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A formation mechanism of nanocrystalline cerium dioxide (CeO2), a versatile nanomaterial, has been unveiled by scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. This finding potentially simplifies and alleviates the existing synthetic processes of nanocrystalline CeO2 production.Nanocrystalline CeO2 particles are widely used, for example, in catalysts for hazardous gas treatment, in electrodes for solid oxide fuel cells, in polishing materials for advanced integrated circuits, in sunscreen cosmetics, and in such medical applications as artificial superoxide dismutase. Current industrial syntheses of nanocrystalline CeO2 are based on sol-gel processes followed by thermal treatment and/or the addition of accelerant reagents. Any further improvement of the synthetic strategy for CeO2 nanocrystals requires a better understanding of the mechanisms involved in their formation at the atomic scale.Dr. Atsushi Ikeda-Ohno from the University of New South Wales, Australia, together with Dr. Christoph Hennig from the HZDR opted for a sophisticated multi-spectroscopic approach that combines dynamic light scattering and synchrotron-based X-ray techniques. These complex investigations involved the use of two world-leading synchrotron facilities of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France and SPring-8 in Hyogo, Japan.For the first time ever, the scientists were able to perform an in-situ observation of nanocrystal evolution. So far, little has been known of the formation mechanism of metal nanocrystals; mainly because appropriate analytical techniques were lacking. The most widely used techniques for metal nanocrystal research are electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction. They are powerful enough to visualize the appearance of nanocrystals and to acquire their lattice information, but they are not applicable to the solution state where the evolution of metal nanocrystals occurs. "To probe the formation of nanocrystalline CeO2 in an aqueous solution, we combined different spectroscopic techniques, including dynamic light scattering, synchrotron X-ray absorption spectroscopy, and high energy X-ray scattering," says Dr. Atsushi Ikeda-Ohno.The information the researchers obtained is fundamental to simplifying and alleviating the synthetic process of CeO2 nanocrystals. They revealed that uniformly sized nanoparticles of CeO2 can be produced simply by pH adjustment of tetravalent cerium (Ce(IV)) in an aqueous solution without subsequent physical/chemical treatment such as heating or adding accelerant chemicals. The produced CeO2 crystals have a uniform particle size of 2 - 3 nanometers, irrespective of the preparation conditions (e.g. pH and type of pH adjustment). This particle size is exactly in the range which is interesting for industrial applications. A key finding is that mononuclear Ce(IV) solution species do not result in nano-sized CeO2 crystals. The prerequisite is the presence of oligomeric Ce(IV) solution species, such as dimers or trimers."We're indeed very glad that our multi-spectroscopic approach is also applicable to any other research on metal nanocrystals. That's why this study contributes to an emerging research area on metal nanocrystals in a broader context," says Dr. Christoph Hennig. "And the HZDR's own measuring station at the ESRF provides the best possible opportunities for this research area of metal nanocrystals which directly contributes to industrial applications."This story is reprinted from material from Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), with editorial changes made by Materials Today. The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent those of Elsevier. Link to original source.
By mixing nanocrystals with polymers and ligands, scientists have found a way to switch between a liquid-like state and a solid-like state.
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I have wanted to make these cheesecake cupcakes for a LONG time. I don't know why it took me this long to make them, but I am glad I did. They delicious and loved by everybody who tasted them and super easy to make. You really could use any cookie instead of Oreos. My mind is racing with the possibilities. I used the Halloween themed Oreos just since it is October; I think they would be adorable with the red filled Oreos that come out in December. I may even try making them again with Chips Ahoy cookies. I halved the recipe when I made them and got 18 cheesecake cupcakes. I have posted the original recipe below.
Cookies and Cream Cheesecakes Recipe
recipe from: Martha Stewart's Cupcakes: 175 Inspired Ideas for Everyone's Favorite Treat
Makes 30
42 cream-filled sandwich cookies, such as Oreos, 30 left whole, and 12 coarsely chopped
2 pounds cream cheese, room temperature
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 large eggs, room temperature, lightly beaten
1 cup sour cream
Pinch of salt
Preheat oven to 275 degrees. Line standard muffin tins with paper liners. Place 1 whole cookie in the bottom of each lined cup.
With an electric mixer on medium high speed, beat cream cheese until smooth, scraping down sides of bowl as needed. Gradually add sugar, and beat until combined. Beat in vanilla.
Drizzle in eggs, a bit at a time, beating to combine and scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed. Beat in sour cream and salt. Stir in chopped cookies by hand.
Divide batter evenly among cookie-lined cups, filling each almost to the top. Bake, rotating pan halfway through, until filling is set, about 22 minutes. Transfer to wire racks to cool completely. Refrigerate at least 4 hours (or up to overnight). Remove from tins just before serving.


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Drs. Katherine Ingram and Kathryn Kaiser T32-funded post-doctoral fellows in the Section on Statistical Genetics in the Department of Biostatistics and the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at UAB, have been selected recipients of the 2011 Spring Career Enhancement Award from UAB's Office of Postdoctoral Education.
The Postdoctoral Career Enhancement Award was established in 2001 to provide opportunities for postdoctoral scholars to enhance their professional development. Allowable activities include internships up to a one month period, attending workshops, visiting laboratories to perform collaborative studies, travel to national and international professional conferences to present current findings, and, in general, expand their horizons. Additional activities may be approved for funding.
Dr. Ingram will use her award to travel to Dr. Sonia Caprio's laboratory at Yale University to study ectopic fat distribution.
Dr. Kaiser will use her award to travel to the European Congress on Obesity in Istanbul to present a paper on design issues in obesity treatment trials.
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Shadow Theatre Company's next stop: Denver Civic Theatre
The embattled, nomadic Shadow Theatre will go on. It was announced today that "In Search of Eckstine: A Love Story" will be presented March 10-27 at Su Teatro's Denver Civic Theatre. This will be Shadow's fourth staging of "Eckstine" since 1997.
We're assuming that'll be in the Dorie studio theater, as Su Teatro is planning a production of "Todo lo Mexicano" ("Everything Mexican") for March 10-26.
Shadow had to leave its Aurora home in January after falling more than a year behind on its rent. A hastily assembled remount of "An Evening with Nina" was begun at the nearby Aurora Fox studio theater, but was scuttled after two weeks.
Shadow had dedicated its 14th season to the memory of founder Jeffrey Nickelson. "Eckstine" was originally slated to open Jan. 6 at the company's home since 2008 at 1468 Dayton St. Then the floor dropped out on the company.
Nickelson considered "Eckstine" to be one of the five seminal productions in Shadow history. Here's our review of "Eckstine" from 2002, when it was staged at the Acoma Center, home to the Curious Theatre Company.
"A Love Story' of jazz: As long as it's singing, musical has 'em smiling
By John Moore
Denver Post Theater Critic
The faces entering the theater were black, brown and white, but
everyone left feeling a sweet shade of blue.
The original jazz musical "In Search of Eckstine: A Love Story" is being staged in the Golden Triangle, but the moment you walk into the Acoma Center you are transported 2 miles north and 50 years back to the glory days of Denver's Five Points neighborhood.
"Eckstine," written by Hugo Jon Sayles with Shadow Theatre Company founder Jeffrey Nickelson, is a romantic fairy tale inspired in part by the music of Billy Eckstine, a bass-baritone jazz crooner considered the first romantic black male in popular music.
The story unfolds at a swank Five Points club called Green Dolphin Street, which is named after Bronislaw Kaper's bossa nova standard about finding an exciting, full life – if only temporarily.
This production has almost everything going for it, most notably guest director Israel Hicks of the Denver Center Theatre Company, who brings style and clarity to the third mounting of Shadow's first in-house production. At its new home, set designer Michael Duran has dusted off your seat in a pristine, classy nightclub that gives you an idea what a joint like Herb's Hideout might have looked like in its prime. Linda Morken's costumes bring elegance and vibrancy that show you what old black-and-white noir films might have looked like in their most abundant color.
