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On May 7, 2013, a ticket was issued through Vayama.com. I had 48 hours to cancel at no additional cost. To arrange my seating, they told me to call American Airlines. When i contacted them, American Airlines told me everything was all set. I noticed that online 2 seats weren't assigned yet. I called back. I eventually paid $25 for American Airlines to seat me properly. They told me that they had printed out the actual tickets, and could see that I was all set. When I checked again, a few weeks later, I noticed that i was on 2 flights for the same route on the same day. I wanted to be on QF 576 (Which I was told I was on, and seated on) but it also showed flight 580. American Airlines admitted that they had made a mistake. They told me that I was never actually on flight 576. An agent put me on flight 576, but in reality I was on flight 580. This was a shock to me, since this entire time, everyone told me I was all set on all my flights. Included in the flights listed was flight 576. Because of their mistake, I am now coming in to my destination much later than I had anticipated. I am missing the entire day. Had they have told me on May 7 that I was on flight 580, I would have been able to cancel my trip and reschedule at no additional cost. Now, Vayama is charging me $605.00 (as of June 5) to change flights. Even though American Airlines admits that they gave me misinformation for over a month, they still refuse to compensate me.
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I did an oil change yesterday and noticed that my coolant level was near the minimum line. I've had the car for a year now and have never filled it up (Never noticed it was low). Is my coolant leaking? How is it near minimum
Using the A/C and the defroster uses the A/C, which as u know leaks anifreeze. So thats being used yr round. That could be it. But check ur hose's for leaks. Run the A/C, and look into the hood for leaks. I might be talking out my butt, cause I really dont know much about an engine, but it came to mind, so I hope it helps.
Funny that you should post this because when I cleaned my engine bay last week I pointed out to my brother that the coolant level was low. It is near the minimum line but not quite there. My car though is two years old.
Do we just buy coolant at Canadian Tire? What kind do I need to buy?
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Is there a Blackhawk Serpa Class 2 Holster available for the M&P 9mm COMPACT? I have heard of people cutting down a standard M&P holster to fit, but wondered if Blackhawk had made one for the 9c. Anyother recommendations?
What a coincidence, I plan on buying mine there too! I actually meant a Level 2 holster. The levels (1-3) stand for the level of difficulty to extract the gun from the hoster. Level 1 is just held in by the friction of the holster. Level 2 has some type of catch that needs to be released (Serpa). A level 3 has some retention of the gun by a strap or guard over the back strap
I bought my M&P 45 from One Shot. Very nice gun shop. Large selection of guns and gear..
Agreed. I think they have a great selection of guns, great service. I went to a store attached to an indoor TARGET range and the selection was OK, but the staff was lacking.
Any of you been to TDI in West Union? Tactical Defense Institute looks like a great place for some basic handgun training. If not, did you take any classes or CCW classes locally?
I have heard of TDI, but have not been, I live about 15 minutes from it. No, I have not taken the CCW class yet. I am checking into it. There is guy giving it in MT Orab, a one day class. Not sure if I want to sit there for 10-12 hours. That indoor Target store you speak of has a 2 day class on the weekends. 6 hrs each day. I also was not impressed the the store.


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Re: st: Poisson vs. Linear regression for comparing rates
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Re: st: Poisson vs. Linear regression for comparing rates
Wed, 5 Aug 2009 01:55:43 +0000 (GMT)
--- On Wed, 5/8/09, Ashwin Ananthakrishnan wrote:
> I'm trying to do a state-level analysis looking at rates of
> a particular cancer and it's relationship to some
> state-level variables such as proportion uninsured in the
> state, racial composition of the state and some other
> state-level economic variables.
> However, I'm not sure if I should be using Poisson
> regression or Linear regression to assess the relationship
> between the rate of cancer (independent variable) and the
> dependent variables.
> What determines which regression model is the best?
The bigger problem here is that the effects on the state level
say very little or nothing about the effects on the individual
level. These effects could easily be exactly opposite! For
example, rich states in the US (east and west coast states) are
more likely to vote Democrat, but this does not mean that rich
people are more likely to vote Democrat, they are actually
more likely to vote Republican. This is known as the Ecological
Fallacy. For a short description and references see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_fallacy .
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On my way out to wal-mart on a late-night errand run, I notice a pair of headlights coming up fast behind me. I can usually tell roughly what Im dealing with by the headlights, but I had no clue until he pulled up beside me. At the first light we catch we're blocked by a few cars so I take an opportunity to see what exactly was tailing me. At this point, Im relieved at the sight of a relatively stock looking late '90s model Pontiac Grand Prix. Thinking that its at best, a run of the mill V6 GT, I figure its worth a try in my close to stock '00 Accord V6 (vtec can nevar lose!!1!1 ).
A few lights later, we're able to catch a good stretch of road and line up at about a 30mph roll. I waited a while for a honk that never came, so I took the liberty of getting a little jump on him. I floored it, reving up to 6k, suprised at the sound of the intake sucking 18 degree air after being in a warm garage most of the day. At about half a car length ahead, following a quick shift into 3rd, is when it happened. The roar of what sounded like a V8 f-body came screaming beside me and was car-lengths ahead within seconds.
After composing myself from getting raped by a pontiac, I got a good look at his tail end. Aftermarket exhaust, dual twin pipe mufflers, that sounded like borla straight pipes were now apparent; as was the license plate that read: '12 SEC GP'. We caught a red light up ahead and I gave him the customary thumbs-up of shame. He knodded in reply, Im sure satisfied with his 16sec-car kill. Now I notice the GTP badges on the front fender behind the wheel. 3.8L V6 with stock Series II Supercharger - 240hp, 280tq... and his was definitely not stock.
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Got some work done today. Got the knobs painted, painted the rear parcel shelf an got the new hood on. Then went to my storage locker(full of VW crap) and snagged a new intake boot and some parts for my mk1.
Pics of said emmkay Juan.
This car will be going under the knife soon. Need to address some rust. An notch the rails for some frame laying
Hood is lined up and closes like a boss.
Painted the textured parts of the knobs. I think it looks killer and breaks up the chrome in a good way.
Then I sanded the parcel tray thingys and shot them with some SEM black
Then I tackled the door locks and got everything wired up and fixed. And come to find out the vac pump is dead. So if you have one on the cheap, pm me
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I have come in contact with a few new Beekeepers lately that have been to the site, but were not aware of the Forums. I suggest that the home page of BeeSource be changed from "The Exchange" to "Forums".
