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high humidity in basement
My daughter and husband bought a house in May 2008. Very happy initially, but in last couple of days have noticed very high humidity, moisture on floor in basement. No issues when they looked at the house in March /April prior to purchase.
House was built in 2002, has AC, furnace and Venmar air exchanger. They had furnace cleaned, new injector nozzle, filters installed when they moved in. Technician said there was no need to operate the Venmar system in summer.
Last Sunday (3 days ago) noticed dampness on floor and some mold on drywall. Monday we removed all drywall in workshop area, and took bleach to floor and other walls. Have placed some window fans to exhaust the basement air.
We have several questions and hope someone with experience/suggestions will respond.
Should the furnace fan be turned on - or is there a danger to moving any particles/pollutants through the rest of the house?
Should the furnace fan be running just to move air/ventilate normally?
Should the Venmar unit be connected to the forced air furnace?
How should the Venmar air exchanger be operated? None of us has had one and have no experience with its operation.
They are getting a dehumidifier today. Will it help?
Thoughts and suggestions are welcome.
Also, we're in Ontario Canada and have had 22 days of rain in June, and not much less so far in July. Also expecting rain for the next 4-5 days. So outside air is high humidity as well.
I'm not qualified to repond, however check your gutters sounds like water is not being diverted away from the house when it rains. This can cause humid and moist environment in basement even water on the ground. Also is your ac unit drain clogged in the basement. That will back up if clogged. Hope this was somewhat helpfull. Sounds like you should find the source of the moisture and tackle that before anything else. Good luck:thumbsup:
Note house is relatively high with lawn sloped away from the house on all sides.
I would definitely either have the furnace fan running constantly (if it is capable and rated for 24/7 running) OR have the Venmar running.
The idea, apart from the idea just suggested in the previous post is worthwhile; you have a high humidity problem, the source of which you will have to find, but if you don't find one then you just have high humidity. Maybe coming in through the concrete...could be a number of ways. But one way to reduce mould and musty smells are to increase ventilation in the house specifically in the basement and if possible vent that outdoors.
There is a chance that a previous water accident left mould in the furnace ducts, in which case a good professional cleaning is in order. But your house would have smelled a long time a go if you had, so I would reduce that probability. No I'd say you had -or have - higher than 60%RH conditions with no air movement and thus mould growth.
Clean it up with dilute bleach, put on the air exchanger and get a dehumidifier if you like. Don't do all that much but every little bit helps...
There has been no musty smell in the house. I think a big factor is that we have had the wettest June and July in years- and rain is predicted right through to next Monday. It' hard to dry anything with these conditions. And it's raining right now. Seems the Venmar would just bring in the humid air.
Is there any danger of worsening the situation if they turn the furnace fan on at this time?
Is your Venmar an ERV model, or an HRV. Model number will help. Just currious why the tech said it was not necessary to run it during the summer.
I know in Canada, they are desirable, due to ventilation requirements, and it is more likely the previous owner experienced similar problems and dealt with them by installing the Venmar ststem. Some are more elaborate than others, and do offer dehumidification. Try turning it back on, and see if it helps.
Just read your post re. Venmar system... never mind, probably a simple HRV.
System is Venmar Constructo 1.5 Model 43110 Installation date Nov 2004.
Does this help?
Is there a procedure for running/setting this?
Well, it sounds as if the Venmar just brings in new air from outside, runs it through the furnace and the exhausts it. OK, that's fine too. At least it's moving...
If the RH outside was constantly above 60% at 21 deg C, and the same conditions were inside your house but there was little air movement, then mould would grow wherever it found food. Mould growth can be reduced by: 1) reducing the moisture content of the air; 2) increasing air movement or 3) increasing the air temperature (either the general space temperature or the temperature of the walls and floor).
Either high humidity or temperature can be the major factor in a mould problem. A humidity sensitive mould may not respond well to increasing temperatures, and conversely a temperature-sensitive mould may not respond very well to increasing ventilation. So try both increasing the temperature down there and reducing the humidity by increasing the ventilation.
If the relative humidity near the middle of the basement is fairly high (e.g., 50 percent at 20 deg C), mould or mildew problems in the room are likely to be humidity level-sensitive. If the relative humidity near the middle of a room is fairly low (e.g., 30 percent at 20 deg C) mould or mildew problems in the room are likely to be temperature sensitive.
Good luck!
Inspect all Basement Walls
there may be a small leak.... look at the bare concrete.... a leak is not a big deal... it can be fixed easily most of the time.... not knowing/and finding it is....
Is this a probable case of ground saturation? Does saturation increase w/depth of the soil, or is it less. I know she has stated that the ground is sloped away from the house, but without knowing the depth of the basement vs. the depth of the slope, at what point do you consider improving the terrain vs sealing the entire basement?
Yes, I think it is a saturation issue, thankfully a temporary one. I didn't ask if they had a sump pump, it may be there isn't one and that their house is close to - or now at - the ground water table. But the drainage issues are always IMO the first fix before tinkering around indoors...indoors you just see the effects of inadequate-fix causes outside.
So the downspout directed away from the foundation is a good start unless you can be absolutely sure the water goes deep enough into the weeping, the weeping isn't blocked and the proper sock around it and that that runoff is properly connected to the sewer. There are a lot of "ifs" and I'd just rather see a 8-foot pipe taking the runoff away from the house altogether. They have that...so fine.
That's all part of positive-side remedies. On the negative-side i.e. inside the house, I like to apply a silicate sealer to concrete. If that's not feasible (and most times it is), then you can always do what's happeneing here: manage the humidity levels to provide a safe, mould-free living environment. I personally think fans should always provide adequate air circulation, and the Venmar is just one I like.
Saturation increases with soil depth.
The house does have a sump pump. It has been working during the actual rain, but after the rain the sump pit is pretty much empty. I have a feeling there is some saturation next to one wall - under the front porch. The plan is yo remove some porch floor boards and see what the grading is like, We think this may have been saturated because of all the rain and the way the gutter drains were set up.
The dehumidifier is working great. RH is in 69-70% range.
Prediction for today is sunny with no rain !!! Maybe we can dry out a little.
Well, well, orange, you're from my home town! Was born in Rockcliffe Park.
RH of 70% at say 17 deg C is OK, but still a bit high. Can't do much else but to run the dehumidifier because outside it's probably 75%RH at 22 deg C. But as soon as it gets to around 55%RH at 23 deg C, then open doosrs and windows, run the Venmar because then you'll be removing the moisture naturally. The the mould problem will go too.
Nice and sunny here today! We're about 125 miles apart
After installing a dehumidifier and some ceiling fans RH is now about 53-55%.
Things seem much better.
