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getting conflicting ideas about what's going on in this motor.
2 sets of pics, 1st set of pics is br9eix run for about 1.5 hours. 2nd set is br8eg run for 5 minutes just putting around to get some color on it. both are identical jetting, ambient temperature/elevation. on the first set of pics, the float level was bit low. also, timing was more retarded (just 1 degree less advance).
i'm thinking the first plug (which still ran fine) was a bit too cold, and a little rich. i'm assuming the carbon deposits all over is just due to plug too cold. there are no seal leaks.
2nd set of pics still a little rch somewhere, maybe hot enough of a plug now to burn deposits off.
1st plug.
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The second set of photos looks like I'd expect if you just poked around for five minutes. Which one of your bikes is it?
Can't tell shit about jetting the way you're doing it anyway. Run WFO for along distance, kill engine and stop with clutch in. Now read the plug. :deal
2-stroke plugs typically won't burn their carbon deposits off. The NGK 8 heat range should be about right. OK, we all have our gas/oil favorites, but for air-cooled bikes, I had the best results with regular grade gas mixed 32:1 with Golden Spectro. If I was never going to ride hard, an NGK 7 heat range would be ok.
Thats alot of junk built up on the 9 for only 1.5 hours......especially if you were on the pipe alot and you say it wasnt stuttering and seemed to run good.
On that setup, did it four stroke or foul at low RPM or idle ? What kind of fuel are you running. What kind of oil and what ratio ?
Second plug is looking fairly good, but, I woulda guessed you had a hour of run time by its looks.
i generally jet using the put it in third gear, cruise around, then wack throttle to the throttle position i'm jetting. see if it reacts properly, gets on the pipe right, pulls through transitions properly.. i also extensively check jetting uphill in wrong gear to make sure it pulls hard and doesn't 4 stroke/bog out under load.
i'm thinking b8es might spark better - i think i'm in the right heat range and timing now - the threads/strap are discoloring about right..
yeah, but piston port versus reed valve definitely makes a difference on plug life.. either way i don't believe my first plug should look like that.
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To the OP, for 1.5 hours, that does look like a terrible amount of carbon deposits. I would try a hotter plug and pull the head and inspect the piston after a hard run. If all is well, then run with the hotter plug. Your diagnosis seems correct.
But of course this advice comes from some random guy on the internet.
Last time I had a plug like that the deposits were molten aluminum from the piston. Sure you're not detonating? Bit lean?
naw, i pullled the head and piston looks fine. the deposits look like carbon, not aluminum
If the jetting is correct and the plug won't clean itself the heat range is off. Or the ignition is weak. Tread lightly here.
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Pam, a shift cable (sometimes called "Morse" cable after one company that makes them) is really just a heavier version of a bicycle brake cable. There's a proper name for these but I have no memory of it.
If the inner cable failed...in theory yes it can be replaced or spliced or just moved down if there's enough slack to pull down from the other end. In practice, if it is old enough to fail it is quicker and simpler to replace the whole thing, and if you have a throttle cable of the same vintage, replace them both while you are there.
If the cable is intact but the outer jacket sheared, that can literally be epoxied back in place, the outer jacket just serves as a guide to constrain the inner cable. But again, I'd say time to replace it, not mess around.
Common sense and simple hand tools are all you need. The length does not have to be exactly the same, just close enough so you don't have extra cable slopping all over. The hard part of usually finding cables with the exact same end fittings, if you can take digital pictures and measure to compare them and make sure they are right. Or, close enough to work.
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Under attack for the resolution passed by the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council on resumption of Indo-Pak dialogue, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said legislators voice the sentiment of the people who elect them. "We don't talk here of our own (will). We talk for the people who we represent here," Omar said in the state Assembly. "The Council passed a resolution for resuming talks and all of us became anti-nationals. If we call for war, we become nationalists and if we call for talks, we become anti-nationals," he said.
The Chief Minister said, "If we talk about endangering the lives of our army personnel by asking them to fight war and make sacrifices, it becomes big evidence of nationalism. If we want resolution of issues through dialogue, it becomes proof of anti-nationalism." "No one among us is anti-national. We might have different thinking on different issues. Amongst us, some might talk about revoking Article 370 and some might talk about strengthening it and some might talk about autonomy, but when it comes to the nation, no one among us plays around with it," he said.
His remarks came against the backdrop of attacks by a section of media which dubbed legislators from the state as anti-nationals for seeking resumption of dialogue with Pakistan. "Which political party here has not made sacrifices? Did we make sacrifices for strengthening our own homes? We made sacrifices to strengthen this country and to strengthen this state. My party sacrificed 8,000 workers not for being called anti-national in a TV studio and just for seeking (resumption of) talks (with Pakistan)," Omar said.
