard to operationalise" but some elements could potentially be useful.
Most likely to work include new indirect taxes, for example on internet users; voluntary private contributions, new donor funds, and taxes on pharmaceutical profits. Taxing pharmaceutical profits is estimated to generate only USD 160 million versus, for example, a potential USD 2 billion from internet taxes.
On building research capacity, specific recommendations are not made, but the report says there is a lot of potential in this idea as innovative pharmaceutical development is often done in commercial ventures and, in developing countries, "commercial targets often have significant overlap with public health targets," as local markets demand treatment for neglected diseases.
On basic research, prize systems and prize funds for completed drugs, as well as a "health impact fund," are deemed least effective, as is the idea of a biomedical R&D treaty. "Endstage prizes" and the treaty were also seen as not particularly beneficial for product development. Prizes have been advocated as a solution to R&D financing problems by several health advocacy NGOs (IPW, Public Health, 12 February 2009).
Deemed more effective in incentivising research were funding for product development partnerships, grants to companies working on neglected diseases, and prizes for reaching "milestones" (such as those provided by Innocentive). Similar incentives were considered beneficial for product development.
Prizes were seen as possible incentives for manufacturing and distribution, though "likely only for diagnostics" as opposed to vaccines or medicines.
"Absolutely Fair Towards the Industry"
The draft report, the IFPMA said, is "absolutely fair" regarding industry concerns, using "real figures" on the cost of drug and vaccines developments and containing "many references to the importance of intellectual property ... to achieve further innovation."
As far as streamlining the current R&D system, which the report calls "unwieldy," removing data exclusivity was seen as less effective compared to harmonising medicine regulatory systems and "pre-competitive platforms" for R&D.
The IFPMA analysis raised two major concerns.
The first relates to proposed taxes on the pharmaceutical industry, which the IFPMA document says "places the burden of the R&D ... exclusively on industry and reinforces the negative image of pharmaceutical profits."
"Operationalising this proposal may lead to companies increasing prices to compensate which would be counterproductive," it adds. Further, it is not certain to be acceptable by all partners "as the tax should be imposed on the whole pharmaceutical sector, generic included."
The second area of concern is drug-purchasing mechanism UNITAID's proposed patent pool, and in particular its structure for royalty payments to IP owners. These payments would be determined based on the "therapeutic benefits and the affordability of royalities in particular countries," the analysis says, adding that this "does not follow past or current patent pool structures" and emphasising that voluntary participation should be an "essential prerequisite."
A UNITAID board meeting on 14-15 December will review an expert study on the patent pool, which the UNITAID board agreed in principle to establish in July 2008. In May 2009, the board instructed the organisation's secretariat to prepare an implementation plan. An expert team analysed a range of issues and its report, completed in November, clearly recommends the implementation of the pool, sources told Intellectual Property Watch.
The IFPMA analysis also called for vigilance regarding the potential use of open source systems.
NGOs: Documents "A Step Backwards"
Love said the expert working group process was "a step backwards" and "evidence of a deeper problem in WHO regarding the influence of the pharmaceutical industry, and its philanthropic supporter, the Microsoft founder's Gates Foundation."
"This is a very disturbing set of documents," said Sarah Rimmington, from nongovernmental organization Essential Action's Access to Medicines Project. She added that the report "embraces the status quo and rejects the feasibility of almost every single important proposal aimed at truly solving these complicated problems."
Kaitlin Mara may be reached at [email protected]
As published in Intellectual Property Watch. Thanks to Kaitlin Mara and IP Watch for covering this material. Copyright remains with the aforementioned.
Source documents:
Big Pharma inside the WHO: confidential analysis of unreleased WHO Expert Working Group draft reports, 8 Dec 2009
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The British Open begins Thursday, which leaves us plenty of time to place a bet.
So round up the usual suspects.
Tiger Woods, going for his 15th major, is the 8-1 favorite and is followed by the game's who's who.
Defending champion Darren Clarke is 150-1.
BRITISH OPEN: Luck of tee times could be difference
Padraig Harrington is the most recent golfer to repeat in the British Open, doing so in 2008. Woods repeated in 2006.
