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1984 528e - Can't get her started!!! Help!!
Well, I am no newbie to BMWs but at the same time I am no expert. The back story of the car (which is a little long) is in regular font, if you don't want to read this information scroll to the bottom and read the bold text. I have a 1984 528e that I rescued from south Georgia early this year. Going down there, I was under the impression that the car was in running condition and I was prepared to pay $400 for the car which I though was a steal. When I opened the hood of the car, running condition was not the situation. Field mice/squirrels had nested under the hood of the car and the engine bay was full of sticks, acorns, and other debris. After seeing this, I was prepared to throw in the towel because paying for a car in this condition was not a good idea. I called the owner (who was living in missouri) and informed him of the condition of the car and let him know that I was not willing to pay anything for the car. At this point, he gave me the car for free. Now I am realizing that free is not always "free."
So I got the car home and started cleaning out the engine bay so that i could fully assess the condition. I installed a new battery and tried to start it but the started was frozen. I removed the starter and got it broken free. Once it was reinstalled, she still would not start. I replaced the 2 reference sensors on the bell housing, changed out the fuel filter and whalah! she started right up! Smooth idle and all. I drove her on a 5 mile test drive and everything seemed to be go pretty well (considering the car had not been driven in 5 years). I live in atlanta and the car is stored at my parents house which is an hour south so I figured that next time I would pick up where I left off.
The next time I was at home, I got her started again pretty easily but there was very limited throttle response. When I would rev up the engine, it would bog down and stall. I made an attempt to drive her up to the gas station for fresh fuel but this turned out to be much more of an experience than a fuel run. On the 1 mile drive to the gas station, she wasbogging down really badly which I believe is attributed to a bad air/fuel ratio. At full throttle the car was only going 35-40mph. Just before I pulled into the gas station, the undercoating of the car around the exhaust ignited ultimately catching the undercarriage of the car on fire. I assume that this happend because she was running with too much fuel and the exhaust spontaneously combusted. We got the fire put out quickly and there was no apparent damage other than some charred undercoating. We had to tow her home from the gas station and she hasn't started since.
Since the gas station extravaganza, I have made mulitple attempts to get her running again and I am starting to run out of ideas. I replaced the main relay (which was kind of finnicky to start with). This did help b/c now i can hear the fuel pump turn on again. That being said, when I checked for fuel just before the fuel rail, it was abundant. Going from here I was assuming that it had to be something with the ignition system so I replaced the spark plugs and the plug wires. Sill no start. She turns over fine but I cant get her started.
In my past experiences with my first car (1984 533i) I learned that there is a mulitude of gremlins that can prevent these cars from starting. Can anyone help!!!???
Adam Dudenhoeffer
Atlanta, Georgia
1992 BMW 325i
Have you done a fuel pressure test? You may not be getting the right pressure, which would be the FPR on the fuel rail. With running it on 5 year old gas you might have clogged all 6 of the injectors. Have you tried cleaning up all of the fuses/connections? are you getting spark? could be a bad coil. Were the reference sensors damaged in the fire? How is your O2 sensor? Have you bought the Bentley?
wow...pics or it didn't happen...
seriously, though, that's an awful thing to have happen...
have you verified spark to the cylinders?? (use a spark plug tester, not the 'screwdriver trick) and pulse to the injectors?? (this can be checked with a 194 bulb)
if spark, then verify fuel pressure (2 pumps on these cars...) and i would suggest replacing the fuel filter anyway due to sitting for so long.
if spark and fuel, then you are looking compression. if compression checks out ok, then i would suspect a restricted exhaust.
you could try to remove the o2 sensor (probably a good thing to replace given the driving performance stated) and see if it runs. if so, then repair the restriction (most likely the cat, but may be the muffler, you'll need to check)
let us know what you find.
good luck.
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Re: Bareboat cruising BVI with 10 month old, help!
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Re: Bareboat cruising BVI with 10 month old, help!
Sounds like your adventure is a bit more involved than ours but we took our 11 month old on a 10 day bareboat charter in the BVI (out of Tortola) a few years back. We had 8 adults plus my young son on a 43' sail cat. A few notes from our trip:
- he was always in a life jacket in the boat except when in a closed door stateroom or in his carseat - at 11 months, he was already highly mobile.
- while on deck he was always in someone's arms . We had a direct handoff procedure so one person was always solely focused on him (no other sailing/ship duties)
- lots of shade in the cockpit. We rigged some extra to help keep him cool.
- (this is the debatable one) while underway, for naps we strapped his carseat in the cockpit. The line was quickly releasable and he still had a designated minder. Keep in mind also this was the world's safest sailing: day only, no schedule to keep, very calm seas, consistent winds. This allowed him to sleep comfortably close by.
-at night we built a padded stopper for the forward V birth in our stateroom to keep him in and safe but close by. Others have suggested mini mattress on the floor or mini hammock but this worked great.
- lots of hydration. It was April in the BVI and we had some warm days. He was a little sweat monster but we kept him happy.