Good...the next things you'll want to look into is continuous air movement down there - which you may already have with the Venmar - and removal of sources of mould growth i.e. anything with cellulose. Ceiling tiles, gyproc, wood studs, natural-based carpet (wool or cotton), cardboard, wood panelling,etc. I know that's a long list and turning your basement into a plastic jungle isn't an option, but the combination of low humidity constant air movement and lack of food will eventually rid your basement of mouldy and musty smells.
In the meantime, a shot of diluted 1:1 bleach here and there in dark corners, on concrete, even on joists, studs and panelling just might lower the problem to acceptable standards. I found a 8"x8" cover on a anti-backup valve made of plywood to be the main culprit in the last house I did. This cover was sitting on a plywood box that literally stood in 1" of water for years. Cleaning that out and replacing the cover with a metal one did the trick...
Keeping the RH at 55% at temperatures around 18degC is "normal"; at lower temperatures, the %RH will go down, which is even better. On the other hand, if the temperature goes up to 21degC and the RH is still 55%, that's just on the borderline for growth, so something extra is needed.
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That's the verdict of Arsène Wenger, who has seen his summer signing exceed expectations in his first months at Emirates Stadium.
Oxlade-Chamberlain has scored on both of his first-team starts - against Shrewsbury and Olympiacos - and bagged a hat-trick for England Under-21s during the recent international break.
The 18-year-old is very much flavour of the month and has been linked with a call-up to Fabio Capello's squad for Euro 2012. Wenger believes he is ready to make the step up but wants his new recruit to be given time.
"We are more than six months before the tournament, we are now in October. Let's see where he stands in March and let's be open-minded," said the Frenchman.
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Oxlade-Chamberlain is older than Theo Walcott was when he was a shock inclusion in England's 2006 World Cup squad. Wenger believes the latter deserves credit for the way he handled the attention.
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Well at 32 you can still break a lot of your good hunting rules. Let me give you a recap.
Friday was the last day of the early doe only MG hunt in AR. Saturday is the start of the Youth MG weekend. My 11 year old shot a bigger buck than I ever have last year and just as many doe as I did. I have heard about it from her a little. She is going to the horn hotel with my dad Saturday .
I have hunted a pretty good bit with a bow and muzzleloader this year with no luck. Hurried and not prepared. Like black camo pants after church... So lets just say that I had opportunities to take a doe but I was waiting for a buck or when I got ready to shoot a doe I got busted out for stupid crap. Anyways back to the story. My doe stand is ready; deer coming into the feeder regularly; active trail with food on it behind me. Seeing deer ya know.
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Get on the stand with all my camo on except my white socks... and wait. Nice peaceful afternoon in the woods after a long stressful week. According to my sunset calendar I have until 6:48 to shoot. At 6:30 I hear movement behind me and look down to see my socks showing. As I push them into my boots the group of deer heads back the way they were coming in from. GREAT!!!
I fire off an angry text to my lovely wife about cussing about hating hunting and that I am quitting.... then I settle down again just in time to see 2 little doe... come out in front of me at my feeder. It is show time. I have shot 6 doe in this same area the past few years. Two doe and I want to see blood. I grab my rope I use to keep my gun stead on the leanto and get ready. I get it in my head that I am going to shot them both back to back. It's 40 yards I can do this. Nice clean head shot on the first doe, cycle the bolt and put one in the boilerroom of the second. Up by 2 on my daughter. Woot. That was the plan anyways.
I level down on the head of the first doe. Almost dark, so I leave the scope on 3x and squeeze the trigger..... The heifer raises up and looks at me. I won't miss twice is all i can think. Cycle, aim at the biggest part front should and pull the trigger. Both doe turn and run. No plopping on the ground . no jump . no tail down. Maybe I didn't hit her great. I go look for blood.... up and down my lane 4 times.... at the woods where they left my lane.... 4 times. No blood... no hair...
Sometimes you just miss .TWICE
Steel Ballistic Tips? Winchester? The ones that you can hear the powder moving around if you shake them? I've had terrible outcomes with those bullets. Could never sight in with them at all and never used them for hunting though. When I tried to sight in the hits were all over the target. 40 dollars a box too.
I bought a box of corelocks to use if I can figure out how to shoot again
That's what I use, the Rem Core Locks 150gr....back then my wife thought I deserved the most expensive box, don't know why, and she had no idea about the grains and tips and all that. I'll never switch away from the core locks.
x3 for the Core-Lokt's. Have used them very successfully for many years.
First year I went hunting, I used Winchester Silver Tips in 170 grain for my .30/30, figuring that the bigger the grain the better the bullet was. Boy was I mistaken. At 60 yards, I hit a large 6 point one weekend and a decent sized doe the next. They hit, knocked the deer down, but neither penetrated the chest cavity. Called my father-in-law who said to use Remington Core-Lokt. Switched and have been happy ever since.
Only thing I've switched from Core-Lokt is the Hornady LeveRevolution rounds, but still use them both.
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Built a simple wood basket out of plywood, trimmed it out and stained it. Next was the seat. Ripped some ¼" oak into 1" strips cut them all to length and primed and spray painted them. Lightly sanded the lifted grain off and did one more coat. Stapled them onto basket and borrowed some seat belts form our wagon. Nice and shiny and the white seat shouldn't get too hot in the sun.
Time for a shake down. Rode to the store with the girls, everything was going good until I realized I had no way to carry stuff other than my girls. No problem I have a huge basket in my shed I will add to the bike. This basket is very big and very silver. It's all I see when I look at the bike. Hopefully a little more spray paint will help tone it down. Ahh that's better. One last thing for this project an umbrella at a yard sale should add the finishing touch and turn this once ugly bicycle into a full on rickshaw.
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Chelsea were warned off by the Turin giants in July but relations between the club and Davids have deteriorated and the player has signalled his intent to leave on a free transfer next summer.
Juve didn't pick the midfielder for the first four matches of the season, but he was recalled for Saturday's 2-2 draw with Roma - who have also expressed an interest in the player.
With 56 caps for Holland and three Champions League finals under his bellt, Davids would appear to have the pick of any side in the world.
He would also command a handsome wage - in excess of £70,000-a-week - that only the elite clubs in Europe could match.
However, as unlikely as it may seem, BBC Sport has been told by sources at the club that Dundee have opened up talks with the player's representatives.
Former internationals Craig Burley and Fabrizio Ravanelli have recently arrived on Tayside - moves bankrolled by new club director Giovanni di Stefano.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The case of a New Mexico man accused of killing a preschool teacher [auth] who was trying to stop him from beating his girlfriend is in the hands of a jury.