Here are the current odds for this year's tournament, courtesy of the Las Vegas Hilton Superbook (via covers.com):
8-1: Tiger Woods
10-1: Rory McIlroy
12-1: Lee Westwood
15-1: Luke Donald
20-1: Padraig Harrington
25-1: Phil Mickelson, Justin Rose
30-1: Justin Rose, Martin Kaymer, Rickie Fowler, Graeme McDowell, Francesco Molinari
40-1: Jason Dufner, Ernie Els, Dustin Johnson, Adam Scott, Louis Oosthuizen, Hunter Mahan, Steve Stricker, Ian Poulter
50-1: Bubba Watson, Jim Furyk, Matt Kuchar, Charl Schwartzel, Nicolas Colsaerts
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80-1: Keegan Bradley, Ben Curtis, K.J. Choi, Retief Goosen, Thomas Bjorn, Fredrik Jacobson, Martin Laird
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a place for zinesters - writers and readers
Hello my fellow bay area zinesters,
I am helping to organize an art show at Actual Cafe in Berkeley that will run through march. We are looking for zines from the bay area to showcase and if you'd like yours to be considered send then on in. We are thinking of highlighting the following categories in the show with different secions, bikes, baking, how to/diyzines, riot grrl, music, per-zines, poc zines, international, comic zines. But we will consider anything that you send in.
East and North Bay zinesters should send their work to Rock Paper Scissors at:
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Oakland, CA 94612
And South Bay zinesters should send there stuff to me:
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Gilroy, CA, 95020
Help us get the word out about the show and our call for submissions.
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That is awesome dude.
We'd love to participate!
Is there any deadline or something?
Also...do you know the exact date?
THe exhibit opens on March 7th. There is a planning meeting tomorrow and I'll bring up the deadline then. But if you could get them in as soon as possible that would be great.
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Is there any deadline or something?
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Reuben's Mandrakes
Many passages of Scripture warn the people of God against sorcery, astrology, and other similar practices (Ex. 22:18; Rev. 22:15). Most of us probably do not engage in such things, but superstitions remain part of the lives of many Christians. ...Read More
The Revealer
All of us have asked the question: What is God's will for my life? This query is usually posed when we are selecting a vocation or spouse. Specific answers to these questions for each individual are not given in Scripture, ...Read More
Revealing the Heart
Dr. John MacArthur teaches that "no infraction against God's holiness is a trifling thing, and each person will ultimately give account of such indiscretion" (The MacArthur Bible Commentary, p. 1,146). The Lord hears and remembers every word we speak; therefore, ...Read More
The Revelation
We often long for things to be "just as they were before [fill in the blank] happened" in our relationships with other people. If we are the main offending party, however, we cannot realistically expect this to happen if our ...Read More
Revelation Incarnate
Just because Jesus is the incarnate Word of God does not mean that we need not study Scripture or hold it as supremely authoritative in matters of faith and practice. We learn about and from Christ throughout Scripture, and when ...Read More
The Revelation of Character
A man cannot hide his character from God, but it can remain unknown to others. This practical observation should always be kept in mind as men are considered for church office. But even if we are not candidates for leadership, ...Read More
The Revelation of God's Wrath
John Murray was one of the most influential Reformed theologians of the twentieth century. In his commentary on Romans, Murray says in his exposition of 1:18 that "wrath is the holy revulsion of God's being against that which is the ...Read More
The Revelation of Mystery
Cults commonly claim to have special teachings that are available only to a few who are wise enough to understand them or have enough money to buy this knowledge. This is far different from biblical Christianity, which assumes that God ...Read More
Rewards for Discipleship
Any reward that God gives us is by His grace, for He is the one who prepares good works for us and enables us to do them (Eph. 2:8–10). Because it is all by His grace, we should never arrogantly ...Read More
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I often get asked to replace washers in old faucets.
They are often in real bad shape. The one that I did today the house had been sold and when they turned on the water outside hose bib was running.
There was a chunk of rubber inside the faucet allow with a loose screw.
When I get called they are often in such bad shape that I can't tell what was there before.
My question is there an clue as to when flat or when bevel washers are to be used?


