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This is a discussion on Samco turbo inlet pipe install within the Engine Performance forums, part of the Tutorials & DIY category; Here's a pic of the piece...
Here's a pic of the piece
First off we'll remove the intercooler to make room. If you haven't already installed Samco (or others) ic hoses now is the perfect time. To remove, you'll need to remove two 12mm bolts on the BOV, two 12mm bolts holding the ic down, two hose clamps at the throttle body hose, one hose clamp on the ic hose (unerneath the ic- where it connects to the turbo), three hoses on the ic- give it a slight twist and voila it will come right off
Next we need to prepare the oe pipe for removal. Remove the five hoses and note their positions (I marked them, but didn't really need to), remove the bolt that attaches the pipe to the manifold (12mm I believe), remove the hose clamp on the turbo end of the pipe, you also need to remove the hard oil line pointed out in the pic- first before you remove the bolt, and REPLACE the gasket w/ a new cooper gasket so you don't leak power steering fluid! You'll also need to remove the accordian piece- two hose clamps.
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You'll find the oe piece won't come out in one piece (w/o removing the mainiflod), thus two hose nipples need to be removed- tall one in rear (#5)
and the one on the side towards the front (#3)- a hack saw blade worked swiftly. With these removed, the oe piece will come right out.
Now your ready to slide the new piece in, not too bad as its rubber- still takes a little finessing. Attach the end to the turbo and secure w/ hose clamp (put hose clamp on first, not like me trying to get it on after ). Attach all the hoses you removed. You may have trouble w/ hose #4, as my Samco piece came w/ too large of a nipple- it took lots of work getting that hose on (I've contacted Samco about it). Now put the oi line bolt back in, torque it down snug to where the previously scribed marks line up. Reattach the accordian piece, this takes a little doing as the Samco end is slightly larger than the oe end (told em about this too).
The finsihed product (oh yea, I figured while I had the ic off I'd touch it up w/ a little paint)
hey im gonn buy a new inlet pipe for my 02 wrx. the oe pipe was already missing number 3 and 5 nipples and i was wondering if you could help me out and tell me what hoses are supposed to go there. thank you i would appreciate all the help i can get
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ya im still new to the subaru stuff and just cant find anywhere online what is supposed to go to those 2 nipples
Seemed to me like an appropriate place to ask the question and thanks for searching first.
They are for the crank case vent and the valve cover vent - see the diagrams here:
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Guys, I have reread this thread like a million times now.
I am going to post a new thread on the "how-to" of easily changing ALL the hoses in the engine bay over to Samco's product. I will keep it simple, small images of each piece, and how to systematically remove and install the hoses without mistaking one for another.
I will also do a little write-up regarding the amazingly annoying BOV/BPV return hose. Samco's piece is only useable with the OEM valve, or those built to replicate it. The 45 degree dogleg is not accounted for on almost every adtermarket BOV. I realize I am going to get sent to the "BIG WAPshhhh thread", but please realize this is just a small issue, and should be a part of the How To made for all of Samco's hoses... hint: a 45 or 90 degree Silicone elbow in 1" ID with a 1" Aluminum hose coupler/joiner makes a smooth and durable matching link between the BPV outlet and the intake tract.
As I said, pics and a write-up. Everything will arrive in the next week, starting tomorrow (IC hoses). I am pretty happy to be trying this, what with the amazing reviews you all gave to Samco.
sounds good
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OK, everything is here EXCEPT for the parts I need to do the intercooler properly. I need an elbow and a coupler I ordered. Did you know that if you order a piece for a Samco kit that is an elbow or adapter, they want to know why, and they make it to the ID and OD of the hose it couples to! Cool. The elbow I need is for the BPV I have. I don't know why it's a whole thread to itself, but spring w/13 pounds, it is just a BPV like the stock one, but there's no elbow to the hose connected to it. I got a sleeve and hose with the same dimensions as the BPV return hose. At any rate, that will be here some time this coming week, and the installation will get a load of pictures. It is getting cold, and this isn't getting easier.
Samco stopped sending the JDM EJ20/25 kits to the US as the standard ancillary kit. We now get a USDM kit with power steering lines instead of brake booster lines. Same number of hoses in the kit, just two pieces which are useful, instead of flooding eBay with two hoses we can't use. The power steering lines are like the rest of Samco's stuff, glass smooth inside, tough like a tank on the outside, and purty colors.
I also think it is redundant and insulting to the present writeups to include how to install a radiator or intercooler hose kit. Use good hardware. That's my only extreme recommendation. The connections are only as good as what is keeping it together, so you can have a BnP radiator and intercooler, and if they are bandclamped with hardware-store air conditioning clamps, you are not getting the solid and airtight connections you want.
When these pics are uploaded I will probably be able to show you where those bandclamps are a bad thing. There's a couple of places where we are stuck w/ stock clamps, but they are spring-steel, have no teeth, and are smooth, so I feel safe using those where needed (wastegate capillary lines/boost control solenoid sensor line/restrictor-to-T line).
What improvements have I noticed:
The idle sits at 500rpm dead. It sits there and sits there at 500rpm. It doesn't bounce, there's no rock, no twist. It used to rumble and shake, and I don't know where or what I did, but that went away. It spools up and makes max boost earlier. I don't know how major this improvement is on paper, but in the seat, it is crisper, the silence of idle is made more apparent by the jet-engine sound of take-off. Silicone is not a silencer like rubber. It does not deform like rubber either, and air passage is more uniform, since it does not expand with increase in pressure as easily, either.
The engine runs cooler. I can blame this on 2 flush and fills of the coolant system in 2 months. The coolant is brilliant neon, no dirt in it. I think having it this clean makes it function slightly more efficiently, that or the Winter coming is just forcing water temps down... IDK, it's like 4 degrees below what it was.
When the IC hoses are finished, pics.
