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Alain Menu produced a finely judged last lap effort to claim his second World Touring Car Championship pole of the season at Sonoma on Saturday.
The Swiss racer started his final qualifying lap in third place, but found over 0.3s on his previous best to take pole in his Chevrolet with a time of 1m45.236s.
"I was not too happy with my lap in Q1, and we changed the car a tiny bit," said Menu, who was only fourth after the first qualifying session.
"My first lap in Q2 was fastest but then the team radioed me on the in-lap to say [Gabriele] Tarquini had improved. My second lap in Q2 was really clean, and perhaps that was the key to this circuit, which has so many blind crests and dust."
Menu's improvement demoted Tarquini to second, and the Italian lost any chance of recovering his position when he ran off-track on his final lap.
"I destroyed my tires on my warm-up lap," said the Lukoil SEAT driver. "Watching the results from testing I thought perhaps this was a track for young drivers, but now in qualifying I think experience counts!"
Championship leader Yvan Muller was fastest in Q1, but could only manage third in the decisive second session. The Chevrolet driver admitted to underperforming in the second and third sectors. Trailing Muller by 17 points in the drivers' standings, the third factory Cruze of Rob Huff took fourth.
Hungaroring reversed-grid winner Norbert Michelisz was the top BMW runner in fifth for Zengo Motorsport. He also claimed pole in the independents' class.
Alex MacDowall, who was fastest in the Friday test, claimed a solid sixth ahead of the SUNRED SEAT of Tiago Monteiro. Briton MacDowall will start race two from pole after taking 10 in Q1.
Tarquini's Lukoil teammate Aleksei Dudukalo brought out the red flags in Q1 when he beached the front wheels of his Leon in a gulley at Turn 2. As a result of the incident, Dudukalo was unable to take his place in Q2.
Regular 2012 front-runner Tom Coronel had a day to forget, spinning off at Turn 2 and qualifying in the penultimate position.
Race one grid: Pos Driver Team/Car Time Gap 1. Alain Menu Chevrolet 1m45.232s 2. Gabriele Tarquini Lukoil SEAT 1m45.468s + 0.236s 3. Yvan Muller Chevrolet 1m45.539s + 0.307s 4. Rob Huff Chevrolet 1m45.572s + 0.340s 5. Norbert Michelisz Zengo BMW 1m46.558s + 1.326s 6. Alex MacDowall Bamboo Chevrolet 1m46.578s + 1.346s 7. Tiago Monteiro SUNRED SEAT 1m46.594s + 1.362s 8. Franz Engstler Engstler BMW 1m46.761s + 1.529s 9. Mehdi Bennani Proteam BMW 1m47.004s + 1.772s 10. Stefano D'Aste Wiechers BMW 1m47.263s + 2.031s 11. Alberto Cerqui ROAL BMW 1m47.851s + 2.619s 12. Aleksei Dudukalo Lukoil SEAT No time 13. James Nash Arena Ford 1m47.000s Q1 14. Charles Ng Engstler BMW 1m47.050s Q1 15. Fernando Monje SUNRED SEAT 1m47.149s Q1 16. Darryl O'Young Special Tuning SEAT 1m47.167s Q1 17. Tom Chilton Arena Ford 1m47.380s Q1 18. Pepe Oriola Tuenti SEAT 1m47.434s Q1 19. Tom Boardman Special Tuning SEAT 1m47.436s Q1 20. Tom Coronel ROAL BMW 1m47.546s Q1 21. Robb Holland Bamboo Chevrolet 1m48.179s Q1 Race two grid: Pos Driver Team/Car 1. Alex MacDowall Bamboo Chevrolet 2. Mehdi Bennani Proteam BMW 3. Franz Engstler Engstler BMW 4. Norbert Michelisz Zengo BMW 5. Stefano D'Aste Wiechers BMW 6. Tiago Monteiro SUNRED SEAT 7. Alain Menu Chevrolet 8. Gabriele Tarquini Lukoil SEAT 9. Rob Huff Chevrolet 10. Yvan Muller Chevrolet 11. Alberto Cerqui ROAL BMW 12. Aleksei Dudukalo Lukoil SEAT 13. James Nash Arena Ford 14. Charles Ng Engstler BMW 15. Fernando Monje SUNRED SEAT 16. Darryl O'Young Special Tuning SEAT 17. Tom Chilton Arena Ford 18. Pepe Oriola Tuenti SEAT 19. Tom Boardman Special Tuning SEAT 20. Tom Coronel ROAL BMW 21. Robb Holland Bamboo Chevrolet


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I have seen a lot of posts lately about video card temps, particularly ATI video cards. While temps with the stock cooler seem high, mine idles about 36-40c, it can go as high as 75-80c while playing a intense game. But according to ATI, anything under 100c is acceptable for most GPU's, some say as high as 120c . So my question to those of you who have ditched the stock cooler for a Zalman or Artic Silencer to get better temps, has it increased your performance at all? Due to placement of the chipset on my board, a aftermarket cooler is not an option for me:shadedshu . I havent noticed any heat related problems with my card, but has the cooler temps increased framerates for anyone with the aftermarket cooler? I'm not worried about my card frying because of heat because it has an lifetime warranty. Any help would be appreicated
Mine (X850XT-PE) OCed about the same before and after the ATI silencer, I just bought it because I found the stock cooler loud. Maybe though since my card is already clocked so high from the factory it was pretty near its limit to begin with.
it made a slight difference to my memory overclock my core only ran low 60s with the stock cooler anyway.. praps a very slight extra 5mhz on the core it now runs low 50s.. perhaps 20mhz on the memory memory.. well the small plate on the back that covered the memory chips got quite hot.. not too hot to touch but hot.. the big plate that comes with the artic cooler several times the surface area only gets slightly warm to the touch.. i think this gave me another 20 or so on the memory clock.. the noise factor is the big gain thow.. its quite and cool.. for the price i think the artic solution is well worth getting.. but not if u dont have the room for it.. as i say my memory gained more from it than the core.. i just feel more safe about overclocking things if i know they are well cool.. the noisiest thing on my computer now is the bloody 250 gig USB hardrive that sits on top of the case with its whiney little fan.. he he he.. lucky it has an off switch.. trog
i agree with the boys opinion.you can gain a lot from a nice cooling system.the stock coolers are #%$#$^$%& and they have a small lifetime.by using a good aftermarket cooler you are increasing your card`s lifetime also.less noise accepted also.and of course you have a much better case air flow.hot air that comes from vga and hdd affects also the cpu cooling.it`s like a chain reaction to me.
for me, i mostly use arctic silencers because they are more effective and because are silent. they help my OC sometimes, but not always. and yea, GPU's can withstand temps much higher then a CPU ever could. my X700Pro gets into the 80's while gaming with its stock cooler, but so far as i can tell it hasnt hurt it at all..
you have to remember that the hotter any component runs, the shorter its lifespan becomes. that's the primary advantage of a superior cooling system. prolongs the lifespan of the hardware. the extra overclock you may or may not get out of it is a fringe benefit. at least that's how i view this issue...
Hmm, i had my card overclocked near it's limits, but forgot to enable the fan before playing a game... after playing for 2 hours, closed the game, and realised that the temperature of my gpu had been 90 - 100c the whole time! No artifacts or any strange behaviour though, but i wouldn't like to let it run that hot again. It's usually in the mid 50's with the fan @ 100% while gaming. Just goes to show... these gpu's are built like tanks!


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so subtle and its very clever, nice int. work- battery cover and pocket are nice touches.
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Workshop: Career Fair Preparation
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What to do before, during, and after a career fair like the upcoming Wright State University Recruiting Days.
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With all the overeating that happens over the holidays, you can't judge a sista for having a little extra weight. Can you?
