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k_d_ch started following Ford Escort 1995 Won't Start When Hot, Radiator fan not cutting in, thermostatic switch changed, Brake travel after bleeding and and 3 others
Radiator fan not cutting in, thermostatic switch changed
k_d_ch posted a topic in Ford Escort ClubHi all, Would anyone have any ideas on my new problem with the Escort: the engine overheats as the fan won't start. When I short it (from the thermostatic switch multiplug), the fan does switch on. I have replaced the thermostatic switch on the thermostat housing , but the problem persists. I am at a loss, because the switch is the only part of the circuit that I seem to remove when I short the fan as above. By the way, is there a sensor for the actual radiator temperature? I would think that this should make the fan switch on (when the temperature in the radiator reaches a certain value)... Many thanks!
Brake travel after bleeding
k_d_ch replied to k_d_ch's topic in Ford Escort ClubSorry did not report back in February: after a few more tries (and buying a pressure-bleeding kit) it worked, the braking is nice and firm now. Thank you for your advice!
Brake travel after bleeding
k_d_ch posted a topic in Ford Escort ClubI was wondering if anyone has any ideas why I may have increased brake travel after bleeding (following caliper overhaul). I have taken the Escort for a run afterwards, and it brakes fine, if only the pedal feels a bit soft -- but maybe it's just me used to driving it with sticky brakes for several months! Now here is another strange thing: when bleeding the system, my assistant pressed the pedal repeatedly, then held the pedal (with engine off, of course) -- and the pedal would not always get firm, as it should according to the Haynes manual. Also I could not get rid completely of the bubbles, which suggests air in the system, but I have done a lot of bleeding, about 0.7l of brake fluid! At the moment, the car being on its wheels, the pedal does get quite firm when depressed with engine off (as it should), then softens when I switch it on (as it should), but there is this feeling that it is still too soft when braking. Anyone has any ideas or perhaps has had something similar in the past? Many thanks!
Airbag Light Continues Flashing 4 Times, Pre-Tensioners Reset
k_d_ch replied to k_d_ch's topic in Ford Escort ClubWell, they might be. This problem has been coming and going. It would do this for a few weeks or even months and then back to normal again. In 2012 I was told by the MOT tester that a new rule was about to be introduced and that it would fail the following year with this problem. (He was the one who advised me to take the bulb out!) This guy had to retire before my 2013 MOT, but somehow I was lucky, in both 2013 and 2014 not to have this problem during the test. Actually, in one of these two years I did the resetting (unplugging and plugging back in, following a video on YouTube) and it worked. It is not working now... I actually took the seats off today to inspect the area, moved the cables around a bit, gave the connector another clean (vacuum+WD40) --- still flashing. Regarding the error codes: my car is unfortunate to have the 16-pin connector already (the car is a 1995, N-plate) but not to work with the OBD II protocol (it started on Ford in 1996 or 1997). A garage guy I took the car to last year (there was a fault leading to bad emissions) has some code reader that he say is not common and is expensive. I guess it could be a glitch but I will only know if I take it to that guy again. Thank you for your comments anyway, they are much appreciated.
Hi everyone, I am wondering if anyone has any further ideas on this one, before I take the bulb out altogether. I have tried several times unplugging the yellow connectors and plugging them back in, to no avail. (Waited for several minutes each time with ignition off.) Also tried disconnecting the battery, this did not work either. Many thanks!
I am sorry if you feel that it was a waste of your time. I am grateful for your air leak comments: I personally have learnt from them and shall take them on board in the future. The garage that said it was an air leak was different to the garage where I took the car in the end (I was wating for my appontment with them at the time). There are garages to just do an emissions test and there are garages to solve a challenging problem! By the way, the guy who did the job said that there is no air leak, he checked it first.
By the way, can anyone suggest where I can get a fault code reader for my Escort (1995)? Apparently, OBD2 readers work for cars from 1996 onwards. It seems a bit bizzare, but my Escort's ECU has got a socket that OBD2 plugs into (and even tries to start when plugged) but then gives an error message and is of no further use.
Problem sorted. It was an ECU glitch, apparently. It was not supplying the required voltage (0.5V) to the lambda sensor. The garage guy who fixed it said everything was in order once he probed (i.e. gave an extra ground) the signal wire that goes from the ECU to the lambda. Many thanks to everyone!
I can see the logic in your explanation. I saw on a website (I think it was about Polos though) that the pressure inside the manifold can be lower than outside (is this what people mean when they use the word "vacuum" in this context?), hence the sucking in when an "air leak" occurs. It may well be that on Escorts it is the other way round, or that they were ill informed... Regarding the garage guys, I would not put too much money on their claim. They were in a rush, as many of them usually are. At the time another problem occured as we spoke: the fan connector on the fan switch stopped working. It had not looked very healthy for years and now finally gave way. Following which I got a new connector from a scrapyard, which was lucky, and the fan is cutting in fine. I then went back to the emissions guys to ask them to give the emissions test another go, which they offered to do free of charge in the first place. (This was kind of them, but also explains why they would not want to spend too much time on my problem.) At that point they said that there was no point in retesting since the first time round it was an air leak and the fan connector and switch could not have been a reason for high emissions, which seems fair enough to me.
Many thanks for your comment. Today a guy at a garage sprayed some stuff (they said "brake cleaner") around the inlet manifold and the emissions on the computer shot up. The guy suggests there is an air leak in the inlet manifold. Just to check: my understanding is that an air leak like this would make the oxygen sensor send a signal to the ECU to inject more fuel, which would be the way it overfuels. Would this logic be correct, were there to be an air leak?
Co Emissions High: Overfuelling?
k_d_ch posted a topic in Ford Escort ClubI have just had a new cat fitted to my Ford Escort (1995, 1.4 petrol) and the CO emissions reading is still high. I wonder what the chances are that the engine coolant temperature sensor is faulty. I recently replaced the lambda sensor, and lambda readings are OK. Many thanks!
Fuel Pump Relay
k_d_ch replied to k_d_ch's topic in Ford Escort ClubFound it, R3 brown.
Fuel Pump Relay
k_d_ch posted a topic in Ford Escort ClubCan anyone help me out, which one is the fuel pump relay on a 1995-96 Escort? Many thanks!
Ford Escort 1995 Won't Start When Hot
k_d_ch posted a topic in Ford Escort ClubI was wondering if anyone has come across this problem: the starter won't turn when the car is hot. The starter is new, I believe it is all right. I have had the battery checked and it is supposed to be all right too. Under different testing conditions symptoms vary: for instance on a couple of occasions after a long run when the car would not start I would disconnect the spark plug leads and the starter would turn fine. Then I would connect the leads back and the car would start again! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!


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September 25, 2011-Sunday Racing
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Racing in African Waters
I called for the genoa, the "red bag", and as it came on deck I went forward to help Andy hook it up.
When I called back to Judy, in the cockpit, to relead the sheets she demurred, "That's the wrong sail." She said.
I looked up from my work on the bow and saw she was right. In the few moments since I'd gone forward the wind had built. It had been 10 knots, now it looked like 15.
"What's it blowing?" I shouted.
Judy glanced at the instruments and said, "16 knots, it'll be more outside!"
We've had these conversations before and Judy is usually right, more often than I am, about which sail to set.
"OK, get the blue bag up here." I shouted to the forward hands, and in a second the #4 jib came up. Andy rigged it and I went aft to line up for the start.
We reached back and forth a couple of times to get a sense of the line and set our clocks to the radio call: "Five minutes…NOW!" I decided on a port start at the left end, not the bold move that it usually would have been because for this race, being a reaching start, port was the only way to go.
We tacked, with speed, to leeward of Galactica, and went for the pin end.
