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Chamion "Truck Plugs" Spark PLugs
Hey all, quick question.
My cousin is changing out his plugs & wires on his chevy whiled he's replacing his headers and asked me a question that I'm a little stumped on.
THe regular champion platinum plugs have a gap of .45 but he was looking at a set of the Champion Truck PLugs and these have a gap of .70...both are "OEM Replacements" for his truck. I have .45's in mine and were running fine....70 seems a little excessive on the gap.
Even the Chilton's Manual states a plug gap/reach of .45. Why are the champion truck plugs .70? Would there be any adverse effects if he went with the truck plugs & a gap of .70.
08-12-2008, 08:58 AM #2are you sure that the plugs just arent at 70 as a starting postition that way they can be considered stock replacement for several different vehicles, and that he also needs to buy a gap gauge and put the plugs down to 45, the stock replacement plugs for my 93 bronco are that way, i will have to close the gap before i install, also, i am no mech but just guessing that he isnt gonna like the feel of having .70 gap, thats a lot of space for a spark to fail
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By Veronique Greenwood Young animals are capable of some pretty astounding feats of navigation. To a species like ours, whose native sense of direction isn't much to speak of—have you ever seen a human baby crawl five thousand miles home?—the intercontinental odysseys some critters make seem incomprehensible. Arctic tern chicks take part in the longest migration on Earth—more than ten thousand miles (16,000 km)—almost as soon as they fledge. Soon after hatching, young sea turtles take to the waves and confidently paddle many thousands of miles to feeding grounds. Young Chinook salmon likewise make their way from freshwater hatching grounds to specific feeding areas in the open ocean. Biologists know that these species are able to sense things that humans can't, from the Earth's magnetic field to extremely faint scents, that could help with navigation. But they may also be inheriting some specific knowledge of the paths they have to follow. A paper in this week's Current Biology reports that young salmon appear to possess an inborn map of the geomagnetic field that can help them get where they need to go. The researchers, who are primarily based at Oregon State University, performed a series of experiments with Chinook salmon less than a year old that were born and raised in a hatchery and had not yet taken part in a migration. They placed the salmon in pools surrounded by magnetic coils that they could tune to mimic the Earth's magnetic field at various points in and around the salmons' feeding grounds. (Kenneth Lohmann at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, who has done similar studies that established that baby sea turtles have inborn maps, is also an author of the paper.) © 2014 Time Inc.
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Associated Press It's the ape equivalent of Google Maps and Facebook. The night before a big trip, Arno the orangutan plots his journey and lets others know where he is going with a long, whooping call. What he and his orangutan buddies do in the forests of Sumatra tells scientists that advance trip planning and social networking aren't just human traits. A new study of 15 wild male orangutans finds that they routinely plot out their next-day treks and share their plans in long calls, so females can come by or track them, and competitive males can steer clear. The researchers closely followed the males as they traveled on 320 days during the 1990s. The results were published Wednesday in the journal PLoS One. Typically, an orangutan would turn and face in the direction of his route and let out a whoop, sometimes for as long as four minutes. Then he'd go to sleep and 12 hours later set on the heralded path, said study author Carel van Schaik, director of the Anthropological Institute at the University of Zurich. "This guy basically thinks ahead," van Schaik said. "They're continuously updating their Google Maps, so to speak. Based on that, they're planning what to do next." The apes didn't just call once - they kept at it, calling more than 1,100 times over the 320 days. © 2013 The Hearst Corporation
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By Susan Milius Here's a lesson on road trips from whooping cranes: For efficient migration, what matters is the age of the oldest crane in the group. These more experienced fliers nudge youngsters away from going off course on long flights. "The older birds get, the closer they stick to the straight line," says ecologist Thomas Mueller of the University of Maryland in College Park, who crunched data from 73 Grus americana migrating between Wisconsin and Florida. One-year-olds traveling with other birds of the same age, the analysis says, tend to deviate about 76 kilometers from a direct route. But if they fly in a group with an 8-year-old crane, they stray 38 percent less, or about 47 kilometers, Mueller and his colleagues report in the August 30 Science. Eight years of data on these endangered cranes summering in Wisconsin's Necedah National Wildlife Refuge offered a rare chance to parse how birds find their way. Conservationists have been rebuilding this eastern migratory population of the once widespread birds. Researchers release captive-bred cranes in Wisconsin and lead each class of newbies, just once, with an ultralight aircraft to Florida's Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge for the winter. Cranes navigate back to Wisconsin on their own. © Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2013
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Link ID: 18591 - Posted: 08.31.2013
By Ella Davies Reporter, BBC Nature An unusual caterpillar uses the sun to navigate as it jumps to safety, according to scientists. The larva of Calindoea trifascialis, a species of moth native to Vietnam, wraps itself in a leaf before dropping to the forest floor. It then spends three days searching for a suitable place to pupate, despite not being able to see out of its shelter. Experts found the insect used a piston-like motion to jump away from strong sunlight. "We believe the object of the jumping is to find shade - to avoid overheating and desiccation," explained Mr Kim Humphreys from the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada who conducted the research alongside Dr Christopher Darling. Their findings are published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters. Although Mr Humphreys described the caterpillar as "non-descript" in appearance, he said its behaviour makes it unique in a number of ways. "Caterpillars or larvae that jump are rare in themselves," he said. "[This] caterpillar is remarkable for its jumping, which no other insect does in this way. It also makes its own vehicle [or] shelter to jump in." "It is also the only one I know of that jumps in an oriented way." BBC © 2013
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Link ID: 18539 - Posted: 08.21.2013
by Katia Moskvitch In the days before GPS, we needed both a compass and a map to navigate. Migrating birds are no different. Studies have suggested that the animals rely on an internal map and compass to traverse large distances, though just where these senses reside is unclear. Now, scientists say they have the strongest evidence yet that map sense is associated with the beak. Researchers have long suspected that migrating birds navigate by sensing Earth's magnetic field. The idea was that their beaks, which contain a lot of iron, worked like real magnets, with the metal aligning itself relative to the field. Supposedly, the so-called trigeminal nerve transmitted this information to the brain. But in 2009, a team led by Henrik Mouritsen of the University of Oldenburg in Germany cut the trigeminal nerve in several European robins and found that the animals still oriented perfectly. In lab-based experiments, the birds were able to locate the natural and artificial magnetic north. It seemed that the beak played no role in the compass sense. The finding gave support to another hypothesis, one that suggested that the inner compass was instead a magnetism-sensing chemical reaction in the birds' eyes. But Mouritsen's team was still convinced that the beak had to be involved in the magnetosense in some way, and it decided to do another test. In 2010 and 2011, the scientists captured 57 Eurasian reed warblers near Kaliningrad, Russia. Every spring, these birds migrate northeast to their breeding grounds in southern Scandinavia, up to 1000 kilometers away. Once again, the scientists snapped the trigeminal nerve, in half of the birds. But then they also moved all 57 birds 1000 kilometers to the east, where the magnetic field differs from their home site, and released them. © 2010 American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Link ID: 18327 - Posted: 06.29.2013
