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These are the wheel studs and wheel spacers that I bought:
All you need are a few things:
- 17mm socket
- socket wrench and/or torque wrench
- philips screwdriver
- hammer
- a handful of washers
- rotor cleaner (optional)
1) Start by putting bricks behind/in front your wheels, loosening your lug nuts and placing the car on jack stands.
2) You need to take off the caliper and rotor in order to pop out the studs. Start be removing the brake calipers by removing the two 17mm nuts. I used a empty bodyfiller can to hold the caliper so I don't have to disconnect the brake line.
3) Now with the caliper removed you can take off your rotor. Use a philips screwdriver to remove the two screws. You may need to use an impact drill if they're not coming off.
4) Turn the hub so there is enough room for the first stud to come out without hitting any obstacles. You will be hammering it out.
5) Using a hammer, bump out the first stud. You might need to put some muscle into it if you're a b****. I didn't have much trouble popping them out. Alternatively, you can choose to cut it off if you don't have enough room.
6) You can try putting in the new studs by just hammering them back in, but I didn't want to risk wrecking the thread since there isn't much room and even moreso since the new studs I was using were 15mm longer. So I decided to grind off part of the nut at the end. I've read on some other sites about people doing this so I thought I'd give it a try... I found it to work like a charm.
Here you can see the difference between the old and new studs:
7) With the new stud now partially grinded, it slides in quite easily and you don't have to worry about ruining the thread. Don't push it in all the way.
8) I put enough washers on the stud to leave just about enough room for the stock lug nuts. Then I put on the lug nut and twisted it on, thus pressing the new stud into the hub. I used a metal pole to keep the hub from turning while I tightened the lug not. Be careful not to over tighten as to not ruin the thread. You'll know the stud is steated correctly just by looking at the back of the hub.
9) BAM! now you've replaced one stud. Like I said, pretty straight forward
10) Now repeat steps 4-8 on the remaining studs.
11) Once all the studs have been replaced you can put you can re-assemble everything buy putting the rotor, caliper and wheel back on and you're done. In my case, I also put on some spacers. The ones I got were hubcentric which I think is important. First, put your rotor back on and tighten the two philip screws your removed. Next, simply slide on your new spacers and use a hammer (I used a rubber one) to seat it in the centre correctly.
12) Anytime I touch my rotors I like to clean them.
13) Now reinstall your brake caliper and you can put your wheels back on. I had to Torque the 17mm caliper nuts to 47 ft-lbs but yours might be different. When putting on your wheels, tighten them in a star pattern while the car is still on jack stands and after you lower the car to the ground, torque them to 80 ft-lbs. As you can see, I now have enough thread on the stud to safely install my wheels while also clearing the calipers with some extra room!
14) Repeat the same steps to any other wheels.
Hope this might one day help someone who snaps a stud or wants to install new ones.


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How excited was I to see Vera Brosgol's graphic novel Anya's Ghost under my Christmas tree? Super excited! I had actually tried to buy the book at SDCC over the summer, but it was sold out by the second day. It was the first thing I read from my holiday horde and it did not dissapoint.
The story: Without revealing too much, the basic story follows the modern highschooler Anya Borzakovskaya who is a Russian immigrant (though she left when still a young child) trying to fit into American suburbia. After falling down a well, Anya meets and befriends the ghost of Emily Reilly, a girl who died after falling down the same well while trying to escape the man who killed her family.
The story is as beautiful, simple and spare as the art, with a series of surprising turns that take it far beyond a simple Casper-style buddy comedy.
Of course, Anya's problems are the predictable problems of any highschool girl: weight, boys, grades, fitting in, so this may not be the book for your more macho friends. But Anya's issues are addressed in sometimes surprising ways (especially in regards to teen heartthrob Sean and his perfect girlfriend Elizabeth), so anyone who hated highschool has a decent chance of liking this book.
Still Anya's Ghost is best suited for the highschool reader. If you have a niece you've been trying to get into comics, this is a very approachable, very relatable read, a great place to start. Middleschoolers is a little bit of a gray area as there are some mature themes (implied sex, smoking, non-graphic murder), but I have no doubt the characters will resonate.
Read up, Wrongsiders!
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Range: $43,142.87 - $64,714.30 (18)
Position Number: 6633
JOB SUMMARY: This position is responsible for administering the Pretreatment Program and the Fats, Oils, and Grease Program. This position also assists the Water Reclamation Manager to ensure compliance with NPDES, Land Application, Stormwater, and Reclaimed Water System permits. MAJOR DUTIES:
Coordinates pretreatment program; coordinates grease removal program.
Evaluates industrial permit applications; determines appropriate limits based on permit evaluations; performs calculations to establish limits based on governmental regulations; develops and issues SIU, NSIU, and FSE discharge permits.
Tracks parameter concentrations for each industry to identify potential problems; issues notices of violations and compliance agreements; notifies industries and FSEs of required actions.
Arranges for billing of industrial users for surcharges; recommends appropriate civil penalties and fines.
Maintains accurate files and records; prepares and submits required reports; prepares data summary reports; maintains methods of tracking deadlines and due dates.
Implements and maintains the Long Term Monitoring Plan; summarizes facility and industrial data; develops Headworks analysis and determines allocation; maintains allocation table.
Conducts inspections for industries.
Publish industries in significant noncompliance in the local newspaper.
Answers state and federal regulators' questions concerning pretreatment, facility operations, and industrial processes.
Supervises the industrial sample collection program; develops the sampling schedule; maintains acceptable chain of custody for industrial samples; performs laboratory analysis.
Reviews all permits issued to Water Reclamation Facility: NPDES, Land Application, Reclaimed Water, Stormwater, and any others issued in the future. Works with Operations, Maintenance, Laboratory, and Administrative areas to achieve and maintain compliance with all aspects of each permit. Provides guidance and assistance to supervisors and staff to establish policies, programs, and procedures as needed to maintain and document compliance. Performs other related duties as assigned.
Knowledge of city and department policies and procedures.
Knowledge of the principles of organic and inorganic chemistry including quantitative and qualitative analysis.
