Looking for a lowish mileage citroen xm petrol automatic hatchback for one of our customers .
Shout if you can help.
How much does it cost to get a new spare key? Doesn't need to have remote, just something that can be used as a backup. It will be for the new family C5 X7.
It sounds like you have had pretty good service from Citroen lets hope that have it this time!
Can anyone tell me what size the space saver wheel and tyre are in a new C4 with the 17 alloys.
Also, will a full size spare fit in the boot?
from what the garage say it appears that Citroen in their wisdom didn't put a 'boot' on the UJ which then rusts away in sympathy with an old Lancia :-D and the easiest option is a recon rack.
Anyone got a supplier/knows of one/ is one ??
Hi guys, was wondering where do I obtain a copy of this also I need the pin connector and everything any help appreciated.
I have looked on ebay but they all look the same I don't want to get a rubbish copy.
Only looking as EML came on again today and get fed up off paying garage fees to check it out.
It will run with win fine. In fact the last thing you need to do is a format as if you have the Pro or Ultimate version of win7 you get a virtual windows XP machine for free.
C5 Estate 05 Suspension Issue problem.
It it with regret I find myself having to pick you brains. My C5 Estate 2005 1.6HDI .
Maxi fuses checked ...Their all ok. Damit .
Hi everyone. Need urgent help. I need to know the access code for 2.0i 16v XU10 engine for lexia body control programming. Please help me.
Can someone help me find a set. A picture of my ECU is attached.
Wanted - Lexia owner near Chelmsford, please? This weekend?
It's some kind of electrical connector clamping tool?
Hi ! Got on my Xantia little problem. When neutral, without moving After rise RPM to about 2500, it begin to fluctuate up and down. Before and after that amount RPM stay still without fluctuate.
New spark plugs, throttle body cleaned, new air filter and fuel fiter.
Hi I have a 2009 citroen relay van and was hoping someone could point me in the right direction as to where the main engine ecu is located?
Is there one? Would like to do more than just diagnose and clear faults.
that said, as a country they are going downhill fast. But hey, a Dog will never loose its spots !
Car: Xantia, made in 2000, with two litre petrol engine.
Problem: Sometimes when signalling a right turn, the signalling light seems to not work, and the relay clicking sound is much faster than usual. :?
When signalling a left turn, everything is fine.
It seems that the lady has proven herself and left, letter now to Mr Leclerc.
It is not unusual to have wires fail due to corrosion, particularly in the big harness that runs across the front of a RHD car under the radiator. It is possible that there was another break in the same wire.
If you can identify where the break is, it is probably best to bypass that whole section of cable.
Most models have options for bigger wheels/tyres to be fitted either at the factory or later.
My question is, as a different rolling diameter will affect the speed calculation, can the wheel/tyre sizes be changed via Lexia?
I was getting rather fed up with my car (08 2.0 C5 Tourer) spending most of it's time in economy mode when the ignition was off.
It also seemed to be rather random as to how long you got before it switched to economy.Had the (original) battery checked and was told it was fine.
I.................... Decided to replace it anyway, and fitted a Silver Dynamic Varta, which has a four year warranty.
As far as i know the only Ness motors left is Renault in Elgin.
Can someone confirm the phone for Pleiades.
Mehari For sale in Devon?
Car + Classic ads had a Mehari for sale not too long back,in Devon somewhere-I think a dealer/Cit firm?
I recall the seller saying his dog wouldn't get into it, so he was selling!
Anyone have the details of who it was?
I keep getting tempted to scratch my long time Mehari itch!
Though I last drove one in 1987!
How to buy a good Synergie/806?
Leaning towards an earlier >2002 diesel.
Do they all have DMFs (Dual Mass Flywheels)?
Are they reasonably accessible to work on? I heard somewhere that glow plugs are down back of engine??
Any issues with HDi models?
I have the same problem which happened (Sh t happens) 5 weeks ago. Fortunately it's the passenger's side here :-D (driver's side in UK).
Just bought a 1999 (T) V6 Xantia and the auto box is slow to change up when cold.
I want to check the gearbox oil and either top up or change the oil.
What oil should I/we be using?
The gearbox is the autoadaptive (or active) - is this the 4HP20 version?
A year and 9 days ago, I had a local pug indy replace the front-to-rear suspension pipe on my '01 C5. Apparantly it had corroded somewhere near the front.
Just a thought but it might be worth giving Pirtek or a.n. other mobile hydraulic repair company a call.
But its unlike any droplink I've seen for the Xantia.
I know of 2 types the type for my Mk2 where the link are in a Z shape the type for the Mk1 where one end is Z and the other straight.
.. perhaps it will be of use to someone on the forum.
This almost exactly it Malcolm.. But there's no nut on the lower part of the arm.. Does that m,ake a difference?
My father is contemplating buying an Xantia 3.0 V6 Auto and I wondered what sort of issues should be looked out for? Both Xantia-specific and specific to this model?
Fuel consumption doesn't really matter as would only be used for shows, rallies, summer driving and stuff.
Any rust issues like series 2 XMs?
So the front tyres on my Xantia are getting pretty close to the limit, so will be getting changed soon.
Before I just shop around for a reasonable deal, does anyone have any particular recommendations or cautions? I know the Saab for instance is quite sensitive to what rubber is on it, but not all cars seem to be as radically affected.
Never had a xantia but the vredestien I had on the first c5 were amazing, and Goodyear efficient grip performance were also brilliant on my c4.
Im laptop less at the moment otherwise would have a look on service citroen and see if it shows two different cradles for the two variant of models..
Hi all, first post, so here goes!
1. Remote locking stopped working, changed battery in fob, still nothing?
2. Fuel gauge is permanently on half full no matter how much fuel in tank, I have to rely on reserve light to refill?
Dismantleing ESSENSIAL parts before the rest goes... is this strut top worth the hassle of removing to be saved??
I have a Xantia 1.9 TD 1996.
Can anyone post the pin connections for the plug on the airbag control unit in the centre console, and in particular the 2 leads to the steering airbag?
Does anyone know if there is a waterproof cover available for the Sensodrive Gearbox ECU please ?
You could make your own. Not standard Denso tape as I mentioned though. There is a fireproof version, but not freely available. I have sealed the joints in my ecu boxes with black RTV sealant. The are at the rear of car under the floor.
c5 x7 gurus.. indicator .. SORTED!!
2008 2.0 16v hdi ... x7.
Issue: rear nearside indicator has stopped working.. its NOT the bulb.. stop and tail work.. just nothing on the nearside indicator line at the REAR only. Mirror indicator and front works..
any ideas for me to look at tomorrow please? Or am I gonna have to wire in a new feed to the rear??
My trusty old C5 has developed another although a little strange fault!!!
ZX 1.9D Cyl Head... Same As P306?
eBay item number 111596178805 if the link doesn't work.
A pic of the end of the head will tell in 99% of cases as you'll have the slot / drivedog for the mounted vac pump or a threaded spindle (and you'll see its got an oil seal that end as well) for the belt drive pump.
Since I sold my Xantia and disappeared into the Fiat underworld, I have noticed a sharp decline in the amount of Xantias seen on the roads. Even less Bx's. Millions of C5's about.
Seemed that way too when I had my 2.8 Granada. All over the place like a rash. Couple of years after selling, non in existence nearly.
Some time ago I remember seeing a Xantia for sale (here in france) which stated it had 'normal' non hydraulic suspension. I assume they did exist ?
I've not heard of any.
There were a few non - power steering variants but none were invited into the UK... Was that what was meant?
Hi! Me again (and again and again - lol). You will all think this is a totally silly question but just go to ask.
if you can, post the REG. that way we can see if its an antisink or not.
or, better still, if you get a chance nip your head under the back, if theres a sphere behind the wheel carrier its an antisink.
Has anyone got or knows the location of a good secondhand gearbox ECU for a 2005 1.6 petrol Sensodrive box please ?
Mine has just been condemned as beyond repair at ECU Testing and they don't supply replacement units.
I have lost all use of indicators/hazard lights.
Fuse looks good. Can you tell me which relay is for the indicators?
Good news - I found the relay - it was hard to spot! And... it was loose. Probably after the knock the car took. So after reseating it - so far so good!


