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1985-1996 Fleetwood and Brougham Forum Discussion, 305 to 350 swap DONE!!! in Past Cadillac Vehicle Discussion; I am one happy guy tonight. A few hours ago I got done swapping an 87 L98 5.7 Iroc motor ...
1985-1996 Fleetwood and Brougham Forum Discussion, 305 to 350 swap DONE!!! in Past Cadillac Vehicle Discussion; I am one happy guy tonight. A few hours ago I got done swapping an 87 L98 5.7 Iroc motor ...
- 01-02-05 11:29 PM #1Destroyer Guest
305 to 350 swap DONE!!!
I am one happy guy tonight. A few hours ago I got done swapping an 87 L98 5.7 Iroc motor into my 91 FWB in place of the factory 305. The engine swap was smooth but still took me the better part of 3 days. The motor runs great. I was concerned because its been sitting around for over 2 years but it started on the first crank. I took a big chance here cause I bought the Fleetwood with a bad motor, it ran ok but smoked real bad. The 350 Iroc motor I got from a buddy of mine which had a rear end accident with his Iroc 6k miles after he had a rebuilt done to his motor for a cost of $2800. Anyway the motor didn't start since then. He moved back to NJ and sold me the motor for $200. Till now I had no use for it but I was nervous to use it because I didn't know if it would run. It all worked: mint condition 91 FWB with bad motor $1200, newly rebuilt Iroc 350: $200, misc parts like starter, water pump, etc.....$150. Got a real nice running/looking Fleetwood for a total cost of $1550.
Got a question for some of you that may have done a swap like this. I used the stock TBI setup for the Fleetwood. I was told that I would have to use a TBI setup and chip from a vechicle equipped with a 350 TBI and that the 305 setup I used would result in a real lean running vechicle. My question is how do I know if its running lean? It starts right up and seems to run great, so why would I need the larger TBI and chip? If the car will run better I'll definately do it but will it?
I need to take some good pics of the car but here are some pics of the swap over the last 3 days.
Re: 305 to 350 swap DONE!!!
That is one beautiful automobile! The new engine looks good too. I wish I could save myself some money by doing it myself, but don't have the tools or know how. I know a mechanic who said he would pull my engine, transfer parts onto a new block and drop it back in there for about $300 plus parts. But I need to find a reman 403 without having to sleep in my car, know what I mean. I hope I can do it all for $1500 or less. Then I will be as happy as you are now. If I could get a complete crate 403, I would put a few extra hundred into it but the crates I've gotten prices for have been in excess of $2500. Any suggestions anyone?
- 01-03-05 12:13 AM #3Destroyer Guest
Re: 305 to 350 swap DONE!!!
A couple of weeks ago I sold my 87 Fleetwood with the 307. It ran fine but was really lacking in the power department. I contemplated putting my 350 Chevy in it or just getting a 403 Olds, even looked around for a 455 Olds or 472/500 Caddy motor but decided it just wasn't going to be worth it dollar for dollar. My 87 also needed a new top and paint in the near future so I decided to sell it. I'm an investor, I dont just throw money away so I decided to sell it before I dumped money into it that I'd never see again.
Honestly, your best bet would be to find a donor car with a good running motor. If you want a 403 you have a few options as to what kind of donor car to get. A crate 403 is priced pretty high (I looked into it awhile ago). I've built Big block Olds motors but dont know much about parts interchangeability between small block 307's and 403's. I believe there are only few things you can swap over. Good luck with your car bro.
Re: 305 to 350 swap DONE!!!
another project that puts my stuff to shame!
one day....
If that was me, I would have modified the 350 before putting it in... or was it already moded?
looks great though! both the car and engine... you have a nice combo there
Re: 305 to 350 swap DONE!!!Originally Posted by Destroyer
The only way i know of to know if an engine is running lean is by checking the spark plugs.
Re: 305 to 350 swap DONE!!!
If it were me, it would have an extra 150ci, but that's just me. Can't fault you for using an engine you already had and it will sure move around better than with that 305.
- 01-03-05 12:51 AM #7Cadillac Owners Master
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Re: 305 to 350 swap DONE!!!
Your Brougham looks the same as mine. It's the same colour but mine is a Brougham D'Elegance and is a 5.7Litre one.
They work good with the 350. I don't know if I would have used anything bigger. Especially if you're going to drive it a lot and since you already had the engine.
Re: 305 to 350 swap DONE!!!Originally Posted by Destroyer
Re: 305 to 350 swap DONE!!!
Job well done Awsome deal! You got yourself a nice ass ride for such little money. Hey, you might as well keep the TBI setup, can't beat that for fuel economy and cold startups and such. And there are plenty of aftermarket parts to hop up the TBI if you wanted to.
The only thing, that orange paint has gotta go, too chevy looking, IMHO...
Re: 305 to 350 swap DONE!!!
Nice job! Not that I know for sure but my guess would be that the TBI unit from the 350 is no different than yours (maybe the injectors are different). You can check this through the dealer if you want. Also, you can check the O2 sensor feedback to see how the engine is running. Check your cross-counts. Most likely, if the engine "feels" good, and you're not getting a check engine light, the fuel system is keeping up with the engine's needs. The LT1 would've been better but it would've been a lot more work and a lot more expensive. Bottom line, you have a real clean car that runs even better than it did originally. What more could you ask for?
- 01-03-05 05:40 PM #11Destroyer Guest
Re: 305 to 350 swap DONE!!!Originally Posted by Katshot
LT1's are great motors, I've owned 3 cars with LT1's. They are a bit temperamental and I've gone through my fair share of optisparks though. LT1 wasn't even an option here. Like you said, costwise and workwise it would have been a lot more of a pain. Besides would it really be worth all that for an extra 50 horses? I'm getting a set of Vortec heads, headers, dual exhaust, converter and 3.73 gears. I'm undecided as far as if I will stick with TBI or switch to carb at that point, guess I have to see whats available for TBI injection in the aftermarket. I think I can get it substantially faster than a stock LT1 with not a whole lot of work.
- 01-03-05 05:44 PM #12Destroyer Guest
Re: 305 to 350 swap DONE!!!Originally Posted by evilrussian
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Re: 305 to 350 swap DONE!!!Originally Posted by Scottie in Alabama
- 01-03-05 05:51 PM #14Destroyer Guest
Re: 305 to 350 swap DONE!!!Originally Posted by brougham
Re: 305 to 350 swap DONE!!!
That's a nice workshop you got going on over there. Did you rent that hoist and other speciality tools or is it all yours. Do you tackle projects like that often?
Damn, I gotta move to a 2 car carage house. My 1 car garage just isn't big enough anymore My wife is naggin cause all the junk seems like it's breeding and starting to take over the office


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No, but you may need a lever gun or two.......
I don't guess I needed one either, but about a week ago I purchased one. Why? I'm 55 years old, had heart bypass surgery when I was 45, only a few more years till retirement if the Good Lord allows and now I have another gun to leave to one of the grand boys.
I think you have the "need" confused with the "want" one and not concealing very well the fact that you really do want one, but you are looking for any type of justification to get an AR-15.