The impeccable cast of seven have an emotional stake in the play that is as apparent as their stupefying vocal abilities. Mary Louise Lee (Nia Forche), Rhonda Nickelson (Misty Harrington) and Janice Guy-Sayles (Johnnie Mae Johnson) play classy women representing three distinct character types. The men pale next to their beauty, but their silky threads at least give the guys a fighting chance next to these heavenly creatures.
The only thing that comes up lacking is an oversimplified and disjointed story that doesn't do justice to the talent available and keeps disrupting the rhythm of the marvelous musical moments.
The fantasy is part "It's a Wonderful Life," part "Big," part "Brigadoon." It opens with a hobo (Nickelson) who finds a coin in an alley outside the club. When he goes in to buy a drink, he meets "The Magic," an angel (Sayles) who grants the hobo an entirely different favor. He turns the hobo into Tristain, a singer who disappeared from Green Dolphin Street three years before, leaving broken hearts and friendships in his dust.
When the hobo realizes he can sing like a star, he embraces this life, and soon romances are rekindled, started anew and snuffed out. But when "The Magic" realizes he has granted his wish to the wrong man, the action gets bogged down in its heavy-handed finale.
The real magic of "Eckstine" is in its constantly surprising music. Eckstine is not a character in the story. "Searching for Eckstine" means searching for that one moment in a song "when there's one pure moment of being." And there are many such moments. There are a few standards such as "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," but the score is mostly made up of lesser-known gems from 1929 through the late 1940s. These songs don't make you feel like you are sitting in a theater watching a musical. They make you feel like you are sitting back sipping a whiskey in a smoky Chicago blues joint at the corner of heartbreak and harmony.
Highlights include Dwayne Carrington's "I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues," Lee's "Body and Soul" and Nickelson's "Everything I Have is Yours" (a hit for Eckstine).
Lee, a Denver native known for her roles in "Beehive" and "A Brief History of White Music," has a sweet, lilting voice that rolls slowly up and down like honey. Nickelson's deep baritone on "You're All I Need" will move you so that by song's end you'll find yourself sitting one seat over.
And doubling as choreographer, the wondrous Janice Guy-Sayles adds an element of contemporary dance. She is a pelvic wonder who bumps and grinds one moment, and the next floats with the grace of a willow whispering in the beam of a corner streetlight.
Shadow is justifiably bursting at the seams of Morken's natty suitcoats with pride. But with this cast, it could have easily gotten away with staging what might have been a stupendous musical revue.


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We're finishing up a week of record-setting brutally cold weather. It's unusual for us to spend 24 hours below freezing, and we've gone six straight days now. Our pipes froze twice. This morning we awoke to sub-zero temperatures. I've never so looked forward to highs in the 40's.
We have burned about a months' worth of wood this week, and I have plenty to do outside. But it was so dang cold that I emphasized inside projects instead. For example, today I mapped out this years gardens and we placed our seed order. Gardens and warmer days are coming.
The last day of hunting season brought one final run-in with trespassers. I'm glad that annual ordeal is finally over. I took three deer this season–two for me and one for the food bank. For well over ten years now all the meat I've eaten has come from this farm. That's a good feeling.
I'm very pleased at the positive reviews and feedback I'm starting to get on my book. I was worried it might bomb. It's a relief to know people are finding merit in it.
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Thumb-sucking, finger-sucking, and pacifier use can cause malocclusion (poor bite) in young children. But when a child stops the sucking habit, the teeth naturally begin moving back to their normal positions.
Infants are born with a natural sucking reflex, and it's common for this reflex to evolve into a comforting behavior. But thumb- and finger-sucking and pacifier use for more than 4 to 6 hours in 24 hours can eventually:
- Push the upper front teeth (incisors) outward and the lower incisors inward (overjet).
- Prevent the incisors from coming in (erupting) completely (open bite).
- Cause the top molars to bite inside the lower molars (cross bite).
The sooner a child stops sucking on a finger, thumb, or pacifier, the better for incoming permanent teeth. Pediatricians and pediatric dentists recommend that you take your child to see a dentist if your child is 4 years old and still has a sucking habit. If this habit lasts until age 5 or 6, your child's permanent incisors probably won't come in straight. And your child may need orthodontic treatment to help align his or her teeth.
Helping your child quit a sucking habit
Treating sucking habits in children isn't usually needed. Most children stop on their own. Most parents find it easier to wean a child from pacifier use than from thumb- or finger-sucking. Children who continue to suck their thumbs till early school age may feel pressure from their peers and may decide to stop then.
Treatment for thumb-sucking is a controversial topic. Some children are not ready or able to stop their sucking habit, despite their dentists' or parents' decision that they must. Some parents and professionals believe that when a child won't cooperate, the treatment won't be effective. It could even be traumatic and may prolong the habit. Others believe that it's sometimes necessary to try to stop the habit without the child's cooperation.
Treatment to stop a sucking habit works best if your child is involved in the treatment and agrees to try to stop. By educating your child, staying neutral, and not being critical, you can help your child get ready for sacrificing a long-held habit. Consider these tips when helping your child quit thumb-sucking or related habits.
- Pick a low-stress period of time. Avoid a time of change or challenge, such as a move, divorce, the start of the school year, or even a new sports activity.
- Enlist your child's dentist for providing some education about the effects of thumb-sucking.
- Help your child put away any attachment objects that may trigger the sucking habit, such as a baby blanket or toy.
- With your child, develop a reminder for not sucking the thumb, such as putting a mitten, a sock, an adhesive bandage, or a bitter-tasting substance on the thumb, especially at night. A bulky elastic bandage, loosely wrapped around the mid-arm, can make it difficult for the hand to reach the mouth while your child sleeps.
- Use positive reinforcement. Compliment your child for the smallest of gains as well as the big successes.
- Develop a reward system, such as putting a star on the calendar for each successful day. After an agreed-upon number of days, have a celebration for your child.
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Long ago when American Indians roamed the heart of American continent they had no miracle workers. Iroquois lived close to the soil, hunted the bison for meat and lived from the fruits of the earth. They dressed themselves too well,- they wore buffalo skins in winter and loin clothes of various fibers spun from plants at other times. Children of the Plains they were.
A prophet one day came out of nowhere and revealed to them of the Great Spirit of the Plains. They were impressed. The chief asked him to marry his daughter as a mark of respect. The prophet refused politely saying that his dress was special and it did not brook any person ever touching his person.
"See how white it is?" the prophet asked." It is made out of some cactus the likes of which grows only in the Blue Yonder. He pointed dramatically to the horizon and said," My sanctity and powers come from this poncho which I shall leave at my death which is soon."
One morning he went on the top of a hillock to die. His dress lay in a tepee decorated with sacred objects he had brought along. "As long as this remains white as now, it is a sign that my body shall never decay." So he died.
The whole tribe mourned for him. They revered the dress, which each member of the tribe, young and old alike kissed in veneration. It was not obvious at first but with time the poncho changed color. It became yellow. Was it as a result of the breath of devotees or time working out changes? One day pilgrims filed past the relic: the poncho was no better than rags.
Next they checked the body to see, and it had to their horror, become a totem pole! Since then the tribe began praying to the pole instead.


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In this webinar we will illustrate how to perform common signal analysis and signal processing tasks in MATLAB. You will learn techniques for visualizing and measuring signals in time and frequency domains, computing FFTs for spectral analysis, designing FIR and IIR filters, and implementing convolution and modulation. You will gain skills of signal processing without memorizing the theory and equations behind these tasks.
Highlights include how to:
• Import and visualize signals in the time and frequency domains
• Perform and display time-domain and frequency measurements of digital data
• Apply spectral estimation techniques such as periodogram, Welch, and Yule-Walker to understand signal characteristics in the frequency domain
About the Presenter: Kirthi Devleker is the product marketing manager for Signal Processing Toolbox at MathWorks
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A taxpayer identification number must be furnished on all returns, statements, and other tax-related documents and must be given upon request to any other person who must include it on a return or statement. For most individuals, this is a Social Security Number, or SSN. If you are a foreign person who does not have and is not eligible to get a SSN, you must use an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, or ITIN.
