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Ed, Thanks for your answer and I will check this out tomorrow, a follow up quesiton, dont want to show my ingorniance here, but what is the NVLD?
I have replaced the gas cap, it was the first thing I did. Also checking the purge solenoid, will it actuate immediately or when?
Thanks Ed that clears the NVLD up a little bit, I will check all the wiring tomorrow and hopefully that will be the problem, other wise I just may blow this thing up!!!!!
Thanks and will let you know how it goes
OK Ed, here is what I have done so far today. Mind you, I have reset the computer and have not code present at this time, however, in a couple of days I believe the light will trip.
At the purge solenoid I have 12 volts going in to it, since I dont have a schematic I will assume that the other wire is a ground of some type. Anyways, I hooked up a vacuum gauge from the line between the tank and solenoid. After about 1 minute of run time I was getting a steady 20in hg. , shut the engine off and it held the vacuum. I then went to the NVLD and checked the 3 wires for any kind of breaks all appeared to be good. I then started the vehicle up and I could feel the NVLD click it also clicked went I shut down the engine. Now, it only clicked when I started the engine not just turning the vehicle on with out engine running. I went back to the steel line that ran back to the tank and tried to pull a vacuum. I have a hand pump to do this with and at no time was I able to get any kind of vacuum. I blew though the hose and could hear air at the fuel inlet only, no where else. I tried the tape on the fuel inlet like you stated and still no vacuum could be created. At this time I have check everything and I am at my wits end. I am pretty good at stuff like this but the only thing I can even think could be a problem would be the ECU, however, I pretty sure I ruled that out because I disconnect the wires on the NVLD and the check engine light come on.
What else can I try
I hooked a tee up between the steel line going to the purge canister and the purge solenoid. After about 1 to 2 minutes of run time I recieved no vacuum reading. I disconnected the hose going into the purge canister and cover it with my thumb and was getting engine vacuum. I hooked it back up and recieved nothing. About 5 minutes later I started to get a vacuum reading of 2 to 3 in. hg. as soon as I shut the engine off i would lose the vacuum. I clamp the hose going to the NVLD, again about 5 minutes of run time I started getting the 2 to 3 in.hg., I again shut off the engine and lose vacuum. Now I also disconnected the hose going out of the purge canister out to the fuel inlet. I started the the engine thinking I would get some kind of vacuum buy holding my thumb up at the nipple. I did not feel anything. What I dont understand is I get engine vacuum to the canister but nothing I can feel out of the canister. I have started the car at least 20 times since resetting the MIL, it has not come on yet. I understand that its suppose to go through 2 failed cycles before it will trip the MIL, should it have done it by now?
Ed, I will check that tomorrow after I get off work, I took it off once and it looked fine, but I was checking for debre and/or fuel contamination. I did not look that close at the case itself. Ill let you know something tomorrow
Ed checked the canister today I found nothing wrong with it rechecked the hoses in the area and still found nothing wrong. At this point I am thinking about replacing the canister just to replace it.
The car has been driven over 150 miles with no MIL, however, my scanner pickup up a pending code of P0441
Ed I will check the lines again I just dont see anything. I had the canister off and blow thru it. I put my thumb over the two openings and tried to blow thru it and couldnt. I look at the rubber hose pretty hard today and saw nothing, however, they are a little soft, I was able to hold a vacuum from the steel line to the canister so its not that one, the middle hose is teed and goes to the tank and vent the third hose right side goes to the NVLD and that is also a little soft. I know those should be replaced but do you think being soft could cause this.
I didnt check the code, I just reset it after I set it off and yes I replace the NVLD, I give it a try again tomorrow and will let you know
OK, I think I screwed up, I was checking the vent line that goes from the fuel tank, Tees off to the canister and the fuel filler vent, anyways has I was pulling the rubber hose off the tee, it cracked. Now what I am hoping is it was cracked the whole time and me pulling on it just broke. So I am stuck now until I replace that Tee, now I think I will have to replace the entire line because the hose from the tee to the fuel tank is on of those plastic ones and it appears to be shunk onto the Tee. do you have the P/N for the line and Tee. I am really hoping this is it, the pain is I have to drop the tank now to get to the top. Good thing is I can inspect at that time. Will let you know how it all goes. Again I cant thank you enough for walking me through this
yeap thats it, can i just get a comparable tee and put it in? for some reason it looked like it could have a check valve in it. I checked the evac sticker on the car and it only shows a tee, if thats the case I should be about to do something with it. I have pulled several tanks and its not that bad as long as I get all the fuel out, I tried it once with a half tank and liked to killed myself LOL anyways this things has a full tank, I'm not going to siphon that out, so thanks for the tip, let me see what i can find and I will let you know tomorrow.


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Moms Brawl During Elementary School Talent Show [Video]
I've heard of "pageant moms" and "cheerleading moms" and how intense they can be. But, I never thought that two moms would get into a fist fight over a 2nd grade talent show. Guess I was wrong because that's exactly what happened at an Elementary School in Florida.
According to MSN.com, the two women we see fighting in the following video are Latisha James and Jessica Tyler and both have since been banned from stepping foot into the school. The incident allegedly started when James was blocking Tyler's view during the performance. Tyler asked James to please sit down, and her request was ignored. James claims that Tyler then pushed her 3-year-old to the ground, and at that point, James attacked Tyler. The fight was quickly broken up by other parents in attendance.
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"Abstract. Condensation trails (contrails) are aircraft induced cirrus clouds, which may persist and grow to large cirrus cover in ice-supersaturated air, and may cause a warming of the atmosphere. This paper describes the formation, occurrence, properties and climatic effects of contrails. The global cover by lined-shaped contrails and the radiative impact of line-shaped contrails is smaller than as- sessed in an international assessment in 1999. Contrails trigger contrail cirrus with far larger coverage than observed for line-shaped contrails, but still unknown radiative properties. Some model simula- tions indicate an impact of particles and particle precursors emitted from aircraft engines on cirrus clouds properties. However, the magnitude of this effect cannot yet be assessed. Contrail formation can be avoided only by flying in sufficiently warm and dry air. The formation of contrail cirrus can be reduced by avoiding flights in ice-supersaturated regions of the atmosphere, e.g. by raising the flight level into the lower-most stratosphere."
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"The introduction of more effi- cient aircraft engines does not solve the problem of contrail formation; just the opposite is true, be- cause the threshold temperature increases with increased overall efficiency η of the engines [12]. An increased efficiency η is desirable of course for economic and climate reasons by reducing the fuel consumption and reducing emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2)."
"Contrail-cirrus could generally be avoided if flying slightly higher in the extratropical lowermost stratosphere. Flying higher generally would cause more contrails at lower latitudes and in the tropics [57, 129]. However, for long range traffic in the extratropics, flying a little higher than today, in the lower-most stratosphere just above the tropopause, may be recommendable both under climate and aviation aspects. This option should be considered if contrail cirrus dominates the climate impact by aviation and if the side-effects such as ozone changes are sufficiently small. The stratosphere is usu- ally dry so that formation of contrail cirrus in this region is avoided. Aviation can be performed effi- ciently at such altitudes with the potential for reduced fuel consumption and nitrogen oxides emission. The mid-latitude lower-most stratosphere appears to be only weakly sensitive to ozone changes from nitrogen oxides emitted by aircraft [3, 130]. Some authors point to the potential of ozone loss by chlo- rine activation at contrail and cirrus ice particles in the lowermost stratosphere by heterogeneous chemistry [4, 6, 133, 134]. However, high humidity in the lower-most stratosphere results from trans- port of humid tropospheric air masses into the lower stratosphere [135] containing low amounts of inorganic chlorine [54]. Three-dimensional model studies suggest ozone to be reduced by not more than a few percent from heterogeneous reactions on subvisible cirrus from all sources in the tropo- pause region and this decrease may be of comparable magnitude as ozone formation by nitrogen ox- ides emissions from commercial air traffic [133]. Since aviation causes only a small fraction of all cirrus, the contrail cirrus impact on ozone may also be small."