I don't really "need" one but I sure would like to have one, just because. I don't "need" the Mosin-Nagant 91/30 I bought, but I have one. I don't need the 7x57 Spanish sport Mauser either, but I still keep it, even put a new bolt in the thing when the firing pin on the original bolt broke and could not find a replacement. Any one of those two rifles could serve a great self defense purpose if need be. I also want an AK, M1 Garand and a real US M1 Carbine instead of the knock off version with the broken extractor that I have.
Get the AR. You know you "want" one.
I did not need a wife, I did not need a Harley I did not need any of the guns I own.
I could have lived alone,I could have passed on all the fun I have riding, I could live my life as a easy target.
But why, My Wife is great, She loves the Harleys , and anyone breaking in here is not going to make it out.
No, you do not need an "AR". However, every member of your family that is physically capable should have a pistol, shotgun, rifle/carbine and be at least familiar enough with them to load and care for them. Preferably, they should all have enough training to be decent "combat" shots.
Our last Christmas was spent at the range. At the request of my youngest Daughter.
AR, AK, bolt gun, lever action... take your pick.
OP, since you are looking for justification, here's are some:
1. Easier to hit your target with a rifle than a handgun. Remember, a home intruder isn't going to make like a silhouette target to make your life easier.
2. .223/5.56 will put the intruder down more readily than any handgun caliber round
3. If you miss, .223/5.56 will penetrate fewer walls and be less deadly to anyone behind those walls than handgun caliber rounds (or 00 buckshot). So you should explain to your wife that the rifle is better for her and the kids. And that's what this purchase is about - their safety! :smile:
As for having kids in the house, keep the rifle in a safe during the day, and leave it by your bed at night in cruiser ready mode (empty chamber, hammer down). Or keep it out and put a lock on the trigger guard.
I have a number of rifles and the AR 15 isn't near the top of the list of favorites but it is fun and useful as well as a good study of the design for someone interested in such things. The cartridge is interesting to handload.
Of course Silly!!
I am going to pull the trigger on the AR
Both the Colt and S&W below are excellent choices.
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Yes you need one......or logout of this forum forever :D
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Good call on pulling the trigger. I'm sure you'll be thrilled with it. The guy I used to buy stereo gear from once told me that its only expensive when you first buy it. He said after you have owned it for years, you don't sit and dwell on how much you paid for it, etc. He has a point.
Now you've cleared the hurdle of making the decision to get one, now you can get started on the planning! Yes, it is a disease.
You'll be glad you decided to get one. Having it will open up your SD capability/options. As one poster mentioned, Katrina was an example of social collapse and temporary anarchy. I'm setting up a new AR with an Eotech on a QD mount and a Leupold scope on a Bobro QD mount to cover from CQB to 300meter ranges. Sure, it costs money but do it in increments if you can't buy everything at once. Shoot it not only at the range, but out in the woods so you can learn to handle it and make it become a part of you. The ergonomics are excellent and better than an AK47's. Just for fun, I got pretty good at hip shooting an AR at one time. The S&W M&P15 line has an affordable basic model if your budget is limited or you don't want to have a lot of money sitting around if you won't shoot it much.
One thing about ARs is that you never know when new laws similar to the now expired 1994 ban will be passed again. Then two things will happen, you can't get what you can buy today and the prices of the grandfathered ones will hit the ceiling. So call it an investment. I bought a used Colt AR-15 SP1 (3 prong flash suppressor, triangle forearm) around 1982 for $399. Interesting history was that it was from a liquidation of guard rifles from Los Alamos. To buy that same rifle today would be at least double that or more. Like an idiot, I sold it awhile back. Go to ar15.com or m4carbine.net for AR discussions.

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One can attribute the bar being raised by last season's team, which registered the most successful campaign in the program's 25-year NCAA Division I history with a 31-10-1 overall record. In the process, the nationally-ranked Bulldogs also claimed their first-ever Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) Regular-Season Championship title with a first-place 22-5-1 league mark and advanced to the CCHA Super Six Tournament Championship game for the first time since 1979-80. If that wasn't enough, FSU reached the championship game of the NCAA Championship Tournament's West Regional in its first-ever NCAA Tourney appearance.
Ferris State also earned the distinction of being the nation's first team in 2002-03 to reach the 30-win plateau as the Bulldogs recorded the third-highest winning percentage (.750) nationally. The national scene also showed FSU placing among the NCAA's top 10 in four other statistical categories – second in both scoring offense (4.48 avg.) and scoring margin (+2.10) and seventh in both scoring defense (2.38 avg.) and penalty-killing percentage (.853).
"It was certainly a noteworthy season not only for our program and fans but transpired into one of college hockey's biggest stories," said FSU head coach Bob Daniels, who will begin his 12th year on the FSU bench this season and is the Bulldogs' all-time winningest coach. "I was confident that we had a talented, experienced team and were better than what a lot of people were giving us credit for.
"However, what we achieved exceeded our own season expectations and I credit a great deal of our success to the tremendous amount of leadership we received from our seniors."
Headlining the six-member senior group were assistant captain Chris Kunitz and team captain Troy Milam. Kunitz, who inked a professional contract with the National Hockey League's Anaheim Mighty Ducks, was an unanimous first-team All-America selection and one of three finalists for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award as the nation's top collegiate player. The two-time All-CCHA First-Teamer also became the first skater in FSU history to be named the CCHA's Player of the Year.
As a result of last season's success, expectations are naturally high as the Bulldogs reload for another CCHA title run and a NCAA Tourney bid.
"We're enjoying the attention of being a nationally-recognized program," said Daniels, who was the American Hockey Coaches Association (AHCA) Division I Hockey, Inside College Hockey (INCH) and the CCHA Coach of the Year in 2002-03. "But now it's time for us to get focused on building off of last season's success. I believe we have the confidence and ability to be among the league's upper echelon teams this season."
Ferris State returns 17 letterwinners from last season's record-breaking team, which includes nine of its top 12 points leaders. Furthermore, the Bulldogs welcome back 65.4% of last season's goal-scoring production and 64.2% of the squad's CCHA-leading total points output.
"A lot of how we start out this season will depend upon how quickly we can put last season behind us and focus on what lies ahead this year," said Daniels. "Being the league champions, every team in the CCHA will be gearing up to play us so it's imperative we come prepared to play each and every game."
"We'll continue playing a wide-open style of hockey with emphasis on speed and skill," Daniels stated. "We're deeper at the forward position than a season ago and we should be able to generate a significant amount of goal-scoring opportunities with the players we have returning."
Junior center Mike Kinnie (15-15–30, +16) and sophomore right wing Greg Rallo (15-14–29, +13) both came into their own and showed why they're legitimate scoring threats. Each compiled seven multi-point game efforts and Rallo ranked sixth among the CCHA's' top freshmen scorers en route to being chosen FSU's Rookie of the Year. Supporting the cast are junior left wing Carter Thomson (3-7–10), sophomore right wing Nick Scheible (1-3–4), sophomore left wing Jamie Dunlap (3-2–5) and sophomore center Tim Vokey (1-0–1). An outstanding recruiting class should allow the Bulldogs to continue their high-level play for seasons to come, especially with 2002-03 Canadian Junior A Player of the Year Mark Bomersback in the fold. The left winger paced the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL) in scoring with 114 points on 46 goals and 68 assists a season ago and closed out his storied junior career as the AJHL's all-time leading scorer. Another proficient offensive player is sophomore left wing Matt Rutkowski, who had 77 points, including 24 goals, in juniors last season. Fellow recruits in left wingers Matt Verdone and Eric Vesely along with right wing Zac Pearson are all strong skaters with sound skill levels.


