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Sterling Construction Company, Inc. (NasdaqGS:STRL) ("Sterling" or "the Company") today announced that its affiliate, Myers & Sons Construction, L.P. ("Myers & Sons"), was apparent low bidder on the California Department of Transportation (CalTrans) US 50/Silva Valley project in El Dorado County, with a bid of $29,693,327. The project consists of constructing three box girder bridges and one flat slab bridge, and is estimated to take two years to complete.
Peter MacKenna, Sterling's Chief Executive Officer, commented, "Sterling and Myers & Sons are proud to have the opportunity to work with El Dorado County on this important project, which will help relieve traffic congestion in El Dorado Hills."
Sterling is a leading heavy civil construction company that specializes in the building and reconstruction of transportation and water infrastructure projects in Texas, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California and other states where there are construction opportunities. Its transportation infrastructure projects include highways, roads, bridges and light rail and its water infrastructure projects include water, wastewater and storm drainage systems.
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Entropy 2013, 15(12), 5324-5337; doi:10.3390/e15125324
Generalized (c,d)-Entropy and Aging Random Walks
Received: 26 September 2013 / Revised: 12 November 2013 / Accepted: 25 November 2013 / Published: 3 December 2013
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Abstract: Complex systems are often inherently non-ergodic and non-Markovian and Shannon entropy loses its applicability. Accelerating, path-dependent and aging random walks offer an intuitive picture for non-ergodic and non-Markovian systems. It was shown that the entropy of non-ergodic systems can still be derived from three of the Shannon–Khinchin axioms and by violating the fourth, the so-called composition axiom. The corresponding entropy is of the form Sc,d ~ ∑iΓ(1 + d, 1 − cln pi) and depends on two system-specific scaling exponents, c and d. This entropy contains many recently proposed entropy functionals as special cases, including Shannon and Tsallis entropy. It was shown that this entropy is relevant for a special class of non-Markovian random walks. In this work, we generalize these walks to a much wider class of stochastic systems that can be characterized as "aging" walks. These are systems whose transition rates between states are path- and time-dependent. We show that for particular aging walks, Sc,d is again the correct extensive entropy. Before the central part of the paper, we review the concept of (c,d)-entropy in a self-contained way.
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61 buildings including one constructed in 1884 identified
Anybody who had studied history a few decades ago would remember this: Emperor Ashoka planted trees, laid roads and built rest houses along the roads. The Highways Department also had in the past a concept very much akin to that –travellers bungalows.
The department has had a sprinkling of such buildings all over the State and it has now embarked upon a plan to conserve these structures. It has identified 61 buildings including one constructed in 1884. Four of the buildings had been constructed from 1901 to 1910; 20 from 1911 to 1920; 16 from 1921 to 1930; seven from 1931 to 1940; eight from 1941 to 1950; and five from 1951 to 1960.
Most of these buildings are under use and many have sloped roofs of Mangalore tiles. A bungalow constructed in 1901 is in the remote village of Malapalayam in Madurantakam in Kancheepuram district. However, the building is in disuse and in need of repairs. A study by an Archaeological Society of India (ASI) expert showed that the single storeyed building had four large rooms.
The building which faces East has a semi-circle shaped corridor supported by round pillars with a Madras terrace. Following the collapse of the terrace ceiling, there had been an overgrowth of shrubs.
An estimate of Rs.1 crore has been drawn to preserve and restore the building. Repairs include anti-termite treatment, removal of vegetation, and replacement of the Mangalore tiles, wooden rafters and reapers.
Initial estimates drawn up by the department for the conservation of 17 buildings would be sent to the government for approval.
Meanwhile Rs.10 lakh has been allocated for initial expenses. The ASI has been approached for expertise and guidance.
Sources in the Highways Department said that this was the first time that such an effort to conserve heritage structures was being taken.
"We are making a conscious effort to maintain the heritage value of such buildings and strengthen them. We will also ensure that materials matching to those used originally would be used," he said.
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SANTA FE – Things got plenty hairy at the end, but the Los Alamos Hilltopper football team hung on to win a crucial District 2-4A contest Friday night.
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Los Alamos scored four touchdowns, each by four different players, to earn the victory, but Los Alamos had to sweat things out at the end.
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Summer has arrived, and that makes me very nervous. This is both high vacation time and the time of year when pharmacy graduates begin their first jobs as registered pharmacists. The combination can lead to serious problems; after all, if a rookie floater is out of his league in a high-volume community pharmacy, the chance of a prescription error rises astronomically.