Knowledge of chemical, physical, and bacteriological analyses of water.
Knowledge of biology and environmental science.
Knowledge of modern laboratory equipment.
Knowledge of federal, state, and local laws, ordinances, and regulations related to the treatment of industrial waste.
Skill in planning, organizing, and prioritizing work.
Skill in performing mathematical computations.
Skill in the performance of laboratory analysis of water samples.
Skill in the use of a computer.
Skill in oral and written communication.
SUPERVISORY CONTROLS: The Water Reclamation Plant Manager assigns work in terms of general instructions. The supervisor spot-checks completed work for compliance with procedures, accuracy, and the nature and propriety of the final results.
GUIDELINES: Guidelines include federal, state and local regulations, including North Carolina 15 NCAC 2H Regulations, the Code of Federal Regulations, and EPA Methods for the Analysis of Water and Wastewater. These guidelines require judgment, selection, and interpretation in application.
COMPLEXITY: The work consists of varied technical duties in the coordination of pretreatment inspection and enforcement. Changes in regulations contribute to the complexity of the position.
SCOPE AND EFFECT: The purpose of this position is to coordinate pretreatment inspections and enforcement. Successful performance ensures that discharges to the treatment plant are not harmful to plant personnel or equipment and protects the surrounding environment.
PERSONAL CONTACTS: Contacts are typically with co-workers, other city employees, other local government officials, contractors, vendors, state and federal agency personnel, industry representatives, and the general public.
PURPOSE OF CONTACTS: Contacts are typically to give or exchange information, resolve problems, provide services, and negotiate or settle matters.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The work is typically performed while sitting at a desk or while intermittently sitting, standing, or stooping. The employee occasionally lifts light and heavy objects, climbs ladders, and must be able to distinguish between shades of color.
WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work is typically performed in an office and in the field. The employee may be exposed to contagious or infectious disease and irritating chemicals. The work may be performed outdoors and occasionally in cold or inclement weather. The work requires the use of protective devices such as masks, goggles, and gloves.
SUPERVISORY AND MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITY: None.
Knowledge and level of competency commonly associated with completion of specialized training in the field of work, in addition to basic skills typically associated with a high school education.
Sufficient experience to understand the basic principles relevant to the major duties of the position, usually associated with the completion of an apprenticeship/internship or having had a similar position for one to two years.
Possession of or ability to readily obtain a valid driver's license issued by the State of North Carolina for the type of vehicle or equipment operated.
Possession of or ability to readily obtain an appropriate state-certified license for water or wastewater treatment or distribution as appropriate.
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Madison Business: The Messengers
Madison is under the influence of these women
Pictured left to right: Lisa Hartman, Melanie Kranz, Kristina Hoffman, Chris Schellpfeffer and Jennifer Savino
Here's yet another reason we keep getting called Dame County: A growing number of remarkable Madison-area women work in communications-related fields such as public relations, marketing, advertising, lobbying and community organizing—jobs where their ability to influence what we buy, do or even believe is paramount. And they're very, very good at it.
They're also part of a much larger demographic swing, where for the last few decades more women than men have been choosing careers involving persuasive communication. Today, for example, more than sixty percent of the nation's advertising and public relations managers are women, according to federal Bureau of Labor statistics.
Cecilia Ford, a University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of English and sociology whose most recent book is Women Speaking Up: Getting and Using Turns in Workplace Meetings (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), says socializing factors may give women an edge in crafting convincing messages. But that difference, she emphasizes, seems to be cultural, not chromosomal.
"There is no conclusive or definitive evidence across different experimental and natural settings that women, overall, speak differently from men," she says. "Even in [vocal] pitch ranges, women and men aren't that statistically different, on average."
Rather, it's nurture and not nature that gives women and men different styles of communication. Ford, who also teaches a course on gender and language, says traditional tasks (think child-rearing) lead women to become more overtly empathetic and adept at determining the type of communication most likely to elicit a positive response. This bears out in the workplace, she says, with study after study demonstrating that men are more likely to be culturally accepted as leadership communicators and women as persuasive ones.
"Women have great skill at persuasive communication because of their socialization, or the roles women play," Ford says. "They have more ways of figuring out how to convince people, because they have to."
Agency Pros
"I think people who are naturally empathetic, regardless of gender, do well in communications because rarely are you trying to communicate to someone who is exactly like you," says Jeane Kropp, director of brand strategy and a partner in Hiebing, one of Madison's established marketing firms. "If you have empathy and can kind of get inside the psyche of others, then you have a really high potential to succeed."
The various marketing, advertising and public relations firms around town are hotbeds of creative and persuasive communication. You may not know the women who own, run or work at these companies, but you'll certainly recognize their creations.
Kropp, for example, can boast that she helped create MasterCard's "Priceless" tag, and sent sales of Kraft's DiGiorno into orbit by understanding that the frozen pizza could compete head-to-head with home delivery. Specializing in the kind of creative thinking that allows her to study a book of market research and tease out the one true message in all those numbers, Kropp is currently busy branding new products for nationally known companies and enjoying the fruits of her efforts on Hiebing's new campaign for Culver's, which just hit the airwaves.
Across town, Jennifer Savino, vice president at Knupp & Watson & Wallman (KW2, for short), another high-profile ad firm, is relishing a success of her own—luring Chris Schellpfeffer away from well-known Lindsay, Stone & Briggs to become the company's director of public relations earlier this year.
"It's part of my cunning plan to hire the people who are the very best at what they do and make them crazy happy to be here," Savino says with a smile.
Her company does have national clients, but KW2 is better known here for its work on behalf of scores of local organizations and businesses, including Overture Center, and for public service announcements such as 2008's jaw-dropping commercial on road-worker safety, created for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. As the company expands, Savino says hometown public-service efforts, such as the $1.5 million in goods and services generated through the company's annual Goodstock program, will continue to be a high priority.
Schellpfeffer good-naturedly denies being "lured" and says she joined the company for the new challenge of re-doing what she did at her last position, which was build a booming public relations practice. Expect her to excel while she does it: As one of Madison's PR rockstars in national media relations, Schellpfeffer is the kind of rep who makes Washington Post and Wall Street Journal reporters slide open their phones and call her clients, not the other way around.