Hey Big Sky, I was curious if you know the diameter of the hose connection you have labeled #3. Is it 3/8?
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sorry that was on my 02 and 04, completely different setup on the 09 and no longer have access to the Samco piece in the tutorial
I'm sure someone would have one and be able to post a measurement- try the engine section
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Umm, sort of. It was about two weeks, in three couple hour sessions (interuptions due to kids school year end events, etc.). Slow mainly because the instructions as still in flux, and the only real documentation is the assembly videos which were not 100% accurate due to minor design changes.
The video are here... Assembly Videos - Printrbot Wiki
The Printrbot.com folks are still having growing pains due to difficulty with the various suppliers and ramping up from 100 kits to over 400+. I'd wait for a few more months before ordering. That way they'll have time to A) work out the bug in the supply chain, B) Get the new mini- and Large model refines, C) Get better build documentation created. They have also talked about eventually selling completely assembled one at some point.


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im not bashing dmjc! seems like a great club to me!
i was wondering was there a reason your members did not join glfwda already?
mabey glfwda can do something to change that image for other clubs.
did we turn you off in some way?(besides this post).
its easy for us to see the "good" in glfwda.
its not as easy for us to see the "other side" of glfwda.
as a former board member of glfwda please consider membership!
glfwda could sure use the help. there is power in numbers.
if you guys join shawn will buy you all a beer!
I am pretty new to wheeling and DMJC was my first exposure to a club. I have met some of the very best people through this organization, gained a lot of knowledge and more importantly learned responsible land use and safe wheeling. I believe having GLFWDA and UFDWA present was a way to help bolster membership in those organizations to help in the efforts and be additional voices to keep our trails open so that we can continue to use our land and enjoy these outdoor activities for generations to come.
It was great to have the folks from GLFWDA and UFDWA attend the monthly DMJC meeting to present information to our members that are both new and seasoned to wheeling. Our club is organized for the purpose of providing social, educational, and recreational activities for its members as well as participating in and supporting civic and environmental activities for the betterment of the community. We promote the sport and pastime of Jeep Vehicle travel in all phases plus enjoy and protect the natural resources and support the multiple use principle as it applies to public lands. DMJC is a family oriented club that promotes, organizes and holds outings, meetings, runs, excursions, reliability trials, hill climbs, cross-county trips and similar events to educate our members on responsible land use as well as safety on the trail, interest in and ownership of driving four wheel drive Jeep vehicles and the sport in general.
Paul, Ed and Jason gave a very professional and informative presentation to our club of new and seasoned members about the challenges that our sport is facing on a local, state and national level. We appreciated the time taken to educate our members on what is currently going on as well as what is on the horizon as it relates to our sport.
I believe this olive branch was well received and will help gain new, active members that will help in trail maintenance, attend meetings and support the initiatives that GLFWDA and UFDWA are taking up. This is however, an individual choice and decision for members of GL4x4, DMJC Et al. to support and spend their money on, and we should leave it as such.
Paul, Jason and Ed. These three are great representatives of their organizations and we appreciate their efforts.
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One of America's most admired writers, Mary Cordon writes about womens choices and about moral and spiritual struggles in the context of strong family connections. She has a deeply Catholic perspective, though not exactly an orthodox one, Her novels include Final Payments (1978), The Company of Women (1981), Men and Angels (1985) and Spending (1998). She has also written a memoir of her father, The Shadow Man (1996), and a biography, Joan of Arc (2000). I talked to her about her latest novel, Pearl, and about her connection to the church.
Is your use of the biblical names Maria and Joseph for characters in Pearl a signal that this novel has religious resonances?
I think I wanted to turn our idea of the holy family on its head. In the novel Maria certainly isnt the passive, maternal, holy or silent Virgin Mary. Shes not virginal at all. And she really butts her head against the world. Joseph is Pearls foster father, as the biblical Joseph is the foster father of Jesus. Hes like the biblical Joseph in that hes a good provider. But then he crashes and bums at the end, in a way that the biblical Joseph doesnt -- at least as far as we know.
The novel contrasts Marias life as a student in the 1960s with her daughters life in the 1990s. It seems that the younger generation feels more helpless, less confident that it can change the world.
That is one of the things that most marks the difference between the generations. On one level, the 1960s were a darker time -- think of the assassinations, the race dots, and the terrible Vietnam war stretching on. Yet somehow we believed that things would get better, that we could change them. Now theres a general feeling of hopelessness. Thats why I end the book with hopefulness, with the final line "We will hope for the best." Hope is a very fragile virtue.
The theme of purity seems to be important to you, even as you know that the search for purity can take dangerous forms.
I wanted to tease out what can be valuable in the idea and what is pernicious. Since it doesnt go away, it must have some sort of power, some sort of resonance. We on the left thought that the dangerous parts of the idea would just disappear, but somehow they dont. People on the right have grabbed hold of notions of purity, taken them into their teeth and poisoned them. If we dont examine such powerful ideas carefully, they become deeply perverted. But nothing that powerful is without merit. We must take the idea apart and disinfect it.
The idea of purity seems to be integral to us. Nothing in life gives us the basis for it -- life is impure, mixed, never single -- yet there is still this dream of purity, of being one pure thing, of a certainty unto death, that comes from somewhere. At its worst, the idea is death-dealing, and is very connected to death. But if you simply say, "Lets get rid of it," then large acts, acts beyond the self, are impossible.
For example, an artist strives for a kind of purity thats impossible. The lover and the beloved also strive for a pure love thats impossible. If we dont have that image of purity, we dont become our best selves.
I like to reconfigure the notion of purity to mean giving ones utmost, not having a narcissistic interest in what we do, but doing whatever we do for the thing itself. The trouble is that the notion of purity has been used -- as in my Catholic background -- as a sort of tool for punishing women. It was too narrowly defined as sexual purity, and that purity applied only to women. Thats a pernicious tincture in this brew that has to be guarded against.