- no stroller. Went with a backpack for all land ventures. The roads and walkways are always suspect down there. Backpack was easier for the ferry and on the docks. I am always freaked out about strollers around water. If it went in by accident, could you jump in and keep it above water easily?
All in all, he loved it. Very little fussing or issues. Don't know if we could have done it without at least two extra sets of hands and still relaxed. Great memories. Hope this helps!
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My husband and I have bareboated out of Tortola for the last two years and loved it. This year, we will have our ten month old daughter with us (in February) and it's a whole new world for us! We have to travel from Maine to Tortola, so I'd like to bring only the truly necessary baby equipment. We are chartering a 43' power cat.
Can anyone help me with ideas for what to have her sleep in? What kind of strollers are easiest to travel with and/or will do double duty? What kind of set-up did you use to feed a baby?
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A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea (original 2013; edition 2013)
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A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea by Dina Nayeri (2013)
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Interesting inside of a girl growing up in Iran. With dreams and restrictions. Sometimes a bit longwinded but still u want to know the ending.
Saba, ein elfjähriges Mädchen, hat auf einen Schlag ihre Zwillingsschwester Mahtab und ihre Mutter verloren - beide verschwunden. Obwohl man ihr immer wieder versichert, dass sie tot seien, ist Saba auch in den kommenden Jahren fest davon überzeugt, dass den Beiden die Flucht in die USA gelungen ist und sie dort das Leben führen, das Saba sich schon immer wünscht. Der christlichen Minderheit angehörend führen sie und ihr Vater ein zurückgezogenes Leben auf dem Land in einem kleinen Dorf, und trotz ihrer vermögenden Familie ist Saba auf's Engste mit den Menschen dort verbunden. Gemeinsam mit ihren beiden Freunden Reza, in den sie schon immer verliebt war, und der schönen Ponneh, ihrer besten Freundin und fast wie eine Schwester, wächst sie heran und erzählt ihnen immer wieder Geschichten aus dem Leben von Mahtab - ein Leben, wie Saba es gerne selbst führen würde. Wie besessen lernt sie (nicht nur) Englisch, liest nicht erlaubte Bücher aus den USA, hört und sieht verbotene Filme und Musik. Doch sie befindet sich im Iran nach der Revolution - und den Realitäten dieser Gesellschaft kann auch Saba nicht entfliehen.
Welch ein unglaublich schönes und reiches Land - reich an Geschichten, gutem Essen, Musik, Witz, Poesie und jahrtausende alter Kultur. Wenn, ja, wenn es die Mullahs nicht gäbe mit all ihren Gefolgsleuten, die den Bewohnern und bevorzugt den Bewohnerinnen im Namen Allahs das Leben schwer, wenn nicht sogar unerträglich machen. Dina Nayeri, selbst dort geboren und zehn Jahre gelebt, schildert das alltägliche Grauen, dass trotz aller Rückzugsversuche der Menschen in Geschichten und die kleinen Freuden des Lebens immer wieder mit purer Willkür und brachialer Gewalt über sie hereinbricht. Wie die VertreterInnen des iranischen Gottesstaates die kleinsten scheinbaren Vergehen mit gnadenloser Härte bestrafen. Und dennoch - die Menschen dort behalten ihre Lebensfreude bei.
Trotz des in großen Teilen bedrückenden Themas ist das Buch ungemein poetisch und macht deutlich, wie wichtig gerade in solchen Zeiten Freundschaft ist, aber auch das Erzählen von Ereignissen, (egal ob wahr oder falsch) und der Glaube daran. Und es zeigt, wie reich der Iran ungeachtet der lähmenden Verhältnisse nicht nur an Geschichten ist - welch ein wundervolles Land könnte es sein!
PS: Vielleicht könnte man in der nächsten Auflage ein Glossar mit all den herrlichen Ausdrücken anfügen? Das wäre eine wirkliche Bereicherung!
At the beginning of 'A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea,' the storyteller Khanom Basir shares two matching rhymes about yogurt and yogurt soda that are used at the end of the story to reveal whether a story is truth or fiction. (Maast is the word for yogurt, doogh is yogurt soda.)
If a story was fiction, the poem starts out with yogurt.
Up we went and there was maast,
Down we came and there was doogh.
And our story was doroogh (lie!).
If a story was true, the poem starts out with yogurt soda.
Up we went and there was doogh,
Down we came and there was maast.
And our story was raast (truth!).
And so, at the end of the story, you wait for the first line of the rhyme. Was the story yogurt or yogurt soda?
Saba has a murky memory of the day, but one she firmly believes happened--seeing her mother and twin sister, Mahtab, get onto a plane and leave Iran for America. But those around her, in her rural community in northern Iran, believe that Mahtab is dead. As Saba grows up with her friends Reza and Ponneh, three surrogate mothers, and a distant father, she tells stories of how she imagines her twin's life in America. She imagines her twin facing life confidently and bravely, facing challenges that are very different but at the same time very similar to Saba's difficult life in Iran. Are these stories yogurt or yogurt soda? Are Mahtab and her mother alive and well in America?
