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If you're tired of reading about how sweet my seven year old is, feel free to click the "x" in the top right-hand corner. But, I just had to record this day with him.
I was completely exhausted yesterday due to one little Jett Takle preparing for the 2028 Winter Olympics inside my belly the night before. But, I wasn't going to dare miss out on watching John Henry receive his Servant Leadership Award yesterday afternoon at school.
When I told him he was going to be receiving this award, he responded, "Wow! That's the award for putting others first!"
By the way, Anna's expression in the background of the pic just makes me laugh. Sweet Anna Takle, you would definitely get the award for "Most Artistic in Fashion" or "Most Social" or "Most Likely To Make Her Mother Laugh."
Proud, but still so stinkin' tired when we got home, John Henry gave me a letter.
Dear Mom I hope you are ok. You are the best mom ever. I can not beleve your my mom. I am going to let you chose what you want to eat if we go out to a restront. If Dad is flying I will pertect (protect) you. I am glad you are my mom. You chose the right man. You chose Chris. From John Henry
*Disclaimer: He is referring to Kris….not some other Chris. Thought I should clarify before this blog lost its family rating.
What is in a seven year old to acknowledge that I chose Kris? To say, "You chose the right man?"
At the beginning of the school year, John Henry needed some answers about why he has two dads. I explained the best I could so he would understand. In the back of my mind, I've always wondered if he would one day struggle with the fact that he has two dads and his siblings have one.
But, in letters like this, I see a young man who is thankful that Kris is in his life. I see two dads who love him so sweetly. And, I see a Heavenly Father who has never let him down.
And, that is redemption.


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Dear programmers
While navigating in the internet I have seen the following Question:
class C{
public static void main(String a[]){
C c1=new C();
C c2=m1(c1);
C c3=new C();
c2=c3; //6
static C m1(C ob1){
ob1 =new C();
return ob1;
After line 6, how many objects are eligible for garbage collection?
Answer: 2
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I seems to me that the answer should be 1
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The Voting Rights Act, which passed in 1965, stands as one of the great monuments to civil rights in American history. The Fifteenth Amendment, ratified in 1870, purported to give Americans the right to vote regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude," but it was not until a century later, with the passage of the act, that the right was enforced, and Southern blacks were finally free to cast a ballot. Over the years, an ideologically diverse group of Supreme Court Justices has reviewed and approved the constitutionality of the act many times. But, in a case to be argued before the Court this spring, the current conservative majority has a chance to undo this signal achievement of American democracy.
Section 5 of the act, which is at issue in Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1 v. Holder, is what gave the legislation teeth. That provision singles out by name those states and counties with especially notorious histories of discriminating against African-Americans, through such mechanisms as literacy tests, character tests, and poll taxes. The law not only eradicated these obstacles; it went a crucial step further. It decreed that if the "covered jurisdictions" wanted to change their voting procedures in any way—from redrawing district lines in the state legislature to moving the location of a solitary polling place—they first had to obtain permission from the Justice Department. (Congress reauthorized the Voting Rights Act in 1970, 1975, 1982, and 2006, and in the process expanded its coverage to include several Western states with histories of discriminating against Hispanic and Native American voters.) The process of review by the Justice Department, which is known as "preclearance," has been remarkably effective.
And that is the point of the lawsuit. Some of the jurisdictions covered by Section 5 now want to be released from this form of federal receivership. As the lower court in the case put it, the plaintiffs argue that the preclearance provision should be found unconstitutional "because Congress 'irrationally and incongruously' chose to continue imposing 'disproportionate' burdens and a 'badge of shame' on covered jurisdictions on the basis of an 'ancient formula' and 'conditions that existed thirty or more years ago but have long since been remedied.' " What is the proof? The plaintiffs stated it in the first line of their brief: "The America that has elected Barack Obama as its first African-American president is far different than when Section Five was first enacted in 1965."
To paraphrase the President: Yes it is. The formula for determining which jurisdictions are covered is largely based on election results from 1964, a time that is nearly a half century, and a world, away from our own. Almost all of Virginia and much of North Carolina are covered jurisdictions under Section 5, and Obama won both states. Moreover, the Justice Department has for some time been approving ninety-nine per cent of the electoral changes submitted by covered jurisdictions. As Representative Lynn Westmoreland, a Georgia Republican, put it in arguing against the most recent reauthorization of the law, "Congress is declaring from on high that states with voting problems forty years ago can simply never be forgiven—that Georgians must eternally wear the scarlet letter because of the actions of their grandparents and great-grandparents. We have repented and we have reformed, and now, as Fannie Lou Hamer famously said, 'I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.' " There is something unseemly, to say the least, about conservatives who have opposed the Voting Rights Act now toasting its success, particularly as that success is incomplete.
Barack Obama won the Presidency, but voting patterns in the Deep South suggest that race remains a major factor in American political life. As part of a brief in the Northwest Austin case, Professor Nathaniel Persily, of Columbia Law School, shows how poorly Obama did with white Democrats in those states. According to Persily's analysis of the 2008 returns, Obama received forty-seven per cent of the white vote in states that are not covered under Section 5 but won only twenty-six per cent of the white vote in covered states. "Barack Obama actually did worse among whites than John Kerry in several of the covered jurisdictions, despite the nationwide Democratic swing," Persily writes. Race seems like the best explanation for this difference. The fact that other African-American candidates have failed so often and for so long with white voters in the South indicates that no one should be in a hurry to declare the United States a "post-racial" society.
What recent electoral history shows is that voting requires broader, not narrower, protection. In many parts of the country, the voting rights of poor and minority citizens are treated with not so benign neglect. In the 2000 election, African-American voters in Florida suffered disproportionately from that state's shoddy practices, such as inadequately maintained registration lists and inferior technology; in 2004, many minority voters in Ohio endured long lines waiting for balky, and too few, voting machines. Across the nation, laws that remove the franchise from those with criminal convictions hit minorities especially hard. More directly, the Republican Party has made an institutional commitment to eradicate the nonexistent problem of voter fraud by imposing identification requirements that are obviously aimed at limiting the numbers of voters from demographic groups that favor Democrats. But neither Florida nor Ohio is a covered jurisdiction under Section 5, and the act is not written to address new techniques of suppression. Three years ago, Congress ducked the problem by simply reauthorizing the old law and giving it a fatuous new name, the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006. For the legislators, this was heroism by association, not heroism in fact.
Viewing Obama's election as an opportunity to tidy up the nation's historical accounts is tempting but ultimately wrong. Yet even if the Court's conservatives succeed in taking out Section 5 they cannot reverse the course of a changed and changing nation. In the Court's great affirmative-action case of 2003, in which it upheld racial preference in admissions at the University of Michigan Law School, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's opinion suggested that by 2028 such measures should no longer be necessary. The Voting Rights Act expires in 2031. Thanks in part to the election of Barack Obama, it is now plausible to believe that the day will come when the act, too, will no longer be necessary. ♦


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SPIRITUAL LIFE: A single word can be a heartfelt gift
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'Gray hair is a crown of splendor; it is attained in the way of righteousness" (Proverbs 16:31). To a youth-obsessed culture, this scripture extols aging and a life well lived as badges of honor.
Yet many approach a major birthday – 50, 60, 70 and beyond – with mixed emotions. One side of the scale holds blessings and achievements. But often human nature tips toward the negative side on which sits doubts, decline and the invisibility associated with aging. At a milestone birthday, a good word is in order.
Recently my husband reached 60 years young. Never one for a big "to-do," David preferred to spend it with family and a few dear friends.
"Absolutely no gifts," he insisted.
That didn't sit well with those who did not want to come empty-handed. My husband is difficult to buy for because there are so few things he wants.
One friend proposed: "How about over-the-hill gag gifts?"
I thought, ''oh, no.'' Better to suggest an option than risk getting a T-shirt that reads, "In Dog Years I'm Dead." But what could be given instead? It came to me.
A word.
I e-mailed, "Think of a word that, to you, describes David. At cake time, we'll each share our word and why we chose it."
It felt risky to make this request. Some guests would be meeting others for the first time.
Perhaps some might feel discomfort at having to share. Still, a meaningful word was way better than a getting a bunch of "toothless geezer" gift mugs.
That night after dinner, the time came to have a few words with the guest of honor. David felt ambushed, "No sharing, please!"
There was a collective self-conscious pause but I launched the ritual anyway by sharing a comical e-mail from my brother whose word was "considerate." I held my breath hoping for others to jump in. I half expected them to rush through their thoughts quickly, as in, "My word is 'funny' because you have a great sense of humor. Next!"
But each word was given as a heartfelt gift. It became a novel springboard into fond memories. For example, "Scrabble" summarized the first time one friend witnessed David's competitive side. "Clams" recalled a summer afternoon of digging for our dinners in the ankle deep, warm waters of Bourne Pond on Cape Cod. Words, such as "generous," "determined," "methodical" and "grandpa," strung together like priceless pearls offered in birthday tribute.
"Bonding" was the surprise result from the experience. Afterwards, my son-in-law remarked how each word chosen also revealed something positive or vulnerable about the giver of that word. Thus, he felt drawn closer to that person.
Upon reflection, it's easier to ascribe a good adjective to someone else than to oneself in the face of inner criticism. Often we feel our own special traits are not obvious to others – the "adventurer" hidden within the accountant, or the "standup comic" longing to shine inside a soccer mom. When someone else makes that declaration for us, it's a boost to our belief system. Days after his birthday party, David was especially touched by the word "fun." Why? Someone much younger expressed it. David said, "I guess you don't expect a young person to think of someone my age as fun."
Gray hair may be a crown of splendor, but negative assumptions are a reality. A carefully chosen word offered from the heart has the power of affirmation. Mark Twain once said, "I can live for two months on a good compliment."
I've become mindful of giving specific praise more often, not just at milestone events. Philippians 4:8 reads: "Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things." (And correspondingly, say them out loud.)
Though resistant at first, David continues to inhale the fragrance of our word bouquet, long after his party. Think of someone you love, pluck a word of beauty and offer your flower today.


