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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Even as thousands more show up daily for free food and water, the 82nd Airborne Division troops at their makeshift forward operating base here have begun to move out beyond its barriers to see how else they can help those still suffering from last week's earthquake.
Helicopters arrive every morning, bringing more food and water to the base, run by the 1st Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment. Troops line the hill like ants from the landing zone down to the distribution point, carry cases and cases of water and meals.
The soldiers handed out twice as much yesterday as they did the day before — more than 15,000 bottles of water and 4,000 meals. But beyond ramping up the amount of water and food they are distributing, the leaders here have begun to look beyond their own perimeter, trying to figure out how to reach out to those who cannot make it to the base.
"We hope to get a good sense of where those people are who can't get to us," said Army Lt. Chris Anderson, the squadron's intelligence officer. "That's what we really want to get."
Anderson's team of intelligence gatherers began interviewing some of those coming through the distribution line yesterday. They want to find the 'pockets' of people in the city who need food, water and medical attention most. They also are gathering information on security concerns, possible medical and other resources in the community, and generally any information that will help local commanders paint a broader picture of the relief effort ahead of them.
This will help them determine when, where and how they push their relief efforts out, officials said.
"We have limited resources. We only have so much food, so much water," Anderson said. "[The commanders must] make those hard decisions of who to give it to and how to get it to them. Every little bit [of intelligence] that we can give him gives him a better picture."
The squadron's medical professionals also began yesterday reaching out to those needing care. The handful of combat medics set up a makeshift trauma area and treated more than 50 people, mostly for cuts, bruises and broken bones. None were critically injured.
Because security for the relief effort is its primary mission, the squadron did not deploy with the resources to set up a field clinic. Still, the squadron commander has said he will do what he can for those who make it to the base.
Army Capt. Buddy Davis, the squadron's physician assistant, called those he treated the "walking wounded."
"Those who have been able to see me have been able to get to me," he said. "They are saying that there are others still out there, and it's my hope to find out where those pockets may be and to communicate them up."
Davis yesterday began looking for medical resources in the community that may be able to accept critically injured patients, should the soldiers be able to transport them there. His first stop was the Baptist Haiti Mission, high atop the city. Its rooms were packed, and its hallways already were lined with patients.
"I initially thought as we walked in the door that this was a waste of our time," Davis said. "But clearly, it's not the sentiment shared by those in charge." Surprisingly, the chief surgeon said he will take all the patients Davis can transport, as long as Davis can provide a place for them to go after surgery to heal. The hospital simply does not have the room for post-operative care.
That sent Davis a few miles down the road, staring out over the sloping hillsides looking for a helicopter landing zone, and to an abandoned school nearby that could be used to house soldiers and equipment and food and water for distribution.
The squadron wants to find and support local health-care agencies already providing care, Davis said.
"Today, it was 'Lets get an idea of who's sick and who's hurt and where they can go and how we can help out,'" he said.
With the numbers of those gathering here for relief supplies growing every day, officials have started considering how to push their distribution efforts beyond the base. Estimates have as many as 20,000 people in the camp during the day, and 50,000 at night. The initial effort to distribute the food in the survival camp proved too chaotic, and ended with the soldiers having to retreat to the base for the distribution.
Squadron commanders met today with leaders of the survivor camp. Four local leaders have agreed to divide the camp into equal parts, with each assuming responsibility for distribution in their quadrant.
About a dozen soldiers went to a community center in the city yesterday delivering food and water, and others are out today surveying a handful of other sites to do the same.
"Word of mouth is getting out, and people know right now this is 'the spot,'" said Army Maj. J.T. Eldridge, the squadron operations officer. "That's why we're looking at alternative sites. We want to make [more] spots."
The squadron also is working with representatives of a few local nongovernmental organizations who arrived yesterday. Eldridge said the squadron eventually would like to drop back into solely a security role, ensuring that the relief is distributed to those who need it most.
"That's the goal -- to go and establish these sites where we can go and drop these supplies, and the Haitian populace has a system in place with which to receive it and hand it out in an orderly fashion," he said.
Army Capt. Jon Hartsock, C Troop commander, has managed the day-to-day distribution of the relief rations at the base. Putting local people in charge has been key to the peaceful distribution, he said.
Hartsock's troops yesterday stopped wearing their weapons, and quickly put the Haitian volunteers in place to organize the efforts. A Haitian woman, though not from the local area, was chosen to select those from the crowd to receive food and water.
The bulk of his soldiers' work now is carrying the massive amounts of relief from the landing zone to the distribution point. Along its perimeter, they are a presence to simply help in keeping the order.
"It's their country. They know that we're here to help. They know that we're bringing the food in," Hartsock said. "But any time you empower the local populace to help themselves, it only makes it better in the end."
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A war of words has erupted between librarians and a newspaper after it published a snapshot of the high school reading habits of famed novelist Haruki Murakami.
Leaked library borrowing cards from half a century ago revealed the teenage Murakami — nowadays a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize in literature — checked out several titles by French writer Joseph Kessel.
The Japan Library Association lashed out monday at what it said was an invasion of the publicity-shy writer's privacy.
"Disclosing the records of what books were read by a user, without the individual's consent, violates the person's privacy," said an association report.
The Kobe Shimbun, which published the report, stood by its decision Tuesday, saying that what the 66-year-old Murakami read decades ago is in the public interest.
"Mr. Murakami is a person whose work and how he developed his literature are a subject for scholarly study," said Hideaki Ono, assistant managing editor of the Kobe Shimbun. "He is known to have profound knowledge of British and American literature. But (the cards) showed he also explored French literature in his younger days. We believed these facts are of high public interest."
The controversy began when a volunteer at Kobe High School, the author's alma mater, found three books with cards still attached showing a student named "Haruki Murakami" was among those who had borrowed them.
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The volunteer contacted the newspaper.
The school has apologized for the information being divulged, the library association report said.
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Kessel was a well-known literary figure in France whose books continue to be read.
His works include "The Lion" and "Belle De Jour," which inspired a film of the same name starring Catherine Deneuve.


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Bathroom sink is clogged.
I have two bathrooms with two sinks back to back. They are clogged. I have used drain cleaner and a pipe snake. I think the clog is where these two lines meet. Any ideas?
well... you could try a phone book, look toward the "P" section... or maybe try the search button at the top of the page since this has been covered many, many times. or if that's too much for ya, snake it where they meet and go farther down the line. just my .02 :thumbup:
I can't get the snake to go down the clogged line, it keeps going to the other sink. I'm on here so I don't have to look in my phonebook in the "P" section. DIY right?
