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This weekend, our Pennsylvania volunteers had their best canvassing trip yet- and not just because of the beautiful weather. 20 volunteers met in State Senator Lloyd Smucker's district, spending their Saturday afternoon talking to 700 Pennsylvanians and collecting signatures for our petition to Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania. We weren't surprised to hear the same things we hear every time we talk to Pennsylvania voters about the Republican electoral college plans: shock, confusion, and disappointment that Republican lawmakers like Senator Smucker are trying to make Pennsylvania less important to national elections.
Again and again, we've seen these Republican lawmakers avoid discussion of this bill by saying it isn't a priority- but we know this is just another attempt to pull the wool over voters' eyes. We know they're trying to get these plans through quietly and without debate. And we know that Pennsylvanians won't stand for it. We're keeping the pressure on, and we need your help to do it. On April 10, we're delivering more than 100,000 signatures of PFAW supporters against the electoral college rigging at the Pennyslvania State Capitol Rotunda. If you haven't done so already, it's not too late to add your name to our petition to Republican lawmakers in PA and other states telling them to abandon this effort. Or donate to support our campaign here.
After vocal opposition from People For the American Way and others, Speaker Thom Tillis of the North Carolina House announced yesterday that a resolution stating that North Carolina has the power to declare an official religion would not be brought to a vote. In effect, this means that the resolution has been dropped.
The bill claimed that the Establishment Clause of the Constitution's First Amendment does not apply to states. But as People For the American Way President Michael Keegan noted in a statement on Wednesday,
"There's no question that any attempt to establish an official state religion is blatantly unconstitutional. That's true whether it's North Carolina or the federal government."
The proposal highlighted the extremes that Tea Party Republican lawmakers are willing to go to in order to push their dangerous ideology – even when it means ignoring core principles on which our nation was founded, such as religious liberty and the separation of church and state.
UPDATE (4/8/13): North Carolina Representative Harry Warren, one of the sponsors of the resolution, has now publicly stated that he "regret[s] any embarrassment or concern that it has caused the citizens of Rowan County and North Carolina," calling the resolution "poorly written." Warren's explanation is, however, still problematic. He says he wanted a resolution that county officials have the right, despite the Establishment Clause, to open their proceedings with specifically Christian prayers. That, of course, flies against the Constitution.
Pennsylvania Republicans' strategy to rig the Electoral College rests on their pushing their plan through quietly, without voters realizing what they're up to. They know they can't win if people are paying attention, because rigging the game isn't fair, it isn't popular, and it isn't right for Pennsylvania. We're not going to let their deception defeat Pennsylvanians' democratic rights. We're turning up the heat on the State Senate Majority Leader, Dominic Pileggi, who introduced the bill to rig the Electoral College. Last weekend, we led 14 Pennsylvanians on a canvass in Pileggi's district to show him that Pennsylvanians know what he's up to, and that he can't get away with these underhand tactics.
Our volunteers knocked on over 1500 doors and talked to hundreds of voters- but we're just getting started. More canvassing and phonebanking shifts are scheduled this week, and we'll keep this up as long as state Republicans keep trying to rig the game. We're showing Dominic Pileggi that Pennsylvanians know what he's up to, they know what his plan would do to their state, and that they won't stand for it.
Sign our petition to GOP lawmakers in PA and other states telling them to abandon their efforts to rig the Electoral College>>
People For the American Way's Right Wing Watch has been closely following the Right Wing's reaction to this week's marriage equality arguments at the Supreme Court – which ranges from awkward homophobic discussions to outright threats of revolution.
Last night, our director of communications, Drew Courtney, went on PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton to discuss the Right's reaction to the marriage cases. Watch it here:
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Minister Leslie Watson Malachi, director of African American Religious Affairs at People For the American Way, delivered the following remarks to those supporting marriage equality in front of the Supreme Court today.
I greet you as one who is humbled to stand before you on this day that will be like none other and say celebrate, be glad in it, and keep standing for and with Hope!
Why Hope? As the Director of African American Religious Affairs of People For the American Way, Hope tells us DOMA will not stand but like Goliath, will fall.
Hope says same gender couples, in committed relationships will be recognized and receive those 1100 plus benefits now denied by the federal government. Hope defends what is right, Hope unites people and families, Hope stands with us and for us, and Hope is the American Way!
Why Hope? As an organizer and ally since 1996, Hope kept us waiting for this historic day. Hope gave us a process and a lesson to never take lightly judicial nominations, to make sure voter registration and mobilization is a core value, to rejoice in victories in 2012 from the proclamation from the highest officer holder in this country – President Obama - to 4 states making it 9 states total passing pro-Marriage Equality laws, and that our work in the states is not done. Hope hasn't just strengthened those who have always believed in marriage equality. It's brought others to reconsider their opposition and join us on the side of justice for all. Hope is why we have so many other new and welcomed allies for equality.
Why Hope? As a Christian, during this Holy Week, from our sacred text "hope that is seen is not hope", so you have had and must hold on with unwavering confidence that help has arrived, is sitting in between the walls of the highest court of this nation, and speaking into existence freedom that will no longer be denied.
And finally, why Hope? As an African American woman, on behalf of the Equal Justice Task Force of African American Ministers In Action, Hope says the enemy is a liar when they say African Americans and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people are two separate - even hostile – communities, for "no weapon shall be forged against us" and no wedge can be driven between those who know oppression, discrimination, denial of basic civil and human rights. Hope connects the civil rights movement to the gay rights movement, the yesterday to today, the hopeful to the hopeless.
So Beloved, stay in Hope! Stay in Hope I say for if the Justices are about the business of justice, then they will speak against hate, division, intolerance, and barriers to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" and strike down the Defense of Marriage Act.
Stay in Hope for my sacred text tells us what "man meant for harm, God intends for good".