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Among the "good" of this year's Black History Month was Robert Glasper's excellent
Black Radio album on Blue Note released Feb 28th, 2012
Maybe it's because this is a leap year that Black History Month 2012, which ended two days ago, seemed a little out of whack. Or maybe it was because it was a Black History Month that started on a really bad note when, on the morning of Feb 1st, the tragic news that Don Cornelius of Soul Train fame had taken his own life was the first thing we were to read about. That was bad enough but this tragic news came hot on the heels of the world losing a string of other black music/cultural icons, including in just the preceding two weeks both Etta James and JImmy Castor. And then, of course, ten days later, on the eve of the Grammys, the whole world was taken aback with the shocking news that Whitney Houston had died at age 48. Not exactly a great time to joyously celebrate black history!


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BOSTON — Education Secretary Paul Reville is leaving the governor's cabinet this month after guiding the state through a series of major education reforms that are still being debated today.
Gov. Deval Patrick appointed Reville the state's first education secretary in 2008. He plans to return to the faculty at Harvard University.
During his tenure, Reville oversaw the expansion of charter schools, a move toward new, national K-12 curriculum standards and helped craft legislation aimed at improving community colleges.
Reville was tasked with doing this amid one of the most difficult financial climates in decades. During that time, Massachusetts has continued to lead the nation in academic achievement but also struggled to close a gap separating white and minority students.
Reville believes one way to boost achievement in low-performing schools is to lengthen the school day.
The structure of the academic year is a byproduct of a time when many people were farmers. Children needed summers off to help harvest the crop and had to be home in the early afternoons to do chores while there was still daylight.
"Now we're 100 years later," said Reville, during a recent interview in his office. "People need high skills and high knowledge. We need to have a pipeline that produces people to be ready for those jobs."
Some districts are doing just that. In Massachusetts, two urban communities with a high number of English-language learners — Fall River and Lawrence — will be adding at least 300 hours of class time beginning next year.
A combination of state and federal funds, plus endowment grants, will pay for the additional class time for students and work time for teachers and other staff. Finding the money fund a longer school day in other districts will be challenging, said Reville.
Most of the state's charter schools, which use taxpayer money but are run under different rules that govern traditional school districts, have implemented a longer school day. This is partly why some of these schools have been able to improve the test scores of students in urban areas of the state, said Reville.
The number of charter schools has expanded during Reville's tenure, with the cap having been doubled and restrictions on the number of students who can enroll in these schools eliminated. The state also created a new type of "innovation school" that empowers local school committees to rethink curricula and classroom techniques in underperforming schools.
The expansion has not been without controversy. Opponents of charter schools argue they will hinder academic progress made within traditional school systems by diverting millions of dollars in public funding from the home district.
The expansion has drawn praise from groups that have been critical of Reville on other avenues, however, such as the conservative Pioneer Institute.
"You're talking about literally thousands of kids that are getting into much higher quality schools," said Jim Stergios, executive director of the conservative think tank. "That's something to be applauded."
While Reville said some charter schools are able to offer deeper, more intense faculty-student relations, he warned they are not a panacea. In many cases, he said traditional public schools are able to offer the same level of instruction.
"Our role in state government ought to be to spend tax payers dollars as wisely as we can," he said. "If that happens to be a charter school, where we can get the best return on our investment, so be it. If that's a mainstream school, so be it."
Reville has also overseen a transition to a new, national education benchmark called Common Core. The standards have been adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia, and will be implemented by 2014.
Proponents of Common Core say it raises the standards for the complexity of what students need to read and comprehend. Critics have called it a mistake that will result in a setback for Massachusetts students.
Former GOP gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker, Democrat Tom Birmingham, the former Senate president who drafted the 1993 Education Reform bill, and former Republican Gov. William Weld have called the move a retreat from the educational progress made in Massachusetts over the past two decades.
"Our view is that Common Core has a real place in Mississippi or maybe a mid-performing state but certainly not Massachusetts," Stergios said.
Reville argues it is possible to adopt the national standards and remain a leader in education. He attributed some of the criticism to partisan politics.
"Our belief is you only get to be top of your industry if you're in a course of continuous improvement," Reville said. "Where is it written that you have to stick to the same assessments you've had for 15 years? We should be looking at the next generation of assessments."
This is a time of shake-up in the Patrick administration. Four cabinet secretaries are leaving, including Health and Human Services Secretary JudyAnn Bigby and Public Safety Secretary Mary Beth Heffernan, whose job performance has been called into question.
"The governor, to his credit, wants to go full board for the next two years," said Reville. "He asked all the cabinet members last summer if we would sign up for a full two years. I really couldn't do that given the nature of the opportunity that was available at Harvard."
Matthew Malone, the outgoing superintendent of Brockton Public Schools, will replace Reville. In order to compete with parts of the country that have better weather, cheaper labor and working conditions and more natural resources, Reville said Massachusetts must continue to ensure its students are the most educated and skilled in the country.
"The minute we stop supplying that kind of labor force, or other jurisdictions that are less costly become competitive with us from an education standpoint, they're going to move in a minute," he said.
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Facebook's problem: Too many parentsJuly 27, 2012: 11:33 AM ET
In the flurry of research that emerged this morning on Facebook, Trip Chowdhry at Global Equities Research has this gem.
The main problem with Facebook (FB) is not its lack of mobile revenue, capricious management or privacy issues, according to Chowdhry. It's parents.
Yes, parents.
Those pesky people who raised you and are now cramping your style on Facebook. They are the biggest threat to the social network and the main reason why investors should "remain on the sideline," writes Chowdhry in an email under the subject line "Facebook (FB) Your Qs answered."
Related: Facebook stock plunges to all-time low
Personally, I'm convinced. But in case you need more proof, here's why Chowdhry says parents are to blame for Facebook's lousy share price.
Today, Kids are on Facebook, and so are their Parents. Kids are spending less time on Facebook, as their Parents are also now on the Facebook. Parents are relatively spending more time on Facebook, but is not off-setting reduced time Kid's are spending on the Facebook. It is a psychological reality, that after a certain age, Kids are less inclined to hangout where their Parents are.
Another psychological reality, as kids grow older, they become more like parents. This is bullish for Facebook over the long term, but that's another issue.
Chowdhry continues:
FB may be cool again for the Younger people, if FB bans Parents from FB, but that is impossible. Just like in physical world, the people find a new place to hangout, probably the same may happen here also and sadly it may not be FB.
So Facebook is not a buy because of parents. No further questions.


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My husband bought a used 2005 KIA Spectra in January. More than once after getting in the passenger seat I saw the light come on saying the passenger airbag is not working. I always sit as far back as I can and ALWAYS wear a seat belt.. Kia tells me I AM AT THE BORDERLINE WEIGHT for the airbag to work and that it really isn't their problem - that the seat belt is what really protects me.
I have found federal law that says no such thing, under Dept of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 49CFR Parts 552, 571, 585 and 595 tell me that I am entitled to MANDATORY PROTECTION regardless of how much I weigh even though I sit 'properly'. THIS IS ABSURD! I am looking for others who have the same problem we do. Car is under warranty until August 28, 2010 and KIA is stalling for time. You may e-mail me at: **. Thank you.
KENNESAW, GEORGIA -- I live in Kennesaw, Georgia. I purchased a brand new Kia Spectra 5 in 2005. After about 6 months of owning the car, the battery went dead for no reason. I was sitting at my son's school waiting on him to come out. The car was off as was the lights. When I went to start the car, the battery was dead. I called the Kia roadside service number and waited an hour for them to come get me. This happened again repeatedly for the next year.
I took the car to Town Center every time it would do this. The service dept said there was nothing wrong with the car that I was leaving the lights on. It was not the lights. We were on vacation once. Had been driving for about an hour and stop to get gas. In the time it took to fill my 12 gallon tank the battery went dead?!?!?!?!?!?
