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Stand up guy: Bill Bailey on music, marriage and the moment he refused to sell out
He wooed his wife with love letters. He plays every instrument under the sun. And he lives in a menagerie. What's not to like about Bill Bailey?
I have been in love with Bill Bailey for some time now. So when it transpires that our interview will take place at a bar so close to his home that once the allotted time is up, he could feasibly launch himself from his seat and land back on his sofa with his wife and son within seconds, with nothing more to show for his efforts than a couple of smashed window panes, it's a blow. None the less, I dry my eyes, raise a smile, and head to the west-London gastropub for 5.40pm, as arranged.
Bailey arrives moments later. He is friendly and polite, and briefly scours the bar menu before ordering a large glass of merlot and a plate of lamb kofta. His food arrives and he nibbles and laughs and jokes between mouthfuls, and all is going very nicely indeed until, several gulps later, the conversation leaps from a mutual appreciation of the clearance rails at TK Maxx to British politics – and with this untraceable digression, the comedian's entire demeanour shifts: his previously animated face crumples forward in his hands, silver rings pressing hard against his forehead.
I begin to wonder whether a long day promoting his latest tour on various radio shows has taken its toll. Or perhaps the tortuous ambient beats which spill out from speakers at every corner of the pub have done him in. For a few moments he lays there; all that is visible of the usually charismatic 44-year-old is the top of his head, with that semi-circle of hair swaying at his shoulders.
Then, without warning, he is back to life, with a tirade against the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Yvette Cooper, and her Tory Shadow, Theresa May, whose name he spits as if ejecting an olive stone from between his teeth. He is explaining why, having been at the Radio 4 studio that morning while the pair had been conducting an on-air debate, he will no longer be voting at the next general election: "They were going: 'Ne ne ne ne neeee!'" he demonstrates with two flailing hands, thumb and forefinger pinched into crab shapes. Mid-flow, he stops, and takes another slurp. Without looking up, he stabs a fork at his plate, chews, swallows, licks his lips and politely dabs a napkin along his perfectly triangular goatee. "So I just can't really be bothered," he finishes, placing his elbows square on the table, raising those huge quizzical eyes with a slightly alarming grin.
It's difficult not to love Bill Bailey. Even if we were holding our meeting somewhere really exciting, crammed with really exciting people, rather than here, in a near-empty gastropub in Hammersmith, he would, no doubt, still be the most interesting feature in the room. Even if he didn't have a physique which inspired the name of his show Part Troll; even if he wasn't sat before me this evening in a pin-stripe suit jacket and a bright white T-shirt with the head of a gorilla in headphones emblazoned on the front; even if he wasn't waving his arms enthusiastically at any given opportunity, it would still be a stretch not to want him to be my friend.
There is, above all, something irresistibly contagious about Bailey's passion for music, which rises to the point of spontaneous combustion during his live shows, as he bounds across the stage colliding with various instruments – at one point hammering out an imitation of a 1970s cop-show theme tune from his piano stool, swiftly followed by the Bee Gees' "Staying Alive" from his bassoon. "Bassoon players are actually obsessed by the Bee Gees," Bailey announced at a recent performance as he prepared to take up his next tune on the motion-censored Theremin. "For many years they have been incorporating the Bee Gees into classical works." He is, simply, a musical prodigy; other than cello and violin, he is unable to name a single instrument he cannot play; from the age of four, he'd spend hours at the piano, encouraged by his mother, who'd sit on the back of the sofa and listen to him tinkle away. Academically, he verges on genius too, achieving top marks at his private school in Bath with very little effort.
Bill Bailey was actually born Mark. A music teacher at school gave him the nickname, due to his ability to play the jazz song "Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey" on the guitar, and it stuck. He was an only child, raised in the town of Keynsham, an unremarkable spot somewhere between Bristol and Bath, by his mum, a nurse, and his dad, a GP, with his maternal grandparents living in an annex of the same house.
In 2005, Bailey's mother died. "That year, and the year after that and I think the year after that, I was in a bit of a daze," he says. "You just think your parents are always going to be there." Even though his mother's cancer was terminal, the shock of her death was still devastating. "Before it happened, I expended so much energy thinking I must be able to sort this out," he recalls. "There was a terrible, slow, drawn-out inevitability to it all." He was locked into doing a show when she passed away. "I look back now," he continues, "and I don't know what the hell I was doing. I was going through the motions, not really engaging in anything."
