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I stopped talking to a friend because my DS really did n't like playing with her DS, meetings with the kids were stressful. No major drama with the grown ups, just gradually decreased our contact. Friends for a season.
Why have your friendships fallen apart?
Because the sum total of her response to my "I've just had dc2" text, sent from hospital, was "Well done".
There was no card, no call, nothing until a couple of months later when she invited me to her engagement party. I emailed and explained why I would not be coming. She replied immediately, apologising, and said she was depressed at the time, and lots of her friends had had babies. 'Fraid that was not good enough for me.
Because I didn't meet her standards for friendship, and following the third summit called by her to "discuss our relationship" I decided that I did not need to be told how crap I was and how to improve myself again.
Because at said third lecture she backed up her criticisms with "and it's not just me who thinks that", then refused to tell me exactly which of her friends who barely know me she'd been slagging me off to as "we might all meet up together and it wouldn't be fair on them".
No amount of time or effort given was never enough, and if I ever couldn't do something I was called on "making excuses". This also applied after I had a miscarriage and wasn't much in the mood for socialising.
I'm not one for conflict and each time she decided to tell me all my flaws, I used to consider her remarks and tell her that I'd try to be better. After the last meeting I thought a lot about what she'd said (especially the fact that a bunch of people I barely knew were apparently discussing my behaviour around the time I'd had MC) and decided it just wasn't worth it. If I'd talked to her about it it would have ended up with me apologising again, so I just stopped talking to her.
She has messed around with her ex for 18 years in spite of living with current dp. I am patient but just can't hear the excuses any more about why she found that acceptable. Three lives ruined, she has totally manipulated both of them. Just didn't want her around me, my dh, my dc, with her whiny complaining and manipulative "poor little me" attitude. She is mystified about why she's ended this unhappy. Textbook case of what happens if you never have the courage to do the right thing.
kept having digs at me, and then another one about DH's looks.
Last straw was him taking he p*ss out me twice for being fat, at our friends wedding, 3 months after i'd given birth to DC2.
Because she would undermine me constantly, only call on me when all her other friends were busy,had an affair and got nasty with me because I wouldn't be used as a alibi! I phased her out and haven't seen her for 18 months now, don't miss her at all tbh
I realised she was talking about mutual friends behind their backs, she manipulated the story to always make out the other person was in the wrong. If the same person has problems with family, friends, even random people in public then it is not their fault but hers..surely?!
She seemed to have major mood swings whilst travelling together and then pushed me out when a friend moved in with us (student shared house) and said "you don't bring anything to the table, X is funny, Y has a car". I moved out, when I went back for my stuff found out she had tried to attempt fraud in my name and my room has been completely trashed.
Still have the odd nightmare about her and just hope I never bump into her
Because she was a lying fantasist, who turned the smallest drama into a major crisis, stirred the shit, stabbed me in the back and stitched me up with a member of my extended family. Ill put up with a lot, but enough was enough.
I let contact slide with a good friend a couple of years ago. It's tricky, as she's a colleague of dh's. I found out she'd slept with several other of their colleagues (not dh!), all the while maintaining good friendships with their partners. We all used to socialise together regularly and I feel a bit sick to think of her working at these textbook female friendships with some very nice people, whilst working her way around their partners.
DH hears from her occasionally but is scared to tell me
Gosh. I'm not sure I've ever dumped a friend. But I tend to be the 'organiser' in our groups so maybe I just stopped organising stuff without really thinking about it?
A bit of food for thought here though.
Because I discovered that her DD was bullying, undermining and treating my DD like dirt. Often complained about my DD but refused to acknowledge any concern I had regarding her DD's behaviour. Also because she was a professional 'victim' and was an emotional drain.
Because my ex asked her out a week after we split up
She said no obviously and there never was anything going on between them but it made things really awkward and we just drifted apart after that
1) Because her infertility clashed with my PND (but, touch wood, we're now repairing things).
2) Because the constant, racist, Daily Mailesque shared crap on Facebook made me see the real person inside.
3) I genuinely do not know, but something to do with being paranoid and sleeping with a married mutual friend, I wasn't the only person they froze out.
4) Texting/phoning me when drunk and feeling sorry or herself at 3 o'clock in the morning, when we had a newborn. Being foul to mutual friends. Being a complete b**ch when I said I didn't feel up to seeing anyone just after I'd had a MC.
I can't reduce this thread and your stories to a neat, one size fits all conclusion, but it's interesting reading.
When my baby was seriously ill she didn't bother to come by and see me despite being in the same town (usually lived miles away). Endlessly sorry for herself about her life while taking no responsibility for it and whinging about it all constantly and asking for advice which never took. Appalling taste in men which made me nervous about visiting so far to be in the company of her latest drug addict/violent tosser of a bloke and when did once she did nothing to protect us and let him abuse me verbally. Never having time to talk when I needed to but had hours to talk about her life and problems, and more problems ad infinitum. Some dubious parenting practices and that's putting it VERY mildly.
The next because she ranted and raved at me because I couldn't spend whole weekend with her while we chose my wedding dress and she wanted to visit all weekend because she wanted a mini-break. She literally screamed down the phone at me and left a bad taste in the mouth about picking dress for sometime. Clearly a narc.
Another one because she refused to pay my expenses when I gave up 2 weeks of my summer to work on her project. Had been agreed in advance but she made less money than she thought she would so saw fit to withdraw her offer...after I had done the work.