'A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea' was a bit slow-moving, but ultimately a lovely book. There were several especially touching relationships--the semi-dysfunctional and close friendship among Saba, Ponneh, and Reza; the father-daughter relationship between Saba and Agha Hafezi; and the marriage and deep love between the elderly Agha and Khanoom Mansoori. 4.5 stars.
Review can also be found at Owl You Need is a Good Read.
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.Childhood memories are cherished things, brought forward in our lives as we grow up, and which slowly become dreamlike with distortions, filters, and embellishments. So it is with Saba Hafezi's memories of her twin sister, Mahtab. Inseparable, the girls grow up in the warmth of a village in Iran, where they are the cherished and pampered children of a well-educated Christian couple. Surrounded by secrets, of their faith, their education, and their mother's activities, they nonetheless feel grounded and secure.
And then Mahtab and their mother are gone.
Saba remembers the day they left to go to America. The ride to the airport, the mystery of where they were going and why, the color of her mother's scarf as she and Mahtab disappear in the crowd. Saba had been sick and not allowed to see Mahtab, a painful first that left Saba hollow. But they would be together soon, and on their way to America, the dream land the twins idolized as though it were a movie star or rock singer. But in a confusing twist of fate, Saba sees her mother and Mahtab leave without her. Crushed, Saba returns home with her father. From that day on Saba lives two lives: one, constricted by tradition and religion, in her rural hometown and the other in a fantasy America where her twin lives an extravagant and unfettered dream.
Saba grows up motherless and yet surrounded by mothers. Khanom Basir, the Evil One, wants the best for Saba, as long as that doesn't include marriage to her beloved son, Reza. Khanom Mansoori, the Ancient One, is nearly ninety and treats Saba as though she were the daughter she never had. Khanom Omidi, the Sweet One, squirrels away money made from her yogurt sales and always has a treat for the lonely girl. These three old woman, try to fill the void, but never really understand the well-educated and headstrong Saba. Their voices and memories add additional layers to the story of her life.
As Saba navigates the shoals of adolescence, first love, arranged marriage, and adulthood, snippets of meaning float to the surface which suggest that Saba's memories might hide a darker truth. The boundaries between memory, truth, and story are fluid and one's life is composed of bits of each. Just as Saba must choose how she tells her life story, so must the reader choose what to believe.
In an author's note, Dina Nayeri describes her own life story as the inverse of Saba's. Dina was raised in exile in America and dreams of what her life might have been like had her family remained in Iran after the revolution. She writes that this book is her own "Mahtab dream".
Although a first novel and in need of some tightening, A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea is intriguing and complex with some beautifully written passages. I look forward to seeing how the author's style evolves in future novels.
A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea is a poignant tale of twin sisters growing up in Iran. Saba and Mahtab were mirror images of each other until the day Saba's mother left and Saba saw Mahtab being dragged away. Forced to be alone for the first time, Saba finds friendship with two local village children, Ponneh and Reza. As the children grow up in a changing 1980s Iran where American books, magazines and video tapes are prized, they are forced to confront harsh realities of the new regime. Some events will be life changing, but throughout Saba clings to the memory that Mahtab and her mother are safely in America.
I enjoy books set in a different culture to my own and this tale is no exception. Reading this book helped me to understand more about what some of my friends and colleagues went through when they left Iran in the early 1990s. A lot of the everyday rules and rituals were foreign to me – such as the banning of alcohol and not being able to wear the shoes you want outside. Saba's frequent mistakes and flaunting of the rules had much more severe consequences that I could envisage.
The predominant question as Saba and her friends are growing up is, 'where is Mahtab?' People try to tell her that Mahtab's gone, but Saba won't listen and her father won't reveal the truth. The constant questioning got a little annoying for me as I could tell that I wasn't going to find out any time soon. As the children grew older, the questioning lessened and Saba, Ponneh and Reza began to become tangled up in a whole new set of problems. I did like Saba's tellings of Mahtab's life in America (heavily influenced by movies and television, such as Growing Pains and Love Story) and looked forward to reading new 'episodes'.
Storytelling is a major part of the plot, as is working out what is truth and what is fiction. Saba struggles to work out the many uncertainties in her life and why they have happened. It's only as she faces the truth that she starts to heal. Separate chapters by Reza's mother gives some clue that Saba isn't always telling the truth. These chapters also help to shape the setting, which is beautifully described by Nayeri. The setting of rural Iran where somebody is always watching and no-one is safe is beautiful but unsettling.
This is a quietly emotional book that packed a punch at its conclusion – I was hoping I was mistaken in the fate of some of the characters. The contrasts Saba makes between herself and Mahtab are quite sad, highlighted in the different opportunities available to women in Iran and America.
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Durham's retail industry has suffered in recent years with the increasing cost of unit spaces and recession.