This is the second Kardashian sister sparking pregnancy rumors in the last month and we have a feeling that this mind end up the same way as sister Kim. Photographers who snapped images of sister Khloe while out shopping with a girlfriend on Monday, January 3rd, 2011 in Los Angeles, California, noticed she had a little pooch.
With all the rumors about Khloe and her husband Lamar Odem getting their own reality show, could it be about their road to parenthood? Or maybe just about how Khloe drops her post Christmas pounds while her hubby plays for the Lakers?
Only time (or a Kardashian) will tell!
#6437746 TV personality Khloe Kardashian did some shopping this afternoon with a girlfriend on January 3, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. Khloe wasnât too happy to see the shutterbugs at the first shopping location but after she cleaned up she allowed images to be taken. It has been rumored in the media that Khloe and her NBA star husband Lamar Odem would be the stars of their own reality show this year. Khloe looks as if she has gained weight over the holidays or could it be she and Lamar are expecting? Fame Pictures, Inc - Santa Monica, CA, USA - +1 (310) 395-0500
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FourStringer writes:
in response to wisecracker:
Jimmy, God hasn't changed, if He didn't like something then, He doesn't like it now (we can still see that in the NT). Fortunately, Messiah has come, the law is fulfilled and antonement has been made. Take your wife and daughter to church this weekend and you'll find that out for yourself!
btw, you're the one you said he feels uncomfortable around gay people.
Except with regard to the shellfish, pork, and Norelco electric shavers. God digs those now. Right?
You'd make a wonderful politician.
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William Aila
William Aila | ||
Hawaii Chairperson of Land and Natural Resources | ||
Incumbent | ||
In office | ||
November 29, 2010 - Present | ||
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December 2014 | ||
Years in position | 3 | |
Party | Non-partisan | |
Compensation | ||
Base salary | $103,512 | |
Elections and appointments | ||
Appointed | November 29, 2010 | |
Appointed by | Gov. of Hawaii Neil Abercrombie (D) | |
Campaign $ | $44,807 | |
Term limits | N/A | |
Education | ||
Bachelor's | University of Hawaii | |
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Aila was born in Waianae and earned a BA in General tropical agriculture from the University of Hawaii. Before becoming chairperson, Aila was Waianae, HI Boat Harbor Harbormaster.[2] Aila was held in contempt of court in 2005 for his involvement with Hui Malama I Na Kupuna 'O Hawaii Nei, an organization that seeks to rebury Native Hawaiian possesions and remians. Aila was a board member at a time when the group was accused of borrowing items from th Bishop Museum and not returning them. The group refused to return the items.[3]
He has worked for the Department of Land and Natural Resources for more than 23 years in the Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation.[2]
- Waianae High School (1976)
- Bachelor's degree in General tropical agriculture - University of Hawaii (1980)[3]
Political career
Hawaii Chairman of Land and Natural resources (2010-present)
Aila is the current Natural Resources Chairman for the state of Hawaii. He was appointed to the statewide position by Gov. Abercrombie upon his election in 2010, and confirmed for the appointment the following February. [4] The chairperson heads the Hawaii Board of Land and Natural Resources, a seven person state body responsible for conserving and managing Hawaii's natural resources and the exploitation thereof. The chairperson is the board's executive, and directly manages the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, the agency responsible for implementing the board's policies.
Appointments and Elections
In Dec. 2010, Aila was appointed Chairman of the Hawaii Board of Land and Natural Resources by then-newly elected governor Neil Abercrombie (D). Like all Hawaii state executives, the chairperson is appointed by the governor with the consent of the state Senate, which Aila received in early 2011 following his appointment.
Aila ran for Governor of Hawaii in 2006, but he lost in the Democratic primaries.[5]
Campaign donors
Comprehensive donor information for Aila is available dating back to 2006. Based on available campaign finance records, Aila raised a total of $44,807 during that time period. This information was last updated on July 9, 2013.[5]
William Aila's Campaign Contribution History | ||||
Year | Office | Result | Contributions | |
2006 | Governor of Hawaii | $44,807 | ||
Grand Total Raised | $44,807 |
Aila is married and has two children.[3]
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This section displays the most recent stories in a Google news search for the term "William + Aila + Hawaii + Resources"
- All stories may not be relevant to this page due to the nature of the search engine.
William Aila News Feed
- Jason Scott Lee featured in effort to save the palila - Hawaii 24/7 (press release)
- Shark attack near Punalu'u beach on Hawaii Island - Big Island Video News
- Hawaii's shark worries worsen after kayaker dies in Maui attack - Los Angeles Times
- Man Killed In Shark Attack Off Maui - WYSO
- Producer of Hawaii hunting show fires back against State - Hawaii News Now
- Hawaii Monitor: Did Your Tax Dollars Pay to Hunt Down That Cow? - Honolulu Civil Beat
- State Critical of Hunting Reality Series based on Hawaii Island; Launches ... - Hawaii Reporter
- Shark attack off Maui leaves fisherman dead - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
- Ni'ihau residents plea with lawmakers for "no fishing" zone - Hawaii News Now
- History Channel's 'American Jungle' In Trouble With Hawaii Governor - Huffington Post
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See also
- Natural Resources Commissioner
- Hawaii Chairperson of Land and Natural Resources
- Governor of Hawaii
- Current Governor of Hawaii Neil Abercrombie (D)
External links
- ↑ Star Advertiser, "Activist Aila takes new role as insider," January 17, 2011
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 KITV.com, "Abercrombie Picks First New Cabinet Members," November 29, 2010.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Honolulu Civil Beat, "William Aila Jr. biography," accessed July 9, 2013
- ↑ KITV.com, "Abercrombie Picks First New Cabinet Members," November 29, 2010.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Follow the Money, "Career fundraising for William J. Aila, Jr.," accessed July 9, 2013
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Hawaii Chairperson of Land and Natural Resources 2010-present |
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Short Programs
Social TV: Architectures, Technologies, and Deployment
Date: July 14-18, 2014 | Tuition: $3,500 | Continuing Education Units (CEUs): 2.7
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Course Summary | Learning Objectives | Who Should Attend | Program Outline | Schedule | Lecturers | Location
Course Summary
Anyone who has argued over what television program to watch, wrestled with a sibling or spouse for the remote control, or gone to a pub to watch (and support) their local sports team knows that television viewing is a highly social experience. TV was always social: the original technological design, content programming, and business model of television relied on it being a social medium: TVs were too expensive to be personal. They were designed for thousands (if not millions) of people to be watching the same program at the same time, and the programming was funded through an advertising model that demanded shows be popular to the masses, hence becoming part of the cultural and social landscape.
But TV has changed and is still changing. YouTube, Facebook, Netflix, and Hulu have changed the viewing landscape for TV consumers as their choices have multiplied beyond the traditional offerings. Television has gone from the living-room to the living-space and more and more portable mobile devices. It has evolved from a controlled distribution system and single stream to increasingly connected and social experiences. As more and more content migrates to the Internet, personal video is becoming the norm, not the exception, and this is changing the concepts of the TV channels. The immediacy and social aspects of TV are being integrated into better experiences. This is disrupting the business of operators, content providers, and advertisers alike. The impact of socialized content to the home and video distribution and content consumption landscape is still difficult to evaluate but there is obviously no turning back. For the most part, technological advances have driven a wedge between television and its function as a social center in the living room. Decreased costs in receivers have made it possible for each family member to disappear into their own room; IPTV, cable, and satellite have multiplied the viewing choices and pushed video on demand, further weakening the commonality of experience; the personal video recorder (PVR) has freed people who watch the same show from watching it at the same time; multiple websites and blogs related to TV content have replaced the traditional water cooler. The personalized TV experience reaches back to its original social roots.