Another one because she had an emotional affair with my partner at the time.
I was thinking today I need to think about how I make friends and be more careful so this thread is timely.
Phew. Feel better!
1. She came to stay for the weekend. Was miserable and grumpy the whole time. And left her dirty knickers on my bedroom floor.
2. Downgraded to good company rather than friend because she never listens, didn't come and see me for 2 weeks after I'd had DS despite being my only friend (live abroad) and I realised that actually she's a bit thick.
Because she hacked my dd,s email account and used the information gained to upset my dd and wheedle her
Because she hacked my dd,s email account and used the information gained to upset my dd and wheedle her way into my ex,s life. then bragged about their special relationship. I wasnt arsed he was a knob and she deserved hi.
Because she repeatedly arranged meet ups and either texted last minute (or once got her much younger sister to Facebook me) to give me some lame excuse about why she couldn't come, or just not turn up! I once waited out in the cold with DD who was about 10 months old for an hour before she pranced past with someone else having completely forgotten the arrangement we had made just that morning
Because she relentlessly pursued three of my boyfriends whilst I was still with them, then told me what an awful friend I was because I should have asked her before going out with them as she was clearly the better choice for them, she hadn't even met one of them when I first started seeing him!
Because he met a lovely woman, but she didn't really like our friendship, didn't like me talking about my DD (she had no DC but wanted some and resented DF's vasectomy), took offence at most things I said. I actually quite liked her but it wasn't reciprocated. DF felt we should only meet if our partners were present and used to ask me to mind what I talked about (eg nothing about DD). Much as I loved him, it became too much like hard work (sad).
Because she was flaky and constantly let me down when organising meet ups. The last straw was when she forgot which park we were meeting at and made me walk through town with a 3 year old and suffering from SPD and then when I phoned her to ask where she was she told me she was in another park across the city and then told me to enjoy myself alone with dd! No apology! The funny thing is we were messaging each other as I got off the bus in town and I told her I was in the city centre at which point she could have told me not to walk to the flipping park because she wasn't there! Grrr. That still pisses me off. Gradually decreased contact after that.
Fell out with a friend once because she slept with MY fuck buddy. Ashamed of my irrational jealousy now but I was 17 at the time
Fell out with a male friend not too long ago due to him being annoying in general but when he assumed the reason I was blatantly fazing him out was because I must fancy him no it's coz you're a stupid, ignorant and apparently vain fool. I was so angry at that assumption I've cut him dead ever since. I think the exact wording of my parting shot was "it's not you, it's me. I have a problem and the problem is you".
Yes I've let things go with a flaky last-minute canceller, as well. Not a friend, more of a pal, so no big deal.
She always wanted to reschedule, so we would see each other, it was just that something better had come along for that particular time slot. Nah.
Constantly flaked out of commitments. Stopped bothering.
Mine is so sad.
Because after supporting her through years of an abusive relationship, worrying myself silly over her and her dd, being professionally compromised, having to spend time I didn't want to with her foul husband, she then chose to get pregnant again. Just couldn't condone her bringing another child into that disaster of a household and couldn't bear to watch any more. Was awful but I had nothing left to give her.
Because of the aggressive, spiteful, bullying texts and voice mails she sent to my 15 year old son, who had decided for many valid reasons that he no longer wanted to be friends with her son. On one occasion she was, over the course of a couple of hours, interspersing friendly text messages to me with abusive ones to my son.
I don't like confrontation and I didn't deal with it properly for a long time. I just went out of my way to avoid her.
It was only when I bumped into her a few months later and she started chatting as if nothing had happened that I was finally brave enough to challenge her on it and tell her exactly what I thought of her behaviour.
We haven't spoken since. It's no loss.
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according to TGO, the vortec base isn't a very good casting. It needs substantial clean up with a rotary tool. This isnt a bad thing necessarily, however buddies tend to drink lots of beer and watch you bust knuckles.
The TPI base flows plenty for a 305. What about a set of 58cc TFS heads and port match?
Your buddy needs to give you a price, a goal and '***** or get off the pot.'
I think the LT1 is an interesting proposition. I think the motor was 800, the harness and ecm was 2 or 300 and the crossmember was 300. Throw the hot-cam in there, a little prom flashing; notch the crossmember or use the LT1 Fbod one and the body harness should cover most of it. Redline is probably 6500, 350hp or more and latemodel dependability. I do not know if you'd have to modify the fuel system, but I do know the 4th gen and 3rd gen use a lot of the same 'tub' so most parts fit easily.
This is probably an easier swap than an LS however, there's more room to grow with an LS obviously.
Footnote; the LT heads were the basis for the vortecs.
I don't mind doing some cleanup on the intake but you would think for $400 it would be a clean casting. I gotta sit down with him and get a solid goal so I can figure out if hes gonna need a higher stall converter and more gear in the rear. I would love to put an LS in it but its past his budget. He wants to put $1000 into the motor and no more cause he is doing exhaust upgrades and a bunch of other stuff. Im not worried about making money off this, hes a friend of mine but I don't wanna go broke either lol
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The Renewable Fuel Standard program was created by the Energy Policy Act signed by President Bush in 2005 and updated in 2007. It requires gasoline refiners to buy and blend an increasing volume of ethanol each year, up to 36 billion gallons by 2022. Only 15 billion gallons of that amount can be corn-based ethanol; the rest must be "cellulosic" or advanced biofuels made from nonfood crops such as switchgrass.