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package com.murphysean.bzrflag.agents;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnoreProperties;
import com.murphysean.bzrflag.commanders.PFEvolutionCommander;
import com.murphysean.bzrflag.controllers.PIDController;
import com.murphysean.bzrflag.interfaces.Commander;
import com.murphysean.bzrflag.models.Game;
import com.murphysean.bzrflag.models.Obstacle;
import com.murphysean.bzrflag.models.PFGene;
import com.murphysean.bzrflag.models.Point;
import com.murphysean.bzrflag.models.PotentialField;
import com.murphysean.bzrflag.models.Tank;
import com.murphysean.bzrflag.models.Team;

import java.util.Date;

@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
public class PFAgent extends AbstractAgent{
	@JsonIgnore
	protected transient Game game;
	protected PIDController angleController;
	protected PFGene gene;

	protected String goal;
	protected PotentialField attractor;

	protected transient Date startTime;
	protected boolean retHome;

	public PFAgent(){
		//The commander give us one later, for now make sure I've actually got one
		gene = PFGene.generateRandomPFGene();
		goal = "wait";
		retHome = false;
		type = "pf";
		angleController = new PIDController();
		//I always desire my tank to be 0 degrees from my destination rotation
		angleController.setSetPoint(0.0f);
	}

	@JsonIgnore
	public synchronized void setGame(Game game){
		this.game = game;
	}

	private static Point evaluateAttractor(float agentX, float agentY, PotentialField attractor){
		//Find the distance between the agent and the goal
		float distance = (float)Math.sqrt(Math.pow(attractor.getPoint().getX() - agentX,2.0d) +
				Math.pow(attractor.getPoint().getY() - agentY,2.0d));
		float angle = (float)Math.atan2(attractor.getPoint().getY() - agentY,attractor.getPoint().getX() - agentX);

		//Whoa, you're there
		if(distance < attractor.getRadius())
			return new Point(0.0f,0.0f);
		//You're somewhere out there, just come in at the attractors strength
		if(distance > (attractor.getSpread() + attractor.getRadius()))
			return new Point((float)(attractor.getStrength() * Math.cos(angle)),(float)(attractor.getStrength() * Math.sin(angle)));
		//You're coming in, slowly fall off to 0
		return new Point((float)(attractor.getStrength() * ((distance - attractor.getRadius()) / attractor.getSpread()) * Math.cos(angle)),(float)(attractor.getStrength() * ((distance - attractor.getRadius()) / attractor.getSpread()) * Math.sin(angle)));
	}

	private static Point evaluateRejector(float agentX, float agentY, PotentialField rejector){
		float distance = (float)Math.sqrt(Math.pow(rejector.getPoint().getX() - agentX,2.0d) +
				Math.pow(rejector.getPoint().getY() - agentY,2.0d));
		float angle = (float)Math.atan2(rejector.getPoint().getY() - agentY,rejector.getPoint().getX() - agentX);

		//Get the freak outta here
		if(distance < rejector.getRadius())
			return new Point((float)(-1.0f * rejector.getStrength() * Math.cos(angle)),(float)(-1.0f * rejector.getStrength() * Math.sin(angle)));
		//Don't worry about me, you're somewhere out there
		if(distance > (rejector.getSpread() + rejector.getRadius()))
			return new Point(0.0f,0.0f);
		//You should feel more pressure the closer you get
		return new Point((float)(-1.0f * rejector.getStrength() * ((rejector.getSpread() + rejector.getRadius() - distance) / rejector.getSpread()) * Math.cos(angle)),(float)(-1.0f * rejector.getStrength() * ((rejector.getSpread() + rejector.getRadius() - distance) / rejector.getSpread()) * Math.sin(angle)));
	}

	private static Point evaluateTangential(float agentX, float agentY, PotentialField tang){
		float distance = (float)Math.sqrt(Math.pow(tang.getPoint().getX() - agentX,2.0d) +
				Math.pow(tang.getPoint().getY() - agentY,2.0d));

		// Same as rejector, but modify angle by 90 degrees
		float ninety = 1.57079633f; // add = counterclockwise, subtract = clockwise
		float angle = (float)Math.atan2(tang.getPoint().getY() - agentY,tang.getPoint().getX() - agentX);
		angle -= ninety;

		//Get the freak outta here
		if(distance < tang.getRadius())
			return new Point((float)(-1.0f * tang.getStrength() * Math.cos(angle)),(float)(-1.0f * tang.getStrength() * Math.sin(angle)));
		//Don't worry about me, you're somewhere out there
		if(distance > (tang.getSpread() + tang.getRadius()))
			return new Point(0.0f,0.0f);
		//You should feel more pressure the closer you get
		return new Point((float)(-1.0f * tang.getStrength() * ((tang.getSpread() + tang.getRadius() - distance) / tang.getSpread()) * Math.cos(angle)),(float)(-1.0f * tang.getStrength() * ((tang.getSpread() + tang.getRadius() - distance) / tang.getSpread()) * Math.sin(angle)));
	}

	protected Point evaluate(){
		return evaluate(position.getX(),position.getY(),"all");
	}

	private String decrepedGene = null;

	public synchronized Point evaluate(float x, float y, String type){
		//If I have a goal to wait, my vector will be a zero point
		if(goal.equals("wait"))
			return new Point(0f,0f);

		//If I've been gone above the threshold, set return home flag
		if(startTime != null && (new Date().getTime() - startTime.getTime() > 280000)){
			//Get a gene that works...
			decrepedGene = gene.getGene();
			gene = PFGene.getKnownWorkingPFGene();
			retHome = true;
			PotentialField attractor = new PotentialField();
			attractor.setType("attractor");
			attractor.setPoint(game.getTeam().getBase().getCenterPoint());
			attractor.setRadius(gene.getAttRadius());
			attractor.setSpread(gene.getAttSpread());
			attractor.setStrength(gene.getAttStrength());
			this.attractor = attractor;
		}

		if(retHome){
			//Calculate distance from me to my flag, if I'm home restart
			float distance = (float)Math.sqrt(Math.pow(game.getTeam().getBase().getCenterPoint().getX() - position.getX(),2.0d) +
					Math.pow(game.getTeam().getBase().getCenterPoint().getY() - position.getY(),2.0d));

			if(distance < game.getTeam().getBase().getRadius()){
				retHome = false;
				//Notify commander of my lack of awesomeness through event
				if(game.getTeam() instanceof Commander){
					String note = game.getTeam().getColor() + "->" + goal + " TIMEOUT";
					PFEvolutionCommander.PFTankEvent event = new PFEvolutionCommander.PFTankEvent(this,decrepedGene,280000l,note);
					((Commander)game.getTeam()).bzrFlagEventHandler(event);
					decrepedGene = null;
				}
			}
		}

		Point vector = new Point(0.0f,0.0f);

		//I've just lost the flag (By returning it to my base) and I still have my base as my attractor
		if(!retHome && flag.equals("-") && attractor != null && attractor.getPoint().equals(game.getTeam().getFlag().getPoint())){
			attractor = null;
		}

		//I don't have a flag, and I don't have an attractor, I need something to go get
		if(!retHome && flag.equals("-") && this.attractor == null && goal != null){
			Date now = new Date();
			//Notify commander of last time to get flag, Ask the commander for a new gene to test?
			if(game.getTeam() instanceof Commander && (now.getTime() - startTime.getTime()) >= 500){
				String note = game.getTeam().getColor() + "->" + goal;
				PFEvolutionCommander.PFTankEvent event = new PFEvolutionCommander.PFTankEvent(this,gene.getGene(),now.getTime() - startTime.getTime(),note);
				((Commander)game.getTeam()).bzrFlagEventHandler(event);
			}
			PotentialField attractor = new PotentialField();
			attractor.setType("attractor");
			attractor.setPoint(game.findTeamByColor(goal).getBase().getCenterPoint());
			attractor.setRadius(gene.getAttRadius());
			attractor.setSpread(gene.getAttSpread());
			attractor.setStrength(gene.getAttStrength());
			this.attractor = attractor;
		}

		//I've managed to nab a flag, but my attractor is currently set to the flag that I have just now captured
		if(!retHome && !flag.equals("-") && attractor != null && attractor.getPoint().equals(game.findTeamByColor(goal).getBase().getCenterPoint())){
			attractor = null;
		}

		//I have a flag, and nowhere to go with it, send me home
		if(!retHome && !flag.equals("-") && attractor == null){
			attractor = null;
			PotentialField attractor = new PotentialField();
			attractor.setType("attractor");
			attractor.setPoint(game.getTeam().getBase().getCenterPoint());
			attractor.setRadius(gene.getAttRadius());
			attractor.setSpread(gene.getAttSpread());
			attractor.setStrength(gene.getAttStrength());
			this.attractor = attractor;
		}

		if(type.equals("attractors") || type.equals("all")){
			Point vec = evaluateAttractor(x,y,this.attractor);
			vector.setX(vector.getX() + vec.getX());
			vector.setY(vector.getY() + vec.getY());
		}

