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I finally was able to get the gap closed to within spec. I started out with a .014" gap at the 9 o'clock position and zero gap at the 3 o'clock position (couplers touching). I didn't have a pry bar so I tried to use a block of wood and a sledgehammer to move the rear of the engine to starboard to close the gap at the couplers but it would not budge. Finally went over to the neighbor's and borrowed his 4' long pry bar and that did the trick. Ended up sliding the rear of the engine about 1/4" to starboard. The gap is now .002" from about 1 o'clock to 6 o'clock and zero gap (my smallest feeler gauge, .0015" would not go in) from 6 o'clock to about 1 o'clock. Is that good enough?
A big thank you do Doug (DOCDRS) for answering my e-mails today and providing helpful hints that eventually got me thru this. I was ready to throw in the towel and take it to the dealer next week. A pry bar is definitely the way to go.
I will post up a few pics tomorrow.
Glad this one is behind me!
that sounds great .... .014 down to .002 is super..... although the goal is to get it less than .002, .003 or less is acceptable in most books. so it just depends how anal you are. thanks for making this post Al, now that you look back you probably are thinking with the proper tools it really isn't that hard a procedure and now your alignment is .012 better.
I've always been a proponent of alignment , and as Al discovered , your alignment can be out and you will not notice any vibration. It needs to be checked regularly as the rubber in your motor mounst will change over time...
can we get a picture posted of what exactly these motor mounts look like and where the adjustment needs to be made at?
This is the port side, rear motor mount. The two nuts in the pic hold the trunnion pins in place. Loosen these two nuts then tap the pins toward the rear of the boat to loosen them and allow the motor mount to slide along the trunnion. Do the same for on the rear starboard side motor mount.
Mark the trunnion as shown in the pic below so you know if you are moving the engine and by how much.
This pic shows how to position a 4' pry bar in order to slide the engine to starboard. The blue thing is a steel chisel and was the right thickness for the job.
This shows how much I moved the engine (about a 1/4") to close a .014" gap at the couplers to .002". Follow the instructions on the first page of this post to find out which way to move the engine depending on where your gap is.
Those pics are priceless! Thanks so much for posting.
I am now confident that I could do this job myself.
[QUOTE=deafgoose;141506]Those pics are priceless! Thanks so much for posting.
I am now confident that I could do this job myself.[/QUOTE
as ami! Thanks!
Al, great pics for sure. I ned to re-check my alignment more closely too, I just have a sneaking suspicion after my whole sturt bushing debacle that it needs to be aligned.
When you say tap on the pins, I am sort of unclear what pins you're talking about. You losen the bolts on the trunions, and then where do you tap (before you start prying)??
Nevermind Al. Took a look inside the engine compartment just now, and saw what pins you were talking about. Done and done.