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Guggenheim, Peggy
Guggenheim, Peggy (Marguerite Guggenheim), 1898–1979, American modern art patron and collector, b. New York City. The daughter of Benjamin, niece of Solomon, and grand-daughter of Meyer Guggenheim, she grew up in luxury, inherited a fortune, and became a friend, patron, and sometime lover to a number of avant-garde artists and writers. She moved to Paris (1930) and then to London, where she opened (1938) Guggenheim Jeune, a gallery showing mainly abstract and surrealist art, e.g., works by Brancusi, Kandinsky, Magritte, and Max Ernst, whom she married (and divorced). World War II impelled her return (1941) to New York, where she opened (1942) Art of This Century, one of the earliest and most important venues for abstract expressionism, a movement whose artists she actively supported. Guggenheim amassed a superb collection of modern art, which was installed in her Venice palazzo when she moved there in 1946. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is now administered by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
See her memoirs (1946 and 1960, combined and upd. 1980); biographies by J. B. Weld (1986) and A. Gill (2002); L. Flint, Handbook: The Peggy Guggenheim Collection (1983), L. Tacou-Rumney, Peggy Guggenheim: A Collector's Album (1996).
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I can only imagine how much of your free time this project took up but was curious if it will be developed any further.
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A blow-by-blow account of negotiations leading up to Google's acquisition of Motorola indicates that the deal may have been one of necessity rather than opportunity for Google.
In a proxy statement filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Motorola said that it was considering settling some or all of the patent infringement lawsuits against it at the time it began negotiations with Google. Both Apple and Microsoft are suing Motorola for alleged infringement in its Android-based products.
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If Motorola had settled those suits, the outcome might have been damaging for Android, patent expert Florian Mueller wrote in a blog post on Wednesday. "The fallout for Android would have been nothing short of catastrophic," he wrote. Motorola's "likely capitulation would have been a disastrous signal and resulted in pretty much every other Android device maker's surrender on the patent front. It would have made it clear to everyone that Android infringes patents held by Microsoft" and Apple.
Apple is also suing HTC and Samsung for alleged patent infringement in their Android products. Unlike most operating system developers, Google does not agree to protect Android licensees in the event of a patent lawsuit. That has left many of the largest Android manufacturers exposed to legal attacks from competitors.
If those licensees have to pay other companies including Apple and Microsoft to use Android, the economics of Android changes dramatically. It's currently free to license Android, while other mobile operating systems, like Microsoft's Windows Phone, come with a licensing fee. That has helped spur the dramatic growth of Android over the past couple of years.
Even after Google proposed acquiring Motorola, the handset maker was still considering whether settling the lawsuits might be a better option. On Aug. 2, Motorola's board deferred a response to a Google offer because it was still evaluating the proposal "as well as other strategic alternatives that could hypothetically be pursued by Motorola Mobility, including the prospect of settling some or all of the intellectual property litigation," according to the proxy statement.
The companies may have also discussed the possibility of Google buying only Motorola's patents, rather than the whole company. That prospect might have been a better option for Google, which has risked alienating other Android licensees with the acquisition of Motorola's competitive handset business. But Motorola made it clear that selling only its licenses would leave the remaining handset business too exposed. Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha told Nikesh Arora, senior vice president and chief business officer at Google, "that it could be problematic for Motorola Mobility to continue as a stand-alone entity if it sold a large portion of its patent portfolio," according to the statement.
The prospect of Motorola settling the lawsuits may have contributed to Google's decision to continue to increase the offered purchase price. Google's initial offer was $30 per share and the companies ultimately agreed to $40 per share.
The proxy also indicates that the companies felt an urgency to complete the deal. Early on in the discussions, Google executives conveyed to Jha "the importance of acting with speed and confidentiality," according to the statement. Talks between the companies began in mid-July and they announced the deal a month later, on Aug. 15.
Nancy Gohring covers mobile phones and cloud computing for The IDG News Service. Follow Nancy on Twitter at @idgnancy. Nancy's e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com


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Yahoo Names PayPal Executive New CEO
(REUTERS) -- Yahoo Inc. said on Wednesday it has appointed Scott Thompson as its chief executive, effective from January 9, replacing interim CEO Tim Morse who will resume his role as chief financial officer.
Thompson, who was previously president of PayPal, a unit of eBay Inc, will also join Yahoo's board.
Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock said Thompson's primary focus will be on the core business as the company continues its strategic review process. Yahoo has been in discussions about selling off its Asian assets for some weeks.
Yahoo will hold a conference call at 10 am EST (1500 GMT) for investors to discuss the news.
(Reporting By Yinka Adegoke; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick)
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Report CES 2010 - Samsung Electronics announced the launch of the Samsung NX11 - the latest addition to the highly successful NX family of digital cameras. The new Samsung NX11 digital camera contains a feature set similar to Samsungs first mirrorless interchangeable lens camera, the NX10, however the Samsung NX11 is also compatible with the new i-Function lens that was introduced for the Samsung NX100. The Samsung NX11 camera will come complete with an 18-55mm i-Function lens, as well as two new i-Function lenses, a 20mm pancake and a 20-50mm zoom silver color lens. The launch of this new Samsung camera reinforces the companys commitment to leading innovation in the compact system camera market.
Samsung NX11
The i-Function lens puts the perfect picture at the fingertips of all photographers by providing an exceptionally easy way of controlling the Samsung camera. Since a typical camera user wraps their hand around the lens when holding the camera, the new i-Function system allows photographers to naturally use their left hand to change the cameras advanced settings via a button built into the i-Function lens, without needing to take the digital camera off the target. Users can toggle between shutter speed, aperture, EV, WB, and ISO quickly and easily by simply using the i-Function button or ring on the lens, meaning easier and quicker configurations while shooting.
Samsung NX11 features
The new Samsung NX11 digital camera also focuses on usability, with a change in the grip design to make shooting easier and more comfortable for users. Additionally, the Samsung NX11 camera has a lens priority mode dial, simplifying the search for the best mode for each lens. The new Samsung camera also includes a convenient, one-touch i-Function button that activates common shooting controls like aperture, shutter speed, ISO and white balance, meaning easier and quicker configuration while shooting. The Samsung NX11 camera makes taking great landscape scenes or pictures of large groups simple by featuring a panorama mode, which allows the user to take panoramic pictures in one press-and-sweep motion. As with the NX10, the Samsung NX11 uses the best-in-class APS-C sensor for better image quality. The APS-C sensor is larger than Micro 4/3 and delivers high quality photos with ease.
Samsung NX11 digital camera
Todays launch is important for Samsung in reinforcing our position as a leading innovator in the digital camera market and for showing our innovation in the compact system camera market, said Mr. Hyunho Chung, Executive Vice President and Head of the Digital Imaging Business, Samsung Electronics. The Samsung NX11, while offering the best features of the Samsung NX10, has an upgraded design and the additional i-Function capability with more lenses. The launch of our next offering in the NX range also demonstrates our commitment to our customers, by producing user driven innovation in the form of easy-to-use functions and upgraded customization.
Samsung NX11 with AMOLED LCD screen
Alongside the built-in flash and built-in electronic VGA (640x480) viewfinder, the new Samsung NX11 has a 3.0 AMOLED LCD screen. The AMOLED screen reduces the glare from sunlight so that consumers can see their pictures under any lighting conditions. The user can also get a more vivid, clearer image through enhanced color reproduction. The Samsung NX11 camera provides high quality video with 720p HD recording, and its large APS-C sensor allows the videos to be recorded with shallow depth of field, providing effects similar to those in motion picture movies.