As a teenager, Bailey says, "I'd gravitated towards people whose family life wasn't as ordered as mine, to those with younger parents, and a more relaxed home environment than my own." His adolescence synchronised with the emergence of punk. "When I was 15, I went to see the Stranglers at Bath Pavilion," he recalls. "I saw Jean-Jacques Burnel take off his bass and whack a skinhead over the head with it because he gave a Nazi salute. I thought: 'This is brilliant!'" Not long after, he joined a band, Behind Closed Doors, and with that, any commitment to school work went out the window. Then came the new-wave era and "appalling memories" of Spandau Ballet and his "short spiky-blond" hair-do. At present, he is planning a final blow-out before total baldness sets in: "A Hoxton mohawk, perhaps."
When he does, Bailey will simply call upon his very nice hairdresser, who visits him at his very large, very grand home, which stands back from an affluent, tree-lined street in Hammersmith. Along with a parrot, a chameleon, an unspecified number of cats, a few fish, two starlings, a guinea-pig, a rabbit and four dogs – three of which he rescued as puppies and had shipped over from their native Indonesia – Bailey also shares his home with his wife, Kristin, and their five-year-old son, Dax. What's it like inside? "It's a one-bedroom flat," he replies, deadpan. "There's straw on the floor and we shuffle around eating pineapple out of tins."
So then, to Bailey's wife, Kristin. The pair met at one of Bill's gigs in 1987. She was running a bar in Edinburgh. He was drawn to her "wild spirit", and pursued his wife-to-be via a daily letter for 12 months before they finally got together in 1988; 10 years later, they married on a whim, in Indonesia. "We were travelling around Asia and sailed into a place called Banda, with a beautiful lagoon, and a smoking volcano on one side and a Dutch colonial fort, an old church and remains of a little town on the other. We decided to get married there and then," he recalls.
Today, Kristin, a former costume designer, handles her husband's business affairs. Until relatively recently, one can't imagine it would have been much of a job. In the late Eighties, Bailey was trudging his not entirely successful stand-up routines up and down the country, performing with the likes of Mark Lamarr to markedly empty comedy clubs. In 1994, he performed the show Rock at the Edinburgh Festival with Sean Lock, with no more success – one night there was only a single face in the audience, that of Dominic Holland, a fellow comedian. At that stage, Bailey says he nearly gave it all up for a career in telesales. And it wasn't for want of trying that this plan failed – after two weeks selling advertising space, he was sacked for refusing to wear a tie.
Before that, Bailey had been something of a drifter. "In my twenties, I floated around for years," he recalls, "doing the odd theatre job but mainly leading a hedonistic lifestyle, getting intoxicated in plenty of different ways in plenty of different places." Ultimately, travel has given him a sense of appreciation for what it is to live in the UK. "Life is cheap in most of the world," he says. "I feel angry about it all the time. In India, a bus goes over a cliff and it's: 'Hey, tough! Never mind!' It makes you value the kind of structured, civilised ways we live our lives in this country."
Today, Bill Bailey is doing rather nicely. Following a breakthrough role, in 2000, in the television sitcom Black Books, alongside Dylan Moran and Tamsin Greig, he had a long-running captaincy on Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Last year he quit the show. Officially, because of a conflict in schedules, although at a recent gig in Bristol, he made a pointed comment about the feckless indie kids who feature in the programme. Now he is in his element, touring his most spectacular gig to date: Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra, which has been "the fulfilment of a life-time ambition". In this, accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra, Bailey celebrates the power of various musical instruments, one by one – at one point describing the role of the oboe through the history of the Emmerdale theme tune. It packed out London's Royal Albert Hall and various venues around the country, and moves to the 02 in Greenwich next week.
When he's not working, Bailey enjoys the simple things, like shopping in TK Maxx, and bird-watching: "As I get older, I have a very strong urge to know about stuff," he says. "I want to learn the names of trees and birds; that's the sort of knowledge I want to pass on to my son." He enjoys spending time with his five-year-old – picking him up from school, taking him to swimming lessons and piano classes. Like his father, Dax – who was named after a child Bill and Kristin met in Indonesia, not the German stock exchange or a hair product or a parasitical worm – has a great affinity with the piano. "I'm ashamed to say, it's without practising either," Bailey adds. "He just turns up and there it is, just as it was for me."
