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So my parents did file a return prior to moving in...fathers retirement is 2900/mth, and then they receive social security.
I work fulltime and file a return.
Now that we all live together, I pay all the bills, they no longer drive I take them to all apts, and pay for their medications...
Is there a way to combine things and only I file a return?..looking to make this as cost effective for us as possible.


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Can you quantify what you mean by massive oil leak? Is it a measurable amount lost every time you drive it? Is it leterally pouring oil? Because it is not unusual for the oil filter housing gasket to leak on older cars. It may look like a lot, but it really is not that much. Also, it is almost impossible to tell if the oil pan gasket is leaking with the filter housing gasket leaking. I understand you are disappointed about the problems, but it almost sounds like you are just giving up andw taking a big loss, rather than trying to fix the car. You mention several leaks, but these are all repairable, and not at a huge cost. The transmission issue may not be a horrible deal either. You may want to take a deep breath, and make an honest assessment of exactly how bad the leaks are. You got screwed over somewhat (maybe a lot) by the seller, but don't screw yourself worse by selling a car for a loss. Get a few opinions about the severity and cost involved to fix the oil leaks. My advice would be to slow down, and not let your emotion force you in to selling the car for a loss. You have some leaks, and that sucks. But they may not be "game over" leaks. So, let's start with what you consider a massive oil filter housing leak. How much oil are we talking about? Any pics?
Yea after i bought the car the guy said it was leaking from the oil pan and that its a $3k fix so literally just get some sealent and go around it!!
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$500 is what these are going for people, stop giving OP retarded offers. If you don't want his then go to eBay and pay $1000 to that dealer who is selling the few they kept when everybody else blew theirs out a while back
thank you! someone PMed me $100 shipped.. i almost deleted the thread and started making a trophy case for it to sit in display in my room.
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Some fluid leaks, a wacked second gear shift and a few non-mentioned....why the hell would you sell for a $7K loss? This is EXACTLY what sites like this are for OP. Maybe I missed an earlier thread or something, but given some time, a few bucks and the help of forums like this and the knowledge gathered on these cars, you could very well bring the car back to life and either keep it or sell it on after fixing it for a better deal than the one you're about to do.
I know not all situations will allow this, but in the face of such a loss, I'm not sure there are many I can forsee that would prevent such a horrible loss.
If willing, post an informative thread outlining each problem and we can help sift through each one, explaining ease of repair and approximate cost to DIY.
Sell the bar for money to work on the car. Yes, $500 is a fair price for these nowadays. GLWS OP.
The thing is the original owner lied about everything so what if i stick with it and something HUGE pops up like the clutch that he removed the bleeder from to make it shift faster/put more strain on the synchros
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I agree, all is not lost unless you know you can't do the DIY (or it's just too much money). Get the car looked at by an indie shop or mech who can tell you EXACTLY what's wrong and how much it would cost to do it yourself.
Sorry to hear about being scammed. You should find that guy asap
I can't DIY i've never worked on cars before. Another reason i dont want to DIY is because i might miss something that is out of place that a professional would see. im almost certain the original owner/seller of this vehicle has read my threads and is following my posts.. i got a text message today from a dallas,tx number that said "relieve the hurt in your pocket by going to
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Though his prison sentence is over, Lord Black's legal troubles continue. His lawyers are fighting a $70-million bill from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service for allegedly failing to pay taxes.
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Brian Mulroney, former prime minister. "Conrad is a Canadian, and I'm delighted that he's back in Canada. I'm sure he's going to rebuild a very productive and a good life for himself and his family and his country. … The one constant of Conrad's difficult period, including incarceration, was that he never lost his sense of history and he never lost his sense of humour. And if you can retain those two important elements of life, chances are you're going to be okay."
David Frum, author and journalist. "I think it's wonderful to have him at liberty. It's great that he's able to return to Canada. There's been a question mark over that. This is where he was born, where he grew up. Where he belongs. … It's a big Internet out there; a lot of people will say a lot of different things. I find it hard to imagine there are many people who would seriously say that someone who was born in Canada, who grew up in Canada, who operated a business in Canada, created one of Canada's great national newspapers, that person should not be allowed to find refuge in Canada."
Peter C. Newman, author and journalist. "I don't think it's good for Canada, I don't think it's bad for Canada; I think he's kind of an inevitable force, like gravity. … You don't praise it or damn it. I don't think he's going to do anything for the country – that has never been his goal. But he's a good writer. And I think we can expect some more good books from him. I think it's a good thing he's back. But I would like, at some point, just to get a thimble-full of remorse."
Anna Porter, publisher and novelist. "I am delighted he is coming home, at last. In spite of his spat with [former prime minister Jean]Chrétien, this remains, and has always been, Conrad's home."
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Former Calgary Herald employees. Dave Coles won't be on Conrad Black's welcoming committee, and it has nothing to do with the convicted Lord's white-collar misdeeds.
In Mr. Coles's mind, Lord Black is the media baron at the centre of an acrimonious, months-long strike at the Calgary Herald in 1999 and 2000. Lord Black called the strike a "left-wing coup d'état." Striking newspaper staff accused him of trying to crush unions.
Mr. Coles, now president of Canada's Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, was a key organizer behind the strike.
"This guy is a bit of a blight on Canada. He denounces Canada, he denounces Canadian workers and he gets a golden parachute," Mr. Coles said. "If it were some poor working stiff who'd been convicted, he wouldn't get in."
Jean Chrétien. Just your run-of-the-mill legal dispute, really. The Queen was to appoint Conrad Black a peer in the United Kingdom; he got his British citizenship and everything seemed fine until then-prime-minister Jean Chrétien intervened, citing a 1919 resolution barring such honours from being conferred on Canadians.
