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Re:Finances gigs high paying, but... (133 comments)
Did I mentioned that the winters in NYC are freaking FREEZING!?
Sorry, but I laughed.
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Re:Finances gigs high paying, but... (133 comments)
Did I mentioned that the winters in NYC are freaking FREEZING!?
Sorry, but I laughed.
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Ridiculous (268 comments)
Oh for the love of god, this is way out of hand.
They weren't "hacked", they saw a tiny anomaly in their network traffic (which honestly, most companies wouldn't even have noticed), and decided to notify you about it and handle it in the most paranoid way possible. It's such a small thing that I wouldn't have expected most companies to even tell anyone it happened.
But somehow them behaving in a very commendable way for a security company has blown up into an absolute PR nightmare for them, with sites like BusinessWeek posting articles with the title "LastPass Loses Passwords for 1.25 Million Customers", which aren't even remotely correct. This is why companies don't disclose security breaches, because people are too dumb to understand the details, it gets sensationalized for no reason, and comes back to bite them hard.
Their implementation of this was pretty poor (trying to force almost everyone to change their password, when their server can't handle password changes at that rate), but their overall intentions were extremely good, and only make me even more confident in their service.
Re:Drizzle? (146 comments)
Sadly, GonorrheaDB isn't really that much worse of a name than MongoDB.
Re:MySQL went wrong direction long time ago (146 comments)
Access? Really? PostgreSQL would have been a much better suggestion.
Re:/scoff (179 comments)
Which would accomplish absolutely nothing, since "summery" is a word.
Re:Degrees (380 comments)
It's been my observation that people that get bored of not working or being on vacation just don't really have any interests or hobbies.
I think the same way as you, I'd be perfectly happy without a job. I'd definitely still do some programming, because I enjoy it, but it would only be on my own projects, and I don't really consider that the same as "work".
Re:So.... (1348 comments)
I know it's used as a meme around here, but I honestly can't even remember the last time I actually read one of the articles themselves. I always just go straight to the comments, I consider the articles to basically be a "topic suggestion".
Re:Worth watching (127 comments)
Suggested reading: Twin Galaxies' Official Statements about "The King of Kong". They probably shouldn't even be allowed to call that movie a "documentary".
Re:I'm shocked (185 comments)
No, their entire marketing plan was to hide as much of the game as possible until release, and then ban everyone from reviewing it until a week after it came out.
Seems like it was a ridiculously mismanaged project, there's a good series of articles on a former employee's blog here: Where Realtime Worlds Went Wrong
Re:This exploit is beautiful (226 comments)
I always wonder how someone even ends up attempting an exploit through something like this. How did they figure out in the first place that it might be a possible approach? It just seems so obscure compared to a lot of other exploit methods for other systems/programs (not that I know much about the topic).
Re:Hmm (251 comments)
You are disturbingly misinformed.
Re:OCR improvements? (251 comments)
I haven't RTFA, but that's unlikely. With a captcha, you receive a response indicating whether you were correct or not. When using OCR, there isn't really any automated way to be sure if you've gotten it right.
Re:A Solution to this and the eBay 'sniping' probl (483 comments)
I've never really understood the complaints about eBay sniping. Set your maximum bid at the actual maximum that you want to pay. Whether someone snipes or not, if your bid is the highest you will win. If it's not, you won't.
Even if it is an actual problem for some reason though, I'd think that the simplest solution would just be to extend the auction slightly every time there is a new high bid. Add 5 or 10 minutes every time the bid increases, and sniping would be totally ineffective.
"Just avoid holding it that way" (427 comments)
Saw a great post on reddit earlier today where a user goes through a bunch of Apple's own advertising to see how they've shown the phone being held.
Re:You can use katakana (284 comments)
So you read the title, but didn't make it to the summary?
They're not adding new kanji for electronics, they're saying that some kanji are becoming more commonly used because using them when writing electronically removes the difficulty of actually writing those characters.
Re:PyGame (704 comments)
Or you were just really late in falling for an April Fools' joke.
Re:Anything but Vim, please (246 comments)
Well, I'm not sure that I believe that you actually use OpenOffice to edit code, but here's my standard example of something I can do much faster in vim than people can in other editors:
Imagine you have the following line of code:
$welcome_message = "Welcome to my site!";
How would you go about changing the welcome message?
Most people I know would use a combination of Home, End, Backspace, Shift, and the arrow keys to select or delete the string, and then type in a new welcome message. Some would reach over to grab the mouse and select the string, then type over it. In vim, I just need to get my cursor between the quote marks (and there are many ways to do this, personally I'd probably use a quick find and then a couple pushes of w or e). Once anywhere inside the quotes, I just type ci" (a 3-part command, change inside ") and it erases everything inside the quotes and puts me into insert mode. I can easily do this faster than your hand can even get to your mouse.