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Box 3B Transport times in the Northern Hemisphere
A schematic showing a latitudinal profile of the tropopause in the Northern Hemisphere and giving transport time- scales. The tropopause is typically near 9 km in altitude in polar latitudes and 16 km in equatorial regions. On any particular day at any particular longitude its position could be as shown, with a structure determined by the weather systems. The likely position of 'jet streams', westerly wind maxima, is indicated. The range of cruise heights for subsonic and supersonic aircraft are shown. Arrows indicate typical directions for transport of gases and time-scales for these transports are given.
When the moist, high temperature air from a jet engine mixes with the ambient cold air, saturation can occur and the moisture can condense onto particles in the atmosphere, and in particular those present in the exhaust. The result is a condensation trail, or contrail.
On about 10 - 15% of occasions in the upper troposphere in middle latitudes, the ambient air is already supersaturated with respect to ice. In supersaturated conditions contrails will persist and tend to spread. Sometimes they can spread to form or initiate a cirrus cloud, though the amount of such cirrus cloud formed by aviation is currently unknown. The extent of the contrail and cirrus cloud can be striking, those shown in the lower left corner of the plate to the left persist out over the Atlantic.
Contrails and cirrus clouds reflect some solar radiation and therefore act to cool the surface. They also absorb some upwelling thermal radiation, re-emitting it both downwards,
which acts to warm the surface, and upwards. On average the latter warming effect is thought to dominate.
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We have airplane induced cirrus clouds today in the Mid Atlantic. Bet the storms will be pretty awesome this evening. The storms are already predicted. Just been listening to the constant droning of planes and and watching the white clouds form in an otherwise blue sky. At least we get water.
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Welcome to another installment of More Money More Makeup, where I'll be attempting to save you more by finding cheaper alternatives, discounts and bargains on cosmetics. Today we'll be taking a look at MAC Humid and Amber Lights.
Personally, I adore Humid and Amber Lights. I am not in love with MAC, but there are a handful of MAC eyeshadows that I love and would repurchase. When I heard that there were possible dupes of these two, I went out searching for the alleged dupes, hoping that I would be able to support a company besides MAC. I found them, and here are the results.
I find NYX MG to be a pretty darn close dupe. MAC Humid has a sort of lush richness that NYX MG is lacking. But if you want a substitute, NYX Mermaid Green is a good one.
Next up, MAC Amber Lights.
Milani Sun Goddess is the closest match to MAC AL, although it is a little lighter. Milani Bronze Doll is not orange toned enough to be a dupe, and it contains sparkles.
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I know that these are all qualities that most guys say they have, so you may ask yourself "what's so unique about this guy?" Although I could type in more adjectives that describe my unique qualities, they're just words and don't really add up to anything. Anyone could write them. Sometimes you can just get a feel for someone and you can tell that they are being themselves and not trying so hard to present a certain image. That is one of my unique qualities. I'm not afraid to be myself or say what's on my mind. If you can appreciate my sense of humor can carry on an intelligent conversation, and hopefully got a feel for the genuine guy that I am, we should talk some more.
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MSF, owned by Thai sugar company Mitr Phol, has purchased about $15 million worth of rural property in north Queensland from global fund manager GMO.
MSF chief executive Mike Barry confirmed the purchase of 1500 hectares of land near Innisfail which will be reconverted from forestry to cane for use in the company's South Johnstone mill.
"All of these farms were cane country a long time ago and when they were converted to forestry that impacted on the viability of the mills," Mr Barry said.
"Now there is a real opportunity to get this back to cane and we want to do it as soon as possible."
Sugar prices are back up to $500 per tonne, making the use of land for cane a compelling proposition.
The 32 farms purchased were part of GMO Renewable Resources' 4000 ha portfolio covering 44 separate properties from Innisfail to Ingham.
GMO, founded by market bear Jeremy Grantham, originally purchased the land from the collapsed Rewards Group and Ark Fund in October last year after cyclone Yasi tore through the area.
The sale of land was negotiated by Colliers International's rural and agribusiness executive Rawdon Briggs, who said the selling campaign fielded 240 enquiries resulting in 63 compliant tenders.
"Since the original owners sold these farming properties to forestry the price of sugar has nearly tripled," Mr Briggs said.
He said 10 of the remaining 12 properties in the portfolio would be relaunched on the market in spring while GMO's contractors continued converting the properties back to land suitable for cane production.
Mr Barry said three parcels of the land purchased had been onsold to sugar producers and that the company was encouraging younger farmers to start cane farming.
About 500 hectares of MSF's purchase will be planted for cane by November this year.
MSF was bought out last year by Mitr Phol in a deal worth about $313 million.
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the timeline of history. Different symbols warp over the ages, and it is important
to be aware of where images come from, and where they may be going. In
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He officially restarted the fountain at Witley Court near Worcester more than 60 years after the stately home was destroyed by fire.
The fountain has undergone major refurbishment as part of a long-term programme restoring the historic gardens and landscapes around the listed ruins of the house.
The Perseus and Andromeda Fountain features a main block rising to a height of 26ft and is made of a single block of stone.
The fountain, which has 120 jets, has undergone a £700,000 restoration.
The central jet of water reaches up to 90ft high.
The Prince then visited Shropshire where he opened the Jubilee Stand at Ludlow Racecourse.
Prince Charles was originally due to open the stand late last year but the ceremony was postponed when his helicopter was turned back because of heavy fog.


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- The reference of this vessel's class possibly came from a piece of background artwork or a computer readout, although i must confess i've never seen such a thing about this particular vessel -- however, the Star Trek Encyclopedia is the source for this, and Okuda et al. mostly (but not always) made the Encyclopedia reflect references they had worked into a filmed production.
- So I'm not sure how valid a case we have for specifying this ship's class, except that it was devised by the technical staff of the show -- there's no specific onscreen source, just the secondary Encyclopedia source (and this was never made as a model -- just a dialogue mention of the ship that was dubbed over Shelby saying "Chekov"). -- Captain Mike K. Barteltalk
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Amityville, NY (PRWEB) July 11, 2013
Enviro-Test Inc., a Long Island company that provides mold testing, wants to share important information just released from the New York State Department of Health on mold contamination. In the NYSDOH article, they break down the steps consumers should take to recognize and clean up mold.
Due to Hurricane Sandy, many homes were left with mold contamination. Mold can cause allergic reactions such as hay fever, asthma, and irritation to eyes, nose, throat and lungs.
The article explains that mold can be many different colors. It will smell musty, stale or earthy. Consumers can safely assume that if they see or smell mold, they have a mold problem. It can grow on almost any surface and under siding and flooring.
For protection against mold, the article advises that consumers wear an applicable half-face respirator (paper masks are not recommended), rubber gloves and washable work clothes. Moldy areas should be isolated from other living areas and ventilated with open windows and fans to create "negative pressure". Any wet surfaces should be removed from the space. Surfaces can also be wetted down so that dry mold and dust cannot get into the air. For those that are sensitive to mold call a professional to handle the remediation.
Common reactions to mold include nasal and sinus congestion, cough, respiratory problems and skin irritations or rashes. Those with allergies, asthma or emphysema, HIV/AIDS or a compromised immune system are more susceptible to mold related problems.