Can you disconnect the waste line and send the snake down the remaining pipe? Generally clogged drains are a simple matter. If you post a pic it might help. I have found liquid drain cleaners to be useless. If the pipes are old and seem thin (you can poke a hole through them by gently probing with a screwdriver) this would be a good time to replace them. Easy and insurance against a messy leak in the future.
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You may need to cut into the pipes to get to the clog. If there is no access, you may have to cut one. Wherever that may be easiest.
climb on roof if you have a small stack above the fixtures blow on it ,if its tight
get a 20ft length of 1/2 " pvc pipe stick down stack you outa get it unless
stack has an off set, if so go back to fellow that said call the P
stop up one side with wash rag
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2 lavs are not going to have separate vents when they are right next to the wc's, and a plunger won't do $*it except poke a small hole in it. OP is on the right track with the cable... 1/2" PVC??? :thumbdown:
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the_man's method is spot on. tried and tested. The trick is bending the cable just right to get it to go down and not across.
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Re: is there a better way to iterate this?
On Jun 17, 3:33 am, dantimatter <dantimat... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
> I have a question about a specific problem I'm working now. I would
> like to do 100000+ iterations of a series of operations, but the way
> I'm doing it now is slow and memory intensive. I know there's a
> better way to do it, but I just can't figure it out. The problem: I
> have two lists of 21 sublists: listA and listB, and I would like to
> shuffle the order of the sublists in listA around and then correlate
> them with listB. Here's how I'm doing it now:
> --------------------- begin inefficient code ---------------------
> randomizedlistA = Table[RandomPermutation[listA], {100000}];
> listAlistBpairs = Table[Table[
> Transpose[{listB[[j]],randomizedlistA[[k,j]]},
> {j, Length[listB]}], {k, Length[randomizedlistA]}];
> foo = Table[Table[
> listAlistBpairs[[k, All, i]], {i,
> Length[listAlistBpairs[[k, 1]]]}], {k,
> Length[listAlistBpairs]}];
> bar =
> Table[N[Correlation[Flatten[foo[[i]], 1][[All,1]],
> Flatten[foo[[i]], 1][[All, 2]], {i,
> Length[foo]}];
> ---------------------- end inefficient code ----------------------
> The variable 'bar' should now be a list of 100000 correlation
> coefficients. I realize this is probably bad Mathematica code, but
> I wrote it quickly and it worked great for smaller numbers of
> permutations. Can anyone suggest an easy way to do this better?
> Also, though it's not written in that code, I'd like to take those
> correlation coefficients and generate a probability distribution
> out of them. For 10000 permutations it comes out as a beautiful
> Gaussian; I can only assume it's going to look even better for
> 100000+ permutations. Any suggestions on how to generate a
> probability distribution, and how to calculate P-values from that
> distribution, would also be extremely helpful.
> Many thanks,
> Dan
a = #/Norm@Flatten@#&[listA - Mean@Flatten@listA];
b = #/Norm@#&[Flatten@listB - Mean@Flatten@listB];
bar = Table[Flatten[a[[Ordering@Table[Random[],{21}]]]],{1*^5}].b


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DifferenceOrder command
A couple of the PDE example problems that use NDSolve in The Mathematic
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Does Paul Ryan Really Want to Pass a Budget?By
On the occasion of Paul Ryan's newest Path to Prosperity this week, I wrote the same post I always write when the Republican Representative from Wisconsin releases a budget plan (2012 and 2013). I get cranky about these plans because they look and sound like legislation but are not legislation. They consistently lack the detail to be turned into law, and I argued that there's no clear evidence he's interested in passing laws.
To complain about a politician is to shout into a void; there is seldom a response. On Wednesday, though, I got an e-mail from Conor Sweeney, Ryan's communications director. Sweeney suggested I might be confused about what a budget resolution is, how the appropriations process works, and which committees write tax law. And this: "The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 is a law," Sweeney wrote. "Any guess who authored it?"
Paul Ryan authored it. Sweeney is right. It was lazy of me to say that he isn't interested in passing laws when he went and passed one last year. And Sweeney is right again: There are important distinctions between a budget resolution (which sets guidelines for Congress), appropriations bills (which actually spend money), and tax bills (which come up through the Ways and Means Committee).
What has always bothered me about the yearly appearance of the Path to Prosperity is that it's none of these. It's just a document prepared by the head of the House Committee on the Budget. It can be turned into a budget resolution, and usually is, so it can get passed by the House.
Yet no one ever expects it to become a law for two reasons. First, it has never resembled anything a Democratic president might sign, even after prolonged negotiations. Second, it lays out the need for hard choices and then neglects to provide detail on what the hard choices might be. You could say almost the same of the White House's annual budget. It provides exhaustive detail but isn't close enough to the Republicans' goals that they're even willing to pick it up with a pair of tweezers.
House Republicans have succeeded, for the past three and a half years, in orienting the fight in Washington around the deficit. Arguing is part of democracy, but legislating is arguing that results in someone picking up a pen. Reading the Path to Prosperity every year, and watching Ryan's actions, I've come to believe that, for now, he wants the argument more than he wants the pen.
Earlier this year I wrote about research from Frances Lee, a political scientist at the University of Maryland. What encourages a party to compromise, Lee has found, is defeat—crushing political defeat, so severe that there is no hope of power within the decade. She pointed out that in any given election year over the past decade, both parties have had a plausible chance of winning a house of Congress. Parties have no reason to compromise now, when they can win it all next year.
The argument in Washington, then, becomes not about getting to an agreement but about drawing distinctions. Parties never used to hold symbolic votes with this kind of frequency, votes that served a political purpose but had no hope of becoming law. Now symbolic votes are almost all that Congress does.
Before the bill he passed last year, Paul Ryan was an actor in a set of negotiations that could have become law. He sat on the National Commission on Fiscal Stability and Reform (pdf), arguing for several months with Democrats and Republicans inside and outside government. In the end, the commission came up with a long list of hard choices. Ryan declined to endorse them, as did several other legislators and the president. Then, with other politicians on both sides, he made sure the commission's compromises never became legislation.
It's laudable that Paul Ryan and Democratic Senator Patty Murray of Washington state got together and produced a signable bill last year. But that bill didn't fix the problem. It didn't eliminate the deficit. It put a placeholder in the negotiations until after this fall's elections. And with the reappearance this spring of the Path to Prosperity, Ryan and his party have returned to the practice of symbolic documents that only resemble legislation.
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Finn bribed with booze to save Test
London: Fast bowler Steve Finn was bribed with wine by his teammates, Alastair Cook and James Anderson to become England`s record-breaking night watchman to save the Dunedin Test against New Zealand.
Finn stood tall for 286 minutes on the way to 56, his maiden first-class half-century, as England batted for 170 overs on a thatched strip which looked like the Doormat of Dunedin, the Daily Mirror reports.