So what is next? In this course we want to plot the next 10 years and apply the current disruptions in the TV industry to answer the question: "How are new technologies changing the way we will view and define the television of the future?" We want to briefly address historical television concepts and technologies to emphasize how the Internet and the mobile network are radically changing the notion of TV itself. The last 5 years have shown us that TV is not a device or a technology or even specific content anymore but a platform for innovation in video production, distribution, and consumption. We will address specific topics that relate to the creation and delivery of this next generation TV, such as novel display technology, connected and collaborating devices, content creation in a social context, community viewing challenges over heterogeneous networks, and business cases. There will be a particular emphasis on the place of television in a social context at the center of ones converging communication and entertainment ecosystem. Collaborative filtering and recommender systems as well as some novel technologies will be addressed. The class will use a systemic approach to cover the end-to-end elements of a Social TV implementation as well as showcasing existing projects and presenting demos that illustrate the different modules. In addition, we'll have team-focused exercises and discussions, culminating in each team developing an idea for a novel approach to television within a 5-10 year timeframe.
Fundamentals: Core concepts, understandings and tools (30%)
Latest Developments: Recent advances and future trends (40%)
Industry Applications: Linking theory and real-world (30%)
Lecture: Delivery of material in a lecture format (70%)
Discussion or Groupwork: Participatory learning (20%)
Labs: Demonstrations, experiments, simulations (10%)
Introductory: Appropriate for a general audience (50%)
Specialized: Assumes experience in practice area or field (25%)
Advanced: In-depth explorations at the graduate level (25%)
Learning Objectives
The Internet brings to bear on TV a curious combination of social and anti-social forces and of traditional and novel viewing behavior. It completes the trend toward individual screens and isolated viewing experiences on a variety of devices and at many locations inside and outside the home. At the same time it helps viewers form new social groups based on shared interests rather than proximity and democratizes media production and distribution, giving many more people a voice in what they want to watch and when. It is influencing how video technology is now developed, with connectivity in mind, and how content is developed for the small to large screens that are all being used.
- Assess the impact of new technologies as TV moves everywhere, viewing behavior evolves, business models face disruptions with traditional TV on one side and the web-world on the other, and conflicting viewing habits as lean back/lean forward meet. These include new compression algorithms and networking concepts like content-centric distribution and network coding as well as new displays and 3D.
- Review Social TV deployments, including existing offerings and platforms and academic projects that allow the TV experience to move beyond the traditional confines of entertainment into a more holistic media and content experience.
- Define connected TV and 2nd and 3rd screens social experiences and how widgets enhance the TV experience, moving interactivity away from the large screen to phones and tablets, and how social networking sites become TV clearinghouses.
- Learn about emerging business models for the video ecosystems, industry partnerships, and user involvement.
Who Should Attend
This course is appropriate for television professionals (including equipment manufacturers, content developers, technologists, and cable/satellite/IPTV service providers), web video producers, product developers, second screen application developers, user experience professionals, internet video technologists, video product managers, and storytellers (including journalists).
Program Outline
Day 1 am: What is Social in TV
The first morning will review the history behind social television as well as defining major components of a social viewing experience. This will include defining what makes television social, the impact of the social networking sites, and the evolution from interactivity to social engagement.
Day 1 pm: Evolution of the Viewership Behavior
In this section of the class we will review how the viewers' expectations of the TV experience have evolved with the changes of the TV landscape. This will introduce many of the topics to be addressed in more details in days 2 to 4 but also cover collaborative filtering and recommender systems.
Day 2 am: The Multiscreen Revolution and Convergence
With the rise of the smartphones and tablets, this section of the class will address the new media services enabled by the multiscreen as well as the impact of fixed-wireless convergence in the TV industry. This will include distributed compression algorithms for wireless viewing, collaborative distribution, and content protection.
Day 2 pm: User Experience
User experience is key to the social viewing experience. In this module we will review perception of video content, quality of experience parameters, gesture based systems, and remote controls. It will include a review of the most recent compression algorithms as well as network enablers for social connectivity.
Day 3 am: Television and Internet Enabling Technologies
Day 3 will most likely be the most technical day, starting with a review of the traditional TV production chain and how it is changing with the introduction of Internet technologies and different flavors of wireless technologies (from cellular to Wifi, Bluetooth, and Zigbee). We will also review Internet protocols for video distribution as well as novel approaches to localized caching and dissemination based on network coding principles and network virtualization.
Day 3 pm: Review of TV and Web Platforms for Social TV Development
The afternoon of Day 3 will review some of the software and hardware platforms for social TV creation as well as emerging standards in the W3C to enable cross-platform development.
Day 4 am: The Social TV Business Landscape
In this module we will assess how social and connected TV is changing the television value chain from linear to planar and identify the disruptions in the industry based on some data points from music and VoIP.
Day 4 pm: Review of Existing Commercial Initiatives
The number of commercial initiatives is growing every day. This session will look at some major projects (Zeebox, Miso, GetGLue, etc.) and technology offerings (AppleTV, GoogleTV, Boxee, Netflix), as well as a selected set of new startups, some of them local (final selection TBD).
Day 5 am: Hands-on-Exercises Create a Social Viewing Project Proposal
On the last day of the program, the class will be divided into 2- or 3-person teams that will work on a theme from the class discussions to define a concept for social viewing and engagement around TV concepts. The goal of the exercise is not to develop a full-fledged idea, but to put together some essential concepts and prepare for a short presentation.
Day 5 pm: Project Round Table and Discussion
The afternoon of Day 5 will be dedicated to the presentation of the projects and discussions. It is planned that all project ideas will be archived and made available to the teams.
Course schedule and registration times
Class runs 9:30 am - 5:00 pm on Monday, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and 8:30 am - 3:30 pm on Friday.
Registration is on Monday morning from 8:45 - 9:15 am.
Special events include a Networking Luncheon on Monday for course participants and a poster session on Thursday. All activities are included in tuition.
About The Lecturers
V. Michael Bove
V. Michael Bove holds an SBEE, an MS in visual studies, and a PhD in media technology, all from MIT, where he is currently head of the Object-Based Media group at the Media Lab, co-director of the Center for Future Storytelling, and director of the consumer electronics program CELab. He is the author or co-author of over 60 journal or conference papers on digital television systems, video processing hardware/software design, multimedia, scene modeling, visual display technologies, and optics. He holds patents on inventions relating to video recording, hardcopy, interactive television, and medical imaging, and has been a member of several professional and government committees. He is co-author, with the late Stephen A. Benton, of Holographic Imaging (Wiley, 2008). He is on the board of editors of the Journal of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, and associate editor of Optical Engineering. He served as general chair of the 2006 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC'06), and is a member of the board of governors of the National Academy of Media Arts and Sciences. Bove is a fellow of the SPIE and of the Institute for Innovation, Creativity, and Capital. He was a founder of and technical advisor to WatchPoint Media, Inc. (now a part of Tandberg Television) and is technical advisor to One Laptop per Child (creators of the XO laptop for children in developing countries).
Marie-José Montpetit
Marie-Jose Montpetit works in MIT's Research Lab of Electronics (RLE) Network Coding Group and also the Media Lab's Information Ecology Group. Her work at RLE is in advanced network coding for video and the MIT Media Lab Class on Social TV. Montpetit studies the technologies to make TV mobile in terms of content, social in terms of devices, and IP based; the work involves multiscreens and both seamless and collaborative network as well as novel approaches to networking in heterogeneous ecosystems.