Yes, vim is hard to learn, and it's frustrating for quite a while. But once you start actually understanding the "language" of its commands and how they fit together, you'll wonder how you ever used anything else.
NYSE Spokesman Disagrees (643 comments)
A NYSE Spokesman disagrees with this: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/no-bad-procter-gamble-trades-at-nyse-spokesman-2010-05-06
Re:Important Issues (209 comments)
Judging from The Fonts.com Web Fonts page, they're using some sort of javascript to try to protect their fonts. If I toggle javascript on and off for fonts.com, the look of that page changes as a bunch of fonts turn on/off. Their "three easy steps" on the right also includes "Add a short script to your site".
Re:Always use a perm email (208 comments)
Where exactly do you get one of these "perm emails" that aren't tied to any sort of service that might go down or disappear in the future?


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The Chinese relationship with the United States is now in crisis. Of the
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WPS' future taking shape
The season is over, but things will be far from dormant over the next two critical months for Women's Professional Soccer.
Some of the offseason issues are typical for any league: free agency, talks with the players' union and so forth. Others are atypical: How many teams will the league have?
But for now, at least, the league seems to have put off the underlying question: Can the league survive to reach its fourth year?
Before the Women's World Cup, survival looked far from assured. The league continued play during the World Cup, with average attendance 2,714 before the World Cup final. The breathtaking United States-Japan final, which featured many WPS stars, provided a bump in attendance as the league's average rose to 5,126.
The season's final average was 3,518, slightly below the 2010 average of 3,601.
But the WPS, unlike the WUSA of the early 2000s, has a chance to build on the exposure of a World Cup. Since the Cup, fans have come out in greater numbers and stayed after games for lengthy autograph sessions.
Translating that interest into a sustainable league is a challenge. The WUSA overestimated how much interest remained two years after the 1999 World Cup.
The WPS hopes the wave of publicity this year can sustain its modest ambitions.
"I look at this year as probably the strongest year overall for the league, in terms of the financials of the league, in terms of sponsorship revenue, in terms of media," WPS CEO Anne-Marie Eileraas said. "What we've seen is that people have fallen in love with the women's game again, and we've tapped into that. It's on us to build on that."
Attendance is just part of the story. League officials say TV ratings on Fox Soccer Channel, which has WPS rights for another season, have surged along with sponsorship and expansion interest in the wake of the high-profile World Cup.
"We'll have a minimum of six teams next year," Atlanta Beat owner and WPS Board of Governors chairman T. Fitz Johnson said. The maximum is likely eight.
That number needs to be settled soon, before the league starts the more typical offseason business -- free agency, perhaps an expansion draft or possibly a dispersal draft if one team doesn't survive.
Johnson isn't worried about his team.
"We're going to be back," he said.
Sky Blue (New Jersey) president/CEO Thomas Hofstetter emphatically announced his team's intention to stay in the league on Twitter. The front office for newly crowned champion Western New York couldn't be reached for comment, but there's no indication that the team is going away.
Philadelphia owner David Halstead, reached via text message after his Independence lost in the final for the second straight year, left no doubt about his team's continued existence.
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The Boston Breakers have announced a search for a new majority investor, and a couple of front-office staffers are departing.
The off-field story of 2011 was magicJack, the South Florida team whose owner, Dan Borislow, feuded with league management throughout the year.
Borislow did not attend the WPS meetings in Rochester, N.Y., that coincided with the final, but he has made positive comments since delaying, then dropping, a lawsuit against the league.
"We've had the issue with the magicJack team," Eileraas said. "That's something that the board's got to sit down and resolve."
Eileraas declined to name specific expansion candidates, wanting to let discussions play out in private.
"There are a lot of candidates," Eileraas said. "I have to say that since the World Cup -- we had positive discussions before the World Cup, and the depth of those discussions has increased. The picture really looks very strong for the next couple of years in terms of that pipeline for expansion."
Another issue that needs to be settled soon: How much can teams pay in salary? The league has just finished what Johnson called an "open season" in the absence of a collective bargaining agreement. Western New York and magicJack collected World Cup stars, while other teams opted to spend a bit less.
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Johnson said he liked the setup, too.
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Going without a physical office is one of several aspects of the league that requires a waiver from the U.S. Soccer Federation, which publishes a strict set of professional league standards. League officials were supposed to meet with U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati over the weekend of the league final, but Hurricane Irene changed Gulati's travel plans."The league has gone through growing pains, some of which have been very public," Gulati said. "That was true for MLS early on, and it's still the case in a lot of our professional leagues."
