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If you are one of those experienced c-20 contractors, then I am sure you have been to an HVAC forum or two. One of the main reasons that we love to go to these types of websites is because we get to communicate with other heating and air conditioning technicians. This can be useful if we have a question in regards to a system we are working on, and need to ask someone who has a lot of experience. One of the issues that the c-20 contractor can come in contact with, is you can't take a desk top computer from job to job. You need an app that you can put on your iPhone, or iPad. This makes it more convenient to access an HVAC forum when it is most needed.
There are a few different apps that will allow you to this. Some of those include tapatalk, Forumsmobile, and many others. One of my favorites is tapatalk. It's a small app that doesn't take very long to download onto your cell. Once you have downloaded it, you just look for your favorite hvac forum, and then type in your login name and password, and your done. It is as simple as that. I have used tap talk many times while at a residential home owners place. Sometimes when you are out in the hot sun for hours, and you are a bit dehydrated you may tend to forget some things. That is when the app can really come in handy and help you to figure out the best solution. This helps you look like a great tech to your customers, and gets the job done quick and right.
I was on a job once in my local city. It was late in the day, and it felt about 105 degrees outside. My car's ac had just went out the day before, and because I was so busy with work, I hadn't had a chance to fix it yet. I had a no ac call, and when I arrived at the home, I saw that the outside unit was not coming on. I checked the power coming to the contactor, and saw that I was only getting 91volts when I should of been getting 240. Now, normally this is really easy to figure out, but I think because it was so hot, and I was feeling dehydrated, I just could not think of the answer at the time. So what I did, was I pulled out my cell phone, and opened up my iPhone app tap talk. I signed into hvac lounge, and wrote out the issue I was having. A few minutes later the guys at the website had reminded me what the problem was. I had a bad breaker. Once I changed that out, I was getting the correct voltage coming to the system. Everything came on perfectly after that, and the house was getting cold air. I had a very satisfied customer, and I give thanks to an HVAC forum. Had I not had access to that app though, things could of turned out very differently. I might not have been able to come up with a solution right away. I might of made a wrong diagnose. I might have had to make a second trip out there, which would mean I would be wasting more time and money. So in a sense you could thing about having this type of technology as another way to help your business grow.
But always, this is just something simple to think about when you are out on the jobs. I hope that this article has blessed you with some valuable information that you are able to use as a heating and air conditioning technician. I have been in the air business for many years,so trust me, when I tell you I know what I am talking about.


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Member Club Descriptions
Clubs (in alphabetical order - scroll down)
Ambassadors CMC - Christian Motorcycle Club
A Christian Motorcycle Club that shares the momentous news of Jesus with bikers and others who choose to listen. We host the annual Kings Rally, it's a great time for bikers + families to hang and just enjoy the company of friendly bikers, there's a Gymkhana, Bonfire, free hot tea + coffee all weekend, music, and even a open air church service. Come and see how Christian bikers enjoy themselves, see ya there. We meet most Monday nights at St Luke's Liverpool Anglican Church 7.30pm call Stu on 0437 036 401 or John 0412 673 170 or email firstname.lastname@example.com or check out our our website
Bikers Anon
...is to provide rides and social events in an easy going and fun environment, where you can meet other like-minded people.
- Do you dream of freshly laid bitumen?
- Do you only leave the house to work and ride?
- Do you yearn for tight, winding mountain roads?
- Can you only relate to other riders?
- Are you addicted to riding?
Bikers Australia Inc.
- Promoting and participating in runs, bike shows, rallies and community-assistance projects.
- Branches meet monthly with many varied rides, days out and social get-togethers. Membership $30 per annum.
- Join us for the fun and pleasure of motorcycling!
- Bikers Australia membership is open to anyone with an enthusiasm for motorcycling.
- All bikes... All people... All ages...
- Brass Monkey Rally, Blanket Runs, Sydney Toy Run, Wombat Rally
- Check our Calendar for Motorcycle Rallies, Rides and Events Click on the logo
BMW Touring Club of New South Wales
- Organised events such as touring rides, weekend rides, day-rides, maintenance days and some social activities.
- Technical help; the club possesses a number of special tools for working on BMW motorcycles for members use.
- Club Registration and other support for vintage BMWs
- BMW ownership is not essential for membership, only an interest in riding and/or touring.
Bombala Motorcycle Association
Bombala Motorcycle Association was established in 1992 as a social motorcycle club for motorcycle enthusiasts. Bombala is home of the Annual Celebration of Motorcycles and the official sister city to Stugis U.S.A. Click HERE for info on the Annual Celebration of Motorcycles at Bombala
Christian Motorcyclist's Association
Karen Nieuwendyk Email
Central Coast Scooter Club
NSW Central Coast Scooter Club was established in 2007 and consists of riders of all ages both male and female riding scooters predominately of 150cc capacity and up .
We meet for a ride at Hungry jacks at West Gosford on the last Saturday of the month at 1 pm. We do not ride in the rain or on gravel roads. Other rides and events plus a full run down on who and what we do is contained on our website Visitors are always welcome .
Clubman Tourers Motorcycle Club
The Clubman Tourers Motorcycle Club are about 90 motorcyclists from Sydney, NSW and beyond.
We are a diverse group of all ages, walks of life and sexes (a healthy proportion are female riders). What unites us is a love of all kinds of riding and of spinning exaggerated yarns about it later over a beer.
We're as informal as possible. We have a badge but it's not a 'patch'. We're here to enjoy riding and to encourage others to do the same.
We favour 'touring', 'sport riding' and dirt-touring. We do day runs, rallies, track days, long tours, short tours and all this on tar or dirt or both. Socially: monthly meetings for reports and planning, parties, pubs, maintenance days, restaurant nights (and the gossip).
Our bikes: Some are shiny, some are wrecks, some are loved, some are cursed but they all get used. They get us out there. Come and 'get out there' with us!
Contact us at our website.
Ducati Owners Club of New South Wales Inc.
The Ducati Owners Club of New South Wales Inc. was started back in 1976 to promote and encourage motorcycling with kindred bodies in fostering and maintaining motorcycling as a sport.
The Club is affiliated with Motorcycling Australia, which allows members to obtain a racing license. Other benefits include assistance with spare parts, technical restoration information and access to the Club's extensive archives.
Club activities include social outings, regular day and weekend rides, a Christmas party, The Thunder Rally, maintenance days, BBQs and the Club Concourse. A bi-monthly newsletter provides all members of the club with info on all activities, club classifieds and plenty articles of interest.
The Club is also designed to provide members with a source of information about their bikes, a place to meet like-minded people and generally enable Ducati owners to continue with their interest in the marque. More information can be obtained from our web page www.docnsw.org.au
Dual Sport Motorcycle Riders Association
The DSMRA is an organisation looking at the big picture for trail riders, adventure riders and country touring, Australia wide.
The DSMRA was formed in 1995 as a direct consequence of the current trend of land closures throughout Australia.
- Maintain regional ride and event registers for NSW
Got a road registered off-road bike? Talk to us.
- visit the Dual Sport Motorcycle Riders Association website, click here
Dykes on Bikes
A group of lesbian riders that get together to have fun, socialise & ride motorbikes. We organise day rides, weekends away and occasionally weeks away.
We have other major events during Mardi Gras season including Bike & Tattoo Show and Mardi Gras Parade. DOB is a non-profit organisation that raises money for various charities with our major fundraising going to Pink Ribbon.