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..ladies and gentlemen,
here are some pics of my jango v2.0. he is not finished jet. cause i need do replace the west and correct some things for a better wear. all things u can see after a photoshooting
also, there are some other upgrades (tight, shin, new knees etc...) in progress
i would also say a plecial thank to my girlfriend, who made this photoshooting possible. it was a very exciteing experiment.
also a very special thank to the group for the best support i ever got to know. and for the upgrades. BKBT chest armor, MoW gauntlets, Cruzer backplate, Jango Uri helmet, darkside alu parts, Reinone boots etc... you all guys are awesome :thumbup
here it goes
at last a pic of my version 1.0 ;o)


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Blackburn goalkeeper Paul Robinson is well used to the weather in the North-West.
Jack Rodwell couldn't care less about the yellow card he is about to get for his goal celebration against Manchester United, and neither could the delighted Goodison Park crowd.
Liverpool's Fernando Torres, who would end the season a World Cup winner, gets the better of Manchester United's Rio Ferdinand.
Gareth Barry sums up the feelings of City's players and fans as Paul Scholes celebrates his 90th-minute winner in the Manchester derby at Eastlands.
Ferdinand again on the receiving end, this time of a rugby tackle from Welshman Craig Bellamy.


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After tons of invested time and money, I have finally completed the upgrade with tons of help from J.Hines. My total investment in just this project alone was over $400; however, a little under half of that was trial/error with multiple coolers and lines/fittings. Anyone else interested in this project, it can be completed for under $250 plus labor.
Below is a breakdown of the components (everything I used was from Russell Performance)...
'04-'08 Cadillac SRX Transmission Cooler (w/ towing package)
5/8"-18 to -6AN Inverted O-Ring Adapter Fitting (converts cooler's SAE NPT threads to AN fittings) x 2
18mm to -6AN Adapter Fitting (converts OEM trans cooler lines into AN fittings) x 2
6" of stainless steel braided hose
-6AN straight Hose End x 3
-6AN 90* bend Hose End x 1
Hose Separators (to keep the lines running parallel together) x 2
New OEM O-Rings for OEM trans lines x 2
Custom fabricated mounting brackets or a "rod and strap" cooler/fan mounting kit (found locally)
The cooler is a brand new transmission cooler from a '06 Cadillax SRX with towing package (this is very important as the non-towing package cooler is barely larger than our OEM cooler). This particular cooler is manufactured by LONG (one of the largest aftermarket and OEM fluid cooler manufacturers) for Cadillac. The dimensions of the cooler's core are 23" x 5.5" x 0.75", which is almost identical to the medium LONG Tru-Cool Max aftermarket transmission cooler. The aftermarket cooler has ten plates (stock has six plates) and is rated are 30,000 GVW / 34,000 BTU (more details can be found at the link below). The reason for going with the Cadillac version over the standard aftermarket is due to the ability of running AN hoses on the Cadillac version compared to the hose barb connections found on the aftermarket version.
The Cadillac SRX cooler comes from an ebay store (see link below) and will need to be slightly modified (removal of the SRX mounting hardware). The ebay vendor is extremely helpful and answered all of my questions over the phone within a matter of moments. As you can see from the above picture, the cooler fits like a glove and looks like OEM equipment. I decided to run the cooler in series with the OEM system...trans fluid leaves the transmission, runs through the coolant junction box found in the engine bay, flows through the Cadillac cooler and then returns back to the transmission. I haven't found the VagCom logging blocks for measuring fluid temps; however, I will note that shifting during multiple WOT pulls feels great and extremely consistent thus far.
In order to splice into the OEM lines, I used two Russell 18mm to -6AN adapter fittings. The OEM connection pictured below implements a compression type of fitting where one end of the line slips over another line and seals with an o-ring. On one line end is a male 18mm x 1.5 threaded connection welded onto the metal pipe (see red circled ends), while the other end uses a tube nut style fitting with a female threaded connection (see blue circled ends). J.Hines was able to take a ~9mm drill bit and fine-grit sandpaper (please verify should you attempt this modification) and slightly ream out the Russell adapter...this allowed the female tube nut line end to slide into the adapter, seal tightly against the o-ring and thread into the female tube nut compression fitting. Sorry, we lost the actual picture of the connection, but the ETKA screen print below details where the parts are located.