He said when a legislator takes oath, he does it in the name of the country and not in the name of his party. "So when we talk about something, if it is measured by the yardstick of nationalism or anti-nationalism, and it is decided by someone sitting in a TV studio who has never risked his life, it is surprising," he said.
Omar questioned, "Who amongst us here (in the Assembly) is not facing a threat -– more or less. Having a PSO might be a fashion statement elsewhere, for us it is a compulsion. How many Assemblies have been attacked (by militants). This Assembly has been attacked. More than 30 persons were martyred and if they had succeeded in getting inside the Assembly, I don't know how many members would have been killed. Is this proof of anti-nationalism?" Advocating resumption of talks with Pakistan, he said the country had tried other ways of dealing with the neighbouring country.
"For God's sake, tell me what way we have other than dialogue! Have we not tried the other ways? Parliament attack took place, we stopped the dialogue. I was a minister at the Centre at that time. "We formed teams and sent them to capitals of big countries to explain the reasons for stopping the talks. We prepared a list of 20 persons, saying till these people are handed over, we will not resume talks. Where are these people? How many have been handed over? Did we not resume the talks?" he posed.
He said the Centre put a condition that till the perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai attacks are punished, it will not resume talks with Pakistan. "Except Kasab, how many have been punished? Still talks started. Dialogue took place whether Congress-led alliance or BJP-led alliance (was in power)," he said. Expressing surprise over the reason given for calling off the latest round of talks with Pakistan, he said meetings -- which he referred to as "cup of tea" -- between Pakistan officials and separatists have been taking place since the time P V Narsimha Rao was the Prime Minister. "Narsimha Rao and after him so many Prime Ministers, the process of 'cup of tea' has continued," he added.


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In the Long Run we're all dead- The Life of John Maynard KeynesFriday, November 13th, 2009 by ryan
John Maynard Keynes was born in 1883 the same year that Karl Marx died, and whilst both wrote critiques of the capitalist system here the similarities end. Marx was an angry loner, his ventures and business failed and the majority of his life was spent in exile. Working anonymously and alone in the British library, Marx spent many years sculpting his theories about the inevitable overthrow of the free market system. Perhaps the saddest thing is that Marx never lived to see his theories proved wrong.
Keynes was very different, a dashing figure and a brilliant economist, who could also mix with the elite of British society. Keynes attacked the inequalities and inefficiencies of the capitalist system it didn't stop him from making a small fortune speculating on the foreign exchange markets.
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David & Googliath – Internet Victims' Advocate, Files Suit Against Google, FOX & RipOffReport
In 2001 Michael Roberts´ ex-wife was accused of murder and in 2004 allegedly attempted to murder Roberts more than once. Last November, more than a decade later, Roberts' ex-wife was tried and convicted of her crime. Four major networks are currently producing true-crime shows on these events. (Ref: Iowa State v. Richter FECR011900)
Orange County, CA (PRWEB) March 28, 2012
The Lawsuit: "There is a conspiracy between Google and RipOffReport.com to manipulate negative search results for financial gain."
Roberts alleges that in order to increase profits, Google establishes higher rankings on negative results to promote advertising revenues via their AdWords® product while enjoying Federal immunity under Section 230C of the Communications Decency Act. He says: "these actions are tantamount to State Sponsored Cyber-Terrorism".
Today Roberts filed suit against Google, RipOffReport and Fox News for defamation, civil conspiracy, tortious interference and other misdeeds, seeking both injunctive relief and punitive damages due to Defendants accusing him of criminal hacking.
Robert´s states that Google deliberately elevates allegations of misconduct and other negative items, including those they reconstitute to give a different context to encourage search users to click on AdWords® advertising. U.S.C. § 230c protects ISPs against liability from poor or erroneous information, as a conduit, not the author. This type of protection is needed and should be in effect. Notwithstanding, he claims that Google´s actions go beyond this scope when they purposefully change the context in order to boost profits by repulsing search users from the people they were originally seeking. Google, although often protected by § 230c in other cases, still has a social responsibility under that law to remove defamatory material once it is brought to their attention pursuant to the "Good Samaritan" provisions therein. Their duplicity in these matters is evidenced by the global trail of emotional destruction.
The lawsuit asserts that false allegations of misconduct should not be artificially elevated in search results; more importantly, Google should not be permitted to turn a blind eye to a victim´s pain even if they have § 230c immunity, once the defamation is brought to their attention.
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Michael Roberts is an Australian citizen and has been in California for over seven months while awaiting passports for his US children, now that their mother has been jailed for life without parole. He operates his businesses http://www.Rexxfield.com and http://www.BadForPeople.org as a Social Forensic, Digital Forensic, Internet Defamation Analyst and Internet reform activist.
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Don Williams has covered Texas Tech football as either a beat writer or columnist for all but one year beginning in 1986. That counts two seasons he spent at the University Daily. He joined the A-J full-time in 1988.
He's covered around 250 Tech football games, including 17 bowls. In the 1990s, he also staffed Dallas Cowboys home games and three Super Bowls.