The once full to the brim 'Gates' shopping centre (was Milburngate centre) is now fileld with more empty units than shops! The shops still running are Clintons (although there is a larger one on Silver Street), X-catalogue shop, The Works (cheap book store), Savers (cheap cosmetics), Poundland, Pawnbrokers, cheap scarf shop, cheap bag shop, keycutters (with other facilities), Yorkshire Trading (full of everything), Bon Marche (elderly persons clothes shop)m Evans (plus size shop), Julian Graves (health food), Ponden Mill (household) and Miss Selfridge (young fashion).
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The auxiliary fan (the electric one) does not run on high speed, I am activating this by shorting the connections at the thermostat switch, I got a second fan, but this had the same issue.
So I put 12 volts in to the fan & it now runs at both high & low speeds.
Put back in the car & still only running at low speed, so now I know it's not the fan.
I have also replaced (what I believe to be) the high speed relay, but still no joy.
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During the past seven years the Bush administration has been engaged in a nonstop campaign to deride, threaten, and denounce the government of Iran even to the extent of warning about possible military attacks. Suddenly, President Bush has switched his view point and decided that Barack Obama's plan to engage in discussions with Iran is an intelligent idea. The president approved the highest level American diplomatic contact with Iran since the 1970s. He is sending an envoy this weekend to discuss issues with Iranian representatives. The British newspaper, The Independent, also suggests, "the rapprochement includes plans by the US to post diplomats in Tehran for the first time since the Islamic revolution in the form of a US interests section– a move halfway to setting up an embassy– subject to approval by the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad."
This is not good news for the candidacy of John McCain since the president apparently is now supporting Barack Obama's view that negotiation with terrorists is needed. William Burns, the third in line at the STate Department, will travel with the EU's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, to Geneva to talk to Iran's main nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili.
Bush's change of heart came after a Rand Corporation report bluntly told the president, "if Iran's facilities were to be bombed, public support for any retaliation its government took would like to be widespread. Attacks on iran proper would generate a great deal of ill-will and, in our view, would be unlikely to change Iranian policy." Administration sources said Burns would not be allowed to conduct separate talks with the Iranians.
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2008 High School Coach of the Year: Sue Bordainick
Ever since Sue Bordainick started coaching tennis at Ramapo High School in Spring Valley, N.Y., in 1973, she has not cut any player who's tried out for the team. While numbers were modest when she first began coaching the team, 25 years later her boys' and girls' teams are attracting upwards of 60 members each.
"The students know when they come out that they made the team," says Bordainick. "So there's no pressure on them. They can just relax." For her work to make the game available to all students who want to play, Bordainick has been named the RSI's 2008 High School Coach of the Year.
The Ramapo teams consist of three divisions — varsity, junior varsity and "modified" for seventh- and eighth-graders bused to Ramapo from the local middle school. To manage time and court space, the varsity practices first, followed by the JV team, then the modified squad. "We just go until darkness," says Bordainick.
"Tennis owes a great deal of credit to coaches like Sue who work extra hard and spend more time because keeping extra kids on the team is more challenging than simply cutting to a more convenient or manageable number," says Kirk Anderson, USTA director of Recreational Coaches & Programs.
"The kids just love coming out for tennis," says Bordainick, who recently received the 2008 USTA Starfish Award for no-cut coaches. "Most of the kids from our district, when they come out, have never played before. It's nice to see them grow."
And it's not just the students' tennis skills that are growing, but also a bond between schoolmates. "They are so close-knit by the end of the season," says Bordainick. "After a long match, win or lose, they yell 'Team Hug!' And the whole team runs out on court."
- For a no-cut tennis team, on the first day of practice (which is not a "tryout"), let the students know they all made the team.
- Compliment players on their success. Bordainick's motto: "If you get the ball over the net one more time than your opponent, you'll win the point."
- Try to keep players moving throughout the entire practice. Bordainick has each player hit four balls, then run and place four balls back in the hopper. There is no down time.
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Please help me cure my ignorance about installing hardwood flooring. I have a few very novice questions.
I have carpeting in my living room that I am going to replace with prefinished bamboo flooring. I am choosing my materials and contractor now, and I want to have a complete understanding of the options and the work involved.
The carpet is tacked and is sitting on top of what appears to be 1/2" plywood. This appears to be the subfloor, but it it possible that it is a second layer of plywood on top of the plywood subfloor.
I have been reading about the various underlayment options, and I am confused about whether the underlayment is supposed to include a second layer of (good) plywood on top of the subfloor. I am planning to put 15lbs builders' felt directly underneath the bamboo.
So, my questions:
Do I need both the plywood and the felt for the underlayment?
Is this any different if my subfloor is 3/4" plywood rather than 1/2"?
Given that I have carpet (in a home constructed in 1980), is it likely that the tacks are attached directly to the subfloor, or to an underlayment layer on top of it?
Thank you for your help!
You shoud not need another layer of plywood. What style is you floor nail down or floating?