All types of bikes and bike sizes are welcome as well as 'L' & 'P' plate riders. For more information, please visit our website Click HERE for the latest DOB events
Firebird Classic M.C.C.
Firebird Classic MCC is a social club for all riders, male and female, as well as all bikes.
To join, you must be a motorcycle rider or permanent pillion, hold a current motorcycle license and ride a road-registered motorcycle.
We encourage all models of motorcycles from veteran/classic to current.
Firebird Classic MCC is about riding, having a great time with a great close family of friends, going away for weekends, attending rallies and events and enjoying the biker lifestyle.
For more information on becoming a member of Firebird Classic MCC please phone 0423 490 460 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Girls Ride Out
Girls Ride Out is a social group of mostly women, who stay in touch primarily though email. Catering for Learner's through to the more experienced Girls Ride Out has Monthly Rides, Charity Events, and operates a support network for learner riders (Learn N' GRO), Ladies Racing Class (GRO Racing) days and Maintenance Days. Click HERE for the latest GRO Events
Habourside Motorcycle Club
Harbourside Motorcycle Club is the Club for Owners of American V Twin Motorcycles. We currently have about 100 members including associates, that given any excuse will group together to ride their Harley Davidson Motorcycles.
We hold monthly meetings, and being a very active Club socially, conduct regular activities in the form of Monthly Day Rides, Overnight rides, Annual Rides interstate, and social evenings. Community assistance is also one of our ongoing projects by way of regular donations to the Humpty Dumpty Foundation.
Although not directly affiliated with HOG, most members are currently international members of this worldwide organisation. For more information, please email the club.
Harleys for Helicopters
Harleys for Helicopters (H4H) evolved in September of 2001. It is the brainchild of David Golledge who had a vision to get a few mates together on their Harleys and go for a ride to raise some money for the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service. This initial concept developed beyond expectations in a very short period of time, and is now one of the most productive, both financially and promotionally of all of the support groups for the service in Newcastle and New England regions.
The Harleys for Helicopters Support group has a major fund raising event in October each year, the Turkey Run; a memorial ride from Newcastle to Uralla. The Turkey Run attracts 300 plus riders and pillion passengers from all over NSW and interstate to be part of this event.
Harleys for Helicopters encourages all riders and all makes of motorcycles to join in all rides and events.
Harley Owners Group, Liverpool
The Liverpool Chapter, Australia Harley Owners Group is made up of people from all walks of life.
The cement that bonds us comes from our love of our motorcycles, the open road and the friends we meet and keep along the way. And not just any motorcycle mind you...
...we ride the best motorcycles ever built... Harley-Davidson.
The Liverpool Chapter of Harley Owners Group promotes responsible motorcycling activities for H.O.G. members by conducting chapter activities and encouraging participation in other H.O.G. events while maintaining a family-oriented philosophy.
Monthly meetings at the Moorebank Hotel are a good opportunity to catch up with friends while getting the latest chapter news.
Rides (short rides, long rides, overnight adventures) building memories and stories to tell and share. Visit the calender for all the latest events or contact our Activities Officer on email@example.com.
Hunter Ducati Owners Group
Hunter DOG holds a regular ride on the third Sunday of the Month, a social breakfast on the first Sunday of the month at the Belmont 16' Sailing Club from 9am and these meetings have become extremely popular. Good cheap food, brilliant views, no crowds so it is a great opportunity to meet other members - and maybe go for an impromptu ride after. Do come, we would love to see you there
Illawarra Riders
Illawarra Riders - an internet based group who welcomes riders and pillions of all ages and experience irrespective of the bike they ride. If you don't have a bike at the moment but have an interest in motorcycles, then you are welcome join up and come along to one of our regular social nights.
We promote rider safety on our rides and encourage all riders to ride at a level at which they are comfortable and always within their individual limits.
Our rides may vary in length from a few hours through overnight stays and on to multiple day tours throughout the year to any number of locations.
- Illawarra Riders Website follow the poplink to the forums.
'JUST GIRLS' is strictly for the girls!
We are an all female group, formed in 2001 and based in the Newcastle Hunter Valley area. Our members are from far and wide, out to enjoy our common passion for two wheels and fun!!
We have rides and weekends away, including one 'men allowed' weekend annually! The girls are encouraged to attend various rallies and events throughout the year and we have taken on the challenge of organising Newcastle's Pink Ribbon Ride.
There are no membership or joining fees - our aim is to have a fun ride at your own pace, with a distance that isn't exhausting, the road challenging in parts, but not daunting, and above all enjoyable! So whether on your L's or with years of experience, young or young at heart, come and ride at your own pace, broaden your horizons and have a great time!
More information? Contact Lyn (02)4987 4996 or visit our website http://groups.msn.com/JustGirlsandMotorcycles
Kawasaki Sportsbike Riders Club
The Kawasaki Sportsbike Riders Club (KSRC) was formed in late 1999 as an online discussion and ride forum for owners of Kawasaki Sportsbikes. The aim of the group was to bring together Kawasaki riders to discuss their bikes and organise rides and social events. The group has grown very quickly and has well over 1000 members Australia wide.
The forum is very active, light hearted and has rides, social events and get togethers regularly posted. Rarely a weekend goes by that KSRC members aren't up to something. Membership to the online forum is free and open to everyone, you don't even have to ride a Kawasaki to join.
Club Laverda NSW
We are a Laverda club that wants to keep up the Laverda tradition and as such we have the following:
- Monthly Socials.
- Weekend rides.
- Club magazine (Jottings).
- Annual events such as our 4 day Snowy Rally run, Brass Monkey weekend run to Uralla and our ride to Auto Italia in Canberra etc.
- Technical information.
- A range of parts available to all Laverda owners with a 10% discount to members.
- Essentially we are a drinking club with a motorcycle problem !
- Laverda ownership is not requisite for membership, as long as you have a motorcycle and an interest in Laverda's and/or their owners you are more than welcome.
McMod is an organization for those aflicted with the desire to build or radically modify otherwise perfectly good motorcycles.
Our Aims Are:
- To Exchange information and assistance
- Represent our interests in relavent matters
- Stimulate discussion, both socially and by correspondence
- Attend rallies and shows as a group
Click HERE to check out our website
Natureland Classic Motorcycle Club
The aim of the club is to encourage motorcycling and the camaraderie that goes with it. In particular, the use of Classic motorcycles, be they 50 year old British, Middle of the road Russian or 5 year old Japanese, so that the skills and innovations of generations of craftsmen are not lost forever in the scrap pile of modern society, but are preserved and brought to life for generations to come.
Joining the NCMCC will provide you with many varied benefits. These include:
- The opportunity to participate in organised rides with like-minded people.
- The opportunity to talk endlessly about bikes with other enthusiasts.
- Access to knowledgeable people for any mechanical queries.
- You'll meet a great bunch of people from all walks of life.
- Access to club registration for historic vehicles.
- Participation in our annual rally.
- Regular meetings and rides.
Northern Rivers Motorcycle Enthusiasts Club Inc.
Social Motorcycle Club serving the Northern NSW and South East Queensland Regions.
No restriction on rider age, experience or type of bike ridden.
Historic Registration available.
Club Runs, events and social gatherings.
We support charitable events and promote motorcycle and charitable events by way of our Calendar
You can subscribe to the calendar to receive an emailed events digest sent out weekly. Event submissions welcome.
