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Hi Guys
Can any you guys out there tell me the best way to butt (mig)weld a patch panel into me front lower fender please?
From stitch welds to finishing up with a good filler material.
Schooner :cool:
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Are you going to make the patch from scratch?
kinda like? http://www.a2zautoforums.com/showthr...=5753#post5753
Can you get some pictures up so we can see ?? :thumbup:
I'm Not Making The Patch From Scratch
Hi Milo
No I'm not making the patch panel from scratch. I bought it new.
Can you answer some of these questions please.
Is it best to cut the new panel first ?
Then match the newly cut patch panel against my fender and draw a line with either tape or a sharpie pen?
This way I have a perfect match to butt weld the joint?
And lastly, Isn't best to cut as least as possible on my fender, just a couple of inches up from the rust?
Thanks Milo
Schooner :cool:
My fav. article on the subject. They make it look so easy don't they??!
Hope this helps...
[QUOTE=SCHOONER]Is it best to cut the new panel first ?
Then match the newly cut patch panel against my fender and draw a line with either tape or a sharpie pen?
This way I have a perfect match to butt weld the joint?
And lastly, Isn't best to cut as least as possible on my fender, just a couple of inches up from the rust?
Your plan is sound for the most part. Be sure you are able to access the cause of the rust in the first place... In some cases it is best to change a whole panel to be sure to get at trouble that is lurking behind inner panels etc..
got pics?
Yes, trim the new part down to what you really need to replace and transfer that line to your car.
A "sharpie" pen isn't going to do it for a butt weld. What gives you that super fine line you need for a butt is nice sharp awl. You cut the old metal out leaving about an inch or so left that is smaller than your TRIMMED patch panel. You clamp that in place over the old metal and then scribe a line right along the patch using an awl. Remove the patch and trim the metal using a die grinder with cut off wheel, tin snips, angle grinder, file, what ever you need to trim the old metal right up to that awl scratch. You now will have a FLAWLESS seam to butt weld.
Amen to that.
schooner, I have tried it both ways for doing my butt welds and Milo and MartinSr turned me on to the "trim the new part down" and it worked perfect. What I did was get my new piece like I wanted to and then put it up against where I was going to be patching in and then scribed with a center punch all around my patch piece, leaving an outline on the piece to be cut out. Now when I went to cut out my piece I actually took of just a hair more because I started using those intergrip panel clamps they look like this:
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/1272/p3545cu.jpg. Once I got one or two in place I would make a few very small pentrating tac welds and then loosen up the panel clamps and remove them. Now If you asking what If I don't have access to the back. Well what I started doing was attaching a small piece of very playable wire to the little block piece and usually found some hole or location I could pull the block out through. I've done this quite a few times. Also on the cooling time between tack welds. I like Milo's ideal. tack a few then wait go back and tack so more. Once I had it all tacked in I would use a 36 grit roloc to first knock them down then go back and use an 80 or 100 to finish it off. Good Luck
An 'awl' It Is Martinsr ~ Thanks
Hey Martinsr
Thanks for the heads-up on just how to mig weld my new patch panel :thumbup:
Believe it on not, I DON'T OWN AN AWL :confused:
I never used one to mark anything. Martinsr, just what makes the AWL better than; Sharpie's or placing tape as a fine line.
Just asking, I'll get the Awl like you suggested though.
I guess the Awl leaves a permenat mark on the fender and I won't loose it while I'm cutting-out the rust area.
O.K. Martinsr, thanks again :welcome:
Schooner :cool:
You got it, plus it is RIGHT against the metal so your cut can be super accurate.
Hey Brain ~ What About Finishing The Butt Weld ?
hi Brain
What about finishing the patch panel. I mean with:
How far do I grind-down the mig weld? Do I grind it down FLUSH with the fender? Or go BEYOND into the mig weld itself in order for the seam weld to accept the bonding material.
Please bear with me I've asks this questions on a number of times and gotten some different answers.
So, once more with felling . . . lol
Some other question please:
WHAT FILLER MATERIAL do you prefer to finish-off the project?
LEAD or some kind of BONDO ?
Would you use anti-rust spray some way along the way to prevent rust?
If so, when ? ? ?
Thanks again Brain
Schooner :cool:
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A local charity that has spent the past 38 years supporting various humanitarian causes in developing countries will disband in the new year unless it can attract new members to take over annual fundraising responsibilities.

Since forming in 1974, Stratford and Area World Aid (SAWA) has raised close to three-quarters of a million dollars through annual initiatives like its old-fashioned Christmas concert and spring rummage sale. But like many other clubs of its nature, SAWA has been struggling to maintain its annual commitments due to a declining and aging membership.

"It's sad, we're going to be sad about it," says Harold Erb, a founding member of the group, which despite maintaining as many as 20 registered members, has far fewer people involved on a regular basis.

"I can think of half a dozen of us who are over 80 (years old)," notes Harold, "and we've got another group between 65 to 75, but then nothing below that."

SAWA was started by a group of local residents who came to know each other through participating in charity events in Stratford throughout the late 1960s and early '70s, one of the more popular being the Miles for Millions walkathon, which aimed to alleviate third world hunger and poverty.

"We were of like mind, and we thought it made more sense if we continued on because we all believed in this type of cause," says Harold, of the group's beginning.

The end of SAWA will also likely mark the end of the Christmas concert at St. John's United Church, which will still be held this year on Sunday, Dec. 2 at 7 p.m.

The event, which showcases some of the best young talent in Stratford and Perth County, has been faithfully organized each year by Harold's wife Margaret, who approached SAWA with the idea in the late 1970s.

From the beginning, Margaret modeled the concert after the Christmas shows her father would organize back home in Switzerland when she was growing up.

"All the children would take part ... the whole village would come, and my dad would have everybody doing whatever they could do best," she recalls.

Each year, Margaret attends as many of the local Kiwanis Festival performances as she can, looking for young musicians to invite to perform at her concert. Each year she successfully recruits about 20 acts.

"I went to Kiwanis morning, noon and night," she says, with a smile, "it was quite a job, but I loved it."

As usual, admission for the concert, which the last few years has raised about $1,500, is by free-will donation.

For many years, SAWA directed its annual funds, typically between $6,000 and $8,000, to an organization called Pueblito Canada, which helped establish a children's village in Central America. One of the dwellings in the village was even named Casa Stratford to recognize the significant contributions the local community had made over the years.

"They would get couples who might have had one or two children that wanted to take in more and move them all into a house," says Harold, of the village, which he and Margaret visited in 1999. "Besides having a school they would have a garden, they would have chickens, pigs, various things."

Most recently, SAWA has supported Families for Children and Doctors Without Borders, but at different times in its past has directed funds to organizations like CODE, Habitat for Humanity and Guatemalan Relief depending on where the group's members decide the need is greatest.

