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and Cool 101.3 for almost 10 years! I grew up with the Eagles, the Police and Earth
Wind & Fire. I Love the music we play on Cool 101.3. When I'm not in the studio or at
Steve's Seaside Saloon, you can find me on anyone of Delmarva's golf courses seeking
to break 90. Thank you for listening to Cool 101.3. And check this blog for my rants,
entertaining videos and anything else I might think you will enjoy!
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text: Just want to introduce myself. I bought a new 2009 WRX Premuim in September (first new car ever) and I've been lurking around clubWRX for info so I figured it was time I registered. I had a '99 Celica that I loved but it was time for her to go. So far the Subaru has been awesome to drive. Plans are to start autocross with a friend this spring. No major mods yet but I've got the itch so it probably won't be long, maybe once it's back above freezing.

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Ask if you see anything you want in the screenshot.
Awesome! Ill ask the one remaining question How did you create that awesome dock with transparent icons?
What menubar icons are you using?
nice and clean, great job
F@king awesome!
thanks for posting that!
Very nice! Which geektool script are you using for your battery indicator?
Probably in one of the Widescreen Packs by ether.
I don't remember where I got it, but it is called maybeonceWS
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RE: HELP: Legendre transform
GB wrote:
...I understand the steps involved in taking the Legendre
transform (often found in thermodynamics derivations, and not to be
confused with the Laplace transform), but I have no intuitive feeling
for what's going on...
I can't help with a Mathematica program, but I can suggest that the
"best" way to view the Legendre transform (at least in many
applications) is from the viewpoint of convex analysis. Since you
mentioned thermodynamics, a good place to start would be Wightman's
introduction (actually an expository essay on the history of convexity
methods in thermodynamics) to Israels monograph "Convexity in the Theory
of Lattice Gasses". The standard reference on Convex Analysis is the
text "Convex Analysis" by Rockafellar, but I am not too familiar with
it. I personally found the first chapter of "Convex Analysis and
Minimization Algorithms" by Hiriart-Urruty and Lemarechal very readable
and insightful.
GB: This is a topic that I am currently interested in, especially for
statistical applications. Please report your progress to Mathgroup
and/or me personally. (Also feel free to contact me you can't find the
references (I may have misspelled, etc.)
Ray Artz
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Where can I find a wind up music box to replace the broken one in a stuffed animal that plays "It's a Small World"?
By Dianne from Boonville, MO
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If I remember correctly this is a song from the Walt Disney entertainment empire. Just a long shot, but do some internet searching on Disney Land (California) or Disney World (Florida)! Good luck.
Looking for a replacement music box for a stuffed animal. Waltzing Matilda would be perfect!
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Where can I find a music box that plays "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" to replace a broken one in a stuffed animal?
By Betty V.
In the past I have noticed some of the more prominent craft stores have a variety of music boxes of different size and tune. If you have one near by check a Michaels or a Hobby Lobby. You can also order music boxes online from "craft" type websites.
Heck you may just do a Google on "Music Box" "Twinkle Twinkle" and see what pops up. Use the " " to keep the words grouped.
home sew sewing catalog
dressmakers supply catalog
Each have around 12 or more titles to chose from.
Build-a-bear might have one.
I have seen them at A.C. Moore. I have even seen them at our Super Walmart.
Where can I find a music box to put in a stuffed animal that plays, "I Am a Child of God"?
By Joanne
Go to your favorite craft store, they should have a listing of manufactures who make them.
I need a music box for a stuffed bear that plays, "Frere Jacques" or "Are You Sleeping Brother John?".
By dgs
Where can I find a wind up music box for a stuffed toy with the song "I Am A Child of God"?
By PigsFly2
Try this site
Or http://www.musicboxes.com/
Or http://www.themusicboxman.com/
If you don't find it on one of these sites be sure to drop an email to the people of the site. They might have a couple leads. (11/27/2009)
By Suntydt
Where can I find wind-up music boxes for stuffed animals? I am looking specifically for "You Are My Sunshine" and "Teddy Bear's Picnic".
Deborah from Cordele, GA
I have seen various music box movements at craft/hobby stores.
If you can shop online you can find one or the other of the songs you mentioned, but on my quick look I didn't find both at just one store. You Are My Sunshine was available at amazon.com among other places. You will have to sort through the search results.
Good luck. (02/11/2009)
By Kaelle
You can also find them at ceramic shops. If there is one near you try, because I have bought them from those shops before. And yes craft stores. Darlene (02/12/2009)
By Darlene
Sunshine Crafts.com and Michaels.com carries those. (02/12/2009)


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Top: Andrew Cobb, 18, and Jacob Cobb, 17
Bottom: Dylan Clemens, 25, and the deceased mother Tamara Mason
Bottom: Dylan Clemens, 25, and the deceased mother Tamara Mason
Alberta, Minn. (The Weekly Vice) - Minnesota brothers Jason Cobb, 17, and Andrew Cobb, 18, were jailed after they allegedly confessed to murdering their mother "because she wanted to play Yahtzee and they didn't."
According to police, the teens confessed to killing their mother, Tamara Mason, on Christmas day after her remains were found buried in the family's back yard last week.
Jason Cobb was charged with her murder, while Andrew Cobb was charged with being an accessory to murder after the fact.
The teens' older brother, Dylan Clemens, was jailed on other charges after he admitted to watching Jacob choke his mother to death and being present while they deliberated as to how they would dispose of the body.
"They were upset with mom because she wanted to play Yahtzee and they didn't," said Stevens County Sheriff, Randy Willis.
Investigators say Jason Cobb placed a plastic bag over his mother's head before strangling her to death with a belt. Because the ground was frozen at the time, the two brothers placed their deceased mother in a trash can and stored it in a utility shed until the ground thawed enough to dig.
Although Mason had been reported missing on December 27, her body remained in the trash can for nearly four months before her body was finally buried around Easter.
Investigators had no leads in the case until Clemens, the oldest brother, asked a friend for advice on how to dispose of a human body.
Although Jacob was charged in juvenile court for his mother's murder, police believe he will likely be tried as an adult.
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There may be another international on Wednesday (USA-Guatemala, live, 9 pm EST, ESPN 2, Galavision), but press is still raving about Landon Donovan´s three-goal salvo against Ecuador on Sunday, and rightly so. As Paul Gardner points out, hat tricks don´t happen often in international soccer (or soccer, period), while natural hat tricks happen even less, and hat tricks the quality of Donovan's could even be compiled into a nice, concise list.