Theres a lot in your recent book about our relationship with our bodies. Why is this subject so important to you?
I think its a challenge for women to get into a sensible and nondestructive relationship with their bodies. The female body is such a vessel of hatred and self-hatred, and yet it ought to be a vessel of joy.
A friend of mine once said, "If men had come together and said, Lets find a way to distract women, to keep them from changing the world, they couldnt have come up with anything better than weight obsession." At any given moment in the Western world a majority of the women are worried about being too fat. With the amount of mental energy spent on that, we could start a revolution. Its a very good way of tamping down the energy of women.
I dont think that the womens movement has made a dent in this issue. And now there seems to be an epidemic of cosmetic surgery -- girls are getting breast jobs for high school graduation. Its crazy.
Yet I dont want to be puritanical. One of the things younger women didnt like about our wave of feminism is that they thought we were puritanical about things like clothes and make-up. I think that both genders should be able to play with adornment and to enjoy it, but not be tyrannized by it. Its a hard balance to strike. Were aesthetic creatures, we like to look beautiful. But to have such a narrow definition of beauty, based on the image of a 15-year-old boy, is perverse.
What is your relationship with Catholicism at this point in your life?
I go to church. I guess Im a practicing Catholic, though I like Mel Brookss comment: "I dont have to practice. Im very good at it." Im glad I grew up Catholic, because the terms were very large, and it was serious. And I loved the liturgical cadences. I think Im a Catholic of a particular progressive stripe.
Im very uncomfortable with the official hierarchical church, often very ashamed of it, particularly lately -- ashamed not only of the pedophilia scandal, but of the behavior of the American hierarchy during the presidential election. The church has really squandered its moral patrimony by its sexual phobia.
On the other hand, the church is in my blood and my bones, and I dont think the world would be better off without it. At its best, it offers an aesthetic and a historical and ethical framework that is very appealing.
I also like being in a community. I like that in a large, urban Catholic church Im with people I would never be with otherwise. And I like being in a place where no one has to deserve being there. At the university, in the literary world and in the middle-class world in which I live, everyone has to earn a place. No one has to earn a place in church. Anybody can come.
Do you find the mother-child relationship as difficult as the people in your novels do?
I have two grown children, 25 and 21, who are the great passion of my life. Theyre mysterious to me, but I like to think that Im more conscious than Maria is, that I pay more attention and listen. Im not as confident as she is, so Ive felt that I had to look around a bit more. So far my children, thank God, are doing well.


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Ideological splits plague group that governs off-roading
By Michael Gardner
February 21, 2006
JOHN GASTALDO / Union-Tribune
SACRAMENTO When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Daphne Greene to manage the state's troubled off-road vehicle program, the first question she faced was whether she would be the new sheriff or the executioner.
Amid a tic surge in popularity, the sport's future has been clouded by a festering ideological feud. The state governing body that oversees grants and policies important to off-roading has split along lines loyal to either riders or environmentalists.
Lingering distrust has poisoned potential compromises that could benefit off-roaders, protect the environment and appease communities being invaded by the noise and pollution of the sport, say some of those involved.
We can't come together on the simplest things, lamented Michael Prizmich, the sheriff of Amador County and a member of the state's off-road oversight commission.
Clashes have escalated just as the Schwarzenegger administration prepares to make critical decisions on how to restructure the program and shake up the seven-member commission.
The 35-year-old program could even dissolve, although that's considered unlikely. A 1971 law that authorized the off-road program expires at the end of this year. Schwarzenegger has yet to advance a renewal proposal, frustrating off-roaders.
Some of the discord can be traced to the program's structure. California splits the management responsibility between the commission and a division of the state Parks and Recreation Department. Greene is in charge of the division, but must work with the commission. The program's budget is $55.6 million.
Off-roading has long drawn criticism from many quarters. Rogue riders leave an impression of noisy, smoggy machines plowing roughshod through pristine forests and sand dunes. Television ads for ATVs and trucks promote the wild image.
Now the sport is booming. Over the past five years, the number of permits sold for off-road vehicles nearly doubled, from 479,178 in 2001 to 900,861 in 2005 in California. Four million riders enjoyed state-run off-road parks last year, and countless more journeyed to national forests and other getaways. Network television carries off-road competition and a recent one-night event in San Francisco drew 37,000 fans.
Officially known as the state's Off-Road Motor Vehicle Recreation Commission, the oversight panel is made up of political appointees four selected by the Legislature; three by the governor who determine how millions of dollars are spent across the state. The money comes from two primary sources: a share of the state gas tax and permits, which run $25 every two years.
Greene touched off the latest flare-up when she blocked 46 local grants worth $5.4 million that the commission had approved. Backed by legal counsel, Greene dismissed the grants as arbitrary and capricious.
How can the division go behind the backs of the appointed commission? demanded Commissioner Harold Thomas, a Sacramento-area prosecutor who specializes in environmental law. I can find no authority for what they've done. It's unprecedented.
The deadlock threatens to hold up the entire $18 million in grant funds available for rider safety, trail improvement and enforcement programs. It's also strained relationships with federal authorities who manage national land used for off-road recreation.
Greene, a former off-road commissioner, said the action reflects the governor's goal of restoring credibility and accountability to the grants process.
For years, Greene said, it was all about who's your friend when it came time to dole out the money. How fair is that? she asked.
Off-road enthusiasts also have filed a lawsuit claiming commissioners secretly met to determine grants and let personal bias influence their decision.
Commissioners have distributed $141 million in grants since 1996 and still have the $18 million for this year.
It's a challenge, Greene said of trying to deal with the competing factions. What we see now, unfortunately, is a situation where the individual opinions and agendas have clouded the greater responsibility.
Others are less judicious. The commission should come to a screeching halt. It should end, said Commissioner Robert Chavez, an Encino resident aligned with off-roaders.