NSW Riders
A forum designed by riders, for riders, that want to be meet socially to plan day rides, overnighters and informal social events. We always encourage Learners and Provisional riders to join us on our rides and promise to never leave
anyone behind (intentionally anyway).Our website.
- ORoadSports is a non-profit organisation incorporated in NSW. We are a community group that shares a common interest in motorsports. The Oroadsports website is a place for members to share information, organise group meets, track days and road rides. Members, guests and the public are invited to attend any Club Events.
Visit HERE to see the Oroadsports Event Calendar
Patriots Australia
The Patriots are a motorcycle club for regular, reserve and ex-serving members of the defence force (Army, Navy and Air Force)
The Patriots have been around since 1993 and were established because at one time or another, most of us would have liked to join an established club, but found that due to constant postings, this became difficult to achieve.
The club has a chapter or sub-chapter in each state of Australia and a chapter in New Zealand. We also have Patriot friends in the United Kingdom who also provide the same welcome to members worldwide and we have a honorary member in Wyoming, USA.
Pinoy Motorcycle Club
The Pinoy Motorcycle Club are a club for Filipino bikers in Sydney.
Red Knights Illawarra
Steven Smith President: Email
Stephen Rainey VP: Email
Josh Pietrobelli Quarter Master: Email
Saturday Night Riders
SNR is an open group hosting weekly rides to give motorcyclists the opportunity to safely enjoy their Saturday nights. Everyone, including learner and provisional riders, are welcome to attend our rides around Sydney's landmarks
Sydney HOG Chapter
Formed in November 2006 ,Sydney HOG Chapter is Australia's fastest growing HOG Chapter.
There's no better way to see Sydney than from the saddle of a Harley Davidson motorcycle.
Our culture is welcoming, friendly, non-political, informal, prestigious, innovative, non-elitist, and most of all fun. We welcome diversity and value contributions from all our members. We encourage partner and family involvement.
Our ride philosophy is all about the ride. We promote safe riding and skills development through training, gymkhanas and group rides. We are the HOG Chapter that can and does ride. It is our intention to put Sydney HOG Chapter on the National and International HOG list of premier Chapters.
Sydney Knights
Sydney Knights
A Sydney ride group that meets on Tuesday nights for cruisey after dark rides around Sydney's better roads.
Monthly weekend rides are also a feature of the ride calendar.
A collection of like minded individuals dedicated to riding……
Doing it hard and fast in the dark.
The name comes from a poem of the same title by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It tells how the great Greek hero Ulysses, now middle-aged and securely in charge of his kingdom of Ithaca, is getting bored with things around him and longs to go adventuring again with his shipmates of old. It describes very well indeed the sort of person who still has enough spark to go on riding into middle and later years.
The club has grown to over 120 branches spread throughout Australia, and continues to grow. Click on the logo to locate local branches that arrange rides and social functions for the club members in their location.
Click HERE for more information about Ulysses Club

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A Civil War ironclad will hit the road this weekend to move to a new home.
The CSS Neuse in Kinston is the only commissioned Confederate ironclad that remains above water. It was pulled from the Neuse River in the 1960s and has been at the CSS Neuse/Governor Richard Caswell Historic Site.
This piece of history will move on Saturday to a new climate-controlled site on Queen Street in Kinston. The organizers said the "260 tons will travel at the dizzying speed of one mile per hour and should arrive at its destination after two hours."
Watch for this at sunrise on Saturday in Kinston.


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Hello - Thank you for contacting JustAnswer. My name is Michael; I look forward to helping you with your criminal problem today.
I'm sorry to hear about your situation. Were you charged with DUI 1st or DUI 2nd offense?
first i accidentally put in the wrong email address but have the refrence numer.can i fix this?
i havent been charged with the 2nd dui yet.my court date is september 4th
i currently have been assigned a public defender
What were you charged with is my question?
You should have received a ticket on the scene with what you were being charged with.
just a moment, its was driving while subject to a imparing substance and also without due caution and circumspection and a speed at or in manner as to endager persons
Okay. What is your question in relation to that? It sounds like DUI 1st offense.
no i recieved one in 2009 in fl, this one was in june 2012 in nc.what am i looking at as far as jail, and fines?
Let me take a look at that statute, hold please.
For a DUI 1st - 1 day jail, $200 fine, 60 days to 1 year license supsension. For DUI 2nd, 4 days jail, fines vary (possibly up to $1000), 1-4 years license suspension.
im guessing the nite i spent in jail doesnt already count right?Also i accidentally sent my anser to the wrong email address buy i have the refrence number.Do you know how i can get it sent it to the right one?
What do you mean sent you answer to the wrong email address?
when i first put down my dollar deposit it said it sent the answer to my email address and if i was pleased id pay the rest but i accidentally had it sent to an email address that doesnt exist.or is this the answer and then i rate you?If it is what was sent to that non-existent address. guess im a little confused because it said Id be getting a response from a female attorney. sorry if im im confusing you now.
Yes, I'm the attorney that is assisting you.
Once we complete this conversation, you can rate me (hopefully highly) :)
yes actually you have been quite helpful.Im on a waiting list for a rehabiltaion center for drugs/alcohol.Do you think this will help my situtation at all. Actually a bad may become available before my court date.
That won't change anything about the charge or the penalties unfortunately.
okay, well i was hoping it would at least keep me outta jail. Anyway thank you.
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But agency stands by its recommendations for preventing stroke, heart disease
By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter
WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Don't toss out your salt shaker just yet: A new analysis from Denmark finds current recommended salt guidelines may be too low.
The new research indicates that Americans consume a healthy amount of salt, even though daily averages exceed recommendations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"For most people, there is no reason to change their dietary habits concerning salt, as most people eat what appears to be the safest amount," said review author Dr. Niels Graudal, a senior consultant at Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark.
For the study, published April 2 in the American Journal of Hypertension, researchers analyzed 25 prior studies. They found that low levels of salt consumption may be linked with a greater risk of death.
The study actually shows that both too much salt and too little are harmful, said Graudal.
"Salt intake above 12,000 mg [milligrams] is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality," he said. In other words, high levels of daily salt intake could shorten a person's life span and raise their risk for heart disease.
And Graudal noted that the same effect is seen at the other end of the spectrum, when too little salt is taken in each day.
The safest range? Between 2,645 and 4,945 mg of salt a day, the study authors said. And most of the world's populations consume that amount, according to background information in the study.
The new analysis contradicts current public health policy in the United States, but is unlikely to change it.
The CDC stands by its recommendation for less than 2,300 mg of salt per day for healthy people under 50, and less than 1,500 mg per day for most people over 50, an agency representative said.
"Nearly everyone benefits from reduced sodium consumption," said Janelle Gunn, a public health analyst in the CDC's division for heart disease and stroke prevention. "Ninety percent of Americans exceed the general daily recommended sodium intake limit of 2,300 mg, increasing their risk for high blood pressure, heart disease, and stroke."


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Michele Bachmann finally agrees to debates
It's really happening, everyone. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is going to debate her opponent Tarryl Clark. In public. Without Sean Hannity to lend a hand. It's a little out there, we know, but she's really going to give this a shot.
Keeping with her avoid and conquer campaign style, Bachmann has been especially squirrelly as of late about whether or not she would debate Clark before the November election.
Last week, Bachmann's spokesperson said she'd "confirmed with several venues affirmatively" but then refused to say there would be more than one debate. Can't comment on that. Wouldn't be prudent.