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Stevens: Lobos Eye TCU & the Mountain West Title
May 2, 2012
New Mexico Lobos Baseball - On The Mountain West Road
Friday: 5:30 p.m. (MT), New Mexico Lobos at TCU
Saturday: 4 p.m. ((MT), New Mexico Lobos at TCU
Sunday: 11:30 p.m. (CT), New Mexico Lobos at TCU
The Mtn-TV: Friday (tape delay, 10 p.m.), Saturday (Live), Sunday (Live).
101.7 The Team: All three games live with Scott Galetti
By Richard Stevens - Senior Writer/GoLobos.com
A few years back when it was New Mexico vs. TCU in baseball, it was like Muhammad Ali meeting the Boxer of The Month or maybe Tiger Woods eyeing a weekend hacker. TCU was Ali. TCU was the Tiger.
Things have changed.
When the New Mexico Lobos stroll into Fort Worth on Friday to start a three-game series with the Horned Frogs, it might be the Lobos who are the team to beat.
The Lobos top the Mountain West by a game, took two-of-three from the Horned Frogs in Albuquerque, are receiving votes in a Top 25 poll, and are one of the top hitting teams in the nation.
Better yet - the Lobos can pitch.
"Pitching changed everything," said Lobo Coach Ray Birmingham, who noted that UNM's team ERA of 4.57 was the lowest since the season of 1977.
Of course, Birmingham has changed a lot of things, too. His Lobos are charging toward their third consecutive spot in the postseason and although the MW regular-season title does not produce the league's automatic NCAA bid, it is a huge plus on any at-large resume.
Not only that, but it would just be nice to shoo the Horned Frogs out of the league knowing that their string of six straight MW regular-season titles was snapped by Lobos.
"Heck, yeah, it's important," said Birmingham of beating TCU to the crown. "Would it be cool? Heck, yeah. It's the best college team in Texas over the last five years. Does it changes thing for us? No, we're still going that way (up). This weekend is indicative of what we're doing and what we've done and where we're going."
Said Lobo pitcher Austin House: "It's just another Mountain West series. You can't make it too big. Of course, they are the Horned Frogs."
Yes, they are the Horned Frogs and wins over the Horned Frogs are nice to bank. TCU wins about 75 percent of its games in Lupton Stadium. The Frogs also are hot, having won 13 of 15 and four straight.
Lobos -- 12-3 (26-19)
The season of 2012 was a yo-yo affair for the Lobos much of the season and even an at-large NCAA bid seemed to be slipping away. The Lobos would have a good win followed by a bad loss. Then the Lobos got hot - at the plate and on the mound. UNM has won 10 of 12 games and takes a 26-19 record to 26-15 TCU.
"We're swinging a little bit better," said House. "We're pitching a little bit better. We're fielding a little bit better. We're on a roll right now. We all know that."
UNM tops the MW with a 12-3 slate and TCU is 11-4. San Diego State is next at 9-9, so the series in TCU will produce the 2012 Mountain title. Will it be Lobos or Frogs? As Birmingham says, "Who's going to do this and who's going to do that."
Said Lobo catcher Mitchell Garver: "We all had a feeling that toward the end of the season this was going to be the series that kind of determined everything. And it is."
If either team sweeps the three-game series, that team will have an edge coming around third into the home stretch. Even a 2-1 series favoring UNM would be huge for the Lobos. But the MW title and the No. 1 seed in the MW tourney will not be clinched in TCU.
The Lobos finish with three games at UNLV and three more in Albuquerque vs. Air Force. TCU finishes with three games at Air Force and will host San Diego State for a trio of games.
The Lobos are the top hitting team in the Mountain with a .318 team average, good for the No. 7 spot in the nation. TCU has had an off year at the plate and are hitting .251 as a team - last in the MW.
"TCU is going to manufacture (runs)," said Birmingham. "They are going to try to stick an elbow over the plate. They are going to take a lot of pitches. They are going to bunt. They are going to hit and run. They are going to try and steal bases.
"They are going to try to keep the score down, but the yard (stadium) will do that. Everything that we do well (at the plate) will be negated because of the yard and because they have a good pitching staff."
The TCU arms top the Mountain with a 3.08 ERA. UNM is at 4.57, but the depth of his bullpen gives Birmingham lots of arms to throw at the Frogs. The Lupton Stadium is built more for pitching than hitting, so both pitching staffs should find some advantages in the site. UNM has a .463 slugging percentage to TCU's .345. UNM had 31 home runs and TCU has 15.
It's a dead park," said Garver. "The only thing you can really do is hit the ball hard and if you hit the ball hard, good things are going to happen."
The Lobos have a potent lineup with seven batters hitting .300 or better. The Lobos are led in hitting by sophomore DJ Peterson, whose .437 averages ranks him No. 3 in the NCAA. Garver is hitting .380 followed by freshman Ryan Padilla at .364, Ben Woodchick at .335, Trey Porras at .312, Josh Melendez at .331 and John Pustay at .307.
"If all of them do it (hit) on the same day, I feel sorry for whoever is in the other dugout," said Birmingham.
Well, maybe against an average opponent Birmingham might feel some pity. But this is TCU.


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Telstra Corp expects "explosive" growth in broadband services after its internet provider BigPond announced it had signed up 500,000 residential customers to broadband, an increase of 140 per cent from a year ago.
BigPond managing director Justin Milne said customer numbers would continue to grow strongly.
"2004 saw the broadband market on fire, but I expect 2005 to leave it in the shade," he said today.
"We're certain that the next financial year will see this explosive growth continue as more Australians see for themselves just how good broadband really is."
BigPond has about 40 per cent of the DSL broadband market.
The market tomorrow expects Telstra to report sales revenue of $5.18 billion for the three months to March 31, up 3.5 per cent on the same period in 2004.
However, that rate of growth will be less than the 4.8 per cent run rate reached in the first half of fiscal 2005.
"We expect this slowdown to be attributable to increased fixed to mobile migration and the seasonal impact of Easter falling in March," Deutsche Bank analysts Richard Long said in a client note.
Many Australians, particularly renters of residential property, are ditching fixed home phone lines in favour of the flexibility offered by mobile handsets.
Analysts generally predict Telstra's third quarter fixed line revenue will be down to $1.92 billion, from $1.97 billion in the March quarter 2004.
Mobile revenue is expected to settle around $1.02 billion, up from $932 million previously.
Telstra's revenue share of the mobile services market is about 44 per cent, compared to 33 per cent for its biggest rival Optus, 14 per cent for Vodafone and 10 per cent for Hutchison Telecommunications.
Citigroup is tipping Telstra's third quarter sales to lift 3.2 per cent to $5.17 billion.
It agreed that the impact of fixed to mobile substitution will dampen revenue from fixed line calls.
"We are forecasting a three per cent decline in PSTN (fixed line) revenues for Telstra," it said.
However, Citigroup said its forecast excludes the potential negative impact of three fewer trading days in the March quarter because the Easter holiday break came earlier than usual this year.
