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The world's tallest tree towers above a secret location deep within the lush, tangled backcountry of Redwood National Park. Determined to find this giant, our correspondent discovers something more incredible than he ever imagined.
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While Atkins crossed the creek to bushwhack up the slope, Taylor went to the tree and began calculating the elevation of the base. Atkins eventually found a window through the foliage and lay down to get the laser as steady as possible. From that position, he shot the tree's top. Then he began working his way back to Taylor, adding and subtracting the elevations of intermediate targets along the way. After all that, they wound up with a preliminary height–377.8 feet–that would make the tree the tallest living thing on earth.
Katzman, Southard, and I spent an hour struggling through a maze of brambles and downed trees to reach our target grove. Then we labored farther to rise above the redwoods, hoping that the clearcut would provide a good vantage point. But it turns out that a 30-year-old clearcut in a rainforest isn't a smart place to go for visibility, or mobility. Amid the dense saplings and underbrush, we quickly lost our bearings and momentum. We decided to head back down into the old growth.
Our own cheap rangefinder was proving fickle, due partly to limitations of the technology, and perhaps mostly to user inexperience. Trees that were obviously well over 250 feet were showing up as 82 feet. The GPS, too, was useless. Under the dense canopy, I could pick up only one satellite. I stowed the devices in my pack, where they would stay for the rest of the trip.
Keeping the clearcut line a couple of hundred feet above us, we traversed the mountainside, three humans dwarfed by the mind-boggling scale of the trees. We thought we had been in big-tree country before, but as we walked farther into the grove, we realized that we had now entered a new realm. All around us, 20-foot-wide trunks rose in great grooved columns that stretched upward for 200 feet before the lowest limbs appeared. Katzman tried to photograph one particularly massive trunk, but he didn't have a lens wide enough.
Despite the hard going, the environment was surprisingly hospitable. Once, falling through a false floor of sticks and leaves, I landed softly on my back, cushioned by a bed of spongy moss and pine needles. There were no biting or buzzing insects. And, had we found ourselves in need of a dry and cozy bivouac, there were plenty of accommodating caves that had been burned into the bottoms of living trees.
Under the shade of the immense trees, the ground vegetation thinned out and the walking got easier. Occasional shafts of sunlight penetrated the canopy, angling into the gallery like spotlights, illuminating lush beds of moss and 20-foot-high stumps whose charred tops formed jagged maws. The solitude and the sense of timelessness were so complete that none of us would have been surprised to get a tap on the shoulder from a brontosaur. It was, without reservation, the most startlingly beautiful forest I have ever encountered.
AMONG THE FIRST PEOPLE Atkins and Taylor told of their discovery was their friend Stephen C. Sillett, a professor of botany at Humboldt State. Sillett was the first scientist to climb into the redwood canopy, and he is considered by many to be the world's foremost authority on the redwood forest.
When Taylor told Sillett that he and Atkins had found a tree that they estimated to be higher than 378 feet, Sillett was floored. Having been out in the forest many times with Atkins and Taylor, the botanist had total confidence in their measurements. But, says Sillett, "nobody expected a tree that tall to be growing that far up a mountainside, in conditions that were less than optimal." It was, Sillett said, "the most significant discovery in tree height in 75 years."
The focus of many seems to have shifted to Lost Man Creek and the drainages in that area. Lots of clear-cuts and stands of old growth. Seems that M.D. Vaden has spent a fair amount of time up Little Lost Man Creek and (according to his site) he even once posted a pic of Hyperion on the Lady Bird Johnson grove side of Lost Man Creek. Interesting.
This Hyperion is every bit as elusive as the Grove of Titans with Lost Monarch. There's so many so-so clues online that it seems like maybe time to toss in the towel. I've heard Lost Man Creek, Redwood Creek and 44 Creek just to name a few. Oh ya, and Bridge Creek. But no real good reason why one spot is better to look than the other.
Found Hyperion - Winter 2009 >> An updated post, to mention finding Hyperion, the tree sought in this article.
Best I know, the .jpg images I posted in January are the first available online. No huge images, but enough so folks can get a glimpse.
Just Google >> M. D. Vaden + Hyperion.
The page will be there in the search results.
It's a nice article to read. Second time I've reviewed it. Some of this adventure stuff does not get old.