Despite the Galaxy striker's overwhelming performance, Gardner says we would be remiss to overlook the contribution of
midfield youngsters Benny Feilhaber, who complemented Donovan brilliantly in the center-especially in the second half. Feilhaber "had the misfortune to make an impressive debut on a day when he was
totally overshadowed by Donovan's brilliance." The 22-year-old Feilhaber, who was born in Brazil, has superior technical skills, Gardner says, which "surely indicates a more elaborate role than
that of defensive midfielder," in the future, especially with the likes of Ricardo Clark and Pablo Mastroeni ahead of him in the pecking order.
So we return again to Donovan, who
captained the U.S. on this occasion-his 87th appearance at the age of just 25; soccer players usually reach their peak at between 27 and 29. The Galaxy striker is now just four goals shy of
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Welcome to the Gotheborg.com Glossary of Terms on Antique Chinese and Japanese Pottery and Porcelain. The field of Asian Ceramics collecting is a challenging one. Not the least due to the large number of terms of various origin compounded by a variety of spellings and transcriptions.
A lot of names and terms are Chinese in origin and to make this work in the west, the names have been transcribed in western characters. In old books this was often done by a system called Wade-Giles (Peking, Ching-te-chen, Chien-lung), while all modern books today use a system called Pinjin (Beijing, Jingdezhen, Qianlong).
Naturally this causes some confusion.
In this glossary I have over the last decade tried to write and collect good explanations of many of these various terms that are used to describe antique Chinese and Japanese porcelain. By and by I add to and revise the entries when I find better explanation and illustrations of things. In this the Gotheborg.com Discussion Board is a good source.
The search box - top right - will search the entire site, not only the glossary. The point with this glossary, is that it is actually written and edited by people who know porcelain.
The information offered here tries to reflect the general understanding among collectors and arts historians on most subjects covered. Sometimes the 'general understanding' is wrong. In those cases we try to explain how and why. This is a work in progress and additions, suggestions and improvements from you, is appreciated.
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I made a vast pot of tomato sauce last night with the last of the fruit from the garden. No onion, garlic or herbs - just halved tomatoes, salted, peppered and roasted till their skins blackened, then mashed to a vivid red slop with the potato masher. The flavour was both sweet and teasingly sharp, and so good that we abandoned the sausages it was meant to accompany, and just sat there with a loaf of white bread, tearing off hunks of floury crust and dipping them in the sauce.
There is a point, just as the conkers are ripening and I am toying with the idea of lighting the fire, when I reckon tomatoes are at their best. I know this goes against received wisdom, but the slow ripening at the end of the season seems to give locally grown toms a deeper flavour than they have in midsummer.
The plants I grew up fat bamboo canes in the garden this year are wizened now, their stems dried and crisp as raffia, but on those wiry stems are some of the richest fruit I have ever tasted. These end-of-the-year fruits have already lent a beefy depth to a supper of braised lamb shanks, a vegetable roast (onions, aubergines and fennel) and an autumnal soup like the pumpkin one I made last weekend and four of us finished in less time than it takes to read this column.
I grow varieties of tomato that I cannot buy in the shops, or those such as Marmande, which seem to respond to the outdoor life by producing more interesting fruit than the cosseted versions in the supermarket. The most sumptuous this season were the Costoluto Fiorentino, whose notched, scarlet-orange flesh was the star of many a garden lunch. Our will-it-never-end summer meant that everything ripened without me having to bring the last fruit indoors.
I once said, rather emphatically if I remember, that you can tell how good a tomato will taste simply by smelling it. I have to take some of that back. The supermarkets and greengrocers seem full of tomatoes that have the requisite herbal smell but, in practice, taste flat and sweet. So now the growers seem to have mastered the ultimate deceit of fooling our sense of smell, the only route left is to taste one. Easy enough with a bunch of grapes, but I don't fancy anyone's chances of prizing a tomato off its vine in Tesco.
Perhaps the answer is to shop at the farmers' market - where you can talk to the person who grew the fruit - or to try your hand at growing your own. If it all goes wrong you can still bring some of the real tomato quality back with the addition of a little sugar or balsamic vinegar to the pot. Even a small amount will add backbone. For an Italianate, Greek or French-style stew or braise, add a teaspoon or two of balsamic vinegar; for something Thai, Moroccan or Indian, add a little sugar instead.
To increase the depth of any tomato sauce I roast the fruit in a hot oven for half an hour rather than simply adding the chopped toms to the pan. Spiked with garlic, oregano, basil or even a little cumin, they melt into a sensationally concentrated sauce in which to toss your fettucine. Alternatively, I use it to simmer a hunk of meat in; or cover it all tightly with a lid and let it bubble quietly in the oven for a while, to scoop up with the best bread we can find.
Braised lamb shanks with tomatoes and coriander
Ignore all those sniffy people who claim this tender cut is out of fashion. The neat, juicy shank of lamb makes a succulent autumn supper. This is a lightly spiced and hearty recipe, but one that has a spring in its step. You don't really need any vegetables, but a few lightly cooked greens and some bread went down rather well with it the other night.
Serves 2.
2-3 tbsps groundnut oil
2 lamb shanks
2 medium to large onions
an optional knob of butter
3 large cloves garlic
2 tsps coriander seeds
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp ground turmeric
1 hot green or red chilli
8 medium-sized tomatoes
400ml water or light vegetable stock
a small bunch of fresh coriander
Warm the oil in a deep casserole, then, as it starts to shimmer, brown the lamb briefly on all sides. Meanwhile, peel the onions and slice them in half, then cut each half into about six thin segments. Lift out the meat and set aside. Let the onions soften in the pan, stirring from time to time. Add a little butter - a lump the size of a walnut - and you will be well rewarded.
Set the oven at 180°C/gas mark 4. Peel and finely slice the garlic, let it soften a little then crush the coriander and cumin seeds to a coarse powder and stir it into the onions, together with the turmeric. Chop the chillies, but don't remove the seeds, then stir them in. Continue cooking over a low heat, stirring occasionally.
Slash the rounded tip of each tomato then put them in a heatproof bowl and pour boiling water over them. Leave for a few minutes then peel off the skins and discard them. Cut the tomatoes in quarters and add them to the pan, cover with a lid then simmer till soft and mushy - a good 10 minutes. Pour in the water or vegetable stock, season generously then return the meat, and any juices that may have escaped, to the pan.