Melanie Kranz, who worked her way up from reception to vice president and principal with ZEBRADOG (formerly ZD Studios), says a lot with her work that says almost nothing out loud. The firm specializes in environmental design and branding, so much of her job coordinating targeted messaging campaigns results in powerful, but non-verbal, communication. If you've seen the colorful banners affixed to the Capitol Square light poles, or the State Street thumbprint icon, or the UW athletics spaces ranging from Camp Randall concession stands to Badger Alley to Bo Ryan's office, you've seen ZEBRADOG—and Kranz—in action. As adept at developing new business and scoping projects as she is budgeting and pitching in on creative design, Kranz is justifiably proud.
"It not only makes the spaces better and reflects how great the programs are," she says of her firm's work with the athletics program, "it's been a real game-changer in the recruiting process."
It's too soon to tell, but the game-changing, landscape-shifting explosion in social-media marketing may generate more opportunities for women to tap communications skill-sets that connect people to people and people to products.
At Stephan & Brady, VP and public relations director Kristina Hoffman and senior VP/account director Lisa Hartman bring their teams together to collaborate on some of the company's best-known accounts, including Archer Daniels Midland, Miller Brewing, Wilderness Resort and Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board. And Hoffman just launched a blog to promote the firm's success in the niche market of premium food. She allows that the conversational approach of blogging may benefit from a communication style more typically attributed to women.
"I think women are relational, and developing relationships in marketing is a real strength," she says. "The more you get to know somebody, whether they're clients or internal staff, the more that enables you to build trust and persuade."
Power Suits
Late last year, Tanya Bjork [pictured at far left] enjoyed a day most lobbyists would consider the pinnacle of their careers. As director of federal affairs for the state of Wisconsin, Bjork accompanied Governor Jim Doyle to Washington, where they and a delegation of Midwestern governors met with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in her grand Capitol office. Then they crossed the rotunda to chat with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in his fabulously appointed quarters. A few hours later, she and the governor traveled down Pennsylvania Avenue to talk with President Barack Obama in, you guessed it, the Oval Office.
When she's on the job as a lobbyist for the state, what Bjork talks about is Wisconsin. And when she talks, everyone listens. Including the chair of the House Committee on Transportation, for whom she interned way back when. And the director of the powerful political action committee EMILY's List, for which she managed a seventeen-state regional network. And the current president of the United States, whose Wisconsin campaign she ran. And she's effective. Remember when the state received $1.6 billion in the first recovery bill and then feds dropped $810 million into the pot for a high-speed rail link from Milwaukee to Madison? It was Bjork's responsibility to help make Wisconsin's case for that money. When Obama came to Madison to spotlight the $5 billion Race to the Top program from the auditorium at Wright Middle School, that was her doing, too.
Bjork demurs that her job is rarely as spectacular as that trip to Washington. Instead, a typical day finds her working the phones: checking with contacts and tracking legislation, serving as a communications conduit who tells government staffers and policymakers what they need to know to make a decision in Wisconsin's favor.
"Issues are easy to learn if you have a story to tell," says Bjork. "To be quite honest, part of the reason we're as effective as we are is because we have a great story to tell in Wisconsin."
Kris Andrews [pictured above, center] and Rhonda Norsetter [pictured above, right], federal lobbyists for the UW System and for UW–Madison, respectively, say their employers are part of that story.
"There is not a greater university in the world," says Norsetter, whose title is senior special assistant to the chancellor and director of federal relations. A Madison graduate, Norsetter became the only female lobbying for a Big Ten university when she took the job in 1992; now the group is basically gender-even. Because fully thirty percent of UW–Madison's budget comes from federal research funds, Norsetter has traveled to Washington at least once a month for eighteen years. She has risen through national ranks in her field, too, and in 2011 will become chair of the Council of Federal Relations for the Association of American Universities.
As Norsetter's counterpart for the UW System, Andrews also spends a lot of time in Washington—though she's usually too busy to look up all the friends she made there when she served as chief of staff for former congressman Scott Klug in the 1990s. Widely credited with boosting the profile of the UW's outstate campuses since she became assistant vice president for federal relations in 2001, Andrews is justly famed for launching innovative programs throughout her career. For example, she worked with Sue Ann Thompson (featured in our cover story) to establish the Wisconsin Women's Health Foundation, and went on to serve as the organization's first executive director and raise more than $1 million in just over a year.
Flying Solo
Can one person make a difference? Cheryl Tessier and Barbara Cole Hernandez think so. Each is president of her own one-woman public relations firm, founded after years of learning, doing and growing with established Madison companies. And both have built thriving practices all on their own, thank you, by combining traditional public relations with creativity and hard-won expertise in crisis management.
Tessier [pictured at right] spent several years at Stephan & Brady and now runs Finesse Public Relations where she recently helped publicize Summit Credit Union's innovative Project Money and Pay It Forward programs. Her clients include an international food ingredients corporation, and lately she's been helping an unnamed but well-known customer make sure an internal problem doesn't also become a tricky public-relations issue.
Hernandez [pictured at left] gained considerable experience counseling clients through PR crises while a partner at Hiebing—she helped Epic respond to media inquiries during the company's 2008 dust-up with Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, for example—before she struck out on her own last year to found BCH OnPoint, Inc. One of the best-known practitioners in Madison's public relations community, Hernandez is a past president of the Madison chapter of the Public Relations Society of America and in 2008 was named the organization's Communicator of the Year.
Community Service
Some of Madison's most influential communicators advocate for causes, not clients. If Maureen Busalacchi's [pictured at right] name is familiar, for instance, it's because she's the woman behind the statewide smoking ban that will take effect this summer. As executive director of SmokeFree Wisconsin since 2004, Busalacchi directed years of painstaking effort—persuading lawmakers and tavern-owners, linking community groups and helping everyone stay on-message.
"Messaging was really important," she says. "When there's community involvement and media coverage, I think people can really understand—and for us [the ban] was really about getting people to understand the issue."
And Busalacchi says her organization is just getting started. "The smoking battle is far from over," she says, adding that she sees working to create communities that are healthier, overall, as her real mission.
