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Thanks for the comments Tim!
About the TT guards... They come as a package to replace the possum scraper.
After 500 miles the rear brake guard on had broken at the rear mount where it is bent up 90º from horizontal to vertical. After several emails back and forth they sent me a new one - but I had to pay to return to busted one. Then after another few hundred miles the new one broke exactly the same way. This time I used some JB Weld epoxy putty to fix it and it's been that way for almost 30K miles.
The TT Chain Guard developed a crack just aft of the rear vertical/diagonal section after around 10K miles and I smeared on some JB Weld to arrest its progress which so far has held. I decided it wasn't worth the effort to get another from TT since it'd likely do the same thing.
Also, the black tubular steel mounting for the TT rear rack (which I primarily got to keep the big BMW tail bag from drooping over onto the rear turn signals) cracked and broke due to a flimsy and poorly welded design. I had a buddy who welds repair it and it's doing great. Again, I saw no point in getting another inferior replacement from TT since it would break the same way in a few months no doubt.
It pisses me off that the TT quality is so poor on some items, but they are still the only source for some items - like the footpeg relocation kit and OEM handguard extensions.
BTW, in the next week or so when I finally wear out the current Mefos on the bike I'm going to try a 606 rear and MT 21 front combo for a couple of months (this is the rainy/muddy season here in Alabama). I've heard lots of good things about this combo.
Thanks for the detailed answer the reason I asked. Is I have them on order now.
I will kook at them close, too see if I can see the weak spots and reinforce them before I have a problem.
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Did you know the Aussies start their winemakers early? Since 1992, students at Nuriootpa High School in the Barossa Valley have been making and bottling a shiraz and a chardonnay, designing the wine labels and developing sales and marketing strategies. The only thing we made in high school was posters.
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From the article: Should You Change Your Name?
Tradition calls for American women to change their name -- and take on the last name of their husband -- when they get married. Through the years, thanks to the Women's Movement some women have altered the tradition. Nowadays, some women take their original last name as a middle name or add a hyphen to include both their family-given last name and their husband's last name. Some have ignored tradition and kept their name as it is. It's a struggle for some women to decide which is the right decision. Tell us what you think. Should women change their names when they get married? Why or why not?
Selfish woman
- Ok, so then what is the point of having a son and having him carry on the family traditions? Let me have kids to have my family name and honor wiped. This is so selfish.
- —Guest fred
Pre-Marital Honesty
- Whether or not an individual decides to change his/her name when married, the decision should be clear to both partners before they marry. When a future spouse says one thing before the ceremony and something different afterward, it is the start of mistrust and the beginning of the end for the marriage.
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Cherry-picking "Tradition"
- As a few comments in this forum point out, I feel there's quite a bit of dichotomy and angst amongst many feminists today. On one hand, women are convinced that a surname change is bowing to our chauvinist history. And yet, so many enjoy the chivalry of traditional courtship practices. I also grow extremely tired of the "battle" for women's equality. Like racists, there will be a minority of sexists for some time, but the trend is already on the decline. The fight is over. In my opinion, there are many guys, including myself, who don't view a surname change as an expectation but as a gift. When my wife offered to take my name, it was the greatest honor and the greatest gift I ever received. She didn't have a bad surname and neither did I, so it really could have gone either way. But I think the key here is it should be a conversation, and there shouldn't be an expectation. There is a lot to be gained from one family name, but every couple is different. Nobody else should judge.
- —Guest Drew
It's really no-one's business
- Whatever a person decides to do with her name is her own business, and no-one else's. A man can ask that his fiancé change her name, but he can't demand it. And frankly, he would be a massive jerk to try and do so. You cannot and should not BULLY or pressure someone into changing her identity - especially if you're not willing to do the same thing. I think arguing about this issue in a couple means that the marriage is doomed, as it shows that the guy is obsessed with having control and dominance in the relationship, as opposed to an equal union of two people. But for outsiders NOT in the relationship - no-one gives a dusty fuck what you think, so keep your pathetic snide comments on hyphenated names being "tacky" to yourself. I haven't decided if I will change my name - probably not - and my fiancé has said what I do with my name is none of his business. That's how I know I am marrying the right person.
- —Guest Guest08
Guest Sarah
- Read the response from Guest Sarah. Think about it. Do a little research. Consider the reasons women have been expected to take the last names of their spouses.
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Read: keeping a name
- Please read the response under "Keeping a Name". Excellent! Who could question her motivation to keep her name which happens to be a beautiful and meaningful gift? Our names are an important part of who we are. I'm sure all males can understand this if they release ego and think about this as if they had been asked or made to feel obligated to change their own names.
- —Guest Whatispossible
Why not equality?
- Why should a woman change her name when she marries? Why shouldn't a man change his name when he marries? If you are male, ask yourself why you wouldn't want to change your name. If you do this with sincerity and with the ability to put aside the traditional notions with which you have been programmed, you will never again question why your wife or future wife might not wish to lose her own name and change her name to yours.
- —Guest Whatispossible
It depends
- Whether or not to change my name after marriage would depend on who I married. My first name reflects my ethnic background (let's pretend it is Sumitha) so for instance I wouldn't want that juxtaposed with a very "white" surname - Sumitha McGillicuddy or Sumitha Simpson or something just looks and sounds silly to me. However if my husband were from my own ethnic group, I would consider taking his name. I certainly wouldn't marry a guy who insisted I MUST take his name and it's all about HIS name and HIS "seed" and HIS "ancestors" etc. etc. I have no time or patience for that.
