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Magnepan SMG repair questions-- too far gone?
I recently got my hands on some extremely cheap SMGs, which are the first set of Maggies / electrostatics I have ever owned. One speaker is not working, and the reason why is evident: The grill cloth on the back has what appear to be chew holes from some kind of creature, and the wire underneath has been attacked / will need to be replaced (or repaired, if that's even possible).
What I can't tell-- at least at this point, pre-formal sock removal-- is whether said creature also managed to do damage to the diaphragm. The pic below is a view inside one of the chew holes in the grille, taken from the end where the wires wrap around.
There's a triangular hole visible in the diaphragm here. It looks too "perfect" in shape to be the result of pest damage, and is also more or less dead center in the speaker... but it also looks to me like the damaged wire should have been running directly on top of the diaphragm where the hole is.
1) Can anyone with repair experience comment as to whether SMGs or other Maggies have this hole as a matter of course?
2) If it's a "non-factory perforation," is the diaphragm going to be too shot / compromised to consider buying a rewire kit from Magnepan at this point, or can I just work around the hole with the new wire and hope for the best?
3) Is bridging a broken wire practical for Maggie repair, or is a full rewire the only option? I guess I am thinking that if I can repair the wire, I can at least get some idea as to whether I should proceed with ordering a rewire kit, even if the speaker won't exactly sound its best after such a duct-tape "repair."
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hi, in my old newly bought then SMGa it is a round hole perforated , may be a marking?
I did some wire patching as well on one panel, difficult but can be done
personally id try a *quick repair* (10 minutes with some wire and glue) and see if i can get them to play music, and how they sound,
if that works,
id probably leave it at that :D
but you can go as far as you want ;)
Even the working one is going to need some work... it seems to have a sharp dropoff at 7-8k, definitely not sounding right in the highs at all. I don't know enough to know if this is delamination related or if the HF section just needs new wire.
Thanks for the info, ide2003. Good to know that the SMGas as least have a hole in a similar location.
loss ,
In the photo you posted , You notice the white looking spots on the wires ? Those white spots are corrosion , corrosion of the aluminum wires that are used by Magnepan .
More than likely , the lack of high end , is because the tweeter wire has been corroded
in two , thus there is an open circuit .
On the speaker that doesn't work at all, there is the possibility that there is open circuits on all the wires .
Magnepan sells kits that will allow you to re do the wires , they sell this kit only during
the months of the year that don't freeze . . . they also do rebuilds and repairs of their older models . Just call them and ask for a quote .
Another thought , if you find that you are not up to the task of repairing them yourself ,
the other option is to find a pair of used MMGs . . . Sometimes they ( MMGs ) can be found for under $ 300.00 .
Good Luck with Your Journey of all things Flat . . . I own a pair of MGIIs that have been modified and I LOVE THEM !!! ( upgraded cross over components, hard wood frame with struts )
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That is what I thought. I suspect it's sold separately. I wonder how much it'll cost cause I definately want it.
Actually No... the LMO comes with the cheer outfit and is not sold seperately but you only get the outfit for female and the LMO can be used my both genders
That's not cool for guys. They get a female outfit and not a male one. wow.
It's cool for guys like me that use both genders.
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I'm looking to do some snowshoeing and some overnight trips in the San Jacinto mountains this winter and I need a puffy for stops and keeping warm while setting up camp. I used to have a First Ascent Peak Jacket. Unfortunately, I'm not seeing the deals on them that I used to so I'm looking for other reasonably priced options. Any suggestions?Sep 5, 2013 at 7:40 pm #2022283
K CBPL Member
@kalebcLocale: South West
Great deals at Montbell web specialsSep 5, 2013 at 8:43 pm #2022306
Have you consider Stoic Hadron down jackets? I have the Anorak version and so far, quite like it. Got it pretty cheap awhile back. If Backcountry doesn't have sales or specials up now, likely they will at some point.Sep 5, 2013 at 8:45 pm #2022309
Nick GatelBPL Member
@ngatelLocale: Southern California
There was a thread last year about good deals at Cotsco. You might try them.Sep 5, 2013 at 9:05 pm #2022317
Costco does have some good deals, but you got to pay attention with them because they have some good quality ones and then some rather lower quality ones, and often at the same time.