If you check my user name, drop in and look for the largest redwoods page. Just added a list of over 100 tallest redwoods. Updated less than a week ago.
It stems from my redwood page - look near the end of the home page and follow the crumbs.
If you liked this article read "The Wild Trees" by Richard Preston. It is a non fiction about Steve Stillet Michael Taylor and Chris Atkins and the redwoods, Its a great read
this article is almost as old as that tree!
Congratulations. This was an interesting and easy read. After I was finished, I wanted to head out and find that tree for myself!
Good to see it was honored.
Keep up the good work.


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cogitech wrote
I am sorry to tell you, it will not work.
The issue is; as you change focus distance, the posts will drop deep inside the barrel and so the aperture will disengage. This is why the post needs to be extended and the fingers need to be recessed as I have done it.
Why did'nt you just bend the legs of the fork down as I did on my FD 85/1.2L?...That way you would'nt have had to extend the "post"/lever.
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Indeed, I was wondering the same question after having seen a 24 SSC mod with this option
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Why did'nt you just bend the legs of the fork down as I did on my FD 85/1.2L?...That way you would'nt have had to extend the "post"/lever.
If you read the thread, you'd see that Leon tried this as well, and I explained to him that it would not work because the mechanisms would then disengage as you focus the lens to closer focus distance. If you only want the aperture to work when focused at infinity, then your idea would work. If you want a fully functioning aperture throughout the focus travel, then the only way to do it is how it is detailed here. Leon soon realized that I am correct, and he did it the right way. If you bent the fork legs down too far, they would prevent the focus from traveling back to infinity again. The FD 85L is irrelevant to the discussion. They are completely different lenses with respect to aperture mechanisms.
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About 31 inches.
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The 85L and the 85 SSC aspherical have different coupling desing, as cogitech says.
FD 85 L: lens side of the coupling is male, aperture ring side should be female (a fork)
FD 85 SSC: lens side of the coupling is female, aperture ring side should be male
I wrote "should be" because who knows what other people invented.
For instance cogitech (no offence meant :o)
In both lenses, my custom-made part is attached to the aperture ring and from there it goes DOWN into the lens and connects to the standard part at the lens side.
In my case it would not work with such an extended post because I used a M42 adapter which is too narrow for the rear of the moving lens group AND such a post.
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max, could you show a picture or a schema of your system? As cogitech is saying, "If you bent the fork legs down too far, they would prevent the focus from traveling back to infinity again". Is it the case in your configuration? I will use either a C/Y adapter, or a M42 one.
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Hi, I did not make pictures during the 85 SSC conversion process.
However, you can find pictures from the FD 85 L here:
and on page 8 of the same thread you can see methods of other users.
The thing I attached to the aperture ring of the 85 L is the female self-made coupling mechanism. In case of my SSC, it is a male part but the direction and depth is comparable.
If you shape it well from any hard metal part, you can fix it with screws to the aperture ring of the SSC, which is more solid than the "L".
It takes some time to find the perfect shape of the male lever for the SSC:
A) If the lever is too long (protrudes too deep) it will prevent infinity.
B) If too short it will slip at close focus distances, and aperture coupling is lost.
C) If too far left, the blades will not open fully.
D) If too far right, the blades will be wide open too soon.
E) If the lever is skew, aperture will change during focusing
But when you got it right, it will give you absolutely perfect aperture control throughout the focus range.
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· FD 85/1.2 SSC Asph. to EOS Guide
m-a-x, cogitech, can you tell me whether the using of a spring is possible as this guy did on a 55/1.2?
Jan 24, 2010 at 11:27 PM
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· FD 85/1.2 SSC Asph. to EOS Guide
Possible? Probably.
Necessary? No. I don't even know what the point would be, to be honest. The aperture ring, once rigged properly to the aperture mechanism, is perfectly capable of both opening and closing the blades. I am not sure what functionality the spring would add.
Jan 25, 2010 at 02:27 AM
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Looking at the pics of the rear of the FD 85mm f1.2 SSC Asp in this thread I have to say it looks a lot more complicated to convert than the L version. The FD 85/1.2 L is difficult enough but the extra difficulty of converting the aperture mechanism of the SSC version would surely put a few people off buying one compared to the L version.
Its certainly put me off anyway.
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DaFrunk, I agree to what cogitech wrote. Spring not required.