WPS has helped the U.S. national team, with players such as Megan Rapinoe and Becky Sauerbrunn playing their way onto the U.S. roster and other players staying sharp with competitive games.
"Would [the league's survival] be a plus?" Gulati said. "The answer is yes. But are there other ways to get where we want to be? Yes."
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This is my first recipe I've made and my 3rd overall brew,b but with the help of my LHBS owner I feel like its going to be really good. The recipe is as follows. 1LB. of C-60 1/2 LB of Maris 1/2 LB of Boulauder Munich 1/4 LB of Victory 1/4 LB of Carapils 6 LB of Pilsen LME 3 LB of golden light LME 2 LB of regular cane sugar 1 oz of Czech Saaz hops (bittering) 1oz of Kent Golding (aroma) 2 oz. of French oak chips 1 pack of safale 05 5oz of dextrose Steep grains at 165 for 60 min in 2 gallons water Bring to a boil and add LME and sugar. Add Czech Saaz @ 60 min Add Kent Golding @ 15 min Top off wort to 5 gallons and cool to 60 degrees, pour into fermenter and pitch safale 05 and seal Primary for 14 day then rack on to oak chips in secondary for 25 days Rack onto 5 oz of dextrose and bottle After 20 days keep in bottles at 50 degrees till you are ready to drink. ENJOY, Robert
Brewmaster warehouse say I should get 10.5 % ABV but I think it will be closer to 11%. I'm brewing this tomorrow and I will update with my OG after that.
Anyone have any suggestions on this?
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Can you get a second yeast pack? A 10% beer with one pack of yeast is going to struggle.
I would pitch 2 packs of s05 in order to not underpitch. Also, I would utilize a higher alpha acid hop at the beginning of the boil such as chinook. Otherwise, it will end up unbalanced, being way more sweet than bitter.
14 day primary may be short for this beer. Maybe 30 days primary, then rack to the oak for 15-30 days. Then bottle at least 6 months before drinking.
I thought about that but I don't want to lose a little residual sweetness from the in fermented sugars, I also thought if after 10 days my gravity wasn't where I felt it should be I would re pitch half a pack and then the rest 10 days later. Is that an ok thing to do?
I can defiantly leave it in primary for 30 days and secondary longer too thanks


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Here are some of the seedlings that have bloomed so far that I like. Temperature really does affect the color on daylilies. See the seedling examples.
PRECIOUS CANDY X TWILIGHT ILLUSION #1 opened last week when temperatures were cooler. This is a two-year-old seedling with first blooms this year. It has 4-way branching and 17 buds.
Here is the same seedling yesterday after two days of daytime temps in the mid-90s.
INTO THE MYSTIC X SYMPHONY OF PRAISE with an early bloom during the cooler temps. This is another two-year-old blooming for the first time. It already has a rebloom scape coming!
Here is that seedling two days later when temps turned torrid.
AWESOME APPLIQUE X BLAZING SADDLES wowed me with its first bloom. This one-year-old had clear lavender petals with a dark purple feathered eye.
Today, after two days of extrememly hot temps, AA X BS had cream lavender petals and a lighter purple eye. While the colors were not as pleasing to me, I liked the way two of the petals were pinching and all of the sepals were curled back.
Here is DUST BE DIAMONDS X TUXEDO JUNCTION #1 on its first flower. This is a semievergreen two-year-old seedling that has increased from one fan to four since last year.
Here's how DBD X TJ #1 looks blooming in the heat.
Here are a few other seedlings that have bloomed in the past week who do not seem to vary quite as much with the temps. SMOOTH JAZZ X MORT MORSS - I was hoping for something round with teeth. But I like this narrow petaled bloom with the blue eye quite well.
BLACK FALCON RITUAL X ROBES FOR THE QUEEN - Again I was going for teeth, but so far haven't seen any.