After mounting the cooler (whichever style the end user chooses), the rest is just running the lines from the OEM lines to the cooler. I choose to implement two hose separators throughout the length of the hoses...this helps to keep the lines running together and offer a mounting connection for holding the lines in place. I will mention that J.Hines did have to remove the radiator support to mount the cooler and run the lines throughout...so this would add a decent amount of labor to the job.
At one point I ordered the largest LONG Tru-Cool MAX cooler; however, I was informed that it very well could "over cool" the fluid and cause cluth pack failure prematurely. In addition, it would have been extremely difficult to install along with my Eurojet FMIC. The Cadillac SRX cooler is approximately twice the size of the OEM equipment and is aluminum (compared to the OEM being steel) which should offer even more cooler effect. Overall, I'm extremely pleased with how it turned out and definitely recommend this cooler over any other aftermarket offerings (due to it's fit, quality and ability to implement life-long AN fittings/lines).
Once I have my valve body details finally worked out (IPT is the worst company I have ever dealt with), I will provide a full update on the ability of the 09G AISIN transmission to withstand k04 (any above) power levels. I will say that all of my research thoughout the process has really opened my eyes in regards to performance automatic transmissions. The number one factor in transmission failure is HEAT, so even stock/slightly modified auto Passat guys could look into this upgrade. Please feel free to post up any questions/concerns. Thanks for reading.


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Mitsubishi Ad Account Short of Being "Red Meat."By
Usually ad agencies view a car account going into review as a red-meat opportunity. The news that Mitsubishi's U.S. account I headed for review is being greeted more like it was a tofu appetizer on a bed of week-old watercress.
It's no wonder. Sure the company spent $155 million last year on media, according to TNS. But word is out that the struggling Japanese company is going to cut that, and is looking for an agency that will work for lower fees than BBDO, Los Angeles. Mitsu also recently projected it will sell fewer vehicles by 2011 than the 129,000 it sold last year. That Mitsu managed to score an 8% sales gain last year was, it seems, in part due to some lively ads produced by BBDO for the Lancer. But no good deed goes un-punished in the ad game.
Mitsubishi is a mess. A few years ago, the company hit the wall in the U.S. as it booked huge numbers of crazy loans. The cars' values dropped so fast that legions of buyer/borrowers with low credit scores simply walked away from the cars.
Mitsu has long been plagued by the fact that it is little more than the Brand Japan car company. The only discernable image its products have is with the tuner crowd. The Lancer and Evo have been popular. But vehicles like Galant, Outlander, Endeavor and Montero (the old Diamante..LOL)have offered little in the way of standing out from Tier One Japanese products or even the Koreans of late. And this is not a company that should bother with the pickup market.
The company says that it plans to move the U.S. product portfolio more into cars than SUVs. Um…I hope that includes crossovers fellas. It's only the fastest growing segment in the industry. The Outlander, while competent, has been invisible. The 2008 version finally comes with a four-cylinder engine. But it has absolutely no profile in the industry. A new ad agency can help with that, but only if you green-light some spending for it.
Mitsu has no environmental message at a time when any company who wants to compete for attention needs one. A hybrid? A clean diesel? An electric city car? They show some stuff at auto shows, but it doesn't look close to arriving on U.S. shores. Give us something that an agency can create a story around. Your $34,000 Evo is a cool car. But that takes care of about 32 people. Okay...about 2,500 a year. But that's garnish. You have to do better with the red meat of bigger sellers and market them right.
A few years ago Deutsch seemed to be making some headway with TV ads that used unique music and showed a lot of young people having fun in its cars. Management booted the ads when consideration by more middle-aged folks went down. Yo…fellas….that's a media planning problem, not a creative problem. Those ads had started to create an identity and mood around Mitsu, something that it hadn't seen before those ads, or since.
The truth is that Mitsubishi is one of those brands that if it went away tomorrow, like Isuzu, few people would notice, especially as industry sales are tanking. The new agency has to come up with an idea to make people give a hoot, and to keep dealers engaged in the next few years while the company sorts out a new product strategy.