"Three, two, one, START". We were first to cross and we headed out of Richards Bay towards the anchored ships offshore, which we were sailing around today, leading the fleet and pulling out fast.
So, a good start, a good head of steam, and we had the right sail, for which I am eternally thankful. We just shouldered down and charged out to sea ducking the spray and looking for the first mark, a ship named "Sanko" five miles out, should be bearing 126 degrees.
We could see the ship's masts and we homed in on it. Nomad, the 56 foot catamaran, overtook us on the way, her crew cockily demonstrating to us how their beer bottles could sit calmly on their cockpit coamings while we were heeled at 25 degrees and there was nothing calm about our ride and no beer drinking either. But we got the last laugh on Nomad. They were a bit shorthanded being only two aboard, and no navigator; they headed off to the wrong next mark. On Wings we had the next mark already entered on our plotter and Judy gave me the course: 250 degrees. We turned to that heading and saw another ship anchored three miles away. That must be it. Nomad, by this time, was nearly hull down, heading off on a course of 150, towards oblivion we figured, or Durban.
But with only three miles to go we had too little time to get the kite up, and anyway in 24 knots of wind we were already doing 9 knots and didn't need it, plus, with the additional boost from the Alguhas current that flows southward around here at 1.5 knots, Banzai, the next mark, was coming up fast.
We jibed, rounded, put in a reef, and headed towards home, with Nomad nowhere in sight and the rest of the fleet following us a long ways back.
The last leg, like the first, was a close reach. We would have preferred a beat, but you take what you can get, and we sailed fast back towards Richards Bay and finished first by about two miles over Silhouette, the next boat, at 2 hours and 18 minutes for the whole course. We celebrated with cold beers, just like the old days.
At the awards party we found that going fast on the first outing doesn't pay; they gave us a brutal rating and we corrected out to third. Silhouette won, 39 seconds ahead of Galactica and 14 minutes ahead of us on corrected time. But it was OK. We had fun, sailed well, didn't break anything, and we made those other guys happy for beating us. Plus, we got a lot of favorable comments on how well Wings looked and sailed. All in all, a great day.
Wednesday we depart Richards Bay for the next port and the next adventure.
Fred & Judy, SV Wings, Richards Bay, SA
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This year Epworth United Methodist Church in Gastonia is celebrating 125 years of service to God and the Community.
On Sunday, as part of that year-long observance of our anniversary, a joint service will be held with our sister church, Mount Pleasant United Methodist and the community.
The public is invited to attend the service taking place at 10 a.m. in the sanctuary of Epworth, located at 1325 Linwood Road. The guest speaker will be the Rev. Larry M Goodpaster .
Here is a history of the church from a commemorative book created to celebrate the 125 th anniversary.
Early in the spring of 1887, Epworth Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church was organized by the Rev. G. W. Byers and the Rev. Robert E. Smith, the presiding elder of the Western District. The meeting was held in Leeper Hall on West Page Avenue. The organization consisted of 15 members of six families including that of Thomas R. Adams, Rufus Lawrence, Thomas Jackson, Henry C. Torrence, Ellen Besseare Broome, and John Good. For more than a year, church services were held in a school building on North Marietta Street.
In October 1887, Thomas R. Adams attended the fourth quarterly conference of the year at Philadelphia Church near Fallston. It was there that Epworth Chapel�s first report was made and presented at Annual Conference. Though progress was slow for Epworth Chapel in the beginning, in 1890 the trustees, Thomas Jackson, Rufus Lawrence, and Thomas R. Adams along with the pastor, the Rev. L.C. Chamblin purchased a lot on North York Street for $35 and the foundation for Epworth Chapel was laid in the midsummer of 1891. The first mortgage debt was paid in full in August of 1895. In 1932 the structure was remodeled by the Rev. C. W. Perry and was rebuilt in 1948 on the same site.
In 1968, the Methodist Church merged with the Evangelical United Brethren and Epworth Chapel became Epworth United Methodist Church and a part of what is now the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church.
In 1983, during the tenure of the Rev. R.B. Crutchfield, Epworth purchased a piece of property directly across the street from the current structure facing U.S. 321 with the intent of erecting a new structure. That property was maintained until the early 1990�s when the Conference Building Committee ruled it did not meet current conference church building requirements. As a result, the Rev. Sharon L. Adams, the trustees, and the congregation began an intensive search for a suitable site on which to construct a new facility.
As the search was taking place, Rev. Adams and the congregation were advised that Gastonia had plans to expand and relocate some of its government facilities. This expansion would require the city to purchase the church property on North York Street as well as adjoining properties in the neighborhood. The sale of the North York Street property to the city allowed Epworth to purchase an eight acre site on the comer of Linwood and Monument Avenues in late 1994 at a cost of $115,000.
In 1995, the congregation relocated to a temporary church facility � Comerstone Christian Ministry � while construction of a permanent facility took place. After the original contractor declared bankruptcy, volunteer contractors with the Church Extension Building Team and members of the congregation completed the facility in 1997. In 2004, the Rev. Albert Mills assumed pastorate responsibilities for the church. It remains the only predominantly African American United Methodist Church in Gastonia. Worship services are held each Sunday at 11:30 a.m.
Epworth United Methodist Church is a small congregation with a big heart. Its mission is to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ in the world as commissioned by our Lord.


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And the debate only grew louder once Weiner entered the race, causing a media frenzy among local political pontificators and reporters across the city, even across the nation. And Weiner has his supporters and his detractors.
Some are willing to overlook his past transgressions as a personal matter between him and his wife, and, really, in the big picture of political scandals what Weiner did is pretty insignificant. He never took a bribe or actually had a physical affair like former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, which didn't stop voters in that state from electing him to Congress earlier this month.
No, where Weiner really screwed up was skirting the questions and lying about whether or not it was him in the photos, first concocting a story that his Twitter account had been hacked only to be forced to fess up later.
On the other hand, a sampling of some of this year's attendees at the Memorial Day Parade in Forest Hills, a neighborhood Weiner once called home, found that many aren't comfortable with Weiner attempting a return to public office.
And just this week, some of his former colleagues, including Congressman Joseph Crowley whose Queens Democratic Party endorsed Speaker Christine Quinn for the job, went on the record stating that 400 days is too soon for Weiner to return to politics.
Which is all to lead us up to quite possibly the most unusual criticism of Weiner and one that caught us completely off guard. Last week, we received an email from something called "Gennaro for New York," and when we opened it we found a message from Councilman James Gennaro of Queens urging Weiner to drop his bid for mayor for the "good of the city."
And this wasn't just some terse statement, this was a finely crafted, 840-word message from Gennaro calling on Weiner to abandon his campaign. Here's part of what Gennaro wrote:
I believe his entry in the race would be a terrible distraction from the important issues that should be discussed in this campaign and from candidates who actually are qualified to be mayor.
Worse, I don't believe Mr. Weiner is even entering the race with the intention of winning and serving. Rather, instead of service to the city being his objective, I believe his entry into the race would, by his own admission in recent interviews I have read, be about him; his redemption; him being able to put the sexting scandal behind him.
Now, we're not exactly what kind of sway Gennaro has over the thinking of Weiner, but we're pretty sure Weiner's decision wasn't hinging on whether or not Councilman James Gennaro was going to support him.
Nor do we think that Gennaro cared about this issue so much that he would write 840 words on the subject. Which isn't to say that we don't think he's sincere, just that he went to a lot of effort to make his opinion known on the issue when, seemingly, nobody really asked him for it.
We actually think this might have been something cooked up in part by the Quinn camp, enlisting a trusted City Council ally to say many of the things the Quinn campaign would like to say, but avoiding all of the inevitable follow-up from reporters. Do you have any idea how many times Quinn would get asked by reporters to clarify her statement about Weiner's personal "redemption" on the campaign trail?
