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IRVINE, Calif.—June 6, 2013—A new legion of heroes will soon rise up and take a stand against the Lord of Terror. On September 3, Diablo® III will make its console debut on the Sony PlayStation® 3 computer entertainment system and the Xbox 360® games and entertainment system from Microsoft in the U.S., Canada, Spanish-speaking Latin America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
In preparation for the upcoming launch, select retailers in these regions are now taking preorders for the PS3™ and Xbox 360 versions of the game, which will be available at a suggested retail price of $59.99. Both console versions of Diablo III will be fully localized in English, German, French, Latin American Spanish, European Spanish, Russian, Italian, Polish, and Brazilian Portuguese. Further release details, including retail availability in Brazil, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia, will be announced at a later date.
The console versions of Diablo III have been custom-tailored for gamepad-driven action, with a dynamic camera perspective that puts your hero front and center, as well as an all-new user interface and an intuitive control system that make vanquishing evil feel like second nature. Players can take on the vile denizens of the Burning Hells alone or in a party of up to four via same-screen local cooperative play or online over PlayStation® Network™ or the Xbox Live® online entertainment network from Microsoft. In addition, the game supports parties composed of both local and online players. Once gamers experience the rush of Diablo III's unique brand of hack-and-slash gameplay from the comfort of their couch, Sanctuary will never be the same.
Players who preorder either console version of Diablo III will receive an exclusive in-game item: the Infernal Helm, which grants an experience point boost to any character who wears it, accelerating their progression as they rise in power. Certain retailers will also offer limited-edition preorder bonuses—check with your local retailer for further information.
"Playing Diablo III on a big screen with your friends brings a whole new level of intensity to the game, and with all of the control and interface adaptations we've made, it's extremely fun to play on PS3™ and Xbox 360," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. "In addition to the fine-tuning we've done for the console versions, we're also including major content and design updates we've made to the PC version over the past year, so players can expect an epic Diablo gaming experience when the PS3™ and Xbox 360 versions launch in September."
In Diablo III, players take on the role of one of five heroic characters—barbarian, witch doctor, wizard, monk, or demon hunter—and embark on a perilous quest to save the world of Sanctuary from the corrupting forces of the Burning Hells. As players make their way from the demon-besieged town of New Tristram to the Diamond Gates of the High Heavens, they'll engage in pulse-pounding combat with hordes of monsters and challenging bosses, grow in experience and ability, acquire artifacts of incredible power, and meet key characters who'll join them in battle or aid them along the way.
Diablo III was originally released for Windows® and Macintosh® PC on May 15, 2012 and within 24 hours became the fastest-selling PC game of all time. As of December 31, 2012, Diablo III had sold through more than 12 million copies worldwide.* To learn more about Diablo III, including a list of participating retailers, please visit the official website at http://www.diablo3.com.
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Shangri-La Hotel, Surabaya adopted the MI Nurul Huda School 1 in December 2010, along with its 146 elementary school students and 38 kindergarten students. The school is located in a rural area and is owned by the villagers. Daily operation is supported by BOS (Government Fund) and village funds but the school still needs more funding to support its operation. The students' parents are farm and mill workers with minimum income. The school constantly struggles to provide proper facilities such as washrooms, classrooms, a canteen, library, computer lab, properly stocked clinic and fencing around the perimeter. Furthermore, there is limited water supply for the students. Shangri-La Hotel, Surabaya is helping and supporting in the above mentioned areas through volunteer work and organising monthly activities to improve the school's facilities. Apart from that, we also encourage our employees to voluntarily support activities such as tree planting, handicraft making, English training and more.
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The hotel continues to work on increasing the number of classrooms as well as tiling and putting up walls and roofing. New washrooms have been been built and old washrooms have been renovated. A well-stocked library and computer lab are in the works, while a decent sized canteen is to be built in the future. All of these efforts are made with hopes of assisting children with their overall literacy and improving the school's presentation.
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As part of our programme to give back to the community, Shangri-La Hotel, Surabaya constantly works on its Embrace project with MI Nurul Huda 1 School in Menganti-Gresik to improve the school's facilities and give full support to the students' education. On 14 July 2012, the hotel team went to the school and commenced a tree planting project and handed out educational books donated by colleagues.
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Down With Love
|Release Date: May 09, 2003
|Running Time: 94 mins.
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|Genre: Comedy, Romance, Romantic Comedy
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Summary:Barbara hits 1962 New York City with her new book, "Down With Love," a pre-feminist manifesto saying "no" to love and "yes" to career, empowerment--and sex. As Barbara's revolutionary tome rockets to the top of the best-seller charts, she becomes the target of ace journalist Catcher "Catch" Block, ladies' man/ man's man/ man about the town, who is determined to take her down. Catch's best friend and boss, the neurotic and lovesick Peter McMannus, tries to rein in his star writer, while haplessly pursuing the object of his affections, Vicki Hiller, Barbara's brilliant and feisty editor. Vicki plays tough in a man's world, which includes her old style chauvinist boss, Theodore Banner.


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A Little Bit Of Heaven (2012)
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A Little Bit of Heaven is a love story set in New Orleans about an irreverent young woman who unexpectedly falls in love with her doctor. Academy Award® nominee Hudson is joined by Academy Award® winners Kathy Bates and Whoopi Goldberg, as well as Gael Garcia Bernal (Letters to Juliet), Lucy Punch (Dinner for Schmucks), Romany Malco (The 40 Year Old Virgin), Rosemarie DeWitt (Rachel Getting Married), Steven Weber (My One And Only) and Treat Williams (What Happens in Vegas). The Film is directed by Nicole Kassell (The Woodsman) from an original screenplay by Gren Wells. Marley Corbett (Kate Hudson) is young, beautiful, and wildly funny, but shes afraid of opening herself up to true love and commitment. Though she uses her humor to prevent matters from getting serious, a life-changing visit to her doctor (Gael Garcia Bernal) sends both of them on an eye-opening adventure of mutual discovery, leading to revelations neither thought possible.
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The long delays, if you have them, will go away. They are a bug...
Yea, about as fast as it took D* to add all those missing HBO/MAX HD feeds...that they originally said would be added over 2-3 YEARS ago.
Sorry, but I'm so DONE waiting on them to fix all their "bugs", as well as on all the missing basic HD we should ALREADY have had by now!