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Tiling Fireplace
Hi All
I am going to be tiling the face of my fireplace with 16x16 travertine tiles. As the tiles are quite heavy , I am concerned with proper adhesion. The face is made of cinderblock bt has been painted with an unknown type of paint. I was told that a fortified thinset would be fine but also have heard that using a liquid nail or similar would be better for this application. is this true? I plan on supporting the tile until the thinset / adhesive has set but don't want future problems. The fireplace does not get much affect from heat as it has a gas insert.
One option is to put cement board over the existing surface and then put your tiles on that. Works great and there is no worry about the thinset paint interface failing.
I don't trust paint in these situations and have seen the thinset pull the badly applied paint off the cinder block surface. While it is not a big safety issue it is always a pain to have to go back and do the same job over.
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Tooliani's Italian Bistro & Pizzeria
Location: 2755 N.W. Crossing Drive, Bend
Hours: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday to Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, 2 to 10 p.m. Saturday, 2 to 8 p.m. Sunday
Price range: Appetizers and salads $3 to $9, sandwiches $8, entrees $14, pizzas $8 to $25; daily lunch specials $5 to $7
Credit cards: American Express, Discover, MasterCard, Visa
Kids' menu: Several $5 selections
Vegetarian menu: Choices include caprese salad, eggplant parmesan and veggie pizza
Alcoholic beverages: Beer and wine
Outdoor seating: Possible seasonal sidewalk seating
Reservations: No
Contact: www.toolianis.com or 541-647-2554
Food: A-. Hearty, home-style Italian cooking; some dishes could use a little tweaking.
Service: A-. Counter orders are delivered to tables by a friendly and efficient staff.
Atmosphere: B+. Neat, clean and well-maintained if decidedly non-descript.
Value: A. Excellent prices, from $14 pasta plates to bottles of wine for under $20.
If you live in Bend's NorthWest Crossing neighborhood and want a burger and fries for lunch, you're out of luck.
French pastry and coffee? No problem. Chile relleno and a margarita? Sure. Phad thai noodles? Just down the block. There's even a catering operation, Tate and Tate, that prepares gourmet meals and casseroles that you can take out and serve in your own home.
But that burger or fried chicken? Nope.
When Pisano's Pizza closed last June (and later relocated), leaving a restaurant vacancy that could offered everyday American food, NorthWest Crossing instead got another Italian joint. Tooliani's Italian Bistro & Pizzeria opened in mid-October. But the restaurant serves much more than pizza. There are pasta entrees, soups, salads and sandwiches, plus an extensive selection of modestly priced beers and wines. Chicken lovers will be glad to know that Tooliani's also serves wings — mild, medium or hot — even if the rest of the bird has another residence.
Right timing
Owner Mike Toolan, a high-tech sales director for Oracle Corp., is no newcomer to the restaurant industry; he managed restaurants in New York and Boston from his teens through his 20s, working his way through college and eventually running a corporate sales team for TGI Friday restaurants along the Eastern seaboard.
When he joined Oracle in 2003 and moved with his wife to Bend, he still wasn't sure that he had put food and beverage behind him.
"I was pretty close to opening the exact same-named place (Tooliani's) where the Broken Top Bottle Shop is now," he confessed. "Then my wife became pregnant with our first child, and I put it on the back burner."
The timing was right 10 years later, however. Toolan oversaw a renovation of the old pizza parlor, hired local restaurant professional Rob Cammelletti as manager, and opened a neighborhood cafe with family appeal.
Patrons enter a space that is neat, clean and well-maintained — not overdone, but a step above the typical, uber-casual pizza joint. A single flat-screen TV hangs high on the only wall not filled with windows or occupied by the kitchen. A background soundtrack is provided by Frank Sinatra and other similar singers.
Guests order at the counter, where they may choose from 16 rotating beer taps and a good selection of modestly priced wines. Hard cider and kombucha are also available, as are gluten-free and paleo diet food choices.
Dinner entrees
On two visits to Tooliani's with my dining companion, I found the menu offerings to be basic but well prepared. While not something I might consider for a special night out, they are certainly a far cry above a franchise establishment or a meal prepared at home from pre-packaged ingredients.