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Journal of Fluids
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 910531, 8 pages
Hall Effect on Bénard Convection of Compressible Viscoelastic Fluid through Porous Medium
1Department of Mathematics, Government Post Graduate College Seema (Rohru), Shimla District, Himachal Pradesh 171207, India
2Department of Mathematics, Centre of Excellence, Government Degree College Sanjauli, Shimla District, Himachal Pradesh 171006, India
Received 17 April 2013; Revised 26 July 2013; Accepted 30 July 2013
Academic Editor: Amy Shen
Copyright © 2013 Mahinder Singh and Chander Bhan Mehta. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
An investigation made on the effect of Hall currents on thermal instability of a compressible Walter's B′ elasticoviscous fluid through porous medium is considered. The analysis is carried out within the framework of linear stability theory and normal mode technique. For the case of stationary convection, Hall currents and compressibility have postponed the onset of convection through porous medium. Moreover, medium permeability hasten postpone the onset of convection, and magnetic field has duel character on the onset of convection. The critical Rayleigh numbers and the wave numbers of the associated disturbances for the onset of instability as stationary convection have been obtained and the behavior of various parameters on critical thermal Rayleigh numbers has been depicted graphically. The magnetic field, Hall currents found to introduce oscillatory modes, in the absence of these effects the principle of exchange of stabilities is valid.
1. Introduction
The theoretical and experimental results of the onset of thermal instability (Bénard convection) under varying assumptions of hydrodynamic and hydromantic stability have been discussed in a treatise by Chandrasekhar [1] in his celebrated monograph. If an electric field is applied at right angles to the magnetic field, the whole current will not flow along the electric field. This tendency of the electric current of flow across an electric field in the presence of a magnetic field is called Hall current effect. The Hall effect is likely to be important in many geophysical and astrophysical situations as well as in flows of laboratory plasma. The use of the Boussinesq approximation has been made throughout, which states that the variations of density in the equations of motion can safely be ignored everywhere except in its association with the external force. It has been shown by Sato [2] and Tani [3] that inclusion of Hall currents gave rise to a cross flow, that is, a flow at right angle to the primary flow through a channel in the presence of a transverse magnetic field. In particular, Tani [3] has found that Hall effect produces a cross-flow of double-swirl pattern in incompressible flow through a straight channel with arbitrary cross-section. This breakdown of the primary flow and formation of secondary flow may be presumably attributed to the inherent instability of the primary flow in the presence of Hall current. Sato [2] has pointed out that even if the distribution of the primary flow velocity is stable to external disturbances, the whole layer may become turbulent if the distribution of the cross flow is unstable. Sherman and Sutton [4] have considered the effect of Hall current on the efficiency of a magnetofluid generator. The effect of Hall current on the thermal instability of a horizontal layer of electrically conducting fluid has been studied by Gupta [5].
Hall currents are effects whereby a conductor carrying an electric current perpendicular to an applied magnetic field develops a voltage gradient which is transverse to both the current and the magnetic field. It was discovered by Hall in 1879, while he was working on his doctoral degree at Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, Maryland. The Hall effect has again become an active area of research with the discovery of the quantized Hall effect by Klaus von Klitzing for which he was bestowed with Nobel prize of physics in 1985. In ionized gases (plasmas), where the magnetic field is very strong and effects the electrical conductivity, cannot be Hall currents.
In the aforementioned studies, the medium has been considered to be nonporous. The development of geothermal power resources has increased general interest in the properties of convection in porous media. The effect of a magnetic field on the stability of such a flow is of interest in geophysics particularly in the study of Earth's core where the Earth's mantle which consists of conducting fluid behaves like a porous medium which can become convectively unstable as a result of differential diffusion. The other application of the results of a magnetic field is in the study of the stability of a convective flow in the geothermal region.
When the fluids are compressible, the equations governing the system become quite complicated to simplify. Boussinesq tried to justify the approximation for compressible fluids when the density variations arise principally from thermal effects. Spiegel and Veronis [6] have simplified the set of equations governing the flow of compressible fluids under the following assumptions.(a)The depth of the fluid layer is much less than the scale height, as defined by them. (b)The fluctuations in temperature, density, and pressure, introduced due to motion, do not exceed their total static variations.
Under the previous approximations, the flow equations are the same as those for incompressible fluids, except that the static temperature gradient is replaced by its excess over the adiabatic one and is replaced by .
Chandra [7] observed a contradiction between the theory and experiment for the onset of convection in fluids heated from below. He performed the experiment in an air layer and found that the instability depended on the depth of the layer. Scanlon and Segel [8] have considered the effects of suspended particles on the onset of Bénard convection and found that the critical Rayleigh number is reduced because of the heat capacity of the particles. The suspended particles were thus found to destabilize the layer. The fluids have been considered to be Newtonian, and the medium has been considered to be nonporous in all the previous studies.
One class of elastico-viscous fluids is Walters fluid (model ), which is not characterized by Maxwell's/Oldroyd's, constitutive relation. When the fluid permeates a porous material, the gross effect is represented by Darcy's law. As a result of this macroscopic law, the usual viscous and viscoelastic terms in the equation of Walters' fluid (model ) motion are replaced by the resistance terms , where and are the viscosity and viscoelasticity of Walters' fluid (model ), is the medium permeability and is the Darcian filter velocity of the fluid.
The flow through porous media is of considerable interest for petroleum engineers and geophysical fluid dynamicists. A great number of applications in geophysics may be found in the books by Phillips [9], Ingham and Pop [10], and Nield and Bejan [11]. The scientific importance of the field has also increased because hydrothermal circulation is the dominant heat transfer mechanism in young oceanic crust (Lister [12]).
Generally it is accepted that comets consisting of a dusty "snowball" of a mixture of frozen gasses, which is in the process of their journey, change from solid to gas and vice versa. The physical properties of comets that meteoroids, and interplanetary dust strongly suggest the importance of porosity in astrophysical context have been studied by McDonnell [13].
The stability of two superposed conducting Walters' elastico-viscous fluids in hydromagnetics has been studied by Sharma and Kumar [14] and whereas the instability of streaming Walters' viscoelastic fluid in porous medium has been considered by Sharma [15], Sunil and Chand [16]. Sunil et al. [17, 18] studied the Hall effect on thermosolutal instability of Rivlin-Ericksen and Walters' (model ) fluid in porous medium. In one study of Singh [19], Hall current effect on thermosolutal instability in a viscoelastic fluid flowing through porous medium and magnetic field stable solute gradient are found to have stabilizing effects on the system, whereas Hall current and medium permeability have a destabilizing effect on the system. The sufficient conditions for the nonexistence of overstability have also obtained. In the one another study, Singh and Kumar [20], hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic stability of two stratified Walter's elastico-viscous superposed fluids, where system is stable for stable stratification and unstable for unstable stratification and in case of horizontal magnetic field system having stabilizing effect for unstable stratification, is in contrast to the stability of two superposed Newtonian fluids, where the system is stable for stable stratifications. Gupta et al. [21] have studied thermal convection of dusty compressible Rivlin-Ericksen viscoelastic fluid with Hall currents and found that compressibility and magnetic field postpone the onset of convection, whereas Hall current and suspended particles hasten the onset of convection.
During the survey it has been noticed that Hall effects are completely neglected from the studies of compressible elastico-viscous fluid through porous medium. Keeping in mind the importance of Hall currents, porous medium and compressibility, in elastico-viscous fluid, motivated us to go on detailed study of Walter's fluid heated from below through porous medium. We have already studied earlier some problems on Hall current effect with porous as well as nonporous medium and suspended particles found the useful and interesting results, so compressible thermal instability problem of Walter's fluid with Hall currents effects through porous medium studied by us here.
2. Mathematical Formulation of the Problem
We have considered an infinite, horizontal, and compressible electrically conducting Walter's fluid permeated with porous medium in Hall current effect, bounded by the planes and , as shown in Figure 1. This layer is heated from below so that temperature at bottom (at ) and the upper layer (at ) is and , respectively, and a uniform temperature gradient () is maintained. A uniform vertical magnetic field intensity and gravity force pervade the system.
Let , , , , , , , and denote, respectively, the fluid pressure, density, temperature, thermal coefficient of expansion, gravitational acceleration, resistivity, magnetic permeability, and fluid velocity. Using Spiegel and Veronis' [6] assumptions, the flow equations for compressible fluids are found to be the same as those for incompressible fluids except that in the equation of heat conduction, the temperature gradient is replaced by its excess over the adiabatic; that is, . The equations expressing the conservation of momentum, mass, temperature, and equation of state of Walters' (Model ) fluid are The magnetic permeability , the kinematic viscosity , the kinematic viscoelasticity , and the thermal diffusivity are all assumed to be constants. Maxwell's equations relevant to the problems are where stands for convective derivative.
Here is a constant, and is a constant analogous to but corresponding to solute rather than heat. , and , stand for density and heat capacity of solid (porous matrix) material and fluid, respectively. The steady state solution is
Let , , , , and denote, respectively, the perturbations in density , pressure , temperature , magnetic field (), and filter velocity (zero initially). Then the linearized hydromagnetic perturbation equations through porous medium (Joseph [22], Walter's [23], Sherman and Sutton [4], and Spiegel and Veronis [6]), relevant to the problem, are And change in density caused by perturbation in temperature is given by where is the coefficient of thermal expansion.
Writing (4) in scalar form, using (5), and eliminating , , , , and between them, we obtain where . and denote the -components of vorticity and current density, respectively.
Consider the case in which both the boundaries are free, the medium adjoining the fluid is perfectly conducting and the temperatures at the boundaries are kept fixed. The case of two free boundaries is a little artificial, except in stellar atmospheres (Spiegel [24]) and in certain geophysical situations where it is most appropriate, but it allows us to have an analytical solution. It has been shown by Spiegel that the assumption of free boundary conditions is not a serious one, so in free boundary conditions, the vertical velocity temperature fluctuation horizontal stress and all vanish on the boundaries. The boundary conditions, appropriate to the problem, are (Chandrasekhar [1])
3. The Dispersion Relation
Analyzing the disturbances into normal modes, we seek solutions whose dependence on , , and is given by where , are horizontal wave numbers, () is the resultant wave number, and is a complex constant. Using the dimensionless variables , , , , , , , , , and and removing the stars for convenience, (5)-(6) with the help of (8) become From boundary conditions (7), using expression (8), we have
Eliminating , , , and from (9), we obtain Here is thermal Rayleigh number, is Chandrasekhar number, and is nondimensional number according to Hall currents.
It can be shown with the help of (9) and boundary conditions (10) that all the even order derivatives of vanish at the boundaries and hence the proper solution of (10) characterizing the lowest mode is where is a constant. Substituting (12) in (11) and letting , , , , and , we obtain the dispersion relation
4. The Stationary Convection
For the case of stationary convection , and (13) reduces to In order to investigate the effects of Hall current, medium permeability, and magnetic field, we examine the behaviour of , , and analytically. Equation (14) yields which is positive. The Hall current, therefore, had postpone the onset of thermal convection through porous medium for . It is evident from (14) that
which imply that for , medium permeability hasten postpone the onset of convection, where as magnetic field has postponed the onset of convection in Walters' elastico-viscous fluid through porous medium for and hasten postpone the onset of convection, if . Therefore, magnetic field has duel character in presence of Hall currents through porous medium. For fixed , , and , let (accounting for the compressibility effects) also, be kept fixed in (14). Then we find that whereand denote, respectively, the critical Rayleigh numbers in the presence and absence of compressibility. Thus, the effect of compressibility is to postpone the onset of thermal instability. The cases and correspond to negative and infinite values of Rayleigh number which are not relevant in the present study. is relevant here. The compressibility, therefore, has postponed the onset of convection.
5. Graphical Results and Discussion
The dispersion relation (14), in case of stationary convection, has been computed by concerning mathematical software. The results have been displayed graphically for various parameters of interest. The effects of these parameters especially Hall parameter, medium permeability, magnetic field, Rayleigh number with wave number have been studied. In Figure 2, Rayleigh numberis plotted against wave number (=10–80), for different values of Hall parameter (=10–40) and fixed values of medium permeability parameter , , magnetic field parameter, and . Here, we find that with the increase in the value of Hall current parameter, value of Rayleigh number is increased, showing that the Hall currents parameter has stabilizing effect on the system.
In Figure 3, Rayleigh number is plotted against wave number (=1–5), and for different medium permeability parameter (=1, 2, 3, 7), for fixed magnetic field parameter, Hall current parameter , , and are considered. We find that as medium permeability increases, value of Rayleigh number decreases, which indicates the destabilizing effect of medium permeability.
In Figure 4, Rayleigh numberis plotted against wave number (=10–80), and for different values of magnetic field parameter (=10–40), for fixed values of medium permeability , Hall current parameter , and are considered. It is clear from the graph that with the increase in the value of magnetic field parameter, there is decrease as well as increase in the Rayleigh number , implying the destabilizing as well as stabilizing effect on the system.
6. The Case of Overstability
In the present section, we discuss the possibility as to whether instability may occur as overstability. Since for overstability we wish to determine the critical Rayleigh number for the onset of instability via a state of pure oscillations, it will suffice to find conditions for which (13) will admit of solutions with real. Equating real and imaginary parts of (13) and eliminating between them, we obtain where
The three values of , being real, are positive. The product of the roots of (18) is , and if this is to be positive then , since from (20), if . Equation (17) shows that this is clearly impossible if which imply that Thus, and are sufficient conditions for the nonexistence of overstability, the violation of which does not necessarily imply the occurrence of overstability.
7. Concluding Remarks
Combined effect of various parameters; that is, magnetic field, compressibility, medium permeability, and hall currents effect has been investigated on thermal instability of a Walter's fluid. The principle concluding remarks are as the following.(i) For the stationary convection. Walter's fluid behaves like an ordinary Newtonian fluid due to the vanishing of the viscoelastic parameter.(ii) The presence of magnetic field (and therefore Hall currents) and medium permeability effects introduce oscillatory modes in the system; in the absence of these effects, the principle of exchange of stabilities is valid.(iii) The sufficient conditions for the occurrence of overstability are and , violation of which does not necessarily imply the occurrence of overstability.(iv) From (17), it is clear that effect of compressibility has postponed the onset of convection.(v) To investigate the effects of medium permeability, magnetic permeability, and Hall currents in compressible Walter's viscoelastic fluid, we examined the expressions , , and analytically. Hall current effect has postponed the onset of convection and medium permeability hastened the onset of convection, where magnetic field has postponed the onset of convection as well as hastened the onset of convection.
|Acceleration due to gravity (ms−2)
|Stoke's drag coefficient (kg s−1)
|Wave number (m−1)
|, :
|Horizontal wave-numbers (m−1)
|Medium permeability (m2)
|Mass of single particle (g)
|Suspended particle number density (m−3)
|Growth rate (s−1)
|Fluid pressure (Pa)
|Time (s)
|Fluid velocity (ms−1)
|Suspended particle velocity (ms−1)
|Magnetic field intensity vector having component (G)
|Steady adverse temperature gradient (Km−1)
|Thermal Prandtl number (−)
|Magnetic Prandtl number (−)
|thermal Rayleigh number
|Chandrasekhar number
|Nondimensional number according to Hall currents
|The mass fraction
|Component of vorticity
|Component of current density
|and :
|Critical Rayleigh numbers in the absence and presence of compressibility.
|Medium porosity (m0 s0 k0)
|Dynamic viscosity (km−1 s−1)
|Fluid viscoelasticity (km−1 s−1)
|Kinematic viscosity (m2 s−1)
|Kinematic viscoelasticity (m2 s−1)
|Density (kg m−3).
The authors are grateful to the referees for their technical comments and valuable suggestions, resulting in a significant improvement of the paper.
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Maybin reflects on ups and downs at Fan Cave
Maybin reflects on ups and downs at Fan Cave
On Friday morning, Maybin walked into the MLB Fan Cave, along with Padres teammates Yonder Alonso and Andy Parrino. Maybin sat on the throne for an interview, next to the giant orange tube slide. Everyone was having fun. He was 5-for-10 the previous two games. It was perhaps the happiest moment for him since that first night of the season.
"You know what, that's the crazy thing about baseball -- there's a lot of ups and downs," Maybin said, as his teammates chatted with the nine Cave Dwellers. "I had a little bit of a down spell early, but I've done a pretty good job of competing. The last two days are just a prime example of [how] you have to continue to keep the faith and continue to work hard and things will change.
"I'm a firm believer of 'all things shall pass,' so you've got to continue to go out and grind it out. This game's tough. Night-in and night-out, you've got somebody on that bump who's getting paid an awful lot of money to get you out. That's their job. But I've enjoyed every challenge that I've faced this year. That's why I've been playing this game since I was 3. It's a test of character. This game builds tremendous character. I love it. ... I wouldn't trade what I do for anything in the world."
The test of character can be seen in Maybin's stats since signing a contract extension that locks him up through 2016, with a club option for '17. No, he has not hit a home run since that opener. Yes, he entered Friday night's game against the Mets with a .224 average and a .317 on-base percentage. But stringing together multihit games for the first time, and banging three of San Diego's 18 hits on Thursday to help the Padres score in double digits for the first time this season, there was something to be positive about.
"He's really focusing on using the middle of the field," Padres manager Bud Black said. "He's trying to hit the ball up the middle more and he's doing a better job laying off the slider down and away. Cam's been doing a better job of that."
Maybin hit .188 in April and is hitting .259 in May. A lot of fantasy owners are hoping it is a sign, and Padres manager Bud Black obviously notices it. After the opener of this series at Citi Field, he said: "You can see guys are taking better swings and having better contact. The trick is to keep it going."
Can Maybin and the Padres do that?
"I'm here for the long haul," Maybin said. "I think we're definitely going in the right direction. You see it in the clubhouse. We're a little young in some areas, but I think we are definitely headed in the right direction."
On June 4, the Padres will have four selections before the second round starts in the 2012 First-Year Player Draft, which will be broadcast on MLB Network. Maybin was asked to think back to seven years ago, when he was selected 10th overall by Detroit out of T.C. Roberson High School in Asheville, N.C. -- before he was sent to the Marlins during a 2007 Winter Meetings deal involving Miguel Cabrera, and before the Marlins traded him to San Diego in November 2010.
"It seems like it was yesterday. You look up, and now you're seven or eight years into professional baseball," Maybin said. "It's a day you enjoy, you cherish with people you care about, because it goes by quickly. After that, it doesn't get any easier.
"It's been an interesting road -- some turns, some winding roads, but you know, that's the game. I've been blessed to be able to be in this situation where I can play every day and can continue to improve myself. That's what I intend to do -- continue to show everybody that I'm here to stay, and it's going to be fun to watch."
He is definitely fun to watch when he gets on base. Maybin has 14 steals, second in the Majors only to Miami's Emilio Bonifacio, who has 20. On the same day that Maybin was at the Fan Cave, Bonifacio was undergoing surgery to repair a torn ligament in his left thumb. Bonifacio is expected to be out four to six weeks
"Oh, Bonnie! My boy, Bonnie," Maybin said of his former teammate. "I haven't really tried to emulate my running game after too many guys, but I do take pride in getting those bags and trying to put my teammates in the best situations to drive in runs.
"Ever since last year, being able to work with Dave Roberts has been awesome. He's helped me become a much better basestealer. So, I take a lot of pride in trying to create havoc when I get on base and make things happen."
As Maybin spoke, his teammates had just completed their ride down the tube slide. They played skee-ball, made a video, raised $600 for Boys & Girls Clubs of America by playing home run derby on "MLB 12 The Show," and did a Facebook chat. Then the trio was conferring with the dwellers on how to do the perfect "shark" -- hand pointed up on top of the head, a gesture Maybin expected to introduce later that night as they watched him on TV.
"This is real baseball heaven right here," Maybin said. "You spend so much time in a room and you get a lot of time to rest, but it's good to come out and be able to enjoy the city a little bit and see some new things. ... This is an experience you don't get a chance to do quite often enough, it's been nice to get just a little bit of a getaway and help to relax a little bit."
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Those are just some examples. There's more though; read RPS's "Hands on with a Succubus" and tell me what is the dwarven city called in Witcher 2? Cause I can't definitively answer that basing on the recent slew of previews. Some say it's Vergen, others say Vergan, one Russian preview said "Verden" (Верден)
Tiny details and they hardly really matter, but it shows the relative sloppiness of the previewers. Especially when dealing with a rich and established lore, or with a developer that goes out of their way to showcase the game and clarify everything that needs clarifying.