Montpetit's Ph.D. in EECS is from the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Canada and she is a member of the IEEE Standing Committee on DSP and a collaborator to the ETSI BSM working group on aspects of convergence. In 2007, Montpetit was the recipient of the Motorola Innovation Prize for the development of a multi-screen and multi-network video mobility system. Occasionally, Montpetit reviews proposal papers in the wireless networking and future Internet fields for the European Union as well.
This course takes place on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We can also offer this course for groups of employees at your location. Please contact the Short Programs office for further details.


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an educationally enriched and safe environment where children are motivated and supported as they grow into successful adults. We believe that every student deserves love, discipline, respect and community support. We believe that all students deserve competent, well-trained teachers and administrators who help them do their work and care about them. We celebrate and honor school and ethnic traditions, and community and national events. We believe that an expectation of excellence, with a rigorous and relevant curriculum will develop visionary, high-achieving, and confident students.
All adults in our community are living by these core convictions daily and as a result, show the following attitudes and actions:
All teachers, parents, and community members are devoted to ensure that all students learn and place a high value on education. We will foster self-respect, moral and civic responsibility, environmental stewardship, and community service to prepare students for responsible adulthood. We contribute to this vision for our students by actively engaging in discussions each year. We encourage positive action within the school and wider community.
All teachers are professionals who continuously reinvent their practice, using scientifically researched practices. Teachers use a variety of instructional strategies that create problem solving opportunities for their students in a safe and orderly environment, while encouraging cooperative investigations and experiences that address different learning styles. Teachers will work to provide an innovative and holistic education and dedicate themselves to teaching the students, not just the subjects, and seek the help of community volunteers for remedial help when needed.
Parents are actively involved in their children's education. They demonstrate their support by visiting their child's classroom, reviewing classroom communications with their child, and following their progress daily. Families of our students stay aware of community resources that can help in all kinds of situations requiring assistance. Parents and the school will work together to keep families updated on learning opportunities related to parenting, engaging with their children in school activities, character development, and other topics that help to maintain healthy families. Community leaders are enthusiastic about the development of our school and engage in collegial planning and projects. They meet with faculty to discuss the resources available to mentor our diverse population of students in an effort to mobilize businesses and agencies that will provide services to students and their families.
In this environment where all adults are living by their core convictions, all students:
have a self-desire for success. They are self-regulated and task-oriented, independent learners who are enthusiastic and highly engaged. They demonstrate positive self-concepts and respect for diversity by practicing good citizenship and team-building skills.
As a result of these efforts, our school's student achievement data is as follows:


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The Dauphin County District Court Administrator's Office today announced that President Judge Todd A. Hoover has been appointed to handle all matters related to the cases of Commonwealth v. Timothy Curley and Commonwealth v. Gary Schultz.
Judge Hoover has been a member of the Dauphin County bench since 1994 and has been President Judge of Dauphin County since February 2010. He is a Dauphin County native, a graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Delaware Law School.
Judge Hoover has no connections with the defendants. Judge Hoover's brother is employed by the Pennsylvania State University in the Department of Entomology as a Senior Extension Associate. Counsel has no objection to Judge Hoover presiding over these cases.
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It is extremely hard to know what North Koreans are really feeling as they mourn the death of Kim Jong Il today. What's clear, though, is that there is plenty to be anxious about. It's not just that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea faces a prolonged period of uncertainty as the Dear Leader's putative political heir, the 27-year-old Kim Jong Un, settles into his new job. There's also the not inconsequential matter of getting enough to eat as North Korea's infamously hard and barren winter approaches.
North Koreans have been starving for years, needless to say. Stories about widespread malnutrition in the country have been making the rounds at least since the early 1990s. The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 deprived Pyongyang of a host of vital industrial subsidies, and the resulting collapse of the North Korean economy was compounded by a series of floods and other natural disasters later in the decade. No one knows precisely how many North Koreans died; most of the estimates range between half a million and two. As journalist Blaine Harden notes in his forthcoming book Escape From Camp 14, one million dead in North Korea (pop. 24 million) would translate into roughly 12 million victims in a country the size of the United States.
The survivors, meanwhile, have to contend with the cumulative effects of years of starvation and malnutrition. Studies show that North Korean defectors are routinely several inches shorter and considerably lighter than their counterparts in the South. But even in flush times, the nagging problem of hunger has continued to plague North Korea even as the famines have forced the government to tolerate a variety of bottom-up coping mechanisms developed by ordinary people to shield themselves from starvation. The most prominent: private markets and grassroots trade (much of it illegal) with China. Increased aid from South Korea, the result of a rapprochement between Pyongyang and left-of-center governments in Seoul, also brought a measure of relief for a few years in the first half of the last decade. None of this, of course, really addressed the core problem of the Kim regime's chronic mismanagement of the economy and the environment. But the band-aid was better than nothing.
Now even that small room for maneuver appears to have vanished. A few years ago, worried about a potential loss of political control, Kim Jong Il's minions began cracking down on markets and illicit cross-border trade. Meanwhile, North Korea's first nuclear test in 2006 dealt a blow to those in Seoul and elsewhere who had argued that generous provision of assistance would change the North for the better. Riding the resulting wave of skepticism was the conservative politician Lee Myung-bak, inaugurated as South Korea's president in 2008. Lee announced that he wanted to see the North offer more concessions in return for Southern aid -- a stance that contributed mightily to a cooling of inter-Korean relations.
Another North Korean nuclear test in 2009 didn't help much. And then, in the spring of 2010, a South Korean warship, the Cheonan, sunk, killing 46 sailors after an enormous explosion that Seoul and various international observers blamed on a North Korean torpedo. A few months later, as if to avoid any ambiguity in the matter, the North Koreans fired off barrages of artillery shells at a South Korean island. The Lee administration put relations with Pyongyang in the deep freeze and aid from the South, already down to a trickle, dried up.
This summer, floods hit again, washing away cropland and plunging the North into a new state of emergency. A procession of humanitarian aid officials visited North Korea and issued dire predictions about another food crisis in the offing. Statement after statement called upon the governments in Seoul and Washington to donate money for aid.


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It's sad enough when we must report on the loss of a pilot's life. It's even harder to bear when it appears the pilot in question saw his end coming... Ed.
This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final report has been completed.
On April 15, 2008, approximately 1810 mountain daylight time, an Air Tractor AT-602 single-engine air tanker airplane, N602AA, was destroyed when it impacted terrain while maneuvering near Fort Carson, Colorado. The commercial pilot, who was the sole occupant, sustained fatal injuries. The airplane was operated by the Department of Defense, Fort Carson, Colorado, for public use firefighting missions, and registered to Aero-Applicators, Inc., Sterling, Colorado. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and a company flight plan was filed. The flight originated from a private airstrip in Sterling, Colorado.
According to the registered owner, they were contacted by the Colorado State Forest Service Pueblo dispatch and requested to assist with aerial fire suppression efforts at the 9,800-acre Training Area 25 wildfire near Fort Carson, Colorado. The airplanes departed a private airstrip near Sterling, Colorado, at 1700, with full fuel tanks and 500 gallons of water and Class A foam.
The United States Forest Service (USFS) air-to-ground contact, who was located near the intended drop area, stated that he was in radio contact with the two airplanes when they arrived to the wildfire area. The USFS contact informed the accident airplane pilot the intended drop location and expectations. The intended drop area was a line of pine trees located to the north of a gravel road and the existing wildfire, and the contact wanted the trees protected in case the wildfire crossed the road. Prior to the live drop, the accident pilot performed a dry run, and the second airplane flew approximately 500 feet overhead as a spotter. After completing the dry run, the airplane circled around to the south and east to set up for the live drop, which was an east to west flight pattern. The airplane flew to the west over the top of a tall pine tree, and the pilot released the load approximately 500 feet west of the intended drop location. The load was dropped on top of the ground contact and his vehicle.
