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Rivera: Obama Should Tell American Imams To "Begin Preaching American Patriotism"
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GERALDO RIVERA: I would like the President of the United States to say to Muslim Americans, you are our fellow citizens, we adore you. You are part of the American mosaic. We incorporate you. We extol the virtue of your wonderful religion. But I ask -- me speaking again as the president -- you Imams in the various mosques around the country, to begin preaching American patriotism. Begin spotting these troubled youngsters, disabusing them of the notion that their first loyalty is to jihad or extreme Islam. I think that we now have to recognize that this is an urgent situation. Not merely the military situation in Iraq and Syria, as critical as that is. But right here at home and in Great Britain and in other countries where there has been a tremendous diaspora of the Muslim population, they are everywhere. We love them. They are business leaders, they are drivers, they are teachers, they are scholars. But there must be now a commitment by American Muslims, as encouraged by the President of the United States, to be American first, and to let the kids know that to be a jihadist is a dead end street.
BRIAN KILMEADE: I hate to tell you, don't hold your breath, because we've been trying to do that, and this president has been a very good friend to the Muslims. He actually just celebrated Ramadan again. So if they're not getting the message yet, I think we've had it.
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Problem with Pergo
A couple of weeks ago, I installed pergo presto flooring in my kitchen and it looked great. Now after I finished getting the baseboards on some of the seams on the short sides of the panels are separating to a gap that I can put my fingernail in. Is there anyway to bring them back together? This is very frustrating....
Thanks for any help,
I install primarily Pergo products and have never experienced anything such as you are describing.
It sounds like shrinkage. Did you allow the panels to acclimate? Are the sides anchored?
Pergo presto is the most affordable in their line.
It needs all the help it can get with acclimation and humidity control.
What is the humidity at and is it kept constant?
P.S. What does Home Depot have to say about all this?
I need to go to HD still.
I am from Portland originaly, and I know how wet Seattle gets. But it can get dry too. You would be amazed at how constant the humidity must be for the lower end lams to perform well.
A small humidity detector will pay off in finding out your problem.
I'm in FL. Humidity can go from 100% to 50% and have never seen a problem as you describe. I'd be curious as to HD's response.
I've learned to deal with expansion problems but have yet to handle one dealing with contraction.
I have the same problem
Dave ... I have the same problem except that the gaps will appear at random places anywhere in the floor. I install 800 square feet at a cost of over $2800. I got the product at Home Depot. It is the Golden Oak Presto with the most expensive pad underneath that they had ... blue foam. In addition I am having problems with the corners chipping. The laminate chips off. Always on the end or corner about an 1/8 inch in size. Needless to say, I am not happy. The floor is 14 months old.
I am remodeling another home to be used as a rental unit. I went to a local Carpet store ( Max Pie's) in Williamsville, New York for the carpet and tile. In talking with the salesman (I noticed they have Pergo as well) he told me that Home Depot sells an inferior product to that sold by flooring stores. Now, I dont know if this is true or not .. but if true ..... Home Depot is gonna have a big problem from me.
I dont know what to do at this point. Several of the end seams that openned up were in line with a doorway ... I was able to remove the threshold and use the tool to hammer on the end and close the gap.
I spent a lot of money for what I thought was a quality product ... anyone have any ideas????
Dave Stark
I would assume you payed very little compared to other lams on the market.
Other than replace with a better product, there is not much you can do to make the product better.
Area rugs to cover I guess.
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Hi Sail Netters,
having read "far to many" threads (recently), comments, stories and documents... over the last 30 years that involved so many people asking questions and wanting answers to antifouling and painting questions i think i can offer some technical / applicator and "layman" views on your issues.
My history, without trying to sound like a "smart arse" has been involved with major marine coatings organistions in the development, testing, manufacture and application of marine coatings. (now Semi - retired
I have also worked with a lot of organisations with regard to developing fast coatings for race yachts, power boats, large commercial ships and hi speed power boats.
I have noticed there is a lot of people confused about what is best for differing boats in differing situations! and a lot of confusion regarding how antifouls work / do not work.
there seems to be some good people with some helpful information on this site (and others) but there is also alot of "misinformation" being spread around (which is probably why some boaties have continueing poor or confusing results, with thier bottom paint inparticular.
If you want the facts and some technical feedback i am willing to help.
But remember the first port of call is with the supplier or makers of the product! especially if the product has failed to perform to specification within a "reasonable time period" .
These guys know thier product best and generally will sort your issue out (if you are honest with them) but remember there are many good professionl applicators who are only to willing to help out and give a second opinion.
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____ I had a previous diagnosis of goiters/nodules
____ I currently have a goiter
____ I was treated for hypothyroidism in the past
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Transmission Temp
I have noticed that the trans temp on my new 2014 runs 190 to 200 after fully warmed up (15 or more miles of driving). This is 20 or 30 degrees warmer that my 2012 ran. I think it is due to the heat exchanger the new trans has to make it more efficient. I have 2 questions. What trans fluid temps are others seeing? I also have to wonder because this is a fill for life trans what kind of fluid is this? I have always understood that the warmer the fluid runs the quicker it breaks down.
Re: Transmission Temp
I don't remember the numbers, but it runs right about midpoint on the gauge. That is usually the sweet spot if the right gauges are used.
I confess that knowing the number would do me no good since I don't know what it should be. I think this is my first vehicle that shows this.
Padgot had the same thing when he got his jeep as well, might want to ask him. I don't it was ever a problem though
Re: Transmission Temp
Re: Transmission Temp
My previous 2012 Overland V8 trans temp was usually about 160. But my 2014 Summit V8 runs about 210. Quite a difference. It wouldn't surprise me if both readings were inaccurate.
I notice on my 2014, even when it sits in the garage all night and the garage temp at first startup is 60 degrees, the ENGINE OIL temp never goes below 122 degrees. Why is that?
Re: Transmission Temp
Re: Transmission Temp
My '12 has always seemed strange - when the coolant is at 200F, the oil will be around 185F and the trans (5 speed) 170F. Even on a hot day.
To me this seems backwards though a lockup trans will not run as warm as one with just a TQ but particularly since the oil is cooled by the coolant.
Guage is one div under 1/2 at everything from 180 to 210. Midpoint seems to be 220 which is TDH.
Cannot the '14 dash display all of the engine parameters that a '12 does ? If not you need a OBD reader.
Re: Transmission Temp
Re: Transmission Temp
I'm sure at least one person around here has or will calculate the optimum temperature for every component in the car. Nice hobby, but in day to day driving it's pretty useless information.
Re: Transmission Temp
My steady-state operating temp seems to be 90-92 C.
Re: Transmission Temp
I have seen my trans temp range from 180 - 205 when fully warm. The trans gets hottest when sitting in traffic then cools quickly down to the 180 range when I start moving.
Re: Transmission Temp
I have been known to keep cars I like for decades & do not plan to change. One of the secrets to making everything under the hood last longer and the a/c work better is running the engine on the low side of "normal".
When the thermostat is a 195 that means keeping it under 200F (actually I prefer to run computer cars in the 180F-190F range & have never set a code).