Harold says SAWA will run one last rummage sale at St. Joseph's Church in February, at which point, barring any new interest from the community, the group will make its final donation.


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I just purchased a used 2008 Odyssey Touring with 33k miles. Battery was replaced in 12/09.
Here's what happened:
Purchased Sat night, parked it in my garage and went top bed (checked on it twice!) No lights where left on as my garage was very dark.
Sunday morning went out to garage, opened both side doors with the remote and also the liftgate with the remote then proceeded to configure the seating positions for my 4 kids, took about 1 1/2 hrs to get all carsetas installed. Then wanted to program the memory for the drivers seat. Took about 5 mins to get the seat where I wanted it and the mirrors aligned. During that time the seat stopped adjusting. So I tried to start the vehicle and all I got was a clicking noise. Battery was dead and van would not start. I called the dealer I just purchased from and they said to jump it and bring it in. That maybe the alarm was not activated correctly and drained the battery.
More info: The van has an alarm (factory I think), I have the indicator on the dash (flashes red when activated) and I also have a green indicator light under the steering wheel. 15 mins after beginning my seat configuration I opened the drivers side door and had it opened for a few mins then shut it, when I shut it the car sounded with 5 or 6 quick beeps. this then also happened everytime I closed any of the doors. I thought maybe the alarm was set too sensitive. But why would the alarm arm itself when doors are open. The only alarm activity is the green light under the dash and not the red indicator light on the dash.
This is what that green light does: unlock the van; solid green then approx 2 mins after unlocking the van without starting it or relocking it the green light begins to flash rapidily for approx 20 seconds then switches to a slow steady blink. If I open any of the doors and then close them the van beeps (quick beeps) 5-6 times at me.
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Skip to comments.More Than Ten Reasons Americans Dont Trust Obama
Posted on 10/04/2011 5:02:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
The outlines of the Obama reelection strategy are becoming clearer.
The campaign will try to mirror Trumans fighting tour against a do nothing Congress that is preventing the president from taking steps to rescue the US economy.
All thats missing for Obama is a platform on the back of a high speed train from which he can harangue crowds.
For a guy battered and bruised by Congress and demoralized by his base, Trumans strategy offers a glimmer of hope.
But dont count on Americans to be gulled by Obamas strategic argument with or without an assist by a magic bullet train. Obamas no Harry Truman.
People wanted to believe that Truman was the straight-talking, guy-next door. And he was.
But no one would mistake Obama as a straight talker.
Fast talker? Yes.
In point of fact, the biggest single obstacle that Obama faces in getting reelected is that Americans dont trust him anymore. Nor should they, based on results, history and the false premise under which he was elected.
Wanna know what Obamas going to do in the future? Look at what hes done in the past.
He might be the only president in the history of the country to vote present.
People wanted to believe in the hope-and-change hype; they gave Obama every opportunity to live up to the promise of a post-racial America.
They gave him the Congress, they gave him the money. They gave him the time. They even gave him a Nobel Prize in anticipation of his great, healing accomplishments. But he fell far short of the braggadocios, walk-on-water, presidential campaign that practically amounted to a confidence swindle out of a Mark Twain story.
Thats why the harder Obama campaigns, the less likely people will rally to his support.
Faux outrage by Obama will only serve to highlight how Obama fumbled his opportunities to cut some Gordian knots, politically.
Here are ten other reasons Americans dont trust Obama to save the economy:
10) People have seen the president as disengaged from his job as president. Now according to Ron Suskinds book, we have proof that Obama really is disengaged.
His body language during these scenes is passive. He looks on and sits back as Summers, a master debater, hashes things out, reports Bloomberg. During one particularly acrimonious debate in March 2009, Obama leaves to get a haircut and have dinner with his family.
9) Obama has no fixed principles on which the mass of Americans agree.
I cant think of one policy the Obama administration has put forward which breaches the partisan divide.
8) The president comes across cocky, not confident on issues.
I think many voters have come to believe that they know more about economic issues than Obama does. And they would be right about that.
For a self-professed policy wonk, he sure seems to rely on advisors rather than his instincts. I think Americans suspect that the policy wonk talk is hyperbole designed to cover for his insecurity about his lack of knowledge.
7) He seems to always be hostage to some special interest. Whether its healthcare, bank reform or stimulus spending, Obama comes across either as a dupe or a known associate of a partner in crime.
He either doesnt understand the implications of his policies or he fully understands them.
Americans will pick which is worse as they sit in a voting booth.
6) Obama tends to double down on problems rather than recognize something isnt working. For example, rather than taking care to act outraged over Solyndra, Obama rushed to approve even more loans to companies as the loan deadline expired.
This is not an administration that the public thinks is a very good steward of money. And once again, theyre right about that.
5) The economic plan hes tried hasnt worked. The only things hes changed are the excuse he uses.
Remember when he stopped talking about creating jobs and started talking about saving jobs instead? Remember how he told us all the economy was recovering in the first half of the year?
The American people will put up with sleight of mouth tricks like that for a bit, but will crucify you later for it. Read my lips, no new excuses.
4) Americans admire business success. Thats why we put guys like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates on such a pedestal and listen to them to the point of practically drooling over what they say.
Obamas not promising the opportunity for unlimited success; instead hes promising to everyone a limited type of security in lieu of success, which is alien to the American strive-and-succeed story.
3) The presidents base is hostile to the economic ideas that foster growth and reward merit, which are really the same thing.
The progressives believe in a top-down, centrally-planned economy with rewards doled out to favored groups based on a social outcome, rather than rewards based on economic merit.
Americans are sophisticated enough to understand that while a utility infielder may be overpaid at $1 million per year, thats what the market will bear. They dont necessarily begrudge the infielder his money. At the same time, they support a baseball owners right to make whatever profit he can.
This is the American way. Americans just want the right to be that infielder or major league owner based on merit.
Another example would be the administrations attempt to create an electric car market in the US. Policies supporting the electric car market with government-created artificial incentives end up as constraints on the economy rather than incentives in the economy.
Americans want that car, like a utility infielder, to succeed on merit.
2) Obama wont take responsibility for his failures.
Its not just that he wont take responsibility verbally. Its that he wont take responsibility policy-wise.
After enacting the stimulus plan that has contributed to the worst post-recession economic performance since the 1930s, Obama has back peddled. But hes also contributed nothing new to the debate besides trying to enact a smaller stimulus package.
Why would something that didnt work previously work now because you are using a smaller version of it?
And lastly:
1) Obama lied about________________________________________ AttackWatch.com.
His name isn't Obama and he isn't American.
Obama lies:
Fast and Furious was established to get guns into the hands or cartels and then to track those weapons and see how the market functioned. The program has failed miserably highlighted by the killing of a US agent by the weapons used in the program.
Project Fast and Furious was funded by $10 million in stimulus: Think about all the criminal and drug cartel jobs saved or created. The Obama administration is raising scrutiny of gun buyers in the border states rather than investigating Fast and Furious, a program that armed criminals with no scrutiny at all.
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I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we havent resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it.
USA producing more oil than ever before
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Reform will also rein in the abuse and excess that nearly brought down our financial system. It will finally bring transparency to the kinds of complex, risky transactions that helped trigger the financial crisis.
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Under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions, and federal conscience laws will remain in place.
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ObamaCare Fee is not a new tax
Obama denies healthcare is a new tax on all Americans
We have run out of places in the US to drill for oil.
Obamas oval office speech in June 2010
Now suddenly if you dont have your papers and you took your kid out to get ice cream, you can be harassed, thats something that could potentially happen.
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MORE AT: http://obamalies.net/list-of-lies
Do you mean fast reading aloud? Off prompter he can barely put together a coherent sentence. (Most of either on or off prompter are either lies or promises never to be kept.)
No he doesn't. He comes across as an ... seven letters, all caps, begins with an A...
This is what you get when you elect an inexperienced 40 something year old who destroyed all their past records and is probably not a US citizen with a fake social security number and has never took a side on anything. I guess, what would you expect.
Note: this topic is from October 4, 2011. Thanks Kaslin.
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...To name something is to own it. If you can name an issue, you can own the issue. ... We must stop letting Republicans name themselves "pro-life" and Democrats as "pro-choice." It is a huge distortion.
In my world, you don't get to call yourself "pro-life" and be against common-sense gun control — like banning public access to the kind of semiautomatic assault rifle, designed for warfare, that was used recently in a Colorado theater. You don't get to call yourself "pro-life" and want to shut down the Environmental Protection Agency, which ensures clean air and clean water, prevents childhood asthma, preserves biodiversity and combats climate change that could disrupt every life on the planet. You don't get to call yourself "pro-life" and oppose programs like Head Start that provide basic education, health and nutrition for the most disadvantaged children. You can call yourself a "pro-conception-to-birth, indifferent-to-life conservative." I will never refer to someone who pickets Planned Parenthood but lobbies against common-sense gun laws as "pro-life."
"Pro-life" can mean only one thing: "respect for the sanctity of life." And there is no way that respect for the sanctity life can mean we are obligated to protect every fertilized egg in a woman's ovary, no matter how that egg got fertilized, but we are not obligated to protect every living person from being shot with a concealed automatic weapon. I have no respect for someone who relies on voodoo science to declare that a woman's body can distinguish a "legitimate" rape, but then declares — when 99 percent of all climate scientists conclude that climate change poses a danger to the sanctity of all life on the planet — that global warming is just a hoax.