And some others: COMANCHE MAGIC X NEVER BEEN KISSED (2-year-old bitone)
EVENING ENCHANTMENT X GILDED KNIGHT (5-year-old extra early evergreen)
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Those seedlings are amazing! Of them all my favorites are AWESOME APPLIQUEBLACK FALCON RITUAL X ROBES FOR THE QUEEN, X BLAZING SADDLES and INTO THE MYSTIC X SYMPHONY OF PRAISE. Marg |
Okay after going over them for a while, I've decided that I like seedling #1 the best today. Tomorrow (or even an hour from now), I may change my mind, lol. They're all pretty cha-cha. |
- Posted by dipsandtets none (My Page) on Sun, May 27, 12 at 16:13
I imagine it must be a blast to see seedlings bloom. AA X BS is my favorite and I'm interested in hearing if it continues to pinch. |
Marg - Thanks for your comments. I can tell you like the purples. Brittie - Seedling #1 is one of the roundest seedlings I've produced. I'm excited about that one because it has such good bud count right our of the gate. Most of my seedlings first bloom with under 10 buds, and then increase or even double buds in subsequent years. dipsandtets - It is exciting and surprising to see the seedlings bloom. It's just like Christmas every time one opens for the first time. Debra |
- Posted by organic_kitten 7 (My Page) on Sun, May 27, 12 at 18:08
You have some beautiful seedlings...I have to tell you, I like AA X BS better in the hot temps colors of cream lavender and purple eye. I would be turning cartwheels with those seedlings. Lovely. kay |
- Posted by anniegolden z7a (My Page) on Sun, May 27, 12 at 18:20
What fun! I can just imagine how exciting it is when all of these surprise packages open. I am reminded of the delightful song from 'The Fantastiks': ... but with projeny, it's hodge podgeny. You don't know until the sprout is nearly grown, just what you've sown. Christine |
Dang DEBRA< They are all just beautiful, at first I thought the first one is my pick, its so beautiful, then the next one got me all c onfused of which one I like the best. so, I LOVE THEM ALL THEY are all gorgeous... Jean |
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Sun, May 27, 12 at 19:12
These ate all winners and keepers. Very pretty. |
- Posted by waitforspring z6MA (My Page) on Sun, May 27, 12 at 20:26
What a fantastic group of seedlings. I think they are all great. So interesting to see the change that the heat makes. I knew it changed flower color, but in the first two the throat is so much greeener in the heat. My favorite two are AAxBS and BFRxRFTQ, but the first two sound like they'll be good performers so that's special. I also like the last one--especially for and EE and it looks like it increases well. Val |
Thanks to all for your comments! Christine - That line from the Fantastiks song could definitely be raising seedlings. Debra |
AA X BS is a wonderful flower! wow |
How did I miss this thread yesterday? You have wonderful looking seedlings, I especially love AWESOME APPLIQUE X BLAZING SADDLES, just gorgeous. The first one is really pretty too & with a nice bud count. I like the colors & shape of SMOOTH JAZZ X MORT MORSS. Actually, they are all really nice! |
WOW I love them all stunning seedlings. Linda |
Dean and Linda - Thanks for your comments! Nancy - Smooth Jazz X Mort Morss was one of those unexpected good things. I really like the looks of it and will use it as a bridge plant in my UF hybridizing. Debra |
Nice seedling you have there Debra. My fav of course is AWESOME APPLIQUE X BLAZING SADDLES. I'll bet you aren't surprised...Ellie |
Ellie - I'm not surprised AA x BS is your pick. I'm surprised so many others like it so much. Debra |
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Ford Bronco Problems
AlsBroncoII Posts: 2My problem is it kills my battery in 2 days when i hook up my battery i hear the vacume solenoids clicking on the right fender well and there is a relay on the kick panel by the puter and also clicking there is a solenoid on the back of the carb that is clicking what is the possibility a bad ignition switch any info would be appreciated please
jutmac Posts: 7I have a 93 bronco 5.0. I love my truck but it is always something.
First i cant get it to start. I moved it in the driveway and when i went out to drive it the next day it would not start. (1) It is getting fire when we checked. (2) when we checked the fuel rail it is getting fuel. (3) we primed it with starting fluid and it still wont catch. It turns over fine but wont start. H E L P! PLZ
Next it has a hurkey jerkey at about 30 -40 mph.
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jutmac Posts: 7It is not the computer mod. Checked the rotor, and every thing else and still wont start. HAS GAS> Has fire and gas flow just wont start. It almost turned over and caught today twice but once again it just turns over without catching.
I am lost. Ether wont even catch it. Should i just set fire to it??
Any other possibilities that one might try??
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jutmac Posts: 7Red Raider,
I took all the spark plugs and cleaned them. It started up with a little ether. It runs a little rough though. Why is the MSD parts so expesive. Is there a cheaper alternative to changing all the parts out that you suggested?
It also has that shudder, herkey jerkey around the time it shifts. Is that fixable. It is around 20 to 50 mph. If i gun it, it takes off fine but when I let off the gas a little it starts to shudder until i give it a steady flow of gas.
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redraider28 Posts: 9JUTMAC,
Another alternative to MSD would be ACCEL, or you can go back with stock MOTORCRAFT parts. I would change the plugs, wires, coil, and dist. cap and rotor for starters. I prefer MSD for their high-end performance, but whatever you choose, all those parts should be new.
I'm only a shadetree mechanic, but I've had a car that jerked before and I thought it was my transmission. Turned out to be a cracked spark plug......who would've thunk it?