I have come in contact with a few new Beekeepers lately that have been to the site, but were not aware of the Forums. I suggest that the home page of BeeSource be changed from "The Exchange" to "Forums".
Your're right Curtis. I still keep scratching my head trying to figure out how I ended up here on beesource. I know I didn't click on The Exchange....I think I did I google search and the thread itself appeared. My lucky day huh??
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I'll third this. I keep telling people to go to Beesource.com, but many can't quite figure how to get to the forums. They need to be highlighted better on the home page, methinks.
Also, on the main page. When I click 'More in this thread..... ' is takes me to the forums and not the story described.
Is it just me?
I agree had to have direct directions to get on here.
I always wondered why the bulletin board is not called a bulletin board? Most people know what a bulletin board is, forums is not quite as well known, and an exchange is a what? I know it's supposed to be the exchanging of ideas but that is only obvious to those in the know.
I think it should be called 'Bulletin Board'.
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There are a lot of things with the Beesource site that are outdated, not working and in need of work. Lots of dead end links also. I am working on a complete redo of the site structure and design. Most of the content will remain, but the navigation will change, along with the integration of the forum. It will get there.
Regards, Barry
i can never get reply figure every one here does not like new comers
Well, rm, since you have only started one post and received 3 replies to it, I don't know why you are complaining. Maybe you should study the first reply. With 7 or more misspellings and even more grammatical errors in 3 lines of type, no one really knows what you are asking. I just took a stab at it, hoping I was in the ballpark.
iddee, I think that English might be the 2nd language, might be Spanish or Phonics. I for 1 will try to understand and answer the questions. I thought you did a great job with the question and those pics. Thanks for sharing. By the way is there a web site I can see your vac at?
I thought the same. I ran an international business for 20 plus years, so am used to working with "second language English". I also am aware of how many people cannot comprehend it, so will not try to reply to a thread from them. That's why I attempted to help him or her. There is still spellcheck when using the computer. I would expect him/her to either use it or expect that others will put forth no more effort then he or she does in asking the questions.
PS. I sent you a PM on the vac, so as not to hijack this thread.
I don't mind hi-jacking the thread.
Curtis, go to my Myspace and look at my pics under the equipment album. It's Iddee's vac with a few little improvements on my part. It's a great little machine and hardly kills a bug when the flow is set right.
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>Curtis, go to my Myspace and look at my pics under the equipment album
Guess I'm overlooking it--- can't find.
Nice myspace page!!!


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As geek celebrities go, William Shatner is just about the ultimate get. Lowell's got him Saturday, September 14, at Northern Arizona University's High Country Conference Center, 201 West Butler Avenue in Flagstaff. A reservation to the 7:15 p.m. dinner is $150, some of which is tax-deductible; you can meet Shatner and be photographed with him for another $1000 donation, making you a Lowell Associate member. Visit www.lowell.edu/about_speakers.php for more information. Call 928-233-3278 to join the mission to explore brave hors d'oeuvre, to . . . well, you know.
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1. Nice layout
2. Good staff to work with
3. Course is in decent shape despite play
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This is a unique range in that everyone is hitting into a large lake. Helps deal with the fear that all of us having for hitting across water. Prices are reasonable, lots of bays, friendly staff, and they have clubs to borrow if you are visiting from out of town.
No, i can't comment on the course itself. I'll leave...
The Pros:
1. Nice layout
2. Good staff to work with
3. Course is in decent shape despite play
4. Reasonably priced
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1. This course does have league play during the week. It is best not to play in the afternoon when leagues are scheduled to show up.
2. Golf shop does not have a handle on tee...
Were victimized by another group of golfers. They were simply bullies trying to start a fight. One of them literally started 'chest-bumping' a guy in our group that is 77 years old. I've never experienced anything like this on a golf course. LakeShore has no Ranger and I think only one guy working behind the counter. My Dad who is...
I don't know if you could even call this a golf course. There are no fairways and the greens are so soft that your ball disappears in them. Overpriced as well. If you want higher quality golf for less money try the crossings golf club or hillandale, now this dump.
Golfed here several times. Easy to walk with some challenging holes. Be wary of stray shots as greens and tee areas are close together (I got hit in the head here a few years ago). I'm not a fan of the driving range - hit into a lake with floating golf balls. Greens are very slow compared to other area...
I don't golf, but I like to drive and this is the best driving range in the area, You hit the balls into the lake and they float back to you!! Really neat with floating targets in the big lake!!
A parks style course that has a lot of golf holes in a small acreage. You are constantly hearing fore as most of the holes are side by side. Greens are usually rough, uneven, and slow. They try to do the best with what they have, but...
I don't understand the good ratings for Lakeshore. I've played here since the early 90's on business outings and with friends. I never go unless someone else sets it up. The course is not special and there are no amenities. I hate to hit waterballs on the "driving range" into a pond to warm up. They don't even have a...
This is a fun golf course for those of us who are occasional golfers. The price is right, the folks are friendly, and the course has plenty of challenges without being overwhelming.
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and second, how long it will take to test and fix the bugs in a product that has been in development for six months and is now ready for its first round of testing. Most people will agree that estimating the new work is far easier and more likely to be accurate. Periodic (or better yet, continuous) testing of a product is a probe into that product that lets us know how far along we are.
Feedback opportunities are lost. An obvious benefit of using Scrum is that the team can get feedback on what it's built at least at the end of every sprint. The product can be deployed onto restricted-access servers or made available for download to select customers. If the product is at a sufficient quality level for doing this only near the end of a release cycle, the team misses great opportunities to gain valuable feedback earlier.
Testing is more likely to be cut. Because of deadline pressure, work that is planned to happen at the end of a project is more likely to be dropped or reduced.
The Test Automation Pyramid
Even before the ascendancy of agile methodologies like Scrum, we knew we should automate our tests. But we didn't. Automated tests were considered expensive to write and were often written months, or in some cases years, after a feature had been programmed. One reason teams found it difficult to write tests sooner was because they were automating at the wrong level. An effective test automation strategy calls for automating tests at three different levels, as shown in Figure 1, which depicts the test automation pyramid .