The term "pro-life" should be a shorthand for respect for the sanctity of life. But I will not let that label apply to people for whom sanctity for life begins at conception and ends at birth. What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth. That radical narrowing of our concern for the sanctity of life is leading to terrible distortions in our society.
Respect for life has to include respect for how that life is lived, enhanced and protected — not only at the moment of conception but afterward, in the course of that life.
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Fake Signer At Mandela Memorial - After Mandela's memorial service on reports started flying that the sign language interpreter presiding over the ceremony was an imposter. 34-year-old Thamsanqa Jantjie was accused of signing gibberish and has responded to the criticism by saying that he's schizophrenic and suffered an episode during the service. During an interview he said that he was hearing voices and said, "There was nothing I could do. I was alone in a very dangerous situation. I tried to control myself and not show the world what was going on. I am very sorry. It's the situation I found myself in." Jantjie says that he is a "champion of sign language". The government was in charge of the ceremony and said that they don't know who he is despite the fact that he has signed two large African National Congress events in the past. Crazy!
Healthcare Numebrs Show Increases In Obamacare - The Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius gave a report on the progress of health care sign ups under the new Obamacare system. The number of people signing up for coverage via the healthcare.gov website has risen to about 365K but that's still 800K short of the 1.2 million goal that was projected for this time. The sign-ups have been accelerating since the website's rocky launch back in October but even at this increased rate it's still doubtful that the 7 million goal will be reached by the end of March.Sebelius said, "HealthCare.gov is working faster, responding more quickly, and we're able to handle larger volumes of concurrent users. Pages that once took eight seconds to load are now responding in under a second. The site's error rate, which once topped 6 percent, has been driven down to below 1 percent. The 14 states that are running their own programs have also seen improvement signing up 227,478 last month compared to about 79K in October.
Time Says Celebrity Sneaker Deals Are Publicity Stunts - After both Kanye West and Drake announced their new sneaker deals with Adidas and Jordan respectively, Time Magazine has said that sneaker deals are merely publicity stunts for rappers not really a business venture- they site the limited number of sneakers that are actually sold under the rappers name. Some examples given were Kanye's Air Yeezy II's which only had about 5,000 pairs produced and had people bidding as much as $90K on Ebay A sports research analyst said "Part of what makes collaborations like this successful is very, very limited distribution. They create a lot of hype, they get mentioned in all the sneaker head magazines and blogs. There's a lot of brand attention to it." The article says that the main target customers are sneaker heads who will wait in long lines and pay top dollar "to buy a higher end product that others only aspire to have." The author writes that while some celebrity sneakers see commercial and marketing success "It can be challenging for celebrities to create a line that has the year-after-year success of athlete-branded shoes.
Instagram Direct Messaging Is Here - Let the instagram ratchetry continue. Yesterday the social media site announced the launch of a new feature- direct messaging. Instagram Direct will allow users to privately send photos or videos to up to 15 of their followers. IG's founder said, "Sometimes you want to be able to share not with everyone, but just a specific group." The feature is similar to to 'Snapchat' in that the messages send in real time and you'll be able to see which of your friends actually opened and viewed the image/ video. Even though Instagram has started to feature promoted images and advertising they say that for right now IG Direct will remain advertisement free.
'Time's' Coolest Person Of 2013 - Time Magazine has been announcing their 'people of the year'. Pope Francis took away the main title of 'Person of the Year' while The Roots' drummer Questlove has taken the title of the 'Coolest Person of 2013′. Other people in the running included Bruno Mars, Rob Ford and Pharrell Williams but they ultimately decided on Questlove because, "We needed someone who was classically cool. A person in a hip-hop band, a music producer, a DJ. A man who has his own line of Nike sneakers and owns a hoodie shop on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. A guy who has lived in Europe and loves art-house movies. A person who goes by many names, several of which have a question mark in them. We were so traditional in our choice that the 2013 Coolest Person of the Year has the most clichéd cool job in the world: he's a drummer." Also earning him his title were the two books he wrote this year, his composition of music for Comedy Central, his alternative musicians website, his DJing at a bowling alley every weekend, the fact that he's the lead drummer for The Tonight Show and his DJing of 13 weddings this year including his runner up's- Pharrell.Upon learning of his honor Questlove said, "Does it speak volumes that my first response is the high school nerd in me being afraid of if I'll get any backlash from Kanye for getting this accolade?"
Air Jordan 12s Sell For 105k - A ball boy who was working the 1997 NBA Finals game between the Bulls and Utah Jazz was able to walk away with Jordan's pair of Air Jordan 12's. He recently put them up for auction and they sold for $105K. TMZ is reporting "MJ signed the shoes for a ball boy who worked the game ... and they eventually ended up for auction this month on Grey Flannel Auctions. The auction finally ended this morning." The identity of the winning bid has not yet been revealed.
Homeless Man Develops App - A man who lost his job 2 years ago and has since been living on the streets of NYC was given two choices. Leo Grand was told that he could take $100 cash, no strings attached, or take an old laptop, 3 javascript books and an hour a day training on coding programs. He chose option number two. The software engineer who helped him out said that the information "clicked" right away. Grand said he's always had a passion for science and created a mobile app that will help people to hitch rides who are trying to cut down on carbon emissions. He said, "This is what life is supposed to be like [talking about greenery] I want to be around plants and trees and I want to breathe the most oxygen as possible." The app 'Trees For Cars' went on sale Tuesday via Apple and Google for .99. Grand hopes to make enough money off of the proceeds to get an apartment in NYC. For now he's living in train stations.
FDA Moves To Phase Out Anti-Biotics In Livestock - The FDA has announced that due to potential public health risks it will ask pharmaceutical companies to stop labeling human antibiotics as acceptable for growth promotion in livestock. Cattle, hog and poultry producers have been using antibiotics as a way to keep their animals healthy and make them grow faster. It the drug companies agree to help it will become illegal to use these drugs on animals and producers will need to get prescriptions to use the drugs for sick animals. Over time antibiotic resistant diseases have grown in animals and humans and consumers have started requesting antibiotic-free meat. An FDA representative made a statement saying, "We need to be selective about the drugs we use in animals and when we use them. Antimicrobial resistance may not be completely preventable, but we need to do what we can to slow it down." The new requirements will give the companies three years to comply.
The Most Retweeted Celebrity Of The Year Revealed - If you think its Justin Bieber, you're wrong. The most re-tweeted celebrity was actually Glee's Lea Michele, whose heartbreaking post about her boyfriend Cory Monteith was re-tweeted 408-thousand times. Other celebrities among the most re-tweeted were members of One Direction and the deceased Fast & Furious actor Paul Walker.
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OVL to buy Anadarko's 10% stake in Mozambique field for $2.6 bn
The company had on June 25 announced buying Videocon's 10 percent stake in the same field, which may hold as much as 65 Trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of gas resources, along with Oil India Ltd (OIL) for USD 2.475 billion.
New Delhi: ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) is likely to buy US energy major Anadarko Corp's 10 percent stake in a giant Mozambique gas field for USD 2.6 billion this week, the fourth acquisition by the state-owned firm in a year.
OVL, which under DK Sarraf has transformed from a timid firm into an aggressor that stitched over USD 11 billion worth of deals since September last year, is likely to announce in a day or two the deal to buy Anadarko's 10 per cent stake in Mozambique's offshore Rovuma Area 1, sources said.
The company had on June 25 announced buying Videocon's 10 percent stake in the same field, which may hold as much as 65 Trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of gas resources, along with Oil India Ltd (OIL) for USD 2.475 billion.
Sources said unlike the June deal, OVL, the overseas arm of Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), will buy Anadarko's stake alone in what will be India's second biggest overseas energy acquisition ever.
OVL, which had gone into a shell after the January 2009 acquisition of Russia-focused Imperial Energy plc for USD 2.1 billion, has turned a new leaf after Sarraf took over as Managing Director in September 2011.
The Imperial deal had faced lot of criticism, including from CAG, as oil production lagged the projections made by the company's former owners. It took Sarraf almost a year to lift sagging morale of employees who were unwilling to take decisions for the fear of facing flak later.
Sources said the company is now transformed into an aggressor and is even looking to scuttle a large Chinese deal in Brazil.
The company, which since inception had invested USD 17 billion in 32 assets in 15 countries till 2011, has struck over USD 11 billion worth deals in the past one year.
With under 8 million tonnes of oil and oil equivalent output from its overseas assets, OVL currently makes up for 15 per cent of ONGC Group production of 60 million tonnes.
As per ONGC's vision document, OVL's share is to rise to 60 million tonnes by 2030 when ONGC Group's output would be 130 million (domestic production rising from 52 million tonnes currently to 70 million tonnes).
OVL in September last year completed acquisition of Hess Corp's 2.7 per cent stake in Azerbaijan?s largest oil field and an associated pipeline for USD 1 billion.
Last November, it announced a USD 5 billion purchase of ConocoPhillips's 8.4 per cent stake in Kazakhstan's Kashagan project, touted as the biggest oil find since the 1960s when it was discovered in 2000.
The bid was, however, blocked by the Kazaksthan government that wants the stake to go to Chinese.
Sources said OVL has also acquired two blocks each in Columbia and Bangladesh and is mulling exercising its pre-emption rights to block China's Sinochem Group from buying 35 per cent interest in Brazilian oilfields for USD 1.54 billion.
OVL holds 15 per cent stake in the block BC-10, known as Parque das Conchas, where Brazilian state-controlled oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA or Petrobras is selling its 35 per cent stake to Sinopec.
In June, OVL-OIL had bought Videocon's 10 per cent stake in Rovuma block in 60:40 ratio.
The Rovuma field may hold as much as 65 Tcf of inplace gas reserves, more than 10 times the reserves in Reliance Industries? eastern offshore KG-D6 fields, and has the potential to become one of the world?s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) producing hubs by 2018.
Besides the acquisition price, OVL-OIL will have to pay their share of the field development cost and the LNG plant.
Field development and the LNG unit will cost a total of USD 15 billion dollars and their share will come to USD 1.5 billion.
OVL will have to shell out an additional USD 1.5 billion as its share of the cost after the Anardako acquisition.
The transaction is to close in the last quarter of 2013.
OVL-OIL need approval of the Mozambique and Indian government, regulatory permissions and existing partners in Rovuma-1 area waiving off their pre-emption rights for the deal to go through.