Here's where things start to get difficult: Sometime in the next year, U.S. ethanol producers will hit that 15 billion-gallon cap for corn-based ethanol. Already, the massive diversion of a food crop to fuel has contributed to skyrocketing prices for corn and grain—a situation that's great for corn farmers but increasingly problematic for everyone else who has to buy grain, from cattle farmers to grocery manufacturers to food shoppers. The problem was exacerbated this summer after the drought pushed food prices up even further, prompting a slew of governors, advocates for the poor, and livestock farmers to beg the Environmental Protection Agency to temporarily waive the renewable-fuels standard.
In theory, the problem should be eased by the fact that the law caps production of corn ethanol at 15 billion gallons—and the authors of the RFS envisioned a future where the market eventually would transition to using mostly nonfood biofuel crops. But despite years of public and private research, there is no affordable non-corn biofuel on the U.S. market. While Energy Department researchers have managed to produce biofuels from switchgrass and other nonfood crops, none of them have been produced at a scale or price that gasoline refiners can afford.
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Former Australian coach Bob Simpson has slammed any rule changes that would allow Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan to continue bowling his controversial doosra.
Claiming that eight of the 10 Test-playing nations had bowlers with dubious actions, Simpson did not name names, but said anyone who thought the occasional illegal delivery should be overlooked was "ill-informed and has no interest in . . . the future of the game".
"In that case, instead of bowlers, let's just have pitchers and get on with it," he said. "If we allow rule changes to be made to push a problem into the corner - and that's what's happening right now - I'd be totally opposed. I think anyone who suggests this sort of thing, including Steve Waugh, is way off base."
Last month, Waugh said he hoped Murali would be cleared of throwing and suggested the current law, which allows a spinner to straighten his arm by five degrees and a fast bowler by 10, was too difficult to impose.
Simpson told Wisden Cricinfo the process had become too complicated. "People said, 'Aw, if we no-ball him for throwing, we'll destroy his career.' Well, if he doesn't obey the laws of the game, he shouldn't have a career," he said.
"The problem is huge. In the last two years, I believe I have seen bowlers whose actions weren't good and should have been examined in eight out of the 10 Test-playing countries."
The Hindu newspaper in India has published snippets of the University of Western Australia report into Murali's action, revealing he straightened his arm by up to 14 degrees in his wrong 'un before remedial work.
Former Victorian fast bowler David Saker was appointed the Bushrangers' assistant coach yesterday. Saker made his debut for Victoria in 1994-95 and played 49 matches for the state.


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A.Y. Jackson, LL.D, R.C.A., O.S.A. (1882-1974)
Gaspé Coast
, c. 1935
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Gaspé Coast
, c. 1935
Oil on panel 8 1/2" x 10 1/2"
signed, `A.Y. Jackson` (recto, lower left)
Sketch for Gaspé Landscape, oil on canvas, 25 x 32, Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario and reproduced in colour in The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson by David P. Silcox (162).
Continental Galleries of Fine Art, Montreal;
Private Collection, Great Britain;
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Private Collection, Toronto.
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This important painting by A.Y. Jackson, Gaspé Coast (c. 1935), is the sketch for an important and large canvas gifted to the Art Gallery of Ontario by J.S. McLean through one of his companies, Canada Packers.
McLean was an important businessman, collector, and philanthropist of his day. The canvas has been celebrated extensively, having been listed in the 1952 National Gallery McLean Collection Catalogue, the 1968 AGO McLean Collection Catalogue, and the 1999 AGO McLean Collection Catalogue. It is also illustrated in the 1982 AGO Canada Packers Catalogue. The canvas is also reproduced in The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson by David Silcox (168).
The gift to the AGO was made in 1990, the year before Canada Packers merged with Maple Leaf Mills to form Maple Leaf Foods and many decades after McLean`s death. Although exhibited on occasion, the painting presumably remained in the collection of Canada Packers until then.
As you will have noted on our website, Gaspé Coast (c. 1935) came through us once previously and it also bears the remnant of a label from Continental Galleries. Most recently it was in an important private collection in Toronto.
* Silcox, David. The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson. Richmond Hill, Ont.: Firefly Books, 2006.
A.Y. Jackson Remembered by Walter Klinkhoff
AY Jackson ends his memoirs, "A Painter's Country", with his move away from the famous Studio Building that
had built for the use of his artist friends in Toronto. He built a comfortable little house on a hill at Manotick, a few miles south of Ottawa, close to where his niece Geneva was living. That was 1955 and AY was 73 years old. His life's battles were won.
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It was soon after this move to Manotick that I started visiting him more regularly, although my visits were business and not social calls. I often needed information about the location or the approximate period of sketches or canvases. AY also signed for me sketches which particularly in the early days he had frequently neglected to sign. In those days he had almost total recall about his work. He knew where he painted, who had been with him, and very closely the year. He loved to see his early sketches and often asked to borrow them to paint a canvas from a sketch he had never "painted up". Of course, I always wanted to buy his sketches and arranged my appointments by telephone in such a way that I would see him right after his return from a sketching trip. Several other people competed with me in this endeavor and this caused AY to chuckle and recall the old days when he had in his studio everything he had ever painted and people were buying pictures of Highland cattle or Dutch pastures, but nothing Canadian.