Many new pharmacists are far from humble about their newly minted abilities. I speak from experience: Pending passing of my state board and law exam, I bought myself a 1972 Corvette as a graduation present. It matched my attitude perfectly. I was downright brash about my skills. I was good, but nowhere near as good as I am today. Eighteen years of clinical experience have taught me as much as my education of my beloved Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science did.
As a rookie, I took my lumps. It took me about a week to have a misfilled prescription come back with my initials on it. It was humbling. It did however help me become a better pharmacist. I learned from every mistake I made.
Old Man Gower was the druggist (cringe) in Frank Capra's epic
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Were it not for George Bailey, he would have killed a kid. Nobody wants to be Old Man Gower. I have woken out of a sound sleep realizing that I had drastically misfilled a prescription. I raced to work the next morning praying the Rx was still there. It was. It's not a mistake until it goes out.
Once, though, I did have a misfilled prescription go out. I had grabbed a bottle of oxycodone 30 mg tablets when I should have grabbed a bottle of 15s. Bad enough, but here is the kicker: The dose was 2 tablets q12h. Instead of getting 30 mg, the patient was now getting 60. I realized this that morning when I grabbed a prescription for oxycodone 15 mg and noticed that the tablet color was different.
Instantly an alarm went off in my mind: I had made a potentially lethal error. I raced to the phone and dialed the patient.
Don't take a dose ... don't take a dose.
She had already taken a dose. The home health nurse said the patient had end-stage cancer and was on high-dose opiates. She would keep an eye on things, but wasn't really worried.
I was. I figured that if the patient survived 6 hours, the nurse would be proved right. She was. I talked to the husband 6 hours and 30 seconds after the patient had taken the dose. (Deep breath.) She was alive, but he was not happy with me. I apologized from the very bottom of my soul.
The next morning I talked to the nurse. She said the dose did not faze her in the least. I, on the other hand, knew that I had gotten lucky.
I have a bit of advice for all of our new colleagues who may find themselves in a similar situation: If you make a mistake, own it! Take responsibility, admit your mistake, wholeheartedly apologize, and, for Pete's sake, don't try to cover it up! Protect yourself and fill out an incident report. Realize that you and your staff are human and a mistake can occur on ANY prescription.
I hope every pharmacist who reads this never makes another prescription error again, but they will. Handle it properly. Your patients deserve no less. Peace.
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Taylor Swift's newest album, RED, is slated to sell between 1.1 million and 1.25 million copies during its debut week: last Monday through tonight.
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On The RED Tour, Taylor is currently slated to headline 58 shows in 45 cities in 29 states and 3 provinces in 2013. The tour will kick-off on March 13 in Omaha, Nebraska and continue through September. Acclaimed singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran, whose duet with Taylor from her RED album, "Everything Has Changed," has already reached the No. 1 position atop iTunes all-genre Top Songs chart, will be a special guest on all of the shows on the tour.
The 2013 dates will include nine stadiums – Detroit's Ford Field, Dallas's Cowboys Stadium, Toronto's Rogers Centre, Winnipeg's Investors' Group Field, Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, Pittsburgh's Heinz Field, Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field, Foxborough, Mass.'s Gillette Stadium and Chicago's Soldier Field.
"I didn't think I could be any more excited about my RED album, but then I start thinking about how I'm going to put the new show together for The RED Tour," says Taylor. "I have so many ideas about how to really bring this music to life, and I can't wait to share the new show with all my fans!"
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Hi, while testing kpowesave I found that the daemon complained that it is only for AMD K7.
Trying to start the daemon manually fails. All of this is happening on a centrino notebook
What gives?
Holger Macht
Where does it complain and how does this message look like?
What's that for a notebook?
Is the speedstep driver loaded(e.g. speedstep_centrino)?
Thanks for the fast reply.
It' s toshiba notebook with an centrino cpu
It complains at bootime and says something like
powersave(something): This will work only on AMD K7
No, no speedstep driver is loaded
(sorry for not being more precise but i had to uninstall it for now and)
Thanks again
Thanks for the fast reply.