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Pensioners from Massey-Ferguson and Dominion stores. Conrad Black had little patience for those calling into question his business practices. When a Toronto Sun column criticized his decision to leave floundering Massey-Ferguson to its creditors, he dismissed "asinine" commentary – "not that the Sun is a newspaper of record to anyone who does not suffer from severe lip-strain after half-a-minute of silent reading."
When he withdrew $30-million in surplus funds from Dominion store employees' pension, he responded to cries of foul by noting, "We are not running a welfare agency for corrupt union leaders and a slovenly work force."
Bob Hepburn. The columnist and Conrad Black have engaged in a public war of rhetorical polemic in two of Canada's largest newspapers. Several months ago, Mr. Hepburn argued in the Toronto Star that Lord Black should be stripped of his Order of Canada. Lord Black shot back the next day in a National Post column, slamming Mr. Hepburn's "false assertions" about the convicted Lord's friends in supposedly high places.
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Guided-wave optical biosensors are reviewed in this paper. Advantages related to optical technologies are presented and integrated architectures are investigated in detail. Main classes of bio receptors and the most attractive optical transduction mechanisms are discussed. The possibility to use Mach-Zehnder and Young interferometers, microdisk and microring resonators, surface plasmon resonance, hollow and antiresonant waveguides, and Bragg gratings to realize very sensitive and selective, ultra-compact and fast biosensors is discussed. Finally, CMOS-compatible technologies are proved to be the most attractive for fabrication of guided-wave photonic biosensors.
Photonic and electronic micro- and nano-sensors are emerging as very attractive devices to be employed in a great number of application fields such as medicine, microbiology, particle physics, automotive, environmental safety and defence.
In the last few years, a great effort has been devoted to sensor and actuator monolithic integration and micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) and micro-opto-electro-mechanical system (MOEMS) development. In the same period, optical sensors have attracted considerable attention because of their immunity to electromagnetic interference, good compactness and robustness and high compatibility with fibre networks, but also because they usually exhibit shorter response time and higher sensitivities with respect to MEMS/MOEMS devices.
Sensors used for biochemical applications (e.g. biomolecules concentration measurement, DNA molecules investigation and pH estimation) must reach some specific performance requirements which are significantly different from those typical for other sensors. In particular, a biosensor has to be contextually highly sensitive and selective to the analyte being detected, to be biocompatible and immune to external disturbances as either pressure or temperature changes. Using photonic technologies, it is possible to fabricate very compact, highly performing and low cost biosensors.
A biosensor is a device which consists of a biologically or biophysically-derived sensing element (usually named
As bio receptor, molecular species (antibody, enzyme, protein or nucleic acid) or a biological system (cells, tissue) are commonly employed to recognize biochemical substances. Transduction mechanisms are usually electrochemical, mass-based or optical. Electrochemical detection is commonly based on the chemical potential of particular species in solution (analytes) measured by comparison with a reference electrode. Mass-based detection exploits the change in oscillation frequency of a piezoelectric crystal which depends on applied electric signal frequency and crystal's mass.
In this paper we briefly review bio receptor classes and optical transduction mechanisms. Subsequently we investigate the wide spectrum of integrated photonic sensors proposed in literature, including those based on interferometer, hollow and antiresonant waveguides, employing Bragg gratings, adopting Surface Plasmon Resonance, and microcavities based on guided-wave sensors.
A bio receptor is biological molecular specie or a biological system that adopts a biochemical mechanism for analyte recognition. The most used bio receptors are based on antibody-antigen, enzymatic, nucleic acid, or cellular interactions [
The antibodies (or immunoglobulin) are complex bio molecules formed by a hundred of amino acids arranged in a large Y-shaped ordered sequence (
In mammals there are five types of antibody: IgA, IgD, IgE, IgG, and IgM (where Ig stands for immunoglobulin). IgG provides the majority of antibody-based immunity against invading pathogens and it is the most useful in biochemical studies. IgG is composed of two subunits including two 'heavy' chains and two 'light' chains. These are assembled in a symmetrical structure and each IgG has two identical antigen recognition domains. The antigen recognition domain is a combination of amino acids relevant to both heavy and light chains. The molecule itself is roughly shaped like a Y and the regions of the Y extreme tips are the antigen recognition domains [
More attractive features for the employment of enzymes as bio receptors are their specific binding capabilities and their catalytic activity that permits to amplify the detection mechanism. Catalytic activity allows obtaining a lower detection limit in comparison with other techniques, but the catalytic activity is absent if the enzyme is denaturised (dissociated into its sub-unities or broken down in its component amino acids).
The DNA o RNA hybridization is often adopted as bio recognition mechanism exploiting the complementarities of the pairs of nucleotides: adenine (A)-thymine (T) and cytosine(C)-guanine (G). In particular, known DNA sequences (called
Fluorescence phenomena are related to an energetic transition from an excited state to a lower energy level producing photon emission. Energy levels in an organic molecule are shown by the so called Jablonskii diagram (
The intensity of the absorption (fraction of ground state molecules promoted to the electronic excited state) depends on the intensity of the excitation radiation (i.e., number of photons) and the probability of the transition with photons of the particular energy used. To characterize the intensity of an absorption band, a term often used is the oscillator strength
A molecule in an excited state tends to reach a lower energy level. Relaxation of the molecule from an excited state may occur in different manner. If relaxation takes place by emission of a photon without any change in spin multiplicity (from a singlet state to another singlet state), the transition is known as fluorescence. Emitted photon wavelength depends on loss energy by the molecule in the relaxation process.