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Senior Greg Michael and junior Simon Giourmetakis led the Griffs with three points each. Michael netted two goals - both in the final period - and added an assist, while Giourmetakis posted a goal and two helpers.
Junior Brendan O'Hagan also led the Griffs with two scores, while seniors Nick LoCoco and Tom Vivan and junior Jimmy Haney each added a goal for Canisius in the defeat.
Junior Kyle Bell started his second career game in net, recording a career-best eight saves to anchor the Canisius defense.
The Statesmen tallied the game's first goal 1:23 into the contest, taking the lead with a goal from Alex Love. Hobart added one more first-period goal and then once again scored early in the second to take a 3-0 advantage.
Haney finally got the Griffs on the scoreboard with 7:41 remaining in the second stanza. The junior scored off a pass from Vivian to cut into the Hobart lead, 3-1. The Statesmen then added one more goal in the half to head into the intermission with a 4-1 edge.
Hobart quickly stretched its lead to five early in the third quarter, scoring two goals 24 seconds apart for the 6-1 advantage. Canisius answered back with two goals of its own to pull back within three. O'Hagan scored his third goal of the season with 10:27 left in the third and then LoCoco added a man-up goal 2:30 later for his fifth tally of the year.
The Statesmen, however, reclaimed their five-goal advantage with the final two scores of the third as the teams headed into the final period with Hobart up, 8-3.
Canisius attempted a rally in the final period of play, scoring the first three goals of the frame in just over four minutes. O'Hagan started the run with his second of the night and was followed by Vivan and Giourmetakis as Canisius pulled within two, 8-6, for the first time since five minutes remaining in the second quarter.
Hobart added to its lead with the next two goals, but Canisius once again answered back to pull within two. Michael netted two goals 92 seconds apart as the Statesmen led, 10-8, with 2:58 remaining. After killing off a Hobart extra-man chance, the Griffs had a late man-up opportunity of their own but couldn't convert as the Statesmen held on for the 10-8 victory.
The Statesmen outshot the Griffs, 39-28, and held a 33-21 advantage in ground balls thanks to a 16-4 edge in faceoffs. Alex Love led Hobart with five points and four goals, while Evan Kirk recorded 11 saves in goal to earn the victory.
Canisius returns to conference action on Saturday, hosting Marist at the Demske Sports Complex. Game time is set for 1 p.m.
Game Notes: Sophomore DJ Giacobbo started his first career game on defense ... Michael has posted three games of three points this season after recording just two points total in his last two campaigns ... Bell recorded five saves in his only other collegiate start last season ... Hobart has won 11-of-12 games in the series with Canisius' only win coming last season in Buffalo ... The five goals in the fourth quarter represented a season-high total for Canisius in any quarter this season. The previous high was three, set on five different occasions.