Ed Yong Every autumn, millions of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) converge on a small cluster of Mexican mountains to spend the winter. They have journeyed for up to 4,000 kilometres from breeding grounds across eastern North America. And according to a study, they accomplish this prodigious migration without ever knowing where they are relative to their destination. The monarchs can use the position of the Sun as a compass, but when Henrik Mouritsen, a biologist at the University of Oldenburg in Germany, displaced them by 2,500 kilometres, he found that they did not correct their heading. "People seemed to assume that they had some kind of a map that allowed them to narrow in on a site a few kilometres across after travelling several thousands of kilometres," he says. Now, "it is clear that they don't". His results are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1. For more than five decades, scientists have teamed up with amateurs to tag and monitor free-flying monarchs, creating a database of their migrations. When Mouritsen analysed these records, he realized that the monarchs tend to spread out over the course of their migration. Their distribution was a good fit with the predictions of a mathematical model that assumed that the monarchs were flying with just a compass, rather than a compass and a map. Mouritsen also captured 76 southwesterly flying monarchs from fields near Guelph in Ontario, Canada, and transported them 2,500 kilometres to the west, to Calgary in the Canadian province of Alberta. He placed the butterflies in a "flight simulator" — a plastic cylinder that kept them from seeing any landmarks except the sky — and tethered them to a rod that let them point in any direction without actually flying away. © 2013 Nature Publishing Group
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Link ID: 18013 - Posted: 04.10.2013
by Gretchen Cuda Kroen A day in the life of a male dung beetle goes something like this: Fly to a heap of dung, sculpt a clump of it into a large ball, then roll the ball away from the pile as fast as possible. However, it turns out that the beetles, who work at night, need some sort of compass to prevent them from rolling around in circles. New research in Current Biology suggests that the insects use starlight to guide their way. Birds, seals, and humans also use starlight to navigate, but this is the first time it's been shown in an insect. The whole point of rolling dung is to impress the female beetle with provisions—i.e., excrement—for her future progeny and entice her to mate. She then lays an egg in the ball and buries it in a network of tunnels more than a meter deep, where it serves as food for the developing larvae inside. But rolling dung balls in a straight line is also key to the male dung beetle's reproductive success. Rival males have been known to overtake a slower moving insect and claim the hard-earned treasure as their own. Competition is fiercest near the dung heap, so making a quick and efficient getaway is crucial for mating success. The discovery that dung beetles use starlight "was an accident more than anything," explains study author Eric Warrant, professor of zoology at the Lund University in Sweden. His research group was studying how the beetles used the polarized light patterns of the moon to stay on their paths, when one moonless night they made a surprising observation—the beetles maintained straight trajectories. "Even without the moon—just with the stars—they were still able to navigate," Warrant says. "We were just flabbergasted." © 2010 American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Link ID: 17714 - Posted: 01.26.2013
by Virginia Morell Bumblebees foraging in flowers for nectar are like salesmen traveling between towns: Both seek the optimal route to minimize their travel costs. Mathematicians call this the "traveling salesman problem," in which scientists try to calculate the shortest possible route given a theoretical arrangement of cities. Bumblebees, however, take the brute-force approach: For them, it's simply a matter of experience, plus trial and error, scientists report in the current issue of PLoS Biology. The study, the first to track the movements of bumblebees in the field, also suggests that bumblebees aren't using cognitive maps—mental recreations of their environments—as some scientists have suggested, but rather are learning and remembering the distances and directions that need to be flown to find their way from nest to field to home again. A team of researchers from Queen Mary, University of London outfitted seven bumblebees with tiny radar transponders, which they stuck on the bees' backs with double-sided tape. They trained the bees to forage nectar from five blue artificial flowers (see video). Each artificial flower had a yellow landing platform and a single drop of sucrose, just enough to fill one-fifth of a bumblebee's tank capacity, to ensure that the bees would visit all five flowers on each foraging bout. The scientists placed the flowers in a field at Rothamsted Research, a biological research station north of London, in October—a time of year when there are few natural sources of nectar and pollen and the bees are more likely to focus on the artificial flowers. They arranged the flowers in a pentagon and spaced them 50 meters apart; that distance is more than three times as far as bumblebees can see, so the bees must actively fly around to locate their next target. A motion-triggered Webcam was attached to each flower to record the bees' visits. Then, every day for a month, each bee was freed to forage for 7 hours. © 2010 American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Link ID: 17290 - Posted: 09.22.2012
by Sarah C. P. Williams After spending 3 years at sea and traveling up to 300 kilometers away from home, a rainbow trout can swim straight back to its original hatching ground, following freshwater streams inland and rarely heading in the wrong direction. This remarkable feat of navigation likely relies on many senses; the fish have superb eyesight and smell. But the trout also seem to rely on Earth's magnetic fields, which point them in the right direction. Now, for the first time in any animal, scientists have isolated magnetic cells in the fish that respond to these fields. The advance may help researchers get to the root of magnetic sensing in a variety of creatures, including birds. "We think this will really be a game changer," says Michael Winklhofer, an earth scientist at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich in Germany who led the new study. "To study magnetic sensory cells, you have to be able to get hold of them first, and that's what we've finally developed a way to do." Previous research has shown that many species of fish, as well as migratory birds, have the ability to detect differences in magnetic field strengths, which vary around the globe. Scientists think that the key to this ability is magnetite, the most magnetic of all minerals, which they've found embedded in bird and fish tissues. They've even narrowed down which tissues in these animals could contain magnetite by using dyes that bind to the mineral. But they've never been able to isolate individual cells that contain magnetite, and some of the staining methods have led to false positives and controversy in the field. © 2010 American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Link ID: 17021 - Posted: 07.10.2012