		PotentialField rejectorPotentialField = new PotentialField();
		rejectorPotentialField.setType("rejector");
		rejectorPotentialField.setStrength(gene.getRejStrength());
		PotentialField tangentialPotentialField = new PotentialField();
		tangentialPotentialField.setType("tangential");
		tangentialPotentialField.setStrength(gene.getRejStrength());
		for(Obstacle obstacle : game.getObstacles()){
			if(type.contains("rejectors") || type.equals("all")){
				rejectorPotentialField.setPoint(obstacle.getCenterPoint());
				rejectorPotentialField.setRadius(obstacle.getRadius() * gene.getRejRadius());
				rejectorPotentialField.setSpread(obstacle.getRadius() * gene.getRejSpread());
				Point vec = evaluateRejector(x,y,rejectorPotentialField);
				vector.setX(vector.getX() + vec.getX());
				vector.setY(vector.getY() + vec.getY());
			}
			if(type.contains("tangentials") || type.equals("all")){
				tangentialPotentialField.setPoint(obstacle.getCenterPoint());
				tangentialPotentialField.setRadius(obstacle.getRadius() * gene.getTanRadius());
				tangentialPotentialField.setSpread(obstacle.getRadius() * gene.getTanSpread());
				Point vec = evaluateTangential(x,y,tangentialPotentialField);
				vector.setX(vector.getX() + vec.getX());
				vector.setY(vector.getY() + vec.getY());
			}
		}

		//Put tangentials on target tanks with a close radius (to avoid getting stuck)
		PotentialField tankField = new PotentialField();
		tankField.setRadius(game.getTankRadius());
		tankField.setSpread(game.getTankRadius() / 2);
		tankField.setStrength(1f);
		tankField.setType("tangential");
		for(Team team : game.getTeams()){
			for(Tank tank : team.getTanks()){
				tankField.setPoint(tank.getPosition());
				Point vec = evaluateTangential(x,y,tankField);
				vector.setX(vector.getX() + vec.getX());
				vector.setY(vector.getY() + vec.getY());
			}
		}

		return vector;
	}

	/**
	 * Allows all updates to be applied atomically, also think of this as an event handler
	 */
	@Override
	public synchronized void update(String status, int shotsAvailable, float timeToReload, String flag, float positionX, float positionY, float velocityX, float velocityY, float angle, float angleVelocity){
		//Invoke the default behavior
		super.update(status,shotsAvailable,timeToReload,flag,positionX,positionY,velocityX,velocityY,angle,angleVelocity);

		Point vector = evaluate();

		//Probably don't need a speed controller, speed will be derived from magnitude of PF measure: speedController.calculate(distanceToTarget)

		//Calculate the magnitude of the vector to determine how fast the potential fields ask me to be
		float magnitude = (float)Math.sqrt(Math.pow(vector.getX(),2f) + Math.pow(vector.getY(),2f));
		desiredSpeed = magnitude;

		//Calculate what the potential fields ask my angle to be, and what kind of difference there is between that and where I am
		float ang = (float)Math.atan2(vector.getY() - 0.0f,vector.getX() - 0.0f);
		float diff = (float)Math.atan2(Math.sin(ang - angle),Math.cos(ang - angle));
		desiredAngularVelocity = angleController.calculate(diff * -1f);
	}

	@Override
	public synchronized boolean getDesiredTriggerStatus(){
		//TODO Don't shoot my team mates
		//if(timeToReload <= 0.0f)
		//	return true;
		return false;
	}

	public PIDController getAngleController(){
		return angleController;
	}

	public void setAngleController(PIDController angleController){
		this.angleController = angleController;
	}

	public PFGene getGene(){
		return gene;
	}

	public void setGene(PFGene gene){
		startTime = new Date();
		this.gene = gene;
	}

	public String getGoal(){
		return goal;
	}

	public void setGoal(String goal){
		this.goal = goal;
	}

	public PotentialField getAttractor(){
		return attractor;
	}

	public void setAttractor(PotentialField attractor){
		this.attractor = attractor;
	}

	public Date getStartTime(){
		return startTime;
	}

	public void setStartTime(Date startTime){
		this.startTime = startTime;
	}

	public boolean isRetHome(){
		return retHome;
	}

	public void setRetHome(boolean retHome){
		this.retHome = retHome;
	}
}

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Prince William starts historic Middle East tour
Prince William arrived in Jordan on Sunday on the first stop of a five-day Middle East tour that will make him the first British royal to pay an official visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories.
The Duke of Cambridge was greeted by Crown Prince Hussein, the son of Jordan's King Abdullah II, at the airport in Jordan's capital, Amman.
The Jordanian prince then drove William to a technology-focused event for young people linked to the Crown Prince Foundation.
Kensington Palace tweeted that Prince William was "looking forward to building a real and enduring relationship with the people of the region."
The Duke of Cambridge has landed in Amman, Jordan.
Over the next five days The Duke will visit Jordan, Israel, and the Occupied Palestinian Territories – and is looking forward to building a real and enduring relationship with the people of the region. pic.twitter.com/69xfB3p3pb
— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) June 24, 2018
On Monday night he will leave for Israel, where he can expect his every move to be closely watched.
After a Tuesday morning visit to Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, Prince William will hold meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin.
On Wednesday, he will meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, in the West Bank.
The following day, William is expected to visit Jerusalem's Old City, the Mount of Olives and the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in the Garden of Gethsemane, where his great-grandmother, Princess Alice -- Prince Philip's mother -- is buried.
Reflecting the royal visit's focus on young people, William will also meet with young Syrian refugees and Jordanian students while in Jordan and play soccer with children in Jaffa, Tel Aviv.
His wife, Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, who gave birth to their third child in late April, is not joining him on the visit.
The historic trip, which coincides with the 70th anniversary of Israel's founding, comes at a time of heightened tensions in the region.
The Israeli military said it responded with airstrikes Wednesday after some 45 rockets were fired toward Israel by Palestinian militants in Gaza.
More than 120 Palestinians have been killed since March 30 amid a continuing protest movement along the border fence separating Gaza and Israel.
Israel has been accused of using excessive force against the protesters, a charge the country's leaders have denied. Israel claims that Hamas is orchestrating the protests.
Earlier this month, the United Nations General Assembly condemned Israel for the use of "excessive, disproportionate and indiscriminate force" against Palestinian civilians. The resolution also condemned the firing of rockets from Gaza into Israeli civilian areas.
Pete Davidson

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Hi there, I did a bit of a search for this problem and I couldn't seem to find any previous questions like it. I don't know what I've done wrong because I've had realplayer working fine with Konqueror before, it's just screwed up now.
So here's the deal, I just installed Mandrake 10 and realplayer (to listen to the BBC worldservice). Realplayer works fine on its own, and Mozilla brings it up automatically when I click on a live feed, no problem.
The issue is this: If I click on a live feed, like this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ram/live_news.ram Konqueror always brings up that stupid dialog box "Open With:" and prompts me to type in realplay, etc. I want it to be automatic like in Mozilla, but I don't know where I screwed up.
realplay has the proper file associations.
The funny thing is that I recently installed Kaffeine and even though it is BELOW realplay in priority for realaudio files, Kaffeine is what inevitably gets loaded. My Kaffeine isn't properly setup to play realaudio (I'm not sure if it can be) but that's another issue. At least Kaffeine LOADS. realplayer loads just fine inside of Mozilla. Konqueror gets stuck.
Any other ideas? I'm stumped as to why the Kaffeine symbolic link is noticed, but the realplayer one is ignored.
I don't know why that happens .. I will try to find the soultion, but I don't use Konqueror... so I will have to gogle for it / ask somebody >> try removing all the entries except real player maybe that will force Konqueror to use it..
I have the same problem. It keeps trying to open real audio with Kaffeine, and when I installed KMplayer, it chooses that!


My name is Catherine, I'm 36, work casually in a business role and as we speak I'm beginning the process to move into Holistic Mental Health.
I have been house sitting on and off over the last 6 years, and have a number of regular clients that I sit for. I am originally from Gippsland, and having grown up on a farm, I've had exposure to all manner of animals both big and small. Predominantly while house sitting I've looked after dogs and cats (including rescue, high-needs and medication dependent), fish and chickens. I'm house sitting in an effort to both live a minimalist lifestyle and to afford to continue to study, while maintaining a desirable work/life balance.
Having owned a house and been a landlord myself, I understand the value of having someone respect your house and your belongings as if they were their own.
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Q: ArgumentException when adding UserControl to StackPanel When a program is trying to add WordBlock (which is my class extending UserControl) to StackPanel's content in DoSend method, it sometimes (actually quite often, especially when query returns more than one result) throws an ArgumentException, it surely has something to do with Threading (SearchThreadEngine is a method running in in second thread), but I am weak in the topic, and don't know why it is happenig. So, I will gladly accept any help.
Here's a stack trace:
{System.ArgumentException: Value does not fall within the expected range.
at MS.Internal.XcpImports.CheckHResult(UInt32 hr)
at MS.Internal.XcpImports.Collection_AddValue[T](PresentationFrameworkCollection`1 collection, CValue value)
at MS.Internal.XcpImports.Collection_AddDependencyObject[T](PresentationFrameworkCollection`1 collection, DependencyObject value)
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{
    Result.Children.Clear();
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        foreach (Word word in words)
        {
            Result.Children.Add(new WordBlock(word));
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        if (ToSearch != "")
        {
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A: Result.Children.Add(new WordBlock(word))

If the control has the same name as another this is the error you will receive. Each member must have a unique name.

