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MK3 Billet Grill 4 PC Kit
Saw a few discussions on upgrading the grill and I ran across this on ebay. Not sure if anyone has one yet or not.
I'm not a huge fan of billet grills but this one isnt that bad, I kinda like it. I am working with a guy at a machine shop about making a prototype full replacement in a honeycomb mesh. Lets see where that leads us.
The only thing I don't like about it is how it leaves the oval gap in the hood empty where the original Ford emblem was. You can see it in Chaos' pics. It still looks great and isn't that big of a flaw in design, but not perfect.
To be honest, it looks really tacky to me. It's something I would expect on a Pt Cruiser, along with porthole stick-ons, cartoon flames, very large chrome rims, and fake chrome trim on every imaginable crevice.
Kind of like this (but with portholes and flames):
I actually saw the same set up recently on ebay, only it was black. Actually looked pretty good to me.
I really like the look of the black billet grille...
i'd have to see it on this car, but I haven't really found a car yet I like billet style grills on.
in hind site, it isn't that bad on our models, I think due to the large amount of billet actually. I think it bugs me when there are like just 3 simple rows of billet grill in a tiny area in place of mesh or honey comb or whatever the factory provides. I wouldn't do it necessarily, but not bad honestly.
Also, that PT looks like it is mimicking an old Beetle with all that jazz. Not sure how many ways that car fails but, I did have a pretty epic Bug in Forza Horizon which ran me a top 200 time in the VW race. Hint: rear wheel drive . . .
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Rare Video: Ginsberg on Music, William Blake, and a Harmonium
The Allen Ginsberg Project dug up another gem today. This 1978 video opens with Ginsberg singing William Blake's "The Tyger," but sadly, there's some trouble with the audio. He uses song to discuss how to read and hear Blake's poetry. Here's an excerpt from the transcript:
So it's only if you get back to the pronunciation of the singing that you might be able to figure the music or the rhythmic intention, you might reconstruct Blake's rhythmic intention (he actually tried to vocalize it) either from speech or song – Actually, that was the point I was trying to make. So if you begin from the words and make a music which is an extension of the vocal tones of the emotional intention in speaking the words as if they were to make sense and communicate, then you'd have a great number of varying tones and some indication toward melody.
The conversation eventually (inevitably?) turns to Bob Dylan, and Ginsberg admits that he is "a total groupie!" Check out the full video after the jump.
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The MA in Arabic with a focus on Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language is offered through Middlebury Language Schools. It includes one year of coursework in the MA Teaching Foreign Language (TFL) program at the Institute.
Students may elect to participate in the "Monterey Option" for this degree and pursue one year of coursework in the Teaching Foreign Language (TFL) program at Monterey.
*At the beginning of each semester, students will consult with their advisor on appropriate courses for their schedule.
During the year at Monterey, students will be enrolled in 18-20 credits of coursework.
*Students on international student visas and Yellow Ribbon veterans will enroll in 24 units, 12 each semester, to meet requirements of their programs of study.
The curriculum typically consists of the following courses:
Monterey offers participants in this program a 50% per unit tuition discount, which replaces the merit-based scholarship award.
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I am finally teaching what I love: Physics.
In the last few years, I have been travelling from city to city, from province to province, from school to school. (following my husband's job, taking time off for kids, etc.). So anytime I get a job at a school, I only get the remains, the things "they" couldn't find anybody else to teach. Thankfully, math and science teachers are in great demand, and I never had a hard time finding a job. But the problem remained that I was not teaching my favorite subjects. Finally however, by a stroke of luck, I am now officially teaching physics.
Today, I'm proud to be a science teacher in Canada. Our students ranked thrid in the world for 15 year olds (the exact age group I teach) in Science on an international survey (57 countries and 400 000 students surveyed). That's pretty impressive. Check out the in depth results here.
For about a year now, I've been reading an awesome blog called Passion for Puzzles. Everyday there is short new entry with news on something "puzzle related" along with a picture. Whether it's a flash puzzle, a new word or math puzzle, an "Escape the Room" puzzle, a new jigsaw puzzle or even puzzle furniture, the author is there to report it in a short concise manner, with an appropriate link.
With the internet being so big, I find it hard to find new interesting puzzles. Therefore, for puzzles, Passion for Puzzles is the place for me!
I have long been a fan of really elegant proofs. One of the best is Euclid's answer to the question: How many prime numbers are there?
Here is how my grade eight science classes go:
For the non scientists out there, the alkali metals (the first group of the periodic table) are very very reactive. They don't occur in their elemental form in nature, because they react so rapidly with water or even air (oxygen). But, because I am teaching chemistry, the periodic nature of reactivity, and similar chemical properties of families, we (along with another crazy teacher in my science department) have decided to order lithium, sodium, and potassium for a demonstration of the high reactivity of alkali metals.
When I tutor students, I get to know them quite a bit better than the ones I teach as part of a class. They open up to me about anything and everything, and sometimes this lets me understand them better. I learn from them, just by listening. A thing that came up during one of my tutoring sessions (with a girl named Erin) was the use of names. She was complaining that one of her teachers only used terms of endearment to her students, instead of their proper names. So instead of calling Erin: Erin, she would say: "Sweetheart", or "Dear".
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Check out dzieci.wp.pl.
When doing labs in the classroom, I need to be prepared to the nth degree. With the limited amount of time during a class (for setup, experiment, clean-up), for a smooth lab I need to be very organized. In fact, I do the lab myself ahead of time; I figure out what can go wrong, and then fix it before it gets to the kids. Actually, most of the time, I can't even predict what will go wrong when the students start playing around with the equipment, so I have to be flexible, very decisive when the time comes for the unfortunate event of a problem. In fact, things going wrong is a good thing.
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There once was a fantastic television show called MacGuyver, which followed the adventures of the most exceptional problem solver you can think of. The show was not about characters or drama or action, although each episode had little bits of each. The show was about heaving MacGuyver ever-more-difficult problems to solve with ever-fewer resources.
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Irish Sympathy with the Abolition Movement
An 1842 speech by Wendell Phillips concerning Irish support for the antislavery movement in the United States. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) was born to a wealthy Boston family and, beginning in the mid-1830s, joined the Garrisonian abolitionists and became a central intellectual force in the antislavery movement. One of the great orators of abolitionism, Phillips was also one of its most radical speakers. He spoke not only against slavery, but also in behalf of labor rights, women's suffrage, temperance, and the rights of Native Americans.