In this pivotal moment in our country's history, we must stand on the side of compassion and equality rather than on the side of oppression and discrimination. And that's why we're all out here on the steps of the Supreme Court today.
I leave you with these words, stay in Hope because it was the late Senator Ted Kennedy who said, and prayerfully he won't mind me playing with it a little bit, " For all those whose dreams have been our concern (to defeat all forms of discrimination), the work goes on (we are not going to stop trying until gay and lesbian Americans across the country have full legal equality), the cause endures (freedom to be, freedom to love, just freedom), the hope still lives ( I say again hope still lives), and the dream (for all persons to marry the person they love) shall never die."
Be encouraged! Have faith. Expand love. Know peace. And may Hope, which is never silent, always be with you!
"What do we want? Equality! When do we want it? Now!"
This morning PFAW staff and members joined a crowd of thousands gathered in front of the Supreme Court to chant, march, and speak out in support of marriage equality. As Supreme Court Justices heard the first round of oral arguments on the marriage cases before them this term, multitudes of supporters gathered on the Court steps to share a simple message: our country is ready for marriage equality.
Today, the Court heard arguments on California's anti-gay Proposition 8. Tomorrow, it will be considering the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). In the weeks leading up to today, we have been asking friends of PFAW to share why dumping DOMA is important to them. As I stood out at the rally this morning, I thought about all of the people who had been brave enough to share their story with us – and what this day meant to each of them.
For Bishop Allyson Abrams, a member of PFAW's African American Ministers in Action, it's time to dump DOMA "because it hurts and humiliates those who know love and who practice showing it each and every day." For Sam Paltrow, member of affiliate PFAW Foundation's Young People For Program, DOMA has to go because it "teaches that gay families do not matter," and for Young People For member Erik Lampmann, it's an "issue of economic justice." Missoula City Councilmember Cailtin Copple, member of affiliate PFAW Foundation's Young Elected Officials Network, "would like the chance to marry the person [she] loves someday."
While each person at the Supreme Court rally today – and those at the marriage rallies in all 50 states across the country – had a different reason for being there, we had a common goal: Equality. Now.
This piece is the eighth in a series of guest blog posts on "Why It's Time to Dump DOMA." In the weeks leading up to the Supreme Court arguments on the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act, we're asking friends of PFAW to share why dumping DOMA matters to them. Be sure to check back soon for the latest post in the series.
At the end of 2008, my husband and I were married in the same synagogue where I'd had my bar-mitzvah more than three decades earlier. As a 13 year-old in the 1970s, I read from the Torah and spoke to the congregation about letting the people we love know how much we love them. But as a closeted 13 year-old, I never dreamed that 30 years later, I'd be standing in the same chapel, with all the same people who are dearest to me, publicly professing my love for another man. Rick and I were surrounded by family and married in the traditions of our faith. And as we drank from the Kiddush cup, we adapted a practice from the Passover Seder; since Prop 8 had just passed, we removed eight drops of wine as a symbol that our joy was diminished by the suffering caused by marriage discrimination.
Passover is my favorite holiday because it is about living in a just society. It teaches us to welcome the stranger, because "we were strangers in the land of Egypt." It is a lesson that, unfortunately, must be learned and relearned, as every society has those whom it unjustly treats as outcasts.
It's appropriate that the Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments in both the Prop 8 and Defense of Marriage Act cases during the week of Passover. Although the Constitution uses the language of "equal protection" instead "strangers in the land of Egypt," the underlying values are the same. It is wrong – and unconstitutional – for states to prohibit us from marrying and for the federal government to refuse to recognize our marriages. What better time than Passover to dump DOMA and strike down Prop 8?
Paul Gordon, Senior Legislative Counsel
People For the American Way
This piece is the seventh in a series of guest blog posts on "Why It's Time to Dump DOMA." In the weeks leading up to the Supreme Court arguments on the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act, we're asking friends of PFAW to share why dumping DOMA matters to them. Be sure to check back soon for the latest post in the series.
Nine years ago, as I was preparing to leave Ohio University, I said goodbye to Adam, one of my best friends. I remember writing to him in a card that I hoped our husbands would someday get to meet. That November – November 3, 2004 to be precise – I was on the phone with him, and he was heartbroken at what for many was a difficult election (including Ohio passing a state constitutional amendment limiting marriage to the union of one man and one woman).
Fast forward to 2011, and a visit with Adam and his partner of several years, Michael. Marriage equality came up in conversation. It seemed to us to be possible but still five or ten years away.
Then came 2012. In May, President Obama affirmed his support for the freedom to marry of same-sex couples. In December, the Supreme Court agreed to hear cases challenging California's Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
With oral arguments looming at the end of the month, Adam's reaction to the President's announcement rings ever more true:
THANK YOU President Obama! Those of you who know Michael and I: we have such an incredibly strong, stable, loving relationship. Opening our relationship up to marriage does nothing but STRENGTHEN the institution!
That's exactly why we should dump DOMA.
Yes, dumping DOMA is just one step on the long road to marriage equality. But it's an important step, and one that's many years overdue. DOMA unconstitutionally defines marriage for all federal purpose as the union of one man and one woman. That means that legally married couples in nine states and the District of Columbia are denied the more than one thousand rights and benefits that the federal government ties to marriage. That means that these couples and families aren't afforded the safety and security that comes along with many of those rights. That means that they are discriminated against based solely on their sexual orientation.
That means that if Adam and Michael were to legally marry, despite progress made under the Obama administration, the federal government – bound by the discrimination enshrined in law – would have no choice but to turn its back on them in most cases.
That is not right. Dump DOMA.
Jen Herrick, Senior Policy Analyst
People For the American Way


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Romney charges Obama's ad attacks 'misdirected'
WOLFEBORO, N.H. Republican Mitt Romney demanded Monday that President Barack Obama back away from his persistent attacks on Romney's record at Bain Capital, advising that it would be better "if you spent some time speaking about your record."