Commission Chairman Paul Spitler of Davis, a former director of the California Wilderness Coalition, said the commission justifiably changed course to become more environmentally friendly after years of domination by off-road users.
In the past year and a half you've seen unprecedented efforts to usurp the role of the commission and roll back a lot of the environmental protections the Legislature initiated, Spitler said. It certainly appears this administration is trying to take us back to the bad old days.
But Chavez, who has not attended a meeting for a year, said environmental factions seem bent on banning off-road use from public lands.
It will be a happy day for them when that happens, he said.
The state auditor brought the infighting to light last August in a blistering report that found favoritism in awarding contracts and lax oversight, among other problems.
Sen. Bill Morrow, an Oceanside Republican who pushed for the audit, has accused the commission of ignoring the auditor's recommendations.
They haven't done a lick, said Morrow, a candidate for San Diego's 50th Congressional District.
Morrow, an off-road enthusiast, has railed against certain state policies. In 1996 he was cited by a park ranger for doing doughnuts driving in tight circles at high speed in a four-wheel-drive vehicle that sported special legislative license plates. State parks Director Ruth Coleman has ordered Greene to fix the situation, parks spokesman Roy Stearns said. Purging the commission is one option, Stearns said.
If the only way to get to where we're going is to change the commission, to put a more fair commission up there, that's OK with us, he said.
But some commissioners don't agree with the audit's findings. Being unpaid, part-time and busy in their private lives, they say, makes it difficult to respond rapidly. A meeting is planned later this year on the audit, 12 months after its public release.
The growing friction is evident to those who follow the commission.
The commission is dysfunctional and divided, said Fred Wiley, executive director of the Off-Road Business Association, based in Santee.
Albert Llata of Los Angeles said off-road enthusiasts deserve commissioners who will work on their behalf.
Does Oscar Mayer hire vegetarians? he asked.
Others are more blunt. Dave Pickett, a Folsom off-roader speaking at a recent commission meeting, accused the pro-environment majority of being obstructionists and demanded their resignations.
The environmental camp writes off the complaints as sour grapes from off-roaders.
The game has changed. For 30 years, they had it their way, said Karen Schambach, a community activist in the foothills north of Sacramento.
The Schwarzenegger administration itself has escalated tensions by raiding accounts meant for off-roading and spending the money on in-house office functions and parks that ban dune buggies, four-wheelers, ATVs and snowmobiles.
State officials justified the diversions, saying some helped create off-road opportunities. They couldn't explain, however, why Angel Island, in San Francisco Bay, received off-road revenues.
Parks officials say the diversions of money have ended, although the account is still owed $21 million borrowed during former Gov. Pete Wilson's administration.
Absolutely they should be angry, Greene said of off-roaders frustrated over the use of funds earmarked for their sport.
However, there is talk within the administration of increasing registration fees on off-road vehicles, to perhaps $18 a year from the current $12.50.
In addition to registration fees, the program receives millions annually in gas taxes based on estimates of how much fuel is used by street-legal, four-wheel-drive and other vehicles when drivers go off paved surfaces.
A huge slice of the program's budget also subsidizes the federal government. Since 1996, commissioners have awarded $61.8 million to the Bureau of Land Management and an additional $59.3 million to the U.S. Forest Service.
Schwarzenegger brought in Greene when lawmakers were preparing to approve the audit that was expected to shake up things.
Greene has credentials as an off-roader and environmentalist. She was a world-class competitor in four-wheel-drive racing, is an avid rock climber and a mountaineer, having scaled daunting peaks like Kilimanjaro, Denali, Rainier and Shasta.
Greene said the disputes overshadow a broader issue. Given growth and environmental pressures, what is the state's commitment to the sport, she said, particularly as a new generation that has never heard of Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl puts keys in the ignition.
Where's our land ethic? she asked.
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Supportive care for prostate cancer
Supportive careSupportive careTreatment given to improve the quality of life of people who have a serious illness (such as cancer). helps people meet the physical, practical, emotional and spiritual challenges of prostate cancer. It is an important part of cancer care. There are many programs and services available to help meet the needs and improve the quality of life of people living with cancer and their loved ones, especially after treatment has ended.
Recovering from prostate cancer and adjusting to life after treatment is different for each man, depending on the extent of the disease, the type of treatment and many other factors. The end of cancer treatment may bring mixed emotions. Even though treatment has ended, there may be other issues to deal with, such as coping with long-term side effects. A man who has been treated for prostate cancer may have the following concerns.
Urinary incontinence is the involuntary loss of urine or the inability to control urination. Urinary incontinence can occur in men with prostate cancer:
- Enlargement of the prostate can obstruct the neck of the bladder neck. This can cause an overflow of urine when the bladder becomes too full (overflow incontinence).
- Prostate surgery or radiation therapy can damage the nerves or muscles that control bladder function or the release of urine.
- Pelvic radiation can cause irritation of the lining of the bladder, resulting in frequent urination and urgency.
Incontinence may be embarrassing and inconvenient, but it can be treated with medication, surgery or supportive measures to achieve better control.
Self-esteem and body image
How a person feels about or sees themselves is called self-esteem. Body image is a person's perception of their own body. Prostate cancer and its treatments can affect a man's self-esteem and body image. Often this is because cancer or cancer treatments may result in body changes, such as:
- changes in body weight and muscle mass due to hormonal therapy
- loss of the testicles (orchiectomy)
- loss of bladder control
- inability to get an erection
Some of these changes can be temporary, others will last for a long time and some will be permanent. For many people, body image and their perception of how others see them is closely linked to self-esteem.
Many men continue to have strong, supportive relationships and a satisfying sex life after prostate cancer. Sexual problems that can occur because of prostate cancer treatment include:
- Erectile dysfunction (ED) is the inability to get and keep an erection firm enough to have sex.
- Retrograde ejaculation can result from prostate cancer surgery (TURP). It occurs when semen flows backward into the bladder and mixes with urine, rather than out through the penis during orgasm.