And that's only scratching the surface of some of Gennaro's allegations, including a sarcastic remark about it being Weiner's right to run, as well as take $1.5 million in matching funds from taxpayers to pay for his personal redemption. If Quinn said those things she would never get to talk about the real issues ever again.
Plus, we've been told that once his City Council term is up this year, Gennaro is going to retire from politics, so he doesn't really have much to lose in the sense of political capital by bashing Weiner.
Of course this is all speculation, but whatever the motives it made for an entertaining read.


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Unfolding by Paul Carnazzo - book (with gimmicks)
Three photographs are displayed; each is of a different statue of Marcus Aurelius, (The photographs can be any 3, so presentational possibilities are endless)
It is explained that Marcus Aurelius was a Roman Emperor, and is also considered one of the most important Stoic philosophers. One of his most famous quotes is displayed:
"Everything is unfolding as it must, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."
The mentalist explains that this philosophy will be put to the test.
A man and a woman are asked to help.
The woman is asked to choose a photo...any one...a completely free choice, and she can change her mind as often as she likes until she is 100% sure that she has the one she wants. The photo she chooses is placed face up in front of her on the table.
The man is given the same choice, and it is explained that the photo that he does not choose will be left for the performer. Again, he has a completely free choice, and can change his mind as often as he likes. The photo he chooses is placed in front of him, and the remaining photo is placed in front of the performer.
The quote by Marcus Aurelius is mentioned again.
"Isn't it interesting how this quote often relates so well to our lives? It makes me wonder if the reason that things often work out this way is due to fate, or perhaps our own intuition of the way things should be. Even in simple demonstrations like this...everything has unfolded as it must..."
The photo in front of the woman is turned over, and written on the back is:
The photo in front of the male participant is turned over, and written on it are the words:
Finally, the photo in front of the performer is turned over, and, of course, on it is written:
No forcing, equivoque, secret writing, switching, ambiguity, or multiple outcomes (the outcome will always be as listed above).
Only 3 photos are used. The participants make all of the choices.
What you get:
A soft cover, 21 page saddle-stitched booklet teaching the full routine as outlined above, including the photos needed (3.75" X 4.75"), special something to gimmick the photos, even a marker!!
Aside from the main effect, the manual also has a version of Technicolor Prediction, titled "Multi-Colored", with no need for any type of i***x. Also included is an effect called "House Hunting", where you correctly predict which photograph of several houses a participant will choose. There is also "Murder-Suicide" where the photos of murder weapons are shown, and the spec. must choose the correct weapons in order for their lives to be spared! (they will always choose correctly...so no bloodshed!)
The main effect described above is designed to work in English, but may be applicable to other languages. I've been told it works in Spanish and Italian without much trouble. Some of the other effects described will work in any language.


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Aww I love that Mulan song. Nice sketches.
Aww I love that Mulan song. Nice sketches.
hey, just an fyi, technically Love-Lost Elegy was made by Wowaka. Various versions are available, but I think the first was sung by Miku. Otherwise, all these songs are full of win.
"goodnight sweetheart - gumi"
Did someone take the old song and bastardize it into ****** modern music?
Thats Really Good But Who Is That In Song 6?


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Jeff Sneider, the ace casting reporter who won his early reporting chops at TheWrap, will be returning to the site as film reporter covering casting and deals, I'm thrilled to let you know.
Jeff will be taking over the Deal Central column that he anchored before heading to Variety, where he became one of the trade's most tireless and passionate reporters on the film business.
"I once acknowledged that 'second chances are rare in this business,' and I'm grateful to TheWrap for believing in me and offering me this exciting opportunity," Sneider said. "I've been impressed with how TheWrap has grown since I've been away and I look forward to returning to this top-notch team of entertainment journalists."
We are thrilled to welcome him back and know he is eager to dig into the beat and start breaking stories. He joins what has become the smartest and most knowledgeable film reporting team on the business, including Brent Lang, Steve Pond, Lucas Shaw, Todd Cunningham and critic Alonso Duralde. Jeff will start in mid-April.
For those who are keeping track, there are a lot of exciting changes and additions to our reporting staff of late. Senior TV writer Jethro Nededog starts at TheWrap today, so keep an eye peeled for his byline and TV scoops.
Additionally, we wanted to let you know that executive editor Lisa Fung will be departing. We wish her well, and appreciate the professionalism and experience she brought to our team.


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"We need to solve the problem of improving our transportation system. Highway congestion is hurting our economy – to the tune of an estimated 4 billion wasted hours and 5 billion gallons of wasted fuel every year." –Steve Russell, chairman and CEO, Celadon Group Inc., from testimony before Congress last week
So many different factors are now intersecting, often unpleasantly, within the highway infrastructure debate these days.
For starters, we've all long known that the U.S. highway network – roads and bridges alike – is crumbling due to its age plus heavier amounts of car and truck traffic considered within its original design parameters.
Next up: congestion. Traffic volumes, especially in and around major urban centers, is leading to wasted time and fuel, and freight delays are definitely a key part of this issue.
The latest accelerant to the problem – one we've unfortunately faced previously, just over two years ago – deals with a sudden spike in the cost of oil, and thus transportation fuels. The unrest in Libyan is being blamed for a steep rise in oil prices to over $103 per barrel at one point this week, despite enough oil production capacity available to cover the gap created by Libya's troubles.
Fuel prices are already on the march, with gasoline up 12 cents this week alone and diesel hard on its heels. "This will definitely be the most expensive February ever," noted Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at the Oil Price Information Service (OPIS).
Finally, the kicker: our nation is dead broke. Flat out on empty. The national debt is now approaching $15 trillion with the Obama administration and Republicans controlling the House of Representatives haggling over a measly $60-plus billion in government spending cuts.
On top of that, fuel tax increases championed by the trucking industry (yes, you heard that right) designed to pay for highway infrastructure improvements are pretty much D.O.A. as a way to increase monies to get roadways and bridges back in the condition they need to be.
"The Republican House leadership has already announced its intent to limit the future surface transportation budget authority to tax revenues deposited into the Highway Trust Fund," noted C. Kenneth Orski, a public policy consultant and 30-year veteran transportation expert in a recent briefing he compiled.
"So where will the additional money come from to fund the proposed Fiscal Year 2012 surface transportation program of $107 billion, or the six-year surface transportation bill amounting to $556 billion?" he asked rhetorically. "The tax revenues generated by the gas tax are estimated to total $36.8 billion in FY 2012 and $230 billion over the next six years according to the latest projections of the Congressional Budget Office. How does the President propose to bridge the $70 billion funding shortfall in FY 2012 and the $326 billion shortfall over the life of the next reauthorization?"
That's why many truckers believe raising fuel taxes – which hits them smack dab in the wallet – is the only surefire way to generate the cash needed for road and bridge improvements, much less expansion of the U.S. highway system.
[Gov. Bill Graves, president and CEO of the American Trucking Associations, brought up this very point in a speech he gave earlier this month.]
"Currently, the U.S. spends just 2% of its gross domestic product [GDP] on highways," Steve Russell, chairman and CEO of Celadon Group Inc. said in testimony before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee recently, lagging behind the 5% typically spent in Europe and the 9% being spent by China.
"The most effective and equitable way to raise the necessary funds for highway improvements is by raising the fuel tax," he stressed. "Currently, the federal gasoline tax is 18.4 cents a gallon and the diesel tax is 24.4 cents and neither has been raised since 1993. If those rates had been adjusted just 3% a year to adjust for inflation over the past 18 years the tax rates would be 31 cents a gallon for gasoline and 42 cents for diesel."