"What does it say about a president whose record is so poor that all he can do in this campaign is attack me," Romney said in a nationally broadcast interview.
In a separate interview, Obama said his campaign has aired "a whole slew" of positive campaign ads but said the media largely has ignored them.
In his interview on Fox News' "Fox & Friends," Romney was asked whether Obama should apologize for statements and campaign ads suggesting that Romney has not been truthful in his accounts of his record as head of Bain Capital, a private equity firm.
Romney responded: "I think when people accuse you of a crime you have every reason to go after them pretty hard and I'm going to continue going after him." He defended his business record but did not demand that Obama apologize. Romney also declined to make a fuller disclosure of tax returns than he has already committed himself to releasing.
The latest exchanges came Monday as Obama prepared for campaign appearances in Ohio, a critical state for both candidates, and Romney was to join Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on a fundraising trip.
Obama's campaign has been arguing that Romney's record at Bain Capital indicates that jobs were shipped overseas under his watch. That pitch has been given a lot of attention at a time when the nation's unemployment rate remains above 8 percent and millions of people are out of work.
Asked about this, Romney said he was "very proud of the record I had in my business career." He added: "I'd say to the president, wouldn't it be interesting Mr. President, wouldn't it be interesting if you spent some time speaking about your record."
Romney also pressed a new line of attack against Obama, saying the Democratic president had put the interests of his wealthy campaign donors above the middle class.
"When billions upon billions of dollars are given by the Obama administration to the businesses of campaign contributors, that's a real problem, particularly at time when the middle class is really suffering in this country," the former Massachusetts governor said. "This is a tough time for the people of America. But if you're a campaign contributor to Barack Obama your business may stand to get billions or hundreds of millions of dollars in cash from the government. I think it's wrong. I think it stinks to high heaven and I think the administration needs to explain how it is they would consider giving money to campaign contributors' businesses."
Romney's campaign supported his claim with references to news reports about federal money and loan guarantees that have benefited alternative energy companies run by Obama backers. Among those was Solyndra, a solar energy company that received a federal loan under Obama's economic stimulus but went bankrupt last year, laying off its 1,100 workers and leaving taxpayers on the hook for more than $500 million. An Obama campaign donor had invested millions of dollars in the company.
Obama's team dismissed Romney's latest criticism of the president.
White House spokesman Jay Carney noted that Republican-led House committees have examined potential conflicts and found no evidence of improper behavior
Obama campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki, who joined Carney on Air Force One as the president flew to Ohio, said Romney was trying to change the subject to avoid the questions about his time at Bain Capital.
"He has created this cloud of secrecy around his campaign that I promise you people in states across the country are very concerned about," she said.

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Another game that is considered a classic by many has its flaws.
In this game, you take on the role of Ryo Sasaki in the final days of his high school life. The game begins five days before graduation and even though Ryo doesn't realize it, these final days are going to prove to be the ones that shape his future. Over the course of the five days, he'll talk with many girls that have been apart of his life: The beautiful fellow member of the Literature Club, Kaho; Kaho's younger friend Kyoko; the girl who has worked her through high school as a prostitute Yuka; the school nurse Kaori and his beautiful sister Ayame. Though his memories remain, it's his present and future that he must pay more attention to… while he's thinking of his past, which of these girls are going to become his future?
The character design in this game is absolutely fabulous. The first girl you meet is Kaho and she's gorgeous and it only gets better from there with the beautiful Yuka, Ayame and Kaori. I wasn't overly thrilled with the design of Kyoko but she was still very nicely designed.
The one thing that I absolutely loved about the artwork in this game is that the game uses very soft colors and curves in their design which leads to characters that are much more realistic looking rather than the usual bright colors and straight lines that keep girls looking like they came straight out of an anime. With more realistic looking girls, the art work really helps to bring you into the game that much more and helps you immerse yourself in the story.
The hentai level in this game isn't very high which makes this more of an erotic game rather than strictly pornographic. With such soft muted colors used, it also lends to a much more soft and sensual experience with each of the girls instead of lots of pointless sex with as many characters as possible which will always get more points from me. The story takes center stage here instead of the sex. None of the sex goes wild as well, you don't need to look for wild sex involving toys or anything hardcore, it's mostly just simple sex between Ryo and his lady of choice.
Writing and Story
The story itself in this game was well done and well told with every girl that you encounter leading to a new type of story. For the most part the stories are all similar but they are still all different enough to warrant wanting to play through the game until you face every character and learn all of their stories. Some of the stories are happier but then some are tragically sad for various reasons. The biggest issue that I had with the writing is that the game would've been much more engaging if it had been written in first person perspective instead of the constant second person perspective that you might read in most books. By keeping the game in a constant second person perspective, it keeps the player from becoming as engaged as they might be otherwise.
I did think that it was a clever touch for each day to end with an eye catch though. This was a nice way of really making sure the player knew that one day was ending and another was beginning without breaking the stride of the game.
Another clever touch was how the main character wasn't used in every scene. It was a nice touch to see scenes that he wasn't involved in to get alternate perspectives on what other characters were feeling or doing when he wasn't around. Naturally this wouldn't have worked if the game had been written in first person which shows that there is always a method to some of the madness.
Using flashbacks isn't new to the genre but using them to this extent is and in this case I think that it was a really effective plot device and really helped move the story along in ways that couldn't have been done in any other way. It really great to see the back stories of some of the characters told this way as well. To just hear about the histories of the characters would've worked but this way you get to really see some of the pivotal moments that shaped the relationships of Ryo and the ladies of this game.