Some of his other beats include Tech track and field and small college basketball and baseball. He was on hand in Lewiston, Idaho, when Lubbock Christian University won the NAIA World Series in 2009.
Williams graduated from Midland College in 1985, following the Chaparrals to the NJCAA final four one year, and from Texas Tech in 1988. He interned at the Arizona Republic in 1987, where he spent the summer covering the Triple-A Phoenix Firebirds and future major leaguers Matt Williams, Terry Mulholland, Dennis Cook and Jeff Brantley and ex-major leaguer Dave Kingman. (Thankfully, Kingman, a renowned media hater, did not send a rat to Don in the press box.)
As tournament time nears, the South Plains College women's basketball team often thinks of how to get out of the NJCAA Region V tournament. The Lady Texans have spent much of this season concentrating on how to get in.
Texas Tech coach Tommy Tuberville was assessing Le'Raven Clark's play in a post-practice discussion this week when he mentioned how defensive end Leon Mackey "got a mess of him a couple of times" and threw the young tackle for a loop.
Dennell Wesley hopes for improvement after the Red Raiders' disastrous defense of last season with a new defensive coordinator and a trimmed physique.
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Barrow attended a Tech junior day Saturday with his father.
New Texas Tech defensive line coach Fred Tate was on the field for his first Red Raiders practice Tuesday at Jones AT&T Stadium. Tech announced his hiring shortly thereafter.
Tate was on the Marshall staff the last two years, coaching safeties in 2010 and the defensive line last year. He's spent most of his career coaching defensive linemen.
Tate was on the same staff with Tech defensive coordinator Art Kaufman in 2003 and 2004 at East Carolina.
"We're glad to have him," Tech coach Tommy Tuberville said. "I think he fits in pretty good with us.
Tech coaches think the 6-foot-5, 282-pound sophomore Delvon Simmons will start to live up to his potential soon.
The 5-foot-7, 166-pound McRoy, who sat out last season after transferring from Florida, is one of the new toys for Tech offensive coordinator Neal Brown.
Texas Tech looks for a new kicker in sophomores Ryan Bustin - left-footed, like Carona - from Kilgore and Kramer Fyfe from Austin Lake Travis.
Defensive line coach Terry Price will be leaving the Texas Tech football staff for a job at Texas A&M -- the second time this offseason the Red Raiders have hired an assistant only to have him leave for another job in a matter of weeks.
Texas Tech lacked sufficient confidence in its upperclassmen linebackers in 2011, so the Red Raiders started two true freshmen there early in the season. In 2012, Tech coaches might not have to choose such green linebackers out of desperation.
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Navarro, who was hitting .315 at Triple-A, was a good fit because the Angels needed another left-handed bat to counter the losses of Josh Hamilton and Kole Calhoun and the slump of Raul Ibañez.
Also, Navarro can play right field, which he'll need to do this weekend when Mike Trout gets a day at designated hitter, pushing Collin Cowgill to center.
Sean Burnett, who had elbow surgery last July, will begin a rehab assignment at Double-A on Saturday, his first time pitching against another team in nearly a year. Burnett is expected to need most of a month to get ready, since he's essentially having his spring training now.
"Knock on wood, he's going in the right direction and feeling good," Butcher said.
Dane De La Rosa, who has pitched in three minor league games in his rehab from a shoulder issue, is not likely to be back this weekend, and maybe not even on this six-game trip.
"It's real hard to say if he needs one (more minor league game), two or five," Butcher said. "It depends on how he feels and when he feels ready."
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I saw my dr yesterday and he recommended them, he also started me on Vitamin B 6 because I can't keep anything down and have lost five pounds. I think they are helping me, I still have an upset stomach but haven't acctually vommited sence I started wearing them.
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GM: Chargers needed a change
"I think there's fight left," Smith says. "I know Shawne Merriman is missed; a terrific player, a great player, is missing. But you move on. Go! I don't think the players believed in our way of attacking and a lot of us were unhappy with the (defensive) game plans. Something was very wrong, and the Chargers organization reacted to it. This issue was building – building. The head coach was not happy with the direction of the defense and neither was I.
"But the players have to be held accountable. The players are on notice. Some of you may lose your jobs, or maybe you'll alternate, or maybe you won't be here next year. You're a Charger one year at a time. There are some prideful guys here. Let's make a run at this thing. We're still within striking distance of a title."
Smith is not innocent. These are his players, who he constantly has praised for their good character, and Cottrell was his guy. Nor is Turner, who, as overseer of 3-5, spotted a problem and can only hope he didn't wait too long to fix it.
As Smith says, his team's health bill is clean for the first time this season. It's in a bye week, with awful Kansas City up next. If Rivera can just get his defense to make a few stops now and then, put and end to long drives and terrible red zone efficiency, then what has been a good offense can be even more productive with additional opportunities.