Cover the pan tightly with a lid, then bake for an hour, turn over the lamb and bake a further 30 minutes.
Lift the meat out of the liquid and leave somewhere warm. Put the pan of sauce over a high heat, stir in the roughly chopped coriander and boil till it has reduced to a sloppy slush. Put the lamb on two warm plates and divide the sauce equally.
Baked tomatoes with rosemary and parmersan
Recipes I particularly value are those I can use on a Monday to accompany slices from the cold roast. These tomatoes, a hot and piquant side dish, go well with cold roast beef or lamb. I made this the other night with Spenwood, a hard English sheep's milk cheese that, when matured for eight or 10 months, makes a fine alternative to Parmesan. You can often find it at Neal's Yard Dairy.
Serves 2-3 as a side dish.
6 medium-sized tomatoes
2 cloves garlic
a bushy branch of fresh rosemary
olive oil
3 tbsps freshly grated Parmesan
Set the oven at 200°C/gas mark 6. Slice the tomatoes in half horizontally and lay them snugly in a shallow baking dish. Peel and crush the garlic, finely chop the rosemary leaves, then scatter them both over the tomatoes with a good grinding of salt and pepper. Pour over a little olive oil - each tomato should glisten. Bake for 25 minutes.
Remove the tomatoes from the oven, dust thickly with the finely grated Parmesan cheese and bake for a further 15 minutes till the cheese is golden and has formed a thin, crisp layer on top of the tomatoes.
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Abstract watercolor painting.
Please note, painting is being sold unframed - framed photos are only for illustration purposes. The colors may slightly differ depending on your monitor settings.
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Acrylic paintingby Aniko Hencz
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As I arrived in Surprise, Arizona to check out the organization's farmhands the first week of the month, the 57-year-old was the very first person I saw on the field, player, coach or grounds crew member. "DJ," a former major league infielder himself, was there to spend extra time on defensive instruction with shortstop Pete Kozma and third baseman Zack Cox (pictured). After the minor league seasons ended in September, he had been invited to work with the major league club for a week, as well.
Prior to heading to Arizona, DeJohn spoke about his new responsibilities. In addition to hands-on coaching, they include supervision of all the Cardinals minor league teams during the season as well as running minor league spring training and extended spring training plus the fall instructional league, if held.
The spring and fall roles had recently been performed by Johnson City manager Mike Shildt since the departure three years ago of DeJohn's predecessor, current Washington Nationals manager Jim Riggleman. Shildt, our Manager of the Year in the Cardinals system, has yielded those roles to one of his career mentors, DeJohn.
"You know what I think of DJ," Shildt reminded me recently. "I think he is the best. I think the world of him. I wouldn't be where I am here without him. The position is needed and he is the perfect person for it. I would expect him to be the lead voice for spring training and rightfully so."
DeJohn, a long-time coach at the major league and minor league levels for the Cardinals, including 1996 through 2001 on Tony La Russa's staff, acknowledges he has an important role to play in helping to bring the system together.
"I am really happy about it," DeJohn explained. "All I want to do is to try and help make the situation better. No matter what is going on in the organization, you try to make improvements every year."
On the surface, I wondered if DeJohn's new job was really all that different from his previous assignment. He left no doubt that is the case.
"Last year, I was listed as a senior field instructor," he said. "I didn't feel like I had the authority to tell the managers if I saw some things that were being done wrong or that we needed to change or just advise a guy that 'we can't do this' or 'we want to do this' or whatever. I just don't think I had the authority to go in and do those things.
"I could say, 'I wouldn't do this' but I wasn't really the guy to say 'Hey listen - this is not what we're going to do.' It starts right from spring training with a certain structure that you've got to have with regard to a number of things in player development," DeJohn said.
DeJohn recognizes that the changes in the organization began above him, including his new boss, farm director John Vuch, and continue all the way down through the ranks.
"There are just so many areas we need to address and get better at," he said. "As the field coordinator, with the authority that I will have, it will be much better. Add the simple fact that John Vuch becoming the farm director…
"Obviously, Jeff (Luhnow) with the scouting and everything else he was doing, he wasn't around as much. Maybe the communication was not as good as it needed to be. He was spread pretty thin. That is tough to do both of those jobs and that is why in a lot of organizations it is not done like that. It's just a tough spot, to get out and see your teams enough and to try to address the things he needs," DeJohn said.
DeJohn's role is a nuts-and-bolts job, helping the staffs pull together and as much as it sounds like a cliché, to stress always teaching the game 'The Cardinal Way.'
"All in all, it is just something that they felt like the day to day operation needed to be looked at a bit more, more scrutinized," he explained. "There are certain things that have to be addressed. They're trying to make these changes, trying to get back to doing things as they were done in the past."
DeJohn and the rest of the organization are working to build upon a 2010 season that saw an influx of new talent, improvements from many of the returnees and results in the standings as well. Five of the seven US-based minor league affiliates reached the post-season.
"This organization has a lot of history," DeJohn observed. "It's not like we're on the bottom. We're just trying to get subtle fixes and make the whole thing better. The minor leagues will be in better shape and I think the big league team will be better next year. I just think the whole situation is heading in the right direction."
One man alone can't do it all, but DeJohn has no problem accepting the responsibility that goes with the territory.
"The change is good, but now it is up to us – the guys who have their new jobs – it is up to us to make it better. We can talk about it all we want, but it is up to us," DeJohn concluded.
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Community and social computing
The CR's State of Community Management report
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The folks over at The Community Roundtable have released a new report on The State of Community Management which I thought was quite good.
A key takeaway from this report that I find quite revealing: it contradicts the common belief that all communities develop into a 90-9-1 rule (90% lurkers, 9% contributors, 1% authors). Per the report: "As the community management discipline matures, there is increasing understanding of where certain rules of thumb like this apply and where they do not." I've once looked at the origins of this meme, and other than the Pareto principle, in online communities it dates back to specific posts in a Usenet newsgroup around the early 1990s. I need to find that link again. We now think of much more than just contributors and lurkers since there are many other ways to contribute as well which are not so obvious. That is a distinguishing mark that elevates the level of insight that this report brings above others.