For the most part I didn't notice any major issues with translation or grammar within the game but poor use of screen space proved to be frustrating in a couple of places when I would have to constantly go back and re-read sentences because of the way one word would be cut off in the middle and then finish on the next line. Naturally there are a few grammatical errors but nothing beyond what one would naturally expect to see.
Yes, another new section that I felt was missing from previous reviews. The music in this game never proved to be repetitive. Most of the original music from this game is very simple and low key piano scores with occasional violin or flute back ups. The music always sounded good though and never felt out of place and I never felt like it got repetitive or did it get in the way of my playing experiences.
The opening theme was also a big winner with me and I really enjoyed listening to it. I've been looking for the single for awhile now so that I can add it to my collection but no luck so far.
Bad Points
Besides what I've mentioned above, there aren't too many issues with this game that I found to be particularly annoying. Installation was straight forward and easy and the playing experience was easy and flowed well.
I think that the worst part of this game would be in its endings. None of the endings are particularly bad but they always feel very anti-climatic and simple. The characters will always give you a basic idea of what is going to happen to them once the game is over but it's always fairly vague and seems like it's always just enough to tie up the loose ends but never enough to satisfy the audience leaving you wanting a sequel just so that you can see these characters down the road.
Replay Value
The replay value in this game is actually fairly high because of how different each character is. The personalities never blend together; they are always very different which makes you want to learn the history of each girl and what makes them who they are. They all deserve a happy ending and that makes you want to give it to them.
Unfortunately though, with only five girls to pick from (two endings each) it makes it very easy to get through all the endings but to help that point along is the fact that if you get 100% of the CG screens in this game (again, not very hard to do), you can have access to the special hidden ending in the game with a sixth girl. Each ending only takes about 2-3 hours to get through though so if you're patient, you can make through everything game has to offer within a few days if not a weekend.
I won't say that this game is a classic but I will say that the reputation that this game has is very well deserved. The story is very sweet and it's well told which goes well with the beautiful characters and soft music. If you're looking for a very well done game to play, this is definitely one to pick up before it goes out of print. Strongly recommended.
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The VMI Center for Undergraduate Research provides funds to cadets for research-related travel during the academic year and during the summer. Preference will be given to cadets who will be presenting their research at a conference. However, funds may also be awarded to cadets to conduct research in the field.
Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis during the fall and spring semesters. Proposals should be submitted at least two weeks prior to the travel date so that adequate time is available to review the proposal and make a funding award. If the request is for international travel, permission from the Office of International Programs is required before submitting a funding request to V-CUR.
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As spring break travel begins, airports prepare for long lines, sold-out flights
Oklahoma families are preparing to pack their bags and hit the road, take to the skies or cruise the ocean during the annual warm weather reprieve from the grind: spring break.
Will Rogers World Airport is reporting sold-out flights and expecting long lines at ticket counters and security checkpoints beginning this weekend as vacationers embark on their trips. The Oklahoma City School District is out for two weeks beginning Monday, and many other metro-area school districts take a weeklong break starting March 18.
Karen Carney, a spokeswoman for Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City, said unlike regular business travelers, those on spring break tend to check more bags and carry more items through the checkpoint. She recommends arriving at the airport at least 90 minutes before departure to allow plenty of time.
Also, air travelers should be aware that a recently announced change allowing small knives in carry-on luggage doesn't begin until April 25, so existing restrictions will be in place during spring break.
Cancun, Mexico, tops the list for Oklahomans traveling by plane, and popular road trips include North Carolina, South Carolina, Orlando, Fla., San Antonio and Branson, Mo., said Chuck Mai, an AAA Oklahoma spokesman. Unlike other major holidays, the agency doesn't collect data on spring break travel because it's spread over several weeks.
"Our auto travel counselors and travel agents say they've been really busy. Lots of people are looking to skip town," he said.
The fiasco aboard the Carnival Triumph last month hasn't deterred interest in cruising, he said. And cruise lines haven't dropped prices much, either. Dortha Vela, All About Travel president, said the only difference she's noticed is cruise customers now are requesting balcony rooms and avoiding cabins.
"People realize that's just one of those small things that happens with thousands and thousands of travelers," she said.
But results of a Harris Interactive study indicate otherwise. More than half of Americans surveyed agree they are less likely to take a cruise now than a year ago. Travelers' intent to purchase a cruise trip isn't just down for Carnival but across the industry's top brands, a Harris executive said in releasing the results Monday.
Brandi McManus, founder of A-List Adventures, a travel agency for small, custom trips, said spring break trends have changed over the past few years, with fewer people taking wild party trips to Mexico out of safety concerns. Now people want to stay close to home and visit domestic locations such as cities in Texas, Santa Fe, N.M., the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas, where they don't need a passport.
Kayak.com analyzed more than 1 billion Web searches for spring break travel and discovered warm weather destinations are more popular than snowy locales. Las Vegas, Florida (Orlando, Miami and Fort Lauderdale all ranked high) and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, were the most searched. Searches for Austin, Texas, were up 127 percent due to the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival, a music, film and technology event that began Friday.
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Can I get some insight on this difference? What are the pros and cons? Can a beginner lace wheels or does it take special equipment?
Thanks much.
Can I get some insight on this difference? What are the pros and cons? Can a beginner lace wheels or does it take special equipment?
Thanks much.
in for info because im either going to use my hubs and build wheels, or just buy a wheel set
Handbuilt wheels are always going to be alot better than something put together by a machine. A full wheelset that is handbuilt is going to be just as good as buying seperate hubs and rims and having those handbuilt, the issue is just that you get something that someone actually took the time to put together properly.
As for building your own wheelsets, a really experienced wheel builder can do it by hand, but you'll need a tensionmeter. With a tensionmeter there's no reason you couldn't build your own set though
could a novice do that? how much would a tensionmeter cost?
Up to you if you think you can do it, it looks like alot of work but nothing really complicated.