Jurors are scheduled Monday to continue deliberations after hearing closing arguments in a trial involving Adrian Gonzales. The 31-year-old is accused of fatally stabbing 21-year-old Victoriano "Mo" Moises Byrne-Gonzales and stabbing another man during a December 2011 dispute at the Butterfly Springs Mobile Home Park in Pojoaque. He's also accused of assaulting his then-girlfriend, Natasha Romero.
Prosecutors say Byrne-Gonzales was trying to do the right thing when he stabbed in the neck while attempting to stop Gonzales from beating Romero.
But defense attorneys said Gonzales was only responding to "two bullies" who tried to take the law into their own hands.
Gonzales testified Friday that he tried to hide from Byrne-Gonzales and friend Santiago Cordova and stabbed them only in self-defense. "I didn't want to fight," Gonzales said on the stand. "I got my own problems to deal with."
According to Gonzales, his fight began with Romero when she forgot his cell phone at his Dixon home and caused him to miss a long-scheduled appointment with a district attorney. He said the two began to fight and Romero started drinking heavily.
Gonzales admitted hitting Romero with his cell phone but said it was an accident. He also said he grabbed Romero by the hair and said it was because she was trying to jump out of a moving vehicle.
In addition, Gonzales said earlier in the day he had prevented two men from stealing a television from Romero's mom's home and later confused Byrne-Gonzales and Cordova for the earlier burglars.
During cross examination, District Attorney Petra Benavidez-Schwartz asked Gonzales what he meant by telling Romero to "ride with him." Defense attorneys denied that it was coded language to Romero to get her story straight with him.
Defense attorney Joseph Campbell said during closing arguments that Gonzales didn't mention anything about the stabbings to the first officers who pulled him over. "He didn't know he had killed anyone. Why didn't he know? He didn't intend to kill anyone," he said. "The only thing he intended to do was get out of that situation."
Defense attorneys said Gonzales only grabbed his girlfriend only because a red truck was driving down the road and might have hit her.
Prosecutors argued, however, that Gonzales had grabbed her and bit her ear.
During another recorded phone call, Gonzales is heard mentioning the truck to his girlfriend, who said she didn't remember it. The girlfriend tells Gonzales that her ear hurt. But when Gonzales asks her why, she says, "I'm not going to say it on the phone."
Benavidez-Schwartz told the jury that Gonzales' actions didn't make sense for a man who was just trying to defend himself. "Think if his actions were reasonable. Do they make sense?" she asked the jury. "You'll find it doesn't."
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The fashion curriculum in the department of Visual and Performing Arts offers students courses that provides both technical and design skills sought after in the industry. Student original designs are presented in two-dimensional form, developed through draping and or flat pattern and finally is realized in three dimensional forms in muslin and the finished fabric. By junior year students have developed a portfolio of work and are encouraged to pursue internships in the fashion field. These internships provide students with professional networking skills and help them develop a better grasp of what is required of industry professionals.


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New Research Report Makes Clear the Predictors for Student Disconnection
from School and Workforce for Black and African American Youth in Montgomery County
County Leaders Unveil Study Findings which also Include Recommendations for Improvement
and Follow-up Strategies to Ensure Success Across Montgomery County
(October 23, 2015) SILVER SPRING, MD — A research report released today finds that stronger social and academic supports are needed to connect Black and African American youth to education and the workforce. The report, Connecting Youth to Opportunity: How Black and African American Youth Perspectives Can Inform a Blueprint for Improving Opportunity in Montgomery County, Maryland, presents the findings and implications of a study that looked at disconnection from the perspectives of 1,210 youth, ages 14 to 24, who were high school students, high school graduates, and youth who left high school before graduating. The report was commissioned by The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region (The Community Foundation). It was conceived and written by The Community Foundation, Montgomery College, and BETAH Associates, Inc., and researched by BETAH Associates, Inc.
The study found that disconnected youth reported less support from parents and teachers to get through school, lower grades, more suspensions, more involvement with law enforcement and the justice system, and less economic stability than high school graduates. The survey asked young people questions regarding family environment; social connections; socialization; physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being; school climate and performance; labor market skills; and employment. The study builds upon a 2013 study of Latino youth in Montgomery County that was commissioned by The Community Foundation and conducted by Identity, Inc. for much the same purpose and with similar findings.
For many Black and African American disconnected youth, the path to disconnection may begin in school settings, but it does not end there – because the opportunities for meaningful work are limited for Black youth. The study found that only 31% of youth who dropped out of school were working, and nearly one-half (48%) of youth who dropped out reported their economic condition as "bad or very bad," compared to 29% of high school graduates and 14% of high school students who responded.
In the context of school, the study found that compared to high school graduates, youth who left school before graduating were 11 times more likely to have a GPA of 0.5 or below and over twice as likely to have been suspended during their last year of school. They were also less likely to receive help from teachers to stay engaged in their classes, or to believe that their teachers expected them to finish high school or to attend college.
Parental support and expectations also had an impact. Youth who dropped out of school were 50% less likely to receive encouragement from their parents to do well in school and 40% less likely to receive support from their parents to complete high school, to discuss their future after high school with their parents, or to believe that their parents had high expectations for them to go to college.
Despite multiple differences across groups, the youth in the study had strikingly similar levels of contact with local law enforcement. Thirty-one percent of high school students, 49% of graduates, and 64% who dropped out of school reported they had been stopped by the police.
"In this report, these young people are telling us what they need. And we must listen. Being out of work and school in the late teens and early twenties creates a cycle of poverty that has a devastating impact on individuals, families, and communities – now and in the future," said Anna Hargrave, Executive Director of The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region in Montgomery County. "Moving the needle will require committed collaboration across the public and private sectors in Montgomery County. Our recommendations outline what must be done to help ensure that all our County's young people are connected to opportunities to succeed."
The report provides a starting point for the County to begin working toward its goal of guaranteeing every young person the support, education, and training he or she needs to achieve lifelong success, with the four recommendations from the report also making clear that this will take a community-wide commitment:
- Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) should work with key stakeholders to change policies, practices, and resource allocation to lower the dropout rate and close the achievement gap for Black and African American students.
- Montgomery County should create a coordinated array of services and supports designed to reconnect disconnected youth to education and the workforce.
- The Black and African American community along with local law enforcement, State's Attorney's Office, MCPS, and Montgomery County government must find ways to reduce disproportionate minority contact with the justice system.
- The philanthropic sector, community organizations, the faith-based community, and civic engagement organizations should use the momentum generated by this report to galvanize support for a coordinated countywide campaign to reconnect disconnected youth.
"Looking closely at the factors that help young people stay engaged in school or at work is vital to crafting successful policies in education and workforce development in Montgomery County," said Dr. DeRionne P. Pollard, Montgomery College president. "At Montgomery College we are using this data to inform our strategies for student retention and completion."