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use IO::Async::Timer::Periodic;
use IO::Async::Loop;
my $loop = IO::Async::Loop->new;
my $timer = IO::Async::Timer::Periodic->new(
interval => 60,
on_tick => sub {
print "You've had a minute\n";
$loop->add( $timer );
DESCRIPTIONThis subclass of IO::Async::Timer implements repeating events at regular clock intervals. The timing may or may not be subject to how long it takes the callback to execute. Iterations may be rescheduled runs at fixed regular intervals beginning at the time the timer was started, or by a fixed delay after the previous code has finished executing.
For a "Timer" object that only runs a callback once, after a given delay, see instead IO::Async::Timer::Countdown. A Countdown timer can also be used to create repeating events that fire at a fixed delay after the previous event has finished processing. See als the examples in "IO::Async::Timer::Countdown".
EVENTSThe following events are invoked, either using subclass methods or CODE references in parameters:
on_tickInvoked on each interval of the timer.
PARAMETERSThe following named parameters may be passed to "new" or "configure":
on_tick => CODECODE reference for the "on_tick" event.
interval => NUMThe interval in seconds between invocations of the callback or method. Cannot be changed if the timer is running.
first_interval => NUMOptional. If defined, the interval in seconds after calling the "start" method before the first invocation of the callback or method. Thereafter, the regular "interval" will be used. If not supplied, the first interval will be the same as the others.
Even if this value is zero, the first invocation will be made asynchronously, by the containing "Loop" object, and not synchronously by the "start" method itself.
reschedule => STRINGOptional. Must be one of "hard", "skip" or "drift". Defines the algorithm used to reschedule the next invocation.
"hard" schedules each iteration at the fixed interval from the previous iteration's schedule time, ensuring a regular repeating event.
"skip" schedules similarly to "hard", but skips over times that have already passed. This matters if the duration is particularly short and there's a possibility that times may be missed, or if the entire process is stopped and resumed by "SIGSTOP" or similar.
"drift" schedules each iteration at the fixed interval from the time that the previous iteration's event handler returns. This allows it to slowly drift over time and become desynchronised with other events of the same interval or multiples/fractions of it.
Once constructed, the timer object will need to be added to the "Loop" before it will work. It will also need to be started by the "start" method.
AUTHORPaul Evans <[email protected]>


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Strandkorbe VII
"Beach Castle" is based on the graphic elements of different events found along the beaches of Northern Europe (mostly Germany and some places in France).
In my work, I like to create some new vision of something we feel we know yet didn't examine closely in our daily life.
The Beach in Northern Europe is full of these kinds of graphic elements - fan-faire, fun, carousels, and iconic cabins called "StrandKorbe" in Germany. All of these come together for the perfect day at the beach.
These things become background elements that people no longer pay attention to. But they are beautiful and graphic, and it's the natural beauty of these elements that I showcase in my photography.
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Leo Caillard represents the new generation of emerging artists with his singular vision. Overlapping photography, technology, and imagination, his meticulously crafted images combine a delicate intertwining of the new and the historic. Collard invites us to rediscover & question our social environment with a lightness of touch, humor & sensitivity.
His "In Museum" series was widely viewed online & subsequently, since 2012, it has been featured in many international art fairs. The body of work reassigns the classical figures of the Louvre's extensive sculpture collection in today's contemporary attire.
This series follows the theme of Caillard… "Surprise": The viewer is drawn to the familiar within the image, but closer inspection reveals many layers of incongruous information. This collision of elements forces the observer to question his assumptions & question the roles of the subjects presented.
In 2015, Caillard has truly opened the door to the photographic art of the twenty first century.


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Replacing a failed garbage disposer can seem daunting. There's the usual trepidation about electricity and water, the unfamiliar sink connection and enough drain fittings to make leaks a real possibility. Then there are the hassles of comparison shopping and the suspicion that the job could run into real money. And finally, failed disposers don't often leak, at least not in the beginning, so it's easy to put things off.
If this sounds familiar, you'll be happy to know that replacing a disposer is really fairly simple. With today's plastic waste kits, leaks are seldom a problem and the electrical connections are similarly quick and easy. Finally, retail outlets sell good disposers for every household budget. Before you buy, though, it pays to check out your old unit to make sure it's not simply jammed.
The list of things a food disposer can consume is fairly short. Soft or crisp foods are fine, but hard or stringy foods can be trouble. Disposers can be stopped in their tracks by celery, eggshells and apple seeds, as well as the usual kitchen flotsam, including pop-tabs, scouring pads and twist-ties.
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Jamming is so common that every disposer comes with a wrench and an on-board circuit breaker, so don't assume your disposer has failed simply because it stops working. Use a flashlight to check for foreign objects lodged in the perimeter openings of the drum. Remove any obstruction with needle-nose pliers.
If you see nothing obvious, insert the wrench into the motor spline, found at the bottom of the unit, and twist right and left. If the motor spins freely, check that the circuit breaker hasn't tripped and then try the reset button. If these measures don't work, and your disposer's warranty has expired, it's time to replace it.
Shopping For Disposals
Disposers range between $45 and $250, and most hold up fairly well under normal use. It's common for a $50, 1/3-hp disposer with a 1-year warranty to last 10 to 12 years. So what does more money buy? Increased longevity, longer warranties, more power and less aggravation. The better units have stainless steel components, auto-reversing starts and bigger motors. Units that reverse direction with each start greatly reduce stoppages, while larger motors can chew through larger and more varied food loads.
We chose an In-Sink-Erator Pro SS (In-Sink-Erator, Division of Emerson Electric Co., 4700 21st St., Racine, WI 53406; www.insinkerator.com). The Pro SS has a stainless steel grinding chamber, a reversing 3/4-hp motor and a 5-year warranty. It sells for around $225.
Step 1: Turn Off Electricity
Begin by shutting off electricity to the unit at the service panel. Remove the cover from the base of the disposer, loosen the ground screw and remove both wire connectors
Step 2: Loosen the Bolts
Next, loosen the hose clamp on the dishwasher discharge hose and pull the hose from its fitting. To undo the drain crosspiece, loosen the bolts that bind the drain flange to the disposer.
Step 3: Remove the Old Unit
Disposers fasten to the sink drain fittings in a number of ways--some use threaded plastic nuts, others large hose clamps--but the mounting-ring assembly shown here is the most common. To remove the disposer, support it from below and rotate the large, 3-tab mounting ring at the top counterclockwise until the unit falls away. Remove the remainder of the drain assembly by loosening the three bolts and prying off the retaining ring. Push the drain out through the sink hole and clear away any old caulk or putty.
Step 4: Apply Putty
To install the new drain assembly, first roll a mound of plumbers putty on the counter until you have a 1/2-in.-thick, 10-in.-long piece. Stick this putty around the underside of the drain and press the drain firmly into the sink hole.
Step 5: Finish the Drain
To finish the drain assembly, slide the cardboard washer and backup ring onto the drain spud.
Step 6: Snap the Ring
Follow with the mounting flange and retaining ring. Snap the retaining ring onto the drain spud.
Step 7: Tighten
Tighten the bolts with a slotted screwdriver until most of the putty squeezes out and the drain feels snug in the sink.
Step 8: Wire It Up
It's usually easier to wire the new disposer before you install it. If the old installation was made without flexible conduit, now is the time to upgrade.
Begin by threading the old box connector into the base of the new disposer.
Step 9: Finish It Up
Bring the circuit wires and conduit into the connector and secure the conduit. Join the black circuit wire and black lead in one wire connector, and the white circuit wire and white lead in another. Bind the circuit ground wire under the green ground screw and replace the cover.
Step 10: Installing the New Unit
New disposers come with a dishwasher discharge nipple in place, but the nipple comes plugged in case you don't have a dishwasher. If you intend to use the dishwasher fitting, poke the plug out with a screwdriver and reach into the disposer to retrieve it.
Step 11: Installing the New Unit
Lift the disposer up to the sink drain and engage the tabs of the mounting ring. When you have the ring started, slip a screwdriver into one of the tab slots and rotate the ring clockwise until it bottoms out.
Step 12: Installing the New Unit
To plumb the disposer's drain outlet, fit the rubber washer over the flanged end of the plastic crosspiece, then slide the metal flange on from the other end. Tip the bottom of the metal flange into its slot in the disposer and tighten the fastening bolt through the top of the flange.
Step 13: Installing the New Unit
Trim the crosspiece to length, connect it to the drain tee and install the P trap.