San Diego has lost five games by a total of 24 points.
"We were deficient getting off the field and getting the ball back in our offense's hands," Smith says. "It's remarkable what our offense has done, given the amount of time it's had the ball.
"I don't know the outcome, and neither do you. We'll know in eight games. A lot of times you can lose your fight and spirit. You need something to believe in. That's what this decision is all about."
Then, with a sigh, he concludes: "We have lost our elite status."
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Diabetes Health Center
Diabetic Feet Pose High Risks
June 2, 2006 -- People with diabetes have good reason to pay close attention to their feet.
Diabetes patients with foot wounds -- especially deep or long-lasting wounds -- and circulatory problems are at much higher risk to require hospitalization and even amputation.
So says a study in June's issue of Diabetes Care. The study comes from Lawrence Lavery, DPM, MPH, and colleagues. Lavery is a professor in the surgery department of Texas A&M University. He also works at Scott and White Hospital in Georgetown, Texas.
Lavery's study included 1,666 diabetes patients who had their feet screened and were taught about diabetes and foot care.
Patients who developed foot infections were nearly 56 times more likely to require hospitalization and more than 154 times as likely to have a foot amputated, compared with those without foot infections, the study shows.
Focusing on Feet
"Foot wounds are now the most common diabetes-related cause of hospitalization and a frequent precursor to amputation," write Lavery and colleagues. They add that people with diabetes are 30 times more likely to have a leg or foot amputated than those without diabetes.
Why are foot problems more troublesome with diabetes? It has to do with diabetes' effect on nerves and feeling in the feet.
For example, anyone can get a scrape or blister on their foot. Someone with diabetes who has impaired sensation in the feet might not notice that wound as soon as someone without diabetes. If foot problems fester, infection can set in and eventually cause more serious problems that may require amputation.
Participants in Lavery's study were enrolled in a program that focused on preventing and treating foot complications in diabetes patients. They had their feet carefully checked by a podiatrist and nurse, and they were taught about diabetes and foot care.
Over the next two years or so, 151 patients -- about 9% of the entire group -- developed 199 foot infections. Thirty-five of them had more than one foot infection during the study.
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The Senate s Republican leader Mitch McConnell called them modest. House Speaker John Boehner isn t sure the cuts will hurt the economy. The White House s top economic adviser, Gene Sperling, said the pain isn t that bad right now.
So after months of dire warnings, Washington didn t implode, government didn t shut down and the $85 billion budget trigger didn t spell doom. And no one has a tangible proposal for rolling back those cuts.
This modest reduction of 2.4 percent in spending over the next six months is a little more than the average American experienced just two months ago, when their own pay went down when the payroll tax holiday expired, McConnell said.
I don t know whether it s going to hurt the economy or not, Boehner said. I don t think anyone quite understands how the sequester is really going to work.
And Sperling, making the rounds on the Sunday news shows, added: On Day One, it will not be as harmful as it will be over time.
Both parties cast blame on the other for the automatic, across-the-board spending cuts but gave little guidance on what to expect in the coming weeks. Republicans and Democrats pledged to retroactively undo the cuts but signaled no hints as to how that process would start to take shape. Republicans insisted there would be no new taxes and Democrats refused to talk about any bargain without them.
That s not going to work, said Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H. If we re going to increase revenue again, it s got to go to the debt with real entitlement reform and real tax reform when you actually lower rates. ... I m not going to agree to any more tax increases that are going to go to increase more government.
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I think you guys are all wrong...
You are presupposing too many generalities.
You expect every single 4.5 male to play only from the baseline, not use their lefty serves to their best advantage, and not hit heavy slice shots, running the female, instead of trying to outhit the female.
And you expect every 5.5+ woman to run down every drop shot, to dig out low skidded slices (which they NEVER see playing against other junior girls), and you expect them to hit solid passing shots and lobs against a deep sliced approach (again when they NEVER face against other junior girls).
Remember, the guys game is different from the girl's game. If the guy plays the girl's game, like stay back, no flat serves or heavy slices into the body, or wide twists that take them both feet off the doubles courts, the girl WILL WIN bagels and breadsticks.
But once you're allowed to hit drop shots, wide short angles, hard shots into the body, and real first serves, THEN the odd change, .....not saying the guy will win a set, but it certainly get's a lot closer.