Those increased rates, Russell said, could generate an additional $25 billion a year for improving existing highways, increasing capacity and relieving congestion on the roads and bridges that trucks use to haul roughly 70% of the nation's freight.
"On funding, if we have to pick our poison, raising diesel taxes is the fairest way to generate more revenue and it is certainly preferable to tolling," added Dick Coyle, president of Devine Intermodal, in remarks before the same committee.
Now, are higher taxes the only way to gain the funds necessary to rehabilitate and expand our highway infrastructure? Certainly, stopping the flow of Highway Trust Fund monies to pay for bicycle and walking paths is another way to regain precious dollars for roadwork. But will it be enough to pay for what we need to maintain the efficient flow of goods (and people) within our country, as well as connect both to global travel lanes, in the future?
That's a much tougher question; but one that'll need an answer soon.


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xbay wrote:I'm with you on everything except the last one. I want Lesnar. Lesnar was tearing him up first time, but then he got caught up thanks to Mir's superb BJJ skills.
I'm kind of sick of Lesnar already. He's definitely something to watch, but i get tired of his attitude. he's so robotic, sort of like ivan drago. The guy says he doesn't respect any of his opponents or anything, i hope Mir submits his ass again.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Applying Representation
|Introduction | Building Rafts with Rods | Classroom Practice | Representation in Action | Classroom Checklist | Your Journal
In the previous sections, you looked at student representations of problems that deal with spatial visualization; explored using graphic representations to help develop the concept of variables; and studied the application of representations in the middle-grades classroom.
Now that you are familiar with the standard and some of its aspects, you can see how one teacher applies it. Middle school teacher Michelle Mullin wants to evaluate how well students in her seventh- and eighth-grade math class understand how to calculate the surface area of a "raft" of n rods, where n can be 1 through 10.
How does representation fit into this picture? First, consider a problem similar to the one Ms. Mullin sets for her students.
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The Philippines' Awful New 'Cybercrime' Law Put On Hold -- For Now
from the a-reprieve-not-a-repeal dept
Last week Tim Cushing wrote about the hugely-worrying new "cybercrime" law passed in the Philippines that seemed likely to criminalize all kinds of everyday online activities. As an article on Radio Australia's site reports, the Philippines' highest court has now stepped in after being petitioned to block the legislation:
The Philippine Supreme Court on Tuesday suspended a controversial cybercrime law, amid huge online protests over fears it would impose enormous curbs on Internet freedoms.
The same article reports on the widespread protests the new law has provoked:
Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said a "temporary restraining order" was issued by the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
Such an order stops Philippine laws from taking effect until further orders from the court, while making no immediate judgement on their legality.
Human rights groups, media organisations and netizens have voiced their outrage at the law, with some saying it echoes the curbs on freedoms imposed by dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the 1970s.
It's great to see the Supreme Court recognizing that there might be a problem here, but it's too early to assume victory. The law might still go into operation -- with what looks like dire consequences for the Internet and civil rights in the Philippines.
Philippine social media has been alight with protests, while hackers have attacked government websites and petitions have been filed with the Supreme Court calling for it to overturn the law.
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Even a split-second deviation in the voltage of electricity serving a fabrication plant can crash a sensitive component, causing downtime, missed deliveries, and lost product. These interruptions can cost as much as $2 million per day. Despite potential power quality problems, why are such shutdowns on the decline? New standards enable semiconductor makers to use components that safely "ride through" voltage sags, resulting from lightning or severe weather, downed or crossed power lines, or other power system disturbances.
The standards define a reasonable level of immunity or resistance to voltage sags for many semiconductor fabrication tools, plus specify a methodology for testing specific equipment to determine its voltage safe tolerance.
Efforts among semiconductor manufacturers, equipment suppliers, and energy companies resulted in development of the standard. This group included SEMATECH (SEMiconductor Manufacturing TECHnology) and SEMI (Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International); the semiconductor industry's research arm and standards organization and EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute), which manages science/technology for the energy industry.
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The Internal Revenue Service is giving small nonprofits that had their nonprofit status revoked for failing to file tax returns for three years a break in the process to get them reinstated.
Larger nonprofits are also getting a break, but a much smaller one.
Last month, the IRS introduced a new streamlined process to reinstate tax exemption for nonprofits, making it less burdensome, especially for smaller nonprofits. As part of the process, the IRS said it will waive penalties for failure to file annual returns for three consecutive years for those nonprofits that apply for and get approval for retroactive reinstatement of their tax exempt status.
The new requirements are posted at irs.gov.
Nonprofits whose status was automatically revoked have 15 months from the latter of either the date they lost their exemption or the date their revoked status was posted on the IRS website to apply for reinstatement.
Prior to the new ruling, small nonprofits - those that operated with $200,000 or less in total assets - before losing their exempt status needed to provide reasonable cause to the IRS as to why they didn't file for three consecutive years, saidDaniel Soleimani, associate at Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss PC in Southfield.
According to the IRS, a reasonable cause statement "should have a detailed description of all the facts and circumstances about why the organization failed to file, how it discovered the failure, and the steps it has taken or will take to avoid or mitigate future failures."
With the new streamlined process, they're deemed to have provided reasonable cause if they file for reinstatement within 15 months and their application is approved.
Nonprofits with a 501(c)3 status must file a Form 1023; other classifications of nonprofits must file a Form 1024, along with required user fees, Soleimani said.
According to the IRS website, those fees are $400 for nonprofits with annual gross receipts of less than $10,000 and $850 for those with gross receipts of more than $10,000. If their reinstatement is approved, those nonprofits must then file their delinquent 990-EZ or 990-N electronic postcards.
Larger nonprofits filing within 15 months of the loss of their exemption or posting of it on the IRS website will also see a break, though much smaller.
Those organizations must still file their delinquent 990 tax returns before applying for a reinstatement of their tax returns. Nothing has changed on that front.
But where in the past, those organizations were required to file a reasonable cause statement on why they didn't file tax returns for each of the three years they missed, they now need to only give reasonable cause for one of the three years missed, Soleimani said.
The automatic revocation of tax exempt status took hold around 2010, following enactment of The Pension Protection Act of 2006. That legislation included provisions that required all nonprofits, regardless of budget size, to file with the Internal Revenue Service beginning in 2007. And it directed the IRS to revoke the tax exemptions of groups that failed to file for three consecutive years.
The IRS website lists more than 17,600 nonprofits from Michigan that have had their tax status automatically revoked since 2010 for failure to file a tax form three consecutive years. Some may have since been reinstated; others may have appeared on the list erroneously.
Any income that nonprofits take in between the time they lose and regain their exemption could be taxable, according to the IRS. And donations made to nonprofits that have lost their exemption may not be tax-deductible.
You can check to make sure an organization you are supporting is in fact tax-exempt on the IRS website.


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I haven't been able to bring my Kindle anywhere because I'm afraid it will get scratched. Today, I decided to make a sleeve for it and decided to photograph the steps and present it as a tutorial in case anyone else wants to make one. So here goes!
- four or five different fabric prints (I used coordinating Japanese linens)
- one 12.5 x 9 inch fabric piece for lining(I used plain linen)
- thin cotton batting at least 13 x 9.5 inches
- 3/4" button
- 4" of cotton yarn or twine
- sewing supplies (machine, iron, thread, pins)
2. Cut your lining piece 12.5 x 9 inches and cut the back print 6.5 wide x 9 inches long.
10. Place the lining piece (plain linen here) right sides together with the outside of the cover and sew the seam along the top of the bag, making sure to catch your pinned yarn/twine in the sandwich. Trim the seam about 1/8" from the stitch line to reduce bulk and iron open.