I assuming you float it if it is saying you need underlayment.
I am planning on nailing the bamboo planks down.
So it sounds like I just need the plywood subfloor, then the felt, and then the bamboo?
If it is plywood that is good no need for extra, Use 15 mil Tarpaper.
Keep in mind:Bamboo is soft, be easy while you are installing it. get prepared for a few scratchs to pop up.
Set your nailgun so it does not dent edges while you are nailing.
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Re: restart?
A "clean worksheet"??? If you really mean that, then just open a new
notebook window! (From the menu, File > New.)
Or do you mean you want the Mathematica kernel to forget everything it
learned as made definitions in a notebook (or more than one notebook) at
a given Mathematica session? That's something entirely different.
For the latter, the simplest way is probably to use the menu command
Kernel > Quit Kernel > Local.
The way you asked your question, I suspect you're trapped in the
paradigm of some other symbolic algebra program.
rick wrote:
> Hi,
> I am sure other folks have asked this question but I have not seen the
> answer so...
> How does one restart in Mathematica? Of course, one can just quit the
> application and then start over but surely there is a command that
> reverts to a clean worksheet.
> Thanks,
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Spirited Rajasthan had kept Hyderabad on a tight leash and it looked like the batting side would wound up with a less than par score on a difficult Kotla pitch. Some one needed to power Hyderabad towards a defendable target. Sammy took little time to settle and once he did, not even Rajasthan's best could dislodge him. Watson dropped one short and that was promptly dispatched over mid-wicket, Cooper's length ball was smacked over wide long on and when Watson returned for his final spell, Sammy took it on a cue and hammered him over long on. It looked like Sammy was going to provide that grandstand finish, but an accurate throw from the deep by Rahul Shukla cut his innings short.
Ishant Sharma returned into the playing XI after recovering sufficiently from his sickness that caused him to miss the final league match against Kolkata, but he did not seem to have lost his old habit of conceding runs. Having conceded 15 runs in his first two overs, skipper, Cameron White, entrusted him with yet another over. Rahane welcomed him into his over with a diligent loft over long off, Watson muscled a short ball over mid-wicket for a boundary and ended the over with a fine tickle past the keeper. Ishant was taken for 16 runs in the over and he was left thirsting for revenge. Next over, Sammy snapped up a beauty at deep mid-wicket to end Watson's hurricane. Sammy celebrated in his normal self but it was Ishant who gave Watson a proper send off.
Brad Hodge led an admirable fightback as he marshaled Rajasthan's victory march. With 10 runs needed from the final over, the task of winning Hyderabad the match rested on Sammy's shoulder. His first ball was a shocker. With square leg and fine leg inside the ring, he dropped one short which Hodge gleefully deposited it into the stands. He then bowled the perfect length ball as Hodge sent Rajasthan into a tizzy with a stunning strike over long on. Hyderabad were left stunned and gutted, but Hodge had not been done for the day. He added more misery onto Sammy by mocking his pacifier style of dancing.


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My office is on the sixth floor of a building that has a single, unreliable elevator. I dread taking the elevator, not because I might get trapped inside (it has happened to me twice already), but because I fear being trapped with a colognized person: the kind of person whose body is saturated in cologne or perfume.
I wore cologne for many years of my life. It started in middle school when I attended a Catholic school in Guam where we had to wear uniforms. One way we tried to be unique is by wearing cologne. At that time, the colognes were all imported from America. The most popular ones had names like "cool water" or "fresh waves" or "ocean breeze." Predatory marketing that appealed to my islander sensibility.
Of course, scents and perfumes are inherent to all cultures; human beings like to smell good. Throughout the Pacific, the nose and its associated acts are very important: from the hongi in Maori culture where people greet each other by touching noses, the use of smell in Micronesian navigation practices to locate certain islands based on fruits or flowers that grow on that island, the gifting of fragrant leis in Hawaiian culture to welcome and honor, and the Chamorro custom of manginge' in which one would smell of the back of an elder's raised hand to show respect.
In the essay "Sniffing Oceania's Behind," Vince Diaz explores the importance of the olfactory in the Pacific:
"Smells are transitory, though they can also persist and even come and go and come again. They can be short-lived, long-lasting, permanent, or serial. They can be light or heavy, stinky or heavenly. Whether permanent or fleeting, repulsive or attractive, smells are, or can be, powerful signs of prior events, conditions, or processes and as such are indexical in that they point to something else often not visible or audible. Smells also foreground, as a matter of import, the subject who does the smelling (the one whose nose knows) and therefore add social or cultural specificity to the matter at hand. As we know, smells are also powerful—some say the most powerful—triggers of memory, which in turn is a complex discursive process and product with its own complicated sets of relationships to history"
Even though natural perfumes were an important part of Pacific cultures, colonialism brought new kinds of invasive smells that had more to do with Western notions of hygiene and less to do with essence and respect. Getting my first whiff of the scents of the empire as a male adolescent was, I admit, intoxicating.