What thrills me is that of the eight competency areas within, only on area focuses on tools. The majority of the focus lies in business principles: strategy, leadership, culture, policies, etc. The general media and blogosphere is always fascinated with new tools and toys but the real value is in understanding the almost unchanging business principles many of which are outlined in the list of competences. Each of the sections on these competencies specifically identifies lessons learned directly from the real life experience of members of The Community Roundtable.
I've talked before about the value that community managers bring to organizations, so I have to point out a specific section the role and issues of Community Management which can help current organizations understand the heavy demands of this role. Perhaps, with this insight, more organizations will take to heart that Community Management is not a part time, or a junior role in the organization. It takes a lot of people and relationship skills that develop with experience, and in doing so creates the same qualities we ask of our business leaders.
A response to blog post "Maslow's Hierarchy of Enterprise 2.0 ROI"
[I should say right ahead that I'm not picking on them (since I disagreed before), but when many good ideas come across from Hutch Carpenter and the Spigit folks, sometimes I just have to disagree.]
The article Maslow's Hierarchy of Enterprise 2.0 ROI on the Spigit blog from last week proposed a framework for a pyramidal hierarchy of needs aimed specifically at ROI of Enterprise 2.0. They are correct in some ways describing a pyramid of levels starting at the base with tangible needs and moving up towards increasingly intangible ones.
I've linked to their image here, source Spigit Blog. [I may take this image off if they ask so but you can generally find it on their blog post]
However, I'm not so sure that it can be so easily applied here in terms of the levels. For one, Maslow's theory indicates that humans cannot focus on the higher levels until the lower levels are satisfied. This would be nice to conclusively say this of Enterprise 2.0 ROI but I can give examples where it is very difficult to identify "cost-savings" at the bottom of the pyramid in a conclusive and replicable way, but easy to identify "employee satisfaction" somewhere around the middle.
Cost savings is a comparative; you need to determine that it is most efficient to do things with one or more e2.0 tools than existing or traditional non-e2.0 processes. The trouble is that this is not systematic across all e2.0 experiences. It's not simply a matter of deploying a discussion forum, for example, to support customers before you start seeing results (even before you see cost-savings); in fact, there's no guarantee it will ever become enough of a social environment where the vendor, partners, other users etc. are properly supporting the needs of a customer. In comparison, a support workflow, even if more expensive, has immediate results. Until the social environment actually does support customers, it is a cost-center.
However, even without knowing cost-savings per Maslow's theory, you can use survey instruments to determine employee satisfaction. Qualitative measures such as "satisfaction" work best by gathering input directly from people; it's simply something in their heads that you need to get to. This means surveys, interviews, and focus groups. However, it does get a metric—which ROI is—of the level of satisfaction, without ever having to find out if the social environment creates cost-savings. This is similarly so for "customer satisfaction," and I'd argue for "cross-org collaboration" as well.
So, while the idea of relative dependencies and ranking of hard and soft metrics that indicate some beneficial return, I don't think this approach works. The logic has some holes and I wouldn't be able to sell this idea to folks around here.


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For a very long time now, school directors and business managers have been sweating out the ever-increasing pension fund payments in the annual school budget. I don't believe the tax-paying public of all school districts in the state are as aware of this ever-growing mess.
Since yearly pension fund payments have been enlarged because of state-mandated percentage ratios, the ballooning figure is driving taxes beyond reasonable levels.
For example, in the Indiana Area district a few past years ago, the percentage figure was about 3 percent on about $16 million in total teacher annual pay. Since the state picks up 50 percent of the calculated figure, the budget had to account for an approximate pension payment of $240,000. In 2013, the percentage has been raised to 16.9 percent and on a teacher payroll now with $22 million, the fund payment is about $1,870,000; and in 2014, 21.4 percent of approximately $23,100,000 will be about a $2,470,000 payment.
Imagine. In about 10 years, the obligated figure for the Indiana Area School District has gone from about $250,000 to almost $2.5 million. The projected figure for the percentage ratio in five years, escalating each year, is 31 percent. If we presume that teacher salaries escalate 5 percent per year for five years, the payment can reach to about $4,340,000.
Legislators Sen. Don White and Reps. Dave Reed, Sam Smith and Jeff Pyle must come to the aid of districts and taxpayers and work with their compadres to right this ship. This plan is grotesque and no increase of taxes or elimination of academic courses or schools will ever make up for the pension grab of 2005 or the vast drop in stock market value, which decimated the value of the fund after the recession. The taxpayers are getting tired of pushing the rock up a hill.
Some have suggested a state bond issue in the amount of the pension fund deficit. Whatever the Legislature decides, do it now. Stop the madness of the present system long before its ratio is 50 percent. We taxpayers want off this train.
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Throw Trucks With Your Mind!
This Kickstarter's a little differentperhaps a little gimmickyand I'm really not sure how well it's going to pan out. But it certainly does seems intriguing.
Saw that one also. I also think it looks gimmicky. Probably throwing trucks around with your mind will be amusing for ten minutes or so… I also imagine that there are likely to be technical glitches, which are likely to result in it working intermittently and being subject to confusion between different commands etc. Probably one for those who like to be on the bleeding edge.
Looks like the kind of technology that will take a good half of a decade, if the video isn't absurdly fake/edited, to reach the geekiest of the commercial products.
I'd personally love to see it used in general computing and interfaces, like on the Google Glasses of the 2020s.
It just reached the funding goal with 58 hours to go.
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Local Historical Societies Directory
Crawford County Historical Society (SW Region)
Crawford County Historical Society
17933 State Highway 27 South
Mt. Sterling, WI, 54645-0072
Phone: 608-734-3192
Society President
Larry Quamme
14767 Eagle Ridge Road
Ferryville, WI, 54628
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Hauge Norwegian History Center
Jacob Vedvik
56302 County Rd B, Ferryville, 54628
Phone: (608) 734-3192
Hours: Open by appointment for genealogical research.
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Chesterfield have signed West Brom defender James Hurst on loan until the end of the season.
The 19-year-old right-back has already spent time on loan with Blackpool and Shrewsbury this season and recently penned a long-term contract with the Baggies.
Hurst is a product of West Brom's academy system and represented England at the Under-20 World Cup last summer.
He is expected to go straight into John Sheridan's squad for the weekend trip to Leyton Orient.
Hurst's deal is classed as a youth loan and under these terms he can be recalled to the Hawthorns at any time after spending 28 days with the Spireites.