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Woman charged with DWI for 3rd time this year
Police say woman claimed someone else was driving car
Police said a woman arrested this week is facing a DWI charge for the third time this year.
Allison St. Jean, 25, of Stratham, was arrested Tuesday evening. Police said she hit two parked cars and then took off. Witnesses followed St. Jean as she drove off, helping police make the arrest, officials said.
Portsmouth police said they were called to Cabot Street and found two damaged cars and several witnesses who described a suspect and vehicle.
Investigators said they were able to follow car parts further down the road and eventually locate St. Jean.
"And a couple of the witnesses were actually chasing the car on foot throughout the neighborhood," said Sgt. Aaron Goodwin.
Police said it didn't take long for an officer to find St. Jean's vehicle a couple of blocks away.
"There were some pieces of the car that the officer was able to follow through a couple of streets, the bumper and some other pieces that helped aid him in finding the vehicle," Goodwin said.
According to court paperwork, St. Jean first told the patrol officer, "It wasn't me," and tried saying somebody else was driving her car but had run off.
Police said she might have said that because she wasn't supposed to be behind the wheel in the first place.
"She's previously been convicted out of the Portsmouth District Court, and she has two pending charges for DWI," Goodwin said.
According to court records, St. Jean was convicted of DWI in August. She was charged with DWI in January and March. Both of those cases are pending. Police said St. Jean doesn't have a license.
According to court documents, an officer saw an open can of beer sitting in the front passenger seat of St. Jean's car.
A judge ordered St. Jean held on $100,00 cash bail.
The latest DWI charge is considered a second offense because she only has one conviction.


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Get organized for busy school schedules
With a new school year in full swing for some and looming for other families, getting things done will be the major goal — whether it's getting out the door on time in the morning or making sure homework is finished before bedtime.
Experts say being organized can help students and their families reach the finish line.
Organization is a "system that allows everybody to get the things they want to get done, done without causing conflict," says Kathy Sweedler, consumer and family economics educator with the University of Illinois Extension, Champaign.
In other words, it's dealing with the clutter in life and in the home.
"Day-to-day lives tend to get very busy. People may be going in different directions, trying to get different things done. That's a kind of clutter in a sense that's different than just the stuff that piles up on our kitchen table," Sweedler says.
When thinking about getting organized, people should address the real problems, Sweedler says. For example, if it's a problem to get everybody out the door on time in the morning, she suggests family members brainstorm solutions considering all the tasks that need to be done, alternatives and delegating responsibility.
If families have good organizational systems in place, they will have time to enjoy life, says Stephanie Calahan, founder of Calahan Solutions Inc., a professional organizing business in Bloomington, Ill.
Calahan, Sweedler and area moms give tips on how to ensure everything families need to accomplish gets done on time.
Eliminate morning rush
DESIGNATE A LOCATION FOR SCHOOL ITEMS: Backpacks, shoes and other items everyone needs each day should be stored near the door the family exits daily.
"Some people think that that is really silly like, 'Gosh. I'd know where my book bag is,'" Calahan says. "But it is extremely interesting the number of families that scramble in the morning because they don't remember where their shoes are, where the book bags are, where the library books are."
In Kathy Cox's home in Sherman, Ill., under a large white, magnetic board where schedules, information about special events and reminders of appointments are attached, is a long hanger with six hooks where her three children may hang coats and book bags.
If Cox's children (15-year-old sophomores Nathan and Zachary, and 13-year-old eighth-grader Nick), need a check for lunch money or need to return permission slips or required forms, she attaches the items to their book bags with clothespins.
HAVE KIDS EMPTY THEIR BACKPACKS WHEN THEY GET HOME EVERY DAY. Have kids separate materials in categories using a plastic vertical file that hangs on a wall next to the backpacks, Calahan says. Categories could include items that need attention "as soon as possible" (things that need signing or paying, for example).
How people designate where information will be put in the home depends on their styles, Sweedler says. Some people use the front of refrigerators as their designated locations; others use folders in their kitchens.
Because Kathy Cox's 15-year-old twins are high schoolers, they keep track of their projects and homework due dates. Cox checks her 13-year-old son's school website for homework assignments and tests that teachers post.
"This is a great help if I print this out and ask him daily how prepared he is for the upcoming test or if his homework is complete," Cox says.
HAVE KIDS DO HOMEWORK AS SOON AS THEY GET HOME. Putting finished homework immediately back into backpacks ensures that it makes it back to school, Calahan says.
"By having that designated time, everybody's accountable to make sure that it gets done, and we're not scrambling or frustrated at bedtime when the kid says, 'Oh, yeah. I have a report due tomorrow.' "
MAKE SACK LUNCHES THE NIGHT BEFORE. Children as young as kindergarten-age can make their own lunches, if the right supplies are available.
When Calahan's 9-year-old son was younger, he assembled the majority of his lunch thanks to a cabinet that contained only his lunch items. He got help with making his sandwich.
"The more that you can empower your kids to take benefit of those things, the smoother your house is going to flow as well," Calahan says.
TEACH KIDS TO CHECK THE NEXT DAY'S WEATHER FORECAST. That will help them pick out appropriate clothing to set out the night before, Calahan says.
Eliminate chaos at home
HAVE A CHORE LIST. Adults and children benefit from to-do lists because they give them a sense of accomplishment when things are completed. Plus, they don't have to rely on memory, Calahan says.
"For some kids, it's maybe one list that they do the same things every day during the week. For another child, maybe it's a different list every day because they have different activities," Calahan says.
USE CALENDARS — OF ALL TYPES. Google Calendar helps Molly Darling of Springfield, Ill., keep track of appointments for her family, which includes Carrie, 12, a seventh-grader, and Tad, 7, a second-grader.
"It functions similarly to the Outlook calendar I use at work but uses an e-mail address for unique identification, and you can sync it to your Mac or iPhone," Darling says in an e-mail.
"I can add an appointment when I'm at work, then in the evening when I start my MacBook, the calendar automatically reads all new additions, so I see the same thing at home and work."
Because Google Calendar has invitation options, friends and family can view Darling's family's activities.
"I share mine with a couple close friends and my parents. It helps eliminate some of the back/forth, 'let-me-check-my-calendar' issues that come into play when attempting to schedule a family activity," Darling says.
Sweedler also uses a calendar, but delegates its use.
"When my kids hit high school, I said, 'If it's not on the calendar, you're not going.' It was their responsibility to get it on the calendar," Sweedler says. " … That's one way to stop, 'Well, I told you about it, and I was supposed to be there five minutes ago.' "
It's a process - chill
Putting organizational systems in place helps kids build life-long skills, Calahan says.
"The more routines and processes you put in place, the more it becomes a part of who you are, rather than yet another thing to do," Calahan says.
"A lot of people will fail with their organizing efforts because they think that they can put a system in place and then miraculously everybody is going to remember that system."
Tena Helton of Rochester, Ill., who describes herself as "uber-organized," uses several organizing tools — both high-tech and as simple as an accordion folder — to keep her family (husband Jeff and children Evan, 11, Jason, 7, and Audrey, 2) on schedule.
But she says she is willing to let everything go if someone is sick or needs attention.
"Schedules aren't as important as people," Helton says in an e-mail.
Tamara Browning can be reached at 217-788-1534.
Stuff you can use
Examples of products, resources and blogs to get/keep you organized, courtesy of Stephanie Calahan of Calahan Solutions Inc., Bloomington (except where noted).
Calahan Solutions, Inc.: 309-826-5263. Networking: www.NetworkWithSteph.com; blog: www.ProductiveAndOrganized.net.
- School File: The School File is a durable file folder with compartments for three children. Each compartment contains five folders: stuff to do, stuff to keep, stuff to return, fun stuff and calendars.
- Wallies Peel & Stick Chalkboard: Package includes two sheets of removable and re-position able vinyl chalkboard panels and two pieces of chalk for writing messages.
- Daily Scheduler: The Family Facts Daily and Weekly Schedulers help families categorize and prioritize their time and plan the family's activities.
- Mom, Can I Help Around the House? (Kit): Each kit has a 136-page spiral-bound parent workbook with forms, templates and step-by-step instructions for setting up a family chore system.
- The Great Organizing Giveaway. People may sign up to get resources such as e-books, tip sheets, audio programs, complimentary consulting and more. They may enter drawings for prizes.
- Dealing with Clutter: (link provided courtesy of Kathy Sweedler).
- Efficiency; office and home organization; organizing products and organizing children: www.gracebrooke.com/?page_id=840
- Organizing your home and life: www.productiveandorganizedhome.com.
- Organizing tips, product reviews and more: www.takecontrolorganizing.com/blog/.
- Tip of the week with organizing concept or product: http://organizedinnovations.wordpress.com/.