A.Y. was at the time still a man of great energy and full of enthusiasm. Arriving early one day for an appointment and finding the house locked I sat down to wait and soon saw a man carrying two huge parcels up the hill at a tremendous pace. It looked a little like A.Y. but I said to myself that this must surely be a young man. It turned out to be A.Y. alright and when I told him why I had ruled out this possibility he said he was just a young fellow anyway. He had been shopping for groceries. He loved to paint, of course, and kept to his regular schedule of sketching trips and painting in the studio. It was obvious that he had to paint just as he had to breath. One soon realized the extraordinary qualities of character of the man. Invariably kind, he possessed subtle humor. He was generous in every action and every expression and he was uninterested in money for himself. He was above anything, never petty or mean; he was a personality of strength and charm, a gentleman, a truly great Canadian.
At Manotick, and later in his studio on MacLaren Street in Ottawa, he would have his new sketches sitting on the mantelpiece and would tell me how many I could have. Because of the considerable differences in our ages I always called him Dr. Jackson and he kept calling me Mr. Klinkhoff. After I had inspected and admired the sketches, of which there might be a dozen, he would say, "Well, Mr. Klinkhoff, I have reserved three for you". It would be quite useless to argue all one could say was "thank you very much". His price was very much too low, of course. At first it was $75. Later he would accept $100. Even in the late 50s the sketches and canvases did not command high prices and were not easy to sell. But also later when they were more accepted and when I was asking $300 and told him so, he would refuse to accept more money for himself. "Do what you like" he would say, "I wont accept more money from you than from others; my friends still only pay me $75!" He would keep on saying how he has enough money and does not want or need more.
About other artists he would never say anything unkind, except perhaps expressing wonder how people could want to dream up compositions in a studio rather than be inspired by nature and particularly the Canadian landscape. He could find several lifetimes inspiration there.
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was not a favorite of his, for reasons which he explains in his memoirs. Russell was President of the Royal Canadian Academy during the formative years of the Group of Seven. During the hanging of the Academy Exhibitions he would ask A.Y.: "Should I hand my painting in the center of this wall or the center of the other." A.Y. had his "skied" in some corner. In 1955, A.Y. chuckled about it.
A rival dealer in Montreal, also wanting sketches, of course, never seemed to quite understand A.Y.s motivations. He kept bringing up the question of making a contract and taking all the work. No-one could get the pictures cheaply and he would get much more money. A.Y. laughed. During the winter A.Y. would quite often paint canvases for me. These he found "work". The sketches were fun to paint. He felt he should give them away, not even take money for them!
I had been attending the climbing camps of the Alpine Club of Canada in the Rockies quite regularly in the summer and often met and climbed with Col. Pat Baird, a geography professor at McGill and head of the Canadian Arctic Institute. He was a keen and experienced mountain climber and we often shared a tent in the Rockies. His particular interest was Baffin Island which he had visited studying glaciers and where he had done some climbing. The mountains rise 6,000 ft. right from sea level, big mountains by any standard, good for rock climbing and there were first ascents to be made everywhere. British and Italian parties were climbing every summer and Pat wanted Canadians to make some of the first ascents. He wanted to lead a party under the auspices of the Alpine Club of Canada and wanted me to come. I must have mentioned this to A.Y. who immediately expressed an interest to be taken along. He wanted to paint on Baffin Island again and this would make it possible for him to do so from a base camp. I promised to try and make the arrangements.
When I spoke to A.Y. of my climbing in the Rockies he would always reminisce about his trips with Harris and about sleeping on boughs outdoors without a tent, sometimes in pouring rain. He recalled the heavy packs of panels and paint tubes they carried and the Park Ranger in the Tonquin Valley who did not invite them in out of the rain until he learned that Harris was also a Theosophist! A.Y. preferred painting in the foothills rather than getting too close to the mountains. "Jim" MacDonald had done it all and he (AY) could not do it as well, he said.
Pat Baird proceeded to organize the Baffin Island Expedition in 1965 and was delighted to take A.Y.. Young doctor Jim MacDougall was to be camp doctor and, as a talented amateur painter, he was thrilled to be able to share his tent with A.Y.. It was a disappointment to me that I could not join the Baffin Island Expedition. I had been spending my summers climbing in the Rockies for a good many years and this was the year I had promised to take my family on a tour of several European countries. My children were just the right ages to benefit from this experience and soon they would not want to travel with their parents anymore. I was later told that A.Y. was usually up first making the fire in the cook tent, sketching all day and often late into the Arctic night. Occasionally he would exhibit his sketches in his tent and allow members of the expedition to put their names on any they wished to buy for $75. This would pay for his air fare, he said. Before dispersing the sketches he wanted them to be exhibited as a group and asked me if I would have this show in my gallery. Needless to say, I was delighted and considered it an honour. The prestige of this show would amply repay me for the effort and expenses. A.Y. was most concerned about my having a show with nothing available for sale. He insisted on painting a number of small canvases which he would allow me to buy and this he hoped would compensate me. It was typical of the man who was, in fact, doing me a favour, to go even further to make quite certain that he was not taking advantage of anyone. Some of the canvases I later sold, while three of the nicest ones I kept to give one each to my children. After the show, we shipped the sketches to the members of the climbing party who had claimed them, suggesting that they send cheques to A.Y. for $75. After several months a few cheques had not been received. I asked A.Y. if I could send a reminder. "Forget it", he said. Geneva Jackson had accompanied her uncle to Baffin Island. Some years later Pat Baird and Geneva were married.