For example, the Costco near where i live has some men's down vests and jackets that have 550 fp duck down/feather, yet at the same time their women's vests have 700 goose down fill. They used to have a men's jacket that i believe used higher quality goose down fill than that, and an interesting specialty fiber from Japan (that made up the shell) that was supposedly very strong for it's weight, and semi-hollow at the same time slightly increasing warmth retention.
I had bought a couple of their last years womens' vests because they fit better, and had 740 fill rating goose down, and was only like 30 dollars!Sep 5, 2013 at 9:13 pm #2022319
How much fill did those Costco jackets have? I have a Montbell UL Down Inner Parka, but I'm looking for something with a bit more insulation.Sep 5, 2013 at 9:33 pm #2022323
I don't think i have ever seen fill weights on any of their down stuff, they just list fill quality/power. Their primary marketed crowd isn't quite the same that people who peruse Montbell, RAB, Stoic, Feathered friends, etc. Off hand and very generally, the vests i have don't have a lot of down, but neither are they anemic. It's been awhile since i have seen one of their higher quality men's down jacket, so can't say;
If i was in your shoes, i would consider not completely ditching my current jacket, but perhaps combining it with a cheaper down vest. But then again, i don't have a lot of money to play with.Sep 6, 2013 at 12:31 am #2022336
Sharon J.BPL Member
@squarkLocale: SF Bay area
The Kirkland jacket is very similar to the Patagonia Down Sweater – it doesn't sound like it would be quite enough for your needs.Sep 6, 2013 at 4:11 am #2022347
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@porcupinephobiaLocale: PNW
I have a big 750 fill down puffy from Cabelas that is uber warm. They have some on sale right now for less tahn 50 bucksSep 6, 2013 at 5:03 am #2022352
David NollBPL Member
@dpnollLocale: Maroon Bells
Golite?Sep 6, 2013 at 7:07 am #2022372
Has anyone used the Mountain Hardwear Chillwave or Sub Zero Parka? Found some good deals on them on gear trade. They look like they may be a little heavier than the UL stuff, but that's OK. If so, I could use some help on sizing too since they are either discontinued or on closeout. I'm 5'6", 155 lbs. with 38" chest. Not sure whether a small will be too snug.Sep 6, 2013 at 8:29 am #2022394
Ryan BresslerBPL Member
The Eddie Bauer stuff will probably go on sale on black friday if you can wait. Other then that i've seen some deals on sierratrading post on Mountain Hardware etc if you get on the email list and wait for a coupon.
Someone needs to make a simple, reasonably priced, baffled down jacket with lots of down for the weight like the MEC Reflex again…Sep 6, 2013 at 9:43 am #2022418
Dustin ShortBPL Member
The Montbell Mirage is $60 off right now through their web specials (I've never seen it on sale).
Other than that, keep looking on GeartTrade.com. I've bought most of my higher end stuff from the site, like a MHW Hooded Phantom for only $100.
RIght now lots of (X)XL stuff but some decent brand/models in medium and small available in the $100-$200 range.
As for sizing of MHW…they run fairly slim and athletic. I'm a solid Small in all things arc'teryx (36 inch but with climber's build, so most of my "chest" is actually in my back). I wear a medium in MHW outerwear and even that feels a bit snug around the armpits. I can squeeze into a small if it's a stretchy fleece or baselayer, but can't for jackets at all. So for your build I'd recommend a medium, and a little extra room is preferable to constricting blood flow when it comes to insulation.
One caveat is that I'm basing this on their athletic down garments like the Hooded Phantom. The Chillwave type jackets could be a bit boxier cut, but since you have a larger chest than me, that shouldn't hurt you at all.