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From a graphics standpoint, Eragon isn't all that bad. Characters and enemies are all done in the standard 3D graphics style and, considering the graphical prowess of the DS, do a pretty good job of rendering the movie-actor they are trying to portray. The game's cut-scenes have an interesting quasi-cel-shaded feel to them that I liked better than the in-game style. The environments are also fairly good, but the extremely pixelated textures get to be a bit distracting after a while. But again, this is an issue with the DS, not the game itself.
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Butler sparking offense with power stroke
Butler sparking offense with power stroke
Butler has hit at least .291 for three consecutive seasons, and with a .301 average start to 2012, the Royals slugger has a chance to make it four.
Butler connected for his 11th homer in his first at-bat in Sunday's 4-2 win -- a solo shot into the left-field seats. His career high for home runs is 21, and Butler's 11 in the first 46 games puts him on pace to shatter that mark by 18.
Manager Ned Yost has been shuffling his lineup, trying some players in as many as six different spots. But Butler has made the skipper's job a little easier, slotting into the three- or four-hole every game this year and consistently producing.
"My experience has been, you don't have to worry about Billy much," Yost said. "His slides are very infrequent, and they're very short in their nature. He's just as consistent of a performer as I've ever seen."
Butler is the only Royal, aside from left fielder Alex Gordon, to start all 45 games this year -- batting third as the DH in Sunday's series finale against the Orioles.
Splitting time between first base and designated hitter, Butler has played at least 158 games each of the last three seasons.
While Butler couldn't point to a reason for his increased power, Yost said he thinks it's a payoff from Butler's strong offseason, during which he increased both his strength and agility.
"He worked real hard this year in his conditioning all winter long," Yost said. "[He] lived in Arizona for the first time and was at the complex just about every day working on his conditioning, and I've got to think that that has something to do with it."