The Board of Trade in Toronto wanted a large canvas. I had shown A.Y. a sketch, which was of the Georgian Bay area and which he wanted to use for this canvas. I had sold the sketch but the owner agreed to lend it for the purpose I had explained to him. The canvas was at least 30" x 40" and it took A.Y. a long time to paint and he found the work very hard. Several times he mentioned that he would not attempt another canvas that size. The owner of the sketch became impatient and quite unreasonably troublesome. He wanted his sketch to be returned to him. In this predicament A.Y. painted another slightly larger sketch from the original which we returned to its owner. The day the canvas was packed by him and shipped, A.Y. suffered a stroke from which he never fully recovered. This must have been about 1969. Unable to look after himself, Bob McMichael arranged to have him live at Kleinburg which was probably the best solution. He had many old friends in Toronto and could live the rest of his days at the foundation which was built to perpetuate and honour the memory of the group of artists of which A.Y. had been not only one of the most talented founder members but also their most articulate spokesman. He died at Kleinburg in 1974.
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As many of you seem to have figured out, the Electric Brake was from a Jeep, there were a few other different inceptions of 'electric brakes', as in the Turbo Buick Powermaster, and the electric brake unit on the Ford T-bird SuperCoupes. You can see videos here where we covered both of those
Both of these units were used to try and work around the complete lack of vacuum that the two cars had because of the supercharging they came with.
No vacuum + vacuum booster = fast car with no brakes. So Bob at Power Brake Service developed what is now being called the Electric Brake in the mid to late 80's, because it seemed to solve the lack of vacuum problems that the muscle cars and hot rods we normally see have, because of their blowers and huge cams.
The advantage of being in business for 60 years is that your customers update you on how products worked out, and you can adapt to improve. After a while our customers were telling us that the electric motors would burn out faster than they would expect and the units would fail... after a while. Bendix stopped making the new units, and there was nobody making parts to rebuild it. No new units and no parts meant that it wasn't a viable option. The pressure switches, accumulators, and pumps were all prone to failure, and three sources of failure is not something that we would want to sell.
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I am making my mock and have been looking at who might be willing to trade up, and other various trades. As ravens fans how would u judge a trade up to the top pick to acquire mike williams? I was thinking that for your 1st in 2005 and 2006 for 1st over all is a decent trade that would bring in williams to make a difference. Please let me know if you agree with that at all.
With there First pick in the 2005 NFL Draft the Minnesota Vikings take Mike Williams, U.S.C.
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 9:50 pm
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I think we would have to give up A LOT moore than 2 late first rounders to get to nr 1 overall. The nr 1 spot is extremely valuable. Take a look at one of the many Draft Value Charts that you can find on the net and you'll get an idea how valuable the pick is (I'm not saying the niners will get exact value for their pick but it will be in that range).
So would i trade 2 first rounders for Mike Williams? yes i think so, if he looks good in workouts and haven't spent the last season eating potato chips and watching TV. But we would probably have to give up moore and that would be to much
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I'm not sure at the moment. Like Sweedishraven said, I need to see what kind of condition he's in first. That will also determine how far up we'd have to go, he might still be there in the early teens.
I'll tell you this much. I wouldn't support a trade for the number 1 pick overall, far too costly. But if Mike Williams is in the same condition as last April then I'd be happy if we drafted him from the 6th pick onwards.
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mic79e explained my thoughts exactly, first overall pick would be far to expensive, especially from the 22 spot. However, if he is in good condition and the ravens seem to like him, i wouldnt be bothered by a trade up into the 6-12 range.
By the way, thanks for asking our opinion and if you dont mind giving you a suggestion, if you decide not the have the ravens trade up, go against the grain and give us who you think is the best player available(Carlos Rogers, Justin Miller, Dan Cody, David Pollack, Jamal Brown, whoever you feel is the best player avaiavle). Thanks again and good luck with your mock!
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raven5255 wrote:
By the way, thanks for asking our opinion and if you dont mind giving you a suggestion, if you decide not the have the ravens trade up, go against the grain and give us who you think is the best player available(Carlos Rogers, Justin Miller, Dan Cody, David Pollack, Jamal Brown, whoever you feel is the best player avaiavle). Thanks again and good luck with your mock!
In addition to taking BPA (All of the above mentioned players), the Ravens would consider trading down from 22 for a late first and a second or two 2nd rounders. Only in one of these scenarios would Clayton or Williamson appear in Baltimore. With the extra picks we are looking for CB,OT and DE but are not restricted to these positions. Still look at BPA.
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i saw your guys others posts about how u hate eveone reaching and have them taking a wr, and i compleetly agree. I am from minnesota and go so sick of Denny streaching to take the best D line men avalible instead of the best player at a possiotion of need and geting demetrious underwoods in return. I would be intersted in what you guys think of all this randy moss stuff. I will say we should not trade him unless there is a trade that a team shouldnt offer us. I like the idea of trading down tho i use it in my mocks some beacuse people never do, they think that people will not like it if they trade out of a spot where there is no one worth the pick. Like in my old one i had the vikings trading out of round 1 becuase there was no one left that had value to the vikes.
With there First pick in the 2005 NFL Draft the Minnesota Vikings take Mike Williams, U.S.C.
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I would be intersted in what you guys think of all this randy moss stuff.
Check out these three topics in the Baltimore forum:
-- Randy Moss?
-- Possible WRs in the offseason
-- If...........
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Attaching a carport to vinyl siding - flashing?