Instructions are here
I've found with step by step instructions (like on park tool's website or otherwise) and the correct tool I have yet to run into any kind of repair work that looked like it would actually be hard. It's just a case of patience and following the steps.
Tensionmeters are about 50 bucks give or take a bit depending on what brand you go with. I haven't built a wheelset myself yet but I plan on giving it a crack sometime in the future. The problem with buying a tensionmeter is that once you use it to make sure all your spokes are really properly tensioned your wheel isn't likely to get out of true enough that it needs a tensionmeter again for a long long time.
tension meters go for about $60 on ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/PARK-TM-1-SPOKE-...WDVWQQrdZ1QQcm
That said, whether you need it or not depends on the kind of materials you are using. Some Modern spokes (especially the low count spoke wheels) need the tensioner.
If you are just using regular nipples and spokes, with common rims all you need is a spoke wrench and a buttload of time. Youre not gonna do a wheel in 1 hour like a professional would. As far as spoke tension its easy as pie with these materials. You simply turn the nipple and if it feels like its so tight that it might strip, back up a bit and you're done.
Sorry dudes, that's really bad advice for a beginner. If you have no idea what proper tension for front/rear wheel drive side is supposed to feel like a tensionmeter will help you immensely.
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so my days as a "novice wheelbuilder" were not too long ago, and i can say that i wouldn't recommend building your own wheels without having a buddy (who knows how to build wheels) to help you out, or at least give them a once-over before you ride them. i think it's a valuable learning experience, however.
i would say if you have that at your disposal, the main pro vs con is self-built wheels are going to have the exact hubs, spokes, and rims that you want and you learn a lot about wheels (pros) but it's almost always going to cost more than pre-built wheels. (con)
before posting, a "noob" should always ask themselves "could this have been answered by first visiting Sheldon Brown
I don't know if this is close for you, but check out the Sibley Bike Depot. http://bikeped.org They have wheelbuilding courses. The Hub Bike co-op also has wheel building courses. http://thehubbikecoop.org/page.cfm?pageID=93
A course is a good place to learn without laying out cash for the tools. And a tensiometer is *really* handy. When you're starting, even having a well built wheel for comparison, it's tough to do it right. Sibley also has an open shop so you could build wheels there once you get the basics without forking out tool cash. And tensiometers and stands are tools that you'll only use occasionally unless you build a lot of wheels.
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You can build your own wheels. Especially singlespeed ones.
A wheel built by you with $100 worth of parts will be stay true better than a $100 factory built wheel. (provided you are good at paying attention to what you are doing and following written instructions.)
You do not need any special tools other than a good spoke wrench. Truing stands and tensionmeters make it easier, but it's not impossible to use your bike for a truing stand and tension by feel and tone.
Jobst Brandt's book The Bicycle Wheel is also a good investment.
On one hand, wheel building is a fairly simple process but on the other building a wheel really well takes practice and some serious attention to detail.
There is such a thing as too tight and too loose and you have to build a wheel after considering the respective strengths of the components and tension things to the limit of the weakest part.
I have seen beautiful rims get destroyed due to spokes that were tensioned well beyond the limits of the rim and seen many spoke breakages when the spokes were either set too loose or were not properly de-stressed,
Until you get a feel for what proper tension feels like a tensionometer is almost essential and once my wheels have been are laced up, tensioned, trued, and stressed they stay true and don't need much in the way of adjustment at all..


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There festival KiLLS from top to bottom
Not bad, but hopefully shpongle finds their way to ********* that same weekend.
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5/13 - Ratatat - Yugong Yishan - BJ
5/20 - Throne of Blood - Science Museum - HK
5/21 - Magda Mayas + Tony Buck - Empty Gallery - HK
5/22 - Charlie Lim & the Mothership - The Hangout - HK
Um....this festival has some decent names, but in the overall picture of things....its the crumbs of an unwiped ass.
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i can count on one hand the acts i'd see if i went to this abomination.
May 28 - High On Fire
May 29 - Tyler, the Creator
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June 2 - Taake
June 3 - Sumac
June 5 - Refused
June 30 - The Stone Roses
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Jack White... yes. No to most everything else.
it's summer, baby.
There is no comparison!
Thankfully Dave (Ants Marching makes me puke) Matthews and Jack White aren't coming to Coachella.
The only positive things are Oakey, Peppers and Special sauce, a couple of others and a lot of beautiful white sand beaches!
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I'd enjoy the fuck out of this fest but I like Coachella's lineup by a long shot
Brutal lineup. Think I'd only want to see Wilco, Dr. Dog, and Jack White. The fact that you would have to be around people who dig the other acts would be horrible.
mja: "i would make a great effeminate hick-accented puppet"
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That line-up is fratboy heaven
skrillex is the top billed electronic act.... just no
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Sunday: At The Drive-In Dr. Dre & Snoop The Weeknd Justice Modeselektor Santigold Nero Thundercat Metronomy Wild Beasts Real Estate
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I would also not mind seeing Gogol Bordello, Randy Newman, or Flogging Molly.
So: Better than Coachella? don't be absurd. A decent festival for the people in that part of the world? Sure.
This was hilarious to post....just put the line in the water and watch the fish jump!!!!!! LOL
daym that's tough.
My girlfriend looks a little bit like Charlize Theron... and a lot like Dog the Bounty Hunter.
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Jack White would be pretty cool. I think now that we've called him on it Baily is backtracking.
on the plus side: randy newman and wilco.
on the negative side: skrillex and DMB, and, well, most everything else.
overall, you must be fucking high out of your mind if you think this lineup is better than coachellas lineup.


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Engine: aluminum, 185-hp, 16-valve, DOHC iVTEC 2.4-liter 4-cylinder with 163 lb.-ft. torque at 4,400 rpm
Transmission: 5-spd. automatic
Fuel economy: 22/30 mpg city/hwy. (23/32 FWD); 87 octane
Fuel tank: 15.3 gal.