Bottom line is that this software should have NEVER been rolled out in the current state that it is now.
And while some people have issues with the hr20 and such n the new hd GUI, not everyone does. In fact I'd guess most don't, I have no issues with it, and neither do my folks, believe me, I'd hear about that big time....
Well you must be VERY lucky then...because I AM hearing it big time, from many clients, all with different HR2x versions. And most of them are getting as fed up with this crap as I am. Probably because they (too) realize this is NOT "normal operation" for a DVR - regardless of how much D* CSR's & fanboys say otherwise. They are asking me what can be done - my answer is "they need to vote with THEIR wallets" as well...
Of course, I'm sure there's lots of other folks that are tired of these software issues as well - but have bought into the same lies the D* CSR's tried to convince me on. (but didn't...)
Dish doesn't charge you monthly to use the 211?
No, & that $40 is good for ALL 211's on your account. So, you could have 4 211 receivers & it would only cost you $10 one-time to have DVR on ALL of them.
Also they do NOT charge anything to use EHD's on DVR receivers, nor is there any limit on how many EHD's you can use. The ONLY limitation is that you cannot swap an EHD from a 211 with any (actual) DVR receiver, & visa versa.
You can also swap EHD's among ALL your DVR's tied to your account; they are NOT tied only to a specific receiver. Yet another reason why I want to switch; there is NO reason D* couldn't have done this as well


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After standing by Filner, labor moves on
Mayor Bob Filner swept into office last December thanks to huge financial support from labor organizations and union leaders kept him afloat politically in recent weeks by counseling him behind closed doors as he tried unsuccessfully to survive a sexual harassment scandal.
Now labor plans to play a large role in determining Filner's successor, a fact that is inevitable given labor's political clout but also upsetting to those who blame unions for getting Filner elected in the first place.
There's no doubt many potential candidates, especially those on the Democratic side, will openly court support from various labor organizations ahead of the coming special election to replace Filner. Whether those endorsements carry the same weight in a post-Filner era remains to be seen, but it doesn't appear labor leaders are lacking in confidence.
Frank De Clercq, head of the city firefighters union, interjected into a Twitter discussion on Sunday about whether the Republicans would back former City Councilman Carl DeMaio or current Councilman Kevin Faulconer in the coming race.
"One or both would be welcome for a shellacking," De Clercq wrote.
One of the biggest criticisms leveled at unions during the past six weeks was their near-universal silence about the sexual misconduct allegations against Filner. They were quiet largely because of how much they invested in terms of time and money to get Filner elected and the potential for their issues to be advanced by the first Democratic mayor in 20 years. For example, labor-funded political action committees spent more than $3.8 million in last year's mayoral contest to help Filner, who struggled throughout the campaign to raise money on his own.
The influential San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council aided him the most and refused to call on Filner to resign even as more and more women came forward accusing Filner of inappropriate sexual behavior and unwanted advances, such as kisses, groping and derogatory comments.
Richard Barrera, who heads the council, said the organization remained silent for two reasons. First, due process is a top priority among unions and taken seriously. Second, if the labor council had called for his resignation the lines of communication with Filner likely would have been severed.
"What we tried to do is try to have communication …helping him think through what's in the best interests of the city," Barrera said.
Barrera noted Filner's decision to undergo two weeks of intensive therapy to address his behavior came at the behest of labor. He said conversations about whether Filner should resign were avoided as the primary focus was getting Filner to understand the depth of his predicament and how it was affecting San Diego.
Tony Krvaric, chairman of the local Republican Party, has been one of labor's harshest critics and a longtime political opponent. He blamed unions for looking the other way for "crass political, ideological reasons" to support Filner and said they will rue the day he was elected.
"Their influence has been damaged," Krvaric said. "People will be more aware of who's pushing whom in future elections."
Barrera said he doesn't think labor will lose any influence because it stood by Filner. He said there's been a political shift in the city and those who voted for Filner still overwhelmingly support the vision he shared with labor.
"Bob Filner has come and gone, but those people remain out there ready to vote," Barrera said. " …Any candidate that we get behind is a candidate that can advance issues for working families."
However, in the June primary that sent Filner to the fall runoff, San Diegans overwhelmingly voted for a pension overhaul adamantly opposed by labor.


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Smeding 392 - A Truckload Of TorqueWritten by on April 30, 2007 A V-10's Worth Of Ford Power In A Small-Block Package
How much is too much of a good thing? Ask any hot rodder or truck owner with something to tow and he'll tell you there's no substitute for cubic inches, and you can't have too much torque! The crew of motorheads at Smeding Performance (Rancho Cordova, California) keeps coming up with powerful stroker engine combinations for both Bow Tie and Blue Oval fans. Their latest is a bluer-blooded 392-cubic-inch powerplant perfect for your fat-fendered or slab-sided Ford truck.
Based on a new Ford Racing block that is basically a 351 Windsor design, the Smeding 392 combines a long arm (.350-inch) with a proven assemblage of choice aftermarket components for big-block torque and horsepower from an engine that looks similar to a stock FoMoCo 302. There are certainly other ways to get 392 cubic inches and the resultant low-end torque, but resurrecting an original Chrysler 392 Hemi engine from the '50s can be frustrating. First you have to chase down all the components; then there's the time it takes to get the rust-removal and machine work done; and in the end you've got a large hunk of cast-iron in your engine compartment (and a transmission to go with it), not to mention an equally large dent in your wallet. Instead, consider that the Smeding 392 may have an easier fitment in older trucks; every single part is brand new; one could be on its way to you in a matter of days; it's already run in and tested on the dyno; and you've got a warranty!
Why is torque so important, especially for trucks? It's all about how work is measured. Even since old James Watt in the 1600s compared the output of his steam engine to that of a draft horse, torque and horsepower have been perhaps the most-remembered terms from high school physics. To make a crude comparison, the difference between them is like an arm-wrestling competition. The power you put out to turn down your opponent's arm is the torque. How fast you do it is horsepower. In the case of internal combustion engines, torque is the twisting force applied to the crankshaft on a running engine. It's what you feel in the seat of your pants when you step on the right pedal. Horsepower is also important, but more so where time is critical, as on a dragstrip run. Peak horsepower generally occurs at a higher rpm than peak torque, and the lower the rpm for that peak torque, the more responsive your truck is going to feel. Let's face it, most of us classic truck fans aren't abusing our vehicles at the drags every weekend-we're more likely to be cruising or towing a boat or a vintage RV trailer. OK, maybe we like to beat the occasional Bimmer across the intersection, but that's the forte of torque and Smeding's 392 stroker Ford motors. A torquer like this one is especially useful in today's combo of large rear tires and overdrive automatics, which can kill highway passing power.