Jennette Bradley [pictured at far right] has embarked on a mission to influence an entire generation of Madison girls. The new CEO of Girl Scouts of Wisconsin-Badgerland Council, Bradley is a former politico from Ohio—three terms on the city council in Columbus and four years as the state's lieutenant governor—who landed in Madison last winter.
Her job? Set the new group, created with the complex merger of four smaller Girl Scouts councils, on the best possible course for the future. Her strength? Communication. Bradley says that will be the key not only to her success but also to that of the girls her group will serve.
"We have to develop leadership skills in young women and prepare them for the future," she says, "and to do that we have to give them the skills to step up, speak up, show compassion and make connections."
Grand Dames
A few decades ago these four women, who helped shape Madisonians' opinions and behaviors, were pioneers. Today they're just extraordinarily successful. And still hard at work, as this snapshot of what they're up to lately attests.
Marsha Lindsay continues at the helm of Lindsay, Stone & Briggs, the "psychology of persuasion" firm she founded in 1978 and built into a branding and marketing powerhouse. She also established and runs Brandworks University, an annual conference attended by hundreds of marketing execs each year. And she serves with equal passion on industry boards and local committees.
Virginia Henderson is more involved than ever with two of Madison's most influential community organizations: the terrific kids' summer science program she runs for the African American Ethnic Academy (she's president) and the scholarship-raising Women in Focus (she's a longtime member and leader). A former head of the Minority Student Achievement Initiative for Madison schools, Henderson says, with a laugh, "I think I retired to work harder."
Carol Toussaint will say she's doing less these days, but don't believe her. She was named to Overture Center's first board of directors in 2001 and still serves on it as well as the 201 State Foundation, which also supports Overture. She was a member of too-many-to-list UW–Madison committees for decades, and she still is. "I can't think of any woman I've known who has had more influence in the
community than Carol Toussaint," says Marsha Lindsay. Indeed, the lecture series she founded, Vantage Point, drew Biddy Martin's first public speech as UW–Madison Chancellor.
Joan Collins remains synonymous with publicity. And by that we mean both the woman and her eponymously named company, Joan Collins Publicity. She still runs the business, which she founded in 1966 and includes not only her staff but a nationwide network of freelancers. She won a Governor's Trailblazer Award for Women in 2007, and generously gives back to nonprofits in general, with more than $100,000 in donations to the Madison Community Foundation, and to women and girls in particular, through MCF's A Fund for Women.
Contributing writer Mary Erpenbach is director of communications for Discover Mediaworks and board member of PRSA's Madison chapter.


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SLICK SCORING: Democrats never score well in California's Orange County, so it was no surprise that former president Bill Clinton had trouble during the pro-am portion of November's Hyundai Team Matches at Monarch Beach Golf Links. Paired with Fred Couples, Clinton engaged in some creative stroke counting. "You won't see so many mulligans in an Irish phone book," said one spectator. On the final hole Clinton yanked his drive into the gallery, nailing one of his hecklers. After apologizing, Clinton joked, "You got what you deserved." That evening the former commander in chief attended a private party at the St. Regis Hotel, where he asked tournament officials to arrange for him to meet comely LPGA star Grace Park.
FRESH MEAT: Will Meat Loaf belt "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" on March 23 at Coyote Hills Golf Course in Fullerton, California?He can if his team wins Mark and Brian's Third Annual Celebrity Golf Tournament, hosted by the nationally syndicated DJs from L.A.'s KLOS. Loaf, who plays at Sherwood Country Club so often that they take messages for him there (ask for "Meat" or "Mr. Loaf"), won the event in 2001 and last year finished five shots off the lead. This year's field includes Motley Crüe rocker Vince Neil and actors Martin Sheen, Joe Mantegna and Don Cheadle.
TALL TALE: The tee sheet at the private Four Streams Golf Club in Poolesville, Maryland, often features such names as Alexander Haig, Michael Jordan and Jerry Stackhouse. One day an old teammate of Jordan's stopped by: Chicago Bulls coach Bill Cartwright. Sick of stooping over his off-the-rack sticks, Cartwright asked Four Streams director Bob Mauragas for a fitting. Mauragas called Titleist, which used specs for NBA legend Bill Russell to outfit the seven-foot-one Cartwright. "Billy's five-iron has a thirty-seven-inch shaft, and his pitching wedge feels like my three-wood," says Mauragas, who'll be surprised to hear that Cartwright wants still-longer shafts. "I could use another inch," says the big man.
DAMONIZED: One celeb who may not return to celebrity golf is Damon Wayans. The star of TV's My Wife and Kids was playing in a 2001 tournament when a member of his group hit a drive that smacked a female spectator in the mouth. Onlookers say Wayans jokingly invited her to sue him. No suit resulted, and he still strides the fairways as a proud high handicapper. "When a celebrity becomes a scratch golfer," he says, "that means their career has gone to hell."
CALC YOU LATER: While on tour last summer, guitarist Alex Lifeson of the legendary Canadian band Rush had some elite playing partners. "Lee Janzen, Rocco Mediate and Mark Calcavecchia are all fans of the band, and we're friends," says Lifeson. During a round with Calcavecchia, "Mark gave me a pointer about tilting my body at a slightly different angle." The result?A personal-best seventy-seven that day and a two-stroke drop in handicap in only a month.


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As IBOC gets closer to being a reality, radio stations are starting to see the light ahead. This light is not just the promise of an improved service, but also the realization that nothing in life is free.
Ibiquity, from the start, has been a technology developer with a goal of licensing its technology when it is used. Developing the technology to transmit digital radio is no small feat, and it has already taken 10 years to get us to where we are now. During this time, Ibiquity and it predecessors, USA Digital Radio and Lucent Digital Radio, were working on the entire system. It was not simply writing some code and passing it on for others to figure out the implementation and use. Ibiquity has been acting as a research and development arm for transmitter manufacturers and receiver manufacturers. In this capacity, there are costs to be covered. Ibiquity has decided that everyone involved will share these costs.