- —Guest ST
Personal choice
- I agree that it's a personal choice. I did not take my husband's name because I have history to my last name, and my husband's last name is an adopted last name with no family history. (Adopted family does not keep in touch.) It's a personal choice and something I definitely struggled with because of what people would think. Luckily, my husband completely understands and supports me. He even offered to take my last name. But we are not doing that either (wouldn't want to upset his parents).
- —Guest Jaime
- I did not change my name when I married my husband, and our kids have both our names. My husband says he respects me for being a strong woman. I think most confident men don't think it's a big deal for their wives to take their name. If a woman chooses to do so, it's her business. But I think it's sad when a woman is forced to change her name.
- —Guest Lm
Get A Grip!
- You know, I think you're all a bottle cap short! My wife carries my name, which was her choice. It was no hassle for her. She carries her own identity. I have a previous fiancee from years ago who (I think) is married to this guy that sort of uses his original name, but sometimes uses her last name. Now, she uses her maiden name. (After all, she is one of those "professors of eduction" and demands that as a professor she be recognized as "doctor." She kept her maiden name for professional reasons and gave the children her maiden name. (She was always hell bent that her family name carry on). Okay, I guess. I understand professionalism, however, how confusing is this guy she married? He needs to regrow a "set" or figure out what name he wants to use. By "standards," children with mom's maiden name will be viewed either as having no father or a mom who is in control with no commitments. Isn't intelligence grand? We make problems where there were none (before egos). We've changed everything else in life that carries value.
- —Guest Dave
The freedom of choice
- I am getting married soon and will most likely take his last name. Don't get me wrong, I really like my last name, but I like the idea of sharing one last name. In this day and age, it's great to have the freedom to do whatever you like (different names, take his, take hers, hyphen or make up something entirely). In the culture my mother grew up in, it was common to take the mother's maiden name and use it as one of the middle names for all the children. When she got married, she bumped her maiden name to her middle name so it was always there. On my fiance's side, his mom made sure that her sons' middle names were all familial names (he has his grandmother's maiden name and his brother has their mom's maiden name). I'm doing the same with my children and I'm bumping my last name to my middle name. It's my way of honoring all branches of our family tree. The way I see it is that we are all so much more than our surnames. Call yourself what you like.
- —Guest SDLady
- I am very much a believer in independence but the whole truth is that names get carried on by men and these women that have these names wouldn't have them if it wasn't for the tradition of women taking their husband's last name.
- —Guest Ch3wb4cc4
- I am a senior and to be honest it never came up when we got married. We did the traditional thing. If I were young today, then we would come up with a hyphenated name of the two family names and both of us would change to that.
- —Guest Joe
Both sides are valid
- It's a problem! I love my wife to be very much. I never tell her she can't do anything and support her in everything she wants to do. Her independence is one of the things that makes me so attracted to her. I always thought she would just take my name. But she has recently said she wants to keep her name. She has given good reasons for it too. And I respect it, but I have such a hard time with it. I feel rejected, I feel that having a [child] would feel split if everyone had different surnames. The hyphenated name doesn't sit well with me either. iI doesn't feel right or true or honest. And I'm not willing to change my name either. I have done a lot of research on it, and I have found that if a guy changes his name (in Canada), it changes right back to his birth certificate. When a woman changes hers, she can actually reserve the right to still use her maiden name even though she has taken a new one. It is a touchy and heated subject for us, where both sides are right.
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"Sex and the City 3": Carrie and Big finally realize they're in a doomed relationship. Subplot: Charlotte's husband, Harry, finally starts growing hair on his head and not his back. (By the way, an actual 'SATC 3' may or may not be in the works.)
"Dr. Strange Love" sequel: At first, it seems obvious there couldn't be a sequel because the world ends … but does it? This part of the Wikipedia summery gives us an idea: "Sadeski notes that, within ten months of the activation of the doomsday device, the surface of the earth will be uninhabitable. Dr. Strangelove recommends that the President gather several hundreds of thousands of people, with a high female-to-male ratio, to live in deep mineshafts in order to escape the radiation, and to then institute a breeding program to allow the United States to repopulate the surface after a hundred years have passed. Gen. Turgidson warns that the Soviets will likely do the same, and worries about a "mineshaft gap".
Yes - They come out of the mineshaft, all sexed up and repopulated, to retake a fallen world … but, hell, we've seen that movie, too.
Photo: American film maker, Stanley Kubrick (1928 - 1999), on the set of his film 'Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' with two of the actors, Tracy Reed and George C Scott (1927 - 1999) on either side of him.
Photo By Archive Photos/Getty Images"Ghost" sequel: Creepy! Patrick Swayze just keeps coming back! He's a dark angel now or a poltergeist and repents ever trying to help his ex-lover recover. He's jealous and mean. Might make a good horror story. Or, he just hangs out trying to help all the time … like some pathetic ex-boyfriend who just hasn't gotten the message ... sitting bedside, invisibly weeping as she conceives her first born ...
Photo: Demi Moore is embraced by Patrick Swayze in a scene from the film 'Ghost', 1990.