Clark's people used the opportunity to announce that she'd agreed to five debates. "It's just one more example of where Bachmann's priorities are," her spokesperson wrote.
Well, this afternoon, Bachmann's people finally combed out their own jargon and confirmed that she will appear at three debates. They are at the St. Cloud Chamber of Commerce on Oct. 26, on MPR's "Midday" on Oct. 28th and on KSTP on Halloween.
Which makes us wonder -- will the candidates pick scary costumes to psych each other out for that final debate? Perhaps Bachmann will skin a grizzly and wear its bloody hide? Maybe Clark will go as Bill "The Hitman" Clinton.
Clark also made the point that she would have agreed to a sixth appearance, but an October 7th date was already canceled because Bachmann did not respond.
That's because Bachmann has a scheduling conflict. She'll be "Reclaiming America" at the "Taking Back Congress Tour" at Orchestra Hall -- $12.80 for the riffraff, $225 to sit with conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt.
While the event promises an "honest, no holds barred conversation" the scheduling conflict will bar all holds between Clark and Bachmann.
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State, county in Kent, Sussex closed
State of Delaware offices in Kent and Sussex counties are closed during regular business hours 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Non-essential employees who live or work in Kent or Sussex are not to report to work for this period. Essential employees are to report as scheduled. Sussex administrative offices are also closed.
State of Delaware offices in New Castle County will open at 10 a.m. Non-essential employees who live or work in New Castle County do not report until 10 a.m. Essential employees are to report as scheduled.
The governor's office released this statement from Gov. Jack Markell on weather conditions:
"Heavy snow continues to fall throughout the state and is expected to reduce to flurries later this morning. Significant snowfall totals are expected in Kent and Sussex counties ranging from five to nine inches. DelDOT crews are actively working to clear primary roads and will continue to do so. We strongly encourage drivers who do not need to travel to delay or refrain from going on the roads to give DelDOT plows time and ability to work."
Expected snowfall totals are not as significant in New Castle County, but those traveling in the northern part of the state are urged to use caution and allow extra time to reach their destination today.


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Search and rescue teams report they have safely located a missing skier who was lost overnight near Snowbowl. 21-year-old Kalispell native and current Missoula resident Stephan Quade was found about 10:48 a.m. Monday.
Rescuers tried to land a chopper on a ridge but found the snow pack unstable. We are told Quade was in a basin off of the Paradise Run at Snowbowl and the area was too steep for snowmobilers to come to his rescue.
A chopper dropped off survival supplies to Quade at 11:03 a.m. and the ski patrol geared up to ski down to him so they could snowshoe him back up the half-mile hill of deep powder.


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I'm thinking of mounting hydraulic disc brakes on my race tandem instead of the avid bb7.
SRAM is coming with shifters which might be perfect for this but those are only meant for double and 11 speed.
Does anyone of you have experience with hydraulic brakes on a race tandem in combination with STI levers and 203 mm rotors and for example the Hope remote control with cable input and hydraulic pressure output? I would like to mount a 4 piston set but got no idea which brakes would be the best in combination with the "transformer"


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Getting close to his nationwide tour and album release date, Nelly's new single, in which he teams up with St. Lunatics and Keri Hilson, is unveiled.
A new track from Nelly's upcoming fifth major studio effort "Brass Knuckles" has been surfaced. Featuring a rap crew St. Lunatics and R&B singer Keri Hilson, the track is produced by Polow Da Don and carries a full four-minutes musical melody.
Led by a song called "Wadsyaname", "Brass Knuckles", which has gone through a series of delay due to a competitive season, will be dropped to stores on September 16 via Hollywood Records. Among featured guests, Nelly has chosen singer Ashanti to team up with him in his second single "Body on Me" and signed rapper Akon to produce the song.
In another news, the St. Louis rapper is preparing to hit the road for a nationwide tour in support of his upcoming album and the thirteen cities where he will be performing have been announced. Starting on September 12, four days before the album release, the gig, allegedly named "The Brass Knuckles Tour" will take over Reno, Nevada. Then, the multi-platinum selling artist will travel throughout major cities including San Francisco, Dallas, Baltimore, Washington D.C., and New York before ending it on October 8.


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Affordable Health Care
As a breast cancer survivor, Debbie understands the importance of access to affordable, quality care. And she was proud to fight to pass the Affordable Care Act, which prevents insurance companies from dropping people's coverage when they get sick or denying coverage altogether to kids with pre-existing conditions.
The law is already taking effect — but some in Washington are trying to repeal it. That's why Debbie's still standing strong, making sure our families don't lose the benefits and protections of this important law.
Wasserman Schultz Fought To Protect The Affordable Care Act. According to CBS Miami, Wasserman Schultz touted benefits of the Affordable Care Act and, "also took aim [at] Republicans who say the Affordable Care Act is nothing more than a tax and have vowed to have it repealed." [CBS Miami, 7/2/12]
- The Affordable Care Act Prevented Children With Pre-Existing Conditions From Being Denied Health Insurance. [Healthcare.gov, Accessed 10/12/12]
- Affordable Care Act Banned Insurers From "Dropping People From Coverage When They Develop An Illness Or Medical Condition." [CBS News, 6/29/12]
Medicare & Social Security
It's this simple: As long as Debbie's representing us in Congress, she'll always stand up for Medicare and Social Security. South Florida seniors rely on these programs to maintain their health and economic security — and future generations of seniors need to be able to rely on these guarantees, as well.
Right now, those guarantees are under attack. Some in Washington want to turn Medicare into a voucher program, and turn Social Security over to Wall Street. But it won't happen on Debbie's watch.
Wasserman Schultz "Trumpeted Democrats' support for Social Security and Medicare." According to the Sun Sentinel, in an August 2011 meeting with constituents, Wasserman Schultz, "trumpeted Democrats' support for Social Security and Medicare. She choked back tears when answering one woman's question about the future of the two programs." [Sun Sentinel, 8/29/11]
Wasserman Schultz Vowed To Protect Medicare From GOP Plans To Turn It Into A Voucher System. According to the Examiner, in a July 2012 speech referring to Republican plans to turn Medicare into a voucher program, "Wasserman Schultz... told the crowd of roughly 100 people that Romney 'and his Tea Party extremist allies' want to 'rip that safety net out from under our seniors, and we are not going to allow that to happen.'" [Examiner, 7/30/12]
In Floor Speech, Wasserman Schultz Called For Preservation Of Social Security, Rejection Of Plans To Privatize It. In a floor speech on the 75th anniversary of Social Security, Wasserman Schultz said, "Let us rededicate ourselves to Roosevelt's vision and to the economic security of all of our citizens, and not throw our seniors out in the cold." [Wasserman Schultz floor speech, 7/20/10]
Protecting Children
As a mom, Debbie's number one job is to protect her kids. And as our Congresswoman, she works hard to protect all of our kids. She's taken on sex offenders online — and won, passing legislation to crack down on internet predators. She's also made a South Florida tradition safer by protecting kids from drowning and from pool drain entrapment.
Protecting our kids isn't a partisan issue — it's just the right thing to do. And Debbie is proud to lead the charge to make sure South Florida kids stay safe.
H.R. 6063 – Child Protection Act of 2012 (With Chairman Lamar Smith of Texas)
Introduced on June 29, 2012 (40 cosponsors). Passed by voice vote on August 2, 2012. Pending in the Senate.