Skipper Cook and Anderson both offered Finn a case of wine if he made it through to lunch on the final day and another if he made it to the tea interval, the paper said.
Finn lasted until the final session, when Bruce Martin`s left-arm spin trapped him leg before wicket, but by then England`s wine buffs were easing towards safety at a decanter.
Finn said he thinks he has got four cases of wine coming his way, adding those guys all helped him through and set smaller targets because it is easy to get giddy as a lower-order batsman.
Finn added they identified important periods of the day, and more often than not they got it right, adding to bat for so long and then just have a big sweep across the line just after tea wasn`t the best thing for the team but thankfully they have got through to Wellington unscathed.
Cook, fuming at the way England squandered their wickets in the first dig, hopes his front-line batsmen will follow Finn`s exemplary resistance when the second Test starts on Wednesday.


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Curious if any of you have experiences with them.
Curious if any of you have experiences with them.
Losers are always whining about trying their best. Winners go home and f@#k the prom queen!!
At the time, their price was right in line with retail book, or a little under.
I have to say, it was a very painless experience for us personally.
Did not try to haggle, but I rarely do anyway. (Yeah, I know)
Could have gotten one cheaper private party, but the Carmax deal was fast, hassle free, and they stood behind some minor warranty issues and made a couple extra FOB's and keys free of charge a few weeks after the purchase.
We were also able to transfer the note to our Bank with no charge within a few days, at a lower rate, as we bought it on a weekend. (I don't know if every dealer has to do that by law?)
I would by again from them, except that there are great deals now PP.
On that note: Has anyone ever sold a car to them without buying one of theirs? I hear their commercials all of the time and wonder what kind of price are they giving for yours. I assume it is wholesale price.
Car Dude will know for sure, but I believe they pay LESS than wholesale?
My BIL was a dealer and he told me that CM sells most of their purchases to wholesalers and dealers at on lot auctions.
The CM sales dude also said that the majority of the cars they take in do not make it to the CM lot due to not passing the CM quality inspection?
Across the board, most cars are worth less than KBB Wholesale as a trade in or direct purchase by the dealer. If you believe that you got more than KBB wholesale when you traded your vehicle in, all you did is pay more for the car you bought than you had to. This is known as an "over allowance" in the industry or "OA". Again, this is a general statement and there are exceptions to this rule.
No you CANNOT haggle their prices. Buddy is a manager there and they will not entertain any offer below. It is what it is there.


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I have a 2004 Infiniti G35 coupe (6mt) with 72,000 miles, Diamond Graphite in color, loaded with everything except nav, black interior. Brembos, BOSE. I had a turbonetics single turbo kit, the new model (water cooled, oil lubricated, ceramic ball bearing, T3/T4 hybrid, with updated wastegate piping) installed about 4500 miles ago, and its running perfect. Dyno'd at 349 whp with just the TN reflash, I have a greddy emanage ultimate(not blue) piggyback that has yet to be installed, that should kick up the power when tuned and be very safe. The turbo kit itself has about 8 months left on its warranty, it was installed by Vinny Ten Racing in Long Island. I have had 0 issues with anything on the car.
It has a custom center console to house the wideband, boost, and oil pressure gauges, and Greddy profec B spec II boost controller (wired in but boost control solenoid is not connected). Double Din DVD player as well.
Here are pics...(let me know if its not working)
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It has normal wear from mileage, and I think the pictures show all of the blemishes. Mechanically everything is great except the passenger side door lock actuator is not working.
I'm located north of NY City, will ship at buyers expense, reason for sale is that I want to buy a house. $25,000


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i glued my base spacer for now just to get it back running ,, is there a gasket aslo that goes on and if so were ? on top of the base spacer ?
1958 chevt biscayne
235 inline 6
carb base spacer
A carburetor gasket goes on top of the intake, then the spacer, and then another gasket and the carburetor.
Well got it all together and al is going well, , i did a gasket below and on top and ideling great i will tune it tomm but i was getting about 18 on my vac gauge is that good, i might be able to get more
Glad to hear you got it idling right and pulling a lot of vacuum- 18 in/Hg of vacuum is good.
When you can, you might want to look into recurving the distributor. That one thing can add a lot of performance if it's still set up stock. You may even eke out a bit more vacuum.
More on setting up a performance advance curve can be seen here. The article was originally written w/the GM HEI in mind, but the info on timing is basically universal w/the exception of the exact numbers for initial and total timing.
Exact timing numbers can vary from engine to engine depending on the displacement, cam timing, and specific parts used in the engine like carb, intake type, boosted or naturally aspirated, etc., as well as weight, gearing, fuel quality, ambient conditions and many other things that need to be considered.
A couple articles that may give you some ideas:
(Even though you have the 235) Building an inline 6 Chevy 250 engine
Chevrolet and GMC inline / straight 6 engines: Guides and resources
Good luck- 6 in a row can make it GO!! :thumbup::cool:
It was the spacer that had a crack i used some 2 part epoxy for now till mine comes in but for now its doing great,, 1 thing i didnt see the vac adavance moving, it was until i losen the small screw and moved the dizzy , could i have done something cause it to now move? anyway i will chick it tomm
A nice addition would be an HEI distributor like Summit's p/n 850042 . A distributor from a Chevy 250 inline can be modified to work, too. The Pertronix conversion you have is fine as long as the distributor itself is still tight.
I dont have a can mine runs stright from carb to dizzy, i sucked on the line at the carb and nothing happen, i did check the line unhooked totaly and it was good sounds like the diaphragm is bad?
The vacuum advance unit should hold a vacuum and the arm should move when vacuum is applied. If it holds a vacuum but the arm doesn't retract the linkage could be binding.
Yes sorry you are right,, thats the one i am tring to get here local, but noone has it, not even listed, , but anyway mine dont hold
Do you have diagrams of the vac lines, like the 1 that runs from the intake, does it run to the mod valve on tranny and thats it? ?
Looks like you might need to mail order an advance unit, then?