- Dry orgasm can result from prostate cancer surgery (radical prostatectomy). A man who no longer produces semen may still have an orgasm. This is called a dry orgasm. A man who does not produce semen will not be able to father a child naturally.
- Decreased libido (loss of sex drive) may result from reduced testosterone levels due to hormonal treatments and other side effects of prostate cancer treatment.
It is common to have a decreased interest in sex around the time of diagnosis and treatment. When the man first starts having sex after treatment, he may be afraid that it will be painful or that he will not have an erection or orgasm. The first attempts at being intimate with a partner may be disappointing. Some men and their partners may need counselling to help them cope with these feelings and the effects of cancer treatments on their ability to have sex.
Fatigue causes a person to feel more tired than usual and can interfere with daily activities and sleep. It occurs for a variety of reasons. Fatigue may be caused by anemia, specific drugs, poor appetite, depression, or it may be related to toxic substances that are produced when cancer cells break down and die. Fatigue may get better as time goes by, or it can continue long after the person has finished their cancer treatment.
Some hormonal therapies that are used to block or decrease the body's production of testosterone can increase the risk of osteoporosis. The hormone testosterone causes prostate cancer to grow, but it also plays a role in maintaining strong bones. Hormonal therapies that lower the levels of this hormone can increase bone loss. These therapies include luteinizing hormone–releasing hormone (LHRH) agonists and orchiectomy. Early detection and treatment of osteoporosis can decrease bone loss and reduce bone fractures.
Men diagnosed with prostate cancer may have questions about the kind of food that is good for them. Diets that promote healthy, well-balanced eating from a variety of food groups will contribute to better health while recovering from prostate cancer. There is no research that shows taking nutritional supplements of any kind can cure prostate cancer. Some studies suggest a link between prostate cancer and a high-fat diet. It is wise to minimize the amount of fat in the diet. Men with prostate cancer should consult their doctor or dietitian about the best nutrition for them.
Physical activity
The type and amount of physical activity a man can do after prostate cancer treatment often depends on:
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Heavy lifting and strenuous exercise should be avoided for a number of weeks after a radical prostatectomy, in order to allow the body to heal completely. Talk to the doctor or healthcare team before starting or resuming an exercise or physical activity program. Exercise can help a man return to the activities of daily living, reduce fatigue and improve energy levels.
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I'm looking for opinions on an 18.5" 12 gauge for strictly home defense. I've been doing a lot of searching and reading here and still have some questions.
-Is a semi going to be less reliable than a pump (enough so to stick with a pump)?
-How about magnum loads? Do I need them? I notice that the Remington 1100 semis won't accept magnums? Any semis that do?
-What's the deal with Mossberg's Marinecoat? They say it helps make a smoother action as well as being more durable.
The big contenders from reading here and my travels to local gunshops/shows are variants of the Mossberg 500, Remington 870/1100 and possibly a Saiga 12. I'm leaning towards the Mossberg 500 Tactical 6 shot w/Marinecoat (OK, it looks cool):
I'd also like to snag a deal on a Saiga 12 if I can. The Saiga looks like a lot of gun for the money even though the price is creeping up. I also like the safety location on the Mossbergs better than the Remingtons. Any must have changes to either that I should do for a HD shotgun (various chokes, sights, etc.) outside of adding a tactical light? Any others to consider?
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Rangers 5, Indians 2: Pinch hitter Adrian Beltre hit a three-run homer in the 11th inning as Texas halted its three-game losing streak.
Mitch Moreland went 3-for-4 with an RBI for the Rangers, who also ended the Indians' winning streak at three.
Joe Smith (1-1) intentionally walked Moreland with a runner on second and one out before Beltre deposited a 1-0 offering over the wall in center field, snapping a 2-2 tie. It was the fifth blast of the year for Beltre, who has not started the last four games due to a sore left hamstring.
Alexi Ogando (1-0) notched the win and Joe Nathan recorded his seventh save in eight opportunities.
Texas got on the board in the second as Mike Napoli led off with a single, advanced to third on a pair of groundouts and scored on Ian Kinsler's infield single.
The Rangers doubled the lead in the fourth when Nelson Cruz hit a leadoff single and came home two batters later on a double by Moreland. With runners on second and third and none out, Indians starter Derek Lowe worked out of the jam to avoid further damage.
Cleveland evened the score in the eighth as Derek Holland exited after allowing back-to-back one-out singles in favor of Mike Adams, who promptly yielded Asdrubal Cabrera's RBI double. With Carlos Santana at the plate, Jason Kipnis raced home from third with the tying run on a passed ball by Napoli.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Cabrera registered half of the Indians' eight hits. ... Cleveland was solid defensively as it turned four double plays while right fielder Shin-Soo Choo recorded an assist. ... Four of the Rangers' five runs were scored with two outs.


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Comment on Portland Leading Sustainable Growth.
Bob makes good points on my post on Portland. Here they are:
"Although I applaud these initiatives (obviously), I think you're slightly off the mark in linking them to McDonough and Braungart's philosophy of "Cradle to Cradle".
Nau states on their sites that their goals include "low impact" "maximum efficiency". The same could be said for the water-saving tap. Trees on the other hand don't have a low impact, they have a positive effect. They're not eco-efficient (far from it), but "eco-effective", to put it in McDonoughs words.
So kudos to the people in Portland for stepping up to the plate and trying to reduce their environmental impact, but they're still doing it through the old "reduce, re-use, recycle" method, they haven't really adopted the Cradle to Cradle paradigm as far as I can tell."
Good points, all. I think Portland is building an eco-culture that has many parts, most of them non-McDonough. My sense of Nau is that they are trying to change the way fabrics are made and processed—change the chemistry—to make them more sustainable. Check out the piece done by Heather Green for the I&D channel on Nau.