My turbo-diesel RV is critical to temperature particularly EGT since it is tiny and has an aluminum head. It will produce amazing amounts of power for a short time but keep the boost above 9 psi for a long time and it will overheat. Diesels are like horses, they will keep giving the max until they fall over. Gas engines usually give warning if the driver listens.
All of my vehicles have full instrumentation, maybe have spent too much time around aircraft or due to the Jags of my yout. I no longer require an oil pressure guage though.
I do keep a minimal screen up in my heep and with a swipe can have 17 parameters up (I like tablets) but digital coolant temp, ave & inst MPG, volts, clock, tach, & speedo are enough for just running around since I cannot read the factory instruments on a bright day with sunglasses on.
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klswoot wrote:Robert...I'm late...
nothing salacious or humorous, i just thought it was interesting.
no1 wrote:i thought charter membership qualification is by when you made your first purchase, not by original join date. I haven't seen when the 5000th charter member bought their first item.
ncdave wrote:That would be me, #5000. On 9/17/2004 I bought a Microsoft MN-700 Wireless 802.11g 4 Port Router. :-)
Schrobblehead wrote:disks of acid on brain dead frogs
perhaps not a band name, but a CD title.
September 17 is my birthday.
Volunteer Moderator
eHalcyon wrote:September 17 is my birthday.
How old?
dontwantaname wrote:How old?
I'm turning 20 next month.
eHalcyon wrote:I'm turning 20 next month.
Don't tell her THAT! She'll lure you to NY and lock you in her basement.
dontwantaname wrote:That is tiny. I liked the big the best.
Schrobblehead wrote:Don't tell her THAT! She'll lure you to NY and lock you in her basement.
how would he get past the border patrol?
Josephus wrote:Once you have her trapped, it is simply a matter of putting ...to her
no1 wrote:josephus probably...burns chinchillas alive.
PemberDucky wrote:I'm sure a nubile...like yours could be used for so many more important things.
Schrobblehead wrote:exacerbated by a boston terrier named Duncan who decided he had to....on my legs all day.
no1 wrote:i'm a twelve year old girl looking for companionship with an older man.
SailorButterfly wrote:
ahaha...a MONTAGE!
pooflady wrote:Nooooooooooooooooooooooo
Edit: Okay again.
put that $%$#^ in my %&$^?
Edit: Nooooooooooo. What's going on? It comes and goes.
Schrobblehead wrote:I've always... seemed a bit feminine.
dontwantaname wrote:
I have monkeys.
I have a camera.
Even hubby is now saying, you should have brought a monkey. He still pretends he isn't with me when I do.
kenney9226 wrote:I'm free...To...Come on...my grandaddy...Any old time
cruzer wrote:WOOHOO! get off an hour early today. doing happy dance.
heard around mr. clinton's office?
SkekTek wrote:I'm not entering until later today... wife is doing bill
no1 wrote: oddly enough, it worked about 95% of the time.... mrs. 1 liked to call me "...hung"
nothing to see here, just time for a digest post.
pooflady wrote:Husband and I have both discovered that the day after we **** ... we're both blah. Evidently as you get older, it takes a while to recover.
AZGman wrote:Yeah . . . ****ing ... can be exhausting.
zea3 wrote:Sometimes you need an enema ... !
pooflady wrote:Every once in a while you get a freebie. And it feels good.
FenStar wrote:Well, the problem is getting the wood ...
KtCallista wrote:Find an older lady (try a local church) ... you might get lucky...
dontwantaname wrote:Well, a smack is as good as a yes!
dontwantaname wrote:Is his **** that big, or is it just the angle?
terrimeyers wrote: look at the size of the feet.
dontwantaname wrote:You make me feel like a natural women.
no1 wrote:You're welcome.
LightningDeals wrote:Now I'm hungry.
...What should I eat...?
sisterC wrote:my family
my furries
Josephus wrote:I'm hoping for a 3 way...
no1 wrote:I think if it was smaller it might get lost.
no1 wrote:that's what she said. sigh.
SkekTek wrote:I love the other thread.
Josephus wrote:I'm hoping for a 3 way...
and the tooth fairy is gonna leave a million dollars under my pillow
Raining wrote:Josephus wrote:I'm hoping for a 3 way...
and the tooth fairy is gonna leave a million dollars under my pillow
Am not!
That money is mine, biotch!!
no1 wrote:I like 'em crunchy on the outside with a juicy, chewy center.
dontwantaname wrote:he beat me
ms. name, perhaps you should consider calling the authorities.
JoeDeeDee wrote:oooo, that's scary when you start thinking like no1.
superspryte wrote:Your mouth did nothing ^_~
pooflady wrote:I'm confused about "its own juice."
no1 wrote:ms. name, perhaps you should consider calling the authorities.
It was you, you fool!
dontwantaname wrote:It was you, you fool!
... yes ... and?
no1 wrote:... yes ... and?
OK, give me your address, so I know where to send them.
dontwantaname wrote:OK, give me your address, so I know where to send them.
Las Vegas, NV. Ask for Tony.
no1 wrote:i like how i gots ants cummin' out o' my 'gina!
no1 wrote:Las Vegas, NV. Ask for Tony.
I totally work for that guy! Great benefits! Here's a random quote!
SkekTek wrote:
but I just can't see putting it in my mouth.
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Take a stroll anywhere on the East Baltimore campus
and the last thought likely to cross your mind is fear
of being mugged. Day or night, physicians and staff
keep their appointed rounds without once looking over
their shoulders. It wasn't always so.
Like many of the nation's top medical centers
(think Yale and Penn), Johns Hopkins is located in
the inner city. With that location comes an excitingly
diverse patient population and also a few challenges
that invariably weave themselves into the fabric of
urban life.
In 1994, when Joe Coppola signed on as chief security
guru for Johns Hopkins Medicine, he inherited a set-up
he calls a mish-mash, technology that amounted to
little more than "two cans and a string," and
a record of on-campus crime that included more than
700 thefts and 20 robberies the previous year alone.
About the only thing that didn't surprise the
24-year Secret Service veteran was that prospective
employees and medical residents were thinking twice
before agreeing to spend most of their waking hours
But from his rented desk and chair, Coppola hired
four directors (one each for University and Hospital
buildings, one for external security and one for support
services) and recruited protective service officers
willing to undergo his spit-and-polish training program
that combines psychological testing, customer service
and defense tactics.
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to budge from the $10 million he started with, Coppola
oversees a 24/7 operation that employs 534 full-time
officers who protect the entire Health System. Directors
enjoy a hawk's view of the campus courtesy of
144 computer-linked cameras. And since 9/11, four officers
trained as a special response unit are the designated
first responders in the event of a biological or chemical
Coppola's measures—now emulated by other
urban academic medical centers— have paid off.
Violent crime incidents now total zero, and campus thefts
have plummeted. Furthermore, during interviews held
in preparation for the site visit of the Accreditation
Council on Graduate Medical Education, staff all described
security as spectacular.
