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...Do you have any other photos of the pump (more specificallym ,,,the Pulley PN?) ...it appears the pulley on your car is 'stepped' and not 'flat' like many I've seen, ....which raises my interest in this even further. Thanks, Kevin
Well, okay... Then according to my September, 1968 P&A 34, the P/N's are as follows:1968 Nova, Camaro (396) (exc. Sp. H/Per., C.A.C) - 39172341968 All (307, 327, 350), 1968 Nova, Chevelle, Camaro w/C.A.C. (8 cyl.) (exc. P.G), 1968 Chevelle (S.S.) w/C.A.C. - 39172381968 Nova, Chevelle, Camaro (exc A.T., C.A.C. 396), 1969 Nova (exc. P.G., 396), 1969 Camaro (exc. P.G., Sp. H/Per. 396) - 39271161968 All w/Sp. H/Per. (396) - 3925522So according to the P&A, the 3917234 would be correct for the 396/325 and 396/350 (NON A/C) Camaro, with the 3917238 being used on the 396/325 and 396/350 (WITH A/C, but WITHOUT Powerglide). The problem is, I can't seem to find a pulley number for the 396/325 and 396/350 with A/C AND Powerglide!!!Make things clear???!!!Ed
The problem is, I can't seem to find a pulley number for the 396/325 and 396/350 with A/C AND Powerglide!
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I say check both hidden vins to see if they match. Then contact the police to see if the car was stolen and not recovered. I know thats taking a chance but its better to know now than after you put many more thousands in the car. If its not stolen then getting a title will just take some time. The other vin is under the heater blower or in that general area

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September is here, and many animals in our area are preparing in some way for the onset of colder weather to come. Some insects and many birds have already started to migrate to warmer climes, and it is this migration behavior that enables researchers to get a "snapshot" of the wellbeing of a particular species and its habitat.
By now, broad-winged hawk migration is near its peak in our region. Many counting locations along ridges show daily counts in the thousands around the middle of September as they make a mass movement south. To show how this species is doing in this year's count compared to last year, I took a 10-day window (September 1 through September 10) from the count site at Scott's Mountain, located in Harmony Township, NJ, where they have had good personnel coverage and records for the two years for this species. The broad-winged hawk count here for this 10-day period in 2013 was 360 vs. 320 broad-winged hawks in 2012. There is no great variation in the count between 2012 and 2013, especially since this is only a 10-day window.
Our second migrant species (a non-raptor) raises much concern, and many people have noticed the scarcity of monarch butterflies over the summer. Here is the count data for the same site and time window for this species:
Scott's Mountain Monarch butterfly
2012 count, 557 2013 count, 8
Counts from other sites during the same time frame show similarity to the above count. According to Chip Taylor, director of Monarch Watch (www.monarchwatch.org [2]), much of the decline is due to habitat loss in both the U.S. and Mexico, along with the record-breaking heat earlier this year in much of the country when the monarchs arrived during spring. Taylor stated that with further population decline comes the possibility of the species as a whole being put in peril if another weather or similar event occurs. As he said in an interview for a New York Times article in March 2013, "This is one of the world's great migrations; it would be a shame to lose it."


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Additionally, wind power reduces open space naturalhabitat. To produce just 1,000megawatts of power a wind farm would require about 300 square miles. That's192,000 thousand acres of land that could be used for nothing else. Thiscompares to 3.05 square miles for a conventional fossil fuel plant and 2.65miles for a secure nuclear facility.
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The semester is off to a bang in Special Collections. Last week, history of science professor Darin Hayton, brought his class on "The Scientific Revolution" to visit and introduced them to a range of primary sources and the types of questions one should ask when confronted with such a text. Texts discussed during the visit included Nicolaus Copernicus's De revolutionibus orbium caelestium (1543), Isaac Newton's Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica (1686), and Ralph Cudworth's The true intellectual system of the universe (1678). In an upcoming assignment, students will be asked to select, describe and analyze a text from our collection (or Bryn Mawr's) that falls between 1500 and 1700, roughly the dates covered in the course. In preparing for supporting this assignment bibliographers Ann Upton and Margaret Schaus have uncovered a rich trove of scientific literature within our rare book stacks.
Students in professor of art history Carol Solomon's course on "Art, Politics, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Europe" have been spending quality time with editions of the works of William Blake. This week students picked illustrations from such works as The Songs of Innocence and Experience, America, a Prophecy, The Book of Urizen, Vala or The Four Zoas, and The Book of Job, and presented on the works within the political, social and cultural contexts of the period.
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Written by Angelic Storm on 15.03.2011 at 19:58
Woah, seems like all the X Factor and Virtual XI songs are live versions with Bruce singing... lol
No need for yet another Maiden compilation though...
Written by Captain Obvious on 15.03.2011 at 20:23
I hate to play the role of John Madden Captain Obvious. But compilation albums, especially in today's mp3 age, are completely useless.
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 16.03.2011 at 08:34
Cashgrab galore. Iron Maiden meet Manowar, Manowar meet Iron Maiden.
Written by RavenKing on 16.03.2011 at 13:29
I guess we need to have been there in the 80s to measure all the extent of the difference between what Maiden were back then and the joke they are nowadays.
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 16.03.2011 at 13:34
Written by RavenKing on 16.03.2011 at 13:29
I guess we need to have been there in the 80s to measure all the extent of the difference between what Maiden were back then and the joke they are nowadays.
Having grown up with the band's 80s releases it saddens me as much as it does you. Up to and including 7th they did almost no wrong in my eyes back then (excpet that I found and still find Somewhere in Time the weakest of the first 7) but then... they released No Prayer For The Dying, my God did I cry my self to sleep when I bought it and listened to it at home. Especially what I consider Maiden's worst song ever... Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter. Thinking they could not sink any lower they released Fear Of The Dark. Wow, they had just outdone themselves in shittiness. And the rest is of course history.
Written by lingus99 on 16.03.2011 at 15:53
I'm sure it's a record company decision and not necessarily the band.
Written by Angelic Storm on 16.03.2011 at 19:00
I do have a feeling this is more the record companies' doing than Maiden themselves. But like Ravenking said, they probably could prevent them (compilations/greatest hits) from being released if they really wanted to. Though Im not really sure how it works/ Motorhead have probably had the most of these compilations released out of any metal band. but a lot of them are unauthorised and not endorsed by the band themselves. So bands can't always be blamed for these type of record company cash grabs. I know Judas Priest have complained before about compilations being released without their knowledge, or backing. Mainly from their old record companies.