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Home|Leadership|Bill Smith
Vice President, Fleet Support Programs
Bill Smith is vice president of Fleet Support Programs for Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), located in Newport News, Va. Named to this position in 2017, he is responsible for all aspects of submarine and aircraft carrier fleet support, including Gerald R. Ford-class fleet support work.
Smith began his shipbuilding career in 1984 as a sheet metal apprentice. Since then, he has held numerous positions of increasing responsibility, including piping supervisor for Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carriers and engineering manager for Ford-Class Aircraft Carriers. He also served as director of Aircraft Carrier Engineering and director of the Reactor Plant Planning Yard, Propulsion Plant Engineering Activity and Standard Navy Valve Yard. Prior to his current position, Smith served as program director for Aircraft Carrier Fleet Support.
Smith graduated from The Apprentice School in 1988 and earned his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Old Dominion University. Smith currently serves on the Ship Repair Association Boards for Virginia, Puget Sound and San Diego. He is also a member of The Apprentice School Alumni Association.
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Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, is the nation's sole designer, builder and refueler of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and one of only two shipyards capable of designing and building nuclear-powered submarines. NNS also provides fleet services for naval ships and recently expanded its nuclear and manufacturing expertise into Department of Energy and alternative energy business ventures. Headquartered in Newport News, Virginia, the shipyard's vast facilities span more than 550 acres along two miles of waterfront on the historic James River. It is the largest industrial employer in Virginia, employing more than 23,000 people, many of whom are third and fourth generation shipbuilders. For more information, please visit www.huntingtoningalls.com.
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Mia and me Wiki
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This article is about the second season of Mia and Me. The season was in production by 2014[1] and was rolled out on international channels in 2015.[2] In the United States, the second season premiered on Nick Jr. US on 1 February 2016, with the episode "The Mysterious Visitor".
The production of the second season of Mia and Me had been confirmed from many sources.
Some of them are from:
The show's own website[3]
ToonBarn [4]
Animation World Network [5]
Teaser summary
The cover of the flyer of season 2.
This time, Mia has summer vacation and stays on her Grandpa Renzo's farm. It is not long before she is called away to Centopia where there is great excitement. A strange elf named Rixel has sailed to Centopia on his floating island and has invited all of the elves to the opening of his amazing circus show. It all seems a bit too good to be true to Mia and her friends and they soon find out that it is. Rixel is nothing but a villain who is plotting to kidnap Onchao and steal him away to Dystopia. Not only that, but a new visitor to Centopia gives Mia even more to contend with. Will Centopia and Mia's secret remain safe? [6]
The Mysterious Visitor
The Animal Cuardians
Dragons in Danger
The Ghost of Blackwood Forest
The Spell of the Green Fluids
Beyond the Wall of Vines
A Fathers Feathers
Speaking with Stones
Dancing with Stars
The Unwanted Roommate
Return to Panthea's Castle
The Whistling Bolobo
My name is Varia
Crossing the Rainbow Bridge
Taking Sides
A Shower of Pollen
The Fiery Flower
Journey to the North
The Unicorn King
The Rainbow Spring
A Sticky Situation
The Strongest Team
Breaking the Spell
Mia visits and spends her summer holidays at her grandfather's farm. [7][8]
Rixel, an elf, plans to kidnap Onchao.
Onchao, along with Mia and her friends, go to a quest to find his father, Ono.
Story Synopsis
(Note that the synopsis below is a MAJOR and HEAVY spoiler, as it reveals the plot of this season, so please take the time to consider reading it or not.)
A new threat arrives on the shores of Centopia… but in a fun disguise. Zootopia, a floating island pulled by winged dolphins, seems like an over-blown fantastic theme park. And its owner, Rixel, a gregarious showman, looks like he's a lot of fun. However, it soon turns out that he is also a ruthless big-game hunter who has an eye out not just for Unicorns in general, but for the winged Unicorn Onchao in particular. The Elves soon figure that out and ban Rixel from Zootopia, but he refuses to leave. Instead he unleashes the monstrous dragon Gurga who causes havoc all over Centopia, chasing Elves, Unicorns and pans all over the place on a wild search for Onchao. When Rixel and Gurga catch Unicorns, they imprison them on the island of Zootopia to take on tours all over the world. The Centopians manage to find safety in the Elven Crater, but this is a temporary refuge at best. And with the Unicorns no longer spread all over Centopia, the plants are already starting to wither everywhere.
Meanwhile Mia, in her real like, is on summer vacation at her Grandpa Renzo's farm. But she finds out that Renzo is up to his eyeballs in debt and the back is threatening to repossess the farm.
Of all people, Violetta's mother is eyeing the farm as she's eager to spend her own estate. At the same time Mia has to deal again with Violetta, her boarding school nemesis from Season 1. Mia and Renzo save Violetta's mistreated horse Saphir from the abattoir, but it's a long process for Mia to gain its trust and to bring it back to old shape. Rocco, a boy who helps on Renzo's farm in exchange for some pocket money, helps Mia to prepare for an upcoming horse-jumping competition. They both become closer and gain trust in each other, which gradually turns in to love…
In Centopia, Onchao is steadily growing up, making his first attempts to fit into a peer group. But that's not made easier by the fact that the leader of the group, Esko taunts Onchao and makes him feel his father Ono, the Unicorn King, was a coward because he left to save the Unicorns, but then never returned.
Onchao feels an intense need to find out the truth about his father's fate and embarks on a journey to the terrifying Blackwood Forest. Accompanied by his friends and Mia he meets the druidess Tessandra, who leads them on a trail of clues to finally find Ono… [9]
↑ http://www.mia-and-me.com/en/2014/07/15/mia-and-me-season-2/
↑ http://www.toonbarn.com/other-cartoons/season-mia-announced/
↑ http://www.awn.com/news/mia-and-me-begins-second-season
↑ http://hahnfilm.com/mia-and-me-2-5/. (07/11/2014)
↑ https://www.facebook.com/centopia/photos/a.500393743374144.1073741825.338397819573738/500394013374117/?type=3&theater
↑ http://hahnfilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/mia_and_me_2.pdf. © Lucky Punch, Rainbow, March Entertainment. (07/11/2014)
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Buyer of Pirate Bay Plans to Go Legal
July 2, 2009 David Goldstein Leave a comment
Free music and movies, mostly pirated, abound on the Internet. But Hans Pandeya says he thinks he has an even better offer. He wants to pay Web users to share songs or films — with the full approval of the copyright owners.Mr. Pandeya, chief executive of a small Swedish software provider called Global Gaming Factory, said Tuesday that the company had agreed to acquire the Pirate Bay, a file-sharing service whose founders were recently sentenced to prison for assisting in illegal copying.
http://nytimes.com/2009/07/01/technology/companies/01pirate.htmlAlso see:Pirate Bay to be heart of legal content distribution network, say new owners
The world's biggest distributor of links to copyright infringing material is to be bought by a software entrepreneur and turned into a legitimate business, the site has announced. The Pirate Bay has agreed to be acquired for £4.8 million.Swedish company Global Gaming Factory (GGF) has agreed to buy the site, which has been at the centre of political, legal and cultural storms all its life. It was the biggest repository of links to pirated content, though it hosted none itself. Its founders were found guilty earlier this year of facilitating copyright infringement in Sweden.
http://out-law.com/page-10139Cash for Pirate Bay file-sharers
The new owners of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay say users will be paid for sharing files.Global Gaming Factory (GGF) paid 60m kronor (£4.7m) to take over the site.In an exclusive interview with the BBC, GGF's Hans Pandeya said that the only way to beat illegal file-sharing was to make something more attractive.
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Lightspeed Champion releasing 2nd album + a NYC show, collaborations w/ Solange, Florence, Van Dyke Parks & more
By BrooklynVegan Staff December 8, 2009 3:06 PM
Lightspeed Champion @ MHOW in July (more by Bao Nguyen)
Lightspeed Champion's second LP, Life Is Sweet! Nice to Meet You, is coming out in the US on February 16th (Feb. 1 for UK) on Domino Records. Behind the controls for the album is producer Ben Allen, whose past work includes Gnarls Barkley and his label-mates Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion.
Before the record is out, you can catch Dev Hynes & band at Bowery Ballroom in NYC on Thursday, January 21st. Tickets for the show are on sale now.
He put out a video for the album's first single "Marlene," which will be released on a 10″ paired with covers of Serge Gainsbourg's "69 Année Érotique (feat. Valentine Fillol-Cordier)" and '50s singing trio the Fleetwoods' "(He's) The Great Imposter." The video and single info are below.
Despite having recorded Life Is Sweet! in early 2009, Hynes has a had a busy year, both home recording (which he's been sharing online) and performing unique shows, like covering Cat Stevens's soundtrack to Harold & Maude live with the film.
A full detailing of what he's been up to (including working with Solange Knowles (who isn't?), Basement Jaxx and Van Dyke Parks), the new video and new album info are below…
Lightspeed Champion – 'Marlene'
What Lightspeed Champion's been up to…
The extensive touring [in 2008] had ravaged his throat, and in December he underwent surgery that left him unable to speak for weeks, incapable of anything but whispers and scowls for a good while after that. So he scorned the world, holed up in his apartment, and began writing Life Is Sweet! Nice to Meet You. It was finished by March.
He also blogged profusely, wrote short stories, and began work on a comic book with his girlfriend, graphic designer Nicole Michalek. The blog has been read by over 300 million people (guesstimate – official numbers unavailable); the stories will be made available by Domino in late 2009 as a collection called Bad Era of Me (an anagram of 'Boa: Mad, Free', perhaps coincidentally); and the comic book, Juice This!, will be released as part of CTRL ALT SHIFT's campaign exploring corruption in November. That's just the non-musical stuff, of course. New paragraph!
Dev's musical drive – his need to remain musically active – is more apparent than the hat on his head. He's often not wearing a hat, for one thing – he is always, always making music. During the last year alone, Dev:
– performed Cat Stevens's soundtrack for Harold & Maude at a special screening by the British Film Institute.
– sang songs from Moondog's Sax Pax for a Sax with the London Saxophonic at London's Barbican Centre on the 10th anniversary of the composer's death.
– arranged for and sang with The Britten Sinfonia orchestra, conducted by André De Ridder and Andi Toma.
– co-wrote with legendary composer and arranger Van Dyke Parks, the fruits of which will see release in the near future.
– wrote and recorded with Basement Jaxx (see My Turns, the new single from their recent record).
– wrote and recorded with Solange (sister of Beyoncé, a well known R&B performer).
He also covered, this year, something like thirty records in their entirety – recorded them and everything – while sitting around his apartment (his latest, as of this writing, is Todd Rundgren's A Wizard A True Star). These covers are rarely heard by another soul, although in 2007 Dev put his Nimrod take on Myspace (Green Day continue to nurse their cover of Falling off the Lavender Bridge). He also started a new solo project called Blood Orange (a "slightly disco Chris Isaak Oriental thing"). He also scored an album for two cellos, which he aims to release in 2010. CHRIS CAIN/Lightspeed's MySpace
Dev and Florence and the machine random footage
'Life Is Sweet! Nice to Meet You' tracklist
1. "Dead Head Blues"
2. "Marlene" 3:55
3. "There's Nothing Underwater"
4. "Intermission"
5. "Faculty of Fears"
6. "The Big Guns of Highsmith"
7. "Romart"
8. "I Don't Want to Wake Up Alone"
9. "Madame Van Damme"
10. "Smooth Day (at the Library)"
11. "Intermission 2″
12. "Sweetheart"
13. "Etude Op.3 'Goodnight Michalek'"
14. "Middle of the Dark"
15. "A Bridge and a Goodbye"
'Marlene' single tracklist
1. "Concerto.2 "So Long! So Long!""
2. "Marlene"
3. "69 Année Érotique (feat. Valentine Fillol-Cordier)" (Serge Gainsbourg)
4. "(He's) The Great Imposter" (Sharon Sheeley and Jackie DeShannon)
Lightspeed Champion – 2010 Tour Dates
Jan 21 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
Filed Under: Basement Jaxx | Blood Orange | Dev Hynes | Domino Records | Florence and the Machine | Lightspeed Champion | Solange | Van Dyke Parks Category: Music News | tour dates