But Coppola is also adamant about investing in the
community: Woven into his grand security tapestry are
a crime-stoppers tip hotline for neighborhood residents,
funding for a clergy-run crime prevention group, and
daily communication with city, state and federal law
enforcement agencies. "If there's one message
Johns Hopkins must send," he says, "it's
that we're not here to build a moat."
Lindsay Roylance
Something the Lord Made airs nationally May 30 at
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with rethinking what Hopkins' 800 residents and 1,200
fellows should get out of the years they spend here.
"This is an opportunity to again lead the way in producing
innovative approaches to education and training that
will set examples for other institutions around the
country and around the world," says Flexner, 47, an
associate professor of medicine and pharmacology and
molecular sciences. "It's an attitude that I think
defines Hopkins, defines who we are."
But why mess with success?
According to Flexner—the 2000 winner of the Professors'
Award for Excellence in Teaching, which annually honors
faculty members judged to have a profound effect on
School of Medicine students—the reasons lie in how
medical practice itself has changed. Imaging technology,
for example, may have made it possible to bring any
part of the body into extraordinary focus, but interpreting
all that information is daunting. Stringent regulations
mean physicians today spend hours documenting every
detail of treatment and complying with new privacy
rules. Even more important, last year's strict new
limits on residents' workweeks are pushing once-effective
teaching methods into obsolescence.
To get its hands around these and other challenges,
Flexner's 18-member Task Force on Competencies and
Curricula started work in September focused on the "core
competencies" set by the Accreditation Council on Graduate
Medical Education—medical knowledge, patient care,
communication skills, professionalism, practice-based
learning, and the health care system in general. The
group will assess clinical training at Hopkins and
recommend ways to improve, bearing in mind, says Flexner,
two questions: "What should the physician of the 21st
century and beyond look like? And what's the best way
to produce the model physician?"
But, noting that his great-great uncle raised more
than $500 million to carry out the reforms he advocated
(and that was a century ago), Flexner is convinced
that inventing better mousetraps will be the easy part. "Abraham's
real contribution to medical education—and he stated
this repeatedly—wasn't so much writing the report," his
descendant makes clear, "but going out and identifying
the sources of funding to implement it."
Ever since it opened 10 years ago, Johns Hopkins at
Green Spring Station has been on a roll. What started
as a relatively small enterprise, with several dozen
physicians based in one pavilion, rapidly attracted
more practices and support services. Today, an entire
second pavilion later, the organization's first
outpatient center in Baltimore County's upscale
suburbs has more than 235 part-time and full-time faculty
physicians who treat some 300,000 patients each year.
That translates into no less than $100 million worth
of business for Johns Hopkins Medicine.
The next move, not surprisingly, is to expand. But
for five years, Hopkins, the community and at least
three developers have been locked in a legal battle,
vying for the rights to further develop Green Spring.
"We were already concerned about this complex
40 years ago, when Green Spring was still a place for
pony rides and ice cream," says Jack Dillon, executive
director of the Valleys Planning Council, an influential
land preservation group in the area. "Green Spring
is at the edge of an urban/rural area. Traffic is heavy,
and overdeveloping could bring in additional congestion."
Still, he adds, "if they come up with a plan that
is architecturally pleasing, the community would rather
have Hopkins there than anyone else."
What Hopkins wants is to build a three-story, 50,000-square-foot
edifice surrounded by surface parking where a racquet
club now stands. It would house a multispecialty surgery
center, a state-of-the-art imaging suite and physician
offices. A fitness center and several shops would serve
not only patients but also the community at large.
What's certain is that no one will have to bend
over backwards to attract doctors to Green Spring. "This
is a wonderful setting for practicing medicine,"
says Paul Auwaerter, an internist on the full-time faculty
who leads a practice of six physicians. "We have
more control in our little office than we would downtown,
and we've had no employee turnover."
Anne Bennett Swingle
At any one time, some 250 clinical trials are operating
within the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.
But until this year, if you'd asked anyone how
to find all the Hopkins studies on, say, pancreatic
cancer, you'd probably get little more than a
blank stare because no one had ever pulled the information
Now, thanks to an easy-to-navigate online database,
anyone can home in on specific cancer trials being conducted
throughout Hopkins, searching by cancer type, keyword
or protocol number and turning up an overview of each
study's eligibility criteria and other details.
Furthermore, a cancer information specialist is available
to answer patients' questions and help them find
the right study. To check out the database, go to www.hopkinskimmelcancercenter
and click on "Clinical Trials."
Patrick Gilbert
For the 14th straight year, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
not only leads U.S. News & World Report's
annual honor roll of American hospitals, it's
in the top 10 in 16 of the 17 specialty categories listed,
ranking #1 in gynecology, otolaryngology and urology;
#2 in geriatrics, kidney disease, neurology/neurosurgery,
ophthalmology and rheumatology; #3 in cancer, digestive
disorders, hormonal disorders, pediatrics, psychiatry
and respiratory disorders; #4 in heart/heart surgery
and orthopedics; and #13 in rehabilitation.
Hopkins' research prowess also took center stage
when it again headed the list of 121 medical schools
in National Institutes of Health funding. The School
of Medicine received 967 awards totaling more than $414
million. Washington University in St. Louis was second
with 775 awards worth more than $368 million.
Mary Ann Ayd
Over the past 10 years, half of the M.D.'s and Ph.D.'s
Hopkins has handed out have gone to women. Women also
make up 40 percent of assistant professors. Inevitably,
however, the number advancing further in rank drops off
dramatically. Why are these young faculty leaving?
"Our institution is known for getting the brightest
young faculty," says Dean/CEO Ed Miller, "but
we haven't always done a great job finding out
why they often don't make it past the assistant
professor level."
An employee satisfaction survey, rolled out by the
institution three years ago, never jelled with the faculty,
who felt the questions lacked relevance to their problems
or contentment. So this year, the Committee on Faculty
Development and Gender conducted a faculty survey to
find the underlying causes that impede the progress
of women and minorities. It grew out of a request to
re-examine the status of women faculty that periodically
goes out from the University provost's office
to each of the schools. But Miller's administration
decided to take a broader view by placing women's
issues in an all-embracing category of faculty development.
"We're going to compare responses by gender,"
says biophysicist Cynthia Wolberger, committee co-chair
along with Neurology Director Jack Griffin, "and
then get an overall snapshot of faculty development
issues relevant to both men and women. We know there's
a leaky pipeline, and now we have to find out how to
repair it."
In preparing the survey, the committee focused on
such factors as career satisfaction, advancement opportunities,
mentoring, empowerment, resources, quality of life and
retention. Results, due this fall, are being reported
in the aggregate to protect individual respondents'
One of the trickle-down effects of the 80-hour workweek
for residents is that their concerns have grabbed the
attention of Hopkins administrators like never before.
No longer is compressed time for education taken up
with, say, tracking down X-rays. Even complaints about
the scarcity of after-hours meals are being taken seriously.
"It's not as though nothing ever had been
done before," says Julia McMillan, associate dean
for graduate medical education and a professor of pediatrics.