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An irreverent take on the holidays by Monty Python animator Terry Gilliam. This piece originally aired in 1968 on the TV series Do Not Adjust Your Set.
This version, tinted yellow and free of the laughtrack that accompanied its transmission as part of Do Not Adjust Your Stocking (an extended edition of Do Not Adjust Your Set, aired on Christmas Day afternoon on ITV), is actually taken from the end of Gilliam's mid-seventies theatrical short Storytime, which also incorporated two animations from The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine. Storytime can be seen here: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6KUqHzk26kI . I blogged about it and Gilliam's other short of this period, The Miracle Of Flight, here: http://smarterthantheaverage.tumblr.com/post/25054261/
If you listen careful enough to Christmas Cards you can identify which of the Do Not Adjust Your Set cast are providing the voices. It's easiest to identify David Jason, who amongst others plays the announcer, the gloomy man at the start, the postman at the end and the cackling Father Christmas, and Denise Coffey as the females and children, but Michael Palin can just about be heard in amongst crowd scenes, and as one of the Three Wise Men he is doing a voice very similiar to that of one of his major inspirations, Spike Milligan's Eccles character from The Goon Show. I also think he provides the humming of the ice-skater and the squawk of the girl hit in the face with a snowball.
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I'm watching this with the sound off and having a chuckle. He really does have good timing with his animation. Flash graphic symbol animators take note.
So what brought Gilliam to England in the first place?
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I was actually going to comment that the Xmas version of the show was called 'Do not Adjust Your Stocking'. I guess I just did.
And yes, I am old enough to have watched this series as a kid in England
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I spoke to the producer Of Do Not Adjust Your Set about 14 years ago he said even though it was in a time slot for Children's TV ,they were putting things in that made themselves laugh. As for what brought Gilliam to the UK, i'd say Vietnam among other things
The very first Gilliam animation I saw blew my little nine-year-old mind. It came from Marty Feldman's show which aired on ABC in the early 70s (years before Monty Python came to American airwaves). A man was set up horizontally as a cannon, someone lights an attached fuse, and his head blows off. I talked about it for months!
I've got a number of Monty Python books and they helped me to write this article on the TZ Animation Wiki: http://wiki.toonzone.net/index.php/Terry_Gilliam
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WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are poised to unveil their new CEO, Thursday.
Longtime radio executive Garth Buchko will take over from Ossama AbouZeid, hired on an interim basis in July.
Buchko moves to the Bombers from the teams radio rights holder, CJOB/Power 97, where he served as general manager since the mid-1990s.
With a background in advertising sales, Buchko takes over the Bombers top job, last held on a permanent basis by Lyle Bauer in 2009, overseeing the entire organization and reporting directly to the board of directors.
However, unlike Bauer, a former player, Buchkos day-to-day responsibilities arent expected to include football decisions.
While Bomber GM Joe Mack will report to the CEO, along with president Jim Bell, Mack is expected to continue to head up the football side, including decisions on the hiring and firing of coaches and the approval of contracts and football budgets.
The GM is the top football spot in our organization I dont see that changing, board chairman Bill Watchorn told the Sun last month.
Buchko graduated from Red River Colleges sales and marketing program in 1982, moving to Saskatchewan for a few years before returning to Winnipeg as the sales manager at Q-94 FM.


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La Paz - Bolivian President Evo Morales said Thursday that the rerouting of his plane over suspicions that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden was on board was a plot by the U.S. to intimidate him and other Latin American leaders.
Morales, long a fierce critic of U.S. policy toward Latin America, received a hero's welcome from a cheering crowd in La Paz airport late Wednesday night.
His return followed a dramatic, unplanned 14-hour layover in Vienna that ignited an international diplomatic row. Bolivia's government said France, Spain and Portugal refused to let the president's plane through their airspace, forcing it to land in Austria. He was flying home from a summit in Russia.
Latin American leaders were outraged by the incident, calling it a violation of national sovereignty and a slap in the face for a region that has suffered through humiliations by Europe and several U.S.-backed military coups. Several South American presidents were headed to the Bolivian city of Cochabamba on Thursday to show their support for the leftist leader.
Morales said the incident involving his plane was a provocation to the region, and he urged European nations to "free themselves" from the U.S. "The United States is using its agent (Snowden) and the president (of Bolivia) to intimidate the whole region," he said.
Bolivian government officials have repeatedly said they believe that Washington was behind the incident.
France sent an apology to the Bolivian government. But Morales said "apologies are not enough because the stance is that international treaties must be respected."
Spain's Foreign Affairs Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said his country did not forbid Morale's president from landing in its territory.
Amid the tensions, the U.S. embassy in La Paz cancelled Independence Day celebrations scheduled for Thursday. In the eastern city of Santa Cruz, Bolivian government sympathizers painted protest slogans on the doors of the American consulate.
Morales said he never saw Snowden when he was in Russia, and that Bolivia had not received a formal request for asylum for him. While still in Russia he had suggested that he was willing to consider giving Snowden asylum in Bolivia.
Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino has said that the presidents of Argentina, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Suriname and possibly Uruguay will attend the summit in Cochabamba to discuss the matter. Bolivia said earlier it also would summon the French and Italian ambassadors and the Portuguese consul to demand explanations.
Despite the complaints, there were no signs that Latin America leaders were moving to bring Snowden to the region that had been seen as the most likely to grant him asylum.
Presidents from Colombia, Chile and Peru, who have strong ties to the U.S., will be absent from the summit.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said he supports Morales, but asked other leaders to remain cool and avoid an escalating dispute between Latin America and the European Union.
"We're in solidarity with Evo Morales because what they did to him is unheard-of, but let's not let this turn into a diplomatic crisis for Latin America and the EU," Santos wrote Thursday on Twitter.
It's still unclear whether European countries did block the plane and, if so, why. French, Spanish and Portuguese officials have all said the plane was allowed to cross their territory.
The emergency stop in Austria may have been caused by a row over where the plane could refuel and whether European authorities could inspect it for signs of Snowden.
The U.S. has declined to comment on whether it was involved in any decision to close European airspace, saying only that "US officials have been in touch with a broad range of countries over the course of the last 10 days," about the Snowden case.
"The message has been communicated both publicly and privately," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Wednesday. "He should be returned to the United States."
Snowden remains out of public view, believed to be stuck in a Moscow airport transit area, seeking asylum from one of more than a dozen countries.
More of today's headlines"Cairo - Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr said he assured US Secretary of State John Kerry in a telephone call on Thursday that the overthrow of President..." Cairo - Egypt Foreign Minister To Kerry: No 'Military Coup' "Tel Aviv - The U.S.-funded Alhurra network said Thursday that one of its cameramen was interrogated and strip-searched by Israeli security men while covering a July 4..." Tel Aviv - Israeli Security Strip-search Arab Journalist At US Independence Day Party
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Jul 04, 2013 at 06:03 PM
I just hoped this doesn't kill Ostriecher's chance.
Jul 04, 2013 at 08:10 PM
I agree with you I am very concerned as well
How to you force a plane from a head of state you are not at war to land and search his plan. are our leaders out of their mind ?
Jul 05, 2013 at 12:25 AM
The action was not intended to intimidate Bolivia. The US does not give a darn about that country. The action was intended to catch Snowden. This simply shows the Americans have no clue at all as to what it is they are doing.
Jul 05, 2013 at 08:53 AM
Evo Morales brought this all on himself, equivocating that he may or may not grant Snowden asylum. Now he's upset that he is exposed to the world as an impotent narco-demagogue. If he had just kept his mouth shut, none of this would have happened.
Jul 05, 2013 at 10:01 AM
He (and Bolivia) is allowed to do that. That is Bolivia's decision to make. Stopping and searching a head of state is an attack on sovereignty. No, it is not permitted by The Rules.