I am looking into covering a concrete pad to make a carport on the side of my house. The carport will be relatively easy, however I'm not sure of the best way to attach it to the side of my house. It will be attaching to the side of my 2 story house that has board and batten vinyl siding. Is there a way to flash to vinyl siding, or would I have to remove the siding, put the flashing up then "J" channel around it? Most of my concrete slab is already poured (25x25), and it is poured all the way to my foundation (just 2 blocks high). So I have also thought about building my carport so is off of my house by maybe 6" to 1', which would allow the over hangs to overlap and may not look stupid with my slab extending just a little beyond my roof and just making a short 4' wide connector, to attached the carport to the house. I have attached a quick sketch, please give me some ideas.
Are those red lines the roof line of the house?
If so all the water running off of that roof will cause issues if you try and connect the carport to the house.
Is this going to be a stick built carport or one of those store bought metal ones?
Yes the red lines are shown to indicate a hip roof on that end of the house. It will be a stick built carport, or I may possibly build some metal trusses, but either way not store bought. The width of the house on that end is 14.5', and there will be some water coming off that end of the house dropping onto the carport.
Only good way I can see from your drawings is to change that hip roof to a gable roof and have it meet the siding on the carport. Then you could use step flashing.
I must not have been clear, the roof on the carport will be gable, the roof on the house is a hip roof. If I use step flashing would I have to remove my existing siding and put it under, then reinstall the siding, or is there a way to seal it to the outside of the siding. Also if I do seal anything to the outside of the siding, how would I account for the thermal expansion?
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[QUOTE=hosscat;1084611] If I use step flashing would I have to remove my existing siding and put it under, then reinstall the siding,/QUOTE]
That is the only correct way to do it.
Ok, so I am assuming that there is nothing that would seal to the outside of my siding which I kinda expected but wanted to ask. So if I persue the step flashing route, I would be better off building the carport detached and only attaching a small connector from the house to the carport. Do I need to cut the house wrap and put the flashing on the inside of that as well. The house is only 6 or 7 months old and I don't want to mess with more than I have to.
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Just remove all of the siding that's in the way of the carport, build it, roof it, then re-install the siding (you'll need some more J-channel). You'll have to carefully cut the corner post in place. be sure to install a kick out flashing when you begin the step flashing to divert water away from the house.
One other thing…In your first picture you show the ridge terminating into the corner of that window. That's always a bad detail, avoid it if you can.
I am fine with rain coming down between the house and the carport as long as I have a covered area to get inside. I will probably stick with the small connector, since we just finished building the house I don't want to mess with the siding any more than needed. Also top "peak" of the carport roof only appears to be at the corner of the window due to the scale, I have it figured to be about 8" away from the corner and 2" lower than the window corner. Which these sketches reflect a 3 car carport, but once I got my plans built enough to get a bill of materials, I may back up and build a 2 car carport with just extra concrete parking area which would change the location of the peak.
Thanks for the help.
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Daniel Ruggles
|Daniel Ruggles
Brig. Gen. Daniel Ruggles, CSA
January 31, 1810
Barre, Massachusetts
|June 1, 1897
(aged 87)
Fredericksburg, Virginia
|Place of burial
|Confederate Cemetery
Fredericksburg, Virginia
| United States of America
Confederate States of America
| United States Army
Confederate States Army
|Years of service
| Captain (USA)
Bvt. Lieutenant Colonel (USA)
Brigadier General (CSA)
|5th U.S. Infantry
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|District of Aquia
Ruggles' Brigade - Army of Pensacola
District of North Alabama
Ruggles' (1st) Division
1st District of Mississippi
Commissary General of Prisoners
|Second Seminole War
Mexican-American War
American Civil War
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- Battle of Mathias Point
- Battle of Shiloh
- Battle of Baton Rouge
Daniel Ruggles (January 31, 1810 – June 1, 1897) was a Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He is best remembered as a division commander at the Battle of Shiloh.
Early life and military service[edit]
Ruggles was born in Barre, Massachusetts, on January 31, 1810. In 1833 he graduated from the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York as 34th out of 43 cadets; among those George W. Cullum and Rufus King. He was appointed a brevet 2nd Lieutenant in the 5th U.S. Infantry Regiment and was posted in Wisconsin. He spent the next years in the Midwest with border duty and recruiting services. In 1839, by now a 1st Lieutenant, Ruggles participated in the war against the Seminoles in Florida. In 1840 he returned to the Canada–US border; and Ruggles stayed until 1845 when he took part in the occupation of Texas.[1]
Ruggles and the 5th Infantry, under command of Lt. Col. James S. McIntosh, were part of the 2nd Brigade under Col. David E. Twiggs. Participating in the Texas Campaign Ruggles fought in the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma; his solid services securing him a promotion to Captain on June 18, 1846. Doing recruiting services after the end of the campaign Ruggles and the 5th Infantry joined Gen. Winfield Scott's army for the Mexico City Campaign, fighting at Vera Cruz, San Antonio, Churubusco, Molino del Rey, Chapultepec and Mexico City. Ruggles was breveted for Gallant and Meritorious Conduct to Major after Churubusco and to Lieutenant Colonel after Chapultepec.[1]
After the war ended he was posted for frontier duty in Texas and the surrounding territories. Participating in the Utah Expedition in 1858 and 1859 Ruggles went on leave of absence for health reasons and stayed absent till the beginning of the American Civil War.[1]
Early Civil War[edit]
With the outbreak of the Civil War, Ruggles resigned his commission in the U.S. Army on May 7, 1861[2] Appointed a Brigadier General of Militia and Colonel in the Provisional Army of Virginia he was given command of the Aquia District in May 1861.[3] There Ruggles set up shore batteries to block the Chesapeake Bay. After exchanging fire with the Union Navy Ruggles' troops resisted a landing party and prevented a Union beachhead in the Battle of Mathias Point.