This is not appealing to any one segment. Broadcasters would rather have the transmitter and receiver manufacturers pay for it. As it is, transmitter manufacturers are paying a licensing fee, which will be passed through to the broadcaster anyway, so it doesn't really matter where the fee is assessed. Radio stations will pay no matter what. Ibiquity has kept the amount of manufacturer's fees under wraps. Some of the cost is for the development of the technology. There is also an ongoing cost for each unit manufactured.
In previous issues, BE Radio reported that stations can expect to pay for new hardware starting at about $30,000. For some stations, it will cost significantly more. In addition, licensing fees will added. The question is, "how much will it cost?"
The licensing fee is based on the current FCC regulatory fees. These FCC fees are based on the type of service (AM or FM) and the population that a stations serves. The fees range from $250 to $4,550. Ibiquity wants to charge you 15 times the FCC fee for a one-time licensing payment — a license payment range of $3,750 to $68,250.
If a lump sum payment is not possible, Ibiquity is also offering a 10-year payment plan, which is evaluated at 2.8 times the FCC regulatory fee every year for 10 years. This results in a payment of $700 to $12,740 every year for a grand total payment of $7,000 to $127,400. It is cheaper to pay it all at once. Because each station is signing a contract, there may be opportunities for other payment plans to be made.
Non-commercial FM stations, while exempt from FCC regulatory fees, are not exempt from the Ibiquity licensing fee. These stations will pay based on the minimum rate for FM stations of $250. This yields a licensing fee of $3,750 one time or an annual fee of $1,260 over 10 years.
The fees don't end there. Any station revenue from data services will also be subject to a royalty. Right now this stands at three percent of the revenue. This amount will be calculated quarterly by the station and continue in perpetuity. An option exists in the current contract to discuss this for the long term, so it may change in the future.
It has been expected that there would be costs involved in licensing the Ibiquity technology. This is not really a new concept. Now that the initial market roll-out efforts have begun, this point has moved into the spotlight and many broadcasters are not happy about it.
In the end, this is yet another financial obstacle for IBOC. I have heard the demonstrations and I am impressed with the audio quality it provides. Like you, I am not the average listener. Will a listener realize the improvements of the new system? Not initially and maybe not in the long term. Will stations voluntarily pay the costs to upgrade their systems and cover the royalties? Without an FCC mandate to implement the service — which I don't see happening — I don't think many stations will. The marketing engine must convince the listeners that this is what they need.
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HINAUT GHAT (CHANDAULI): When Dudhiya, an elderly tribal woman, castes her vote, her wish every time is that perhaps this time their fate might change. Her hope reflects the pain of over 20 families of Hinaut Ghat area in Maoist-affected Chakia assembly constituency in Chandauli district.
Hinaut Ghat is the same place where the Maoists had executed their biggest destructive plan in UP on November 20, 2004 when they blew a PAC truck in a landmine blast claiming the lives of 15 PAC personnel and policemen. After that incident, the state machinery had taken the Maoist problem seriously. It had adopted a two-prong strategy to add aggression to police operation and ensure development in the remote areas of the Maoist-affected districts. In the name of development in Maoist-affected areas, crores of rupees were pumped in by the state as well as the Union government.
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In the absence of a concrete road, people of this remote area were bound to move on muddy pathway created along the bank of Chandraprabha reservoir. People like Mahesh and Dharma said: "Before polling, several politicians come to our village with lots of promises, but after polling day nobody takes the pains to fulfil even a single promise. But, even then we consider that voting is our duty and we do it honestly."
The cluster of hutments of Hinaut Ghat natives, created in traditional tribal Kabila style, is clubbed with forest area on the rocky slope of Naugarh hills. Kanhaiya, an elderly local, said: "When the water level of reservoir reduces, we get some land for cultivation in its basin but for a very limited period."
"Even under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA), a local native did not get the job for more than 10 days in a month for the past many years," said Mahesh. The nearest market and health facility are available 20-km away, either in Chakia or Naugarh, while the nearest primary school is six km away.
A class four employee of irrigation department, who is familiar with these people, reveals that due to poverty and monetary needs, they are forced sell even their bicycles and other articles given to them under community policing scheme. "In the name of development, only some electric wires and polls are available here. But the power supply remains available for four-five days only in a month as, whenever the transformer is damaged, it is repaired after long time," said Munnu.
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My girlfriend told me she needs to have a blow & go installed in a vehicle in order to obtain a drivers license. Back in 2010 her husband at the time jumped into her vehicle after drinking at a bar, he was only supposed to go to work an come home. When he didn't come home she went looking for him in his mother's car an found her car at a bar parking lot she entered the establishment. An arrangement was trying to be made to get home safely all tho two vehicles where at the business location. An argument developed while discussing the means to get home. An the 220lb husband jumped in behind the wheel an sped off. Wife gave chase.. a mile down the road husband rolls wife's car... Wife charged with PERMITTING A DUI. Lawyer beat the permitting charge but was charged with obstruction.
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The state of WV dropped the permitting to drive at the court house, but dmv charged her, SHE didn't contrary it in time. This has been a few years ago. All she wants is advice on how to get her license back. Or asks someone to help her. She has told the dmv several times that she isn't married to the bone head any more so I don't see why I have to pay to have a blow an go installed in my vehicle for her when she's not the drunk, hee idiotic x husband is. This all cost her marriage an wants to take some legal action against WV. They did her wrong, an it's taken a heavy toll on her life an mine.
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I am required to drive an interlock equipped only vehicle based on a WV DUI sentence. I was pulled over for speeding in Michigan for 5mph over in a rental car, but was not ticketed for driving without interlock as my virginia drivers license does not show any restriction. My question is what to expect from WV, I.e. Will they find out that I was driving a non interlock vehicle despite not being ticketed for that? When WV runs a check at the completion of my interlock program and sees I had a speeding ticket, how deep will they look? Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated.
No one can tell you if anything will come of this. All depends if the prosecutor becomes aware of the speeding ticket...