Cargo space: 32.7 to 70.9 cu. ft., seats folded
Front head/leg/shoulder room: 38/41.3/58.6 39.9 without sunroof in.
Rear head/leg/shoulder room: 38.6/38.3/56.4 in.
Length/wheelbase: 178.3/103.1 in.
Curb weight: 3,545 lbs.
Turning circle: 37 ft.
Tow capacity: 1,500 lbs.
Standard equipment includes: remote locking, dual-zone air conditioning, multi-angle rearview camera, power mirrors-windows-locks, leather-trimmed seats, easy-fold 60/40 rear seatbacks, cruise control, tilt-telescopic (leather-wrapped) steering wheel with multi-functions, 7-speaker (328-watt) CD-audio system with iPod/USB and Pandora and satellite radio, lighted and covered vanity mirrors, fog lights, power moonroof with sunshade, Bluetooth phone connection, overhead conversation mirror with sunglasses holder, roof rails, rear wiper-washer, 225/65 17-inch tires and alloy wheels,
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Honda's redesigned crossover is "environmentally responsible" with carlike comfort and minivan storage ingenuity
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The fourth generation Honda CR-V is the Super CR-V, Akio Tonomura, Honda's chief engineer for the project, said at the new model's media preview in Carlsbad.
He said Honda has a "responsibility to be environmentally responsible" and that the CR-V is "appropriate transportation for this day and age and for the owner to be proud of that."
Since the little SUV's launch in 1997, Honda has sold nearly 5 million of them, all with four-cylinder engines and an efficient, on-demand four-wheel drive system.
The 2012 CR-V is an evolutionary but significant advancement from last year's model. It is an inch shorter and the overall height is an inch lower, but it is the same width, with more interior room, a lower cargo-loading height and improved fuel economy.
Rather than invest heavily in advanced technologies, such as direct-injection engines or a seven- or eight-speed transmission, Honda stuck to refining the human interface – comfort, convenience, function and style.
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One of the team's proud accomplishments is a re-engineered, one-lever folding system for the back seats. From the cargo area or at the side doors, all it takes is one pull on a lever and the seat bottom flips forward, the headrest folds and the seatback flops down to form a flat cargo floor. One or both of the 60/40 split seats can be one-hand lowered, with no binding or interference from the seat belts. And it's just as simple to push the seats back into place.
Another pain when folding with seats was what to do with the cargo-cover roller. The rollers are wide, bulky and take up useful space, but Honda solved the problem by making it snap into guides at the floor across the width of the cargo opening. It's out of the way and secure. With the seats folded, there is available space for two bikes with the front wheels removed to be secured vertically.


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Oct 2015 - $0.00
Stayed several times here. They have water, electric, and dump station. All paved. Clean, security. Parking at casino or in RV Park (2 locations) . Free one night with players card. Will always stay here for overnight when on the road. We didn't need to unhook our toad. - jromo
Mar 2015 - $25.00
Easy interstate access. Just one BIG parking lot with several separated areas. No restrooms, showers, or sewer hookup, only electric and water at site (no water until warm weather) but dump station good. If you are self contained good place. Shuttle bus available, register at gas station across road. First night free w/ player's club membership. Noisy from late-night trucks and motorcycles, but you can't bear the price. Just can't figure out why they obviously spent a lot of money on concrete but didn't bother to keep a lot of the sites level! Great for a stopover. - JAYFLIGHTRV
Sep 2014 - $1.00
This is a great one night stop. Good access from the Interstate. It is a concrete parking lot. It is level with electric & water. There is a dump station. This campground is free if you get a Players Card. This card also gets you a discount on the buffet. There is a lot of noise from the trucks that also spend the night here. But at this price, I can't complain. - flashgrdma


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Flirty Plants: Searching for Signs of Picky, Competitive Mating in a Whole Other Kingdom
Milius, Susan, Science News
The term "bar fight" does not actually appear in Saila Varis' recent paper in the journal Trees or in her Ph.D. dissertation on the Scots pine. But she's a good sport about discussing whether her research suggests that tree pollen grains have their own versions of nose-punching brawls over female favor.
After all, pollen grains from genetically different trees of the same species appear to be able to sabotage each other's race to a mate, says Varis, of the Finnish Forest Research Institute near Helsinki. Though it is not exactly like a bar fight, she says, there are hints of male-versus-male competition.
Plant pollen may be basically microscopic dust, but as far as evolutionary biology goes it can be as male as any swaggering pool-hall hound with smooth moves and high hopes for the night. Pollen grains competing for access to the alluring green nubbins of female tissue in a pine tree add to growing evidence that a quirky evolutionary force known from animals, called sexual selection, may also show up in plants.
This evolutionary force is not the familiar survival of the fittest, but rather a sort of survival of the sexiest. For no matter how vulnerable a feather display or antler rack may make its bearer, the features can count as an evolutionary advantage if they boost the organism's number of offspring. Biologists have plenty of examples of such sexy evolution among animals. Finding examples among plants has been a trickier business, though.
What's a loud, visible chair-smashing fight between animals could in plants be a silent molecular conflict of pollen grains, a seepage of compounds or the activation of genes. Scientists are now developing ways to scrutinize these hidden interactions to look at basic questions of plant sexual selection. Evolutionary biologists want to know whether individual plants can exercise some choice among possible mates, and whether those mates vie among themselves. Though the means, the scale and the potential for lethal spurs or extreme lipstick are quite different among plants, the pressures driving flirting and fighting may be the same.
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Even though "survival of the fittest" has become the bumper sticker explanation for how natural selection shapes life, the phrase omits a crucial point: An aardvark or a zebra could grow so robust, so attuned to its local environmental challenges, that it might in theory live forever--yet it could still end up as an evolutionary dud. An organism not only has to survive, but it also has to make babies. Otherwise it's as much of a dead end as a weakling culled from the gene pool at birth.