Written by Troy Killjoy on 17.03.2011 at 02:46
Let's be honest, is there anything post-1990 worth compiling when it comes to these guys?
Written by Prowler84 on 21.03.2011 at 14:54
Yes,most compilation releases are pointless but we can not say they are making shitty albums. You can dislike them but no to say they are lacking quality.
Written by Void Eater on 17.03.2011 at 01:47
God damnit, another compilation... Don't they allready have around 4 million of those? Not to mention that they're basically giving a big Fuck You to Blaze, by only having Bruce versions of the Blaze era songs.
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Hi I have a 6 month old girl who I have bf since birth with no bottles. I started solids (cereal, fruit and veg) about a month ago. I pump 2 oz at the end of every day and that is enough to mix the cereal for the day so far.
She doesn't take a bottle, I've tried every bottle on earth and every method.. warm, hot, cold, from frozen, just pumped, middle of the night, bait & switch, someone else feeding her, leaving the house while they try, me trying... I'm exhausted from it all (it's been a few months now). She doesn't take a paci and doesn't suck on anything (except me ). So... What do I do when I return to work in 5 weeks?
I've introduced a sippy with water and she sort of bites it and sometimes swallows but doesn't do anything if I put breast milk in it.
The caregiver I'll be leaving her with is sort of inexperienced in these matters because she's my sister's mother in law so I can't depend on her to sort it out while I'm gone as you might think with an experienced caregiver.
My dr. was NO help at all, she said "keep trying the bottle".. she's a young dr and I think she doesn't think there is such thing as a baby that won't drink from a bottle.
I'm co-sleeping and I'm fine with bf'ing her all night if I have to when I return to work. I wonder if I pump at work it might keep my supply up and I can give it to my sister's mother in law to give to her in cereal and perhaps just a regular cup (that's what I've tried the last few days).
So my first question is.. does anyone else have any experience with a baby at age 7.5 months that didn't take a bottle and relied on food/water perhaps sippy when they went back to work? What did you do?
My second question is when you pump at work how do you store the milk? Do you use one bottle and pump the milk over the milk previously pumped that same day? Do you pump as often as you were breastfeeding (for me it's every 2 hours now)? Where do you wash out the pump?
I'm sure everyone who has to return to work gets anxious and that's me right now.. with no useful advice from my dr. I'm really hoping your experiences will help to guide me.
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A little background info : I have 2 children. I nursed my first son until he was 9 months old, I stopped because I was pregnant with my second son. I had several bouts of mastitis with my first and thrush. Feeling overwhelmed and also not so sure about how I would nurse with 2 young ones, I decided to formula feed my second.
I had a terrible time in the hospital after delivery, I had a c-section and I had internal bleeding and had to have a blood transfusion and then had to go back to have the giant blood clot drained. I was in the hospital at least once a month for 3 months after he was born. I am just now feeling normal again.
We have been trying to find a good fit for him formual wise, he spits up and is constipated. Right now he is on Similac Alimentum. Spitting up less which is good, but still spits up and also is not having regular bowl movements yet. Its just been 3 weeks on this formula.
He is almost 6 months old and has never attempted nursing. I feel like I would like to try and relactate I have read several stories about this and they are very encouraging.
Would it be worth it to try after its been so long. If I hand expressI see droplets out of one breast and clear fluid out of the other. My husband is not in agreeance with me trying to nurse, he is worried about the allergy med I take going into my breastmilk and also me having mastitis again.
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While right now this would only affect the citizens of NYC, the supersize controversy has become a nationwide discussion due to anti-obesity campaigns.
So, chime in and tell us what you think.
Is it right to ban businesses from selling any size drinks they want?
Will these limitations help cut down on obesity?
As for the governments involvement in preventing restaurants from selling "large" drinks, i think is a little bit over the top. But to all the patriots out there who are tired of losing our civil liberties and our rights, you do realize that we have been getting our civil liberties taken from us for quite some time now...You should be outraged, but over sodas? What happened to a Government by the people, of the people and for the people. In a democracy the voters should have all the control and the power, we lost that control as soon as big business and corporations started to fund campaigns, they gained all the power. Im willing to bet that when Gloomberg runs for reelection, Coca Cola and McD's will give one heck of a donation to his opposition, under one condition, repeal this law.
Back to the portion size and soda thing, if you look at many european nations, and compare a snickers bar (or mars, etc) to the euro version, their version is practically half the size. Soda's the same way. Maybe its the fact that they arent worked to death and get almost 5 weeks of vacation a year, i know id be a heck of a lot more relaxed knowing that every 2 months i could go away for a week to unwind. Stress is a big part of obesity, many americans eat when they are hungry or upset...i bet alot of those stresses come from work. Dont get me wrong, this country was built on hard work, dedication and on the backs of the men and women who defend her. But if we stepped back and looked at ourselves, work is a main cause of obesity in this country, its what leads to no time to cook, exercise and even relax. But because of the big companies looking to raise their stock prices and out perform last year, they will cut staff and one person will now have to do the work of two. That single parent wont have the time to make a home cooked meal or get to the gym. Or evenworse, they work two jobs to make ends meet. Companies are turning out Billion dollar profits, yet they are cutting worker, hours and pay. So those under-employed and unemployed submit to the junk food that is passed thru a drive-up window, because it is cheap and affordable.
I apologize for the rant...
Here are a few facts mentioned in the recently aired HBO special, "The Weight of the Nation"
- "Obesity is driving the epidemic of diabetes."
- "57% of the kids in Philadelphia are overweight or obese."
- "A Child born in 2000 has a 1 in 3 lifetime chance of having diabetes...If that child is African American or Latino, its 1 in 2. "
- "Being overweight or obese increases a child's risk of developing asthma by 52%."
- "Obesity is such that this generation of children could be the first basically in the history of the United States to live shorter lives than their parents."
Its becoming common place: Parents attending their child's funeral.
Tell me, AmandaDanielleBrown...What "bigger issues" are bigger than that?
Other countries have dealt with this by imposing a "sin tax" (and there are places in the US that have too...) on foods that are have too high a sugar or fat content. Is that the solution? Denmark taxes food that is in excess of 2.3% saturated fat. France has a soda tax. It's all money into the bank but in countries where they have real medical cover, every little helps. It really IS important to prevent obesity for them. Should they make fast, fatty and/or sugary processed food more expensive to buy or cut back on portion size ... or simply do nothing?