To read the full article, please visit: http://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/emergency/weather/hurricane/docs/respiratory_health_flyer.pdf
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"A nutrition survey conducted last December in Bahr El Ghazel, a semi-arid pastoral region in the west of the country, showed that 27 percent of the 687 under five children surveyed were underweight. This is almost double the emergency threshold set by the World Health Organization at 15 percent. Loan Tran-Thanh, the head of Action Against Hunger (ACF) in Chad which conducted the survey, told IRIN the results were alarming. 'This was in the middle of the harvest period when malnutrition rates should be lower than [during] the lean rain season," she said. "If it is already that high in a harvest period, then how bad could it get during the lean period?'"


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One of the nation's leading medical equipment makers has developed a proposal to wean the manufacturing sector off direct subsidies with a system of corporate tax breaks designed to act as innovation and export incentives.
Queensland-based Cook Medical, in conjunction with PwC and Deloitte, has proposed an Australian Innovation and Manufacturing Incentive along the lines of the Patent Box system operating in the United Kingdom and versions of which exist in eight other nations.
Cook Medical, which exports about $1 million of equipment each year, including stents, implants and IVF equipment, says the scheme would act as a hand-up rather than a handout.
It was designed over recent months as the car industry began to collapse, starting with Holden's announcement it will cease manufacturing in Australia in 2016. Under the proposal, which would operate alongside the existing research and development tax incentive, any company that exported a product but retained the manufacturing base and the intellectual property rights in Australia, would receive a company tax break on profits derived from overseas sales in qualifying IP profit.
"The criteria for qualifiying IP would be expanded to include patents, copyright, registered designs, licences and "know-how'' as well as products manufactured outside of Australia where Australia would derive a significant net benefit from the sale of those products in overseas markets, the proposal says.
Cook Medical's Manufacturing and industry spokesman Barry Thomas said such a scheme would not only bolster Australian manufacturing but have the potential to lure overseas manufacturers to Australia.
Nor would there be any net loss to the budget because the government would be collecting new revenue, just at a rate less than the going company tax rate of 30 per cent "one of the highest in the world''.
"Australia's manufacturing future lies in a number of high-tech and medium high-tech industries such as pharmaceuticals, scientific instruments and electronics,'' he said.
But Mr Thomas said if such an incentive were available to SPC Ardmona, it would not need to be asking for government money to expand its markets in a bid to stay viable.
The Australian Conservation Foundation has also joined the debate, saying it was the worst time to axe the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, a tax-payer-funded loans scheme used to develop new clean energy technologies. The government wants to axe the CEFC along with the carbon tax, even though it is making money and leading to new innovations.
"We need to look to the jobs of the future and they are in clean energy," said Dugald Murray, senior economist at the ACF.
"Despite the urgent need to invest in these vibrant, dynamic industries, the government plans to scrap the $10 billion Clean Energy Finance Corporation and has flagged its intention to cut or abolish the Renewable Energy Target (RET)," Mr Murray said.
"With manufacturing in crisis and the mining sector slowing, renewable energy and clean tech innovation could be job saviours.''
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Have Ford Questions? Ask a Mechanic for Answers ASAP
Greetings and welcome to JA! I will do my very best to assist you with your problem.
Check the maxi fuse #4 under the hood and fuse #26 inside the truck. If you have already checked both of these, please let me know. Sometimes the fuses under the hood get missed. Check it out and let me know!
As i mentioned, fuses have been check, and are good, Need to know if system has
circuit breaker, and if so where located, power window relay? where is that located?
Inform me please, give me something to go with.
I am showing the relay behind the center of the dash. There is also a gem module lactated behind the dash. You should see power on a tan/yellow wire going into the gem. If you do then the GEM is no good.It supplies the power for all of the windows.
If it is easier, you can start by checking power to the master switch. Light blue/bl;black wire should have power.
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No current Talk conversations about this book.
This is a very clever murder mystery, written from an unusual and witty authorial viewpoint. The semi-omniscient narrator never identifies or explains himself, yet seems to know some things, and not know other things, and becomes a character in himself. He informs us early in the book that specific terrible things will happen, and when, and they do. This in no way detracts from the pleasures of walking through the poses and plans of the evil Senator, the rich developer and the scheming thugs. The setting is Vienna. The context is city politics, an abortion clinic, and a former police detective who has fallen in life to the status of a mere chauffeur to a rich family's four year old child. When bad things happen to his young charge he takes it upon himself to descend into the muck, figuratively and literally, and sort it all out. The plot is not unusual, although suitably gruesome and nauseating, but the contemporary Austrian cultural context and the narrative voice make this very much worth a read.
What fun, what style, made me laugh out loud.
And I liked how the narrator takes the reader by the hand (leading/misleading). Will try to read the series from the beginning in German since the translation indicates a few Austrian jokes/insights worth savouring.
Mein erster Brenner.
Also den Schreibstil fand ich schon sehr gewöhnungsbedürftig, ich habe mich reingelesen und auch einige schöne Stellen gefunden. Die Geschichte ist ganz nett, also nett nett :-)Ehemaliger Polizist als Chauffeur, der Mädchen verliert und als Kettenreaktion fallen Beteiligte und Unbeteiligte tot um. Aber etwas nervig fand ich es schon.
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I'm never a good person to listen to when it comes to crime novels, because I'm not really much of a fan of the genre; and then when it comes to Wolf Haas' Brenner and God, the English debut of what is apparently a hugely popular series in Europe, there's an additional problem, which is that the translation by Annie Janusch sounds very, very strange, and I couldn't tell whether this was being done on purpose or not. I mean, the story is serviceable enough, the tale of a stressed-out former detective who takes a job as a chauffeur for the rich and famous, and who gets reluctantly pulled back into crime-fighting when a little girl he was in charge of gets kidnapped right under his nose; but I'm not sure if it's that Haas' original version was written in some hyper-stylized, Denis-Johnson-style German version of noir prose, but the English version calls undue attention to its own sentence structure in nearly every paragraph, and not in the good way either, coming across at many times as if you were at DisneyWorld and listening to a foreign visitor comically attempt to ask directions to Space Mountain. When added to my natural disinterest in crime novels to begin with, the whole thing feels like I can't really do much service to this novel as a critic, so I'm just giving it a middle-of-the-road score today and moving on.
Out of 10: 7.5
Translated from the German by Annie Janusch
"Personally, I prefer to look on the positive side of life these days. Not just Murder He Wrote all the time, and who-got-who with a bullet, a knife, an extension cord, or what else I don't know. Me, I'm far more interested in the nice people now, the quiet ones, the normals, the ones who you'd say—they lead their regular lives, abide by the law, don't mistake themselves for the good lord when they get up in the morning, just nice tidy lives.
Look at Kressdor's chauffeur, for example."
That chauffeur is Brenner, or Herr Simon, a former police officer now assigned to be the personal driver of a two-year-old little girl whose wealthy and high-profile parents need to make sure she's safe from being kidnapped. It seems a lowly task, except that right off, Brenner admits that his most interesting converations in life so far have been with Helena, the babbling child, and he's paid well for what he finds comforting and solid work. His biggest challenge appears to be how to sneak Helena a chocolate bar without her parents finding out. But, it's this very chocolate bar that gets him in trouble, because in purchasing it, he lowers his guard, just the once, and she is taken.
Brenner is a brooder, and his instinct is to tear himself apart with guilt, and go back to figuring out how to find her. Now, there's no shortage of brooding, ex-cops turning into vengeful detectives in modern fiction, but Brenner is compelling because he's brought to light by the omniscient narrator of the novel, who lets us in on Brenner's inner struggles. He's suffered recent depression, gets really excited about clean sheets, seems an linguistic expert in dialects, adores Jimi Hendrix, and can't keep his eye off the clock…counting the moments since she's gone missing and hoping against the worst. And we learn why he loves to drive:
"…Because that's one of the many advantages of a car. You can listen to music in private, you can enjoy nature without exertion, and when in despair, you can let out a cry."