On the rare occasion that he is neither touring nor hanging out with Dax, Bailey might well be found at a Bikram yoga class in nearby Chiswick. A slightly incongruous hobby, which came about thanks to his former personal trainer, "a man who is inordinately clumsy for someone so fit. He was permanently in plaster, having come off his bike or fallen down the stairs or banged his head." All the same, he heeded his trainer's advice and now attends exercise classes in which a group of bodies, largely female, take on a series of contorted positions in a room heated to melting point. Funnily enough, he loves it. "At yoga you get some sense of spiritual space so that people don't intrude," he says. "You can go there and close your eyes and no one will talk to you. People are too worried about not fainting to bother with some bloke who was on the telly."
At several points during our conversation, Bailey brings up his experience with relatively new-found fame. He says he enjoys touring European cities where, unlike here, he can move around largely unnoticed. But he insists that he is still a cult figure. He doesn't want to be seen as part of popular culture, something which can be packaged and sold off. It's an aversion which becomes all-too-apparent when Bailey launches a scathing attack on the supermarket chain Asda, who recently approached him to appear in their advertising campaign.
"What annoyed me about that is that they thought they could just buy my popularity!" he spits, clearly rather cross. "They thought: 'He's a popular guy, people like him. We'll buy that off him and use it to make ourselves look nice and popular and lovely.' It was like: 'What's your price? Here's money. Here's a shit load of money. Here's loads more money!'" So how much did they offer him? "Many hundreds of thousands. They offered me £300,000 on the table there and then. 'Here you go, boom.'" He drops his hand hard on the table. "And I was intrigued. I went: 'Oh, tell me more' – like, never in a million years was I going to do it, but basically, they would have doubled it.
"Part of me thinks I should have taken it and no one would have batted an eyelid, you know?" With that, Bailey lets out a big, heavy sigh, as if the weight of the world has just been dropped on his shoulders. It seems he might collapse back on to the table-top at any moment, and is clearly in need of a big old hug, but then the waiter arrives to remove his empty plate. "Thank you so much," Bailey says, straightening his back, giving his head a swift shake. Without looking up, he dabs a napkin along his upper lip, places it neatly on the table. Finally he lifts his head and smiles. "So that was that."
'Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra' will be at London's 02 on Friday. A DVD recording of the performance is available at billbailey.co.uk
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I am considering Rhinoplasty, but I've heard that it often causes trouble breathing afterwards. Is this true?
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With the advances in rhinoplasty techniques over the past several decades, the goal of any rhinoplasty should be to produce a nose that looks good and functions well. When performed correctly, one should not have to be sacrificed for the sake of the other.
The key is to find an experience rhinoplasty specialist -- a surgeon who devotes a significant percentage of his or her practice to rhinoplasty. There are a handful of surgeons in the US who perform rhinoplasty exclusively.
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The results of rhinoplasty vary a lot, depending on the surgeon. In New York City, we consider breathing problems after a nose job to be a rare and usually avoidable complication. In good hands, you should not have breathing problems.
Nasal congestion may either be immediate or chronic with rhinoplasty / nose job surgery. Most nasal congestion after rhinoplasty surgery is due to normal postoperative swelling. A majority of this internal, as well as external, swelling resolves within a couple weeks. However, it may take a couple months for the final swelling to resolve. Normal crusting inside the nose also keep the breathing down after surgery. It's important to follow the postoperative care instructions of your surgeon.
Long-term nasal congestion after nose job / rhinoplasty surgery is more of a concern, and due to many, many conditions, some of which may not be due to the original surgery. Fortunately, it is uncommon to have long-term nasal breathing difficulty after rhinoplasty. Allergies, nasal polyps, dust exposure, and sinus problems all cause nasal congestion. These nasal breathing problems can be evaluated by an otolaryngologist and treated accordingly.
Turbinate hypertrophy and deviated septum are common potential causes. These conditions are also usually easily treatable.