At the same time, though, I think the time has come where the War against Avoidable Disease...Obesity, Diabetes, Arthritis, Alzheimer's, Heart Disease...has reached a watershed. It's fish or cut bait...It's f*kin' "GO" time.
imo, the War against "Avoidable" Disease is a war we can not win unless freedoms we've enjoyed since the founding of this country are violated. We've eaten our right to be free.
Consider the problem from this perspective..
- What kind of war is win-able where we openly encourage the sale and dissemination the very weapons (processed food) that threaten to bankrupt us?
- What kind of war is win-able when our government, whom we've entrusted to protect our freedom, is subsidizing the production of weapons (meat and dairy) we hope to defeat?
- What kind a war is win-able where we not only encourage the enemy, but spend billions of dollars to treat and heal so they may return, at a later date, to re-deplete our resources, further?
There once was a time when war was fought fair, when war was "civil"...The only way we can defeat avoidable disease is get nasty...gut their food supply. We have to declare uncivil war.
Think Bloomberg's law is not fair? Just wait a bit more...
You aint seen nothin' yet.
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Public Safety Director Ted Sakai says a lackadaisical attitude toward security, and failure to adhere to written policies and protocols is what led to the escape of accused murderer Teddy Munet early Wednesday morning from the loading bay at Honolulu Circuit Court.
"It's very disheartening," said Sakai. "I'm very relieved that nobody got hurt, but we did expend a lot of public resources to find this guy, and we did create a lot of fear in the community."
Munet, 29, was captured Wednesday at about 7:20 p.m. outside of an apartment building at 1133 Waimanu St. after police received a 911 call.
Munet is accused of murdering his friend, William Fallau, last July with a single gunshot to the back of the neck. He arrived at Circuit Court from the Oahu Community Correctional Center for a hearing related to the killing, but took off running while wearing handcuffs and a belly chain. Sakai said written policy calls on all prisoners to also be restrained with leg chains.
"I have told OCCC orally and in writing, that they have to comply with our policies on this," Sakai told reporters.
Other policies that were not followed on the morning of the escape include a failure to secure prison vans behind a locked gate before prisoners are unloaded at Circuit Court, and determining whether Munet was required to be in street clothes. According to State Judiciary spokeswoman Marsha Kitagawa, Munet was not facing a jury Wednesday, and could have been dressed in a prison jumpsuit.
"I was told he had a proceeding that might involve a jury," said Sakai. "I want to know what is OCCC's policies in terms of who gets put in civilian clothes, and who gets transported to court in the jumpsuit."
Still unknown is whether corrections officers in charge of Munet had access to a two-way radio. Sakai said the two guards did have a cellphone.
"They should have a radio, but if they don't, that would be a serious concern to me," said Sakai, "and that's something we need to fix right away."
On Monday, Sakai is scheduled to meet with prison officials from OCCC, as well as a representative from the National Institute of Corrections, an agency within the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons. The top-down review will examine all aspects of prisoner security and transportation.
"Our responsibility is make sure something like this never, ever happens again," said Sakai.
Sakai also plans on reviewing fitness standards for correctional officers. During Wednesday's escape, two guards who gave chase after Munet couldn't keep up. Currently, the only physical endurance test corrections officers must pass is before they are hired.
"Apparently, we haven't had these requirements for a number of years now," said Sakai. "But, it's something I definitely need to talk to the Department of Human Resources and with the unions about."
Statewide, corrections officers are represented by United Public Workers, a union that represents many blue-collar workers across the state.
Failure to follow procedures led to escape at Circuit Court
Public Safety Director Ted Sakai says a lackadaisical attitude toward security, and failure to adhere to written policies and protocols is what led to the escape of accused murderer Teddy Munet early Wednesday morning from the loading bay at Honolulu Circuit Court.
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March 12, 2003: Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have observed for the first time the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system evaporating into space. Most of the planet may eventually disappear, leaving only a dense core. The evaporating planet is a member of a type of planet called a "hot Jupiter," a giant gaseous planet that orbits very closely around its parent star, drawn to it like a moth to a flame. The scorched planet, called HD 209458b, orbits only 4 million miles (7 million kilometers) from its yellow, Sun-like star. The planet circles the parent star in a tight 3.5-day orbit. The Hubble observations reveal a hot and bloated hydrogen atmosphere, which is evaporating off the planet. This huge envelope of hydrogen resembles a comet with a tail trailing behind the planet.See the rest:
The bloated outer atmosphere is heated so much by the nearby star that it starts to escape the planet's gravity. Once the gaseous atmosphere escapes, it is pushed away by the starlight, fanning out in a large tail behind the planet, astronomers said. Astronomers estimate the amount of hydrogen gas escaping HD 209458b to be at least 10,000 tons per second, but possibly much more.
HD 209458b is too close to the star for Hubble to photograph directly. Instead, astronomers observed the planet indirectly by measuring how much starlight is blocked when it passes in front of the star. Astronomers used the Hubble telescope's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph to measure how much of the planet's atmosphere filters light from the star. They saw a startling drop in the star's hydrogen emission, an indication that the planet's atmosphere of hydrogen had inflated so much that it was evaporating into space.


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In a wonderful bit of circumstance, this year's Martin Luther King Jr. Day falls on the day when President Barack Obama – the first African-American elected President of the United States – will be inaugurated for his second term.
That a black person could grow up and become president may not have been possible when Rev. King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963, but the fact it would one day be possible is at the heart of his message in those famous words.
We would not claim that because Barack Obama has twice been elected President of the United States, suddenly all attitudes on race have been reversed. On the contrary, we still have a long way to go in that regard. But we have come a long wa, largely because of Rev. King. Largely through his eloquent speeches, writings and actions during the 1950s and 1960s, Rev. King held a mirror on American society that forced much of white America to reassess racial attitudes prevalent in the country at the time. The image Rev. King made many see made Americans realize the inequality and unfairness that then existed and helped to bring about civil rights gains so needed and so long in coming.
An assassin's bullet silenced that wonderful voice in April 1968, but Rev. King's words still stand tall, like the beautiful mountains in our state, to remind us all of where we came from and where we still have to go to achieve that dream.
