text: The European Union is on track to start its own satellite navigation and positioning system, Galileo, as it was earlier this year announced that the Council of Transport Ministers released the $44 million needed to develop Galileo, and at the same time adopted the regulation establishing the joint undertaking responsible for operating it. Galileo is being developed as a commercial alternative to the U.S. GPS system, and tentatively is scheduled to be up and running by 2008. While markets are varied, and much of the advantages are touted in terms of savings tot the airlines, the maritime sector, including offshore oil and gas exploration, has been targeted as a major market for the project. The $3.1-billion Galileo project, which has been developed in conjunction with the European Space Agency, will enable users to accurately determine their positions in time and space at any given time, via a constellation of 30 Medium Earth Orbit satellites. The push is on to commence service by 2008, a date which seems achievable at this time, as GPS III is expected to commence operation by 2010. "Europe has finally taken the political decision to launch this strategic program. Today we are seeing the creative side of Europe," declared Mrs. Loyola de Palacio, the Commission Vice-president responsible for transport and energy. "It will help Europe to maintain its autonomy, its sovereignty, its technological capacity and control of its knowledge," she concluded. More than a Satellite System In the 1980s, the United States developed the satellite navigation system known as GPS (Global Positioning System), initially for military purposes. Interest in its civil applications grew quickly, and today GPS — replaced, in certain areas, by the Russian GLONASS system, also of military origin — is used for navigation by an increasing number of sailors, aviators, and car drivers. A system made in Europe "Europe's dependence on these two external, military systems over which it has no control places it at a disadvantage," explains Matthias Ruete, director of the Trans-European Networks for Transport program. "Their links with defense priorities provide no guarantee of development and dependability for the future. But this future is crucial in determining the development of an integrated European transport sector. Added-value services and equipment linked to the growth of navigation systems could represent a market worth Euro 35 billion in the next decade and generate large numbers of skilled jobs." (1) In short, the Galileo project is seen as important for European political interests as it is for commercial viability and real market need. While the system will undoubtedly offer new products and services that will be embraced by shipping and offshore oil productions ever increasing need for timely, accurate positioning information, Galileo is viewed by politicians as a critical system in the event that the U.S. and Russian systems were pulled away for their intended purpose, that being military applications. While Galileo will compete with the GPS system, it will also be designed to complement it. "The Galileo project sets out to be perfectly compatible and redundant with GPS. The dovetailing of the two systems will make the whole more solid and more reliable," said Mrs. Loyola de Palacio, "and it will help to prevent a monopoly situation and give everyone a choice." Galileo is Coming: Jump On The European Commission will organize in Brussels at the beginning of October 2002 an information day for enterprises wishing to participate in the Galileo program. Representatives from the Commission, the Galileo Joint Undertaking, ESA and from a consultant will inform enterprises on the development of the program, the steps leading to the choice of the future concessionaire and the numerous services based on satellite radio navigation. Simultaneous translation will allow for speeches in French, German and English. (1) CREDIT: © European Communities, 2000-2005 [Research strategy Galileo: the challenge of autonomy], in RTD-Info, Magazine for European Research, No. 25, February 2000, [http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/rtdinfo/en/25/03.html.]


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Why does anyone in the world use torx head bolts? They are the definition of a pain in a gentleman's bottom. We were made very well aware of this the other day when we kitted out the landy with everything that arrived in the supply dump (which, as it happened, did not include a torx head set).
Unlike our previous attempts at being productive, we were actually incredibly productive this Monday morning. We were up at the sparrow's fart, an ice cold 0830, and we had the first two bolts out by c.0831. Then we hit a bit of a speed bump at c.0832 what with the third bolt we came across having an ugly star shape in the top of it (torx). It was holding down the middle seat in the front of the cab, which we were attempting to remove. The access was a complete nightmare and there was just no earthly way for us to remove the little bugger. So we gave up on that and tried our luck in the rear (of the cab) but since none of the locks seem to work (and the rear passenger side door was actually locked shut) we had to first break into our own car with a coat hanger. We make for worryingly good criminals. In any case, we soon had the rear passenger side single seat out and took all the giff gaff with it like the seat belt and all the broken glass that was lurking beneath – Duncan's hand found that before his eyes did though which, as you can imagine, was not ideal for his hand.
We pop-riveted the ammunition boxes to the flat-bed, we bolted the jerry can holder to the shelf in the rear, we spent £10 on fuel driving to Pound Land in order to buy £4 worth of goods, we convinced those fine chaps in Halfords to let us take their items out of the shop in order to try to remove the pesky torx head bolt, but we had no joy with this.
The return journey included a detour to go and pick up all the wood that we would need to build the terrace (a wooden drawer that slides out to make the roof-rack larger) and the penthouse (a pop-up festival tent tied with shoe laces to the terrace {wooden drawer}). At the lumber yard we met an old friend from school who now resembled a slightly-less-than-life-size gnome wearing a high-vis jacket. We also met a fool who convinced us fools that 6mm ply would be thick enough to stand on when placed atop our roof-rack. For your information, 6mm ply is not thick enough to stand on when placed atop our roof-rack. Thankfully, there are more than just 4 fools and a gnome in this world and across the street we managed to find a chap, one of the stellar kind, who, after 45 minutes of grunting and heavy breathing with us in the back of our truck, did indeed manage to remove that obstinate little torx head bolt. Hurrah hurrah. With the front middle seat finally banished from our midst we took great pleasure in hand crafting a beautiful natural (ply) wood coffee table to take its place. Behold:
There comes a time when one must stop beating around the bush and grab the bull by the horns so to speak (a prime example would be us needing to stop writing on this website and actually do some revision…). On Monday though, we needed to stop dilly dallying and build what we were there to build, to make what we had been designing for weeks, to create what had never been created before, the car-top terrace. Or to put it more correctly, we needed our friend Sam to build it for us because he knows how to work men's machinery and we don't… what?
Here's Duncan, hard at work.
You wouldn't believe the man's genius, seeing the unforeseeable and building us fools the most idiot-proof car-top terrace the world has ever seen. The design was this:
- Take two 1m lengths of 6"x1/4" aluminium plate, cut them to size and countersink bolt holes so that it attaches flushly to the roof rack
- Take two 1m lengths of 4"x2"x1/4" aluminium L-shape and drill M10 bolt holes through both that and the aluminium plate in positions that correspond to the drawer runners being 'in' and 'out'
- Countersink bolt holes on the underside of the 2" length of the L-shape so that you can attach a sheet of 18mm ply wood to the topside whilst keeping the underside smooth so that it slides on what lies beneath it
- Assemble (see 'Modifications' under 'The Steed' for the general layout)
We worked late into the night but when we finished and took a step back to see our handy work it was all clearly worth it. The landy is now almost expedition ready, with just a snorkel and rear diff guard waiting to be attached.