Goldman Sachs JB Were expects quarter-on-quarter revenue growth of 3.6 per cent.
The market should be comfortable with an outcome above three per cent, it said.
"The market will be 'spooked' if sales revenue growth comes in less than three per cent," analyst Christian Guerra said.
Deutsche Bank is forecasting third quarter revenue growth of 3.5 per cent, in line with market consensus.
Telstra shares ended up six cents at $5.02 in a broader stronger market.
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Went to the farmer's market today
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I went to the local farmer's market today after contacting a couple poultry farmers via email. Everyone was super friendly and interested in talking dogs.
I have an agreement to buy old laying hens, whole and plucked, for $3 each, and they average between 5-6 pounds.
I also got offered free, live wild pigs, that a farmer traps, that are too small to sell. 50 pounds and under. He's going to call the next time he traps a small one and I'm going to test drive it with the dogs and see how it goes. Many suggest freezing for over 30 days to help kill parasites, so I'm going to go that route.
Time for another freezer :)
Nice!!! Really really good price for the old hens. Human grade pork is free of parasites, but with a feral pig, freezing before feeding is a good call.
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Thanks Lucia :)
Awesome score.....the dogs will be loving it.
Those are great ideas! Gave me some food for though....
so are the bones on old laying hens brittle and dense/or are they soft like the meat chickens?
I've never brought myself to feed my dogs our old chickens, it would be very sad(I'm no farmer!).
We usually let someone have them to process. I don't want to know. lol
I think some of my chicken from the mexican market is old hens, its big chickens. Kinda odd that baby boars arent worth anything, I think a suckling pig is the most expensive pork.
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I'm not asking any questions lol... Free pig is free pig. I'll process them in my garage, portion and freeze it the same day. Can't wait to get the first one.
I'm sure I'll throw one on the grill from time to time :)
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Ever have a chart in MS Excel with what you considered the perfect formatting?
You've chosen just the right color combinations, font type and size, font alignment, spacing, etc. and you wouldn't change a thing, no matter how much time you have to work on it.
Wish that the formatting could be applied to other Excel charts without all the individual changes it requires? Something like a Format Painter feature for your charts maybe?
If that's something you've ever wished for, then I'm happy to make at least one of your wishes come true and I think that you'll be surprised by just how easy it can be accomplished.
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sig 229 9mm conversion barrel .40cal to 9mm, should the slide return/recoil spring be changed also?
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sig 229 9mm conversion barrel .40cal to 9mm, should the slide return/recoil spring be changed also?
Probably check out Wolf Gunsprings and see what the difference is in factory spring weights. You'll want the lighter spring for the 9mm or the gun may not function correctly with a heavier spring.
ETA, I just looked an it appears as if both the .40 and the 9mm use the same 22lbs spring. If you're having issues you may try the lighter spring for the 9mm.
Why the thumbs down?
Thank you very much...
ps: should have put my glasses on I thought that it was a QUESTION MARK ?
To convert your .40 P229 to 9mm, BarSto (and maybe others) make a conversion barrel that may or may not drop right in. I believe it is usually referred to semi-drop in, meaning it may require some minor gunsmith fitting.
Sig's .40 and .357 barrels are interchangeable in the P229 because they both have the same external diameter at the muzzle. The external diameter of the Sig 9mm barrel is smaller, as is the hole in the muzzle of the slide. The .40/.357 slide is different from the 9mm slide both in the dimension of the muzzle hole and some other places.
If you go to Sig Sauer site, go to pistols, then accesories then go to parts. You will find barrels for the 229 in all calibers but 45.


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Australia is the world's ninth-largest energy producer and there are many renewable and non-renewable energy resources in our country. Despite this, we are heavily dependent on imports of refined petroleum products and crude oil to meet our liquid fuel demand.
With such a spread-out population, Australia relies heavily on road transportation to move goods and services around. Our transport system is more than 95 per cent dependent on oil.
Did you know that if the oil stopped coming, goods and services could dry up in just over a week?
According to research carried out for our report, If Australia's oil supply was cut:
- dry goods could run out within nine days;
- chilled and frozen goods could run out within seven days;
- retail pharmacy supplies could run out within seven days;
- hospital pharmacy supplies could run out within three days; and
- fuel available to the public could run out within three days.
Australia needs to develop an alternative fuels industry – and only then, could we ween ourselves off our world oil dependency.
It doesn't help that Sydney will have no refining capacity after 2014. The Clyde refinery closed last year and Kurnell will follow soon. If our supplies are cut off due to disruption to our shipping lanes, we would find ourselves in a crisis situation very quickly.
Australia continues to adopt a "she'll be right" approach to fuel security, relying on global oil and fuel markets.
These markets have proven to be volatile with fluctuations of up to 60 cents per litre for unleaded fuel prices at the pump seen in the space of just six months. The reason for dramatic fluctuations can include conflict in the Middle East and natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina.
This report is another wake-up call for governments to get serious about developing an alternative fuels industry.
Are you concerned about Australia's oil dependency? Would you like the Government to do more to develop our alternative fuel industry?
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Something About Shafts
We don't normally plug things like this on oob, but since it involves Terry "The Wedge Guy" Koehler and he's practically family, we felt the need to share it with you. Terry will be on the "Speaking of Golf" show live tomorrow from 10-11 AM EST. He'll be discussing a variety of golf related topics so make sure you tune in for a good time. You can check listen to the live show at www.speakingofgolf.com.
I'm going to step outside the short end of the set this morning, and talk about the "first scoring club" – your driver. Good drivers of the ball have a much easier time of this game, as it is a huge advantage to approach greens from the fairway than the rough, even if you are not that long. I have advised many times that if you have to drop back to a 3-wood off the tee to keep it in play, your scores will invariably come down. So, check the testosterone and play better . . . if you can.
But a big part of hitting good drives is the tool you use to do it, and unfortunately, off-the-rack drivers are not "tuned" to optimize their performance. Let me explain.
If you purchase a driver from one of the top brands, realize that you got one of 250-400,000 – or more – that they made that year. Knowing that production is ramped up for the spring season, these companies build 30-50,000 drivers per month, or 1,500-2,500 per day, 250-400 an hour. These are assembly line clubs, (the only way to produce that many) and as such, they have some procedural tolerance built into the process. One of those is that shafts are installed with the graphics up, down or sideways on every club. That's the standard.
The problem with that is that graphite shafts all have a "spine", where one side is thicker than the others. That spine determines exactly how the shaft loads and unloads during the swing. And no shaft company aligns their graphics with any orientation to the spine, so you have no idea where it is on the shaft.
When we build a driver for ourselves or friends in our custom shop, we always locate the spine so that we know the club will load and unload in a straight line as the clubhead approaches impact. If it is not located that way, the club can actually "jump" in that final unloading, as much as 1/2-3/4 of an inch. That's half the effective impact zone.
That's been a puzzling thing to me about these drivers that have the adjustable hosel where you can rotate the shaft to achieve various "specs". We've tested them, and when you rotate the shaft, you also change how that shaft will perform in the swing. So, finding the "right spot" is almost impossible.
Think about your driver this way. What other mechanical device on earth accelerates from 0 to 100+ miles per hour in less than 10' of travel and .2 of a second? Even the most minute glitch in that club's specifications and performance can have a major impact.