Edited to add (May 11, 2011): If you use this to pattern to sell Kindle covers on etsy or otherwise, a word of credit would be great. It has been brought to my attention that etsy is flooded with Kindle covers from my tutorial and I see none that have mentioned where the pattern was obtained. I don't mind, just please don't claim the credit for inventing the pattern yourself. Also, do not copy these directions, make them into a tutorial and sell the pattern on etsy. That's just lame, people.


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CRESTVIEW � A three-day trip to Washington, D.C., for President Barack Obama�s inauguration has convinced a Bob Sikes Elementary School student that she wants to see more.
CRESTVIEW � A three-day trip to Washington, D.C., for President Barack Obama�s inauguration has convinced a Bob Sikes Elementary School student that she wants to see more.
For Justice Livingston, a 10-year-old fourth-grader, attending the inauguration to cap off a weekend of sightseeing fulfilled a long-time dream.
Justice received an envelope Christmas Eve full of materials from the White House, including a letter from the president, following a letter she wrote to Obama in November.
She also wrote Obama four years ago after his first inauguration.
Last weekend, Justice�s older cousins Libby Lewis-Reeves, Tawanah Reeves and Master Sgt. Tonya Lewis � Crestview natives living in other cities � treated her to a weekend in the capital, where she could be closer than ever to her role model.
However, the National Mall and the inaugural parade route were so crowded that Justice and her cousins couldn�t see what was happening.
�We couldn�t see him (Obama) but we could hear him, and we heard Beyonc� sing,� she said
The energetic crowd on hand particularly interested Justice as she and her cousins approached the U.S. Capitol.
�The rush of getting there and everybody pushing was exciting,� she said. �But the closer we got, everybody got happier. They (security forces) moved people into, like, little blocks. One big guy and his daughter came bouncing everybody out of their way. We just laughed at them.�
Pat Mosely, Justice�s grandmother, said the �little blocks� were roped-off stalls containing a certain number of spectators. Officials could count the stalls to get an estimate of the crowd.
Justice also climbed the Washington Monument. The iconic landmark was impressive even before she set foot in it, she said.
�It was wonderful just walking up to it,� Justice said. �The view was, actually, wow!�
She and her cousins also visited the National Museum of African Art and took photos in front of government departments, including the Department of the Treasury.
�It was tiring with all the walking,� Justice said. �It was good to sit sometimes, but it was fun!�
Justice is ready for a return visit. She and her grandparents who she lives with are planning a spring road trip to the capital, and she hopes to return with her cousins.
�In two or three months, we should be going back,� she said.
She�s also writing another letter to Obama.
�She wants to write to him and tell them she wants to meet all of them (the first family) in the White House,� Mosely said.
�Hopefully, we�ll get a tour of the White House. Maybe then I�ll get to meet President Obama,� Justice said.
Crestview News Bulletin Staff Writer Brian Hughes can be reached at 850-682-6524 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @cnbBrian.


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In 51 years, no concussions. Despite low-hanging pipes that loop across ceilings and snake down walls, work spaces with clearances barely 5 feet high, and a tight maze full of blind spots where customers could easily collide — the Seminary Co-op Bookstore never logged a major injury, said its general manager, Jack Cella, who has worked there more than 40 years and conscientiously padded the danger zones.
Far more common at the Hyde Park bookstore were Nobel Prize winners waiting in line alongside college freshmen. Grad students who came back decades later elated to find their own books displayed on the prestigious front table. Best-sellers that might not top the list at any other bookstore, such as Michele Lamont's "How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment."
This piece first ran in Printers Row Journal, delivered to Printers Row members with the Sunday Chicago Tribune and by digital edition via email. Click here to learn about joining Printers Row.
When the Seminary Co-op closed its doors Nov. 11, preparing to move from the basement of the Chicago Theological Seminary at 5757 S. University Ave., where it resided for the past half century, to a new location nearly three times larger a block away, the people who made it such a beloved institution in Hyde Park and at the University of Chicago promised to go with it.
And yet the move from the quirky cave roused nostalgia among the many lovers of the co-op, which made no fanfare over closing weekend but received a steady trickle of well wishers.
"I came to say goodbye," Marshall Sahlins, Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, said on closing day as he stood by the shelves lined with the intellectual pamphlets from Prickly Paradigm Press, of which he is the executive publisher. "We'll miss it for its clutter. But all that clutter is not gold."
Sahlins approached Cella at his cramped desk under low wooden beams, where he was working as though it were a day like any other, and asked to buy 20 more shares in the co-op as a show of support.
"I'm just feeling nostalgic," said Sahlins, a member since the 1970s. "It's the best bookstore in the world. You can quote me on that and try to prove me wrong."
Kevin Huigens, a member of the co-op since his days as a student at the university, had dug up his original 1978 membership certificate and brought it with him as he and his wife made their final rounds through the stacks.
"It's very sad," said his wife, Anne Marie Crowe, who said she would miss the "unique environment." "I love medieval history, and when you're in that corner it feels like you're in the catacombs."
The bookstore reopens in the new location, at 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave., on Wednesday. To mark the move, it has invited authors to lead a one-block procession from the old location to the new one, carrying their most recent books to be displayed on the front table. The light-hearted book parade is scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday, accompanied by bagpipes, hot chocolate and coffee.
Employees look forward to the next chapter. But many co-op fans can't help but look back, perhaps none more so than former University of Chicago students Jasmine Kwong and Megan E. Doherty.
Since March, Kwong and Doherty have been documenting the life of the bookstore through photographs and interviews with employees and members, compiling them at semcoop-project.org. So far 150 people have participated.
Both Kwong and Doherty say they were "motivated by a sense of loss." Their memories are vivid of what it was like to descend from the gothic stone lobby to discover a literary labyrinth with 160,000 books — 120,000 distinct titles — stuffed into every corner, as classical music drifted through the stacks.
"It's like Christmas," Kwong said.
"It's like a candy store for adults," said Doherty.
"The University of Chicago is about the life of the mind," Doherty continued, "and if you think about what it would be like to be in one of those minds, I think of the bookstore."
Kwong, who got her undergraduate degree in psychology at the university and now works in a psychology lab at the Booth School of Business, and Doherty, who got her master's and Ph.D. in the philosophy of religion at the Divinity School, did not know each other before launching the project. Kwong had an idea to showcase photographs of the bookstore at the university's annual Festival of the Arts when she came across an article Doherty had written about the bookstore for Gapers Block. She sent her an email and they agreed to collaborate.
They have since presented three exhibits of the Seminary Co-op Documentary Project, displaying photographs and excerpts from their interviews: Cella remembering Saul Bellow wandering into the stock room and shocking an employee to the point of tears; assistant manager Heather Ahrenholz describing the Dominican Republic president's penchant for the economics section.
Stacks of fill-in-the-blank fliers on a stone bench outside the old bookstore invited passersby to write their own sentiments. Says one, filled out by a prestigious economist who served on President Barack Obama's cabinet:
In addition to the website, Kwong's and Doherty's project will eventually live in the University of Chicago Library's Special Collections Research Center, along with old photographs and postcards sent to co-op employees from members around the world (one, mailed from Syria, wishes the gang happy holidays). They hope one day to write a book.
"I would just like for people 50 to 100 years from now to see what this place was like," Doherty said.
It is worth reiterating, given all this mourning, that the Seminary Co-op is not closing. It is moving one block east and taking its values and cherished employees and members with it.
The shop will lose some of its eccentricities.
No more Smurf-blue pipes. No more turning a corner to run into the "Orgoblow," a mechanical bellows that once powered an organ a few floors up. No more stooping under the particularly low rafters of an office space nicknamed the "Napoleon Room."