Skip ahead to last month (Aug 07). We decide it's not worth being stranded at school, and at the grocery store, and on vacation and we need to trade it in. We were not too keen on the idea of another Kia so we went to Hyundai Cartersville. We were given a price on a 07 Hyundai Entourage Limited edition. Leather, power seats, power locks, powers door and trunk, tri-zone air. Of course we were going to "trade in" the Spectra 5 so that added 14k in rollover debt.
After getting this price we thought MAYBE Kia would work with us more knowing the trouble we had had with the car and that they were not able to fix it. And the fact that they owned the car. Kia was going to put us in the basic model Kia van, no leather no nothing for almost 1000.00 a month. We honestly said Hyundai can do better. We gave them the deal from Hyundai and the manager laughed in our faces. He said there was no way Hyundai was selling us a van for that little. And that is we could get that deal to go do it. Very rude. He told us to take the van home for the night and sleep on it.
So after we had been in Kia for about 2 hours, while the idiot of a manager laughed at us, we leave unhappy with this van. On the way home I told my husband I did not want it. I do not want another Kia. Saturday morning as soon as Hyundai opened we went and bought the Entourage.
After words with my husband driving the Kia and me following in the Hyundai we returned the Kia to the dealership. The dealership manager came up to us and said "so you decided to sign those papers?" My husband said "No. We bought the Hyundai." The manager said "so you paid more." My husband said "DO I look stupid?" We got a top of the line model for less than Kia's bottom line!
Moral of the story. Do not buy anything from Kia Town Center. The black manager there sucks and is very rude and the dealership manager is a jackass. I hope they read this. And I hope they get fired. Thanks for loaning me a soapbox.
This car's battery voltage will drop below the voltage that will start the car if the car is parked for more than overnight and the memory fuse is not pulled up. I bought this used car in December 2009 and neither the salesman nor the sales manager mentioned this fact to me at the time of sale.
Shortly after I purchased the car it was parked for three days. When I went to start it the battery didn't have enough voltage to turn over the starter. A 10 amp battery charger got it going so no real problem. But got me worried that maybe the battery would fail while I was in town. But it didn't. If the car is only parked overnight, there is no problem starting it the next morning. But let it stand for two nights and the car won't start on the third day.
That's when I went looking through the manual that I had to ask for because it wasn't in the glove compartment at the time of sale. Buried in the Kia manual there is a procedure to go through when parking the car for a "prolonged period" -- the fact that this "prolonged period" is only two days was not revealed to me at the time of sale. Yes, that's right. The battery will not start the car on the third day if it has been sitting parked for two days. Overnight parking is no problem but leave it parked for another day and the battery will not start the car.
What is the procedure described in the Kia manual, you ask? "Turn off the headlights and tail lights and pull up the MEMORY FUSE in the fuse box that sits in front of the driver's left knee" -- this procedure disconnects the clock, the audio (radio), the door chimes, and the interior lights. But the rest of the electrical components in the car work (ignition, headlights, tail lights, etc.). But if you drive the car with the memory fuse pulled up then the Tire Pressure Monitor check light comes on.
Following this procedure, I was able to leave the car parked for four days without having the battery go dead. Does following this procedure mean that when one is ready to drive off in the car, the clock needs resetting as does the radio? Yes, they do! This is a real pain in the you know what. I feel the salesman and everybody else involved in selling me this car were deceptive by not telling me about this 2007 Kia spectra quirk.
HAMBURG, NEW YORK -- I am a 21 year old female. I bought this car when I was 20 and it is my first car. I had also bought this car new. About six days after I bought the piece of junk I didn't want it any more. I thought that there was something wrong with the car. I know a little bit about cars but I can't fix one. It turns out my car has a bad transmission sensor (automatic) which means that the car doesn't know when to shifts right. The funny thing is that Kia and the dealer I bought it from can't figure out what is wrong with it.
I have been fighting both companies since I bought it. I even got into an accident at my local car wash because the car would not go into neutral. After the accident I stepped up my fighting. A couple days after that I got a call on April 7, 2005 from a rep from Kia Motors and he started to yell at me telling me that Kia doesn't want to do anything to make me happy. I was shocked because of this treatment. I feel that I got taken advantage of because of who I am.
Now I have a car that is "the walking dead" with a bad transmission. The car's engine is now shot because it has been running for a year and a half with a bad transmission. So even if Kia does actually fix my transmission the car is still screwed. The whole car is going to end up dying because of the condition it is driving in right now.
My whole reason for doing this is that I had my car in for service and I get treated like some dumb stupid little girl who knows nothing about cars. This car company called me up to harass and yell at me on the phone. And why would I want to do business with this company, let alone drive this car.
****** AS OF MARCH 31, 2006 KIA MOTORS AMERICA JUST RECOGNIZED THAT THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH MY CAR. The best part is that Kia does not know how to fix my car. I plan ongoing to the State of NY or the US Dept of Transportation and force Kia Motors to buyback my car because they don't know how to fix it.
****** MAY 25, 2006 Kia is still doing nothing about the problems with my car but a local TV station wants to run a story on this car and this whole situation that have been through!!!!!!!!!!
We bought a 2003 Kia spectra car in September of 2003. It has a lot of road noise, the windows leaks air into the car from outside, the paint peal off the hubcaps, and the door trim on the driver's side came off. The dash around the steer wheel makes a lot of noise. At 70 mph the car makes a lot of noise. The dealership where we bought the car in Dallas Texas was Southwest Kia. The car was stickered at 14000 and somehow it came out to be 16500 without even telling us. We never got a copy of the contract until 3 months later and it was not from Southwest Kia.
The bank that finance the car was Wells Fargo. Their interest rate was so high that it made the car cost 31650. That's with a down payment. Also they added an extended warranty without even telling us. So please don't buy a Kia or any car from Kia or Southwest Kia of Dallas Texas.
I bought a 2006 Kia Spectra 5. Within the first year of owning the vehicle we had to take it back for reprogramming because there was a computer defect that left the automatic lights on. The car began shutting off and stalling out at stop lights and on busy interstates. So we returned to the garage once again and the oxygen sensor had gone bad. The oxygen sensor went bad 2 times since I have owned the vehicle while I had my children in the car.
I have also taken my vehicle for my regular oil changes and have been told that I have build up in my oil. Now the check engine light keeps coming on and I have to keep putting in a fuel cleaner to get it to turn off. I had a diagnostic run on my check engine light and the catalytic converter is running under threshold! I also am having a problem with the rear driver's side brake wearing too fast and I am probably going to have to replace my rotor.
The last time I had my vehicle in the shop at the Kia dealership, they refused to release my vehicle back to me unless I paid an $85.00 fee? Did you know that it costs you $85.00 just to pull your vehicle into their garage? I was not made aware of this "Policy" until I could not get my car back. Even though I was just having my car looked at. I am furious with this company and its 100,000 mile warranty is just a safety cushion to tempt you to buy and because your car is in the shop so much!
The problem with the oxygen sensor also happened with my previous Kia Spectra so this is not a fluke and that also went bad several times (meaning 3 times!). Therefore my experiences with this company have been far less than positive. I will never own another Kia due to the costly repairs and the times that I had to miss at work because my car was in the shop.
BATON ROUGE -- Kia Spectra 5 fuel consumption gas cap fuel tank sensor. 3 visits to dealership. Replaced 3 gas caps. This is under first 1500 miles. Gas mileage was 15-17 mph. The engine light never came back on for another 5k miles. Followed Kia service manual to the letter on all changes. Then another round of 2 gas caps, until tech said that it was the fuel pressure sensor. And no check engine light. But he insisted that the light had been on for the last 5k miles and that had voided the warranty.
Basically I had to pay 1383.00 dollars and now I'm told that all subsequent problems will not be covered due to me violating the "service" agreement. Kia is ka ka. Their car is ka ka. Their whole design is ka ka. I will never, never, never get a "ka ka" Kia again!!!
I have read a number of complaints about this issue on the web and thought I should add mine since this appears to be a design flaw and not customer-related as Kia defines it. This involves the fact that if the fuel tank gets regularly over-filled it will cause the engine to arbitrarily shut off at different times regardless of whether you are on the highway or in the driveway.