Remember, just because you're getting SOME spark, doesn't always mean you're getting ENOUGH spark. Stock coils put out about 38,000V....the MSD puts out 48,000V.
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bronco79 Posts: 2Hello Jay, thanks for the offer, but I got it all sorted out, I managed to find the harnesses I needed right here in my home town( got lucky) I was checking out the wreckers and I stopped by one that deals only in fords, and they were unloading a 91 bronco off a tow truck when I got there. So, thanks again, Derek.
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CalExplorer Posts: 1I have a 94 Bronco 5.8 lit, When i turn the vehicle on the engine roars at idle like it was in a full out drag race RPM's way up at idle. Once I put it drive the engine slowa itself back down, but at stop signs it revs right back up. Any suggestions? The "Check Enigne" light is not on... Help
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rodney9 Posts: 1Ya my bronco is really weird. Sometimes it starts no problem. Sometimes it woult start at all and when i do get it started everytime i shut it off it woult start again for at least a day or so. I've bought a new battery, egnition start box and new distributer cap. I have no clue what the problem is. I just keep on spending money on stuff i dont need.
jutmac Posts: 7I changed out all to MSG....had to wait for taxes to come in....I also replaced the fuel regualtor and the timing was off....now set at 10 degrees.
All is well except for the herky jerky at 35 mph....it used to only do it at this speed now it does it at whatever speed, unless i trounce on it....it runs good.
It does not do it when it is cold. I am sure it has something to do while on a closed loop but when it warms up back to normal...bucks and snorts....any shade tree answers..lol
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jutmac Posts: 7Raider..
I did change them all out....Like i said though....it only does it when it warms up??
Someone told me that when i use my tester on the wires and plugs that a fords should show blue spark.....i show orange...any truth to this??
Everything is MSD. Someone also said it feels like a dead miss in it....do you think there could be a blown valve??/ I would like to know what you think before i do a compression check.
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xdeathbroncox Posts: 1i have the 91 silver series 5.8. and my 4wd will not kick in. its just the push button one and at first the 4x4 light didn't even com on but my bud told me to tap the little electric engine that locks the 4x4 into place and that might work. i taped it then the light came on but wen i put it into drive u don't hear the clunk and it doesn't go into 4wd. help me out please. im a new bronco owner and i really wanna mess some trails up with this thing. haha
khawley Posts: 1I just got a 94 with the 5.8 and can't get it started. The vehicle has been sitting for about 5 years and there hasn't been an attempt to start it in at least 2.
With the ignition on I pushed down on that stem on the fuel rail and no fuel came out. I changed the fuel filter, checked the inertia swith, fuses, and relay.
I'm thinking it has to be the fuel pump but wanted to see if you had and advice before i went out and bought one.
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jutmac Posts: 7As Redraider once told me." I am just a shade tree mechanic" but if you have no fuel coming out of your fuel rail then you have your problem narrowed down. I know it sucks throwing money at them but sometimes you just have to.
On a side note to Redraider....the hercky jercky or "trailer-hitching" effect, as someone put it, turns out to be the torque converter in my tranny. Go figure...I knew my motor was running to smooth for something cheap and simple. HA. Thanks for all your help.
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redraider28 Posts: 9JUTMAC,
Glad you got it figured out. I had to think about that one and asked a buddy at work. I was going to say start with the simple things.....fuel addative to take care of any BAD GAS, fuel filter, etc. Next would be the speed sensor, or torque converter......one located on your tranny and the other on your differential.
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yimmieb Posts: 1Anyone know what causes the pick up coils to go bad. I replaced the first one with a new one from auto zone. it started right up but didn't run 100% and lasted 2-3 weeks and let me set. I replaced it again with a new one from auto zone. This one started right up but ran poor, missed & cut out, the tach would also fall to zero when it was miss firing. It ran worse on a hard pull in overdrive. I was told to replace it with oem, I did and it ran great even in O.D. on hard pulls. it was in about 3 weeks and today it let my son set. When I try to start it the tach makes one jump and falls to zero staying there while cranking. I know if I replaced it again it would start right up, and while cranking the tach would go up to 200-300 rpm's before starting.Any ideas what keeps killing them?