Photo By Michael Ochs Archives/getty Images"Casablanca" sequel: Ilsa gets on the plane alright, but tells her husband everything and declares her love for Rick. Then hearing Rick's warning that she would regret it if she stayed — "Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life" — she is overcome with a jealous rage, takes over the plane and crashes it into the fog … magically missing Rick … the two set out Cat and Mouse fashion across the war torn world.
Photo: A movie still of (L-R) Unidentified, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid, Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman on the set of the Warner Bros classic film 'Casablanca' in 1942 in Los Angeles, California.
Photo By Archive Photos/Getty Images"The Truman Show" sequel: We'd get to see him in rehab or divorce court or running a drug cartel. … You know, it's not like a life lived in that bizarre world would be easy to get over. Might be an interesting psychological thriller, I guess. But, I'm not sure we'd want to see Truman stumbling around in some crummy NY apartment wondering why he has commitment issues or can't trust anyone.
Photo: Jim Carrey sleeps in movie art for the film 'The Truman Show', 1998.
Photo By Silver Screen Collection/getty Images"Gone with the Wind" sequel: "As Rhett is about to walk out the door, Scarlett begs him to stay but to no avail, and he walks away into the early morning fog leaving Scarlett weeping on the staircase and vowing to one day win back his love," Wikipedia writes. This is a classic setup for a stalker-thriller … but they have already made "Fatal Attraction."
Photo: English actress Vivien Leigh (1913 - 1967) as Scarlett O'Hara in 'Gone with the Wind', directed by Victor Fleming, 1939.
Photo By Silver Screen Collection/getty Images"Bonnie and Clyde" sequel: Obviously, any sequel would involve their children (discovered in a box in a remote barn) who in later years set out on a rampage across the country … "Natural Born Killers" style … Okay, could be interesting. Or, maybe the two have actually been riddle with fake bullets and they lived on. Turns out they were undercover agents working undercover to uncover a grand conspiracy … Now that they are "dead," they have a … I think Tom Clancy may have written this one: "Clear and Present Danger."
Photo: Faye Dunaway, US actress, smoking a cigarette while trying a hat on in a publicity image issued for the film, 'Bonnie and Clyde', 1967. The crime drama, directed by Arthur Penn (1922-2010), starred Dunaway as 'Bonnie Parker'.
Photo By Michael Ochs Archives/getty Images"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" sequel: Our two heroes have survived. Butch goes on to live the rest of his life as a book seller in northern California, and Sundance goes on to become a famous male actor and model. Or, just as the Bolivian army opens fire, riddling the two with bullets … the camera pans back to the barn and we she head of young girl … with mischief in her eyes. Daytime audiences follow the continued plot that runs for 20 years as a "Days of Our Lives" ripoff.
Photo: Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and the Sundance Kid (Robert Redford) in a scene from the movie "Butch Casssidy And The Sundance Kid" which was released on October 24, 1969.
Photo By Julian Wasser/Getty Images"Terms of Endearment" sequel: So, Emma doesn't actually die and we have to watch the kids trying to adjust to one more crazy damn thing that has gone bonkers in their family. Or, she remains dead and we have two hours of watch kids and adults trying to adjust, blaming each other for disfunction … drinking … therapy. (There's already a great movie sort of like that though: The Royal Tenenbaums") Or, they live happy new lives. That'd would be uninteresting, to say the least.
Photo: Jack Nicholson stands with Shirley MacLaine at the Academy Awards ceremony April 9, 1984 in Los Angeles, CA. Nicholson won six major Best Supporting Actor awards, including the Oscar, for his performance in "Terms of Endearment."
Photo By Archive Photos/Getty Images"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" sequel: It already happened: "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."
Photo: James Stewart in a scene from the film 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington', 1939.
Photo By Getty Images/getty Images"Titanic" sequel: You get the picture. Leonardo DiCaprio swims back into Kate Winslet's life and neither one go on to make all those other great movies. The theater doors are locked as you enter ...
Photo: Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in James Cameron's "Titanic."
Photo By Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images"Saving Private Ryan" sequel: The sequel would, what? — Have Private Ryan running back into the European theater of World War II for some reason or maybe the Pacific Theater to save someone else? Then, a lot more American's die because of him and no one thinks it's funny, courageous or heartwarming ... He marries, divorces ... his parents hate him ...
Photo: Matt Damon and Tom Hanks on set of the DreamWorks movie "Saving Private Ryan" in 1998.
Photo By Jeff Kravitz/Getty Images"Million Dollar Baby" sequel: She's not dead! Clint Eastwood lands in prison for attempted murder! Hilary Swank sues everyone and ends up living out the rest of her life in palatial digs. Or, she was pregnant and gave birth to an alien or Rosemary's Baby … Now that would be a perfect way for Hollywood to wreck a great movie.
Photo: Hilary Swank, nominee Best Actress in a Leading Role for "Million Dollar Baby"
Photo By Jason Merritt/Getty Images"The King's Speech" sequel: He starts stuttering again and having sexual performance issues … Or, he sets out across Europe to encourage stutterers to tackle their fears and live normal lives, which we're in favor of but don't want to sit through two hours watching.
Photo: Actor Colin Firth, winner of the award for Best Actor for 'The King's Speech', poses in the press room during the 83rd Annual Academy Awards held at the Kodak Theatre on February 27, 2011 in Hollywood, Calif.