"This report affirms the important work we are doing to improve educational experiences and outcomes for all students; increase the cultural proficiency and diversity of our staff; and better engage our families and community members," said Larry A. Bowers, interim superintendent of schools for MCPS. "I appreciate the work that the Community Foundation has done to reflect the voices and experiences of our youth and I look forward to working with our partners to ensure our children have the knowledge, skills, and opportunities they need to graduate from high school and be successful in college and the work place."


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Irwin Stelzer takes issue with Gordon Brown's "ridiculous" attempt to blame the US for Britain's economic woes.
Adrian Hamilton argues in today's Independent that the economic downturn begs a response from Europe.
In the Financial Times, Joshua Chaffin outlines the opposition to carbon emission reductions as the credit crunch bites.
The Times's Matthew Paris argues that Jacqui Smith could have stuck her oar in over the Damian Green arrest if she had really wanted to.
Stephen Glover weighs in to the assisted dying debate to argue that we should never give the state the power to finish us off.
Brownian slip? Mike Smithson at PoliticalBetting.com wonders if the prime minister's slip of the tongue yesterday is going to plague him for a long time.


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German Shepherd Dog Forums (http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum/)
- The Breed Standard (http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum/breed-standard/)
- - quick question (http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum/breed-standard/432361-quick-question.html)
quick question
i've heard many people say a german shepherd without a sloping back/rear is not purebred, is this true?
It's probably an underhanded comment about the dog's bloodlines. Won't get into it too much here, but some people get very intense about what bloodlines are "true" shepherd bloodlines whether they are American show, German show, working lines, etc. For example, some who dislike American showlines, which tend to have the sloping back, will often comment that it's not a "real" GSD. I have heard it a lot where I live, but it doesn't mean the dog isn't actually purebred GSD.
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No not true.. depends on lines and what is being bred for.
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I made this little tool to push the last few rounds into my HiCap Glock23 Mags.
This is a discussion on Glock 30 first range trip within the Defensive Carry Guns forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; For the first time I shot my new G30. Wow! With some minor issues I like it as much as my G21. Only three rounds ...
For the first time I shot my new G30. Wow! With some minor issues I like it as much as my G21. Only three rounds shy, and no more if not less kick than a G21. It make a very nice CC firearm.
I am still trying to break in the 10rd mags. The 10th round can be hard to get in. With 10rd does not slide in the mag well with the slide in battery very easily. Also stripping off the 10th round some times needed a little persuasion. This issue should go away when the spring get some wear on it. Any ideas on speeding up the process other than just, loading, and unloading?
The G30 hits my palm a little funny but putting 100 rounds thorough was not a chore. Unlike my neighbors G27, after one mag I was done. I think it would be very controllable with the 9rd mags with no finger rest.
If you don't protect your self, who will?
I made this little tool to push the last few rounds into my HiCap Glock23 Mags.
I really like the G30 even though I have the G36. The only reason I did not pick up a G30 is that I got a smoking deal on the G36 from a friend. The 2 have very different handling characteristics, but both get the job done rather well.
What is the shaft made of?
If you don't protect your self, who will?
Just a stick on nylon I had laying around and the end caps are little plastic protective covers.
I just needed something better then that thing Glock provides.
See if your local gunshop carries HKS mag loaders for your Glock, I get them for all my pistols. They're not overly expensive - haven't bought any in a while but IIRC the HKS loaders run about $10 to $15 and really save your thumbs. Brownells has this one that's similar, though I haven't used that brand. Looks to be more expensive but might also be better quality.
Leave your mag loaded for about a week and the last round will get easyer to load
The mag loader that came with my G30 worked just fine.
07/02 FFL/SOT since 2006
Probably the only home based FFL that doesn't do transfers.
Seams the follower was bottoming out, and causing most of the trouble.
I filed down the back edge of the follower to 1.21mm, and thing are much less tight. Not the best but much better.
If you don't protect your self, who will?
I have heard somewhere that GLOCK mags can bind up when the underside edges of the follower get pushed against the side of the mag when loading. Maybe I'm wrong and I heard a slight beveling of the edge will cure it.


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Designing The Female-Friendly City
"In a neighborhood where 54% of the residents are women, 70% of the households are headed by women and 70% of the elderly are women, the broken walkway on North Sloan Street symbolizes some of the physical challenges that women in America's cities face: an unsafe urban environment that's not conducive to walking."
"Medical experts, concerned about increased rates of obesity, diabetes and hypertension, have studied how the design of cities affects health for some time. Now, they're focusing on its impact on an increasingly prominent demographic segment of the urban landscape: women."
"'Decisions that are made for women are going to be made for men as well,' says Eugenie Birch, chairwoman of Penn's department of city and regional planning. 'But there might be more sensitivity to safe places, to lighting, to creating an environment that women would more likely inhabit.'"
"That means fixing sidewalks, lengthening the time traffic signals give pedestrians on crosswalks, designing housing without stairs and encouraging walking, biking and mass transit by building trails and safe access to public transportation."


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Samsung's War at Home
Just inside his single-story home, built of concrete blocks and coated in turquoise paint, Hwang Sang-ki, a 58-year-old Korean taxi driver, sits on a floor mat. He's clasping a small handbag, once bright white and now dull after years on a shelf. He pulls out a snapshot of 13 smiling young women, all co-workers at Samsung Electronics, off-duty and posing in three rows, each embracing or leaning into the other. The leaves of a tree behind them are turning golden in the autumn chill.
"Here," says Hwang, pointing to two women in the center of the group. Both had the same job at the same semiconductor factory, on the same line, standing side by side at the same workstation, dipping computer chips into the same vat of chemicals. Both got a particularly aggressive form of the blood cancer known as acute myeloid leukemia. One was his daughter, Yu-mi. In South Korea, only about 3 out of every 100,000 people die of leukemia. "They worked together, and they died," says Hwang. The snapshot is among a few private memories Hwang keeps of his late daughter.
The story of the two women, and dozens of Samsung workers with leukemia and other rare cancers, is now a very public one in South Korea. In February and March, Koreans could see two movies depicting the seven-year battle led by the Hwangs and other families against Korea's biggest and most influential corporation.
Another Promise, released in February, tells the story of a thinly veiled Hwang and his daughter, who went to work at a Samsung semiconductor plant in 2003, when she was 18, and died at 22.