New releases that give you the perfect excuse to stay indoors this summer.
On a warm and sunny day, we love spending time outside in the company of others as much as the next person. But when the dog days of summer arrive here in the South, all we really want to do is stay inside and sip on some ice cold tea with the air conditioner blowing. And, thankfully, mindless hours spent in front of the TV is all the indoor entertainment you'll need to beat the heat and your boredom. Just in time for the holidays and those sultry days that force us inside our homes to keep cool—Amazon Prime and Netflix have released their new releases heating up in July. There's enough variety and fodder here to satisfy your binge-watching needs this summer and to please even the pickiest of small-screen viewers. What are you waiting for? Hurry and add these to your queue and watchlist, today!
We should note this isn't an exhaustive list of all the titles available in July—just a few ideas to help you prioritize what to watch over the next few months.


On the road to comprehension, idioms are speed bumps. When we talk about reading comprehension gaps (to toss in another metaphor), I believe idioms are THE MISSING LINK. No matter how you slice them (I can't help myself), idioms are essential to lucid comprehension. This section explains why and how you can help your students boost their Idiom Power.
The syntax in this sentence is a somewhat complex and the vocabulary is somewhat challenging, but let's say you could break the clauses apart and find synonyms for "participation" and "invest." If you'd been listening to the news lately, "stock market" and "real estate" would not be unfamiliar terms, even if you didn't know much about them. You could probably paraphrase MOST of the sentence. But not the idiom. You'd have to SLOW DOWN and DRAW AN INFERENCE ABOUT THE IDIOM. And while you might know the literal meanings of "cost," "me" "an arm" "and" and "a leg," you might not grasp what they meant when bundled together.
"How hard could it be?" you ask. I have sat in a 7th-grade classroom where students could not explain "go out on a limb." And there was a tree visible through the window.
We assume that everyone knows these "simple" expressions. While the words in an idiom might be short, if you haven't ever heard a particular idiom, it's not so simple. And if English is not your first language, you are less likely to have heard common idioms. So when people use them, you don't understand what they're saying. And if they're telling a joke, you don't get it. That's frustrating.
Why don't our students know more about idioms? English teachers tend to teach figurative language exclusively in the context of poetry and fiction, emphasizing metaphors and similes only in those genres. But the truth is that idioms, figurative uses of language, also appear in nonfiction—in newspapers and magazines and everyday conversation.
Students who struggle to speak standard English (whether English is their first language or not) will not recognize or comprehend STANDARD ENGLISH IDIOMS. So we need to teach BOTH the idioms AND strategies for figuring them out.
Here is the IDIOM. DRAW a picture of the idiom. PARAPHRASE: What does it say, literally? DRAW AN INFERENCE: What does this expression really mean? What's the message?
"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." [Pretend there's a picture here.] Having a bird in your hand is equal to having two in a nearby hedge/tree. It's better to have a little bit of something than to have none of it and only hope you can get more.
This homework was only "a drop in the bucket" compared to all of the work you'll be assigned this semester.
For more information about reading comprehension and the importance of idioms, go to Comprehension 101.


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Parents Demand 'Accountability' From National School Board Group Behind Domestic Terrorism Letter
A parents group is demanding accountability from the National School Boards Association (NSBA) after the organization admitted in a review that it wrongfully requested federal authorities to investigate parents as domestic terrorists.
After the NSBA sent a letter to the federal government requesting that President Joe Biden's administration use domestic terror laws to police parents in September 2021, the organization announced in a Friday press release that it regretted the letter and was "taking significant steps" to ensure a similar incident does not occur. Attorney General Merrick Garland's Department of Justice (DOJ) allegedly targeted members of the Moms for Liberty, a parental rights nonprofit, following the NSBA's request for DOJ involvement at school board meetings, The Daily Caller previously reported.
Released: May 23rd, 2022 09:00 PM