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text: Who's who at Downton Abbey - your blagger's guide Missed series one, or just have a bad memory? Here's what you need to know before the second series premiere... Comments Written By 2:00 PM, 17 September 2011 It's nearly a year since we first met the lords and ladies of Downton and there's quite a lot of them hanging about at the Abbey. Just in case your memory is a little dusty, or you're new to the show, here's our top drawer guide to the characters who matter, in time for the second series. The setting The first series opened in 1912 with the sinking of the Titanic and ended with the outbreak of the First World War on 4 August 1914. It was an era when everyone knew their place and the British aristocracy were having a high old time on the wealth of the Empire. But change was in the air. At Downton Abbey, home to the Crawley family since 1772, some people were getting a bit fed up of being at the bottom of the pile and, to be fair, some weren't too happy at the top. Upstairs: The Earl of Grantham (Hugh Bonneville) Robert to his wife, and lord and master to just about everyone else, the Earl is, as far as Edwardian aristos go, a good egg. The Earl's main concern, however, is to ensure the vast Downton estate and the elevated position of the Crawleys remain intact - for ever. Unfortunately, next in line to inherit is third cousin, trainee solicitor Matthew Crawley. The inhabitants of Downton don't believe in working for a living, so it's all very troubling for the Earl, who's not sure if Matthew can cut it as a member of the idle rich. The Countess of Grantham – Cora (Elizabeth McGovern) Having married into the British establishment, laid-back American heiress Cora has to contend with all its dreary rules and restrictions. Kind, pragmatic and just about the only person who can put up with the domineering Dowager Countess, Cora spends a lot of her time conspiring with the old lady to fix up daughter Lady Mary with Matthew Crawley and thus ensure the cash stays in the family. The Dowager Countess – Violet (Maggie Smith) Dreaded by her family, the overbearing Dowager Countess unwittingly advances the cause of female emancipation while strenuously supporting the status quo. Like everyone else over 20 at Downton, the Dowager is obsessed by what happens when the Earl dies. By the end of series one, she's reconciled to the idea of Mary and Matthew marrying – even if they aren't. Lady Mary Crawley (Michelle Dockery) Lady Mary rarely smiles. Her role in life is to marry well, which should be easy given her looks, but lack of money places her in the humiliating position of being rejected by wealthy chinless wonders who have the pick of the crop when it comes to tasty, young heiresses. It takes Mary the whole of series one to realise she's in love with Matthew, but when she finally tells him, he doesn't trust her motives and the whole relationship is up in the air again – much to the frustration of everyone else. Lady Edith Crawley (Laura Carmichael) Probably the only character who isn't keen on a marriage between Mary and Matthew, plain Edith has had to deal with Mary's dismissive remarks in the past, and the fact that she secretly loves Matthew, who only has eyes for Mary. After a particularly spiteful comment from Mary, Edith becomes her sister's number one enemy. Lady Sybil Crawley (Jessica Brown-Findlay) The pretty family rebel has already got caught up in female emancipation and befriended the chauffeur, Tom Branson (Allen Leech). Could be destined for acts of heroism in the War. Mezzanine Level: Isobel and Matthew Crawley (Penelope Wilton and Dan Stevens) The mother-and-son duo have all the brains and enterprise to take Downton into the future but snooty relatives aside, they both have rewarding careers already and a life of endless shootin' and fishin' isn't that enticing. Matthew would probably have dodged the inheritance offer if Lady Mary wasn't quite so gorgeous. Will they ever get together? Down Below: Mr Charles Carson – the butler (Jim Carter) The Earl's number one fan, Carson is deeply conformist and would defend the class system to his last breath. A model of respectability, he's got a showbiz past he'd like to keep quiet about, so he's more than up to the task of safeguarding "the family's" embarrassing secrets. He's supported in his mission to maintain the rarefied existence of the Crawleys at all costs by loyal housekeeper Mrs Elsie Hughes (Phyllis Logan). John Bates – the Earl's valet (Brendan Coyle) A painful war wound doesn't stop John feeling grateful to the Earl for allowing him on board to perform such essential tasks as put paste on his toothbrush. Bates upset below-stairs baddies footman Thomas (Rob James-Collier) and sour-faced lady's maid Sarah O'Brien (Siobhan Finneran) when he got the valet post. They tried, and failed, to frame him for theft. Head housemaid Anna (Joanne Froggatt) is in love with gentle Bates but it took much tea and sympathy, and a bit of snooping into his past, on her part to unlock the mysteries of his heart. Mrs Patmore - Cook (Lesley Nicol) sees it as part of her job to harass ditzy scullerymaid Daisy (Sophie McShera). Problems with Mrs Patmore's sight gave new meaning to cook's specials. Bottom of the heap: Second footman William Mason (Thomas Howes) may spend the rest of his life working up to first footman, even though scheming Thomas (see above) gets him to do his work anyway. William is in love with Daisy, who's sadly in thrall to Thomas. Poor old Daisy hasn't noticed that Thomas is gay. Like this? Share it. Facebook Twitter Google Tumblr Pinterest Blogger Reddit VKontakt Print Email


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Sitting on a rise in a verdant landscape overlooking a manicured public golf course with dramatic views of the Manhattan skyline in the distance, the historic NYC-owned Douglaston Manor underwent a thorough rehabilitation. Now run by a private operator as a banquet, conference and dining establishment, the 1920's Mediterranean-style villa is again an important social destination for surrounding communities.
Our design included several additions and a comprehensive renovation of the building's exterior and interiors. The surrounding landscape was also redesigned to provide dramatic outdoor spaces including a new entrance plaza with a wonderful crescent-shaped fountain and, in the rear, a terrace overlooking the golf course and distant skyline. The result is a memorable resuscitation of this beloved historic building that allowed it to regain its important architectural stature and place in the city.
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Just wondering.
I am always looking at job postings and what they entail, but I have never applied since I am happily employed, though long hours/low pay make me always looking.
have you ever applied when 'just looking'?
There's an opening with a company I only ever dreamed about working in a field that I have dreamt of.
Any reason not to?


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Cannot find your diecast on the Diecast Production List page? Complete this form and we will add your diecast to the database.
Our mission at Diecast Registry is to help you become a smarter NASCAR diecast collector. In line with this mission, the purpose of the Diecast Registry Price Guide is to provide DCR Members with analytical insight to current trends in the diecast collectible market. Three factors lead to the development of Diecast Registry and it's on-line NASCAR Price Guide:
Diecast Price Guide User Manual
1. Go to www.DiecastRegistry.com.
2. If you are not currently a DCR member, click on the yellow Become a Member button in the menu bar. Complete the form as instructed.
3. Sign in by entering your ID and Pasword in the upper right hand corner of the header.
4. Click on the blue Price Guide button in the menu bar.
5. The image below shows the Diecast Price Guide when it opens. There are two sections to the Diecast Price Guide: 5a) The Filtration Options and 5b) The Results Table.
6. By default, the results table opens showing all diecast with market values that have been updated within the past 60 days. These diecast are identified with the yellow $ in the results table.
7. To see market values for all diecast (even those whose values have not been updated in the last 60 days), simply click on the 'Show all diecast values' radio button. The webpage will refresh to display the new content in the results table.
8. The Diecast Registry Price Guide also makes it easy to identify which diecast are increasing in value and which diecast are becoming less valueable. The green up arrow indicates a diecast that's market value is currently increasing and/or it's long-term value is expected to increase. The red down arrow indicates a diecast that's market value is currently decreasing and/or it's long-term value is expected to decrease.