Hwang, who has deep smile wrinkles radiating from the sides of his brown eyes and a buzz cut of salt-and-pepper hair, is portrayed by Park Chul-min, a 47-year-old actor with 70 film roles in his career. His character in Another Promise battles with the fictitiously named company Jinsung. The Korea Herald called the movie "a meaningful achievement in Korean cinema, as well as for Korean democracy," not so much because of its quality but because of how it was made. Without a major studio backer, the director and producer raised almost 15 percent of the $2 million budget from hundreds of individuals via crowdsourcing and more than half from about 100 small investors. It's the first Korean film produced this way.
Empire of Shame, a documentary, hit theaters on March 6. Three years in the making, it was shot with intimate access to Hwang and other families of Samsung workers. It focuses on the broader movement Hwang launched to illuminate the use of carcinogens in electronics factories, especially semiconductor plants. Since he began, activists have discovered 58 cases of leukemia and other blood-related cancers across several Samsung plants. Samsung declined to discuss specific cases for this article, saying in a statement that it spent about $88 million in 2011 on the maintenance and improvement of its safety-related infrastructure.
The main goal for the movement is to wrest compensation for cancer-stricken workers from a Korean government insurance fund. People such as Hwang and the filmmakers are pushing a conversation into mainstream Korean culture about some of the costs of the country's miraculous economic rise, which happened in large part on the shoulders of Samsung and the rest of the technology industry, global symbols of pride for many Koreans. It's driving a reexamination of trade-offs in South Korea's past, when the foundation for today's prosperity was built by an authoritarian government working hand in hand with domestic corporate partners who were given great power in exchange for rapid growth.
About 20 miles south of Seoul, inside a fenced and secured compound, the Giheung semiconductor factory rises near the wooded shores of a man-made reservoir. The factory is a wide white box sprouting smokestacks and curled tubes from its roof, with Samsung's familiar blue-and-white logo across its front. Built in 1984, the plant was the leading semiconductor factory in the country at a time when chips accounted for about 80 percent of all revenue at Samsung Electronics. Giheung's assembly lines were a prestigious place to work.
Many Koreans revere Samsung. In part that's because its success mirrors their own climb from a war that divided a country, killed millions, and left millions more destitute. In 1961, eight years after the Korean War ended in a stalemate, South Korea's per capita gross domestic product was $92, less than that of Sudan, Sierra Leone, or the Democratic Republic of Congo. By last year, South Koreans had the world's 15th-largest economy. Almost 24 percent of GDP came from the revenue of the Samsung Group, a conglomerate made up of dozens of businesses including a life insurance company, a heavy-construction company, the world's second-biggest shipbuilder, and of course Samsung Electronics.
Yu-mi's parents couldn't afford to send her to university, so a recruitment notice from the Giheung factory caught her eye in 2003 when it appeared at her high school in the northeastern port city of Sokcho, along the Sea of Japan. Samsung wanted young women from the top third of Yu-mi's graduating class. She met the initial criteria: decent grades, solid attendance, and no record as a troublemaker. She also passed a required medical exam. "She had an interview, and she told me she was accepted," her father says. "I was very happy, because Samsung is one of the best companies in Korea."
One morning in October 2003, Yu-mi and her parents climbed into Hwang's taxi and drove to Sokcho's bus terminal. Other young women from her class hired by Samsung were boarding the same bus for Giheung, about three hours west. Teachers and parents gathered for a send-off, their cheers and waves masking their nerves. "It was the first time that Yu-mi left home," Hwang says.
Behind Giheung's gates, the women lived four to a unit in high-rise dormitories. The white concrete towers are unadorned, except for some mauve trim and Korean script on each building's side spelling out the flowering shrub it's named for. Hwang says his daughter lived in Lilac. The almost identical Forsythia is next door. No visitors were allowed, not even family. After a few weeks of training the women went to work.
Yu-mi was assigned to Line 3, according to court documents. She covered herself head to toe each day in a white cleanroom suit, gloves, and cloth mask—not so much to protect herself but to maintain a dust-free environment for the semiconductors. Her line produced the Samsung logic or "system" chips that drive gadgets, rather than the ones that store data. Yu-mi's first job involved a process known as diffusion. Her second was in "wet etching" on the same line.
Throughout her eight-hour shifts, Yu-mi was exposed to a battery of potentially dangerous chemicals, fumes, and ionizing radiation, a panel of Korean court judges later found. One of her co-workers in wet etching, Lee Suk-young, had developed skin irritations that required her to get regular medical treatment.
Other than describing her fatigue, Yu-mi didn't complain to her parents, until she phoned home late in October 2005, saying "she felt nauseous, dizzy, and she was vomiting," her father says. One of the other workers brought Yu-mi to a Samsung infirmary in the Giheung compound, where personnel drew and tested her blood. They told Yu-mi something was wrong, something they couldn't deal with. She was admitted urgently to the closest major hospital. Her father and mother got into his taxi and headed out to see her.
The doctor told Hwang his daughter had acute myeloid leukemia and asked for permission to start treating her immediately. "I thought I was blinded. I felt darkness and hopelessness," he says. He knew little of leukemia but did know the disease often could be fatal. Yu-mi was inconsolable, her mother says, even though the doctor gave her good odds for a recovery.
The 20-year-old started chemotherapy right away. She lost her hair and was nauseous and constantly exhausted. She was hospitalized for about a month before Hwang drove her back to Sokcho, where she took up residence in her old room. The family drove across the country twice a week for treatments and exams, and Yu-mi was hospitalized again in the summer of 2006. That's when she heard that her co-worker on the same bay of Giheung's Line 3, Lee Suk-young, the woman with the skin irritation, shared the same disease. Lee, a mother of two, including a newborn, was diagnosed on July 13 of that year. She died five weeks later.
After Lee's sudden death, questions swirled in Hwang's mind. He started asking Yu-mi details about her work, especially the chemical chip baths. Hwang didn't know it then, but acute myeloid leukemia had been proven by scientists to be one of the cancers most clearly caused by exposure to carcinogens.
Samsung executives from Giheung's human resources department kept in regular contact with Hwang to check on Yu-mi's condition, and the company had been depositing money in her bank account to help with her care, including the equivalent of about $18,000 before a bone marrow transplant, Hwang says. Then Hwang told them he wanted to file a worker's compensation claim with the government to help cover Yu-mi's ongoing care. At that point, Hwang says, everything changed: Samsung turned hostile.
Despite the reliance on cleanrooms, semiconductor manufacturing has never been a particularly clean business. Chipmakers have been using extremely hazardous chemicals since the early days of Silicon Valley. Santa Clara County, Calif., had more Superfund sites than any county in the U.S. following a wave of designations in the 1990s and 2000s, including those left behind by industry pioneers such as Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Fairchild Semiconductor, Advanced Micro Devices, and National Semiconductor.