In this 1842 speech in Boston, Phillips expressed appreciation for an Irish antislavery petition with some 60,000 signatures and endorsed by Ireland's national hero, Daniel O'Connell. Phillips characterized the petition as another expression of Ireland's historic advocacy of freedom and appreciated in public the Catholic Church's religious opposition to slavery. According to Phillips, "Ireland is the land of agitation and agitators. We may well learn a lesson from her in the battle for human rights." (21) The speech also expresses repeated appreciation of Father Theobald Mathew, the provincial of the Irish Capuchins, who in 1838 gained international fame by establishing the Total Abstinence temperance movement that attracted millions of pledges. Although Father Mathew signed the Irish petition against slavery, he later became the object of denunciation among US abolitionists beginning in 1849 when he conducted a two-year temperance campaign across the United States and refused to speak against slavery. Phillips' speech marks a high point in the rhetorical history of the often-problematic relationship between the abolitionist movement and Irish Catholics.
Text source: Wendell Phillips, Speeches, Lectures and Letters [2nd series] (Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1891) 19-23. See also Phillips, The Puritan Principle and John Brown (1859), No Slave-Hunting in the Old Bay State (1860), and The State of the Country (1863), as well as O'Connell in Letters on American Slavery (1860) 22-23.


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Got my belt today from Dave and let me tell ya fellas, this guy does fantastic work. For anyone in line, I think you'll be pleasantly suprised by his work. Thanks again man! Good job!
Got my belt today from Dave and let me tell ya fellas, this guy does fantastic work. For anyone in line, I think you'll be pleasantly suprised by his work. Thanks again man! Good job!
If you still are doing them, I would be in for 1
Hey all! I have just about completed two belts. Just some stitching on the connectors and they are all done for Szlemm and TampaFett. I have attached a quick picture of be "wearing" one. It is about 7" wide but for some reason looks much wider in that picture. Odd. This is the new leather type I am using. New braids. Thinner, darking and smoother. They are VERY new looking but weather up VERY nicely. What you see here is an un-weatherd belt. Anyway I will begin contacting some of you who have PM'd me about getting one. These take a bit of time and are costly to make (the leather supplier just raised prices about 25%! Darn them!) so I will be making them only a few at a time. Here is the belt:
How many pieces of bolo you got there?
Looks great!!!! Thanks heaps for doing this run your a legend!
Next small run will be three or four girth belts. Please, since these are all made to order and made size-specific payment is required beforehand. I don't want to be sitting on any of these since they are expensive to make! Thanks!
I have sent PMs sent to:
Bubba Kenobi
How difficult are these to make? I am looking to make one for my son's Jango and I found some leather on M&J that I think would work.
WOw cant for it to arrive!! Thanks so much once again looks great
are you still offering these for sale or is this run closed???
arc_trooper_9875: PM sent.
The belt arrived today & it is incredible! I measured wrong though & it won't fit me & that is without any armor on. It is totally my fault Dave. I should have had my wife measure for me. Any way if someone wants it PM me (belt is 37" & I need a 40" with armor). Will post in the cargo hold soon. If you do another run Dave please let me know as I think your work is great.
Are those belts made for really tall people or what? That looks to be way way too wide. The real belt had 19 braids and was approximately 5" wide.
There shouldn´t be a problem in adjusting the design to make them 5" wide insted of 7"..or would it,if that´s the right size i mean?
The photo makes it look much wider than it actually is. It is 7", which, according to many on this board, is the approximate width of the actual belt.
I made it 7 inches to make sure it accommodated the width of the pouch-belt on top of it. If the pouch belt is, say, 3"-4" wide then a 5" girth belt would not allow for much on either side in the way of coverage. It would look way too small, in my opinion. so a 7" belt allows for about 1-2 inches of "peak" above and below the pouch belt.
That said, The belts can be made to whatever width one may want.
Hi man, Nice to meet you!!!!!!!!!! Good job man !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations
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I´m quite short so i guess that a 5" would look more accurate then 7"..on me that is!
Hello, what type of glue you used to unit the cordons and the little leather? thanks..
Any news..? Just curious and eager..
PM & paypal sent
I got mine today and it´s great..!!
The only downer is that it was too long..16 cm (6.5") more then the size i was going for..??
Darthdav i´ve sent u a PM.
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Can Lighting
I am involved in a bathroom remodel....
I have recently installed 5" ceiling can lights in my shower. After installing the 2 can lights we relaized that they were non-ic rated. I purchased the cans at my local Lowe's and they do not carry 5" IC rated cans. Do I have any options other than changing to 6" IC rated cans, and having to try and recut and fit the larger cannisters?
The cans are cut through sitting against a truss on the east side. the trusses are on 24" centers. I have atleast 18" of clearance in all directions. The crawl space has anywhere from 18" to 36" of clearance above the cannisters. My crawl space has approximately knee deep insulation.
Sugesstions please?????????
why do you need IC rated... isn't that only if you have insulation between the ceiling joists? normally we don't have that... if you don't have that... why do you need IC rated?
The crawl space is insulated between the joists. The insulation is blown in and approximately knee deep.
Any suggestions, or can I use the non-ic rated?
Go to a local electrical supply house and get 5" insulated cans.
410.116 says that non-ic can be used, but the recessed parts must be 1/2 in. away from combustible materials.
And the instructions of non-IC cans say to keep insulation 3" away.
Thank-you for the information. I will clear the insulation away and build a flashing guard.:thumbsup:
If the insulation is required to be installed, then removing it is only creating another violation.
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14m. From just right of the arete a swift layaway leads to a tricky mantelshelf. Continue into a shallow groove to ledges on the right then head up the final wall. Turin Finish, E2 5c - More exciting. Move left from the groove and climb the arete initially on the right then on the left.
Its not bold. You can get gear in
A bit unbalanced. Both the grades derive from the hernia-inducing mantel low down (one legged squats or knees useful), above it's easier and much more pleasant. Gear is esoteric and fiddly but just enough.


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Vials of E. coli bacteria found in the refrigerator of a Jonesboro apartment have been safely removed, authorities said.
A maintenance man cleaning out the unit at the Willow Creek Apartments on Friday found 25 vials marked "E. coli" in a foam box in a refrigerator, officials said. The maintenance man notified the facilities manager, who then called Arkansas Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
An Arkansas National Guard hazardous material crew spent most of Friday afternoon and night securing the bacteria and removing it from the apartment, Fire Battalion Chief Marty Hamrick told the Jonesboro Sun for a story in Sunday's editions. The vials were of medical-grade quality but there wasn't enough danger for officials to evacuate the complex, Hamrick said.
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Archive for the 'Events' Category
Mike Sanders to appear on KCUR at 11 a.m.
Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders will be on KCUR's Up To Date this morning to discuss his commuter rail proposal and other county issues (charter review, elections, taxes, etc.). The show begins at 11 a.m. on 89.3 FM and is also available as a live stream. Here's a Rapid Rail Presentation of Sanders' PowerPoint slides, in case you want to bone up before calling in.
We'll bet you a KCATA monthly pass that Clay Chastain will call in, given that Sanders has refused to face-off in a
duel debate over the merits of each plan.
Hat tip to the new KC transit blog, Transit Action Network!7 comments
Clay Chastain at Union Station
Photographer Eric Bowers captured Clay Chastain during his petition drive at Union Station on Saturday, which was also National Train Day. Chastain gathered about 1,000 signatures, but announced today he'd be scaling back the proposal.
Earlier in the week, Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders made a competing pitch to the Kansas City City Council; the Council tentatively agreed to support the Sanders plan [PDF] and is considering a change in the petition process that would require a financial statement from the city auditor for each petition initiative submitted to voters.
Photo used with permission.3 comments
Chastain to air radio spot, hold petition rally
We received this in email this morning:
April 22, 2010
Clay Chastain
Once again, we are exercising our right under the Constitution to petition our government for grievances.
Our grievance is that Kansas City's government has failed to provide the people a modern, efficient, and attractive transit system to move about the city that saves people money, protects the environment, and helps stimulate the local economy.
Included in this press release is the text and the audio of a radio spot advertising this effort and informing the voters of Kansas City where they can come to sign the light rail and charter change initiative.
This new radio spot will air today at 5:52p.m on KMBZ radio and continue to run as funds allow up to the petition signing rally at Union Station on May 8 from 9:00am to 3:00pm.
In the past, people have complained that they did not know where to find us to sign light rail petitions. So, we are giving the public a one-day opportunity to come to us.
Thank you for any assistance you can provide in informing the public of this most important civic matter.
The radio spot is here [MP3].8 comments
Crossing the river is about to get easier
MoDOT broke ground today on Kansas City's first, safe Missouri River crossing for pedestrians and bicycles… ever.
See the video above for the Heart of America Bridge makeover.
Believe it or not, crossing the river on foot or bike today is a very dicey affair — unlike almost all other river cities. There is literally no room on the Broadway Bridge, Heart of America traffic zooms along at 50+ mph, and MoDOT slammed the door on ped/bike access on the brand-new Paseo Bridge.
The Heart of America crossing will be barrier-separated, although users will need to start their trip on 3rd Street in the River Market or on Burlington Street in North Kansas City. Auto users are treated to a plethora of access options.
This new crossing is even more necessary when you consider the limited transit options connecting the two halves of Kansas City — bus service is limited after 6 p.m., and non-existent on Sundays.
The HOA bridge had been tagged as the river crossing in most of the light rail plans that crossed into the northland. However, it was deemed in recent plans to be incapable of handling full light rail vehicles and would need to be rebuilt.4 comments
Midwest HSR meeting this weekend
We'll be attending the Midwest High Speed Rail Association's Annual Meeting this weekend in Chicago and will do our best to offer live coverage via Twitter.
This event tends to be heavily focused on Illinois, but there will be an overview of passenger rail projects funded by the Recovery Act (which includes Missouri). There will also be an overview of a French proposal for 220 mph service in the Midwest, which includes a link to Kansas City.Comments are off for this post
KDOT, Amtrak release passenger rail study
The Kansas Department of Transportation and Amtrak released a feasibility study today outlining costs and ridership potential for a new state-sponsored passenger rail route between Kansas City and Fort Worth.
Four alternatives were studied, daytime and nighttime, each with varying price tags and connections to existing Amtrak services. The clear winner is Alternative 3 — a daytime train that provides a direct, 12-hour trip between Fort Worth and Kansas City — but the Kansas Legislature must decide which option to advance for state and federal funding. Alternative 3 has the highest ridership (174,000) and highest capital cost ($479 million).
Any option terminating in KC would use Amtrak's existing facility at Union Station. Station stops include Lawrence, Topeka, Emporia, Wichita, and Oklahoma City.
The chosen option will need to win political and financial support from Oklahoma and Texas, which will also benefit from the additional service.
Annual operating costs for all four options range from $3.2 to $8 million. Missouri currently pays Amtrak $8 million to operate two round-trips between KC and St. Louis. Oklahoma and Texas share the $2 million cost of one daily round-trip between Oklahoma City and Fort Worth.
This week also marked the first official legislative approval for the effort: SB 409, authorizing KDOT to enter into passenger rail agreements, was approved by both chambers and is on it's way to Gov. Mark Parkinson for signature.
The Lawrence Journal-World has the best recap of today's press conference. History of this effort can be found at northflyer.org/.
UPDATE: We also have comments about the study from Northern Flyer Alliance President Deborah Fischer-Stout about the study.6 comments
Basketball and the bus
The best way to avoid the crush of basketball fans downtown over the next month is to take the bus to the game. All of the upcoming Big 12, NCAA, and NAIA events this month are steps away from nearly every route in the metro.
First, use Google Transit to plan your trip, then read on while we demystify Kansas City's transit scene.
If you live close to the MAX route, you're in luck: KCATA is increasing service every day of the Big 12 Tournament (March 10-14). If coming from farther afield, park free in any of the free garages on the Plaza (the two closest to the Plaza MAX stop are across the street from each other, by Jack Stack Barbecue). There is also a free park-and-ride at 74th & Wornall, but the MAX doesn't run as frequently south of the Plaza.
- Sprint Center is within a three-block walk of almost every bus route that serves downtown. The entrance on Oak Street is less congested. Grand Boulevard will be closed March 10-14, likely leading to large crowds at the main entrance. Riders should be aware that the "Arena" stop is temporarily west of Grand.
- Municipal Auditorium is next to Bartle Hall, one block west of Broadway, and best served by MAX (13th & Wyandotte) or #25. Most other KCATA routes require a bit more walking, but none more than 6 blocks.
We highly recommend buying a day pass when you get on board. It's only $3, which covers your inbound and outbound ride, and can be bought on board. Bus drivers can't make change, but they can give you a change card for any bills or coins you have, that can be used for future rides.
The best thing about Google Transit isn't that it gives you the fastest trip at your desired departure or arrival time – online trip planners have been doing that for years — it's the combination of displaying bus stops (the tiny blue bus icon) with their corresponding routes (click on that icon) on a map, and Street View.
Let's say the bus stop closest to you is only served by one route, but the one two blocks in the other direction is served by three routes (therefore offering more departures)… that's a powerful tool for transit users. Use Street View to see exactly what the bus stop's surroundings are like; is there a shelter, a bench, or even a sidewalk?