It' s toshiba notebook with an centrino cpu
It complains at bootime and says something like
powersave(something): This will work only on AMD K7
No, no speedstep driver is loaded
(sorry for not being more precise but i had to uninstall it for now)
Thanks again
Holger Macht
Which distribution? If it is SUSE or you at least use the init script which comes with powersaved, this script should load the speedstep_centrino module. Otherwise make sure that all relevant cpufreq modules (speedstep_centrino, cpufreq_ondemand, ...) are loaded before powersaved is started. I can't find such an error message at any place in the code/scripts though.
Stefan Seyfried
The message is from the powernow-k7 module:
root@strolchi:~# modprobe powernow-k7; dmesg|tail -n 1
FATAL: Error inserting powernow_k7 (/lib/modules/18.104.22.168-4-default/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k7.ko): No such device
powernow: This module only works with AMD K7 CPUs
Since the default script loads all modules until a matching one is found, this leads to this message. However, it is totally harmless.
You should check, why the speedstep-centrino module does not work for you, maybe check the output of the "cpufreq-info" command from the cpufrequtils, there might be some hints.
OK fixed,
It was an total different problem afterall.
I had to add the user to the powerdev group to make it work.
I found this out after doing a ps -aux and finding that powersaved was running.
I just got confused by
1. error message at bootime
2. error message when doing a /etc/init.d/powersaved start. (that plain "failed" message was not much of an help)
3. By the error message of kpowesave telling me powersave was not running. (Maybe adding a message like " check user is in powerdev group" would help many users)
Thanks everyone for helping
Btw the module that get's loaded during boottime is called speedstep_lib (or something like that, I can check if you want when I get back on the notebook) So maybe it could be usefull it powersaved looked for that module before telling the user of "only works with AMD K7 CPUs "
My 2c
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Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO), the research arm of Indian Railway, recently acquired a simulation software to assess the behaviour of the spread of fire, heat and movement of smoke as part of measures to enhance passenger safety, RDSO Director General V. Ramachandran said here on Friday.
Addressing a seminar on 'Emerging coach technology' hosted by the Integral Coach Factory (ICF), he said that the fire retardancy norms of coach materials had been upgraded to meet the norms of SNCF, the company that supplied the computer-aided fire simulation facility, the first of its kind in the country.
RDSO has also developed a fire detection system to detect fire in the coach and give alarm. "However, a reliable solution for detection of fires in non AC coaches still eludes us. The non-AC coach is unique in the sense that it has an uncontrolled environment whereas most fire detection systems are able to perform only in controlled environment. False alarms have been known to induce panic in passengers leading to multiple cases of injuries due to passengers jumping off moving trains."
Another step towards mitigating consequences of a collision was the development of crash-worthy design of coaches that would reduce fatalities, Mr. Ramachandran said. Currently, work is on to evolve standards for dust ingressin non-AC coaches and also take effective measures to reduce noise levels, as presently standards for both these do notexist. Recently, RDSO floated an Expression of Interest for fitment of on-board diagnostic systems.
With higher speeds and heavier loads, Indian Railway is increasingly looking for improvements in brake systems, couplers, wheels, axles and other bogie components as well as in coach interiors. In all these aspects, the inputs of industry were important, Mr. Ramachandran said.
Following recent Supreme Court pronouncements, the Railways was also introducing automatic closing doors and bio-toilets in trains.
On the competition from low cost airlines and road transporters in the short/medium distance travel segments, he felt that the best strategy for the Railways was to consolidate the rail share in long distance and medium segment by increasing the commercial speed of passenger trains, introducing fast services between metropolitan cities with speeds up to 160 kmph and having high speed corridors between metros as envisaged in the Vision 2020 document.
ICF General Manager Abhay K. Khanna said capacity expansion at the ICF to be operational by 2015 would involve a scaling up to 1,700 coaches annually, including the manufacture of 300 stainless steel coaches. At present, the ICF had a capacity of around 1,600 coaches across 500 variants.
Mr. Khanna pointed to the Twelfth Plan projections of requirement of 24,000 coaches by 2016-17 and the Railways' Vision document's projected coach needs of 50,880 by 2020 and the vision of Railways for modernisation of rolling stock — switch-over to LHB designs, raising crash-worthiness, introduction of faster trains and automatic fire alarm systems.
Rakesh Saksena, Managing Director, Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation, said the acquisition of ICF coaches had helped the suburban system in Mumbai, which transported 7.4 million commuters every day, significantly add line capacity and reduce overcrowding by 18 per cent.