Alf, the SSC is similarly difficult, not more. In fact, I found attaching such a custom part to the aperture ring easier, since the ring is stronger.
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· FD 85/1.2 SSC Asph. to EOS Guide
The point of the spring:
It is continuly pulling the lever (name it Lever1 for clarity) on real aperture in one direction. So the lever (Lever2) you have to install on the aperture ring need to have accuracy only on the front edge, because it is the only mating surface.
Without the spring, two edges of Lever2 must mate accurately with Lever1 (i.e., two mating surfaces), and throughout the focusing movement of the lens. This could be difficult without adequate tools and rigid materials (me included), especially if Lever2 must be a female one.
With the spring in place, no matter Lever1 is male or female, you only need a narrow Lever2 with its front edge (the one facing Lever1) accurately shaped.
After messing with 17, 50L(still in progress), 85L, 135, 300L with nFD mount, and 55 Asp, 300 Fluorite (and a 24Asp is coming) with SSC breech lock mount, I think the breech lock versions are just slightly more difficult to work with. And it is only because I have to cut across the thick breech ring and sand off its internal threads to provide a cover behind the aperture ring! If there is another way to provide the cover then...
To accommodate the differences in EOS and FD flange distance:
1. nFD:
The total optical distance (OD) of the attachment on the rear must be 3mm.
All I need to do is to trim down the nFD mount ring to about about 1.5~1.6mm OD. The OD of ring is 3mm orignially, but there is some 0.5mm protrusion at the outer edge on the front surface that presses against the aperture ring (to provide a nice feel of click for aperture changes). So you must only work on the rear surface. Then simply attached the M42-EOS adapter (1.5mm or less OD). Follow up with the built-in infinity adjustment of the lens.
2. Breech lock SSC:
The total OD of the attachment must be 2.5mm
Trimming the existing light baffle OD from 1.5mm to 1mm, fabricate a cover behind the aperture ring and install the M42-EOS adapter. Adjust for the infinity.
If you need to reduce the optical length further to make a M42 compatible lens, then you have to disassemble more to trim down the rear mounting surface for the SSC, while for the nFD you just ditch the nFD mount ring completely.
The aperture linkage that is needed to be done is quite similar in nature (though varies from lens to lens.)
Well, may be the twin balls of the SSC's aperture ring can be a hell to install right at the same time
And, the 300mm F2.8L is more difficult to convert than the 300mm F2.8 Fluorite! Because in the L, the aperture assembly utimately is resting on the nFD's central baffle tube that is removed during the conversion. So you have to cut out the baffle tube and re-install it somehow. OTOH the aperture assembly of the Fluorite is a pretty ordinary one, just a very long ~ long lever is what is required to do the trick.
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So if I understand what you wrote, using the spring can be helpful for 85 SSC or 24 SSC ASP. Is it compatible with the cogitech's method?
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Dear DaFrunk,
The spring is not needed if you follow Cogitech's method completely.
Note that in the example (55 f1.2 SSC) in your link, the author installed a spring, so that he could use the original lever on the aperture ring (that means no need to make/install a new lever!) Another example is the 55 f1.2 Asp SSC. I have one and did similarly. I simply drilled one single hole for the spring attachment and no other work for the aperture linkage.
This is another conversion example for the
55 f1.2 SSC
. In this example, the author didn't use a spring, so he made a new lever (by combining the original lever with the new part.) Now judge for yourselves which way is easier
I think it would be fair to say, for some cases, one may find it easier to attach a spring and use existing lever (or make a simple one) than to make and install a new lever with more precision requirement. Now, of course, it is not always possible to install a spring! Anchoring points for the spring do not always pre-exist. And there may be simply no room for the spring, or the spring will get in the way when the lens tries to focus to infinity.
So most of the time you just have to make a precise lever and be done with it. And it is likely to be the case with the 85 f1.2 (SSC or L). I haven't received the 24Asp yet
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That's clear now! Welcome to the growing club of 24 asp new owners! I think I'll start modding the 24 asp before the 85 ssc, as it has no rear element so it may be easier (I hope). By the way, in order to mod them I currently have a C/Y adapter (the same cogitech used but with an AF Confirm), a Leica, and a M42 one. The inner hole is large for C/Y & even more for Leica, while it is smaller for M42. Should I order another C/Y right now or can I go with Leica/M42 adapters?