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PETA boycotts Canadian syrup, over seal harvests
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is taking its campaign against Canadian seal harvesting to America, urging consumers to boycott Canadian-made maple syrup.
Three PETA activists - one dressed as a baby seal - campaigned outside the Statehouse in Montpelier on Tuesday, smashing a likeness of a maple syrup bottle until it squirted red "blood" - it was really theatrical makeup - onto the sidewalk.
Passersby didn't need much coaxing, though. Nineteen-year-old Anna Macijeski, of Northfield, said she never buys Canadian maple syrup anyway.
Simon Trepanier, a spokesman for the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers, says he doesn't understand what seals have to do with maple syrup. He says maple syrup makers are working with nature, not against it.


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I'd love to have one of their small nines but they run in the mid 500's up here in CT. Way to much money for them. What I really like about my Kel=tec is the clip you can install. I whis Kahr and glock would offer something like that.
What's the 45 version like when U shoot it?
My Kahr CW9
Sorry I don't have a pic, but the CW-40 are finally being released I got one for my shop the other day, nice thing is they don't cost too much like $455.00 About the same as the CW-9. I have sold a couple of the 9's but nobody ever tells me nothing about how they function, unless it's bad news!
"After try after try... I only like this one..!"
I know the "PIC" sucks, but it's an "OLD ONE..." The pistol is a K9, Elite, '03, with extensive re-working done by "Yours truly..!"
I polished "Everything inside" and sharpened what needed sharpening, and made the "Mahogany grips..." I like her allot now...
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man i want a mk9 so bad
Gonna add my little CW40 to the mix, got her today and put 100 round through her without a hitch. Shot Aluminum Blazers and WWB plus a few Winchester SXZ's with no malfunctions.
Congrats and nice x-mas present.
.40's are kind of known for that. My third HG purchase was a Kahr PM9. I thought it had a bite to it. Then I bought a Ruger LCP and the Kahr PM9 shoots like a marshmellow compared to the LCP.
I just realize the LCP is a pocket gun and shoot it every couple of weeks just enough to stay proficient with it. It is not a fun gun to go out and shoot for target practice.
The Kahr's are nicely built and I like mine.
My new to me K9
Very nice!!!!
anyone else find the kahr trigger to suck???!!??


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In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started selling the Apple Computer, originally from a garage. By the next year,with the release of the Apple II, Apple had made its mark on the computing world. By 1984, Apple stepped things up a notch with the release of the Macintosh. Who could forget the commercial 1984 which debuted during that year's Super Bowl game? Even though other companies developed the graphical interface and the mouse, it was Apple that brought them together successfully in a commercially viable product.
After Jobs left Apple in 1985 in a Coup de tat, he joined software company Next which developed the software that later became OS X and the mobile operating system that became iOS. And while not heavily publicized, Steve Jobs is actually the largest shareholder of Disney thanks to his term as Chairman and CEO of the motion picture animation company Pixar. If you don't think that Pixar changed the way animation is done in Hollywood, then you haven't been to see too many cartoons on the giant screen lately
When Next was purchased by Apple, it gave Steve Jobs an entry back inside Apple, which was dangerously close to going under at the time. It was 1997 and Jobs helped the company turn out the iMac, a unique egg-shaped computer with a translucent, colored case covering the monitor. It was a huge hit and Apple was out of ICU. The Apple iMac G4 put all of the guts of the computer in a single base with the monitor attached via a metal, swinging arm. It too was a big hit.
The next area that Steve Jobs helped change was the portable MP3 player. On November 10, 2001 Apple launched the Apple iPod. The amazing success of the iPod gave Jobs the confidence to go after the next piece of technology on his list-cell phones. On January 9, 2007, after nearly 2 years of rumors, Steve Jobs introduced the Apple iPhone which was launched June 29, 2007. Yes, there were some mistakes made such as the lack of 3G connectivity, no MMS and other little flaws. But from the moment that the Apple iPhone was released, the smartphone was never the same. And of course, it was Jobs who introduced the Apple iPhone 3G, the 3GS and the current Apple iPhone 4. His name has become practically synonymous with the iPhone. Today's touchscreen smartphone, with a YouTube app, super-responsive screen and of course, an online app store, can all be traced back to Apple.
You would think that having changed the home computer, movie animation, mobile operating systems and the smartphone would have been enough for anyone. But Jobs changed the laptop industry with the introduction in April 2010 of the Apple iPad tablet. 3 million units were sold in the first 80 days and just as with the iPhone, other companies started producing their own tablets using the Apple tablet as a template. In March 2011, the Apple iPad 2 was released leaving Apple with a stranglehold in the tablet arena.
And regardless on where you stand on Apple the company, Steve Jobs the individual is responsible for the designs and features of many of the products that we all use today whether they are made by Apple or a competitor. And for that we say, Thanks Steve.
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DENVER – The University of Denver men's lacrosse team (2-3) narrowly defeated the Lehigh University Mountain Hawks (2-3) by a score of 8-7 in the final game of the DU Face-Off Classic, sponsored by UBS on Sunday afternoon at Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium before a crowd of 1,172.
"It's nice to get a win," said head coach Bill Tierney. "Today I just wanted our team to come out hard, and I'm happy that we came out with the victory."
Freshman Cameron Flint (Georgetown, Ontario) scored all three of his goals in the second quarter, bringing his scoring total to 12 on the season. Also contributing for Denver was sophomore Alex Demopoulos (Canton, Conn.), who had two goals and an assist on the afternoon, while three other Pioneers added scores.
After Demopoulos opened the scoring with 11:30 on the clock during the first quarter, the Mountain Hawks responded with two scores to hold the advantage after one quarter of play.
But the Pioneers came back with five goals in the second quarter, three courtesy of Flint, to take a 6-2 cushion heading into the locker room. After allowing Lehigh 14 shots in the first period, the Pioneers' defense clamped down, allowing the Mountain Hawks only one shot at the net in the second quarter.