Darwin acknowledged that survival was not the whole story. In the same chapter of The Origin of Species that describes natural selection, he introduced sexual selection, which he describes as depending on "a struggle between the individuals of one sex, generally the males, for the possession of the other sex." He observed that reproductive success doesn't depend just on robust vigor; rooster spurs and stag antlers trounce rivals, and extravagant feathers dazzle.
As the idea of sexual selection developed, theorists predicted that these special devices for winning a mate could drain resources that would otherwise go to the business of survival.
Darwin's ideas on sexual selection could make sense of why the males and females of a species look different. Applying the principle to plants jolted some researchers because many plants grow as hermaphrodites, not as boys and girls with different features.
"There has of course been some reluctance to accept that sexual selection can operate in hermaphrodites, but I think the evidence is now clear that it can," says plant biologist Spencer Barrett of the University of Toronto.
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"Tachilek, Shan State" Tachilek by Rodan44
Tachilek Travel Guide: 53 reviews and 144 photos
Tachilek is a border town in Shan State that is connected to the most northern city of Thailand, Mae Sai, by bridge. We were able to cross the border and enter Myanmar at this point for US$5 per person. We had to leave our passports with Thai immigration before crossing (which made everyone kind of uneasy) and then present only photocopies of the passports to Myanmar immigration. As such, we were prohibited from traveling outside the city and we had to return to Thailand before the border closed in the evening.
Tachilek is just like any border town anywhere else in the world that borders a wealthier country... shady and full of vice. It is notorious as a smuggling route into Thailand, especially for the opium grown in the infamous Golden Triangle region. The border has been closed on several occasions due to exchange of crossborder fire between the Thai and Myanmar military or from ethnic insurgent groups that live as refugees in Thailand.
Just across the border is a street market. It caters mostly to locals, but there are a few shops that sell Burmese crafts, especially lacquer and wood carving. From what I've been told, a lot of contraband can be purchased at this market as well, such as Tiger body parts, but we weren't interested in finding anything like that. Also hanging around the border are several "tour guides" who have pictures of some of the various sites around town. You just point to what you want to see and they have a taxi ready to take you there. Despite being apprehensive at first, this turned out to be a cheap and convenient way to see the town.
Despite spending only a few hours in one city in Myanmar, it is apparent that this is an amazing country with a rich culture. It's depressing to see how the detestable military junta has kept its people oppressed and poor while doing practically nothing to improve the situation in the country. I would love to see more of this wonderful land, but I think it would be best to wait until there are some substantial political reforms. To any other travelers reading this, I would also recommend that you boycott visiting Myanmar for the time being. Don't support the tyranny with your tourist dollars!
Please visit the Myanmar page on my personal website to see many more high quality photos from this destination.
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- In a nutshell:Makes you appreciate everything Thailand has accomplished
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Hi! Enjoyed looking thru your Tachilek page. Yes, I do have more photos (some of the same people you also photographed) but I haven't had the time to build a page. Happy travels!
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We all know box players are excellent at this in the field game, and it's all about hitting the wall to the point that you can catch a pass sent to mars, but does anyone have any other drills or tips?
We all know box players are excellent at this in the field game, and it's all about hitting the wall to the point that you can catch a pass sent to mars, but does anyone have any other drills or tips?
I use a cris-cross drill for my guys in box and field. 4 lines of players making a box. Lines 1 and 2 about 10 yards apart and 10 yards from lines 3 and 4 which are 10 yards apart. Player from line 1 runs and passes to player running (towards player 1) from line 3 at the same time player from line 4 runs (towards line 2) and passes to player running from line 2. Then it reverses and line 3 passes to 2 and 2 to 4 and it keeps going so the players are avoiding each other and catching and passing while there is lots of movement in the middle.
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Then passes are diagonal? Like 1->4, 3->2 in my illustration? Are the players running straight ahead towards each other (ie 1<->4)?
The way I'm reading it, it sounds like a a pair close quarters line drills crossing over each other. Is that more or less the gist?
Yup that is right. Have 3-4 players in each line. Lines 1 and 3 have the ball. Player from line 4 starts towards line 1 and player from line 2 starts towards line 3 at the same time. Player 1 passes it to player 4 before he gets half way. Once player 4 catches it, he passes it to the player in line 1 (in motion towards line 4) and player 4 goes to the end of line 1 as player 1 runs and passes it to the next player in line 4 (in motion towards line 1) and then goes to the end of the line 4. At the same time lines 3 and 2 so the same thing in the opposite direction of line 1 and 4. The players passing and catching need to be in constant motion. Gets them use to guys being really close and having to watch for the other player and catch the ball. Also makes the passer have to make a pass in traffic. You can also make the box smaller for quicker passes in closer. Hope that cleared it up.
Also for finishing they should work on a lot of quck stick shots and passes (I think you US guys say one touch). Feeding acrosse the crease to another player for a quick stick shot. And shooting around/over players instead of making seperation or jumping before shooting.
If you want more drills like that pm me and I can scan some and send to you.
1:57 is basically what I am talking about. http://laxallstars.com/england-mens-...oad-to-denver/
We do the star drill. Have the guys make 5 points of a star then have bottom corner pass opposite top corner. Then a cross the top, then other bottom corner, then point, point then runs in and shoots. If you get 3 or 4 balls in at once it gets nuts.
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That crisscross drill will work nicely with our preseason practices I think.
We use it for a warm up drill in box, it works really well. Another way to change up the criss cross line drill is have one line roll the ball and the other throw it, this way your players need to watch for another playing, a flying ball and a ground ball.