9. The results table contents can also be sorted using the Sort By drop down. For example, if you wanted to sort the results table by "Most Samples" it would show you the single diecast that DCR has observed selling most often in online auctions. As of June 1009, the 2004 Dale Jr. 1:24 Bud CWC has sold an amazing 613 times. Try it for yourself; The 2008 diecast that has just recently taken over the second-most-sold spot will probably surprise you.
10. Lets use the price guide to find the current market value of the Dale Earnhardt 2000 Peter Max 1:24 RCCA Elite. First, select "Earnhardt, Dale Sr." from the Driver drop down. The results table will refresh upon selection.
10. Now lets further filter the results table to show only 2000 RCCA Elites by selecting "2000" from the Year drop down. Hint: If you quickly (within 2 seconds after selecting "Earnhardt, Dale Sr." from the Driver drop down) select "2000" from the Year drop down, the results table will filter for both (Driver and Year) with a single refresh.
11. Your browser will refresh and now the results table shows that the Peter Max Elite is 3rd highest-valued Dale Earnhardt Elite made in 2000.
12. One can see that this market value was determined from exactly 143 online auctions that DCR tracked for this specific diecast.
13.One can see that the standard deviation is ~ $51. This means that 99% of all Peter Max Elites sell online for $232 + $51 (or between $283 - $181). It is interesting to note how many online sellers reference the misleading Diecast Digest book value of $1,438.
14. Click on the Trend Chart icon in the results table to see a trend chart of the actual sales prices that DCR has recorded. The trend chart gives the smart collector the ability to predict the diecast's future value as if investing in a stock on the stockmarket.
15. Clicking on the Camera Icon in the results table opens a pop-up window that shows a picture of the diecast and a detailed breakdown of the sales data.
16. As you know, RCCA Elites are sequentially numbered and the lower-numberd diecast are typically more valueable. The DCR Price Guide is the only diecast price guide in the world that gives collectors the market value broken into serial numbers. In the case of the Peter Max Elite, you already know from the results table that a "commonly-numbered car is worth $232.88 (a commonly-numbered diecast is a diecast with serial numbers 0051 and higher). The "As Of" date of 12/24/2006 means that the most recent sale that DCR recorded was on December 24th. Yes, this also means that the farthest-right data point on the trend chart was from 12/24/06.
17. The breakdown below also shows that three Peter Max Elites with serial numbers between 21 and 50 have yielded an average sales price of $260.82. Interestingly, 4 of the 6 Peter Max Elites with serial numbers between 0004 - 0009 have been sold since February of 2004.
18. The DCR Price Guide is also the only diecast price guide in the world that gives collectors the market value of a diecast if it is autogrpahed. Accordingly, two commonly-numbered Peter Max Elites with a genuine Dale Earnhardt autograph have sold for an average price of $430.92.


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- 3[transitive] (+ adv./prep.) to move, carry or dig something using a fork Clear the soil of weeds and fork in plenty of compost. He forked a piece of meat into his mouth. Fork over the ground before planting. Word OriginOld English forca, force (denoting a farm implement), based on Latin furca 'pitchfork, forked stick'; reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman French furke (also from Latin furca). Phrasal Verbsfork out (for something)
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Traveling Slaughterhouse Brings Butchery Education To Farmers
Brandon Sheard is on a quest to bring back human slaughtering methods for local meat.
Brandon Sheard has spent the last three years hosting online, and in-person classes to teach farmers about the old-school methods for humanely slaughtering animals. Proving to be such a success, he now has plans to make it a mobile operation.
Sheard taught these classes from Vashon Island in Puget Sound, where he lived with his wife and three kids. Expanding from there means that his mobile butchery education would be aimed at the hundreds of small farmers based in and around Puget Sound, Washington state, and Oregon.
As he explains it:
The agrarian renaissance is booming like crazy out here, farmers with like five acres and a farm stand.
Unlike other custom slaughter and butcher outfits, Sheard would drive his business right on to a farmer's plot, slaughtering the animals on the spot – a practice that used to be a regular aspect of animal agriculture.
He'd also teach the farmer how to take the animal apart, taking the carcass back to his own butchery to make the actual cuts. Farmers would also receive a discount if Sheard is granted permission to host a class around the farmer's animal carcass.
All of this would mean a move back to more traditional methods of agriculture, and away from the centralized systems currently in place today. A move which would give responsibility and knowledge back to the farmers themselves.
Sheard is currently running a Kickstarter campaign for his own shop and license – a much better alternative to his own kitchen, which is his current base of operations.


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Christian Louboutin Rolando Hidden-Platform Pump
Damn, these make my mouth water. It's that deep red, I think. And that 5-inch stiletto heel.
If ever there was a heel to get high on, this would be the one... Rich in ruffles, posh in python, heavy in hauteness!Added 8 Years Ago from Neiman Marcus Online
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Satin high heels with a blue stripped pattern. Has a red base heel and look very hard to walk in. BUT they are beautiful and I must have them.
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It's Sunday evening and John and Mary Homeseller and Anita Deal, their real estate agent, are sitting at the dining room table, ready to confront a pile of purchase agreements. The Homesellers were smart to listen to Ms. Deal's advice and decided to entertain all offers simultaneously, rather than have them trickle in, piecemeal. It's […]
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I won't be at church in the morning. Instead I'll be heading over the pass. My niece, Taylor, and I are going to a Brandon Heath concert at The Rialto in Tacoma. It's a fund-raiser for Restore International. Bob Goff, the founder/CEO of Restore International sent me an invite to the concert. I love Brandon [Read More…]
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Fixers' Collective tinkers with purpose
The first meeting of the West Seattle Fixers' Collective was lightly attended but productive as members tried to bring a broken clock radio and an espresso maker back to life.
The collective, which plans to meet Thursday nights at the West Seattle Tool Library workshop (Youngstown Cultural Arts Center), is a new venture for people interested in prolonging the life of the things they own, learning how things work, saving a few resources, or who just love to tinker. It is modeled on a Fixers' Collective in Brooklyn, New York.
The small crew that gathered Thursday night dissembled a clock radio that would no longer turn on after it was dropped on the floor. A look at the innards revealed a broken circuit board. When superglue, epoxy and a sautering job
failed to restore power to the clock radio, it was determined that it would probably require an extensive refurbishing and new parts to save and not worth the trouble.
The group, made up of the collective founder Greg Kono, Tool Library Director Patrick Dunn, Tool Library Manager Micah Summers and West Seattle resident Christy True, had better luck with a broken espresso maker. The espresso maker did not appear to be receiving power, indicating a possible electrical short.