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While Platinum trophies used to look like a bizarre purple crown the new version, as seen above, looks more like a sports trophy made of crystal. We're looking forward to getting our hands on one once some more games get trophy support. Hopefully now that 2.41 is out we'll be hearing more about exactly when this will happen. Hopefully.
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Government CIOs are co-opting agile software development techniques for their own IT management tasks
Admit it: You make a living knowing about computers and information technology, but there are certain topics that you never spent the time to learn about because you've got people who handle that or it's just not on your organization's radar screen.
Agile software development might be one of those topics.
What does it matter how the sausage is made and whether some software programmers buck the plan-first, code-later tradition in favor of a project management methodology that values constant feedback, quick deliverables, midstream course corrections, and identification of problems early and often rather than burying them?
Those latter traits are the hallmarks of agile development, and they might be coming to a chief information officer suite near you, not necessarily for writing software programs — though that will likely happen soon — but to accelerate how you evaluate new technology, conduct acquisitions and develop ways for your organization to operate.
The notion of applying agile concepts to those activities is already percolating in the minds of government leaders such as Navy CIO Robert Carey.
"IT runs at network speeds, so IT and information management decision-making needs to follow suit," Carey said in a recent interview about CIO challenges. "We have to be far more agile in our ability to render decisions and policies and guidance. And we have to be cognizant of the technology of the day and what is coming so we can determine when best to embrace them and when to let them continue to flesh out."
The larger defense establishment has also realized that it can't take an average of seven years to field a major IT system, as it has in the past. The fiscal 2010 National Defense Authorization Act that President Barack Obama signed in October 2009 gives Defense Department officials a deadline of July to come up with new acquisition processes that can deliver IT systems in no more than 18 months by incorporating these agile principles:
Those precepts are pulled straight from the agile software development playbook.
It's easy to understand why the military is interested in agile development, an approach that has more traction in the private sector than government. For DOD, being the first to get a better widget, or weapon, to its market — the battlefield — is the name of the game.
But is agility a virtue for civilian agencies, too? Bryan Sivak, chief technology officer for Washington, D.C., thinks so. "The faster we can bring new ideas to bear and the more efficient we can make government processes, in a shorter time frame — these are things that will benefit everybody," he said.
Sivak wants to institute agile principles across his entire organization and operations. For example, a team exploring an idea for a new Web 2.0 application or permit-issuing process would set short but doable deadlines for frequent project deliverables. The team would also focus first on a limited set of the highest-value features and not get bogged down trying to plan upfront for the be-all, end-all solution.
Sivak's efforts to adopt agile ideas are still in the early stages, so he can't report yet on what is and isn't working. But he does expect challenges because agile development requires a flexibility in people and processes that is quite different from the strictly ordered, plodding project management style that the government traditionally uses for IT.
That legacy is the biggest obstacle to the wider use of agile principles, said Richard Cheng, a managing consultant at Excella Consulting. Many software programmers are sold on agile, and a growing number of CIOs see the value of applying it to what they do. However, the hard nut to crack is the implementation layer, that enormous bureaucracy in the middle where managing risk and aversion to experimentation are institutionalized, he added.
That culture wants to minimize change because change is equated with cost. "Agile creates a framework for allowing for change," Cheng said.
Given the pace at which technology is remaking the world and the government's struggle to keep up, clinging to the old ways could be the costliest approach of all.
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i feel my boyfriend does not respect me
i dont want to loose him
does it mean that hez fooling me or not? after accepting the kid only and some tim he kneling down following me up.i want to know if hez cheating on me coz if i ask him he only say that we will see where we are going. i dont ealy get satisfied with hiz ansa. i may continue wasting my tym. pliz advice
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So i ask a ? a week or two ago about a 27 year old single father i met online & can it be true love.