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Back to the drawing board for Evolutionists
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For many years evolutionary scientists thought that humans (homo sapiens) were direct descendants of the Neanderthal. Then it was discovered that humans and their sub-human ancestors were co-existent--meaning that both came from an earlier, common ancestor, homo erectus which, itself, was thought to descend from homo habilis.
Now research by Meave Leakey (of the famous paleontology clan) indicates that homo erectus and homo habilis were also co-existent. That leaves the identity of our primordial ancestor unknown while pushing back his arrival by about half a million years.
But as the goalposts of evolution keep moving back, don't expect evolutionary scientists to "find" that all of these examples were coterminous (giving credence to the theistic narrative). No siree, if you follow what Leakey's co-researcher, Susan Anton, had to say: "This is not questioning the idea at all of evolution; it is refining some of the specific points."
Ms. Anton goes on to explain: "This is a great example of what science does and religion doesn't do. It's a continuous self-testing process." (Except, you can be sure, "questioning the idea at all of evolution.")
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She just finished the production of her new animated flick "Inside Out" and now Amy Poehler is gracing the March 2014 issue of Ladies' Home Journal magazine.
The "Parks and Recreation" star looked super cute for the Alexei Hay-shot spread while chatting about the noticable issues that young girls face today and raising her kids (Abel James Arnett and Archibald William Emerson Arnett) alone.
Stepping out to promote "The Monuments Men," Matt Damon showed up at The Ed Sullivan Theatre for "The Late Show with David Letterman" on Wednesday (February 5).
The "Good Will Hunting" hunk signed autographs and posed for pictures before heading inside to chat about his good friend George Clooney.
She's usually busy playing an uber-responsible city councilor of Pawnee, Indiana on "Parks and Recreation," but Amy Poehler took a break from Leslie Knope in favor of her real-life boyfriend Nick Kroll.
The "Baby Mama" babe guest stars on a new episode of "Kroll Show," and she's teetering on the precipice of gross.
Heading to Park City, Utah to promote their new movie, the cast of "They Came Together" attended the premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on Friday (January 24).
Flashing a big smile for photographers, Ellie Kemper looked adorable as usual in a light sweater, black pants, and tan boots.
With 120+ feature films on the docket, the 2014 Sundance Film Festival is literally overflowing with creativity, talent, and amazing flicks.
Founded by Robert Redford 30 years ago, the much-beloved event includes at least a few must-see projects from some of our favorite artists.
Taking the celebration into the wee hours, NBC hosted a fabulous post-Golden Globes shindig at the Beverly Hilton Hotel last night (January 12).
Hosting the 71st annual 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards just wasn't enough for her, because Amy Poehler took home her own little trophie for Best Actress in a TV Series as Leslie Knope on "Parks and Recreation!"
Not only did she plant a fat, fake kiss on Bono, Amy also said, "I was not prepared for this. Wow! I've never won anything like this. Oh my gosh. I don't have a speech."
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What brand is your electrical panel?
I don't know. It's dark now. I'll have to get a flashlight and go outside. Can you wait a few minutes?
Sure. Also, do you have any idea how old the panel is/
I didn't see a name on the panel but the round glass that's on top says Westinghouse. The house was built in 1984. The circuit breakers are horizontal: 2 light green 4 reed then something that says "20", then another 4 rend and then two that say "100" each. Does that help?
Sorry, that should be red -- not reed and rend.
Yes, it sounds like a very old Westinghouse pane. Since multiple circuits have gone out over time, I'm wondering if the breakers are starting to fail. Power loss such as you are experiencing is fairly common on one circuit. But it would be unusual to have multiple circuits come apart, even over a fairly long period of time. It's never happened at my house, and I've been here for about 12 years.
Partial power loss in a house can happen for multiple reasons. But the two main reasons are breakers failing, or loose or broken connections. Loose or broken connections can be located anywhere in an affected circuit. This includes the breaker panel, and any box the circuit goes into. This would be outlet boxes, light switch boxes, or light fixture boxes.
Do you know anyone who is capable of taking voltage readings with a meter at your breaker panel?
No. I bought a gizmo that says whether there's juice in the switch box. Is that the same thing? I replaced a bad switch box a couple of months ago but it took me over an hour to do it but I got it done. How hard is it to replace an old circuit breaker. What should I start checking? How much does replacing the old panel with a new one?
Panel replacement will cost you approximately $1200. It's not terribly difficult to replace a circuit breaker, but if you've never done it before and you think you would be nervous, it would be much safer to have a friend or family with some experience do it for you. It doesn't have to be an electrician, it could be a handyman who has replaced breakers before. That would likely be less expensive than an electrician.
If you can get a digital meter with a numeric display, I can help you take voltage readings tomorrow.
Basic digital multimeters (with 2 test leads) cost about $20 or so at Lowe's.
What I've got is a GB Instruments HI-VIS two level voltage tester. Is that what you're talking about? What do I need to do? Test the circuit breakers first or each switch box?
It would be much easier to start at the breaker panel.
Tell me what to do first. Thanks.
Let me look up your tester Online, to familiarize myself with it. I need to do that before I can tell you how to properly use it.
You can use the tester you have, but it would be much better to get actual numeric readings at the panel/breakers. Have you ever worked in a live electrical panel before?
I'll get a numeric reader. What brand do you suggest? I've never worked in a live electrical panel yet.
I believe the basic (least expensive) models at Lowe's are made by Greenlee. Are you okay with continuing the troubleshooting tomorrow?
After you get the new meter?
I'll go to Home Depot. I live out in the country so it takes some getting into town. If I get the new meter, can you help me on Tuesday as I don't know what time I'll back and if it gets late it will be too dark to start. Can you help on Tuesday? Thanks.
Right now, my Tuesday evening is wide open. And I'll try to keep it that way for you. I work full time for an electrical contractor, so I don't usually get home until 4 PM or so. It's 10:15 here now. If money is extremely tight for you, we can continue the troubleshooting (in daylight) with the tester you already have, and potentially save you the cost of the new meter.
I'd like to try without buying a new meter if possible. If that's okay with you can you help me tomorrow during daylight. If so, what time? It's 7:19 p.m. now. I live in California. Thanks.
We have a three hour time difference. So if I get home at 4, it will be 1 at your house. That's actually good for me, because I have a commitment tomorrow after work. I don't think it will take very long, so I'll look for a reply from you after that.
How do I get you back tomorrow?
You can follow the links in your email to get back to this thread, or log onto the site and click the "My Questions" link at the top of the page.