After Dunn completely dismantled the maker and checked all the power connections, swapping two switches brought the long dormant power lights to life!
It was an exciting moment. The espresso maker will require one new switch and possibly some jury-rigging to become usable, but should have a second life in the Tool Library. True, who brought in the espresso maker, is donating it to the Tool Library so patrons can have an espresso drink when they come in to pick up their tools.
And the clock radio may still get some life yet. Summers kept the broken appliance to possibly reuse its functional parts on other projects.
Anyone is welcome to attend the next Fixers' Collective, on July 7, from 6-8
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Anna Paquin Bares Post-Twins Bod in latest "True Blood" Episode
Showing off her hard work after giving birth to twins in the fall, Anna Paquin donned lacy lingerie in this Sunday's episode of "True Blood" (July 14).
In the hit HBO series, the 30-year-old actress strips down in the fifth episode along with her co-stars, Rob Kazinsky, Ryan Kwanten, and Anna Camp.
Back in September, Ms. Paquin and husband/co-star Stephen Moyer welcomed fraternal twins Charlie and Poppy to the family.
As for how she's lost the baby weight, Anna revealed routine eating habits in Self magazine in 2010, saying, "I don't want to be one of those actresses who says, 'I eat cheeseburgers all the time.' I don't! I eat a lot of fruit and vegetables."
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This week, two Ontario women launched a lawsuit against the Canadian government for agreeing to turn over the personal financial information of "U.S. persons" residing in Canada to the United States government. The deal may not sound outrageous on its face, but in practice, the costs to privacy, autonomy and Canadian sovereignty of complying with the United States' new Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) are far from reasonable: At the Americans' behest, Canada will now be sharing tax information even about Canadians who have never lived a day of their lives in the United States, never worked in the United States, and never owed the IRS a single penny. Merely having dual U.S. citizenship — for example because one's parents were Americans or one was born on U.S. soil to Canadian parents — is enough to trigger the mandatory sharing of private financial details. While one can understand Washington's desire to crack down on tax cheats, FATCA goes too far, and it's distressing that the Canadian government has so willingly stepped up to help.
Canadian government faces constitutional challenge over FATCA deal
Two women are suing the Canadian government over a controversial deal in which Canada has agreed to share the tax information of U.S. persons resident in Canada with the IRS.
Gwen Deegan, a graphic designer from Toronto, and Ginny Hillis, a retired lawyer from Windsor, filed a statement of claim in the Federal Court of Canada that accuses the Canadian government of overstepping its constitutional powers by agreeing to comply with a new U.S. law called the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).
In explaining why she initiated the court challenge, plaintiff Gwen Deegan explained: "This is an infringement on Canadians of U.S. origin by our Canadian government. It's literally a betrayal and I feel we can't just sit idly by and let it happen."
Deegan is a Toronto graphic designer who was born in the United States, but has not lived there since she was five years old; she has never held a U.S. passport, nor has she ever worked in the United States. This tenuous connection with the United States still qualifies her as a "U.S. person" whose financial details the CRA will now be turning over to the IRS. The same goes for her fellow plaintiff, Ginny Hillis, a retired lawyer from Windsor, Ont., who also has not lived in the United States since she was five years old; that's when she moved to Canada with her Canadian parents. Like Deegan, Hillis has never held a U.S. passport.
It's all very unpalatable from a general fairness standpoint, but there is also a strong constitutional underpinning to Deegan and Hillis's complaint: They allege quite credibly that their Charter right to liberty and security of the person is being violated here, and on the basis of a supposed foreign tax debt that isn't even enforceable in Canada. They also assert that their Charter right to be secure against unreasonable search and seizure is being infringed. It's certainly a persuasive point, given that the contents of their bank accounts may now be communicated by their banks to the CRA and by the CRA to the IRS, all without Deegan and Hillis (or whoever the account holder might be) being informed it's happening, let alone having a chance to challenge the disclosure. There's no requirement for any kind of warrant or judicial determination of whether the account holder really is a "U.S. person," and meaningful restrictions on how the acquired information can be used are lacking.
Taxes — governments will go to extraordinary lengths to collect them, and will often lose sight of the constitutional checks on their own power in the process
The interesting thing about Deegan's and Hillis's circumstances is that both women happen to be married to Canadians with whom they hold several joint financial accounts. Why should these women's husbands, who are not "U.S. persons" even under the most expansive definition of that term, also be subject to having the details of their financial savings turned over to a foreign government? Do not Canada's constitutional guarantees of liberty, security of the person, and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure apply as forcefully to these men as well?
Taxes — governments will go to extraordinary lengths to collect them, and will often lose sight of the constitutional checks on their own power in the process. That the Canadian government has done so for the benefit of another country's coffers, rather than its own, not only compounds the constitutional violations at issue; it adds insult to injury. Canadians are having their rights infringed to satisfy a foreign entity's overreaching greed. Only by diligently applying Canadian constitutional protections can we see to it that the freedom we enjoy is not eroded by the demands of a powerful neighbour.
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Marni Soupcoff is executive director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation, theccf.ca.


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Who doesn't love a quarterback change? I mean, other than the team making the change. Quarterback changes are big talking points, and it seems like it's never to early to start wondering who is on the hot seat. ESPN's Adam Schefter wrote last week that Vikings quarterback Christian Ponder could be one of the first to lose his job if he doesn't show marked improvement in year three.
"If he struggles, my sense is the Vikings wouldn't hesitate to go to Matt Cassel," Schefter wrote. "There are people around the league who believe Cassel is underrated -- despite what many Chiefs fans might think -- and that if given the opportunity, he would fare well in Minnesota. It's Ponder's job, and it's his to lose. But keep an eye on Cassel."
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Just what Vikings fans want to hear: Keep an eye on Matt Cassel. Yes, Ponder has been very disappointing since being selected in the first round two years ago. But it's not just Chiefs fans who think Cassel stinks; most people who watch the NFL hold that point of view. If the Vikings turn to Cassel, it means their season has been lost.
Ponder isn't worth your time in fantasy. If he doesn't improve, the bigger problem for fantasy owners is that he might take Greg Jennings down with him. Jennings is a big-name target, but at this stage of his career and with this quarterback, he is a WR3.


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National Rifle Group Under Pressure To Oppose Bush Policies
By BLAINE HARDEN
The Washington Post
January 9, 2007
SEATTLE — After years of close association with the Republican Party and hard-nosed opposition to federal land-use regulation, the National Rifle Association is being pressured by its membership to distance itself from President Bush's energy policies that have opened more public land for oil and gas drilling and limited access to hunters and anglers.