When my family moved to the states and I readied to attend my new high school in California, I insisted on buying the cool new cologne and the cool new deodorant because I wanted to smell American. I wanted to "smell in."
So I got a job at Little Ceasar's Pizza, my first job in America as a teenager. I could not wash off the smell of pizza. But after I received my first paycheck, I bought the latest cologne and deodorant to mask my pizza smell (I eventually quit that job and found a new job at Ross Department Store, in which I could buy cologne with my employee discount).
"Perfume" comes from the Latin per fumum, which means "through smoke." Growing up, I was not aware of the entangled histories of perfume and colonialism. My mind and body were "colognized" from head to armpit. Chemistry, technology, and marketing created a thick ideological smoke. I was too suffocated to ask: Why did I feel the need to smell this way? What kinds of chemicals was I spraying onto my body? How do these chemical perfumes affect those around me? How does it affect the environment? How environmentally destructive is the cologne deodorant industry?
There are many articles out there about the dangers of chemical perfumes and the aluminum and parabens in deodorant. So this year I decided to throw away my bottle of cologne and my bars of deodorant. I now only wear coconut oil, which is much cheaper anyways.
Coconut oil has many other uses besides being aromatic—it also moisturizes the skin, increases sun tolerance and protects from sunburn, helps heal cuts, reduce allergies, acts as an antibacterial, soothes after shaving, reduces acne, and much more. For now I try to buy "organic" and "fair trade" coconut oil since the global coconut industry has many of its own problems. It's my trying-to-be-conscientious-consumer-compromise until I can make my own or find a local source (if anyone has a local source, please let me know).
Personally, I think the sexiest smell on any islander is coconut oil. Plus, coconut oil is lubricating. Plus, coconut oil is edible.
In terms of deodorant, coconut oil by itself will not keep you dry. Instead I mix the oil with baking soda (deodorizer) and arrowroot powder (absorbent), two things I have in my fridge that, yes, you can also eat (and easily find at the store). I do equal parts of the three ingredients plus a bit more soda/powder, mix into a paste, then store at room temperature in a little mason jar (this is good for the environment too since I can re-use these jars and avoid the plastic deodorant containers). This little jar lasts about three months and it is about 3 tablespoons of each of the ingredients—so it's also much cheaper than buying deodorant. The part that takes getting used is the fact that you have to apply this deodorant with your fingers. But this quickly fades by a quick rinse.
Our addiction to cologne and deodorant "point[s] to something else often not visible or audible": colognization. How can we ever breathe in the essence of Oceania, if we can't breathe through the smoke and perfumes of colonialism?


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Sasha and Malia Obama's school might cost $70,000 a year to attend, but that doesn't mean that the kids don't mess up. It turns out that the Sidwell Friends School in Washington DC is being heavily criticized for an affair that a staff psychologist had with the parent of a student. The school is in a $10 million dollar lawsuit that has stained the reputation of one of the finest institutions in the country.
Even worse, a report was released stating that 71 percent of the children at the school admitted that they go to parties where drugs and alcohol are readily available. Another report says that a full 25 percent of the boys at the school admitted to driving under the influence of alcohol as well. This makes their school as bad as many elite universities, where wealthy kids get away with things that would give them long prison sentences if they were poor or black.
A family insider said that Michelle and Barack are concerned about the allegations:
"Certainly, the trouble at the school has upset both Barack and Michelle," said the insider. "Some friends have suggested the girls be tutored privately at the White House, but the Obamas are keen to have the girls' educational experience be as normal as possible. They don't want them home-schooled."
A former student at the school says that, "I have seen kids snorting coke, smoking pot, getting high and boozing."
One of the former students at the school, Hugh L. Elsbree, was arrested for running a drug lab. Another graduate was recently arrested for possession of cocaine and ecstasy with the intent to distribute. It appears that during this election season, the Obamas have some pretty important decisions to make. Those decisions appear to be starting right at home.
Maybe when President Obama speaks about troubled schools in America, he might want to look in his own back yard.


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Channel Five's revenues fell 35% in the first half of the year as the advertising recession hit hard, making it the worst-performing part of RTL Group's pan-European broadcasting and production business.
The UK broadcaster's revenues were €138m (£121m) in the six months to June, down from €212m for the same period last year.
This 34.9% year-on-year decline was far worse than the 18.5% fall RTL recorded in Germany and the 16.5% in the Netherlands.
RTL, majority-owned by German company Bertelsmann, also said today that the Five family of channels – including the digital channels Five USA and Fiver – lost market share in the first half of 2009, accounting for 7.9% of the TV advertising market, down from 8.9% in 2008.
The RTL chief executive, Gerhard Zeiler, said Five, as a relatively small player in the UK broadcasting market, had been hit disproportionately hard by the downturn.
Austerity measures such as running fewer new programmes, renegotiating with suppliers and axing a quarter of staff trimmed €22m from Five's cost base but had not been enough to offset the severity of the advertising downturn, Zeiler added.