Photo By Frazer Harrison/Getty Images"40 Year Old Virgin" sequel: Some things you can only be once in your life. Or, maybe he becomes a serial philanderer! Hmmmm … or a accidental porn star? Perhaps it's yet another funny, slapstick family drama where the hapless father accidentally provides his son/daughter with just the right push for making the right decision a critical time in life. Hey, Oprah!
Photo: Actress Leslie Mann arrives at the premiere of Universal Studios "The 40 Year-Old Virgin" at Arclight Hollywood on August 11, 2005 in Hollywood, California.
Photo By Archive Photos/Getty Images"Ghandi" sequel: We're watching and reading this sequel on television news pretty much daily as it is. But, what if the sequel was one where Ghandi didn't die, but had been … Okay, that's just too dumb to imagine. But, apparently not too dumb for Hollywood.
Photo: Martin Sheen standing with Ben Kingsley in a scene from the film 'Gandhi', 1982.
Photo By Archive Photos/Getty Images"Thelma and Louise" sequel: The opening scene: The two women are banged up but dragging themselves out of the wreckage of their car. They hitch a ride and become serial killers … No? The curtains part (we know they don't do that any more), and the two women are helping poor sick children in the streets of some mega city. Bill Gates steps around the corner with his check book out.
Photo: Susan Sarandon And Geena Davis in a scene from the film 'Thelma & Louise', 1991.
Photo By Archive Photos/Getty Images"Braveheart" sequel: He's left behind a whole herd of children who gain the reputation of being great drinkers, bawdy poets (Robert Burns!?) and jokesters who continue to hate and sometimes fight British rule!!! Oh, yeah. That's real life.
Mel Gibson in a scene from the film 'Braveheart', 1995.
Photo By Getty Images"The Last Emperor" sequel: Turns out, he was the Second To Last Emperor!
Photo By Richard Bord/Getty Images"Cinema Paradisio" sequel: Turns out — it reopens! As a multiplex!
Photo By getty Images"On the Beach" sequel: Turns out, the world doesn't end. The two star-crossed lovers reunite on the beach and … borrrring! Congress holds interminable hearings on exactly why everyone had been led to believe the world would end but it didn't … Obama is dragged before the House for impeachment hearings … whoa! Where'd that come from?
Michael Keaton said in a recent interview that he has been speaking with Tim Burton about making Beetlejuice 2. During a junket for his latest film, Robocop, the actor told MTV that the sequel is getting closer and closer to becoming a reality.
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"I've emailed Tim a couple of times, talked to the writer a couple of times, but all really, really preliminary stuff until relatively recently," Keaton said. "I always said that [Beetlejuice] is the one thing I'd like to do again, if I ever did anything again. But it kind of required Tim to be involved some way or another. Now it looks like he is involved. And without giving too much away, we've talked to each other, and emailed each other, and if he's in, it's going to be hard not to be in."
Previously, reports swirled around Hollywood that Burton had been in talks with Warner Brothers to work on a follow-up film. And in November, Winona Ryder, who played Lydia Deetz in the original, hinted that she was working on a sequel. "I'm kind of sworn to secrecy," she said. "But it sounds like it might be happening." She also added that it would not be a remake. "It's 27 years later," Ryder said. "And I have to say, I love Lydia so much. She was such a huge part of me. I would be really interested in what she is doing 27 years later."
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Currently, Tim Burton has been working on Big Eyes, a film about painter Margaret Keene that stars Amy Adams, Krysten Ritter and Christoph Waltz. That film is in postproduction and he has not said officially what he is working on next.
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Memorial Day weekend marks the start of the summer driving season. It's the weekend of the Indianapolis 500, and — if you happen to be in the jet set — of the running of Formula One's Monaco Grand Prix. There's no better time to take measure of the state of America's love affair with the automobile. And no better way to celebrate that with a roadtrip. In the United States more than 31 million Americans will hop into their cars for a getaway this weekend, with the average trip adding nearly 700 miles to the odometer. For folks staying closer to home, a common destination will be the auto dealership. Dealers forsee big sales this weekend, with the industry on track to move 15 million cars in 2013, up 6%.
All told, over the three-day weekend Americans will drive on the order of 25 billion miles. In doing so we'll burn through about 1.25 billion gallons of gasoline and diesel. We'll shell out a collective $4.6 billion for all that go-juice.
Gasoline might still seem perennially expensive to anyone who remembers paying less than a buck a gallon back in the 1980s. But today's average nationwide price of $3.67 for a gallon of unleaded is 4 cents cheaper than a year ago. California, with its mandated ultra-low-emissions gasoline, naturally pays the highest price at $3.95 a gallon. Surprisingly, the second-highest is the Midwest, at $3.87, up 24 cents over this time last year due to a series of refinery outtages.
Americans reduced their driving by about 10% during the recession, but appear to have bottomed out. Total miles driven in the past year is expected to be up .13%, or about 3 billion miles, to 2.9 trillion. That's barely changed from a decade ago.
What has changed, however, is how much gasoline we're using. A lot less. According to the Energy Information Administration, the average daily demand for gasoline in January and February of this year was 8.3 million barrels per day (about 350 million gallons). That is way below the all-time high point of 9.6 million bpd in July of 2007. To find a two-month period when we used less gasoline than that, I had to look all the way back to early 2001.