"The Bush administration has placed more emphasis on oil and gas than access rights for hunters," Ronald Schmeits said. Mr. Schmeits is second vice president of the NRA, a member of its board of directors, and a bank president in Raton, N.M.
The new emphasis on the issue of access to public lands, which Mr. Schmeits said is at the "discussion" level among the NRA's directors, would represent a strategic shift for the NRA, whose leadership in Washington has long maintained that its 4 million members were not complaining or even asking questions about access to public lands.
But during the past six years, an increasing number of the country's 46 million hunters and anglers, including Republican-leaning shooting organizations such as the Boone and Crockett Club, have been grumbling about the Bush's administration fast-tracking of oil and gas drilling leases on public lands.
"We find that our members are having a harder time finding access to public land," said Mr. Schmeits, who recently pushed the NRA to lobby for congressional protection of the game-rich Valle Vidal forest on federal land in New Mexico. "Gun rights are still number one, but there will be more time and effort spent on this issue" by NRA leaders "as we move forward."
Such a change in policy could undercut a key argument that the NRA uses to raise money, sway voters, and help elect candidates. It has long warned its members that many environmentalists are advancing a subversive gun-grabbing agenda masterminded by liberal Democrats.
The group's spokesman in Washington, Andrew Arulanandam, said he agrees with Mr. Schmeits that members are voicing increasing concern about access to hunting land and that the NRA is focusing on the problem.
This comes at a politically challenging time for what has long been one of the most feared lobbying groups in Washington. Some members of the Outdoor Writers Association of America are increasingly criticizing the NRA as out of touch. A new gun ownership group is trying to win the support of disaffected hunters. Also, there is some complaining within the gun industry that NRA policies might be bad for business.
"The core, the dream, the passion that drives gun ownership is hunting and getting out on the wide open spaces," a senior gun company executive said, asking not to be quoted by name for fear of retribution from the NRA. "In the same way the Bush administration has overreached on Iraq, the NRA has overreached on gun rights. We are losing our grip on this green environmental thing."
The NRA found new strength and increased membership with its battles against gun control during the Clinton era, while cementing ties with the Republican Party. An NRA official was videotaped boasting in 2000 that the association would open an office in the Bush White House. No such office opened, but close identification now with an unpopular president and a party that has lost control of Congress may be hurting the NRA.
"If Republicans have a bad year, the NRA is going to have a bad year," the political analyst who runs the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, Charlie Cook, said. "The Democrats have learned in recent years to shut the hell up about guns. Once they did, they started to win some elections."
In November's midterm elections, a number of prominent NRA-backed Republican incumbents were defeated, including Senator Allen of Virginia, Senator Burns of Montana, Senator Talent of Missouri, and Rep. Richard Pombo of California.
Top Democratic leaders appear to have taken the shut-your-mouth-about-guns lesson to heart. Aides to the new speaker and majority leader in the House said Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California and Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland have no intention of bringing up gun control in the coming year.


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Check this spray booth
I know this is not a temp booth but the price seems reasonable. It would require an enclosed building and cement floor. Maybe one could rent it out to recover some of the cost.
Are there any good options for spraying outside? Plastic on a cloudy day? 1/4 plywood roof and or sides with shoplights? foam?
It would be pricier using wood especially covering the whole thing in plywood, but if its the only option and it works so be it. I have no access to a garage and really want to get into painting...
So my brother calls me the other night. He says that the paint he has is no good because he can't get anything but dry spray. I ask him what temp. reducer he's using? He says 60 degrees. I ask him what's the temp of the booth? He says 85...
Temp and humidity is a HUGE concern when painting. It's probably better not to use a booth and just paint somewhere where there is no direct sunlight and constant temp/humidity. You probably would have been better off painting at night and putting a small heater after painting just in case the temp drops. (safety concerns with flamable vapours)
If I'm painting something special, or just want it to look nice, it doesn't see daylight for at least a week. Automotive paint takes about 30 days to fully cure, at least that's what the reps said. I believe it. Notice how you can smell solvents for about a month after you paint it, and longer if the car body really heats up? Solvents are evaporating for all that time, and if the vapor can't escape faster than the upper layer will allow it to...orange peel.
I shot a car once and thought that I could force dry it by letting it sit in the sun. (about four hours after painting it) After about eight hours it was orange peeled, where it was a mirror when I put it out. The side of the car that was shaded wasn't bad but the hood, roof, trunk, and the other side was just like Florida goodness. It calmed down a little bit after it cooled, but wow, what a learning experience.
I looked at the pictures in your gallery; that booth looks really nice. It's too bad it didn't work out too well. I've had fairly good results with a booth made in the garage. As you noted the main problem is getting enough light. I keep getting more lights but it still isn't enough. I think I'm going to have to go all out and buy a bunch of flourescent light tubes and mount them on the walls and ceiling.
The worst problem with mine is that I leave part of the door open for the exhaust. This works fine until evening and the bugs are attracted to the light. A few days ago I had a beautiful coat of clear ruined by a little fly. DOH! Now I'm going to filter the exhaust too so that nothing can get in.
Anyway, good luck with your next booth.
Foam Panels
If you use the blue foam panels to build a spray booth, you will need to line them with plastic sheeting. The paint chemicals will eat the foam, otherwise. You will also need to use latex construction adhesive to glue the panels together. Normal construction adhesive will eat away the foam, too.
|I would just try to find and rent a paint booth. By the time you spend building this booth you could have had your car painted. Time is money, even though it doesn't cost anything or much to build, just think how much time you have involved. I rented a paint booth last spring for $75 a day and didn't have all of the hassle.
There have been many post on this Forum about temporary spray booths built using plastic sheeting, some inside garages, under carports, even outside such as mine. I took the design elements of some of these and incorporated them into mine. None of the problems I encountered have been discussed on this Forum to my knowledge so I thought my experiences might be of benefit to others comtemplating a similar setup. The main point I'm trying to make is that for whatever the reason, IR I assume, the plastic amplifies the heat raising the temp. of the parts to be painted well above what I expected and well above what they would have been had I not used the plastic and just painted outside in open air.
I had hoped to avoid the expense of lights but I now think that cannot be avoided. If I were to do it over again I would build this booth inside my garage with lights along the sides and top. Another alternative might be to build outside but use the construction foam sheets available from Home Depot. The one I'm talking about are blue in color and 3/4" thick by 4'x8' and use duct tape to seal the seams. Still thinkin' about it.......
|Lectures from Science: UV doesn't do much about heat but it's short wavelength breaks chemical bonds and destroys paint. IR (infared) is the stuff that heats things up just by shining on them. Aa lot of places use IR lamps to accelerate drying on spot repair. The plastic in your temp. booth has almost no effect on the IR - it goes right through and heats the body up directly.
i don't know about temp., but if the humidity is to high, the paint will peel and if you are lacquering it will turn white
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Thats interesting. How did the whole car turn out?