At the base of the test automation pyramid is unit testing. Unit testing should be the foundation of a solid test automation strategy and as such represents the largest part of the pyramid. Automated unit tests are wonderful because they give specific data to a programmer—there is a bug and it's on line 47. Programmers have learned that the bug may really be on line 51 or 42, but it's much nicer to have an automated unit test narrow it down than it is to have a tester say, "There's a bug in how you're retrieving member records from the database," which might represent 1,000 or more lines of code. Also, because unit tests are usually written in the same language as the system, programmers are often most comfortable writing them. Let's skip for a moment the middle of the test automation pyramid and jump right to the top; the user interface level. Automated user interface testing is placed at the top of the test automation pyramid because we want to do as little of it as possible. We want this because user interface tests often have the following negative attributes:
- Brittle. A small change in the user interface can break many tests. When this is repeated many times over the course of a project, teams simply give up and stop correcting tests every time the user interface changes.
- Expensive to write. A quick capture-and-playback approach to recording user interface tests can work, but tests recorded this way are usually the most brittle. Writing a good user interface test that will remain useful and valid takes time.
- Time consuming. Tests run through the user interface often take a long time to run. I've seen numerous teams with impressive suites of automated user interface tests that take so long to run they cannot be run every night, much less multiple times per day.
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Stylish Old-Style Studio
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Comfortably furnished, the living area features a double sofa bed and a small dining table. The kitchen is well-equipped, and guests will find a walk-in shower in the sleek bathroom.
Guests can reach the lively Rue des Martyrs Street within just a 10-minute walk. Poissonniere Metro Station is a mere 2-minute walk away, and provides access to the M7 line. Other train and subway services can be accessed via Gare du Nord Train Station, which is a 10-minute walk.
The Louvre Museum is only 15 minutes away via the metro, and Notre Dame Cathedral is only 20 minutes away. The picturesque surrounding area offers a range of boutiques and traditional Parisian architecture. A Vélib bike hire station is 20 minutes' walk away.
House rulesNo pets.
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Even though we did not meet Valerie she made all arrangements to receive us. Everything was great. A few (small) things of note: the apartment does not have much circulation for which the air is a bit stale and caused us allergies (sneezing, etc.). The photo shows a round table with two nice chairs which we were counting on for a romantic dinner; these were not there. Other than that the place is great, with metro nearby, etc.
This is an excellent accommodation if you plan to be out sightseeing a lot. Extra points for: location, tranquility at night(!), the comfortable bed and the wonderful shower. See if you can find an affordable hotel in Paris with these characteristics... I enjoyed the radio, and I liked that you can close the door (well, almost) on the humming refrigerator. I felt quite safe on Rue Bellefond and in the building, which is important when you're a single woman traveller and you're getting home late in the evening.
Deduction for: the messiness of the kitchen cabinets and dirty utensils (better do some dish washing before you use them). Also the room feels a bit cramped because of the oversized furniture, but that's a matter of taste. And I was about to leave for Gare du Nord when the cleaning lady came to basically tell me off for not having left yet. My fault, my French is rusty and on arrival I had apparently agreed to leave 15 minutes earlier than I thought. The toilet seat is cracked, so if you're wondering what keeps biting you in the buttocks..!
All in all, I had a wonderful time in Paris and my comfortable stay at Valéries appartement certainly contributed to that.
A very nice appartment with a perfect location middle in Montmartre, 3 min. to the mètro station Poissonière. Small, but absolutely sufficient for tourists who want to see as much of Paris as possible. The couch can be changed in a very comfortable big bed. The Rue de Bellafond is a quiet small street, so you can rest in the night undisturbed. A Carrefour market is on the other end of the street, approx. 5 min. walk.
We spent there a wonderful week! The communication with Valèrie was perfect, very nice and unproblematic. Thank you, Valèrie!
Excelent. Valérie is a great hostess, the studio is in a great place, near from: the train station, the center from Paris, the supermarkets and bakeries. The studio has everything you need, and the shower is great! thank you for eveything and I hope to come back someday.
It was easy to book the stay with Wimdu, and they followed up with the booking - thanks.
The room is good and clean, not large, but there is enough room for two.Location is very convenient - near metro (subway), walking distance from Gare du Nord and Opera.
We called the owner once one day before arrival, she was nice and friendly. We would like to stay at this studio next time.
We stayed in this apartment in July 2014 and we really enjoyed the experience! the location is great and there was everything we needed! Valérie was very helpful and answered all our questions. I really recommend this accommodation.
Apartment: We really enjoyed our one week stay: The apartment has a good size for two people. There are draws and closet space for clothes and no excess furniture. Nice and simple, yet it's all there. Nice bed (when the sofa is folded out), small table and 2 chairs for eating the meals, mostly breakfast, nice lightening for a Scandinavian (not just spotlight in the ceiling but a choice of cosy, relaxing lightening). A small "kitchen" with all the convenience of electrical oven and stove (however small, of course). Check the fridge before shopping. The previous guests might have left juice, eggs or other foods. The big and nice surprise was the coffeemaker Sensero. Nice with good coffee each morning. And a "shoe cleaner". To start with we wondered why, but after a day's walk we knew the answer. You will enjoy that, too. The wifi made a difference. One of us don't understand French television, so we went on the internet on our iPad and listened to Danish radio as well as watched Danish television.
Location: It's nice situated in a quiet street, 10 minutes' walk from Sacre Coeur in Montmartre. A local supermarket down the street with a huge variety of groceries, French as well as foreign products. Reasonable prices. Lots of special stores in the neighbourhood, for instance wine shops, bakeries, cheese shops, lots of restaurants. It's a very nice area. And just 10 minutes away are the busy streets of crowds of tourists, souvenir shops and another side of Paris.
The hostess: We got a quick reply when booking the apartment. We had good contact before the visit, and Valérie kindly answered all our questions by mail. We called her contact person, who lives in the street, the day before the arrival to inform her of our estimated time of arrival and when we stood in front of the door, she was there within 5 minutes and kindly explained about the apartment and answered our questions. She would be in the neighbourhood if we needed her during the week, she said. Nice to know, but we did fine on our own.
The arrival: We arrived at CDG Airport and caught bus 350 to Gare de l'Est for 6 Euro a piece and walked to the apartment from the train station (you can also ride the Metro one station). It was a 15 min. walk.
The return: We had an early flight out of Paris, and no public transport was running at that time. We found a taxi company called WeCab. You share the cab with other passengers, who are also going to the airport. We paid 39 Euro when making the booking over the phone. We were picked up at 4.15 and were at the airport at 5.00. We can highly recommend that service.
All together: We had a great week and we agreed that it was important to have a nice place to stay. We would probably choose the same apartment if it's available when we visit Paris the next time.