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Adolph, Montgomery to receive 2011 Dave Dixon Louisiana Sports Leadership AwardPublished: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 11:00 pm
NATCHITOCHES New Orleans native Elmo Adolph, a world-renowned boxing official, and Billy Montgomery, who as a highly-regarded state legislator championed sports causes including construction of the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame museum, are the 2011 recipients of the Dave Dixon Louisiana Sports Leadership Award.
Adolph built an amazing career as a referee from 1964-2005. The New Orleans native officiated an estimated 23,000 amateur bouts, including in the 1988 Olympic Games. He became a professional referee in 1992, working another 1,000 bouts, 32 of those being world championship fights.
Montgomery was regarded as an exceptional tactician and teacher during his 10-year basketball coaching term and has been a mentor to many coaches and educators since then. He is also known statewide for serving 20 years in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1988-2008.
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While the August recess has offered little insight into how the House Republican leadership plans to tackle this fall's fiscal fights, conservatives are plotting their own strategy.
A group of the House's hard-liners has been in touch while at home about how to tackle the impending fiscal battles — including a continuing resolution to keep the government open past Sept. 30 and raising the nation's debt limit. The conservatives' focus is squarely on whether the House leadership listens to their demands.
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"We've been in constant communication in the course of the August recess," South Carolina GOP Rep. Mick Mulvaney said in a phone interview as he walked in to a town hall meeting along with South Carolina GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy. The pair spent a chunk of the recess together, holding joint constituent meetings in both districts.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has given little indication that he's going to give conservatives what they want, specifically a continuing resolution that would defund Obamacare. But conservatives think if he doesn't, it could be a first shot in a renewed battle within the party.
"I'm still trying to get our leadership to actually take on Obamacare when it really counts," Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.) said.
As part of a deal to keep the government running, conservatives want to defund Obamacare, but are also seeking to maintain spending at levels both consistent with the sequester and the House-passed budget. They will only agree to sign off on a debt ceiling hike if it cuts spending, but are unsure whether that should be part of a CR. Taking it a step further, conservatives argue that they aren't simply seeking symbolic votes in the House, but real measures on which their leadership will stand firm in negotiations with the Senate.
These conservatives point to the January meeting of the House GOP Conference in Williamsburg, Va., where they say peace was struck. Leadership would hold strong on the sequester, uphold the so-called Hastert rule and keep all spending bills under the budget that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) would put together. In exchange, conservatives would help pass appropriations bills.
"They've lived up to their word so far this year," Mulvaney said.
But that doesn't mean that deal would hold if a CR doesn't include their requirements.
"Just keep their word, that's all we're asking, that doesn't seem like a big ask," Huelskamp said. "At the minimum, the House has to send out a CR that defunds Obamacare — doesn't seem like much to ask."
Because the deal has held, Mulvaney thinks conservatives are in a better place to push back at leadership.
"Because of the successes that we've racked up after Williamsburg," he said, "if we had not had those successes and we had not been able to build that trust."
There already have been signs of growing strife. The farm bill was defeated earlier this year when the original version included money for food stamps to which conservatives objected. At the time, it was seen as a possible precursor to fights on the CR and debt ceiling, even though ultimately, leadership was able to pass a version that picked up conservative votes.
And the strength of the once-small group is growing that caused so many problems during the fiscal cliff debate at the start of the year, the members say.
"I know for a fact that the conservatives are stronger and closer now than they were after the election," Mulvaney said. "What I think we've done is probably grow our group since the election."
He added: "There are folks who are reaching out to us on how we should handle the CR."
Rep. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) sees the group of conservatives as having more experience to push back than they did in January.