If you're a smartphone user, download Google Maps for mobile right now. Transit directions are now available for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, WebOS, Nokia, and Windows Mobile.
Since many of the games will be during the weekday, using The JO to get downtown from Johnson County is also a great idea. Plan accordingly, as most routes don't run after 6 p.m. We recommend using the park-and-ride at 6000 Lamar due the number of routes available and the shorter travel time.
All JO routes are also on Google Transit. The JO's fare is $2 and they accept transfers from KCATA. However, they do not accept KCATA passes nor do they provide change cards.
Enjoy your hoops!2 comments
TIGER: Winners/losers, streetcar (not) in play?
While some media outlets thought otherwise, it's not entirely clear after today's TIGER announcement that the downtown streetcar is completely unfunded. Unfortunately, it takes a bit of math to deduce where the entire $50 million award will go. The full request [PDF] was $88.761 million.
In practical terms, the entire amount will go to MARC to be distributed to various agencies who handle the Green Impact Zone of Missouri (GIZMO) and transportation services in the metro — the latter being handled exclusively by KCATA, The JO, and the Unified Government of Wyandotte County.
Of the $50 million awarded to KC today, however, GIZMO and bus corridor improvements cover only about $48 million. The Bike KC, Front Street interchange, and West Bottoms freight rail projects were not specifically mentioned, which leaves the remaining transit project — design and engineering for the downtown modern streetcar — up in the air. We have yet to hear from KCATA about their take on today's event.
Streetcar awards were confirmed for Dallas, Tucson, New Orleans, and Portland. Streetcar requests that didn't make the cut were Cincinnati, Boise, Fort Worth, Salt Lake City, and Atlanta.
Another smaller round of streetcar-specific funding using unspent transit dollars — not stimulus — will be awarded later this year; Kansas City is unable to apply for that program because it has not delivered the local match required.
As for the other nationwide winners and losers in today's announcement [PDF], Streetsblog, The Infrastructurist, and The Transport Politic have excellent posts that cover the big picture.
Hope you enjoyed our live tweets. We also finally figured out video (see above), and MARC has plenty of pictures.
UPDATE: KCATA confirmed Thursday morning that the streetcar element was not funded. Their site has been updated with details about the bus corridor improvements.6 comments
BREAKING: Transportation Secretary LaHood in KC this week
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will be in KC this week, as well as Los Angeles and Tucson. All three cities had downtown modern streetcar components in their TIGER grant applications. Grant winners were Congressionally mandated to be announced by Feb. 17.
It's likely that the appearance location will relate to a part of the application, which could include the Green Impact Zone, the riverfront, or Union Station (which would be on the streetcar route and conveniently makes a great photo op).
UPDATE: Here's an article detailing LaHood's Thursday appearance in Tucson.
UPDATE 2: The White House has confirmed that LaHood will be in Kansas City tomorrow, along with stimulus-related appearances by other cabinet members. Still no official word on where the KC event will take place, but we've received unofficial word that it will be in the Green Impact Zone, not Union Station.
UPDATE 3: MARC has just confirmed the event will take place at 10:30 a.m. CST at the Green Impact Zone offices, 4600 Paseo. Mayor Mark Funkhouser and US Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver will also be present.
Live-tweeting the Sanders presentation
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Strong Growth And Innovation Seen For Information-As-A-Service In 2011
Posted by Noel Yuhanna on November 22, 2010
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Over the course of this year, I've spoken with many organizations that are continuing to expand their usage of information-as-a-service (sometimes called data services) to support new business requirements such as self-service customer portals, real-time BI, and single-version-of-the-truth. With the growing complexity of data, increasing volume of data, and exploding security challenges all driving demand, IaaS is poised to grow significantly in the coming years, especially as existing integration technologies are failing to meet these new requirements. What we see is that most organizations that have embraced an IaaS strategy over the years aren't looking back; they're continuing to expand its usage to support more requirements such as real-time data, creating data domains, improving the ability to securely deliver information, integration with unstructured data and external sources, various Web portals, and enterprise search.
Recently, my colleague Gene Leganza, who serves Enterprise Architecture Professionals, compiled the top 15 technology trends EA should watch over the next three years . One of the trends Gene highlighted is that information-as-a-service (IaaS) is finding a broader audience. I see more organizations continuing to show strong interest in IaaS, as evidenced by increasing inquiries, to help with growing data integration challenges that traditional solutions are not addressing. IaaS can significantly alter IT's approach to its data management strategy and delivers a flexible framework to support transactional, BI, and real-time data.
Here are my top predictions for 2011 related to IaaS:
- Large and complex IaaS deployments will become more visible. Some of the largest and most complex IaaS deployments supporting tens of thousands of users with terabytes of information will become more visible in 2011 and beyond and span various vertical industries, including telecommunications, government, retail, and financial services. In addition, many will become more mission-critical to support global applications and new user requirements, requiring redundant infrastructure and processes.
- More organizations will focus on near real-time information. Most IaaS deployments we have seen so far tend to focus on refreshing data every day or every few hours, but we definitely will see organizations ramping up the frequency to support real-time or near-real-time data in 2011 and beyond, especially as the business value of IaaS becomes more visible across the enterprise. As a result, IaaS going forward will become the preferred source for trusted data in the enterprise. In addition, organizations will look at integrating IaaS with other real-time sources including streaming data and CEP systems.
- More will use data services (IaaS) to speed mobile apps delivery. I recently heard about a large insurance company, a Forrester client, that attributes its success in rapidly rolling out new iPhone and iPad apps in part to the foundation it had laid with SOA. This included both transactional services, which can be triggered by iOS apps (and others), and data services, which securely and rapidly deliver trusted information to mobile devices. This is a great example of how to leverage your investment in SOA to help you meet the exploding demand for enterprise mobile apps.
- More data sources will be added beyond the typical four or five. So far we have seen enterprises integrating, on average, about four to five data sources to support IaaS. This is likely to increase to tens and in some cases hundreds as more enterprises start to leverage IaaS in a strategic manner. In addition, we estimate that in 2011 and beyond, half of all IaaS projects will have a more enterprisewide — as opposed to project-level — focus.
- Demand will increase for integrating structured with unstructured data. We find that more organizations are realizing the importance of using unstructured data to support their decisions. As a result, integrating structured with unstructured and semi-structured data to support new and complex business decisions is becoming critical. In 2011 and beyond, more organizations will start to look at solutions that can deliver a simplified integration process of structured with unstructured data.