On the tech side, the engine build starts with brand-new Sportsman II blocks from Ford Racing. Designed for circle-track racing, these blocks are like a 351 Windsor, except that they have thicker cylinder walls and beefier webs for the main bearings. They're also roller-cam ready, but are delivered "semi-finished," so you have to bore and hone the cylinders to size and do a few other machine shop operations, then thoroughly clean the block. For most big stroker assemblies, the bottom of the cylinder bores must be ground for rod/rod bolt clearance since the crank is swinging a larger arc than a stock one. Smeding has several small-block Ford stroker packages, from the popular 347 for the 302 block to the 392 and 427 engines that start with a 351-sized block. The 392s arrive at their displacement by being bored and finished to .030-inch oversize, while the new nodular-iron stroker crank has .350-inch additional stroke than a stock 351's 3.50 inches.
The rotating/reciprocating assembly is the intestinal fortitude of a performance engine like this, and the stroker crankshaft is thoroughly balanced and checked for straightness. The forged rods are fitted with low-friction floating pins, which connect them to special Keith Black/Silvolite hypereutectic pistons. The pistons feature an anti-ring-float groove between the first and second compression ring grooves and a large dish in the domes to achieve a final compression ratio of 9.8:1, which is fine for truck use with available pump gas (not the low-octane stuff, though). The beefy rods are heavier than what might be used for a race motor, so sometimes a little "Mallory metal" has to be added to the crank to sweeten its relationship with the rod/piston combo.
The engine room at Smeding Performance is where all the balanced, machined, and cleaned parts come together under experienced hands to be developed into a performance engine that can deliver with a warranty. What we used to call "blueprinting" means checking every critical measurement and changing or machining parts to achieve the desired clearances. We're going to watch parts of this process as this 392 Ford bad boy comes together. Of course, we don't have room here to show every step we photographed, but suffice it to say things are done thoroughly.
The roller-cam-ready Ford Racing block is treated to a hydraulic roller cam whose specs vary based on the customer's input on his specific application. This one had 222 degrees duration on the intake and 232 on the exhaust at .050-inch lift, and .505/.532 lift on the intake/exhaust. It helped this particular 392 pull 457 ponies yet achieve a broad torque curve-over 400 lb-ft from 2,500 rpm all the way to 5,600 rpm! The cam is rotated by a double-roller timing chain and gears. What's on top of the potent combo is a pair of aluminum Edelbrock Performer RPM cylinder heads with stainless steel valves. They're great out of the box, but at Smeding Performance, they disassemble new heads before installation and check all the guide and valve dimensions and clearances for that extra edge.
The heads are installed with Fel-Pro blue gaskets and ARP high-strength head bolts, after which the remainder of the valvetrain can be installed. The Edelbrock heads already come with pushrod guide plates for performance use. Hardened-steel pushrods are lubed and slid into place, followed by aluminum roller rocker arms (anodized blue, of course) with positive-lock adjusters. The rockers are the stock 1.6:1 ratio, though they offer reduced friction and are a "true" 1.6:1, whereas stock rockers (of any OEM manufacturer) have considerable variation, by high-performance standards, at least.
Final exterior hard parts go on next, including polished-aluminum valve covers with the Smeding Performance logo and an Edelbrock aluminum intake, in our case the Performer RPM Air-Gap model. In this performance design, extra engine heat is kept out of the intake tract by the air separation between the floor and the runners. Depending upon the specifics of the customer's application, several different oil pans may be used. On our example, we used a chromed OEM-style oil pan, but some applications for serious track use will receive a Canton fabricated oil pan with extra capacity and trapdoors around the oil pickup area.
A new aftermarket crankshaft dampener and flywheel, stick or automatic, are torqued in place, and the engine is ready for a trip to the dyno room. The engine is on a stand that rolls right up to the dyno and is connected to the dynamometer's input shaft. While in the dyno room, technician Ed Jerrell installs an appropriately sized Holley four-barrel carb and a Pertronix distributor with 8mm silicone-jacketed plug wires. After making all the fuel, coolant, and electrical connections, Ed cranks the engine to check the rough timing and lights the beast off.
What do we call this thing, Goliath or David? Sitting there purring after breaking in with all the carb and timing adjustments made, it still looks like a small-block Ford, but it sounds like a V-10! Everybody lies about their engine's horsepower, but the Smeding customer not only gets the dyno sheet on his particular engine to back up a boast, but also gets the satisfaction that the engine is already partially broken in and should run right out of the box, er, make that pallet, since Smeding doesn't ship their stroker motors in a crate. Ever fired a new engine and only then discovered fluid leaks and other concerns? With this 392, there should be no drips, runs, or errors.
Put a 392 emblem on the side of your F-1 and watch if some guy in a Duster doesn't come alongside and ask, "Has that thing got a Hemi in it?" If you don't mind the environmental effect of clouds of tire smoke, you could demonstrate to him just how good the Ford 392 does with wedge heads and a small package!
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The semi-finished Ford Racing Sportsman II block needs several machining steps before it can be utilized. One of the steps is grinding the bottom of the bores for rod clearance with the stroker crank's bigger swing.After line-honing the mains and boring the block to .030-inch over, the last step is to hone the cylinders to the final size with a block plate torqued in place to simulate the wall changes the engine will really see in use.Machinist Dan Moody does all the balancing work at Smeding Performance. Here he's weighing the rods, pistons, and pins. The Keith Black pistons are within a gram right out of the box, and a little work on the rods makes a matched set of eight to go with the balanced crank for each engine.The Smeding stroker motors start with a great block and all-new aftermarket components. The internal lineup includes the nodular-iron stroker crank, forged 4340 steel I-beam rods, and hypereutectic KB pistons.There's something satisfying about seeing the new stroker crank go in like laying the keel of a destroyer. Note the chamfered oil holes and the one-piece rear seal, a late-model 351W item.Engine builder Michael Narducci Sr. carefully checks the bore of every cylinder, then mikes all the pistons to find the piston-to-bore clearances. With the KB pistons, desired clearance is .0015 inch.Between the top and second ring grooves in the KB pistons is this wide, beveled area designed to limit ring flutter under the extreme pressure of detonation or blowby during heavy loads by giving the excess pressure a place to go.Mike assembles the pistons to their matching rods by inserting the well-lubed "floating" pins and two spiral-lock retainers on each side of the piston.At Smeding Performance, all the piston rings are filed to exact fit. The machined tool in the center pushes each ring into the bore, squarely and the same amount, to measure the starting gap. The gap is carefully enlarged with the hand-powered ring filer at the left until the .026-inch gap required for the KB pistons is achieved.
