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1991 Honda Accord - Racing The 24 Hours Of LemonsWritten by on September 1, 2009 Can You Really Make A Race Car Out Of A Honda?
First In A Two-Part Series
At the time of this writing the economy was practically living in a dumpster behind the corner gas station. And by the time you read this we suspect it won't be much better. Although we prefer to blame the bankers and the housing industry for this big mess, it's still a fact that many racers we've talked to have decided to leave their race cars parked in the garage this season and instead concentrate on simply making the house payment.
But at Circle Track we prefer to think of ourselves as a proactive publication with a positive outlook on racing. The fuel jug is half full, so to speak. And with that in mind we've set about trying to help you find ways to keep racing even when the budget is stretched tighter than a drum. Maybe it will be racing the Late Model on used tires. Maybe it will be finding ways to keep running your race motor well past the rebuild date. Or maybe it will be finding classes or series that are simply more affordable to race.
And that's exactly what this two-part series is about. Maybe you've already heard of a relatively new phenomenon known as the 24 Hours of LeMons. It's pronounced "lemons," and is a spoof on the world-famous 24 Hours of Le Mans race. The concept is to take a car that is worth no more than $500, throw in the necessary safety equipment (a rollcage and five-point harness are mandatory, other components like a fuel cell are up to you) and go racing. The race is an endurance event held over a weekend. To our way of thinking, it's a great way to get maximum seat time for minimum cash outlay, so we signed ourselves up for the LeMons South event at Carolina Motorsports Park in Kershaw, SC.
LeMons is a road-racing event, and while that doesn't fit the usual style for Circle Track, we've always been about bringing you the best in all-things racing. We did, however, try to make up for it by composing our race team of a bunch of hard-core dirt-track racers.
But there's also a second purpose for this buildup. We wanted to see how hard it would be to build a front-wheel drive car with a fuel-injected four-cylinder engine. This type of car is beginning to gain acceptance at racetracks all over the country as an entry-level class for young drivers or those not wanting to spend much money to get on the track. Traditional race cars with carbureted V-8 engines are becoming a rarity in junkyards, but smaller imports can still easily be found on the cheap and are plentiful in junkyards and used-car lots. We will show you what we encountered along the way while building our Honda Accord. It's definitely quite a bit different than building a traditional Mini-Stock from a Mustang, but it certainly can be done.
So follow along as we kick off our two-part series on going racing in the 24 Hours of LeMons series. And yes, it turns out you can build a race car out of a four-door Honda.
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The first step is to strip practically everything out of the car. LeMons rules require only flammable materials be removed, but everything not necessary to racing is just dead weight, so it needs to go. Here, you can also see one of the headaches with racing a relatively modern car--lots and lots of wires. We kept the dash gauges and wires necessary to run the engine management computer but cut just about everything else. We did, however, keep power wires for the package tray brake light and a fuel pump. This is an area where you just have to take your time and identify every wire before breaking out the cutters.It may not look like much, but the anti-vibration matting glued to the floorboards of street cars is nasty, evil stuff. It adds weight and is flammable. Once it catches fire it makes a black, acrid smoke and is difficult to put out. So it needs to be removed from any car being turned into a racer. You can scrape it out with a putty knife like you see here, or a wire wheel in a drill also works well. Either way, plan to spend a little time getting rid of it.The good news about this Honda is the entire front suspension comes out in a unit. Since the front end had been damaged, we yanked the entire assembly out and bolted up a good one found in a junkyard for just a few bucks. It was an easy fix.Once the car has been stripped, Chris Hargett begins the process of fabricating a 'cage. LeMons requires only a four-point 'cage with a single driver-side door bar, but we wanted a more substantial 'cage than that. We followed standard circle track requirements by using 1.75 diameter DOM tubing with 0.095 wall thickness. Here, Hargett is fitting the existing pinch welds on the body/frame to the bar so he can get a good strong weld bead going. This bar replaces the need to weld plates into a unibody car like this one as mounting points for the 'cage and also does a good job of stiffening up the chassis.Hargett also welds caps on any exposed opening to keep water from rusting the bars from the inside out.The main hoop is the next section to go in. It attaches directly to the bars welded to the framerails. Two supports come off the main hoop and extend to the back of the car. Hargett also took advantage of the rear bars to brace the rear shock mounts to eliminate any movement there.In the back, metal plates are welded to the structure of the car, and the ends of the tubing are welded to that. If you don't, the 'cage can rip right through the sheetmetal of the car in a wreck. Here, you can also see we've removed the stock fuel tank and cut a hole in the trunk floor to make room for a racing fuel cell.The halo bar connects to the main hoop and follows the roof. Two A-pillar bars connect from the front of the halo bar and extend to the bar welded to the framerail on the floor. This bar needs to be as close to the firewall as possible to protect the driver's feet, so we needed to cut holes in the dash to fit it up. You'll notice that we also decided not to keep the car's B-pillars. The one you can see here has already been cut halfway away and the rest will be gone soon.Here's how we built the door bars. We'll use the same setup on the driver side with an additional horizontal bar for protection. Notice how the B-pillar has been completely removed in this photo with a plate welded over it. We did this on the driver side to make it easier to get in to and out of the car quickly and cut the passenger side to match.
Randy Turner fits up the aluminum racing seat we got from Richardson Racing Products. This is Richardson's Deluxe aluminum seat that features ribbing along the sides to provide some extra bracing in the event of a crash. We're also using one of Richardson's aluminum braces to connect the seatback to a support brace on the main hoop.This is the seat hoop Hargett fabricated to mount the race seat. The idea is to mount the seat to the rollcage so that if you take a shot in the side hard enough to move the 'cage, the seat will move with it instead of allowing the 'cage to smash into you. The seat hoop has no attachment points to the floorpan of the car at all. Three button-head bolts will be used to attach the seat to the hoop and four more will hold the seat to a bar welded to the main hoop.Once the seat was securely bolted in and all the welding was done, we fit up the cover and installed our five-point belt system from RaceQuip. We chose RaceQuip for this project because it makes high-quality safety gear that's quite affordable--which fits nicely with our budget racing theme. Also, we ordered up some rollbar padding from JR Motorsports and installed it over all the bars that the driver could come into contact with either his head or arms in the event of a rollover or some other type of crash.It's a good idea to always keep an eye out for cheap upgrades. While crawling through the junkyard looking for replacement suspension components, someone found an Accord equipped with a rear sway bar. We cut it off that car (the bolts were rusted solid to the chassis) and welded the mounts up to our Accord. The bar is so small it can't help much, but it should be better than nothing.LeMons allows a standard fuel tank, but we just weren't comfortable racing with it. Plus, we hope to take the little Honda to some oval track events when we're done, so we installed an ATL fuel cell. This 12-gallon cell has a Kevlar liner inside the metal shell for great protection. But look closely and you'll notice some differences between this cell and your standard model for carbureted race cars. ATL makes this model easy to work with for fuel-injected engines thanks to a return feed inlet. Also, notice how the fuel cell is mounted in the car. Hargett built a 'cage around the cell with 1-inch square tubing and then mounted that to the rollcage with tubing clamps that we got from Bradley Auto Parts at all four corners. This allows us to move the cell to the left or right to adjust weight distribution if necessary. This will be helpful later on oval tracks.Here's a look at the cell from the bottom. The square tubing forms a secure box around the cell so that it can't be ripped free from the car. The fuel cell is also mounted higher than the center crossmember so even if a wheel does get knocked off, there's no way it will drag the ground.The doors of the Honda were gutted, and the skins welded in place, so a removable steering wheel setup was needed to get in to and out of the seat quickly. We're using Allstar Performance's steering wheel quick disconnect. It was a bit of a challenge with the stock steering column, but worth it. The solution was to completely strip the steering column and then weld a steel sleeve to it. The sleeve fit the i.d. of the splined disconnect. Instead of welding that as well, we drilled a hole through both and attached the splined disconnect to the steering column with a grade-8 bolt. This way we can remove it and reuse it on a different car later if we want. And if we take a hit hard enough to break that bolt, the front end is going to be so mangled a steering wheel will be useless, anyway.Here's a look at the quick disconnect hub (complete with steering wheel) mounted up. We prefer the collar-style quick disconnect--rather than a single button to release the hub--because it's much easier to get off in a hurry. Also, we're using a 2-inch spacer from Allstar Performance because the stock steering column is too short and we wanted to move the wheel a little closer to the driver.