So, there's the "problem", but I'm not going to leave you without a solution. If you have a driver that you like the looks of, take it to a qualified independent clubfitter to have it measured and evaluated. He can pull the shaft and re-orient it into the head to improve your club's performance dramatically. It's like having your tires balanced or wheels aligned – it just works wonders.
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TeT says:
Aldila comes with Spine marked (according to them). Granted its not always perfect; out of all the Aldila shafts I have purchased I have only had 1 that was off by more than 1/8 of the circumference.
Regardless, as always you are dead on right ...
Torleif Sorenson says:
I read a different piece about ten years ago corroborating what you wrote above, Terry. Many thanks for reminding me about this! - Tor
Tim Horan says:
Absolutely spot on! I have had all my woods spine aligned, some through SST puring (spun on a shaft spinner with computer analysis) and some with a simple spine alignment device. Both have improved the performance dramatically reducing lateral dispersion and increasing distance. The distance is not necessarily down to shaft performance but more likely to be more consistant contact near or on the true sweet spot. I recently fitted Prolaunch shafts in a set of blades and all of them are spine aligned also.
Swingem says:
This is a great topic. Here is a link to more than you might ever want to know about spining golf shafts.
Most of the evidence that there is any benefit to spining is anecdotal, and where to align the spine is an ongoing debat. That being said, I use a spining tool on all shafts that I install since it only takes a couple minutes.
@TeT is correct in that all of the Aldila shafts that I've seen, as well as most others, seem to have the spine aligned pretty close to 90* relative to the graphics.
I'm interested in others thoughts regarding the orrientation of the spine when installing shafts. Should it be at 3:00/9:00 or 12:00/6:00, and why?
dc8ce says:
My biggest concern is what is the best way to account for adjustable drivers & rotating the shaft with respect to the clubhead? If I did find the spine on the shaft and I wanted to tinker with the adjustment would it be worthwhile to re-attach the adaptor to the shaft everytime?
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The Cobra LS5 that I have with only a two position (Neutral and Closed) is fine as the two positions are 180 degrees opposed to one another. In this instance if the spine is aligned at 3 oclock when on the neutral setting it will be a 9 oclock on the closed setting. With a system with more options (open, neutral and closed with further options or degrees of each option) the spine will be slightly off but not by very much. Spine alignment need not be so exact that anything but spot on is useless. @ Swingem spine should always be at either 3:00 or 9:00. Interesting chap Dave Tutelman...read his blogs on MOI matched clubs. Great insight into club fitting.
Swingem says:
@dc8ce: If we are going to assume that spining has a significant effect, then yes, it is best to realign the shaft tip so that the spine is in the correct orrientation relative to the prefered setting. I've done this on a couple of shafts for my R9 and R11.
@Tim Horan: I'm in agreement with you, I've always aligned my spines toward the target. I've also read that they should be aligned this way for driver to minimize side-to-side deflection and tighten dispersion on tee shots, but aligned at 12:00/6:00 in the irons to minimize toe-drop for more consistant contact.
I'm in the process of putting together two identical shafts for my R11, one with the direction of least deflection ("spine", for the purpose of this experiment) at 9:00/3:00 and one with it at 12:00/6:00. I'll take them to the range to see if I can tall any difference.
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@Swingem I have not heard that shafts in irons should be 12:00/ 6:00. I would have thought that this would accentuate any abberration as the shaft is loaded(taking the face either open or closed at impact. The toe droop can be compensated for with an adjustment to lie angle but needs to be done as a dynamic lie rather than a static lie. The degree to which any alignment will make a difference is directly related to what flex and torque properties a shaft has. A high torque (easily twisted) would show far more improvement than say a low torque shaft.
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Skincare tips : weird but true
So I have some weird tips that, believe it or not, have improved my skin. Some are not that weird, some are, some are obvious but people still don't use it. Let's begin.
Choosing the right products
This is obvious, but when I started using skincare, I was clueless and made this mistake. When I saw about 3 zits on my face, I freaked and bought acne wash, gel, the like. Waste of money. My skin is dry and sensitive, not acne prone or oily (even now I have like two tiny zits that are going away soon, because I didn't do skincare stuff for like a week ) so the products irritated my skin, and I broke out more. Now I use products made for my skin type, and it works great!
Skin super foods
so these are foods that help skin majorly : green tea, it has so many antioxidants, and tastes great ! Ever since i was little, i always drank green tea, unsweetened ( even healthier ) since my mom loved it..
Water ; yeah so beyond knows this but few listen to it. Drink water, two cups a day ( 4 fl.oz. to a cup, i think or maybe 2 f.loz.)
face mask ingredients to look out for
chocolate : some brands sell chocolate masks, or make a mask yourself with cocoa powder in it 9 youtube bubzbeauty, she has great diy skin tutorials, including a chocolate one) but chocolate has great thingamabobs in it to fight oily skin and zits.
Rice or rice flour once again, bubzbeauty did a tutorial on this, check it out. she knows more than me
oatmeal again, bubzbeauty, she is like skincare magician.
oily skin tips have oily skin or zits in forehead ? the oil from your bangs could be transfering to your skin.
try to use less freasy hair products or pin up your bangs
moustrize, your skin may be oily beacause it is dry. when your skin is dry and it is not moustrizied, it produces oil to moustrize.
the zit tips so use a clarisonic if your skin is really bad, so many people with acne credit it for clearing up their skin.
also, don't put makeup on your zits. the makeup might clog it. if you have a week off school or work, try not wear makeup all week long, or only when you go out. then when you get home, remove all makeup and maybe put a clay mask on areas with zits.
using bare minerals ? had no zits befire using and now have acne? some people are really allergic to the stuff in mineral makeup.
try not to change up skincare a lot. it will makeup your skin breakout since it is not yet used to the new prodcuts.
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In general, just eat lots of fruit and veggies, but namely dark green leafies, carrots, dates, tomatoes, apples, etc.
Yogurt is great for you.
Almonds are amazing for your skin--try to get only the lightly salted or no salt ones.
Drink 8 cups of water a day (8 fl. oz. in a cup, so in total 64 fl. oz.). Remember, some of this water will come from the food you eat.
Yeah, that's about it from me, but there are tons of foods that are AMAZING for you and your skin.
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A core foundation of any self-sufficient lifestyle is the concept of food production. Food grown in your own garden is like an insurance policy. If and when you find yourself in a disaster or emergency where either the store-shelves are bare or maybe you can't get there at all, your garden will be there to support you. This is especially true is you've taken the very prudent extra initiative to preserve and put up your excess via canning or other methods so that you'll have it even after the growing season is long over. Also, when eating food you've grown yourself, you know exactly what it has been exposed to from the seed up; commercial foods are nearly always dowsed in who knows how many kinds of pesticides and other chemicals - the food you grow will be better for you.
Depending on the length of the emergency or in the event of all-out TEOTWAWKI (see glossary) scenario, it may be important to not only be sure you and your family can eat but also that what you're eating is providing you with sufficient nutrition in the form of vitamins and minerals. By and large, we Americans are often woefully deficient in vitamins and minerals in our diets in the best of times, nevermind how bad it would most likely be if we could no longer just run over to GNC to pick up a bottle of multivitamin supplement pills. Therefore, it is best to plan your garden in such a way as to provide you with true self-sufficiency in bad times as well as all the time.