Apparently there is a valve high up in the fuel tank that gas can get into and goes into a canister that leads to the stated problem. In all cases I have read, Kia states it is the result of the consumer overfilling and not a warranty issue. Most customers, as I did, state 'we are not idiots and know better than to overfill' to no avail. Anyway, I am paying $1500 to replace the fuel tank and supporting components with no warm fuzzy that will not happen again.
Last week I was in an auto accident. I rear-ended another vehicle at 35 miles an hour. My son was in the passenger seat. We both had on seat belts but my son only had the lap belt in place. Our airbags never deployed and as a result I hit my head on the steering wheel and now have 35 stitches in my forehead. I was told by all parties (state highway patrol and local police) that my bags should have deployed.
I will now have a permanent scar on my forehead. My car is being fixed even though there is 5800 dollars worth of damage, but this will not include the airbags (insurance states that it is not their problem). So I have to drive a car that is unsafe for accidents even though I bought this car used from Kia and still make payments on it. I am contacting Kia as well as a lawyer. I have also filed a complaint with the public safety commission.
I have had my Kia Spectra for almost 3 years. For probably half of that my car has been parked in my driveway. I have had nothing but problems with it! It will start but starts chugging and dies every 10 feet! I have taken it to several mechanics and changed numerous parts on this car and it STILL dies on me! No one can figure out what is wrong with it. It is a piece of Junk! Wish I could return it and get my money back! DO NOT BUY ANY KIA VEHICLE! Trading mine in this week! Can't wait to get a vehicle I can actually drive!


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HARRISONBURG, Va. (AP) Rayshawn Goins had 15 points and 13 rebounds for his fifth double-double of the season and 11th of his career as James Madison defeated Colonial Athletic Association rival Delaware 64-50 Wednesday night.
James Madison (10-10, 4-3) coach Matt Brady picked up his 150th career victory.
A.J. Davis added 16 points off the bench on 7-of-11 shooting for the Dukes, while freshman Andre Nation had 12, including 10 in the first half, and Devon Moore had 10.
Devon Saddler led Delaware (8-11, 3-3) with 16 points, six rebounds and three assists while Jarvis Threatt went 9 for 12 at the foul line to finish with 12 points. Jamelle Hagins, who last year had 23 points and 18 boards against James Madison, had just four points and four rebounds Wednesday.
James Madison used a pair of 12-0 first-half runs to take a 29-18 halftime lead and never looked back.


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Girl posts signs in hospital window, workers in building respond
Harlee Taylor had to spend month in hospital
A 10-year-old girl who had to stay at Children's Mercy Hospital started posting signs in the window of her hospital room.
It didn't take long for workers at a next-door building to respond.
"We said, 'Hi there.' Then under that we said, 'How are you?' And they said, 'Great. How are you?'" Harlee Taylor said.
KMBC's Peggy Breit reported that Harlee was in the hospital to receive chemotherapy and other treatments for leukemia.
The sign exchange grew to include games of hangman with one group of workers in the Truman Medical Center. A man in another office provided drawings.
"It took what could have been a miserable, horrible experience and turned it into something fun and something positive that she's going to remember for the rest of her life," said Harlee's mother, Beth.
"Those people enjoyed it as much as Harlee," nurse Joy Bartholomew said of the Truman employees.
Harlee's gratitude goes a long way as well.
"It can kind of uplift your spirit and give you more faith," Harlee said.
Breit reported that Harlee must come back to the hospital for checkups, but no more extended stays are expected.


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1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
200 ml water
400 ml coconut milk,or I can
1 cup sugar
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
3 large eggs,room temperature
some oil for greasing the pan
6 pieces ripe banana
1:Combine all ingredients in a mixer or a large bowl,beat well until smooth.Sieve the batter into another large bowl,set aside.
2:Heat a non-stick 8-9 inch pan at medium low heat with some oil.Brush the oil thoroughly before scoop a full ladle of batter into it.Slowly spread the batter on the pan,cook for 1 minute each side our until lightly brown.
3:Remove pancake from skillet ,set aside.Peel ripe banana skin and wrap with the pancake .Serve banana pancake as snack with coffee or tea.


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Montana Tech continues to be recognized among America's best values in undergraduate education.
Montana Tech possesses an internationally esteemed, century-old tradition of excellence in higher education. Besides meeting its vision of being a leader for undergraduate and graduate education and research in the Pacific Northwest in engineering, science, energy, health, information sciences, and technology, Montana Tech provides a significant economic impact to both the state and local economy.
The direct impacts from Montana Tech's staffing and payroll, student spending, research and grants, and capital and operating outlays provide additional indirect impacts to the overall economy. The benefits and additional earnings of an education from MT Tech to the student also provide additional benefits to the overall economy over the assumed 30-40 year work-life.
Between 2009 and 2014, enrollment has increased over 21.7% to 2,923 in 2014. Of the total enrollment, 1,060 or 36% are enrolled in the engineering fields. Staffing levels have increased 20% since 2009.
As of 2014, MT Tech employed 526 full-time equivalent workers. This provides annual payroll of $26.6 million and benefits of $9.2M, for a total loaded labor of $35.8M. This averages $68,055 per full-time equivalent. The direct employment and earnings provides additional indirect jobs and earnings in the local and state economy. Based on the RIMS employment multiplier, each job in the college education area provides for an estimated 1.6 addition indirect jobs in support and services industries. Thus, the 526 full-time positions support an additional 841 jobs in the derivative industries. With an average annual wage in Silver Bow County in the services sector at $31,815, these 841 additional jobs provide $26.8 million of additional earnings. Table 1 illustrates the direct and indirect impact of the employment and earnings of MT Tech's faculty and staff.
Students at MT Tech provide benefits to the state and local economy. Of the 2,923 students in 2014, 582 are out-of-state students. It is estimated that these out-of-state students spend conservatively $1,050/month for lodging, food, apparel, entertainment, and other. Over the course of the school year, these students provide an additional benefit to the local economy of $5.5 million annually. Of the 2,341 total in-state students, 1,322 reside outside of Silver Bow County. Similar to the out-of-state students, these students provide benefits to the local economy through housing, meals, apparel, entertainment, and other. It is estimated that these out-of-county students would provide conservatively $900 of monthly spending. Thus, the 1,282 students would provide an estimated $10.7 million of additional spending to the local economy. Table 2 illustrates the spending impact of the out-of-state and out-of-county students.
Once Tech students graduate, and conservatively following the national average, they earn approximately $22 thousand more per year than non-graduates. In the 2012-13 academic year, MT awarded 310 bachelor degrees, 44 masters, 127 associate degrees, and 40 certificates for a total of 521 awards and 481 degrees (see table 3). The total degrees over the past three academic years averaged 460 annually. With the increased earnings from the degrees vs no degrees, and approximately 60% of graduates remaining in state, this adds approximately $9.9M of additional earnings to the overall economy, and $5.9M to Montana. Table 3 illustrates the added earnings from the college graduates.
MT Tech also spends dollars to add to and operate their facilities. Of the roughly $65 million of operating costs, approximately $2.1 million was for contracted services, which employ additional workers locally. Also, $1.3M was for supplies, $1.3 million was for utilities, and $316 thousand was for repairs and maintenance work. These select operating costs totaled approximately $5 million. On top of this, the college spends approximately $5 million per year on average since 2009 on capital upgrades. These also create additional jobs and earnings. Table 4 shows the direct impact of the operating and capital upgrades.
MT Tech is also a strong research institution. Between Federal, State, and private grants and contracts, MT Tech will receive $18.1 million in grant income in 2014 to continue to advance the research, development, and growth of the overall economy. 80% of this impact is covered in the labor and benefit costs of the employees. An estimated 20% of the research grants and contracts are for the purchase of materials, supplies and upgrades. Thus, approximately $3.6 million of the grants and contracts directly impacts the overall economy.
Overall, MT Tech has a significant impact on the overall economy. It is estimated that the impacts discussed provide roughly $98 million in overall economic spending and earnings. These then also provide an estimated $6.6 million of state taxes. Table 5 illustrates the overall estimated impact.