Refiners however, are keeping their plants operating at capacity. So the result is that the United States has what can only be called a gasoline glut. We've got enough gasoline left over that the U.S. is now exporting the stuff at an unprecedented rate of about 500,000 barrels, or 21 million gallons, per day. What's more, we're meeting more of our supply needs with domestic oil supplies, having slashed crude imports in half. That's keeping tens of billions of dollars a year from flowing out of the country.
And it's going to get even better. Americans drive 240 million cars and light trucks. At current sales volumes of 15 million units a year we'll replace the entire fleet in about 16 years. And because cars keep getting more fuel efficient, by the time we've done so U.S. gasoline demand could be slashed by a further 25%. According to the Michigan Transportation Research Institute the average car sold this year gets 24.5 miles per gallon. That's a record, and up 20% over 2007.
Fuel efficiency standards are only going higher. The Obama administration has finalized new rules that will mandate 54.4 mpg for cars and light trucks by 2025. That's double the efficiency of the average car today. What's more, these more efficient cars will be a great hedge against rising oil prices. Given that the average driver logs 13,500 miles behind the wheel each year, if your car gets 20 miles a gallon then you're burning through 675 gallons of gas and spending roughly $2,500 (at current gas prices) for the pleasure. Trade for a car that does twice the mpg and gas would have to cost more than $7 a gallon before your budget noticed the difference.
One ironic drawback: as our cars become more efficient, our highways could become crummier and crummier. That's because highway improvements are funded primarily through money collected in taxes on gasoline — currently 18.4 cents per gallon for gasoline and ethanol and 24.4 cents for diesel. The fewer gallons we need, the less is collected in taxes, and the less available to pay for the roughly $45 billion a year we spend on highway construction and repair. As a result, the Federal Highway Trust Fund is going broke. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the account will rack up a $6 billion shortfall in 2015, growing each year to a $92 billion hole by 2023. Congress has been, and can continue to direct money to fill the gap. Increasing gasoline taxes will not be politically palatable, considering that it is a regressive tax, inflicting the most pain on lower income families with less fuel efficient cars who live farther away from work. But the cash gotta come from somewhere. So every time you crunch through a pothole this weekend, think about what makes more sense: charging higher gas taxes or slapping a hefty federal sales tax on high-end luxury cars?
Higher taxes aside, it's not only getting cheaper to drive, but safer as well. Unless you're a stupid teenager. A recent headline fretted that highway deaths increased last year by 5.3% to 34,080, the first increase since 2005. The increase was enough to push up the motor vehicle fatality rate from 1 death per 100 million miles driven to 1.16 deaths. Some blame attention-addled youths, figuring that texting while driving causes as many as 3,000 deaths a year, more than drunk driving. The deadliest state to drive in, with 2,500 car and motorcycle fatalities: Texas.
Any highway death is terrible, and if the recent fatality rate trend doesn't reverse itself concerned citizens might end up pushing for more draconian laws on cell phone use in cars. But there's truly no need to get too worked up about highway deaths. It's clearly never been safer to be in a car. The most dangerous time to drive was way back at the dawn of the automotive age. Consider that in 1921 two dozen people died per 100 million miles driven. Though more and more people died as car ownership expanded (peaking at more than 54,000 dead in 1972), what matters is that the fatality rate per 100 million miles driven has plunged, down to 1.16 per 100 million miles today. With computer-aided breaking and even driverless cars, that rate will fall further.
The best way to stay safe on the highway this summer? Stay in your car. Motorcyclists make up a disproportionate share of highway fatalities — 15% of the total, or 5,000 last year. Per mile traveled, motorcyclists are 30 times more likely to be killed in a traffic accident than are car passengers.
The death toll is no doubt heightened by the fact that 31 states have no helmet laws. As a civil libertarian, I'm no advocate of such laws — if people think it's worth dying to enjoy the thrill of the wind in their hair and bugs in their mouth, that's up to them.
Motorcyclist Philip Contos might wish he hadn't been so stubborn. In 2011 he was riding bareheaded during a protest of New York's helmet law when he lost control of his bike, hit his head on the road and died from a skull fracture.
So there you have it — plenty of stuff to argue about on that long roadtrip. Your talking points:
– Ain't America great! We've got oodles of gasoline and thanks to efficient cars we'll be using less and less of it in the years to come.
– How to fix the Federal Highway Trust Fund? Higher gas taxes or taxes on luxury cars? Discuss.
– Whatever happened to the good ol' days when teenagers died from drunk driving instead of texting?
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Speedo recently revealed that it plans to drive a deeper emotional connection with consumers as part of its three-year brand exercise.
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Autumn Smallpipe Program 2015
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The Celtic Arts Foundation is pleased to present this workshop for the fourth consecutive year! The workshop will be at the Seabeck Conference Center in Seabeck, WA on October 2-5, 2014. Unfortunately, the fiddle workshop will not be offered again this fall. Keep an eye out for other Fiddle Workshops to be offered soon!
We are happy to announce that Fred Morrison will be our piping instructor for this year's Autumn Smallpipe program! And as we have surpassed 16 students for the program, we are excited to announce that Iain MacHarg will be joining us as our second instructor! The Autumn Smallpipe Registration form-2014 is available; cost for the three night program is $495 with lodging. Sign up ASAP as space is limited!