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Generally disappointing. The speed to print an A4 glossy colour picture was about 15 minutes and the colour was awful. Will probably return as 'unfit for purpose'
i bought this printer for 㿅 at ASDA and im very pleased with it for the price. Standard text ie word documents print quite quickly and scanning documents also prints quickly. Pictures take a long time to print but are of good quality. Its a good budget printer and if you can get it cheap enough its not bad
Just bought DX4400 from Tesco's 㿉.97 I was a bit sceptical but pleasantly suprised . It is quite easy to setup and use Photo quality pretty good did'nt really time it but printed full sise A4 in a minute or so and text items alot quicker than my old Hp7150 as I have had it for about six years or so cant grumble , over all the Epson DX4400 Scans,copies and prints quite good and so far no hi-cups, However there is one small complaint it's so ruddy noisy even the cat hates it.
Just bought the DX4450 which is the same as the DX4400 but with the additional bundle of OCR software for free. Therefore look for DX4450 rather than DX4400. The printer functionality is excellent - very good value for money - but I agree it is noisy.
Extremely disappointing buy. Very slow and very noisey, also ink does not seem to last as long as previous models. Paper feed also has a mind of its own, and quite often doesn't pull the paper to the right position before printing, with obvious results. Installation disc also has a problem, because despite selecting English language, the interface is German. Uninstalling the drivers completely and re-installing software still produced the German GUI. Now that the ink has run out yet again, I will be retiring this model to the local refuse dump.
I bought the 4450 in 2008 at cost £39.99 I use it for printing text when the original black cartridge ran out I bought a compatible cartridge but used all the ink trying to set it up as all the text was grainy, so I bought a complete set of originals. As mentioned the printer does like a good drink of ink.
The price of a complete set of cartridges can vary greatly, from £27 to £40, the higher price would likely to be if you bought each cartridge separately, so it pays to shop around.
The printer itself is noisy and you are never going to get the claimed speed for the amount most people print on an A4 sheet, which is more than the 5% of a page the manufactures use, even in draft mode.
Having used the best photo option only once and that was on standard A4 copy paper the results were OK, but it did use a lot of ink for the passport sized photo I printed.
I have a windows 7 Pc and the printer is plug & play but to use the scanner you need to use windows FAX & SCAN this can be pinned to the task bar. Overall the printer is a good basic all-in-one the score of 7 is about right as I would have given between 6 & seven, what lets the machine down is the noise, features and the print speed. the plus points are the quality of prints and the price of the machine, 2 years ago £40 for this all-in-one was excellent value
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People in Florida, or other hot climates, may be glad they don't have to pay for heated seats they'll never use. There's always a compromise between making every single item "standard", and having the ability to pay for only what you want or need. I like things the way they are. If the feature is available, what difference does it make whether you add it as an option? I would venture to say that most on-lot vehicles are equipped for that climate, meaning, if I should want an in-stock car from my Maryland dealer, I'll bet you 99.9% of their inventory has heated seats. Then again, I don't buy $60K cars, or even $40K, from a dealer's lot. I order the car how I want it, colors, options, etc. I couldn't care less if a feature is standard or optional -- except where I would be forced to pay for a standard feature I don't want. YMMV.
The Audi dealer locally receives nearly 100% of their cars with Quattro (AWD) drive. In Florida that's not the case.
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This product gives me energy and vitality. I really like it. The only thing that concerns me is the CA lead warning. The label says using this product exposes us to lead, which is toxic. I believe the source of the lead is the soil in China where the ants are harvested, because Chinese soil is highly contaminated due to industry pollution. However the label used to say that this product has a lower lead content than the amount considered safe for bottled drinking water; yet in the most recent shipment of the product, the label contained the lead warning, but didn't qualify the content of the lead as being lower than bottled water. This has me thinking the lead content has increased, or I'm confused now as to the actual amount of lead exposure. As I use this product daily, this is a concern for me and I wish the label had more information I could rely on.
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- - Raw pork preparation (http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum/b-r-f-raw-feeding/194641-raw-pork-preparation.html)
Raw pork preparation
So I bought ground pork for Link. Almost immediately afterwords I looked it up and saw that we shouldn't trust raw pork, unlike other meats, and should cook it for the dog.
Thoughts? And if I should cook it, can I just pan-fry and freeze?
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I feed raw pork all the time....if you are in the US it should be safe. Some dogs get gassy on pork though, so try a small amount if you've never fed it. My dogs do fine w/ it.
I'm in Canada, but the warning was mainly for US pork. I didn't check the date, it may have been referring to a pork scare from the specific time period.
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There's no problem ... I'm in Canada too! BUT, your dog might have an issue with it.
My last dog loved pork, but Kyleigh just pukes it right back up (too rich I guess) ... no matter how little I give her.
If your dog likes it, then feed it!
Some of us more 'mature' members remember when we were younger the dire warnings of always always ALWAYS cook pork fully because of the risk of Trichinosis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Animals got infected by eating other animals, and pork feed used to contain animal remains. But to reduce and eliminate that risk, regulations for raising meat animals have changed, and animal remains are no longer allowed in pig feed, and so the risk of being infected by eating raw or undercooked pork is negligeable. Freezing will also kill trichonosis:
Pork & Trichinosis
I have been feeding raw pork to my dogs without any issues for the last few years. They do not have any issues with it being too rich. I was reading somewhere a while ago that of the commonly consumed meats (chicken, turkey, beef, pork), pork had the best nutritional profile.
So as everything else, decide for yourself what your comfort level for feeding pork is. I know for myself, I would not be comfortable feeding meat from wild scavenger animals, like bear and raccoon, for example (someone here posted once that they collected road-kill raccoon to feed their dog - well, we don't have raccoons here this far North, but still wouldn't do it). And people I know who go hunting give me the moose and deer carcasses they get, but I won't take bear remains, for example.
Overall, pork raised for human consumption in North America should be safe.
He has had pork before, liked it and didn't get sick. What I'd read had suggested to cook it or freeze it for 3 weeks.
If its not a known issue for you guys Ill give it to him. Im not overly cautious in what i give him, i just like to understand how it'll effect him. When it comes to raw feeding, I understand there's differing opinions, but I still like to research everything I feed him. Everything he gets is weighed and carefully balanced until I get more comfortable with it.
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By Giuseppe Muro
Emmanuel Frimpong was delighted to make his comeback after eight months on the sidelines but he admits it felt strange to be back in Arsenal colours.
The combative midfielder came off the bench to complete 22 minutes for the Reserves on Tuesday night and mark his return from the serious knee injury he suffered towards the end of pre-season.
It was welcome relief for Frimpong to swap the gym for competitive football as he nears the end of a gruelling rehabilitation that has seen him miss virtually the whole of this season.
"It felt a bit weird to have the Arsenal shirt back on but I'm just happy that I'm back," he told Arsenal.com after the 4-2 victory over Sunderland.
"I couldn't find my tracksuit today actually! It felt a bit strange being on the pitch but hopefully the more games I can play the more I am going to feel OK.
"It hadn't been planned for me to play but I told Neil [Banfield] that I felt fine to play. I'm just happy to be playing after so long.
Before picking up the injury in August, Frimpong appeared to be very much in Arsène Wenger's plans after starting all six of Arsenal's pre-season fixtures.