Okay. I'll do that tomorrow about 1:30 my time/4:30 your time. Okay?
That should be okay. If you can log on a little earlier and the system shows me as "Online", that would be okay too. By the way, can you look on your tester and confirm for me that it is rated for at least 120 volts AC?
I'll log on earlier. The tester says 120 240.
OK, that's perfect. If I am delayed at work, I'll try to get back here to help you as soon as I can.
The uses directions say Tests from 100-300 V AC.
OK, that should work alright for us.
Thanks, Jason. Good night. Talk to you tomorrow.
It will at least tell us if a breaker is passing power. We just won't know the value. You are most welcome. Looking forward to it.
You can hold off on Accepting for now. Let's try to get your problem solved first (tomorrow).
Jason: I'm on. I went to Home Depot this morning and got a digital multimeter reader but apparently one of the screws that holds the case together is stripped cause I can't unscrew it. I'm taking it back to exchange with another and will get the circuit breakers. Can we do this tomorrow when I have everything? Are there any other tools or products I need?
We can do this whenever you are ready. If I am offline when you are ready to proceed, just leave a reply in this thread, and I'll find it as soon as I log on. By the way, I don't know for sure yet that you need new circuit breakers. You may have a hard time finding the right ones, but I believe Cutler Hammer is an acceptable replacement for Westinghouse.
Jason, I'm online now. I picked up a new digital multimeter and two types of breakers to see which one works. Are you ready to help me?
Sure. Let's proceed. Do you know how to set the meter to AC Volts?
No. I got the panel off. There are wires screwed in at the bottom of the existing breakers. The two types of breakers I got are QO and HOM but both have screws at the bottom.
The digital multimeter I got is a Commercial Electric MAS830B. I installed the battery.
The multimeter has a red and black wires. Which go in what?
OK, I know for sure the QO won't work. But the HOM may work. If you can, set the meter to AC Volts, and touch one probe to the neutral bar, where all the white wires are connected. Touch the other probe to the screw on any breaker. Watch the readout of the meter to see if the breaker is putting out power. Keep the meter probe on the neutral bar, but move the other meter probe from breaker to breaker, one at a time, until you have taken readings on every breaker. Please stand by while I look for your meter Online, so I can tell you how to set it up and use it.
In the panel there are two strips of screws connected with the wires going out of the panel and into the house. These strips are vertical to the breakers going horizontal. I don't know what you mean by the neutral bar.
Do you see several white wires connected to a common point in the panel?
There's a number of white wires each connected to the vertical strips of screws. Is that the common point? Also, the probes on the multimeter. Where do the green and red probes get connected to the multimeter and the probes go where in the panel box?
Right now the multimeter is on "off." Which way do I turn the knob and on what number?
Both of the vertical bars (with multiple white wires connected to them) are neutral bars. So once you start your testing, you can touch one meter probe to either of those vertical bars. I am having trouble finding your meter Online, so I need to ask you some questions about it.
How many holes does the meter have to plug the probes into?
The face of the multimeter has 3 holes on the bottom where the two probes can go. Two's are marked 10A/250V, one of which is also marked ?10A/250V and that one is also marked MAX 600V 250mA/250V so the one in the middle is marked 10A/250V and MAX 600V 250mA/250V.
Thank you for the additional information. I am going to try again to find a picture of the meter Online. Otherwise, it will be very difficult to tell you how to set it up.
The dials start at the top as 600, in white, on both sides of the "Off" position. Then it's 200 on both sides, in white. Then the left side going down says 20, 2, 200m, all in white. Then in green 2M, 200k, 20k 2k, 200. On the right side going down after the 200, in green 20 and 200 with a symbol I've never seen before, then 2m, 20m, 200m and 10A. The directions don't help.
I know you don't want the green, that's for Ohms. We won't be reading Ohms, at least not initially. Is there a letter "V" anywhere on the dial?
Yes. The instructions that make some sense says to connect the red test lead to the VQmA jack and the black test lead to the Com jack which I did. The instructions say to set the rotary switch at desired ACV position. I don't know what the desired ACV position is.
Do you see a range of numbers in the ACV area? If so, set it to the highest number.
And tell me what that number is, just so we don't take a reading that is out of range for the meter setting.
I guess that's the right side of the face, in white 600 and 200. Set at 600? All the other numbers are lower and in green.
Yes, set it to 600. Did you see my instructions earlier about how to take readings at the breakers?
I set it at 600. Your instructions were the vertical screws and wires is the common point? Correct? But what probes touch what? The red one and the black one touch what?
Either one to either bar where there are several white wires connected. Touch the other probe to the screws on the breakers, where the wire connects to the breaker. You will be reading one breaker at a time.
I have to go outside to do this. I have a desktop computer so it'll take a few minutes.
Take as long as you need. The goal is to get some answers as to what is going on with your wiring.
None of the breakers except for two registered anything. The readings stayed at 0.00. The two that registered said "-0.00" Inside one of the receptacles registered 120 121. Others that work register nothing. What am I doing wrong?


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Canada housing to slow, stagnate, but not crash: Scotiabank
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TORONTO (Reuters) - A slowdown in Canada's housing market will continue through 2013 and years of stagnation may follow, but no crash is likely because demographic trends will support demand in the medium term, a report by Scotiabank said on Monday.
The report by Canada's third-largest bank said that home sales have already dropped more than 10 percent from spring 2012, with prices leveling off but not yet falling except in particularly hard-hit markets.
Housing, which slowed but did not crash as a result of the global financial crisis, helped sustain Canada's economy through much of 2010 to 2012 but is now starting to slide just as the U.S. housing sector has begun a clear recovery.
Scotiabank said the housing slowdown will trim a quarter of a percentage point from Canada's economic growth in 2013 and 2014, while the U.S. housing recovery is adding half a percentage point to annual growth rates there.
While Canadian home sales may continue to slump, the report said, prices will likely remain above year-ago levels until at least the second half of 2013, and will not drop as dramatically as they did in the United States.
Scotiabank senior economist Adrienne Warren said she expects a decline in prices of around 5 percent but that the drop will likely play out over the next couple of years rather than happen quickly.
She also said demographics, including steady immigration and the preference of baby boomers to remain in their homes, will support housing demand.
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Australia fast bowler Mitchell Johnson, who became Australia's spearhead last summer before losing his way for a time during the recent Ashes campaign, is also among the contenders for the accolade, which takes in the period from August 13, 2008 to August 24 this year.