To the student, the quality education received from MT Tech provides benefits throughout his or her work life. The total cost of tuition and fees is approximately $7,500 per year. Excluding housing and other items that would have to be paid whether or not they attend college, this amounts to approximately $33,750 over 4.5 years of education. During the period while attending college, a student gives up the opportunity to work and generate earnings. Assuming the annual earnings of those with a high school diploma at $33,904 per year, the lost earnings over 4.5 years amounts to approximately $153 thousand. Based on increased future earnings over the graduates work-life, the nominal payback is approximately 8.7 years (4.9 for those with an engineering degree), and provides a return on investment of roughly 11.6% (20.5% for those with an engineering degree).


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I am really excited to present to you this great free form Potatoes Au Gratin. I would like to think of myself as a potato aficionado (It's the Idaho in me!). Whenever I am at breakfast and the side choices are salad and potatoes, it's potatoes. Obviously. No question. Eating a sandwich? Put potato chips on it! Getting a burger? French fries on the side, or inside for that matter. Potatoes Au Gratin bring back a lot of memories for me. I used to work at this French restaurant in college, we had these amazing creamy Potatoes Au Gratin, and we would run out on busy days on occasion and people would have meltdowns because the only other thing I could offer them is a side salad. I got it, I understood, you come to a restaurant expecting to have a delicious side of Potatoes Au Gratin and instead get offered a salad. I always felt horrible. I remember asking one of the chefs the secret to their Au Gratin, and it was to make sure you let the potatoes sit in the cream for a long time. This allows the starchiness of the potato to exude and really marry into the cream. Our recipe calls for 5 minutes if you happen to be short on time, and because our slices are thin. If you have the time you can make slightly thicker slices and really let them soak up that cream. I love the concept of the free form because I think it just looks so beautiful and organic. Plus, the crunchy sides I believe are the best part. We are serving ours with a béarnaise sauce because it just really makes this dish such a treat, and I for one love the added richness. Enjoy!
♥ Teri
Free Form Potatoes Au Gratin with Béarnaise Sauce
Serves 5 to 6
8-10 small new potatoes (or large fingerling potatoes or both), thinly sliced
1 cup heavy cream
1 shallot, diced
2 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons freshly grated Parmesan cheese
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, softened
salt and pepper to taste
béarnaise sauce:
1 tablespoon minced tarragon, divided
1/2 cup vinegar
1 shallot, diced
4 egg yolks
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted (and clarified, if desired)
salt and freshly cracked black pepper to taste
1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
2. Place sliced potatoes into a mixing bowl and top with cream. Toss gently to coat. Season with salt and pepper. Allow potatoes to sit for 5 minutes, or longer if you can.
3. Line a baking sheet (with a lip) with parchment and begin placing the potatoes in a single layer, slightly overlapping one another. Sprinkle the surface with some shallots, garlic and cheese. Dot the surface with a small amount of butter and lightly season with salt and pepper.
4. Continue layering potatoes and shallot mixture until all the potatoes have been used, placing small dots of butter between each layer.
5. Top gratin with remaining butter and season bake for 15 about 15 minutes. Remove from oven and sprinkle with remaining cheese. Place back into the oven for another 10-15 minutes until the potatoes are fork tender and the cheese has bubbled and browned on top. Allow gratin to cool for 5 minutes. Cut into wedges and serve with béarnaise sauce.
6. Béarnaise sauce: Place 2 teaspoons tarragon, vinegar and shallot into a small saucepan and reduce by half. Strain and set aside until completely cooled.
7. Place egg yolks and vinegar reduction into a stainless steel or heatproof glass bowl and whisk together until the mixture doubles in volume. Place mixture over a pot with simmering water (make sure the water from the pot does not reach the bottom of your bowl) and begin whisking. While whisking, begin to add melted butter, in a slow and steady stream, until fully incorporated and the béarnaise is thick and smooth. (the sauce should gradually thicken as you add the butter) Remove from heat and add remaining tarragon and season with salt and freshly cracked black pepper.
8. Drizzle sauce over gratin wedges and serve.


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A look back at a Colorado landmark, Mount Evans Crest House
Crest House, the combination restaurant, gift shop and observation point, at the summit of Mount Evans was completed in August 1941. The popular Colorado landmark opened every year from Memorial Day to Labor Day — until 1979 when it was destroyed in a propane explosion. After the September 1 explosion, the building was a total loss with only the rock walls left standing.
Constructed in 1940-41, Colorado architect Edwin Francis collaborated with builder Justus Roehling on the Crest House design. It was built with private capital under a Forest Service special permit, and was the highest commercial structure in the United States.
A naming contest in 1941 sponsored by the Mount Evans Company, owners of the Crest House, generated over 1,600 name suggestions from 22 states. Mrs. Mayme Taylor of Denver won and was awarded $25 for her entry of "Mountain Evans Crest House."
To see early photos of the Mount Evans Scenic Byway, click here.


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Article 1 – Applicability
a) Phoenix Payments B.V. is a private company with limited liability established under Dutch law, with its registered office at Veghel, the Netherlands, entered in the Dutch Chamber of Commerce under the number 59466197, and acting under the name 'Anycoin Direct', hereafter referred to as: 'Anycoin Direct'.
b) The website, https://anycoindirect.eu, is administered by Anycoin Direct on its own behalf and on behalf of its holding companies and subsidiaries (hereafter referred to as: 'Anycoin Direct Groep').
c) Access to the website is only given in accordance with the Terms and Conditions.
d) The Terms and Conditions apply to every offer Anycoin Direct and its current and future subsidiaries make, and to every distance agreement established between you and Anycoin Direct and its current and future subsidiaries.
e) Anycoin Direct offers you the opportunity to carefully read the Terms and Conditions before entering into an agreement. In addition, the text of these Terms and Conditions will be made available to you electronically in a format that allows it to be stored on a durable medium.
f) In the case that specific service conditions apply in addition to these Terms and Conditions, paragraph (d) and (e) of this article shall apply mutatis mutandis, and you may, if you are a consumer, invoke the applicability provision that is the most advantageous for you in the case of conflicting conditions.
Article 2 – Service provision
a) In order to make Anycoin Direct's service provision accessible to you, you must open an account with Anycoin Direct. Creating an account with Anycoin Direct is free of charge.
b) Anycoin Direct reserves the right to close business accounts if the number of orders and magnitude of the transactions are so limited that Anycoin Direct cannot be required to administer these accounts free of charge.
c) After you have created your personal or business account, Anycoin Direct offers you the following services:
d) The payment options available for the services listed under (c)(i) are iDEAL, SEPA, SOFORT, credit card, Giropay, Bancontact, EPS and MyBank.
Article 3 – Order process
a) To place an order, follow the instructions on the website. Anycoin Direct will reserve the cryptocurrency values ordered on your behalf at a public real-time auction (exchange). Upon placing the order, you will receive an offer from Anycoin Direct. Every offer contains a full and precise description of the service offered.
b) With the exception of that which is provided in Article 3 under (c), the offer has, in principle, a limited validity period of fifteen (15) minutes and is subject to certain conditions (see Article 4 Realisation of the agreement). The aforementioned conditions are explicitly stated in every offer.
c) Anycoin Direct's offer has a validity period of twenty (20) minutes if you want to sell Monero for a currency or another cryptocurrency, or if you want to conduct a SEPA transaction.
d) After confirmation of the offer, you will be redirected to the reservation page. As soon as the reservation page appears, your order must be completed within fifteen (15) minutes. After your order has been completed the transaction will take place.
e) If the period stated under (c) has passed before you complete your order, the session expires. The offer is then cancelled and, generally speaking, you must begin the order process again in order to receive a new offer. In such a case you are also requested to contact our customer support desk.