my love life is unromantic
love is the most beautiful thing one can find yes i found it i make it be by me always but its not with me
Disability Misconceptions - Part II
I hope you enjoy Part II of my look into disabilities and misconceptions as they relate to the dating world. As always, read more on my personal blog, So about what I said...I sometimes like to think of myself as a Wonder Woman of sorts. I, as I'm sure you can imagine, take great pride in taking my gigantic foot and stomping all the misconceptions away. Misconceptions about women with disabilities, that is (I may be mighty, but I am only one woman, remember). I honestly don't think people mean to form these misconceptions, and maybe it never even occurred to them that they ARE misconceptions in the first place. But never fear. Yours Truly is here yet again to save the day - and save the world, perhaps? Let's just clear a few more rumors up, shall we? *NOTE: My use of "you" shall refer to men in the following scenarios. I'm sure you men know who you are. It's time we put a solid stop to your sorely ill-informed way of thinking*
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Dear Dr. Romance: I'm scared to death of being alone
Cheat Confession of the week:
On 06/22/10 at 11:32 AM EST by Ilegal Female Female - Cheater I'm an 18 year old girl with a one and a half year relationship. I love my boyfriend but I'm too young for this kind of commitment and it is really smothering me. Beside that, my boyfriend changed a lot since we met and I don't like him anymore but I can't help my self not to love him. Just when things started to go bad I met a 23 year old boy who attracts me in every possible kind of way. He makes me laugh, forget all the problems, and all the things my boyfriend can't do. He's probably most irresponsible person I've ever met (despite his years, he has no job, no diploma, and all he ever does is just having fun..), I used that fact and had a little bit of fun with him. It was just a kiss but I dream about much more and hope to get it soon.. I'm afraid I might fall in love..Reason: Maybe the kiss it self wasn't much of a cheating but the things I do with him in my head certainly are..
Let Me Think About It...
"You just always have so much to talk about!" The reply I got from the boyfriend the other night when I asked him why he was sighing repeatedly at every comment I made about the movie we'd just finished. "Ok. Well, if I'm talking too much, you're welcome to go do something else. I can talk to myself just as well as to you (it is true that I chatter a lot)." Two solo hours and a great movie later, I walked into the bedroom to find him passed out on top of the bedcovers, his ill-tempered cat lying beside him.
Disability Misconceptions - Part I
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Free love has not ruled since the 1970's but apparently unprotected intercourse among older unmarried Americans is on the rise. According to a recent A.A.R.P. study of singles in the 45 plus category, only 12 percent of the sexually active single men and only 33 percent of sexually active women report using condoms.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> While more than 30 percent of boomers are living the single life, this segment is also the fastest growing group of subscribers for on-line dating. (Source: 2007 Lehman Brothers Equity Research). As a result of the love boom, sexually transmitted diseases like syphilis and HIV are on the rise among mature adults.


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Alex Kretz
Work well
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
These work well. Not much glide, but oh well!
Great Attachment System..Terrible Glide
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Bought these for my 181cm K2 Coombacks and was excited to try out K2's tip and tail attachment system. The system is great but I did find that the tail attachment would get loose after a while and doesn't have defined notches like the BD system. The worst thing about this skin is the glide is pretty much non existent. They sure do grip well but don't glide worth a damn, even after an extensive break-in period. Didn't have glue issues like others but I wouldn't buy these again until they start using a different material. Ended up with BD mohair mix and they are leaps and bounds better.
I've just ordered K2 Pon2oon 179cm.
I've just ordered K2 Pon2oon 179cm.
Is 174cm Skin good for 179cmPon2oon?
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These skins are meant to fit skis that are 1cm shorter to 6cm longer. For example: 174cm skin fits 173 ? 180cm skis. The 174cm skin should be a perfect fit for your K2 Pon2oon 179cm skis.
New design much different!
- Gender: Male
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
These are a new design all around compared to the past few years (blue climbing skins direct version). First, I do like the new tip attachment. The older z-clip metal would bend after repeated laps peeling skins with skis still on. However, the better designed z-clip doesn't override my 1 star review because a good tip & tail attachment is worthless without good glue! I agree with other reviews these are good for warmer weather. But even keeping these skins in my jacket the glue stops sticking after 2 or 3 laps (and I am super careful not to get snow on my glue). I am super bummed about this because I have 4 different models of K2 skis and really like the tip/tail attachment and pre-cut for some of my other models.
Evan Stevens
Smooth, durable, dependable
- Gender: Male
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I have used these skins for a few seasons now, and they have not failed me. great grip, maybe not the best glide, but I think they have the best ski attachment system going. I ski with a dog a ton and he has never popped off the tails walking on my skis, which says alot. The trim tool does a great job to give a custom skin pretty easily.


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Each day this week we're bringing you one of our Loving the Bike Top 5 Cycling Tips. We do our best to provide cool stuff and interesting tips and information for all you cyclists on a regular basis, but this week we're coming at you with our top tips. We're kicking things off with...