I came into town with a company crew for work. Got charged. Company shut down and out of job. Became homeless. Indigent. Unable to stay in town. So unable to get back to court. Ever since then unable to obtain a license to drive. Need to see if I can find someone to get the case closed cheap. Can't afford alot of money as hence need a license to get decent jobs. Someone suggested check here and maybe because of time I have had to go without a license 10 times plus longer than a conviction. Maybe someone can get the case dismissed? Trying to turn my life around.
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...and if they won't, we'll turn the lights off and light them with a strobe.
No one will know the difference.
I believe you hit that nail with Everest being the big draw to AK for many.
Remember when Typhoon Lagoon had to shut down for a extremely extended period of time because the damage was so, so severe to the Wave machine?
But it does make me wonder why Disney could not work on Yeti in the over night hours. It isn't like the coaster couldn't roll without Yeti until he recovered.
My DH is now working on a design flaw for the automotive industry on a project that was not his, but is now. Retrofitting bungled projects is never a simple task.
I just struggle to believe they would be so brainless as to create a highly-machined (and thus more likely to break) piece of show-action equipment and then install it in such a way that it (remember, more likely to break) cannot be repaired without a full refurbishment. Leads me to wonder if it is just another nonsense fan tale by the usual apologists.
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It amazes me that they would spend countless Disney dollars on sending Joe across the seven seas to bring back artifacts for this park (and earring) and to do so much research in an effort to get each land of the park as authentic as possible. The Imagineers carefully planed out how the ride would be build into the roller coaster structure so that both the tracks and mountain would support each other. Then they go and forget that eventually something might need to be repaired. Eventually being a month later. When pieces are no longer removable without causing serious concern to the attraction...
I think they stressed being "PC" rather than engineering.
I will say though, regarding sending Joe to Nepal, the theming and accuracy is part of what makes Animal Kingdom my favorite park in Florida.
Yes. And they spent a ton of money on research to make the park as authentic as possible for a parkload of cretins who will most likely never see the real thing. So it pretty much doesn't matter what's there. Put any junk there, tell the guests it's authentic and truthfully, what difference does it make?


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I know, I know. At this point, what could you possibly not know about the American gymnast Danell Leyva? After all those NBC spotlights on him, it would be easy to feel like you've gone so up close and personal that you're practically living in his right nostril. But, you know, it's a pretty nice nostril.
What I really mean by that is that Leyva's story is a genuinely compelling one. Some personal stories are thin, don't resonate, get chased out of the mind immediately after you hear them. Not Leyva's.
His mother, a gymnast named María González, left Cuba when Danell was a sickly infant. He had breathing problems, which turned out to be asthma, and allergies, and she had to take him to the hospital regularly because she couldn't get any medicines for him. In Havana in the years immediately following the collapse of the Soviet Union, shortage was the norm.
González's father had left for Miami years before, telling her that when she was ready to leave Cuba, she should send him a telegram saying, "Everything is perfectly fine." She did, and he helped arrange for María's defection, along with the one-year-old Dani and his older sister, in Nicaragua. It took six months before the three of them were able to move—for good—to south Florida.
In Miami, González reconnected with another alum of the Cuban gymnastics system, Yin Alvárez—who had been salting away money from washing dishes, cleaning bathrooms, and selling cemetery plots in South Florida for a few years—and together they raised her children by another man, a Spaniard named Johan Leyva, whom Danell has never met but who supposedly talks to him on the telephone regularly.
Leyva's asthma got better and grew into a chubby kid. When he was only 3, Alvárez played him old videos of Olympic gymnastics. Leyva remembers pointing at the screen and saying, "That's what I want to do."
González remembers that moment too, but for her it isn't an entirely happy memory. Her son had flat feet, his arms were too long, he had breathing issues, he had a hard time jumping and ran with a funny-looking gait; in Cuba, she thought to herself, he would never have made the cut. "I didn't see in him the talent," González told the Washington Post. "Gymnastics is so hard, and he was not coordinated and a little fat … You have to be fast, strong, flexible. You have to be quick for gymnastics."
What she couldn't measure was his determination.
The family opened a gym in West Kendall, and Leyva practically grew up there, developing the skills that would carry him to the 2011 world championships, where he won gold medal in the parallel bars, and to Olympic qualifying.
His performance so far in London has been spectacular, with the exception of two glitches, both on the pommel horse. The first came during the team event, when he lost his grip on the horse and dropped to the ground. That mistake, along with John Orozco's fall on the same device, doomed Team USA's to a fifth-place finish.
Then, during the individual all-around competition, he got back into the saddle of the pommel horse and was only seconds away from taming the beast when it bucked him again. This time, it was a hesitation, a mere momentary glitch on the upward momentum of his dismount, but it was enough to drop him to 17th after three of six exercises. Everything was not perfectly fine.
But Leyva reached into that reserve of determination his mother wasn't able to plumb many years before and closed out the competition registering the two top scores of any gymnast on the parallel bars and the horizontal bar to secure a bronze medal. Not the type of medal Leyva came to London hoping to get. He will have one last shot at something a little more golden in the individual horizontal bar competition on August 7.
One other thing needs to be mentioned: Somewhere along the way, Leyva and Alvárez have developed some deeply annoying habits, with Alvárez rubbing Leyva's ears as a pre-performance ritual and exclaiming "Yesso!"—a combination of "yes" and "eso"—after every routine his stepson performs. Some people are really impressed by their relationship, but if Alvárez were my stepfather, I would tell him to back way the hell off. Maybe all the way to Miami. But Leyva seems to respond to Alvárez's performances. Depend on them, even.
And it isn't like Leyva doesn't have quirks of his own. At last count, his lucky towel had nearly 12,300 followers on Twitter. Late on the evening of August 2, it tweeted a picture of itself on the shoulders of the new women's all-around champion, Gabby Douglas.