The fluorescence quantum efficiency is defined as:
Fluorescence process can be characterized by its lifetime, defined as the time
Polarization is another physically observable property of the luminescence. It is caused by unique symmetries and orientations of electric moment vectors and wave functions involved in electronic transitions. The electric dipole moment determines the direction along which charge is displaced in a molecule undergoing an electronic transition. It is possible to study the polarization of the transition using polarized light to excite and detect luminescence. Exciting the sample with polarized light and measuring the luminescence intensity along two perpendicular directions, it is possible to define the degree of polarization
The degree of polarization is related to the angle
The principle scheme of typical fluorescence-based biosensor is shown in
Fluorescence-based optical sensors are used in biochemical analyses of other chemical compounds and
Surface plasmon resonance is a charge-density oscillation that may exist at the interface between two media with dielectric constants of opposite signs, for instance a metal and a dielectric. The charge density wave is associated with an electromagnetic wave, whose field vectors reach its maximum at the interface and evanescently decays into both media. This surface plasma wave (SPW) is a TM-polarized wave (magnetic vector is perpendicular to SPW propagation direction and parallel to interface plane). When this wave interacts with a sample, SPW phase changes. Measuring this phase shift it is possible, for example, to investigate kinetics of the interaction between a protein and an antibody and to detect DNA hybridization [
Raman spectroscopy is based on the Raman effect that results from energy exchange between incident photon and scattering molecules. In Rayleigh (or elastic) scattering, incident photon energy does not change after the collision and the scattered photon preserves the identical frequency as the incident photon. In Raman (or inelastic) scattering, energy is transferred from the molecule to the photon or vice versa. When the scattered photon has less energy than the incident photon, the process is referred to as Raman to Stokes scattering (
Raman signals are usually weak and require powerful sources and sensitive detectors. Only a limited number of biological molecules contribute to tissues fluorescence whereas most biological molecules are Raman active, so Raman spectroscopy can overcome some limitations of fluorescence, for example, in cancer diagnosis.
Lambert-Beer law relates a solution absorbance
The photon migration spectroscopy is a technique that combines experimental measurements and model-based data analysis to measure the bulk absorption properties of highly scattering media. The photons diffusively propagate throughout the tissue, in random direction. Due to this technique, it is possible to obtain information about tissue structure and function [
The transport theory is a statistical bookkeeping scheme that treats photons as no interacting point-particles undergoing elastic interactions. The quantity of interest is the photon density
Assuming an isotropic point source and adopting
Assuming that
In an optical guiding structure a shift of propagating optical mode effective index can be induced by two different physical phenomena (see the change of thickness (equal to the change of refractive index
the change of thickness (equal to
the change of refractive index
In case of a change in
If a change of
Integrated optical sensors adopt a waveguide to confine optical power and are based on evanescent field sensing. Although light is confined within the guiding film of the waveguide, there is a part of the guided light that travels through a region extending outside, into the medium surrounding the waveguide, and can interact with the environment. This kind of optical sensors exhibits very interesting advantages with respect to other optical sensors, such as compactness, very high sensitivity and possibility of mass production.
In a large number of integrated optical biosensors proposed in the last few years, the analyte presence either produces a shift in waveguide cover medium refractive index (
Interaction between the sample and the optical signal propagating in the sensor produces a change of optical mode effective index and, then, in its phase. To convert this phase shift in an amplitude change, interferometer architectures are commonly used. Among these architectures, Mach-Zehnder approach assures a very high sensitivity and is largely most used. In this kind of integrated optical biosensors (see
If input power
In the last two decades, a great number of integrated optical sensors based on Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZI) have been realized to detect different chemical species as organic compounds [
The sensitivity
In [
In glass based MZI, a graded index waveguide is commonly adopted. This kind of guiding structure supports optical modes having a week evanescent field and so exhibits a reduced sensitivity. To improve glass waveguide sensitivity, in [
Other configurations adopted for interferometer integrated optical biosensors are those based on Young interferometers. Using a four-channel Young interferometer, the simultaneous and independent monitoring of tree antigen-antibody reactions has been achieved [
Anti-resonant reflecting optical waveguide (ARROW) is a five-layer guiding structure where light is confined within the core layer by total internal reflection at the cover medium/core interface and by anti-resonant reflection (reflectivity of around 99.96%) due to the presence of the two cladding layers underneath the core, as it is shown in
ARROW is a leaky guiding structure with virtual mono-mode behaviour, where higher order modes are filtered out by loss discrimination due to the low reflectivity assured to these modes by the two cladding layers. The refractive indices and thicknesses of the cladding layers have to be properly designed for the working wavelength to assure high reflectivity and, therefore, good guiding characteristics. ARROWs are usually fabricated in a CMOS-compatible technology and the materials commonly used are silicon for the substrate, silicon oxide for the core and second cladding layers and silicon nitride for the first cladding.
ARROW structures exhibit low losses, permit larger dimensions than conventional total internal reflection-based waveguides (micrometers instead of nanometers), enable to confine optical power in low index material (as silicon oxide) and exhibit a good sensitivity. These features is quite attractive for sensing applications, so ARROWs employment in highly sensitive and low cost integrated optical sensors has been discussed [
Hollow waveguides permit to simultaneously confine the optical power and the solution to be analyzed in the waveguide core constituted by a low-index liquid substance. In this kind of waveguides, the optical signal is confined inside the core (whose refractive index is around 1.33) by two cladding layers designed to produce the anti-resonant reflection (see
In [
Integrated optical biosensors exploiting surface plasmon resonance (SPR) are constituted by a single mode waveguide produced, for example, by thermal ion-exchange in a glass substrate. A small region of the waveguide is coated with a thin metal film. This metal-coated part of the sensor can support a SPW and forms the interaction region with the solution containing the analyte. The structure incorporates a Y-junction used as 3 dB power splitter. A quasi-TM mode is excited in the input waveguide. After passing through the 3 dB power divider, this mode couples across the step discontinuity between the metal coated and uncoated waveguide regions exciting the surface plasmon wave (SPW). After propagating through the metal-coated region of the sensor, SPW excites the optical mode in the uncoated output waveguide (see
In [
Assuming a planar structure as that shown in
It is well known that a Bragg grating is a 3D periodic structure (
The use of Bragg gratings as building blocks for fabrication of highly sensitive and very compact integrated optical biosensors has been proposed in [
Using sub-micrometer silicon-wire waveguides (see
Recently, sub-micrometer slot waveguides realized by using SOI technology (
In last two years, a great variety of optical devices has been realized adopting slot waveguides, including micro-ring resonators, optical modulators, electrically pumped light emitting devices, directional couplers, all-optical logic gates and beam splitters. High values (around 65%) reached by confinement factor in cover medium
Microring and micro-racetrack resonators are emerging as very attractive building-blocks for micrometer-scale photonics, essentially because of their compactness and versatility. In fact, a great number of optical functions related to telecommunications systems such as filtering, modulation, amplification and switching can be performed using guided-wave micro-resonators. The use of optical micro-resonators in sensing applications is a relatively new research field.