We worried a little bit over plumbing up the fuel system to a fuel-injected motor, but it turned out not to be too tough. Fuel injection systems are different from carbureted motors because they require a lot of fuel pressure at the fuel rails, and most require a return line to circulate unused fuel back to the tank. The key to getting things to work for us was this In-Line Universal Electric Fuel Pump from Holley (just behind the fuel cell). This pump can handle more than 600 horsepower and provides plenty of pressure, plus it was a snap to hook up. All it requires is a power wire (that cuts off when the ignition is off so the pump won't drain your battery) and a ground. Make sure to plumb everything with high-pressure fuel line--we learned the hard way that standard line will split in a hurry and spray fuel everywhere. The blue stuff and the steel braided line is high pressure. The black line you see in this photo is just a vent for the cell. To get the fuel to the motor we simply connected the line from the pump into the stock fuel lines that connected to the original fuel tank. The entire fuel system turned out to be hassle-free all through the race weekend.Although Honda wheels use a 4x114 mm bolt pattern, a 4x4.5-inch bolt pattern will work. This allowed us to use Aero's 13x7-inch roll-formed wheels, which are popular in Mini Stock racing. The 7-inch width allowed us to mount up a set of used Legends tires. Because they were used, we were able to get them from a Legends shop for free, and they had also been camber cut, which will help improve handling through the turns. We also found that a set of wheels with 3 inches of backspacing fits just about perfectly around the disc calipers on the front. It makes the wheels stick out of the fenders a little bit, but 4 inches of backspacing just won't work.It wasn't until we popped the hood that we realized we had a sleeper on our hands. The previous owner had replaced whatever engine originally sat in this car with a higher-horsepower VTEC, complete with a cold-air kit and stainless headers. The value of a running VTEC alone is worth more than $500, putting us outside the cost limit (LeMons judges consider the real-world value of the car, not how much you paid for it), but we decided to worry about that later.


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|These Green Chile and Cheese Egg Muffins are a great make-ahead breakfast.
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(Makes 12 egg muffins, recipe created by Kalyn.)
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Bake 375 for about 35 minutes, or until all muffins are puffed up and the top is starting to brown. (I usually start checking them and rotate the pan after 25 minutes.)
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Egg Muffins Revisited Again from Kalyn's Kitchen
Saturday Morning Egg Muffin Melts from Kalyn's Kitchen
Cottage Cheese and Egg Breakfast Muffins with Ham and Cheddar from Kalyn's Kitchen (these muffins have some flour and almond meal)
Cottage Cheese and Egg Breakfast Muffins with Mushrooms and Feta from Kalyn's Kitchen (these muffins have some flour and almond meal)
Gluten-Free Breakfast Muffins with Zucchini, Feta, and Quinoa from Kalyn's Kitchen
Southwest Style Egg Muffins from Pinch My Salt
Spinach and Cheese Egg Muffins from Live to Eat
Green Chile, Cheese, and Egg Breakfast or Lunch Muffins from The Perfect Pantry
Broccoli, Cheddar, and Sausage Egg Muffin Pull-Aparts from Picky Palate
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Planishing HammersWritten by on June 1, 2012 A handy tool for metalworking rodders
Pneumatic planishing hammers are a real workhorse for both professional and amateur metalworkers. In this article, we'll look at new hammers available at different price points, plus some vintage planishing hammers. We'll discuss the relative merits of each machine, and show some of the varied tasks these machines excel at.
Let's start by defining the term planishing, which means to smooth by light hammering. Metalworkers have been planishing sheetmetal parts ever since hammers were invented. The basic idea is that hammering with relatively light blows will tend to smooth the metal, and as long as you use the proper technique, the metal won't become over-stretched.
Body hammers are fairly light, and if you just allow a hammer to fall from several inches above the metal, the light hit doesn't cause any change in the metal. You need to swing the hammer with enough force so that inertia causes the hammer to do some useful work. The moving parts of most pneumatic planishing hammers weigh just a few ounces, so it requires a lot of inertia for the lightweight die to move the metal. This is accomplished by oscillating that small weight rapidly.
Now, let's compare planishing hammers with some of the more powerful metalshaping machines, such as an electric power hammer. A power hammer will most likely have a moving upper die and holder that can weigh upwards of 10 or 20 pounds, and it's operated by an eccentric crank that lifts this die and then literally throws it down against the lower die. Most power hammers have some sort of elastic material (usually leaf springs and fabric webbing) between the crank and the moving die, which allows the mechanism to store and release energy, something like "cracking a whip." This causes the dies to strike together with enormous force, and this will make the metal move in a hurry. Planishing is a much more delicate operation, better suited for smoothing rather than for big-time shaping.
There are many other machines that are used to move metal; a partial list includes Helve Hammers, English Wheels, and Universal or fixed-stroke reciprocating machines.
The traditional way to planish a piece of metal is to work against a dolly block that has a shape close to what you want for the finished panel. You place a rough-formed piece of metal on top of the dolly, and hammer the metal so that with each blow, a small portion of the metal gets squeezed tightly between the hammer and dolly. Even if the metal is initially lumpy or wavy, the metal will smooth out with enough hammering, assuming the hammer and dolly have smooth surfaces, and as long as enough force is applied to exceed the elastic limit of the metal.
If you've done much hand planishing, you know that it's a slow process at best, and even a proficient metalworker is sometimes challenged to get everything aligned just perfectly, so the hammer hits the metal at exactly the point where the dolly is touching on the back side. If you miss this contact patch by even 1/4 inch, the process doesn't work well at all.
A key benefit of using a pneumatic planishing hammer is that the "hammer and dolly" (actually the upper and lower dies of the machine) are always precisely aligned, presuming the machine was set up properly to begin with. Further, many planishing hammers work at about 2,500 hits per minute (a few go up to around 10,000) so they are much faster than hand hammering, and the quality of smoothness obtained on the finished part is usually much better than what you'd get with hand hammering. Working as fast as I can while maintaining control, I can only manage about four blows per second, (240 hits a minute) so a planishing hammer can be at least 10 times faster than hand hammering.
The construction of a planishing hammer is fairly simple. The power unit (typically an air motor or some sort) is the "heart" of the machine. This can be as simple as an air chisel on some entry-level machines, or it could be a needle scaler, which will typically have more power. It could also be a riveting gun, or an air motor designed specifically for this application. Using a purpose-built air motor or a rivet gun brings a lot more controllability to the process, allowing you to "feather the throttle" a great deal, adding a valuable degree of control over the process. Air chisels and needle scalers usually have limited speed adjustment.