On this occasion of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we should take some time and reflect on Rev. King's words and career.
* Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
* Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
* All progress is precarious and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
* I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
* Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
* The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion, it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.
* Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."


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February 20, 2013 —
There is no doubt that Monticello's upscale, private racing club has an impressive history in the county. Investing some $40 million in the facility, and creating 60 jobs, the Monticello Motor Club (MMC), which serves wealthy client s, has gained a national and international reputation in racing circles in a few short years.
Now the club would like to expand at a cost of about $42 million over 10 years, and add three professional races each year to the schedule. The plan also calls for the addition of 70 condominiums, a new clubhouse and other amenities.
But the community surrounding the facility is divided about whether or not the club is a good neighbor. At a planning board public hearing regarding the expansion on February 13, more than 120 people turned out, and spoke both for and against the plan.
Predictably, some neighbors complained about noise. A sound study was performed last year, and it determined that there were a few nearby homes that would benefit from the construction of sound barriers at an estimated cost of about $1.2 million. Some residents have asked the planning board to include sound barriers as a condition of the permit modification being sought.
Ari Strauss, president of the club, has questioned whether so much money could be put to better use in creating facilities that will attract more members, and thus be more of an economic boost to the surrounding area.
The sound study also found that the noise generated by the MMC is no more than noise generated by an airport, which is what the facility was in the past. But neighbor Ann Culligan, a long-time vocal critic of the club, dismissed the study as biased. She said it was not done on a real day of racing, and it examined the sound impacts of a limited number of cars, which was determined by Straus.
The noise issue was raised by several members of the neighborhood, including Neal Avery who said he lives about 300 yards from the track. He said "In the summer, when the weather is hot, the wind is blowing toward my house I can smell the rubber from the tires of those cars sitting on my deck. Other times, you've got the television on, the windows closed, the air conditioning on, and you can still hear those cars."
On the other side of the issue was neighbor Jamie Ferriero, who said MMC has been very helpful to the neighborhood, and the club's members have been good for businesses in the area. She described the noise in her house as a slight hum, and said it didn't bother her at all. She said, "If you're going to sit up and listen to it, it might bother you; but get on with your life, there are other noises out there, and it does not bother me."
Local officials have mostly expressed support for the club. Roberta Byron-Lockwood, president and CEO of the Sullivan County Visitors Association said it has become an important tourist destination in the county and she supported the club's expansion.
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3. Before meeting with the estate-planning team, ask yourself the following question: What do I really want to happen to the family farm? Set goals, both short-term and long-term, to make a concrete plan and, as Gessner puts it, "take the beast out of estate planning."
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A Belgian friend of mine living in London described an acquaintance as being a woman of few but wise words. She asked if there was a word in English to simultaneously convey both qualities. I haven't been able to think of one. The closest I can get is taciturn or laconic, neither of which necessarily implies sagacity. Any help?_________________________
#173695 - 02/18/08 07:09 PM Re: A Man/Woman of Few Words [Re: Bill Hatcher]
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pithy, or compendious
#173696 - 02/18/08 07:17 PM Re: A Man/Woman of Few Words [Re: tsuwm]
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#173697 - 02/18/08 07:18 PM Re: A Man/Woman of Few Words [Re: tsuwm]
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#173699 - 02/18/08 11:54 PM Re: A Man/Woman of Few Words [Re: olly]
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lacosapient adj. of few but wise words.
ORIGIN via Latin from Greek Lakonikos, from Lakon Laconia, Sparta, the Spartans being known for their terse speech and Latin sapient- being wise, from the verb sapere.
Okay. I made that up.
#173726 - 02/19/08 11:09 AM Re: A Man/Woman of Few Words [Re: Hydra]
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aphoristic laconical
#173732 - 02/19/08 02:52 PM Re: A Man/Woman of Few Words [Re: dalehileman]
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Can we be realistic about it? It's not that hard to keep your words wise when you use few.
I would call her a WWofeW. (Wise Woman of few Words).
Why does the owl represent wisdom? That big-eye stare, immobility and silence.
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Originally Posted By: Hydra... the Spartans being known for their terse speech ...
#173743 - 02/20/08 06:04 AM Re: A Man/Woman of Few Words [Re: Sparteye]
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Originally Posted By: SparteyeOriginally Posted By: Hydra... the Spartans being known for their terse speech ...
And their soft, doe-like eyes.
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Aww-ww...she is great, isn't she?
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By Mary Small, Colorado State University Cooperative Extension, Urban Integrated Pest Management
Leaves on houseplants can drop for many reasons. When a new plant is brought home, it may shed leaves in response to lower light intensities there. Usually, once the adjustment is make, leaf drop ceases, unless the plant won't tolerate reduced light conditions.
Temperature changes also can cause leaf drop. Low humidity in Colorado during winter can be another cause. Usually placing plants in naturally humid areas, such as the kitchen or bathroom, will help as long as other growing requirements are met.
The prime suspect in leaf drop, though is overwatering. The top of the soil in a potted plant dries out fast, especially in winter, but underneath it can still be moist. Before watering, it's a good idea to check the soil by pushing a finger into the soil to your first or second knuckle. If the soil is moist to the touch, wait a day or two, then recheck. When the soil feels dry at the depth you are checking, it is time to water. Put enough water on the soil so the excess comes out of the bottom of the container. Let it drain for 15 or 20 minutes, then discard the excess water.
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Windows Compatibility for the Linux Desktopby David Collier-Brown, coauthor of Using Samba, 2nd Edition
In any business switching to Linux, there's at least one person who's stuck. These people need to use files from some Windows-only program, and usually have to do so by dual booting to and from Windows. Dual booting is very slow when all you really want to do is cut and paste a few screenfuls of data. Worse, because it is so slow, there is a real temptation to remain in Windows and use programs such as Outlook and Exchange, this year's favorite virus targets.
There is a better alternative: run just the necessary Windows programs under Linux. This solves the same problem we saw when DOS started to replace CP/M. There was always something that only the older operating systems' programs did, so you ran the older programs with an emulator.
When you're done, you will have the ability to run Windows programs on your Sun Java Desktop or other Linux system. If someone mails you a Microsoft Project file, double-clicking will launch the program to edit it, even though MS Project runs only on Windows.