About Fred
A gold medal-winning Highland Piper, Fred is widely regarded as one of the top bellows-blown Reelpipe players in the world. His music is steeped in the traditions of his South Uist heritage, but influenced by diverse and surprising sources such as bluegrass to name one. Highland pipes, Uileann pipes, low whistles, Smallpipes or Reelpipes – Fred can do it all, and his teaching approach is energetic, patient and most of all fun! Here's a link to Fred's website to learn more. Fred will certainly make this an incredible musical experience for all who can participate.
About Iain MacHarg
Iain has been around bagpipes all his life, as his father is one of the premier bagpipe builders in the world. A EUSPBA 2001 Grade One Season Champion, Iain is the founder of three Highland Pipe Bands in Vermont and of the Vermont Institute of Celtic Arts. In addition to being Vermont's only full-time piping instructor, he also teaches music at Norwich University. For more about Iain, check out his website. We are excited to have Iain as our second instructor!
Program Location – Seabeck
The Autumn Smallpipe Workshop is being held at the Seabeck Conference Center in Seabeck, Washington. Home to our winter school for years, we are excited to expose students to this beautiful piece of land on the Kitsap peninsula. A link to the retreat center can be found here: Seabeck Conference Center
Small seminar class sizes are a hallmark of programs offered by the Celtic Arts Foundation. We're very mindful of the benefits of having access to accomplished and experienced instructors. This year, we've arranged to have students arrive on Thursday evening. That gives us a complete and full day for instruction on Friday, and Saturday, and most of Sunday.


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Join us in the beautiful Methow Valley this summer for an evening rich with superb music, local wine, hors d'oeuvres, and special romantic magic conjured just for you. Our doors open early for socializing, and stay open late so you can meet the musicians.
Our festival comprises ten days of music, including five major concerts. No two are alike.
Each performance in our main summer concert series (the Center-Stage concerts) includes a little music that is familiar, mixed with a little that is new, all accentuated with the virtuosic fireworks of first-class, dazzling performances by musicians from all over the nation, including the best of the Northwest. Artistic director Kevin Krentz creates musical programs that are both powerful and elegant, resonating with audience members on a very personal level.
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Antonio Perelli-Minetti was one of the early California Wine pioneers, emigrating from Italy in 1902 to start a family winery in Healdsburg. Grandson William worked in many areas of the family's burgeoning business, eventually launching a mobile bottling service on which many small wineries depend.
William also grew grapes in Napa Valley, and in 1993 he started William Harrison Vineyards. The focus here is on rich, high-quality Bordeaux-style wines made from grapes grown on his 10-acre Rutherford vineyard. The Rutherford region is comprised of soils from three alluvial fans that are primarily gravelly, sandy and loamy; these fans were created from shattered, well-bedded sandstone found on the hills above the valley.
His vineyard is planted to Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Petite Verdot, Malbec and Merlot. His Rutherford Red is comprised of 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Cabernet Franc and 4% Merlot. Only 95 cases were produced. The wines are long-lived, big and bold. William also makes Chardonnay, with the fruit coming from the cooler Carneros district.
The rustic winery building is set back from the road; it was constructed in 1985 using white limestone (quarried from the hill across from the vineyards) and rough-hewn wood. The architecture of the building is Old California, reminiscent of an old Western saloon. The ambiance is intimate and down-to-earth. (At one end of the room is a nine-foot stuffed Alaskan brown bear and a pair of toothy Russian boars.) William Harrison wines are sold only through the tasting room and the wine club.
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Hi lovers of CSS-Tricks and Chris!
I noticed this article based on what i can only assume removes the http://www.css-tricks.com/random".html"
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However i wasn't sure ? how would i implement this ?
Is there a simple way using htaccess and/or Javascript to simple remove the extension from a url?
I understand you can use the mod_rewrite expression but everytime i try it out i fail!
Maybe chris you could write a very brief tutorial post ?
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Actually, that is done by WordPress.
If you want to do it manually, you just need to create folders, and put the page in it as index.php.
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Yea this method however means i end up with a massive amount of folders in the ftp lol.
Chris needs to do beginners friendly htaccess tutorial :P
Haha. Yes, that is true.
Another option is to use database driven content and create one file that will decipher which page the visitor wants. Here's the htaccess that WordPress uses:
This rewrite checks (every time an address is typed into the browser) to see if a file or directory exists already, and if it doesn't it loads the index.php file (which then figures out what page to display based on the URI).
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FromIG reformats one or more sequences from IntelliGenetics format into individual files in GCG format.
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Use FromIG when you want to move sequences being used or assembled with IntelliGenetics software into a format suitable for use with programs in the Wisconsin Package(TM). Since IG software maintains many sequences in one file, FromIG must write many output files, one for each sequence in the IG file. Each output file is named according to the identifier word just above the sequence data in the IG file. All the documentation from the IntelliGenetics input file is preserved in the GCG output files. If an IG sequence is circular, the GCG sequence file says (circular sequence) just above the dividing line.