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Egypt Denounces U.S. Decision To Withhold Aid Package
Ever since then-President Mohamed Morsi was forced out of office by Egypt's military, the Obama administration has struggled with how to handle the massive amount of U.S. aid that goes to Egypt and goes mainly to its military. This week the Obama administration made a decision. It is suspending a significant amount of the annual $1.5 billion in aid.
The move appears aimed at maintaining U.S.-Egyptian ties on one hand, but to also get the attention of the military in Cairo and showing U.S. displeasure over the military's violent crackdown on Morsi's supporters in the Muslim Brotherhood. NPR's Leila Fadel joined us from our Cairo bureau. Good morning.
LEILA FADEL, BYLINE: Good morning.
MONTAGNE: Now, the Obama administration suspended $260 million in cash, the delivery of Apache helicopters, and other materiel to the Egyptian military is also on hold. What is the reaction in Cairo from the people and the government?
FADEL: Well, basically the foreign ministry said this is a bad decision at a bad time for Egypt. They want a strong relationship with the United States but they said they won't bow to foreign pressure. So they're really saying you can go ahead and keep your aid right now and we're going to continue to do what we think is best for Egypt.
MONTAGNE: Well, it is true that in recent weeks we have heard more about attacks on police and on army outposts, attacks on military convoys there, particularly in the Sinai Peninsula. You know, is this the beginning of what you might call an insurgency?
FADEL: Well, at this point we are seeing what analysts are saying is a low level insurgency in the rest of the Sinai Peninsula, long a really lawless region. The bigger concern is will that spread to the rest of Egypt. And we have seen bombings and RPG attacks in places like Cairo and on the outskirts of Cairo.
And that's one of the points of the military-backed government, saying they can't suspend this type of aid now at a time that we need it, that we're fighting what they're saying is a terrorism problem. Of course, there's no proof that the Muslim Brotherhood or their supporters are involved in these attacks and at this point all of Egypt is not engulfed in an insurgency.
MONTAGNE: OK. Well, when the Obama administration announced the freeze, it said that aid could be restored if Egypt takes steps toward restoring democracy. What would those steps be?
FADEL: Well, at this point there is a roadmap to elections. They're amending the constitution right now and if that's passed in referendum there will be elections sometime in February if they stick to schedule. So it may be that just once elections are held, the U.S. will give back that aid. But the bigger question is will this be an inclusive process. Will Islamists, the Muslim Brotherhood, be allowed to participate and be represented in a future democracy here in Egypt.
MONTAGNE: And Leila, one final big picture question. There has been so much turmoil in the countries that experienced the Arab Spring in 2011 and just this last few days we've been talking about Libya's prime minister. He was even detained by, it's believed, an Islamist militia. Is there any common thread here?
FADEL: Well, I think in 2011, ousting these autocratic leaders - in some cases really brutal leaders - there was so much hope that there would be social justice, that the economy would flourish, that people would be able to feed their families, that poverty would lessen. And a lot of those promises haven't come to fruition. There is frustration and anger towards the authority.
And in the case of the prime minister in Libya, that was another situation where people got frustrated with the leadership. And we're seeing that across the board; a lot of people feeling like what did the Arab Spring bring me?
MONTAGNE: NPR's Leila Fadel speaking to us from Cairo. Thanks very much.
FADEL: Thank you.
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Mortgage mediation bill resurfaces, with support from AG
ST. PAUL -- Gene Sparrow simply cannot find a person at his mortgage-holder's company to discuss problems he has with his monthly payments. If the Minnesota Attorney General's office had not become involved, "I would be sleeping out in a sleeping...
ST. PAUL -- Gene Sparrow simply cannot find a person at his mortgage-holder's company to discuss problems he has with his monthly payments.
If the Minnesota Attorney General's office had not become involved, "I would be sleeping out in a sleeping bag," the 70-year-old Stillwater man said Wednesday, supporting a bill that would force lenders to sit down and talk to homebuyers facing foreclosure.
Sparrow's four-bedroom house was two weeks away from a sheriff's sale last year when his lender, a Goldman Sachs subsidiary, stopped the foreclosure proceedings following a letter from Attorney General Lori Swanson's office.
Still, he added, the situation is not resolved. "I'm still wondering what tree I will sleep under."
Swanson and some state lawmakers are trying a second time to pass legislation they say could help Sparrow and others who face home foreclosure by allowing them to force lenders into mediation. A mediation process brings the buyer and lender together to work out financial difficulties.
Sen. Linda Scheid, DFL-Brooklyn Park, agreed with Sparrow that finding "a live person" to discuss a mortgage problem often is difficult.
"We need to cut through the red tape," Swanson added.
Based on the farmer-lender mediation act of 1986, credited with saving many Minnesota farms, the bill would give those who face foreclosure a chance to sit down and talk with lenders.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty vetoed the bill last year, but its sponsors say they are confident they can tweak the measure enough to get his approval in 2010.
Sparrow sent 20 letters to people involved with financial policy, from President Obama on down. Swanson's office quickly sent a letter to his lender, buying time for him, but Sparrow said many others are in similar positions and need help.
"We are open to discussing this bill with legislators, but continue to have concerns, including the provision that would require all lenders and borrowers to pay for the mediation program, even if they are not involved in a foreclosure," said Pawlenty's spokesman, Brian McClung.
In a May 22 letter explaining why he vetoed last year's bill, Pawlenty said it is not fair to charge everyone facing foreclosure $125 more to fund a mediation program only some would use. He also wanted to allow telephone or video meetings between lenders and buyers to be allowed, while legislators voted to require at least some of the meetings to be in person.
The law would establish a procedure that before a foreclosure action could be finalized, the two sides meet with a mediator to try to work out differences. However, that would happen only if the homebuyer requests mediation.
When foreclosure actions go to court, Swanson said, judges already order mediation before they rule in the cases.
Swanson said foreclosures are at a record high, with 28,000 across Minnesota in 2008 and about as many in 2009.
Scheid said that foreclosures affect not only those who cannot make mortgage payments. "It has a direct impact on the value of your home."
Don Davis reports for Forum Communications Co.