The apartment is very well located, close to metro station them Poissonnière and in a very Parisian neighborhood. The apartment perfectly meets the requirements to be a weekend or a few days in Paris. If we had to do some improvement, we would change the sofa for a bed, because ultimately what had open every day, but the rest is perfect (kitchen, bathroom, tv, wifi .... all very full despite reduced) size. Valérie everything and we have not seen, was very friendly and answered our emails on location, in addition to being flexible with arrival and departure. Valérie, merci beaucoup pour votre hospitalité!
El apartamento está muy bien ubicado, muy cerca de les estación de metro de Poissonnière y en un barrio muy parisino. El apartamento cumple perfectamente las necesidades para estar un fin de semana o unos cuantos días en París. Si nosotros tuviéramos que hacer alguna mejora, cambiaríamos el sofá cama por una cama, ya que en definitiva lo tuvimos abierto todos los días, pero el resto es perfecto (cocina, baño, tv, wifi....todo muy completo a pesar del tamaño reducido). Valérie todo y que no la hemos visto, ha sido muy amable y ha contestado nuestros correos durante la estancia, además de mostrarse flexible con la llegada y salida. Valérie, merci beaucoup pour votre hospitalité!!
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Australian 1967 Referendum
The 1967 referendum made history: Australians voted overwhelmingly to amend the constitution to include Aboriginal people in the census and allow the Commonwealth to create laws for them.
What was Australia's 1967 Referendum about?
There are common misconceptions about what the 1967 Referendum actually changed.
What the referendum was about
The 1967 Referendum proposed to include Aboriginal people in the census.
The 1967 Referendum proposed to allow the Commonwealth government to make laws for Aboriginal people.
What the 1967 Referendum was not about
The 1967 Referendum
- did not give Aboriginal people the right to vote. This right was already introduced in 1962.
- did not grant them citizenship. By the time of the referendum, most of the specific federal and state laws discriminating against Aboriginal people had been repealed [21].
- was not about equal rights for Aboriginal people. The Constitutional change would not impact at all on laws governing Aboriginal people. However, campaigners hoped that a 'yes' vote would require the Commonwealth government to enact reforms which would eventually achieve better rights for Aboriginal people [21].
Clever campaigners nonetheless understood to introduce these aspects into their campaigns and use them to favour a 'yes' vote.
Aboriginal elder Gary Williams remembers the referendum
Gary tells what the referendum meant to a 21-year-old Aboriginal youth living in Sydney.
Constitution of the Commonwealth: sections 51, 127
Before Australia became a nation it consisted of separate, sovereign colonies (today's states and territories). For these colonies to form the Commonwealth a Constitution was drafted and each colony had to pass legislation agreeing to become part of the Commonwealth. Then they needed to hold referendums where all electors could have a direct vote on the issue. A 'Yes' majority was achieved at each referendum, which took place between 1898 (South Australia) and 1900 (Western Australia) [1], paving the way for the passing of the Constitution.
Influenced by colonial views of the 18th century the founding fathers of the Constitution incorporated sections which later ignited discussions which led to the 1967 Referendum. These were sections 51 and 127.
Section 51
Section 51 of the Constitution covers legislative powers of the parliament. It details for which areas the parliament can make laws, such as trade, taxes, communication, financial and so on, but also people, for example for marriage. As far as people are concerned the Constitution reads:
"51. The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to:- [...]"
The people of any race, other than the aboriginal race in any State, for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws.—Constitution, section 51, clause 26, pre-1967
Section 51 meant that the federal government could make laws for anyone in Australia - except its Aboriginal population. Originally this clause was worded that way to enable parliament to make laws discriminating against racial groups like the Kanakas in Queensland [22]. The words 'other than the aboriginal race in any State' were intended to exempt Aboriginal people from discrimination.
Section 51 of the Constitution which excluded Aboriginal people from any federal laws [1].
The 1965 Prime Minister Robert Menzies argued passionately against changing this section and held that if the phrase was removed the parliament could set up "a separate body of industrial, social, criminal and other laws relating exclusively to Aborigines". The inclusion of the words were thought to be "a fundamental safeguard against discriminatory Commonwealth legislation directed against [Aboriginal people]" [6].
But as it stood the Commonwealth also had no power to make laws for the benefit of Aboriginal people.
An important point of referendum supporters was that if the federal government, and not the state governments, make laws for Aboriginal people the laws which varied greatly from state to state [27] would become uniform, and they hoped for the benefit of Aboriginal people.
|Voting rights (state)
|Marry freely
|Control own children
|Move freely
|Own property freely
|Receive award wages
|Alcohol allowed
Source: [27]
Section 127
The only other section of the Constitution that refers to Aboriginal people is section 127 which tells about who is to be counted as part of the population of the Commonwealth:
127. In reckoning the numbers of the people of the Commonwealth, or of a State or other part of the Commonwealth, aboriginal natives shall not be counted.—Constitution, section 127, pre-1967
Section 127 meant that when the population of the Commonwealth, of a state or territory is counted, Aboriginal people are not included.
Section 127 of the Constitution which excluded Aboriginal people from being counted in a census [1].
Until well into the early 1960s politicians feared that by counting Indigenous people this would affect the quota that decided the number of seats a state could hold in parliament. Hence the greater the number of Aboriginal people within a state, the greater the number of seats. This, it was argued, would give advantage to states with a great number of Aboriginal people [2] and it was feared that Western Australia and Queensland could lose a seat.
The white Australian population at that time was about 3.7 million; the Aboriginal population can only be estimated to around 50,000 to 60,000. Newspaper sources of the early 1960s considered it "a mildly entertaining historical oddity" [5] trying to count Aboriginal people on one day, and an impossible task to do:
Trailing after the primitive tribesmen for the purposes of enumeration would have been more difficult than rounding up a mob of wild brumbies.—'Candid Comment' in: SMH [2]
Petitions, motions and private bills: referendum initiatives
The referendum that changed the Constitution was held in 1967, but this was just the culmination of events which started more than a decade earlier.
Flyer advertising the meeting in the Sydney Town Hall at which the Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship's petition was launched. [3].
Australia is shocked—petitions
In early 1957 the Grayden Report revealed that malnutrition, blindness and disease were all commonplace among the Aboriginal people of the Warburton Ranges region [3], about 300km west of the border between Western Australia and South Australia. Australia's shocked white population learned for the first time about the appalling living conditions of Aboriginal people whom they had scarcely heard of before.
Concerned individuals formed action groups, one of which was the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement (FCAA) founded in 1958. To achieve equal citizen rights for Aboriginal people the FCAA wanted the Australian Constitution to be changed to enable the Commonwealth government to legislate also for Aboriginal people.
The Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship ran a petition campaign in 1957 about the situation of the Aboriginal people of the Warburton Ranges. A year later the FCAA ran a similar petition which was signed by 25,000 people in three months [3]. Both petitions called for the amendment of section 51 and the repeal of section 127. Both failed.
Initiatives from within the government
In 1962 the Australian Labor Party opposition submitted an urgency motion seeking a referendum to include Aboriginal people in the census [4]. Although the debate mainly focused on the redistribution of electoral seats in the parliament, the opposition also argued that "everything that can reasonably be construed as discrimination should be eliminated from the Constitution."
The motion did not convince the government nor the press who claimed that "the practical reason for section 127 is rapidly disappearing" [5] because in 1962 fewer than 2,000 Aboriginal people still lived undisturbed tribal lives, and the covered message was that they would ultimately disappear entirely.
Constant battle
From 1962 to 1964 more than 50 petitions were submitted to the government, all asking the same change: To change section 51 and to repeal section 127 of the Constitution.
Part of this wave of petitions was due to the work of the FCAA who in 1963 ensured that over a seven-week period every day began with the tabling of petitions [3]. It was a clever move: Instead of submitting one big petition presented only once and then filed, a new petition each day kept the issue alive. The FCAA managed to collect more than 100,000 signatures in favour of a constitutional change.
By 1964 the constant tabling of petitions, the submission of Constitution Alterations Bills and Private Member's Bills seems to have had some effect on politicians' minds. Discussion if section 127 should be repealed or not shifted to when it should happen and the costs of a referendum [6].
In the second half of 1965 Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies announced his retirement for 1966.
It took just on 10 years to get the Federal government to agree to hold a referendum and then only after 15 months of petitions being presented in the Parliament on every single sitting day.—Jack Horner, secretary, Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship [28]
Referendum announcement in November 1965. [7].
A referendum at last?
On 11 November 1965 it was announced that a referendum would be held on 28 May 1966 seeking approval to increase the number of members in the House of Representatives (to match the growing population) and, among others, to repeal section 127 [7].
No mention of section 52 at this time for the government was still convinced that it protected Aboriginal people rather than discriminated against them.
The previous 12 referendums included 26 proposals, four of which Australian voters agreed with but 26 they rejected. Consequently the Prime Minister must also have feared that if he included too much change, Australians might have rejected the referendum altogether and with it the increase in the House of Representatives.
J Hassen and daughter protesting outside Parliament House in Canberra. [9].
Liberal backbencher W. C. Wentworth campaigned strongly for the amendment of section 51 of the Constitution. He argued that by enabling the Commonwealth to make laws for the Aboriginal people these would be for their advancement. State laws would not be affected by Commonwealth legislation and states could receive federal funding [8]. Wentworth's bill was later supported by teachers of the Sydney University.
But Wentworth's efforts seemed doomed. A private member's bill Wentworth introduced to government in March 1966 was not put to a vote and subsequently lapsed [12].
Aboriginal protest in Canberra
In 1965 the FCAA was renamed to Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI) to include Indigenous people from the Torres Strait. It took over responsibility for keeping the constitutional amendment issue politically alive.
On December 1st, 1965 a group of 36 Aboriginal people went to Canberra to protest about clause 26 of section 51 [9]. Outside Parliament House they showed placards while they lobbied Members of Parliament inside, including Mr Wentworth.
Among the protesters were famous names like Faith Bandler (FCAATSI NSW State Secretary), former Australian Rules footballer and boxer Charles Perkins and Brisbane poet Kath Walker (later known as Oodgeroo Noonuccal).
After Prime Minister Harold Holt took over power from Robert Menzies in 1966 he decided to postpone the referendum that year. His newly elected government was too occupied with the "many important and pressing matters arising at home and abroad" [10], the former alluding to a general election later that year, the latter to the war in Vietnam. Behind that reasoning was also the fear that if the referendum failed, it would be a blow for the new government.
People in Australia have to register their dogs and cattle, but we don't know how many Aborigines there are.—Faith Bandler, 1965 [9]
The 1967 Referendum goes on its way
On February 23, 1967 the federal cabinet finally decided to hold a referendum in May that year [11]. A few days later Prime Minister Holt announced that the referendum would go further than the previous draft. Now also clause 26 of section 51 should be amended and the words 'other than the aboriginal race in any State' dropped [12].
This must have come as a great victory of W C Wentworth's long campaign which seemed to have reflected the general public opinion that these words were discriminatory. But while Wentworth had argued for a replacement of these words with a new phrase that would advocate positive laws for the advancement of Aboriginal people, Holt went for a mere deletion.
I would like to see spelt out in the Constitution the Commonwealth's power to help Aborigines and to see a prohibition against adverse racial discrimination towards the Aborigines or anyone else.—W C Wentworth, Feb 1967 [12]
On March 2nd 1967 Prime Minister Holt introduced legislation for a referendum to be held on May 27, 1967.
In April, FCAATSI organised a deputation to Canberra to seek support for a 'Yes' vote on the Aboriginal question [13]. FCAATSI feared that voters would not understand the effect of a 'yes' or 'no' vote and wanted to check on what politicians had done in their electorates to support a 'yes' vote.
FCAATSI was helped by the heads of churches who also supported a 'yes' vote, distributed how-to-vote cards and tried to explain to voters what it was all about.
What the 1967 referendum meant to Aboriginal people
Faith Bandler FCAATSI campaign leader, feared that many people voted 'yes' because they believed the referendum gave Aboriginal people the right to vote. [14].
In an article published shortly before the 1967 referendum, Charles Dixon, Manager of the Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs explained how he as an Aboriginal person felt about the referendum [19]:
- Acceptance as a person. Dixon felt that up until the referendum Aboriginal people had not been seen as "human beings".
- Fear of apathy, ignorance, complicated ballot paper and racial hatred which could cause a 'no' vote. This would mean "bad blood" between black and white for "the foreseeable future".
- It's too late. Dixon thought that it didn't matter "if and when [sections 51 and 127] go" since "it's too late to heal the scars of years of discrimination".
- Special laws for the benefit of Aboriginal people which the government will make.
- A unified law. For too long an Aboriginal person would break the law somewhere purely by moving around as a citizen or to "exist on that very spot", because each state had its own laws governing Aboriginal people.
- More funding. With the Commonwealth in charge of Aboriginal laws, Dixon hoped that funds or trained personnel would help policies work.