After a second or two, the contact overhead the pilot reported a series of maydays and "I'm going down." The contact looked up to the west and observed the airplane's right wing impact the terrain. The contact stated the wind was from the southwest and gusting to 30 to 40 knots.
The accident site was located on a grass covered hill adjacent to highway 115 at an elevation of approximately 6,600 feet mean sea level. The airplane came to rest in an upright position on a measured magnetic heading of 340 degrees. Examination of the wreckage showed that the right wing was crushed aft and bent up, and the fuselage was crushed to the right. The main landing gear struts and wheel assemblies were separated. The left wing was bent forward and the aft fuselage attach fitting was separated. The right horizontal stabilizer was bent aft and up, and the left horizontal stabilizer was bent forward. The 5-blade propeller assembly was separated from the propeller shaft, and one blade was separated from the hub.
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Leprechaun Blacksmith
Rock n' Roll Legionnaire
Unicorn Rampage
Vicious Bunny Predator
Female Scout
It was a fair vote guys ...
And S2 isnt greedy or whatever u say ... they have to pay their staff that update our ****in game all the time and u havent to buy any alternative avatars.
It's free ...
So childish ...
and sry for my bad english ....
hey s2games try this alt avatar punk nymphora http://www.google.ro/imgres?imgurl=h...w=1280&bih=854
THIS IS HON IT IS SERIOUS GAME NO JOKEs NO LAUGHING NO NOOBS NO FUN FINAL DESTINATION.
Seriously, lighten up. Not everyone takes online games so seriously, whether they're competitive or not.
If you want serious stuff, get off the internet, stop playing video games, and go out in the real world and do something.
Female Scout didn't win . I am most pleased .
I actually don't even care about this but I just wanted HoN not to have another female alt avatar for people to fap.
This really made my day.
Oh oh oh and: In your faces!!!
Am i the only one who was a litle dissapointed scout was the only ''Real'' submission, i have made threads about how sucky scout is and how he ruins your team if he is picked high pub, and how he just solo wins the game if you are low pub, so yeah.. no scout fan here...
but honestly.. i feel no reason the scout shoudln't have won, people should have come up with their own concept art, i hope this will be clasified as a - Fun Alt Avatar contest, and scout will move along to a more serious alt avatar community contest.
I do though like the unicorne stomper But it's sad how the one who made scout could lose to people making a fool of themselves when he/her made such a great and well though through concept.
There should be an MC Hammer Hammerstorm, with the parachute pants and all. He could carry a giant mic or something.
His stun should just be called STOP!
and his ulti should be caled HAMMERTIME!
This should all be voiced out whenever you use the skill.
So basically if you stun + ult he would say: "STOP!.. HAMMERTIME!"
His armor buff can be called 'Cant touch this'.. which ofcourse should be voiced out as well
pardon me if someone has already had this idea though.. I just thought it would be hilarious.
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why is there no Pyro-MINCER (in england some one who minces is very camp)
Stop voting for scout there will be more noobs taking scout just for the alt avatar of the only heroe they can play.


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Just two days ago fans were treated to the Stalley, Rick Ross and Nipsey Hussle-starring "Fountain of Youth" music video, and in typical MMG fashion, here's yet another visual release from the crew's Self Made Vol. 2 compilation. The clip for the epic closer, "Bury Me A G," chronicles the journey of a coffin from the morgue to the graveyard, all while Rozay and fellow Southern rap kingpin T.I. throw their weight about (y'know what, I'll reserve that statement for Ross only).
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Kids locked up by agencies set up to protect them
Tyrone Reid, Senior Staff Reporter
The Child Development Agency (CDA) is describing as "misleading" official documents that show its officers taking children in need of care and protection to police lock-ups.
But that has not prevented Youth and Culture Minister Lisa Hanna from reportedly demanding a full explanation.
While there has been no official word from Hanna, high-level sources in the ministry say she intends to order a process audit of the CDA to, among other things, verify exactly what happens for that kind of classification to be on the police reports.
The official law-enforcement documents seen by The Sunday Gleaner show that children, who have not been accused of any crime, are held in the same lock-ups used to house adults accused of committing crimes.
The documents also show that some of these children are forced to stay in police custody for more than two weeks.
Copies of the "list of children in police custody" prepared by the Detention and Courts Division of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) have revealed that even children who were taken from abusive homes end up in the rugged police lock-ups.
The documents show that oftentimes the children are taken to the police by officials of the CDA, who are paid to protect them and to ensure that this particular breach of the law does not take place.
However, Carla Francis Edie, chief executive officer of the CDA, and others in the agency say the official police documents are incorrect.
"It is an error. We found that out today and we are going to be forwarding a letter to the head of the Detention and Courts Division tomorrow," Francis Edie told our news team last Thursday.
"It is an error which shouldn't come on the detention and courts list. The CDA does not remand children to police stations.
"We cannot take a child in need of care and protection to a police lock-up . That defeats the purpose," said an adamant Francis Edie.
In a subsequent emailed response, the agency further claimed that having reviewed the Detention and Courts Divisions list, it believes that the information as captured, which identifies the arresting officer as the CDA, is misleading.
"For example, today (Friday) the CDA received the Detention and Courts listing for this week, ending October 12, and one of the entries again lists the CDA as the arresting officer.
"When we did our investigation, it showed that the child was taken by the police from a place of safety to court. Afterwards, the child was to have been returned to the facility. However, the child was instead taken to a police station by the police officer," the CDA said in its respone.
But Dr Carolyn Gomes, executive director of human-rights lobby Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ), is not buying the CDA's denial.
According to Gomes, the CDA's response was incredulous.
"That excuse makes no sense. It is not a mistake in one report. If it is a mistake, it's a mistake in dozens and dozens of reports," said Gomes.
"Why wasn't it corrected previously? The claims come from many police divisions in their reports to CDA and nobody saw it?
"Is it that they don't read the reports and have the mistakes corrected, or is it that it is not a mistake? It is highly unlikely that it is a mistake that would go uncorrected for so long," argued Gomes.
The human-rights activist charged that it was unconscionable to think that children removed from abusive homes were being placed in jail.
"To put a child who needs care and protection in a police lock-up is a disgrace, and to have the CDA putting them in there is a breach of the law," she charged.
Gomes continued: "If it's a mistake, it shows a high degree of incompetence to allow such an egregious mistake of that nature to persist for so long."


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A Wayne County Circuit Court Judge has heard arguments in a case that involves Michigan's medical marijuana law.
The Michigan ACLU is suing the city of Livonia (and two other Detroit suburbs with similar laws) on behalf of Linda Lott, who suffers from multiple sclerosis.
Lott and her husband want to grow marijuana on property they own in Livonia. But the city passed an ordinance prohibiting any activity that violates federal law.
Michael Fisher, an attorney for the city of Livonia, Fisher says the city has a compelling reason to ban any marijuana-growing operation.
"The experience of other states suggests that crime tends to proliferate around where marijuana is grown or otherwise provided to people. And to law enforcement, of course, a marijuana growing operation looks identical whether it's legal or illegal."
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2010 NBA Playoffs: Los Angeles Lakers vs. Oklahoma City Thunder Preview
By (Correspondent) on April 17, 2010
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The NBA playoffs are just around the corner, and it looks like this could be the first round series to watch.
No other team has surprised as much as the Oklahoma City Thunder. This has to do greatly with NBA leading scorer Kevin Durant—a phrase that will become common in the future.
Durant has put the young Thunder on his back, and he has carried them all the way to the No. 8 seed.
Unfortunately that means their reward is Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers.
The Lakers are coming off an NBA Championship, and they want more.