There's lots of information to be found on this subject on the internet - far too much to cover it all here. I will try, however, to share a few things I've learned in order to get you started. First off, one tip that is easy to remember is that the richer the colors the better. Dark, deep greens as well as bright colors like red, orange or yellow (the brighter the better) are typically the really vitamin- and mineral-packed goodies. Some examples that fit this bill are peas, corn, pumpkins, beans and spinach or-- even better yet-- kale.
Typically all of the green, leafy vegetables are rich in vitamins but they tend to come up lacking in caloric value. It is actually possible to starve if you eat them alone in a phenomenon not altogether unlike that of "rabbit starvation." Therefore, calories and proteins should be your other priority. Some of the foods listed above will help in this area as well as being vitamin-rich, but another crop you should seriously consider is potatoes. Potatoes contain a significant amount of protein, plus vitamin C and other nutrients. It is, in fact, possible to survive on potatoes alone, if you include the peel. It is a sad truth that a majority of the nutrients in a potato are located directly beneath the peel and as such they are often cut off prior to cooking. Potatoes also keep comparatively well and with minimal work on our part, generally speaking.
Sharing a similar name is another outstanding crop you should consider planting. Not long ago, the Center for Science in the Public Interest ranked the sweet potato at the top of their list of nutrition of all vegetables (source: http://www.foodreference.com/html/sweet-pot-nutrition.html).
Again, this article is by no means an all-encompassing source of information on this topic, but I thought you might find it a useful start. If you've already made the decision to grow your garden for the coming lean times, it makes sense to grow it in a way that will allow it to properly sustain you and yours should it become your primary food source.
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Discussion in 'December 2012' started by roscoe36, Oct 29, 2012.
The 4th quarter didn't happen.
11 rebounds, no turnovers, an eFG of .667, and a go-ahead last minute contested 3-pointer? He had as many buckets as Knight, Singler, and Maxiell combined in their 59 minutes on the court. You're harder to impress than the Dad on Wonder Years.
Guys like Daye are a dime a dozen in the NBA. He's not even an Amir Johnson quality player, that is, legendary 7th man status in Toronto. I dislike Daye and other inferior players like him. I can't get behind post hoc validation of a stats line for a guy who has no business being on an NBA roster. Did he have a nice game? Sure, by his standards, this will probably be the greatest game of the year for him. And that should tell us everything we need to know about Austin Daye.
I agree with your dime a dozen comment. I'm sure there are literally hundreds of guys rotting on NBA benches, playing in the NBDL, or playing in Europe, that could put up some decent stats if they were given the minutes in a system tailored to their talents.
I don't really look down my nose at any NBA players. Ben Wallace could have easily never made it into the association and we wouldn't know the difference. Here is my outlook on Daye- He is an extremely rare combination of height and shooting ability. That creates mismatches galore if we play him at SG or even SF... maybe positive, maybe negative. With a defensive stopper behind him, that mismatch gets minimized when we're on defense and still exists when we're on offense. We have the stopper. We just broke down the man's body for a year to put him through a workout routine that only Dennis Rodman has ever completed. We joke about it a lot, but that is a commitment to long term improvement with obvious short term detrimental effects on shooting touch. He appears tougher physically and mentally to me know having gone through it. Kander obviously has invested a lot of time into his development and the organization has had him going on 4 years now. I just want to see what we have after all that. If he's terrible, I'm OK with that. But I want to see him stink up the joint with a real sample size. Last year, his biggest strength either left him, or was taken away from him by the body building. If that was the real Daye, then I want him nowhere near the team. This year he is shooting .667 from 3-point land. If that's the real Daye, Team USA should want him. Obviously he is somewhere in between and I just want to see where he stabilizes. This is exactly how I feel about everybody on the roster. Let's use the season to figure out who these mystery men are that are getting paid millions of dollars to be practice dummies.
I'd be ok with this, if he wasn't a 3rd year player who has managed to break the rotation for the last 2 games. As far as his workout routine, he actually looks skinnier than Tay when they stand side-by-side and we know what a beast Tay is...
I don't care if he gets or got bigger. Kevin Durant, Rip and Kevin Garnett are all thin guys, but they're strong. Daye is still WEAK. In 3 years he's still WEAK and that's an issue, sometimes it's just not in the cards.
Please tell me you're not comparing Austin Daye after two games to Ben Wallace, a 4 time DPOY. Ben is a once in a generation player. This is a guy who isn't even our 8th man.
I get what hes saying...kinda... Ben was a guy that didnt really blossom until someone took a chance on him. he played college but didnt awe anyone and even once he got into the league didnt blow people sox off. Once he was played for what he was is when he exploded. He wasnt asked to do anything but defense and rebound and once he figured out his role...he became the most amazing little big man ever in my opinion.
I get what TaS is saying too, I just don't buy into this "gems on the bench" philosophy. We've been collectively day dreaming about Arron Afflalos and Vernon Macklins for too long. We've set our sights so low. We don't wish we had a Kobe, a Paul or a Lebron James. We're hoping we can draft someone in the second round who can be a modest starter when someone gets injured and maybe plays in the rookie all star game. With Dre here, I am ready to think bigger. And I understand people being interested in Daye. I really can. We have so few players of note, that we're looking down the bench at the 10th and 11th man yet again...
He's gotta at least be getting close to tradable. Same with villanueva. I'm not sure I'd dump them though if it cost us draft picks.
Now that is music to my ears. As long as we have desperate needs in the starting lineup, we can't afford to become emotionally invested in the deep-end of our bench. The only exception I can think of, is Jon Barry. We don't have a Jon Barry but Will.I.Am might be close.
Ultimately I think that's Singler's role.
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Performance wise, yes, ratings, nope....241 vs. 227 hp. well, that's 241 bhp so what's that conversion? i'm pretty sure that it's still more than our 227.Originally posted by wrxinthehouse
Those numbers ("for the most powerful VW ever") are still lower than our stock numbers.
I'm not saying anything about it being faster than the WRX (tests have proven otherwise), just that the R32 would not be an 'easy' win at the the track, one poor shift and oops, he got me!