Lastly, scarring or major alteration in the structure of the nose after rhinoplasty surgery can contribute to breathing problems. Fortunately, this is usually the least common cause of breathing issues following surgery.
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The goal of rhinoplasty surgery should be first to maintain function and second to achieve improved aesthetics. While there are complications of surgery which can produce difficulty breathing, such as a perforated septum or nasal collapse, in general, a well trained and experienced rhinoplasty surgeon should be able to achieve a good cosmetic result in a functioning nose. The presurgical assessment is important to determine if you have any breathing difficulties which may be worsened after surgery. In addition, the surgeon may not be able to achieve all of the cosmetic goals that you want because of functional concerns. Again, speaking with a qualified surgeon is always critical to achieving the best result.
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The goal of rhinoplasty is to improve the aesthetic appearance but also to maintain function. However, sometimes during the early post-operative period some patients complain of difficulty with breathing. This is usually due to swelling which improves in the first few weeks after surgery.
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Although always a concern , this does not seem to be a common problem. I performed hundreds of rhinoplasties, and most of them are designed to reduce size of the nose. Patients are usually not bothered by the change of the nasal airway.
However, if one has breathing problems before nasal surgery, the nasal airway has to be evaluated and septoplasty/turbinate surgery maybe indicated. This is usually combined with cosmetic surgery of the nose. This portion (functional) of this procedure may be covered by insurance .
The short answer is no.
The typical rhinoplasty done in the 1980's or even 1990's relied heavily on reduction of prominent cartilage and bone to achieve a more refined look. Knowledge of the long-term effects of such techniques was spotty and, so, many unfortunate patients were left with the trademark 'operated' appearance of a pinched, droopy, or distorted tip, and scooped-out nasal bridge. These occurred because the newly-weakened structural elements of the nose could no longer provide the necessary support, often leading to breathing trouble.
The forces of healing are dynamic and often operate for several years before these outcomes are evident. So, a postoperative result may look great immediately after surgery, yet evolve into a dismal failure over time. Likewise, collapse of the nose's structural supports will compromise the basic function of the nose, namely breathing.
Modern thoughts on rhinoplasty take a much more conservationist approach. As much as possible, reshaping and contouring are achieved with suture and graft techniques that will usually leave the nose 'stronger' than it was preoperatively.
While many surgeons think of nasal breathing more as an afterthought, those who have an interest and experience in rhinoplasty will assign as much importance to nasal function as to aesthetics. The result, at Profiles Beverly Hills, is that once short-term swelling is resolved, your breathing should be as good or better than before and the changes to your nose should remain 'stable' for a lifetime.
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It's not unusual for patients to have difficulty breathing through their nose following surgery. In most cases, this is related to normal post-operative swelling and resolves quickly. In some cases, crusting and scabbing within the nasal passages may also contribute to this problem.
The problem is often related to the type of procedure performed. For instance, when septal work or large dorsal humps are removed, this problem seems more likely. In the vast majority of cases, breathing difficulty resolves in two to three weeks as swelling resolves. In a small percentage, swelling may persist for four to six weeks following rhinoplasty.
In a small percentage of patients, breathing problems may be permanent and related to structural changes in the nose. When this situation arises, secondary nasal surgery may be necessary.
If you're considering rhinoplasty surgery, consultation with a board certified plastic surgeon with rhinoplasty experience is important. This surgeon should not only focus on your aesthetic result but your functional result as well.
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Glucagon-like peptide-2 (GLP-2) has been shown to promote intestinal epithelial proliferation. We studied crypt cell proliferation, enterocyte cell death, and feeding behavior in GLP-2-treated mice. GLP-2 had no effect on food consumption [7.7 +/- 0.3 vs. 8.0 +/- 0.4 g/day, saline (control) vs. GLP-2-treated mice, P = not significant]; however, GLP-2 increased the crypt cell proliferation rate (46.0 +/- 1 vs. 57 +/- 5%, control vs. GLP-2, P < 0.01) and decreased the enterocyte apoptotic rate (5.9 +/- 0.7 vs. 2.8 +/- 0.2% apoptotic cells, control vs. GLP-2, P < 0.05) in small bowel (SB) epithelium. GLP-2 induced a significant increase in SB weight (1.3- to 1.75-fold increase over control, P < 0.05 to P < 0.001) in mice 1-24 mo of age. Increased SB weight was maintained after daily administration of GLP-2 to mice for 12 wk, and cessation of GLP-2 administration in older mice led to regression of (increased) SB weight and mucosal height. These observations suggest that GLP-2 regulates both cell proliferation and apoptosis and promotes intestinal growth after both short- and long-term administration in vivo. |
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SAN FRANCISCO -- On a lazy morning in the Castro District of downtown, two middle-aged men with shaved heads lean on the front counter at the local Gold's Gym, talking 'roids.