While somewhat unusual, some very effective planishing hammers have been built that are completely mechanical, and don't require compressed air to operate. Check out the photo of the Mechammer in this article.
The power head is fastened to a (usually) C-shaped frame, with a receiver placed directly below it to hold the bottom die. As you'll see, there can be a number of different lower dies used, depending on what you're trying to accomplish with the machine. Many machines have a foot pedal that starts and stops the hammering action, although some machines use a hand-operated valve.
It's important to be able to change the gap between the top and bottom dies. One reason is to simplify die changes, and to accommodate the use of dies with different heights. Another is to allow panels with flanges, beads, or other obstructions to be easily fed into place between the dies. The tightness of the dies (the gap between them as you're hammering) has some effect on the way the machine works, too, and some machines are set up so the same foot pedal that starts and stops the hammering action also adjusts the gap between the dies. While not essential, this is a desirable feature.
Some machines are pedestal-mounted, so you can position them wherever you want, while other machines are bench-mounted, and a few machines can be handheld, as you'll see.
Let's take a look at several different styles of planishing hammers, keeping an eye out for the unique features of each type. At the end, we'll show examples of a few machines that are often confused with planishing hammers, but are fundamentally different.
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One of the handiest features of planishing hammers is their ability to crush welds completely flat, and to correct the distortion caused by welding.This panel warped noticeably when it was welded, but after a little planishing the weld is completely flattened, and the contours of the panel are nicely restored.This is the Mittler Brothers planishing hammer. It uses a needle scaler as the power source, so it's more powerful than some other machines.This machine is made by C. Cook Enterprises. It's very similar in concept to the vintage CP machines, and the dies are sized the same.Planishing hammers have the ability to work close to flanges and beads. Here, some dents on a model T door are being smoothed right next to the bead.Here's a more traditional steel die, used for general planishing. Usually you will select a lower die with the same contour that you want on the finished part.
The foot pedal for this machine can be scooted wherever you want it. This is very helpful when working on large, awkward panels.This dome was roughed-out with the leather top die, and planished smooth with steel dies. The total working time was just a few minutes.The TM Technologies machine can be fitted with special dies made from different hardness materials. This is a leather top die used for doming metal, much like working with a mallet and sandbag. There other dies that can even do shrinking on most metals.The planishing hammer offers a great remedy for this situation. You can pre-stretch the panel where the bead will go, which makes all the difference in the world.Here you can see how flat and relaxed this panel is after having a bead rolled into the pre-stretched area.This process is most efficient with a machine that uses a foot pedal to move the dies together, and then start the hammering. It helps to use a support table to hold the panels level.The planishing hammer is great for riveting, too. This is a 3/16-inch dome-headed rivet. I'll use a number of these to attach a blister to hood side.
These are special riveting dies; the bottom die has a recess that matches the head of the rivet, and the top one has a similar pocket, which forms the back side of the rivet.I'm using linear stretch dies in Joe's machine to create a challenging, "potato chip" shape with four continuous reverse-curves that blend together smoothly.There are several machines similar to planishing hammers, but different in construction and use, such as this shop-built Helve hammer. These are great for roughing-out panels, but not ideal for smoothing.The linear stretch dies must be fixed so they can't rotate. Here's a simple sheetmetal holder for the die, fastened with a hose clamp.Here's a Universal (fixed-stroke reciprocating) machine made by Dake. This is an extremely versatile tool, but in a different class than a planishing hammer—it works by putting a powerful squeezing force on the metal.If you're building a machine, consider making the arms removable. Here's a horizontal lower arm, great for rings or cylinders, which often isn't possible with C-shaped lower arms.Rick Scott builds this Mechammer (mechanical planishing hammer), which is driven by an electric motor. Note the two fully adjustable lower arms, one straight and one angled.
Ron Covell has made a DVD to accompany this article, showing each of the machines and processes in much more detail. Planishing hammers are used by both amateur and professional metalworkers, and some are quite affordable. This DVD has a wealth of information for anyone interested in learning more about these versatile machines.


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Because I'm a programmer, people constantly ask me to fix their computer.
How do you handle this situation? Do you make exceptions for relatives, friends and coworkers? Do you charge people for it?
Because I'm a programmer, people constantly ask me to fix their computer.
How do you handle this situation? Do you make exceptions for relatives, friends and coworkers? Do you charge people for it?
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Here's what you do:
Here's a win-win:
I have a 12-year old son, so I tell people that my son will fix their computer for $20-$25. Then I tell them to bring the computer over.
I help my son resolve the problem. He learns a little more about computers, makes a few bucks, and has some "job experience".
Folks don't mind paying a kid for something they'd expect for free from me. And I don't have to go to their house.
It's better to pretend you don't know anything about computers.
Check out here.
I actually have two hierarchies that govern who and to what extent I will help:
Relationship to Person
Severity of Problem
This tends to work pretty well for me. The only time it gets dicey is when dealing with the "friends who aren't really friends but only call when they want free help." In these rare cases I usually say I'll help but act distracted or incompetent so that they'll just give up and ask somebody else. I don't really care if that's dishonest, they're already being jerks by abusing the very tenuous friendship.
Oh, and one other thing: I make sure that everybody I help understands this hierarchy, so that they don't decide to "recommend" me to all of their family/friends as free labour.
Tell them, it is like asking a psychiatrist to do a brain surgery.
I just ask them to clean my shower in exchange:
Say you'll fix their computer. Then open their temporary internet files folder and then look totally shocked when you discover the obligatory hardcore porn images that are bound to be there. They probably will be too ashamed to ever ask again... :)
Like it or not, you have to make exceptions for family members, in the end they're family, right? When it comes to other people I used to invent some kind of excuse. Anything from "I'm extremely busy at the moment" to not answering their phone calls.
The problem isn't helping them it's 1) you help them once and afterwards you're their official tech support 'dude' and 2) if something worse happens that you did not expect they will kinda blame it on you. In the end I like to keep my distance from them.
I'm gonna link a very funny post from TheOatMeal assuming you have't seen it already. Enjoy :-) http://theoatmeal.com/comics/computers
Eventually if I wear this often enough , people get the hint ;-)
I have an amazon.com wish list. I do genuinely like helping people, however I feel my time is worth something. Where accepting cash may not feel 100% appropriate, sending them my Amazon wish list has worked very well for me.
I ask them to clean my house. No one has accepted yet.
If it's close friends or family, I just tell them fixing configuration problems isn't my thing, and while I can do it, I can't do it as efficiently as somebody who specializes in this. I also point out that I won't get to it for a while, and point out they're better off going to a hole in the wall computer store & asking them to fix it.
Anybody else, I tell them basically the same thing, but emphasize the 'efficiency' thing, and point out that the people who do specialize in this, charge less than half the hourly rate I do.
In the rare cases where they continue to ask, the focus is turned to how can they find a person who does specialize in this type of thing, and I'm all to happy to help them with that (always for free).
This has been a very effective strategy for me.
I just try and fix it for them.
I learnt to say no. It's not rude.
You can simply explain that you already have a day job and that so many peoples were asking for help with their computer hardware that you once end up putting multiple hours per week/month in repairing computers for friends/colleagues while you don't really need the extra money. Every peoples whom I have said that have been understanding and usually insist that it's fine if I don't want to do it.
For family members and close friends I usually tell them the same story, but I add that they are on the exception list and that I will be glad to help them. Some of them offers to pay me, but I never accept. If they insist I tell them my usual price is 85$ per hour, two hours minimum :)
I handle such requests by fixing the computers in question. The requests are rare enough that they don't take up much of my time, and besides, I happen to enjoy mucking about with computers.