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The "third eye" is a person's ability to see what might be–to see potential. Clairvoyance meditation is the key to opening your third eye. It's a simple technique to learn, and you may be surprised at how easy it really is. You can try it right now–it only takes about 10 minutes, so quick and easy you could even do it over your lunch hour!
Are you ready to give it a try? Let's do it!
The main focus in this short, simple exercise is visualization. Are you a visual person? That is, when someone tells you to imagine a tree, can you see a tree in your mind? If you are a visual person, this psychic development exercise will help you to strengthen that ability.
But if you're not a visual person, don't despair. If you struggle with seeing things in your mind's eye, following these steps will help. Don't be discouraged if your first experience with this meditation is difficult or unsuccessful. If you're not very good at visualizing quite yet, it may take a bit more practice and patience.
Begin this exercise by choosing a quiet place to sit and relax. This may take you a few minutes. Some people prefer sitting upright when practicing clairvoyance meditation. But this is not necessary. Find a position in which you can be comfortable, and settle into it.
So you've found a quiet place and you're relaxed. Now, close your eyes, and take some deep breaths. Breathe in deeply through your nose, and breathe out through your mouth. Let all tension leave your body.
A common mistake for beginners in this step is breathing shallowly from your chest. If you're new to meditation, try placing your hand on your stomach. When you breathe in, you should feel your stomach expand. This will ensure nice, deep breaths.
You're quiet, relaxed and breathing deeply. Now, with your eyes closed, visualize the number 1. It doesn't matter how big or small the digit is. It doesn't matter what color it is. Just focus on seeing that image, that number 1, in your mind.
You may begin to feel tingling in your forehead, right between your eyebrows. This is where the third eye chakra is located, so this sensation is completely normal. Actually, it's a good sign of psychic awakening!
But if you're not feeling anything like that at all, that's okay, too. You may start feeling something after you've practiced some more. Some people struggle when they begin clairvoyance meditation. This is common, and it gets easier with practice.
If you are having a tough time, and can't make room in your mind for that number 1 because your grocery list keeps crowding it out, take another deep breath and keep trying. Redirect yourself back to what you were doing.
Another helpful tip is to start out doing this for just a couple minutes. Then, as it starts to get easier, you can gradually stretch out the time you spend in meditation.
You're relaxed, you're breathing deeply, and you see the number 1 in your mind. Great! Now hold the image in your mind for a few seconds.
When you're comfortable with this process, move onto the number 2, then 3, and so on, all the way through to the number 10. When you can close your eyes and easily see the numbers 1 through 10 in sequence, you've mastered this step!
If you're struggling with this step, try making things more concrete. Draw a large, prominent number 1 on a piece of paper. Write it large with a permanent marker, use a bright piece of paper, or jazz it up by using a brightly colored crayon. Now stare at the image you drew for 10 to 30 seconds. Then close your eyes and see if you can visualize the image you've been staring at. This little trick can help a lot!
When you get bored with numbers, which you almost certainly will, move o nto colors, or flowers, or anything else you can think of that you may enjoy visualizing. It only takes a few minutes each day to do this clairvoyance meditation, and it's very helpful in opening the third eye.
Try this same technique with your eyes open. Just keep your eyes open, but still focus on seeing a different image in your mind's eye.
After practicing these steps, you'll be well on your way to opening your third eye.
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Friday, July 9, 2021 John Vargo
Welcome to Game Day at Eastwood Field
NILES, Ohio – For those who work at Eastwood Field, home games are much more than baseball players on the diamond and fans in the stands.
Game days usually begin at 8 a.m. and end around 11:30 p.m. for Jordan Taylor, general manager of the Mahoning Valley Scrappers and vice president of HWS baseball, a Massachusetts-based sports management firm that owns and operates professional sports franchises.
The Scrappers' front office workers and groundskeeping crew prepare during the day. Game-day hourly employees working in other facets such as concessions, parking lot operations, ushers and ticket takers trickle in a couple of hours before the gates open an hour before the first pitch.
Game day operation costs can range from $3,000 to $15,000, says Taylor, who was interviewed before the June 16 game against the State College Spikes. Costs soar for the team's "buck nights," where beverages, hot dogs and general admission tickets are $1, and a lot of food and drinks are sold.
Taylor's day starts with checking in on the box office and walking around the ballpark to address any issues. He meets with sponsors and ticket holders, along with the manager and coaching staff to discuss player welfare and plan road trips.
"There's a little bit of everything," Taylor says.
Jordan Taylor is the team's general manager.
From full-time to seasonal employees, the Scrappers employ 200 in a normal year.
Some workers have been with the club since its inception in 1999, while others are seasonal and range from college- and high school-age to retirees and teachers.
Depending on the job, Taylor says the average wage is $10 an hour, going up to $12 for cooks and higher pay for overseeing operations of the concession stands.
The clubhouse is where the Scrappers and visiting teams prepare before the game. A portion of the club's staff makes sure the uniforms are washed and meals are prepared, along with taking care of the visiting team's needs.
"It's a big operation and very labor intensive," Taylor says. "Those are very long days as well for that group."
Noah Bard is the team's head groundskeeper.
Groundskeepers maintain the playing surface, dugouts and bullpens with a head groundskeeper and hourly workers on game days. Their day begins at 8:30 a.m., and ends an hour after the game is complete for the staff of two to five people.
Manicuring the field, cleaning bases and painting white lines on the field are completed first.
Rain delays during a game? That adds to the work.
"I have not been through a rain delay yet so thanks for jinxing me on that," says Scrappers head groundskeeper Noah Bard, who was hired in early June.
For weather stoppages, Taylor, the managers of both teams and the grounds crew consult with the umpires.
"Without the field, we don't have a product," Taylor says.
The maintenance building is behind the outfield fence near center field. Two chairs overlooking the field are there for the crew to keep an eye on the game.
"If we want to jump on the roof of the dirt bin, we do have a nice view," Bard says.
For fans, the view of any Scrappers game is not complete without a beverage and something to eat.
The club operates its own concessions at Eastwood Field, preparing popcorn, hot dogs, hamburgers, nachos and other food, along with making sure the drinks are cold.
Aiden Lambert works at a concession stand.
"It's basically running a restaurant for thousands of people every night for 30-some games," Taylor says.
All-you-can-eat nights feature a variety of food and drinks, along with other specials.
A point-of-sale system is used to keep track of what comes in and goes out. A par level is set, which is the minimum amount of on-hand products to meet demand until additional inventory is delivered.
No two nights are the same.
"Depending on what the presale [of tickets] is, we can kind of expect how much more of a bump we're going to get as opposed to if it was a night that wasn't quite as nice," says Matt Thompson, assistant general manager of sales.
For the June 16 game, stacks of Pizza Joe's boxes were being delivered to the stadium before the crowd arrived.
Thompson said if it is early enough in the game and slices are running low, the team can call for more pizza. Hot dogs on buck night are handled on site.
"Some nights they go quicker than we expect," he says. When that happens, "It's getting on the radio. It's all hands on deck in the concession stand, getting back there to roll some hot dogs."
Before the game, promotions and merchandising manager Anthony Marino receives a call on his walkie talkie to come to the Scrappers team shop. It is one of many places at the stadium that require attention.
Scripts choreographing the in-game entertainment, integrating sponsors into public address announcements, video board messages and music being played has to be checked multiple times, Marino says. Promotions and prizes have to be addressed as well, which comes up during
the daily meeting held at 5:15 p.m. for 7:05 p.m. games.
"People say 7 o'clock game, you have all day to prepare," Marino says. "It goes by really, really fast. Being prepared, being ready to go when 5:30 hits is very important."
Production manager Kendra Hoover arrives at 8:30 a.m. By 10 a.m., she is upstairs in a control center where a handful of people operate the PA, music, cameras, video board and scoreboards.
She controls the promotions, directing everyone to get off the field before the batter comes to home plate. Scripts for these promotional events are normally taken care of a week in advance.
"Hopefully, about 3 we're ready to go and set," she says.
Richie Juliano is the Scrappers PA announcer. He prepares his stack of papers with rosters and scoring sheets before each game,and goes over the pronunciations and scripts 90 minutes before gametime. So what's the hardest name he has pronounced? Damiano Palmegiani, who played for the State College Spikes.
It's Richie Juliano's job to pronounce names correctly.
"Being Italian, it was a lot easier to pronounce that," he says.
It's important for Juliano to provide fans a flawless experience at Eastwood Field.
"It's a place to get away from day-to-day life so they can relax," he says. "I just provide some excitement throughout the ballpark."
Is there ever a normal night at the ballpark?
"I don't know if there is," Taylor says. "That's what makes it exciting. You're running 100 miles an hour, working on different things. It makes the day go super fast. It's always challenging. But days like this are always a little bit better when you don't have to deal with the rain."
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August 15, 2019 Political Protests, Politics
The long read by Daniel Cohen (Among the remainists, Journal 13 August) charts the radicalisation of remain supporters. But as someone who identifies strongly with this movement and is active within it, I found the sneering and patronising tone difficult to stomach. The caricatured presentation of remainers as an eccentric and ineffectual sect "locked in an arms race to out-remain each other" undermined the presentation of the facts and was antagonistic towards a large swathe of Guardian readers.
Many people in the movement have put their careers and family life on hold. We have stood out in rain, wind and heat engaging with the public. We have endured abuse in the street and online. We have stumped up for crowdfunders and campaigns, travelled hundreds of miles to attend rallies and written countless letters to MPs and newspapers. I have nothing but admiration for the grassroots campaigners and organisers who have given far more of their time and energy that I ever could.
Surely this new political awakening is cause for celebration, not contempt? Out of the remain movement will come the positive change this country needs.
Melissa Percival
Crediton, Devon
• Daniel Cohen presents a disturbing picture of remain fanatics who are determined to subvert a democratic decision. The 2016 referendum was not advisory or a test of public opinion; it was presented by those who expected a different result as binding. That was the whole point of holding it.
I voted to leave because I am a radical socialist-anarchist and an absolute pacifist. The EU seeks to prevent members opting for socialism or from contracting out of a nuclear-armed alliance like Nato, with which the EU is closely associated. But if this country is to play its part in avoiding catastrophe, it needs to renounce nuclear weapons, close foreign bases, refuse to participate in foreign wars of choice and break the special relationship with the US. We can do none of these things if we are members of the EU and Nato.
I don't think I'm the only person who voted for Brexit for these reasons. But the remainists cannot even comprehend that such a view exists and can be sustained by powerful arguments.
Malcolm Pittock
Bolton, Lancashire
• One aspect of Brexit that Daniel Cohen fails to acknowledge is the implicit permission that leave has given to the politics of racism and exclusion. It is possible that many who support remain also fear the implications of the free movement clause in the EU agreement, but so far this has not become a central remain concern. Contrast this with the politics of leave, which from the start invoked a clear call to define and exclude "others".
What this has provided is not just the toleration of the hostile environment, but also a further legitimation of state-organised racism. By all means identify the persona and literature of remain, but do not exclude the mindset that the politics of leave is creating.
Mary Evans
Patrixbourne, Kent
• As one of the generation blamed for the Brexit vote, I identified with so much of the long read. I too will feel bereaved if/when Brexit goes ahead and I will be on the march on 19 October. But for me it's personal. In 2010, my younger son went to Australia to work and is now a dual British and Australian citizen, followed in 2016 by my elder son going to California. Both thought they would return, but have now said they will not come back while the UK is such a divided and racist society. At one time that would have been painful, but now I can only be pleased that they are making careers away from this mess. For the UK, it is the loss of two talented, well-educated individuals who would have contributed much to society. This cannot be a unique situation.
Cynthia Battersby
• Daniel Cohen says Brexit has torn the country apart and remainism isn't trying to put it back together. This fails to recognise that it is likely that remainers and leavers have a lot of concerns in common, such as NHS underfunding, rising private debt, austerity, inequality, etc. The difference is that they blame different institutions: on the one hand, UK government policy over the past 30 years, on the other, the EU. Both domestically and within the EU, the prevailing ideology is neoliberalism, and the Brexit debate has generated a great deal of heat but very little light. The media highlights and cultivates this division rather than providing a balanced assessment of the causes, myths and misinformation that created it. To do such a thing would show that Brexit has been, perhaps, a deliberate distraction.
Charlie Mason
Glogue, Pembrokeshire
• The long read could only have been written by someone without sympathy for the estimated half a million workers who will lose their jobs because of the uncompetitive market Brexit will create for exporters, who now pay in tax all of the UK's contribution to the EU plus about £800m. Defending government policy cannot be right if it means putting people out of work, and when job losses will be so great, any journalist not questioning the justice and decency of it disrespects humanity and themselves.
How can anyone believe that the US is going to take what the UK sends to the EU – £4bn a week tariff-free in exports – or enough to make up what the tariffs of no deal will cost. The EU expects to lose 1.5m jobs, and anyone thinking that it will not be taking steps to minimise its losses is not being realistic.
Reducing a £4bn-a-week import bill will become a priority for the EU, and its economies missing the UK contribution have no choice but to find investment to replace it. With a substantial labour cost advantage over the UK that won't be a problem. How will the UK regain its loss?
Michael A McPhillips
Ballymun, Dublin
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Tastes Like Ticagrelor: Mouth-Dissolving Pills Match Standard Ones in ACS
The orodispersible pills didn't beat the gold standard, but aiding swallowing could be useful in this setting, the authors argue.
By Yael L. Maxwell
(UPDATED) Ticagrelor tablets that dissolve in the mouth are not superior to pills with standard coatings in ACS patients undergoing PCI, based on platelet reactivity, according to the small, randomized TASTER study. The trial did, however, show that orodispersible tablets (ODT) are equally safe and effective and, as such, may hold particular appeal in this setting.
"In critically ill patients, such as a relevant proportion of those with an ACS, the use of oral pharmacological agents needing water for pill swallowing might not represent an ideal drug administration route," write Guido Parodi, MD, PhD (Sassari University Hospital, Italy), and colleagues. "In particular, in the ambulance, emergency department, or catheterization laboratory, where the speed of action is pivotal for patient management, drinking water might not be promptly available or may be technically difficult."
Calling the study "revolutionary," co-author Filippo Dossi, MD (Sassari University Hospital), told TCTMD in an email that ODT ticagrelor is "a definite drug for a definite situation. This is exactly how modern technology helps us: to develop a precise solution for any given situation."
Specifically, "the use of ODT ticagrelor makes the difference in two different scenarios: the first one involves all patients lying in a supine position (ie, ambulance, emergency room, cath lab) because ODT ticagrelor represents an easy and faster way of administration (remember that 'time is muscle!')," he explained. "The second one concerns all patients that are old, with a previous stroke, or those sedated, unconscious, or intubated patients [who have] consequent difficulties in swallowing."
Commenting on the study for TCTMD, Malcolm Bell, MD (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN), agreed that it clearly shows mouth-dissolving ticagrelor "works as effectively as the tablet form and that if you cannot use a tablet for whatever reason, it seems reasonable to use."
However, he cautioned, "I don't think we'd be using it routinely, as it's not going to work any faster." Bell pointed out that other forms of antiplatelet therapy also can be given, either at the time or in a delayed fashion.
However, Dossi noted that using IV antiplatelet agents is more expensive and often linked to greater bleeding versus ticagrelor. "Furthermore, both GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors and cangrelor must be used in continuous infusion and so not easy handle in an out-of-hospital and urgent settings. Moreover, most recent guidelines consider IV antiplatelet drugs as a second-line treatment. As a first-line treatment, for its strong platelet inhibitor power and relatively safety profile, we thus suggest the use of ticagrelor in its most-convenient form."
To show the advantage of ODT over standard tablets would "require a really big trial and I don't think it would be feasible or worth it," Bell said. "The bottom line here is this just provides us with an alternative mode of giving this drug if you felt that the patient couldn't swallow a tablet and you really wanted to give this drug rather than anything else."
Although it didn't show a clear win for ODT ticagrelor over standard tablets, the TASTER study shows "a convenient alternative way of ticagrelor administration," Dossi said. "Real-world data are playing an increasing role in healthcare decisions nowadays, and they will add further evidence to current knowledge."
TASTER Trial
For the study, published as a research letter in the July 20, 2021, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Parodi and colleagued randomized 126 STEMI patients presenting within 12 hours of symptom onset to receive a 180-mg loading dose of ticagrelor as an ODT or a standard coated tablet, with the former generally administered without water. More than half of patients (58.7%) presented with STEMI and one-quarter of patients were also administered morphine. The study drug was given to 90% of patients in the cath lab.
Platelet reactivity units (PRU) at 1 hour, the primary endpoint, was measured using the point-of-care VerifyNow assay.
Mean time from drug prescription to preparation and administration was shorter in the ODT group than in those receiving standard tablets (34 vs 55 seconds; P = 0.001), but the 1-hour median PRU value was similar (92 vs 140; P = 0.656). Also, a similar percentage of patients reported high residual platelet reactivity (> 208 PRU) 1 hour after receiving the loading dose regardless of pill type (18% vs 19%; P = 0.935), and residual platelet reactivity was similar between the study groups at 1, 2, 4, and 6 hours after administration.
In addition, there were no differences in median 1-hour PRU between ODT or standard tablets for the subgroups of STEMI patients (147 vs 151; P = 0.813) or those who received morphine (192 vs 173; P = 0.372).
On multivariate analysis, both morphine use (OR 4.30; 95% CI 1.33-13.88) and baseline PRU value (OR 1.021; 95% CI 1.009-1.033) predicted high residual platelet reactivity at 1 hour.
Lastly, there was no difference observed in clinical events between the study arms, and no patients reported BARC > 2 bleeding.
As for cost, Dossi said he does not expect ODT ticagrelor's to be higher than for swallowable pills. Also, after having been asked by many patients about the flavor, he tried one and described it as "not bitter at all and dissolves in few seconds! I would say it taste like a wafer!"
by Yael L. Maxwell Editor, Fellows Forum
Yael L. Maxwell is Senior Medical Journalist for TCTMD and Section Editor of TCTMD's Fellows Forum. She served as the inaugural…
Parodi G, Talanas G, Mura E, et al. Orodispersible ticagrelor in acute coronary syndromes: the TASTER study. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2021;78:292-294.
The study was supported by an unrestricted grant from AstraZeneca.
Parodi reports receiving consulting or lecture fees from AstraZeneca, Bayer, Chiesi, Daiichi-Sankyo/Eli Lilly, and Merck Sharp & Dohme.
Bell and Dossi report no relevant conflicts of interest.
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Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion and perhaps today's most famous Darwin apologist, has a new book that hit bookstores this month. The Greatest Show on Earth promises to meet his high standard of creative and convincing tale-telling.
The giant elephant in the room of Dawkins' insistence on the power of physics to create life is the observation that physical interactions have nothing to do with the coded biological information, called language, that characterizes life. Ironically, Dawkins himself admitted that "life is just bytes and bytes and bytes of digital information."3 But there is no observation of such information originating naturally (i.e., without applied intelligence), and Dawkins fails to describe even one example that shows physics inventing language.
The study of physics describes material interactions. Like spoken languages, biological language is irreducibly complex and yet without physical substance. It comes complete with symbols, meanings for those symbols, and a grammatical structure for their interpretation. Remove any one of these three fundamental features, and the informational system is lost. Physics has nothing to do with symbols or grammar, and therefore nothing to do with the origin of life, which cannot exist without its coded information.
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For the Love of Camping — A Man and the Mountain that CHANGED Him.
Welcome to For the Love of Camping, the three-part series journeying from my family's stance against camping to my desire to get everyone camping, so they can enjoy it as much as we do.
In Part One of the series, I explained how camping didn't fit growing up Black and suburban in the '80s and '90s. Even when I started dating Sarah over a decade ago, I resisted at first from both the bad experiences I had in the past and the ones that soon came. But she wasn't quite ready to give up on me, and that brings us to the summer of 2011 with Sarah's family at Earl Rowe Provincial Park to celebrate her parents' 35th wedding anniversary.
It was sooner than I expected, but just a year after a Turkey Point camping trip that had me miss the annual Palmer BBQ and hole up in a waterlogged tent through seventeen hours of torrential rain, we were camping again in Earl Rowe Provincial Park for my in-laws' 35th wedding anniversary. That same year saw us engaged, married and spending some time abroad, so it wasn't exactly like I was about to say "no"—this was the world I married into.
But I wasn't going to make it easy for her.
Since that trip that didn't go exactly as planned, we invested in plenty of gear to make future stays more… comfortable. A ten-person Coleman tent with three rooms and an interior lighting system. Sizable coolers to hold all the beer I'd need to survive the experience. I wasn't getting caught with my pants down again, so I demanded some glamping, setting the tone for our trips in the foreseeable future.
And then we climbed a mountain.
If You Think Camping in ONTARIO Is Hard….
I quickly obliterated any problems I had camping in Ontario with the week we spent on Mount Kilimanjaro.
It wasn't in the plans, but suddenly we found ourselves spending a few weeks in Tanzania, piggybacking on a six-month trip our friends were on to see the world. And we'd trained—a little—to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, thinking that a wealth of walking and a healthy investment in gear would be just what we needed to get to the top.
Maybe that's what everyone thinks before they climb the mountain for the first time.
What it's actually like is a little more like this—hiking uphill for 5½ days to reach the summit, some 19,300 feet above sea level, without the benefit of plumbing, devices, or many other comforts we often take for granted. And it's not the physical challenge that gets you—it's the things you need to overcome in your head. Like that you'll eventually need to use an outhouse no matter how bad it smells. Or that even if soup isn't your favourite food, you better damn well eat it—the mountain's not exactly teeming with lunch options.
By the week's end, you could've given me a sleeping mat and a rock, and I still could've slept just about anywhere.
Who knew it'd take over 12,000 kilometres and a whole lot of self-reflection to help me find my way?
I'd finally become a camper.
And Thus We Have the Birth of a Camper.
So there you have it—how I learned to fall in love with camping. It may have been a little extreme, but it got me where I am today!
And my kids love it! Camping's part of their culture now, something they look forward to each summer, giving them the chance to play with their friends in ways they'd rarely be able to in the city. It's a big world out there—I hope to show them as much of it as I can!
But that's just my story—there're thousands of others out there. What's yours?
Make sure to come back and join us for the third and final chapter of For the Love of Camping, where we get you camping and overcoming whatever worries are rattling around in your head!