By Jason G. Goldman Getting around is complicated business. Every year, animals traverse miles of sky and sea (and land), chasing warmth or food or mates as the planet rotates and the seasons change. And with such precision! Some animals rely on visual landmarks, others on subtle changes in magnetic fields, and yet others match their internal clocks with the movement of the sun and stars across the sky. One researcher, Jennifer A. Mather, wondered: how do octopuses navigate? Do they rely on chemotactile sensory information, or do they orient towards visual landmarks? Octopuses occupy "homes" for several days or in some instances for several weeks, and when they go out looking for food, they are sometimes gone for several hours at a time. Therefore, they must use some sort of memory to find their way back home. Many molluscs use trail-following, and follow their own mucus trails, or the trails of others. You might expect that octopuses use trail-following as well, since they forage by using chemotactile exploration – at least four different types of receptors on their suckers gather chemical and tactile information as they move along the rocky seafloor. However, many other species use visual scene recognition to aid in navigation: ants, bees, gerbils, hamsters, pigeons, and even humans, use visual landmarks to navigate around their environments. Since octopuses use visual information to distinguish among different objects, they could use visual landmarks to get home as well. © 2012 Scientific American
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Link ID: 16843 - Posted: 05.26.2012
By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News Researchers have spotted a group of 53 cells within pigeons' brains that respond to the direction and strength of the Earth's magnetic field. The question of how birds navigate using - among other signals - magnetic fields is the subject of much debate. These new "GPS neurons" seem to show how magnetic information is represented in birds' brains. However, the study reported by Science leaves open the question of how they actually sense the magnetic field. David Dickman of the Baylor College of Medicine in the US set up an experiment in which pigeons were held in place, while the magnetic field around them was varied in its strength and direction. Prof Dickman and his colleague Le-Qing Wu believed that the 53 neurons were candidates for sensors, so they measured the electrical signals from each one as the field was changed. Every neuron had its own characteristic response to the magnetic field, with each giving a sort of 3-D compass reading along the familiar north-south directions as well as pointing directly upward or downward. BBC © 2012
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Link ID: 16720 - Posted: 04.28.2012
By Susan Milius Scientists may have been going in the wrong direction to find bird beaks' built-in navigation sensors, says a provocative new study. Pigeons and other birds appear to use the Earth's magnetic field, along with sights and sounds, to figure out where they're flying. But the widely accepted identification of one set of magnetically sensitive cells is "totally wrong," says neuroscientist David Keays of the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna. He's talking about work published in 2003 identifying clusters at six places in pigeons' upper beaks as nerve cells. Those clusters have little crystals of iron compounds that might serve as biological compass needles, the earlier study proposed. For the new study, Keays and his colleagues looked for these cells in about 250,000 thin slices of tissue from beaks of more than 200 pigeons collected across Europe. Clusters of beak cells do contain iron, but it turns out that they're not consistent in abundance or location, and most aren't nerve cells at all, he says. Instead, they're immune system cells called macrophages, he and his colleagues report online April 11 in Nature. "If that's true, this could be really important," says neuroethologist Henrik Mouritsen of Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in Germany. Discarding the old identification of beak sensors would mean researchers have to start from scratch looking for them. © Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2012
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Link ID: 16639 - Posted: 04.12.2012
By Ferris Jabr As a dung beetle rolls its planet of poop along the ground it periodically stops, climbs onto the ball and does a little dance. Why? It's probably getting its bearings. A series of experiments published in the January 18 issue of PLoS ONE shows that the beetles are much more likely to perform their dance when they wander off course or encounter an obstacle. Until now, no one had any idea what a jitterbugging dung beetle was up to. Emily Baird of Lund University in Sweden and her colleagues study how animals with tiny brains—such as bees and beetles—perform complex mental tasks, like navigating the world. The dung beetle intrigues Baird because it manages to roll its dung ball in a perfectly straight line, even though it pushes the ball with its back legs, its head pointed at the ground in the opposite direction. If the six-legged Sisyphus can't see where it's going, how does it stay on its course? Every now and then, a dung beetle stops rolling, mounts its ball and pirouettes. Baird noticed that dung beetles do not dance as often in the lab, where they roll around on flat surfaces, as they do in the field, where the terrain is rough and rocks and clumps of grass often obstruct the beetles' paths. She guessed that by climbing onto a ball of dung four or five times its height, a beetle gets a pretty good vantage point from which to correct any navigational mistakes. But it was only an intuition—she needed evidence. © 2012 Scientific American
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Link ID: 16274 - Posted: 01.21.2012
By Tina Hesman Saey Scientists have deciphered the complete genetic instruction book of monarch butterflies. It is the first butterfly genome completed and the first of a long-distance migrating insect. Within the butterfly's genetic archive, neurobiologist Steven Reppert of the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester and his colleagues found genes that may help the insects sense the position of the sun and navigate to fir trees in Mexico, where they spend the winter. Reporting in the Nov. 23 Cell, the team also notes that monarchs make more of certain small genetic molecules, called microRNAs, that are involved in building muscle, regulating temperature sensitivity and storing fat when in migration mode. The 273 million DNA units that make up the monarch genome also include a complete set of genes for producing juvenile hormone, which summer butterflies use to kick-start reproduction. Migrating male monarchs use different strategies than females do to turn off the hormone, the team discovered. Monarchs have genes similar to ones that silk moths use to sense mating chemicals called pheromones. Those genes may aid social interactions between monarchs in their wintering grounds, Reppert says. The scientists also unearthed from the genome a gear previously thought to be missing from the butterfly's daily, or circadian, clock, which helps the monarchs maintain a straight path. © Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2011
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Link ID: 16082 - Posted: 11.26.2011
Daniel Cressey In 2008, the world's media was captivated by a study apparently showing that cows like to align themselves with magnetic fields. But attempts to replicate this finding have left two groups of researchers at loggerheads, highlighting the problems faced by scientists working to replicate unusual findings based on new methods of data analysis. Magneto-reception has been detected in animals from turtles to birds. Three years ago, Hynek Burda, a zoologist at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, and his colleagues added cattle to the magnetic family with a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The team used data from Google Earth to show that domestic cattle seem to prefer to align their bodies along Earth's magnetic field lines1, and showed a similar phenomenon in field observations of deer. A follow-up study by Burda and his colleagues showed no such alignment near electric power lines, which might be expected to disrupt magneto-sensing in cattle2. Cow conundrum Earlier this year, a group of Czech researchers reported their failed attempt to replicate the finding using different Google Earth images3. The Czech team wrote in the Journal of Comparative Physiology A: "Two independent groups participated in our study and came to the same conclusion that in contradiction to the recent findings of other researchers, no alignment of the animals and of their herds along geomagnetic field lines could be found." © 2011 Nature Publishing Group,
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Link ID: 16027 - Posted: 11.12.2011