- An Aborigines' Bureau staffed by Aboriginal people and looking after Aboriginal affairs.
Faith Bandler on the referendum
Historical events that influenced the 1967 Referendum
- 1957 Test explosions of atomic bombs at Maralinga, South Australia
- 1962 The Commonwealth Electoral Act is amended to give the right to vote to all Aboriginal people.
- 1966 Stockmen and women at Wave Hill walk off in protest against intolerable working conditions and inadequate wages.
- 1966 Charles Perkins leads Freedom Ride by Aboriginal people and students through NSW in support of Aboriginal rights.
The 1967 Referendum results
1967 Referendum ad by the Liberal Party. On May 27th the public was still largely confused on how to vote correctly. This ad tried to help voters decide [15].
In what is a twist of history Aboriginal people who were entitled to vote in the Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory were not entitled to vote in a referendum according to the Constitution. This prevented around 3,000 to 4,000 Aboriginal people in the NT from voting for their own cause.
In 1967 it was estimated that between 8,000 and 10,000 Aboriginal people were registered to vote throughout Australia [16].
For the referendum to pass it was required that the question was supported by a majority of voters in a majority of states, in 1967 that meant about 2.5 million 'yes' votes in four states (the 'territories' were not eligible to vote, i.e. Northern Territory and ACT).
Jack Horner, member of the Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship, remembers the night the votes were counted [23]: "On the night of 27 May 1967, Jean [his wife] and I were in the tally room at Circular Quay, in Sydney, and we couldn't believe it as the results were consecutively dropped onto the calculating machine. Those results exceeded our greatest expectations, and everyone's—it was the triumph of an appeal to the sense of justice."
On 10 August 1967 the act changing the Constitution became law in Australia.
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The Constitution of Australia never has, and to-date still does not, protect basic human rights or offer protection against racial discrimination.
Results by state
Referendum question: "Do you approve the proposed law for the alteration of the Constitution entitled 'An Act to alter the Constitution' so as to omit certain words relating to the people of the Aboriginal race in any state so that Aboriginals are to be counted in reckoning the population?"
|New South Wales
|South Australia
|Western Australia
|Total for Commonwealth
Source: [24] | SMH Referendum results by state [17]
Referendum notes:
- The heaviest 'no' voting came from country electorates (e.g. 18% in northern NSW).
- It was the biggest 'yes' vote in history on any Commonwealth referendum to-date.
- The previous greatest 'yes' vote was in the 1906 referendum (to enable senate elections for both Houses to be held concurrently).
- In the WA electorate of Kalgoorlie more than 28% of votes opposed the proposal.
- The proposal on Aboriginal people was only the fifth to be carried since Federation.
- The 'no' vote was most dominant in states that had the largest Aboriginal population and have been criticised most for their treatment of Aboriginal people.
- Up to 1967, in 60 years only 5 out of 26 referendum questions have been carried.
My grandfather used to tell me that white Australia had done enough by voting yes in the 1967 referendum. All the evidence points to the contrary.—'Reeree' in an SBS discussion forum [20]
1967 Referendum resources
The 1967 Referendum: Race, Power and the Australian Constitution explores the legal and political significance of the referendum and the long struggle by black and white Australians for constitutional change. It traces the emergence of a series of powerful narratives about the Australian Constitution and the status of Aboriginal people, revealing how and why the referendum campaign acquired so much significance, and has since become the subject of highly charged myth in contemporary Australia.
Attwood and Markus's text is complemented by personal recollections of the campaign by a range of Aboriginal people, historical documents and photographs.
Movie: Vote Yes for Aborigines, a documentary by Aboriginal woman Frances Peters-Little covering 100-year-plus lead-up to the referendum, questions the referendum's success and explores the social attitudes and influences of those times and since.
'Vote Yes for Aborigines' draws on rarely seen archival footage and attempts to answer the question of what came of the 1967 Referendum.
Why the 1967 Referendum failed
What was the effect of the 1967 Referendum? Did the federal governments act to the expectations of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people who so passionately had fought for the Constitution to be changed?
Sadly this hasn't been the case. Governments of all political colours continue to 'forget' to consult with Aboriginal people during law-making business.
Mick Dodson commented on the Native Title Amendment Bill, passed into law in 1998, that he saw "John Howard and [Tasmanian senator] Brian Harradine, discussing our native title when we're not even in the room. How symbolically colonialist is that?" [25]
In 1998 the High Court had to decide on a case which addressed the changed sections of the Constitution. Despite the changes, the government was allowed to pass a law that was detrimental to, and discriminatory against, Aboriginal people [26]. In the Hindmarsh Island High Court decision Justice Kirby made it very clear that Section 51 (xxvi) can be used to the detriment and not always for the benefit of any race.
As Aboriginal people realised that the promises of the constitutional change were not going to be met, they started to organise and to protest: The Tent Embassy was established and the modern land rights movement was born. But these are other stories.
Although the 1967 Referendum has failed politically, historically is was, and remains, a triumph of the human spirit that continues to inspire generations of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people alike. It is one of the glowing coals that keep the fires burning.


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The City is trying to put in place plans that will shape New York in 2030. Wisely, as a result of Super Storm Sandy, planners are considering 2050 as well. As far as Rockaway goes, decisions made now will determine if future generations are still griping about Moses and Lindsay and how Bloomberg had his chance but blew it. Imagine instead if The Mayor makes us forget Moses and Lindsay. Now that'd be a legacy.
Greatness starts with the boardwalk. We think an international design competition would spur our imaginations and reveal possibilities. The City hasn't said no. They worry that there may not be enough time. We maintain a competition could be held concurrently with the planning they're doing now. Announce it at the end of February – wrap it up by the end of April.
A great boardwalk is the spine of Rockaway and could positively blur the east / west divide. There are two Rockaways now; a boardwalk could benefit all.
Furthermore, whether there is a competition or not, we hope the City realizes Beach 116th street has a chance to be transformed as well. That long running plague facing the ocean, the Park Inn, should be shuttered. The string of stores connected to it sits broken and bent like a rusted opened can. The movie theater has been vacant and crumbling for more than a decade. The Rockaway Beach hotel is mercifully vacant after a stint as a halfway house for felons. The former Lawrence Hotel is empty, too.
The city should recognize this as an opportunity for economic development. Whether by eminent domain or fair market value purchases the city should seize this opportunity. Make the revitalization of 116th part of the boardwalk redesign. Allow the boardwalk to flow into a beautified square of shops and restaurants. (The west side of the street already has some nice shops that would fit nicely with a redesign).