Yes, you can run MS Project on the Linux desktop. Our approach will let you
use the Linux command
win to run the Windows application just as
if it were a normal Unix command, passing it a slightly modified Unix
command line. Project will then appear in a normal X window on the desktop
under control of your window manager.
Figure 1. MS Project running on the Gnome desktop
Netscape can run the
win project_file command when you double-click a file in mail or on the Web. You can run the same command from the Gnome applications menu by double-clicking an icon or an MS Project file, or directly from the command line.
With this, I can have my "must-have" programs: MS Project and Visio.
There are several emulators we could use, so our first task is to find one suitable for our purposes. In this particular case, I wanted a program that was usable on two existing machines: my JDS system at home, and the departmental loaner, a three-year-old laptop.
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The first good candidate was CodeWeavers' Crossover, which the Java Desktop uses to run Windows web-browser plugins. However, CodeWeavers doesn't offer support for Project. If it had, Crossover would have been a good choice: it's fast, resource-light, and inexpensive at $54.95 per person.
Related to Crossover is WINE, a free software project supported by the CodeWeavers team. Regrettably, it doesn't support Project, either. Nor do the two other well-known free projects, BOCHS and Plex86.
Next was EMC's VMware, a powerful virtual machine capable of running Windows NT, 2000, and XP; Linux; and Novell NetWare. The Samba team uses it to run multiple different Windows versions to test their SMB file server. Its only disadvantages are its preference for NT over Windows 9x, its cost ($299), and the need for a powerful PC.
Because the commonly needed programs all run under Windows 95 through 2000, the next good candidate is NeTraverse's Win4Lin. Win4Lin doesn't run NT and XP programs, so it's not as general-purpose as VMware. On the other hand, it is less expensive at $89.99 a seat, integrates particularly well with Unix, and doesn't require a powerful machine to run. I've had good results with it since I first tried it on Red Hat 7, so Win4Lin is a good choice for running Project on the Sun Java Desktop.
All of these products run locally, so they are suitable for portables and individual desktop PCs. If we were trying to provide backwards compatibility to a whole department of Unix machines, we'd also consider NeTraverse Win4Lin Terminal Server and EMC VmWare ESX server, both of which replace the Windows Citrix product.
Windows 98 will give you the fewest bugs and best performance. I used Windows 95, as it is quite fast and capable of running all the programs that I wanted, but it did have the disadvantages that installing it required a boot diskette and that it doesn't support USB.
Before you start, you'll need a licensed copy of Windows to use as your guest operating system, a copy of the Win4Lin installer, and possibly a Windows boot diskette.
From Windows, create a boot diskette, and check that you have the license
key for your copy of Windows. Then download the Win4Lin installer. You will need to run
win4lin-install as root, so a good place to save it is the
/root directory.
There are three steps to installing Win4Lin: installing the virtual machine module into the Linux kernel, loading a basic DOS under it, and finally installing a complete licensed Windows in the account of the user who will use it.
If you are installing Win4Lin on a pre-release version of the Sun Java Desktop, there is an extra step. You'll need to preinstall a specific kernel that supports Win4Lin and is compatible with SJD.
At the time of writing, SuSE version 8.1 has just come out. I used kernel
k_deflt-2.4.21-151.i586.rpm. Download the kernel to /root and install it. The command for this is:
# rpm -Uhv --nodeps --force k_deflt-2.4.21-151.i586.rpm
When the commands complete, reboot and continue.
The initial step is to run the installer,
/root/win4lin-install, as root. The installer will open a window with a handy "What stage am I at?" display in the upper left and start looking for the proper modules to download, as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. The installer screen
After downloading and installing the kernel modules, the installer will ask you to reboot to load the Win4Lin kernel module. This is the only reboot you'll need, unlike a normal Windows installation. Linux will default to loading the Win4Lin kernel, but you can still load the previous one in case of difficulty.
After logging back in again as root, run
/usr/bin/win4lin-install. Note that this is not the installer we downloaded to /root. Instead, it's a different installer that the first installer placed in /usr/bin. You'll then come to the one place where you might strike trouble.
As these boot disks are subject to the Windows license requirements, once you find the one you need, you should retain only the one that corresponds to your licensed copy of Windows.
Unless your Windows CD is bootable and your CD-ROM drive supports booting, Win4Lin will ask you to insert a DOS boot diskette.
If you don't have a Windows recovery floppy, or, like me, made one that didn't boot, see Bootdisk.com for a replacement. This can take a few tries: I thought I was installing Win95b, but actually had a Win95a CD. After multiple attempts, I finally succeeded with a Win95a floppy.
Once you've found or recreated your boot floppy, complete the installation. This will load a minimal DOS and the Windows installer.
After this step, exit the root account and log in as the user who will run Windows. Now you'll need your proof of ownership. If you have a non-upgrade version of Windows you need a Certificate of Authenticity. For an upgrade you need the certificate or CD from the Windows you initially installed. One of these will contain the license key Windows will ask for.
As the licensed user instead of root, run
/usr/bin/win4lin-install and the installation program will
Don't start with VNET! The Windows networking system is problem-prone and isn't protected by the built-in Linux firewall. If you start with Winsock and change your mind, you can add VNET later.
The first question the installer asks is whether to use the default WinSock
networking or add VNET. The latter is necessary for the Network Neighborhood
feature of Windows. If you select WinSock, you'll still have access to TCP/IP,
so web browsing,
telnet and FTP will all still work.
Once you've made this selection, the last Win4Lin screen will appear. A Windows virtual machine will boot in a separate window.
Almost immediately, the Windows installer will request a license. Select OK and type in your key, following the instructions on your particular screen. This step will vary somewhat, depending on the Windows version and whether you have an initial or an upgrade CD.
Once the Windows installation completes and you've set the time zone, Windows will reboot. However, unlike the interminable boot of Windows on physical hardware, no sooner does the installer window close than a DOS window opens and Windows starts to reload.
You're now in a quite normal-looking Windows session, but under Linux, with the Gnome icons visible on the far left. (See Figure 3.) These icons include the Win4Lin Desktop icon that will start this Windows session from now on.
Figure 3. A Windows session, with Windows Explorer running
Bear in mind one thing from this point onward: always exit Windows via the Start -> Shut Down menu, not the exit button on the upper right of the X window system frame. As a guest operating system, Windows needs to shut itself down.