by Caroline Williams The idea that animals can navigate using their own internal compass is so startling it was once dismissed as pure fantasy. Now there is good evidence that many species - including pigeons, sea turtles, chickens, naked mole rats and possibly cattle - can detect the Earth's geomagnetic field, sometimes with astonishing accuracy. Young loggerhead turtles, for example, read the Earth's magnetic field to adjust the direction in which they swim. They seem to hatch with a set of directions, which, with the help of their magnetic sense, ensures that they always stay in warm waters during their first migration around the rim of the North Atlantic. Over time they build a more detailed magnetic map by learning to recognise variations in the strength and direction of the field lines, which are angled more steeply towards the poles and flatter at the magnetic equator. What isn't known, however, is how they sense magnetism. Part of the problem is that magnetic fields can pass through biological tissues without being altered, so the sensors could, in theory, be located in any part of the body. What's more, the detection might not need specialised structures at all, but may instead be based on a series of chemical reactions. Even so, many researchers think that magnetic receptors probably exist in the head of turtles and perhaps other animals. These might be based on crystals of magnetite, which align with the Earth's magnetic field and could pull on some kind of stretch receptor or hair-like cell as it changes polarity. The mineral has already been found in some bacteria, and in the noses of fish like salmon and rainbow trout, which also seem to track the Earth's magnetic field as they migrate. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
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Link ID: 15707 - Posted: 08.23.2011
By Katherine Harmon Wandering the neighborhood randomly is not usually the best strategy to find a great dinner—especially if you live in a place where such meals are few and far between. The resulting trajectory, known in mathematics as "a random walk," does not always make for the best use of time and energy, particularly in locations where resources can be scarce, such as the open ocean. But a more purposeful "directed walk" to a destination takes a pretty sophisticated memory and spatial sense (or a device with GPS) that many animals don't have. New research, however, shows that thresher and tiger sharks are actually quite adept at highly directed swimming, with tiger sharks finning it over to a familiar spot from six to eight kilometers away within a home territory that covers hundreds or even thousands of square kilometers. Demonstrating that an animal is traveling directly to a desired destination—rather than stumbling on it accidentally—is challenging, given communication barriers and the fact that even straight paths are not always part of a purposeful travel pattern. To find out whether sharks were always circling their home range randomly or were intentionally returning to a place they remembered to offer food, shelter or mates, a team of researchers used fractal analysis to assess old GPS tracking data from three shark species: tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier), thresher sharks (Alopias vulpinus) and blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus). Tracking for each individual shark lasted for at least seven hours. © 2011 Scientific American,
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Link ID: 15065 - Posted: 03.03.2011
by Aria Pearson Newly hatched sea turtles can sense their longitudinal position – something that took sailors hundreds of years and many lost ships to figure out. Surprisingly, they do so using the Earth's magnetic field. Recently, it was discovered that a handful of species – including older sea turtles and migratory birds – seem able to perceive longitude. But it was unclear what cues they could be using. The Earth's magnetic field, which animals can use to gauge latitude, was considered an unlikely candidate because of how little it varies in the east-west direction around the globe. However, in certain parts of the world at the same latitude there are subtle differences in the intensity and angle of the magnetic field. Could these be used by animals to figure out longitude? One such area is in the Atlantic Ocean, where Puerto Rico in the western Atlantic and the Cape Verde Islands in the eastern Atlantic have the same latitude but different longitudes. In between these locations is the North Atlantic Gyre. Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in Florida navigate the North Atlantic Gyre during their five to 10 year migration around the Atlantic Ocean. During this trip the turtles manage to avoid areas where they would get swept up by other currents and ejected out of the gyre. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
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Link ID: 15050 - Posted: 02.26.2011
by Elizabeth Pennisi Every year, some 50 billion birds take to the air for their seasonal migrations. They may go 500 kilometers in a day and a few even travel from pole to pole. But how do they know when, where, and how far to fly? Although some of the answer lies in their DNA, nobody knew which genes or how they worked. Now ornithologists have pinned down one of those genes, and strange as it may sound, the length of that gene influences the length of the flights. "If we understand the genetics underlying migratory behavior, we can understand more about how and why migration evolves," says Chris Guglielmo, who studies bird migration at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. "We may also be better able to understand how quickly migration can disappear in response to climate change." As the moment for migration approaches, birds bulk up, adding muscle and fat. They hop and flap restlessly at night, shifting their internal clocks in anticipation of nighttime flights. Breeding experiments have shown that these shifts have a genetic basis, as do the timing, amount, and intensity of flights. Since the 1970s, ornithologists at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Starnberg, Germany, have studied European blackcaps (Sylvia atricapilla), a common warbler in Europe, which typically head to the Mediterranean for the winter. Some blackcaps had established a new wintering area in the past few decades. The researchers wanted to know the genetic basis for the change. © 2010 American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Link ID: 15014 - Posted: 02.17.2011
by Sara Reardon Next time you have a cold, be glad you're not a messenger pigeon carrying important orders over a battlefield. Breathing through both nostrils, especially the right one, is essential to these birds' famed ability to fly away home, scientists report today in the Journal of Experimental Biology. The researchers saddled a group of homing pigeons with GPS tracking devices, placed a rubber plug in either their right or left nostrils, and released them 25 miles outside of their home in Pisa, Italy. Pigeons with their left nostrils blocked had a little more trouble navigating than clear-nosed pigeons, but eventually made it home. Birds with their right nostrils blocked made it back, too, but they stopped more often and took an even more circular route than the others. The researchers believe that the birds needed time to gather more smells and construct a map based on odors in the wind. And the finding that the right nostril is the better sniffer suggests that the right and left hemispheres of bird brains have different functions. © 2010 American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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I have googled and searched on the knot forums but I don't see anything about this subject. I am wondering if brides still have their trains carried? It seems like an antiquated tradition, but I'm considering bringing it back! It would mostly be for practical purposes: I am getting married on the beach in what I consider a long train. The dress I was leaning towards: http://www.inweddingdress.com/style-de282.html , and though I'm not overly concerned about it getting dirty, it might be fun to have my jr bridesmaid or someone help me out with it. What are your thoughts? Anyone know anything about this?
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Inside the Linux Packet Filter
We've seen the packet come in through the network interface and get queued for later processing. Then, we've considered how this processing is resumed by a call to the net_rx_action() function. It's now time to see what this function does. Basically, its operation is pretty simple: it just dequeues the first packet (sk_buff) from the current CPU's queue and runs through the two lists of packet handlers, calling the relevant processing functions.