Kobe Bryant, Lamar Odom, Ron Artest, Pau Gasol, Derek Fisher, and Andrew Bynum—when healthy—make up the best six man rotation in the league, and the Thunder are certainly going to have their hands full.
As always I want to hear your opinions, so please speak up.
Season History
The Thunder are a respectable 1-3 versus the Lakers in the regular season.
However, this record is a little deceiving.
In two of the three losses for the Thunder, they only lost by three points. Durant was also able to get hot in the two close games by putting up 28 and 30 point games.
The Thunder's one win came in a dominating 91-75 victory in late March. Here, Durant was able to put up 26 points, and Nenad Krstic was able to snag 10 rebounds.
The Thunder were dominant on defense in their latest match-up.
Could this be an upcoming trend for the playoff series?
Who's Hot, Who's Not: Lakers
Since having a dispute with Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol has been a man on a mission under the basket.
Since March 27, Gasol has put up a double-double in seven of his last nine games. This also includes a season high 22 rebounds, and a season high 32 points.
If the Lakers are going to have success in the playoffs, Gasol is going to be a big factor.
Ron Artest has been the exact opposite of Gasol recently.
His head just does not seem to be in the game, and he seemed very reluctant to play in the last couple of games of the regular season.
Maybe Artest has bigger plans for the playoffs?
With Artest you just never know what is going through his head.
However, the Lakers need Artest to straighten up and start becoming that premier defensive stopper in the playoffs.
Who's Hot, Who's Not: Thunder
Kevin Durant has been simply out of control for the majority of the season.
But, he was definitely in a league of his own down the stretch of the regular season.
In the month of April Durant put up 40-plus points three times, 30-plus points four times, and his lowest point total was 23 points.
Most players would be thrilled to score 23 points, but not Durant. Durant is going to need a few 40 point wonder games in order to give Oklahoma City any chance against the Lakers.
While Durant got hot down the stretch in April, Russell Westbrook did not.
The fiery point guard only put up double digit assist totals twice, and he saw a significant decrease in his points, steals, and shooting percentage.
The only category Westbrook saw an increase in was his turnovers.
In four of the final eight games, Westbrook saw himself turn the ball over at least five times. This also includes two seven-turnover games.
The Thunder will need Westbrook in tip-top shape, so look for him to bounce out of this cold spell.
Lakers' Key to the Series
The Lakers' key to success may start with the stars—Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol, Ron Artest, and Andrew Bynum—but it will certainly end with Lamar Odom.
Odom is one of the most difficult match-ups in the league. He is a versatile forward who also has the ability to create on the fast break, hit the long jumper, and pull down 20 rebounds.
If the Thunder put Jeff Green on Odom, Green may have a tough time with him down low. However, if they match-up Nick Collison or Nenad Krstic on Odom, he will have a field day out on the perimeter.
The Lakers are going to need a big performance out of Odom if they want to get past the young Thunder. He always seems to step up his game in the playoffs, and I do not see any break to that trend.
Thunder's Key to the Series
The two X-factors for the Thunder are Russell Westbrook and Thabo Sefolosha.
The Westbrook vs. Fisher match-up is a very intriguing one. Westbrook is a very explosive athlete, who at times can seem virtually unstoppable.
Will Derek Fisher be able to slow down this young point guard? Or will Westbrook have his way with the crafty veteran?
The Thunder are going to need Westbrook to be that solid No. 2 option behind Durant.
Sefolosha is not a household name...yet.
The shut-down guard from Switzerland is regarded as one of the best pure defensive players. Many players and scouts think that he should be a candidate for defensive player of the year.
Frankly, I completely agree.
Sefolosha will have his biggest task yet to date: Stopping the best player in the league—Kobe Bryant.
If Sefolosha can even do a decent job against Bryant, this could mean huge success for the Thunder. Sefolosha will need to be on top of his game for the Thunder to have any chance in the series.
Series Prediction
The picture says it all.
Kobe Bryant and the Lakers will walk away with the series victory, but it will not be an easy No. 1 vs No. 8 match-up that the Lakers are used to being in.
If Bynum is ready for the playoff, this could pose huge match-up problems for the Thunder. Gasol and Odom are already tough enough, but to add another seven-footer would be devastating.
The Thunder should get big production from Durant, Westbrook, and Green, but it does not look like it will be enough.
However, in the next couple of years, this match-up could become a regular Western Conference Finals series.
Still, I like the Lakers to take the series in six.
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Former England boss Sir Clive Woodward believes that Wales have the personnel to win the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
Warren Gatland's troops have claimed successive Six Nations titles and boasted 10 players in the Lions starting XV for the third Test against Australia. Not only have the current Welsh crop been successful, but they are also a youthful outfit, with more than half of the players who ran out at Twickenham when Wales clinched the Six Nations aged 25 or under.
With this in mind, Woodward feels that Wales can come through a tough pool that contains hosts England and Australia to win the tournament - if they are not hard-hit by injuries.
"If Wales field their first XV, they are potential World Cup winners," Woodward told Wales Online.
"Wales have not got the depth of options available to England, but they do have the quality.
"When they are at their strongest, they are a match for any team in the world.
"Their players were crucial to the Lions and I thought skipper Sam Warburton was amazing."
Woodward is less optimistic about England's hosts and has called on the back division to step up if they are to pocket any silverware.
"Stuart is doing an excellent job and has a good team developing," he said.
"And the Lions experiences this summer of coaches Andy Farrell and Graham Rowntree will benefit them hugely.
"But the World Cup will be incredibly competitive in the qualifying pools, particularly for England who are drawn with Wales and Australia.
"It's no longer about development, it's now about results.
"The England forwards look very impressive but it's time for our backline to step up and start firing on all cylinders."


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Family fun at Chard community day
8:00am Sunday 16th September 2012 in News
PRAYERS were answered last weekend when organisers of a rearranged community day at the skate park in Henson Park in Chard got their wishes.
The event was originally scheduled for July but was cancelled due to bad weather .
But there was not a cloud in the sky on Saturday as the re-arranged event took place with plenty of gusto as families enjoyed a range of stalls, drumming workshops and demonstrations with the centre of attention being on the skate park itself with a Sk8 Jam for bikers, skaters and in-line skaters.
Among the helpers was the Mayor of Chard, Cllr Cathie Morrison, who was showing off her culinary skills on the barbecue.
Youth group Street Space hosted the community day with support from Chard Town Council and South Somerset District Council.
The Chard Goldstar Majorettes kicked things off while there was an auction to help raise funds towards a trip that six youngsters went on in August to Seica Mare in Romania – Chard's twin town – to convert a portable building into a pharmacy.
Youth worker Tracey Hallett told the News she could not speak highly enough of the young people who went to Romania with her for the project.
"They were fantastic," she said. "They worked so hard – they were amazing."
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08 6.4 with 118,000 blew up
The egr failed on my 2008 F250 6.4 with 118,000 miles. It sucked in coolant into the cylinders. Number 8 cylinder bent a rod and the piston put a big scratch in the bore. It's shot. I'm looking at $10,0000.00 to put in a decent mileage junk yard motor. I'm just sick about this. I have put in 2 radiators, and had other coolant issues as well as electronic sensor failures that left me stranded more then once. I bleed ford blue and have purchased more then 10 New ford vehicles. I'm not sure how I feel about ford over this. My 6.0 diesel blew up but they covered that one under warranty. The only good diesel I had were the 7.3 engines. The only bad part on those trucks were the transmissions. Sorry for the rant. Ford should do the right thing and cover these junk motors.