Micro-resonator advantages in sensing applications are related to the device size reduction by some orders of magnitude which do not compromise the device sensitivity, because the large photon lifetime within the resonator at the resonance provides an equivalently long interaction length to achieve a detectable phase shift.
Light coupled to micro resonators is confined within the structure by total internal reflection forming high quality factor resonant modes. Any interaction with the evanescent tail of the optical field (usually the change in waveguide cover medium refractive index) affects the guided mode, and thus changes the resonance behaviour of the cavity (
Any micro-racetrack resonator can be theoretically investigated by using the schematic diagram in
The electromagnetic interactions in the coupling regions can be described using the following matrices [
Optical propagation in the resonator portion outside coupling region can be modelled by following relations [
Supposing that:
Optical power at drop port is maximum for
Assuming an optical resonator having
Assuming the effective index change is due to waveguide cover medium refractive index change, micro resonator sensitivity to waveguide cover medium refractive index changes can be written as:
Performance of integrated optical sensors based on micro resonators depends not only on
The capability of a microring resonator in SOI technology adopting a Si-wire waveguide and having a radius of 3 μm to sense ammonia concentration changes has been theoretically demonstrated in [
A micro race-track resonator, fabricated using polymeric materials, in which the resonance slope has been enhanced by the introduction of two partially reflecting element (
A lowering of detection limit related to glucose concentration measurement is obtainable by increasing the micro cavity quality factor
Vertical coupling between straight waveguide and microring resonator is employed in other biosensors, as in [
Adopting a SixNy/SiO2 waveguide, a racetrack resonator having a radius of 2 mm has been fabricated for protein detection [
This paper reviews the wide variety of photonic sensors for biosensing applications proposed in literature, since the fabrication of the first optical biochemical sensor based on the measurement of changes in absorption spectrum and developed for the measurement of CO2 and O2 gas concentration.
Optical technologies allow overcoming some problems connected to use of electrochemical techniques for biosensing analysis as low sensitivity, large dimensions and influence of electromagnetic interference. Biosensing integrated optical architectures enable to reach high sensitivity and selectivity, high compactness and immunity to electromagnetic disturbances. Among these architectures, those realized by CMOS-compatible technologies permit in general to achieve low cost, full technological compatibility between optical sensor and read-out electronics and possibility of mass fabrication. Integrated configurations based on microring and microdisk show very important advantages related to dimension reduction, without significantly affecting the device sensitivity. Finally, silicon slot waveguides are emerging as a very attractive building block for fabrication of nanometer ultra-sensitive integrated optical biosensors.
Operating principle of biochemical sensors.
Interaction between antigen and antibody.
Jablonskii diagram.
Degree of polarization versus
Typical fluorescence-based photonic sensor.
Raman scattering mechanisms.
Typical apparatus for Raman spectroscopy.
Real and imaginary parts of the wave vector,
Effective index change in integrated optical sensors.
Mach-Zehnder interferometer architecture.
Contour plot of output/input power ratio (
Output/input power ratio versus
Schematic diagram of a channel-planar composite optical waveguide.
ARROW waveguide structure.
Hollow waveguides cross section.
Integrated optical biosensor exploiting the SPR scheme.
Planar structure in which SPW propagates.
Bragg grating structure.
Si-wire waveguide structure.
SOI slot waveguide structure.
Quasi-TE mode profile in silicon slot waveguide.
Micro cavity-based architectures for integrated optical sensors.
Resonator race-track structure schematic representation.
Typical transmittivity spectrum of a micro resonator.
Transmittivity spectrum of a micro resonator having
Micro racetrack resonator biosensor with sensitivity enhanced by introducing two partially reflecting elements.
Vertical coupling between microring and straight waveguides.
Comparison among integrated optical biosensors.
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|Total length
|B. Drapp
|R.D. Harris
|E. Krioukov
|Disk resonator
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|W. Hopman
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No miracle for England
It is hard to imagine England being able to stretch this contest out to a fourth day.
If, as expected, Australia do wrap things up on Sunday, it will be the sixth Perth Test of the last 11 to finish within 72 hours.
That says a great deal about Australia's recent domination of the world game, but is of little consolation to England cricket fans who were, yet again, hoping for a miracle.
The loss of Chris Silverwood - after another cursed MRI scan revealed an ankle injury - meant that England's already inexperienced attack would be stretched to the limit.
However, it is unlikely that the paceman's absence would have had even the slightest effect on the outcome of the game.
Steve Harmison then gave Nasser Hussain heart palpitations when he completely lost his run up.
Time and again he stuttered, stopped and started and, increasingly, the crowd got on his back.
Harmison, though, showed a great deal of character in the way he soldiered on. He can at least hold his head high.
I was, however, hugely disappointed with Alex Tudor's effort.
On day one he was ruthlessly mugged by Brett Lee, who aimed missile after missile at Tudor's head.