On our first visit, we chose from a selection of seven pasta-based entrees, starting with a cup of soup and a half salad.
The soup of the day was Tuscan white bean, not far different from Italian wedding soup or minestrone. A thick and mildly spicy broth was chock full of vegetables — tomatoes, onions, carrots and celery — as well as white beans. It was quite tasty.
My companion found her Caesar salad to be simple but delicious, thanks in part to just the right amount of anchovy paste and garlic complementing the romaine lettuce. House-made croutons and a few wedges of tomato finished the dish.
Her spaghetti-and-meatball main course was also good. Three large meatballs, hand-made from a blend of meats, parsley and other herbs, sat on a bed of al dente spaghetti noodles, finished with a generous topping of tasty marinara sauce.
My eggplant Parmesan was nearly identical, served with spaghetti. The vegetarian entree was different from the meatball plate only in its four thin slices of overly breaded, pan-fried eggplant. The noodles and sauce were the same.
Return visit
On our return visit several nights later, we zeroed in on a pizza. Tooliani's offers three sizes (10-, 14- and 18-inch), from a small $8 cheese pizza to a $25 family size with the works. We opted for a "supreme" with three meats — pepperoni, meatballs and Italian sausage — and three vegetables. We substituted mushrooms for green peppers, and also enjoyed onions and black olives.
This was a very good pizza. There was no scrimping on the toppings, and the thin crust was crispy but far from cardboard quality. I would require no arm-twisting to order another.
We also shared a sandwich special, a Mike Toolan special dubbed the "steak pizzaioli." It's not presently on the regular menu, but could turn up there soon. Slices of lean beef were stacked on a toasted hoagie bun and topped with melted cheese and house-made marinara. I enjoyed it, but I think it could have been made better with a smear of something spicy — perhaps a garlic aioli mayonnaise, in keeping with the "pizzaioli" name.
Toolan described his concept as "a friendly bistro with great food, great atmosphere and a friendly staff. I'd like to have a varied enough menu that families will come in once or twice a month. To that end, we want to be reasonably priced."
Eventually he said, he might consider establishing a second Tooliani's on Bend's east side.
"But our goal initially is just to get this one 100 percent dialed in," he said. "Whether it's a Sunday afternoon or a Friday night, we want our patrons to get the same level of service and food."
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Ingrid Rohrer-Downer has joined Bend's Oxford Hotel as the new executive chef at 10 Below . A graduate of the California Culinary Academy, she was most recently a chef for Bon Appetit Management in the Portland area. A new menu features such dishes as prosciutto-wrapped chicken speidini, calamari steak sandwich and spicy vegetarian cauliflower cutlet, as well as steaks, seafood and pastas. Open 6 a.m. to close daily at 10 Minnesota Ave., Bend; 541-382-1010, www.oxfordhotel bend.com/the-kitchen.htm.


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Re: precedence for ReplaceAll?
Well, just so both Harvard and MIT graduates can do right in the future,
here's what the dictionary that comes with Mac OS X says:
USAGE Fewer versus less:
Strictly speaking, the rule is that fewer, the comparative form of few,
is used with words denoting people or countable things (: fewer members;
| fewer books; | fewer than ten contestants).
Less, on the other hand, is used with mass nouns, denoting things that
cannot be counted ( | less money; | less music). In addition, less is
normally used with numbers ( | less than 10,000) and with expressions of
measurement or time ( | less than two weeks; | less than four miles
But to use less with count nouns, as in | less people or | less words,
is incorrect in standard English.
[The rules of correct English are apparently nearly as complex, arcane,
and inconsistent as those of correct Mathematica.]


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Troop 2 Boy Scouts Max Davie, 11, of Bennington and Sean Grady, 11, of Francestown toss retired flags into the fire during a Flag Day ceremony in Antrim Friday evening. ((MEGHAN PIERCE/photo))
As part of a Flag Day ceremony in Antrim's Memorial Park Friday evening Boy Scout Sean Campbell, 17, cuts the strips off a flag to be retired as Scoutmaster Brian Beihl talks about the meaning of the red and white strips. PHOTOS by MEGHAN PIERCE MEGHAN PIERCECorrespondentNew Hampshire Union Leaderoffice: 603-924-2111cell: 603-831-4223 firstname.lastname@example.com
Veterans and other community members passed a 48-star American flag around at a Flag Day ceremony Friday evening and talked about what the flag represents to them.