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Here is a session using FromIG to convert the IG-format sequences in urchin.nih into separate files in GCG format:
% fromig FROMIG of what IntelliGenetics sequence file(s) ? urchin.nih surphist1 788 bp surphist2 188 bp surphist3 159 bp /////////////////// surshist2 682 bp Finished FROMIG with 12 files written. 6418 bases were reformatted. %
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Here is part of the first output file, surphist1, from the example above:
FROMIG of: urchin.nih definition sea urchin(p.mil.) histone genes; h4 gene. 788bp locus surphist1 788 bp updated 11/01/82 segment 1 of 9 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// composition: 180 a 158 c 198 g 129 t 123 n total: 788 nucleotides. (circular sequence) Surphist1. Length: 788 September 29, 1998 17:59 Type: N Check: 6642 .. 1 CAACATATTA GAGGAAGGGA GAGAGAGAGA GAGAGAGAGA GAGAGAGAGA 51 GGGGGGGGGG GAGGGAGAAT TGCCCAAAAC ACTGTAAATG TAGCGTTAAT //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 701 NNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNN NNGGCCGAAC ACTGTACGGC 751 TTCGGCGGCT AAGTGAAGCA GACTTGGCTA GAATAACG
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FromIG accepts multiple (one or more) files containing sequences in IG format as input. You can specify multiple input files as a file of file names, for example @igseqs.list, or by using a file specification with an asterisk (*) wildcard, for example ig*.seq. Each input file may contain multiple (one or more) sequences. Here is part of the input file used for the example above (the number 2 appears at the end of circular sequences in IG format):
; DEFINITION SEA URCHIN(P.MIL.) HISTONE GENES; H4 GENE. 788BP ; LOCUS SURPHIST1 788 BP UPDATED 11/01/82 ; SEGMENT 1 OF 9 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ; Composition: 180 A 158 C 198 G 129 T 123 N ; Total: 788 nucleotides. SURPHIST1 CAACATATTAGAGGAAGGGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGGGGGGGGGG GAGGGAGAATTGCCCAAAACACTGTAAATGTAGCGTTAATGAACTTTTCATCTCATCGAC //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// NNNNNNNNNNNNGGCCGAACACTGTACGGCTTCGGCGGCTAAGTGAAGCAGACTTGGCTA GAATAACG2 ; DEFINITION SEA URCHIN(P.MIL.) HISTONE GENES; PARTIAL SPACER. 188BP ; LOCUS SURPHIST2 188 BP UPDATED 11/01/82 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
When FromIG writes GCG sequence files, it assigns the sequence type based on the composition of the sequence characters. This method is not fool-proof, so to ensure that the output files are written with the correct sequence type, use -PROtein or -NUCleotide on the command line when running FromIG.
If FromIG is run interactively, you can watch the program monitor to see if the sequences are assigned the correct type. As each new file is written, its name and the number of bases (bp) or amino acids (aa) appears on the screen. If the wrong abbreviation appears (for example, bp appears for a protein sequence), the sequence file was assigned the wrong type. The sequence type also appears in the sequence file. Look on the last line of the text heading just above the sequence itself for Type: N or Type: P.
If the sequence type was incorrectly assigned, see Appendix VI for information on how to change or set the type of a sequence.
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The following programs convert sequences between other formats and GCG format: FromEMBL, FromGenBank, FromIG, FromPIR, FromStaden, FromFastA, ToIG, ToPIR, ToStaden and ToFastA.
DataSet creates a GCG data library from any set of sequences in GCG format. GCGToBLAST creates a database that can be searched by the BLAST program from any set of sequences in GCG format.
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As of IntelliGenetics Release 5.3, IntelliGenetics programs use only IUB-IUPAC nucleotide ambiguity codes. Prior to Release 5.3, IntelliGenetics programs used the Stanford ambiguity codes. The GCG program FromIG assumes that sequence files in IntelliGenetics format contain only IUB-IUPAC sequence symbols and will not perform any symbol conversion.
If there is no identifier above the sequence entry in the IntelliGenetics file, the sequence is written into a file called scratch.fromig.
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All parameters for this program may be added to the command line. Use -CHEck to view the summary below and to specify parameters before the program executes. In the summary below, the capitalized letters in the parameter names are the letters that you must type in order to use the parameter. Square brackets ([ and ]) enclose parameter values that are optional. For more information, see "Using Program Parameters" in Chapter 3, Using Programs in the User's Guide.
Minimal Syntax: % fromig [-INfile=]urchin.nih -Default Prompted Parameters: None Local Data Files: None Optional Parameters: -PROtein insists that the input sequences are proteins -NUCleotide insists that the input sequences are nucleic acids -LIStfile[=fromig.list] writes a list file of output sequence names
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You can set the parameters listed below from the command line. For more information, see "Using Program Parameters" in Chapter 3, Using Programs in the User's Guide.
set the program to expect protein or nucleic acid sequences, respectively. Normally, FromIG determines whether an input sequence is protein or nucleic acid by looking at its composition. If the first 300 alphabetic characters in a sequence are composed entirely of IUB-IUPAC nucleotide codes (see Appendix III), it is reformatted as a nucleic acid sequence in GCG format; otherwise it is reformatted as a protein sequence. Using these command-line parameters, you can insist that your sequences are proteins (-PROtein) or nucleic acids (-NUCleotide).
writes a list file with the names of the output sequence files. This list file is suitable for input to other Wisconsin Package programs that support list files (see Chapter 2, Using Sequence Files and Databases in the User's Guide.) If you don't specify a file name, then FromIG makes one up using fromig for the file name and .list for the file name extension.