Also MHW customer service is pretty good about answering technical spec questions. Shoot them an email and they'll give you the amount of down inside the jackets which should help you decide if they'll be warm enough. For 650 down you'll probably want at least 6.5oz of down to compare to a 5oz 850fp jacket in warmth. The chillwave does have a windproof (and very water resistant) membrane with box baffling so while it's heavy it should be plenty warm for the San Jacinto.Sep 6, 2013 at 6:20 pm #2022538
Eric BlumensaadtBPL Member
@danepackerLocale: Mojave Desert
Eddie Bauer Down Sweater. (see my avatar)
800 fill down and got a good rating from Will Reitveld in his down jacket review.Sep 6, 2013 at 6:50 pm #2022544
J RBPL Member
>> Sharon J. said: The Kirkland jacket is very similar to the Patagonia Down Sweater
I agree, same fill power, similar overall weight. The Costco one doesn't stuff into a pocket.
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After having some success in life, then losing it all I have yet to bounce back.
I've been up to bat plenty of times since to turn it around. But after so many failures later I've lost a good deal of my inner beliefs that I could turn it around.
I'm beginning to believe I just got really lucky on that first success.
I"m currently about 1.5 months away from homeless.
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Thanks for eliminating any judgement from failure. AND– I can see how I am responsible for my reaction to events and my taking full responsibility for my life But I dont experience that there is no luck or randomness in events. How do you assert that there is no luck?
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Speaking at a recent lunch sponsored by the Financial Services Council and Deloitte, the Vanguard Investments founder and non-executive chairman of the Australian Centre for Financial Studies reminded the fund management and superannuation audience that the industry was controlled by the economic environment, even though some people might be putting more emphasis on the control exercised by government policy.
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Jon Seda, Clifton-bred actor, stars in NBC's new "Chicago P.D."
CHICAGO P.D. 10 tonight,
Near the end of the first episode of "Chicago P.D." last Wednesday night, the 8-year-old son of Jon Seda's Detective Antonio Dawson character was kidnapped when the boy took out the trash from the family bakery.
This nightmare scenario was not hard for Clifton-bred Seda — a father of three — to play.
"It's a scary thought, and having to go there, getting to that place mentally of just anger and extreme passion to want to get your child back — it's pretty easy to think about what would you do," Seda says of the story line, which concludes in tonight's episode. "Having children myself. … I didn't have to dig too deep to pull out the emotions that you'll see in this episode."
"Chicago P.D." is a spinoff of NBC's sophomore "Chicago Fire," both of which hail from creator Dick Wolf. Seda refers to "Fire" as the "mother ship" — the same term Wolf always used to describe his original "Law & Order," which spawned three spinoffs, one of which ("Law & Order: Special Victims Unit") is still on the air.
Seda's character — the brother of paramedic-turned-firefighter-trainee Gabriela Dawson (Monica Raymond) on "Fire" — appeared in some 15 episodes of that NBC show before this new one launched. Both series film on the streets of Chicago, as well as on soundstages at Cinespace Chicago Film Studios, and within their fictional world, the firehouse and the district building are supposed to be within walking distance of each other. This is why in last week's "P.D.," David Eigenberg's "Fire" character happened by, walking the firehouse dog.
The characters on the two shows will cross paths — in the neighborhood, at Molly's Bar — more casually and with less fanfare than in the usual television crossover. "I love the crossing over back and forth and there will be a lot more," Seda says, on the phone from Chicago, during a break in filming.
Seda's character is in the Chicago Police Department's elite Intelligence Unit, which handles organized crime and drug trafficking cases, high-profile murders and the like. "Antonio, he's a good cop. He really loves what he does. He's very good at it," Seda says. "He's a focused detective, but he's not someone to take lightly. … He's not quick to just judge anyone. He likes to try to get all the answers and pieces together before he can make a decision on something. … But he's a guy that tries to do things as much as he can by the book."
One of Seda's first big breaks was playing another cop on NBC — Baltimore Detective Paul Falsone on "Homicide: Life on the Street," from 1997 to 1999.
"Oh, that was a great show. That was a great time," he says, before comparing that character and his new one. "With Falsone, you knew when he was in the room. He was pretty big, where Antonio is not the guy who's going to be loud and looking to have all the focus on him. And if you remember, Falsone had a lot of problems with his personal life … whereas Antonio, he's a big family man and loves to have his family intact.
"The thing that they share is the fact that they love the job and they both want to help the city and help people and really get the bad guys off the street."