The flat bed has been turned into a thing of ergonomic wonder. In the photo below you can see we eventually figured out a way of mounting the high-lift jack (bolted on on the right hand roof rack rear support leg), the tent slots into that hanging green tarpaulin which simultaneously creates space above it to hold sleeping mats etc, the empty black frame on the right hand side is bolted onto that wooden shelf and is a lockable jerry can holder which can carry up to 60 litres (which, on top of our 70 litre tank, gives us a range of almost 600 miles), the ammo boxes are in the corner just out of sight and hold all the bits and bobs for car maintenance, the drawer you can see there is on runners and fits snugly beneath the shelf and holds all the cooking equipment and food.
The seat we removed in the rear has created space for a 25 litre water tank and all of our bags. On previous trips we've found it annoying having bags inside the car because they fall on you in the corners so we've also created a wooden partition which will stop the bags falling on whoever is in the rear of the cab. Finally, hanging above the bags is a mini-hammock which will take odds and ends like camera bags whilst we're driving, to keep them nice and accessible.
From the driver's side, you can see in the rear that we've managed to recline the rear bench seats (which were incredibly uncomfortable before) and create handy storage spaces like the seat-tidy on the back of the driver's seat and the velcro straps on the ceiling to hold the camera stabiliser and tripod.
In the front, we've got our coffee table in between the seats, the compass and thermometer mounted up on the dash, a cigarette lighter socket splitter with two sockets and two usb ports and the converter to give us 240v electricity. We also have a smiley air freshener which does absolutely nadda. It still smells like your granny's wardrobe in there.
A short video of the assembly and the following test-run can be seen here.

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"Hello, I'm Paul, and I'm a trade-a-holic."
"Hi, Paul."
That's me and the group at the beginning of my first fantasy football trade-a-holics meeting about two years ago. I now attend regularly. You see, I am, in fact, a fantasy football trade addict.
OK, while the above story is not entirely true, I can assure you that being a FF trade-a-holic is very real, and my actions over the last few years in my 10-team dynasty league likely define the word.
Name a player. There's a 70 percent chance he's been on my team. It's that bad, folks. I'm constantly tweaking and trying to improve my squad to get that edge on my competitors. In recent years I've become a big fan of going for value over production and trading for multiple pieces — being on the end of a deal that gets, say, two or three guys for one. It hasn't always worked out, as my team has been somewhat inconsistent since winning back-to-back titles in 2005 and 2006. But things are looking up heading into 2010. My team, Independent George (all of my fantasy teams are named after Seinfeldreferences), is ready to win for years to come.
Here is a look into some of the moves I've made this offseason and what I plan on doing next ...
• January 2010: Traded Ahmad Bradshaw and the third overall rookie pick for Michael Turner. Pumped about this move as Turner looks headed for a legit bounce-back campaign.
• February 2010: Traded Knowshon Moreno and Dwayne Bowe for Cedric Benson, Percy Harvin and the fifth overall rookie pick.
• March-May 2010: Maneuvered my way into the first round several more times, then traded picks 5, 7 and 9 for the 2 (projected to be Ryan Mathews) and Darren Sproles.
• June 2010: Traded Brandon Jacobs for Heath Miller.
• July 2010: Traded Mike Wallace for a 2011 first-rounder, Marshawn Lynch and Antonio Bryant (before T.O. signing).
• August 2010: Traded Hakeem Nicks, Johnny Knox, Antonio Bryant and Louis Murphy for the fourth overall rookie pick, the 14th overall rookie pick, Austin Collie and Anthony Gonzalez, along with Stephen Tulloch.
Then, last week alone, I made three more trades:
• The 2011 first-rounder I got for Mike Wallace, and two more 2011 third-round picks, for the 11th overall rookie pick this year, Brian Hartline and Ramses Barden.
• Cedric Benson for Santonio Holmes.
• Donovan McNabb and the 14 I got in the Nicks deal, for the 8, 18 and 28 picks this year.
Where does that leave me? Well, for now, with the following roster:
Mathews (likely the second pick)
Spiller (likely the fourth pick)
Antwan Odom
John Abraham
Jonathan Vilma
Stephen Tulloch
Louis Delmas
Don't worry, though, I already have another trade in the works. I'm looking to deal the 8 and the 18 to move up to the 6 to take either Montario Hardesty or Demaryius Thomas.
I'll keep you updated. In the meantime, because of my addiction, my iPhone is busier than Adam Schefter's Blackberry.


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Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013 | 4:25 p.m.
CARSON CITY — A Las Vegas man sentenced to two consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole after he was convicted of lewdness and having sex with a minor is getting a new trial.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday ruled Jack F. Gilliam did not get a fair trial because of a series of errors committed at his trial.
In a unanimous decision, the court said that "while we acknowledge that a defendant is not entitled to a perfect trial ... this trial was so imperfect as to render it unfair."
Gilliam was convicted of 12 counts of lewdness with a minor under 14 years of age and six counts of sex with a minor.
The girl said that beginning in 2006, when she was 5, Gilliam sexually abused her three times a week during four summer seasons when she was out of school and visited him, according to court records.
She said she begged him to stop, but he told her to keep quiet, according to court records.
The Supreme Court said there were a number of errors made at trial. Individually, they would not merit a new trial. But an accumulation of errors deprived Gilliam of a fair trial, the high court ruled.
In addition, the court said, the question of guilt was close. The only evidence against Gilliam was the testimony of the girl. There was no physical evidence.
And the girl's brother, who had slept beside her during much of the alleged abuse, did not wake or see any of the sexual misconduct, even when the girl said she screamed or struck Gilliam, according to court records.
The court said "the admission of cumulative hearsay evidence and prosecutorial misconduct regarding facts not in evidence bolstered the victim's testimony, while errors concerning the admission of prior bad act testimony and prosecutorial misconduct improperly assailed Gilliam's character."
The court said the prosecutor "inappropriately goaded Gilliam into calling witnesses liars." The prosecutor also misstated evidence from the testimony of the brother of the victim, the court said.


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Spring isn't here just yet, but you may already be breaking out your summer makeup collection and hoping for sunnier days.
You might already have BB cream in your collection of skincare products, but have you jumped on the CC cream bandwagon?
One problem that no woman wants to deal with is tangled hair.
One look that's taking the makeup world by storm is the smoky smudged eye.
When you put on your mascara and eyeliner in the morning before you head to work, you might think you look office appropriate, but how do you know for sure?
It's a problem that no woman wants to have – lipstick all over her teeth. However, it happens to the best of us when we decide to wear bright, bold shades on our pout.