On August 9, 1861, he was promoted to Brigadier General and assigned command of a brigade in Gen. Braxton Bragg's Army of Pensacola in Florida, although he was a known abolitionist. Simultaneously commanding the District of Northern Alabama, Ruggle's brigade moved westwards into Mississippi with Bragg in February 1862. Ruggles now was assigned to command a division in Bragg's Corps in the Army of Mississippi. Under overall command of General Albert Sidney Johnston they marched northwards for the Shiloh Campaign.[3]
Battle of Shiloh[edit]
During the battle of Shiloh (Union name Pittsburg Landing) on April 6–7, 1862, Gen. Ruggles, on Sunday, April 6, saw repeated Confederate charges against the Union line known as "The Hornets Nest" fail. He sent word to his commanders to "Get every gun you can find." Subsequently, artillery was collected from every part of the field and lined up in a row of 62 cannons, now known as "Ruggles's Battery" (the biggest concentration of Artillery ever assembled in the history of North America up to that point), which hammered the Hornets Nest until the last Confederate charge broke the Union line at around 5:30 p.m., forcing it to surrender, 12 hours after the battle had started.
Late Civil War[edit]
He fought with General John C. Breckinridge, the former Vice President of the United States, in the 1862 campaign to regain control of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The combined Breckinridge-Ruggles forces were unable to regain the capital city.[4]
From August 15 to August 29, 1862 Ruggles was in command of the Port Hudson position on the Mississippi in Louisiana and supervised the planning and initial construction of fortifications in that region. On the 29th he was ordered by Breckinridge to move with some of his troops to the state of Mississippi.[5] For the rest of the war he performed mostly administrative duties and was named as the head of the prison system in 1865. He oversaw the final exchange of Union prisoners of war at the end of the conflict.
Later life[edit]
After the war, Ruggles was a real estate agent and a farmer in Virginia. He later served as a member of the West Point Board of Visitors.[2] He died in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1897; and rests there on the Confederate Cemetery.
See also[edit]
- Cullum, George W. (1891). Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the United States Military Academy, Volume 1 (3rd ed.). West Point, NY.
- Eicher, John H.; Eicher, David J. (2001), Civil War High Commands, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, ISBN 978-0-8047-3641-1
- Hewitt, Lawrence Lee (1987). Port Hudson, Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi. Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-1961-X.
- Sifakis, Stewart (1988), Who Was Who in the Civil War, New York: Facts On File, ISBN 978-0-8160-1055-4
- U.S. War Department; The War of the Rebellion : a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies.; Series I, Washington, D.C.; 1880-1898
- Warner, Ezra J. (1959), Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders, Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN 978-0-8071-0823-9
- John D. Winters, The Civil War in Louisiana, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1963, ISBN 0-8071-0834-0
External links[edit]
- "Daniel Ruggles". Find a Grave. Retrieved 2008-02-13.
- Daniel Ruggles in Cullum's Register online on Bill Thayer's Web
- Daniel Ruggles University of Southern Mississippi Archives
- Early Suggestion to Arm Negroes for the Confederacy
- 1831 births
- 1897 deaths
- Confederate States Army brigadier generals
- American military personnel of the Mexican–American War
- Northern-born Confederates
- People from Barre, Massachusetts
- American people of the Seminole Wars
- United States Army officers
- People from Fredericksburg, Virginia
- People of Virginia in the American Civil War
- United States Military Academy alumni


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I feel like an idiot for having to ask this but I need the answer. I have 4 buttons (decorative only) to sew onto a felted bag and I want it to look neat on the inside which will be visible. Since the buttons I sew on anything else are far from neat I'm wondering about how others do it.
First- what kind of button? Is it the kind with one hole behind it in a shank, is it two holes through the front, or four holes through the front?
If it is a shank button, just carefully stick your needle through at the same spots every time you go in and out of your fabric. You want enough thread wrapped through so that it's sturdy, but going overboard with stitching makes it look sloppy. You can't avoid tying a knot, but make it as close to the stitching as possible. I tie three square knots on top of each other (they look like one knot).
If it has two holes, making a shank will hold the stitching against the inside of the bag, which will be neater. How to make a shank: attach the button to the bag as you would usually do, BUT don't pull it tight against the fabric, leave about a quarter inch of space between the outside of the bag and the button (it will look like it's dangling and that's good). Push the needle and thread from inside the bag to the outside, but don't go through the button, instead wrap the thread around the loops beneath the button a few times. This makes the shank which is like a stem for the button. Push the needle back down through the inside of the stem (that's important or it won't look right) and fasten off on the inside of the bag. One bonus to a shank- your material won't pucker when you close the button, because it's not pulling on the fabric.
If you have a four hole button-the only instruction I have to add to the two hole button directions is this- decide whether you will sew the button in an cross or parallell lines-- X or ll --then stick with that shape so that it will be neat.
If this seems confusing, I recommend "Sewing for Dummies" or "Everything Sewing" in order to see pictures. Or you could google "sew a button" and see what you get. Good luck!