It's usually an ID10T error. But normally, its a hardware or software issue. So as a website programmer, I simply say "Sorry I only work on websites. Besides, it sounds like a hardware issue, you need a hardware tech, and I don't know anything about that anymore."
Yes, I normally have to make exceptions for friends and family members.. but it irritates me. I almost always will procrastinate on it, since it is low-priority to me.
In Retrospect, get yourself a T-Shirt that says "I wont fix your computer."
Every time I fantasize about telling people to go away, and every time I end up giving in because they're family/friends/girlfriend(I wish :p ). But I have to admit that it's hard to argue against this set of people, so I do have a hierarchy that goes something like this (from the most willing to help to less willing):
A girlfriend is a no brainer, and friends are usually polite enough about it, and ask only on rare occasions. It's the family members who are the most pushy, but, well... I'm sure it wasn't very fun for your mother to cook for you for 18 years, I suppose you can return the favor, within the limits of it not getting in the way of other things...
But strangers have no business asking you for help, and that includes co-workers. Just charge an outrageous fee and tell them you'll get to it in 2 weeks. That should take care of that.
I usually tell them they need to upgrade.
For Windows:
Person: Blah, blah , blah .... (describing their problem). Me: I don't know the solution to this. You need format. Person: Great, can you do it? Me: No. I don't know how things work on Windows 7. Person: Oh, you run Linux right? Me: Ehm...well, yes. Person: Ok, thanx anyway.
For Ubuntu:
Person: Blah, blah, blah... (usually asking how to make their desktop very cool) Me: I don't remember, google it.
You can try, but some of these people will be the ones that call the monitor "the computer" and not know what the funny little box beneath the desk is. It's probably not worth the energy to clarify. But, sometimes a metaphor can help:
If the computer was a car, the programmer is the one that configures how and when it burns the fuel in different situations before it leaves the factory. The "computer guy" is the mechanic that repairs the car when it breaks or tunes it for speed, or perhaps does an after-market modification.
I will try to fix the computer, and usually I'm failed, because I'm really a programmer not a technician. Next time, they'll think one more time before asking me again.
For family members and close friends I usually respond by simply fixing the problem, or at least having a look it. I might grumble about being the PC maintenance guy to myself or on Twitter, but I certainly wouldn't consider charging - if it get's to the point where I think it would take that much of my time then chances are the problem is such that I can simply explain that they should take it to a specialist. I wouldn't take apart someone else's PC for the same reason I don't like to build systems for other people, as I don't want to get the blame for any damaged components.
I find that nearly all problems referred to me are either a slow running computer, or an infected computer where they haven't replaced / purchased the trial AV software that comes pre-installed on most PC's. In both cases, it's usually not that big a deal for me to fix things - I just leave the computer switched on in the corner of the room running whatever diagnostics / clean / repair software it needs to while periodically checking up on it.
I actually turned this problem into a small business. I don't make much with it at this point, but it is definitely worth it.
Had the pregnant spouse of a friend of a co-worker call me about a printer problem. Finally, I had to tell her to return it and sat on the phone for what seemed like an hour just listening to her sob. Now I tell horror stories about all the computers I've screwed up. I hate working with: hardware, networking, security, and other people's code. Pretty much in that order.
If it's family or close friends, I fix it if I can, or if I can't I promise to deal with the problem until it's solved (Okey, bring it to me ... sure, just leave on your way' in the mornin' and I'll look it up. I don't think it's serious, but if I can't handle it, I'll take it to ... and you'll get it on Wednesday, latest. I'll give you a call if something needs to be replaced, but it looks like it shouldn't.) Refund usually comes in the form of apfelstrudl on delivery :-)
For pretty much all others, I either help them with a piece of advice or two (which in a lots of cases does help with the problem) or advise them where it would be best for them to take the machine, and so on. Quick internet searches included. And I really don't mind helping people if I can (I don't think most of us in these community sites mind helping, after all.)
Apart from the above, most people don't ask ... although I have the reputation of a "computer guy", I don't however have one of a "chatty guy" - so most never get a chance to ask :-)
Just say, "If you're interested, I'll draw up a quote for you." That usually either makes them a little less interested or makes you a little more spending money. The other option is asking for a favor in return.
In the past I've been fairly amenable to helping friends and family with computer problems (hell, I had to go visit my Great Aunt every time daylight savings changed to update the clock on their VCR).
The worst is going to try and sort out the "family computer" which will usually be virus riddled and have no current security software. It's worse if they have a teenage son as I'll invariably come across their stash of illicit image and movie files that they've hidden away somewhere, and thus end up in the middle of that mess. Disillusioned many a parent.
These days I'll tend to maintain a 15 minute rule. If I'm there and I can fix it in 15 minutes then I'll do it (no charge, even with my customers). I see it as good will. Usually uninstalling any software they don't need, and running ccleaner will clean up a lot of problems. I'll also do a quick scan with stinger and if I find anything let them know that they need to take it somewhere to get more thoroughly looked at.
A lot of the time the simple fact of the matter is the computer is too old and it's not gonna get much faster than it is already.
Aside: I once correctly diagnosed a computer problem my barber was having as a faulty keyboard from the description he gave me during the haircut. Still had to pay for the haircut mind you...
The one exception to the rule is my parents. They always get free computer support 'cause afterall, they supported me through uni and all, so they might as well get something back for it. (Mind you, when I was working from home, I did end up threatening to invoice my Dad if he kept showing up during work hours.) I've also got a reverse VNC system set up so I can remote connect to their desktops to see what's going on.
Happend to me and most developers so many times, what I try to do is to explain the difference between software and hardware and around 50% times I heard that "You are worthless computer engineer if you can't fix computer." I know they said it in frustration because they thought by calling me they will get their job done for free :-P
Sometimes people laungh when I say that even I cal hardware engineer when I face any hardware engineer. :-(
If it's family, I just play dumb (it just confirms what they already thought).
If it's friends, I tell them life's too short to do what I hate - and that's why I started charging friends.
Any body else, "No".
I charge em a home cooked dinner, cups of tea and an evening of entertainment. I learn stuff about computers and it makes me feel warm inside to know that I am useful in some way.


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Constancy is the quality of being constant; steadiness or faithfulness in action, affections, purpose, and so forth. It indicates an unchanging quality or characteristic of a person or thing. It is the opposite of inconstancy.
- Through perils both of wind and limb,
Through thick and thin she follow'd him.
- Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I (1663-64), Canto II, line 369.
- Changeless march the stars above,
Changeless morn succeeds to even;
And the everlasting hills,
Changeless watch the changeless heaven.
- Charles Kingsley, Saint's Tragedy (1848), Act II, scene 2.
- Now from head to foot
I am marble-constant: now the fleeting moon
No planet is of mine.
- William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act V, scene 2, line 238.
- O constancy, be strong upon my side,
Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue!
I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.
- William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar (1599), Act II, scene 4, line 7.
- I could be well moved if I were as you;
If I could pray to move, prayers would move me;
But I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true fix'd and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.
- William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar (1599), Act III, scene 1, line 58.
- He that parts us shall bring a brand from heaven,
And fire us hence like foxes.
- William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act V, scene 3, line 22.
- Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore;
To one thing constant never.
- William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99), Act II, scene 3, line 64. See also Thomas Percy—The Friar of Orders Gray.
- If ever thou shalt love,
In the sweet pangs of it remember me;
For such as I am all true lovers are;
Unstaid and skittish in all motions else,
Save in the constant image of the creature
That is belov'd.
- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601-02), Act II, scene 4, line 15.
- I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything and their intent everywhere; for that's it that always makes a good voyage of nothing.
- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601-02), Act II, scene 4, line 77.
- O heaven! were man
But constant, he were perfect. That one error
Fills him with faults; makes him run through all the sins:
Inconstancy falls off ere it begins.
- William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590s), Act V, scene 4, line 109.
- Through thick and thin, both over banck and bush,
In hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke.
- Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1589-96), Book III, Canto I, Stanza 17.
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations[edit]
- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 132-33.
- 'Tis often constancy to change the mind.
- John Hoole, Metastasio, Sieves.
- Abra was ready ere I call'd her name;
And, though I call'd another, Abra came.
- Matthew Prior, Solomon on the Vanity of the World, Book II, line 364.
- Out upon it! I have lov'd
Three whole days together;
And am like to love three more,
If it prove fair weather.
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Happy birthday DragoniteAdy.
Keep living in your legendary status!!!
Happy birthday DragoniteAdy.
Keep living in your legendary status!!!
I miss him, his birthday isn't for another 2 hours for me, is it the 23rd? Britain is just so off from me
This was also the anniversary of Kobe Bryant's 81 point game against toronto. What a day.
dragoniteady, your passions post will rank very highly on my upcoming top 10 posts in pd history list
"I'll go," said Chagataev. "But what will I do there? Build socialism?"
"What else?" said the secretary.
Damn you all for not notifying me about his birthday!!
...I would've made him a gift. ;_;
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|Hollnagel returns to Holyoke for brief visit
|Written by April Peregoy
"It feels like I never left," said Gustav Hollnagel when asked what it is like to be back in Holyoke after eight months of being home in Germany.
Hollnagel was a foreign exchange student at Holyoke High School during the 2007-08 school year. Living with host parents Jon and Tancy King, he became known around the community for his athletic abilities, especially as a football and basketball player.
After spending nearly a year in the U.S., he returned to Germany this past summer. Now on a two-week spring break from school, he decided to revisit Holyoke during his time off.
Though he was considered a senior at HHS, Hollnagel has to attend one more year at his boarding school in Dresden, Germany before he can officially graduate. At the school, he continues to play basketball, and his team is about halfway through the season.
Like all seniors, Hollnagel is spending most of his school year trying to figure out what his next step will be after graduation. In Germany, all males upon graduation from high school must serve at least nine months in the armed forces. However, Hollnagel said he has been excused from serving because of surgery he had on his ACL.
This gives him the advantage of starting his college education immediately, which is one of his reasons for coming back to the U.S.—to visit possible colleges he might like to attend.
Hollnagel said he enjoyed his stay in the U.S. so much, he wants to return to get his college education. However, he has run into a snag the past couple of weeks while visiting local colleges: most scholarship application deadlines have already lapsed.
As such, he is thinking of taking a year off school to work in the U.S., so he can be closer to the colleges and have more time to apply for scholarships. He hopes to play basketball at whatever college he attends, and is thinking of majoring in either sports management, broadcasting, marketing or a related field.
When Hollnagel left Holyoke last summer, he said it was very hard on him. "I like it here," he said. "In Germany, everybody is kind of in their own worlds, but here I felt everyone accepted and supported me. I felt like part of the community."
Surprisingly, he said returning to his German diet was also really hard on him, adding he actually ate better while he was here than he does in Germany. "I was sick for a while in Germany," he said.
However, he said he was happy to return to some of the big city luxuries. "Since I went back I feel like I appreciate the things I have there a lot more," he said.
According to Hollnagel, Germany is also currently suffering from a recession, and inflation especially has become a problem. "Germany is going through the same difficulties as America right now," he said.
During his time in the U.S., the nation was going through a historic election campaign, which Hollnagel said he continued to follow when he left. When asked what most Germans thought of the new president, he replied they feel it is a good choice.
"It's not that Germans wouldn't have necessarily liked McCain," he added, "but they like that America has overcome all its history and elected a black president. It shows how much the country has progressed."
Besides looking at colleges, during his past two weeks in Holyoke, Hollnagel has been staying with the King family again and even attended HHS for a couple of days as a guest of sophomore Preston King. He's also been able to watch his former teammates, the Holyoke Dragon basketball team, play in a couple of home games.
"I was surprised. I got accustomed to being here again fast," he said. Though he spoke in perfect English throughout the interview, with only a hint of an accent, he said he did stumble over some words his first couple of days back in the states. However, it didn't take him long to pick it up again.
As he prepared to return home to Germany, Hollnagel had a message he wants to share with the community:
"Thank you everybody for your support and for accepting and including me in your town. Thanks to my host family for the opportunity to live an American life. Thanks to my coach and my close friends, who continue to support me and keep in touch."


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You can use Device Manager to see the devices installed on your PC, update driver software for your devices, check to see if hardware is working properly, and change hardware settings.
Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, and then tap Search.(If you're using a mouse, point to the lower-right corner of the screen, move the mouse pointer up, and then click Search.)
Enter Device Manager in the search box, and tap or click Device Manager.
You might be asked for an admin password or to confirm your choice.
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For more info about solving sound problems with your PC, see No sound in Windows.
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The X Factor
Vote for X Factor 2012 on Dec. 12: Phone Numbers for Final Four
How do you vote? When do you vote? Where do you vote? How much do you vote? Here are the deets:
You can vote in four ways: by phone, text message, online, or on the mobile app. We will be updating this article after each performance.
1) Phone. Each act will have a toll-free number shown after they perform. You can call and vote AS MUCH AS YOU WANT for whomever you want.
Tate Stevens: 855-843-9301
Carly Rose Sonenclar: 855-843-9302
Emblem3: 855-843-9303
Fifth Harmony: 855-843-9304
2) Text. Well, this one is only open for Verizon subscribers, since they are a major sponsor of the show. Each of the acts will have a four-digit code listed (it's the last four digits of the phone number above) after they perform. Vote as much as you want thataway by texting "VOTE" to the number corresponding to your pick.
3) Online. If you have a Facebook account (and you probably should at this point. Come on, even our grandparents' pets have Facebook accounts.), you can vote online at www.TheXFactorUSA.com. The FB part is important, because it's there to guard against voting fraud (which is apparently a thing). You can vote a ton online — up to 50 times with each account.
4) Mobile App. Again, with the Verizon. You can download the "Xtra Factor App" from the Android store. It's all really confusing and factors in things like whether you have a handheld device or a tablet (um, aren't theyboth handheld?), whether you need to log in with Facebook or not, and probably something having to do with the way the stars are aligned with the moon and planets... but the gist is that you can vote at least 50 times with it. More details here.
Got it? Good. Go team (enter your favorite here).
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Lucy's Expedition
by Gamehouse
Goal of the gameHelp your team recover the most valuable artifacts before the sun sets. Meters show you where the most valuable artifacts are buried. Stars represent artifacts. Dig up enough artifacts to meet your daily funding goal.
Game controlsThe bubbles above working areas tell you what you have to do, e.g. a displayed shovel means you have to dig. Drag your workers to the requested areas, so they can start working.
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Glenn Robinson III posted 21 points and six rebounds, Nik Stauskas scored 11
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Wolverines (2-0), who beat Slippery Rock by 38 points on Friday.
John Hart had 15 points and was the only player in double-digits for the
Jaguars (1-1), who beat Utah Valley in their opener on Friday.