Article 4 – Realisation of the agreement
a) For service provision you must conclude an agreement with Anycoin Direct. For every new order you must conclude a new agreement with Anycoin Direct.
b) An agreement between you and Anycoin Direct is realised by an offer and acceptance subject to the provisions below. Creating an account with Anycoin Direct is required, see Article 8, but is not part of the offer and acceptance phase currently under discussion.
c) During the order process, your personal information and designated accounts, personal wallet and your link with Anycoin Direct are inspected by Anycoin Direct's security systems. It is important for Anycoin Direct that the agreement is entered into in a responsible way. Anycoin Direct is entitled to refuse an order based on the investigation carried out by our security systems, in which case no agreement will be realised. You will receive a notification of this.
d) If the security check approves the aforementioned information, then the offer has been accepted and an agreement between you and Anycoin Direct is realised.
Article 5 – Payment, shortcoming in the fulfilment, and default
a) By concluding the agreement you have incurred an obligation to proceed immediately to payment regardless of the payment method.
b) In principle, any shortcoming in the fulfilment of immediate payment results in default, without any prior formal notification. As from the calendar day that you are in default you owe Anycoin Direct loss due to delay.
Anycoin Direct does not charge any interest on the interest of the claim.
c) When a payment has not been made and your order has been refused on the grounds of Article 7.2 under (f), Anycoin Direct experiences this as consequential damage if the value of the cryptocurrency in question decreases. Anycoin Direct will also recover this damage from you.
d) Anycoin Direct does not offer any depositary services (see Article 7.3 paragraph (b)). You are not entitled to any increase in value if that increase takes place after the claim has become due and payable.
e) Anycoin Direct reserves the right to its entitlement to consequential damage or to charge the legal interest on the cryptocurrencies or currency still to be paid in accordance with the circumstances discussed in Article 5 and Article 7.2 under (f). In that respect, Anycoin Direct will take into consideration the value of the cryptocurrency at 12:00 +1 GMT on the day that:
Article 6 – Exclusion of right of recall
Anycoin Direct's services are excluded from the right of recall. Anycoin Direct states this clearly in the offer. Prices of services are subject to fluctuations on the exchanges which Anycoin Direct has no influence over. These fluctuations may be of such a magnitude that it cannot reasonably be expected that you can have your orders recalled within the statutory recall period.
Article 7.1.1 – General Customer Due Diligence
a) Anycoin Direct makes use of a customer acceptance procedure in order to prevent abuses, to enhance the reliability of cryptocurrency, and to counteract money-laundering practices and the financing of terrorism.
b) The customer acceptance procedure has an approach based on risk and may take different forms of investigation.
c) Anycoin Direct is not obligated to share the conclusions arising from the investigation results with you.
d) Limits have been set for orders. The limits have been determined by Anycoin Direct or by laws and regulations.
e) If you wish to increase your limits, Anycoin Direct will ask for more information.
Article 7.1.2 – Business accounts
a) When opening a business account, further information will be requested including personal information. When you have a business account you may place orders as soon as all the further requested personal information has been validated. The orders will be processed as soon as you have fulfilled all the requirements and/or regulations.
b) Anycoin Direct may ask additional questions in order to obtain the following information, amongst other things, but not limited to the following information:
Article 7.2 – Opening and managing an account
a) You are required to open an account with Anycoin Direct in order to make use of Anycoin Direct's services.
b) Anycoin Direct allows you to register either one personal or one business account per legal entity.
c) Anycoin Direct reserves the right to subject every account and order to examination and control in order to prevent to the best of its ability money-laundering and the financing of terrorism, without informing you (in advance) thereof.
d) Anycoin Direct reserves the right:
e) Anycoin Direct reserves the right to close an account when:
f) If your order is rejected due to your refusal to cooperate in an investigation or it becomes evident that you want to conduct transactions with the goal of buying illegal products, Anycoin Direct will withhold 10% of the credits.
g) Depending on legal regulations, Anycoin Direct will investigate whether it is required to whether it is obligated to freeze your assets.
Article 7.3 – Account use
a) Use of an account and services is personal and non-transferable. It is not permitted to share your account information with third parties or to allow third parties access to your account.
b) Cryptocurrencies may not be deposited in your Anycoin Direct account.
c) You send the cryptocurrencies you receive to your personal wallet. You have immediate access to the credits in your personal wallet.
d) Anycoin Direct does not retain any customer passwords. Should a customer forget or lose the account password, the customer has the sole responsibility for requesting a new password.
Article 8 – Risks and security measures
a) Anycoin Direct is expanding its activities within a sector where there are real risks of theft, attempted hacking and phishing for the purpose of misappropriating assets. The aforementioned attempts come under the term of 'fraud' in these Terms and Conditions.
b) You should take the necessary security measures, including those recommended by Anycoin Direct (see https://support.anycoindirect.eu/hc/en-gb/articles/360002544212), and including the 2FA, for the purpose of protecting your account against fraud. By not taking the necessary measures you are committing an act of negligence.
c) Neglecting to protect your own account against fraud falls completely within your sphere of risk and your responsibility.
Article 9 – Fraud and investigation
Should you be negatively affected by fraud and report the fraud to Anycoin Direct, upon your request Anycoin Direct will start a costly investigation. 90% of the found value in cryptocurrencies or currency will be transferred back into your bank account or personal wallet after confirmation of fraud.
Article 10 – Business and personal information and privacy legislation
a) In accordance with Article 37 of the General Data Protection Regulation, Anycoin Direct has appointed a Privacy Officer.
b) Upon first request and with due observance of the applicable privacy legislation, you are required to cooperate in providing Anycoin Direct with information about your identity, activities and objectives, and about the objectives and reasons you wish to make use of the services of Anycoin Direct or intend to make use of such services.
c) Upon request, you are required to share information with Anycoin Direct regarding:
d) Anycoin Direct reserves the right in its service provision to make use of third parties and to sub-contract work.
e) Anycoin Direct is entitled to exchange your (personal) information, and, if the account belongs to a legal entity, that of its representatives, as well as information regarding the services you have made use of, with the supervisory authority, the national authorities and within the Anycoin Direct group, with due observance of the applicable laws and regulations and the codes of conduct Anycoin Direct has committed itself to, and in order to prevent and combat money-laundering, the financing of terrorism and other forms of criminality.
f) Personal information may be subject to investigation by the authorised national authorities of the countries where customers have their domicile/place of residence.
g) Anycoin Direct may share the aforementioned information for commercial purposes only within the Anycoin Direct group.
h) The applicable Privacy Policy is strictly applicable to private customers and with respect to the services Anycoin Direct offers to private customers in complementarity to, and as described in, the Terms and Conditions, and must also be read and interpreted jointly in that light.
Article 11 Complaints
a) If you are not satisfied with Anycoin Direct's service provision, you may submit a complaint to Anycoin Direct.
b) Anycoin Direct will respond to your submitted complaint within two weeks maximum. This response will contain:
Article 12 Risks
a) Cryptocurrencies are an unregulated product. You therefore receive no financial protection.
b) Investing or trading in cryptocurrencies is new, high-risk and highly speculative; you could lose your entire investment.
c) There is an inherent risk that software, the software platform, systems, and APIs could contain weaknesses or vulnerabilities. Anycoin Direct does not offer any guarantee that the procedure for sending, receiving and ownership of cryptocurrencies will proceed without interruptions or errors.
d) There is an inherent risk that current or new legislation could negatively influence your legal position in relation to Anycoin Direct and third parties, including the Tax Authority and supervisory authorities.
e) There is an inherent risk that current and new legislation and licencing requirements could oblige Anycoin Direct to modify its system technology, or that the internet connections of Anycoin Direct or third parties fail, which could prevent Anycoin Direct from fulfilling its obligations arising from the agreement, and prevent any shortcoming in the fulfilment from being attributable to Anycoin Direct.
f) There is an inherent risk that the value of cryptocurrencies could decrease to such a degree that you lose your credits, cryptocurrencies or currencies in whole or in part.
g) There is an inherent risk that you could lose your credits, cryptocurrencies or currency due to internet criminality, blockchain attacks, theft, loss or physical attack.
h) On account of the aforementioned risks, there is a possibility that:
Anycoin Direct rules out any form of liability on these counts and regards such developments as force majeure (see Article 14).