Another character in "Chicago P.D."— Detective Sgt. Hank Voight (Jason Beghe), head of the Intelligence Unit — is also familiar to those who watch "Chicago Fire." On that show, he came across as a corrupt and vicious cop. Seda's character, in fact, was the one who arrested Voight for trying to get F.D. Lt. Casey (Jesse Spencer) "taken care of" after Casey refused to back down about Voight's son's drunk-driving accident. Will Voight undergo a reformation?
"Maybe somewhat, but he's definitely always going to be on the edge, because he just has a different viewpoint of how things should get done," Seda says. "It's not so black and white. Sometimes, to get to the right place, in his eyes, there's other ways that you can take, other avenues that you can try that most wouldn't."
Tonight, Voight suggests a new approach to get information about Dawson's missing son, Diego (Zach Garcia). They suspect he's been taken by a Colombian drug gang, whose leader, Pulpo (Arturo Del Puerto), is being held in jail. "So, part of it for him is revenge on us," Seda says.
NBC plans to air the first five episodes of "P.D." in a row before breaking for Olympics coverage. The show will return with the remaining episodes, including one that will feature two characters from "Law & Order: SVU" (played by Ice-T and Kelli Giddish), who come to Chicago to help on a case.
Seda — who often gets back to Jersey to visit relatives in Clifton and Passaic — was an amateur boxer who, in 1992, won a role in the boxing film "Gladiator." From there, he built up an impressive résumé of credits in movies (such as "Selena") and on television, including HBO's miniseries "The Pacific" (he played John Basilone, a World War II marine sergeant and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient from Raritan), and the HBO series "Treme," in which Seda played Nelson Hidalgo, a land developer who joined the relief efforts in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
"Treme" filmed in The Big Easy. And now, Seda and his family are in The Windy City, on another extended location shoot.
"It's part of the job," says Seda, who is based in Pennsylvania when he's not filming. "We've bounced around. To be able to make it work, my wife has home-schooled the kids. Without her support, it would have been tough. We are a really close family unit, and to be able to be together on location, it's a really good thing."
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Jasmine Brown of the volleyball team and diver Brent Sterling were announced as Tennessee's finalists for the H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Award on Wednesday.
Twenty-eight Southeastern Conference student-athletes - one male and one female from each of the SEC's 14 institutions - have been nominated for the annual honor.
Each year, the SEC, in conjunction with AT&T, an SEC Corporate Champion, provides the league's male and female McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship recipients with a $15,000 post-graduate scholarship. The 26 remaining male and female finalists for the award will also receive a $7,500 post-graduate scholarship.
The recipients of the H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Awards will be revealed on April 5.
The SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award was first presented in 1986. The honor was renamed the H. Boyd McWhorter SEC Scholar-Athletes of the Year in May 1990 to honor the former commissioner who served the conference from 1972-86.
The award recipients are chosen by a committee of Faculty Athletics Representatives from the 14 SEC institutions and are honored at the SEC Spring Meetings in Sandestin, Fla. on May 30.
Last year's McWhorter Award recipients were South Carolina baseball player Michael Roth and Georgia swimmer Wendy Trott.
Sterling and Brown are profiled below:
Brent Sterling, Diving (Male McWhorter Nominee)
Expected to graduate with a B.S. degree in biochemistry and cellular and molecular biology in May 2013.
Received the 2012 and 2013 NCAA Elite 89 Award at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships and is a first-team Academic All-American.
An SEC Academic Honor Roll selection who, in 2012, was recognized as the Scholar-Athlete of the Year among all male athlete at the University of Tennessee.
Earned four-time recognition by the Athletics Board for having the highest GPA among all student-athletes in his class.
A two-time SEC finalist and three-time NCAA participant as a diver. Earned 2013 honorable mention All-America honors on the 1-meter springboard. Has been a four-time qualifier for U.S. nationals, including being a two-time semifinalist in 2008 and 2012.
Became just the ninth diver in Tennessee history to break 400 points in the three-meter event.
Highly involved in the community, including working with the Radiology Department at UT and volunteering with Feed The Homeless, the Second Harvest Food Bank of Knoxville, Walk for the cure and the Red Cross.