- More organizations will realize IaaS's security potential. During various inquiry calls this year, some customers mentioned to us that they dramatically improved data security by using an IaaS framework, centralizing the authentication, authorization, and access control of critical data — as a result disallowing direct access to data sources. This not only improves compliance audits for various organizations but also ensures that only authorized users can access sensitive data. We expect that more organizations, especially those that have hundreds and thousands of sources, will adopt an IaaS framework just to improve data security and compliance.
- Read-write information services will become more common. Most organizations that we spoke with during this year have read-only IaaS deployments, with a few read-and-write, but we believe that will change in 2011 and going forward. We find that typically organizations try out read-only information services first and then over time leverage read-write capabilities, especially when they make IaaS a more strategic platform in their organization.
- Even smaller and moderately sized companies will start to look at IaaS. So far, most of the IaaS deployments have been concentrated around very large $1B+ companies; however, we are now seeing that even smaller and moderate sized organizations are very interested in IaaS to help them overcome their data challenges. As a result, in 2011 and beyond we are likely to see small mission-critical IaaS deployments in these organizations to support various types of use cases, ranging from single-version-of-the-truth to BI to searching and compliance reporting.
- More will use IaaS to enable integration with external data sources. Some large organizations have already started to integrate their on-premise data with partner data or external sources such as the public cloud to deliver more value to applications and end users. Microsoft recently announced Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket, which delivers data from commercial data providers and public data sources, such as data sets on demographics, financials, retail, weather, and sports. We are likely to see at least a fourth of all IaaS implementations integrating with external or public data sources in 2011 and beyond.
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Comment from R Paul Singh (not verified) on Fri, 01/21/2011 - 17:11
Good insights in the post. Your blog post is music to our ears and to many companies like us that are trying to bring unstructured data not just from inside the firewall but from the outside world into the decision making.
Considering Infrastructure as a service has already taken IAAS acronym, we may have to invent a newer one so as not to confuse with that. Possible candidates are DAAS (data as a service), BAAS (business intelligence as a service). May be we can restart the trend of TLAs and use IAS (Information as Service), BIS (business intelligence service). Well, I am sure you and your team at Forrester is expert at creating new trends.
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Comment from Ash Parikh (not verified) on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 17:16
Hi Noel,
Great post.
The terms "data services" and "data virtualization" seem to come up as alternatives when I discuss IaaS or Information as a Service with end users and architects.
Also, architects almost always look to base their architecture on the best practices recommended by the Forrester IaaS Wave and the work you and Mike did on the "information fabric."
In the numerous discussions I have had with architects on data virtualization and data services, one thing that stands out is the end goal - "agility." They believe that "agility" is all about cutting the "wait" and the "waste" involved in a typical data integration process. As we know, simple, traditional data federation is not data virtualization - although the lines are blurring across the web, creating some degree of confusion.
Data virtualization should be all about hiding and handling complexity. Enterprise data is complex as we all know. It requires rich transformations not limited to SQL or XQuery only. Data federation assumes data is ready for consumption and of good quality, which is not the reality. You can't propagate bad data in real-time and waste time with post-processing. Data profiling, data transformation and data quality (including data masking) must happen on the fly, on federated data. And this is not easy. Additionally, you cannot leave any data behind, simply because you can't access it (high performance), specifically in the case of unstructured data and mainframe. All this can remove the "waste" in a data integration process. Finally, business-user self-service or instant business-IT collaboration using role based tools can help remove the "wait" from the data integration process.
We at Informatica, a leader in the Forrester IaaS Wave, have put together a graphic based on best practices for data virtualization and data services, that we are hearing from architects - it can be found here:
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I'm jealous of your weed consumption, Coka.
I've never had the pleasure of smoking a blunt.
I can barely afford a bowl a day, no way a blunt a day. Even one blunt would take considerable savings. I'm broke, man. Maybe that's why I'm declaring bankruptcy.
I would have to wait until tax returns or something. Then getting an extra eigth to smoke wouldn't be hard to do.
Or maybe next month, since its a 3 paycheck month.
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Hey don't get me wrong I have had my fair share of skinny ass blunts. Some times you just gotta save up and splurge once and a while. It feels good.
Hotknives gentlemen. Be poor and still enjoy getting fucked out of your mind.
find some buddies to throw in on a blunt vagrant, teamwork is key
but if you can find a way to muster up about a gram, roll one up and smoke it to your face, its really relaxing sitting on your own couch with your own personal L
ahh personal L's... me and my buddies used to devote at least one night a week to a personal L night. we'd all be chilling in my one friends basement and there'd be about 5 or 6 of us just rockin blunts to our faces, we'd hot box his entire basement doing that. we'd either each roll our own blunts and smoke them or each one of us would roll a blunt and pass them all around at the same time, either way we got retarded
blunts are my favorite way, not only is it a nice smoke, but just the way you feel while youre smoking it makes it all the better. my first time ever was with a blunt, on christmas day
i dont know what some people are talking about when they say they didnt get high their first time, i know i was completely bombed.
yeah dude... my first time was on 420 back when i was in like... 10th grade or some shit... 99 or 2000 and i got ripped... a buddy of mine came thru with a half ounce of dro (which was like the shit back in those days) and we smoked the whole bag within a few hours, my legs were like numb as fuck and i couldnt stop laughing... it was love at first hit


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What to do about Google and Doubleclick? Hold Google to it's word with some Extreme factfinding about privacy practices
The original appearance of this entry was in Danny Weitzner - Open Internet Policy
The proposed merger between Google and Doubleclick has raised hackles among those concerned about potential domination of the online advertising marketplace (especially Microsoft) but even more worry among privacy advocates. After a short talk over the weekend with a friend, Peter Swire, a thoughtful and knowledgeable privacy scholar, I came to the view that regulators have to develop a new, robust and scalable means of keeping track of what large data handlers such as Google are actually doing with personal information. (While the conversation with Peter was quite stimulating, I don't know whether or not he agrees with what I've written here.) The mechanisms the exist today to help users make informed choices and policy makers set sound directions are simply inadequate to answer the kinds of questions posed by the Google-Doubleclick deal. Instead of formal, highly negotiated and scripted hearings, we need to much more open, flexible process in which technical experts and the interested public are able to ask detailed questions about current practices. This is not a criticism of either US or EU regulators. On both sides of the Atlantic there is a fine tradition of EU Data Protection Commissions and the US Federal Trade Commission engaging in careful and thoughtful probes of privacy-sensitive activities. However, these processes often take too long, end up producing results that are quite out of date. A lot of energy goes into addressing last year's data handling practices by which time the leading edge of the industry has moved on.