The Ghanaian admits that it's been a frustrating time for him but now he just wants to put it behind him and concentrate on getting back into the manager's thoughts.
"It's been hard over the last [eight] months because I was doing well. You want to be out on the pitch and showing what you can do," said Frimpong.
"I was going to go on loan [last summer] but then the boss said he wanted me to stay and be part of the team. It was just unfortunate that I got injured. I think being injured for so long can only make me stronger."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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These Boston-Area Business Schools Have Canceled Classes TodayLouis Lavelle
The following colleges and universities with business programs have announced that they are closed today, April 19, because of the police manhunt for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing. The links are to additional information on the school websites.
Waltham Public Safety Officials have put the city on "lockdown," the school reports. The campus will be closed until authorities advise otherwise. University police can be reached at 781-891-3131. Updates are being posted on Twitter.
All students and local residents are asked to shelter in place until further notice. For updates visit www.bc.edu/bcinfo. Boston College police can be reached at 617-552-4444. Updates are being posted on Twitter.
In addition to canceling classes, Boston University has closed Mugar Library, School of Management Pardee Library, School of Education Library, Science and Engineering Library, and Stone Science Library until further notice. Faculty and staff should not report to work. For updated information, call the emergency communications hotline at 617-638-6886 or visit the emergency communications website at http://www.bu.edu/ehs/comm/. Updates are being posted on Twitter.
Off-campus students are advised not to travel to campus, but on-campus students have been told they're free to go to dining halls and other campus facilities. Campus police can be reached at 781-736-3333. Updates are being posted on Twitter.
With public transportation across greater Boston suspended, Harvard is asking faculty, staff, and students to remain at home. Personnel with duties that include health, safety, or other critical operations should check in with supervisors to make sure those functions can continue. The Harvard University Police Department can be reached at 617-495-1212. Updates are being posted on Twitter.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The fatal overnight shooting of a campus police officer closed the MIT campus on Friday, April 19. The officer, identified as Sean Collier, 26, was shot at Main and Vassar streets in Cambridge, the school said. A weekend event for admitted students at MIT's Sloan School of Management has been canceled. Campus police can be reached at 617-253-1212. Updates are being posted on Twitter.
Northeastern increased public safety staffing early Friday and urged anyone on campus, including students in residence halls, to remain indoors with doors locked. Campus police can be reached at 617-474-2121. Updates are being posted on Twitter.
Students were advised to remain on campus, where they are free to move between buildings. The main dining hall was open for breakfast at 7 a.m. Parents were encouraged to stay at home, but students who are being picked up by family members should notify their resident director. Campus police can be reached at 617-521-1112. Updates are being posted on Twitter.
Students are encouraged to contact family to let them know they're safe. No guests are allowed in residence halls, but guests currently signed in should stay. Food will be available at 10 West Street starting at 10:30 a.m. All other dining services are on a normal schedule. Police can be contacted at 617-573-8113 or 8333. Updates are being posted on Twitter.
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Totally Awesome 80s event makes money for Kerr Elementary playground
For everyone who secretly cranks up the radio when Bon Jovi comes on or knows the lyrics to Michael Jackson's "Beat It" by heart, you can spike your hair and celebrate freely during Saturday's Totally Awesome 80s Night to benefit the Kerr Elementary PTA.
Tuck your Z Cavaracci's into a pair of Neon socks and dance the night away to Duran Duran at the Pittsburgh Field Club along Squaw Run Road — shoulder pads are optional.
"We wanted to do something fun, something that people could go all out for," said Shari Zatman, chairwoman of the school's biennial fundraiser.
Tickets cost $40 per person and include hors d'oeuvres and dinner. There will be teacup and silent auctions. For true fans of the era, there will be an Atari gaming area for Pac-Man tournaments.
Proceeds will be used to kick off a $75,000 capital campaign for playground upgrades at the school along Kittanning Pike where more than 400 students attend.
The current playground was built in the early 1990s and lacks the safety advances made since then.
"Risk of injury to the children of our school is high because the current structure features metal equipment set on a concrete play area," said Lisa Rutkowski, PTA volunteer.
She said the committee hopes to break ground on a new play area within five years.
The Kerr PTA, like many others, helps to pay for activities throughout the school year that enhance children's experiences. Projects typically include field trips, holiday parties and on-site visits from experts to broaden students' educational experiences.
"With dwindling school budgets, our PTA has stepped in to fund many of the extra activities," Rutkowski said.
"In addition to the annual expenses, we have determined that we must begin a campaign for a new school playground."
Totally Awesome 80s Night will serve as the launch party, Zatman said.
"We know this is going to be an ongoing project," she said.
She sees the event as a way to start an awareness. As an added bonus, party-goers get to dig out their parachute pants, pile up the big hair and have an excuse to breakdance.
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In Cairo, normality is something of a heroic enterprise, Maria Golia explains.
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In Cairo, normality is something of a heroic enterprise, Maria Golia explains.
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Here's another short story born out of a Fiction Writing class at Columbia College Chicago. Several people have told me it reminds them of a Larry David piece, which is about as grand as compliments get. It was originally published in the now semi-defunct Ghost Factory.
Behind the counter a small TV was blaring the opening theme of Jeopardy! The waitress' wandering eyes were making it pretty clear that she was more interested in getting back to Alex Trebek than she was in taking Aaron's order. "Good-morning-sir-what-can-we-get-for-you," she monotoned in a bored Southern drawl. Aaron flashed her what he hoped was an ingratiating smile, but she wasn't even looking in his direction.
Flustered by her indifference, Aaron stammered "Ah, the, um, rib eye steak, I think…" The tall woman snatched up the single-page menu and strolled back behind the counter, pausing to bark, "More coffee?" at three elderly black men silently nursing cigarettes at a table near the door.
The waitress was black too. So were the cook, the half-dozen other customers and, Aaron suspected, every person who had ever set foot in Silver's Diner of Senatobia, Mississippi. Every person except him, that was.
It had caught him completely off guard. Up north, there were plenty of Afrocentric (that was the proper term, right?) businesses in big cities like Minneapolis and Milwaukee, but an all-black diner in a small town was unheard of. He wasn't sure why it should make him so uncomfortable, but being in the minority had thrown him completely off track. The steak was a panic order. He was really craving fried chicken, but he just couldn't bring himself to order that here.
Behind the counter the waitress and a jowly man in a red flannel shirt stared at the TV intently. The waitress was pretty good, Aaron noted as she rattled off a string of questions: "What is ricotta?" "Who is Grace Kelly?" "What is Copenhagen?" After each question the jowly man mumbled, "I knew that one" to her annoyed glance.
Aaron started to relax a bit. What possible threat did Silver's Diner pose to him? It was a humble little joint, long Formica lunch counter fronting the kitchen and a dozen wobbly wooden tables scattered across a yellowing tile floor. The large picture window next to his table let in a lazy shaft of mid-August light, a reminder of how nice it was to be in an air-conditioned setting after four sweaty hours in his fossilized Volvo. At the moment the only customers were the jowly man, the three ancient smokers and a heavyset younger couple in the far corner talking quietly over their po' boys. Aaron glanced at the Budweiser clock over the counter. Noon on the dot. If he got right on the road after lunch, he could just make Martin's place in New Orleans before dark.