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I thought I had to put pics in "gallery" rather than "discussion"? Could someone please tell me how. I posted in the gallery but am getting no response to my picture posting. Thanks |
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Not many people look in the gallery, sorry to say. Ok to post it over there and then do just what you did - post a message here to say "look in the gallery!" But your picture is too small. Can you post a bigger picture at a photo hosting site (like photobucket.com) and then post a link here with your question. From what I can tell, your shrub does show some green at the base, which means it will sprout from there, but all the branches may be toast. And that happens sometimes. |
Here is a link that might be useful: your picture
How did "halaeva" April 27 posting for shrub ID post her picture into this forum? Everytime I tried to post my picture it got rejected because it was too big....so I kept cutting it 50% til they took it????/ I don't get it. I don't know how to add the link either! Yes there are some sprouts. Is there anything that I should do to it? I will work on trying to get a bigger picture. Thanks |
Guess that wasn't the way to do it! [URL=http://s602.photobucket.com/albums/tt101/LeaAnne_photo/?action=view¤t=010.jpg][IMG]http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt101/LeaAnne_photo/th_010.jpg[/IMG][/URL] |
I give up! |
Don't give up! Photobucket gives you 3 or 4 links to copy, right? Just be sure to choose the one that says "HTML code". But instead of posting the image you reduced, put the ORIGINAL sized picture into photobucket and give us that one. |
I guess I finally figured out the posting part! Just really not a big enough picture for you to tell! Is there anything I should do to the shrub? Just cut off all the dead stuff? |
Yes, I would just cut off the dead stuff. |
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A London consultant psychiatrist has set up a new rehab service for youngsters addicted to the internet, mobile phones and, of course, videogames.
Richard Graham started the service to help "screenagers", as he calls them according to Metro newspaper, whose lives are apparently "impaired" by their addictions.
"Mental health services need to adapt quickly to the changing worlds young people inhabit and understand how seriously their lives can be impaired by unregulated time online, on-screen or in-game," said Graham, based at Capio Nightingale Hospital in London.
Addicted teens go mental when told to turn off their electronics, and police often called to settle feuds, reports the paper. The service, the first in UK to be dedicated to children as young as 12, was started in response to calls from worried parents.
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Will the movie industry please leave High Moon Studios alone? Left to their own devices, they made the perfectly serviceable War For Cybertron. While that game never ran the risk of being accidentally labelled a masterpiece, it was definitely a mechanical morph-romp. I use the word "romp" with its knockabout, non-tabloid meaning here. Sadly, there weren't any kinky three-in-a-bed transformations.
Two weeks after the game's North American release, it's pretty telling that High Moon's website doesn't even mention this new game. Why would it? It'd be like Battersea Dogs' Home deciding that its new mascot should be a St. Bernard shitting into a shoe.
Deadline pressures have streamlined a lot of the personality out of the game. The single-player campaign is seven sequential chapters rather than the two campaigns of War For Cybertron. There's no three-player co-op this time. The Earthbound locations are varied, but there's little of the ambition and imagination of the previous game. And the action frequently repeats into long, stifling corridors. Individual Transformers have different powers, but swapping powers out every chapter doesn't feel like progress - it just feels like the right bumper does something different, now.
Stealth Force mode is being touted as the game's new thing, but it's basically a reiteration of the last game's "hover-car" mode. It's the Transformers' third state - between robot and vehicle, where you look like an angry car, and strafe like a hovering crab. You're encouraged to use this mode, because - well, because it's easiest. Your defence is boosted, and weapons seem to kill things more quickly. Seem is the word, here: the combination of gliding and firing in Stealth Force feels extremely airy. Without locking on, you'll often only know you're hitting someone because points come out of their head.
You're encouraged back into robot mode for two reasons. First, for score purposes - you can build your multiplier by delivering melee kills. This isn't explained at all, but it's the only way you'll bag the 150G of easy-once-you-know-how Achievements. The better reason is that it's more fun to play in this mode - you actually feel like you're fighting something.
We saved the worst mode for last: a squeeze of the left trigger in Stealth Force mode converts your robot into a complete vehicle. Driving in Dark of the Moon is how we imagine the Jockey zombie feels in Left 4 Dead 2. It handles like a drunk, greasy pig on a beach ball.
There are strong moments, such as Starscream's aerial assault on the massive Stratosphere. But the five-hour length of the game is its saving grace. It changes regularly enough that the boredom never reaches a level where you'll start examining the decisions in your life that led up to this moment of you throwing valuable existence at a mediocre game.
Multiplayer has just three modes. Two of these are deathmatch, and the third is a classic point-controlling conquest game. With four classes and levelling up, it's good for some short-term close-quarter molestation, but it's not deep enough to keep you interested for long. We'd guess the servers will be deserted by August.
Aside from the easy Gamerscore, the varied look of the chapters, and the fact the game never quite becomes offensively bad, there's some potential here. The easy switch from Stealth Force to Vehicle mode feels great. The ability to flip from foot controls to steering lets you throw yourself into a hand-brake turn, enter Stealth Force mode, and open fire at high sideways speed. It's immediately natural, and would count as a point for the game - but remember, these are the two modes that don't play so well. You'll mainly try it out in a quiet moment because it feels good, rather than because it's useful.
It's a system from War For Cybertron that we'd like to see improved on, not regressed like this. Let's hope High Moon get another shot at a new Transformers title that's not tied to Hollywood's schedules. They've proved themselves capable of better than this.
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- Nice two-style driving system...
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I'm looking to find information about a potato variety called, Mershannock. It was grown in Central Ohio, Columbus, circa 1845. I've done a cursory check on Google, SSE, and the USDA data base with no results, of course, there may be variation of the spelling that will slow the hunt a little. Any suggestions will be appreciaiated.