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Students celebrated success in their GCSE results despite an overhaul of the exam system.
Modular exams have now been scrapped meaning that this year's students sat their exams at the end of two years of study, instead of being tested throughout the course.
The overhaul also means that schools can no longer include resit exams as part of their overall results.
The changes may explain why many of the district's schools' overall exam results have dropped slightly compared to last year's figures.
Pictured are Hemsworth Academy students receiving their results.
See this week's Express for the full list of results.


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GREENSBORO, N.C., Aug. 17 (UPI) -- John Huh made a charge late in the round Saturday, catching rookie Patrick Reed for the lead after three rounds of the Wyndham Championship.
Huh, the reigning PGA Rookie of the Year, caught up with fellow 23-year-old Reed at 10-under-par 200 by birdying three of the last four holes at Sedgefield Country Club, ending with a round of even-par 70 after overcoming a triple-bogey and a lengthy rain delay.
Second-round leader Reed stumbled to a bogey on the 18th, carding a 1-over 71 to fall into a 54-hole deadlock with Huh at minus-10.
Ending the day knotted for third at minus-9 were former Masters champion Zach Johnson (66), Bob Estes (68) and 20-year-old Jordan Spieth (70).
Sharing sixth at 8-under 202 were Robert Garrigus (68), Matt Every (68) and Brian Harman (69).


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Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Arizona
Hi, Can you please explain what an indemnity clause in a stipulated order means?
Asked on 8/24/12, 8:43 am
1 Answer from Attorneys
Donald Scher Donald T. Scher & Associates, P.C.
Usually, it means that the party ordered to perform certain tasks will indemnify the other party against any claims, expenses, etc. from the first party's failure to perform or that the party who is responsible for the debts or duties assumed will indemnify against the failure to perform or against any 3rd party making a claim against the first party.
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1Jephthah was from the family group of Gilead. He was a strong soldier. But Jephthah was the son of a prostitute. His father was a man named Gilead. 2Gilead's wife had several sons. When those sons grew up, they did not like Jephthah. Those sons forced Jephthah to leave his home town. They said to him, "You will not get any of our father's property. You are the son of another woman." 3So Jephthah went away because of his brothers. He lived in the land of Tob. In the land of Tob, some rough men began to follow Jephthah. 4After a time the Ammonite people fought with the people of Israel. 5The Ammonite people were fighting against Israel, so the elders ˻(leaders)˼ in Gilead went to Jephthah. They wanted Jephthah to leave the land of Tob and come back to Gilead. 6The elders said to Jephthah, "Come and be our leader so that we can fight the Ammonite people." 7But Jephthah said to the elders ˻(leaders)˼ of the land of Gilead, "You forced me to leave my father's house. You hate me! So why are you coming to me now that you are having trouble?" 8The elders ˻(leaders)˼ from Gilead said to Jephthah, "That is the reason that we have come to you now. Please come with us and fight against the Ammonite people. You will be the commander over all the people living in Gilead." 9Then Jephthah said to the elders ˻(leaders)˼ from Gilead, "If you want me to come back to Gilead and fight the Ammonite people, fine. But if the Lord helps me win, then I will be your new leader." 10The elders ˻(leaders)˼ from Gilead said to Jephthah, "The Lord is listening to everything we are saying. And we promise to do all that you tell us to do." 11So Jephthah went with the elders ˻(leaders)˼ from Gilead. Those people made Jephthah their leader and their commander. Jephthah repeated all of his words in front of the Lord at the city of Mizpah. 12Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites. The messengers gave the king this message: "What is the problem between the Ammonites and the people of Israel? Why have you come to fight in our land?" 13The king of the Ammonite people said to the messengers of Jephthah, "We are fighting Israel because the people of Israel took our land when they came up from Egypt. They took our land from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River to the Jordan River. Now tell the people of Israel to give our land back to us in peace." 14So the messengers of Jephthah took this message back to Jephthah. Then Jephthah sent the messengers to the king of the Ammonite people again. 15They took this message: This is what Jephthah says: Israel did not take the land of the people of Moab or the land of the people of Ammon. 16When the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, the people of Israel went into the desert. The people of Israel went to the Red Sea. Then they went to Kadesh. 17The people of Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom. The messengers asked for a favor. They said, "Let the people of Israel cross through your land." But the king of Edom didn't let us go through their land. We also sent the same message to the king of Moab. But the king of Moab would not let us go through his land either. So the people of Israel stayed at Kadesh. 18Then the people of Israel went through the desert and around the edges of the land of Edom and the land of Moab. The people of Israel traveled east of the land of Moab. They made their camp on the other side of the Arnon River. They did not cross the border of the land of Moab. (The Arnon River was the border of the land of Moab.) 19Then the people of Israel sent messengers to Sihon the king of the Amorite people. Sihon was the king of the city of Heshbon. The messengers asked Sihon, "Let the people of Israel pass through your land. We want to go to our land." 20But Sihon, the king of the Amorite people would not let the people of Israel cross his borders. Sihon gathered all of his people and made a camp at Jahaz. Then the Amorite people fought with the people of Israel. 21But the Lord, the God of Israel, helped the people of Israel to defeat Sihon and his army. So the land of the Amorite people became the property of the people of Israel. 22So the people of Israel got all of the land of the Amorite people. That land went from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River. That land also went from the desert to the Jordan River. 23It was the Lord, the God of Israel, who forced the Amorite people to leave their land. And the Lord gave the land to the people of Israel. Do you think you can make the people of Israel leave this land? 24Surely you can live in the land which Chemosh your god has given to you. So we will live in the land that the Lord our God has given to us! 25Are you any better than Balak son of Zippor? He was the king of the land of Moab. Did he argue with the people of Israel? Did he actually fight with the people of Israel? 26The people of Israel have lived in the city of Heshbon and the towns around it for 300 years. The people of Israel have lived in the city of Aroer and the towns around it for 300 years. The people of Israel have lived in all of the cities along the side of the Arnon River for 300 years. Why have you not tried to take these cities in all that time? 27The people of Israel have not sinned against you. But you are doing a very bad thing against the people of Israel. May the Lord, the true Judge, decide whether the people of Israel are right or the Ammonite people! 28The king of the Ammonite people refused to listen to this message from Jephthah. 29Then the Spirit of the Lord came on Jephthah. Jephthah passed through the area of Gilead and Manasseh. He went to the city of Mizpah in Gilead. From the city of Mizpah in Gilead, Jephthah passed through to the land of the Ammonite people. 30Jephthah made a promise to the Lord. He said, "If you will let me defeat the Ammonite people, 31I will give you the first thing that comes out of my house when I come back from the victory. I will give it to the Lord as a burnt offering." 32Then Jephthah went to the land of the Ammonite people. Jephthah fought the Ammonite people. The Lord helped him defeat them. 33He defeated them from the city of Aroer to the city of Minnith. Jephthah captured 20 cities. Then he fought the Ammonite people to the city of Abel Keramim. The people of Israel defeated the Ammonite people. It was a very great defeat for the Ammonite people. 34Jephthah went back to Mizpah. Jephthah went to his house and his daughter came out of the house to meet him. She was playing a tambourine and dancing. She was his only daughter. Jephthah loved her very much. Jephthah did not have any other sons or daughters. 35When Jephthah saw that his daughter was the first thing to come out of his house, he tore his clothes to show his sadness. Then he said, "Oh, my daughter! You have ruined me! You have made me very, very sad! I made a promise to the Lord, and I cannot change it!" 36Then his daughter said to Jephthah, "Father, you have made a promise to the Lord. So keep your promise. Do what you said you would do. After all, the Lord did help you defeat your enemies, the Ammonite people." 37Then Jephthah's daughter said to her father, "But do this one thing for me first. Let me be alone for two months. Let me go to the mountains. I will not marry and have children, so let me and my friends go and cry together." 38Jephthah said, "Go and do that." Jephthah sent her away for two months. Jephthah's daughter and her friends stayed in the mountains. They cried for her because she would not marry and have children. 39At the end of two months, Jephthah's daughter returned to her father. Jephthah did what he promised to the Lord. Jephthah's daughter never had sexual relations with anyone. So this became a custom in Israel. 40Every year the women of Israel remembered the daughter of Jephthah from Gilead. The women of Israel cried four days every year for Jephthah's daughter.