Limp-wristed stuff
When Lee walked out to bat, Tudor was armed with a brand new ball - yet he could not raise enough hostility to even inconvenience the Australian.
It was pretty limp-wristed stuff, and I am sure this lack of fire will have been noticed elsewhere.
After an encouraging performance in Adelaide, Richard Dawson came down to earth with a crash.
His first over conceded three boundaries as he dropped short to Darren Lehmann, and he was given only four more overs, suggesting that Hussain had lost faith in him.
This was a shame, especially towards the end of the Australia innings when the lower order humiliated England's seam bowlers by thrashing them all over the ground.
Even Gillespie, whose batting average this year is one, registered his highest Test score. McGrath reached the rarely visited territory of eight not out.
Lee then roared in with the new ball, and it was inevitable that England would lose at least one wicket before the close.
Trescothick fended off a thunderbolt with his glove, only for Gilchrist to take an excellent one-handed catch.
Although this gave Dawson another opportunity to demonstrate his courage with the bat, I can't imagine that he and Vaughan will relish the prospect of continuing the fight on Saturday.
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In the wake of a fatal car crash that killed a mother and son, more than 650 people have signed a petition calling for a speed camera on the road to prevent another tragedy.
Nicola Morris, 29, and her son Kai Arnold, 11, died in a head-on collision on a bend in Banstead Road, Ewell, on Saturday, July 5, at about 10.30am.
Another crash victim, a woman in her 50s, remains in a serious condition in a London hospital.
Although the cause of this accident has yet to be established, Ms Morris' former colleague Kathryn McCourt, 25, has started a petition to make the road safer and prevent speeding.
Ms McCourt, from Stoneleigh, said: "The reason I set this up is not only for Nicola and Kai and to ensure another tragic accident like this never happens again - where a loving mother and her son lose their lives - but to stop people speeding down this road as it is a very dangerous road."
Ms McCourt said there has already been great support for the petition but she needs 1,500 signatures before Surrey County Council will take it seriously.
She said: "I think by adding a speed camera it will ensure no one speeds, I know the road is a very long one but towards the middle of the road is the most dangerous!
Nicola Morris
"I know people use the gym regularly at night so I really believe that by adding one people will be more cautious whilst driving down the road.
"If we try to reduce the speed then at least we have tried to save more lives."
Ms McCourt and Ms Morris worked together at Teddies Nurseries in Epsom from 2012 to 2013, before they both later left the company.
Ms McCourt said: "She was such a loving, caring person and really easy to talk to, she was very approachable and always smiling!"
She added: "I saw her only a couple of weeks before she died, she was talking about her wedding plans and was chuffed that Kai had got into his high school of his choice! She was so happy!
"It's so tragic, my brother had told me on the Saturday about a lady and her son being killed and it was horrible, I could only think of the family. Then later on in the night I found out it was Nicola.
"I was in shock for a good week, her poor family, she was so looking forward to getting married and always talking about Kai and Alfie her other son.
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"It's so horrible to think about it, such a terrible shame. She was such a delight to work with and talk to, never complained about anything and always such a hard worker!
"On the Sunday me and a few girls who worked with Nicola went to lay flowers, we also signed one of my old teddies T-shirts and left it there, she will always be a part of Teddies Epsom.
"We have had a lot of support from people with the petition but we still need more signatures."
On Saturday community Facebook group, What's On in Banstead, posted: "Two weeks ago Nicola and Kai tragically lost their lives so young in a horrific collision on Banstead Road.
"Their family have asked me to pass on their thanks to all the well wishers and also some details about them being laid to rest.
"The funeral is being held on Friday the 25th July and the cortege will be starting in Woodmansterne at 12.30pm.
"It will be circling round to Woodmansterne School where Kai was a pupil and then round to the Woodman Pub and on down Woodmansterne Lane.
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"There is a trust fund being set up for Alfie as so many people have wanted to give something to him and other donations for the air ambulance.
"It would be really nice for Banstead Village to show it's support to the family so if you are around these locations please just stop for a moment when you see them come past."
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Utah Valley golfer Mason Casper birdied four of his final five holes at Talons Cove Golf Club, including a 12-foot birdie putt on hole 36, to capture a qualifying spot in the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship.
With the top two finishers moving on to the championship tournament in Lorton, Va., Casper fired a 72-68 over 36 holes to finish 4-under par for the day and just one shot back of eventual winner David Cunningham.
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Sheldon Dawson has missed a week and a half of practices after pulling a hamstring, but was having a productive spring with three interceptions in two scrimmages.
Secondary coach Scott Lakatos wouldn't say that Dawson had locked down a starting spot at cornerback.
"He was improving like everybody else," Lakatos said. "He was able to get some work last year as a backup so he's got some exposure to some of the things we were doing. Now that the ball's kind of in his court per se, we're going to see if he can handle all the ins and outs of playing in the secondary."
After suffering the injury, Dawson said: "I'm not satisfied with myself because I know I can get better each day. I feel like I had a good camp and I did pretty good this camp. There's still some mental errors that I can fix up and correct."
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Another game that started off horribly, but the Heat got over the hump and beat the Detroit Pistons 103-89 here at the Triple Aye. LeBron James let the way and had 29 points, eight rebounds and eight assists. Next up, Sunday against Charlotte during all the Ultra craziness. Let's see if the Heat can manage to not trail by double digits for that one and win it clean. 26 in a row, let's hope.
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Citation: Brown, J.W., Bahr, S.M. 2006. Compiling and analyzing historical insect data for Plummers Island, Maryland. Experiment Station Bulletins. 1-35. Interpretive Summary: This report presents the findings of a prelimiary specimen- and literature-based investigation of the insect fauna of Plummers Island, Maryland, a small section of an extensive linear National Park that parallels the Potomac River. The investigation was funded by the National Park Service. The report is primarily an inventory of species, and may be of value in identifying appropriate management activities for the site and related or similar habitats.