Bronco_Bob Posts: 4My 1988 Bronco II was running fine when the engine began to lose power almost like a plugged fuel filter. The filter was pretty full so I changed it and then it ran for a week (about 100 miles) then it did it again it stopped 5 minutes after starting it. I messed with it for awhile that it started running again it ran down the highway for ten minutes the it stopped again. The weather was about 70 degrees and sunny so it is not freezing up. The took off the line at the filter and there is fuel there. then I took the line off the fuel regulator there was no fuel there. The only thing I can think of is the high pressure fuel pump. It that what it acts like when it goes out?
shifty01 Posts: 1i ran it without exhaust mostly idoling for about 10 mints and it started to run ruff...i put on an exhaust and it still ran bad...it makes a popping noise on the left side of the motor not quite a back fire but like it's a dead miss...it does it when i give it gas to...like it's gettin choked out on 1 cylander...i think it might be a burnt valve but would like more opinions
94broncohause Posts: 194 Bronco 143K never any major problems, All of a sudden has a problem getting it started. Acted like it didn't want to start but after holding the gas pedal down it come to a shaky start. :mad: After getting it going act like it wont acclerate, shakes almost like it getting no gas. That day began to run fine no more problems after driving around for about five minutes. Now it hard to start and has problem accelerating. It will only accelerate very very slowly then almost bog down if I press the gas down hard at all? I think it is some kind of fuel problem please help?
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classiclo1959 Posts: 2Hello deb34,
I have an 88 Bronco II and had the same trouble. Fortunately, a freind was a mechanic and told me about a part I did not know existed on my Bronco. Right behind and below the rotar is a small chip, like a stick o RAM memory. It fastens in with a small screw and slips out. It cost about $245 at Ford, but I was able to locate 1 at a salvage yard for $20. It takes a short, 3" screw driver to get to it. Removal of rotar is not required, but may make it easier. Once I replaced that all the problems went away. It is unfortuante that I spent all the money on the other parts!!
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classiclo1959 Posts: 2Just yesterday I started having a problem with the original starter on my 1988 Bronco II. The bendix or solenoid does not seem to kick out when it should after vehicle starts and runs on for a short time. Is this the starter itself, or the solenoid on the right fender?


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I just saw Azumi, picked it up at the local video rental store. Mtv Asiamania so the American people have probably watched this thing loooong ago...
Oh well.
I expected nothing much, and at first, that's exactly what I got. The originality is feh for the most part, the effects so-so at best and the fights
are not bad but not great either, mostly because the cast has clearly no experience with a sword.
Somehow though this film became a guilty pleasure for me to watch:
First of all the crimson goodness is plentiful.
Second, there is one particular insane bad guy who just suits Hassun so well...(except for the girly stuff)
Third, Azumi is played by Aya Ueto, who doesn't look bad at all...
Fourth, it's pretty amusing to watch
Fifth, it's not entirely predictable (although most of it is).
Sixth, It's based on a manga (which can be good or VERY bad) by Yu Koyama.
Yeah, well some other interesting things:
I read the Japanese runtime is 142 min, the Euro one is 128 min...
I don't like that...:mad:
The action is choreographed by Yuta Morokaji, he did Zelda: Ocarina of time :confused:
There is also a second Azumi film called 'Azumi 2 Death or love'
The most fun fact however is that Hideo Kojima, the godlike developer of the MG(S) series has a small (very small) cameo in it.
Riuhei Kitamura directed it, he also made Versus, which I have yet to see
So I guess this is one of those laid back chambara films... Those can't hurt from time to time.
Anyone else seen it? Thoughts? Info? Especially if you know something about the length difference...


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Conquer the Coast cycling race date is set
CORPUS CHRISTI - The 10th annual Conquer the Coast cycling race will be Saturday, Sept. 21.
Those who participate in any of the three courses (65, 25, or 10 miles) will finish at a new location on Port Avenue outside Whataburger Field and enjoy an expanded post-race party including Hurricane Alley water park.
Last year's event attracted a record 1,461 cyclists.
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Excitation–contraction coupling
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Excitation–contraction (E-C) coupling is a term coined in 1952 to describe the physiological process of converting an electrical stimulus to a mechanical response.[1] This process is fundamental to muscle physiology, whereby the electrical stimulus is usually an action potential and the mechanical response is contraction. E-C coupling can be dysregulated in many diseases.Though E-C coupling has been known for over half a century, it is still an active area of biomedical research. The general scheme is that an action potential arrives to depolarize the cell membrane. By mechanisms specific to the muscle type, this depolarization results in an increase in cytosolic calcium that is called a calcium transient. This increase in calcium activates calcium-sensitive contractile proteins that then use ATP to cause cell shortening.