A native of Knoxville, Tenn., he is the son of Robert and Nancy Sterling.
Jasmine Brown, Volleyball (Female McWhorter Nominee)
Expected to graduate with a B.S. degree in social work in May 2013.
A member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll and the Dean's List, maintaining a cumulative 3.92 grade point average.
A VolScholar who helped her team earn the American Volleyball Coaches Association Academic Team Award.
Named to the 2012 SEC Community Service Team. A four-year letterwinner for the Tennessee volleyball program that won the 2011 SEC Championship and appeared in the NCAA Tournament in each of her four seasons.
Collaborated with two classmates to create a proposal to submit to the "Ready for the World" committee of the University of Tennessee, designed to increase intercultural awareness. Created an idea to have nine countries presented by two natives of those countries, presenting to the audience with social, economic or political problems plaguing their own countries. Hosted a conference in November 2012.
Volunteered with Teams and Toys as the team representative, visited East Tennessee Hospital, participated in Soles for Souls and Habitat for Humanity, among her community service activities.
A native of Chattanooga, Tenn., she is the granddaughter of Bessie Durden.


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Hard Scrabble Falls
Rating: ***
Form: tiered
Magnitude: 60
Access: trail (page 67)
USGS Map: Deming (1994)
Edition: 5th
UPDATE: This waterfall is no longer accessible!
The landowner had to close the private trail due to vandalism. Go on to the next entry.
Racehorse Creek Falls (u)
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Rating: ***
Form: tiered
Magnitude: 62
Access: bushwhack (page 68)
USGS Map: Maple Falls (1994 nl)
Edition: 5th
If not restricted by ownership, Sygitowicz Creek Falls (u), USGS Deming (1994 nl) or Tinling Creek Falls (u), USGS Deming (1994 nl) may be accessible off of S.R. 9. Anderson Falls (u), USGS Lawrence (1994 nl), is not likely to be reached.
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Nelso signed an extension with the Packers that will tie him to the team through the 2018 season, and includes $14.2 million in guaranteed money. The 29-year-old Nelson has spent his entire career in Green Bay, and produced some of the highest numbers for WRs in the NFL since he joined the team in 2008. Last season, Nelson caught 85 passes for 1,314 yards and eight touchdowns.
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This news really solidifies Nelson's presence in Green Bay. Dynasty league owners should consider this new contract as a slight boon to his long-term value. Nelson and Packers WR Randall Cobb can be considered options 1A and 1B for Packers QB Aaron Rodgers , with Nelson holding the slight edge. The players complement each other on the field, with each opening up opportunities for the other. Either receiver would serve well as a low-end WR1 or very elite WR2 on fantasy teams.


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I was driving home for the day and it was around 4:00 and in front of me I noticed a school bus and I drive the road quite often so I have been stuck behind the bus and I had to go though each and every one of it's stops, but I decided I dint need that today so it was a 4 lane road and so I perceded to pass him on the left side. I was doing about 46 in a 40 and right as I get next to him he floors it I hear his engine just blair and he starts pulling. I start thinking "this dude is a idiot we are doing 52 in a 40 and I am racing a school bus"!!. We have gone a block like this and were are doing 15 over and he has kids on the bus !!So I dropped it to 3rd and walked him BAD. This just proves how idoitotic people can be. ( But I did think it was pretty funny that a school bus raced me). I owe it to him, he wins the idoit of the week award!


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When an unhappy self is unhappy, it sends ego out on a mission to acquire what it thinks it wants as a constant stream of external objects to bring back to self to make self happy. Ego is quite content with this arrangement as it allows ego to become very important to self as its supplier with external object happiness. As long as the acquiring of wants is accomplished by the ego, the self is content with the arrangement, but when ego is unsuccessful in acquiring wants, then self becomes 'unhappy'. Self has become addicted to a continuous stream of external object gratification and is experiencing the opposite as unhappiness, as it goes through withdrawal. The opposite of happiness is experienced as unhappiness, and because happiness is derived from a constant, uninterrupted flow of external objects, which we call wishes, or wants; then, the opposite is the hole in us that cannot manufacture actual happiness as an experience of an upwelling of pleasure and joy simply from being alive to being alive. A dependence upon wants makes us unhappy.