We need to change one thing at this point. Win4Lin has created a
mydata directory in the user's home directory and pointed Window's
D: drive to it. Like the Sun Java Desktop's
Documents directory, it exists to supplant the My
Documents directory on Windows'
C: drive.
We only need one personal documents directory, so we need to remove the
C:/My Documents directory that Windows created from
~/win, and the similar ~mydata directory that
Win4Lin created, and then point the
D: drive to the SJD
Documents directory.
Windows will eventually wedge right after you or one of your users fails to
install something. Before this happens, create a
Run the Win4Lin setup program, /usr/bin/winsetup. Select Personal Session Configuration: win, then the Drives and Filesystems tab. Select the
D: drive, press the Properties button and enter
$HOME/Documents in the Directory field. Next, click OK, then Save, and finally Exit. When you start Windows again, you'll see the new drive letter and its contents listed as
Because you've separated programs and data, you can now back them up separately.
With a
tar backup of
$HOME/win, you can always return Windows
to a known working state by unpacking the
tar file in the
$HOME/win directory. Restoring this file is a less destructive
version for the "reinstall Windows" step that application help desks will tell
your users to take. Because it only overwrites the basic OS, most of the other
files the user has added won't be threatened.
We now have the ability to start DOS or Windows and to run programs as if we'd dual booted. However, this is not what we were trying to achieve. Instead, we should make the Windows programs run like Linux programs by selecting them from the Gnome menu or by double-clicking their data files.
Because can run both DOS and Windows under Win4Lin from the command line, it is possible to write scripts and integrate Windows programs into Gnome and Netscape just like Linux programs.
The command to run a Windows program from Linux is
win. Pass it the name of the program to run and any options. For example,
win c:/windows/startm~1/programs/window~1 will start Windows Explorer.
There are two problems with paths, both of which can interfere with running Windows programs this way. The first is that running programs from Windows can involve directories with spaces in their names. The second is that Windows wants to use drive letters in place of full pathnames.
Windows has several popular directories with spaces in them, including the Microsoft Office directory, where Project and Visio reside. If you specify one of these paths in a Unix shell script without the right quoting in place, the script will fail. This could prevent us writing a script to run Project from Linux.
The solution for this problem is to find the DOS name that corresponds to
the directory you want to use. DOS does not allow spaces in names, so you can
use DOS directory names in
win commands. The DOS
command will show you both the long (Windows) and short (DOS) forms of a directory name,
allowing us to construct a path that will be interpreted properly in Unix.
Consider the problem of writing a script to start Microsoft Project. Project
resides at
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Wimproj.exe, which
dir identifies as
C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\WINPROJ. This
allows us the write a project script containing the following:
win "C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\WINPROJ" "$@"
If we used the command
project Documents/gantt.mpp,
win would
find the Project binary, but wouldn't be able to interpret the path to the data
The path to the file to be opened doesn't have the blanks problem. Instead, it is a Unix path without a DOS drive letter, which Windows won't be able to find. The solution to this is to have a drive letter corresponding to the root, and use a full path in the script. Our script now becomes something like this:
case "$1" in
"'" echo "'";;
/' echo "$1";;
' echo `pwd`/$1
win "C:/PROGRA~1/MICROS~2/OFFICE/WINPROJ" R:`fullpath $p` "$@"
With this script in /bin/project, create an
drive and map it to root. Run
/usr/bin/winsetup once more. Select
Personal Session Configuration: win, and then the Drives and
Filesystems tab. Hit the Add button and enter the path
/. Then click OK.
For any program that runs under DOS, we can use the same approach to write
a script to run it with the same structure, except for substituting
dos for
win as the command name.
At this point we can write scripts to run Project, Visio, or any other DOS or Windows program from the command line.
The next step is to tell Gnome and Netscape how to find the
project, and
visio scripts, associate them with the file types for Project and
Visio, and add the commands to the menus. Gnome and KDE predominantly use
configuration files with names like win4lin.desktop to make
programs available to the GUI, while mail and web programs like Netscape use
mime.types and mailcap files to do the same thing.
We'll work with these three file types.
Win4Lin already comes with a two files to allow its icon to appear on a Gnome desktop, an icon and a .desktop file. The first thing we'll do is set it up under Gnome. Assume for the moment that I want it in the quick-start area of the main menu, as well as in its usual place two layers down in Accessories -> Office -> Win4Lin, as shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5. Gnome Menus after adding Win4Lin
The Win4Lin installer placed a Win4Lin.desktop file in
$HOME/.gnome-desktop, so as to make a Win4Lin icon appear on the
user's Gnome desktop. This does not put it in the menus for this or any other
user, so we'll first move the desktop file to a safe directory and then change
it to make it appear where we want in the menus. If the user doesn't want the
Win4Lin icon on the desktop, she can then delete it without accidentally making
it disappear from the menus.
Copy the file to the /usr/share/applications directory, then
put a symlink in its place in
# cd /home/davecb/gnome-desktop
# mv 'Win4Lin Desktop.desktop' \
# ln -s /usr/share/applications/Win4Lin_Desktop.desktop \
'./Win4Lin Desktop.desktop'
At this point, edit it with a text editor to add the
Categories line:
[Desktop Entry]
name[en_US.ISO8859-1]=NeTraverse Win4Lin Desktop
This indicates it is found in the Applications-> Office menu, as well as the quick-start area of the main menu, as shown above.
The two
X-Sun categories are peculiar to the Sun Java Desktop. The
X-Sun-Supported flag indicates that the program should appear in the menus,
whereas the
X-Sun-Quick-Start category indicates that it should also appear in
the quick-start entries at the top of the main menu. Without the
X-Sun-Quick-Start indicator, it would appear in Application -> Office
The first two categories in the list indicate its position in the menus, under the Applications main menu, in the Office sub-menu.
The menu names used by the SJD differ slightly from the names used in the
Category line. The menu/submenu names in the left column of the
table below correspond to the
Category= names in the right
|Menu Name
|Category Name
|Java Applications
|System Tools
We also need to move the icon from
$HOME/.merge/Win4Lin.xpm to
the global icon directory, /usr/X11R6/share/icons/png/hicolor/48x48/apps, and then update the
Win4Lin.desktop file to say
Icon=win4lin.xpm. Gnome will find the icon by name, if it's in the default place.
Non-JDS Gnome desktops use exactly the same system of
values to place applications in menus.