Skeletal muscle[edit]
In skeletal muscle, E-C coupling relies on a direct coupling between key proteins, the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) calcium release channel (identified as the ryanodine receptor, RyR) and voltage-gated L-type calcium channels (identified as dihydropyridine receptors, DHPRs). DHPRs are located on the sarcolemma (which includes the surface sarcolemma and the transverse tubules), while the RyRs reside across the SR membrane. The close apposition of a transverse tubule and two SR regions containing RyRs is described as a triad and is predominantly where E-C coupling takes place. E-C coupling proceeds as follows:
- The membrane potential of a skeletal muscle cell is depolarised by an action potential (e.g. from synaptic activation from an alpha motor neuron)
- This depolarisation activates non-gated voltage sensors, DHPRs (differing from the Cardiac DHPR, which is a gated Calcium channel)
- This activates RyR type 1 via foot processes (involving conformational changes that allosterically activates the RyRs)
- As the RyRs open, calcium is released from the SR into the local junctional space, which then diffuses into the bulk cytoplasm to cause a calcium spark. Note that the SR has a large calcium buffering capacity partially due to a calcium-binding protein called calsequestrin
- The near synchronous activation of thousands of calcium sparks by the action potential causes a cell wide increase in calcium giving rise to the upstroke of the calcium transient.
- The calcium released into the cytosol binds to Troponin C by the actin filaments, to allow cross-bridge cycling, producing force and, in some situations, motion
- The sarco/endoplasmic reticulum calcium-ATPase (SERCA) actively pumps calcium back into the SR
- As calcium declines back to resting levels, the force declines and relaxation occurs
Cardiac muscle[edit]
Unlike skeletal muscle, E-C coupling in cardiac muscle is thought to depend primarily on a mechanism called calcium-induced calcium release.[2] Though the proteins involved are similar, the DHPR and RyR (type 2) are not physically coupled. Instead, RyRs are activated by a calcium trigger, which is brought about by the activation of DHPRs. Further, cardiac muscle tend to exhibit diad (or dyad) structures, rather than triads.
- An action potential is initiated by pacemaker cells in the Sinoatrial node or Atrioventricular node and conducted to all cells in the heart via gap junctions.
- The action potential travels along the surface membrane into T-tubules (the latter are not seen in all cardiac cell types) and the depolarisation causes extracellular Ca2+
to enter the cell via L-type calcium channels and possibly sodium-calcium exchanger during the early part of the plateau phase. This Ca2+
influx causes a small local increase in intracellular Ca2+
. - The increase in Ca2+
is detected by ryanodine receptors in the membrane of the sarcoplasmic reticulum which releases Ca2+
in a positive feedback physiological response. This positive feedback is known as calcium-induced calcium release [2] and gives rise to Calcium sparks (Ca2+
sparks[3]). - The spatial and temporal summation of ~30,000 Ca2+
sparks gives a cell-wide increase in cytoplasmic calcium concentration.[4] - The cytoplasmic calcium binds to Troponin C, moving the tropomysin complex off the actin binding site allowing the myosin head to bind to the actin filament. From this point on the contractile mechanism is essentially the same as for skeletal muscle (above). Briefly:
- Using ATP hydrolysis the myosin head pulls the actin filament toward the centre of the sarcomere.
- Intracellular calcium is taken up by the sarco/endoplasmic reticulum ATPase pump back into the sarcoplasmic reticulum ready for the next cycle to begin. Calcium is also ejected from the cell mainly by the sodium-calcium exchanger and, to a lesser extent, a plasma membrane calcium ATPase and/or taken up by the mitochondria.[5]
- Intracellular calcium concentration drops and troponin complex returns over the active site of the actin filament, ending contraction.
Smooth muscle[edit]
It is important to note that contraction of smooth muscle need not require neural input—that is, it can function without an action potential. It does so by integrating a huge number of other stimuli such as humoral/paracrine (e.g. Epinephrine, Angiotensin II, AVP, Endothelin), metabolic (e.g. oxygen, carbon dioxide, adenosine, potassium ions, hydrogen ions), or physical stimuli (e.g. stretch receptors, shear stress). This integrative character of smooth muscle allows it to function in the tissues in which it exists, such as being the controller of local blood flow to tissues undergoing metabolic changes. In these excitation-free contractions, then, there of course is no excitation-contraction coupling.
Some stimuli for smooth muscle contraction, however, are neural. All neural input is autonomic (involuntary). In these the mechanism of excitation-contraction coupling is as follows: parasympathetic input uses the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. Acetylcholine receptors on smooth muscle are of the muscarinic receptor type; as such they are metabotropic, or G-protein / second messenger coupled. Sympathetic input uses different neurotransmitters; the primary one is norepinephrine. All adrenergic receptors are also metabotropic. The exact effects on the smooth muscle depend on the specific characteristics of the receptor activated—both parasympathetic input and sympathetic input can be either excitatory (contractile) or inhibitory (relaxing). The main mechanism for actual coupling involves varying the calcium-sensitivity of specific cellular machinery. However it occurs, increased intracellular calcium binds calmodulin, which activates myosin light chain kinase (MLCK). MLCK phosphorylates the regulatory light chains of the myosin heads. Phosphorylated myosin heads are able to cross bridge-cycle. Thus, the degree to and velocity of which a whole smooth muscle contracts depends on the level of phosphorylation of myosin heads. Myosin light chain phosphatase removes the phosphate groups from the myosin heads, thus ending cycling (and leaving the muscle in latch-state).