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**NEW** W. Darrin Weaver, Hitler's Garands: German Self-Loading Rifles of World War II. Collector Grade Books, 2001, 361 pages. Produced and edited by Blake Stevens.$75.00
This outstanding study is a significant contribution to arms collecting knowledge, and military history. It is also one of the first books that I know of that has relied heavily on world wide contributions from collectors and historian via the internet. Despite the use of new technology, the author still has made extensive use of archives and museum collections and put together an exceptionally comprehensive study of this previously little known area. This is also one of the few arms collecting books that does more than just casually mention that there may be fakes or reproductions out there. He devotes an entire chapter to "fakes, frauds and fantasies" and ways to tell them from originals. Anyone considering a purchase of a G43 related item on ebay really needs to read this book first!
Weaver covers the earliest Mauser attempts at semi-auto arms, the influence of the Russian Tokarev, the meddling of der Fuhrer in arms requirements, the successes and failures of the G41(M) and G41(W) and the difficulty of introducing a new weapons system in the midst of a war that you are losing. Further, the involvement of the SS in "helping" with production (apparently helping themselves to the finished product was widespread) He shows that the name change from Gewehr 43 to Krabiner 43 was not reflected in weapons details, but rather a propaganda driven decision to make people think the Germans were fielding yet another new weapon.
Format is similar to that used in the late Richard D. Law's "Backbone of the Wehrmacht" study of the K98k Mausers, with detailed tables of marks and features for each of the makers and the various time frames. Large, clear, period photos are found throughout the book, along with detailed photos of parts variations and pertinent archival records. Weaver is very careful to use the correct German terms (helpfully translated into collector jargon as well). Production figures are stated where known, and deduced where necessary. Besides the rifles, he also includes exhaustive coverage of the various scopes and mounts, both pre-May 1945, post-war military production by various nations, and recent fakes for gullible collectors, the latter being alarmingly common. Among other aspects, he covers the G/K43 connections with Czechoslovakia, East and West Germany, Denmark, Norway, and even tenuous connections with Brazil, Israel, and other nations.
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Unfortunately his new work is a great disappointment and only of marginal usefulness to either the beginning or advanced collector. The first 60 pages allow the author to introduce himself and the subject of arms collecting. He mentions some of the most prominent collectors and finest firearms in their collections, and himself and his connections with these collectors and the firearms. His comments on shows are interesting, and obviously his taste is for the more exclusive shows, the finer guns, and the wealthiest collectors. Again, many prestigious collectors, dealers and auctioneers are mentioned by name, along with the author's connections to them. He also reveals his desire to have a new book available every year at the prestigious Las Vegas Antique Arms Show produced by Wallace Beinfeld. Apparently this book satisfies that goal.
The meat of the book, the price guide, consists of an alphabetical listing of makers, sometimes with a phrase or even a paragraph on the maker's location or history. Models are then listed by unacceptably brief descriptions, and then prices for them in Fair, Very Good, and Excellent condition. Nowhere does he share his definition of those conditions with the reader, so one is left to wonder if the gun in his hand is "Excellent" or something else. In the "how to use the price guide" section he provides some rules of thumb for determining values at the (also undefined) intermediate condition levels of good or fine. However a quick attempt to apply these resulted in gross disparities with the values listed, such as something good being worth less than the same thing in fair condition. An amazing variety of makers are listed. These include modern makers of low quality arms most would not consider collectable; many of the brands of "suicide specials" and even some Italian makers of snaphaunce pistols from the 17th and 18th century, as well as the expected traditional makers of interest to most collectors. Within each maker the listing is chaotic, sometimes by model numbers, other times by caliber.
Being most interested in U.S. martial arms, I was disappointed to find those covered in a total of less than two full pages, sometimes omitting major standard models, while including exotic variants unlikely to ever be seen by a collector. His listing of a total of four "Flintlock Rifle" models omits the 15,000 Model 1803 rifles made at Harpers Ferry, but includes the Model 1807 "Indian carbine" (a smoothbore) of which only 1200 were made. A ".54 [caliber] M1814, rifled, 36" barrel, antique [under federal laws]" rifle is listed (presumably those made by Deringer), but the 38,000 Model 1817 "Common Rifles" are not. The remaining flintlock rifles listed are two Halls, including one by Whitney (which I believe to be erroneous) but not other hall variations. Under "Percussion Rifles" the Model 1841 Mississippi is erroneously listed as being .58 caliber, and .45-70 trapdoors are inexplicably included in the percussion category. Some U.S. military values are grossly out of line with observed market values. I would happily sell M1922M2 [sic] .22 Springfields in Very Good condition at the $1,800 figure he provides. Then I would gladly invest in all the Model 1873 trapdoor carbines he would care to sell in excellent condition at $1,500. His listing "M1903, .30-06 Springfield, machined parts $6,000 [in fair condition]" will lead many sellers to be unhappy when it is explained to then that Wilson probably meant the Model 1903 rifle in .30-03 with a ramrod bayonet, while their rifle is a common model really only worth a few hundred.
The lack of adequate, or even basic descriptions to match a gun with the proper entry in the book, makes the entire book nearly useless. While the Italian snaphaunce makers are included, we find that the Warner carbines used during the Civil War are not included either under a heading for Warner, the inventor, or Massachusetts Arms Company, the maker.
A collector looking for information on the value of a gun, and possibly enough information to properly identify it, would be far better served by Flayderman's Guide to Antique American Firearms and their values if interested mainly in arms made before World War Two. (Note that a new Seventh edition will be released in April, although Norm Flayderman had little to do with the update, so revision of the values may not be as respected as in the past.) If interested in newer arms, Ned Schwing's Standard Catalog of Firearms or S.P. Fjested's Blue Book of Gun Values will prove much more useful. Of the hundreds of gun books in my library, I only regret the purchase of a few. Unfortunately this work by a distinguished author and respected authority is one that I would warn others to avoid wasting their money on. Although listed as a first edition,without drastic changes and improvements it would be merciful not to inflict subsequent editions on the public. John Spangler
Pate, Charles W., U.S. Handguns of World War II: The Secondary Pistols and Revolvers, Lincoln, RI, Mowbray, 1998. 368 pages 8.5" x 11" hard boundsoft cover. List price $39.00
One of the best books on U.S martial arms in recent years, this solidly researched and well organized account will open the door to a collecting field that has hitherto suffered from a lack of information. I would expect to see the large numbers of collectors competing to add examples of these arms to their collections generate major increases in values in this field in the next year or two.
While the focus is on secondary handguns (anything other than the official standard M1911/1911A1 .45 automatics and substitute standard M1917 revolvers by Colt or Smith & Wesson) there is a surprising amount of useful information on them as well. Similarly, although focused on World War II, much information is presented on the pre-war procurement of arms, building understanding of the "normal peacetime" process compared to chaotic "wartime" expediencies adopted later.
Pate presents an astonishing amount of information on the S&W Victory model, the Colt Pocket Models in .25 ACP, .32 ACP and .380 ACP, and some lesser known .22 trainers. Wherever possible, he cites factory ledgers, military receipts or shipping records, and provides serial numbers. In some cases he illustrates the actual document and a gun related to it. Excellent details on inspection and markings (or lack thereof) are provided, with careful mention where guesses or speculation are involved. Additional coverage is given to various non-standard Iver Johnson, Harrington and Richardson and High Standard pistols. Careful reading is necessary to follow and understand the fact that during most of WW2 U.S. military offices purchased handguns not only for U.S, military needs, but also for lend lease shipments to allies, for OSS (forerunner of the CIA) usage, defense plant guards, merchant marine needs, etc.
Appendices provide useful information and photos of holsters, ammunitiion, the reasons behind the S&W Vistory model and Colt .380 modifications, and even Coast Guard markings.
As with most Mowbray publications, this has a nice layout and plenty of clear, relevant photos. A neseccary addition to the library of serious collectors, and good background information for a better understanding of small arms policies adopted to support the war effort. We owe Charles Pate our thanks for taking the time to research and write on the less well known subjects he has so thoroughly and skillfully covered here. John Spangler


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MP Ward denies being disciplined for comments on Jews
Lib Dem MP David Ward has denied he was ordered to attend "language classes" after making controversial comments about "the Jews".
It comes a week after disciplinary proceedings were adjourned following a meeting with leader Nick Clegg.
The party had said Mr Ward agreed to work with the Lib Dem Friends of Israel to identify "proportionate language" to use in the future to express his views.
But the MP said that this "does not reflect what I believe was decided".
The Bradford East MP was forced to apologise last month after saying on his website that he was "saddened that the Jews, who suffered unbelievable levels of persecution during the Holocaust, could within a few years of liberation from the death camps, be inflicting atrocities on Palestinians in the new State of Israel and continue to do so on a daily basis in the West Bank and Gaza".
Mr Ward initially defended his comments and said his party's response - reprimanding him - had been "regrettable", but later apologised for the "unintended offence" which his words had caused.
He has insisted that neither he nor his comments were anti-semitic.
'Legitimate concern'
But there was subsequent controversy when a Jewish newspaper reported Mr Ward had asked if it would satisfy his critics if he changed the wording to read "the Jewish community" instead of "the Jews".
The party began full disciplinary proceedings following the comments.
In a letter to Mr Ward written after the meeting last week, the chief whip Alistair Carmichael wrote: "At the meeting you undertook to work along with Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel and Simon Hughes MP to identify and agree language that will be proportionate and precise in your future interventions in this debate.
"We would also hope that this would allow you to achieve a better understanding of the legitimate concern that your comments has caused within the wider Jewish community."
In an article published on his website, Mr Ward was quoted as saying he was "disappointed and angry" and this statement did not reflect what he thought had been decided.
BBC News understands party whips have been endeavouring to contact Mr Ward.
A Lib Dem spokesman said it was "very disappointing that David seems to be refusing to acknowledge his mistakes".
Mr Ward was unavailable for comment on Monday evening.
In his statement he said he had not been shown Mr Carmichael's statement following last week's meeting, and had therefore not agreed to its contents.


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In a huge embarrassment for the would-be celebrity philanthropist, Madonna has been forced to abandon the school for girls she planned in Malawi -- and her foundation, Raising Malawi, which was to support it.
The singer founded Raising Malawi after her not-uncomplicated adoption of two Malawi children: since 2006, the charity collected around $18 million in donations (much of it at annual star-studded, Gucci-sponsored benefits).
But after she broke ground on a school for girls in the country, things went woefully awry. Workers on the site are suing Madonna, saying they were never paid. And now the IRS is investigating all of her charity efforts, as well as those of Kabbalah Centre International, Madonna's partner in the project.
Meanwhile, Kabbalah wants to get as far away from the star who once brought the faith into the public eye -- they released a statement severing ties with Raising Malawi.
But Madge is in good company -- plenty of stars get into hot water with high-profile charity efforts.