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Hi Jim, You might have noticed Clara's post, "Heirloom or Old Potato Varieties." She has grown more heirloom potato varieties than anyone I have heard off. We exchanged one or two emails a couple years back. Sounded like she was interested in putting together a book about heirloom potatoes. She is not a frequent poster so you might send her an email. Wish I had room to grow more potatoes. Best wishes. Mary |
Mary...... Thanks for the information. I'll look for the post and send off an email to Clara and see if can she direct me in this minor 'quest'. Taters are not my thing but the farmers who noted the variety farmed about 1 and 1/2 miles from where I'm sitting now. The farms have long been sold off and the land used for a shopping mall, many shops are going into a minor abandonment do to an urban shift in ecomonic demographics. Jim |
I am Clara. I have been looking through my old books, but still have not found any mention of Mershannock potato variety. I have a feeling that the name has since been changed, but that will be hard to learn. I have grown White Flint Hard Ohio. I have grown it, but I need the history, parentage, etc. information. I am putting a book together about the different potato varieties that I have grown. I am still looking for more potato varieties that I have not grown. Those will be put in book 2. |
What's in a name? A lot when it's mis spelled!! I searched thru Fearing's "Field and Garden Vegetables of America" and came across this listing called "Meshannock". It seemed to satisfy some questions at the moment but am now unable to find Mercer County County, New York!!!! Perhaps the writer meant, New Jersey? Anyhoo, all's well that ends!! Jim |
It would not surprise me if the name has not been changed a few more times as the years passed. Now we know that there as a potato variety by the name of "Mercer". I have learned over the years of growing different potato varieties that there are people who see nothing wrong in changing the name of a potato variety. That is why my book is not out on the market yet. I looked for years for information about many varieties and then learned that some man had changed all of the names. Why? "just so I could remember where they came from or who I got them from". I wish people would not do that. Now I will continue to look for more old potato varieties to grow for next year. |
Clara and others following this odd and somewhat bazarre post.... To the 'for what it's worth' file the following link should add further confsuion of what is what and who said what about who....if W W Weaver's comments regardng the 'Mercer' is as accurate as his comments regarding tomatoes this should be very interesting. Mershannock, Neshannock, Mercer, Meshannock What is it they say about history? A pack of lies agreed upon by a bunch of experts..... For the time being I'm hoping to put this 'issue' to rest..too much information ....but then this is a 'gnaw bone for me' for me. Jim |
Clara, I only recently discovered this post, 14 months after the fact, but perhaps this is still of some interest to you. My research on the Mercer potato variety of the nineteenth century would seem to corroborate what WW Weaver has indicated. That is: Mercer, syn. Neshannock, Mershannoch, Meshanoch, Gilkey, Philadelphia A long, flattish potato with sunken eyes, 'skin marbled, purplish, and of a dingy white.' Flesh is also marbled. Has a good flavor baked or boiled. Yields well and ripens early. Has a ready market. Very susceptible to late blight. Mercers were also apparently referred to as Black Mercers, Purple Mercers, and White Mercers. I can send you citations for the above if you wish. I hope this is of value to you. |
I am interested in growing the Gilkey or Neshannock potato. I live in the area of Pennsylvania where it was developed and think it would be interesting to plant our local spud. Does anyone know where or even if that variety of potato is available? |
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We could witness two events today that seemed incredibly impossible just a few months ago, starting with the 49ers winning a playoff game, which would be the first playoff victory for the franchise since 2002. Then later Tim Tebow could begin the end of our world by leading the Broncos to another upset win, this time over a team that doesn't have half its roster in the trainer's room.
Sadly, there are only three weekends of vegetation left in this NFL season. So you know the drill: do nothing, and watch everything. Any man who can invent a way to use his household facilities while still staying on the couch is a friend of mine.
Today's first game kicks off in just under three hours, so let's take our usual stroll through some game-day reading.
New Orleans Saints at San Francisco 49ers (4:30 p.m. ET)
- August feels like a long time ago, probably because in an NFL season, August was a long time ago. But as Yahoo's Michael Silver told us yesterday, the 49ers still have vivid memories of watching their quarterback get throttled repeatedly while Gregg Williams dialed up the next Saints blitz during their preseason opener.
- While the Saints' roster is filled with playoff experience after their championship run two years ago, there are only eight 49ers who've appeared in a playoff game.
- The Saints offense is much worse on the road than at home, an observation that's been made often this week. But as Danny Tuccitto of Niners Nation and Football Outsiders explains, that observation comes with a caveat. Yes, the difference between the Saints' offensive efficiency at home compared to when they're away from the Pontiac Superdome is the third worst in the league, but away from New Orleans Drew Brees still leads the fourth best road offense. So what does that mean? At home the Saints are unstoppable, but on the road they can at be slowed down, and at least partially contained.
- Frank Gore didn't have an epiphany of any kind this season when he realized this 49ers team can be successful. That light bulb moment first came on about a year ago when he was forced to sit at home and watch Seattle upset New Orleans on Wild Card Weekend. The veteran running back told Tim Kawakami of the San Jose Mercury News that the Seahawks were playing in San Fran's spot.
- By taking just one snap in this game, Alex Smith will make $1 million.
Denver Broncos at New England Patriots (8:00 p.m. ET)
- Whenever I'm out socially and go through the routine getting to know you conversations with someone I've just met, the response is often instantaneous when I mention that I write about football in my housecoat for a living. They ask what I think about Tebow, but inevitably they're not nearly as interested in Tim Tebow the quarterback as they are Tim Tebow the person, or Tim Tebow the Christian. Just like Dan Barry of the New York Times, they're aware that Tebow is more than just a passer–he's a verb and a philosophy, and like it or not, the Tebow fascination will destroy all human thought with another upset win tonight.
- The skies will be clear tonight in Foxboro, but the the air will be bitterly cold, with the low forecasted at nine degrees Fahrenheit. Tebow, a Florida boy, will be playing in by far the coldest game of his entire football career. His previous personal low was 30 degrees, and that will seem downright tropical compared to tonight.
- Josh McDaniels' move from St. Louis to New England during the season had a bit of an odor to it, and despite being the Rams' offensive coordinator throughout the regular season he'll still be on the Pats' sideline tonight. He exposed a loophole in the league's rules, and if there's a hole the NFL really hates, it's a loophole. Adam Schefter reported earlier this morning that this offseason that hole could be closed.
- Wes Welker is trying to make playoff facial hair cool. Luckily he's already landed a model, because the current state of his face and chest could dramatically restrict his ability to make women acknowledge his existence.
- Long snappers are like third base coaches: if you don't notice them or know their names, they've done a great job. But if you're scoffing at the absence of Broncos long snapper Lonie Paxton, I guess we'll have to remind you about what happened in the 2003 wild card game between the 49ers and Giants. Recently signed long snapper Trey Junkin botched two snaps, one of which was in overtime.
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