One at a time, the piston/rod assembly for each bore is lubed with assembly oil and gently pushed in place. The clearances have already been checked by miking the crank throws and the rods with bearings in place. The ARP rod bolts are snugged up here.Aftermarket hydraulic roller lifters are lubed and inserted in the 392's valley, followed by Ford lifter guides and the sheetmetal "crab" that secures all the guides in place.After the cam and double-roller timing chain are installed, torquing the Edelbrock Performer RPM aluminum heads in place is the satisfying step of taking this engine from short-block to long-block. The stainless valves are 2.02 inches for the intake and 1.6 inches for the exhaust. Hard valve seats are also part of the package.Fel-Pro intake gaskets are used on the sides, but for the end sealing, owner Ben Smeding prefers a fat bead of RTV sealant, which doesn't squish out like rubber or cork seals.With the addition of the Edelbrock Air-Gap intake manifold, our engine seems to go together even quicker. Mike very carefully goes through the tightening sequence several times at increasing torque until reaching the final spec of 19-22 lb-ft. A perfectly sealed engine isn't achieved by "feel."The oil pump is filled with lube, fitted with a stout chrome-moly hex-drive, and spun before installing the pump and pickup on the block.The Sportsman II blocks can use a dipstick either up front or on the left-rear side, depending on the oil pan. With an up-front dipstick, as this engine will have, the left-rear site has to be plugged with RTV before installing the chromed oil pan.There's something cookin' on the Smeding dyno all day! With Ben at the controls in the next room, Ed Jerrell sets the timing and adjusts the idle mixture and speed before the little stump-puller gets its first workout. With a 750-cfm Holley and 1 3/4-inch dyno headers, the 392 pulled a peak of 457 horsepower and 483 lb-ft of torque. Now that's truckin'!


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For no known reason, one of my Yahoo mailboxes is stuck apparently getting the same message over and over again and putting it under one message as part of the "conversation." The circling arrows are visible constantly on that mailbox, and there over 500 copies of the exact same email under that conversation (so it shows (541) next to the message info but every message in the conversation is the exact same one). As long as I keep Zimbra open, it keeps adding more and there is no way to stop it. I tried closing Zimbra and I treid rebooting. As soon as I open Zimbra, it starts again, frozen on that operation.
I can navigate around on other mailboxes, and they appear to be getting new mail, so the whole program isn't locked, but that mailbox is stuck on that operation and I cannot stop it.
By the way, that message is showing up as new... with a current date even though it is a year or more old. I have no idea why that particular message is the one it keeps getting.
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text: Home World S. African Miner Protest Shows Deep Conflicts The police shooting of strikers reveals how money and power divide the country. By: Anita Powell Posted: Aug. 23 2012 12:29 AM 0 Gallo Images/Getty Images (The Root) -- When South African police attacked black platinum miners on strike last week -- shooting dead 34 and injuring 78 -- the nation was suddenly reminded how some things haven't changed since the end of apartheid two decades ago. Headlines thundered "war" and "massacre," describing the violence that occurred when some 3,000 angry workers faced off against authorities on a dusty hill outside the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana, armed with sticks and traditional machetes. Images of police firing into the crowd hit a little too close to home for many of the country's blacks who lived through a bygone era, when white police infamously mowed down black protesters in areas such as Sharpeville and Soweto. This time the police weren't all white. National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega, who is black, said officers were shot at first and only had retaliated in self-defense. She told journalists that police used tear gas, water cannons and stun grenades before resorting to deadly force. She claimed that some protesters had guns and that the crowd grew more unruly and surged forward. Mine workers were asking for a pay raise from about $500 to about $1,500. Union negotiations had broken down between the company and the National Union of Mineworkers and a rival union, the more radical Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union. So workers launched a wildcat strike and gathered for several days outside the mine. Before Thursday's violence erupted, eight protesters and two policemen had already been killed. However, these days inequality in South Africa is no longer entirely a black-and-white issue. It's also green and red -- green for the yawning wealth gap and red for the blood spilled in increasingly violent protests by the have-nots. That unbalance, some analysts say, is dangerous. Adam Habib, deputy vice chancellor of the University of Johannesburg, explained that the shooting incident had many underlying causes. "This doesn't happen in abstraction from a context," he told The Root. "This is a context where poor people are angry. It has to do with the fact that our post-apartheid state has not sufficiently dealt with the marginalization of the poor." The solution, he said, is complicated. He said the government should have intervened much sooner and held the unions and the mining company to account before the shootout happened. He also called for all parties to be open to the investigation and to show more accountability in the future. South Africa is a nation starkly divided along economic lines. Expensive sports cars glide through Johannesburg's potholed streets as crammed Toyota minibuses sputter along beside them. Half of the population lives below the poverty line. Some newspapers warned that the conflict could snowball, and others criticized top leaders for not showing sufficient leadership. South Africa's president, Jacob Zuma, has called for a week of mourning. The mining company has also relented on its initial stance, in which they gave striking workers a choice: Return to work or be fired. Workers said they plan to regroup. One protestor, who identified himself only as Siphiwo, told The Root that he and his colleagues would not back down. Some residents of Wonderkop, a nearby town that lies in the shadow of the mine, said they're struggling to understand what happened. One miner, who asked to only be identified by his first name, Thabo, said he was still traumatized because four or five of his friends were shot. (Continued from Page 1) Many residents still didn't know days later where their friends and relatives were -- dead, in the hospital or among the more than 250 people arrested and facing charges ranging from destruction of property to murder. Daniel Modisenyane, 54, said he was "shocked" by the violence. He also said he believes police misconstrued miners' rudimentary weapons as more of a threat than they were. "Culturally speaking, some of us, you have various language groups and you have various ethnic groups, other cultures, they hold their knobkerrie, their [stick], whatever, like what is happening in [Afghanistan]," he told The Root. "In [Afghanistan], people are carrying long guns, you know, that is cultural. When something comes, well, you cannot be empty-handed, as you know. Not that I condone what has happened." "[South Africa] needs a militant union," Malema tweeted. "Not one that holds shares in mines and eats buffets with bosses." The intensity of this strike recalls the last major large-scale action by miners in South Africa, which happened in 1987 when National Union of Mineworkers founder Cyril Ramaphosa led more than 300,000 black workers in a protest of poor working conditions and low pay. In the violence that ensued, some 50,000 workers were fired, 11 were killed and 400 were jailed. Today Ramaphosa sits on the Lonmin board and is part of the country's super rich. For example, he recently bid nearly $2.3 million for a cow at a glitzy auction of South African mining bosses and glitterati. Black miners, however, still persist on low wages. Even in 1987, white miners earned more in adjusted income relative to their black counterparts today. Back then they earned at least $750 a month. In 2012 that would be worth about $1,500. That's almost exactly what the Lonmin strikers were asking to be paid. It's also just enough to buy 1 ounce of platinum at today's market price of about $1,500. 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Looking most excellent Redrobes. I love the the erosion, what did you use to create that? The beach coloured sand at the lowest coastal altitudes also looks great. Cant wait to see where you go from here.