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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Paint Jobs with Pizzazz: The Roadster MF3 by Wiesmann
15 comments:
- Claire Kiefer said...
Love that limo in front of the Bail sign, so much. And I remember a lot of these pics from instagram--you're so good!
- November 7, 2012 at 11:13 AM
- Dancing Branflake said...
Honestly? I love your photos the most. Always amazing.
- November 7, 2012 at 11:13 AM
- Ren- Lady Of The Arts said...
I would love to have a fun car one day- I like the truck with the clouds.
- November 7, 2012 at 11:19 AM
- Little Rus said...
That really is unique and special. Great shots! x
- November 7, 2012 at 11:33 AM
- Alisa said...
like the smart car!
- November 7, 2012 at 11:52 AM
- sporkgasm said...
I love wackily painted cars. There's a Dr. Seuss car I see here once in a while that I LOVE.
- November 7, 2012 at 1:53 PM
- Lara said...
You got me obsessed with Mecum car auctions a long time ago. David is thrilled that I'll watch them with him now. LOVE that yellow/blue one, 3rd from the top!
- November 7, 2012 at 5:29 PM
- Jo said...
from cute to slightly creepy...love them all!
- November 7, 2012 at 7:11 PM
- Caroline said...
Your pics rock!!! Amazing what you can find in lala land :)
- November 7, 2012 at 8:37 PM
- diane said...
The first examples are like car porn, they're hot.
I love the do-it-your-self cars, really fun. It's always nice to see someone's art on their car, and I think it's brave too, because you know it makes them an instant target with the authorities.
- November 8, 2012 at 7:29 AM
- Improbable Joe said...
Even the ugly ones, I appreciate the thought behind it?
- November 8, 2012 at 4:05 PM
- DWei said...
I only liked the design on the Smartcar. Everything else was a bit too outlandish for me.
- November 8, 2012 at 10:57 PM
- SabinePsynopsis said...
SUPER! And I can only say that everybody MUST follow you on Instagram. Your photos are amazing!
- November 9, 2012 at 8:41 AM
- Trissta {Living on the Chic} said...
Love these! I always enjoy your Instagram feed.
Much Love,
- November 9, 2012 at 2:48 PM
- Kathryn said...
My son is going to college for auto body paint job, but so far none of the above have been requested locally; but we live in the Midwest.
I asked him about "Ice Cream Paint Jobs" after hearing the annoying song by that name that he has programmed my radio to and he explained they are an exotic candy color that is very expensive to do.
- November 10, 2012 at 5:00 PM


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Review for International Midwife Assistance, Inc., Boulder, CO, USA
Having worked for sometime and continue to hear reports of IMAs lifechanging partnership with the Teso Safemotherhood Project in Soroti, am honored to write a review for IMA and how it has impacted on the lives of women in Soroti. I specifically would like to testify of a woman whom I escorted to the TSMP clinic in Soroti. She lived with me in Amuria village. Prior to our visit to the clinic, the woman had lost hope after going to several clinics in and around our town for care. She had sold off so much of the food stuff to pay for treatment., but was not realising any remarkable improvement in her health. I am writing this on the behalf of the woman as well., that since she was diagnosed with a PID and ever since getting drugs and advice from the clinic free, she has improved considerably. She can now go to the garden, and care for her 3 children. She has hope again, and wishes to convey her heartfelt thanks to IMA, and for the Teso Safemotherhood Project.
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wish that it doesnot remain as just a project that will end, but as a lasting program: probably have its name transformed to Teso Safe Motherhood Program


text: Happy Friday Great Cookies! Here's today's fantastic lunch! It was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Delicious! And while I said "Happy SUNDAY" in my video, by habit, (as I usually do these on Sundays), I am indeed aware of the fact that it is Friday. (Must be that mad-cow or "mad-anchovy" is kicking in at times)? Smiles. IN ANY EVENT, ENJOY! Cheers! - Leah


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On the Road with Intellectual Ventures' Global Head of Technology, Patrick Ennis
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world and in the general business community." About his visit to Tokyo, he says, "The western media portrays Japan as a relatively slow-growth economy. But some of the world's best inventors are in Japan…Look at their tech companies and how they lead the industry." Just because there isn't a lot of VC and startup activity, he says, doesn't mean there isn't a lot of technology innovation going on.
On Singapore, Ennis points out it's a small country, but it has a strong talent pool—and it also attracts "world-class innovators and scientists from other countries." As compared with India, a very large country with an "incredibly dynamic environment for technology, one that's come along through the years. The middle class has really mushroomed here. The breadth of technology they're working on is really impressive. From a U.S. perspective, because so many technologists and entrepreneurs in the U.S. have ties to India, it makes it easier to do business."
I had to ask Ennis which country's food was his favorite so far. "It's a running joke at IV," he says. "I have the most bland palate, and I'm a real finicky eater. I'm sort of like the court jester of the team. I'm always looking for bread and white rice. We'll go out to a really nice restaurant, and I'm begging the waiter to bring me some white rice. It makes it tough." He says when they pass a McDonald's, the others joke, "Take a picture, Patrick can eat there." But seriously, he adds, "Singapore is really interesting because of the mix of cultures—it's amazing the diversity of food you'll get in one restaurant."
Speaking of cultures, I asked how Intellectual Ventures is approaching its meetings as an outsider to the local communities. "The best way to be successful is to build long-term relationships and be seen as a long-term partner," he says. But how do you build these relationships? "Get an introduction, if you can, from a trusted third party. 'Here's Patrick Ennis, he's an Irish American you've never heard of, but I've known him for 15 years, and he's a standup guy.' Then a firm introduction, that's even more important. 'You've never heard of Intellectual Ventures, but we've worked with them.' Second, take a long-term perspective and communicate that. At IV, we look at timeframes in decades. We're not looking for quick deals, we're looking to build a long-term, value-add relationship. That's important—nobody wants a company if they're there to make a quick profit. Also, don't be viewed as just a U.S. company. Open a local office, and don't just send some ex-pats. You need to hire people with deep ties and commitment to the region."
Ennis also had some compelling thoughts on how the invention industry compares with the VC industry. "Venture capital is a mature industry. I view the next great challenge as invention. In VC, not only do you have to get the innovation right, but you have to get the team right, you take the market risk, the IPO risk, and you miss a lot of great inventions. You or I could have an invention in our basement to make oil refineries 4 percent more efficient. But can you and I do a startup [based on that]? No, you'll get crushed with [only] a 4 percent efficiency gain. You need partners," he says. "The media focuses more on venture capital, but as you know, venture capital is not appropriate for all inventions. If you look at a university tech transfer office, only a small number of inventions end up in a startup. Inventions come in all shapes and sizes. There are great big ideas and great little ideas. Great little ideas often sit on a shelf because the inventor may not have the expertise, money, or time to patent it or to find an operating company to produce and market that product." Which is where Intellectual Ventures comes in. (Of course, IV also likes great big ideas, like new ways to combat global warming, hurricanes, and malaria, and new kinds of nuclear reactors.)
I asked Ennis for some parting thoughts on his firm's global expansion. "All the countries we operate in, including the U.S., see innovation and intellectual property as being key to the future of their countries," he says. Things like manufacturing and agriculture are still important, he adds, but "the only way to keep ahead of the curve" is to keep innovating. He points out that when you buy a computer, even if it was made overseas, nearly 100 percent of the profit goes to U.S. companies like Microsoft, Intel, or Apple. "They have the intellectual property," he says. "The profit margin is really low for the hardware. Every country wants to change that and move up the value chain. And they'll do it through innovation and invention."