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just fyi, people on this site doesnt do well with new members with it being there first post to come on and bash a motor and say how big of junk it is when they are really not. the 6.0 and 6.4 are both great motors when maintained properly. coming on here whining about how terrible these motors are wont get you far with these guys, now coming on here asking for help and answers then you will be well on your way. |
Sounds like you leave your trucks factory stock. In that case, yes, the 7.3 is the Ford for you.
to the OP: it sounds like ur rig is stock, one things for sure the 6.4 are stout motors once you delete the dpf and shut off the egr. sounds to me those emisions controls chooched ur engine. if u do decide to drop in another research these boards on how to make ur engine into a beast. good luck! u can check out this guy on youtube that explains what happens to the 6.4, etc oh and fyi |
My intent wasn't to get everyone upset at me. I was researching these problems with the 6.4 online and found this site. I'm a Stone Mason and need my truck everyday. The truck was $52,000.00 and I still owe $14,000.00 on it. I'm just very frustrated. I love my truck and there is nothing out there I would rather have. The garage I took it to said these issues are popping up often and they work on these trucks regularly. My truck is stock. I thought if I left it alone it would run forever. Being an Avid Mustang Drag racer I know that the farther you get from stock the less reliable the vehicle is. Not in this case. I know now what do do with the new motor. Egr and Dlp delete. Any advice you all can give me will be very appreciated.
F350powerstroke, Thanks for the video.
EGR cooler failures are usually caused by another coolant leak either leaving the cooling system empty or allowing air to be sucked in and circulated. The air in the system is what allows the cooler to overheat (because it can't cool on just air alone) and rupture.
Make sure you look strongly for another coolant leak as being the root cause. I hate to say it but if you guys would just check your coolant level every once in a while you'd quickly know if there was a concern. Same goes for checking your oil level. If your oil was becoming dilluted with fuel and was on the rise would you ever know it until it was too late? |
I have 157000 miles on mine and it is stock. I check and mark my coolant tank with a marker every fill up, then wipe it clean and start over at the first of each month. 1 radiator and one exhaust rocker has been about it. I also get under the truck every month to look for seeping problems. It is worth every minuit of my time to do this
After watching that video it seems to me that my front cover would be cavitated since I haven't done a great job flushing the coolant and still have the egr coolers. Has anybody replaced this front cover or is it something that gets done at a shop rather than my garage?
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I certainly can't argue with that. I've spent more on repairs in 15k miles on my 6.4 than my parents did in 270k on their 7.3. Plus, maintenance is more expensive and it gets worse mileage. Not sure I could go back, though. I like the way this thing tows too much, and the extra creature comforts are nice when you're doing 1200 mile days.
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Remembering Mizzou's Upset Over Oklahoma: My Story
I was a freshman when No. 11 Mizzou hosted College GameDay against No. 1 Oklahoma for Homecoming. This was a huge game, mainly because Oklahoma was ranked No. 1 in the BCS. Not only that, Mizzou was undefeated at this time, and Pinkel had never beaten Oklahoma since becoming head coach. The stage was set — 7:00 p.m. Faurot Field, ABC– the whole college football nation would be watching this game.
The day before, my roommates and I decided that attending College GameDay was a once in a lifetime opportunity and just something we couldn't pass up, no matter what. We arrived behind Jesse Hall relatively early, around 10 p.m. – it would be another six hours or so before we were granted access to the Quad to reserve our spots. It was brutal, cold, and rainy all night, but we stuck with hundreds of others in the hope of obtaining access to the pit right behind the stage. Luckily our dedication paid off, and we made the cut. As we got on the quad, there were several booths set up with fan gear, drinks, and other freebies, which made everyone pretty happy.
After we registered, we got wristbands that would grant us access around 10:00 a.m. to the famed pit. On a side note, I can't describe how excited this campus was. Being a freshmen from Chicago, I had no idea what Mizzou football meant to the students and the fans – this was going to be a special day. After re-fueling at the Waffle House and attempting to grab a few hours of sleep on campus, it was finally time for GameDay to begin. As we walked back to the pit, we were stopped by several fans offering up to $30 dollars for our wristbands. I don't think there was any amount of money we were going to accept for what we had endured for the last 12 hours. The place was unbelievably packed, and, as we would later find out, Mizzou fans set the GameDay record for attendance with approximately 18,000 fans. We were in the best spot and could be seen on TV almost every time the cameras showed the crazy crowd.
The show, the fans, and everything about that Saturday morning was great. It didn't matter that Lee Corso held up the Tiger helmet for a moment before putting on the Boomer head; Tiger fans had already bought into the upset hype.It was finally game time. I've now been to 14 Mizzou home games, and no other game comes close to the atmosphere of that Saturday night. The place was rocking from start to finish, especially when Jahn McGaffie took the opening kickoff 86 yards to the house for the best start Mizzou could have asked for.
The rest of the game was just as exciting. Blaine Gabbert and Landry Jones would go back and forth all night, both throwing over 300 yards a piece. The real difference in the game was Mizzou's ability to pound the ball against a tough Oklahoma front seven. The Tigers out-rushed star RB DeMarco Murray and the Sooners 178 to 99; Murray was held to a new season low 49 yards.
With the Tigers trailing 21-20 heading into the 4th quarter, that same special feeling was heavier than ever. I remember telling my roommate before the quarter began that one big play would decide this game. I admittedly said Murray was going to break a huge run, and the Sooners wouldn't look back. I've never been more happy to be wrong. It was WR JerrellJackson for Mizzou who would prove me wrong and put the Tigers ahead for good.
Mizzou's defense, led by Aldon Smith, would completely shut down that potent Sooner offense for the remainder of the game. With the win locked up and the time just expired, thousands of Mizzou students rushed the field to congratulate the players on one of Mizzou's biggest wins in its program's history.
The celebration would continue throughout the night as fans dragged the north goal post downtown to Harpo's, where it was cut into pieces and given to Tigers fans as a piece of college football history. This was truly one of the greatest days a college football fan could ask for.
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Posted by Gold_12TH on Mon May 21 22:20:39 2012, in response to MTA says East Side Access may cost a whopping $1 BILLION more, posted by gold_12th on Mon May 21 18:57:04 2012. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is predicting that its East Side Access project will not be completed until August 2019, nearly six years later than originally planned.The new completion estimate was not entirely a surprise: MTA Chairman Joseph Lhota had hinted at a 2019 target date in a recent public appearance, and the most recent estimates by the Federal Transit Administration had predicted the project would be finished in 2018. Mr. Lhota on Monday also unveiled a new projected cost for the project: $8.24 billion, up from the 2009 public estimate of $7.3 billion. The MTA will attempt to manage the project to a target of $7.88 billion, but will budget for the higher number out of caution, he said. The new estimates were reached largely in accordance with the Federal Transit Administration, which has kicked in some $2.7 billion toward the project. Last week, the Department of Transportation's inspector general announced plans to conduct an audit of the East Side Access project's books. Mr. Lhota said that was not an unusual development, and said he welcomed the audit during a briefing for the press Monday. The new timeline was calculated at 80% probability, Mr. Lhota said, meaning there is that chance the project will be delivered on or before the new completion date. Previous estimates relied on far rosier assumptions about the pace and complexity of the work, he said. Previous deadlines have been "consistently blown, year in and year out," he said. "I think we've got to go with the right number. The public deserves that." Driving the delays in the project—which will bring Long Island Rail Road trains to a new station deep beneath Grand Central Terminal, slashing commuting times for an expected 80,000 Midtown workers—are derived not just from technical complications but also cascading delays at the Harold Interlocking in Queens. There, MTA construction crews are rebuilding the nation's busiest passenger rail interchange, even as it continues to be used by some 48 Amtrak and 600 LIRR trains per day. That has required cooperation among a number of players, including LIRR, Amtrak and NJ Transit, which stores about 40 trains each weekday in the rail yards near Harold, in preparation for the afternoon rush through Penn Station to New Jersey. For now, MTA Capital Construction officials have struggled to balance the needs of construction—especially the rebuilding of the Harold Interlocking, including moving signals and catenary poles, doubling the number of rail switches and replacing almost 60,000 linear feet of track—with the desire of railroad leaders to continue operating trains. Other concessions will have to be made as the project continues, LIRR President Helena Williams said Monday. Referring to a planned three-week service reduction in July, which will see three afternoon peak trains removed from the schedule to accommodate construction work, she said there will be more such interruptions. "In a sense this is the beginning," she said, "where we do have to demonstrate some flexibility while maintaining our core commuter rail services." ---http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304019404577418792452139340.html |
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Pacific Gas and Electric Company hosted a tour of its new gas operations headquarters in Bishop Ranch on Tuesday, showing off the construction site of its state-of-the-art gas control center. When completed, the facility will house more than 1,600 employees who previously worked in San Francisco, Concord, Walnut Creek, Fresno and other locations.