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Fuel Filtration
New fuels and new engines demand a new filter regimen
By Tom Jackson
Going green has its drawbacks. When it comes to cleaning up diesel emissions, the price you pay is reduced fuel quality. If you're not careful, clogged fuel filters and ruined injectors may result.
Fresh from the refinery, diesel fuel is fairly clean and contaminant free. But the removal of sulfur in ultra low sulfur diesel (ULSD) and the increasing use of biodiesel blends has made today's fuel less stable and more likely to pick up water and form other contaminants.
The biggest culprits when it comes to fuel contamination have changed as well. "The returned fuel filters we get today are usually plugged with organic matter, rather than inorganic – soft sticky contaminant, rather than hard particles," says Brian Tucker, engine liquid product manager at Donaldson.
What this means is that you need to fundamentally change how you deal with diesel fuel from your bulk storage tanks to your engine fuel filters. To counteract the threat you first need to be aware of the changes in your fuel and engines.
"Biodiesel is an industrial solvent," says Paul Bandoly, manager of technical services/customer training at Wix Filters. This solvent action presents two problems. Initially, when biodiesel is added to your fuel tanks it will dissolve deposits, by-products of oxidation and other contaminants in your system and throw them at the filter.
"If you have dirty dispensing equipment, dirty storage tanks or dirty-on board vehicle systems, you're going to run through filters like crazy," Bandoly says.
The second issue with biodiesel is that it loves water. Water breeds microbes and these microbes feed on the fuel and excrete acidic waste products. Dead microbes and waste equal sludge in the tanks. Even when biocides are added to kill microbial growth, that in itself may shorten filter life as the microorganisms are removed by the filter, says Steve Englund, senior product management administrator with Baldwin Filters. Once the system fuel is free from the microbes and/or the residue of biodiesel's solvent action, filter life should return to normal, Englund says.
Ultra low sulfur diesel
The sulfur levels on diesel fuel, both on and off highway, have been cut more than 95 percent compared to just a few years ago. This naturally occurring sulfur provided lubricity, but today lubricity additives are needed to prevent injection wear, says Brent Birch, engineering lab manager for Luber-Finer/Champion Laboratories.
"In most cases these additives should be added before the fuel is shipped from the distribution terminals to the end users," Birch says. Soy based bio-fuels are a good lubricity agent. But additives can affect the water separation capabilities of fuel filters and the additives for petroleum diesel and bio-diesel are not necessarily the same, due to differences in fuel chemistry.
Fuel filter designs are changing to perform as well as possible with the current fuels, says Birch. But he cautions: "It just takes one fill-up of off-spec fuel to plug a filter."
High pressure injection
To cut exhaust emissions, manufacturers have ramped up injection pressures in new engines to 30,000 psi or more. These high pressure bursts better atomize the fuel and can be combined in up to five separate injection "events" per combustion cycle. This promotes a more thorough and efficient burn of the fuel and less soot and wasted fuel going out the exhaust valves.
In order to deal with these high injection pressures, filter manufacturers have had to create filter media that can trap hard particles as small as 2 microns. Just a few years ago filtration down to 10 microns was considered sufficient. But large particles under high pressure act like abrasives, wearing away injector tips and fuel pumps.
Filtering hard particles to 2 microns has proven relatively easy. New synthetic media and combinations of synthetic and organic media can handle that with no compromise in filter life and performance.
"Many engine manufacturers are charging the secondary fuel filter with pressure to increase injection pressures," says Mark Stamp, heavy-duty product manager for Luber-Finer/Champion Laboratories. "Increases in the filter shell thickness and gasket component construction are common, which makes it critical to use good quality filters for those applications," he says.
"Efficiency and life are usually a tradeoff, so to break that tradeoff you use alternative media, usually multi-layer synthetics that provide higher efficiency," says Tucker.
Filters not only need to capture smaller particles, but a greater percentage of these particles as well. To attain longer filter service intervals in some applications manufacturers will use larger filters to accommodate more media, says Englund. Others use multiple filters and some multi-stage filters within the same canister.
Emulsified water
Where the big challenge comes in is controlling emulsified water. Since water is heavier than diesel fuel, free water drops to the bottom of the filter where its easily drained off. But emulsified water – microscopic droplets of water that get churned into the fuel – are more difficult to remove.
Ironically, back when injectors ran at 3,500 psi rather than 30,000 psi, the treatment for free water in fuel was to pour in an additive that emulsified the free water so it could slip through the filter media. This is the opposite of what you want to do today. "These emulsifying additives are the stuff that people have been using for years to treat the fuel, especially pour point depressants," Bandoly says. At 3,500 psi, emulsified water did no appreciable damage to injectors or pumps. But today that would compromise a modern high pressure common rail fuel system.
"It just takes one fill-up of off-spec fuel to plug a filter,"
– Brent Birch, Luber-finer
Accordingly, you have to be very careful about the additives you use. "If you must use an additive make sure it specifically has the word de-emulsifier on the label or spec sheet," Bandoly says. A de-emulsifier will help the microscopic water droplets coalesce and drop to the bottom of the filter.
Multi-layer media
Most filters today will use a surface tension or a coalescing filter, or a combination of those two technologies to handle emulsified water. In a multi-layer media the synthetic layers have very fine fibers and a lot of surface area where the water droplets come into contact with the media. These stop the droplets and allow them to grow in size. As they grow they contact the organic cellulose media which has been treated with silicone says Tucker. "It's hydrophobic, so it repels water and knocks the droplets out of the fuel stream."
If you're experiencing fuel filter problems and want to run some quick diagnostic checks, you can put a used filter in a freezer bag and set it in the sun for a few hours, says Paul Bandoly, manager of technical services/customer training at Wix Filters. If you see condensation you have a water contamination problem. You can also cut open a used filter and check for the following:
1. If there is black, tarry stuff it's usually asphaltines from the fuel breaking down and oxidation.
2. If it's stinky and slimy and black, rust or olive drab green, that's usually an indication of microorganism contamination.
3. If the filter looks like the day it was made but appears to be coated with shellac and completely plugged, those are glycerides. Somebody sold you a bad batch of biodiesel.
"In the past the media was not capable of presenting a good barrier to progression for these small, emulsified water droplets," Bandoly says. "Today the media is much more capable."
The best way to keep your injectors and pumps in good condition and lighten the load on your fuel filters is to prevent contaminated fuel from reaching them in the first place. "In my opinion you're not running any greater risk using a proper blend of biodiesel than you are with 100 percent petro-diesel – if your housekeeping and usage are all first rate," Bandoly says.
Just keep in mind housekeeping is more important than ever. Here are some suggestions:
Biodiesel. Make sure the biodiesel you are using conforms to the ASTM D 6751 and the supplier meets the BQ9000 certification standard. When you do make the switch, clean your tanks with a pump/filtration system like the one shown on the opposite page. This will remove the sludge, sediment and deposits that biodiesel will dissolve in your tanks. Continue to filter bulk fuel until you're satisfied that the tanks are clean. Then keep them clean with periodic maintenance. You may also have to shorten your fuel filter change interval until the contamination is gone from your tanks.
Fresh fuel. Plan your fuel deliveries to make sure the fuel you have on hand is fresh. About six months is as long as you want to store today's ULSD or biodiesel.
Spare filters. Store an extra fuel filter on your machines. It's a lot less expensive and time consuming for an operator to replace a clogged fuel filter than to have a technician come out in a truck and do it.
Top off. Fill up equipment tanks at the end of the day. A half empty tank of warm fuel will condense water vapor overnight. Fill that space with fuel to reduce condensation.
Bulk filtration. If you store the fuel you use, clean your tanks periodically and install bulk filtration and water separation units on the storage tanks.
Breathe clean. Use desiccant breather filters on machines and bulk storage units. A number of breathers offer 2- to 30-micron filtration for hard particle contamination and some kind of water absorbent desiccant to take out moisture that results from humidity in the air, says Mike Gruca, product engineer for Luber-Finer/Champion Laboratories. EW


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Source: 2017 CIBC Canada Russia Series
Sudbury, ON – Vegas Golden Knights prospect Nick Suzuki (Owen Sound Attack) and Colorado Avalanche second rounder Conor Timmins (Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds) both had three points, leading Team OHL to a 4-2 victory in Game 4 of the 2017 CIBC Canada Russia Series in Sudbury.
Team OHL rebounded from a 5-2 loss in Game 3 as a pair of quick third period goals broke open a 2-2 tie. Suzuki scored his second of the night for the game winner 4:09 into the final frame.
"We didn't want to come here and go down 0-2 against the Russians, so it was good to get the job done tonight," said Suzuki post-game. "I thought the whole team worked really hard and we got the result we wanted."
Typically Western Conference foes, Suzuki and Timmins connected three different times in the win.
"When you're on a power play with a guy like Suzuki and others like Tippett, Katchouk and Gadjovich, you just want to move the puck and let them do their thing," said Timmins of his approach. "That worked out nicely for us tonight."
Team OHL head coach Trevor Letowski (Windsor Spitfires) came away impressed with his club's effort, citing better execution in the win as the series heads east knotted 6-6 in points.
"I really liked our compete level again," Letowski noted. "Our power play is really dangerous and it played a big factor in the game and I thought DiPietro was very solid in net and made some good saves when he had to.
"Overall our guys dug in and we really wanted to get that one," Letowski added. "Obviously we weren't happy with the loss in Owen Sound. The boys are proud of being here and representing the league and they wanted to have a good showing. I thought we did that tonight."
The Owen Sound tandem of Gadjovich and Suzuki went to work offensively early on Team OHL's first power play of the night at 3:12 of the first. The former provided a screen in the slot while the latter ripped a wrister over the shoulder of Vladislav Sukhachev in the Russian crease to put Team OHL up 1-0.
After being outshot 6-1 in the opening five minutes of action, Russia responded at 6:36 as Chicago Blackhawks prospect Andrey Altybarmakyan forged a lane to the net and beat DiPietro on a forehand move off the rush.
Sukhachev provided some timely saves in the latter half of the first period, stopping Gadjovich on a backhand opportunity before getting a little help from his post as Jonathan Ang (Peterborough Petes) struck iron inside the final minute.
Both goaltenders provided big glove saves in the opening shifts of the second as both Sukhachev and DiPietro kept the score knotted at one before a local fan favourite used his big shot to put Russia in the lead.
After a pair of failed OHL clearing attempts, Sudbury Wolves star Dmitry Sokolov drifted through the slot and took a pass from Artyom Manukyan to beat DiPietro under the crossbar at 8:29.
Team OHL re-established the tie just over three minutes later as the power play struck again. After being set up by Timmins earlier in the game, Suzuki returned the favour, putting the puck on a tee for the Colorado Avalanche prospect who blasted home a slapshot at 11:53.
Team OHL outshot Russia 14-7 in the second for a two-period total of 27-19 as the game entered the third period in a 2-2 tie.
The OHL carried its momentum from a strong second over into the third as Suzuki picked up his second goal and third point of the night at 4:09.
Suzuki was sprung in alone on an outlet pass from Timmins, dekeing to the forehand before sliding a low shot through the legs of Sukhachev to give Team OHL a 3-2 edge. Owen Sound Attack teammate Sean Durzi also picked up an assist on the go-ahead goal.
Big 17-year-old blueliner Kevin Bahl (Ottawa 67's) gave Team OHL some much-needed insurance just 31 seconds later. Bahl, who's scored just once in 78 career OHL regular season contests, picked up his first of the 2017-18 season on a wrister through traffic. With Gadjovich providing another valuable screen out front, Bahl picked a corner and put Team OHL up 4-2 with roughly 15 minutes to go.
DiPietro stood his ground in the late going, but Team OHL tightened things up and held the Russians to just six shots on goal in the final frame to take a 4-2 victory.
The OHL outshot Russia 33-25 and went 2-for-6 on the power play while limiting their opponents to just one power play opportunity.
Team OHL improves to an all-time record of 24-5-1 in the CIBC Canada Russia Series while Russia drops to 1-13-0-1 all-time in Game 4 of the series.
The series shifts to Charlottetown, PEI on Tuesday night as Team QMJHL awaits Russia for Game 5. The action gets underway at 7:00pm ET/8:00AT on Sportsnet East, Ontario and Pacific.