As the reader learns about Brenner, and watches him search, they soon begin to wonder about the narrator as well. Because this isn't some neutral observer: this narrator is an in-your-face and aggressive voice who tells the reader to "listen up" and "pay attention". He's clearly on Brenner's side even when the kidnapping plot gets messy:
"Between the seventy-fourth and the eighty-eighth hours, Brenner did some first-rate investigative work that was never fully appreciated afterward….a detective can't be praised for everything he did right. But because everyone glossed right over it, I'd like to at least touch on it briefly. I have to say it was brilliant... […] He achieved peak detective form there, and there's only one thing to be said: hats off."
For those who enjoy detective novels, this is no procedural. Much of the actual work of solving the crime is left out in favor of developing the plot: mainly, what is going on with Helena's parents, an abortion doctor and a mega-developer, that may be related to her disappearance. Brenner's musings on both of their occupations gets far more time than chasing down forensic evidence, which keeps this from feeling like so many popular crime novels that appear to be repeats of CSI episodes, where the story is lost in the jargon.
My only minor qualm about the story was the curious introduction of one character, a police officer named Peinhaupt. He's all set up to be a prime character, and drawn with incredible detail. I was surprised to see that his character sort of vanishes in the action of the mystery, only to reappear later in a minor scene. While this is part of a series of books about Brenner, the seventh in fact, it is the first Brenner novel to appear in English. I'm curious if Peinhaupt might have had a role in earlier Brenner novels that might explain his appearance here, or if he may be in line for a series of his own.
Time, in minutes, hours, and days, plays a huge factor in the plot…the narrator and Brenner both dwell on every hour that goes by (pay attention, you're reminded). And while Brenner searches and the narrator speculates, these time stamps are the real events that make up this fast-paced story:
"Then the worst thing that can happen to a detective happened to Brenner. Fifty-seven hours after the girl's disappearance, he became innocent."
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SYDNEY – Australia's richest person, Gina Rinehart, has offered to end a messy legal battle with two of her children for control of a multibillion-dollar family trust by appointing a co-trustee, reports said Monday.
Two of Rinehart's four children — John Hancock and Bianca Rinehart — are embroiled in a court case against their mother to have her removed as trustee of the trust established by their grandfather.
Gina Rinehart's lawyer, David Russell, told the Supreme Court on Monday that the mining mogul had written a letter to the two children in hopes of ending the long-running litigation, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. said.
Russell said the open letter states that "the first defendant would be willing to appoint a co-trustee" to the family trust.
New South Wales Supreme Court Justice Patricia Bergin said the offer was a "very big step" by Rinehart, whom business magazine BRW estimated in May to be worth 22.02 billion Australian dollars ($19.5 billion).
The protracted row stems from a family trust set up by Gina Rinehart's father, the late Lang Hancock, in 1988 with his four grandchildren as the beneficiaries.


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Being down to earth is something of a trademark with 'Sevvie' – as he is known. It is not a carefully cultivated image; it is just the way he is. He might be comfortably wealthy now, and competent enough to control $17 billion of other people's money, but Sevior has not forgotten his roots. His father sold Kellogg's Corn Flakes for 30 years, never making it up the corporate ladder. And while Sevior finished his schooling at the elite Geelong Grammar – it was only because he was orphaned in his early teens.
Slight, athletic and just on 50, Sevior turned up for our interview in an old blue sweatshirt with a hole under the arm. "I am the bloke who wears everything that is falling apart." Okay, he was moving into new offices that day. And he has been on 'gardening leave' for a year. So he is not a total eccentric. He does in fact own a few passable suits. But he doesn't fit the stereotype of the flash fund manager from Sydney's eastern suburbs (although he lives in the prime eastern suburb Bellevue Hill). The message, presumably, is that if Sevior is managing your money he is going to be pretty careful with it.
In Australia, funds management is an industry that has produced a highly idiosyncratic bunch over the years. Kerr Neilson, Brian Sherman, Laurence Freedman, Chris Cuffe, Peter Morgan among them. Some have flamed out spectacularly; some are conspicuously enjoying their wealth in other fields like the arts. Sevior, however, has been much more low key than most – with one notable exception: his split from Perpetual last year. And he is sticking with the industry, albeit in a very different role.
The office in Sydney's Martin Place that he was moving into on the day he spoke to the AFR Magazine will house a new venture, Airlie Funds Management, that he is setting up with an old work mate, David Cooper (a former managing director of Treasury Group). Cooper will run the business – administration, marketing, the nuts and bolts. As for Sevior, he has ditched the big corporate umbrella and is backing himself. It is a big call, particularly in this environment. And plenty have failed before him. Hanging out your own shingle, discarding the big brand, can be dangerous.
"It's a great time to start a new business," Sevior says with more than a hint of irony. "I am writing a lot of cheques, seeing them go out the door and there are no clients, there is no revenue and it is a dire outlook. I don't think I have seen so many cross-currents or so much bad news coming from different angles in my entire time of investing." But there is an upside, he insists. "Usually in that kind of environment there are opportunities. A lot of investing is avoiding the mistakes and having a method rooted in common sense that is quite repeatable." So what does he bring to the table?
Sevior has quietly wielded real power over nearly two decades in funds management. The Concentrated Equity Fund he started at Perpetual 14 years ago with $600 million in early subscriptions had $17 billion in it when he left in July last year. His investment strategy has been to focus on a handful of stocks and to take large positions – often more than 10 per cent of a company. Those companies have included Orica, Fairfax, Crown, Coal & Allied and Rinker. Not all of them have been winners, but enough have delivered over the years to burnish his reputation.
Under Sevior's direction, Perpetual became the largest shareholder in Crown after James Packer. It also had 11 per cent of Rinker and pushed through a takeover by Germany's Cemex in 2007, netting Perpetual funds about a $1 billion profit on the investment. He had less success at Orica where, despite his core shareholding and constant coaxing, the board knocked back a takeover at $32 per share only to see them slump to around $12.50. "Every conversation with Orica management for years after that was tinged with resentment about their lack of engagement there," Sevior says.
And when things turn sour, Sevior is not beyond stepping in as an old-fashioned activist investor. He successfully and very publicly pushed for the departure of Suncorp's chief executive John Mulcahy in 2009.
If you're after a short, sharp rundown on a CEO or a company chairman, Sevior's intuitive skills are hard to beat. "The best part of the job is meeting management and talking about the business and seeing the way they handle themselves," he says. "You learn a lot from the body language." And Sevior is a digger for detail – his other nickname is The Ferret. He has a theory about successful stockmarket investors: they're different from the rest of us.
"Investment is so psychologically challenging because you have got to sell when everyone is exuberant. That's hard. And you have got to buy when the lights are flickering, when it is on the way out, and that is psychologically challenging as well. It is hard to find people who have the right [judgment]; you almost need to be kind of born a little different – well, not born different, but just used to making uncomfortable decisions."
He somewhat grudgingly acknowledges that managing billions of dollars in funds brings power along with it. "The power is not what motivates me but you are clearly in a powerful position because you are large. I stop short of saying influential because there have been cases in the past where we were large shareholders and certainly had the right to have influence but haven't had it." And he has a caveat: "In the end, the only thing that matters is performance. You can feel that you are powerful but that is pretty ephemeral really."
Power was part of the equation when it came to his long-term employer, Perpetual. They parted ways in July last year after a rocky period that began with an aborted takeover proposal by private equity group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Mark Carnegie, investment banker and a school friend of Sevior's, watched the corporate drama unfold from a distance. "John did a huge amount of soul searching," Carnegie says. "He cared about his team and he cared about the Perpetual investors." Carnegie remembers how Sevior became a central actor in a takeover. "A huge amount of value of the firm was the team that John led. He was clearly pressured; it was interesting to see how heavily he wore the decision – recognising that he wanted to make a change in his own life. There was a conflict between his personal and business [goals] – he took that very seriously. A huge number of people would simply say I will do what I want and if there is an impact on the business, well, there is an impact on the business."