Thanks for the info. I do know how to sew on a button and I think there's little danger that felted wool is going to pucker. The one piece of information that I wanted was how to keep the thread on the inside of the bag - which will be visible - from showing. I guess I'll just try one and see how much the knot blends with the felted wool.
Maybe I can help a little. My name is Karen and I am brand new to this forum. However I have been sewing for almost 50 years.You might want to use a trick we use with coat buttons. Place a small flat button, the same color as the bag on the inside --i.e. behind the decorative button... Sew them both on at the same time and then hide the final knot behind the button. If you keep the thread pattern neat in the small button, folks will think you are really good at what you do!
Good Luck
Karen W.
Do we get to see your bag?
Thanks, Karen. I wish I had thought of that before I went ahead and sewed the buttons on. The bag is for an auction and I took it in today. Normally I would have time to "fix" it but I'm also chairing the auction and wearing more hats than I care to count so I'll just hope it's OK. Actually it looks pretty good...the felted wool covers a lot of sins.
kewsew's button trick sounds cool. Good Luck with the bag at your auction. I'm sure it looks great!
What a great idea, kewsew! I'm going to use that from now on.
hmm, that reply made me feel really good... :rollseyes:


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Oracle took baby steps toward OpenStack earlier this year but now it's going all in.
The company announced this morning a long list of new OpenStack integrations. Oracle said it plans to integrate "OpenStack cloud management components" into Solaris, Oracle Linux, Oracle VM, Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, its IaaS, Oracle ZS3 Series, Axiom storage and StorageTek products. It's also planning to make its storage cloud service compatible with OpenStack.
"This integration is intended to enable customers to use OpenStack to manage Oracle technology-based clouds, taking full advantage of the stability, efficiency, performance, scalability and security of these Oracle products," Oracle wrote in its release.
Oracle joins other big traditional enterprise vendors like HP, IBM and Red Hat in supporting OpenStack.
Jumping on board at this stage, when OpenStack is far from mature but has been backed by the other big names for some time now, makes me wonder about Oracle's motivation. There's been lots of talk recently about OpenStack's struggle to entice the enterprise market, so it seems unlikely that Oracle's customers are demanding that it support OpenStack.
More likely is that Oracle is still struggling, along with its peers, to try to take advantage of the shift to the cloud. Or at least it knows it has to capitalize on the cloud or it's going to lose market share. Oracle databases aren't exactly synonymous with cloud so the company has some work to do to position itself as a software provider to consider among cloud users.
However, Solaris customers in particular might be interested in this move, said Michael Cote, analyst at 451 Research. "If Oracle can bring OpenStack into the Solaris world, it could help those customers out," he said. A more cloud-oriented Solaris could be attractive to Solaris fans, he said.
Oracle dipped its toe into the OpenStack world earlier this year when it announced that it would integrate OpenStack with Nimbula, its cloud software, as well as Exaclogic, its server hardware. At the time, I noted that Oracle hardware and software tends to be on the expensive end of the spectrum -- not typically what people reach for when building clouds. Yet, there are surely plenty of enterprises that are married to Oracle software and would be happy to stick with it. Making Oracle products more cloud-ready could help these enterprises move to the cloud.
Enterprises are increasingly interested in building private clouds and so it makes sense that Oracle would make moves to help them do so, Cote said. While enterprises are price sensitive, many also want to be able to build clouds without having to dramatically staff up. If Oracle can package its hardware and software – some of which customers are already familiar with – into a reliable cloud-ready package, it's sure to appeal to those customers, Cote said.
He also pointed out that it's worth noting the exact wording that Oracle used in its announcement. It says Oracle is building in OpenStack "compatibility." That implies Oracle will retain a healthy layer of proprietary technology which it will use to differentiate its offering and explain the premium it charges.
It will be interesting to see how much Oracle contributes back to the OpenStack community. So far, at least according to the Stackalytics data on OpenStack contributors, Oracle doesn't show up at all as a contributor to the open source effort.
Oracle has a mixed track record in the open source world, so it remains to be seen what kind of reputation it will have in the OpenStack world, Cote said.
I expect to talk to a few people today for more opinions on this new entrant to the market and will update accordingly.
UPDATE: This story has been updated throughout to add comments from Michael Cote.
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Video: First successful experiment in "mind control"?
posted at 3:52 pm on August 29, 2013 by Ed Morrissey
Perhaps. Some people like to claim that McDonalds already does this with children through Happy Meals, but at least this took place in a true scientific research environment. As ABC News reports, this could have real practical application for those who have spinal-cord injuries:
It may seem like science fiction or a nifty party trick, but two researchers say they were able to conduct a successful "mind control" experiment at the University of Washington.
They touted their work earlier this month as the first "non-invasive human-to-human brain interface," which basically means one researcher was able to move his partner's hand with only his mind and a lot of electrodes.
Experts believe the technology could someday help people with paralysis walk again or help people with prosthetics move their prosthetic limbs through their thoughts.
During the experiment, Rajesh Rao, a professor of computer science at the University of Washington, watched a video game and imagined moving his right hand to "fire" missiles in the game.
I think that we'll advance faster on adult stem cells to replace amputated limbs and fix spinal-cord injuries than we will on this front, but it's fascinating nonetheless.


text: A perennial question in the configuration management field is how to control databases. Databases are too big and too complex to be managed as simple objects. They have a very expressive language: SQL. This is used to describe their structure, content, and changes. A newer issue is how to do enterprise CM. Although some tool vendors have attempted to provide support for large-scale systems, full support for complex enterprise systems is still lacking.