To appear in the Applications menu, the categories must include
Under that menu, the commands appear in sub-menus if they contain
Application and one of following additional category names.
|Applications Sub-Menu Name
|Category Names
|Utility but not System
|Spreadsheet || Office || WordProcessor || ProjectManagement || Calendar
|Settings but not System
|not Settings
These category names shown here come from the .vfolder-info files in /usr/share/gnome/vfolders or /etc/gnome/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders.
KDE uses an entirely different system. Instead of placing
Category= lines in the desktop files, the files themselves appear in a directory hierarchy that corresponds to the menus. For example, if
netscape.desktop were in /usr/share/applications/internet, it would appear in the
Applications -> Internet menu.
The same techniques works to add your Windows programs to the Gnome menus. We'll start with Visio.
Install the program as usual under Windows. Before you remove the CD, locate the icon you wish to use with the program. Running
find on the CD identified a Windows VisioCD.ICO file in the /media/cdrom/Support directory. Copy the icon to a Linux file system and convert it to a Unix icon with:
$ winicontoppm VisioCD.ICO | pnmtopng > /tmp/visio.png
Copy visio.png to /usr/X11R6/share/icons/png/hicolor/48x48/apps, the default location for Gnome icons.
Next, find the executable. Running
find on
~/win found
./Program Files/Visio/Visio32.exe and
dir identified the path as
\PROGRA~1\VISIO\VISIO32. At this point, we can copy the project script to create a visio script.
Then, create a desktop file in /usr/share/applications/visio.desktop, containing:
[Desktop Entry]
A new entry, Visio, will now appear in the JDS menus under Graphics. It's runnable.
Project requires a similar project.desktop file:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Microsoft Project
# Icon=
In the visio and project.desktop files above, a line identifies the MIME type of the program. This is an unambiguous name for the file type used by the program. Both Gnome and Netscape use the MIME type to find out what program to run if you double-click a file of this type.
Gnome stores its registry files covering all MIME types that it will recognize in /usr/share/mime-info. We'll create win4lin.keys and win4lin.mime files as follows.
win4Lin.keys contains:
description=Microsoft Project File
description=Microsoft Visio file
win4Lin.mime contains:
ext: mpp mpc mpt mpx mpw
ext: vsd vss
A similar applications registry for files lives in /usr/share/application-registry. We'll create a Win4Lin.applications file there, containing:
name=MS Project
To integrate MS Project with Netscape, you need to provide the same information in a different set of files. Add the following lines to /etc/mailcap:
type=application/vnd.ms-project desc="Microsoft Project File"
type="application/vnd.visio desc="Microsoft Visio File"
and the following lines to /etc/mailcap:
application/vnd.ms-project: /bin/project %s
application/vnd.visio: /bin/visio %s
The /etc/mailcap file corresponds to the /usr/share/application-registry/Win4Lin.applications file, while the mime.types file corresponds to the /usr/share/mime-info/win4lin.keys and win4lin.mime files.
After adding these to the system mime.type and
mailcap files, Netscape will recognize a Project file when you
double-click it either in email or on the Web. It will launch
/bin/project to edit the file.
If you have another non-x86 machine, you can run Windows programs on Linux and display the window on your other machine, to the considerable startlement of your colleagues. See Figure 6.
Figure 6. Running Visio from a SPARC
With a Linux machine named Calvin and a Solaris machine named Hobbes, the command on Hobbes is:
xhost +calvin: ssh calvin "DISPLAY=hobbes:0.0 /bin/project $@"
At this point we're done. Whenever we need to run those last remaining Windows programs, we can do so without leaving Unix and without the interminable waits of dual booting.
If we need to provide this same kind of capability to a whole department, we can look at the Win4Lin terminal server, which Sun and Siceroo recently used in a large deployment of Sun Rays for the Netherlands school system.
David Collier-Brown is a consulting systems integrator, currently working for the performance and engineering group at Sun Opcom in Toronto.
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This picture look familiar? It should. It is featured on the front page of mlblogs.com. When I logged on this morning I was welcomed with the sight of Bucco. I was shocked, simply because when are the Pirates even merely mentioned? Lastings Milledge was front and center as mlb.com drooled over his fantasy potential.
Lastings Milledge my friends, this guy is going to be good. I'm not the only one who thinks so. Cory Schwartz of Fantasy 411 on mlb.com had this to say about Pittsburgh's starting left fielder.
Lastings Milledge is something of a forgotten man after being run out of two organizations, and he was further hampered last season by a broken finger, but he's stolen 28 bases in his last 162 Major League games going back to 2008, along with a .278 average and 17 homers. He seems comfortable in Pittsburgh, especially now that he's been moved to the less stressful defensive assignment in left field, and he's still only 24. Milledge's talent has never been in question, so with a full season of health and calm this could be year he starts converting those skills into big-time fantasy results.
I agree with everything Schwartz mentioned above. When Milledge first came over from Washington I thought we were in for a long, rusty relationship. He had indeed hit his rough patches as a Met and even in Washington he butted heads with those in charge. It looked as if we had traded Nyjer Morgan, one of the nicest guys in the business, for this firecracker.
Within days, Milledge proved us all wrong. Management praised his attitude and worth ethic as he put in the time and effort he never seemed to in previous years. Everytime I saw him last season he had a smile on his face and looked like he belonged.
Hitting the seen near the beginning of 2006, Milledge was heralded as "the future," a phenom. Whether the hype went to his head is something often discussed but he was never welcomed in New York. As the youngest player in the National League, just a few days into his 21st year, Milledge was never understood by his veteran teammates. Such stars as Cliff Floyd, David Wright and Billy Wagner were reported to have lashed out against their rookie member in the clubhouse. It is safe to say they had a reason. Milledge acted like a kid in a candy score in the Shea Stadium outfield. He celebrated outlandishly, high fived fans and blew up at umpires. Maybe the vets had a point. Milledge definitely had some growing up to do. He got that opportunity in Washington when he was traded to the Nationals. Ironically enough Milledge was swapped for Ryan Church. Now the two pieces of a trade will be united together in ittsburgh as Pirates this year.
In a new setting and a new environment, young Lastings still had to fight to find his niche.