During its negotiations with KKR, the Perpetual board excluded the investment team until the very end – and this was a division that accounted for 65 per cent of the company's revenues and was arguably the most critical. After the KKR debacle (it withdrew), came a controversial change of chief executive. The new Perpetual CEO, Chris Ryan, lasted less than 12 months, resigning in February this year. By then, however, Sevior was long gone. He had taken six months leave of absence to consider his future and ultimately decided not to return.
"I had lost a little bit of faith in the direction of the company and after 17 years it was time to go anyway," Sevior says. Following 12 months of leave including the enforced non-compete period – part of which was spent studying global politics at Cambridge ("It was an unbelievably cheap deal") – Sevvie is setting up on his own. He won't discuss in any detail the break with Perpetual, a company he had loved working with. But clearly the experience has left its scars. "It hurt me. I don't mean to sound like a sook but your response is totally emotional. You would think you could be rational and say 'that's business', but you don't. The whole business world has become so transactional. Maybe I am past it, and my values are outdated, but it used to be about relationships and trust, something that is enduring. It feels so transactional now. It is short term. It is not good."
Even though he has chosen to be low profile, Sevior has always had a pretty good press, partly because he is 'one of us' – an ex-journo who spent five years writing for the business pages of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. But he also has a reputation in the finance industry as a genuinely good bloke. Robert Whyte of Audant Investments regularly catches up with Sevior at Bondi Beach for an early morning coffee. "Me after a short walk and John after a very long and arduous run. He is a high achiever." Whyte, who is 68, and Sevior are from different generations but have become quite close. "We met quite some time ago through a mutual friend who was convinced our approach to investments were similar and we would strike a chord," Whyte says.
He thinks it is probably Sevior's journalistic background that has made him disarming and investigative, a bit quirky with an incisive, inquiring approach to people and investments. "Whichever it is – it gives him an edge from the start," Whyte says. "He shares what most good investors have, which remains a rare quality. He looks carefully at the people involved to assess whether they can handle the situation and then determines in parallel with that, whether the fundamentals of the business have the probability to deliver. This approach is more like one that was adopted by the old merchant banks all over the world in the 50s and 60s."
Whyte views Sevior as an outlier, clearly not part of the crowd: "He forms his own view, is not influenced by the noise and is not concerned to hold back from speaking his mind and forming his own decisions, which are made in his own unique, clear, independent thought-gathering process. He is less interested in personal gain and much more interested in performance. In my view, it is those attributes which have enabled John to stand apart and perform better than the herd. He is hugely involved with the decision-making and assessment, and yet clinically detached. This is a very strong investment position from which to make decisions. People may call it tough – it is actually just clear and brave."
Carnegie believes that Sevior's management skills set him apart: "His track record as an investor is there for all to see. That can happen – an individual has a tremendous run. But what John managed to do as well was build a compelling team [at Perpetual] and that's hard."
For these and other skills, Sevior was inducted into the Fund Managers Hall of Fame last year. Fund manager David Paradice was chosen to speak about the new inductee. "Everyone I spoke to when I was preparing that speech just loved him," says Paradice. "He has the right kind of principles. He is level-headed and ethical – that's really important. He has a really strong track record and good performance numbers, and it is not from investing in spivvy things. He is not pretentious, he is not flash, he is very level-headed. He is one of the few good guys who gives back."
The good life wasn't handed to Sevior on a platter. The death of his parents in his teens was a setback most teenagers don't face. "I was 13 when Dad died," he recalls. "It was a heart attack. I got up one morning, it was the first day of school, and he wasn't there. I never saw him again. He was taken by ambulance during the night. Mum and my aunt, who lived nearby, were standing in the lounge room in dressing gowns. That was second year high school and we were living in Beaumaris, beachside Melbourne. I was at the local high school. A few months later, Mum was diagnosed with liver cancer. She died about 10 months after Dad."
How did he handle it? "Kids have a lot more wisdom or awareness that you give them credit for," says the father of two. "And I think I had a realisation that I had a choice to either sink or swim and I had better swim." Aunts and uncles helped out and eventually Sevior went off to boarding school. "I was flexible; wherever home was at the time – that was where I had to get on. Geelong Grammar was a great substitute home, a very warm school."
Growing up, Sevior loved sport, played everything he could and that helped him fit in. Carnegie remembers him as an amazing athlete: "He was in the first 11, the first 18, and was an 800 metre runner as well." But he also recalls Sevior as being more isolated than others. "He was quiet. He had been through a big trauma and everyone knew that. It is only in retrospect that I can see the burden he must have been carrying of working out what to do with his life."
Sevior's choice of career was partly determined by his late mother, who was a keen investor. When she died, she had six stocks in her portfolio: Coles, Mount Isa Mines, Myer, SA Brewing, ICI, and Carlton & United Breweries. By the time Sevior turned 21, that was worth about $150,000 – quite a nest egg in 1983. And it sparked Sevior's interest in investing.
"I had no idea what I was going to do when I left university, but a friend lined up an interview at a small Melbourne stockbroker, Davies and Dalziel … I guess I had inherited these shares and I thought I had better learn about it." Davies and Dalziel was an old-school Melbourne broker that looked after its private clients. "That is how I learnt to be careful and prudent. They had a team of analysts, most of whom were very seasoned; they taught me how to analyse a company. I was just a dogsbody. I would run the orders out to the exchange.
"They had a manual cards system like a Rolodex with 300 companies' profit results and each year they had to be updated. I would go down to the stock exchange and bring back a Santa sack of all the company results. I basically transcribed the newest results, so I got exposed to 300 companies and, being curious, you say 'what does this do, what does that company do'. That is really the basis for my love [of investing]."
After travelling in Europe for six months, Sevior picked up a job at Potter Partners in the private-client division, taking over the book of the young Marcus Fanning, now head of equities at Colonial First State. A later move into institutional broking and a transfer to London made Sevior realise the industry wasn't for him. It was 1988 – a year after the devastating Black Monday crash. He had been a broker for just five years.
"I wasn't cut out for institutional sales," Sevior says. "I had 20 clients and the people who were good at it systematically called every client every day with a story to tell. I just didn't have a story to tell every day – and I wasn't going to make one up, because you don't get a good investment idea every day. So it really kind of jarred. I made a conscious decision to leave the industry and I wasn't going to go back. It was not me."
Back in Melbourne, Sevior decided to try his hand at financial journalism – he copped an 80 per cent cut in salary to take a job on The Age business desk. "I loved it. Clients now say 'what did you learn?' Well, you get lied to a lot so it really develops your bullshit meter; your people-reading skills. You learn to deal with large amounts of information and distil it into a story that is comprehensible. You learn to edit your thoughts." But after five years and, by then, a prominent columnist and reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald, Sevior wanted to move on. Once again the real killer instinct eluded him – he felt he didn't have the passion for reporting and digging that drove others around him in the newsroom. "I thought I wanted to be more in the game than commenting on or observing or reporting the game." He took six months off and considered various business ideas. "I looked at buying an ice cream business; looked at a few businesses, but realised I couldn't run a corner store. Then it dawned on me that I could do what I loved for a living." And that was investing.
John Murray and Peter Morgan were running the Perpetual investment book at the time. Sevior had been dealing with them in his role at the SMH. "They stood out because they were really savvy investors and really normal people," he says. "Other places would say 'you are a journalist, piss off', whereas they were happy to have a conversation and to talk ideas. I had been investing for 10 years so I kind of knew which way was up. They didn't think they knew it all. And I loved the way they invested." Conservative first, bold second, is how Sevior describes it.