As the impact of chemicals dispersed into the Valley's environment caused concern, alarm bells also sounded over the far greater concentrations workers potentially faced inside the plants. Chemicals used to make semiconductors, or byproducts created from the complex manufacturing processes involved in putting circuits onto and into silicon wafers, include known and likely human carcinogens such as benzene, trichloroethylene, ethylene oxide, Arsine gas, and arsenic trioxide. The chemical cocktails, often used as chip baths, and a lack of ventilation intended to reduce the dust inside semiconductor plants fell under increasing scrutiny—just as semiconductor manufacturing was departing California and the rest of the U.S. for the lower-wage shores of Asia.
Industry-backed research and other studies have suggested there was no statistically significant connection between semiconductor production and cancers among workers. Other research suggested there was, yielding an epidemiological tug of war familiar to almost any debate where science weighs on high-stakes questions of liability.
Hwang knew nothing of the semiconductor industry's toxic legacy. He's uneducated and from a humble background in a culture shaped by Confucian values of subordination to authority and the good of the group. All of this put him at a severe disadvantage when dealing with executives from a company such as Samsung. In January 2007, a few months after Lee's death, Yu-mi had relapsed and was confined to her bedroom when four Samsung executives from Giheung came to Sokcho. Hwang, who had insisted he would file for worker's compensation despite objections from Samsung, met them at a cafe a couple of minutes from his home. He was unprepared for the reception he got.
"They didn't ask me about Yu-mi's condition," Hwang says. "The four of them were raising their voices against me." The executives, Hwang says, insisted his daughter's "disease has no relationship with Samsung, so 'Why are you blaming Samsung?' " He says he spent much of the 20-minute meeting in tears—"I was upset, I was really upset." Hwang left the cafe, making the short walk home. Once there, he tried to avoid Yu-mi, knowing he couldn't hide his feelings. Samsung declined to comment on its executives' interactions with Hwang.
Yu-mi's health declined, and Hwang put his desire to file a compensation claim out of his mind. The family renewed its trips back and forth across the country for treatment. After one such day at the hospital, on March 6, 2007, Yu-mi lay down across the back seat of her father's cab as they began the drive back to Sokcho. As they got closer to home, "Yu-mi said, 'It's very hot.' So I opened the windows, just a little," Hwang says. "But after a little while, she said, 'I'm cold,' so I closed them." Not long after, his wife looked over her shoulder and cried out. "I pulled my car to the side. I got out and opened her door, and she wasn't breathing, and her eyes were rolled back. I could see her eyes had gone white. Yu-mi's mother was crying. Then she closed Yu-mi's eyes with her hand. I was at a loss. I didn't know what to do. Then, after a while, I realized I was standing alone on the highway."
He called family and a few friends and, arriving in Sokcho, went straight to a funeral parlor. Yu-mi's visitation would be that night, as is the Korean custom. Executives from Samsung's Giheung plant came, Hwang says, including the four men he'd met with at the cafe. At one point, Hwang stepped out for a breath of sea air. He says the senior-most Samsung executive followed. "He told me, 'After the funeral, I will make sure there is compensation,' " Hwang says. "I didn't say a word."
About a week later, Samsung executives came back, telling Hwang over a sashimi dinner that the company wouldn't compensate the family. "They had changed their attitude," he says, because they again insisted her cancer wasn't connected to her job. Hwang got up and left the restaurant. He didn't believe there was a chance two healthy young women—partners at the same workstation—could die from the same rare disease without family histories and without some connection to their work. He suspected there were others but had no way of knowing.
Hwang went to the office of the Korean Workers Compensation and Welfare Service, known as KCOMWEL, and filled out an application on June 1, 2007. Like similar government programs in the U.S., Korean employers pay into a fund; any compensation for accidents or illnesses is paid by the government, not the company. Benefits are modest, covering medical bills, lost wages, and funeral expenses. There's no need to demonstrate employer negligence.
Since Yu-mi's death, Hwang had been calling or visiting just about everyone he thought might help him investigate whether others among the 19,000 production workers at Giheung were sick. He tried government officials, political parties, activists, civil society groups, journalists, and more. He found some sympathy but never much help understanding what had happened to Yu-mi, if there were other cases, or what kind of chemicals she was exposed to, all of which he might need to file an approvable claim with KCOMWEL. "No one would listen," he says. Then a local journalist introduced him to a 30-year-old labor activist named Lee Jong-ran.
She had heard about semiconductor work causing miscarriages, but nothing about cancer. She put together a proposal and raised a small amount of money from about 20 organizations, forming a group called Banolim. She was the only employee. Families and others volunteered.
For his part, Hwang began showing up at Samsung's gates wearing a sandwich board featuring a giant photograph of his daughter, bald and wasted by her disease, as he passed out leaflets asking people to come forward. A few did. Soon families staged small demonstrations. Dribbles of press attention followed. More families emerged.
In May 2009, KCOMWEL rejected Hwang's claim, almost two years after he filed it. The agency also rejected three others organized by Banolim, including a claim from Lee Suk-young's widower. Government health and safety officials had conducted an epidemiological study of six semiconductor plants. According to court records, they said that although they found elevated levels of leukemia and statistically significant increases of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma among female workers, the overall increases among them were "not statistically significant" enough to prove causation within the semiconductor industry. They did not make their raw data public.
By speaking to workers and their families, Banolim discovered the 58 cases of leukemia. They also found other related diseases and scores of other cancer cases, including breast cancer and brain tumors. A group of Korean university scientists and researchers, conducting a study for a peer-reviewed medical journal, would later use these cases to focus exclusively on workers who they could prove were involved directly in semiconductor production—solely at Giheung. They narrowed further to those diagnosed within about a three-year window. They looked only at a group of related cancers proven to have strong causation by, or contributions from, chemicals and radiation—leukemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Samsung declined to comment specifically on the study.
Within the window they drew at Giheung, the scientists and researchers found 17 production workers with such diseases. Eleven of them were young women, average age 26.5. Because the company didn't cooperate, the group didn't have employee turnover or other data needed to prove a causal relationship. They said what they did find was cause for serious concern.
Hwang and the other families were forced to turn to South Korea's court system to appeal the government's denial of benefits. That's how the Korean system works. But after filing suit, the families discovered the defense of the agency's decision was being paid for not just by the government but also by Samsung. The company formally intervened in the case on the side of KCOMWEL—a rare move, even though Samsung would not be responsible for any benefit payments—and put lawyers from one of the nation's top firms on the case.
In 2010, the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), the largest of South Korea's four major television networks, aired a piece about the controversy on its version of 60 Minutes, after which more cases emerged. Banolim alleges that Samsung representatives were secretly approaching families and offering to pay them if they withdrew their compensation claims, cut off contact with the group, and maintained public silence. These would not have been akin to lawsuit settlement offers, because there weren't lawsuits against Samsung; there were only government insurance claims. The company denied making such offers.