Did a bit on my tile last night but didn't upload it so here it is so far...
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Looking most excellent Redrobes. I love the the erosion, what did you use to create that? The beach coloured sand at the lowest coastal altitudes also looks great. Cant wait to see where you go from here.
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I started by looking at the 3D height which is image 1. I found this pretty hard to deal with. I tried various erosions and flow settings but basically it has a lot of complex ripple like noise which ends up as basins which flood into big big pools and was hard to persuade it to sort that out. In any case the amplitude of the noise is very large for being so close to the sea level. Thats not unheard of and I think Croatia coastline is like that - see Zadar but its not the sort of place that people have rushed to populate either and its not the sort of map I wanted to make.
Still within that constraint I thought that what we would have is a fen land with a lot of marsh and I believe that one of my neighbors has said that they want to go that route too. The thing now was that there is no geography to generate those pools so I figured that what would be good was a long ridge running through the middle of it. I also figured that it would make for a good dynamic that the main road through the land was along the ridge line and unusually all the low lands were the dangerous bits full of marshy swamp and creatures to boot.
So I got out the original coast and lake boundaries to match up and hand made some hills by painting about 4 shades of grey in and blurring them hard. Then I added a scaled version of that as a heightmap to a scaled down version of the original so that there was some of the original texture to the final map. It was about 50:50 or so. I also fixed some key rivers in place by joining up some of the smaller lakes with some darker lines on the height map.
Then I set it off with various erosion and flow stuff in my GeoTerSys which after a while produced the map below. It took a lot of faffing with various settings and basically I put the map into an ice age and let it thaw slowly. The ice cuts some of the blockages away like a glacier and roughens up the terrain in the right places too. When the water then flows it cuts more of the rivers and you can see where it thinks some of the rivers were in different places than I had put them so it has kinda broken the flow bit but thats cool.
The beaches were all auto generated by it. Theres a bit in the program that smooths out the low to high tidal areas to create beaches. I don't have very good cliff algorithms in the prog yet.
So after that we have the next pic which is my eroded height and then the same but colored. From this point I should be able to select a section and blow it up and up res it but thats for later.
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Waldronate has a nice tutorial on creating realistic erosion. It's Wilbur-specific, but the ideas should be adaptable. It seems like a solution to some of the problems you've spoken of before.
I see your HF had the same nasty square artifacts as mine.
Looking good so far. I'm liking your rivers better than the FT-generated ones, too.
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Thanks Redrobes. In you explanation you included a slightly isometric colour version of your map. I think the mountains in that one look a whole lot more effective in that view with the perspective than they do in the top down view. I think the mountains in the map section tend to look slightly flat when viewed from above. Is there a way you can show more height on that version?
One way is to cheat. You can make a selection the same shape as your mountains and then apply a black/white shaped (angular) gradient. Its very angular but with some blur and noise you can make it a bit rougher. Then you apply this as a bump map to the mountain range. Not hyper realism but it can be quite effective.
Thanks for letting us into you process. I cant wait to see some of the 3d views you will be able to generate.
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If this tile is 600 miles across and say 1200 pixels then each pixel is half a mile. We measured mountains and found that they average at about 7 miles across but some in Chile were larger but only up to about 15. So somewhere between 15 and 30 pixels is about the size of a mountain.
So I think that I need to process a little more. The raised ground is mountainous areas in general and need to be blended with a 15-30 pixel noise map to give a mountain range in that shape. A kind of bump map there, a little different from what you said but much the same.
Then I need to run the process a bit more and let the rivers sync up again for the new mountainous regions. I wasn't planning on having any snow here in this region but I could leave a little sprinkling on top if you think it would look nice.
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You can render a slight perspective map then warp it back to its actual straight overhead shape. This caused the mountains be represented in a forced isometric false perspective...
Here was the comparison image I had created:
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That does look really effective. It changes the entire feel from aerial to storybook instantly. Whats the minimum amount of angle you can get away with and still get the effect? I think if I do another region I'll try and do that.
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I have some mountains chugging away in the background so I thought id outline what I was thinking for my terrain.
So I have said that this area is pretty bleak and not filled with cities. Theres a few natural routes across the map and some of them are a bit prone to attack on both sides. I could see Lizard Men coming out from the swamps and taking down merchant caravans so I would expect them to be armed and have a good supply of mercenaries.
So a series of stockaded and otherwise generally fortified points would need to be placed at regular intervals along the route. Each would probably charge a tariff for the benefit of being guarded - nobody's likely to camp outside of the fortifications.
So I reckon that these places would be quite basic and yet rich at the same time. You could probably get anything but its not likely to be sourced locally unless it relates to general merchanting. Theres probably enough farming going on to support the forts or towns but not in excess, all food thats not simple would be brought in. Probably more meats & roots than grains & fruit so all beer, wine & lodging would be expensive.
Probably have everything for warriors but a bit light on priests. Plenty of rogues but not all that many wizards. I expect an unusually high proportion of racial mixes too. Probably a great rumor mill going as well as spying and I would have thought an excellent place for bards.