Some more words are worth spending on those lists and how they are built. The two lists are called ptype_all and ptype_base and contain, respectively, protocol handlers for generic packets and for specific packet types. Protocol handlers register themselves, either at kernel startup time or when a particular socket type is created, declaring which protocol type they can handle; the involved function is dev_add_pack() in net/core/dev.c, which adds a packet type structure (see include/linux/netdevice.h) containing a pointer to the function that will be called when a packet of that type is received. Upon registration, each handler's structure is either put in the ptype_all list (for the ETH_P_ALL type) or hashed into the ptype_base list (for other ETH_P_* types).
So, what the NET_RX softirq does is call in sequence each protocol handler function registered to handle the packet's protocol type. Generic handlers (that is, ptype_all protocols) are called first, regardless of the packet's protocol; specific handlers follow. As we will see, the PF_PACKET protocol is registered in one of the two lists, depending on the socket type chosen by the application. On the other hand, the normal IP handler is registered in the second list, hashed with the key ETH_P_IP.
If the queue contains more than one packet, net_rx_action() loops on the packets until either a maximum number of packets has been processed (netdev_max_backlog) or too much time has been spent here (the time limit is 1 jiffy, i.e., 10ms on most kernels). If net_rx_action() breaks the loop leaving a non-empty queue, the NET_RX_SOFTIRQ is enabled again to allow for the processing to be resumed at a later time.
The IP protocol receive function, namely ip_rcv() (in net/ipv4/ip_input.c), is pointed to by the packet type structure registered within the kernel at startup time (ip_init(), in net/ipv4/ip_output.c). Obviously, the registered protocol type for IP is ETH_P_IP.
Thus, ip_rcv() gets called from within net_rx_action() during the processing of a softirq, whenever a packet with type ETH_P_IP is dequeued. This function performs all the initial checks on the IP packet, which mainly involve verifying its integrity (IP checksum, IP header fields and minimum significant packet length). If the packet looks correct, ip_rcv_finish() is called. As a side note, the call to this function passes through the Netfilter prerouting control point, which is practically implemented with the NF_HOOK macro.
ip_rcv_finish(), still in ip_input.c, mainly deals with the routing functionality of IP. It checks whether the packet should be forwarded to another machine or if it is destined to the local host. In the former case, routing is performed, and the packet is sent out via the appropriate interface; otherwise, local delivery is performed. All the magic is realized by the ip_route_input() function, called at the very beginning of ip_rcv_finish(), which determines the next processing step by setting the appropriate function pointer in skb->dst->input. In the case of locally bound packets, this pointer is the address of the ip_local_deliver() function. ip_rcv_finish() terminates with a call to skb->dst->input().
At this point, packets definitely are traveling toward the upper-layer protocols. Control is passed to ip_local_deliver(); this function just deals with IP fragments' reassembly (in case the IP datagram is fragmented) and then goes over to the ip_local_deliver_finish() function. Just before calling it, another Netfilter hook (the ip-local-ip) is executed.
The latter is the last call involving IP-level processing; ip_local_deliver_finish() carries out the tasks still pending to complete the upper part of layer 3. IP header data is trimmed so that the packet is ready to be transferred to the layer 4 protocol. A check is done to assess whether the packet belongs to a raw IP socket, in which case the corresponding handler (raw_v4_input()) is called.
Raw IP is a protocol that allows applications to forge and receive their own IP packets directly, without incurring actual layer 4 processing. Its main use is for network tools that need to send particular packets to perform their tasks. Well-known examples of such tools are ping and traceroute, which use raw IP to build packets with specific header values. Another possible application of raw IP is, for example, realizing custom network protocols at the user level (such as RSVP, the resource reservation protocol). Raw IP may be considered a standard equivalent of the PF_PACKET protocol family, just shifted up one open systems interconnection (OSI) level.
Most commonly, though, packets will be headed toward a further kernel protocol handler. In order to determine which one it is, the Protocol field inside the IP header is examined. The method used by the kernel at this point is very similar to the one adopted by the net_rx_action() function; a hash is defined, called inet_protos, which contains all the registered post-IP protocol handlers. The hash key is, of course, derived from the IP header's protocol field. The inet_protos hash is filled in at kernel startup time by inet_init() (in net/ipv4/af_inet.c), which repeatedly calls inet_add_protocol() to register TCP, UDP, ICMP and IGMP handlers (the latter only if multicast is enabled). The complete protocol table is defined in net/ipv4/protocol.c.
For each protocol, a handler function is defined: tcp_v4_rcv(), udp_rcv(), icmp_rcv() and igmp_rcv() are the obvious names corresponding to the above-mentioned protocols. One of these functions is thus called to proceed with packet processing. The function's return value is used to determine whether an ICMP Destination Unreachable message has to be returned to the sender. This is the case when the upper-level protocols do not recognize the packet as belonging to an existing socket. As you will recall from the previous article, one of the issues in sniffing network data was to have a socket able to receive packets independent of their port/address values. Here (and in the just-mentioned *_rcv() functions) is the point where that limitation arises from.
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Hi Gianluca Insolvibile,
sorry for write here, but for one reason i can't find an e-mail to you. So, my "question">> if you allow me i can write some musical themes or sound effects for PHAVON game, i look into the official page http://phavon.sourceforge.net/ but i can't find a mailing list or something, i want to participate.
Saludos desde México
a very lardable article on packets journey in the linux kernel
I appreciate this article very much.
It explains the packets journey in the linux kernel in a simple but informative way.it reveals the processing internals of packets receiving.
Thanks a lot!
looking forward to Part III
Re: Inside the Linux Packet Filter
Really very informative.
Thanxs a lot for such nice article.
Linux packet journey revealed!!!!
Hi Gianluca Insolvibile,
This article is the most informative about the packet journey in Linux right from Hardware drivers untill now i came across. I request you to reveal the packet journey details when we register to the TCP/IP stack with NF_HOOK.
Thanks in advance,
Nice article
Excellent article which reveals the mystery of journey of packets through stack in simple words.
Hats off to the Article
The author's terse statements have cleared the mystery of the lxr code, it beautifully unravels the mystery of the step by step procedure of how the packet is passed in the kernel to the user space.
Hats off to the author.
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I would like to add my own
I would like to add my own IP options to the IP packet. Please mention me the steps to do so. Any links for it???
Thanks in advance.
This is an excellent article
This is an excellent article for a Linux beginner like me.
Thank you very much.
Re: Kernel Korner: Inside the Linux Packet Filter
Nice article, I came here searching for Linux Networking Architecture, this article gave quite significant details about that.
Keep it up.
Pls tell me where I can find
Pls tell me where I can find this document. i am eager to reading it.