The old smokers had roused themselves from their stupor and now seemed to be telling jokes. Aaron caught the tail end of a rising voice just before the table erupted into laughter. The punchline seemed to have something to do with a donkey. Or was it… honky? He wasn't sure what he'd heard. Did that guy just look at him? He ran a self-conscious hand through his shaggy blonde hair.
There was a jukebox against the wall to his right. Aaron wouldn't have thought of playing a song for fear of interrupting the obviously sacrosanct Jeopardy! session, but he needed to put his eyes some place. He could just make out the CD covers from where he sat: Otis Redding, Teddy Pendergrass, Etta James, The Commodores, Patti LaBelle. If he'd found a lineup that soulful in a bar back in Minnesota, the place would have become his regular Saturday night thing. Here it just made him feel all the more conspicuous. He shifted in his seat to let the air conditioning dry out his sweat-drenched butt cheeks.
The TV switched to a Mylanta commercial. Right on cue the waitress came loping out from behind the counter with a steaming plate in her hand. At least the service was fast, Aaron had to give her that. She plunked the entrée down artlessly and mumbled, "Need anything else today?" He started to ask for maybe a bit of A-1, but her steely grey bouffant was already bobbing away toward the TV.
"Good lord, that's what passes for steak down here?" Aaron thought, eyeing the frazzled grey lump of animal product facing up at him from a chipped green plate. This slab of beef looked particularly dead, thick ribbons of fat glistening sullenly amidst the grim flesh. The side salad wasn't much more promising. It looked like something on a TV with bad color adjustment. The alleged greens salad was more of a sickly grey, the tomato wedge a translucent yellow and the creamy dressing a day-glo orange. He really hoped that meant he'd been given thousand island instead of the bleu cheese he'd asked for.
Aaron sighed and began unwrapping the bundled napkin full of silverware. The napkin unraveled and sent a single soupspoon clattering onto the tabletop. "The hell?" Aaron mumbled, picking up the spoon and slowly rotating it in front of his face. His eyes scanned the surrounding tables in search of a steak knife, a fork, even a butter knife, but there was no silverware to be seen. He pressed his thumb into his eye socket in frustration. He started to stand to ask for a full set of utensils, but the big guy in the corner shot him what he took to be a reproachful glare. Aaron slowly lowered himself back onto the slick vinyl chair. Up at the counter, the game had moved into the Double Jeopardy round.
"What is 'Heartbreak Hotel'?"
"I knew that one."
"You so smart, why you don't answer one before they do some time?"
"I got nothin' to prove."
Aaron took an awkward spoonful of salad, most of which slopped onto his plate. The dressing was a too-tangy thousand island, thank God, but it couldn't mask the intense bitterness of the greens. It reminded Aaron of the way his fingers tasted after picking dandelions as a kid. The old men busted out laughing again. Were they watching his plight? He was tempted to just slap ten bucks on the table and take off, but he really was hungry and he just couldn't be that rude. Instead, he took up the soupspoon and began slowly grinding it against the rubbery steak, hoping to work a hunk off by erosion. The steak didn't budge. He flipped the spoon over and tried to penetrate the meat with the handle, but the plate just slid noisily against the wood grain and he quickly gave up.
"What is 'Don't Be Cruel'?"
"Knew it."
"You didn't know a damn thing!"
He wished he'd asked for silverware in the first place, but now enough time had elapsed that he couldn't do it without looking awkward. Maybe the best strategy was just to pick the steak up and eat it like a sandwich. But that would be rude too, unless he could do it without being spotted.
Sneaking a surreptitious peek around the café, Aaron pulled the paper napkin from his lap and in one quick darting motion snatched the meat from the plate. Under the table his hands haphazardly wrapped the napkin around the steak and jammed the greasy bundle into the left pocket of his jeans. He stood up slowly, trying to make as little noise as possible, and trudged toward the unisex restroom at the rear of the diner, eyes fixed on his own shoes. As the men's room door swung open, he caught another gust of laughter from the smokers.
The restroom was not half as disgusting as the food and service had caused him to fear, but there was an acrid hint of urine in the air that made the notion of wolfing down the gristly steak even less appealing. He pulled the parcel from his pocket and unwrapped it disdainfully. Bits of white napkin clung to the meat, but Aaron decided the difference in taste would probably not be worth the effort of scraping them off. He leaned over the sink and tried to hold his breath as he took his first nibble. Other than being awfully tough, it wasn't too bad. In fact, it was downright decent, sort of like a good bar burger. He bit off a larger chunk and caught his reflection in the mirror. He couldn't help laughing at the realization that he was crouched over a bathroom sink in Senatobia, Mississippi devouring an ugly steak as he hid from a perfectly harmless bunch of black folks. The laughing quickly turned to coughing as he accidentally inhaled a fleck of half-chewed meat. The spasm shook the steak loose from his hand. Aaron lunged to catch his lunch as it bounced off the side of the sink basin. He managed to get a hand on it, then watched in horror as the altered trajectory sent the meat tumbling end over end into the toilet.
Aaron's eyes burned with hot tears. He wanted desperately to be out of the bathroom, out of Silver's Diner, out of Senatobia, out of Mississippi and back in his ancient Volvo sailing down the interstate toward New Orleans. There was no salvaging the meal. After a moment's mourning, he flushed the toilet bitterly, silently cursing whatever ill-fated cow sacrificed its flank to produce that hateful steak. He squeezed a few pumps of garish pink hand soap into his palm and began rubbing away the grease and grime of a long morning on the road. He turned off the tap and was puzzled to still hear water running. He turned in exasperation to see a stream of water trickling down the porcelain sides of the overbrimming toilet bowl.
Aaron was already digging in his wallet as he hustled out of the restroom, past the still-squabbling game show buffs.
"What is 'Are You Lonesome Tonight'?"
"Naw, what is 'Only the Lonely'?"
"That ain't even an Elvis song. I knew you didn't know nothin'!"
"Didn't stop you from marryin' me."
"Yeah, and you hear me braggin' that one up?"
As Aaron approached his table, he noticed the portly woman in the corner rising from her seat. He picked up his pace, anxious to get out before his toilet transgression was revealed. Just then a burly, bearded man in a grey seersucker suit came bursting through the door, a blast of stifling hot air following close behind. "Hey, Reverend!" the smoking table chorused.
The bearded man didn't return the greeting, just beckoned them frantically toward the outside. "Hey, y'all come help! Some fool parked in Miss Annie's space and she had to park back behind the dumpster! She got her walker all tangled in the bushes and she's like to pitch a fit back there, somebody don't get her out quick!"
Every eye in the place fixed first on Aaron, then on the pale blue Volvo parked directly in front of the entrance, then on the Minnesota license plate in the center of the grill. "It… it wasn't marked handicapped…" Aaron murmured, but his words were drowned out by the clatter of chairs as the three old men hustled to Miss Annie's aid, shooting him dirty looks the whole way out the door. The big guy from the corner table grumbled something Aaron couldn't hear as he followed close behind.
Aaron opened his mouth to make some kind of explanation to the accusatory waitress and her jowly husband, but just then the large woman emerged from the bathroom saying, "Mona, you got one hot mess back there! Toilet runnin' over, water everywhere!"
Aaron was out the door before Mona had a chance to respond, two five-dollar bills fluttering to the tile in his wake. The Volvo's aging belts squealed in protest as he backed out of the space, revealing a few yellow paint chips that might conceivably have once resembled a figure in a wheelchair. He glanced in his rearview just in time to catch five bodies scrambling out of range of his rear bumper. He saw the elderly woman who had been their nucleus throw her mouth open wide under her lemon yellow Easter hat. The transmission clunked angrily as he shifted into drive just in time to avoid flattening the unfortunate Miss Annie. The Volvo lurched forward and Aaron careered out of the parking lot serenaded by a chorus of angry bass voices.
He was almost to the interstate before he realized it was well over a hundred degrees in the car. He hurriedly cranked down the driver's side window and was immediately slapped in the face by the unmistakable, greasy aroma of Kentucky Fried Chicken. He almost stuck his head out the window and cursed Colonel Sanders' smug goateed face beaming down from the marquee, but he just bit his lip and pulled onto I-55 already doing 80.