Lehigh slowly reduced the Pioneer lead during the second half, outscoring Denver 3-0 in the fourth quarter, but Denver held on for the 8-7 victory.
Despite a 30-shot barrage from the Mountain Hawks, sophomore goalie Zander Buteux (Madison, N.J.) made nine saves to ensure the Pioneer victory.
Earlier in the day, Penn defeated Air Force 8-7 in the third game of the DU Face-Off Classic. John Conneely and Rob McMullen led the Quakers with two goals each, while Corey Winkoff added three assists. With the win, Penn improves to 2-2 on the season. Zack Carroll led the Falcons with three goals, but Air Force dropped their third straight decision to fall to 0-3 overall.
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The Tree of Life, directed by Terrence Malick
This past weekend I finally saw The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick's meditation on mothers and fathers, sons and brothers, cosmology and creation, nature and grace, 1950s Americana and, briefly, dinosaurs. From the origins of the universe to suburban Texas to a notional depiction of the afterlife, Tree is an impressionistic feat of filmmaking, offering glimpses of an imagined primordial creation—and gestation—alongside snapshots of a family grappling with existential questions. Using mainly non-verbal storytelling techniques and cinematic sleights of hand, Malick manages to capture a nostalgia for the simplicity of childhood and the fall from innocence that follows, themes at the heart of all of his films. Many of the scenes left me speechless—those of the brothers roughhousing in the front yard more than those illustrating galactic birth. It felt like a long poem unspooling in cinematic real-time over nearly 2 1/2 hours, with long stretches of silence interrupted almost imperceptibly by Alexandre Desplat's score. The ending has been criticized as being trite, as an easy answer to the question "Why are we here?" that is echoed, whether in words or in actions, by more than one of the characters in the film. But where it might fail to offer cohesion, Tree succeeds as a personal prayer to an inscrutable and specific type of god, and remains for me a thought-provoking and affecting story of life and loss.
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A Heaven of Others by Joshua Cohen
Joshua Cohen's A Heaven of Others—a strange, mystical, to my mind totally unreviewable book, perhaps dictated to the author by an angel of the Lord in the night, "being the True Account of a Jewish Boy," an Israeli child "exploded" by his Palestinian counterpart, "and his Post-Mortem Adventures in & Reflections upon the Muslim Heaven," where he is somehow sent. Cohen may be one of the great writers of today.
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Pärson Sound and the films of Luc Moullet
For a long time I've been really into Swedish heavy psych band Träd, Gras och Stenar in all their iterations (they were also known at various times as Pärson Sound, Harvester, International Harvester and, most mysteriously, Hot Boys). This interest has become a near obsession lately after I got my hands on the Swedish label Subliminal Sounds really very beautiful vinyl reissues.
Also: I've been really enamored with the hilarious movies of second generation French New Wave filmmaker (and prolific Cahiers du Cinéma critic) Luc Moullet. Watching his movies is like opening a window to air out a stuffy room, as I think John Ashbery once said about another poet, though I could be wrong. The early films The Smugglers and A Girl is Gun are my particular favorites.
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Don't Wake Up
Don't miss Don't Wake Up at North Henry Annex! A radically beautiful group show in a former Catholic brothers' house, abandoned ten years ago and now recovered by the organizers and artists. William Latta, Nathan Spondike, Susan Sabiston, and Colt Hausman organize works by Aaron Gilbert, Bradford Willingham, Colby Bird, Jani Benjamins, Kirsten Deirup, Nathan Dilworth, Nathan Whipple, and Owen McAuley. The exhibition is at 2 North Henry Street, Brooklyn and only open on Saturdays and Sundays 1–6. It opened June 11 and will be on view until June 28. Look out for a roundtable with the artists and organizers coming soon to BOMBlog.
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Just Kids by Patti Smith
Patti Smith's Just Kids is an account of her experiences in New York in the 1960s, with a focus on her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe. As the story of her move from temporary homelessness and a minimum wage job into her successful musical career unfolds, she surprises with unusual comparisons, lyrical descriptions, and a witty appreciation for the absurdity of her naive run-ins with Andy Warhol, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin. Fluttering around the Bowery and West Village, living in hotels, making art installations and photographing Patti with a borrowed Polaroid camera, Robert is both "…a smothering cloak," and, "a velvet petal…" in this poetic and bittersweet memoir.
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Never Any End to Paris by Enrique Vila-Matas
Never Any End to Paris by the Spanish novelist Enrique Vila-Matas, just published by New Directions in Anne McClean's sure-footed, hilarious translation. (Translation skeptics take note: in the right hands, humor does translate!) In the form of a bizarre, three-day autobiographical lecture on irony, the author recounts his early days as a Hemingway-obsessed writer wannabe in Paris. While working on his novel The Lettered Assassin, Vila-Matas rented a garret by none other than Marguerite Duras, celebrity-sighted everyone from Michael Foucault to Roland Barthes to Jean Seberg to Samuel Beckett, attended readings at the secret bookstore Zékian—where he heard Borges give a talk on memory and witnessed a stand-in for George Perec retell the story of a certain scrivener named Bartleby . . . The list goes on. How could he not have turned out to be a luminary?