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To celebrate its 125th anniversary, the Texas Exes asked its members to share their stories, showing that what starts here truly changes the world. During the next few weeks, Know will feature 12 stories that show why these alums deserve the title "Extraordinary Exes."Read more
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Readers of this blog know that I frequently point readers to the work of John Ioannidis, MD, DSc, chief of the Stanford Prevention Research Center. Here are several updated items in the news:
A Stanford Med School blog published a piece, "Tropical disease treatments need more randomized, controlled trials," citing an analysis published in the British Medical Journal of medical interventions for 16 tropical diseases. The authors found that, for most, there is little reliable evidence for the efficacy of one intervention versus another. According to Ioannidis:
"These 16 diseases have an enormous impact on health on a global level. More than a billion people are affected by them, and every year the disease burden from these diseases amounts to 57 million disability-adjusted life years. Although close to 1000 trials have been performed on different treatments for these diseases, they are are done one at a time and there is no coordination of the total research agenda that emerges."
And Reuters Health reported, "Medicine rarely a slam dunk, despite splashy studies," about a JAMA article Ioannidis co-authored and an accompanying editorial by Dr. Andy Oxman of the Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services.
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The sins of the fathers (and mothers) make for bittersweet elegy in "Three Days of Rain," Richard Greenberg's poignant, unsettling new play. As much mystery as family drama, "Rain" demonstrates in heartbreaking detail how little we know about the people who most shape our lives.
The sins of the fathers (and mothers) make for bittersweet elegy in "Three Days of Rain," Richard Greenberg's poignant, unsettling new play. As much mystery as family drama, "Rain" demonstrates in heartbreaking detail how little we know about the people who most shape our lives.Essentially two interrelated one-act playlets, "Rain" at first presents three adults — Walker (John Slattery), his sister Nan (Patricia Clarkson) and their lifelong friend Pip (Bradley Whitford) — reuniting to divvy up the legacy (financial and otherwise) of their late fathers, who were partners in a successful and famous architecture firm. The characters' names are more than a little telling. Walker is an aimless, emotionally unstable man who quite literally spends his life walking the world, settling nowhere and disappearing for months on end. His return to Manhattan prompts a visit from Nan, the loving but exasperated sister who, as her name implies, is more caregiver than sibling, and Pip, an affable soap opera star who, like the Dickens character of the same name, is about to receive an unexpected inheritance. Meeting in the dilapidated, long-vacant downtown Manhattan apartment where their fathers, then young, struggling architects, were once roommates, the trio is shown both before and after a conference with lawyers in which they learn who gets what from the considerable estate of Walker and Nan's father, Ned. On top of the list: the world-famous Long Island house designed by their fathers and considered a work of late 20th century architectural genius (think Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater). By turns speaking to one another and directly to the audience, Walker, Nan and Pip struggle to understand the will, the parents and their own lives, no easy task given the facades constructed by the earlier generation. Ned, it seems, was an unloving, uncommunicative man, his unbalanced wife, Lina, "like Zelda Fitzgerald's less stable sister," in Walker's words. Theo, Pip's father and Ned's partner, was, apparently, the architectural visionary responsible for the firm's success. Starved for insight and understanding of his forebears, Walker studies a journal, written by his father and found hidden in the vacant apartment. This, too, is no easy task: A man of few words, Ned sums up several pivotal days in 1960 with the cryptic phrase "three days of rain." Try as he might, Walker will never understand the reference, but the audience will. The entire second act flashes back to 1960, with the cast portraying the previous generation. Needless to say, the family myths to which Walker, Nan and Pip cling are far from the truth. Though talky and, particularly in the first act, a bit slow-moving, Greenberg's play is filled with graceful passages that are by turns melancholy, harrowing and, often, quite funny. Nan's recollection of one of her mother's breakdowns is particularly haunting, all the more so when we later see her mother in youth, an emotionally delicate Southern woman straight out of Tennessee Williams territory. Greenberg apparently has streamlined his play from earlier stagings (one character has been eliminated), and director Evan Yionoulis finds just the right tone of sorrow and inexhaustible hope. She pulls fine performances from her very good cast, particularly in the better, more poignant second half. The play fully deserves the top-notch production it's given by the Manhattan Theater Club, with Chris Barreca's convincingly rendered Soho apartment, Candice Cain's dead-on costumes and Donald Holder's rainy-day lighting. For a play that so movingly illustrates the difference between house and home, "Three Days of Rain" has found both.
Three Days of Rain
Manhattan Theater Club's Stage I, N.Y.; 299 seats; $47.50 top
A Manhattan Theater Club presentation of a play in two acts by Richard Greenberg. Directed by Evan Yionoulis.
Set, Chris Barreca; costumes, Candice Cain; lighting, Donald Holder; sound, Red Ramona; original music, Mike Yionoulis; production stage manager, Roy Harris. MTC artistic director, Lynne Meadow. Opened Nov. 11, 1997. Reviewed Nov. 6; Running time: 2 HOURS, 10 MIN.
Cast: John Slattery (Walker/Ned), Patricia Clarkson (Nan/Lina), Bradley Whitford (Pip/Theo).


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Release Date: April 27, 2001
Running Time: 134 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Box Office: $3,037,579.00
Genre: Adaptation, Drama, Period, Romance
Set in the opulent social scene of England and Italy between 1903 and 1909, the story of two marriages dangerously intertwined in a web of secrets and lies. Adam Verner, an American billionaire art collector, and his sheltered daughter Maggie marry, only to discover that their respective spouses--the beautiful American expatriate Charlotte Stant and the illustrious but bankrupt Italian aristocrat Prince Amerigo--are romantically entangled with one another.


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Curmudgeon, loving husband, cynic, profound admirer of boobs - you could call comedian-musician Tim Minchin many things. But whatever your vocabulary leanings, you'll probably just end up calling him funny. Because he is.
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