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AMERLI, Iraq, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- After a two-month siege by Islamic State militants, the town of Amerli, Iraq, received some relief as the Iraqi military entered the town and the United States carried out airstrikes nearby.
IS fighters had surrounded the town of about 17,000 ethnic Turkmen Shiites, leaving the residents without power, food, water and other supplies.
The Sunni militants, also known as ISIS or ISIL, had taken control of strategic locations throughout Iraq and Syria, including several villages surrounding Amerli.
The United States conducted airstrikes against IS-controlled locations near the northern Iraqi town of Amerli and dropped aid for residents after nightfall Saturday, Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said. As part of the offensive, the Iraqi military entered the town to evacuate vulnerable residents.
Residents celebrated the broken siege, waving Iraqi flags and firing gunshots into the air, retired Gen. Khaled al-Amerli told CNN.
"Today is a day of victory for Iraq and the resilient people of Amerli," he said.
Australia, France and Britain also participated in the humanitarian air drop.


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Two men and one woman face murder charges in the death of San Diego police officer Christopher Wilson.
The 17-year veteran of the department was shot and killed during a probation compliance check on Oct. 28, 2010.
Alex Charfauros, 26, Melissa Ortiz, 21, and Patrick Luangrath, 19, were charged with murder in connection with the shooting at an downtown arraignment Tuesday.
The charges were a surprise even to Officer Wilson's family.
"We knew they were criminals to some degree, I guess up until now we didn't realize how much they were involved in Chris' murder," said Tracy Wilson, the officer's ex-wife.
Tracy Wilson spoke about the pain her family is still dealing with nine months after the deadly shootout.
Her son Conner and daughter Kaylee made it through their first Father's Day without her ex-husband.
"It's been really hard," she said.
Tracy Wilson said the family believed justice had been served the night of the shootout when one suspect was killed and another took his own life.
"We really thought that it was over, when Holim Lee and Lucky Xayasene died at the scene," she said.
But Luangrath, Charfauros and Ortiz, were also there when Officer Wilson was killed.
Prosecutor Michael Runyon said even though none pulled the trigger, each played a role in the officer's death.
For instance, Ortiz is accused of turning off a light shortly before police forced their way inside a bedroom where the shootout took place.
"So when [officers] kick in that door, they are completely backlit, so everybody in that room that might have a firearm now has them silhouetted on a well lit back drop," Runyon said.
If convicted, each defendant faces 25-year-to-life in prison.


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Happy Valentine's Day! Do you have any special plans? I am making a delicious steak dinner followed by molten lava cakes. I'm seriously considering eating dessert first.
We sent out Valentine's to those we love earlier in the week. I couldn't resist the make your own offerings from Target.
To kick off the party I thought I would share a few Valentine crafts I have made in the past.
Beginning with way back in 2010 ~ a Repurposed candy box. (This post also shows a video of how to wrap up a pretty bottled beverage.)


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Discussion in 'Shoes and Apparel' started by airdupont, Feb 10, 2011.
Anybody know if these are available somewhere in NYC? Asics Store?
local tennis shops probably. i never seen or heard of an asics store before though, but nyc probably has one
edit: just checked and of course nyc has the only store in the united states
I bet they would. Better yet, they should.
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Police say a 7-year-old girl who refused to give up her bicycle was severely beaten by an Anchorage man who had tried to steal it.
Police have issued a warrant charging 32-year-old Byron Edward Syvinski with assault and robbery. The girl is in critical but stable condition Monday.
Witnesses say Syvinski tried to force the girl off the bike Sunday and punched her when she refused. They say he then knocked her to the ground and punched her repeatedly after she lost consciousness.
Police say he will be arrested after he is released from a hospital, where he had been taken for medical clearance.
The attack was first reported by the Anchorage Daily News.


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ESCONDIDO — They weren't asking pitcher Taylor Lee to do too much.
Standing at the plate in the top of the seventh inning of the championship softball game of the Cougar Classic's Gold Bracket with the international tiebreaker rule in effect, the Torrey Pines High senior was poised for her part in squeezing home the go-ahead run.
"I've been so scared in that situation before,'' Lee said. "I had to pull through. I had to get a piece of it.''
Lee's bunt was good enough to chase home Lauren Filicia with what proved to be the winning run in a 2-1 victory over Bonita Vista on Monday night at Kit Carson Park to clinch only the second tournament title.
Lee made that RBI stand up by registering two strikeouts around throwing out the runner who started the inning at second base for the inning's second out.
Bonita's pinch-hitter Natalie Cox unloaded a long triple just after the runner was erased at third base and Lee fanned the final batter for the win.
"The key with the international tiebreaker is striking out the first batter,'' said Lee, who improved to 3-0. "She's the most important out to get. You have to keep that runner at second.''
Lee did that. Bonita Vista's Alexa Vargas didn't.
By making the last out in the previous inning, Filicia began the inning at second. Lauren Hynes, who scored the first run for the Falcons (7-0) on an error in the second inning, sacrificed her to third base.
Then came Lee's bunt.
"My heart was pumping so fast right there, knowing we were squeezing,'' Lee said. "I've had to learn how to bunt over the years on this team.
"My goal was to not screw it up.''
Lee allowed five hits and walked one while striking out nine.
Vargas was even better, allowing just two bunt singles and no walks while striking out nine.
"We're so lucky to have the three starting pitchers we have with Rachel Nasland, Hynes and me,'' Lee said. "We have a ton of arms, so no one should ever get tired.
"We don't look at it like we may not get as many starts as we would if we were a team with just one pitcher like a lot of teams.''
Torrey Pines downed Steele Canyon 12-2 in the semifinals while Bonita Vista (4-1-1) roared back from a 4-0 deficit to edge Carlsbad 6-4 in the other semifinal game.
"This is a remarkable tournament,'' Falcons coach Jon Moore said. "You play a lot of good teams and to get this far tells me we're pretty good.
"We can pitch. Even at 43 feet, the game is still all about pitching.''


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We all know the crazy videos out on the internet. It never ends. But here's one to put a smile on the face of animal lovers everywhere. Meet Runty the dog from Finland, who just loves hammering the keys of the family piano!
I can't imagine living next door when Runty gets in a musical mood and takes to the old upright in the family room.
While he might not make the cut for American Idol, perhaps it's a new way to torment the cat!
Check it out!
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Russ Cook wrote:
Matthew Robinson wrote:Try changing the driver in xorg.conf to 'vesa'. This will be much slower than the binary Nvidia drivers, but if it works, youve found your problem.Thanks Matt. I have changed the driver to Vesa, and so far I can't make it crash. I am now upgrading from stable to unstable (amd64) and downloading a current smp kernel. If all stays stable (pun intended), then I'll ask the experts for suggestions regarding graphics boards and drivers. Thanks much, russIf the vesa driver works, the open source 'nv' driver, may also work. Its nvidia specific, but not as good as the official binary nvidia drivers. As far as I know, nv performs much better than vesa, but much worse than nvidia.No, I started the whole process with the open source 'nv' driver. I will try it again after this upgrade completes, but 'nv' is what I was using for several weeks before finally trying 'nvidia' which did not help, either. Thanks again. Russ
Well, I am now successfully running amd64 unstable. The nv driver was installed by default, and as before, caused my system to hang from X apps. I have changed the config file to use the vesa driver, and now I can run without crashes. Thanks to those who offered help, especially Matt.Next question, I'd like obtain a quality graphics card with hardware acceleration for use with the flightgear flight simulator (the primary
reason for building this system). Can the kind folks on this list provide suggestions of boards that are successfully running on this board? Again, my system is Asus A8N32SLI Deluxe, AMD64 4800+ dual core, 4 GB Corsair TwinX ram (to be reduced to 2 GB due to MB ram limitations). Thanks again, Russ