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K12 Online Fireside Chat: Rachel Boyd
Fireside Chat with Diego Leal and Rachel Boyd
If you are watching the UStream, Rachel's presentation starts at 51:03
Rachel Boyd shared her Week Two keynote: A Peek for a Week – Inside a Kiwi Junior Classroom. She fielded questions and elaborated on her presentation. We left with a deeper understanding of how her class runs, how technology is infused in what she does and how her students become such independent learners.


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The North/South Chamber Orchestra Plays Transcendent Contemporary Works
The last time Max Lifchitz performed in the Lincoln Center neighborhood, he was at the piano, delivering a characteristically diverse and eye-opening program of 20th century Mexican composers including works by Carlos Chavez, Manuel Enriquez, Manuel M. Ponce, Maria Teresa Prieto, Silvestre Revueltas, and an eclectically lively partita by Brian Banks along with a pastorale partita of his own. Much of the bill could be characterized as the Second Viennese School gone south of the border. Tuesday night, Lifchitz conducted his North/South Chamber Orchestra in a matter-of-factly transcendent program of contemporary compositions.
Katherine Hoover's South Zephyr was an evocatively buoyant, gently kinetic evocation of an enveloping, warmly comforting wind from the tropics, Lisa Hansen's flute afloat on a lush bed of strings. Victor Kioulaphides' Summer Concerto, a string piece, was the big hit with the audience with its misterioso pulse, dynamic shifts, subtly flamenco-tinged interlude and allusions to Andalucia and the Middle East.
Alla Pavlova's Concertino came across as the great lost Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #5, or something from late Tschaikovsky. It didn't have the virtuoso piano passages of Rachmaninoff, but it was packed with the kind of direct, emphatic, angst-ridden, stunningly memorable riffage that defines that composer's work. And it featured plenty of original tropes as well, most notably the shivery string passages in the opening segment as a backdrop to Helen Lin's icepick piano and Mioi Takeda's steely but cantabile violin.
Soloist Edmundo Ramirez brought a graceful but plaintive, sometimes vividly aching edge and an acerbic tone to the night's most stunning work, Anna Veismane's Concerto for Viola d'Amore. A tone poem, more or less, its tectonic sheets shifted slowly and methodically and grew more haunting as it went on, building a surreal, dangerously otherworldly mood with close harmonies from the strings. Lifchitz concluded with his own song suite, Forget Me Not, sung with deadpan wit by soprano Carol Wilson. Over the lilting sway of the strings, Wilson managed to keep a straight face through a long interlude about a potato, something some of the audience could do but others could not. It made for comic relief in the wake of a lot of searing emotion.
Lifchitz's agenda with his long-running North/South Consonance concerts is to cross-pollinate on a global level and promote the work of composers from across the Americas alongside their counterparts from literally everywhere else. It's an ambitious project, and something to keep an eye on if first-rate new works (and plenty of older rarities) by under-the-radar composers are your thing.
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A moment of sympathy, please, for newspapers, whose readers and advertisers have been fleeing at a frightening rate.
It would be easy to accuse editors and publishers of being clueless about the coming Internet disruption and to insist that the industry's proper reward for decades of haughty attitude, bad planning, and incompetence is bankruptcy.
But newspapers have really, really tried to wrap their hands around the future and preserve their franchise, an insight I owe to Pablo J. Boczkowski's 2004 book, Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers. The industry has understood from the advent of AM radio in the 1920s that technology would eventually be its undoing and has always behaved accordingly.
For instance, publishers aggressively pursued radio licenses in the early days of broadcasting and, later, sought and acquired TV licenses when they were dispensed. As early as 1947, Walter Annenberg's Philadelphia Inquirer and John S. Knight's Miami Herald experimented with fax editions of their papers. Seems visionary enough to me.
Newspapers and other media entities started experimenting with videotex technology in the 1970s, according to David Carlson's Online Timeline. Newspapers considered themselves vulnerable to new entrants and worried aloud to anybody who would listen about falling readership. In 1979, the Knight Ridder newspaper chain established a videotex subsidiary to develop its Viewtron service, Boczkowski writes. Clunky and toylike by today's standards (see the silly, pre-Donkey Kong-quality graphics), the early system required an expensive, dedicated terminal. Yet after conducting trials in 1980, the system held sufficient promise that Knight Ridder succeeded in selling Viewtron franchises to other newspapers. More than a dozen other dailies played with videotex during the decade, including newspapers in the Times-Mirror chain, Cowles Media, and McClatchy Newspapers, as well as at the Chicago Sun-Times and the Washington Post.
Howard Finberg of the Poynter Institute remembers that Viewtron could fetch from the "Miami Herald or the New York Times the night before the paper hit your doorstep," access the Associated Press, look up airline schedules, access bank account info, and order a meal online. Not bad for the dark ages, eh?
Broadcasters joined the text fray, too. In Los Angeles during the early 1980s, CBS was testing the Extravision teletext service, and NBC was experimenting with its own offering, Tempo L.A., according to the New York Times.
So intense was the industry's devotion to videotex and so rampant its paranoia that some other medium would usurp its place in the media constellation that the American Newspaper Publishers Association lobbied Congress in 1980 to prevent AT&T from launching its own "electronic yellow pages." Washington Post Co. CEO Katharine Graham, then chair of the ANPA, and other publishers met with Sen. Robert Packwood, R-Ore., to discuss the legislation that would free AT&T to start its service.
As the Wall Street Journal would later report, Packwood said to the publishers, "What you're really worried about is an electronic Yellow Pages that will destroy your advertising base, isn't it?"
Graham's response: "You're damn right it is."
Videotex failed to catch on commercially, with Knight Ridder burning through $50 million before closing Viewtron in 1986. The industry's next favorite newsprint alternative was audiotext, and while Boczkowski writes that the format generated modest profits, it never enjoyed the wild enthusiasm that videotex did. As the decade progressed, the Chicago Tribune, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Hartford Courant, and the New York Times revisited the idea of fax newspapers. Some of the fax editions found a niche but not much more.
According to Boczkowski, newspapers didn't rush into videotex because they were visionaries in a hurry to invent the future but because they were "reactive, defensive, and pragmatic" about their mature, lucrative business. Having observed the videotex experiments in England and elsewhere, they feared that if they didn't adopt the technology or at least test it, somebody else would and displace them. Once they determined that nobody could make money from videotex and the technology posed no threat to the newsprint model, they were happy to shutter their ventures.
By the mid-1980s, the industry's biggest worry was that the PC, which had eased its way into homes and the workplace like an algae bloom, would somehow supplant them. Boczkowski acknowledges that newspapers' early online strategies were as much about blocking new competitors as beating a path to the future. That said, by the early to mid-1990s, the New York Times, the San Jose Mercury News, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and many others were producing electronic-edition business, striking deals with the burgeoning proprietary online systems, such as CompuServe, America Online, Prodigy, and Interchange, or throwing content up on bulletin board systems.
Publishers adored the proprietary online services because they locked down the user experience to the newspaper's benefit. A Washington Post spokesman quoted in Boczkowski's book applauds the way Interchange "preserves the company's direct business relationship with Post readers."
The publishers were pretty sure that proprietary online services were the next wave, but if you remember having used one, you know how badly they sucked. Let's say you subscribed to AOL to read the New York Times but wanted to read a story in the Washington Post. You couldn't get to the Post from AOL because the Post was published exclusively on Interchange. What you had to do was disconnect your screeching modem from AOL, purchase an Interchange subscription, log onto Interchange, and then navigate to the Post. A return visit to the Times required the reverse of that drill.
The extreme suckage of proprietary online services stemmed from the fact that they were "non-generative" technologies, to borrow a phrase from Jonathan Zittrain's excellent The Future of the Internet—And How To Stop It. Nongenerative technologies can't be tinkered with or otherwise improved by outsiders. The iPhone is a good example of a nongenerative device: Its software updates "actively seek out and erase" unauthorized modifications, to paraphrase Zittrain.
Generative technologies such as the PC, on the other hand, invite improvement by outsiders, making them more and more useful to users as time passes—and often more useful in ways that the original designers never would have imagined. When you connect a generative technology to a nongenerative one, you usually end up crippling the generative one.
Indeed, the proprietary online services—the AOLs and CompuServes—hobbled the PC, turning the versatile and powerful machine into a dumb terminal. It's a tribute to newspapers and their keen sense of the future that they quickly determined that the online services would never attract the masses they desired. No sooner had newspapers taken up residence on the proprietary online services than they were packing up their pixels and starting their en masse migration to the World Wide Web, which was as generative as the online services were nongenerative.