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The Belgian trailer manufacturer Faymonville returns to Conexpo in March this year and will showcase a range of heavy-haul trailers made specifically for the North American market.Read More
Manac, Polar Tank Trailer, Heil, East and Hyundai recalled a total of more than 9,000 trailers to add to the original group of recalls, which includes Great Dane, Fontaine, Wabash, Wilson, Utility and several other trailer makers.Read More
With its new DualMax line of heavy/oversize-haul equipment, the European Faymonville manufacturer was recently able to offer a modular trailer that can be widened -- even under a load -- to the U.S. market.Read More
Wendy on one driver's trailer-retrofit / delivery nightmare: "I'm no fan of California's prohibitively restrictive laws, but I'm also not a fan of insanity. Just say no to being nuts. Please."Read More
With flatbed freight volume in the tank, George moves back to the old stand-by: "I'm going to pick up a van. I dropped my flatbed off for inspection and I'm picking up a van."Read More
Space and moisture and circuit protection dominate concerns when choosing a nosebox to house wiring on the trailer.Read More
With a big equipment auction in the offing at Ritchie Bros. Ft. Worth, Texas, facility, revisit a primer on the decision to and strategies for truck/trailer purchase at auction.Read More
Introducing Kalyn Siebert's new Phoenix hydraulic removable gooseneck trailer and scraper-neck option for other commercial heavy equipment-hauling HRG applications.Read More
Working with East Manufacturing over many years, Page Trucking's founders, owners and its leased owner-operators have perfected an all-aluminum frameless dump spec that fits their bulk niche.Read More
According to Overdrive research, most independent owner-operators already own their own trailers, as do around half of leased owner-operators.Read More


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I have been searching on this forum and google searching for some time now.
First I had troubles booting in and then solved it, everything works fine except I cant find my WIFI device wich has a visible SSID but with wpa-psk enabled.
Using windows I have no problem connecting but it can get hard to search of any posibilities while BT3 is running without internet connection. So everytime I have to reboot to win xp search for a problem and then write it on a piece of paper or to put an .txt file.
What I understand that there are eth0 and eth1 to witch my broadcom NIC is associated. I tried to run wireless configuration and still cant find any WiFI signal. I also tried in some program witch name I forgot put configuration files in but it then says that wpa_suplicant cant be started. As also read somewhere over the internet that new drivers are installed by kernel wich is here on BT3 a newer one has and that all devices are loaded into it.
I use compaq 6720s.
This all has led me to change a distro to ubuntu maybe but as alway like to work on a bit harder os. Im considering a new laptop and give this one to my mother for searching receipts over the internet. Thats all this laptop can do. Please convince me otherwise.
Best regards Max Halz.
P.S. Even if I find the solution how can I boot again with new options from usb?


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In 1882, led by future state senator Fred T Dubois, the Territory of Idaho enacted a law disenfranchising all Mormons in the territory. This was done because at the time some Mormons practiced Polygamy and polygamy was an official teaching of the Church. This practice violated and offended the "sincerely held beliefs" and Christian sensibilities of many of the other residents of Idaho. They felt that since they were morally offended by the Mormons way of life that they should be able to deny Mor … [Read more...]
Will You be Watching Mitt?
The Documentary Mitt opens online tomorrow on Netflix. I am planning on watching it.I did not vote for Mitt Romney in 2012 or in any prior caucus or primary. While I am not a Romney supporter or fan, I also have nothing against the guy personally.I disagree with him politically. However, I see no reason or justification for having any negative feelings towards him. I especially feel this way since he lost. Anything he said or did during the campaign didn't work when it came to his goal … [Read more...]
Sister Wives: Trading Anonymity for Tolerance
While many mainstream Mormons are uncomfortable being associated with polygamy and polygamists, the Browns of TLC's Sister Wives similarly do not want to be associated with all polygamists.(The Browns call members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints based in Salt Lake City "mainstream" Mormons)"We were tired of Warren Jeffs being the poster child of plural marriage," Janelle Brown told me in an interview.Warren Jeffs is the former head of the Fundamentalist Church of … [Read more...]
A Line of Separation between Corporation and State
Thomas Jefferson famously spoke of erecting a "wall of separation between church and state" in order to prevent an alliance of religious and political interests that would undermine democracy and lead to religious tyranny.[1] "History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government," he wrote.[2] "In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for prot … [Read more...]


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The one disadvantage of using HRTFs is that they've been created using an average head and ear model. This means that its effectiveness can therefore vary greatly, depending on the person. Unfortunately, due to my oddly shaped ears (and pointy head), HRTF impulses have never worked well for me. Playing UT2004, the sounds do come from a wider space with the CMSS effects rather than without but the placement is not clearly defined and certainly no substitute for surround speakers. Despite many previews claiming startling results with headphones I personally found the effect slightly more noticeable when using speakers.
Using CMSS to enhance stereo content is something I'm much less keen on since stereo enhancement technologies typically throw the phase of the recording right out of the studio window. For this review I used some of the music to appear in Konami's soon to be released game Crime Life: Gang Wars.
I'm willing to stand alone on this one but I really didn't get along well with the result. Using a decent set of speakers I found the 'enhancement' resulted in artefacts typical of this kind of technology. Certainly the space between the speakers appeared larger but rather than improving the listening experience, the placement of individual sounds became diffuse and blurred. This was more pronounced on headphones than speakers. Over longer periods of time, using CMSS on stereo music was a tiring experience rather than a pleasure although if you're using cheap computer speakers with very poor stereo separation, you may find the effect beneficial.
The other half of Xtreme Fidelity is the 24-bit Crystalizer feature. The theory here is that moving from 16-bit to 24-bit offers a greater dynamic range. Most music, particularly pop music, is compressed, averaging out the overall volume so that the result is perceptually louder. The Crystalizer function looks for transients in the audio (sharp attacks), such as bass drums, and increases their volume making otherwise masked sounds more prominent. It has its own slider so can be used to different degrees depending on the material being played.
Like the CMSS feature, it's based on a series of assumptions about the music mix, assumptions that will not always please studio engineers. The results however, are surprisingly effective, particularly on speakers that aren't studio reference quality. Drums do sound punchier and a high-pass filter helps to push the higher frequencies, both of which typically suffer during conversion to MP3.
Saying this, don't get sucked in by the claims that Xtreme Fidelity will turn boring old stereo CDs into wondrous 24-bit surround sound remixes. The experience can be qualitatively more enjoyable but it's not possible to add to a recording something that wasn't there in the first place.