In May 1995, a year after joining Perpetual, Sevior was given control of his first fund – $5 million to invest in small companies. In three years that grew to $54 million – money put in plus performance. He looks back on it as beginner's luck. "It was a period of big transitions. Some large fund managers decided to get out of smaller companies. There were great lines of stock available and I think in that run we had 16 takeovers in 18 months. It was roughly one a month – it was the luckiest time in my investment career."
The Concentrated Equity Fund, where Sevior really gained his reputation, began in 1998. He and David Cooper, his partner in the new business but then head of sales at Perpetual, raised $600 million. Fourteen years later there was $17 billion in the fund – again, new money in plus performance.
Focusing on just a handful of stocks also means focusing on the key people involved in running those companies. Is there a tried and tested formula for judging a good chief executive? "I like authentic people," Sevior says. "The journalist's bullshit meter has been further honed through investing ... There are a lot of narcissistic CEOs and I don't think you need to be that type of person to be successful. I think good people run good companies." And the role of the board? "I think it is the chairman well out in front. It is really the chairman you have to examine. I don't say the board just falls in line but, from my experience, the chairman has a disproportionate interest."
Sevior is not after a huge lick of funds in his new venture – $3 billion to $4 billion in the main fund and that will be directed at institutions. "It will be a very concentrated, 'long-only' fund. I do feel a bit of a dinosaur because there are more and more long-short funds and fewer and fewer long-only funds. But it is my game." A second fund will be less constrained and will be for high net worth individuals with a minimum investment of $500,000, although this is still up in the air. Sevior would like a minimum subscription of $100,000. He is up against plenty of competition. And the word on the street is that stock-pickers have had their day. "I don't think so," counters this consummate stock-picker. "After all, if you had been in the right stocks in the GFC you would have saved yourself a lot of money."
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Analysing and optimizing power at RTL can significantly reduce power but is challenging especially when done manually. The widely used practice of inserting clock gating may not be very effective without considering the sequential nature of the design and representative switching activity. In this 50 minute webinar, Calypto will review the requirements for a comprehensive methodology to reduce power at the RTL level. The webcast will cover more advance topics such as how to analyze the RTL for wasted power and show optimization techniques to reduce power on real designs. The latest technique of sequential analyses will be described including stability based and the more difficult observability based sequential clock gating that provides maximum power optimization.
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Have you ever wondered the difference between C++ and SystemC for high level synthesis (HLS)? This 50 minute webinar will provide a practical overview of the differences between the two most common ESL hardware description languages. The webinar will show side by side coding examples of the two languages for basic hardware concepts such as: hierarchy, IO, numerical precision and timing. As the only company to support both SystemC and C++ for synthesis with the industry's most successful HLS tool (Catapult Synthesis), Calypto is uniquely placed to discuss the differences between the two languages. In this 50 minute webinar, we will cover the basics of designing for hardware with each language, covering what you can, and can't do: bit-accurate datatypes, architecture design, interfacing, hierarchy, and verification.
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Public image of crime is the perception of crime and the threat of crime generally held by members of the community. Public image of crime may be manipulated by authorities and the media to focus on some types of crime and criminal behavior and divert attention from others.
Public perceptions of crime have typically been quite separate from an objective account of the amount of crime or its distribution. To take crime seriously is not to reflect the public images of crime. But it is to say that there is a rational core to public concerns and images.
That is, that popular conceptions of crime and policing are, in the main, constructed out of the material experiences of people rather than fantasies impressed upon them by the mass media or agencies of the State (Young, 1987: 337).
Public images of crime -
True Lies - Changing Images of Crime in British Postwar Cinema
Particularly neglected has been research on the cinema, and little research has adopted the historical perspective necessary to make claims regarding long-term trends. As part of a larger project, we report a quantitative and qualitative content analysis of popular crime films in Britain released between 1945 and 1991. Despite common beliefs, we find no overall increase in the number of crime films. However, the nature of representations of crime and social order shows a variety of significant shifts over this time. In brief, the nature of crime changes, the violence and threat of crime increases, as does the portrayed suffering of victims. To combat this, police officers increasingly assume the hero role and they increasingly use vigilante, even corrupt, tactics to achieve their goals, although their chances of bringing criminals to justice actually decrease. Such findings lead us to propose a three-stage periodization for crime films.
Crime, Crime News, and
Crime Views
Crime, Mass Media &
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Best George Strait Collaborations
KNUE and Taste of Country are giving you one last chance to enter to win an autographed guitar signed by George Strait. For the last month we've given you all kinds of fun facts about King George this month, such as his daughter's story and his great fashion sense. Well for the last of our George Strait posts before we pick a winner for the guitar, we thought we would go back and focus on what George is all about: his music. We pulled together some of our favorite collaborations from George and put them all together for you.


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Leaf Lace Vase by Ijeoma Oluo
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A great gift-knit. Fast, easy fun and so beautiful! Pattern works with a myriad of vase shapes and sizes.
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Contemporary hotel near city centre and transport options
Our Nuremberg accommodation lies just 300 metres from the historical city centre and boasts proximity to popular business destinations like Datey, Novartis and Telekom. We're also close to Medieval Old Town, where you'll find historic churches and handcrafted treasures in Handwerkerhof. Guests can easily reach other destination using the main train station which is 5 minutes away by underground, and the Nuremberg Airport (NUE) is 15 minutes from the hotel.
Rest well in any of the 148 rooms that feature amenities such as Free Wireless High-speed Internet and a large work area. The on-site restaurant features a summertime courtyard terrace for al fresco dining, and the fitness area with a sauna ensures guests enjoy a relaxing stay. The hotel has 7 conference rooms that feature natural light, audiovisual equipment and expansive views. Underground parking is also available with RWE and charging station for e-cars.


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Buying Retail Store Displays and Fixtures Online
You will need all sorts of store displays to design your store. You will sometimes need items on short notice, so consider who keeps a large inventory of in-stock items before you choose a supplier. You will be ordering retail packaging, tags and labels, signs and banners, clothing racks, hangers, security devices, mannequins and more, so be sure that you choose someone who can accommodate all of these needs.
Keeping with one company will simplify your books and help you keep everything organized. Don't be fooled by price alone. Compare quality and customer reviews of companies that you are considering before you decide. After you determine which suppliers are top notch, another thing to look at is special deals or discounts. Many offer shipping deals, or percentages off of your order around holidays. Look for promotions and be sure to ask about special offers when you call to talk to them.
This brings up the next point, customer service. Can you call the company that you chose and speak to a real person? Is the person on the other end of the line friendly, eager to please and knowledgeable? The last thing you need is a problem order and an untrained person on the other end that does not know how to fix it. Or even worse, you have to wait days and days for an e-mail reply to your question that may or may not contain the answer you were looking for.
You need someone with a wide range of retail store fixtures and displays, a large inventory of in-stock items, helpful and knowledgeable customer service employees, occasional special deals and discounts, a proven track record of quality items in a variety of store items, and someone who is willing to stand behind their products.
Once you find that dream manufacturer that is also the supplier, you will not only get the most bang for your buck, but you will have a partner in running your store. Buying high quality store displays and fixtures can sometimes be a trial and error procedure. But, with these few steps that get you through the research, you are sure to find a supplier of retail store displays and display cases that will be an asset to your business.
About the Author: Ron Maier is the Vice President of S & L Store Fixtures, a leading online resource for retail display cases including mannequins, mannequin forms, gridwall and slatwall store fixtures. For more information, please visit http://www.slstoredisplays.com.
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Shellie at Saving with Shellie has this week's hot CVS deals and match-ups. I'm highlighting a few below but you'll want to read her full post for the rest of the list!
If you're new to CVS deals shopping, please read my CVS 101 post.
Shellie's highlights are first then my scenario follows.