Technical Abstract: Initially maintained by the Washington Biologists' Field Club as a research station (ca. 1901-1958), Plummers Island, Maryland, a small site located along the northern edge of the Potomac River, currently is under the ownership and management of the U.S. National Park Service. Based on an examination of the insect collection of the U.S. National Museum of Natural History (USNM), Smithsonian Institution, and a review of relevant literature, we documented from the site 2,769 insect species in 194 families, encompassing 13 insect orders (Odonata, Dermaptera, Psocoptera, Thysanoptera, Hemiptera, Mecoptera, Neuroptera, Megaloptera, Coleoptera, Diptera, Trichoptera, Lepidoptera, and Hymenoptera). Approximately 25,400 insect specimens were databased and bar-coded. Where insect families are represented by historical and current data, we conducted preliminary analyses of species turnover using 25-year increments (i.e., 1900-1925, 1926-1950, 1951-1975, 1976-present). Most insect groups for which there are historical and recent records show considerable turnover since 1900 - most families have fewer species present now. Because Plummers Island has been subject to limited management activities, these findings may shed light on the types of changes that may be expected in the insect fauna in response to natural succession and other forms of passive land management.


text: Monday, September 16, 2002 ST. LOUIS REGIONAL AIRPORT MANAGER PLANS TO RETIRE SOON By Terry Hillig The St. Louis (MO) Post-Dispatch St. Louis Regional Airport Manager Marion Richardson is looking forward to retirement sometime in the next few months. Under an agreement between Richardson and the Airport Authority, Richardson will step down when a new airport manager is hired but will help train his successor and remain a consultant to the authority. The authority has been seeking applications for the job for about a month. Their ad is on the Internet site of the American Association of Airport Executives. The agreement allows Richardson, 53, to take advantage of early- retirement incentives offered public employees who participate in the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund. "He'll be available whenever we need him," said Dean Sweet, the authority's attorney. "He'll be full time until we hire a replacement." Earlier this year, Richardson expressed concerns about rumors he would be replaced, but he said last week he is ready for retirement after 30 years on the job. He said he did not plan to seek another job. Richardson said the negotiations that led to the retirement agreement were amicable. Sweet, who replaced Rod Pitts as the Airport Authority attorney in July, said his dealings with Richardson on the retirement agreement and other matters have been entirely positive. "I think it's going to be a good transition," Sweet said. The Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund is a defined-benefit pension plan fully funded by employer and employee contributions and interest earnings. It receives no subsidy from state or local governmental units. Richardson's salary is about $68,000. He said his pension benefits will be determined by IMRF rules. Under the early-retirement plan, Richardson is required to "buy" pension benefits by making contributions equivalent to those he would make if he worked until age 62, the normal retirement age for full IMRF benefits. The airport district was created in 1946 in a referendum of voters in the townships of Wood River, Alton, Foster and Fort Russell in western Madison County and is supported by taxes on property in those townships. The authority's current (2001) tax rate is 21.07 cents per $100 of assessed value, which results in a tax of $70 on a home worth $100,000. The tax rate is expected to drop to virtually zero after a bond issue is paid off next year. Do you have an opinion about this story? Share it with other readers in our CAA Discussion Forums http://www.californiaaviation.org/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?conf=DCConfID8 *****************************************


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Deontay Wilder, the unbeaten knockout artist and reigning WBC Champion, will make his third title defense on January 16.
The fight against contender Artur Szpilka (20-1, 15 KOs) will hail from the Barclays Center in New York City, and it will air on Showtime.
While it should be interesting enough, one surprising fight on the undercard may also be the most controversial.
It pits challengers Charles Martin and Vyacheslav Glazkov against one another for the vacant IBF title that was stripped from true champion Tyson Fury just one week after beating longtime holder Wladimir Klitschko.
The IBF has undergone a great deal of criticism, not just for stripping a champion who won the title in the ring, but also for the reasoning behind it.
Part of Fury's contract clause was to allow for a mandatory rematch with Klitschko should he win the fight. (He captured a 12-round unanimous decision.)
When Klitschko decided to exercise his rematch clause immediately, the IBF stepped in and said that Glazkov was the No. 1 challenger and if Fury went through with the fight, he would no longer be the champion.
Fury refused, and the IBF decided to devalue its own title by taking it off him and putting the fight on the Deontay Wilder card.
Deontay Wilder, meanwhile, has his sights set on Tyson Fury, or at least the winner of the Klitschko-Fury rematch. It has been a goal of Wilder to unify the main titles (WBC, WBA, IBF) for some time, and such a contest would be a rare big-money fight for the struggling heavyweight division, which has not seen an undisputed unified titleholder since 1999 when Lennox Lewis held the three majors.
That said, Klitschko had been able to unify several titles during his successful 18 defenses before running into a roadblock with Tyson Fury.
Exerting that type of dominance made him the undisputed champion for many, but still, it has been 17 years since anything has been official, and not having one clear champion to beat gives any sport — or in this case, sports division — a branding problem that is difficult to shake when it comes to generating revenue.
Through all of this, there is some question as to whether Deontay Wilder is really as good as his record would indicate.
He has dispatched all 35 of his opponents with 34 of those coming by way of knockout, a 97.1 percent KO ratio. That said, the quality of his competition has been suspect, with Bermane Stiverne considered his best opponent. He won that fight by unanimous decision and managed to capture the WBC strap in the process.
Whether he's the best the division has to offer or not, though, he is certainly proving to be a good thing for it with his insistence on bringing the titles together. It's just unclear, after Glazkov and Martin face off for the IBF whether that belt can truly be considered one of the majors any longer.
Until the winners of that fight and the Deontay Wilder-Artur Szpilka contest are able to face the winner of the Fury-Klitschko rematch, it will be difficult to take them seriously.