But it will gain some important upgrades. Take, for example, the climate control system, a giant rumbling contraption that had been squeezed between Shakespeare and Sontag. It had only two settings — winter and summer — and managed during both the hottest and coldest months to keep the shop above 90 degrees.
"I think a lot of customers who are really nostalgic about it are in here for an hour at a time," said Ahrenholtz, who started working at the bookstore as a University of Chicago undergrad and has been there 21 years. "Having spent so many years down here, I don't really know what light during the day looks like."
The new space, located on the first floor and a portion of the basement of McGiffert House, next door to Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House, will for the first time expose the bookstore to natural light, have handicap accessibility and be visible to passersby on the street. That may take away from its underground charm, but with the Internet nabbing the bookstore's customers, especially for textbooks, the co-op wants all the eyeballs it can get.
"We're known as a hidden gem," Cella said. "At this stage, that has not been good for sales."
Cella, who started working at the co-op in 1968 while he was a graduate student at the Divinity School, said what sparks his nostalgia far more than the space are the fascinating people who have passed through it. Though Cella is roundly hailed for his thoughtful selection of books, catering to both the world's foremost scholars as well as novices who can't pronounce their names, he says often it's customers who recommend books to him.
The mutual loyalty runs deep. Cella recalls getting a visit from the widow of a Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who had wished that some of his ashes be scattered at the co-op. Cella had them sprinkled on the front lawn.
"I think of him literally every day," said Cella, who plans to take a scoop of that dirt to the new co-op location.
Sitting on a step-ladder in front of the section on anthropology and the history of religion, in a room further downstairs than the basement, Matthew Christian recalled his own intimate relationship with the co-op. Christian, an associate dean at the University of Chicago, worked at the co-op after grad school, helped build its bookshelves and met his wife there.
As he leafed through "The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico," written by colleague Joseph Masco, Christian expressed cautious optimism about the move.
"I think I'm excited," he said. "It's hard to know exactly what it will be."
Others are more torn.
Angelica Cibrian, who has worked at the co-op for six years, said she's excited about temperature control and she won't miss the bugs.
But she's attached to the old, cozy, lived-in feel.
As closing day neared, Cella said it seemed every second customer came armed with a camera, as though they were making "a final pilgrimage."
"They ask, 'Is it still going to feel really cramped and like books are going to fall on top of you?'" Cella said — the hope being that it will.
The goal was to design the new shop so that it still feels like a serendipitous stumble into new ideas, Cella said. Just without actually bumping into anything.
Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz is a Chicago Tribune lifestyles writer.
"I have been fortunate to encounter some affirmative moments in my academic career. But I never, ever expected to reach The Pinnacle of Academic Achievement: having one's book featured on the front table of the Seminary Co-op bookstore."
— John G. Stackhouse Jr., Sangwoo Youtong Chee Professor of Theology and Culture at Regent College in Vancouver, B.C. Got his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago's Divinity School in 1987.
"There are bookstores you can rely on to have what you're looking for, and there are those which you can rely on to have what you didn't even know you were looking for but definitely need. The co-op is in the rarefied latter group."
— Jess Stephens, finance and project manager at the University of Chicago's Reva & David Logan Center for the Arts. Graduated from the University of Chicago in 2005.
"Every so often the President of the Dominican Republic shows up. This place is a nightmare for his secret service! He comes in with an entourage, and ships a couple thousand worth of books back to the Dominican Republic. He cleans out our economics section."
— Heather Ahrenholz, assistant manager of the Seminary Co-op Bookstore.
"No matter how much you think you know, all you have to do is look at the shelf in any good bookstore and you realize how little you've read. The more you read, the more you realize what you don't know. That's the interesting thing about it."
— Jack Cella, general manager of the Seminary Co-op Bookstore.
"The idiosyncrasies of its current location always announced to me that the co-op, its directors, employees and habitués care only — and intensely — about books, which as far as I'm concerned makes them candidates for sainthood."
— Bruce Lincoln, Caroline E. Haskell Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School. Member of the co-op since 1971.
"I always had to duck my head to consult the linguistics section, but I never cared. The Seminary Co-op spoiled me for all other bookstores."
— Tim Allen, co-op member since 2002. Graduated from the University of Chicago in 2006.
"The co-op is the intellectual core of the University of Chicago; all roads lead to it. It's one of Chicago's unique gems housed in perhaps the city's most civilized basement. I will miss the vaulted ceilings of the Chicago Theological Seminary lobby and the narrow stairway leading down to the bookstore. It's one of my favorite places in the whole world and one of the first places I take out-of-towners when they visit my city.
— Michael B. Hefter, co-op member since 1992.
"It's as if the books were already there, firmly planted in their rightful spot, and suddenly a building erupted around them. But rather than supplant the books, the building decided to work with the books and have a symbiotic relationship. It's as if it grew around the tomes of knowledge, integrating itself by weaving and threading its way through the volumes of pulp and ink. They co-exist in harmony, waiting to be discovered by us.
— Matthew Keesecker, visited the store once.


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Bakeworks crew prepares goodies, repairs lives
Right in the heart of Hayes Valley, just a minute's walk from City Hall, sits a tiny cafe called Bakeworks that is doing giant things.
Behind its polished steel counters stand some of life's most broken people - men and women, scarred by health problems or time in prisons and the street, who are quietly assembling new lives for themselves with every gourmet goodie they place on a plate.
From the rustic wood accents, faux-granite floor and wall-size windows, the cafe exudes invitation - and that's before you get to the food. The maple-bacon cinnamon rolls and quinoa-crusted pizza conjured in the bakery in the back beckon politicians, artists and foodies from miles around, and at lunchtime the little seating area is jammed.
It's been that way since the nonprofit venture opened its doors a year ago this month, but the idea has never been to make a lot of money. It is to give those hired a place to overcome disabilities.
So far, 15 people have come into the program from stints behind bars or in shelters, drug rehabilitation programs, mental institutions or hospitals. Nine used the culinary training to move on to other jobs.
No pressure to leave
The pay starts at minimum wage and stays near there, and although the purpose is to help workers retool themselves so they can move ahead, there is no pressure to leave. Most say working at the bakery-cafe is the most nurturing and rewarding environment they have ever found.
"You don't just have a boss here, you have people who want you to succeed," Tammy Price, 49, said as she put together a dozen turkey-apple-brie cheese sandwiches. "I didn't believe a place like this could exist."
Price came out of prison almost three years ago after serving a stint for attempted manslaughter. The stigma of being an ex-con weighed like an anchor.
"I had a couple of jobs after coming out, but people made me feel like I was nothing because I'd been to prison, like I had no future," said Price, blue eyes hardening with the memory. "Then I got hired here right after it opened. It's changed everything. I have learned so much.
"Now I am proud."
George Chandler, 50, was homeless before landing a spot at Bakeworks a year ago.
"I'm bipolar, I'd been in prison, and nobody would even look at me," he said while he washed baking pans. "Bakeworks took a chance on me. They helped me with counseling, and now I am on good medications and I have a place to live.
"It's a blessing. I like myself again. I have hope."
The mastermind behind the cafe is Kristy Feck, vice president of Bakeworks' parent company, Toolworks, a nonprofit employment program for the disadvantaged known for its janitorial services.
"We were looking for a new venture, because janitorial work isn't for everyone," Feck said. "There's already a lot of great food around here, but we thought we could be the fresh, local, made-by-hand place."
She watched a stream of customers coming through the door and smiled. "It seems to have worked," Feck said.
'A pretty great place'
The cafe was designed with the aid of noted architect Jim Maxwell, and gourmet chefs including Alice Cravens helped create the menu. Everything from the bread to the quiches is cooked on the spot.