Also nominated are West Indies' Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara, Tillakaratne Dilshan and Thilan Samaraweera, South Africa pair Graeme Smith and AB de Villiers, India trio Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Gautam Gambhir and Harbhajan Singh, New Zealander Daniel Vettori and Saqib Al Hasan from Bangladesh.
With the major cricketing nations of the world to assemble in South Africa later this month for the Champions Trophy, the long list of contenders will be revised to shortlists ahead of the awards ceremony in Johannesburg on October 1.
"The LG ICC Awards are an opportunity for the ICC and FICA (Federation of International Cricketers' Associations) to acknowledge and celebrate the remarkable performances of the world's top players," said ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat.
"It is also a chance for followers of our great sport to reflect on some of the great cricketing feats they have witnessed over the past year."
Cricketer of the year nominees: Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WInd), Tillakaratne Dilshan (Sri), Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Ind), Gautam Gambhir (Ind), Saqib Al Hasan (Ban), Mitchell Johnson (Aus), Graham Onions (Eng), Thilan Samaraweera (Sri), Kumar Sangakkara (Sri), Harbhajan Singh (Ind), Graeme Smith (Rsa), Andrew Strauss (Eng), Daniel Vettori (Nzl), AB de Villiers (Rsa).
Test player of the year: Stuart Broad (Eng), Michael Clarke (Aus), Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Ind), Tillakaratne Dilshan (Sri), Gautam Gambhir (Ind), Saqib Al Hasan (Ban), Mitchell Johnson (Aus), VVS Laxman (Ind), Jesse Ryder (Nzl), Thilan Samaraweera (Sri), Ramnaresh Sarwan (WInd), Peter Siddle (Aus), Harbhajan Singh (Ind), Graeme Smith (Rsa), Dale Steyn (Rsa), Andrew Strauss (Eng), Graeme Swann (Eng), Daniel Vettori (Nzl), AB de Villiers (Rsa).
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I can agree with that...but what really are your other options?
Don't vote and let everyone else figure it out?
Vote for one of the 100 other parties that will never have more than .00001% of the vote in my life time?
Vote for Obama, the guy I don't want to win in the first place?
I just really don't see many options.
Unfortunately the way the system works you have to either vote for what you believe in or vote for the lesser of two evils. To me that will always be the
If you won't vote for what you believe in now, then when ?
Voting for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil. Either way you will get burned. So which is worse 4 years of 100% evil or 8 years of 80% evil ?
The first two choices you list above are both a better option. When the Republican party finally realizes that it can't win with a center-left big government candidate, then there is a very small possibility that they will field a real [r]epublican candidate and support him/her. Otherwise they will go the way of the whig party. Either way problem solved. The vacuum will be filled.
My choice is Paul. I will vote for him in the R' column or I will write him in. If there is no way to do that, then I will leave it blank. There is no other choice for anyone who values liberty.
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Disney makes several fine games for Windows 8 and RT, but they're all a bit pricey compared to their Windows Phone counterparts. Temple Run: Brave for instance, launched at $1.49 on Windows 8 but soon went up to $4.99. Actually, $4.99 is the regular price of all Disney tablet and PC games.
That's why Disney fans will want to take advantage of the Disney Windows 8 sale going on this weekend. All of Disney's non-Xbox games are on sale for $3.49, including the just-released Temple Run: Oz. Disney's Windows Phone 8 titles are not affected by this sale. Full descriptions and Store links after the break!


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Once again, Miley Cyrus is being criticized for some magazine photos. Last time, many of you posted on our You Said It pages, shocked and upset about what she WASN'T wearing when she posed behind a bed sheet for Vanity Fair. This time it's what she IS wearing in Elle -- clothes that are rather, shall we say, mature -- that's got everyone chattering.
We not going to offer any opinions as to whether she should have or shouldn't have, but here's what we think makes this whole issue an interesting one to think and talk about: Miley Cyrus isn't your average 16-year old. She's a mega-famous TV actress and pop star. Yes, the really tall black boots and the really tight top would be out of place and inappropriate in school, or in the neighborhood, or even on an episode of "Hannah Montana." But Miley didn't put those clothes on for these things; she put them on for a high fashion photo shoot.
You could look at it this way: many young people participate in stage productions or cheerleading, and wear uniforms and costumes that wouldn't be right to wear in class or out at a fast-food place with friends. You might play the role of Sandy in your school's production of "Grease," and wear tight pants and a leather jacket, or wear a shorter-than normal skirt when cheering for your school's basketball team. Or how about Halloween? There's a good chance that you and your friends wear some wild and weird stuff to go to a party or out trick-or-treating. Well, for someone like Miley, who lives her life in the spotlight, many days are more like a school play, or even Halloween, than most people can imagine. Sure, she gets to be a regular girl sometimes, and that's when she probably dresses just like everybody else her age. But most of the time, Miley is actually "on stage "and "in costume," performing her role as a famous pop star. This means she's under tons of pressure from directors, producers, publicists, photographers, and the like to do what they think is best for her career.
If you're confused about all the talk about Miley, or just have really strong opinions about it, this might be an interesting conversation with a friend or parent: Why do you think Miley posed in these very "grown-up" clothes? What would you do in her place, considering all the crazy details of her life? If you knew you were considered a role model to young people, how would that affect your decisions? Tell us what you think!
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Accra, Ghana, Nov 20, 2013 / 04:41 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Catholic bishops of Ghana called for "renewed zeal" to spread the Catholic faith, saying all Christians are called to participate in the New Evangelization."Ghana has in recent years been touted not only as a peaceful and an emerging stable democracy but also as a profoundly religious nation," the Ghana Catholic Bishops' Conference said in a communique.The bishops cited the growing Christian … [Read more...]
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Albuquerque, N.M., Nov 20, 2013 / 02:10 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Although a pro-life ballot measure in Albuquerque, N.M., did not gain enough votes to pass, pro-life activists say the initiative was able to educate citizens about the reality of late-term abortion."Months ago, most Albuquerque residents had no idea their city had become a national hub for late abortion," said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, in a statement."Despite being outspent … [Read more...]
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Vatican City, Nov 20, 2013 / 11:51 am (CNA).- Continuing his efforts to promote a "culture of encounter" with the disabled, Pope Francis again embraced a severely disfigured man after his Nov. 20 weekly audience in St. Peter's Square.The Pope spoke with a man who lacks facial features, embraced him and gave him a blessing. Pope Francis then smiled at the man, kissed him and gestured toward the sky in the midst of a crowded square.The cause of the man's … [Read more...]