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Golf has been a labor of love for Helen Griffith for 53 years. The high point was when she hit a once-in-a-lifetime shot — twice.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH — Golf has been a labor of love for Helen Griffith for 53 years. The high point was when she hit a once-in-a-lifetime shot — twice.
The New Smyrna Beach resident scored two holes-in-one, 23 years apart — both on Dec. 9. The second one came in 2007, at age 87, on the 12th hole at New Smyrna Beach Municipal Golf Course.
Now 92, the game may not be quite that easy for the New Smyrna Beach resident, but she still plays 18 holes twice a week.
"The love of golf, and I like to be out in the fresh air and sunshine," Griffith said is what keeps her out on the course. "I love the nature of it and everything; It makes you feel good, it's good for your body — the exercise."
As a token of respect, the annual $1,200 greens fees are waived for Griffith and other active members at the city's golf course once they reach the age of 90. Gary Wintz, manager of the course on Wayne Avenue, said the exemption has been sort of an "unwritten rule" for years but the City Commission earlier this month made it official by approving a recommendation by the Golf Advisory Board to put it in writing.
"It was kind of unofficial and we made it official," Wintz said.
Five members of the golf club won't have to pay the greens fees. To be eligible, nonagenarians must have been members of the city's golf club for at least five years prior to their 90th birthday. Those members will still have to pay golf cart fees.
The sentiment behind the waiver is simple: "If you're over 90 and you can play, God bless you," Wintz said.
"I think that's wonderful," Griffith said of the waiver. She has been a member at the course for about 10 years.
Marilyn Lindley, chairwoman of the city's Golf Advisory Board, said board members aren't exactly sure when the suspension of fees for golfers 90 and over actually started.
"It had been informal for quite a while," she said.
Lindley said the 90-and-over crowd who still play at the New Smyrna Beach course don't dominate playing time and aren't "taking advantage of a good thing."
Frank DeNauw, 90, with 91 "right around the corner," agrees.
"They really are not spoiling the golf course or abusing it," he said. "They really are respecting it."
DeNauw said he plays at the course three times a week. He called the waiver of greens fees "a great thing."
"It's a good way to get exercise and you meet an awful lot of nice people," he said.
Frank Kokoska, 91, who said he's been playing at the New Smyrna course since 1981, also appreciates the exemption.
"I just like to go out in the open air," he said of why he still plays. "It keeps me interested."
Griffith, who will be 93 in November, said she'll keep playing as long as she's able. While she plays only on Tuesdays and Saturdays, she still gets plenty of exercise when she's not at the course.
"I walk two miles on the days I don't play golf," she said.


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Feb. 16, 1998
An Old-Fashioned Song (Nous n'irons plus au bois)
Today's Reading: "An Old-Fashioned Song" (Nous n'irons plus au bois) by John Hollander from TESSERAE: AND OTHER POEMS, published by Alfred A. Knopf.
It's PRESIDENT'S DAY, annually the third Monday in February, commemorating George Washington's birthday on the 22nd and Abraham Lincoln's on the 12th.
RICHARD FORD was born on this date in Jackson, Mississippi, 1944 - author of the novels The Sportswriter (1986), and its sequel, Independence Day, which won the 1996 Pulitzer. He grew up in Jackson across the street from short-story writer Eudora Welty.
Polyhexamethyleneadipamide - NYLON - was patented on this date in 1937. A team of Du Pont researchers in Delaware had been working for years on a synthetic cloth-substitute, and in 1937 finally hit on the right mixture of coal, air and water to make nylon. Their first commercial product came out a year later - toothbrush bristles - and then in 1939, women's hosiery, which stores couldn't keep in stock because of the demand.
It's the birthday of radio ventriloquist EDGAR BERGEN, born in Chicago, 1903.
It's the birthday in Pittsburgh, 1852, of CHARLES TAZE RUSSELL, who founded the International Bible Students Association - which became the Jehovah's Witnesses.
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over a 25% increase over the previous record seems like a bit much
I think the mean should be used, not the 1 result that was possibly way hotter than the rest
All this really proves is that The Scorpion Moruga blend has had one test of 2 mil and many tests way, way lower so I guess sometimes it is the hottest (at least once) but other times it isn't
The CPI uses mean testing for their records and usually use large samples I believe. The Bhut Jolokia record was with mean testing. You would have to ask the guys down in Oz what their protocol was for testing the Butch T but I'd imagine that the mean result grown at the CPI wouldn't be any higher than 1.3M with a high probability that it is somewhere within 5% ballpark of the other scorpion testing. That being said, all of those results could probably be said to be within a 5% accuracy (under the controlled CPI conditions) and so you could see that list shift around quite easily. The TSMB has such a wide variety of results its stability almost comes into question, and I'd have to wonder how much of an outlier that 2M result really was. If they tested 100 pods or more I'm curious as to what percentage were >1.5M
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This is all in the midst of what NewsChannel 6 Political Science expert Craig Albert calls the October surprise. Many people probably thought it was 90 degree weather this time of year, but in the political world it means there's a shake up so good it could completely change the outcome at the polls for one candidate.