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Napoléon Coste
Guitar Works Opp. 7-9,
Napoléon Coste was France's greatest guitar composer and, together with
Mertz, the guitar composer most representative of the Romantic style. Coste was
born in 1805 in the village of Amondans. His father, the village mayor and a
former infantry captain, named his son for the new Emperor and groomed him for
a military career. From age six, young Napoléon also began to play guitar,
taking his first lessons from his mother. At the age of eleven Coste suffered
an extended and serious illness, and his parents seem to have abandoned their
plans for his military career. The teenaged Coste, living in Valenciennes,
gained local fame as a performer and teacher of the guitar, and in 1828 even
played duets with the visiting Italian virtuoso Luigi Sagrini (they performed
Giuliani's Op. 130). In 1830, the year of the July Revolution, Coste moved to
Paris to pursue his career. Paris was not only one of the great cultural
centres of the world, it was also, in the 1820s, home to a guitaromanie, a
rage for the guitar, which probably did not so much abate in the 1830s as
become less remarkable in a city which saw new fads commencing daily. Coste
studied theory and composition in Paris and became the friend and pupil of Fernando
Sor (1778-1839), the esteemed Spanish composer and guitarist. By the end of the
1830s, Coste was immersed in the Parisian musical scene, and his compositions
from this period demonstrate both his versatility and the broad variety of
cultural influences on music during the period. Coste published many of his
compositions, so it is sometimes impossible to assign each work a precise date.
The rage for the waltz dated back at least to the Congress of Vienna,
but was given an enormous boost by the sensational tours of Johann Strauss I
and his 28-piece orchestra during the 1830s. Musicologist Simon Wynberg has
suggested that Coste's Seize valses favorites de Johann Strauss, Op. 7,
published toward the end of the 1830s by Richault, probably coincided with
Strauss' French tour of in 1837.
Coste's Divertissement sur l'opéra Lucia di Lammermoor de Donizetti,
Op. 9, was a potpourri of themes from the popular opera which had been first
performed in 1835 in Naples (a French version had appeared in 1839). Coste composed
a brief introduction, followed by settings of the arias Sulla tomba che
rinserra (Larghetto) and Quando rapita in estasi (Allegro moderato) from
Act I; Ah! Cedi, Cedi (Cantabile); and a finale which is an
elaboration of the celebrated cabaletta Spargi d'amaro pianto from Act
III (Allegretto). Such fantasies, based on favourite operas, became
staples of the guitar repertoire in the mid-nineteenth century, serving as
souvenir folios of the best loved tunes. Coste's fantasy, which was published
in 1841, may even have inspired the opera fantasies of the guitarist Johann
Kaspar Mertz, who shortly thereafter began to publish his ambitious Opera
Review, Op. 8 series with the Viennese firm of Haslinger. This remarkable
series, which continued for years, eventually included fantasies on no fewer
than thirty-six operas, a figure which did not include those fantasies which
Mertz composed for other publishers, sometimes on the same operas.
Mertz's fantasy on Lucia di Lammermoor (Op. 8, No. 2) was the second in
the series and followed Coste's by two years.
Coste's Grand Caprice, Op. 11 survives only in the form of
manuscripts in the Danish Royal Library in Copenhagen. It is possible that
printed versions of the piece have been lost, but it is also possible that Coste
never published the work, or at least never undertook the expense of having the
music engraved. Handwritten copies, made and sold on demand, were still a
viable publishing strategy in 1844 (the date on one of the copies). One reason
for choosing this option might have been the technical difficulty of the piece,
beyond the ability of most of the amateurs who were the principal purchasers of
guitar music at the time, but most of Coste's works are technically difficult.
The piece also calls for a guitar with an extra bass string, which would have
further limited the piece's marketability.
The Rondeau de concert avec introduction, Op. 12 seems to be an
early version of the can-can, a sort of galop which became
popular in the French music halls of the July Monarchy and Second Empire. The
dance, considered scandalous because the high kicking chorines revealed a great
deal of petticoat, was said to be of Algerian origin, but there is little
evidence of such a dance in North Africa. A French or central European origin
is more likely. In any case, Coste's brilliant cancan (c. 1840-45)
preceded Offenbach's celebrated version by almost two decades.
The Caprice sur l'air espagnol 'La Cachucha', Op. 13, exemplifies
the enormous popularity of Spanish "national" music and dance
throughout Europe in the 1830s-1840s. Ironically, Fernando Sor, who was Coste's
mentor in Paris and the greatest Spanish guitarist of the age, wrote virtually
nothing in this genre, and his compatriot Aguado left only a few pieces. The
Italians Carcassi, Carulli, Legnani and Molino, on the other hand, all tried
composing in the Spanish style. A cachucha was an Andalusian dance
resembling the Aragonese jota or a particularly frenetic waltz. It is
not clear why the likes of the pianist Czerny, the cellist Romberg, and the
guitarists Legnani and Coste all wrote arrangements or variations on the cachucha
in ca. 1840. Perhaps they were inspired by the ballerina Fanny Eissler's
famous version, or Lola Montez' notorious dance El Oleana, which was
said to have been a sort of cachucha. Liszt, who had a celebrated affair
with Mlle Montez, later included a cachucha in his Große
Konzertfantasie über spanische Weisen; the "waltz" theme of
Chabrier's España is actually a cachucha, as is the climactic
dance melody in the intermedio of Jerónimo Giménez's celebrated zarzuela
El baile de Luis Alonso. Coste's version of the dance is energetic and
imaginative, demonstrating that anecdotal affinity that French composers are
said to have for Spanish music.