He was welcomed by the younger, more relaxed clubhouse in Nationals Stadium. It was his performance on the field that rolled some eyes. Batting in the third spot Milledge was batting .245 with seven home runs and 32 RBIs. Miniscule numbers for a quality 3rd batter. He suffered through a lingering foot injury suffered while in New York. After the rehab process he showed some life in his bat with an above .300 average to close out the 2008 season. When he was traded near the July 31st trade deadline, Milledge had a hand injury and could not play baseball for the life of him. With a sub-Mendoza Line batting average and nagging metacarpals Milledge came to Pittsburgh amidst the outcrys of Pirates fans who mised their beloved Nyjer Morgan. Like I said before, it was only a matter of days before he put the criticism to rest and strived.
Part of the facts attributing to the resurgence of Lastings was the much younger clubhouse. Stepping in as actually one of the veteran guys at the rip age of 24 was appealing. Also, lets face it, its Pittsburgh. Milledge found a home in the lower part of the batting order and finished the year strong. With our outfield set, he is truly a part of the bright future of the Pirates.
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First of all, Lastings Milledge is one of the coolest names that I ever heard. Great dedication entry and I'm glad he was on the front page on mlblogs. Don't worry. Padres don't get featured a lot as well. http://hyunyoung.mlblogs.com
It will be interesting to see how he fares this year. I'm always intrigued by how some players benefit so much from a change of scenery. I guess the "chemistry" of a team really can make a difference.
Rants, Raves, and Random Thoughts
The Pirates have got a good team this year, their outfield in particular. I like a lot of the players on their roster and am exited to see the Pirates finally climb over that .500 mark this year.
Lasting used to play his early High School baseball at a small private school here in St. Petersburg called Northside Christian. He totally abused the competition and after a few off the field issues went back to his hometown of Bradenton, which is a Pirates Spring Training home.
So maybe Lastings will go full circle and be the piece needed to break the curse and bring a winning season to the Three Rivers region.
I also believe his departure from Washington was for the same reason as Elijah Dukes from the Rays….change of scenary and a fresh start can do wonders for a young budding career.
An outfield of AC and Lastings can be considered the fastest in baseball just on talent alone.
Future is so bright, they got to wear shades!
Rays Renegade
Guess Milledge is never going to release that rap album, huh?
I Liked Lastings!! I think he got shafted here in NY. He got railroaded outta here quick. I know the Wilpons didn't want anything to do with his rappin' and after Willie Randoph said he was too imature, the Mets shipped him out. What a mistake. I still believe that. Ii think u have a good up-coming ballplayer. PITT is a good place for him.


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The twin release, JUBILEUM VOLUME I and JUBILEUM VOLUME II, turned out a great way to pay respect to the history of the band and a way for BATHORY to say thank you to all their fans whom had so loyally stood by them.
Now celebrating 15 years, some fans begun to ask for a third release along the same line. The abundance of unreleased material deep down the archives of the band, was well known to all the fans. A third release appropriately dubbed JUBILEUM VOLUME III was put together containing the favourite tracks of the fans off of all the albums released since the previous two JUBILEUM releases.
One third of the tracks on this third release consisted of previously unreleased material as well as the earliest proper recordings of BATHORY ever, Satan My Master and Whichcraft.
What a suiting way to commemorate over a decade and a half in the studio. The legend continues!
Compiled in July 1998. Released in September 1998.
Tracking list (*previously unreleased )
33 Something
*Satan My master
The Lke
*In Nomine Satanas
Immaculate Pinetreeroad #930
War Machine
The Stallion
*Resolution Greed
*Valhalla Backing Vocals Multitrack Sample
Pax Vobiscum
Gods Of Thunder Of Wind And Of Rain


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Buy for$9.67(14 items)
Written by Ralle on 24.11.2012 at 18:02
They need second guitarist with a new and fresh ideas who will pump a new fresh blood in Destruction.
Written by Fearmeister on 12.02.2015 at 00:09
Yea, never understood why people didn't like it. Personally, I think it was their best since The Antichrist though this still comes nowhere close to that album.


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Dear Members,
Keep in mind that Character Bashing is now prohibited. Making fun of certain characters/character pairings leads to a pointless thread filled with insults and general rule breaking.
Also, remember that Versus threads are allowed only in the Versus section.
Thank you, NarutoBase Staff
**** this bullshit. I'm going with Itachi.
kakuzu if its ^^ONLY THOSE(in the threat)
but if its not than nagato because i woudl be taka sasuke
Originally Posted by ~Puppet Master~
Deidara, because I would be Sasori.
Sasori, because I would be Deidara.
Plus the rest are ugly.
Not Kakuzu at all, he would probably try to kill me, not cool.
I would go with ether Itachi or Kisame, both seem pretty chill to adventure with
Deidara and myself would be too cocky of a pair, fighting ever who's better in everything
Sasaori, because he's the only one without a compulsive killing disorder.
definitely Deidara senpai ... that guy is just awesome , funny & we'll be flying everywhere with his art
& she's not in your list but Konan too .... i would protect that pretty face with my life
Among the list u provided I would say
Sasori I am a calm and a philosophical type guy and I hate people with big egos so I can chill with him he is quite and wise.
But amongst all members I would pick itachi or konan my fav akatsuki member, Hell my fav naruto character's.
I'm sorry Itachi is the only one I could trust. Even though he slaughter his family
Sasori, he's very level headed and rational for being so powerful and being in such a powerful organization
man Sasori would definitely be my top pick. Walking around with a heart in a can that has the ability to take control of objects and use them like puppets, Hellz Yea. I'm massively lazy so i'd be like, "Sasori maan, just atatch them chakra strings to my body and fight for me, no worries brah i have your little puppets somewhere nearby and you can just summon them anyway =/. I on the other hand will just sleep and make our enemies salty that they've just been defeated by some dude with their eyes closed.
Good Ol' Sas!
PS. L2Poll.
Kakuzu!! He has like a shit ton of hearts lmao! We wouldnt be dying anytime soon. Wish Itachi was one of the choices though
Kakuzu because he's calm, intelligent, and strong!
I'd go with Deidara because he seems to get agitated when around cool people and that's what will be fun...
Ill go with Kakuzu. I'm not a talking kind of guy anyway, there is no way I will annoy him.
probably sasori, hidan and deidara talk bit too much and kakuzu just gots a stare alone tht makes u feel like ur on his hit list...
I would go with either Kakuzu or Sasori.
Sasori because he is very level headed and I don't like waiting for people.
Kakuzu because I am obsess with money as well and rather quiet. He wouldn't be killing me anytime soon.
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