Newspapers were anything but late arrivers to the Web party, according to Carlson's Online Timeline and other sources. Among the earliest pure Web newspapers in the United States were the two dueling dailies started in San Francisco during the autumn 1994 press strike—one by union members and one by management. (As a point of reference, the high-tech sharpies at Wired spun off the Hotwired.com site in October 1994.) The San Jose Mercury News broke from AOL and started on the Web in February 1995. USA Today launched a Web edition in August 1995. Later that year, the Boston Globe started its Boston.com, and the Los Angeles Times announced plans to leave Prodigy. The New York Times and Washington Postgot webby in 1996. After that, few newspapers held back. Boczkowski writes that more than 750 North American dailies were publishing on the Web in April 1998, and by July 1999 only two of the 100 largest dailies were not.
Newspapers deserve bragging rights for having homesteaded the Web long before most government agencies and major corporations knew what a URL was. Given the industry's early tenancy, deep pockets, and history of paranoid experimentation with new communication forms, one would expect to find plenty in the way of innovations and spinoffs.
But that's not the case, and I think I know why: From the beginning, newspapers sought to invent the Web in their own image by repurposing the copy, values, and temperament found in their ink-and-paper editions. Despite being early arrivals, despite having spent millions on manpower and hardware, despite all the animations, links, videos, databases, and other software tricks found on their sites, every newspaper Web site is instantly identifiable as a newspaper Web site. By succeeding, they failed to invent the Web.
Addendum 1, Jan. 6: My colleague Adrian Monck adds this sharp take about the newspaper industry's techno dance. He writes:
As I've posted before (and others have pointed out), there were plenty of executives who did make smart strategic decisions about the challenges facing the industry. Robert Marbut, then CEO of newspaper group Harte-Hanks, was absolutely clear about the threat and opportunities offered by new technology back in the mid-1970s:The fact that the same technology will be used by media other than daily newspapers will mean that others could enter the marketplace for meeting information needs and encroach on the franchise of an established newspaper … new technology will make it possible for the consumer to get his needs met in a variety of ways in the future, again setting the stage for continued fragmentation of media which could lead to further encroachment of the newspaper's share of market.So in the 1990s Harte-Hanks dispensed with its newspaper, TV and radio interests.
Addendum 2, Jan. 6: My colleague Scott Rosenberg, who helped edit the Free Press during the San Francisco newspaper strike and later left the San Francisco Examiner to help start Salon, offers an additional answer to my question about why newspapers' early Web experiments didn't end up offering "plenty in the way of innovations and spinoffs":
In the '90s, if you were at a newspaper and learned about the Web, you were likely to grow frustrated and disillusioned with how slowly the paper's management was waking up to how the new medium actually worked. They got on the Web, and then just sat there. So if you had any restless or entrepreneurial gene in your body, you would sooner or later give up on your arthritic bosses and go do something interesting online yourself or with some startup. The newspaper industry suffered a steady exodus of the very people who it should have been relying on to navigate the new waters.
Addendum 3, Jan. 6: Wayne Citrin writes that I should have made mention of the work done at Knight Ridder's Information Design Laboratory in the mid-1990s. IDL was working on a portable, battery-powered electronic tablet that its designers hoped would start replacing newspapers by 2001. Knight Ridder shut the lab in the summer of 1995.
Addendum 4, Jan. 6: Chuck Moozakis, editor in chief of Newspapers & Technology, sends me this terrific history of electronic newspaper distribution.
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Week of Mamás Blogueras has turned out to be much more enriching and inspiring than we ever imagined. We count ourselves lucky to have grouped such an amazing and talented group of blogueras.
Today's post by Mónica is no exception. She´s done a great job introducing herself, so I'll let you read it from her own words. I do want to add that the Latin Baby Book Club was one of the first blogs we found while doing our research on sites targeting bilingual children. It´s still on the top of our list for a great read and special finds.
First, I'd like to thank Roxana and Ana for inviting me to write this week. SpanglishBaby has been a great resource for me and I appreciate the opportunity to contribute.
For those of you who do not know me, my name is Monica Olivera Hazelton and I am the owner of Latin Baby, an on-line boutique for Spanish-speaking American families. I also created and manage two blogs, Mi Cielito Lindo and the Latin Baby Book Club, both of which are a result of running the boutique.
My background:
On my mother's side, I am a third generation Mexican American. On my father's side, I am a first generation Spanish American. I grew up attending private, English-only schools, but managed to hang on to my cultural identity through the efforts of my family. We lived with my great-grandmother who spoke only Spanish and with whom I was very close. In addition, my grandmother was extremely active in the community, helping to organize cultural events such as fiestas for Cinco de Mayo, posadas, and more. My mami worked hard to instill pride for my culture and the language. And though my parents divorced when I was very small, I spent several summers in Spain visiting my father and his very large family.
However, my entire education and subsequent career were predominantly English-only environments. I married a non-Latino who doesn't speak a lick of Spanish and had my first child four years later. Shortly after her birth I began looking for baby apparel that reflected our Latino heritage, and in 2005 I started Latin Baby when I couldn't find any.
While I am constantly looking for ways to pass on my Latino heritage to my children, teaching them Spanish is a tremendous struggle for me. Though I understand it perfectly, I rarely have the opportunity to speak it and often forget verb tenses which makes me terribly self-conscious. It is hard for me to remember to use Spanish with the kids but am trying my best and hope that my occasionally incorrect verbs don't mess things up for them!
We'll be homeschooling our daughter next year, so I finally decided the best way for me to teach them Spanish will be with a formal Spanish course because I can integrate it into our curriculum. I'm investigating Spanish programs now, and welcome any suggestions.
However, one method I am happily using to pass on our culture and the language has been to incorporate bilingual and bicultural children's literature into our routine. I prefer books with embedded Spanish text, but am careful to include those with full text in Spanish, because I feel that even if the kids don't understand it all, hearing the rhythm and inflection is important for their future comprehension.
I started the Latin Baby Book Club as a resource for parents trying to raise bilingual children. The goal has been to review/recommend books and music that help children to learn the language or to develop an appreciation for Latino cultural traditions. Both my kids absorb these books like a sponge. I do think my daughter finds it easier to relate to stories about little girls who look like her (ie., Adelita, and Trencitas of Jerry Tello's Abuelo y Los Tres Osos) than to those centered around the blonde princesses of traditional Anglo folktales (though she likes most of these, too.) But I want her to grow up with a healthy self-image and proud to be a Latina.
Many of the books describe cultural traditions that I was able to experience as a child (ie., Una, Dos, Tres, Posada!, and The Best Mariachi in the World) but that my kids can't – at least not at the moment, and probably never to the same extent that I did. I use these stories to talk more in depth with my kids about the traditions and ask them questions about how they would celebrate certain holidays or how they would end the story. Oftentimes, I use the books as an opportunity to describe my own childhood experiences to them, which they love to hear about and I can just see their imaginations taking flight. One of my favorites, Mamá Goose, is great for teaching them some of the nursery rhymes I learned as a child, which in turn leads to stories of my own childhood and my relationship with my abuelita and nanita.
I am also especially fond of biographies, such as Diego and Me llamo Gabriela. These books are a way for me to introduce Latino historical figures that they probably wouldn't learn about through regular education channels. When it's possible, I try to add art/craft projects that are related in some way to these figures for reinforcement. I'm a little limited still by my kids' ages, but I think it will be easier to do as they get older.
Abecedarios also play an important role as teaching tools. I have successfully used books like F is for Fiesta to teach the alphabet and Just A Minute! or Marcos Counts to teach numbers to both of my kids. There are a ton of books out there with fantastic stories centered around el alfabeto or números, you just have to choose the ones your children will like best!
I can't stress enough how incorporating bilingual and bicultural children's literature in your child's life can positively enhance their learning experience. Not only does it help them learn the language, but the storylines also help them to develop tolerance, appreciation and even affection for cultural mores and traditions that may reflect their own heritage and that of others. The inner strength and confidence that children develop as a result are some of the most precious gifts their parents can impart.
We have a talented and diverse group of contributing bloggers at the LBBC and we hope you will join us.
Tomorrow's final Mamás Blogueras post is by Carrie Weir from Bilingual in the Boonies. She lets us in her daily joy of filling her Tennessee-born daughter's head and heart with español.


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