"Despite a fantastic, really great job the new management have done when it comes to significant cost reduction ... that was not enough to compensate for the advertising downfall, which we had not expected," he said.
He pointed out that the strength of the euro against the pound meant that Five's revenue decline in local currency was 27%. The picture was also distorted by the late negotiation of deals with a trio of media agencies, he added.
Zeiler said further cuts on top of the redundancy programme, which saw Five's headcount reduced by 87 jobs from a previous total of 354, could not be ruled out under chair and chief executive Dawn Airey.
"We are the leanest terrestrial TV channel in the UK, but it does not mean our management won't look at cutting costs. What is not necessary, we will not spend. That's the rule of Dawn and that's a good rule. In that situation nobody would rule anything out, but nothing is planned," he added.
Zeiler said there was no visibility for advertising in any of RTL's markets across Europe and warned that a revival might not improve revenues dramatically because of the abundant supply of advertising opportunities.
"We have to be prepared for a situation when, even when demand increases slightly, the pressure on prices remains," he added.
The recession was not causing RTL to rethink its operating model as a free-to-air broadcaster, he said, arguing that in any case only 60% to 62% of the company's revenues were from advertising. RTL also owns programming, rights and distribution business FremantleMedia, which makes UK shows including The Apprentice and The X Factor through its production subsidiary Talkback Thames.
Zeiler said Five's position – outside RTL's preference for its broadcasters to be number one or two in its market – made it "worse off", adding that this would have to change through some form of consolidation.
"Everybody is talking to everybody. One thing I can say for sure, there will be consolidation in the market because it's an economic reality and an economic need that this will happen," he said. "Nobody can really forecast how this consolidation in the end will phase out."
He would not be drawn on how a new chief executive at ITV might affect Five's position. "We will not comment on specific strategic options at the current point of time," he said.
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E-mail Junkie
Are you an e-mail junkie? I think many of us don't want to admit it, but deep down, we know we are! By this, I mean, do you check your e-mail several times during the day (like 100 times?!) Okay, so maybe you're not that bad, but wouldn't it be easier to have your e-mail check itself?
Believe it or not, you can do that with Outlook Express! You can set your e-mail to check every five minutes or every hour. Whatever you want! Sound good? I thought you might like that. All you have to do is open Outlook Express and go to Tools, Options and choose the General tab. Look toward the middle of the box under the Send/Receive Messages section.
The very last choice there is "Check for new messages every (blank) minutes." Check that box and then choose the amount of time you want your e-mail to be checked. You can either use the up and down arrows to set your time or just type it in. Then right below that, there is an option if your computer isn't connected to the Internet at the time of the scheduled check. You can either choose for it to not connect you, connect only when working offline or connect even when working offline.
Either way you go, your e-mail will never miss a checkpoint and you won't miss any news! It doesn't get any better than that!
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MTECH II Bumper & Hood/Trunk/Door Handles (Painting)
So. Basically I'm wondering about the average price to get each of/all of these touched up and painted. The bumper I've been really wanting to pick up because I like the style, and the price for the bumper isn't too bad (though it could be better), but the price to paint it seems like it could be a bit... excessive. My hood has a few exceptionally light marks on it. As if a dime came by and touched that part of my hood, taking with it the top most layer of paint in a few spots. It's not really noticeable, but it's a bit annoying to me. My trunk has a few scratch marks on it that are light and you can't feel them with your hand (of the same nature as the ones on the hood). The door handles have marks from when the previous owner touched the insides of the handles with his keys every time he opened the door... :confused:. Steel Blue, if that matters.
Anyhow, could anyone give me an estimate/idea as to where to look if you've had similar, if not the same work done before.
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What is this list? It's a compilation of the top 100 football recruits from the Sunshine State if you combined the classes of 2014, 2015, and 2016.
Obviously there is quite a bit of projection when you mix in the sophomores and juniors with the seniors.
I did this prior to the start of the season. This is my version of the Ultimate Florida Top 100 right now.
21) Sam Bruce
Class of 2016
Ft. Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas
Wide Receiver
Offers from FSU, Florida, Miami, Arkansas, Clemson, Michigan State, West Virginia others
My take: I will just say it – pound for pound Sam Bruce just may be the best football player in the state of Florida. He's only just a sophomore and he was the best player as a freshman this past spring on the South Florida Express 7-on-7 team. This kid has swag. This kid has speed and quickness. This kid has hands like his uncle (Isaac). This kid is just a baller with an incredible future in front of him.
22) Trevor Darling
Class of 2014
Miami Central
Right Tackle
Committed to Miami
My take: Darling has good size and long arms. He shows pretty good feet and can slide side to side in pass pro. Darling bends well and has a solid base. Darling appears to be further along in pass pro than run blocking. He doesn't appear to be an overwhelming drive blocker at this point and plays a little high. He certainly has plenty of time to develop his skills and has a lot of upside. At times he can be downright nasty.