Article 13 Disclaimer
a) Any modifications to Anycoin Direct's portfolio by adding or deleting cryptocurrencies cannot be considered or interpreted as an indication or advice.
b) Anycoin Direct does not offer any financial advice. The information provided by Anycoin Direct – personally or through social media – does not constitute advice and may not be interpreted as such.
c) Anycoin Direct is not an issuer, publisher or manufacturer of cryptocurrency and is not involved in how the prices of cryptocurrencies are determined.
d) Anycoin Direct is not responsible for the functioning and integrity of the cryptocurrencies.
e) Anycoin Direct uses current exchange rates and a variety of exchanges to calculate the price as it is published on Anycoin Direct's platform. The rates fluctuate, it is a volatile market, and past results offer no guarantee of future results.
Article 14 – Force Majeure
a) Anycoin Direct cannot be attributed with a shortcoming if there is a situation of force majeure. Should Anycoin Direct enter into a force majeure situation, no fulfilment or compensation can be demanded or expected.
b) Dissolution is legally justified should Anycoin Direct be in default for two calendar weeks without fulfilling its obligation.
c) In addition to the customary force majeure situations, the following situations are also considered force majeure:
d) In the case of force majeure, Anycoin Direct reserves the right:
e) If at the beginning of the force majeure situation Anycoin Direct's shortcoming is only partial or it can only partially fulfil the obligation, Anycoin Direct is entitled to compensation for the portion fulfilled or yet to be fulfilled.
Article 15 Liability
a) Anycoin Direct does not accept any liability whatsoever with respect to the accounts you have created with Anycoin Direct. You accept the liability and remain completely liable for the activities that take place in and by means of your account.
b) Anycoin Direct rejects any liability whatsoever for damages or losses arising from incorrect use of our services. You are required to familiarise yourself with Anycoin Direct's Terms and Conditions, FAQs, guides and privacy policy before making use of our services.
c) Each decision you take with the objective of buying or selling cryptocurrency is your own responsibility. Anycoin Direct is not liable for any damages suffered or loss incurred from the intended purchase, sale or trade.
d) It is not possible to send ICO tokens to your personal account at Anycoin Direct. Should you do so you must then regard these ICO tokens as lost. You are not entitled to ICO tokens that have been sent to Anycoin Direct's wallet at your request. Developing a method of safeguarding these ICO tokens is costly. Additionally, the integrity and security of Anycoin Direct's services would be put at risk.
e) Anycoin Direct is not obliged to support cryptocurrencies as a result of a hard fork. You are not in any way whatsoever entitled to fork coins.
f) The Platform is made available on an 'as-is' basis.
g) All information and prices published on the website and on social media may contain typographical errors. Anycoin Direct does not accept any liability for the consequences of mistakes.
h) No rights may be derived from the use, availability and accessibility of the APIs.
Article 16 – Prices
a) The base price consists of the purchase price, a volatility risk supplement, and an Anycoin Direct service supplement (see Appendix 1).
b) All prices are given in euros or in the unit of cryptocurrency.
Article 17 – Promotions and affiliate programme
For specific components, including components of the marketing programme, additional rules, requirements and/or conditions apply. These may be found at:
Article 18 – Applicable law
Dutch law is applicable to the relationship between Anycoin Direct and the customer, unless compulsory law determines otherwise or it has expressly been agreed otherwise.
Article 19 – Amendments and additions
a) Amendments and additions to these Terms and Conditions come into force following publication.
b) Anycoin Direct is entitled to revise, modify or adjust the Terms and Conditions from time to time. In that respect, Anycoin Direct is also entitled to add or remove information without prior notification. Anycoin Direct advises you to regularly consult the Terms and Conditions and all other published documentation. The applicable Terms and Conditions come into force at the time they are published.
c) If one or more clauses in these Terms and Conditions is declared invalid, only those clauses are annulled without prejudice to the remaining clauses in these Terms and Conditions.
d) Anycoin Direct develops its activities within a modern sector with new possibilities and situations. For these reasons, situations may arise which have not been anticipated by these Terms and Conditions. In such cases, Anycoin Direct will decide what solution is reasonable and realisable, as well as fair to both parties.
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- Jay Parini: Campuses are placing problematic restrictions on evangelical groups
- He notes that at Bowdoin College, officials want to impose their vision on groups' leadership
- He says he is a liberal Christian who opposes discrimination, but this is not sensible
- Parini: If groups don't impose their views or discriminate, keep thought police out of it
There has always been a fine line between freedom of speech and the right to practice one's religion in the way one sees fit. The Founding Fathers struggled over these rights in framing the First Amendment, with Thomas Jefferson calling for "a wall of separation" between church and state -- a wall that has become mighty thin in recent years.
But now, the freedom to practice religion on campuses around the country, including at Bowdoin -- an elite liberal arts college in Maine -- has crashed into anti-discrimination policies, which also have a long and complicated history in this country.
The gist of the story is this: The Bowdoin Christian Fellowship, a conservative religious group that has lived quietly on campus for four decades, is being kicked off the official roster of college-backed groups. Their keys to college buildings have already been confiscated, and the administration won't recognize them any longer. The problem is that this group, like many groups of its ilk, insist their leaders must adhere to its version of Christian doctrine.
This problem is widespread now, playing out across the country, as at Cal State and Vanderbilt, where Christian groups, including, earlier, a Roman Catholic organization at Vanderbilt, have been forced off-campus because they refuse to allow their leadership to be drawn from people who don't adhere to their essential tenets. Let me put this plainly: Houston, we have a problem!
I've been a college professor for nearly four decades, and I've seen problems with the so-called thought police come and go over the years. At the height of the problem in the mid-'80 and '90s, it was imagined by many -- especially those on the right -- that universities had become politically correct to the point where any kind of conservative thought was forbidden.
Certainly these were vital years for the advancement of feminist thought in particular, and for the acceptance of gays as full citizens within the academy (full acceptance by the society at large is only now taking hold). For the most part, I always thought the idea of a liberal thought police was nonsense.
I'm a progressive Christian, and I don't support any kind of discrimination. Jesus himself certainly demonstrated that one should seek to bring those at the margins of society into the fold.
I'm quite appalled by what is going on at Bowdoin, Cal State, Vanderbilt and elsewhere.
Doesn't common sense suggest that you should not be the leader of a Christian organization if you don't adhere to Christian tenets? Would a university or college really tell the Islamic Society on campus that they can't elect only Muslims to leadership positions? My gut tells me that it's only sensible to allow religion organizations to elect leaders who adhere to the teachings of the religion that serves as the organizing principle for that group.
There is, indeed, a bias against conservative Christians on campuses. And there are some reasons for this, as certain strains of conservative religious practice have been fiercely discriminatory over the past couple of centuries in the United States. There has also been an unfortunate anti-intellectual strain in the more fundamentalist groups of Christians, one that pervades American society as a whole, and creates problems for the practice of science, for instance, when it comes to subjects such as evolution and climate change.
It's no wonder that academic communities tend to resist groups that abhor rational thought.
But there is no basic conflict between -- again, for instance -- science and religion, between having a profound spiritual practice and wishing to uphold the highest standards within the academy when it comes to nondiscrimination. Tolerance, in fact, may well be one of the benefits that comes from having both an intellectual and a spiritual life. This means allowing for certain differences of opinion, letting a thousand flowers bloom.
For the most part, conservative groups on campuses simply wish to study the Bible together, pray and worship in ways that deepen their own sense of Godliness. These groups welcome nonbelievers.
They might even let someone like myself -- a Christian of a different stripe -- sit down and discuss their views. A campus is, or ought to be, a space where contradictory ideas are allowed to flourish, where genuine and deeply respectful debate can occur.
I would urge colleges and universities to give these kids their keys back. Let them elect officers in their organization who actually adhere to the ideas promoted by the group. That's the essence of democracy.
As long as these groups don't practice hatred or discrimination, or try to impose their views on others, let them be.
Our intellectual communities flourish when there are all kinds of ideas circulating, even ones we find curious or objectionable.


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