Jan 25, 2010 at 10:53 AM
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Well I only have messed with the 85L and not the SSC, so I cannot say for you. But the 85L surely need a bigger hole than the one in the M42 adapter because the end of the Lever1 would hit the adapter. So I had to enlarged it partially (only the front but not the rear.)
I used the M42 adapter because I wanted to adjust the placement of the rear element. I glued the rear element to the back of a M42-M39 adapter ring, and screwed it inside the M42-EOS adapter. By carefully adjustment (by screwing in or out
) I hoped to get infinity without shaving my 1Ds II mirror.
But now after the fact, if I need to redo again, I may just use a good quality C/Y to EOS adapter. I would just try to adjust the rear element placement by adding different layers of double-side tape (the total protrusion will be 1.2~1.3 mm out of the end of bayonet tabs anyway). After finding the perfect position, just glue everything in place with epoxy.
OTOH, it is easiler to get good quality M42 adapter (most made in brass, a few aluminium) than C/Y adapter (varies quite a lot.) And the M42 adapter has a larger surface to firmly attach the PCB board for electronic focus confirmation.
P.S. I hope the 24Asp will have sufficient edge quality for full frame. I know that, image quality wise, the 24 F2 is better, the f2.8 may be its equal or even slightly better, but the bokeh of the 24A is looking good
And I did get a great price for it
Jan 25, 2010 at 11:34 AM
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Thanks for such precious info. isn't is hard to be sure to glue the rear element so that it is perfectly parallel to the lenses?
"adding different layers of double-side tape" --> where do you put it? on the circumference of the rear element or on the plane face of the mount? I'm asking because if I read cogitech's method he concludes that the solution would be to reduce the thickness of the "internal shroud", while you're talking about "increase thickness". In your configuration, do you remove this internal shroud?
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Dear DaFrunk,
Are you aware that the flange distance of FD is 42mm while that of EOS is 44mm. On the top of this, the rear element is about 5.5mm behind the FD flange! That means the rear element should be 7.5mm behind the EOS flange. Now take out your C/Y or M42 adapter and measure its total thickness and the height of the bayonet tabs, it should be very clear when the rear element should be. See the related
FD85L conversion
for additional details (note : 85 Asp is identical in optical arrangement.)
In short, the rear element is attached to the back of the EOS mount. So to those of us without precision tools, we just cut out the metal plate (which holds the rear element) and glue it to the back of EOS adapter. If an even pressure is applied when the epoxy is curing, then the plate should remainly true (or very close, anyway) to parallel. It shouldn't matter if some small pieces double-side tape is added to increase the separation between the metal plate and the EOS mount (like at 3~6 points around the rear of the mount), as long as an even pressure is applied when the epoxy cures.
My FD85 f1.2 is the L (nFD) version, so it is different, but I still use the internal baffle to cut off stray light and dust. And when I converted my 55Asp I reused the internal baffle because
1. it reduce dust/stray light entry.
2. It has a 1mm flange, which is required to attain infinity for FD SSC-EOS conversion. Someone chose to trim the breech lock ring to use it for this purpose and also as a cover between the aperture and EOS mount (as in this
Jan 25, 2010 at 06:33 PM
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I disagree in one point: M42 adapters work for both the 85/1.2 L and the SSC as long as the M42 thread goes through the entire adapter. In other words, it must be such a M42 adapter without a rear flange.
If the inner lever is not modified, the space inside the M42 thread will be sufficient for the rear of the moving lens group AND the lever.
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Maybe I should add pictures. Please excuse cross-posting (from thread: FD 85L f/1.2: a real gem)
M42 mount on a 85 L lens.
Note the very thin rear element holder.
Advantage: no contact between holder and mirror box of camera (5D).
Disadvantage: another custom made part.
And here is the lever:
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Dear Editor,
What exact time zone with the second Tuesday of this week occur on January 14?
Expiring minds would like to know? Is it possible that it is the second tuesday of another week in another time zone somewhere between Alamo and Danville such as Drawbrige California?
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The game is on Tuesday, Jan. 17. The men's team will play at 4 p.m. and the women's team will play at 6. Apologies for the error.
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Dear Editor,
Thank you for the correction. I so enjoyed remembering my mother's vaudeville line about everything happening on the "second tuesday of next week" so she never had to fulfill any promise to me. AND when I came to Alamo and found that everything is in a different time zone, 11 minutes late to Pacific Time, I saw promise of a second tuesday of each week. Paul and John would be pleased "with eight days a week"
You dashed my spirits, but your follow-through has my applause.