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A Lot Has Happened in 3 Years…on and off the Bike
Can you believe that Loving the Bike is heading into its third year of cycling blogging? Yep, it was back on February 6th 2010 that we launched our cycling lifestyle website and the world has been a better place ever since. Okay, well I'm not sure about that….but it sure has done a lot...
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Washing My Cycling Kit….Old School Style
What's your cycling kit washing routine? I thought I'd give you a quick behind the scenes look at what I do here in Grenada. Here's my old school kit washing video with all the details.
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This is your chance to share your percent grade cycling stories and comments with us. This is a bonus, "Let's Talk", post but I'm posting this now because I really wanted to find out more about your hill climbing and the percent grade of the hills around the areas you cycle. Have a look...
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Let's Talk About How Much You Need to Know
We all love cycling, right? But how much do we really need to know about our sport and industry? As part of our regular "Let's Talk" feature, we're asking you to provide feedback on how much you feel a cyclist really needs to know including your thoughts on pro cycling, technology, and anything else...
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Grenada By Bike: Cruise Ships
Here's another edition of our Grenada By Bike feature in which we highlight a different aspect of Grenada as seen from a bicycle. This time around I stopped just West of the capital city of St. George's to capture a cruise ship in at port. It's said that the cruise ship industry injects nearly $2...
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Grenada By Bike: Overview
My friend Victor from Bicycle Lab and the Cycling 360 Podcast told me that he'd really like to see some video of what it's like biking around Grenada. He's a wise man (he is a guru after all) so I'm taking his advice and today's post is the start of our new Grenada By...
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Yes, this site is called Loving the Bike and I know we all love cycling very much. But for this month's Let's Talk feature, we want you to tell us about other fun and adventurous activities that you love as well. Maybe there aren't any others, and that's cool as well. But we want...
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It's Make it Happen Monday over here at Loving the Bike, and Mrs. Loving the Bike did a great job at starting off the week with some beautiful words of wisdom. I wanted to check in as well with a quick video post just before I made it happen with my first ride here...
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Hi there, I purchased my 2000 plate S3 just under a month ago and at the time I didn't have a radio code for it so it just displayed 'SAFE'. About a week ago I decided to have it decoded and have now put it in the code and unlocked it. When I first got it going though, it kept doing what I can only describe as re-starting itself. When it comes back on though, it reverts back to whatever was playing before it was 're-started'. So say I turned it on, then changed the mode from CD to radio... when it 're-starts', it will go back to the CD again. I tried amending a few settings, like Bass etc. to see if these revert back as well and they do! There's no warning when it's going to happen, you just hear a 'pop' come out of the speakers and then 'BOSE' is displayed. It can happen as soon as it's turned on, or after 30 seconds of having it running... and there's no limit of times to how often it can happen while using it, sometimes 3-4 times in a row! Is this a dodgy wiring problem, or could it be something else? I've had all the wires/clips out the back and put them all back in firmly, and made sure everything looks as it should (i.e. nothing broken/damaged). I can't think what else could be causing it? Thanks for any help/ideas people can come up with!
No one has any clue on this one then? Looks like it's going to be a new head unit for me. Other than the volume problem with these head units, has anyone heard of any other problems with them? As I don't want to replace it with another of the same and have more problems.
Was there a different head unit in there before? Sounds like the wire which records the memory isn't in the right place or hasn't been put back in properly. Before buying a new unit, i'd suggest taking it to a car audio shop and asking them to have a look at it.
I fitted a aftermarket head unit the other day and had the same problem, turns out it was the power supply wiring, i had to try a few different confgurations from a constant, switched and variable power supply. it was a yellow and red wire on the lead if that helps, but i'm pretty certain its a wiring problem
Sounds like someones been stirring the wiring with a spade to me. The BOSE systems a bit of a pain to be honest and if messed about with in the past (ie aftermarket unit put in).... it'll be a sod to put right.
Cheers for the replies. :thumbsup: The bloke I bought it from says that this was the original head unit that came with the car, but... he did have an aftermarket one put in while he owned the car! What can I do to try and put it right again? Or will it need to be looked at by someone at an audio shop?
You need to pull the HU and take a good quality pic of the wiring and post on here. As the previous owner went aftermarket he would have had to have had all sorts of adapters installed to get it working with the Bose system as well as swapping over the perm & ignition on lives. So there's a good chance that the wiring has been butchered or theres a loose connection that's not obvious. The permanent live is obviously OK as it's remembering all your presets and mode you were previously in, so either the ignition on live is intermittant or the remote on to the Bose amp is shorting out intermittantly as this would cause the HU to reboot. The pop you get seems to suggest the latter as this wouldn't happen if the ignition on gets interrupted. Post a pic, it's will be an easy DIY fix.