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Based on a comprehensive national study of high-school students, Beyond the Classroom explains that it is parents and peers, not teachers, who have the greatest influence over a student's classroom performance. The reason so many students do badly in school is not that their schools are deficient but that their parents either don't care about their children's performance or don't show their children in positive ways that they do. Children who know that their parents value education perform much better in school than other children.The other great influence on school performance, according to the study reported in this book, is the peer group. Children are strongly influenced by their friends' attitudes toward school. As a group, children whose friends believe that hard work earns rewards and who value good grades do well in school. Unfortunately, according to the study, fewer than one-fifth of all students say that their friends believe it is important to get good grades. For the most part, adolescent peer culture demeans school success and scorns those students who try to do well in school. The peer culture is so powerful that it can even undermine the positive contributions of parents.The study on which this book is based also found striking and consistent ethnic differences in student performance, differences that cut across socioeconomic groups. African-American and Latino students lag behind their peers while Asian-American students - even in the very same school - perform at the highest levels. Beyond the Classroom explains why this is and offers answers that will help all students, regardless of ethnic background, to do better in school. Beyond the Classroom identifies the real nature of the education crisis in America. It explains why some students succeed brilliantly while others flounder and draws valuable lessons about the nature of successful parental and peer group support.… (more)
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Squier SA105 Dreadnought Acoustic guitar Natural
The Squier SA-105 acoustic guitar is a great model for those who're new to the instrument. Combining a comfortable playing feel with a sturdy design, and rich tones, Squier have gone all out to ensure that although the price may be low, the level of quality is anything but.
The Squier SA-105 benefits from the dreadnought body profile, which is hailed for its powerful delivery. The back and sides of the body have been shaped using Nato, a hard tonewood that has a bright-sounding tonality. Nato's output works well with the dreadnought shape to produce a robust yet balanced output.
Spruce has been used for the body top, a tonewood that is often used as a soundboard due to its superb projection abilities. Spruce also ensures a greater level of clarity and articulation. Whether you're strumming or fingerpicking single notes, each one rings out clearly, which is essential for performers and crucial for new players who're developing their listening skills. The body top has been finished in a stylish vintage sunburst finish.
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