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The Project Team attempted to balance representation across UW institutions and all employee stakeholder groups. Each UW institution, except UW-Madion, nominated employees to participate in Work Groups to help develop new University Personnel Systems (UPS). Work Group membership can be viewed sorted by institution or by Work Group for your reference.
To view the membership list, please visit UWSA UPS website on workgroups.
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The 2011-13 biennial budget created Wisconsin Statute 36.115, which authorizes and directs the UW to develop two new personnel systems – one for all UW-Madison employees, and separately, one for the balance of all UW System employees.
Currently, the UW is governed by rules and procedures of the Office of State Employment Relations (OSER) under Chapter 230 of the Wisconsin Statutes, like other state agencies. The new personnel system will not be tied to OSER and instead will be governed by the Board of Regents and the UW System Administration.
These systems are being referred to as "University Personnel Systems" or UPS. They can be thought of as the structures we use for personnel matters – how employees are recruited and appointed, what titles are used, how are compensation rates determined, how people promote, etc. The UPS is not a computer system we use for personnel work (i.e., HRS, AIMS, etc.). UW System has stated that we should not expect the new UPS to provide everyone with pay raises (and otherwise solve all problems), but it is an opportunity to create a structure that is more stream-lined and efficient.
The new UPS must be in place by July 1, 2013. Given the need for the Board of Regents and legislative approval before implementation, the work on UPS has already started and will continue, at an urgent pace.
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The modern tag is known as an automated baggage tag, and was first tried by many airlines in the early 1990s. Perhaps the earliest airline to implement ABTs system-wide was United, in 1992, according to Jon Barrere, a spokesperson for Print-O-Tape, a tag manufacturer and United's partner on the project. Let's examine in detail the myriad improvements offered by the ABT, which symbolize as perfectly as anything air travel's transition from a rare luxury for the ultra-rich to safe, effective transport for a shrinking planet.
Let's look first at how an ABT is made. In the interconnected, automated, all-weather world of modern aviation, tags must be resistant to cold, heat, sunlight, ice, oil, and especially moisture. Tags also can't tear — and crucially, if they're nicked, they must not tear further — as the bag lurches through mechanized airport baggage systems. And the tag must be flexible, inexpensive and disposable. Plain old paper can't begin to meet all these requirements. The winning combination is what IATA's spokesperson described as a "complex composite" of silicon and plastic; the only paper in it is in the adhesive backing.
Bag tags must meet another set of contradictory requirements. They must be easy to attach, but impossible to detach — until, that is, the bag arrives safely at its destination and the traveler wants to detach it. Old tags were fastened with a string through a hole, but mechanized baggage systems eat these for breakfast. The current loop tag, a standardized strip of pressure-sensitive adhesive, looped through a handle and pressed to form an adhesive-to-adhesive bond, debuted with the ABT in the early '90s. And the ABT, unlike string tags and earlier loop-y tag ideas, is easily attached to items that lack handles — boxes, say. Simply remove the entire adhesive backing and the loop tag becomes a very sticky sticker.


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Blades keep unscrewing....
I have a woods (I think) mower and the darn blades keep unscrewing and falling off....
The blades are turning in the correct direction (sharp side leading) and the bolts are right hand thread (lefty/tighty, right/loosey).
I put new lock washers on and they still fall off.
Should the blades be rotating clockwise or counter clockwise when viewed from the top looking down?
Any ideas?
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Not sure which rotation your blades should be, but if they turn clockwise the bolts should turn counter-clockwise to tighten them.
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Something is wrong here. Woods makes mower decks that turn in either direction according to the application and machine they are on. And the blade mount bolts always tighten as the blade spins, either right handed threads or left handed threads according to the direction the mower turns. So it sounds to me like your deck is not turning in the right direction. Is your belt on correctly for the machine you have it mounted on? The Cubs turn opposite most other tractors. Did you swap it off another machine that turns the other way? If its on a Cub do you have the 3/4 turn twist in the belt on one side and a 1/4 turn twist in the belt on the other side and have the belts going to the correct direction around the pulleys?
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Re: Blades keep unscrewing....