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U.S. House Considers Bill to Delay and Repeal Obamacare Taxes
By Christopher Talgo
The bill would repeal or delay several of the most burdensome taxes and regulations implemented under Obamacare, saving businesses and individuals billions of dollars over the next decade.
The House voted on September 14 to refer SAWA to the Committee on Ways and Means. A previous version of SAWA passed the House in 2014 but failed in the U.S. Senate.
Delaying the Employer Mandate
The bill would delay imposition of the employer mandate provision in the ACA, under which the Internal Revenue Service had sent penalty notices to businesses for failing to comply as late as May 2018, a May 6 article in The New York Times reported.
The employer mandate issues penalties ranging from $2,000 to $3,000 per employee. SAWA would delay the employer mandate penalty until 2019.
Charlie Katebi, a state government relations manager at The Heartland Institute, which publishes Health Care News, says passing the bill would increase businesses' incentive to hire full-time employees.
"Delaying the employer mandate in particular would make it far easier for businesses to hire full-time workers," Katebi said. "The Save American Workers Act would provide enormous tax relief to families and entrepreneurs harmed by Obamacare," Katebi said.
Redefining 'Full-Time'
The Obamacare regulations define a "full-time employee" as anyone who works at least 30 hours per week. The traditional full-time work week has been 40 hours. SAWA would adjust the definition of a full-time employee to constitute an employee who works at least 40 hours per week.
Heartland Institute Government Relations Coordinator Arianna Wilkerson says the ACA's redefinition of full-time workers has caused a cascade of negative effects, especially for lower- income workers.
"The redefinition of 'full-time employee' by the Obama administration led to many unintended consequences, as heavy-handed government regulations usually do," Wilkerson said. "Employers quickly responded to Obamacare by cutting part-time employees' work week to less than 30 hours to avoid having to offer them expensive health insurance or else pay a penalty. Presumably, if business owners believed it was financially sound to offer health insurance to all employees, they would already be doing so without any government coercion."
Pushing Back the Cadillac Tax
SAWA would also delay imposition of Obamacare's so-called "Cadillac tax," a 40 percent excise tax on employers who offer health insurance plans that exceed $10,200 for individuals and $27,500 for families, and repeal the 10 percent excise tax Obamacare levies on indoor tanning salons.
Wilkerson says the Cadillac tax provision is an example of the federal government using the tax code to bully businesses.
"The Cadillac tax allows the government to pick winners and tax losers," Wilkerson said. "'Winners' are employers who offer their employees high- deductible, low-coverage insurance plans. 'Losers' are employers who offer low-deductible, high-coverage plans. Employers should have the freedom to offer the type of health insurance that is affordable and meets the needs of their employees."
Katebi says the tax on tanning salons has done little to help pay for the costly health care law.
"Attempting to fund Obamacare by taxing tanning salons is a fiscal folly," Katebi said.
INTERNET INFO:
"New Bill to Make Four Changes
to the Affordable Care Act," Tax Foundation, September 13, 2018: https://taxfoundation.org/new-bill- make-four-changes-affordable-care- act.
Christopher Talgo
Chris Talgo is senior editor at The Heartland Institute and a research fellow for Heartland's Socialism Research Center.


With Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference less then a week away fans are surely excited to see there latest tech.
Now although we shouldn't expect anything to ground breaking, we'll likely see a new version of the AppleTV device with more memory, improved graphics, and touch/speech capabilities.
It's expected the new AppleTV will feature the same A8X processor used in the iPad Air 2, which is a more then capable chip when it comes to gaming. That and the fact it will cost considerably less then the currant generation consoles, have additional TV streaming features and the convenience of the app store makes it a good option for the more casual gamer.
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Congratulations my friend! Green Dog is looking good!!! I love it.
Good luck to you and lucky are the students that get to share and work in your studio with you.
Carey, your work is wonderful! The prints are lovely; the colors and textures are so vibrant and distinct. I'm looking forward to seeing more! Congratulations!
Thanks very much! This has been a really great leap forward!


Gumpert Apollo Sport set the fastest record at the Northern Loop of the famed Nurburgring, Sport Auto said.
The Gumpert Apollo Sport's seven minutes and 11.57 seconds run on August 13 is the fastest time set by a road-legal production car in the market today.
German driver Florian Gruber, a GT3 European Championship competitor, reportedly said the supercar "would certainly have gone a little faster" after he completed the run.
The Gumpert Apollo Sport is powered by a 700-horsepower, 4.2-liter, biturbo V8 engine from Audi. It is capable of tackling the zero-to-200kph sprint in 8.9 seconds before topping out at a speed of 360kph.
Gruber and the Gumper Apollo Sport's time broke the 2006 Nurburgring record by 3.32 seconds set by Michael Düchting in a Donkervoort D8 RS06 in 2006.
The Gumpert Apollo was conceived by former Volkswagen executive Roland Gumpert to be a street-legal car and track-ready car. A Gumpert Apollo Sport piloted by the Stig has been on top of Top Gear UK's "Power Lap Board" since July 27, 2008 with a time of 1 minute, 17.1 seconds around the Top Gear Test Track.


The high quality of raw materials.
Proximity to the main markets (EU).
Free Trade Agreement with the EU and other main markets.
For all these reasons the Turkish textile sector is highly interesting to find commercial agreements with local manufacturers with years of experience and comparatively lower production costs.