"It's almost unheard of for a federal investigation to be announced right before a presidential election," Albert told us.
He's talking about the bombshell the Federal Bureau of Investigations dropped on the campaign with one week left before Election Day.
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He added,"20 percent of Republicans who say they're not going to vote for Trump could be changing."
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Craig said it's all strategy.
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"The Democrats have had a much more successful get out the vote campaign than have Republicans. You combine that with the 1 in 5 registered Republicans who say they're not coming to vote this time, it looks like Clinton could pull away if that holds. The problem is you don't know if it's going to hold and people change their minds often on day of the Election," he told us.
Albert added both the Green and Libertarian parties' candidates are pretty static with less than five percent each. He said the one write-in candidate, Evan McMullin, is pulling drastically from Donald Trump's supporters and he's on track to win his own state, Utah. That's something that hasn't been done since Ross Perot.


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A motorcyclist has died and another man has been seriously injured in a road accident in Co Down.
A 45-year-old man lost his life yesterday following the crash between a motorbike and a car at the junction of the Magheraknock Road and Creevytennant Road in Ballynahinch.
He is the fifth motorbike rider to die on Northern Ireland's roads this year.
A spokesman for the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service said: "NIAS sent a Rapid Response Paramedic and a A&E crew to the scene and they arrived in six minutes.
"Unfortunately one person was dead at the scene and another patient who was in the car had to be cut out before being transported to the Royal Victoria Hospital."
It is understood the man is receiving treatment to leg injuries he sustained in the horrific smash.
Last night, a spokesman for the Belfast Trust said the man's injuries were not life threatening and described his condition as "stable".
Motorists faced delays in the area, as sections of the road were closed for much of yesterday afternoon and they had to seek alternative routes.
One man told the Belfast Telegraph that traffic became congested very quickly following the accident.
"That main road is very undulating and quite a dangerous road," he said.
"All the roads off it are quite small country roads, so when traffic was diverted off the main road we tried to get round it by going down what was almost a single track road and then became hopelessly stuck.
"It was a minor inconvenience for the rest of us but obviously a very tragic incident."
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"It's a real tragedy that another person has lost his life on our roads this year."
Jonathan Craig MLA said: "I express my heartfelt condolences to the family of the road victim who died on the Magheraknock Road in my constituency.
"One death on our roads is one too many and it saddens me when we hear news of yet another death."
The policing board member and DUP representative in Lagan Valley added: "Road deaths have been decreasing in recent years but there is always the fear that it will rise once again.
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- Physicians' views and practice of smoking cessationShaohua Hu
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J Am Dent Assoc 137:170-9. 2006..This study assessed practices of dentists in east Texas, their adherence to the guideline and barriers to adherence...
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J Community Health 34:231-8. 2009..Pharmacy education leaders must continue their movement to include public health in the pharmacy curricula to produce pharmacists who are prepared to better serve the community...
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J Health Commun 9:95-109. 2004..Results also show that exposure to media messages was related to processes of change in smoking cessation and that those processes were related to the quitting that was observed in the group receiving the most intensive campaigns...
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mentions pay-as-you-go services, as well as distributed storage and
processing. A large section provides an overview of the AWS (Amazon
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although the explanations are not very clear. (This may be in part
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the use of public/private key pairs makes no sense unless Amazon
intends to allow a serious attack on the operations controlled by its
accounts.) (It's fairly clear that this book was rushed to market in
order to take advantage of the current interest in cloud computing: so
fast that they forgot a number of the illustrative figures.) Chapter
three provides some guidance in regard to calculating costs and
reliability: the examples are from AWS, but the formulae and process
are the same as for any information system. The advice on preparing
your application for a scalable and distributed environment, in
chapter four, is confusing. A wide range of technologies are
addressed, and there is so much hedging and backtracking that it is
very difficult to determine which suggestion the author actually
wishes to stress, in the end. In terms of security, chapter five
suggests you encrypt your data, harden your applications, and then
describes some aspects of Amazon's operations. Disaster recovery
appears to some to be inherent in cloud computing, but chapter six
notes that you still have to do all the same disaster planning work,
with the proviso that some things you want to do AWS won't let you.
Chapter seven says you can buy more cloud as you need it.
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Hotel: I have read both terrific and horrendeous reviews of La Dolce Villa on Federal Hill. The location seems incredibly convenient for a foodie holiday as there are innumerable great restaurants but I am just a bit skittish to commit to paying somewhere between $200- $300 per night based on what I know so far. Perhaps someone who has stayed here (or who lives in Providence and has seen it) can enlighten me on this. Alternatives are also very welcome
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 6:11 pm
Post subject: Graflex 3 cell flash
does anybody know where graflex 3 cell flash units may be purchased? willing to pay a fair wage for one. i need it to finish my dad's graflex camera. thanx
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That's an old story, fehklar. History has shown here that such messages are generally not valid, but rather juvenile attempts to score a StarWars accessory at a bargin price. This is not an equipment site but rather a source for helping genuine Graflex users.
Sorry if you don't fit that pattern, but the odds are greatly in my favor.
You can easily find dealers of Graflex equipment by searching on the main Graflex.org board.
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Now that there are very realistic, though pricey, replica St*r W*rs light sabers on the market, which are much better than anything one could make at home, it makes even less sense than it did before to destroy Graflex flash handles. My advice is, grow up and just watch the movie again.
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ebay has a warehouse full of the origional Graflex ones but only sell them off a few at a time to keep the price up. you might even be as lucky as me and get a camera and lens to boot.
The best camera ever made is the one that YOU enjoy using and produces the image quality that satifies YOU.
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:22 pm
Post subject: graflex 3 cell flash gun
this is not some pathetic attempt to buy a graflex 3 cell flash for any kind of conversion. this is an attempt to help my 89 year old dad finish restoring his camera. he is a retired reporter/photographer for the la times. my kid has a masters replica lightsaber, so i don't need one for conversion. i am not a s.t.a.r.w.a.r.s. fan just a person trying to do something nice for my dad. i came to this forum for help after searching the web, but i can see that you are the one who needs to grow up. have a nice day
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For the benefit of others looking for such equipment, I once again recommend the list of sellers found on links from the main Graflex.org page.
In addition, I recommend you spend some time on this site:
There you will find not only a place to put your "Wanted to buy" listings, but a broad list of excellent sources for used Graflex stuff, and lots of Graflex info on=line as well.
As fehklar found out, we have sensitivities here to the subject raised in my earlier response, and because those issues caused this board to be down for about a year, make no apologies for raising them.
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You have my vote.
Some folks think that this is a fast-food place and if they aren't immediately gratified they go away hurt.