1-your mower is rotating backwards. Woods made that mower with spindles for right hand or left hand rotation
2-either the wrong blades are on or they are on upside down if the are sharp edge leading and unscrewing
3- recomend installing proper blades and then crossing the belts to get proper blade rotation so that the bolts will tighten up
4- years ago used a Woods 59 from a Kubota on a Cub had to cross the belts and make up mounts. Cowboy has that mower now on a 100 and it turns proper without having the belt crossed.
Good luck
Re: Blades keep unscrewing....
Can't quite get my mind around translating direction of bolt rotation to thread orientation, but I do remember this: As you tighten the bolt, the handle of the wrench should be moving in the same direction as the blades will be rotating. Don't tighten the bolts much past snug, or you will have difficulty loosening the bolts when you want to pull the blades to sharpen them. As the blades spin, the bolts will continue to tighten even more.
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Re: Blades keep unscrewing....
No, to tighten the bolt turn it opposite the rotation of the blade. Others will be along to correct me if I'm wrong.
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Bill, that is the way I understand it too.
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Re: Blades keep unscrewing....
I'm thinking much the same thing.....two issues.
1. I have the wrong blades
2. They are spinning the wrong way.
Previous owner.....
Re: Blades keep unscrewing....
Remember, the Cub PTO turns backwards compared to the rest of the world.
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Boy, this is turning into the misinformation thread. The Cub PTO spins correctly, it's just the rest of the world that spins backwards.
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That's the way they do it ...
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Gee whiz, some kinda confusion. I agree with Pickerandsinger. In my experience, right hand discharge has right hand threads and left hand discharge has left hand threads regardless of the brand or size of the machine. I have converted LH decks to RH using the original LH threads with no problems. ...sounds like problem solved, backward blades.
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P.S. ...or maybe not. The drag or resistance of the blade cutting grass or hitting something like sticks would tend to tighten the nut (or bolt) regardless of whether the blades are upside down or the wrong ones, as long as the rotation is correct and the same as the threads on the spindle. Another thought, if the spindle doesn't have enough threads for the nut (or bolt) to sufficiently clamp the blade it will come loose too, maybe another spacer is needed.
This means right hand discharge will have right hand threads.
A right hand discharge deck will spin clockwise as viewed from above. ...and a right hand nut or bolt turns clockwise to tighten as you stand in front of it.
It seems you have a left hand thread or counterclockwise spindle which means you should have a left hand discharge set up. I'm curious as to what you have, is your deck RH discharge or LH?
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Well funny thing is both sides of the deck are open, so I guess it could be either side discharge at this point.
Now I know the blades are spinning clockwise as you look down and the bolts tighten the same way.
Do I need different blades and route the belt the opposite way so the blades spin the other direction?
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I just started blogging a few weeks ago and I am loving it. I have a Blogger blog (say that 10 times fast :) Do others use blogger? Is there another site that's better. I see you can blog through this website. Do you recommend I switch? I can use any advice.
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Welcome to blogging! I started on Blogger nearly 4 years ago and switched to self-hosted wordpress.org a year ago. It was described to me as the difference between renting and owning your space.
Off to read you :-)
I am in a similar boat as you Kate.
I have a blogger address, and thus far I am satisfied, but there are a few things about it that I have noticed I wish I could change/ knew more about/ didn't have to do. But all in all I think it's just fine. Mainly because I don't feel a need to pay for my own web address.
The only other thing I can say is don't be afraid to play around with the design. I do that every now and then just to find what little tweaks i want to make.
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Thanks - it does help to hear what others are doing. There are so many options. I am not at the point where I am willing to pay for a blog. I just enjoy writing and I haven't done anything to monetize the site or anything. Too happy talking about myself i guess :)
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12:20pm Saturday 12th January 2013 in Gwent news
A WELL-LOVED city community centre is set to reopen on Monday after members of the community rallied together.
Six people either from or with roots in Pill have agreed to take over the running of the trust that operates the Pill Millennium Centre.
A campaign to raise funds to keep it going has started and a website set up for donations has already attracted just under £700 in donations.
It is believed that they have enough pledges of funding to keep the place going for two months.
Police had been due to secure the building on Monday but instead it will be opened by volunteers with a new programme is set to be published shortly.
Chief executive of the South East Wales Racial Equality Council Dave Phillips, who is now treasurer of the Pill Milllennium Centre Trust board, said: "4000 people joined a Facebook page on the Pill Mill in less than a week.