Re: Kernel Korner: Inside the Linux Packet Filter
It gives really good insight in Networking Stack of Linux.
Thanks buddy.
Re: Kernel Korner: Inside the Linux Packet Filter
very nice article,i am making a protocol analyzer, it helped me a lot...
Re: Kernel Korner: Inside the Linux Packet Filter
I agree with the other posters that this is an excellent article and a welcome journal series. The author's terse but information dense style is a refreshing change from all the fluff out there that aims to pass for technical journal writing. I found particularly useful the references to the relevant kernel source modules. Armed with a sharpened conceptual overview and specific references to source code, both seasoned developer and newbie alike can put this knowledge to real use; whether through real world network application development, or targeted educational research.
More a wish list item than a criticism, I'd like to see a few diagrams modelling and summarizing the excellent overview Insolvibile has sketched for us.
Looking forward to part III-mh
Re: Kernel Korner: Inside the Linux Packet Filter
Great article - Just what I was trying to understand. Thanks.
Re: Kernel Korner: Inside the Linux Packet Filter
I really appreciate this kind of article. Reading this, and following the code on lxr makes it quite clear, how the whole thing works.
Please, keep on, I am really looking forward to next part. Thanks.
Re: Kernel Korner: Inside the Linux Packet Filter
I am working on an filter-based high-traffic packet capturing engine and find this information just more than useful for optimizations.
Thx a lot
I am looking forward to part 3.
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Milwaukee Bucks' forward Drew Gooden held an unusual contest via his Twitter account before Monday night's game between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Chicago Bulls. Gooden, who played two seasons with the Bulls, tweeted that he would give away two tickets to the game to the first person that sent him a picture of a Bulls jersey in a toilet. First person that can twit pic me a Chicago Bulls jersey in the toilet will getmy tickets for tonight's game — Drew Gooden (@DrewGooden) November 26, 2012 The fans responded: @drewgooden kirk hinrich twitter.com/Kruppsanity35/… — Zack Krupp (@Kruppsanity35) November 26, 2012 @drewgooden go bucks twitter.com/brettninmann/s… — brett ninmann (@brettninmann) November 26, 2012 @drewgooden twitter.com/poneill5/statu… — Pat O'Neill (@poneill5) November 26, 2012 The winner? Zack Krupp with the Kirk Hinrich jersey. Here you go Zack twitter.com/DrewGooden/sta… — Drew Gooden (@DrewGooden) November 26, 2012 This contest may have been a little
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Super Saturday (Financial Aid Event), Feb. 9, 2013, 10 a.m.- 2 p.m.
At Super Saturday, find out everything you need to know about financial aid to pay for college, such as scholarships, grants, direct loans and work-study. Receive one-on-one assistance in completing FAFSA, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. The FAFSA is the form used by the U.S. Dept. of Education and colleges, universities and career-technical schools across the country to determine eligibility for student federal financial aid. This event is sponsored annually by the Virginia Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (VASFAA) and PVCC. Nelson County High School also plans to hold a Super Saturday event in Lovingston the same day.
Nelson Community Day -- Saturday, April 20, 2013, Noon-5 p.m.
Oak Ridge Race Track, Oak Ridge Road, Arrington, VA
Stop by the PVCC booth for information about PVCC's summer 2013 and fall 2013 semesters, our programs of study, financial aid, enrollment steps and getting started with the admissions process.
10th Grade Career Fair -- 2013 (Date to be announced)
During the 10th Grade Career Day at PVCC, students learn about careers and the education and training required for success. Students hear from two different speakers in career areas of interest for 45 minutes each. More than 125 area business professionals serve as presenters in the career sessions. The event serves over 2,000 10th graders from the schools of Albemarle, Charlottesville, Fluvanna, Greene and Nelson.
Choose or Lose -- Spring 2013 (Date to be announced)
Choose or Lose is the PVCC annual outreach event introducing high school seniors from the 10 local high schools to PVCC programs and resources. This spring, through hands-on activities and lively competition, students are encouraged to consider their future career possibilities through higher education. These interactive challenges showcase various programs of study at PVCC and are held on the stage in Dickinson Theatre. Students will be randomly selected to come to the stage and participate while their fellow students cheer them on. Judges are onsite to assign scores to each high school for each challenge and award prizes.
Feedback quotes from last year's participating schools:
The kids from Greene Co. were excited and motivated by the information they received during the program. They were almost all first generation students and for most of them college has seemed to be an unreachable goal.
Through your efforts and Andrew's performance, these kids were actively engaged on the trip home discussing ways they could stay at University Place, get jobs on campus and take classes at PVCC.
As we were leaving and during our quick return bus ride to Monticello, I checked to see how the students felt about the day, whether they thought it was a worthwhile event, and asked if they would recommend it for students next year. I received an overwhelming "yes" from all students, I later received several emails from teachers who said that the attendees were so excited about the day and wanted to share what they had experienced with other students.
A senior, who previously was thinking about taking a "Gap Year," has decided to enroll at PVCC for the Fall 2011 semester.
The students were so excited when they came back. It is great to see all the energy. Thank you.
Video Clip of Last Year's Event
Charlottesville Community Career Conference October 2013 (Date and time to be announced), John Paul Jones Arena
The event is free and open to the public. This all-day event will use panel discussions and other valuable resources to help educate job seekers on how to market themselves to top employers in the local community. Throughout the day, attendees can visit the resource area to get help with résumé review, interviewing and online job searching. Community resource agencies will also be available to offer information on employment services.
Come to College, October 2013 @ PVCC for High School and Middle School Students (Day to be announced)
The Charlottesville Business Innovation Council (CBIC) Come to College is a local event that introduces over 300 middle and high school students to the high technology world that exists in the Charlottesville/Albemarle County metro region. This day-long technology tour is aimed at exposing students to the diverse career possibilities offered by our regional technology community. It is designed to help students envision themselves as technology employees, professionals and entrepreneurs in the next wave of high tech advancements in our area. Students representing regional schools spend the day traveling to over 50 selected companies for a hands-on visit to meet employees and experience the use of technology in unique and specialized operations. Come to College helps students make the connection between the technology-related careers they envision themselves in and the career pathway they will need to get there. High school and middle school students who would like to attend should contact their local high schools.