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Jeffrey McFadden
Jeffrey McFadden is recognized as one of Canada's finest guitarists.
Over the past years, concert engagements have taken him into Canada's West, to
Quebec, to the United States and throughout his native Ontario. He has given
world premières of works by both Canadian and American composers and has been a
featured performer at Canada's major guitar festivals. In November 1992, he was
awarded a top prize in the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America Competition
held in New Orleans. He was also a prizewinner in the 1993 Great Lakes Guitar
Competition held near Cleveland, Ohio. In addition to his activities as a solo
guitarist, Jeffrey McFadden is frequently heard in chamber music settings,
performing with Toronto's New Music Concerts Ensemble and smaller groups. He
also performed in the première of The Enchanted Forest, a music drama by
Canada's leading composer, Murray Schafer. He has appeared both as chamber
musician and soloist on CBC Radio. McFadden holds a Master's degree from the
University of Toronto, where he studied with Norbert Kraft. In addition to his
performing career he is active in teaching and publishing with teaching
positions at McMaster University and at the Royal Conservatory of Music.
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i used the visa and the visa shows the money being removed so tell me again its someone elses fault its exactly as usual only the people here are doing this for some reason?
no really its your game if you dont want me to play say so give me back my cash and ill go elsewhere to a place that has not these issues.
This is a joke...
Of course the money is "remove" from your account in case it clears. I should know. I use the same CC for quite some time until recently I charge two zen charges ($50 on the same week) and they "pending" the 2nd one until I called the CC company.
remember that PWE is NOT the one handling the transaction. It is Paypal or Skrill. So depending where you are and recent transaction (especially multiple in a day) when it is charge to DIFFERENT country, it gets suspicious.
There has been a lot of Credit Card fraud, so maybe the system is trying to protect you. like I said, best to call the CC and check it out.
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- By Christian BroseChristian Brose is a senior editor at Foreign Policy. He served as chief speechwriter and policy advisor for U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from 2005 to 2008, and as speechwriter for former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2004 to 2005.
By Christian Brose
And there you have it folks. Curtains for the Bush presidency.
No big surprises tonight. And nothing that will be much remembered either I'm afraid — no evocations to "steer clear of permanent alliances," no warnings of a "military-industrial complex." Instead, we had some talking points on administration achievments. The obligatory clarion call to resist isolationism and protectionism. And oh God help me: the hackneyed and trite use of decent people as stage props routine. This is nothing personal against Bush or his scribes; it's just an old saw of mine as a former speechwriter. Note to Obama: ban that rhetorical device forever.
Seriously, though, this was a speech about one thing: 9/11 and protecting America. The key part was this: "As the years passed, most Americans were able to return to life much as it had been before 9/11. But I never did." Those two little lines do a lot of work, and not all of it did Bush intend.
Say what you will about the president and the past eight years, and we can say a lot, no one — no one — thought on September 11, 2001 that Bush would be able to stand up in front of the nation in 2009 and say in his farewell address that America had not suffered another attack. This is clearly the one yardstick by which Bush measures himself and his presidency, and even his harshest critics must give credit where credit is due on that point.
Yes, yes — perhaps it had everything to do with events beyond Bush's control. Perhaps there's been no attack more in spite of Bush than because of him. Perhaps the terrorists got lazy. Perhaps they're just lying in wait. Yes, perhaps.
What I have always struggled with in my own appraisal of Bush is, on the one hand, the fact that he has succeeded in keeping the U.S. homeland safe from another terrorist attack on his watch, but on the other hand, my strong belief that he has misconceived and miscast the "war on terror" in a way, I think, that has not just been unfortunate but counterproductive — from the rhetoric he uses to describe it to the worst moral outrages that have been committed in its name. This has led to a great degree of cognitive dissonance in my own mind, especially having worked in the government these past four years.
Here is Bush last night:
The battles waged by our troops are part of a broader struggle between two dramatically different systems. Under one, a small band of fanatics demands total obedience to an oppressive ideology, condemns women to subservience, and marks unbelievers for murder. The other system is based on the conviction that freedom is the universal gift of Almighty God and that liberty and justice light the path to peace.
I have little to quibble with in the descriptions; it's the comparison that bothers me. And the reference is clear. Here is President Harry Truman speaking to Congress on March 12, 1947:
At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one. One way of life is based upon the will of the majority, and is distinguished by free institutions, representative government, free elections, guarantees of individual liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and freedom from political oppression. The second way of life is based upon the will of a minority forcibly imposed upon the majority. It relies upon terror and oppression, a controlled press and radio; fixed elections, and the suppression of personal freedoms.