23) Artavis Scott
Class of 2014
Tarpon Springs East Lake
Wide Receiver
Committed to Clemson
My take: Scott is a versatile talent that is a big play threat. While he struggles with consistency he has a knack for the spectacular, whether it's an acrobatic catch over a defender or an electric catch and run. He's explosive and can be a smaller receiver to play on the outside. He can also play in slot. This is a super talent that has great upside as a wide receiver and even more at corner, if he were to choose to play defense full time. He's physical on that side of the ball and has all the traits you look for at that position. Scott did pick the perfect offense in Clemson. He will have a chance to pick up where Sammy Watkins left off.
24) Shawn Burgess-Becker
Class of 2015
Coconut Creek Monarch
Wide Receiver/Safety
Offers from teams like Alabama, FSU, Miami, Florida and others.
My take: Burgess-Becker is an outstanding athlete who is good enough to play for anyone in the country on offense or defense. He has elite speed and very good size. As a safety he's a thumper, who excels in run support. He has the versatility to play free or strong and is good in coverage. He has range, instincts and is simply a playmaker. He just took on the wide receiver position this spring and looked sensational. He's a kid good enough to play on either side of the ball in college.
25) Anthony Moten
Class of 2014
Ft. Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas
Defensive Tackle
Committed to Miami
My take: At his size Moten has an ideal frame to work with and is capable of bulking up and filling out. He is a versatile lineman that could play as a traditional defensive tackle or fit on the line in the 3-4. He flashes greatness but needs to become more consistent in his effort. He can be explosive. Moten had an impressive season and it could be argued that he's the top defensive tackle in his class from the state.
26) Jeffrey Holland
Class of 2015
Jacksonville Trinity Christian Academy
Offers from Alabama, Arkansas, Clemson, Florida, FSU, Georgia, LSU, Miami, Notre Dame, Ohio State, South Carolina, Tennessee, UCLA, USC, others
My take: Holland is a defensive end and linebacker. He's an aggressive and physical downhill player that can go sideline to sideline and play inside out. He can take on blocks and fill the hole. Holland is a big hitter and not afraid of contact. As a pass rusher, he has the size, speed and athleticism to dominate the edge. He shows deceptive agility and quickness.
27) Byron Cowart
Class of 2015
Seffner Armwood
Defensive End
Offers from Alabama, Florida, FSU, Oregon, USF, Vanderbilt, others.
My take: Cowart has to be one of the best looking prospects off the hoof that you will find anywhere in any class in high school football. He has great size, build and length. Cowart looks like a guy that has already spent a season or two in college. As a player he's still developing and finding his way. He shows flashes and will disappear. When he's on Cowart is a nasty defensive line prospect that can play the run and get after the passer. There's no doubt he needs work and refinement. At the same time, he has all the tools necessary to become an elite player. I saw him play twice this season. In one game he dominated Tampa Hillsborough. In the other game he was dominated by Miami Central and Trevor Darling.
28) Nicolas Bosa
Class of 2016
Ft. Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas
Defensive End
Offers from Ohio State, Florida, Notre Dame, Alabama and others.
My take: Bosa is already a beast. He's the younger brother of Ohio State star freshman defensive end Joey Bosa. He has all the same traits as his sibling but he's more athletic and a little further along than Joey at the same stage. That's scary. There's no question he can work his way to the top of this list in 2016. He's that good.
29) Jacques Patrick
Class of 2015
Orlando Timber Creek
Running Back
Offers from Florida, FSU, Miami, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Auburn, Clemson, Duke, Georgia, LSU, Ohio State, Michigan, Notre Dame, Penn State, and many others.
My take: Patrick is so different than every back on this list. He's the big back in the state. He's the guy that runs with tremendous power. Patrick is not a speed demon but fast enough. It's not like he gets caught from behind when he breaks free. He has good feet and balance and knows how to run behind his pads. He's patient and when he wants to turn it on you better get out of his way.
30) J.C. Jackson
Class of 2014
Jackson is committed to Florida but could very well end up signing with Miami or even FSU.
My take: Jackson has starred at the high school level since he stepped foot on campus as a freshmen. A wide receiver earlier in his career, Jackson has now made the move to cornerback. He can flat out run and should be a low 4.4 [forty] type down the road. He combines that speed with a thick, powerful frame. Jackson will need to work on the finer points of the position. He is raw in the technique department. Jackson can also play safety. He had a terrific senior season and was very impressive during the Under Armour All-American Bowl practice sessions.
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EPA to workers: stop pooping in the hallways
A Denver EPA employee is apparently pooping in the hallway.
Howard Cantor, Denver Environmental Protection Agency administrator, sent an email asking employees not to leave their feces in the hallway. Reportedly, there have been several incidents throughout the building of feces left in the hallway and clogging the toilets with paper towels.
EPA management is still looking for these individuals and will take necessary actions to prosecute and discipline them.
There was also an earlier incident in May where an employee downloaded 7,000 files of porn.