In the 1990s, the FTC under Christine Varney's leadership pushed operators of commercial websites to post policies stating how they handle personal information. That was an innovative idea at the time, but the power of personal information processing has swamped the ability of a static statement to capture the privacy impact of sophisticated services, and the level of generality at which these policies tend to be written often obscure the real privacy impact of the practices described. It's time for regulators to take the next step and assure that both individuals and policy makers have information they need.
So, as part of investigating the Google-Doubleclick merger, regulators should appoint an independent panel of technical, legal and business experts to help them review, on an ongoing basis the privacy practices of Google. Key components of this process should be:
- expert panel made up of those with technical, legal and business expertise from around the world
- public hearings at which Google technical experts are available to answer questions about operational details of personal data handling
- questions submitted by the public and organized in advance by the expert panel
- staff support for the panel from participating regulatory agencies
- real-time publication of questions and answers
- An annual report summarizing what the panel has learned
The Internet open source and open standards communities have learned a lot over the last decade about how to use the Web to facilitate open, collaborative and often rapid development of new technologies. Web users reap the benefit of these open processes with easy access to high-quality software. Indeed, the very infrastructure of the Web and the Internet have been largely developed in this sort of open, extreme technology development process. Making public policy is different than developing technical designs, but the in-depth fact-finding that is needed to make sounds policy decisions could benefit a lot from the open, collaborative, online information gathering and sifting process that we already use for Web technology development. Of course, this would not supplant the traditional policy making role of regulators. Rather, this process would serve as a fact-gathering process to help inform regulators. If everyone was feeling really ambitious, perhaps there could even be cooperation between the various regulators around the world with a commitment to study the results from this process. Despite differences in privacy policy in different parts of the world, there has been an impressive record of information cooperation, especially at the staff level, amongst various privacy regulators around the world. This could be a good next step to take in that direction.
By way of background, regulators in the US (Federal Trade Commission) and Europe (Article 29 Working Party representing the EU's Data Protection Authorities) are investigating both antitrust and privacy questions regarding the merger. The key privacy concern seems to be that Google would take all of the personal information it has about users (search terms, IP addresses, contents of email, location from map applications, etc.) and combine it with the personal data the Doubleclick has (demographics, click stream data from ads served) and end up with a REALLY powerful private surveillance machine.
Google says that they care about their user's privacy rights and would never abuse the newfound power they propose to acquire. According to Nicole Wong:
"User, advertiser and publisher trust is paramount to the success of our business and to the success of our acquisition…. We can't imagine taking any actions that would undermine these relationships or the trust people have in using our products and service." (Washington Post, 20 April 2007)
But the question is: how will either policy makers or users know that their trust is being violated or pushed to an extreme that they're not comfortable with? Google, to it's credit, sees the need to provide more information about what it does with personal data. In testifying before the United States Senate, Google's chief lawyer, David Drummond, said:
We are also exploring other ways to create more transparency in our privacy practices and policies. We have a lot of information about our privacy practices on our website, and we're making that information even more accessible to users by adding video-format "tutorials" to help users understand privacy issues online in plain English. The first of these video tutorials has been viewed about 43,500 times on YouTube, and the second video launched earlier this week and has already been viewed hundreds of times.
But will expanded privacy policies and videos really be enough to help uses make sound decisions. Privacy regulations place a large, and I believe unsustainable, burden on users to learn the details of how services such as Google use their personal information and then weigh the current benefit of the service against the perceived privacy cost. There is mounting evidence that people will trade off a lot of future privacy risk in exchange for current convenience. I doubt that simply presenting users with more and more choices will help us arrive at a privacy policy that is sounds in the long run. For example, some privacy advocates (EPIC) demand that Google be required to get a explicit permission from all of who have Doubleclick cookies before the information associated with those cookies can be used together with personal information from Google. EPIC also asks that a lot of other information about Google's information handling practices be made available to users, consistent with traditional privacy notions of notice and access to personal information.
Imagine the question that Google might ask when seeking permission from a user to associate their Doubleclick cookie with Google data in a mobile search application:
Google Dialog Box (FAKE): We'd like to us some of the demographic information we have about you to give you more accurate, convenient directions on your mobile phone. We will also use this data to target ads to you, just like we do with you GMail account. Click 'Yes' to agree or 'No' and they you'll be asked to type the latitude and longitude of your ten favorite locations.
The query may not be so extreme, but the idea will be the same.
So my view is that users could use a bit of help making these decisions. That help ought to come in the form of some baseline rules about how personal information can and cannot be used. The days of saying that all users need is 'free choice' are over. Of course, the problems discussed here with respect to Google apply equally to many other services on the Web that handle personal information. Google and it's merger proposal presents a good opportunity to start figuring our some of these questions, but the process and the answers would be applicable to many others as well. In order to figure out what policies should actually govern how data is used, a careful and ongoing investigate of Google's practices, with the help of the independent board I have suggested above, would be a good place to start.


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Can anyone tell me specifically how far the TV cable on a 700 R4 travels from the housing at idle to WOT? I have been fighting different issues with my truck for many months. I had a rebuilt trans installed by a garage that did not flush my lines or radiator causing the trans to burn up. I had the orig trans shop do the rebuild. Since the rebuild, I don't think I have enough travel in the cable. I have a qjet that came with the truck originally. I checked the geometry without tv cable hooked up and it is dead on - 23 degrees to the rear of shaft center and 55 degrees forward. If I adjust cable per instructions, there is slack in the cable and trans wont shift right. If I preload the cable per PATC TV 101 site, the TV cable is approx 1/2 to 3/4 inch short which does not allow WOT.
I spent all day last friday with the trans rebuilder (180 miles) and he is stumped. He says travel is right and think bracket is wrong. I said the problem is in the trans regardless where the bracket is (universal cable). He replaced three different governors and two different cables. My truck has never downshifted past 3rd no matters speed and still shifts a little soon particulaly from second to third. My cable only travels approx one inch. I think it needs to travel more. Please help. Bo
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I'm new here, but not new to the hobby (plants yes, but fish keeping and reefs, no).
I'm doing my first planted tank out of a 20 gallon high (24x12x16). I found a sweet 3 bulb fixture for $30 and now have 3 x 23 watt 5500k CLFs in there (parallel to the tank. I'm used to lighting reefs and I think this may be a shade (pun intended) too much? I plan on using DYI CO2, a few ferts and my goal is to grow a full bed of low lying ground cover, (aquascape style) with a few larger plants like swords etc off to one side. I've searched and searched, but the specifics of my question have eluded me.
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I did have a setup 20H with 2 CFLs bulbs 23 watts - 6500k. I was successfull without CO2, then with diy CO2. Spent a lot of time errors/adjustement to find a right balance.