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Post subject: Re: Graflex 3 cell flash
fehklar wrote:
does anybody know where graflex 3 cell flash units may be purchased? willing to pay a fair wage for one. i need it to finish my dad's graflex camera. thanx
fehklar, I'm not posting to add my beats to the same drum that others have beaten upon, but.....
I will be totally honest with you. I was at a camera/photo expo in my area not long ago and finally had a chance to meet and talk to a REAL gentleman by the name of Bill Cress. He operates a classic camera and accessories business in New Jersey and he also maintains the website
Anyway, at this photo expo in the Boston area, he had on his dealer table several of the 3-cell Graflex REPLICAS 4 sail. They immediately caught my eye and, as a Graflex user with a well-trained eye looking for authenticity, I picked up a couple to inspect. And struck up a conversation with Mr. Cress in the process. Lo and behold, did he make a believer out of me!!! Those replicas were practically indistinguishable from a real-deal 60+ year-old specimen. I really had to look close to tell they were replicas---e.g. the area in and around the bipost plugs was pristine and shiny, as opposed to dusty, dull and oxidized.
Mr Cress also allowed me to put 3 batteries and a flashbulb into one of the replicas and I pressed the red button. BAM!!! The Press 22 bulb fired off immediately. Now I wouldn't swear by the replica's ability to sync with a shutter without a solenoid, but it did fire that bulb as advertised that it would.
So the point to my story is to perhaps give Mr. Cress a call about purchasing one from him directly, or he does occasionally offer them 4 sail on e*ay. If one of these replicas would pretty much satisfy me as a Graflex user, they likewise should absolutely make happy any and all galaxy-hopping Jedi wannabes, thus saving the real ones for all of us Earth-and-gravity-bound Graflex fanatics.
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Makes you think!
Fehklar doesn't bother to thank Sobahguy or Alecj for the info on where to buy Graflex items. After replies from Alecj, Henry, and 45PSS, Fehklar says one of those gents is "the one who needs to grow up"!
Alecj states "Sorry if you don't fit that pattern, but the odds are greatly in my favor." in his first reply should Fehklar be genuine. Alecj DID NOT call Fehklar juvenile, merely stated that GENERALLY that sort of post is a juvenile action. I don't see anything in either the post by Henry or the one by 45PSS to call for that response by Fehklar!
I guess we know who has a juvenile attitude!
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Well, I *did* use the phrase "grow up" in my response, which I now regret doing. I was in one of my snide, bitchy moods, and I hereby apologize to fehklar. Whether or not his inquiry was legit, Alec's posts explain why we are rather touchy about this topic, and tend to react, or over-react, to such postings.
As for my other advice to fehklar, watch the movie again, I stand by that. It's a classic, as I recognized when I first saw it with my six-year-old son. He is now a fanatic, and actually owns one of those replica light sabres, which is how I knew about them. He also has one of those R2D2 voice-command robots that K-Mart was selling some years ago. Neat stuff!
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and I've been wondering when a group of this site's members are planning to get together and go hunting the hot rod builders and hanging them for cutting up Buckett T's and choping 49 Mercs.
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Its funny because the replicas some of you speak of have really driven down the price on the genuine 3 cells. I just picked up a real Graflex off eBay for considerably less than what the replicas fo gor - around $150. IMO its much nicer to have a vintage one.
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and I've been wondering when a group of this site's members are planning to get together and go hunting the hot rod builders and hanging them for cutting up Buckett T's and choping 49 Mercs.
Been doin' it for years, especially around the "Woodward Dream Cruise"
And at this poiint, at least the T bucket is 99% repro material anyway.
Participant in numerous Glidden tours and three cross country tours; New York to San Francisco, Montreal to Tijuana & Seattle to Philadelphia, in the same original 1912 Buick roadster.
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Post subject: Bulbs
I have quite a stock of bulbs, more than I need, and would be happy to sell some if anybody has an urgent need.
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Tuesday is the big release of Demi Lovato's 4th album, Demi. Demi did something really awesome, and released all the tracks on her website, for all her fans to hear before the album was available to buy! Our intern, Intern HR, is a HUGE Demi fan, and has been listening to the album all week. This is her full review of the album!
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I'm using MSVC++ and am getting this problem: I'm asking the user to enter a string that may or may not contain a space using the following code:
The problem is that the user has to press the enter key twice and I'm not sure how to avoid that. I've tried using cin.sync() and cin.ignore(100, '\n') before and after the getline, but they don't work. The program works fine, whatever the user enters before the first enter goes into the string, and nothing is recorded if anything is entered BETWEEN the first and second enter. Anyone know what I can do to fix this?Code:string city, team; cout<<"What do you want the city name to be? --> "; getline(cin, city); cout<<"What do you want the team name to be? --> "; getline(cin, team);


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Photographer's Note
My wife and I went on a cruise of South America and Antarctica 2 weeks ago, and we are still on the 3rd week of our cruise. We were in Antarctica for 3 days, and the experience was nothing short of an adventure of a life time. The scenaries were simply jaw dropping and we wondered at times if we were on planet earth. The most gratifying part of the trip is being quite informed and educated about this pristine part of our world; and knowing that there is an international treaty that enforces strict regulation on travel through the Antarctica to prevent damage to its ecosystem by human activity.
I primarily used my Nikon D300 with a 18 mm to 200 mm VR lens for these pictures. A 300 mm lens was used to capture wild life and a 14 mm lens was used on a few occasions to capture a panoramic scene. A polarizing filter was used to take this picture. The D300 was connected to my Garmin hand held GPS system whenever possible to embed the latitude and longitude of the location where the picture was taken.
This picture was taken at 64,47.27S, 63,30.74W. This places the location of the picture at the Neumayer Channel, The Gerlache Strait, Antarctica.
A Garmin GPS and Mapsource compatible map of the Antarctic coast can be downloaded from the web free.
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loves_summer (1310) 2009-02-09 14:01
Hi Conrad,
Great view! I like that you have not only included the beautiful snowcapped landscape, but also the front of the ship with all of the people. It is an interesting and original perspective. I also like your detailed note that gives insight into the place that you visited and some technical information as well. Good sharpness and clarity...and I love the reflection in the water.
Thanks for sharing!
Hunkar (7380) 2009-02-09 14:04
A nice composition of Antarctica with the people on the ship..
A clear image..
atha2pan (3811) 2009-02-09 14:10
Well Conrad,
you did great here to state in your note about the gps system, which I was thinking of to buy maybe one day. The quality of the photo is great, an interesting photo though.
bebbetto (120) 2009-02-09 14:11
Hello Conrad !