Still, Deontay Wilder at least has more of a claim to legitimacy than whoever ends up with the IBF. He won his title because the previous holder, Vitali Klitschko (Wladimir's brother), retired, thus making the fight with Stiverne an understandable necessity.
Deontay Wilder has also been a busy champion, logging four fights in 2013, two fights in 2014, and three fights in 2015, with his first of this year in the first month. That's highly productive for a major titleholder.
So to the question: should you care about the Deontay Wilder card on January 16. Half of it — Deontay's half — yes. But the IBF has a long way to go before it can restore its legitimacy in the eyes of most fight fans.
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Initially releasing music on celebrity DJ Steve Aoki's Dim Mak label and often compared stylistically to French electro superstars Justice, the Bloody Beetroots -- technically a solo project of one Sir Bob Cornelius Rifo -- generated significant buzz in the music blogosphere from 2006 onward with both remix and production work. The Italian artist's masked appearance à la Daft Punk also garnered significant media attention. Rifo began to establish the Bloody Beetroots DJ Set as a performance act in early 2008 with a short American tour that included a stop at South by Southwest as well as numerous club gigs in Los Angeles, where he appeared alongside Aoki. Following a handful of EPs, the Bloody Beetroots' first album, Romborama, was released in 2009. Rifo then spent the next couple of years promoting the record with an extensive touring schedule, and by spring 2010 he had named his live act Bloody Beetroots Deathcrew '77.
By 2011 the Bloody Beetroots had not only been signed to Patrick Moxey's renowned Ultra label, but Rifo's work had also begun to appear on Ministry of Sound in Australia. Later that year, Refused and the (International) Noise Conspiracy vocalist Dennis Lyxzén came into the fold for Church of Noise, an anarchistic side project with a tour and single of the same name. The year culminated with a prestigious, celebratory L.A. live date on New Year's Eve, setting the tone for a successful summer 2012 festival season for the DJ set show. The infectious, riff-based "Rocksteady" appeared earlier that year and was followed in December by the comparatively tempered "Chronicles of a Fallen Love" featuring Deadmau5 associate Greta Svabo Bech on vocals. In January 2013, Ultra began a strategic relationship with Sony, meaning that Bloody Beetroots material was issued on the major label in many different international territories. This coincided with the unveiling of the powerful show The Bloody Beetroots Live, which made its way across North America and Europe for much of the year. June 2013 brought "Out of Sight," a gritty and anthemic collaboration with none other than Paul McCartney and Youth, ahead of a second long-player, Hide, which arrived in September of that year. ~ Jason Birchmeier & James Wilkinson
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2002 Softball Season Preview
February 4, 2002
An eight-game winning streak and an appearance in the inaugural NESCAC Postseason Championship Tournament highlighted another successful campaign for the Amherst College softball team. With a 19-12 record (6-2 NESCAC), the Jeffs appeared in the postseason for the fifth consecutive season, including berths in the NCAA Tournament in both 1998 and '99.
With only three seniors, the Jeffs relied on some key performances from underclassmen, particularly pitching sensation Lauren Peloquin. She won her first 10 decisions, and the Jeffs won eight straight after returning from their annual spring trip to Ft. Myers, Fla. The junior fireballer would end up accumulating numerous honors, including NESCAC Pitcher of the Year accolades. Peloquin's 0.43 ERA, good for fourth in the nation, gave her a 14-5 season record. In 129.1 innings of work, Peloquin allowed only eight earned runs, while striking out 170 batters. Sophomore hurler Emily Melia also performed well on the mound, carving her own place in the books with a 3.08 ERA in 79.2 innings of work.
Offensively, senior left fielder Meg Nelson earned All-NESCAC honors after finishing seventh in the conference in with a team-high .374 batting average. Meanwhile, first-year Gina Scribner was named NESCAC Co-Rookie of the Year after hitting .324 from the meat of the batting order. Scribner anchored the stringent Jeff infield from first base, complementing sophomore Missy Mordy at third, seniors Shari Sakamoto and Carline Kelly up the middle, and junior catcher Becca Binder behind the plate.
The Jeffs faced the toughest part of their schedule down the stretch, which featured doubleheader conference wins over both Middlebury and Wesleyan, before falling to Tufts and Bowdoin in the double-elimination NESCAC Tournament.
The Jeffs, who return nine veterans to the 2002 roster after losing only three members of the Class of 2001 to graduation, will rely mainly on the accumulation of game experience from the returning letterwinners to push through a tough schedule. A promising first-year class, along with key sophomore newcomer Jessica Allen, will bolster the Amherst lineup and provide depth to what is already a talented and experienced group.
Opponents will continue to have a hard time scoring runs against senior co-captain Lauren Peloquin. Over her career, Peloquin has amassed a 54-19 record, and junior Emily Melia has posted a career 10-10 record. First-year Kathryn Honderd will step in and join the potent Jeff pitching mix this year, and will also serve her time at first base. The hurlers will take the signs from senior co-captain catcher Becca Binder, who brings a year of starting experience behind the plate. First-year catcher Kristin Bradley will also look to contribute to the battery.
Head Coach Sue Everden will unveil a reshuffled infield for the 2002 campaign. Mordy will move from third base to shortstop to fill the hole left by 2001 graduate Shari Sakamoto. Allen and Scribner will patrol the line from third base, and Peloquin and Melia will split time between second base and the mound to take over the infield spot left vacant by 2001 graduate Carline Kelly. Scribner will also mark her time at first base.
The Jeff outfield is possibly the deepest part of the Amherst roster. With only one hole to fill--the one left by 2001 graduate left fielder Meg Nelson--Everden has her pick of strong players. Juniors Tamara Baer, Erin Dittus, and Jenna Obelsky each earned their stripes on the grass last year, but sophomore Della Huff came up with a strong case for a starting spot in 2002 via impressive late-season action in 2001. First-years Greta Anderson and Liz Staunton will supplement the outfield, and both have caught Everden's eye during the preseason.