Oh, and sorry, forgot to add the clip that it is 4 motion. Cool car though. Would not trade the Impreza for anything though unless someone wants to do a WRX for a 575 straight up! haha


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I find this widget very helpful because setting it to a 50km radius circle I can get sightings and checklists which cross county lines. The widget gives me data over the entire region over which I am willing to travel to see interesting birds.ReplyDelete
I managed to get at least a version of the gadget up on my site at https://sites.google.com/site/birdernaturalist/, but it doesn't allow you to scroll down the species list. Thanks for your help.ReplyDeleteReplies
Richard, when embedding your gadget on sites, in the properties box you need navigate to the display section at the bottom and check the box "include a scrollbar on gadget when necessary". This should do it! ZachDelete
Zachary - I'm not seeing the option you mention in your comment, but I'm not missing a navigation bar either: ctbirding.org/birdbot . I do see Richard's issue when visiting his site. Is this something unique to Google Sites?ReplyDelete
Also, can you tell me when the eBird gadget was retired? It seems that BirdTrax was substituted without any notice (at least I can't find any mention of that). We had some local commentary about both gadgets on our site. It's nice to have BirdTrax but there can be IE issues and some of our IE (older versions) visitors may now be having problems. Thanks!Replies
Steve, the old sightings gadget was full of deprecated terminology and I wasn't prepared for a rewrite. Also, it was hosted through old Google servers which disappeared with iGoogle. While I did transfer BirdTrax (with a lot of hassle), there was very little use of the sightings gadget (e.g. ~250 users compared to 50,000 on BirdTrax). This motivated my decision to stop maintaining the recent sightings gadget and I will take down documentation shortly. I know the IE issue is a problem and I do hope to address it entirely in future applications, though BirdTrax is how it is. Also, the scrolling feature is unique to the platform on which the gadget is embedded--blogger, google sites, wordpress, etc. all have their own ways of allowing you to display a scrollbar. I don't think Richard has changed his settings yet, but once he does it will show a scrollbar as well.Delete
Thank you for your detailed reply - very helpful to me in case I should use one of those platforms. The eBird gadget was very useful in its time - just surprised to see it was gone. I'm pretty sure it disappeared only in the last week or so for me. FYI - there is a broken graphic in the bottom left corner of the BT content (birdtrax.xml).Delete
And of course, thanks for your continued great work on BirdTrax!!!
Hello. Our BirdTrax gadget has disappeared from our WordPress website. (www.mvaudubon.org). I have completed the information above, retrieved the code, copied onto our webpage but it is just displaying the actual code, not the sightings table we are used to seeing. Can you help? Thanks - Barb RodriguezReplyDeleteReplies
Barb, I'm sure this issue can be fixed. Send me the code you are using at firstname.lastname@example.com. I suspect something is happening to the HTML tags (< and >)Delete
I want to add this gadget to my blog site and have successfully done so. Except it also displays comments which I hope can be inactivated. Is this possible?ReplyDeleteReplies
Ken, yes I will get the checklist tab notification removed at my first opportunity. ZachDelete
I generated the following code for my Englewood Florida location -ReplyDelete
Just great - It won't accept the pasted in code so I can show you.
When I paste it in and test it - I get the proper date range, but '0 checklists, 0 species.' There are lots of checklists within the 50K circle centered at Lat - 26.9866, Lon - 82.345. What am I doing wrong here??
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I've updated my site (http://www.macgardens.org) since I had been wondering what happened to Recent Sightings. The new one works well. A wealth of information. But it doesn't seem to be limited to a 50 km radius. We are in Frederick, Md and some sightings are in Ocean City, 240 km away. Nonetheless it's a wonderful resource.ReplyDeleteReplies
John, new in BirdTrax is the capability to look across an entire state/province. You have this set for state-wide Maryland sightings and rarities, thus you are getting Ocean City sightings and Frederick sightings. If you want just Frederick sightings, you can still use the area radius feature. Just take another look at the settings! Best, ZachDelete
I'm trying to embed BirdTrax to my Wordpress website. I've followed the steps as far as I can tell but I'm only getting a link to the code to display on the site. Anyone have any ideas?ReplyDelete
You're embedding as text. You need to embed as JavaScript. These articles may help:Delete
Best, Zach
Bird Trax widget has disappeared from our website. Tried to get a new code but it does't work. Suggestions?ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks for the update. Birdtrax just disappeared from my Wordpress site (macgardens.org). After reading your comments I pasted in the AccuBirder code. Looks nice.ReplyDelete
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Should we have the right to disobey Islamic law?
posted at 10:00 pm on September 19, 2012 by Laura Curtis
Should we have the right to disobey Islamic law? The future of western civilization hinges on our response to this question. Right now people are suggesting that "hate speech" should not be free speech because when people blaspheme Mohammed, Muslim extremists riot and kill.
"When some people use this freedom of expression to provoke or humiliate some others' values and beliefs, then this cannot be protected in such a way."
— U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
The extended liberal argument is that if you make Islamists mad, you know they're going to kill, so you bear some responsibility for those deaths, too. Even Salman Rushie, after a quarter century of living with a fatwa on his head, called the "Innocence of Muslims" filmmaker "disgusting" and said, "He did it on purpose. I mean, he set out to create a response, and he got it in spades."
When Ezra Levant was hauled before a tribunal in Canada to defend his right to publish the Mohammed cartoons, he was asked what his intent was. He replied,
"Why is that a relevant question? We published what we published. The words and pictures speak for themselves. So if I were to say, hypothetically, that the purpose was to instill hatred, incite hatred and cause offense, are you saying that's an acceptable answer? My answer to your question is as follows. We published those cartoons for the intention and purpose of exercising our inalienable rights as free born Albertans to publish whatever the hell we want no matter what the hell you think. I've probably given 200 interviews to people other than the state where I'd give a very thoughtful and nuanced expression of my intent, but the only thing I have to say to the government about why I published it is that it's my bloody right to do so. … My answer to these two fascists, the one trained in Saudi Arabia and the other one piling on, is that I reserve the right to publish those cartoons for exactly what they complain about. I reserve the right to publish those cartoons to do every offensive thing that they claim is in my heart."
Liberals don't care about protecting the tender feelings of the religious, as evidenced by decades of offenses against Christians and every other faith. They are simply afraid of a group who is willing to kill because they're offended. And what liberals are really saying, if they were honest, is that we have a moral obligation to obey Islamic law in order to prevent more bloodshed.
They are saying that non-Muslims, living in non-Muslim countries, should voluntarily adhere to Muslim law.
These same people who scream like a goth in the sun at the sight of a nativity scene on public property, are suggesting that non-Muslim governments should use their non-Muslim citizens' tax dollars to enforce Islamic blasphemy laws.
That's insane.
Not only do we have the right to not obey Islamic law, we have the obligation to not obey it – because going along to get along will only result in further oppression. I've used the "secondary crime scene" analogy before: You're in a parking lot, and a criminal sticks a gun in your ribs and demands you drive him somewhere. The parking lot is the primary crime scene, where your kidnapping takes place. The 'somewhere' is the secondary crime scene, where he can safely torture, rape, and murder you at his leisure. It's obviously better to fight back at the primary crime scene – even if you are shot, at least it's in public where help is more likely to be available. Fighting back at the primary crime scene may scare off an attacker – if you're not an easy mark, he'll probably move on to another victim. It also may get the attention of others who may help fight him off. Compliance always empowers your kidnapper, never you.
Here, at the primary crime scene is where we need to fight. If we do not forcefully challenge the concept of so-called "hate speech" not being protected speech, we will eventually lose our right to speak freely, and ultimately, our right to disobey Islamic blasphemy laws. And in that case, can sharia be far behind?
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On 21:35 eastern standard time, I attempted to execute a search with bing, but I could not. Why? The host www.bing.com could not resolve. For every minute after that until 22:15 I saw the same error as seen in this post. Many other folks I know online could not reach bing either for this time. It returned to service without any explanation. The issue was present on many different operating systems and web browsers.
This yet another reason why Microsoft can not compete in the software-as-a-service market. Will we bing on June 30, 2011? I bet not.
Update: BBC reported that the outage was only 30 minutes due to a configuration change gone bad.