I should think that theres plenty of adventuring work going whether doing mercenary work or generally lowering the local predator count. I would have expected that its the sort of area where new discoveries crop up now and again. Its not like lots of people are scouring the area - most just want to get through as fast as possible. So there could be untold numbers of ruins, caves, disused mines long forgotten etc. For the same reasons its a likely place that unusual creatures hang out - esp those that can tolerate wet conditions. Its quite possible that these monsters spend more time fighting between themselves and other monstrous races than picking off merchants. The towns might get caught up in these spats whether with armies or refugees.
Ohh my maps just finished... lets see what it looks like.
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Corvallis, OR (Sports Network) - Joe Burton finished with 17 points, 10
assists, and seven rebounds as the Oregon State Beavers coasted to an 82-64
decision over the Utah Utes in Pac-12 Conference action at Gill Coliseum.
Roberto Nelson poured in a game-high 26 points for Oregon State (12-11, 2-8
Pac-12) while Eric Moreland tallied nine points, 15 rebounds, and four blocks.
The Beavers went 25-of-30 at the free-throw line as a team snapped a three-
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Brandon Taylor led Utah (10-12, 2-8) with 21 points and six assists. Jarred
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Oregon State took a 34-25 lead into the intermission even though it shot just
33.3 percent from the field in the first half. Utah trailed by nine at the
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The Utes heated up slightly to hit 39.3 percent of their field goal attempts
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percent of their field goal tries and sank 14-of-17 attempts at the free-throw
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Oregon State held a 41-33 edge in the rebounding battle and outscored the
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You can get the full-sized version of this map in three versions:
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Campaign 2008 | Fred Thompson has the look, support, and voting record of a great candidate-but does he have the sparkle?
NEW HAMPSHIRE-When Fred Thompson stepped off his campaign bus at the Seacoast Republican Women Chili Fest in Stratham, N.H., Sept. 8, the latest addition to the GOP presidential field looked every bit the part. Standing 6 feet 5 with broad shoulders and a gruff disposition, the actor and former Tennessee senator exudes the kind of credibility and presence that voters and Hollywood directors crave.
Thompson made his way through a rain-soaked crowd, signing autographs and snapping photos before ascending the event's stage alongside a massive country farmhouse. "If there's any justice, in the paper tomorrow it's going to say Thompson's working up a storm," he told the umbrella-covered horde of supporters, many of whom had witnessed high winds take down tree limbs and a tent earlier in the day.
But Thompson's first New Hampshire stump speech generated more yawns than thunderclaps. Less than a week removed from his smooth announcement of candidacy on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Thompson blandly endorsed general conservative principles, avoided specific policy objectives, and drew few cheers from the largely sympathetic audience of several hundred people.
The performance recalled previous lackluster public addresses from Thompson, who so far has rarely infused his campaign with the no-nonsense moxie and sharp wit of his scripted deliveries as New York D.A. Arthur Branch on television's Law & Order. That apparent inability to energize crowds raises questions about whether Thompson can overcome his late start in the run-up to January's critical primaries-and whether comparisons to a past actor turned GOP presidential candidate are truly justified.
The superficial parallels between Thompson and deceased president Ronald Reagan are undeniable-actors, conservatives, regular-guy appeal. But the substance of the comparison hinges on Thompson's perceived ability to untangle complex issues with clear and memorable straight talk. During the senator's two-day romp through New Hampshire early this month, he showed only occasional flashes of such Reagan-esque communication. But the longtime lawyer and lobbyist connected with enough voters and local GOP activists to prove that he doesn't need to be Reagan to be formidable.
Asked about the comparison, Thompson responded with a style all his own: "There will never be another Ronald Reagan, and I don't see one in the mirror when I shave every morning."
Bill Cahill, a local advisor to the campaign, said that New Hampshire voters will appreciate Thompson's "thoughtful" approach to speech-making: "It's deeply held convictions delivered in a serious tone." Cahill added that most New Hampshire Republicans have yet to pick a horse, leaving the GOP race wide open.
But Fergus Cullen, the state's Republican Party chairman, told reporters at the chili fest that Thompson could have an uphill climb in a state where every talented political employee "worth hiring and some who aren't are already on somebody's payroll." Cullen said playing catch-up would require much more of the grassroots retail politics inherent in chili-feed campaign stops.
The latest polls show Thompson tied with John McCain for third in New Hampshire, well behind both Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani. National polls place Thompson second behind only Giuliani, with strong leads over Romney and McCain.
Thompson stepped down from the farmhouse stage and moved slowly through the mob of fans and media members to a table lined with chili-filled crock pots. "No, no vegetarian," he said, declining a meatless concoction in favor of the con carne variety.
Local television reporters swarmed the senator before he had time to sample the stew. With his chili going cold in a Styrofoam bowl behind him, Thompson insisted that his late entry into the race would not prevent voters from warming to him. "I can't let other people set my agenda for me," he said. "The pre-game is over. Let the games begin."
The following morning, Thompson sat in the popular Manchester breakfast joint Chez Vachon and sipped coffee alongside the mayor of New Hampshire's largest city. Seven-year-old Dominique Pomerleau wriggled through a surrounding throng of reporters to ask the central question of the 2008 presidential election: "What are you going to be doing about the war?"
Thompson repeated the question before launching into a vague answer short on details and long on platitudes: "The main thing is to keep America strong and to let people around the world know that America is strong and united in whatever we do, because we don't want you or your brothers or sisters to have to go back down there later on."
Thompson has been only slightly more specific in other settings, arguing for the need to pacify Iraqi militants so the country can exist in peace. He continues to defend the initial invasion of Iraq for reasons such as the atrocities of Saddam Hussein and his sons, the enforcement of UN sanctions, and the likelihood that Hussein would have developed and employed weapons of mass destruction.
Similar justifications for war might well apply to Iran, a possibility the former chairman of the State Department's International Security Advisory Board does not rule out. Thompson views the conflict in Iraq as just one piece in an ongoing war against an ideology that will test American resolve. "We've had war declared on us by a group of people who have no principles, have no compassion, and play by no rules," he said. "Iraq is a part of that problem, but it's part of a much bigger problem."
Thompson has made national security the centerpiece of his campaign. He decries the country's decrease in military spending following the Cold War and is an unapologetic advocate for peace through strength.