See also[edit]
- ^ Sandow A (1952). "Excitation-Contraction Coupling in Muscular Response". Yale J Biol Med 25 (3): 176–201. PMC 2599245. PMID 13015950.
- ^ a b Fabiato, A. (1983). "Calcium-induced calcium release from the cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum". American Journal of Physiology 245 (1): C1–14. PMID 6346892.
- ^ Cheng H, Lederer WJ, Cannell MB (October 1993). "Calcium sparks: elementary events underlying excitation-contraction coupling in heart muscle". Science 262 (5134): 740–4. doi:10.1126/science.8235594. PMID 8235594.
- ^ Cannell MB, Cheng H, Lederer WJ (November 1994). "Spatial non-uniformities in Ca2+
i during excitation-contraction coupling in cardiac myocytes". Biophys. J. 67 (5): 1942–56. doi:10.1016/S0006-3495(94)80677-0. PMC 1225569. PMID 7858131. - ^ Crespo LM, Grantham CJ, Cannell MB (June 1990). "Kinetics, stoichiometry and role of the Na-Ca exchange mechanism in isolated cardiac myocytes". Nature 345 (6276): 618–21. doi:10.1038/345618a0. PMID 2348872.


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Drew is currently sharing an apartment in Taiwan with three roommates. One day, this note appeared on the door of the bathroom, directly facing the toilet. Says Drew: "I contemplate its meaning like a Zen haiku."
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Eddy shares a house in Providence, Rhode Island with his sister. "We're both busy with school and work," Eddy says, "so we take turns cleaning the bathroom." Well, sort of. "I usually put it off for weeks," Eddy admits.
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It you want people to actually pay attention to your bathroom signage, it's go big or go home. This one certainly made Jennifer in Tennessee take notice.
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650 students expected at Southern Maine Children's Water Festival this Friday
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PORTLAND – Around 650 fourth, fifth and sixth grade students and their teachers from 13 area schools will flow onto USM'S Portland Campus next Friday for a day of fun and interactive learning about clean water, wetland ecosystems and the importance of stewarding Maine's most rapidly renewable resource.
The 18th annual Southern Maine Children's Water Festival is organized through a partnership of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, the Casco Bay Estuary Partnership, Poland Spring, Portland Water District, the University of Southern Maine and 19 other local, state and federal agencies, businesses and nonprofit organizations.
Elementary and/or middle schools from Portland, South Portland, Brunswick, West Gardiner, Richmond, Kennebunk, Long Island, Georgetown, Lewiston, Waterboro, Mexico and Cape Elizabeth will be attending.
Activities include Dripial Pursuit, a quiz show on water issues with VIP hosts; classroom activities led by the State's leading environmental educators; an interactive play staged by Ferry Beach Ecology School; and plenty of time to tour the exhibition hall, where there will be dozens of displays–including a marine tidepool touch tank– focusing on engaging environmental protection topics like oil spill clean-up, reading a secchi disc to determine water quality and the process through which wastewater is treated.
The media is encouraged to attend as the event provides great visuals. Please contact Beth Chase in advance of the water festival or via cell phone at 592-6157 the day of the event if you would like assistance in planning your coverage or guidance around the campus.
WHO: 650 southern Maine fourth, fifth and sixth graders and their teachers and more than 100 volunteers from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, Portland Water District, the Casco Bay Estuary Partnership, Poland Spring, University of Southern Maine and 19 other local, state and federal agencies, businesses and nonprofit organizations.
Participating schools include:
Montello Elementary
Georgetown Central
Greater Portland Christian School
Aucocisco School
Long Island School
Kennebunk Elementary
Marcia Buker School
Brunswick Junior High School
Meroby Elementary
Waterboro Elementary
Helen Thompson School
Skillin Elementary
Sebago Elementary
WHAT: 18th Annual Southern Maine Children's Water Festival
WHERE: Sullivan Gym, University of Southern Maine Portland Campus
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Updated 09/13/06...wl Archived material. This page is no longer maintained.The Maine Citizenship Education Task ForcePublic schools in America were originally created to prepare young people to participate in American democracy and to become civic leaders. Forty state constitutions mention the importance civic literacy among its citizens, with thirteen of these stating that the central purpose of public education is to promote citizenship, democracy, and free government. Today, many believe this core purpose of education in America has been lost. School-based civic education is in decline. Overwhelming evidence suggests that young Americans today are disengaged from civic and political institutions and activities, and when this happens the community's collective energy is diminished:
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