PG&E will occupy two and a half floors of a five story building while approximately electric transmission operations and gas staff will occupy the second, third and fourth floors. Mel Christopher, senior director of gas system operations Christopher gave a tour of the 48,000 square foot fifth floor that will house the gas control center by mid-2013. Crews have started working outside the building to put in on-site generators and fiber-optic lines
PG&E determined that its electric transmissions operations would be enhanced by relocating from the aging building at 1919 Webster Street in Oakland to a more modern and larger office. Bishop Ranch will house electric transmission line and substation engineering and design, system protection, system automation, project management and asset strategy functions.
Control rooms for PG&E's gas transmission system and its 6,000 miles of pipes, the gas distribution system and its 42,000 miles of smaller pipes will also be located be co-located at the facility. The center will be responsible for monitoring PG&E's network of gas distribution and transmission pipelines 24 hours a day and will have emergency-dispatch personnel.
"So whether it's a phone call coming in from a customer that they smell gas, or if it's information coming in from a control center about changes in pressure or flow, all that information will come into one location," Christopher said.
Officials said the new facility and consolidate operations will improve PG&E's chances of preventing a repeat of the San Bruno natural gas explosion that killed eight in 2010.
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North Carolina's Beech Mountain Hosts "Learn to Ski Challenge"; Offers $39 Learning Package
Beech Mountain, N.C. --January is National Learn a Snowsport Month.··In support of this initiative, Beech Mountain Resort is providing affordable options and opportunities to bring novices to the world of winter sports.
Beech Mountain Resort is hosting the first annual Learn to Ski Challenge.·Various members of the local community and media will learn to ski at Beech Mountain Resort.··Challengers include Amy Lynn of "Day Time Tri Cities," David Burleson, Superintendent of Avery County schools, and Chris Wilcox of 106.5 THE END's "Woody and Wilcox Show."·Challengers will blog about their experiences on beechmountainresort.com.
On the website customers can take the challenge by filling out a short survey, which will provide you with coupons and discounts to learn to ski at Beech Mountain Resort. Mid-week packages start as low as $39 for a lift ticket, rentals, helmet and first time beginner lesson.··By completing the survey, you will automatically be entered to win a weekend trip at Beech Mountain Resort, which includes lodging, lift tickets and beginner lessons!
Want to stay and play?··No problem!··Beech Mountain Resort has teamed up with the Pinnacle Inn Resort to offer Learn to Ski and Stay packages starting from $75 during the week and $105 on the weekend on a per-person basis.·These packages include lodging, lift ticket and a first time beginner lesson.·
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05/21/2013 35 Grizzly student-athletes earn their degrees in 2013This year's University of Montana graduates came to Missoula from eight different states 11/20/2012 Griz have five football players named to the All-Big Sky first or second teamA total of 17 Montana players were recognized for their play this season 11/14/2012 Griz host the Cats as the teams square off for the 112th time in the storied rivalryMontana hopes to end its season on a winning note; MSU posturing for the postseason
11/03/2012 The Grizzlies win two in a row for the first time this season 10/20/2012 The Grizzlies couldn't hold onto second half lead to beat UND Montana: Bryce had an outstanding spring and earned a starting job at at one of UM's wide receiver positions. He is the Grizzlies' seventh leading returning receiver. 2011: He suffered an injury early in the season and did not get to full strength until the middle of the year. He played in 12 games and had 11 catches for 140 yards and one touchdown. 2010: He played in all 11 games and started in the last eight. He was UM's fourth-leading receiver with 38 receptions. He had 261 receiving yards and 5 touchdowns. 2009: He played in seven games on special teams as a true freshman. He did not have a reception. High School: He was the starting quarterback for the Beavers and conference MVP as a junior and senior...a receiver and safety in 2006 when the Beavers won the Class "A" state title...as a senior he threw for 2,238 yards and 19 touchdowns and rushed for 1,105 yards and 25 TDs...also punted, kicked, and played defensive back...earned 10 letters at Beaverhead High School: three each in football and basketball, and four in track...teams won basketball state championships in 2007 (25-0) and 2009 (23-2)...league MVP in hoops in 2008 and 2009...four time all-conference performer in track...team captain in football and basketball as a senior...prep coach was Terry Thomas, a former (1978-80) Griz starting defensive back and punter. Career Highs: His longest reception is 39 yards at Sam Houston State last season in a FCS semifinal game. He had 6 receptions against Idaho State in 2010, and a career-best 48 yards receiving against Sac State and at Northern Colorado in that season. He had two scoring grabs in the 2010 season opener against Western State. He had a 14-yard run at NC as a sophomore. Personal: Bryce's parents are Brett and Nancy Carver of Dillon. His major is business finance. Birth date: April 17, 1991. Year-G/S-Rec.-Yds.-Avg.-TD-Long 2010-11/8-31-261-8.4-5-29 2011-12/0-11-140-12.7-1-39 TOTALS-23/8-42-401-9.5-6-39 |
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Techland has put the planned Dead Island DLC expansions on hold so the developer could concentrate on fixing existing bugs and glitches in the main game, publisher Deep Silver announced. "Right now the Dead Island development team's priority is working on fixes and updates across all platforms so that we can take care of all of the fans who have been so supportive of our game," a Deep Silver spokesperson stated, "There is some awesome DLC content planned for Dead Island, but first we have to put all our focus on the base game experience." Techland released an Xbox 360 patch earlier this week, with a PlayStation 3 patch coming soon with no set date. The broken PC version was replaced on Steam by the planned release build; a 360 debug version had accidentally been released at launch. The bugs in Dead Island are more of the procedural kind, rather than disastrous issues, though some have reported encountering clipping issues and map holes. Source: Kotaku |


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June 14, 2012 Robots can develop basic language skills through interaction with a human, according to new results from researchers at the University of Hertfordshire and published in PLoS ONE.
Dr Caroline Lyon, Professor Chrystopher Nehaniv and Dr Joe Saunders have carried out experiments as part of the iTalk project with the childlike iCub humanoid robot to show how language learning emerges. Initially the robot can only babble and perceives speech as a string of sounds, not divided up into words. After engaging in a few minutes of "conversation" with humans, in which the participants were instructed to speak to the robot as if it were a small child, the robot adapted its output to the most frequently heard syllables to produce some word forms such as the names of simple shapes and colours.
Dr Caroline Lyon said: "It is known that infants are sensitive to the frequency of sounds in speech, and these experiments show how this sensitivity can be modelled and contribute to the learning of word forms by a robot."
The iTalk project teaches the robot to speak using methods similar to those used to teach children and is a key part in the learning process of the human-robot interaction. Although the iCub robot is learning to produce word forms, it does not know their meaning, and learning meanings is another part of the iTalk project's research. These scientific and technological advances could have a significant impact on the future generation of interactive robotic systems.
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