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Vatican City, Nov 20, 2013 / 05:44 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In his weekly general audience, Pope Francis spoke about the power Jesus gave the apostles to forgive sins in his name, stating that priest's should exercise this ministry with "humility.""The Church is the depository of this power. It is not an owner, it is the servant of the ministry of reconciliation on behalf of men," the Pope explained during his Nov. 20 general audience.Continuing his reflections on … [Read more...]
Cardinal O'Malley: cohabitation, student debt threaten marriage
Baltimore, Md., Nov 20, 2013 / 04:06 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Cultural trends discouraging marriage are among the biggest challenges to the Church in the U.S., says Cardinal Seán O'Malley, who also sees signs of renewal and hope among young people."Concerns about marriage – people not getting married, falloff in Mass attendance, (and the) challenge of catechizing the young Catholics" are some of the more troubling trends facing Catholicism in the U.S., the Archbishop of … [Read more...]
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Rome, Italy, Nov 20, 2013 / 02:03 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In an effort to equip future priests to better encounter the mass media, one seminary in Rome now provides a hands-on workshop in social communications."We need to be part of the world-wide conversation that is happening on social issues, on religion, on faith – and we can do that by being able to give educated and effective responses to the media when asked," explained instructor Ashley Noronha in an interview with CNA … [Read more...]
Knights of Columbus' Pope documentary now on DVD
Rome, Italy, Nov 20, 2013 / 12:02 am (CNA).- The Knights of Columbus' new documentary on the life of Pope Francis and his election to the papacy will be available on DVD starting Nov. 20."This documentary arrives as the world realizes that a very special man has assumed the leadership of the Catholic Church, and this begins – but does not end – with his gestures of humility and care for everyone," said Supreme Knight Carl Anderson of the Knights of Columbus, an … [Read more...]


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Problem could be the cat, or might be a bad post (after) cat O2 sensor. A lot cheaper.
Before buying anything, try swapping the after cat O2 sensors. Get codes cleared and drive again through a few cycles as decribed below. If the fault follows the O2 sensor, i.e. P0430 Catalyst System Efficiency Below Threshold (Bank 2) appears, replace the sensor setting the DTC.
If the code disappears, you probably had a dirty connector that cleaned up when you unplugged / replugged during the swap.
If the code stays with bank 1 it's probably time time for a new cat.
Or find a really good diagnostic guy on the chance that the car has some other combination problems cheaper than a cat. It's a long shot but maybe. For instance, you mentioned a loose exhaust part. If it allows entry of even a tiny bit air before the post cat O2 sensor, it would then read high O2 level and set the fault.
EDIT: The ECU calculates P0420 or P0430 by comparing readings from the pre & post cat O2 sensors. It expects a better reading from the post cat sensor since the cat should be cleaning up the exhaust gas flow. From the difference, it calculates how well the cat is working.
It's unlikely your cat is clogged as the Autozone guy told you. A clogged or broken cat will restrict exhaust flow and you would notice degraded power, expecially at high RPM. In some cases, you might feel the car bog at highway speed & then regain some power if you take your foot off the gas pedal for a moment and then step on it again - only to repeat the cycle a few minutes later. Since you report the car has good performance, the Autozone diagnosis looks suspect.
However cats do loose effectiveness over time or due to poisioning by contaminants - which is the reason for the post cat O2 sensor.
The instance when your CEL came back after fueling is a likely a consquence of some DTC's being set only on consecutive repeat occurences. The sequence of events was most probably went way:
1 you cleared DTC
2 ran engine up to heat which activated O2 sensor operation (1st cycle)
3 ECU saw/calculated a P0420 and stored a pending code. No CEL set
4 you stopped and fueled car
5 ran engine up to heat again, ECU sees P0420 again, 2nd consecutive cycle
6 ECU set CEL
I can't think how the rush of air out the gas cap you describe could be related. It may though indicate that your evap recovery system is having problems.
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UMASS School of Law, Delta Theta Phi, Law Fraternity invites all student groups (law school and main campus) and local community groups and non-profits to participate in a FREE workshop to learn how to implement Robert's Rules of Order.
Robert's Rules of Order is the standard for facilitating discussions and group decision-making and is a very prevalent format of conducting meetings in public, private, non-profit, and for-profit sectors. Robert's Rules will help your group have better meetings, not make them more difficult, and encourage fairness and participation.
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David Lang has been in the creativity business for sometime, from Emmy Award-winning television producer to president of Mindshare Entertainment, he has found novel ways of orchestrating consumer experiences. For our coverage of the Cannes Lions Festival, PSFK spoke with David Lang on composing audience engagement piece by piece.
David, You're back at Cannes. How do you think the industry has changed over the last 12 months?
The speed of the marketplace has changed. Everything seems to be happening at a faster and faster pace. New technologies, new apps, new companies – they seem to pop up every day. The options for executing campaigns and engaging with consumers seem to be endless.
Is there a particular piece of work your agency has produced that reflects how Mindshare Entertainment is evolving?
At Mindshare Entertainment, we are really about connecting the right consumer insights with great creative and targeted distribution. I think the Magnum/Karl Lagerfeld work, the Poise/Whoopi Goldberg work and the Degree/Masters of Movement campaign have all delivered tremendous ROI for our clients because our concepts were based on the right insights and our creative execution was something that truly engaged consumers.
What relevant talk are you particularly interested in seeing at Cannes?
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Cardiff City boss Malky Mackay has insisted £7.5m striker Andrea Cornelius will be back in action sooner rather than later after the Dane was stretchered off during the Bluebirds' 2-0 League Cup win at Accrington Stanley.
The 20-year-old was making his first competitive start for his new club but failed to even make it to half-time before taking a heavy knock to his ankle.
The striker sat out the last two weeks of pre-season with the same ankle injury he aggravated at the Crown Ground last night.
And, while Mackay, expressed his disappointment Cornelius will not be available for Saturday's clash with Everton, he is confident the youngster has not sustained any long-term damage.
"It's disappointing, but he's 10 minutes into his career here so we'll give him time," Mackay said.
"It was unfortunate it was the ankle he did a couple of weeks ago, so he was feeling it right away.
"It was a heavy knock he took, so we got him off on a stretcher purely as a precaution.
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