Such hawkish commitments serve Thompson well with many members of the armed forces. On this Sunday afternoon at a Manchester sports bar, Desert Storm veteran Andrew Patterson relished the chance to meet one of his political heroes before the start of the New England Patriots game. "I'm a big fan, because he's very pro-military," Patterson explained.
The appeal of Thompson's apparent toughness in the war on terror stretches well beyond military ranks. Self-described Fred-head Steve Smith brought his entire family to Jillian's sports bar for a chance to meet the GOP candidate. Smith considers himself a religious-values voter, but is more concerned with national security for this election cycle than typical hot-button social issues like abortion or gay marriage.
He is not alone: Many socially conservative evangelicals and Catholics view Thompson as the most viable top-tier candidate despite his relative quiet on so-called values issues. Though the issue is not featured in his campaign, Thompson maintains a consistently conservative record on abortion, having received a 100-percent rating from National Right to Life during his eight years in the Senate.
On gay marriage, Thompson supports an amendment to the Constitution that would prohibit states from imposing their laws on other states-a measure that falls short of more sweeping legislation to define marriage as between a man and a woman, but one consistent with Thompson's support of federalism.
Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, predicted that evangelicals would flock to Thompson once he entered the race, abandoning the pro-abortion front-runner Giuliani. Indeed, Thompson has seen a spike in national polls since his announcement, though Giuliani continues to lead.
Thompson does not possess the same kind of evangelical appeal that President George W. Bush established in his two successful bids for the White House. Whereas Bush spoke often of his faith and connected on a personal level with evangelicals, Thompson rarely invokes God-except to reaffirm the Founding Fathers' guiding principle that human rights come from God rather than the state.
Though Thompson does not attend church regularly, he objected earlier this year when Focus on the Family chairman James Dobson suggested he was not a Christian. In fact, Thompson was baptized in the Church of Christ as a teenager and still maintains some allegiance to that association.
Like many Christians, Fred-head Smith is more concerned with Thompson's record on political issues than his theological convictions: "You certainly know where he stands on things, and he's been consistent on acting on those things."
But not everyone at Jillian's was so thrilled to see the Republican politician or the gaggle of media blocking views of big-screen televisions. Sensing unrest with the distraction, Thompson quickly ordered a hamburger with everything on it and a diet Coke before returning to his campaign bus to catch the first half of the Patriots season-opener.
Two hours later, as the Patriots soundly thumped the New York Jets, football fans at P.J. O'Sullivan's across town seemed more agreeable to Thompson's presence. Grinning ear to ear after scoring a hug from the senator, local resident Joanne Blake explained her attraction: "Number one, he's Law & Order, and I love Law & Order. Number two, he says it as it is."
Thompson's television stardom after six seasons with the popular NBC drama is no small piece to his campaign. He consistently mentions his acting career-which includes playing the president in one film-during stump speeches. Such screen time affords Thompson immediate familiarity in the minds of potential voters. People know him as the honest, straight-shooting, authority figure he portrays on TV.
In reality, Thompson's story is less than idyllic. Married at 17 after impregnating his girlfriend Sarah Lindsey, the notorious goof-off finished high school as a husband and father. That sudden shot of responsibility helped awaken Thompson to the realities of adulthood. He worked multiple jobs to support his young family, and in 1967 graduated from Vanderbilt Law School near the top of his class.
Thompson's career quickly soared, as he became a U.S. attorney in his late 20s and played an important role in exposing the Watergate scandal as minority counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee. That success sparked a book deal, speaking engagements, and more high-profile attorney work.
In one case, Thompson represented a fired Tennessee parole board member accusing Gov. Ray Blanton of taking bribes from prison felons. The favorable outcome of the case led to a book and subsequent film in which producers asked Thompson to portray himself. More acting jobs soon followed.
But no amount of professional success could keep Thompson's 25-year marriage from failing. The couple divorced in 1985, their three children fully grown. Thompson married in 2002 Jeri Kehn, with whom he has a 4-year-old daughter and a 10-month-old son.
The 65-year-old father speaks often of his late-life blessings and the country they'll grow up in as reasons for his entry into the presidential race. During the final campaign stop of his first New Hampshire trip, Thompson stood on the steps of Nashua City Hall and talked about the importance of defending the conservative principles of "the strongest, freest, most prosperous nation in the history of the world."
He spoke of national security, limited government, and lower taxes, ideas central to the conservative movement. But even this friendly audience rarely erupted in cheers, a recurring theme that pushed Thompson to explain himself: "I may not give you a lot of applause lines as we go along. I think this is a serious time."
Fred facts
BORN: Freddie Dalton Thompson, Aug. 19, 1942, in Sheffield, Ala.; raised in Lawrenceburg, Tenn.
EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree from Memphis State University (1964); law degree from Vanderbilt University (1967)
- 1969-1972: Assistant U.S. attorney
- 1973-1974: Minority counsel, Senate Watergate Committee
- 1975-1993: Lobbyist, lawyer
- 1977: Took on a Tennessee Parole Board case that exposed a cash-for-clemency scheme that toppled the governor and became the subject of a book and the film Marie: A True Story, in which Thompson played himself
- 1987-present: Actor, appearing in 18 films, including No Way Out, The Hunt for Red October, Days of Thunder, Die Hard 2, Cape Fear, and In the Line of Fire; and since 2002 starring as New York District Attorney Arthur Branch on the TV series Law & Order
- 1994-2002: U.S. senator from Tennessee; served as chairman of the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs


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It's rare to see any pedal that does more than one thing. The M324 is that rarity. One side is a typical caged platform pedal, terms so old few probably understand what they mean. The other side is a SPD pedal. While it looks like a pedal that can't make up its mind, it allows the rider to be of two minds. One is the round the corner spin to run errands, the other is the ten-miler to work. This way, you can ride in your sneakers for the short stuff and get out the MTB dogs for the longer rides.
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They are okay.
These looks great and feel fine but they are a bit heavy for my liking.
From what I understand these pedals are what I need for my purposes. However, I do triathlons and I'm new to the sport. If I were to get these pedals can I change the cleat (if I'm asking the right thing) on the sole of the tri shoe to go with these pedals?
On these pedals, and on the A530, does the flat side or the SPD side face up when there is no foot on the pedal? Said another way, if I am riding in work shoes mostly, does the flat side come up naturally, or do I need to flip the pedal to the flat side (and away from the SPD side) at every stop sign? Thanks in advance.