"I took testosterone," says one man, who works there. "Hated it. Made me too pumped up."
The other man, in sweats, laughs just a little. "Oh, that's the least powerful stuff you can take." He explains that he has grown far more muscular using human growth hormone.
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Anderson allegedly told investigators on the day of the raid that he received testosterone and human growth hormone from "AIDS patients in San Francisco who have prescriptions for them." He explained that he was "hooked up" with the drugs from random suppliers.
The statements are contained in a report written and signed by agents for the Internal Revenue Service and San Mateo County Narcotics Task Force shortly after the Sept. 3, 2003 raid on Anderson's house. Anna Ling, one of Anderson's attorneys, claims the memo contains fabrications by investigators, but declined to address whether Anderson has acquired drugs from the AIDS community.
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Steve Kelly, a personal trainer who often works out of a Gold's Gym in San Francisco, estimates that a quarter of his clients are HIV-positive. While he is unaware of anyone who has sold the drugs to bodybuilders, athletes or trainers, he says he can understand why some people would trade their prescriptions for a wad of cash.
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A monthly supply of Serostim runs more than $6,000. States such as California often pick up the costs of the prescription for those who qualify for assistance.
"It's fairly reprehensible that somebody would be preying on a compromised part of the population to feed some million-dollar athlete," Kelly says. "There's probably a special place in hell for somebody like that."
According to investigators, Anderson told them he had given human growth hormone to former San Francisco Giants players Benito Santiago, Armando Rios and Bobby Estalella. They were among what investigators said Anderson called his "little guys," apparently describing clients of lesser notoriety than his boyhood friend Bonds, whose late-career home run surge has placed him within striking distance of baseball's all-time record.
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The attorney for Rios and the agent for Estalella declined comment when reached by ESPN.com. The agent for Santiago did not respond to requests for comment.
Bonds has long denied using performance-enhancing drugs, though his name is often mentioned in the same breath with BALCO, the Bay Area lab at the center of what is becoming one of the biggest drug scandals in sports history.
On Wednesday in San Francisco, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston denied a defense motion to dismiss the case. Anderson and two BALCO executives, founder Victor Conte and vice president James Valente, are among those indicted by a grand jury on charges including drug distribution and money laundering. Each has pleaded not guilty.
Human growth hormone has been used by bodybuilders and athletes since the early 1980s when the only way to acquire it was by grinding up the pituitary glands of human cadavers. HGH, however, was linked to a variant of mad cow disease, which resulted in dementia and death among a statistically significant segment of its users. Its popularity and potential medical applications grew after a genetically engineered form of the hormone was created in 1985.
Athletes often use human growth hormone in tandem with steroids, says Dr. Gary Wadler, who helped the World Anti-Doping Agency determine its list of banned substances.
"Growth hormone causes not only growth of muscle but growth of everything in the body," he says. "Athletes determined to cheat will mix steroids and growth hormones [on the notion] that if the growth hormone makes the muscles bigger, then steroids will make the bigger muscles stronger."
Colin Kelly, a 48-year-old amateur bodybuilder from Hermosa Beach, Calif., says he uses Serostim to help him bulk up his physique. He says he gets the drug from middlemen in the black-market pipeline who buy it from AIDS patients.
"Remember when you were 20 years old and could eat ice cream and cake and stuff, and you never gained any fat? This is what it will do for you," he says. "You can eat all that stuff again. It picks up your metabolism a lot, so you take the stuff and you gain muscle mass and lose body fat without even working out at all. It's incredible.
"It's the fountain of youth in a bottle, so who wouldn't want that?"
Two years ago, West Hollywood (Calif.) mayor John Duran rapidly lost 60 pounds, mostly muscle, because of wasting. Serostim, he says, helped him to get his weight back up to 185 pounds.