While the 2001 Jeffs focused their offensive power on the power-hitting heart of their lineup, the 2002 squad looks more likely to hit consistently through all nine slots in the order. Extra-base hits are a viable option, given the presence of Scribner, Peloquin, Mordy and Obelsky in the lineup, but in the end, the team will rely on its ability to move runners on the basepaths using consistent base hits and short-game strategy.
Besides their annual spring trip to Florida, the Amherst softball team plays a strong schedule in the NESCAC, while also vying for the Little Three title against Wesleyan and traditional rival Williams. In Ft. Myers, the Jeffs will go up against the Bowdoin College Polar Bears, the team that knocked them out of contention at the 2001 NESCAC Tournament. Amherst will travel to Brandeis University and Clark University the week after break, before entering the meat of their schedule. After hosting Middlebury during their Mar. 30th home-opener, the squad will navigate a thick slate of conference and regional competition, culminating in a Senior Day showdown against Williams on April 27th, before NESCAC Tournament action begins on May 3rd.


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Mix it together and let it sit for about ten minutes so the chia seeds can saturate.
The hours of confinement under the chia stalks, together with his previous enervation, had rendered him benumbed and helpless.
There were delightful drinks too, from the manzanita and the chia.
Not mine, Venza chia, as you just called it, But my adopted world.
In poetry, this part of the chia is alluded to in a highly figurative manner.
chia then picked up half a brick and laid it on the washing-block, saying to Mr Chên, "This little piece is not too much, surely?"
He basks in the charming cheeks of the blooming chia, who is a proficient on the lyre.
It was the hour of relief for the hapless wanderer hidden out in the chia patch.
chia was astonished at this, and begged Mr Chên to tell him how it was done.


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The narrator of the drug-dealer drama "Savages," the sun-kissed California girl O (played by Blake Lively), begins by telling us, "Just because I'm telling this story doesn't mean I'm alive at the end of it. … It's that kind of story."
It's also the kind of story whose tellers novelist Don Winslow, screenwriter Shane Salerno and director Oliver Stone (who all collaborated on the script) are prone to jerk the characters, and the audience, around in phony efforts to look hip and edgy.
O, short for Ophelia, is the fulcrum of a temporarily stable love triangle.
O shares her bed with two men, best friends from high school, who have a lucrative business cultivating the best marijuana in the western United States.
The men are opposites in personality: Ben (Aaron Johnson, from "Kick-Ass") is a Buddhist idealist who uses his drug money to help villagers in undeveloped countries, while Chon (Taylor Kitsch) is a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan haunted by the killing he saw and committed on duty.
Their boutique pot-growing operation attracts the attention of a Mexican drug cartel, which wants Ben and Chon to teach the cartel's suppliers how to grow better weed. When Ben and Chon decline, the cartel's ruthless boss, Elena (Salma Hayek), gets mean ordering her muscle, Lado (Benicio Del Toro), to kidnap O as leverage. Ben and Chon vow to get O back safely, prompting a rift between the friends as the warrior Chon tells the pacifist Ben that he may have to kill to keep O alive.
The story also brings in other characters from Winslow's novel, most dynamically a corrupt DEA agent who is playing both sides against the middle. This DEA agent is played by John Travolta, whose mere presence speaks to Stone's efforts to copy Quentin Tarantino and Stone's utter failure to revive the propulsive force he brought to his nasty Tarantino-scripted 1994 cult classic "Natural Born Killers."
The script, based on Winslow's novel, pivots unsteadily from the convoluted to the unintentionally comic with flashes of cruel brutality that don't rile up viewers as much as keep them from nodding off. And for all of Stone's agitated visual style, there's a lot of dead space in the narrative on the way to an aggravating ending that smacks of studio compromise.
As for the performances, neither Johnson nor Kitsch rises above his archetype, the characters never getting below the surface (where their personality-defining tattoos are).
The only character who resonates is Lively's O, the blissed-out object of desire and revenge, and the only character who doesn't live down to the film's title.
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Pot growers get in over their head with a Mexican drug cartel in this overwrought crime drama.
Where • Theaters everywhere.
When • Opens today.
Rating • R for strong brutal and grisly violence, some graphic sexuality, nudity, drug use and language throughout
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The rapid decline in prices PC server market will start to fall off over the next few years, despite continuing intense competition. According to research from Computer Economics, a US market research firm, prices will start slow their descent in 1999. Prices will continue to fall through to 2000, but with less pace than in 1998. The company predicts prices will fall by around 19 per cent on departmental and enterprise PC servers over the next two years. The work group and entry level market will drop further, shedding 23 per cent from its prices in the same period, according to the report. "Base configurations will continue to improve just as they will in the desktop market. Buyers will gain on related fronts as disk drive price continue to fall and prices for additional memory remain low," said Michael Erbschloe, director of research at Computer Economics. More information is available if you register at the Computer Economics home page. ®:


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About the Book
Rajasthan The Indian jewel | English version
Roderick Lloyd:
"In northwest India lies the province of Rajasthan. This area is a gem, so beautiful, colourful, surprising and full of contrasts. Your eyes can't begin to take in everything in this province. In 2007 I had the chance to photograph a number of cities that held special importance for me. I began my travel in Delhi, followed by Bikaner, Jaisalmer, the deserts, and completed my travels in Jodhpur and Udaipur."
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- Category Arts & Photography
Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
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- Publish Date Sep 14, 2009
- Tags Roderick Lloyd, The Indian jewel, Zinnenprikkelend, Udaipur, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer, Bikaner, Delhi, India, Rajasthan, Photography
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