What is the lowest temperature you can paint at before you run into problems?
Temp. Spray Booth didn't work very well
Anyone contemplating using a temporary spray booth like the one pictured in my gallery should be aware of some problems I encountered. Note the air filters in one end and the blower in the other. The blower capacity changes the air in the booth about every 2 1/2 minutes. All primers were sprayed outside the booth and no problems were encountered. On the first day of applying PPG Base coat, 6:30 am, air temp 60 deg, reducer DT870, humidity 60%, clear skies. First three coats on small parts went on well, by now it's 8:30 and suns up brightly. Air temp in the booth about 70, all should be going well at this point but the UV penetrating the the sides and top of the booth have the body parts heated to at least 90 deg. Dry spray now a real problem, changed to DT895, made very little difference. Stopped painting for the day, dry spray now a repair issue. The remainder of the project was painted including the clear coat, between 3:00 am and 6:00 am. As soon as daylight appeared, the temp in the booth began climbing, painting stopped for the day.
My next painting project will heve the booth constructed inside my garage, or if outside will have some type of structure built over the plastic covering to sheild from the UV. Consider this: all paint manufactures Tech Sheets assume professional paint booth with controled environment and consistent air temps. I was amazed by the effect of the UV, cool air doesn't mean cool body parts.
Hope this helps anyone considering this type of spray booth.
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A year ago, Rep. Thaddeus McCotter was launching his campaign for the Republican nomination for president. Now, the Michigan lawmaker is out of Congress, having resigned today after what he called a "nightmarish month and a half" of campaign foul-ups and revelations.
The resignation comes the day after the Detroit News reported that McCotter had written a pilot for a television show after leaving the presidential race last year. Here's how the newspaper described the script:
"Bumper Sticker: Made On Motown" starred McCotter hosting a crude variety show cast with characters bearing the nicknames of his congressional staffers, his brother and a drunk, perverted "Black Santa." They take pot shots about McCotter's ill-fated bid for the White House while spewing banter about drinking, sex, race, flatulence, puking and women's anatomy. It features a cartoon intro and closing snippet with an Oldsmobile careening through Detroit and knocking over the city's landmarks. The double-finned car has a Michigan license plate reading: "Made on MoTown."
The five-term congressman from Livonia, Mich. had already decided this week not to run again, abandoning a write-in campaign that was his only hope of being re-elected after being kicked off the ballot last month. McCotter fell short of the 1,000 valid signatures he needed on his nominating petitions because hundreds of signatures were have been copied wholesale from previous campaigns.
"The recent event's totality of calumnies, indignities and deceits have weighed most heavily upon my family," McCotter said in a statement.
McCotter, 46, is the eighth House member -- and the third Republican -- to resign so far in the 112th Congress.
Catalina Camia leads the OnPolitics online community and has been at USA TODAY since 2005. She has been a reporter or editor covering politics and Congress for two decades, including stints at The Dallas Morning News and Congressional Quarterly. Follow her at @USATOnPolitics.
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Indiana proposes new law for carry-out beer sales
In Indiana, it's against the law to buy cold beer at a grocery store, but a new proposal could change that.
The beer business is bright at Oaken Barrel.
"We had a record year for three years in a row, double digit increase last three years," said Kwang Casey, Oaken Barrel owner.
Now the Greenwood-based craft brewery is expanding by adding 2,000 square feet, hiring more workers and more than doubling capacity.
The growth is due in part to high demand for the product and a potential change in Indiana liquor law.
"It'll help all the brewers in indiana. definitely an increase in sales. That's another reason why we're expanding," said Casey.
In the upcoming session, lawmakers plan to introduce a new twist on the old Sunday sales debate. It's more about where and what kind of beer you can buy.
The proposal - which would allow Sunday carry-out alcohol sales - also would allow grocery stores and convenience stores to sell cold beer as long as that beer is made in Indiana. Right now, you can only buy cold beer at a liquor store.
Previous attempts to change the law didn't specify Indiana brews.
"We just believe that really highlighting our Indiana products is what we wanted to do and a tool that we could use to bring those products to the forefront in a way that was complimentary to the Sunday sales strategy," said Rep. Cindy Noe (R-Indianapolis).
Liquor store owners say the new strategy will bring the same result: No change in the law.
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"It's kind of like a three-year-old fruitcake, keeps getting re-gifted. It's getting stale. Nobody wants it," said Raymond Cox, Elite Beverages president and owner. "We carry Indiana beers. We carry all beers. Really they're best marketed here in a package store and they'd be the first ones to lose if that proposal went through."
But some Indiana brewers say cold beer sales would only help their business grow.
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Note from Bill Goodman: KET just returned from a trip to Washington, D.C., for a series of One to One interviews that began airing this week. My colleague Renee Shaw provides the highlights of tonight's One to One interview with Congressman Ed Whitfield which airs on KET tonight at 6:30 ET.
Elected to Congress in 1994 as the first Republican to represent Kentucky's First Congressional District, Hopkinsville native Ed Whitfield blasts President Obama for exacting environmental policies that, he claims, can effectively shutter the coal industry.
In the third of a series of interviews with Kentucky's congressional delegation, Whitfield tells host, Bill Goodman, that President Obama's tightened controls on mine permitting and coal-fired power plants point to a deliberate strategy aimed at shutting down the industry. Whitfield is the chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the full House Energy and Commerce Committee. His western Kentucky district has underground coal mines.
Congressman Whitfield also discusses the "The Freedom to Fish Act" backed also by U.S. Senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul. It is meant to reverse the Army Corp of Engineers' fishing restrictions at the Cumberland River system which ban public access to waters downstream of dams managed by the Corps.
On Washington gridlock, Whitfield explains why complex issues are hard to resolve given deeply held political ideologies, differing geographical backgrounds, and lack of outside socializing among members.
In fixing what he perceives as a "broken" budget process, Whitfield says Congress should work from the President's plan and go to a biennial, or two-year, budget cycle.
Whitfield also discusses the Syrian conflict, immigration, and reviving gun legislation. Of the latter, Whitfield laments there are more pressing and important matters, and he predicts gun legislation will continue to stall out in the 113th Congress.
Watch Bill Goodman's full interview with Congressman Ed Whitfield tonight at 6:30 ET. Tomorrow night, Bill talks with 2nd District Congressman Brett Guthrie.


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Sounds like you already decided . I don't have a problem with most guns recoil, but would suggest practicing w/ standard .38's and carrying .357 loads. If the recoil bothers you that much you will probably develop a flinch shooting full .357 loads.
I doubt you will notice recoil if you need to use the gun defensively.