I am an amateur, according to me 3 CFLs without CO2 would be too much, but then it depends on the distance of the CFLs to the tank, and the lighting duration.
With diy CO2 i was lighting 8 hours a day, the bulbs were 8" over the water, was getting some filamentous algae that's all, and great growth.
Thanks for the tips! I have the lights sitting on a glass lid. I know with my reefs I'd not use glass due to absobtion, however in this case it might be a good thing. The housing as a seperatate switch for the center bulb so that should give me some good control. Yhe other question is whether its permissible to have two shorter photoperiods in a day vs. One 8-12 hour period? It would be nice to have lights morning and evening without keeping them on for the full 15-16 hours which would clearly be a bad idea.
Hello again,
Personally I do not believe in the 2 periods instead of one, always did one photoperiod, and it must not be more than 12 hours a day because it seems after that the plants stop photosynthesis anyway.
With the CFLs directly over the lid, I did try it. It worked, but the CFLs were very close and the light not evenly distributed, having 2 bright spots in the water, I did not like that.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
How I Became a Third Rate Academic (With Coffee Stains and All)
The chairman of the Scandinavian department looks sternly at me. We're at the annual conference for Scandinavians in America, SASS. This year it takes place in Seattle and I've become drunk from half a glass of Chardonnay.
"You aren't just a writer, Peter. You're also an academic," he says.
I sigh. Why does this nice man from University of Washington have to insult me? Couldn't he accuse me of something more innocent like robbing banks? But no, the chairman is going for the throat.
I study him. Is this great scholar getting back at me because I borrowed his first name Terje in The Tsar's Dwarf? In my novel, Terje is a drunk and violent Norwegian who swallows his own vomit. But don't all Norwegians? What is so insulting about that?
"You teach at an American university, isn't that correct?" he continues relentlessly.
"Yes, part time, but Portland State didn't hire me as ..."
"And you write historical novels that require scholarly research. So, Peter ..." He looks triumphantly at me. "You're a scholar and an academic."
I sigh but the chairman is right. I'm in denial. I'm an academic, too.
My problem is I don't like labels. I can easily identify with novelist and human being (if the latter isn't bragging), but not academic or scholar. Actually, I take pride in the fact that I only have a B.A., not a Masters or a PhD. I'm also proud that I've never read a single book on literary criticism in my life. And most important, I don't own a tweed jacket or smoke a pipe.
For the rest of the SASS conference I walk around in a daze.
I look at all my great colleagues presenting papers like "The Aesthetic of the Interface: Performativity and Pornographic Symbolism in the Poetry of Post Modern Sami Writers." I admire how the eyes of college professors are glued to their manuscripts; how they drown their PhD's in exquisite red wine, and use words only known to scholars of the 14th Century.
"How can I compete with that?" I sigh. I've never read Tolstoy or Camus. James Joyce and James Conrad bore me to death. "So what am I doing here?" I shout to the mirror in the elevator, but the mirror doesn't respond. After all, mirrors aren't academics, they're simply useful.
The next day I return to Portland and decide I have to accept my cruel fate, so I enroll into the local chapter of Academics Anonymous. At the first AA meeting I stand up. On my shoulder lies a blanket of dandruff. In my pocket, two midterm papers sticking up begging for Cs.
"My name is Peter," I whisper. "I'm an academic."
"Hi, Peter," the crowd greets me. I look at the janitors with Master Degrees, the award winning poets, the adjuncts and novelists who dreamed of becoming curling instructors.
In a corner, a bearded man is shouting, "tenure ... I want tenure". It's not a pretty sight. Getting in touch with your Inner Academic never is. I sit down again. Two scholars doing research on the pronouns in the Icelandic sagas embrace me warmly.
I'm going to pull through. And tomorrow I'll buy that tweet jacket if it's the last thing I'll do.
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Monday, April 19, 2010
A Great Writers' Conference Outside Seattle: Cats and Coyotes Are Welcome
I lost my virginity in the state of Washington.
After almost forty readings and book signings in the US for The Tsar's Dwarf, I was invited to a writers' conference to do two workshops.
This happened last weekend outside Seattle at Kiana Lodge in Poulsbo overlooking Bainbridge Island. What a gorgeous place. It reminded me of Scandinavia before it was buried in volcanic ash. 128 people and a cat met up to listen to a bunch of professional writers sharing their wisdom about everything from self publishing to writing through grief.
I was hired to do a workshop on tragicomedy, an apt choice since I think I'm funny and nobody else does. Thirty-five people showed up in a cabin with stuffed moose. No, I'm not referring to the nice folks in the audience but to the aura of beautiful native Indian kitsch.
But don't get me wrong. I loved it all. The local writers were great and laughed in all the right places, except for the time when I read a piece equating writing to masturbation. People looked at me as if they were shell shocked.
Most writer conferences are great, but sometimes they can be frustrating as well. You feel as if you're standing in front of a huge buffet where you want to taste everything, not just the cauliflower.
Field End's Writer Conference was loaded with talent. There were so many writers I wanted to talk to, among them Bruce Barcott who was the delightful keynote speaker, and Gloria Burgess who did the opening address. But the conference only lasted a day, then we all went back to our semi colons.
Before that happened I appeared in another workshop with Dickey Nesenger, a Seattle playwright. The workshop was called Page One. Participants were supposed to leave page one of their manuscripts, and we were forced to say something brilliant about them after they were read aloud to us.
When I teach writing, I always try to stay away from the American mode of "I Looooved It So Much But ..." I try to be honest and supportive, knowing that beginning writers don't need bland praise, just a loving headbutt.
In the evening I walked a last round at Kiana Lodge, admiring the tribal art work and the beautiful view of the sound. They do weddings here, and sometimes the odd coyote jogs through looking for a haiku poet to munch on.
Going back to Portland, I got a ride with Puerto Rican writer Carmen T. Bernier-Grand. Riding two in the same car is called car pooling in the US, so don't say the Yankees don't have a social conscious.
And hey, they read historical novels, too. The book store at the conference ran out of their pile of The Tsar's Dwarf.
God bless the state of Washington!
Posted by Peter H. Fogtdal at 10:20 AM
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Don't think it has been mentioned but 4x4 is a must on slopes to keep the rear end from breaking loose!ericher69
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Re: I'm freaked my B2920 will tip over sideways
Interesting thread.I now have a BX2360 that I use for mowing.I find it very stable on side hills which I mow such as the sides of a ditch.I was thinking of replacing it with a B2320 or 2620.I was wondering if the B series would be as stable on side hills,starting to think that they wouldn't be.