"There was certainly a mechanism for individual
program directors to hear their own residents'
concerns, but it was catch as catch can. Now, we not
only have a better system for detecting problems, but
a receptive ear on the part of Hospital administration."
According to Michael Awad, House Staff Council president,
the Hospital's radiology system topped the residents'
complaint list. "It's not unheard of for
several hours a day to be spent [by residents] tracking
down films," says the surgery resident. "It's
the bane of the existence of many house staff and it's
a big time drain." Trying to locate a film—in
radiology, a private office, the clinic, the OR—is
just one issue. "Another problem," says
Awad, "is that if a single person has a film,
no one else can look at it."
The Hospital has adopted numerous fixes, but the revolutionary
change arrived with a system called PACs, in which film
images are digitized and can be retrieved on a computer
anywhere in the Hospital. It's now running in
such areas as ultrasound, MRI, CT, the emergency departments
and intensive care units, and will be available next
year in the ORs and interventional radiology.
Even the residents' concerns about food service
are getting attention: EspressOasis, near the cafeteria,
now is open 24/7, and if that doesn't suit, the
Hospital has three alternative plans waiting in the
"The house staff not knowing who to go to or
how to have their concerns addressed was part of the
problem," says McMillan. "One of the very
good things that's happened because of all this
is better dialogue."
Mary Ellen Miller
When Frank Frassica agreed to head the search for a
new director of physical medicine and rehabilitation,
he went about the usual business of picking committee
members and looking for a consultant to advise them.
Then he got a call from Vice Dean for Faculty Janice
"She pointed out that my committee lacked diversity,"
recalls the director of orthopedic surgery. "I'd
chosen all white males. I didn't do that intentionally,
it was just that I'd looked to people who were
in my comfort zone. Then it hit me: Hopkins Medicine
has made diversity a priority, but if we start with
a committee and consultant who aren't diverse,
how do we expect the outcome to match that expectation?"
Department directors traditionally have been selected
based on their research, but that thinking has shifted,
fueled in part by such issues as promotion criteria,
improving mentorship, and challenges faced by women
and minority faculty. So late last year, Dean/CEO Ed
Miller asked his deans to come up with ways to improve
the search process. Among the recommended changes:
Frassica says adding diversity to all elements of
the search process doesn't mean a white male will
never be chosen, and Miller cautions that changing the
makeup of department directors won't happen overnight.
"But these changes," he says, "are
a great first step."
undergoing cystoscopic examinations were identified
instead as allergic reactions to the disinfectant used
to clean the scopes. Diane Iverson began worrying when
several of her patients experienced such symptoms as
shortness of breath, hives and plummeting blood pressure.
With the help of another nurse, she systematically narrowed
the culprit to the cleaning solution, and in April after
reviewing similar complaints from elsewhere, Johnson
& Johnson issued a warning for its disinfectant.
"Diane took this problem personally," says
Walsh, "and she was not going to let it go away."
Lindsay Roylance
Q. You can't pick up a newspaper without
reading about medical mistakes, and Johns Hopkins hasn't
been immune.
A. Believe me, I wake up at night thinking of ways to
make things safer.
Q. What are you doing to ramp up safety in pediatric
A. One of our best moves is a computerized chemotherapy
system to use in giving these drugs to children with cancer
that anticipates errors and rechecks every calculation—there's
only one other like it in the country. Chemotherapy orders
can only be written through this system. And the system,
not people, computes the drug doses and then double-checks
them against the patient's height and weight. Also,
two pharmacists, two nurses and two physicians must agree,
independently, on every order.
Q. Since a computer is only as good as the data in it,
how do you know the system is working with accurate information?
A. We've been building our medical records team,
including hiring new staff, to make sure that every bit
of data gets into the records. If we have a patient in
a clinical trial, for example, and there's a new
finding, it goes right into the system. That way, clinicians
have all the information they need to make treatment decisions.
Q. What if someone still thinks something isn't
A. Anyone anywhere along the way can stop the train.
If a patient, parent, secretary, physician has a question
or concern, everything stops until it's reconciled.
If a secretary is entering a doctor's note and
it doesn't make sense or records are missing,
that person can stop the process until the issue is
resolved. The climate of not questioning the doctor
is gone.


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Where is the fuel filter?
I'm stumped - looked every where under the bonnet on our CRD and can't see what I am expecting to see - a screw on canister that looks like a fuel filter.
Where should I look?
Re: Where is the fuel filter?
1 Attachment(s)
The fuel filter/water separator housing is located on the left side of the vehicle in front of the fuel tank.
See attached PDF file.
EDIT: PDF file has been updated to add corrected and expanded information.
Re: Where is the fuel filter?
What a marathon to change a fuel filter.
I have had blocked filters on the road from bad fuel (diesel) off mine sites.
Would not like to change one of these on the side of the road.
Re: Where is the fuel filter?
Here in Australia when you travel "outback" a spare filter is a necessity (well in my opinion and experience anyway) due to the possibility of a tankful of contaminated fuel.
The warning regarding the fuel line quick connectors are a worry as well - likely not to be a friendly job once they are full of dust and crap.
Not something to look forward to changing on the side of the road that's for sure!!
I read that pfd as removing the filter housing( not changing the fuel filter)
I am just guessing but to change the fuel filter you just use a spanner on the lugs marked 1 in the first diagram
But does look there are 2 filters, can't wait to see what jeep wants $ for those
I am here: http://tapatalk.com/map.php?guqeuy
Re: Where is the fuel filter?
Looking at that PDF again. See the first diagram. attention to #1 are they two hex nuts that unscrew.
I wounder if they are cartridge filters.
Is that PDF for removing the assembly or to change the filters?
Does the assembly need to be removed to change the filters?
Re: Where is the fuel filter?
The U.S. MSRP on the filters is $41.70 each.
Re: Where is the fuel filter?
Re: Where is the fuel filter?
FILTER NOTE: I have updated the PDF file attachment in post # 2 to include corrected and expanded information.
The housing DOES NOT have to be removed to change the filters....
Thanks for the update Milous
Changing the fuel filters looks easyer than a Toyota
I am here: http://tapatalk.com/map.php?33uzcn
Re: Where is the fuel filter?
Thats more like it, easy.
Re: Where is the fuel filter?
They would be more like $150 by the time they get here.:lol:
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Planet Asia & Doo Wop – 'The Arrival' Mixtape [Download]
West Coast MC Planet Asia has teamed up with the legendary DJ Doo Wop for a collaborative mixtape called The Arrival. The 15 track mixtape serves as a prelude to Asia's solo project Black Belt Theatre, which drops February 28th.
Tracklist and download below.
1. Intro
2. PA's EFX (Planet Asia & TriState)
3. LEATHER GOOSE MUSIK feat. DOO WOP
4. So Naive
5. Street Clothes Pt. 1
7. Love Hella Right
8. Cosby Kids (Feat. Krondon)
9. The Honorable (Feat. Killer Ben & TriState)
10. Dum Dumb
11. What R U Doin
12. Gat In Yer Mouth (Feat. Rasco)
13. Smothering
15. Prestigious feat. Doo Wop


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By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS)
They say that in the fashion world, color is the new black. But in photography, the new black is MIRRORLESS, and it's not that tiny micro four thirds job that Olympus and Pentax are pushing either. We're talking APS-C sized censors and full 1080p video. That's the latest speculation by Canon watchers who are hoping that Lake Success will be revealing one … and really soon.