"That shows how important the Pill Mill is to the community down there - it's used by every section of the community."
Pill man Ali Boksh, who is now acting as chairman of the trust, paid tribute to retiring board members who had fought for a long time to keep the centre in the community.
"The new board will be working just as hard to build on their work and to take the centre forward," he said.
"We are predominantly members of the community who are prepared to do whatever is needed."
Mr Boksh, 34, who is also chairman of Pill Carnival, chairman of Urban Circle and works in the voluntary sector, said they will begin to approach businesses that have pledged cash on Monday.
He said £2,500 is needed every month to pay bills at the centre a month.
He said the group has a number of ideas to raise cas and in one case a member of the public has offered a donation of £1,000.
Bernard Sefton, former vice-chairman of the trust, said the former board of the trust handed over to the new one at a meeting on Thursday.
Mr Sefton, who is staying on as a voluntary manager, said: "We felt in order to get more support from the public sector that they would prefer a completely new board to take place.
"I would have loved to have stayed but I felt its best for the future of the community centre and that's what we have been fighting for."
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Why? This seems inappropriate use of Police resources!
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Nice to see people coming together to fight for something they believe in.
A community centre run by and for the community.
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The Hospital Club has opened voting for the top 100 influential people in the creative industries. A number of names associated with Harry Potter appear in its shortlists, including: Tanya Seghatchian, producer of the first five Harry Potter films who is nominated in the (Established) Film category; Stephen Fry, narrator of the British Harry Potter audiobooks, who is nominated in the (Established) Digital category; and Emma Watson (Hermione Granger), nominated under the (Emerging) Fashion category. Voting is open until the 25th of June, via this link, and you can read up more about the nominees at this page. Those with the most votes will be published in the Top 100 list in The Independent newspaper on the 7th of July.


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on Dec 12, 2012 at 9:20 am
Sounds like the fire district was planning to spend money it didn't have yet by expecting money from a parcel tax. So the budget is $102 million, it would be interesting to see exactly what the budget is.
I'm just thinking, I have a friend, her husband and her just lost their house because they spent more money then what they had. That's how it works. You can't plan or budget for what you don't have.
I suspect the fire district has been out of control with it's spending, and should take an axe to the budget and figure out what it really needs, not what it wants.
The last thing, shutting down 4 stations is only saving the district 3 percent, not very much money, the details would show what the problem really is.
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Isn't it interesting that there are only two choices. Either the taxpayers have to cough up more money or their fire protection is degraded. The third option is to cut the insane compensation packages that firemen receive, particular things like retiring age 50 with full salary and benefits for life. They also need to cut costs by having firemen to other tasks during the 90% of the time they are on duty and not firefighting. Firefighters in other parts of the country do things like auto maintenance and repair, computer repair/refurbishing, website development, furniture and cabinetry, light manufacturing, etc, etc.etc. That of course is different than today where they watch TV, play poker, lounge around the (luxury) health clubs, stroll leisurely through the grocery stores, and BS endlessly.
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Ripped Off is so right. There are several 'adjustments' that must be
made to firemen retirements contributions, financial, timing, overtime. Hardheaded, ignorant, selfish, union greed prevents any sensible plan. Read Dan Borenstein's editorial in last SUN, Dec 9, Valley Time, @ BayAreaNewsGroup. He, rightfully, really hits the Contra Costa fire union hard. Closing staions and laying off 'brothers', is a childish and stupid non-solution. That is 'individual personal' Shaving a bit across all stations would be so much more sensible.
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Title text: There's also a Katamari level where everything is just slightly bigger than you, and a Mario level with a star just out of reach.
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Tetris is a game where the player has to manipulate falling blocks into forming complete rows. This comic is a play on this, presenting the player with a version of the game with a curved bottom that renders forming rows nearly impossible. Hell is a religious concept of a posthumous punishment for wrongdoers, depicted in many religions as eternal torment.
The title text presents similar situations where frustration is likely to occur. Katamari Damacy is a video game in which the player controls a sticky sphere which grows by assimilating objects smaller than itself. Super Mario is a long-running franchise of platforming games; in most of the games which utilize a 3-dimensional engine, levels are completed by collecting large, golden stars.
Also see comic 888: Heaven, which presents an opposing situation in which the game is trying to help the player win.