H.AMDT.538 to H.R.3132 – The Jimmy Ryce Civil Confinement of Sexual Predators Act
Section 301 of the bill included the "Jimmy Ryce Civil Commitment Program," which Rep. Wasserman Schultz secured through a floor amendment to the House version of the bill in 2005.
On July 27, 2006, President Bush signed H.R. 4472, the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006.
H.R. 3845 – PROTECT Our Children Act of 2007
On October 16, 2007, Rep. Wasserman Schultz introduced H.R. 3845, a bill that establishes a Special Counsel for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction within the Office of the Deputy Attorney General. The bill improves the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, increases resources for regional computer forensic labs, and makes other improvements to increase the ability of law enforcement agencies to investigate and prosecute child predators.
Cosponsors: 38
Latest Major Action: Passed the House 415-2. November 14, 2007; Senate bill S.1738, became Public Law 110-401 on 10/13/2008.
H.R.1721 – Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act of 2007
On March 27, 2007, Rep. Wasserman Schultz introduced H.R.1721 with 32 cosponsors. This bill, and the Senate companion, S. 1771, became Title XIV of H.R.6, the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. On December 19, 2007, it became Public Law No: 110-140.


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Apple details payout process for in-app purchase settlement
Four months after agreeing to pay out more than $100 million to settle a class action lawsuit filed by parents whose children purchased virtual goods and enhancements sold inside iPhone and iPad applications without permission, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is sending out notices detailing the settlement and deadlines for submitting reimbursement requests.
Per terms of the February settlement, Apple will provide refunds to as many as 23 million U.S. consumers whose children purchased virtual weapons and goods marketed within iOS apps and games. According to the email sent this weekend by Apple's In-App Purchase Litigation Administrator, Apple will award a $5 iTunes Store credit for unauthorized purchases under $30. Parents whose kids spent $30 or more, or those who no longer maintain an active iTunes account, will be entitled to receive a cash payment instead of credit.
"The Claim Form will require you to attest that you: (a) paid for Game Currency charges in Qualified Apps charged to your iTunes account by a minor without your knowledge or permission; (b) did not knowingly enter your iTunes password to authorize any such purchase(s) and did not give your password to the minor to make any such purchase(s); and (c) have not received a refund from Apple for those charges," Apple states.
To claim a settlement benefit, consumers must submit a valid claim form on or before Jan. 13, 2014. "If you do not claim a settlement benefit within this time period, you will lose your right to obtain this benefit," the Apple email notes. "If you don't want to make a claim and you don't want to be legally bound by the settlement, you must postmark your request to exclude yourself by August 30, 2013, or you won't be able to sue, or continue to sue, Apple about the legal claims and allegations in this case. If you exclude yourself, you will not be eligible to receive a payment from this settlement."
The class action suit, filed in 2011 on behalf of Philadelphia-based plaintiff Garen Meguerian and "other parents and guardians who permitted their minor children to download a free application and then incurred charges for game-related voidable purchases that the minor was induced by Apple to make," contends that iOS games like Bakery Story, Tap Zoo and Sundae Maker generated millions of dollars by selling "Game Currency" to children. Calling the freemium model "unlawful exploitation in the extreme," the suit states "These games are highly addictive, designed deliberately so, and tend to compel children playing them to purchase large quantities of Game Currency, amounting to as much as $100 per purchase or more."
The settlement prompted Apple to add a line of text to freemium download pages in its App Store, alerting users when an iOS title supports in-app purchases. Apple subsequently introduced age-rating notification boxes below each iOS app's developer credits, a move to assuage consumers and watchdog groups calling for greater transparency around the App Store shopping experience.
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- read this 9to5Mac article
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Joe Johnson feels like his Nets are better than the Knicks. He'll get a chance to prove it Monday night when the two teams face off in Brooklyn.
Our 5-on-5 panel takes a look at both squads.
1. Knicks or Nets: Better team now?
Jared Dubin, Hardwood Paroxysm: Knicks. They've still got the most efficient offense in the league as of Monday morning, and I'm more confident their defense can turn it around with Tyson Chandler as the anchor, than I am that the Nets make a sudden defensive leap.
Beckley Mason, ESPN.com: Knicks. Neither team has played much defense, but the Knicks' offense has been more crisp and consistent, and only one of the Nets' eight wins came against a team (the Clippers) that will finish with a winning record this season.
Marc Stein, ESPN.com: Knicks. They sure didn't show it in Houston, but defense was a big part of their early success. Speaking purely about this season, New York has the more well-rounded team. And a higher ceiling as a result. The Knicks, in my view, will have blown a major opportunity if they don't finish second in the East given the current state of the conference.
Jared Wade, 8 Points, 9 Seconds: Knicks. Record-wise and statistically, the edge goes to New York, which easily has the league's best offense so far. But it's more than that. The Knicks just appear to have a higher ceiling when they're playing well, as we saw in impressive wins over the Heat, Spurs, Hornets and Sixers.
Brian Windhorst, ESPN.com: The Knicks but it's close. They have a little better bench and play, I feel, better defense. Though the Knicks have been slipping recently, while the Nets have been improving in that area.
2. Knicks or Nets: Better team at season's end?
Dubin: Knicks, provided the excellent ball movement sticks and they stay healthy. They'll also get a boost from the returns of Amar'e Stoudemire and Iman Shumpert from injury.
Mason: Knicks. While I expect the Nets' starters will play better and better as the season goes on and they become more comfortable with each other, New York's second unit just seems more talented and reliable. Over the course of a long season, that kind of depth matters.
Stein: Knicks again. They obviously aren't built with longevity in mind, but you can already picture them in the conference finals if they aren't thrown off track by Amar'e Stoudemire's eventual return. Just don't know if D-Will is healthy enough -- or if a struggling Joe Johnson has enough left -- for the Nets to overcome their defensive frailties and make a postseason run. Those two have to be a force together for the Nets to make any playoff noise and we haven't seen it yet.
Wade: Nets. They just have more talent and should continue to improve as the players jell. Meanwhile, I worry about a New York offense that has depended so heavily on Carmelo Anthony and J.R. Smith becoming willing passers and Jason Kidd shooting 51.8 percent. And don't forget the inevitable drama surrounding Amar'e's return. "StoudeMired in Free Fall" sounds like a future New York Post headline.
Windhorst: Again, Knicks closely. They are waiting on Amar'e Stoudemire and Iman Shumpert and those additions should bolster them even if there's a transition period. The Nets, I believe, signed Kris Humphries partially with the intent of trading him but he's not helped his value with his first month. I'm not sure they can upgrade much this season.
3. Knicks or Nets: Brighter future?
Dubin: Knicks. I'm such a homer.
Mason: Knicks. Shockingly, given all the talk about their long-term inflexibility under the new CBA's more restrictive salary cap, the Knicks' major contracts actually end a year earlier (2014-15) than the Nets'. Theoretically, both teams can always make a trade. But it's hard to imagine Brooklyn getting real value for Gerald Wallace or Joe Johnson once they're in their mid-30s.
Stein: I'm inclined to say Nets ... as long as Mikhail Prokhorov isn't going anywhere. He's already pumped in hundreds of millions and made this a real rivalry. A proper city derby if you permit me to use the soccer term. As long as Prokhorov continues to spare no expense, who knows what the Nets are capable of? (Example: Phil Jackson coaching in Brooklyn someday? With Prokhorov around, you can picture it.)