An mirrorless design with a 7D sized APS-C censor. That's what all the rumor sites are saying, and it's about time. Sony's NEX 5N has an APS-C censor and since that's really Canon's only competition, it makes sense they'd take the dive and go APS-C for the compact camera that will sport interchangeable lenses.
The move to APS-C not only gives the camera the ability to shoot Super35 aspect ratios, but it will also enable Canon to use existing EFS lenses through an adapter (since the mirrorless Canon may introduce yet another new lens mount design requiring the adapter), and also take advantage of their new ultra quiet pancake design.
Additionally, the APS-C size will further support the 18mp processoor chip from the Rebel T4i that Canon is rumored to be putting in as well. That will give the mirrorless camera a lot of bang for it's compact nature. Lastly, Canon watchers believing that the mirrorless camera (which has yet to get a designation) will have a pull out articulating screen.
I have to say I've been waiting for this and really hope it marks the beginning of the end for the tiny CCD size chips that are put in at least higher level point and shoots. It would be utterly impractical and too pricey to put a full frame sensor in an automatic camera, but APS-C censors across the board will give Canon a further leg up in the mid level categories.
But for the mirrorless design, tossing in the ability to use Canon glass and not have to reinvest in yet another line of lenses is good enough reason to expect that the APS-C rumor is legit. And with shooters designing their own camera rigs to provide additional functions like HDMI and fan cooling, who knows how the Canon mirrorless design could take advantage and become a serious no budget filmmaking contender?
We'll know soon enough, however, as Canon has a product announcement scheduled for July 23, and many are expecting this is what it's all about.
Source: CanonWatch


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Haiti Mission Ministries
In 2002 our St. Rose Haiti Mission Committee was formed. Our sister parish is Merci Parish in Robillard, Haiti. We were partnered with them through the Parish Twinning Program of the Americas (PTPA).This program has joined 350+ parishes in the United States and Canada with parishes in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. 100% of donations received are sent to Notre Dame Parish.
Goals and Purpose:
We commit to Jesus' command to take care of the poor. We provide opportunities to support our Haitian brothers and sisters at Notre Dame de la Merci in Haiti. We encourage those who are called to be missionaries to go to Haiti and share our faith. With these personal encounters and visits from the pastor in Haiti, we grow in the Spirit and are changed.
Annual Spring Shipment (April/May): Find storage for collected items, prepare publicity, collect items to go to Haiti, help sort and pack items, help take boxes to the warehouse.
Funding the Future (Summer): Provides tuition for school children, arrange publicity, mount pictures of children on display boards, collect donations, give pictures and certificates.
Mission Trips: Sign up to go on a mission trip to Haiti, assist coordinators in obtaining needed items.
Hospitality: Host visitors for lunch and supper, take visitors to interesting places and activities. Communications: Design posters, research and develop information for bulletins, contact newspaper and radio stations, create PowerPoint presentations, maintain a website.
Committee Meetings: Attend meetings, share information. Recruit New Haiti Mission Committee Members: Through personal contact with parishioners. Food 4 Kids: Help raise interest in funding basic mid-morning meals to feed the children at the parish school (September – June). Volunteers are asked to attend meetings for 1-2 hours per month. If you are looking to develop humility, step right up! Together we do make a difference.
Special announcement: September 24th is our sister parish in Haiti's feast day! Please keep them in your prayers.
Faith in Action
- 11 mission trips to robillard
- Rose/Merci health clinic
- Funding the Future education sponsorship
- Renovation of buildings
- Living quarters for visitors
- Security wall around school compound
- 2 new school buildings (grammar & vocational)
- 12.5kw industrial diesel generator for electric power
- Clean water filtration system
- Annual shipment of goods to notre dame
- Satellite dish installed for internet service
Haiti Mission Statement
We, the parish family of St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church commit to answer God's call by:
- supporting our Haitian brothers and sisters at Notre Dame de la Merci through prayers, financial assistance and personal encounters.
- becoming One In Christ by sharing faith, life experiences and cultures.


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Journalist and publisher Robert C. Maynard buys The Oakland Tribune newspaper from Gannett Company Inc., becoming the first African-American to gain a controlling interest in a major daily newspaper. The newspaper, which had previously been ranked as one of the worst in the country, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for its coverage of the Loma Prieta earthquake under Maynard's tutelage. Economic issues resulting from that quake and the Oakland Hills firestorm of 1991 forced Maynard to sell the paper in 1992.
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As record numbers of Californians struggle to put food on the table, programs designed to help the hungry are under stress.
An examination by California Watch and reporters from USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism shows that food banks and food stamps, two key safety net programs for poor people in the Golden State, are sagging under soaring demand and long-ignored problems that impair their effectiveness.
In recession-battered California, an unprecedented 11 million people – more than one in four – live in households that are "food insecure," meaning they lack regular access to sufficient food, according to a survey by UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research.
Yet the U.S. Department of Agriculture has reported that as many as 2.9 million Californians who are eligible for federal food-stamp aid don't receive these benefits.
John Wagner, director of the California Department of Social Services, said the Department of Agriculture overstates the size of the problem, as it is based on data that is more than two years old. But he acknowledged that more Californians should get food stamps.
"There is definitely improvement that needs to be made in California's participation rate," Wagner said. "We are committed to finding innovative ways to increase access to this important benefit."
Experts says a labyrinth of bureaucratic rules, regulations and requirements – created by state officials to check welfare fraud – have deterred huge numbers of eligible Californians from applying for food stamps.
Boosting the state's low rate of participation in the food stamp program would pump as much as $3.7 billion per year into California's economy, advocates say.
It would also ease pressure on the charities and local agencies that provided free food to an estimated four million Californians last year via a network of foods banks.
"Food stamps present a tremendous opportunity to help California families in a meaningful way," said Matt Sharp of California Food Policy Advocates, which lobbies for aid to poor people. "Policymakers need to focus on food stamp utilization."
Food banks act as a first line of defense
Food banks form a vital front line in the battle against hunger in California. Last year they doled out 302 million pounds of free food in California, according to Feeding America, a national anti-hunger group. Four million people were served last year, according to an estimate based on reports from California food banks.
In the Los Angeles basin alone, 700,000 people obtained free food from local food pantries last year, according to the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank which provides food and resources to 540 charitable agencies. The organization says demand for free food has grown by more than 33 percent since the recession began.
This rising demand has put the food bank system under severe duress, the organization says.
"There is certainly a gap in the demand for food assistance and the supply of food that the food safety net is able to provide," said Foodbank spokesperson Julie Flynn.
A typical client is Eularia Juarez, a young mother of two who on a recent Monday morning stood in a long line at Helping One Another Progress, church-run food bank east of downtown Los Angeles. People at the front of the line had arrived at 3 a.m. to get a ticket and wait for a single box of groceries.