When we get what we want a deception is being done. We are not being made happy. We are actually interfering with our own ability to manufacture happiness from within. What we have to imagine is a continuous, unabated flow of not getting what we want coming into our lives for a very long period of time. We absolutely spiral down to the lowest point we have ever reached in the entirety of our lives. We are absolutely miserable. This is potentially the happiest person alive. This is not the same as saying unhappiness creates the possibility of happiness, as that would be a sadistic and unhappy thing to say. What is being said is that now true happiness may be experienced absent of want.
What this person has been experiencing is a continued thwarting of ego that has resulted in humility. The ego has been brought down to size. The self can no longer trust the ego for providing it with its want stream. So, self is presented with either being happy to the only thing left, the aliveness of the experience of being alive, or, it can continue to project a holographic ghost of an idea as an external object sensation of happiness. They can still want. And, they can remain unhappy.
At the moment the self understands it cannot trust either the ego or external objects to bring it true happiness, it begins manufacturing happiness on its own. It takes responsibility for its own emotional state. Getting what you want actually makes you unhappy. It only produces an illusion of happiness and interferes with or hampers or disallows the internal manufacture of happiness that is completely independent of anything other than a tingling, ticklish, joyous, ebullient aliveness to being alive. Anything that does come to such a person is received not in happiness, but in gratitude. Anything that comes is now a gift. They are now the producers of happiness, and so a search for happiness is no longer required. Self is now in control of happiness. Self generates happiness without want.
Because Western culture is almost entirely constructed upon a superstructure of thought that requires endless wants being created, what has been created is an absolutely gigantic unhappiness machine, just as the actual reality of money is that money, in classic financial analysis, is actually debt. Debt creates money. Wants create unhappiness. This is why the unhappiness debt is so huge. Getting what we want expands the function of ego, which creates yet more wants to supply to an increasingly unhappy self because self is starved of the ability to internally produce a continuous, upwelling stream of tingling, ticklish, expanding bubbles of joy simply as an experience of being alive to aliveness. Be careful what you want. You just might get it.
True Indigo, an Alaskan, is the author of A Personal Aristocracy: Cultivating the Power of Spiritual Nobility, published by North Atlantic Books and distributed in Australia by Brumby Books.
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The French want us Angelenos to pay attention to what they're doing over there, apparently. It's not enough that Parisian dirty electro and house found its American footing in Los Angeles, and that Justice, Busy P and the entire Ed Banger posse practically lived here last year (to say nothing of Kitsune). No, there's more to 21st-century French music than Daft Punk and its imitators, and the first annual Ooh La L.A. Festival, which takes place over three days, seeks to stamp that declaration on our foreheads. Wednesday's opening night features Sebastien Tellier, the song stylist who moves from soft piano ballads to funky electro tracks with grace and ease; doing a similar tightrope walk is Gonzales, whose work first as a dance producer (Peaches, Feist, Jamie Lidell) has given way to more formal, structured songs; and Cocoon, a two-piece that makes gorgeous, tense, ambient tracks with minimalist beats and a shocking sense of the mysterious. Thursday's installment features Hollywood, Mon Amour, a side project of Nouvelle Vague that trades in updated versions of soft rock and disco cheese; electronic pop chanteuse Emilie Simon; and French rockers the Do. Friday, the French showcase what they've been doing best for the past decade: making awestruck Angelenos wish they were in a Paris dance club. Brodinski, the Shoes (no, not the power-pop band) and Jamaica (a.k.a. Poney Poney) do it to it. Will L.A. transplant Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk be there checking out his countrymen? You'll never know.
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why does my 14 year old Labrodoer retiever smell like a dead body?
The inside of the a sweaty sneaker,rotten meat,dead body all of the above describe the way my aging Lab/shephard mix Scotty smells like.He is literally smelling up the entire apartment to the point where I can almost taste it.
I know he is having trouble with one of his his hind legs,his furr has been mysteriously green on one side for 2 days and he shakes when he breathes in.He seems to have also lost his appetite.