I hope you will post many others wonderful pictures like this one.
rlrad (1845) 2009-02-09 16:00
Hi Conrad,
Nice shot - well composed, great colors and POV. I envy your trip!
I have GPS for my D300 - by Promote. It attaches to the flash hotshoe is a bit bigger than a matchbox. It embeds lat, long and altitude, too! I highly recommend it for gadget geeks such as myself.
Let's have more of that rare part of the world!
Thank you,
Reed Radcliffe
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mafegan (8626) 2009-02-09 16:10
Hello Conrad
A spectacular photo from our planet. Great reflections and light - and I do like how you have included human life. Tfs, Marlene
mkamionka (42465) 2009-02-10 2:00
Hi Conrad,
very interesting, I like that you included a fragment of the ship it make the picture more interesting.
It is a beautiful composition.
thanks for sharing,
macjake (77735) 2011-10-15 23:25
Hi Conrad
looking at your photos, its too bad you don't upload more often here on TE - you take some good shots.
I chose this one because of the composition.
seeing the bow sticking out infront is a cool way to present your position, and to present the fg/bg seperation.
the water provided you with a perfect mirror image of the mountians or glaciers.
Also, the brown deck plays a large role in color contrast, and the eye is naturally drawn towards it.
All in all, a great photo from stem to stern!
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Mount Sinai's ad buy, which promotes its facility on the Upper West Side, runs on the back of the MetroCard. The print run for the other medical facility, NYU Langone Medical Center, has advertising on the front and back.
The ad buy of one million cards for NYU Langone Medical Center began this week distributed at MetroCard Vending machines at the following stations: 14 St 1 2 3; 51 St 6; 66 St-Lincoln Center 1; 68 St-Hunter College 6; 72 St 1 2 3; 77 St 6; 86 St 4 5 6; 86 St B C; 96 St 6; and, Lexington Av/59th St N Q R 4 5 6.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has been selling advertising space on MetroCards since 1995. It began selling space on the card's front face in 2012 as part of an expanded initiative to find new sources of revenue. Earlier this year, an immigration law firm's ad buy of 250,000 cards became the first Spanish-language advertising on MetroCards.
"The MetroCard continues to prove its value to advertisers by attracting a diverse list of clients around New York City," said Paul J. Fleuranges, MTA's Senior Director of Corporate and Internal Communications. "We look forward to more opportunities to partner with New York institutions like Mount Sinai and NYU Langone."
The MTA does not disclose the costs of specific ad campaigns. Prices for ads on the back face of the card range from 17¢ to 51¢ per card, with minimum print runs of 50,000. Prices for ads on both sides range from 25¢ to 45¢ per card, with minimum print runs of 250,000. The MTA produces 4 million to 5 million MetroCards every month.
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This type is a wrapper for a coclass that is required by managed code for COM interoperability. Use this type to access the members of the COM interface implemented by this coclass. For information about the COM interface, including a link to descriptions of its members, seeWindow2.
The WindowObject objects represent the two types of windows that are used in the InfoPath application: the editing window that is used as the form area when a user fills out a form, and the designing window that is used as the design mode when a user designs a form.
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public void WindowObject_OnClick(DocActionEvent e) { Window2 activeWindow; // Set a reference to the current window. activeWindow = thisApplication.ActiveWindow; // Check that the window is an editing window type. if (activeWindow.WindowType == XdWindowType.xdEditorWindow) { // Display the number of task panes in the window. thisXDocument.UI.Alert("Number of task panes: " + activeWindow.TaskPanes.Count); } }
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Q: The care will turn over but it will not start. Please Help!!! on 1995 Mitsubishi 3000GT SL
I was driving home from work and was going between 45 and 50 MPH, when I heard a slight pop. From there the engine seemed to have cut off, and all the dash lights popped on. I then slipped the car into neutral and tried to start it but it sounded like the starter was not engaging it just whirled. I then popped the hood looked and on the driver side of the engine I could see a pulley had melted through the dust cover below the timing belt. Once I got it pulled back to the house I pulled off the dust cover to find that the Timing belt tensioner bolt had worked its way out and popped off, allowing for the timing belt to slip off. Repositioned the crank and the cams to align with the marks on the block installed a new bolt for the tensioner and put the timing belt back on. Now when I turn the key to attempt to start it there is a clicking sound from the throttle body and the car just whirls. The starter is engaging as I watched the pulleys move as we attempted to start the car. It is like it is not getting any spark or fuel. Every so often it will pop in the exhaust. I unplugged the EFI fuse and the clicking stopped. I traced the clicking down to a piece that I do not know the name of just below and behind the intake hose on the throttle body. Please help this is my work car and my wife really needs her van for the kids while I am at work and I don't like leaving her without a way to go.
Thank you for your time.
Thank you for your time.
Well Tim, if you have the engine timing correct and the engine will not start now, i am afraid that your valves have contacted the pistons when the belt slipped off resulting in internal damage that will require engine dissassembly to repair. This is an "interference" engine. I really hope i am wroung but that sure is what it sounds like.
Good luck with it man!
Good luck with it man!
How can I tell with out disassembling the engine? Is there a way to turn the cams or the crank and it throw out some tell, tell sign there was damage? to give me a clue as to if I am dealing with bent valves or not. Thank you for your time I do appreciate your help.
It is pretty much cut and dried, 'IF' you have the engine timing correct and now the engine will not start, there is no comperssion now due to the valves hitting the pistons. That is why it sounds like it "just whirls" when cranking the engine. Can check compression with a tester to confirm! Sorry, wish i had better news. Google interference engine for more details.
Thank you I appreciate the help I didn't want to buy a new crank sensor if I didn't need it. But what I don't get is why is the thing by the throttle body clicking? it never did that before.
It never had compression blowing by the valves before. Now it does, blowing by the bent intake valves back into the intake and throttle body. You are trying to make it be something else and i understand that. Remember it was running ok until the timing belt trouble!
No no not that the clicking goes away when I pull the EFI Fuse and I can still turn it over with out any clicking it almost sounds like a relay, it clicks with just the key on (no cranking) it did not do that before. Its like this I climb in the car turn the key into the on position the clicking starts, I get out of the car and put my hand behind the intake hose at the bottom where a plug is at you can feel it clicking I can crank it with or with out the EFI fuse in place. It clicks when I have the EFI Fuse installed. That part did not do that clicking before this It started that the first time I tried to start it after I put the Timing belt back on.
Check the compression, if it has no or low compression then you dont need to worry about anything else. That is enough!! If you are not equipped to do the testing, find someone that can.
Again good luck, hope it works out for you.
Again good luck, hope it works out for you.