Wade: Nets. The Knicks are nursing-home old and will continue to be hamstrung by that Stoudemire deal. (He makes $20 million this season and $45 million over the next two.) Iman Shumpert coming back will help, but how do they replace the current contributions of Kidd, Camby and Thomas without any cap flexibility or notable assets to trade?
Windhorst: Probably the Nets. The Knicks, of course, are the oldest team in the league and traded away so many picks that they don't really have prospects to develop to replace some of the guys who are playing surprisingly good minutes for them. The Nets loaded their salary cap and that Joe Johnson deal is going to end up being a problem. But they still have pieces to swing a deal for another star if things fall right. I'd probably buy stock in the Nets over the next three to four seasons rather than the Knicks.
4. Knicks or Nets: Who has the best player in NYC?
Dubin: Knicks. Before the season, I would have said the Nets with Deron Williams, but the way Melo has been playing to start the season, I've got to give him the edge right now.
Mason: Knicks. When Carmelo Anthony decides to bull rush the basket, there are few players capable of handling his combination of power and quickness. He's been doing that all season, while also making the smart read to move the ball when the defense shifts heavily to his side of the court.
Stein: Knicks. Hard to pick against Melo right now. You'd naturally rather have a top-flight point guard, if you were building a team, than a supreme scorer. But Melo is so good at what he does that he bucks conventional wisdom in this case. If D-Will was in full flow, though, this PG devotee would probably answer differently. Constantly hearing how banged up he is can only be classified as worrisome.
Wade: Knicks. I may have said the Nets in preseason, but Carmelo is just on another planet right now. He is arguably playing the best ball of his life, with a career-high true shooting percentage and PER. I doubt he keeps hitting 3s at this clip, but the non-charted qualities -- the ball movement, the distributing, the decisiveness -- have outweighed the stats anyway.
Windhorst: Knicks. Carmelo is the best player in New York. His offense is still iso based and he still chucks way more 3-pointers than shots from the post. But he's trying more on defense and sometimes moving the ball better. He's simply one of the best scorers of this generation and probably a future Hall of Famer, who is currently in his prime. If you look at the stats and the performance, I'm not sure you can say that about Deron Williams.
5. Melo's Knicks or Deron's Nets: Which team will create a deeper legacy within New York basketball and the NBA?
Dubin: Melo's Knicks. Melo gave himself a two-year head start on playing in New York, and the Knicks' franchise has a 50-plus year head start. It's just too difficult for the Nets to create a legacy that quickly.
Mason: As momentous as the Nets' arrival has been, there's just no competing with the Knicks in terms of cultural relevance -- in New York or elsewhere. This Knicks resurgence competes favorably with the newness of the Nets. The only way this becomes close is if Brooklyn meets and beats the Manhattans in the playoffs. New York sports media will define how these two teams are remembered, and they've no reverence for teams that show up, just those that win.
Stein: I look at it differently. To me it's Jim Dolan's Knicks and Prokhorov's Nets. Putting a major league franchise in Brooklyn after all these years, opening a spectacular building, really giving New York a legit second team and vowing not to stop with all of his various offensives until the Nets have won a championship ... Prokhorov is the guy most likely to keep changing the basketball dynamic in NYC. As long as he sticks around.
Wade: Brooklyn. Given their cap situation, the Nets are locked into this starting lineup for years. So in addition to it being the first team in Brooklyn -- playing in the house that Jay-Z built -- continuity will make this squad more memorable among a fan base with millions of young people who can't remember the Knicks ever fielding a good team. Both teams may have a few decent playoff runs, but I doubt either wins a title, so familiarity with the characters will make the difference.
Windhorst: It is amazing to see the lines at the Nets' team store. The team's marketing department, always one of the best in the league and now with a real product and audience, has done a great job of creating buzz. But the Mets aren't the Yankees, Barclays isn't the Garden and it's hard to fathom the Nets will ever be the Knicks.
ESPN.com and the TrueHoop Network
Marc Stein and Brian Windhorst cover the NBA for ESPN.com. Beckley Mason contributes to ESPN.com. Jared Dubin and Jared Wade are part of the TrueHoop Network.
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If a person is in a "public" area, they have no "reasonable expectation of privacy" and can be videotaped as part of an invesigation if the insurance company believes there is some type of violation of insurance laws. If a person is in private, this could constitute an invasion of privacy.
When a claim is filed by an injured person (or with a continuing claim), insurance companies routinely conduct a detailed investigation of the injured person's background. It is not uncommon for an insurance company investigator to park his surveillance van near your house and videotape your activities. These investigators work very hard to obtain videotapes of claimants lifting heavy groceries or engaging in strenuous physical activity. However, these same surveillance tapes have been useful to corroborate a claimant's limitations, including the use of canes, crutches, etc.
Yes, it is also lawful in Maine. In fact, there are private investigation companies that specialize exclusively in doing surveillance work for insurance companies. Insurance companies attempt to deny all claims, including valid ones and commonly use surveillance to try to catch claimants who are attempting to defraud them. Even if a person's injuries have been well documented by a doctor, their fraud divisions may from time to time try to "catch" someone doing something that they allege that they are physically unable to do in an attempt to terminate a claim.
It doesn't seem right, but they are within their legal rights to do so.
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Winter Olympics 2014: Presenter Warwood dreaming of Villa
BBC Winter Olympics presenter Tim Warwood has revealed his love of Villa as he continues to impress in the Sochi commentary box.
Warwood [pictured far left, above] started snowboarding at the age of 16 - and his drive and focus ensured he was UK champion at the age of 20.
He then made his way into the media world, impressing greatly as host of Disney XD show 'Goalmouth.'
Alongside best mate Adam Gendle, the football show allowed him to indulge his love of the beautiful game - and his love of Villa.
He said: "It was great. I used so much Villa stuff in sketches - retro kits, hats, scarves, mugs and even a bedspread on one episode.
"I wanted to keep that bedspread - but my wife was having none of it. Spoilsport!"
He then went on to work on events such as Channel 4's The Big Freeze, Red Bull Pro Nationals, Air & Style Munich & Innsbruck, Red Bull Flugtag, Red Bull X Fighters Dubai, Boardmasters and the British Ski & Snowboard Championships.
Now he's in Russia as part of the BBC's coverage of the Winter Olympics.
Warwood was in the commentary box - alongside pals Aimee Fuller and Ed Leigh - to give us a rundown as Jenny Jones earned Team GB's first-ever medal on snow.
She took home bronze in the showboarding slopestyle final - and Warwood was in tears at the terrific moment.
Now he's relishing the rest of the Winter Olympics coverage.
He took time out from his busy Sochi schedule to talk about his affection for the claret and blues in greater detail.
He tells us he is keeping warm thanks to a Villa-inspired claret and blue woolly hat, knit by his mother in law.
And he's keeping in touch with his claret and blue heroes via the internet.
He said: "It's great out here.
"The highlight so far has definitely been Jenny winning bronze.
"It was amazing - really, really surreal.
"I have known Jenny for 17 years or so! We were team-mates when I used to be a pro snowboarder. She's a really good friend of mine.
"So when she won bronze it was a more like I was watching my friend win than anything else.
"I kind of forgot we were commentating - and to think that was a real piece of history too. I was real honoured.
"It was awesome for us - and hopefully Jenny's medal might have inspired some kids to go and give snowboarding a try!