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Hardaway, a Burke 3-pointer and a bucket from Robinson gave the
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Michigan scored the first seven points of the second half for a 52-31 lead
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Today from Noon-2pm Rockford Police Officers met with neighbors in the S. 6th St. and 15th Ave. neighborhood. Residents say their biggest concern is a lack of street lights, which they think encourages criminals to run wild.
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Alderman Doug Mark also confirmed that City Council is working on updating the street light policy. It will eventually include a provision allowing residents to petition for more lights.
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STERLING, Va. (AP) - A 5-year-old boy and his grandmother were hurt when a rotting tree collapsed and fell on them as they relaxed in a hammock in Loudoun County backyard.
The Washington Post (http://wapo.st/12CD9sz ) reports the accident happened Saturday around 1:30 p.m. at a home in the 1900 block of East Beech Road.
Authorities said the boy's injuries were critical and life-threatening and the grandmother's injuries were serious but not life threatening.
Loudoun County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Liz Mills says the tree was 12 to 18 inches in diameter and old and rotted out from termites and ants.


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USAFA, CO (Sports Network) - Kamryn Williams came off the bench to score 25
points and pulled down 10 rebounds as the Air Force Falcons delivered a 72-66
win over the Wyoming Cowboys in a Mountain West Conference battle at Clune
Also scoring in double figures for the Falcons (16-10, 7-6 MWC) were Michael
Lyons with 13 points, DeLovell Earls 12 and Mike Fitzgerald 10 points as the
team snapped a two-game slide.
The Cowboys (18-10, 4-10) were led by Leonard Washington who recorded a
double-double with 15 points and a game-high 13 rebounds as he returned to the
lineup, but still the Pokes suffered their third consecutive setback. Nathan
Sobey accounted for 22 points off the bench, shooting a perfect 6-of-6 beyond
the arc and 7-of-7 from the floor overall, while Riley Grabau chipped in 12
points and five assists.
Wyoming led by as many as six points at the 15:37 mark of the first half, but
later in the frame the Falcons moved out to a seven-point lead of their own
before falling behind by a point at the break, 38-37. The Cowboys knocked down
an impressive 7-of-16 beyond the arc through the first 20 minutes.
In the second half the visitors dropped to just 3-of-14 on the perimeter,
allowing the Falcons to grab the six-point win after shooting 59.1 percent
from the floor in the period.
In a game that featured seven ties and 10 lead changes, Air Force held a 35-27
advantage on the glass and turned the ball over just seven times in order to
offset a dismal 3-of-18 showing on the outside.
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Illegal Aliens Could Remain
Group of senators wants to ease laws for immigration
January 29, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Side by side, Democrat and Republican senators pledged Monday to propel far-reaching immigration legislation through the Senate by summer providing a possible path to citizenship......
@GETACLUE. You have no clue and why are you still here? Have to get the wheels turning to get you sent back to your country.Obozo is not deporting people, he is leaving more people in "OUR" country and you are so frigging blind that you can't see what is happening.What happened to the Americans that crossed the border into Iran? They were jailed. Try going into Korea as an illegal, and you can't illegally go into Mexico. This is why we have problems because of stupid people like you. You need to grow a set and back people that want the right thing accomplished instead of our idiot president Obozo and the politicians in D.C. Just think how stupid you sound!Do you have so much money that you do not care about paying for the illegals? If you have that much money, run for office so you can be an elite politician. NOT!
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here's a thought,if you want to become a us citizen then serve four years in the military[with an honorable discharge] and then we'll know that you're serious.if not you go back to have to sneak back in since homeland security means nothing here.
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5 disagrees and counting.yeah!
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Icecream if they become LEGAL but cannot speak English, are companies who are breaking the law NOW going to change?
Just hire a qualified white person and then we will pay WELFARE for the newly poor American.
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there are more than enough laws already to have a country that is both safe and sound for the citizens of this country...problem is the laws are disregarded by so many and not enforced...
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The people in Washington are looking out for number one. Number one is them while they just might do number two on the public. They profess to treating people fairly. Sure. Just look at how well our Govt. has treated people fairly over the years. Over 300 treaties with native americans all broken by whom? The US Govt. Rounding up of Japanese American Citizens,complete families and sending them to camps under armed guards.These people lost their homes and jobs, just like native americans.I could go on and on, but the point is. Trusting that the US congress will pass a law that is good for the country is no different than saying the US Govt treated the Native Americans,African American,and Japanese American fairly.The congress will do whatever is needed. Yes, whatever is needed for them to get the most votes at the time.
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Ah! But if they are legal, they cannot be paid less than an American citizen
This is why it is now broken; COMPANIES get away with HIRING ILLEGALS at LOWER PAY, WITHOUT benefits.. The working poor.. THE COMPANIES GAIN!!!
So--illegals are the victims in this situation... They are working, yet must rely on ER for a non-serious illness--they have no Family doctor...
However, we are not only talking of Hispanics.. We are talking about overhauling our immigration system..
Young people from all over the world come to our universities; becoming engineers, physicians and many professionals---yet they are denied citizenship!!
Shouldn't we want to keep the educated???
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In whose interest is it to increase the labor pool by in excess of 11 million with the stroke of a pen. Think about it. Is it in yours??
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And one more thing: A seemingly ENDLESS supply of CHEAP LABOR depresses the wages for LEGAL AMERICANS! Duh!
I read that Walmarts in North Dakota are paying $17 a hour to start because the unemployment rate is 3% thanks to oil and GAS drilling there.
Supply and Demand.
But in the borders states ruthless employers hire illegals for SUB minimum wage because they are desperate and cannot call the police.
Supply and Demand.
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CLUSELESS you are dumber than dirt!
• They mostly get low paying jobs and join Obama's MINION of the 47% who PAY NO TAXES. They become a BIGGER BURDEN on the 53% PAYING!!!!
• A lot of the money they make gets SENT TO MEXICO, does not STAY in this country. Another REDISTRIBUTE WEALTH, except THIS time in MEXICO.
Dumb as dirt!
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They are CRIMINALS!!
And those who protect or employ them are in fact CRIMINALS and guilty of TREASON!
Employing or sheltering them is a FELONY!!
Obama is a TYRANT and a FELON!!
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Make them legal and get them paying taxes and contributing to this great land of opportunity.
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Illegals not illeagles
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buffy99..... You do realize that Obama has deported more illeagles in 4 years than Bush did in 8 years.
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As much as I hate this plan it just might be the only option. My major concern is, if the Democrats are the ones to implement and manage this, it will be a disaster and nothing different then now.....They simply can not be trusted, their word is worthless.
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Hide your wallets and money. Pretty soon the Gov will steal them to support these free-loaders.
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Oh brother!
Both parties are corrupt, self-serving sellouts!
The illegals from 'south of the border' (border? what's that?) breed like cats. In eighteen years after citizenship their broods will CONTROL AMERICA! The gringo/gringa of today will be in the 'back of the bus' so to speak.
Better learn Spanish if you want to order a burger at McDonalds. hmmmm.....that's already the case, isn't it.
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boxerboy "If the Republican Party hopes to have a future they better get in touch with the electorate."
The Democrits have an interesting strategy: make millions of law-breaking illegal aliens their electorate. Not surprising, given Democrits are notorious for lack of respect for the law, and might actually work.
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Congress and the gelding horse have something in common, they both lack a set of ****s. Congress gave 18 year olds the right to vote but then said these voters are too young to realize the dangers of smoking/drinking brought out the age 21 clause. Congress acts as thou the 14th amendment which came about to legalize citizenship for former slaves is written in stone. This amendment which provides welfare, etc to infants born in USA to illegals can be repealed such as we did with prohibition but Congress does'nt have the backbone to do it.