Re: I'm freaked my B2920 will tip over sideways
I found the BX2660 with turf tires to generally be a better mowing machine than my B2620 with R4. It also seemed more stable on a couple embankments that are long and just a little over 6 feet wide...e.g. along the road. So going up and down is not an option. The B2620 does it okay but just doesn't "feel" as stable. I try to mow when it is dry.... As enricher69 mentioned, use the 4 x 4.Kubota B2620 HST (2012) Case 448(1983)
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Re: I'm freaked my B2920 will tip over sideways
Interesting thread and view points. As mentioned a tilt meter may give you an idea as to how close you are to a comfortable limit, but as others mentioned rocks, ruts and stumps can make the tilt meter meaningless in a split second. When I upgraded to my new tractor a couple of years ago I spent the first few hours driving in the most challenging spots where I used the old tractor. That way I could concentrate fully on the tractor with no distractions.
I see your tractor has HST. That is great for safety because you can readily slow it to a crawl.
As mentioned, spacers can dramatically improve stability. Another source for spacers for your tractor is Bro-tek who makes add-ons for the Kubotas. The website is:
Bro-Tek: Tractor Add Ons
Information on the site is not up todate so it is best to contact the owner. I did that when considering spacers for my Kioti to increase clearance for tire chains. The website does not even indicate he makes spacers for my tractor. But I did get quoted a good price. In the end I did not need spacers because of modifcations I made to my chains.
Other good advice already given is to always use 4x4 on rough terrain. Also, keep the bucket as low as possible to increase stability. Sharp turns also reduce stability. Spend some time playing with the tractor until you get a feel for it and err on the side of caution.
Re: I'm freaked my B2920 will tip over sideways
Here's pics of what spacers did for my B3030. I had to add them because I couldn't run chains without em.
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Re: I'm freaked my B2920 will tip over sideways
That freaked feeling is healthy. Never ignore it, but try to learn (gradually) what is safe and what isn't. As others have said, there are many variables - soil softness after a wet spell, woodchuck activity, etc that make any hard rules about what angle is safe meaningless or dangerous. Most important advice I have is to pay attention - don't get distracted by anything that doesn't have to do with your stability when you're on a slope. No cell calls, no waiving at the neighbor's pretty daughter ... you get the idea.
Know what to do if you start tipping - turn down the hill, drop the FEL & 3PT, etc.
1) If you have your ROPS up, you should have you belt buckled.
2) If your ROPS is down, you should be unbuckled and ready to bail to the high side.
These two states are mutually exclusive - you won't have time to buckel or unbuckle your belt to match you ROPS state when you need to, so make sure you have the right combination before you start to move.That's the problem with trouble.
It always starts out as such fun."
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Re: I'm freaked my B2920 will tip over sideways
Like GB said - good - you should be freaked!
Another offered running with stabilizers/backhoe extended - I do that when I absolutely have to work on slopes. I mostly set back hoe extended to high side, right angle to tractor, to generate 'lever torque' to balance wheels down. The downhill side stabilizers will be about 3 inches off the hill.
I think it's real important to work on reactions.
I bet your gut reaction (like mine) will be *** backwards as they say. Watch a bunch of 4 wheeling FAIL youtubes - drivers turn across the slope when scared, thinking to stop, and end up rolling over - when they could just roll down the hill shiny side up. Our equivalent is a slope with a downside pothole (or an uphill stump), a turn up the hill can make it flip - you want to turn into the down side hole and just roll down the hill. (Think about turning a car fast, the inside tires lift, the outside tires squat - on a hill that dynamic is enough to add to the pothole to continue that flip.)
Practice in a relatively safe place, stabilizers out, folks watching, and phones available. Good luck.!
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Re: I'm freaked my B2920 will tip over sideways
Ideally I want the BH and FEL off the tractor when I mow to keep the weight down when I'm out on the lawn, I'll just have the 60" MMM which itself will add about 300 lbs of weight below the center of gravity so that's good. That BH is 1400 pounds and most of the weight is up high well above the center of gravity. I could keep the FEL low but it has some weight above COG but mostly removing it is about visibility which itself is a safety factor right.
As I'm grading the property over the new few months I'm going to give consideration to flattening out slopes where I can and how I'll mow it with the tractor. It would still be good to know what the safe zone is in terms of side slope absent stumps, potholes, etc. e.g. what's the safe tilt. I don't have any slopes so steep that I'm worried about flipping over backwards mowing, box planing maybe but I'll keep the FEL on for that.
I was coming straight up a hill yesterday and got the left rear into some soft fill dirt and it started to sink and lean, turning into that lean put me on a side slope leaning further in the direction of the sunken tire which was my first instinct but a bad idea, I pulled the wheel back around and powered straight up and out. It only sunk about 8 inches deep but it feel like WHOA!
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Re: I'm freaked my B2920 will tip over sideways
Another thing to consider is checking the ground you plan to cover on foot first, looking for and marking with stakes, or whatever before you go over it with your machine. Look for potholes, stumps, soft spots, etc.2010 DK-40se/hst, KL-401 FEL, ( reversible cutting edge). Titan Tree Shear. 72" Ratchet Rake. Fit Rite Top-N-Tilt hydraulics & diverter. HLA Series 2000 7' plow, Aquiline MPC rear chains. Samuri Sickle bar.
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Re: I'm freaked my B2920 will tip over sideways
Your instinct was good. Never turn down slope so the low wheel will be on the low side of the slope. You could also have stopped and backed up while turning down slope to keep the stuck wheel on the high side of the slope. This could have been bad had you been going across the slope and the low side wheel fell into the soft spot which is why everyone suggests that you mow up and down the slope and only turn on flat ground or decrease your speed to a crawl when turning and turn as sharp as you can to avoid as much as possible side slope time.
The larger you tractor the more you are going to feel the angle. On my P7010 it feels much less stable on the same slope that I run my lawnmower on without any problem. You just have to get adjusted to the height from ground issue similar to walking a 12" wide plank 3 feet off the ground vs that same plank 50 feet in the air, which one gives the strongest pucker factor?2010 LS P-7010C 20F/20R gear tractor & FEL, 2009 Kubota B 26 TLB, RTV 900 Kubota,17 foot Lund boat with 70HP motor, 2012-20 ft 12k GVW trailer, 2011- 52" Craftsman ZTR mower, 2013 Ferris Zero Turn, 3 weed whackers, pressure washer, leaf blowers, 7 foot bush hog, 8 foot landscape rake , 8 foot 3 PH disc, 2 row cultivator, 350 amp Miller AC/DC welding machine and all the tools needed to keep them all repaired and running.
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