There was a time after 9/11 when America needed a president who saw the people who had just attacked us as a world-conquering, ideological counterweight to American liberalism. And Bush answered that call. Now, more than seven years on, we need to insist — without compromising one bit of our post-9/11 seriousness, vigilance, or willingness to defend ourselves — that by raising al-Qaeda and company to our level, we are only degrading ourselves while painting them as the very thing they aspire to be. Our enemy in this confrontation is a deviant bunch of bitter-enders, whose only ideas about organizing society have been rejected everywhere — everywhere — they've been forced on people. The sooner we start treating them as such the better. Bush could never accept that, let alone do it.
Others, however, can. And today, David Miliband offered a glimpse of what should come next. This, ironically, was the real speech of the day:
The more we lump terrorist groups together and draw the battle lines asa simple binary struggle between moderates and extremists or good andevil, the more we play into the hands of those seeking to unify groupswith little in common, and the more we magnify the sense of threat. We should expose their claim to a compelling and overarching explanation and narrative as the lie that it is.
Miliband even spoke of his strategy as "disaggregation," which is exactly the term Dave Kilcullen uses in this article, leading me to wonder who really wrote this speech. Either way, this is where Obama should pick up intellectually and policywise, but he should do so with all of the vigilance and single-mindedness of his predecessor. And as for Bush, well, his performance tonight reminded me of another unpopular American president, who in his own farewell to the nation chose to quote Teddy Roosevelt's description of the "man in the arena,"
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And to think that this thread started off by asking - where are the Nat'l riders? This might have been an interesting topic. As a
Nat'l (event) organizer, pro level minder and support rider, I have been surprised by the attendance levels at recent Nat'ls.
The pics of the terrain at the AZ Nat'l look amazing and appear to be much prettier than the AZ National I rode a few years ago near the petrified forest. It's unfortunate that more were not able to participate in this event.
Personally, I stopped riding Nat'ls, in large part, because the Support class presented too much risk for my skill and age.
Regarding the digression that this thread took... the top National classes do not necessarily correspond to local classes. Most local clubs would consider themselves lucky to have a single Nat'l Pro or Nat'l Expert level rider and to build a line for Pro would be to build a line for one rider. The Nat'ls are the opportunity for those top riders to compete against others with similar skills - something that they can not usually do at the Local level.
Expert is a class for "old" Pros that want to step down or for future Pros that are not quite ready to step up to Pro. All of the other classes are basically there to allow the National event to succeed on a financial level, i.e. it's financially challenging to host an event for a few (1-2 dozen) Pro and Expert level riders. I believe that the addition of the Clubman class was, in part, to help shore up flagging attendance and maintain revenue...
it is sad that this thread became a vehicle for personal attacks. The personal attacks are not helpful in the least and they are, IMO, very misplaced and completely inappropriate. Please stop.
Probably the best information I have read, even if is still doesn't address the fact of "the rest of us" down in the "flights" aka Skill levels, where riders should be expecting, and all that... Again, I said the top 2 tiers take care of themselves, the NATC took the easy/at the time obvious, way out long ago. I assume they just thought and was assuming there would be 100's of competitors chomping at the bit for a "class for them." and would toss money into the jar... it did for a while, there are a HELLUVA lot more people that think EXACTLY like NWCYCLE, so like I tried to say, I was not attacking him, EVER. or anything, my goal was to give information that might otherwise leave people dissapointed and all that.
so, here we are. For the lower classes, which IMHO unless the whole "nationals" is SUDDENLY "sponsored by Toyota" last I heard it was NOT... then there HAS to be, some more thought put into the lower classes & competiton structure as a whole. Stupid as not realizing where your target audience is. The lower riders that attend NOW,
is the the "bread and butter"
for the hosting clubs. This is what will keep the PRO's a place to compets and all that, IMHO. SInce it is Where most of the riders, across the USA are riding in their clubs. These are the guys, that have the money, and ability to attend a trials that isn't in their backyard, let alone a nationals. Lots has change economy wise and family dynamics wise let alone competition wise, for modern trials.
Competition drives 96% of the sport of trials, I believe, even everyone that is NOT a pro. in fact I think every class up to PRO is even more driven, in the fact that we dont get paid a dime, we pay for everything we do, not that the TOP riders shouldn't!!!! But I mean this in a way, for example... I'm 120 miles from my club, I could ride the backyard (and do) every night I want to, but I choose to goto the club events to test myself against the riders I beat or get beat by each month.
I think, at some point, the same has to be said for the nationals. now sure, "technically" since it is "me" against the "trials master" technically... It is, but what I am saying is different. There is still more to it. I reiterate, I will not spend $1000 to enter an event where the outcome is obvious to me, where I myself will be competing against Dustin Land, Marc Carpenter, and those top riders from my area. IF I wanted to enter the MASTER CLASS at my club, even if the masters would RIDE MY SECTIONS (intermediate) the outcome is ordained, if they even show up (or hell ordained if they DON'T show up). Now if I ride against Mike Cramsey, and those guys I usually ride with, the outcome is more than flip of the coin, nor Ordained.