"I may be out here in Russia but I still need my Villa fix regularly!
"I am constantly on the official Villa app, the official website and also the BBC Sport site too!
"My mother in law knitted me a claret and blue woolly hat for the Olympics also, to keep me warm.
"When I'm back I look forward to going to a game again.
"Villa Park is just one of those old, classic stadiums where you have the wow factor every time you go inside.
"My family are all season ticket holders in the Holte End. It's great whenever I'm back and we're up there cheering on the lads. You can't beat the banter in the Holte End!
"I love Christian Benteke. What a player! He's our hero. Everyone loves a goalscorer and he's our main man.
"We're in 12th at the moment. I think in the closing weeks we'll win some games and be just fine."
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New Android apps worth downloading: Cover, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Rollabear
Make your week a bit easier with today's first app worth downloading, Cover. It's a lock screen app that pays attention to the apps you use during the day and where you use them, and then puts those apps on your lock screen for fast access. We've also got some games to help you kill time until holiday vacation: Sonic the Hedgehog 2, a remastering of Sega's classic platformer, and Rollabear, a game that's sort of like bowling – but with bears.
Cover (Free)
What's it about? Android lock screen Cover adapts to how you use your Android device, placing the apps you use most in a given location on the lock screen for faster launching.
What's cool? The apps you use in your car aren't the same ones you use at home, generally, and they're both usually different from the apps you use at work. Cover is a lock screen that knows this, and pays attention to which apps you use, when, and where. Then, the app organizes your device's lock screen with your most-used apps per location, allowing you to quickly launch them with a swipe from the instant you turn on your device's screen. The result is fast access to the apps you need most, when you need them, and you can also set different ring tones and alert sounds depending on where you are. Keep in mind, though, that Cover is still a beta, which means it's still being tested and debugged.
Who's it for? If you could use a lock screen that's a big smarter about what apps you need and when you need them, try Cover.
What's it like? Get more handy app-launching capabilities with Buzz Launcher and try Themer to take greater control of your device's home screen.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 ($2.99)
What's it about? A mobile remake of the Sega Genesis classic, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 features the series' first 3-D gameplay, and brings the ability to play as new characters.
What's cool? Sega has been slowly re-releasing tons of its old games for mobile devices, and with Sonic the Hedgehog 2, the publisher has remastered the original title with new touch controls and some new feature, as well. The platforming classic added Tails, the two-tailed fox sidekick of Sonic, and also was the first game in the series to include behind-the-back 3-D levels in addition to its usual side-scrolling ones. Players can play as Knuckles the Echidna in the remastered Sonic 2, and this version also includes a "boss attack" mode for just engaging in those tough classic boss fights.
Who's it for? Players who are fans of great classic platformers and Sonic in general should nab Sonic 2.
What's it like? There are plenty of other great Sonic titles on offer in the Google Play Store, including Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic CD.
Rollabear (Free)
What's it about? Bowl bears down courses littered with boxes to pick up in Rollabear, a game that has a lot in common with bowling, but with a helping of goofiness.
What's cool? It's kind of hard to accurately describe Rollabear. Players choose a bear character at the beginning of the game, and that bear then rolls up into a ball and is slingshotted down a course toward waiting lumberjacks, aligned like bowling pins. Your goal is to use touch controls to navigate the course toward the pins, collecting points and hidden stuff along the way, and avoiding obstacles. Then, you need to take down as many pins as possible, just like in bowling. Scoring well, getting multiple strikes in a row, and completing other challenges unlocks more characters and levels, and you'll be able to bowl bears across 60 different levels and three game modes.
Who's it for? Players who like arcade games with a humorous, goofy cartoon spin should check out Rollabear.
What's it like? You'll find some similarities to Rollabear in Angry Birds and Roll: Boulder Smash.


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Finding commonality: The lessons of Dukes for class litigation
Mar. 5, 2012 – Jeffrey A. Krausman, Iowa Employer Law Blog
This article was co-authored by Dickinson attorney John Lande and was first published January 19, 2012, in the online journal of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee of the American Bar Association's Litigation Section.
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In June of 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court issued decisions in two cases applying Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 and its standards for class actions: Erica P. John Fund v.Halliburton, 131 S. Ct. 2179 (2011) and Wal-Mart Stores v. Dukes, 131 S. Ct. 2541 (2011). The decision in Halliburton, while important in its own right, has limited relevance to cases not sharing a similar factual background. Specifically, Halliburton dealt with class litigation in the context of investor suits against corporate executives who allegedly inflated stock prices. Dukes, described by the Court as "one of the most expansive class actions ever," examined at length the Rule 23(a)(2) requirement that class actions "state questions of law or fact common to the class." Dukes is important to examine because it represents a comprehensive analysis of the "commonality" and "predominance" standards in Rule 23 and because arbitration rules, such as the Supplementary Rules for Class Arbitration of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and the JAMS Class Action Procedures, incorporate both the "commonality" and "predominance" standards found in Rule 23.
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Dukes' Background
The district court certified the plaintiffs as a class. A divided en banc Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court's ruling. The majority found that the plaintiffs' evidence of commonality was sufficient to raise the common question of whether Wal-Mart's female employees were subject to a single set of discriminatory employment practices. This was sufficient to meet the burden set out in Rule 23(a)(2).
Two issues made their way to the Supreme Court: whether the plaintiffs had established commonality as required by Rule 23(a) and whether a court could award damages in the form of back pay to a class certified under Rule 23(b)(2). The Court unanimously disposed of the second issue, holding that under Rule 23(b)(2), the plaintiffs could not seek an award for back pay. The issue that divided the Court, and ultimately sank any class certification chances for the plaintiffs, is what it takes for a class to meet the commonality requirement under Rule 23(a).
Dukes' Search for Commonality
The majority examined whether there was any "glue" holding together the various discriminatory acts alleged. The Court acknowledged that a "rigorous analysis" of whether the Rule 23(a) requirements have been met may necessitate a court to "probe behind the pleadings before coming to rest on the certification question." The proof of commonality "overlaps" with at least some examination of the merits of the plaintiffs' claims. Finding insufficient evidence of a specific employment practice that tied all 1.5 million claims together, the Court held that Rule 23(a)'s commonality requirement was not met.
The dissent, written by Justice Ginsburg, rejected this analysis. Justice Ginsburg argued that the majority's interpretation of "commonality" improperly blends the Rule 23(b)(3) requirement that class questions "predominate" over individual questions with the more basic 23(a)(2) requirement that there are questions of law or fact common to the class. Specifically, the dissent rejected the majority's focus on dissimilarities between class members when determining whether common questions of law or fact are present to meet the initial certification tests. Instead, Justice Ginsburg argued that even a single question of law or fact common to the class will satisfy the commonality requirement.
The dissent asserted that the majority's approach borrows too heavily from Rule 23(b)(3). Courts necessarily engage in a dissimilarities analysis under Rule 23(b)(3) because they must weigh the commonalities and the dissimilarities to determine whether the commonalities "predominate." Weighing similarities, according to Ginsburg, is solely a 23(b)(3) inquiry. Considering dissimilarities in the 23(a) phase imports a more exacting standard into a stage of the litigation that does not require this analysis, and may potentially defeat certification for classes that will ultimately be certified under Rule 23(b)(1) or (2), which do not have to meet the Rule 23(b)(3) predominance requirement.