Antrim-based Boy Scout Troop 2 and Myers-Prescott-Olson American Legion Post 50 hosted the Flag Day flag retirement ceremony in Memorial Park.While holding the flag, U.S. Army veteran and Post 50 chaplain Ted Brown recalled being stationed in North Korea in the early 1970s — at a peace conference center where North Korea and South Korea would meet for peace talks — and the feeling he would get seeing the Stars & Stripes fly high.
Kristin Batty of Greenfield said the flag is a symbol of home to her.
As the daughter of an Air Force man, the wife of a former Marine and as a parent "the flag represents hope for the future of our county," said Tania Grady of Francestown.
"Everybody's got a great story of why it's important. I just love doing this," Beihl said.
After the flag was passed around, Beihl started the flag retirement.
About 1,000 flags collected from the communities of Antrim, Bennington and Francestown over the past three years were burned.
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So you're thinking of joining the Navy...
How To Simulate Being A Sailor"
1. Buy a steel dumpster, paint it gray inside and out, and live in it
for six months at a stretch.
2. Run all the pipes and wires in your house exposed on the walls.
3. Repaint your entire house every month.
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7. Once a month, take all major appliances apart and then reassemble
8. Raise the thresholds and lower the headers of your front and back
doors so that you either trip or bang your head every time you pass
through them.
9. Disassemble and inspect your lawnmower every week.
10. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, turn your water heater
temperature up to 200 degrees. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, turn
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use too much water during the week, so no bathing will be allowed.
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over without getting out and then getting back in.
12. Sleep on the shelf in your closet. Replace the closet door with a
curtain. Have your spouse whip open the curtain about 3 hours after
you go to sleep, shine a flashlight in your eyes, and say "Sorry, wrong
13. Make your family qualify to operate each appliance in your house -
dishwasher operator, blender technician, etc. Re-qualify every 6
14. Have your neighbor come over each day at 0500, blow a whistle so
loud Helen Keller could hear it, and shout "Reveille, reveille, all
hands heave out and trice up."
15. Have your mother-in-law write down everything she's going to do
the following day, then have her make you stand in your back yard at
0600 while she reads it to you.
16. Submit a request chit to your father-in-law requesting permission to
leave your house before 1500.
17. Empty all the garbage bins in your house and sweep the driveway
three times a day, whether it needs it or not. Have someone repeat
loudly, "Now sweepers, sweepers, man your brooms, give the ship a
clean sweep down fore and aft, empty all S**t cans and butt kits over
the fantail!"
18. Have your neighbor collect all your mail for a month, read your
magazines, and randomly lose every 5th item before delivering it to you.
19. Watch no TV except for movies played in the middle of the night.
Have your family vote on which movie to watch, then show a different
one. Repeat the same movie several nights in a row.
20. When your children are in bed, run into their room with a megaphone
shouting that your home is under attack and ordering them to their
battle stations, shouting, "Now general quarters, general quarters, all
hands man your battle stations!"
21. Make your family menu a week ahead of time without consulting the
pantry or refrigerator.
22. Post a menu on the kitchen door informing your family that they are
having steak for dinner. Then make them wait in line for an hour. When
you finally get to the kitchen, tell them you are out of steak, but they
can have dried ham or hot dogs. Repeat daily until they ignore the menu
and just ask for hot dogs.
23. Bake a cake. Prop up one side of the pan so the cake bakes
unevenly. Spread icing real thick to level it off.
24. Get up every night around midnight and have a peanut butter and
jelly sandwich on stale bread. (Call this "Midrats".)
25. Set your alarm clock to go off at random during the night. At the
alarm, jump up and dress as fast as you can, making sure to button
your top shirt button and tuck your pants into your socks. Run out into
the backyard and uncoil the garden hose.