While Juarez waited, her children, Eularia, 2, and Francisco, 3, amused themselves by sucking on popsicles.
"Usually I give them popsicles for breakfast," she remarked.
Finally it was Juarez's turn. She exchanged her ticket for a box containing dry beans, powdered milk, a meat product, a few tomatoes and cereal.
For elderly people on fixed incomes, the free food from the food bank can be the difference between eating and going hungry, said Foodbank CEO Michael Flood. When money is tight, many elderly people cut back on food, he says.
Tight doesn't adequately describe the personal finances reported by Josephine Bilodeau, 64, a Los Angeles woman who suffers from osteoporosis and is confined to a wheelchair.
Each Monday morning she said she rides the bus to the Wilshire Presbyterian Church for free groceries.
"These food banks are a blessing to me because what little money I get, it all goes to rent," she said.
Bilodeau said she lives on a fixed income of $666 per month. Her rent, she said, is $665, leaving $1 for spending money each month, which she said she uses to buy an ice cream cone.
"You can't be embarrassed and be hungry too," Bilodeau said. "You gotta swallow your pride and get help when you need it, when you can get it."
Food stamp applications met by obstacles
Since the 1960s, the federal government's response to the problem of hunger in America has been food stamps.
Formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, food stamps date back to President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty.
Other states encourage needy people to enroll. But in California, an applicant must surmount a series of bureaucratic hurdles – erected to prevent fraud – to qualify for the program.
Critics say the result is California's extraordinarily low food stamp participation rate – barely 50 percent, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has estimated. This means that in addition to the 2.9 million Californians now on food stamps, an additional 2.9 million residents are eligible for the program but are not participating.
Californians who have applied for food stamps say applicants must run a bureaucratic gauntlet to prove they are eligible for the equivalent of $36.50 per week for food.
Eligibility is based on household income tests. Monthly gross income cannot exceed $1,106.00; for a three-person household the limit is $1,861.00.
Those eligibility requirements are needlessly inflexible and unrealistic, complained Hollywood production assistant Michael Wood, 49, who has been on and off food stamps for two decades.
"I understand why you need limitations on how much money you can make, but I work 12-hour days, seven days a week, for three weeks straight," he said. "And I'll make money for that and get paid in one big chunk. So I might not find another job for months, but I'm ineligible for those months."
An applicant must be persistent to qualify for food stamps in California. People familiar with the system say it's unwise for applicants to make other plans on days when they have appointments at the county social services offices that administer the program.
The wait can be as short as two hours or as long as an entire day, according to participants like unemployed country-and-western singer Harold Summers Jr. He said he spent almost eight hours one day recently in a MacArthur Park social services office before getting approved for the program.
Not everybody gets approved. Take the example of Dimas Gutierrez, 35, a construction worker who was injured on the job and cannot work as a result. He said that he, his wife and his 16-month-old son recently waited four hours outside a social services office on Wilshire Boulevard in a vain attempt to apply for food stamps.
After the wait, Gutierrez said he was told that to qualify, he needed to provide paperwork from his former employer verifying his work-exempt status. Gutierrez didn't have it, and so he and his family were sent home and told to return another day after getting the proper forms.
County offices intimidating to some
Advocates for poor people say that heavy security at some county welfare offices creates an intimidating environment that discourages eligible people from seeking food stamps.
At the generic or specific county offices in Los Angeles County, patrons are greeted by armed guards and required to step through full-body metal detectors before they begin their wait to fill out applications.
Applicants also must make an appointment to be fingerprinted, often on a separate day.
"They shouldn't make you feel like a criminal if you need to apply for food stamps," said Frank Tamborello of the Hunger Action LA advocacy group. "They shouldn't take people's fingerprints and they shouldn't have to make you feel like security is staring you down the whole time you're there."
Once an application is filed and approved, an applicant has a one-on-one, in-person interview with a social worker. To ease language problems, the state employs many bilingual case workers, but complications arise anyway.
It's tough to grapple with the bureaucracy when you're hungry, said Josh Davis, 24, an unemployed Los Angeles man.
"Applying for food stamps – sometimes it's as much work as a full-time job," he said.
Reformers say that if the application process were more user-friendly, both California's needy – and the state's recession-battered economy – would benefit.
Federal food-stamp benefits represent money that is injected directly into the local economy, advocates say, via purchases at local stores. Every $1 in food stamp spending generates the equivalent of $1.84 in local economic activity, the California Food Policy Advocates group said in a 2009 report.
Thus, if everyone who is eligible for food stamps obtained them, California would obtain an annual economic boost of about $3.7 billion, the report contended.
Officials promise reforms
In an interview, Department of Social Services director Wagner cited more than a dozen state initiatives aimed at boosting the participation rate. California has streamlined the application process, he says.
Other initiatives include re-branding the program with a new name, providing application assistance through food banks and other groups, and waiving face-to-face meeting requirements for applicants.
Wagner believes the efforts are making an impact. In the last two years, applications for food stamps in California soared by 800,000, or about 40 percent. Some experts say the increase may mostly be the result of the recession.
Until the economy improves, food banks expect they will somehow have to pick up the slack.
"More people are coming, new people," said Gillian Wagner, one of the directors of Hope-Net, an organization that oversees 12 food pantries in Los Angeles. "People are coming in with their families, younger people, I'm guessing they've just been laid off."
These stories are the result of a collaboration between USC's Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism and California Watch, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. The 13 reporters are graduate students at USC Annenberg. They worked under the supervision of award-winning journalist and USC Annenberg associate professor Sandy Tolan, and Marcia Parker, formerly Launch Manager of California Watch and assistant dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. This piece was co-authored by Emilie Mutert and Ashley Ragovin two graduate students at USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
To see more of the students work go to http://hungerincal.uscannenberg.org


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Jumped out of shower to Fiona and Gilda barking like nuts. Opossum like to run across the back fence. I hear my mom yelling in the backyard. So I grab a towel and a robe. Dumb opossum is on the ground hiding behind the rose bushes. I tell my mom keep the dogs to the right and I try and drive it to the left. Gilda runs in there and grabs the opossum with her teeth and runs to the dark corner. Fiona joins her and it gets quiet. Gilda comes out of the dark corner behind Fiona's kennel. No Fiona. So I call her. She comes trotting out of the dark with the opossum in her mouth. I run screaming.
My mom gets the shovel and thinking it is dead, going to put it in the dumpster. Dogs won't let her. So I tiptoe outside ready to run screaming again and hand her a trash can to put over it. Fiona lays down beside it, guarding it. I try to keep the dogs away so mom can scoop. 10 minutes go by and an avocado falls from the tree. Dogs go after it. Perfect! "Mom scoop it up". " it is standing up!" I run screaming into the house again. Dogs scratch at garbage can and opossum is scratching to get out.
It is too much for me. I run in the house, close the blinds and turn up the tv. Gilda comes in the house and tries to give me a tongue bath ... With the same tongue that touched the opossum. I am having convulsions over the stupid opossum tongue of Gilda ... My mom is laughing so hard she cannot breathe.