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If the Republican Party hopes to have a future they better get in touch with the electorate.
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Notice that both parties are interested in convincing the illegals to become part of their vote base. The primary goal of any politican is to be re-elected and to retain power. That a President or Congressman or Senator is now trying to find a new vote pool at the expense of the people who get up everyday, go to work, pay taxes, serve in the military (and die). In short politcians are willing to use the power that we give them to drive us into the ground like a lawn dart for new voters who happen to be felons in the country illegally. So, citizen, your kids are now second class citizens despite you heritage,and their futures are secondary, you are officially expendable and mostly because you sit there and take...no wait you can sit there and take it, you have to be bent over. The American Dream.
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this outta throw the welfare system into chaos.the working group had better get out there and work overtime to pay for this.we have too many of our young people out there now that are too lazy to work that we have to support.this government is truly clueless.maybe we can import more junk from mexico instead of china.bring us your sick,bring us your poor,etc.this country has more money than it knows what to do with it.dumb decisions roll in by the minute.oh,we'll have to build more prisons too.
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And the REAL number of illegals is more likely 14 to 18 million, not the "official" 11.
How do you count "illegals"? Is ANYBODY dumb enough to admit in writing they are "illegal"??
Yeah, all of the thieves and child molesters RAISE YOUR HANDS: _________????
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{bleeping} ridiculous! Unemployment at a Chronic 8%, REAL unemployment about 18% and they want to make another 11 MILLION people eligible for jobs in the USA???
SECURE THE BORDER FIRST! Then we talk about immigration.
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11 million illegals.. Odd, but in other countries, if you are ILLEGAL,, THEY DEPORT YOUR ***.. but not here. Next they will be getting SSI. Our govt. is a big joke, from that CLOWN OBUMMER all the way down.OBUMMER a waste of a human being..
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Closer to HomeWith the staggering number of extraordinary coffees we have from East Africa, it's easy to forget that this is still peak season for coffees from some of our neighbors in Central and South America.
Style of Tasting
Cup + BrewThese coffees are different enough to stand out in cupping, so I recommend doing that and following your cupping with a pour-over demonstration of the crowd favorite and a brewing discussion.
Notes on the CoffeesWhat can I say about Finca Mauritania that hasn't been said? Probably very little. I'm going to repeat something I said a few weeks ago when we tasted this coffee, which is that Finca Mauritania is a great reminder of how good coffees can be when every minute step in growing, picking, and processing coffee is done with the utmost attention to detail and quality. The farm's elevation is quite poor for quality, but to find a farm in Central America without a single Catimor-type plant, and to have a guarantee that every single seed comes from a sweet, ripe coffee fruit, then to have it all processed carefully and dried evenly and slowly, makes this coffee capable of competing with and surpassing coffees that have far more geographic and climatic advantages. While Aida Batlle— fifth-generation coffee farmer—would never call herself disadvantaged, in quality terms, Mauritania represents the kind of hard-working, up-by-the-bootstraps story that we love.
With two harvests per year, it's easy to forget to mention the arrival of La Golondrina, but it's here! It's new! Rejoice! Though we never have trouble selling this coffee, that doesn't stop us from believing it could be better and trying to make progress, which for the growers of Orgánica entails better selection of varieties and slower drying.
Finally, we bid farewell to Concepción Huista this week after another fruitful and fruit-flavor-filled season. We have invested a lot in building this relationship, and, at times, the co-op can still feel a little bit chaotic, but the organization has a strong foundation, and they definitely have some of the best coffee-growing terrain in Huehuetenango, if not Guatemala. It will be back next year, and, with good luck and good management, Concepción Huista will be its best yet.


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WHEELING - If we listen closely enough, sometimes our youth can be our greatest teachers. For members of the Wheeling Nailers, Randy Stephens personified this.
A two-time cancer survivor, Stephens, a senior at Wheeling Park, lost his third battle with the disease early Monday morning at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Perhaps 'lost' isn't the correct term, for Randy's mind wanted to continue the fight, but his body simply wouldn't allow it.
Understandably, the news shook current and former members of the Nailers, who in the last couple of years had come to be close with Randy.
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Wheeling Nailers players Zack Torquato (7) and Andrew Hotham (16) present Randy Stephens with a jersey and a plaque for being named the team's 'Fan of the Year' last season. At left representing the Nailers, is Dale Whitlatch.
File Photo by Joe Lovell
''He battled so hard,'' Andrew Hotham said through tears over the phone from Oklahoma City. ''Last year he was in and out of the hospital for a week and we were on the road.
''He told the nurse his goal was to go to our next home game. He had surgery the day before, but he was there.
''He could barely walk, but he could come to the game.''
I regrettably only had the chance to meet Randy in person one time, and it should come as no surprise that happened at a Nailers game. He had just been diagnosed for the third time, but wearing that trademark smile, he walked toward me with his shoulders up and chest out.
Turns out he just wanted to shake the hand of the man he had interacted with so often on Twitter.
I'll never forget when it looked as if the Nailers were going to have to fold last summer. Each day I would wake up and, without fail, there would be a message from Randy wanting to know what I had heard overnight.
''He's definitely our No. 1 fan. I've never seen a family like that,'' said Zack Torquato, who was the first Nailer to reach out to Randy. ''He became our friend. Being in a small community, his family, his girlfriend, I was happy to know them.
''Being away from home but being around them felt like being at home with my family.''
Torquato, along with teammate Ben Farrer, made the trip to Pittsburgh last week to check in and find out if there was anything they could do to help. There previously had been far easier encounters.
''It was devastating because he wasn't able to be a kid, laying there hooked up to all those machines and tubes,'' Farrer said. ''It's human instinct pretty much that you're going to care about someone who is always there to support you. Even if he's not there, he's listening.
''You can learn lessons from him and you can relate it to your life and on the ice. Just to see how hard he fights - his attitude is what helped him get there.
''He was a good role model.''
To a man, the players say they got more out of their relationship than Randy possibly could have. They were taught patience and perseverance. Most importantly, they learned what it's like to live.
''He had gone through so much in his life that he grew up quicker than the average kid,'' Farrer said. ''It's a testament to him and the way he lived his life.''
Hotham agreed.
''I think he had the maturity level of an adult. It's those people that you look up to, that are an inspiration,'' he said. ''Those people are amazing.
''He was one of those people that could captivate a room.''
Added Torquato: ''He and his girlfriend (Emily Megna) matured so quickly. It's sad they had to, but I learned a lot from them.
''I remember last year we went out for dinner and I was injured. He got my spirits up.''
Randy had recently told his mother that if he was not going to survive, he had done all he wanted to do, but he wanted to marry Emily. That final wish came true as the couple were united in his hospital room.
''If someone his age, with all the struggles, if he can look at it and say I have done everything in my life, that shows how much he cares about life,'' Farrer said. ''That was great to have that one last wish.
''(Emily) is another person that is like Randy, that will carry on his attitude.''
Randy Stephens has been described on more than one occasion as being one in a million. Sorry, but I don't think that does him justice. To me, Randy was the kind of person you meet once in a lifetime.
Somewhere up above, Randy is smiling that beautiful smile.
''Despite everything he was going through, he never complained,'' Torquato said. ''That's how I know him and will remember him.''
Goodbye, friend.