"We were looking for a mix of sleek and homey, and I wanted food like what I liked as a kid growing up on a farm in Oregon," Feck said. She came up with many of the recipes in her home kitchen, and Cravens refined the lineup.
City Hall bigwigs are known to pop in along with the occasional celebrity, such as actor Delroy Lindo.
"This food is good, really good," poet Michael Warr, who lives nearby, said this week when he came for granola and a soy latte. "They have all the things I need to be able to sit here and write my poems: great coffee, healthy food, lots of light and wireless.
"It's a pretty great place."
Mayor Ed Lee said Bakeworks "is not just a match made in culinary heaven, but it lifts up the entire neighborhood."
Turning a profit
Carla Johnson, head of Lee's Office on Disability, frequently drops by and said the crew members "deserve our support because of the good work that they do." But she added, "They have earned my loyalty by the quality of their food."
July was the first month the bakery turned a profit, Feck said, letting the operation lean on Toolworks a little less.
"The more money we make, the more people we can employ," she said. "It's looking good."
Kevin Fagan is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com


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Tech, bank stocks perform strongest
The share market has closed higher on a broad rally in most sectors, with the strongest results in technology and bank stocks.
The All Ordinaries Index added 0.4 of a per cent to close at 4,730 and the ASX 200 recorded a similar gain up to 4,708.
Mining stocks wavered through the session but managed to close higher.
BHP Billiton rose 0.2 per cent to $37.58 and Rio Tinto climbed a third of a per cent to $66.81.
Whitehaven Coal, which was the victim of a hoax earlier this week, rose by a third of a per cent to $3.50.
The man at the centre of the incident says the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has raided his camp and taken his phone and computer.
ASIC is considering legal action after Jonathan Moylan issued a fake media release claiming ANZ bank had pulled funding from one of Whitehaven's mine projects.
Shares in Alumina jumped 4.6 per cent to close at $1.03.
Its US joint venture partner Alcoa has kicked off US earnings season by hitting its fourth-quarter profit target. It cut costs to offset a fall in aluminium prices.
Bank stocks were mostly higher today, although ANZ lost two-thirds of a per cent to $25.02.
Telstra remained in favour, rising 0.5 per cent to $4.48.
In economic news, Bureau of Statistics figures show retail sales fell 0.1 per cent in November in seasonally adjusted terms.
The market had expected sales to rise.
Department stores struggled on the market today, with David Jones losing 0.4 per cent and Myer dropping 2.7 per cent.
Figures from the housing industry show new home sales have risen for the second month in a row, driven by sales of detached homes.
The Housing Industry Association says total sales of new homes rose by 4.7 per cent in November.
Spot gold was slightly higher at $US1,661 an ounce about 5pm (AEDT) while West Texas crude oil eased to $US93.20 a barrel and Tapis crude was at $US118.90 a barrel.
The Australian dollar dipped after the weak retail sales figures were released but had recovered.
It was buying 105.1 US cents, 80.3 euro cents, 91.9 Japanese yen and 65.4 British pence.
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A great Facebook idea took hold this year � �30 days of giving thanks.� Facebook users listed something for which they are thankful every day in November.
We�d like to hijack that idea and list 30 things about Cleveland County for which we are thankful.
(Maybe we�ll even get a few �likes!�)
Here goes �
An indomitable spirit of giving. From record-breaking United Way campaigns to The Star�s Empty Stocking Fund to �Connect, Commit to Change� and many points beyond, Cleveland County residents never stop giving.
Uptown lights . Kings Mountain, Shelby and other towns usher in the holiday spirit with lights that are a sign of the season.
Barbecue! From the �two Bridges� to the Flying Pig, local eaters take their cue from the �cue.
South Mountain State Park . Have you hiked up to see the waterfall? If not, you are really missing out on something in your own backyard!
Friday Night football . Need we say more?
Four seasons . It�s hot in the summer, brisk in the fall, mild in the spring and the winter is, usually, good for a couple of snows.
Fruits and veggies. In some places, all the produce is imported. But here, during the various seasons we can enjoy all sorts of home grown produce.
The American Legion World Series . If you have been, you know why this is on the list. If you haven�t, you are missing a slice of Americana.
Broad River Greenway. What a beautiful natural resource!
Sunset Cemetery. This might seem a bit creepy, but if you�ve ever spent some time walking through this graveyard, you would be awed by the history and stories that can be learned.
Red Bone Willy�s/Knob Creek Orchard � just when you think Cleveland County can stretch any farther north, you come upon these two establishments. Produce, knickknacks and homemade ice cream await!
Parades . Most Cleveland County towns still have Christmas parades and thank goodness for that! Seeing ol� Santa bringing up the rear is a sight every child should see
The Cleveland County Fair � vinegar fries, the Ferris wheel, pig races � the fair will be here forever.
A commitment to the arts. From the Arts Council to strong school programs, our county understands that a well-rounded education is a balance between academics, athletics and the arts.
Santa�s House on the courtsquare. First National Bank�s Christmas tradition is a priceless part of any child�s Christmas.
Patriotism. Not the phone jingoistic stuff � we�re talking the real patriotism that emerges when a fallen soldier returns home. Cleveland County residents get it.
Historical legacy. From the Gardners to the Hooeys to the Webbs to the Weathers, to strong individual leaders such as Ezra Bridges, Cleveland County�s legacy of leadership will forever be a part of this state�s history.
Gardner-Webb University . Speaking of �Gardner,� having a full-fledged university in our county is a tremendous resource.
The Joy and Don Gibson theatres � two terrific performing arts centers that bring an array of talented artists to our county.
Livermush. If turkey isn�t available for Thanksgiving �..
The Earl Scruggs Museum . It�s not even open yet, but we can already sense the positive impact it will have on this community.
Trees. Might seem silly, but this time of year, as the full growth of summer cycles toward the bare branches of winter, we can really see the majesty of the many trees that dot our landscape.
A vibrant community college. Cleveland Community College continues to grow and size and stature. It is a huge resource for our community.
Baseball. Not just the American Legion World Series, mentioned above, but a love of our national pastime permeates through our communities.
Proximity. There are few places in the world that are just a few hours from gorgeous mountains, endless beaches and major metropolitan areas � not to mention the quaint small-town feel we all get right here at home.
A vital faith community . Spend a few minutes on a Friday going through The Star�s Faith section � the number of activities and events is staggering.
A spirit of collaboration. From our health care community to helping agencies to the business world, there is always a feeling that folks will chip in for the greater good.
The Inn at Webbley. It is indeed a national treasurer and important part of our state�s history.
Civic clubs. From Rotary to Civitans to the Lions and more, local civic clubs do more than just meet and fellowship, they make important contributions to our society.
We left the last one blank � that is for you to fill in. Go to our Facebook page or send us an email and let us know what we left off the list that makes you thankful to live in Cleveland County.


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It's become an annual tradition, a blogging celebration of "The Family: A Proclamation to the World." This year four different blogs — We Talk of Christ, Chocolate on My Cranium, Diapers and Divinity and Middle-Aged Mormon Man —are hosting a two-week long celebration (which began on Monday, Sept. 17, and will culminate on Sunday, Sept. 30) of the 17-year anniversary of the family proclamation. Each blogger approaches celebrating differently and clicking in today you'll find the following:
• At We Talk of Christ, a family home evening tailored exactly to the family proclamation complete with a darling printable that works as the lesson.
• At Chocolate on My Cranium read about the importance of sharing your love story: "Do your children know your love story? How your family came to be? Our children know ours. They know they are a part of our love story. They also know it is still being written; it didn't end when we got married." Darling!