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What Gardening Can Teach You About Being an Effective Leader
Neighborhood Centers CEO Angela Blanchard tells us how the discipline required to tend a garden has helped her make the right practical and strategic decisions for her organization.
Neighborhood Centers CEO Angela Blanchard is growing a lot in her communities. She oversees the largest charitable organization in Texas, a network of 74 sites that provide education, home care, and other services to more than 500,000 people annually—an increase of almost 200,000 from just two years ago. But despite the complexity of her job, she says she often takes business inspiration from a far simpler community experience—her years as an avid gardener. The most important lesson, she says: To grow something successfully, you must first know what not to grow.
"I've led an organization for years, and we've grown it year over year," says Blanchard. "Tend by watering what you want; weed what you don't. Pay attention to the things that you want to grow around you, and pull out and eliminate those things you don't. Any gardener knows it's not a big ol' rush to do everything, but a constant tending. And weeding quickly is best. You want to pull them up fast."
This is an especially useful way to manage her personal schedule, she says: "Every day we get a request for me to speak or do a workshop. I need to get really thoughtful for the things that are really enriching for me and others, and learn how to recognize those, and quickly say no to everything else—allowing people to move quickly down the road and get what they need if I'm not it."
But selective watering and weeding can't be a static process. In business, she says, the flowers you worked hard to grow may become the weeds you need to pull. "I think leaders have a huge challenge to recognize what's not working—is it teaching us something, or just draining resources?" she says. "We had a program that involved youth, and from the beginning the structure didn't work. You could tell the people were really trying, but it looked like a plant growing not in its native habitat. So we had to go back to the drawing board and find new partners and a new place. And we did, and it worked."
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Nice article and wonderful metaphor about gardening. I recently wrote about marketing as being like farming. It too requires a seeding of the future. http://momentslater.blogspot.com/2013/08/marketing-as-farming.html and a commitment to nourishing and fertilizing. Gardening and farming also requires both discipline and enormous patience to survive.
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Socialtext Receives Cash Infusion to Further invest in the Future of Social Collaboration
The enterprise social software space has seen tremendous growth and innovation over the past few years. This is beginning to contribute to the demise of information and knowledge silos previously seen in corporations. With this, enterprises have been able to unlock and release information and knowledge across teams, groups, departments, functional organizations, business units, and even across company boundaries. Breaking down silos of all types is our vision for the future for enterprise social collaboration.
Today I am pleased to announce that we at Socialtext have taken a huge step towards our vision by receiving a significant strategic cash infusion by Bedford Funding, the $1.4 billion private equity firm behind Talent Management Solution provider, Peoplefluent™. The infusion of capital that we are receiving will accelerate the development of our industry-leading enterprise social collaboration tools and augment sales efforts for both sides. We will ramp up hiring in all areas, and will also serve as the new Silicon Valley hub for Peoplefluent.
With this partnership, both Socialtext and Peoplefluent customers can now experience all the benefits of becoming a social enterprise has to offer. Deploying a Social Intranet inside your company can help you avoid the fate of information silos; more importantly, you can inject data, transactions, reports, and objects from your core enterprise applications into the social stream – by deploying what we refer to as the "Social Layer" within the enterprise architecture. The layer will span all employees across all organizational boundaries and be the connector to key enterprise applications beneath it in the architectural stack. Our initial approach to enabling the Social Layer was our introduction of Socialtext Connect, which we will continue to extend with Peoplefluent.
The talent management industry has quickly adopted the use of social software to get work done in a more convenient way. Peoplefluent will put Socialtext to work and are planning for a strategic software integration, which will allow employees to incorporate the solution into their daily workflows. Socialtext will continue to act, sell and service its social software customers independently and without interruption. Here's what Charles S. Jones, Managing Director of Bedford Funding and Chairman and CEO of Peoplefluent™ had to say:
We are investing in Socialtext to help solidify its leadership position in enterprise social software. Our recent strategies have focused on creating solutions for our customers that enable greater employee engagement and collaboration across the enterprise. This investment in Socialtext, and its industry leading social software, immediately advances our approaches in customer support, service, education and ongoing collaboration.
At Socialtext, we strive to provide a social software SaaS solution that delivers a resource for customers to communicate, collaborate on internal projects and connect on the information necessary to be more effective in the workplace. Our unique deployment model – all SaaS, but either public or private cloud – meets companies' specific and unique security requirements, while making sure companies still reap the benefits of software as a service (SaaS) — including fast deployment, fast iteration cycles, little or no maintenance and low total cost of ownership. With this, Peoplefluent will have the ability to simplify the exchange of ideas and corporate data, therefore knowledge silos that traditionally hampered them will be removed.
Moving forward, we are excited to be expanding our internal workforce, and will continue to adapt and produce an innovative product based on our customers' feedback. With an increase in resources, we will be able to offer an even better customer service experience and expand on our priority of enabling customers to achieve business value, as well as adoption. After all, at Socialtext our methodology emphasizes the importance of identifying business champions through partnership with our customers and through implementation to ensure they are experiencing maximum business results, which will only increase as we join the Bedford and Peoplefluent family.