Ok, so I am scared of opossum. They are ugly and gross. Now I need someone to get it out of the backyard, because it really is dead this time. Mom does not think it is a good idea to feed it to the dogs.
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thanks for the big laugh.
An opossum is one tough animal and I would NOT feed it to the dogs. They are dirty animals and I'd be worried about parasites. They are tough to kill that's for sure. My neighbours husky got a hold of one and ripped it's spine right out and the thing was still alive for a bit. Crazy. I also ran one over with the Jeep accidentally and it just got up and ran off.
recently we have had a lot of opposums here , Ontario ! , at the front door , at the garage -- they are harmless, beneficial , awesome biology , high immune system to most bacteria and even rabies -- something worthy of study.
They play dead , and will emit "dead" smelling scents , which inhibit prey on the dogs. Yes one of my dogs found one in the garage and picked it up , ran the victory loop then brought it to me . I held her collar , she released, I flipped her outside of the garage door while I was inches away absolutely fascinated by this primitive living creature . Put in on the grain shovel , and marched it to the tree line . Watched it wander off .
They don't dig, or destroy wiring -- will catch and eat roof rats --
I had no idea what a opossum was so had to google it. I think they are sooo cute. Are they some kind of pest?
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Pretty cool animals. They are immune to snake venom. They don't dig to create dens so they aren't destructive, at least around my house. We see them quite often. A dog will snap one up from time to time, but they spit them out pretty quickly.
I agree with you, Cheyanna, about opossumes being ugly and gross. Sadly, I could not keep myself from giggling a little because I can picture my mom and I responding the way you did, while my dad would be trying to kill it with Gypsy trying to be of assistance to him.
Years back our gsd mix dog and our gsd were hunting in the woods out back and when they came it we didn't notice the mix had brought us a gift, doing her part for the pack. She dropped the opossum on the kitchen floor thinking it was dead. It quickly came back to life and ran into the dining room under the hutch. Getting it into the garbage can to release it was interesting to say the least. Opossums are nasty but very cool little creatures.
they are immune to snake venom !
nasty - not at all --
Thats too funny. I was chased my one once, not my favorite animal on earth either
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Stem cells in mammary gland development and breast cancer
Jeffrey M. Rosen, Ph.D., C.C. Bell Professor in the Departments of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Medicine, received the award for his research directed towards elucidating the mechanisms regulating normal mammary gland development, and how these regulatory mechanisms have deviated in breast cancer. Specifically, in collaboration with Dr. Peggy Goodell at Baylor College of Medicine, the Rosen laboratory was the first to isolate functional mammary gland stem/progenitor cells. In collaboration with Dr. Harold Varmus and his colleagues at Memorial Sloan Kettering, they also have investigated the role of stem/progenitor cells in the etiology of several different mouse mammary cancer models. These studies have led to the hypothesis that the clinical and genetic heterogeneity of breast cancer is a result of the activation of different oncogenes or loss of different tumor suppressor genes in specific stem/progenitor cells. The Rosen laboratory has also demonstrated the importance of the Wnt/ß-catenin pathway in mammary alveolar development, mammary stem/ progenitor cell self-renewal and survival, and finally resistance to conventional radiation therapy. These studies have important implications for our understanding of the etiology of breast cancer as well as the design of new therapeutic agents targeted to putative "cancer stem cells".
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Welm BE, Tepera SB, Venezia T, Graubert TA, Rosen JM, Goodell MA. Sca-1( pos) cells in the mouse mammary gland represent an enriched progenitor cell population. Dev Biol. 2002 May 1;245(1):42-56.
Li Y, Welm B, Podsypanina K, Huang S, Chamorro M, Zhang X, Rowlands T, Egeblad M, Cowin P, Werb Z, Tan LK, Rosen JM, Varmus HE. Evidence that transgenes encoding components of the Wnt signaling pathway preferentially induce mammary cancers from progenitor cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Dec 23;100(26):15853-8.
Lam MH, Liu Q, Elledge SJ, Rosen JM. Chk1 is haploinsufficient for multiple functions critical to tumor suppression. Cancer Cell. 2004 Jul;6(1):45-59.


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I have a 1953 chevrolet 3100. I am doing a frame off restoration. This is my first large project like this and to be honest I am a little overwhelmed. I want to put a 383 with a turbo 350 automatic in there. I know the most popular thing to do is to put an IFS kit in place of the stock suspension, but I dont have the cash for one, or the expereince to install it. My question is, does anyone know if I can rebuild AND lower the stock suspension, and still have adequate support and control over the truck with the increased horsepower and torque. ANY feedback concerning resto-mods on these trucks (especially suspension advice) would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I don't think theres anything wrong with using the old stuff, as long as you have new tie rods and bushings.
I don't know how to lower it though.
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85 Honda Prelude.
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Hey, well it sounds like you got a neat little project going. The idea of a restomod is to take the old body and refresh it with some of the more modern stuff we have today to make it faster safer and sooo much cooler.
here is an idea similar to what my uncle is doing. He obtained a 76 GMC (chevy would work too) that already had a 350 on it and a three speed. On this other truck by removing a couple body mount bolts and the entire body will come off, and you can retrofit the 53 cab and bed to fit by building new mounts and making possible ajustments to your firewall though you shouldnt have to.
So you could find a similar configured truck of newer age that still shared the same charateristics (SHort box regular cab) because you want the donor vehicle to have a similar wheelbase, and you should check befor you buy but many of those years should work.
A newer body may have disc brakes IFS instead of strait axel and a much stronger frame. And while no body is mounted to the frame you could do all the work to the frame and running gear then mount the body finish the body work and so on.
And if you save your wiring harness you can transfer much over to the new body.
Ok i know i just put down a lot of info it was fast for me and i probably left a lot out but i will answer any further questions?
You really have several options. The simplest is just to remove a couple leafs in the front springs. Or you could take them down to your local spring shop and have them de-arched. Either one will lower the front end at least two to three inches.
Check out the Hotrodders Knowledge Base to find dozens of articles on these old trucks. I'm sure it will help.
One other comment. It really doesn't take a lot of expertise to install an IFS on one of these trucks. It's really pretty simple and you actually have several choices.
Good luck
A very good friend of mine lowered his 50 chevy with a re-arched front spring and reversed spring eyes, then removed a couple of the minor leafs. This thing looked better but was still not low enuff for most people (including him) and it bottomed out the spring travel way too much, still handled and steered like a fifties truck. After cussin' the thing for one season we changed it to a Must ll and the difference was so great that his wife took the truck as her own! Shop around and get a kit, or a crossmember and a wrecked Must ll or Pinto.
stock suspension is okay and can be lowered but i would go with a cross member from a good rod shop about 350.00 and use all the control arms, coils rack and pinion from a pinto they can be found cheap and they bolt right onto the cross member.You then buy a conversion bracket from a rod shop that allows you to use GM rotors and calipers from a donor vehicle.As far as installing the cross member it is very simple and if you can weld you can do it yourself in about 5 hrs.I just did a 54 and everything worked perfect Good luck
Speedway has a nice kit of totally reconditioned and new parts for a MII and includes 11"discs and GM calipers and everything to mount them even the pads, check it out. and you could find your Xmember somewhere else.