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PLEASE take this poor boy to a veterinarian for a good exam. In an older dog, tooth issues are the most common cause of bad odor and without treatment are likely to quickly cause severe systematic infection and ultimately, a painful, lingering death.
In addition to dental issues, it sounds by your description of "green fur" that he most likely has some sort of infection in his leg. The green is likely pus from the infection. You mention he has trouble with this leg, probably it is extremely painful!!
Not only is ignoring a serious veterinary condition in your dog Animal Cruelty, which IS illegal, it is also extremely immoral to allow you lifelong friend of 14 years to suffer in this way.
I can't imagine letting this happen to my dog and asking for advice on an internet site rather than with my veterinarian who is the only one qualified to treat him and resolve his suffering.
PLEASE, do the right thing and get him to a vet ASAP!!!! NO animal should be allowed to suffer like this!
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Oh dear, he needs a vet right now! Poor guy! No being--human or animal--deserves to be in that kind of pain. Please get him in the car right now and go.
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Why' are you wasting time on an answers site trying to find a solution. Take him to the vet IMMEDIATLY. How could you let your 14 yo dog suffer this way. It's actually illegal to let your dog suffer like this and not take him to the vet, it's animal cruelty. How long has this been going on for now? Please, the poor animal just take him to the vet right away.
Holly answered on 12/18/12. Helpful? / 0
Its seems that either your dog has anal gland problems or there is some kind of skin problem which is making him smell. Either way id take him to the vet,Both problems should be able to be fixed quickly.
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New Results and Generalizations for Approximate Fixed Point Property and Their Applications
1Department of Mathematics, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung 824, Taiwan
2Department of Mathematics, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran
3School of Mathematics, Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM), P.O. Box 19395-5746, Tehran, Iran
Received 1 December 2013; Accepted 3 January 2014; Published 4 March 2014
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We first introduce the concept of manageable functions and then prove some new existence theorems related to approximate fixed point property for manageable functions and -admissible multivalued maps. As applications of our results, some new fixed point theorems which generalize and improve Du's fixed point theorem, Berinde-Berinde's fixed point theorem, Mizoguchi-Takahashi's fixed point theorem, and Nadler's fixed point theorem and some well-known results in the literature are given.


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Weight training makes a person healthy, fit and strong. It is not just for people
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Howard City president wins big
HOWARD CITY — The longtime village president was elected to another term Tuesday.
Incumbent S. Michael "Mike" Scott received 105 votes while challenger James "Jim" Kurlenda received 46 votes.
Village Clerk Kim Alexander said 152 votes were cast in Tuesday's election — the highest voter turnout she's seen in her 11 years with the village.
"I'm very happy to be elected to another term," Scott told The Daily News. "I'm very grateful to those who supported me and thankful for the opportunity to work for the continuing growth of our community. There's good things on the horizon for this community and I'm glad to be a part of it."
Kurlenda, 57, did not return a call seeking comment. He is a Steelcase retiree. His campaign platform called for lowering village property taxes and water bills, reviewing all village ordinances and making the village grow.
Scott, 66, joined the Village Council in 1974 and became president 12 years later in 1986. He has been re-elected as president ever since, making this his 25th year. He is retired from road construction and currently works part-time as a consultant to developers and municipal construction agencies.
He is president of the Howard City Lions Club and Montcalm Alliance, chairman of the Reynolds Township Road Advisory Committee and a member of the Howard City Downtown Development Authority, the Montcalm County Planning Commission, the Montcalm County Brownfield Authority, the Montcalm County Parks & Recreation Commission, the Montcalm County Land Use Coalition and is a Montcalm County representative to the State Boundary Commission.
Scott said he will now begin working on finding a new village manager in the wake of Village Manager Mark Rambo's resignation. Rambo has accepted a job as operations manager with Grand Valley State University.
His last day with the village will be Sept. 21.
Scott said the village council authorized him to initiate a search for a new village manager at Monday night's regular meeting.
"I can't tell you how much I'm going to miss him," Scott said of Rambo. "We worked well together. He did a lot for this community."
Three incumbents also were re-elected Tuesday to three four-year trustee positions on the Howard City Village Council — Jodi Cummings, Max Gondre and Eleanor Marek. They all ran uncontested