Caliber Scissors, On Sale for $.99
Get $.99 ECBs (Limit 1)
Final Cost: FREE
PaperMate Pens (10ct), On Sale for $.99
Get $.99 ECBs (Limit 1)
Final Cost: FREE
Bausch & Lomb Biotrue Multi Purpose Solution, On Sale for $2.99
Get $2.99 ECBs (Limit 2 – Month Long Deal)
Final Cost: FREE
Complete Multi Purpose Solution, On Sale for $7.99
$2/1 Complete Multi Purpose Solution Coupon from the 5/16/10 RP insert
Get $7.99 ECBs (Limit 1)
Final Cost: FREE (+ $2 possible overage)
CVS Brand Pantiliners (22ct), On Sale for $.50
Get $1 ECB WYB 2 (Limit 3 – Month Long Deal)
Final Cost: 2 for FREE
John Frieda Products, On Sale for 2/$10
$2.50/1 John Frieda Hair Care printable coupon
$3/1 John Frieda Root Awakening coupon from the 6/6/10 SS insert
Get $5 ECBs WYB $10 (Limit 1)
Final Cost: FREE (+ $1 possible overage)
This scenario assumes you have no ECB's so if you have some use them on Transaction 1 to reduce your OOP (out of pocket)
Transaction 1
Buy 2 John Frieda Root Awakening Shampoos, On Sale for 2/$10, get back $5 in ECB's
Use 2 of the $3/1 coupons from the 6/6/10 SS insert
Pay $4.00 OOP
Get back $5.00 in ECB's
Transaction 2
Buy 1 Paper Mate Pens ($.99 each, get back $.99 in ECB's)
Buy 8 24 hour protection Suave Deodorant (4/$5, spend $10 on Suave products, get back $3 in ECB's)
Use 8 of the $.75/1 coupons from the 7/11/10 RP insert
Use ECB's from Transaction 1
Pay $.0 OOP, get back $3.99 ECB's
Transaction 3
Buy 1 Caliber 5″ soft handle scissors ($.99 each, get back $.99 in ECB's)
Buy 2 of the Starbucks Frappucinos (2/$3)
Use 2 of the$1.00 Starbucks printable coupons
Buy 2 Chex Mixes ($1 each)
Use 2 of the $.55 Chex Mix printable coupons
Add filler item for $1
Use ECB's from Transaction 2
Pay o OOP, get $.99 in ECB's to do another transaction or save for the future!
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By Edna Gundersen, USA TODAY
After encountering fresh releases by Lykke Li, Obits and Grizzly Bear in 2009, this year's Record Store Day customers may think they've wandered into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The third annual celebration, to be staged Saturday in roughly 800 U.S. independent record stores, hits a massive growth spurt as an array of Boomer icons and contemporary hit-makers join the legions of alternative acts that defined the 2008 launch.
Expect exclusive vinyl from the late Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon, whose box set of 45s includes Mother, Imagine and Watching the Wheels. The Rolling Stones will unleash the numbered Plundered My Soul, a newly unearthed tune from the upcoming Exile on Main Streetreissue, while The Doors offer two songs from the When You're Strange documentary and Bruce Springsteen serves up a live set.
'RECORD STORE DAYS': New book, and 10 best record stores
Against Me!, Muse, Owl City, Phoenix and Deftones are among current acts with Record Store Day-only vinyl singles. Court Yard Hounds and Jakob Dylan share a two-tune disc. LCD Soundsystem delivers Pow Wow from its May album, and Hole issues a 10-inch white vinyl version of single Skinny Little Bitch. Look for MGMT's epic Siberian Breaks and the Flaming Lips' multi-guest remake of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.
Stores sold out about $15,000 in exclusive CDs and vinyl in 2008. This year, labels and distributors shipped $1.3 million in physical music, 90% on vinyl, and it's expected to go fast when an anticipated 1 million customers descend on stores this weekend.
"It's exploded at such a rate it's hard to realize this dream is a reality," says Michael Kurtz, Record Store Day co-founder and president of Music Monitor Network, a coalition of indie record stores. "Now it's hipster bands, classic rock, new pop urban acts. Fans go crazy over these little pieces of art that will be on eBay by the end of the day."
That's certain to be the case for such instant collector's items as The Beatles' Paperback Writer/Rain (limited to 1,000 copies) and R.E.M.'s out-of-print EP Chronic Town on blue vinyl.
Though their numbers have dwindled, record stores are back into a groove, with artists clamoring for shelf space and fans craving a tangible fix.
"There's always going to be a demand for certain types of music to exist as a physical product," says Phil Gallo, co-author of new book Record Store Days: From Vinyl to Digital and Back Again. "Do you put the next Beyoncé on CD? I don't know. Does it make sense to put the next Green Day on vinyl? Absolutely."
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The Sunflower clock is formed from birch plywood in the classic 1950's design of George Nelson; reissued from the original design documents by the Vitra Design Museum. This 29.5" diameter wall clock makes a statement in any room.
The Flock of Butterflies Wall Clock by George Nelson was originally designed in 1955 and newly revamped by the Vitra Design Museum for 2010. Made of sheet aluminum with varnished clock face. Battery included. Diameter: 24" inches
George Nelson's clock designs embody the spirit of the 1950's with their whimsical forms and use of materials. Released by the Vitra Design Museum - these clocks are true to the originals made from lacquered wood and metal. Designed: 1957 Dimensions: 30" Diameter Material: Brass/Aluminum
Few American designers have impacted modern design more than Charles and Ray Eames. Through unique technology and incredible forethought, this husband and wife duo helped define American Modernism, and their influence continues to impact designers today.


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Dog Sledding Alaskan Themed Birthday Cake
This is a chocolate mud Alaskan themed birthday cake using replications of Mel's own four dogs. They wrap around the cake and there is a sled at the back too. Although this is my own design, I used a fantastic wedding cake I found on google images as inspiration for this cake, sadly I don't know who it belonged to.
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Baker Boy Cap by Anna Richardson
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A peaked, loose crowned hat with cable pattern and button detailing, knit in aran weight alpaca yarn. Peak is knit back and forth and folded before picking up stitches and joining in the round with a tubular technique that creates ribbing without a cast-on edge. The crown has pleats in addition to a cable motif and decreases evenly to create a flat 'beret' top. Alpaca has no memory and will expand greatly on washing so it is advised that you swatch carefully and consider knitting a larger size if using a substitute fibre yarn. Pattern is charted with written instructions and is rated asmoderate.
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Here are the most interesting stories Monday in the AFC East:
Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brenden Ayanbadejo rips the New England Patriots by calling their offense a "gimmick."
Morning take: It's probably not a good idea to get the Patriots started with early bulletin board material. New England's offense was No. 1 in total yards and scoring this season. So the Patriots are doing something right.
Former Jets defensive line coach Anthony Weaver is expected to join the Buffalo Bills.
Morning take: Buffalo's coaching staff on defense will have a New York feel after hiring defensive coordinator Mike Pettine. Weaver was one of Pettine's top assistants with the Jets and will be the position coach for Mario Williams, Kyle Williams and Marcell Dareus.
Green Bay Packers receiver Greg Jennings hopes to return to his old team.
Morning take: I don't see it. Jennings will get big offers from other teams such as the Miami Dolphins. Green Bay has enough receivers not to overpay for Jennings, who will most likely follow the money.
The Jets have narrowed their general manager search.
Morning take: It looks like former Chicago Bears general manager Jerry Angelo is the favorite down the home stretch. But you never know with the Jets. A final decision could be made next week.


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MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen murdered a Catholic priest and three assistants in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, which Pope Benedict condemned as a "senseless killing".
Iraqi police said Chaldean Catholic priest Ragheed Aziz Kani and his assistants were killed near the church of Rouh al-Quds after leading Sunday prayers in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad on Sunday.