Yes. Looks totally untouched, which is good, but also bad as there's no scope for a wiring fault. Is the HU reset anything to do with bumps in the road or will it do it at a standstill? Maybe check the connector on the Bose amp in the boot, also was the brown earth cable (just out of shot) connected to the HU chassis?
Hmm, well at least I haven't got to worry about the wires being a mess then. No, it can happen at any time... sometimes, 3-4 times after just being started up. It's doing it less frequently now but still seems to have a problem remembering changes. For instance, I've just come back from somewhere and was listening to a CD. But then when I turned the ignition back off and then back on again 10 minutes later, it was back on the radio again... because that's what it was on last time it 're-started' itself. Very very odd... and yes the brown earth cable was connected, just didn't take it in the picture as I could see it was untouched.
yeah cant see anything that looks changable for you to alter the power supply, maybe you could take it to the stealers and try and get an idea out of one of them without booking it in and paying, then once you know the fault you can try do it yourself.
Hmm, yeah if no one has any other ideas then that's what I might have to do. I'm going to have a quick look at the Bose Amp in the boot as suggested, but if no joy then I'll take it down the local Audi Dealers and see if I can steal some information from them without actually paying.


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"This card has just the right amount of charm! The perfect shade of blue coupled with the look of a men's striped tie made my husband say, "Those are great. Can I have one?" If my husband wanted a copy to keep, I figured I had to write a review. I used a suggested font, had my son's full name typed in all lower case (he's about to turn one), and added a cute picture to the back. Because it isn't tied to a specific theme, I can use them for birthday thank yous, Christmas thank yous, and just every day hello's to family members and friends. This card is a keeper, literally! :)"


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Two Toronto based mtn bikers who are thinking that spring is way too far off are considering a Late March / early April visit to Vir.
We assume that spring will likely be a month ahead of Toronto.
We looking for a city/town to act as a base and places to do some mtn biking.
Virgina Beach looks like a long days drive with lots of places to rent - any mountain biking.
We're looking for flowy trails vs. super technical
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Those who were burnt alive include two women and a girl
Three persons, including a five-year-old girl were killed and two others sustained grievous injuries when an explosion took place in a licensed firecrackers workshop at Komaripalem village near Vedurupaka Savaram of Rayavaram police station limits on Sunday.
The incident took place at 2 p.m. when manufacturing of firecrackers was going on. Two women and a girl - Dongala Lakshmi, 65, of Komaripalem, Katta Bujji, 35, of Konkuduru and Aruna, 5, - were burnt alive.
Penumanchili Annavaram, 38, of Gudavarthi village near Vetlapalem and Velangi Annavaram, 40, of Samalkot were seriously injured and were rushed to the Government General Hospital here, where the doctors said that their condition was critical. Three others were escaped with minor injuries.
According to the police, the workshop - Bhavani Fireworks was owned by a person named Velpuri Satti Babu of Vedurupalka village. The manufacturing of crackers goes on round-the-year.
The explosion took place when over ten women were being engaged in the manufacturing of the crackers, whereas the girl was there along with her mother.
Tension prevailed in the vicinity after to the sudden explosion in the workshop and the people did not dare to enter on the premises for sometime.
The injured women raised an alarm and rushed out of the premises.
The injured were rushed to a local hospital, from where the two women were referred to the GGH.
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Diaz of Willmar pleads to false imprisonment charge in child luring case
WILLMAR -- Jesus Diaz, 67, of Willmar, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony charge of false imprisonment by intentional restraint for attempting to lure three young girls into his vehicle as they walked home from school in September.
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A fire South Philadelphia on Sunday killed a retired judge.Credit: Metro file photo
A retired judge died in a South Philadelphia house fire Sunday night.
Anthony DeFino, 86, was killed in the blaze on the 2500 block of South 20th Street, 6ABC Action News reports. The fire started about 7 p.m.
DeFino served as Philadelphia Common Pleas Court judge for 19 years before he retired in 2007.
Firefighters arrived to find heavy fire showing from the home's second and third floors. It took only about a half-hour to bring the fire under control.