• At Diapers and Divinity you'll find guest bloggers invited to discuss specific snippets of the document. For example Shawni Pothier provides a wonderful list of ideas for strengthening your marriage as "Husband and Wife" like "continue dating regularly forever, even if it's an 'at-home date' after the kids are in bed."
• At Middle-Aged Mormon Man, end with a laugh that is, as the guest comic explains, "completely family-centered."
Now let's celebrate other Bloggernacle posts from the past week:
Power pick: "Can we still be friends . . . even if one of us votes for Romney and the other for Obama?" Of course, explains this blogger in this timely post:
"I have had some personal association with one of the candidates and have followed both closely for a number of years, trying to assess both their personal characters and their political positions. In my considered opinion, both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are decent, reasonable, intelligent men of goodwill. They are both good fathers and faithful husbands (and we've had passable presidents who have been neither). Both have leadership skills, energy, commitment, and a desire to accomplish positive things. So I guess what I'm proposing is that we try to lower the temperature, get in a frame of mind where we can actually consider the candidates' positions fairly and intelligently, and do our best to assess for ourselves who we think has the best approach and will do the best job. We can share our views and make our arguments and perhaps even listen, with a desire for understanding, to the views and arguments of others. But we don't need to descend into a frenzied state of contention and vilification or into a hardened state of cynicism and contempt. We can respect the decisions of our friends, even when they differ from our own. And we can remain friends not only after the election is over, but even during the season leading up to it." Click in to read this important reminder in this hotly-contested political season.
Techie tip: Did you know that the seminary and institute websites have recently been updated? This blogger provides the specs: "The casual observer may not notice huge changes to the sites; the look and feel of the sites is basically unchanged from the previous version. But under the hood, the sites are completely new. They are better organized and have several improved features. Let me review some of the highlights:
Elder Ballard Seminary welcome video: A new series of videos from Elder Ballard welcoming Seminary students to a new year to study the New Testament is now posted.
Video downloads: All videos now have a download option, something end users have long been asking for.
Sharing Tools: Social media sharing icons and other sharing tools are now located on each page to allow users to share content via email, or on their favorite social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
Site search: Each site now has a search feature, which the old sites did not have. Internal site search provides faster and easier access to the specific content users are looking for.
New menus: Both sites have new drop down menus based on a new information architecture (basically this means we have re-organized the site to provide faster and easier access to content).
Bread crumbs: Bread crumb paths are standard for all pages in both sites now. Bread crumbs make it easier for users to navigate the site, understand where they are in context of the larger site, and find the content they are looking for.
SEO: The sites and individual page content are now much more search engine optimized. We cleaned up page headlines and titles, restructured content, and better optimized the URLs.
Cool. Click in to learn more about it, or even better, peruse the updated sites today!
Emily Warburton Jensen loves searching through the LDS blog world for developments and testimonies that best capture the ever-evolving LDS online experience. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Electric Vehicle Charging Stations @ Stevens Pass Resort
About Stevens Pass Mountain Resort
Stevens Pass has grown from its humble beginnings over 75 years ago to become one of the Northwest's premier resorts, and we reckon that protecting and restoring the natural resources that have provided us our livelihood is the least we can do. We seek to lead by example in tackling climate change, sustainability, and resort efficiency. Supporting the expansion of Electric Vehicles (EV's) in Washington is a natural step in reducing our carbon footprint.
Our EV Charging Stations
In June 2011, we became the first resort and only mountain pass in the country to install public charging stations. Since then a few others have followed our lead, and we hope more will do so. It's important to know how your power is produced before you can decide how much an EV would reduce your emissions. Our electricity comes almost entirely from clean, green hydropower delivered by Chelan PUD (vs. dirty coal). We won a federal grant to buy our two chargers, and we paid for installation. Station usage averages about 25 visits/month year-round (Mar 2013), and they're full most weekends during our busy winter season.
How they work
Drivers unlock the station using a keyring or wallet swipe pass, or by calling the toll-free support number (1-888-758-4389) on each machine. Each station can provide a trickle charge (120Volt) and a quicker charge (220Volt) to two separate electric vehicles simultaneously, allowing a total of 4 electric vehicles to charge at once here at the Pass. Known as Level-II chargers, these units built by Coulomb Technologies Inc will allow EV drivers to fuel up while enjoying the resort's recreational activities.
When are they open?
Our two chargers are available for anyone to use, 24hrs/day, year-round; the area is lit at night. Cellphone coverage is good at the Pass (AT&T and Verizon).
How long does it take to charge?
Owners of vehicles like the Nissan Leaf will gain approximately 15 miles of range for every hour of charging; other vehicles may be a little different. Near-empty batteries will require 4-6 hours to be fully replenished – perfect for a day of skiing or mountain biking at the resort, or hiking from the trailhead of the Pacific Crest Trail!
What will it cost?
It's free! The average user fee for charging at Level-II stations is approximately $5/session, but Stevens Pass will waive this charge for an introductory period. In general, fees can be paid through a charging network membership, or with any credit card, or by calling the toll free phone number on each unit.
What if they're already in use?
Both charging stations are connected via cellphone datalink to the national ChargePoint Network, allowing anyone with a smartphone or computer to access station availability information in real-time, view other nearby charger locations, and sign up for Email/text alerts. Reservations will be possible at Stevens Pass stations in the future, if the need arises.
What if I have problems?
Call the toll-free support number listed on the charger: 1-888-758-4389
Where are they exactly?
Located just to the left of the main plaza stairs at the head of lot A, on the south side of U.S. Highway 2.
Is there any food service?
In the winter season (approx Dec 1 to late-April) many different lodges, lounges, and a coffee shop are open daily. In the summer (approx July through early-October) a small snack bar/grill is open weekends.
Are there restrooms nearby?
Yes, there are Forest Service toilets located at the entrance to Lot E, east of the chargers.
What other activities are nearby?
In the summer, there's hiking, and mountain biking at our lift-served bike park. In the winter, we are open for snowboarding and skiing. Cellphone coverage is good at the Pass (AT&T and Verizon).
Is there a quicker charging option?
The State of Washington has installed three super-fast charging stations (operating at 480volts DC) along U.S. Highway 2 in: Sultan, Skykomish, and Leavenworth. These "Level-III" stations will help EV's over the pass, and can charge most electric vehicles from zero to 80 percent capacity in just 20 minutes!
Where can I learn more?
- Download PDF Fact Sheet with Photos
- Click here to locate other stations in the ChargePoint Network
- Click here to locate all known EV stations
- To learn more about electric highways in WA, see: westcoastgreenhighway.com/electrichighways.htm
- To learn about electric cars: PluginCenter.net


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Although John Van de Walle's "Teaching Student-Centered Mathematics" book is my go-to math guide, this year I've found a couple of others that I really like. I'm loving "Mastering the Basic Math Facts in Multiplication and Division". These authors take a real hands on approach to teaching the Big Ideas involved in a study of multiplication.
Here they can use simple manipulatives to show the math. I would also encourage students to tell a math story using the mats and materials. For instance they might say: Four scuba divers were swimming in a lagoon. Each diver saw 2 fish. They saw 8 fish in all.
Students would then write down the repeated addition sentence and then the related multiplication sentence.
I created different mats to use with different materials. Here students are filling cocoa mugs with marshmallows.
These lucky pirates found jewels in their treasure boxes. Here we cut the cards apart but they can be left together as a sheet as well.
This mat has students telling multiplication or division stories about children with snowballs.
It took one trip to the dollar store to find the manipulatives needed for three of the mats. Other manipulatives are easy to find in craft stores.
My plan is to incorporate these mats during Partner Practice time during Guided Math.
They could work for the "On My Own' time as well but I love to encourage the conversation about the math for this one.
Interested in using these with your students? You can find them at my TPT store.