Now that Samsung was challenging families directly in court, some decided they would fight the company. On Dec. 15, 2010, a Samsung executive from Giheung returned to Sokcho and visited Hwang at home. "I think we will be able to pay you the money that you will be satisfied with," the executive told him. "But please don't tell anyone about this. It places us in a very bad situation."
Hwang asked, "So you're saying that you will just pay us, and that's it?"
"I'm just hoping," the executive replied, "that you wouldn't say anything against Samsung. Right now I think there is a very high chance that you won't be able to get the occupational health insurance anyway."
Working with KBS, Hwang had secretly recorded the conversation, which the network aired in 2011. Others on the broadcast reported similar offers, including the family of Park Ji-yeon, a 23-year-old woman who died of leukemia in March 2010. Her mother said they got about $330,000 from Samsung, deposited in their bank account on the day of her daughter's funeral. She also said that company representatives "told us not to meet members of the labor union and to withdraw our lawsuit." Samsung declined to comment on the recording or payments to Park Ji-yeon.
Hwang's appeal was consolidated with that of Lee Suk-young's widower and three other families and heard by a three-judge panel of the Seoul Administrative Court in May 2011. A month later, the presiding judge read out its verdict and opinion in open court. He ruled in favor of Hwang and Lee's widower and ordered the government compensation fund to pay them.
The panel rejected the appeals of the other three families, detailing case evidence and their reasoning for each worker's specific job, highlighting chemicals used, potential radiation exposures, ventilation systems, and other processes in place at Giheung and plants where the others worked. (They found other production lines were more modernized and safer than Giheung, especially before 2009, and that, for two male workers, there was a lack of compelling evidence about increased incidences among men.)
Within three weeks of the ruling, Samsung held a press conference with an American consulting firm it had hired, Environ, announcing the consultants had found no statistically significant correlations between workers' exposures and leukemia. KCOMWEL officials appealed the court's order awarding benefits to the families of the two women.
Banolim has about 40 cases pending today, either before KCOMWEL or in court, and the eyes of Koreans are on them more than ever. Even before this new attention, the worker's compensation board had started easing its resistance, awarding benefits in a couple of high-profile cases. Late last year the courts did the same for another worker, with judges saying studies at Samsung chip factories were flawed and failed to account fully for health hazards. The government's appeal of Hwang's ruling is pending. More than seven years after Yu-mi died, he's still waiting for a decision.
Samsung says employees are its greatest asset and that its goal is to create "a workplace culture that accepts nothing less than an unwavering and relentless commitment to upholding best practices in process safety management." It also says it was the first semiconductor maker to develop real-time chemical monitoring, which it implemented in 2007, and that it has improved air quality monitoring in plants. "While we are deeply saddened by the loss of former members of the Samsung family and are concerned about those battling illness, we would like to reiterate that independent research has not found a correlation between employee illness and workplace environment," the company says. It also says it's giving financial support to families, but it will not say how much.
Lee Mi-kyung, who has been a member of the South Korean National Assembly for 18 years, has been an ally to Hwang and the other Samsung families. Sitting down between votes at the members' cafeteria just outside the body's chamber, she says Samsung has been so influential in politics, the press, and even the law that many of her countrymen call their land "the Republic of Samsung." She says things are changing as Korean corporate power continues to be checked gradually across society. She mentions the 2008 corruption investigation into Samsung for allegedly maintaining a slush fund to bribe judges, prosecutors, and politicians. Prosecutors said they did not find evidence of bribery, but they charged and convicted Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee with tax evasion. He paid a fine of roughly $100 million and received a suspended prison sentence.
Samsung posted one of the most interesting public statements about Another Promise on one of its Korean blogs. The posting was attributed by the company to a senior executive, Kim Sun-beom, and is the closest thing to an officially sanctioned reaction. Kim says in the post that he was confronted by his own daughter, who was brought to tears when she saw the movie with friends. She had always been proud of her father's job with Samsung.
"As a father, I understand [Hwang's] loss, and partially it is the company's fault that we left him to fight for seven years," he wrote. "However, a movie is a movie. It is not right to distort the truth." Having worked at Giheung himself, Kim also wrote, "I know how hard the company and the workers try to provide a safe environment, so I do not doubt the safety of my workplace."
—With Heesu Lee


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- Five Bedrooms
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- Spacious Kitchen
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Jack Kerouac's Big Sur, now on film
Curt Worden has directed the documentary film One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur.
Director Curt Worden follows unsurprising documentary form by offering too many visuals of crashing waves in Big Sur and seamy bars in San Francisco, while a few witnesses offer their recollections of that period of Kerouac's life. Witnesses include Ferlinghetti and Carolyn Cassady, the woman who openly shared the beds of both Kerouac and her husband and Jack's best friend Neal Cassady.
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Who is ready for more music from Chuck Wicks? Well, Chuck Wicks, for one. But new music isn't the only thing on his radar. In addition to writing for his own forthcoming second studio album, the singer will also have a cut on the new Jason Aldean project, slated for release in October.
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When it came time to book his opening acts for his Virtual Reality Tour, Brad Paisley took a chance on one of country music's hottest newcomers, Scotty McCreery. McCreery, who was fresh off his 'American Idol' win when he accepted the kind offer, says the experience thus far has been nothing short of amazing.
Kip Moore Enjoys the Rush of Performing for Crowds That Know His Music
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The Civil Wars Singer Joy Williams Gives Birth to Baby Boy
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Toby Keith has expanded his I Love This Bar and Grill restaurant chain to the great state of Texas! The favorite haunt of country music fans and food-lovers alike recently opened a new home in Dallas.
Luke Bryan Brings 'Drunk on You' to No. 1 on Country Singles Chart
Luke Bryan has done it again! The singer has topped the Country Singles chart this week with his latest release, 'Drunk on You.' The tune is Bryan's second consecutive No. 1 song, following a previous hit that he co-wrote with the Peach Pickers, 'I Don't Want This Night to End.'
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Eric Church's 'Chief' Album Goes Platinum
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Chocolate Angel's Plano location opened September 9, to a full house of tea devotees.
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I measure how far the valve lifts off the seat, in several ways at the rocker tip or at the valve face or wherever convenient particular to the build and eng. design and model
As an example: I guess everyone measures a flat head V8 or L Head valve lift at the stem with a dial indicator during assembly with the heads off ! I do it at the face of the valve as I turn the engine over its easier
to those that are interested I'll post this unuseful info to some people and useful to some others:
Mouse motor naturally aspirated as an example.