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Besides Anderson, Conte and Valente also have been indicted specifically for possessing and intending to distribute human growth hormone for unauthorized purposes. Investigators say they found vials of the drug in the trash at BALCO, and that Valente told them on the day of the raid -- the same day Anderson's house was searched -- that Conte distributed human growth hormone to unnamed professional athletes.
Publicly, Conte has only said he knows athletes who use the substance, but has not supplied it to them. In requesting a search warrant for the BALCO offices, the government cited a 1998 quote from Conte in Testosterone magazine: "I don't condone the use of anabolic steroids or growth hormone. However, I know a number of athletes who use growth hormone, and most of them are reporting tremendous benefits. A few NFL players who have been caught using anabolic steroids have switched to using growth hormone by itself. Some of the older players in their mid-30s are also using growth hormone."
Fraud related to black-market sales of Serostim to bodybuilders has prompted the state of California to enact stricter controls on the distribution of the drug. Along with a doctor's prescription, people with HIV also must get prior approval from the state. Now that Serostim has been linked to Anderson and the BALCO case, some people with HIV fear that further restrictions will be placed on the drug.
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Chrysler has recalled certain 1994-1996 Dodge Ram 1500/2500 models equipped with gasoline engines because the fuel tank mounted rollover valve may allow liquid fuel to leak onto the ground. In the presence of an ignition source, a fuel leak may result in a fire. Dealers will replace the fuel tank rollover valve with a float type rollover valve.
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Chrysler has recalled certain 1997 Dodge Ram 1500/2500 models equipped with Diesel engines because the exhaust pipe may contact or be in close proximity to the outer dash panel silencer pad. If the pipe gets too hot, the pad material may smolder and ignite adjacent materials, which could result in a fire. Dealers will remove the dash silencer pad adjacent to the exhaust pipe and replace it with a thermal heat shield on the exhaust pipe.
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Chrysler has recalled certain 1995-1996 Dodge Ram 1500/2500 models equipped with Diesel engines. Due to the absence of an internal check valve, the vacuum pump may allow engine oil into the vacuum hoses. The oil may cause the hoses to deteriorate and collapse, which would reduce vacuum supply to the brake booster. This may increase the risk of a crash. Dealers will install a vacuum pump check valve and the vacuum hose connected to the vacuum pump will be replaced with a hose that is engine oil resistant.
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What is likely the problem with my horn?
I'm bringing a some what older car (91 Chrysler Lebaron) back to life. My current item on the "To Fix" list is a horn that sounds like it's been castrated. It works but sounds very anemic. I first thought the horn was the problem and traded it for a different horn. That horn pretty much did the same thing.
Do horns have some sort of capacitor built into their design system or something else along those lines that I should be concentrating on rather than the horn it's self? FYI: All parts on the Lebaron are otherwise stock. All input is appreciated. Thanks, Roach
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The battery must be fully charged.
Most cars have (2) horns wired in parallel. One may be bad and affecting the good horn. Disconnect all wires connected to the terminal studs of the horns but leave them mounted in the car for a test to see if they are grounded. With jumper wire connect one end to each horn terminal stud and the other end to the battery + terminal one at a time to see if both horns work. Horns will sound different. One will be the high note and the other a low note. Make sure there is a good ground path to the chassis. If the horns sound OK only other thing that could be problem is the horn relay which is usually located on the fuse block. vicrod |
Thanks for the reply. At this time I've only located one single horn and like the big dummy that I am have pretty much disconnected and destroyed the plug terminal in an attempt to connect the replacement horn that I pulled from the junk yard. I didn't realize that most cars had 2 horns so I'll have to back track and cover that ground as well. I believe I've created a new problem in the mean while. My front passengers side blinker that I just got working a week ago is now out of commision.. . I think from tugging on the brittle wires of this old car. Any how thanks for the response. I have a 12 volt batter charger readily available. Can I test the horns with that to ensure that they're working do you think? At least I can rule out the horns as the problem if that method will work to test the horns. I'll have to look into that relay and take a close look for a second horn. Roach |
If the charger will supply the necessary current (~6A-8A), you can test the horns using it, but it would seem to me to be as easy to use the battery. Ground the horn's bracket to the negative terminal, use a jumper to the positive battery terminal to the horn "+" terminal.