None of what we're asking is pie in the sky. Consider the Brooklyn Bridge Park, the East River esplanade; the High Line. These big projects, all of which faced vocal opposition, got done.
We were asked what attractions or industries would work in Rockaway and help justify a great boardwalk. We think such ideas could come out of a design competition but for starters we would say look at Myrtle Beach's Broadway at the Beach, a mix of shops, theaters and restaurants that draws 14 million visitors a year – and its location is not as good as Rockaway because it's actually a mile inland from the ocean. Maybe call it Off Broadway At Rockaway Beach? Such a development would be perfect for the mid-peninsula boardwalk, Or, perhaps an indoor waterpark-hotel combination like Kalahari which works in Wisconsin of all places.
With our beaches and proximity to JFK, tourism is the natural industry that should be cultivated but it could be complemented by an artist or start-up enclave where creative types could flourish. (The hipsters would have reason to stay beyond Labor Day). Perhaps the "CUNY By The Sea" idea could be revived at which a college offering programs on sustainability and environmental science could be established.
A little bit of "build it and they will come" optimism is called for. (Few people were going to Aqueduct --- until the Racino came to town. Now the place is packed). So we ask, if not now, when?
One last thing about being close to JFK. A ferry from the airport that would stop in Rockaway on its way to downtown Manhattan would be another way for visitors to get here (and provide a better commute for residents).
Our suggestions are not farfetched. We make them with the thought that economic benefits could bloom in numerous directions. We're asking for an investment, something great that will eventually add to the City's tax coffers.
The possibilities are wonderful. The City planners tell us they're listening. They tell us they want to hear ideas and get community input. We so want to believe that because it will be tragic if the ghosts of Robert Moses and John Lindsay still haunt future Rockaway generations.


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Kernel power error revisitedOld posts Tagged Old posts, Old posts January 17th, 2012
All within the space of around three hours..
Yes, it happened again..
This time, I cleaned out all of the fans and closed the covers..
And again it happened..
So this time I removed the filter between the case and the power supply..
And again it happened..
Getting a little bored with the computer by this time, I sat and thought about it, cursed Ultra (the makers of my power supply), and took a closer look. Rather than go out and buy a new PS, I tugged out the power cable and replaced it with one of my many spares.
Alarmingly, it seemed to fit better than its predecessor, and I have not had a kernel power instance. Could a duff power cable have been the cause all along? Only time will tell.
Moral of the above. When replacing a power supply, take the time to use the cable supplied with the new PS, and do not reuse the tatty cable that has probably powered a PC since the early DOS days..
I have also refitted the filter between case and PS while the bus was still in motion.. not a job for days when patience level is in ebb mode..
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First, thank you so much for your help in this matter: you have made my day! You are a true friend indeed. So many others would not have gone to the trouble you have. You are certainly the kind of person I need in my life. I never forget anyone who shows me kindness and if ever I can do anything for you, please permit me the privilege.
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If so, you have given me hope. How did you approach them? Do you think they would listen to others? You can imagine the emails of protest to the deletions I have received.
Let me tell you what has happened lately. I received an email from an SAR member�advising the City Council of Kings Mountain, NC, plans to change the name of Kings Mountain Boulevard to Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. Although Dr. King deserves to be honored, it needs to be in a different manner and I sent the Council several suggestions. I wrote everyone I could to approach the Council protesting the change. I can't imagine the lack of respect to those Heroes.
In all this, I explained to�that member of the SAR� my need for place - hopefully in Kings Mountain (although the battle was fought in South Carolina) - where we could locate a Memorial Garden. He gave me names of several people who may be interested in helping me and I have sent emails to several. I don't need a large space. I would love for the city fathers to agree to allocate space on the grounds of the Kings Mountain Museum.
Wouldn't that be wonderful?� That would be so much more appropriate than my yard. For one thing, I can not have the public on my land: the opportunity for injury is great and the cost of insurance prohibitive.�
I married last year and moved to Alabama. I permitted my ex-fianc� and his present fianc�e� to remain on the property. We are all good friends: they and their families have treated me with great kindness. Although I really should sell, I just cannot bring myself to do so. The setting, consisting of six acres, is beautiful,�albeit rustic. I left it as natural as I could when I moved on it, so it is covered with trees with the exception of a surprise treat: a fairy circle located near the back border. No one knows it is there and we�don't tell anyone.�The back boundary of the property�borders a creek and across the creek, there is a miniature horse farm. I love it and dread the thought of letting it go. I sold my property on the river in North Carolina and it is one of my major regrets.�
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My husband is a wonderful man and�he has more�direct ancestors who�fought at King's Mountain than I do. He allocated 1/4 acre of the 5 acres (and more if needed)�we live on in Alabama so I could have my Memorial Garden. Then I realized our land just will not sustain visitors. Aside from practical matters - parking, bathrooms needed, trash cleanup,�et cetera -�we have a huge dog. He's very friendly, too much so, and wants to greet everyone.�I don't want to chance, though,� that he will accidently knock down�a child or jump on someone, causing an injurious fall. He�knocked me down and I suffered a black eye.�Nor do I�want to upset his routine or ours.
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Arco gets hit by heavy rain and flooding
ARCO, Idaho - Floodwaters are not just hitting cities along the valley, but the city of Arco was also hit by odd weather Thursday.
Floodwaters affected many homeowners on the city's hillside. There are concerns as the city continues working on its water project. For months city workers have been replacing the old water system with new piping. Many residents worry that recent flood waters could have caused major vibration damage, though the city has not hinted toward any major damage.
Gravel from the major project did pose a bigger problem as residents like Richard Hansen said several feet of gravel and mud made its way up his driveway and through his garage.
"They created this road and put all this gravel on it. When the water came it just came washing down and washing down off the street and into my driveway," said Hansen.
Most homeowners in that area are without insurance as heavy rain isn't typical. Lost Rivers Medical Center was also affected by the flood. Although administrative offices were flooded, patient areas and medical equipment went unharmed.


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Dammit. Have to wait a year.
This game has the potential to be awesome - what with all the fighters (well, most) now under the Zuffa umbrella - they should all be on the game.
However, I have a feeling we may all be a little let down - the 1st UFC game was horrendous, the 2nd wasn't bad (the EA Sports MMA game was better I believe) - but I'm still hoping THQ shocks us with an unreal game.
Wonder what will happen to EA?
I love 2010, but what I find is that the knockout almost always the same. They should really fix that.