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Santa Clarita, Calif. -- Lawrence Russell scored a game-high 22 points and Tim Soares notched a double-double as The Master's University played its most complete game of the season to date in a 93-72 victory over Vanguard before a raucous crowd at Bross Court.
Scoring the most points in a month and winning for the third time in a row and the second straight in GSAC play, the Mustangs improved to 14-3 overall and 3-3 in the conference.
Following the game, head coach Kelvin Starr praised his assistant, Troy Leaf, and his team, saying, "Coach Leaf did a tremendous job with the scouting report for this one. The guys executed the game plan and played with great intensity."
That execution was on display early as the Mustangs hit the Lions with a quick, 7-0 burst in the first 2 1/2 minutes. Russell sparked the offense with a jumper, Soares followed with another jumper in the paint, and Travis Yenor capped it with a long-range bomb.
Another Yenor trifecta with 12:21 left in the first half pushed the advantage (23-13) into double digits and was part of a 13-0 run that eventually produced a 31-13 lead at the 10:58 mark. Once again, Russell was the initiator with a layup, Yenor added another trey, Hansel Atencia joined him from long range, and Delewis Johnson finished the skein with a layup.
The Lions never fully recovered although they closed the gap to 35-25 at the 3:53 mark, using a 9-0 burst to get within shouting distance. Another Russell jumper put an end to that and when Evan Jenkins drained a three-pointer from the left corner with 2:46 left in the half, the lead was back to 15 (40-25).
Punctuating a 12-point, six-rebound first half, Soares dunked one home at the buzzer to send the Mustangs to halftime with a 46-33 lead. Soares was perfect (6-6) from the field over the opening 20 minutes while Russell was just behind (5-6) his teammate as the Mustangs converted at a crisp 61% (19-31) while limiting the Lions to 39% accuracy.
There was plenty more offense left in the Mustang arsenal for the final stanza and they let it rip, especially over the final eight minutes. Layups from Russell and Jenkins in the opening 45 seconds extended the margin to 15 points and Yenor canned another three for a 53-35 advantage just over a minute into the second half.
The Lions spent the next eight minutes trying to get back into the game and the Mustangs responded time and again. When Vanguard closed to 55-44 at the 15:28 mark, Soares and Jenkins answered with consecutive layups. Vanguard made it a 10-point (63-53) game with 10:43 remaining and then watched Russell, Jenkins, and Johnson combine for seven points to extend the margin to 15 (70-55) with 8:58 left to play.
Vanguard's last gasp came on a Shacquille Dawkins' three-pointer 14 seconds later. Again, the Mustangs answered, this time with a decisive, 8-0 spurt that pushed the advantage to 20 points (78-58). Johnson scored six of those eight points, including a layup that capped things off with 6:31 remaining.
The Lions never got closer than 17 points the rest of the way as the Mustangs kept the pedal to the metal in the wire-to-wire win. The Mustangs enjoyed their largest lead (23 points) of the evening twice in the final two minutes.
The Mustangs followed a strong, first-half shooting performance with an even better one over the final 20 minutes, hitting at a 65% (17-26) clip and finishing the game at a season-best 63%.
Russell's game-high total was forged on 8-11 shooting from the field and spotless (6-6) accuracy from the stripe. He just missed his 10th double-double of the season after grabbing nine rebounds.
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The American Association will have a new single-season home run record holder this year.
But it may take until the final day of the season to find out who it is. Breaking the existing record has proven to be the easy job compared to winning this year's home run crown.
Wichita's C.J. Ziegler and Sioux Falls' Tim Pahuta have been trading the lead, and the record, back and forth.
On Aug. 21, Ziegler's third home run in three games tied Sioux Falls Brandon Sing's record of 27 home runs, set in 2010. The next day, Pahuta hit a pair of home runs to take the league lead with 28 home runs and thus set a new standard. Ziegler responded with home runs in each of his next three games to leapfrog back into the lead with 30.
The lead has been changing hands so frequently that Sioux Falls broadcaster Scott Beatty and his Wichita counterpart, Steve Schuster, text each other after each home run so fans can be kept apprised of the current state of the race.
With the season winding down, the home run race has provided a reason to pay attention for both clubs. Sioux Falls is wrapping up a disappointing, last-place season that had them 21 games out of first. Wichita was at the other end of the spectrum, wrapping up a division title with a dominating run to the best record in the league. The Wingnuts have pulled off the rare feat of leading the American Association in both runs scored and runs allowed.
For Pahuta, a Seton Hall alumnus who spent the past eight seasons in the Nationals organization, his first taste of the American Association has proven to be a pleasant introduction to the independent leagues.
Pahuta had offers to stay closer to home to play in the Atlantic League, but he saw a chance to go to Sioux Falls as an opportunity to see another part of the country while still getting paid to play baseball. As a 30-year-old, he's realistic about his outlook and says his career is starting to "wind down."
The choice of Sioux Falls has work out beautifully, and the ballpark's dimensions (312 feet down the line) have been a good fit for Pahuta's pull-heavy approach.
Pahuta has hit home runs in bunches. His record-breaking two homer game was his fifth multi-home run game of the season.
But as he tries to chase down Ziegler in the home run race, Pahuta faces a dilemma. The more he thinks about the home run record, the more he has to remind himself to not try to do too much.
"I'm paid to hit home runs, but when I try to hit home runs, I don't hit them," Pahuta said.
For Ziegler, the home runs have come with a whole lot of line drives sprayed around the park. He has home run power when he pulls the ball to left, but he's just as capable of taking line drives off the wall to right field for doubles. That explains his .322/.408/.664 line.
"He's a good hitter. He's not just a power guy," Wichita manager Kevin Hooper said. "He's become a really good hitter. In BP, we watch him hit the ball the other way for power. The key for him is to stick to that approach."
The Wingnuts slugger gets his home runs on extended hot streaks. Ziegler has homered in back-to-back games on 10 different occasions this year. He has hit home runs in three straight games three times and has a four-game home run streak.
A 16th-round pick out of Arizona of the Giants in 2008, Ziegler put up similar numbers for Wichita last year, as he hit .320 with 18 home runs in 58 games. He would have given the home run record a run last year, but he missed a significant amount of the American Association season to play in the Mexican League. He returned for the end of the season and still finished third in the league in home runs despite not having enough at-bats to qualify among the batting leaders.
Ziegler hit at Arizona as well, but he has been a late bloomer as a pro. He hit only 14 home runs in two seasons in the Giants organization and hit .226/.328/.413 in a season-long stint with the Frontier League's Traverse City club in 2010.
Ziegler found his footing with a breakout year in the now-defunct North American League in 2011, as he hit 24 home runs between Lake County and Calgary. That got him the job in Wichita.
This year Ziegler told Hooper that he was sticking around for the duration of the season. When Ziegler made that decision, Sing's home run record was placed in jeopardy. Now it's just a question of whether Ziegler can outpace Pahuta the rest of the way.