The majority responded to Justice Ginsburg's critique by noting that any competently drafted complaint could allege a common question. Instead, the majority would ask if the common contention is capable of class-wide resolution, meaning that a determination of that issue is key to resolving "the validity of each one of the claims in one stroke." Finding too many dissimilarities between the prospective class members suggests the answer to that critical question is "no."
The plaintiffs in Dukes were unable to establish that any unifying civil rights violation tied together the 1.5 million members of the proposed class. The lack of a common contention that, once resolved, would determine a central issue for all claims meant that the threshold requirement for "commonality" found in Rule 23(a)(2) was not satisfied. To identify that common contention, it is appropriate for the court to examine the nature of the claims even if this results in an overlap with the eventual determination of the merits of the case.
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In our servers we have a habit of dropping caches at midnight.
sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
When I run the code it seems to free up lots of RAM, but do I really need to do that. Isn't free RAM a waste?
You are 100% correct. It is not a good practice to free up RAM. This is likely an example of cargo cult system administration.
Yes, clearing cache will free RAM, but it causes the kernel to look for files on the disk rather than in the cache which can cause performance issues.
Normally the kernel will clear the cache when the available RAM is depleted. It frequently writes dirtied content to disk using pdflush.
The reason to drop caches like this is for benchmarking disk performance, and is the only reason it exists.
When running an I/O-intensive benchmark, you want to be sure that the various settings you try are all actually doing disk I/O, so Linux allows you to drop caches rather than do a full reboot.
To quote from the documentation:
The basic idea here is probably not that bad (just very naive and misleading): There may be files being cached, that are very unlikely to be accessed in the near future, for example logfiles. These "eat up" ram, that will later have to be freed when necessary by the OS in one or another way.
Depending on your settings of swappiness, file access pattern, memory allocation pattern and many more unpredictable things, it may happen that when you don't free these caches, they will later be forced to be reused, which takes a little bit more time than allocating memory from the pool of unused memory. In the worst case the swappiness settings of linux will cause program memory to be swapped out, because linux thinks those files may be more likely to be used in the near future than the program memory.
In my environment, linux guesses quite often wrong, and at the start of most europe stock exchanges (around 0900 local time) servers will start doing things that they do only once per day, needing to swap in memory that was previously swapped out because writing logfiles, compressing them, copying them etc. was filling up cache to the point where things had to be swapped out.
But is dropping caches the solution to this problem? definetly not. What would be the solution here is to tell linux what it doesn't know: that these files will likely not be used anymore. This can be done by the writing application using things like
That way you can remove the data that is not needed anymore from the caches, and keep the stuff that should be cached, because when you drop all caches, a lot of stuff has to be reread from disk. And that at the worst possible moment: when it is needed; causing delays in your application that are noticeable and often unacceptable.
What you should have in place is a system that monitors your memory usage patterns (e.g. if something is swapping) and then analyze accordingly, and act accordingly. The solution might be to evict some big files at the end of the day using vtouch; it might also be to add more ram because the daily peak usage of the server is just that.
I have seen drop caches to be useful when starting up a bunch of virtual machines. Or anything else that uses Large Pages such as some database servers.
Large Pages in Linux often need to defrag RAM in order to find 2MB of contiguous physical RAM to put into a page. Freeing all of the file cache makes this process very easy.
But I agree with most of the other answers in that there is not a generally good reason to drop the file cache every night.
It is possible that this was instituted as a way to stabilize the system when there was no one with the skills or experience to actually find the problem.
Freeing resources
Dropping caches will essentially free up some resources, but this has a side effect of making the system actually work harder to do what it is trying to do. If the system is swapping (trying to read and write from a disk swap partition faster than it is actually capable) then dropping caches periodically can ease the symptom, but does nothing to cure the cause.
What is eating up memory?
You should determine what is causing a lot of memory consumption that makes dropping caches seem to work. This can be caused by any number of poorly configured or just plain wrongly utilized server processes. For instance, on one server I witnessed memory utilization max out when a Magento website reached a certain number of visitors within a 15 minute interval. This ended up being caused by Apache being configured to allow too many processes to run simultaneously. Too many processes, using a lot of memory (Magento is a beast sometimes) = swapping.
Bottom Line
Don't just assume that it is something that is necessary. Be proactive in finding out why it is there, have the guts to disable it if others suggest it is wrong, and observe the system - learn what the real problem is and fix it.
Linux/m68k actually has a kernel bug which causes kswapd to go crazy and eat up 100% CPU (50% if there's some other CPU-bound task, like a Debian binary package autobuilder – vulgo buildd – running already), which can (most of the time; not always) be mitigated by running this particular command every few hours.
That being said… your server is most likely not an m68k (Atari, Amiga, Classic Macintosh, VME, Q40/Q60, Sun3) system ;-)
In this case, the person who put in the lines either followed some questionable or, at best, outdated advice, or got the idea about how RAM should be used wrong (modern thinking indeed says "free RAM is RAM wasted" and suggests caching), or "discovered" that this "fixes"[sic!] another problem elsewhere (and was too lazy to search for a proper fix).
One reason might be the site is running some kind of monitoring, that checks the amount of free ram and sends a warning to administrators when free ram drops below a certain percentage. If that monitoring tool is dumb enough not to include cache in the free ram calculation, it might send false warnings; regularily emptying the cache could suppress these warnings while still allowing the tool to notice when "real" ram gets low.
Of course, in this kind of situation, the real solution is to modify the monitoring tool to include cache in the free ram calculation; cleaning the cache is just a workaround, and a bad one as well, because the cache will refill quickly when processes access the disk.
So even if my assumption is true, the cache-cleaning is not something that makes sense, it's rather a workaround by someone who isn't competent enough to fix the primary problem.
Just to add my two cents: The system knows very well that these memory pages are caches, and will drop as much as needed when an application asks for memory.
A relevant setting is
I can think of one plausible reason to do this in a nightly cron job.
On a large system, it may be useful to periodically drop caches so you can remove memory fragmentation.
The kernel transparent hugepage support does a periodic sweep of memory to coalesce small pages into hugepages. Under degenerate conditions this can result in system pauses of a minute or two (my experience with this was in RHEL6; hopefully it's improved). Dropping caches may let the hugepage sweeper have some room to work with.
You might argue that this is a good reason to disable transparent hugepages; OTOH you may believe that the overall performance improvement from transparent hugepages is worth having, and worth paying the price of losing your caches once a day.
I have a desktop machine with 16GB of RAM running on PAE kernel. After a an hour or two the disk performance degrades dramatically until I drop the caches so I simply put it into cron. I don't know if this is a problem with PAE kernel or with the cache implementation being so slow if there is plenty of memory.


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Originally Posted by CYVADER
dude needs a baggier fitting t-shirt.
I did notice his moobs.
Good vid, though hard to top the Texas or Homecoming videos.
Who is that guy?
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Good vid, though hard to top the Texas or Homecoming videos.
The Kansas hit tape was the best IMO.
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The Kansas hit tape was the best IMO.
It was ok, but id place it below Texas and Homecoming.
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I have to admit, I really like that.
It's a lot better that Notti boy, actually looks like a music video, not just filmed in his basement.
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i thought the video was meh.....granted the genre of music is not to my personal taste
I think there was a little too much J Shade in the video. Got a little cheesey in a couple clips.
Got me jacked!
Texas hit tape was definitely the best. The intro and the part with Money hurdling the two defenders were just awesome.
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