Dual grind cam:
on a cam with extended exhaust timing 1.6 ratio rockers on the exhaust are detrimental to performance like a cam with 2 durations and lifts the larger on the exhaust lobe stay with the 1.5s, but on the intake the 1.6s may help power.
But on a straight ground cam same duration and lift on exhaust and intake! The 1.6 ratio rocker may help a lot on the exhaust valves not the intakes! The 1.6 rocker when opening The smaller exhaust valve will open a little more at full lift increasing the off seat gap (making it larger) so the crank isn't pushing as hard on the rod and piston to push the spent exhaust out of the smaller gap between the valve and seat thus relieving back pressure creating a little more torque, Thats a simple explanation. With open headers scavenging the increase is greater like at the drag strip!!! On the street with restrictive exhaust it will probably show no gains at all!!
With high compression engines the intake charge as the piston goes down creates a lot less drag but when the charge ignites it expands and the higher the compression the more it expands and more heat is created and more expansion, so the crank works harder on the exhaust stroke to push the hot expanded gases out, then the intake stroke pulling a cool charge in. It also helps get a cleaner intake charge in because the cylinder has been evacuated of spent gases more effectively!!
Dont just throw on larger ratio rockers on any cam grinds, you may actually kill power!!! YOU HAVE TO TEST!! Many cam company's sell adjustable rockers one rocker can be used for 1.5 or 1.6 ratios by a simple adjustment. run a few passes with 1.5s on all valves, then put the 1.6 ratio on your intakes (you can buy 8 rockers and put them on the intakes or buy a whole set or borrow some) run a few pass's and see if it runs stronger. then put the 1.5s back on the intakes and the 1.6s on the exhaust run a few pass's and see if its running stronger! or all 1.6s on all valves but Ive never had to do that.
Its a lot of work and its better to use a dino and easier but expensive.
You can have cams ground to the specs you need to do the same thing but how many cams would you go through before you found the right one!!!! for your set up! That's why company's came out with cheep different ratio rockers as an alternative.
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Agua Fresca de Melon
This festive, non-alcoholic Agua Fresca de Melon drink is cool and refreshing and is the perfect complement to a spicy Mexican meal.
The combination of sweet watermelon, white grape juice and tart lime juice creates a delicious fruit-cooler just in time for your next fiesta.
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This is a terrific use for all that leftover picnic watermelon! I had to use apricot nectar, guava wasn't available at my little local grocer. So refreshing and full of vitamins, but plenty sweet to taste like a treat.
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I didn't like the taste of the guava nectar although I do like several of the other nectars from Kerns. It tasted too minty. I may try it in the future with some other nectar or juice.
Perfect taste. Very refreshing. Love it.
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- Vitamin C: 25% of DV
- Calcium: 2% of DV
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On June 24, the monks of St. Procopius Abbey elected Murphy their 10th Abbot. He succeeds Abbot Dismas Kalcic, O.S.B., who has retired. As abbot of St. Procopius Abbey, Fr. Murphy will also serve as Chancellor of Benedictine University.
"We are excited and pleased with the election of Abbot Austin," said William J. Carroll, Ph.D., president of Benedictine University. "This marks a new beginning for St. Procopius Abbey. Our thoughts and prayers are with him and the monks of St. Procopius."
Fr. Murphy was born Gregory Murphy on March 25, 1974 in Huntingdon, N.Y. He attended high school in New York and began studies in economics at the University of Chicago in 1992. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in economics in December 1995, he entered St. Procopius Abbey the following June and professed vows on September 6, 1997.
While studying philosophy at Benedictine University, he also taught mathematics part-time at Benet Academy from 1997-2000. He then began theology courses at the Dominican House of Studies, earning a master of arts in theology in 2003 and a master's of divinity and a Sacrae Theologiae Baccalaureus (Bachelor of Sacred Theology) in 2004.
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New homeowner, 1st "improvement" project
I want to put a nice flat panel over my decorative (no worries about heat) fireplace. I'm fairly certain the concrete behind it is concealing the chimney, and I have no idea how deep it goes. Is it possible to mount a flat panel TV bracket into a wall that doesn't have studs? I hear people talk about how they had to find the studs behind the wall, but this won't have any, because concrete would be able to support it, right?
New homeowner, would like some feedback. Here are 2 quick pics for a better idea. I want the television to go directly centered above the fireplace.
I just moved in last week and I'm not done unpacking, so dont mind the disarray.
There has to be studs back there already, otherwise the Gypsum board that was hung would have nothing to grab onto. In order to make the wall hold the mount properly, your best bet is to cut into the Gypsum board, secure 2x6s for attachment, and then cover back up.
Can you tell me what a gypsum board is? Also, would I not be able to just drill into the wall if it isn't something lighterweight like drywall?
Gypsum=Drywall=Sheetrock The terms are used back and forth. If there is drywall hanging on the wall, there has to be studs behind it for the drywall to be screwed to. Without knowing what is behind the wall, it would be best to cut into it and find out. Taking a chance on hanging a TV onto a wall without 100% knowledge of whats behind it isn't worth it as the TV might fall and take everything else out below it. Do yourself a favor and cut a section of the drywall out and check out whts behind it. You can even put some reinforcement in while your in there. Then just cut a piece of drywall to fit the section cut.
Thats the dilemma... I'm pretty sure this is concrete or something very hard. I was under the impression that drywall will give a hollow sound when you knock on it, and then a more firm sound when you hit the stud. This is very solid, and consistent.
Do i need to NOT mount a tv into a concrete wall if the concrete wall doesn't have studs? (I'm much more comfortable with psychology than home improvement)
That is not concrete. It is either Gypsum board with a skim coat of plaster on it. Or can be two layers of Gypsum with scratch coat & finish coat of plaster. Or can be Plaster Lathe. Only way to find out, is to take off an outlet cover or look from the attic to see.
Are you looking to install the flat panel above the shelf where the hat is ?
If so (or even if you plan to put the TV lower), be 1000% sure that viewing is comfortable from where you plan to be sitting when you watch the TV.
Cut out some cardboard and tape it up where you plan to put the set. Then set up a chair/couch where you plan to do your viewing. Now look at the cardboard for a while (the longer the better). How's your neck feel ?
My personal preference is to keep the set on a table or in some other furniture that keeps the set at eye level YMMV. It sure would suck to realize that you just spent a lot of time and $ to mount the TV on the wall only to find out it's uncomfortable to watch for an extended period of time.
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It would be really cool if you could play quidditch Harry Potter style wouldn't it? Well you sort of can... Katherine Hunter is a member of the Australian National Quidditch team and recently brought home a silver medal from Vancouver for our fair country. She joined Richard Stubbs to talk quality brooms and golden snitches.
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