Police sources said gunmen stopped Kani's car, dragged him and his assistants out and shot them dead.
Iraqi sources say al-Qaeda-inspired militants are behind the attacks against Christians in Mosul, a religiously and ethnically mixed city of around 3 million people. It is also home to ethnic Kurds, Shi'ites and Sunni Arabs, as well as some Turkmen and Christians.
In a telegram sent on the Pope's behalf to Mosul's bishop of the Chaldean Rite Catholics on Monday, he said he was "deeply saddened".
The Pope paid tribute to the "costly sacrifice" of those killed and prayed that their deaths would "inspire in the hearts of all men and women of goodwill a renewed resolve to reject the ways of hatred and violence."
The Chaldean rite is one of the ancient rites of the Catholic Church. Its members, mostly in Iraq and Syria, are in unity with Rome.
The killings came days before U.S. President George W. Bush, under growing pressure at home over the unpopular Iraq war, meets the Pope at the Vatican this week during a trip to Europe for the Group of Eight summit in Germany.
Bertone told the Avvenire newspaper on Sunday that the Pope wanted to discuss "some problems" with Bush, including the Iraq war and "the dramatic situation of Christians in Iraq, which has been deteriorating".
Much of the violence in Iraq is sectarian between Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims but Christians have also been targeted.
Human rights groups have warned that violence is driving minority Christians out of the country.
The United Nations said in a report this year that, of the 1.5 million Assyrian Christians living in Iraq before 2003, half had fled the country and many of the rest were moving to "safe areas" in the north of Iraq.
The main Chaldean college and seminary in Baghdad have been closed for months due to threats and violence.


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Robert B. Daugherty Foundation's $50 million gift will fund global Water for Food Institute at NU
- 04/20/2010
Daugherty said, "The University of Nebraska is in the right place, at the right time, with the right people to provide global leadership in this important area." Nebraska sits atop the High Plains Aquifer, has more acres under irrigation than any other state and is one of the leading agriculture states in the U.S. "I have great faith in the University of Nebraska and its ability to make this Institute a place where the best minds come together to find solutions that will improve the quality of life for people around the world through the strategic and responsible use of water," Daugherty said. "Improving agricultural productivity has been my life's work. I can't think of a better investment to sustain that work than this institute."
The Water for Food Institute will build on the University's 60-year history of water research, an area in which the University is already recognized as a national leader, with many faculty working in a wide range of disciplines. Those faculty and NU leaders have been collaborating for two years on plans for an institute that focuses on the strategic use of water for food production – plans that Milliken says can leverage the good work at NU's Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources to jump start the efforts of the Institute.
"The University plans to create the premier interdisciplinary institute in the world for research, education and policy analysis on water for food, led by renowned scientists and scholars," Milliken said, adding that the institute would be the home of a leading international conference on water for food –initiated in 2009 and being held again in May. Because of its unique and critically important mission, the institute would also be a natural choice for major external research funding from federal science agencies, industry and private foundations, as well as a sought-after source of academic degrees for leaders in the field, Milliken said.
Mogens Bay, chairman and CEO of Valmont Industries in Omaha and chairman of the Robert B. Daugherty Foundation Board of Trustees, said, "Agriculture today uses 70 percent of the world's available water. To meet the increasing demand for food and fiber, we need extensive research on how to produce more food with less water. This is the goal of the Institute. He added, "Thanks to Bob Daugherty's leadership and vision, Nebraska has a window of opportunity to demonstrate leadership in this critical area. We are proud that the Daugherty Foundation can contribute to the development of solutions to these fundamental global issues."
"This remarkable gift creates an opportunity for the University of Nebraska to make a lasting impact on global poverty and hunger," said Jeff Raikes, CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. "With more than one billion people in the world living in extreme poverty, many as subsistence farmers, the sustainable use of land and water is a critical piece to success. Having been raised on a Nebraska farm, I have seen the abundance that can come from the land when it is well-managed and has adequate water resources." Raikes has been a key part of discussions leading to the creation of the Institute and has agreed to serve on the advisory board for the Institute.
Clarence Castner, president of the University of Nebraska Foundation, said the gift is one of the largest single gifts the foundation has ever received. "This is a significant gift to the Campaign for Nebraska and it will provide unlimited possibilities in water and policy research in the future," he said. "We are grateful to the Daugherty Foundation for its generosity and support." The gift, which is pledged over several years, brings the campaign total to nearly $736 million toward the $1.2 billion goal, according to Castner.


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THE Wheatbelt Rail Retention Alliance (WRRA) continues to gather momentum for its push to have Tier 3 rail lines kept open.
With 24 shires now on board with the WRRA, an agreement was made last Friday at a general meeting in York to push for an independent report to look at the profitability of the Tier 3 lines.
WRRA co-ordinator Jane Fuchsbichler said the group was calling for a second report as it believed the first report carried out by the Strategic Grain Network Committee on behalf of the Freight and Logistics Council of WA was flawed.
"The report only looked at the cost of road transport versus rail transport at that time and didn't take into account rising fuel costs and their effect on transport, the carbon tax, or issues such as road safety," Ms Fuchsbichler said.
"An independent report will enable us to put pressure on the government and show the benefits and cost efficiency of using rail."
At the York meeting, the WRRA decided to inquire as to whether Royalties for Regions money could possibly be used to fund a second report or, alternatively, if the shires involved would be willing to put money towards it.
Along with a possible report the WRRA also moved a motion to ask all political parties what their stance on the Tier 3 rail debate was, in a hope to gain political clout, coming into next year's State election.
"Obviously there is a fair amount of work ahead but there is recognition that we have a problem that needs a solution," Ms Fuchsbichler said.
Merredin farmer Ian Lane said he couldn't understand the rationale behind closing the Tier 3 lines.
"Having the Tier 3 lines running has huge benefits, trains are able to move much more grain at once and work out to be much more efficient," he said.
"No matter how you cut the cloth they are a better option."
Former WA Regional Development Minister Hendy Cowan was also at the meeting and believed that transport users in the Wheatbelt had to be able to say exactly what their needs were and make them clear to those in government.
"These include additional funds for road, to get them up to road train status and ensure they are safe and keeping the big volume freight off the roads and on the rail, which means more maintenance money for Tier 3 rail," he said.
Mr Cowan said it was necessary that the State Government ensured maintenance for the rail was kept up.
"Should the access fee not meet the requirements of maintenance, there should be money to supplement that from the consolidated fund because the infrastructure still belonged to the State - I know that because I handled the bill going through Parliament," he said.
"It's absolutely essential that everybody involved with policy development in State Government talk about the transport needs of the Wheatbelt in the near future."


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Regis Abandons Twitter After Tweeter Rips Him (VIDEO)
Like a tweet out of hell, Regis Philbin has flown on and off the social networking site Twitter.
Philbin reports he's already over the service after finally learning how to use it only a month ago. On "Live with Regis and Kelly" Philbin explained he tweeted about an Atlantic City appearance and the first tweet he got back said, "Will you stop begging and pleading for people to come and see you?! Grow up! You're an idiot!"
It's unclear how Philbin feels about Facebook. A search for his name will produce several pages, but the most popular page, with 2,970 "Likes", shares only one paragraph of communication – a biography from Wikipedia.
On the other side of the talkshow coffee table, Regis' co-host has a twitter account devoted to her arm muscles. KellyRipasBicep has 4,797 followers.
Clearly not created by Ripa, the harsh bio for the account reads: "The two arms of a daytime television host, compensating for a woman who tied up too much of her self worth in her beauty only to have it fade at a young age."
With posts like that, it's hard to judge Philbin for leaving.
Watch Philbin swear off Twitter, here:
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