I agree with Push Rod, the head, valves, pistons and sometimes the wall of the cylinders, camshafts are damaged beyond re-use when the timing belt breaks. If you pull the valve cover off you may see damage. When you get the cover off, rotate your motor over by the crankshaft pulley so you can inspect the valve train. I'm sure you will see what's wrong. When you pull the fuse to the EFI, (Electronic Fuel Injection),the engine will not fire and make the noise you're hearing, good luck! Kool Tool.
The problem with the clicking is it never did it before. And The engine turns over with or with out the fuse. So why is it clicking? did it short out? I understand that the engine valves and pistons may be damaged I get that I just want to know if the throttle body Solenoid valve assembly is bad, if so I need to order it with the engine rebuild kit I have to order. Thank you guys for your time I have learned more in the past few hours than anyone here has been able to tell me.
Hey Tim, right now the solenoid click shouldn't be an issue for you. But before you order parts, the engine has to be dis-assembled to know exactly what parts will be required. Another less expensive option for you, is to look for a used low mileage motor. Check this site for an engine....parts r us...they're in Tenn., another source is You pull and pay. Both theses sites have on line availability and prices. From experience you're probably not going to be able to repair your engine. Good Luck, kool tool.
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WITH ALL the traditional glacial pace of arms control negotiations, a draft Arms Trade Treaty yesterday entered what many hope will be its final lap as delegates from 150 countries gathered at the United Nations for a month of talks. The treaty, mandated by 2006 UN resolution 61/89, represents the first attempt at international regulation of the conventional arms trade.
It will, if its proposers' current draft remains intact, make it illegal to sell arms to countries where there is "a substantial risk that those arms would be used to commit … serious violations of international humanitarian law", threaten regional security, or inhibit sustainable development. Such welcome prohibitions would, if enacted, prevent, for example, Russia supplying weapons to Syria.
The draft treaty would extend regulation to all small arms and ammunition, and seeks to prevent the diversion of weapons to illicit trafficking networks and to curb the impact of corruption in the arms trade. It is estimated that 750,000 people die each year as a result of violence enabled by illegal gun sales, and, as Amnesty International points out, there are currently more rules governing the selling of bananas than guns.
The meeting will, however, pitch EU diplomats, the Irish among them – supporters of a strong treaty – against a small but powerful minority of states including the US, Russia, China, Zimbabwe and Syria. President Obama reversed Washington's initial opposition to the treaty, but the US remains opposed to making the controls mandatory or to the inclusion of munitions. Russia argues that definitions of prohibited regimes are likely to be subjective and ideologically imposed although the treaty draft ominously provides that the signatories will themselves enforce and interpret its provisions.
The US position is particularly problematic – it will do its best to water down the text in New York this month, and then probably refuse, or fail, to be a signatory to the diluted treaty once agreed. Whatever Obama's personal feelings, the treaty would require two-thirds support of the Senate, a substantial majority of which, under pressure from the powerful National Rifle Association, has already made clear its opposition in the unlikely event it impinges on US citizens' constitutional rights to bear arms. Passage is far from guaranteed, and, clearly, the non-involvement of Russia, China and the US (the world's biggest arms exporter, with two-fifths of the global total trade – $55 billion-a-year – in conventional firearms) would leave the treaty virtually toothless.


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VANCOUVER -- Akili Smith picked up a bobbled snap, scrambled for a three-yard gain then felt something worse than a hit.
When the Calgary Stampeders starting quarterback got to his feet, he realized his groin was pulled.
After gutting out two more plays, no amount of treatment could get it to the point where he could return, and he was out of his first CFL start in the second quarter of a 42-9 loss to the B.C. Lions.
"It almost brought tears to my eyes," said a distraught Smith afterwards. "I felt good all day. It was going in slow motion. This is just an unfortunate injury. I tried to ice it, I came in (to the locker-room) and got some heat put on it. I took some pain killers. It just wouldn't loosen up for me."
The early diagnosis isn't terrible, so Smith hopes to return to the practice field Thursday when the Stamps start preparing for the Saskatchewan Roughriders next Monday at McMahon Stadium.
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America Online began offering games along with the latest version of its instant messenger, and now some customers are worried that the company is playing with them, too.
People who use AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) started complaining on AOL message boards and publications such as BroadbandReports.com after software bundled with AIM 5.5 began showing up in "spyware" scans. The popular chat application includes games from WildTangent, which has a tool that reports back to the company every time someone uses its products. WildTangent CEO Alex St. John denied that his company is doing anything improper. "It's not doing anything sneaky; it doesn't pop up anything," he said. "It tells us how popular a piece of content we release on the Internet is."
Benign or not, the software and the controversy it has sparked highlight growing sensitivity among consumers over unexpected surprises accompanying free software downloads over the Net--and the potential backlash facing companies that seek to quietly gather data on their customers.
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On this long player, the members of Britain's newest Next Big Thing show they might have just enough Oasis in them to avoid becoming this year's Balaam & the Angel. Winner of virtually every UK music award in existence, the band rises and falls on the shoulders of singer/guitarist/songwriter Kelly Jones, an undeniably photogenic lad who at his best sounds like the bastard stepchild of Rufus Wainright and Rod Stewart. Unfortunately, he reaches this pinnacle all too rarely, mainly because of a combination of maudlin tempos and underdeveloped compositions whose slices of dreamy life make it painfully clear that Jones thinks he's way more interesting than he is. Such faults are most apparent on "Caravan Holiday" and the piano-driven (I use that term loosely) "Maybe," both of which consist of vaguely romantic musings set to instrumental accompaniment that could lull Garrison Keillor to sleep. Conversely, "Everyday I Think of Money" mistakes heavy-handedness for sincerity, while the anti-critic lament "Mr. Writer" is a toothless attempt to bite the hands that feed the band. Why, then, should anyone west of Big Ben care about Stereophonics? Check out "Rooftop," whose spunky riffing suggests a glammed-up Soundgarden, and the hummable innocence of "Have a Nice Day," wherein Jones and company hit their stride behind a no-nonsense hook that would do Burt Bacharach proud. Most interesting lyrically is "Nice to Be Out," which meanders Vapors-like through references to Hitler and other atrocities before running out of gas without really making any point. Obviously, it ain't Shakespeare. But if Jones can somehow combine his nascent knack for artfully saying nothing with chord progressions that actually go somewhere, so might his band.
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First off, I do not know this individual or his cat personally. He posted something on one of my other forums asking for help with his cat, who appears to have been hit by a car and now has some broken teeth that need removal. He is having trouble raising money for upcoming vet bills, just ike the rest of us. It is up to you as to whether or not you wish to help, but I thought i'd post it here just in case you do.
this is the link to the forum I know him from:
there are other links within the thread for donation sites.
The cat is now kept indoors and safe so this won't happen again, but he still needs surgery to fix his teeth.