That is the "forgot" about part of the nationals, because the comitee or whomever was more about the PRO-Expert-what have you, with us "also rans" only asked to show up, to "sponser" the costs of putting this whole thing on. But they also know it won't survive without the rest of us going, or top paid sponsor-ships, whish drives up even local trials costs, due to COSTS. Goodyear sells tires at DOUBLE the cost of cheaper barnds, becuase of all the crap they sponsor supposedly sells more tires, I beg you if goodyear dropped the price of the tires by half, I'd but a set all the time. This is the economy nowdays. now Redbull? that is the opposite, they sponsor everything because they have figured out that since $.05 cents of water and sugar and crap in a can, sold for 3 bucks, they can buy anything they want to, and they do, because our kids will buy it by the case, lol...
ANYWAY, I think "TRIALS" and everyone has reached the crossroads, if you want me to sponsor it, meaning you want a big customer market, maybe you better cater to us MORE than we do now... Or figure out how to get REDBULL to pay... So it is going to have to be fixed, I couldn't agree more with the top 2 or 3 classes and how you explained them Rhubbard, makes perfect sense.
But even with my 55 year old brother that ride MOTOCROSS as much or more than I do trials, knows that if he's racing, and enters the class that he's supposed to, that the riders in the race he's in are at least "close" to his skills and talents, and hell age. Those guys pay entries, passes, et al, that also brings the money to put on these events, and yeah someone makes money because it brings in "fans" which trials has a long way to get there yet.
I haven't figured out exactly what or how this would be done differently than what we do as "regionals", where 6 clubs get together and each one, puts on events that the WHOLE CLUB participates, is just about a normal event in every way, except more people show up, we give everyone a free dinner Sat night, and we sell t-shirts BTW. Our club sets up a trials about as good as a nationals most years, except we don't really have to worry about 2 lines, PRO & EXPERT in "nationals" speak difficulty at least. BUT, Those could easily be added, and are for a nationals, why not just have a regular club meet more or less, but with afternoon classes only maybe, due to time and judges.
I have dabbled with the idea, of like natc seems to like to have the "kids nationals" separately, what about a "morning class class with kids all the way up through-sr amature event?" held by clubs that might not have the grounds for a PRO line...
I could host one of those, except I've seen some of the teenage kids nowdays ride harder lines than I can make at my place (master or above).
all the above again, is "thinking outloud" I could start a new thread but might if others have more input here. DONT BE SHY, but be like DHUBBARD, lets not attack each other.
I'm not attacking the NATC in any of my posts, BTW, I am merely trying to point out, that there are things that IMHO might help attendance, even in "lean years" and all that, maybe we can speak our mind here, and get it up the chain of command at some point?
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This follows the question I asked
Kyle pointed out that when I want to do a tranfer between two account objects (e.g. one gives moeny and gets stick, the other gives stock and gets money), I should have those accounts represented as entity beans and use a stateless session bean to take both of them and do the tranfer. Now this is client initiated, meaning client A says he wants to execute a trade between his account and account B (which had a standing order to allow this trade, hence client B is not notified of the trade until it has completed).
Client A can't directly access the entitiy bean which is client B's account. Instead, we were going to have each account have a unique ID and when client A requests the trade, it gives the unique ID of client B's account. (BTW, security isn't a major concern here.) So basically, the session bean will do a lookup to get a reference to client B's entity bean representing his account. But this kinda defeats some OO principles, since effectively we make these objects global, accessible to anyone who wants to ask for them. I've used this
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I would probably create a "Transfer" object that you give both the key for "Buyer" and the key for "Seller" and that looks them both up and does the transfer. That way neither the buyer nor the seller know the details of the other -- they are both hidden in the Transfer.
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OK, that sounds like what I was proposing. I'm not too worried about the buyer or seller finding the other's info (this is just a simulation, if some MBA student really wants to hack it, well, they can). Rather, I was just concerned about breaking OO principles by having a lookup to grab an object--this object may be used by other people, at other times.
By having this class that can return an account object to anyone who requests it, concepts such as abstraction layers and low coupling can be ruined. Lazy programers (not me, of course, I'm never lazy :-p ), don't have to owrry about passing objects around to get them to the classes who need them, then can just request them directly. You effectively turn these classes into "global variables."
I have used this techinque in J2SE projects. Sometimes it does make sense to have such a public repository. While there are no programmatic constraints on data access (everything is public), the system architect tells everyone to follow a certain design principle that these clasees may onyl be accessed under certain circumstances in certain ways, and he carries a big rubber hose to enforce those principles :-)
, is it ok to do the same thing, or is there a better way to create such a repository? (Again, security isn't a major concern, but good OO design is.)
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