I liked the gameplay better on the first game, but the career on neither. I guess I didn't have enough time to build my fighter up or wasn't good enough. On the 2nd game, I couldn't do submissions 1 percent as well as I did on 2009 so I only fight with the standup or ground n pound fighters. It showed when I used create a fighter I would be Baroni or Cabbage and couldn't be a submission fighter that the game was sorely missing like Soti.
The game was far too easy, even on expert this year. I really hope they make it genuinely challenging next year, as well as fixing up the absolute mess of menus that was career mode.
I just hope the first time I knock someone out they don't do their best Chuck impersonation.
I'm not sure, but I think there won't be current SF fighters in the game and I think that's because EA has the right to their likeness.
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An Ode to the Man Who Fathered CSIS
Robert Kaplan who had been Solicitor General and a Liberal MP for years passed on last week. I met him first in 1958 can you believe it when we were among a group of students at a World University Service of Canada seminar in West Africa. Suddenly a group of busy-body appetitive big-people-on campus found themselves with the remarkable privilege and challenge of some weeks in an ancient civilization brand-new to virtually all of us. We were first in student housing in London for a week of orientation and then another in Ibadan and Lagos and finally the University of Gold Coast of course now Ghana.
Almost everyone was new to everyone else but Kaplan made an immediately firm and intriguing impression on me during a tentative somewhat fussy discussion the Canadians and the Nigerians were having one afternoon at the University of Ibadan.
We were all issuing opinions about life and the future and whatever ailed us -- earnest student stuff. When the discussion turned to matters of family I produced a whiny pedestrian aria sung in the most dischordant notes of bad graduate school social science. Was it not grippingly terrible that people got divorced!!! I expected this would instantly depress our group and our Nigerian hosts for the rest of our trip.
But not Kaplan. He listened with appropriate patience and then with confident and muscular clarity said "You are wrong. Divorce is a sign of freedom." I realized that this was the quick statement of a serious person operating with a lot of oxygen and a good running stride, and my impression is he did this forever after Nigeria. Not only that, he had an attitude of warm amusement about things which was delivered often with a smile and big eyes which were charming and disarming.
One of the faculty participants in the seminar (though the dictator Duplessis refused to let him teach in Quebec) was Pierre Trudeau -- a fact which must surely have had some connection to Bob's political career and the lives of others in the group, such as Timothy Porteous who wrote speeches for the Prime Minister and Donald Johnston who served admirably as an ambassador for trade. I happened to be sitting next to PET on the flight to London and when we were served cereal for breakfast. I informed him that "Cereal is just breakfast soup" which he reminded me of for years thereafter. I think he enjoyed violated categories.
Since I no longer lived in Canada while Kaplan was Solicitor General, I'm not clear on how effective he was and how well he stood against the metric of progressive world improvement. But I would see him from time to time in Ottawa or Toronto, and throughout his ministerial career he seemed to employ the same crisp sense of scrutiny reflected in his comment about divorce and retained his sense of the frailty of human arrangements. I wrote some books and to my surprise -- he was busy busy -- he wanted to talk about what was in them and what he thought I had left out. And he was always witty and acerbic-without-meanness as well as an eager companion for the meals a busy fellow could snatch.
And near the end, when he was in New York for treatments at Sloan-Kettering, he would nonetheless have small parties for his friends and any relatives passing through town and everyone loved him for his spirit and commitment to vivacity.
And did I mention funny? One year there was the 25th anniversary of our WUSC seminar which was to be celebrated in Ottawa. Inasmuch as one of our number was now Prime Minister and could provide us modest entertainment, that was arranged.
Timothy Porteous organized Kaplan and me to go in Kaplan's car. That Jeep-like vehicle looked as if it had been on overtime in a construction site experimenting with various kinds of mud. Bob was driving and we pulled up to 24 Sussex Drive. There was a Mountie at the gate. Bob rolled down the window. The official asked "Are you going to the party?" "Yes" said Bob. "Okay" he said and we drove in.
I remarked to the Solicitor-General what remarkable security surrounded the Prime Minister. "You simply don't understand," Bob laughed. "If I had said no, he wouldn't have let us in."
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Spies aren't usually assassins. But some weapons, like this umbrella, have been used in the field. The assassination umbrella is equipped with a pellet of toxic ricin that will infect and kill its target slowly over the course of a few days. Its last known use was on Bulgarian defector and BBC reporter Georgi Markov in London, 1978.
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Hollow connecting rods ?
Just curious, has anyone ever built hollow connecting rods? What about fabbed/welded rods? It seems you could make super strong light weight hollow rods. I remember a few years back when I was into mountain biking the new thing was shimano hollow crank arms, they where stiffer than standard arms and lighter weight.
There is a little more force on a connecting rod than a bicycle bell crank.
Obviously there is more force on a connecting rod but the fact remains that a hollow tube is stronger than a solid bar of the same weight. Why do you think roll bars are hollow tubes and not solid metal rods?
"but the fact remains that a hollow tube is stronger than a solid bar of the same weight"
That is not necessarily true. Hollow tubes have a greater capacity for compression forces than a solid bar. In the case of tensile strength, a solid bar has more strength than a hollow tube. And the longer the member is, the less compression force it can handle. So in my opinion it would be a better idea to go with a solid member vs. a hollow one in terms of what would handle the variety of forces better (compression, tension, etc).
A connecting rod is not subject to large torsional stresses that favor a hollow tube, and a forged single piece I-beam or H-beam is much easier to manufacture and machine.
Jerking the piston down from the exhaust stroke against the inertia of the piston and vacuum above it is what kills rods. That comes from rpm mostly.
Thanks for the info, I just found this, http://www.engineering.gr/design/hom...?table_show=15
anyone want to do some math? lol
Yes, There are/were "hollow" connecting rods made. I have had a set in my hand before and know a guy that still owns them. Do a search for Mekart, Meckart or Mechart rods. Don't remember how it was/is spelled. They were very light and looked impressive, no real world experience with them though/
Welded rods??? WAAAAAY back in the day, before all the wazooo aftermarket conn rods came out there was a company called " Dons Boxed Rods" He actually tig welded a boxing plate on both sides of a stock rod, kind of like boxing a frame. Never saw one, must have been very heavy and hell to balance an engine but he made them, used to advertise in Hot Rod.
Ansen used to make hollow rods. I don't recall the material. I think there were some that were titanium.
Here you go, these are a version of Mechart rods. Very similar to the ones I mentioned above for a SBC.
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