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After last year's dismal season in Victoria (didn't get anything), I've manage to pull a modest 25kg off 2 hives the other day. I think it's got a good portion of ironbark in it, it tastes similar to the yellowbox of 2 years ago but is a darker colour.
I pulled 40 frames over a month ago as the girls had been working Patterson Curse hard. They have slowed down to an almost crawl at the moment as it has darn hot and dry this way. Hopefully it will rain this way soon to stimulate some growth.


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To talk about horology on the moon wouldn't add to Dabney's stature as a phoney scientist.
They'll size me for a phoney promoter excavatin' your pocketbook.
This lad is here on business and has no time for our phoney hooptedo.
"She put up a phoney story about the kid being hers," he added.
He checked up on that stuff you sold him, found out that it was phoney.
It had had, in fact, to be an honest job of ship-building in order to put across a phoney promotion.
If the number is forty-five, it means that the lad is a phoney.
Well, I'll gamble a stack of blue chips there ain't such a phoney pair in Manhattan Village.
The fat red sun was strictly a phoney, and it didn't fool him any.
It would be an adventure, at least, and Murphy's repeated assertions that it was "a phoney" invited investigation.
also phoney, "not genuine," 1899, perhaps an alteration of fawney "gilt brass ring used by swindlers."
His most successful swindle was selling "painted" or "phony" diamonds. He had a plan of taking cheap stones, and by "doctoring" them make them have a brilliant and high class appearance. His confederates would then take the diamonds to other pawnbrokers and dispose of them. ["The Jewelers Review," New York, April 5, 1899]The noun meaning "phony person or thing" is attested from 1902.
Not real or genuine; false; fake: You phony little fake (1900+)
: I ain't phoneying them woids (1942+)
[fr late 1700s British underworld slang fawney fr Irish fa´inne, ''ring,'' referring to a swindle in which the fawney-dropper drops a cheap ring before the victim, then is persuaded to sell it as if it were valuable; as the sequence of spellings, phoney and later phony, indicates, the US spelling is probably based on an attested folk etymology revealing the notion that one's feelings or even identity could be readily falsified on the telephone]


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300+ planted tank on top of a mountain in AK
Last weekend I drove to the top of a mountain to hang out with one of my friends/customers. This massive tank sits in his living room. I was truly blessed to help him assemble this aquarium. It took months to get it going and we are in the works breaking it down in the next few months and rescaping. He wants that "show" look we all know, and has the means to pull it off.
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This tank has always looked so cool even when the were just building it. Can't wait to see the remodel!
Other than that, I have never seen a tank shaped like that. The plants look awesome.
..and, now I think I need one of those.
Wow. Awesome tank.
That's really nice, but I to am surprised by the gravel as well.
All I can say is OMG! What a gorgeous tank!
Am I the only one that finds the black bars to be very distracting?
I like the gravel also.
Especially if the plants are in net pots with top soil.
Im in the works of uploading a youtube video.
Puffer is nice.
I'd remove the wood rimmed lip around the tank, it prevents access and only moderately reduces light spray.
I'd also raise the lights up to parallel to the roof beams.
Better to have lower intensity and better spread. You could make a planted tray in the rear for house plants and have the roots in the tank water.
Or just a row of pots for the house plants not linked to the tank also.
I'd likely get rid of the powerheads and get 1-2 Vortech's.
you can reduce the light overspray into the room and remove the wood lip by placing some wood to block the light spray coming down from the beams there, then stopping about 6-12" above the water.
This will reflect the light down and back. This will keep the front glass cleaner and allow much better tank access. Also will make the house plants grow better if you place them along that back edge. It would act like a large full length lamp shade basically.
You need hardscape materials.
I gotta know. Is it still on the casters???
Tank looks great, am sure the next version will be just as nice. Do you get to help with it?
The Amazonia is gonna look sweet! Is he changing out his fish too?
Are you usually working on saturdays at the store?
Wow makes my little tank look like a puddle
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Absolutely awesome!
certainly not in love. don't like the trim or the light placement. too much spill over into the room for me.
it's huge and it's interesting... but it looks so out of place.
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STEVE CHIOTAKIS: The movie "Transformers" just keeps making money. The mega-hit's raked in more than $200 million since its release, and all told, it's a big hit for one Hollywood studio.
All part of the ebbs and flows of movie-making in a town that thrives or dies by the all-powerful movie ticket.
This morning, we're talking with Michael Speier, news editor for TheWrap.com. And Michael, this is the summer movie season, we're supposed to be talking about how rosy the picture is for studios, but that's not necessarily the case.
MICHAEL SPEIER: Right, and especially for the studio that made "Transformers," which is Paramount. Paramount specifically is a very, very unique studio because they might have two of the three biggest movies of the summer in "Transformers" and "Star Trek," yet they're having major problems.
CHIOTAKIS: So I mean they have these huge franchises, right? I mean "Star Trek" and "Transformers." I mean, what's the problem?
SPEIER: Well, the biggest problem could be summed up in one movie star's name, and that's Eddie Murphy. Because he was in a movie also this summer for Paramount called "Imagine That," which was such a huge disaster. I think it opened with only $5 million. Now, people might say, 'well they still have major, major franchises and making 'em tons of money.' That's true on some of their movies, but they put a lot of stock in summer. And there's five Paramount summer movies. Two of them are huge, which we just mentioned. The other three -- "Imagine That," "Dance Flick," and the upcoming buzz killer, "G.I. Joe," -- might not be so huge. And that's going to bring the profits down.
CHIOTAKIS: But I thought in these days of economic recession, this was an escape outlet. That Hollywood was sort of recession-proof. That people want to get out and not think about how much money they don't have, and you know, spend $10-$12 bucks and go see a movie.
SPEIER: That's absolutely true. And the Box Office us up. The whole year's Box Office is up. It's the one industry that people are looking to and saying, 'look, it's doing well.' So when a movie clicks, it's wonderful. The problem is not every movie clicks. And if it's expensive, and it doesn't click, it can wipe out an entire studio. It can certainly wipe out a lot of jobs, which recently happened to Paramount because the head of Paramount, John Lesher, got replaced, and they had a production, Brad Weston got replaced.
CHIOTAKIS: So what does a movie studio do then, besides replacing these high-level guys. Do they scale back? Do they not spend as much money on movies?
SPEIER: Well that's a very interesting quandary they're in, and it's something that they've been looking towards. I mean Disney last year decided to cut the amount of movie that they were going to make. They were going to specifically stick with things that were almost slam dunks. Of course they can't predict what's going to hit and miss. But if they make fewer movies, but make them bigger movies, there's almost a guarantee that they can have at least management over how they do.
CHIOTAKIS: So what do we know that's coming down the pike from Paramount?
SPEIER: Well Paramount is lucky enough to have two huge directors coming down the pike. Martin Scorsese with "Shutter Island," which stars Leonardo DiCaprio, sounds wonderful. And Peter Jackson, who hasn't been heard from in a while, and he has "The Lovely Bones," which is based on a best-selling book. So it sounds great. The problem is if one of them misses, they don't have anything else in the hopper until 2010.
CHIOTAKIS: All right. News editor Michael Speier for TheWrap.com. Michael, thanks.
SPEIER: Pleasure.