The SPD side is a little heavier so it is going to naturally flip down. Most, if not all the time, you're going to get the flat side up!
On my A530, the resistance is more important than the weight (i.e., they stay in the position you left them in). So, SPD up stays SPD up - but note that rotating the pedals changes this. In other words, if flat side is up while it's at the bottom of the stroke, SPD side is up when it rotates to the top of the stroke, 100% of the time. It makes clipping in nice and easy, and if it's backwards for some reason, it's easy to correct on the fly without trying to flip it over with your toe.
good, just not as a dedicated MTB pedal
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
From a platform perspective, these pedals work really well for rides where you aren't frequently stopping (because if you are, you might drive yourself crazy flipping them back over to your preferred side.) I bought these to keep my options open in case I ever decide to cowgirl up and get clip-in MTB shoes. So far they've been pretty finicky out on the trails, since the clipless side likes to flip up whenever my foot leaves the platform, resulting in a very slippery surface for climbs and sketchy sections/descents. On the other hand, they're great for my commute to work on a super mellow/wide trail. Decent pedals - just wouldn't recommend them for use as a dedicated MTB platform pedal.
Are the cleats included?
Are the cleats included?
Yes the cleats are included.
Great for options
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I really appreciated these pedals as I learned to ride clipped in on a longer trip. When I needed to focus on dense city traffic the first couple of days, it was nice to have the option. I'm keeping them on my bike for city riding options.
lookin' good
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
I haven't taken them out on the road yet, but they look great and seem like they will give good grip on the platform size. I will update once I've taken them out on the road.
Great versatility
I have been riding these pedals for nearly a year and am really happy with the choice. I ride to and from work 10k everyday and really wanted to be able to ride into work with clips, but once at work I like doing quick errands and getting lunch on the bike. This way I don't have to wear my shoes around the mall or to a restuarant. And in 1 year using them I've had no problems.
Where can I get the metal cages and straps...
Where can I get the metal cages and straps for the platform side of the pedal?
Local bike shops would have these. That being said, I don't know if the straps will interfere with the spd side of the pedal. These are probably not the best pedals to use with that system.
Is this pedal at all compatable with the...
Is this pedal at all compatable with the SPD-SL cleat?
No it is for 2 hole SPD only.
Good pedals
Picked these up for my girlfriend as her first set of step in pedals and she loves them. She really likes that she can use her bike shoes on one side when she is out for a long ride, or roll the pedals over and ride in flip flops if she is going to meet with friends
I am trying to decide between the Shimano...
I am trying to decide between the Shimano PD-M324 and the Shimano PD-A530. Which is a better option?
I have what they call a performance hybrid or flat bar road bike. I ride for fitness and in training for sprint triathlons. I usually use my mountain bike shoes (hate road bike shoes). Training rides are 10-20 miles and hope to get up to 30 this year. Sometimes I ride with my kids as well on shorter rides. I use sneakers with my kids but on training rides only when I forget my bike shoes.
Which is a better option, Shimano PD-M324 or the Shimano PD-A530?
Hey Lovey,
Looks like your looking at the right options for your needs. It seems to me that the two pedals are pretty similar, this one (the m324) looks to be a little more geared towards off road use and might have a slightly grippier platform for the casual shoe side. The other option (the a530) seems like it has a slightly sleeker design and looks more geared to the casual, around town on the road rider. I would opt for the slightly larger platform of the A 530 for use with sneakers and it looks like Realcyclist has a nice deal on it right now too, so that may be the way to go!
I'd agre- go with the a530 if you are doing rides that long. Its a great pedal.
Do i need to get a "spd compatible shoe"...
Do i need to get a "spd compatible shoe" for these pedals? What type of shoe will work with these pedals...the clip in side.
Any SPD compatible Shoe will work
I am looking for a pedal i can use while...
I am looking for a pedal i can use while mt biking, i have clipless now but have been riding a few trails where i would like the freedom of unclipping to use a platform pedal on some of the more technical areas .... but i will be wearing my spd shoes the whole time.... will this pedal work for me?
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I'm buying an entry-level bike and i was...
I'm buying an entry-level bike and i was wondering if this would fit the Felt F95 Team bike because i need a set of pedals for both until i decide i want to buy biking shoes
Yes they will fit any Standard Crank Road or Mtn
Sweet Pedals
Got this for my first road bike (just got done putting the first 100 on the odometer) and these are great for long rides and awesome for running around town. The adjustable tension is nice... I have yet to fall all the way over. The platform side is pretty grippy too.
Awesome Peddles!
I bought these peddles from a local REI store (and paid way more than i would have if I bought them here) That being said. I think they are great. I was just starting to get into cycling. I ride my back for fitness, as well as around town to the bars. I love having both options, and I probably ride around more because of it. Until i have a <15lb road bike and need to save every last gram, I will continue to use these peddles on all my bikes.
Write your question here... will this fit...
Write your question here... will this fit on a Motobecane Vent Noir road bike?
will this fit on a Motobecane Vent Noir bike?
Yes they will fit any road Bike
But they will only fit SPD Style shoes,
witch includes all Mtb Shoes and most low end Road Shoes.
Yes, they will.
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Write your question here...would be buying these pedals as a gift. do they fit any road bike (Scattante)?
Yes they will fit any road Bike
But they will only fit SPD Style shoes,
witch includes all Mtb Shoes and most low end Road Shoes.


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Hundreds of Urbana alumni will return to their alma mater for the 2012 Homecoming on October 20, old and new friends and current students and alum will join together for a weekend full of events that includes reunion celebrations, the Three Arches Awards Ceremony, and the Homecoming football game complete with tailgating activities.
The weekend begins on Friday, October 19 with the UU women's soccer game vs. Ohio Midwestern University at 3:30 p.m. The soccer game is followed by a volleyball match: Urbana University vs. Notre Dame College at 6 p.m. Volleyball and soccer alumni are invited to cheer on our student-athletes and to meet up in the Grimes classroom for light refreshments at 5 p.m.
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Saturday will open with the opportunity to watch softball alumni take the field against our current Blue Knights at 9 a.m. At 10 a.m. the Pancake Breakfast in the Student Center is the place to be! Join us for reunion celebrations for class years ending in 1 and 7 and take part in the Three Arches Alumni Award Ceremony. All Blue Knights are warmly invited to attend.
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