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Well I went and did it now.
After no success with the horn and noticing that my front passengers side signal is no longer working I've noticed that the headlight is way down on brightness. It's working but just barely. I tell ya this car is 2 steps forward and one step back with every thing I get into on it. So now my horn isn't working, my passengers side front signal no longer works, and the passengers side headlight is barely limping along. Roach |
I'll be looking into things over the next couple of days to see if I can figure out what's going on. I'll post my findings once I come up with something. Roach |
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Kanak women and the colonial process
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Title | Kanak women and the colonial process |
Author | Berman, Alan Byron |
Journal Name | International Journal of Law in Context |
Year Published | 2006 |
Place of publication | United Kingdon |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Abstract | Kanaks are the indigenous Melanesian population in New Caledonia. This article explores the experiences unique to Kanak women after colonisation, including the impact of French colonial laws and policies on gender relations in the indigenous community. Kanak women have assumed largely concealed roles in the colonial period. Little literature deals specifically with the impact of French colonisation on Kanak women, possibly reflecting the dominant colonial tendency to discount the historical, cultural, socio-economic and political significance of Kanak women in the colonial era. The French colonisers fortified their control by sharpening and maintaining hierarchical differences based on race, class, gender, sexuality and space between the indigenous peoples and the colonisers. The emphasis on discrete boundaries was reinforced by repressive colonial laws, such as the indigenat, an emblem of colonial control exemplifying collusion between an indigenous patriarchy and the colonial administrators. |
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Copyright Statement | Copyright 2006 Cambridge University Press. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal website for access to the definitive, published version. |
Volume | 2 |
Issue Number | 1 |
Page from | 11 |
Page to | 36 |
Date Accessioned | 2006-06-06 |
Language | en_AU |
Faculty | Griffith Law School |
Subject | Indigenous Law |
URI | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/14048 |
Publication Type | Journal Articles (Refereed Article) |
Publication Type Code | c1 |
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Practice makes near perfect at bedtime
There is a stark difference between my "see ya later" to my camper and other parents' to theirs.
"OK, have fun!" one mom told her son.
"OK, don't pass out," I say to mine.
The mom laughed and said to her son, "I don't want to hear from you until 4:30 pm this time!"
Apparently there was a big ordeal with skates that didn't fit the prior day which caused him to miss some of the camp.
Forgive me for my lack of sympathy, but our day started with a blood sugar of 32 and this week has been an absolute adventure. And not in a "Ooh! Zebras!" sort of way.
Up until Wednesday, I was prepared to say that based upon the minimal glucose tabs consumed and the minimal need for corrections, things were going pretty well. Much has changed since then.
Aside from some random hyperglycemic outliers, it's been all about the lows. Charlie's big container of glucose tabs - that were mostly unused for the first couple of days - were now being devoured like popcorn at the movies.
It seems as if each day, the lows gained steam, like a locomotive. As the week went on, the lows picked up traction despite basal reductions and partially bolused meals.
The Dexcom is amazing but it just can't keep up with real-time plummets. I thought things were cool with Dexcom showing 140, but Charlie was catching lows of 40s and 50s. When I walked back into the rink and picked up a signal of 85 or so, I called Charlie over to tell him he was low. Meanwhile he had already treated himself. I was delivering old news.
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Measurement of two dimensional refractive index profiles of channel waveguides using an interferometric technique
Applied Optics, Vol. 48, Issue 30, pp. 5704-5712 (2009)
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Two dimensional refractive index profiles of ion exchanged channel waveguides in glass have been measured using an interferometric method. In order to obtain depth data, a shallow bevel is produced in the glass by polishing. A regularization algorithm for the extraction of the phase data from the interferometer image is presented. The method is applied to waveguides formed by the electric field assisted diffusion of
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(180.3170) Microscopy : Interference microscopy
(230.7380) Optical devices : Waveguides, channeled
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Revised Manuscript: September 25, 2009
Manuscript Accepted: September 25, 2009
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R. Oven, "Measurement of two dimensional refractive index profiles of channel waveguides using an interferometric technique," Appl. Opt. 48, 5704-5712 (2009)
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