26. Every week or so, throw your cat or dog in the pool and shout "Man
overboard port side!" Rate your family members on how quickly they
27. Put the headphones from your stereo on your head, but don't plug
them in. Hang a paper cup around your neck on a string. Stand in front
of the stove, and speak into the paper cup "Stove manned and
ready." After an hour or so, speak into the cup again "Stove secured."
Roll up the headphones and paper cup and stow them in a shoebox.
28. Make your family turn out all the lights and go to bed at 2200,
saying, "Now taps, taps! Lights out! Maintain silence throughout the
ship!" Then immediately have an 18-wheeler crash into your house (for
the benefit of aircraft sailors).
29. Build a fire in a trash can in your garage. Loudly announce to your
family, "This is a drill! This is a drill! Fire in hangar bay one!"
30. Place a podium at the end of your driveway. Have your family stand
watches at the podium, rotating at 4 hour intervals. This is best done
when the weather is worst. January is a good time.
31. When there is a thunderstorm in your area, get a wobbly rocking
chair, sit in it and rock as hard as you can until you become nauseated.
Make sure to have a supply of stale crackers in your shirt pocket. ALT:
Find the biggest horse you can, put a 2-inch mattress on his back, and
strap yourself to it. Turn him loose in a barn filled with snakes for
six hours and try to sleep. Then get up and go to work.
32. For former engineers: bring your lawn mower into the living room and
run it all day long.
33. Make coffee using eighteen scoops of budget priced coffee grounds
per pot; let the pot simmer for 5 hours before drinking.
34. Have someone under the age of ten give you a haircut with sheep
35. Sew the back pockets of your jeans on the front.
36. Add 1/3 cup diesel fuel to the laundry.
37. Take hourly readings on your electric and water meters.
38. Every couple of weeks, dress up in your best clothes and go to the
scummiest part of town. Find the most run down, trashiest bar, and
drink beer until you are hammered. Then walk all the way home.
Hah, I'm glad I was in the Air Force. :D
haha, i like it.
Nice! I'll be sure to forward this to Jon! :rofl:
Haze gray and underway! The list is quite realistic! Now, turn to - commence ship's work!
Ha! Great.:D
I liked the cake one!
Ha! I thought the Navy gets the gravy and the Army gets the beans.
haha and this is why the naval life is not for me..
Glad I was in the Army...... :D
Jeez Jerry it has been 56 years since I got out of the Navy and had ALMOST forgotten what it was like.!:eek: And then you reminded me:banghead::D It was a memorable time but they called that the "old Navy!":doh:
My dad loved it. He was in the Navy from 65 to 69. Did his time at Patuxent River NATC repairing jet engines.
I have a buddy who was stationed on the USS Kittyhawk for about 3 years...he seemed to enjoy it yet hate it with a passion at the same time. lol
I'm just seeing this today! Entirely accurate!!
One to add:
Every day at 1700, pass the word to set material condition Yoke. Have the family shuffle around and close doors and windows and then come out to the garage to sign the list saying they closed everything. Pass the word again every 10 minutes until 100% have signed the log.
Man, this list reminds me of stories my dad tells. USS Thomas Edison Nuke Sub. I'll have to forward this to him, he'd get a kick out of it.
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Hello everyone i am new here and this is a question for people that duck hunt lakes. I am planning on hunting this lake where there is a shallow inlet that narrows down a ways back into a creek. The whole bay is surrounded by cattails and my question is how would somebody find a place to set out and duck hunt. Is there any features or things that a duck hunter should look for to set up there decoys. Thanks everybody.
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If you wish you proceedings are men he does it, you can apply tocourt to get a court order for what are known as wasted costs which thesolicitor's costs and court costs, even if he has paid the amount that you areclaiming, in full.
The solicitor will probably want £100 for opening the file atoutset and the court fee for applying for the injunction is £175.
If it goes to a contested hearing, expect to spend between £3000and £6000 on top of that. The good news is, that if you win, you can get allthose costs awarded against the neighbour you are then faced with pursuing himfor the costs if it does not pay up.
You can see therefore why, if fitting a downspout at a cost of 50quid or so solves the problem (provided the neighbour will agree) it is muchquicker, cheaper and risk-free.
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