This link provides a short clip of highlights of a previous Come to College. Come to College Video
GED Reception Dinner @ PVCC, November 2013 (Day to be announced)
PVCC hosts the GED Reception Dinner annually on our campus to honor the GED graduates in our service region. A workshop is offered after the dinner to inform and prepare graduates for the next step in their education, to assist with the PVCC application and financial aid forms, and to answer questions about programs of study and the enrollment process. Graduates interested in applying for financial aid should bring a copy of their 2012 tax returns as income information is required on financial aid forms. Graduates who complete the financial aid form will be eligible for a drawing for a voucher for a free one-credit preselected class at PVCC.


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My question is do you think a Chris Birch Accelerator 6'2 x 21 1/2 x no idea how thick would be too small for me to be jumping back onto, im riding a 6'4 x 19 right now and have no problem with the paddle, just feels a little narrow on the take off right now.
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Ned Kermaninejad was sad Monday about the impending closure of Lafayette institution Petar's but still he was gearing up for a big night for the restaurant and bar.
"We're going to have a party tonight," said Kermaninejad. "There's always a party at Petar's."
Petar's has been open in Lafayette for 54 years — first on Mount Diablo Boulevard and since 1980 at its current location on Lafayette Circle. Kermaninejad bought it 13 years ago from Petar Jakovina, now deceased.
The last night at the tavern is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 5, with the last night of kitchen service scheduled for Friday, Kermaninejad said.
The last two nights will include a performance by a Petar's institution, singer-pianist "Diamond" Dave Hosley, who covers everyone from Sinatra to Lady Gaga in several gigs a week at Petar's.
Hosley, on his website, says, "Then I'll be moving somewhere … not sure where exactly yet but I am not retiring by any means!"
Rent increase
The closing is forced by a big rent increase from the landlord, Main Street Property Services of Lafayette, Kermaninejad said. He has no definite plans to but, he said Monday, "I'm always looking for something. I'll probably reopen it in some form."
Kermaninejad, a Concord resident, started as a bus boy and waiter at Petar's, then moved on to owning restaurants in San Ramon and Blackhawk, before buying Petar's.
The restaurant and bar now employs 18 full- and part-time people, he said.
Last Call at Petar's Coming Soon
Lafayette institution is open for New Year's Eve, but closing after last call on Saturday night, Jan. 5.
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Chris F.
January 01, 2013 at 04:47 PM
In todays economy you would think that it would be better to keep businesses up and running, An empty building yeilds no profit though I am sure it won't be empty long
Chris Nicholson
January 01, 2013 at 05:10 PM
@Chris F: Your stream of consciousness provides a excellent illustration of the free market at work.
Landlords can choose to demand as much rent as they want, but tenants are free to move out (or not move in). If no one agrees to a high "asking" rent for a vacant property, the landlord earns no rental revenue. Likewise, a low rent in an unattractive location can put you out of business faster than high rent in a good location.
To those who reject this model: what is the alternative? Would you invest money in real estate under this alternative?
Chris F.
January 01, 2013 at 05:38 PM
@Chris N. The rules of supply and demand are what drive our free market society, Their will always be someone that is willing to pay more. It is sad that a long time entity that is not shy on business has to close because they will not be able to make a profit worth staying open for and that says a lot.
January 01, 2013 at 05:38 PM
Why would Ned state that Main Street is the owner if they
are not? Are they just the property manager?
My Kids Dad
January 01, 2013 at 05:46 PM
petars needed a refresh. it was quiet because it wasn't busy. They could have done so much better.
Elizabeth Lampert
January 01, 2013 at 05:58 PM
@Chris N, I agree 100%. Yes, it's sad to see the past slip away but to be honest, the community has not been supporting the restaurant for some time. It's unfair to throw snide remarks around at property owners or managers. I'd bet that given the opportunity, 95% would do the same. Change is constant, it's needed. Lafayette is growing, the vibrance, new shops and restaurants are exciting additions. Cherish times spent dancing/eating at Petar's but let's not spoil the memory going negative on innovation. I'm excited to see what goes in the space. Happy New Year!
Chris Nicholson
January 01, 2013 at 06:00 PM
There ISN'T "always someone willing to pay more."
When a business chooses to close or move due to rent increase, I agree that it can be sad, but what it really "says" is that the tenant's business is not the highest and best use of the property (or that the landlord is over-reaching--- the free market staggers toward efficiency, but is *really* fueled by real and perceived errors/inefficiencies). Perhaps they should have remodeled, expanded and/or raised prices.
All economic systems yield some "sadness." I take comfort that, under capitalism, the sadness/friction from change is more than offset by the macro efficiency gains from such change. The same cannot be said for systems driven by sentiment or central planning authorities....
Chris F.
January 01, 2013 at 06:07 PM
May Petar's Rest In Peace! I hope Diamond dave gets a local gig he has proven to be a great asset to nightlife in the area
Informed Citizen
January 01, 2013 at 06:59 PM
Chris, perhaps over a great number of years, prices move only up, but that old adage has no place in the California commercial rental economy, especially in the East Bay. The vast majority of rents are down or stagnant at best. Office rents in particular have re-set to levels not seen since the 1990's. Our County lost at least 30% of its occupancy when the banking, mortgage, and finance industries collapsed in 2007. The 680 Corridor in particular still has a huge vacancy component, but you don't see it driving down the freeway. Half empty towers look full to the motorist. There are exceptions, of course, like So-Ma and Silicon Valley, where hi tech has kept rents and occupancy high, but move out into other Cities and suburbs, and investment real estate (commercial) is mostly hurting, and with the Dem super-majority now launching an all out property-tax assault (abrogating Prop 13 protections), the value equation for R.E. ownership has turned the corner.
Restaurants have been also hard it. The ones that stay sharp with big capital behind them can survive. Most are struggling around CoCo County. The Contra Costa times and major media constant lie about California's recovery and distort and sugar coat the appearance of our "recovery". It is limited; spotty.
That's why it's so shameful when our governments (including lame duck Lafayette City Council) vote raises and bonuses to their bloated staffs. Who even knows that Lafayette handed out lavish bonuses?
Chris F.
January 01, 2013 at 09:42 PM
Tommy, I didn't know anyone under 65 that ate there, I thought it was a great place to meet friends have a cocktail and see Diamond Dave. Where will all the retired people go to gather? People that went to Petar's aren't the same people that go to the Round Up.
January 02, 2013 at 12:05 AM
The ONLY reason for going was Diamond Dave, but last time I went there, with a friend visiting from NYC, I had prepared her for really cool Rossmoor crowd that used to frequent the place....dress up, and dance. While there had been a smattering of Saint Mary's students there before, just going because it was a hoot, Diamond Dave changed his playlist, it was almost all "kids," and the music he was playing was .....well, I guess he has to cater to his audience, but it really broke my heart to hear him playing nothing but smut songs. Look, I'm "only" 52, but my last visit there would have been my last visit there anyway because the only reason for going had sold-out, imho... I always had hoped to take my son there when he turned 21 (in March,) but I guess it's gonna be the Round-Up (save us all,) when he is home visiting from college. I wonder where the old Rossmoor crowd (well, the surviving Rossmoor crowd) goes for the kind of entertainment Diamond Dave used to offer.