There is a playable version of this comic at geekosystem, which, unsurprisingly, is frustratingly difficult (but not impossible) to play.
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- [A basic Tetris screen is depicted, with a next piece indicator (an L piece), score (0) and top score (also 0), and level listed as 01. The bottom of the pit is curved into a semicircle. A square and reverse L piece are sitting crookedly in the pit; an S piece is falling.]
That playable version is actually quite fun. My best was 22 pieces on the screen (screenshot). Shine (talk) 18:20, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
Guess what, this is actually scorable. The trick is to form a solid base with your blocks, and play normal tetris over that. 184.108.40.206 13:56, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure if saying the hell came "cannot be won" is worth saying. Keep in mind, the regular game of tetris can't be won either. 184.108.40.206 01:29, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
"In Soviet Russia, game wastes time with you!"?! 126.96.36.199 23:28, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
If Heaven was #888, why wasn't Hell #666? --Quicksilver (talk) 02:39, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
Super Mario Bros with a star just out of reach - reference to Tantalus? 18.104.22.168 03:23, 11 June 2014 (UTC)For posterity, there's also not tetris, by stabyourself.net, which is similarly hellish in that you freely rotate the tetronimoes, and they will most likely not align perfectly, although its bottom border is a straight line. --188.8.131.52 11:53, 22 August 2014 (UTC)


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They are the subjects and objects at the same time, being observed and the observers themselves at the same time. The artists are simultaneously director, photographer/cameraman, and actor, being present in the gallery space all the time no matter the audience are there or not.
These works, all including self-image as a crucial element, are staging the physical presence of the artists as a way of narrative. They are artistic versions of selfies. Just like people nowadays keep posting selfies publicly on social networks who are enjoying the appeal of how easy to create and share self-images, this show will gather artists' "selfies" in a public sphere and exhibit the strength of displaying the self.


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---- — A 48-page report released today by a former state attorney general has found allegations of wrongdoing by Vito Giacalone in his role heading the Gloucester Fishing Community Preservation Fund "without merit" and with no "credible basis."
The investigation and report, filled with compliments and praise for Giacalone, in one place noting that his many admirers consider him a "genius" of foresight, was commissioned and financed by the preservation fund, for which Giacalone serves as president and executive director.
The report was presented to the Times at a meeting and joint interview at the newspaper attended by the author, former Attorney General Scott Harshbarger and the preservation fund board -- Giacalone, Jackie Odell, who is also executive director of the Northeast Seafood Coalition, Dale Brown, a senior staffer in the administration of former Mayor John Bell, and Angela Sanfilippo, president of the Gloucester Fishermen's Wives Association.
But in upholding Giacalone's actions at the fund, which was organized as a nonprofit corporation in 2007 and vested with $12 million from the state to serve as a permit bank for Gloucester boats, the Harsgbarger report did recommend that the board, be doubled in size from four to eight. And the report raises a number of other questions, suggesting at one point that Gloucester's two state lawmakers urged the Preservation Fund to seek counsel and look into its structure merely as a way to "cover" themselves, and suggesting that questions regarding perceived conflicts of interest on Giacalone's part were fabricated and motivated by business competition.
The investigation by the preservation fund last August following a report in the Times on a letter to Giacalone and former Mayor Bell, president of the Northeast Seafood Coaltion from state Sen. Bruce Tarr and Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante.
The Harshbarger report indicated that Tarr and Ferrante told Harsbarger's team that their own letter as nothing more than a formality the Tarr-Ferrante letter which "strongly recommended" the two organizations which have interlocked boards of directors, "seek advice from legal counsel regarding their respective obligations under the law." Neither Tarr nor Ferrante had returned calls to the Times seeking comment as of this afternoon.
Harshbarger's report went further, asserting the letter was written only "to cover them" in case "the allegations were substantiated."
Now a senior counsel in the Boston office the New York City-based international law firm, Proskauer Rose LLP, Harshbarger wrote that Gicaclone and Bell "insisted" that Tarr and Ferrante "must have leaked" their letter to the Times, "since there was no other way that the newspaper could have gotten a copy of it. In fact, however, the Times was informed of the letter by an official of the seafood coalition and then was provided a copy on request by one of the lawmakers.
For much more on this story, look to tomorrow's print and online editions of the Gloucester Daily Times and gloucestertimes.com.
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