Shawn Rine can be reached via e-mail at email@example.com


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Beautiful, intriguing, elegant ideas
Posted 29 December 2012 - 12:12 AM
I'll start. Kepler's Second Law of Planetary Motion. This is the one which says if the orbit of a planet around a heavier body (i.e. sun) is an ellipse, and if one considers the distance the planet travels along the ellipse in the same amount of time, but at two different parts of the ellipse; one span being near perihelion and another near aphelion, the areas "covered" will be equal.
The idea I am trying to convey, which most of the readers here already know, is much more clearly stated with an accompanying diagram. Also, some of you probably know how to just use language better to express his seminal idea more simply and clearly.
Back to the point; I think this idea is stunning. The geometry of euclidean space is such, and the nature of gravity within that space is such, that it sweeps out equal areas. Who would have thought....!!
Posted 29 December 2012 - 04:49 AM
Posted 29 December 2012 - 10:28 AM
m® = m(0)/sqrt(1 - v^2/c^2)
Also very elegant is how e = mc^2 is directly derived from the above expression for relativistic mass; first restate the equation for relativistic mass as:
m® = m(o)*(1 - v^2/c^2)^-1/2
...using the binomial theorum to expand the above expression in a power series:
m® = m(0)(1 + 1/2(v^2/c^2) + 3/8(v^4/c^4) +....)
...which, when v is small, converges rapidly to:
m® = m(0) + 1/2 m(o)v^2(1/c^2)
...now, multiply both sides by c^2
m®c^2 = m(o)c^2 + 1/2m(0)v^2
...the last term on the right side is ordinary kinetic energy, the left term on the right side is the intrinsic energy of a body at rest. The term on the left is usually encapsulated as simply 'e', which incorporates both the intrinsic "rest" energy and kinetic energy expressions on the right.
*thanks to Feynman's "Lectures on Physics", pp 15-8 through 15-11 for providing this clear, and surprisingly straightforward mathematical explanation.
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I would say that the beauty of your example lies in the mathematics, not in the science, and that the line between the two is in itself interesting. I cannot think, offhand, of a scientific idea that is beautiful without it receiving a mathematical formulation. This is one of the main points of Penrose's The Road to Reality, section 34.2 (page 1014). I can think of beautiful experiments--Newton's prism--but scientific ideas...? On the other hand, mathematics is filled with beauty---IMHO. Thanks for your example.
Dark skies.
Posted 29 December 2012 - 09:43 PM
In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle asserted that persons are not born morally good or bad but are taught good behavior and bad behavior. This idea was the birth of all subsequent moral education in the western world. If good behavior could be learned, it could then be taught.
To make this point Aristotle contrasted moral values with things that happened "by nature". He pointed out that things which occurred "by nature" always happened the same way regardless of how many attempts were made to change their "way"; their "habit". One example he used was that although a person could be taught to be generous, a flame could never be taught to burn downwards.
However, in his 1869 Christmas lectures to children at the Royal Institution of Great Britain entitled The Chemical History of a Candle, Michael Faraday described and executed an experiment in which the fire of a candle was induced to burn downwards.
This novel idea, experiment and description in no way affect Aristotle's ethical ideas. However they do evidence an improvement of modern science compared to the more deductive methodology of ancient science; the importance of testing assumptions such as, fire always burns upwards.
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Dave Mitsky
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Posted 31 December 2012 - 10:41 AM
This is the one I was going to reply with too.
e^(i*pi) = -1
The Euler identity. A simple looking equation but it involves three fundamental constants - e, pi and i. (And 1 if you count that as a fundamental constant.)
I don't understand most of the maths behind it, but it's one of the most thought-provoking single lines of mathematics known...
Posted 31 December 2012 - 01:34 PM
e^(i*pi) = -1
-i^2 like
You can argue, this is the most important formula in all of science and engineering.
Posted 31 December 2012 - 02:44 PM
You can argue, this is the most important formula in all of science and engineering.
I always thought that honor belonged to the formula for beer...
Posted 31 December 2012 - 04:12 PM
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Posted 01 January 2013 - 04:24 PM
You can argue, this is the most important formula in all of science and engineering.
I always thought that honor belonged to the formula for beer...
Zounds, I had forgot the beer.
Posted 02 January 2013 - 11:50 AM
This demonstrated the truth of the proof not trigonometrically, or algebraically, or even with the use of the axioms and conclusions of geometry, but in a totally visual manner.
Posted 02 January 2013 - 12:03 PM
Can we prove (or disprove) similar for, say, cubes?
Demonstration of the Pythagorean Theorem using squares (actual squares)
Posted 02 January 2013 - 01:09 PM
magic square examples
Posted 02 January 2013 - 02:34 PM
That totally blew my mind! (which probably explains a few other things.)
Posted 02 January 2013 - 03:49 PM
a+b/a = a/b = 1.618033988...
and its reciprocal b/a = 0.618033988...
I used it quite a bit back in my cabinet-making days.
Posted 02 January 2013 - 05:30 PM
The Golden Ratio:
a+b/a = a/b = 1.618033988...
and its reciprocal b/a = 0.618033988...
I used it quite a bit back in my cabinet-making days.
Yup - calculated the most visually pleasing length of dew shield for my atm refractor with this ratio...


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AKRON -- Three armed men burst into a home Monday night on Noah Avenue.
Police say one of residents was in the basement watching television when the armed men made him go upstairs,
The suspects took his cell phone and gold necklace.
Another resident in the house heard the commotion. He was also robbed of his cell phone.
The second victim was ordered to walk the suspects around the house while they took money, electronics and an empty safe, then they took off.
Neighbors reported seeing a possible gray, 4-door Chevy Impala in the area during the home invasion.
Anyone with information on this crime should call the Akron Police.


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The Tree of Life
|Release Date: May 27, 2011
|Running Time: 138 mins.
|MPAA Rating: PG 13
|Box Office: $13,303,319.00
|Genre: Drama
Brad Pitt
Sean Penn
Jessica Chastain
Fiona Shaw
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Summary:Jack, the wide-eyed, 11-year-old, eldest son of a 1950s-era family, loses his innocence after encountering sickness, suffering and death for the first time. He finds himself caught between his mother, who views the world with love and mercy, and his father, whose severity in teaching his son self-reliance leaves a lasting impression on Jack. Approximately 40 years later, an adult Jack is a lost soul in the modern world, still struggling to reconcile the complicated relationship with his father, and still grappling for answers to life's eternal questions.
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Mercedes-Benz GL-Class in action
Mercedes Benz India has rolled out the first locally assembled luxury off-roader, the GL Class, from its Pune plant. With this, the Pune plant has become the only location outside Mercedes-Benz's SUV plant in USA to manufacture the SUV. The New GL-Class exudes confidence, distinctive and powerful exterior design, exceptional comfort and highest handling dynamics in on and off-road situations. Mercedes-Benz demonstrated the incredible off-roading capabilities of the GL-Class as part of the roll out. Here are some photographs of the GL-Class in full swing on the test track at the company's Chakan plant.


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By Commission Staff
While pundits attempt to sort out the political meaning of Ukraine's March 26th parliamentary elections to fill the 450-seat Verkhovna Rada, the significance of the conduct of the elections should not be missed. "Free and fair" was the resounding assessment of the OSCE-led International Election Observation Mission (IEOM) that also included observers from the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the European Parliament, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, and the OSCE Office of Democratic Elections and Human Rights (ODIHR). This unqualified positive appraisal – a first among the 12 former Soviet republics outside the Baltics that have conducted scores of elections since the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union – underscores the consolidation of democratic gains made in Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution following years of political stagnation.
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