January 02, 2013 at 02:09 AM
I cant believe Petar's and the property owner couldn't come to an agreement.
Commercial property people: Explain how Hollywood Video, Lava Pit, and the countless others who have come and gone in the last 10 years have benefitted our community? How are you served when the 5-10 year leases at market rates default when the new business can't perform? Turnover is not good.
Lamorindians: This is a reminder that we need to support out local businesses.
To the Owners of the Property: What now, open another massage parlor?
January 02, 2013 at 02:54 AM
JB, Altruism is generally not in the property owner's play book .. Many of these older properties have been passed on to heirs who simply want to maximize their profits. Petar's probably won't be the only tenant in the building to
be affected. Elizabeth is high
on "vibrant" change.. and Chris...see altruism noted above
.they must hail from Southern California.
January 02, 2013 at 04:32 AM
Forrest, perhaps there is more to the story. Didn't Lamorinda Patch write an article within the last year quoting Ned as stating that he has a "long-term lease"? I'm surprised the author didn't comment on the apparent conflict with his establishment's prior reporting. Perhaps the author will comment further.
January 02, 2013 at 04:39 AM
Perhaps Elizabeth is correct. Do you remember when Chow's didn't exist? Most people in the town think it is a nice addition, whether or not you patronize it is up to you. But some changes have been quite additive to our town. I'm guessing you and JB talk about supporting local stuff but I wonder how many times you have had a meal at Petar's recently. And on the chance that you have, perhaps you didn't need reservations or have a problem with too much noise from anyone dining adjacently.
Elizabeth Lampert
January 02, 2013 at 04:44 AM
Forrest, insults aren't called for are they? But, just so you know, you are wrong. I'm from New York. I find cyber bullies usually have an agenda. I'm a business owner, a single mom, smart -what I have to say has value regardless of where I am from. I'm not speculating or spreading false information.
January 02, 2013 at 05:12 AM
JB, I suppose Hollywood Video might have experienced a change in retail practices. Netflix and renting through the cable company have increased dramatically. So you blame the landlord? Perhaps blame silicon valley for technology or Henry Ford for mass producing cars and damaging the buggy business. Or perhaps you think it is the fault of the landlord of the buggy business factory.
Wasn't Petar's around for 54 years or something like that? How long is enough to say it was a success and move on to the nex? Hollywood Video was successful for quite some time.
Does it make you feel better to disparage the owner with a remark about a massage parlor? Perhaps you don't own any commercial property in Lamorinda, or perhaps not even any property anywhere. Why would you presume a negative outcome? Or maybe you are being nice to massage parlors and you would prefer an additional option?
January 02, 2013 at 06:31 AM
E.L. Hope you have a long term iron clad lease and the business to support it. Happy New Year!
January 02, 2013 at 06:40 AM
"Hope ... long term iron clad lease"? Forrest, it feels like a bit of a lack of sincerity on your behalf. Sounds more and more like you may be just anti-landlord and don't really carry about E.L. as she called you out on insults and didn't retaliate with insulting you. Perhaps E.L. would like the ability to shop among landlords and doesn't desire a fixed situation. You know, free markets in both directions, etc.
January 02, 2013 at 07:57 PM
I agreee. I had the same experience. I sais goodbye to Petars long ago.... The Round Up remains a great hang out and will go there when I feel like getting my party on....
gail Summers
January 03, 2013 at 04:29 AM
I have never known empty retail spots like we have now here. Lafayette will soon look like other depressed towns in the state. It's tragic. So long Ma n Ma locales, only Big Business names call us to shop Lafayette now. I live in Lafayette but shop Moraga, easier parking and nicer people.
David Smith
January 04, 2013 at 03:50 AM
Crappy food and entertainment that, I guess, was better than nothing. Hoping for improved use of the space.
Chris F.
January 04, 2013 at 06:13 AM
I went by this evening to have a drink with my wife and the doors were locked.
DC / Lafayette
January 04, 2013 at 04:23 PM
Going by tonight with a group, for one last drink...hope doors are open!
January 05, 2013 at 01:22 AM
ChrisN: When you equate "freedom" to an open capitalist system you make a mistake. These are two different properties. Further, when you claim that "When a business chooses to close or move due to rent increase, I agree that it can be sad, but what it really "says" is that the tenant's business is not the highest and best use of the property " you misuse the words "highest" and "best". What you really should have written was "most profitable". The truth here is that a new tenant will simply be willing to either charge more for whatever they do in this space (most likely another restaurant) or charge about the same but make less money. Either outcome is simply a product of landlord greed. If you think wanton greed is the best "system" I encourage you to read Marx&Engels on why this will system will eventually collapse. An open capitalist system is a great thing if not abused - something we're not very good at avoiding in this country.
Chris Nicholson
January 05, 2013 at 01:56 AM
@RayS: Are you really a Marxist, or do you merely "Play one online?"
Your framework for greed and profit is flawed because it is reference frame dependent and fails to explain a dynamic system comprised of self-interested free agents. Your strawman world is constructed from the perspective of the landlord, who we are to presume is in a position to dictate price/terms. Not so.
What of the tenant and customer? Is it "greedy" for the landlord to maximize his profits by renting his land/improvements to the highest bidder, even though he could feed his family with lower rent? Is it "greedy" for the business owner to seek the lowest rent that suits his needs, even though he could feed his family despite higher rent? Is it "greedy" for the consumer to maximize his "profit"/savings by spending his scarce money at establishments with the best combination of price/quality, even though he could pay higher prices and/or accept lower quality and still feed his family?
If it is wrong/greedy for each free agent to exchange money/goods/services in the way that maximizes his own well being, then what is the "right" system and who defines/enforces it?
Your 19th century framework failed to explain/predict the world for the last ~200 years. It is odd for you to embrace it now when the underlying assumptions are more counterfactual than ever....
You may want to add Hayak and Friedman to your reading list.
Lance Howland (Editor)
January 05, 2013 at 08:35 PM
Hey, Bruce. Thanks for probing a bit. I was concerned about that point, so I put in a message to Main Street but haven't received a call or email back.
-- Lance Howland, editor, Lamorinda Patch
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