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Tyre choice is ballcocks. Hit a wet root wrong and I don't care what tyre you've got on. I love the idiot advice about clearing one root. Most often there's a series of them in varying directions. Get the front over one and yes the back may follow until you hit the next.
If tyre choice is so important, how is it I know several CX riders who run near slicks over the whole winter?
You either get it or you don't.
As said previously, your biggest problem is fear. That's not anything you'll get help with here, you have to sort it yourself.
Also, ignore additional idiot advice to go faster. Speed is never your friend if you're low on skill. The faster you go, the more it will hurt if something goes wrong.
Steady with confidence, light and positive. Look at the way in and then the way out. Never look at something you're trying to avoid... You'll hit it! Practice again and again.
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I do wonder about tyre and tyre pressure choices - if the root is smooth and wet surely this is akin to what tyre for ice
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Tyre choice is ballcocks. Hit a wet root wrong and I don't care what tyre you've got on.
It's not bollocks at all. Wet roots are one of the most difficult things for tyres, and the type of rubber has a significant effect.
You talk as if I've never ridden wet roots in 20 years of MTBing. I wish that were the case I've ridden a lot of roots, with a lot of different tyres, and it makes a difference. As to why CX riders run slicks, well I have no idea. They're weirdos. Perhaps it's because they like to run carrying their bike.
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In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln called a nation divided by war to join together in a time of corporate thanksgiving and repentance when he proclaimed that Americans "set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens."
Lincoln went on to recommend they offer up "the ascriptions justly due" to God "for such singular deliverances and blessings…with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience…and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union."
And a national Thanksgiving Day was birthed, wherein those having much, little, or in-between, gather around the table with loved ones, friends and maybe even Fido (hopefully underneath), to carry on this great American tradition.
As the old hymn goes, we have much to praise the "God from whom all blessings flow."
America has problems. Even still, the good in her outweighs the bad - thanks to those who understand from whom their blessings come, and then pay it forward to those in need. A thankful heart is also a giving heart.
Sadly, also among us are those who are frozen in time and fail to see the bountiful blessings flowing all around them.
In an Alternet.com article, "No Thanks to Thanksgiving," University of Texas Professor Robert Jensen wrote that America should replace Thanksgiving Day with "a National Day of Atonement accompanied by a self-reflective collective fasting" because "it is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous population) celebrates the beginning of a genocide that was, in fact, blessed by the men we hold up as our heroic founding fathers."
Those beholden to this kind of thinking will never attain a spirit of thanksgiving until they make the intentional decision to forgive the sins of our fathers, and theirs - by letting go of a past for which they have no ability to effect. Only then will they understand the art of gratefulness the way today's Native Americans do.
Writing in the Huffington Post on 11/24/10, Tim Giago, founder of the Native American Journalists Foundation, was quoted, "But the day known as Thanksgiving has been accepted as a legal holiday by most Native Americans because the idea of a day to give thanks is such a strong part of their traditions and culture."
Besides Thanksgiving, Giago says events like a child's safe return from the wars in "Iraq or Afghanistan is an occasion for a 'wopilla' [Thanksgiving] celebration."
With Native Americans leading the way, it seems people like Jensen could…ahem...cough up a little thankfulness…on this day set aside to do just that.
But some never will. In addition to those stuck in the past, misguided Constitutional revisionists clinging to the misnomer that "the separation of church and state" is in the Constitution, want to cancel national holidays like Christmas and Thanksgiving.
The First Amendment's "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion…" simply stated means the state should stay out of the church's business. Revisionists fail to include facts like the wording "separation of church and state" actually came from the insights of Roger Williams, not Thomas Jefferson, according to Yale professor Stephen Carter.
So it was completely okay, acceptable even, for President Lincoln to ask Americans to join together in a day to offer up prayers of thanksgiving and repentance for the sins we've committed as a nation.
May we do the same this year, as we gather together this blessed Thanksgiving 2013.
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Genre: children, paranormal, ghost story
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"Go on, Buttercup - go get it boy!"
Acquired: Received a review copy from Macmillan for Kids.
Reason for Reading: Next in the series.
Riley and her guide, Bodhi, are enjoying a vacation after their first mission of leading a soul home in book 1. While playing with her own dog, Buttercup, she comes across a Hellhound and is determined to find it and send it home but what she finds is much more than she expected. She meets the ghost Rebecca, who is very angry for having been murdered during a slave revolt in the early 1700's. She has created a bubble in which she has captured all the other souls who died after her where each one relives there most frightening moment during life over and over. Against Bodhi's wishes, Riley uses her own free will to take on this monumental mission of sending home all the ghosts trapped here by Rebecca, but can she do it without becoming trapped herself?
I think I enjoyed this second book in the series even more than the first! A very quick page-turning afternoon's read for me. I really like both Riley and Bodhi as main characters and even though they are at odds much of the time in their teacher/student relationship I find myself agreeing with each one's point of view. When not paying attention to their official relationship they have managed in this book to become somewhat closer to each other as people, not exactly friends yet, but they've seen a side of each other they hadn't known about before and now they must get over there own stubbornness. The story did get a bit gruesome with some of the depictions of the treatment of slaves and there was one source of torture that the author seems to have fixated on and repeatedly mentions; when just the once was plenty barbaric enough to lay uncomfortably in the reader's mind. It is a good ghost story; Rebecca is an evil ghost who is also caught in her own trap without realising it. When we learn the full story of her death it is supposed to redeem her in the reader's eyes but I wasn't going to let her off quite so easily! Lots of fun! Readers of the first book will enjoy this second adventure. My only real complaint is the cliffhanger ending where the characters literally walk through a door. The End. I prefer my books to end with a satisfactory conclusion even when they are parts of a series.


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Love to sleep and require motivation to do much else. They usually have a specified keeper to order them around. They are good listeners
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Usually between 5 and 6 feet tall with hunched shoulders and weighing between 120 and 200 pounds. Their eyes can be almost any color but always have a dull glazed look to them. They have light to dark brown short fur and a short stubby tail.
Being easily controlled they get along with most races
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Common Sylvan and can speak with animals
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- Glazed Eyes: Because of a Slerriths eyes they are immune to sight altering effects such as darkness and blinding effects. Slerriths also have dark vision 300ft and low light vision 4x
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Draft and LB
: 9/20/2013 1:41 pm
Since so many on BBI criticize the LB and say Reese does not draft any, I went back to see where the Giants drafted and they missed out on looking at the first 3 rounds of 07-11 drafts.
2007 - Ross - 20th: Beason 25, Spencer 26, Pozluzny 34, Harris 47, Durant 48
Smith - 51: Black 68, Davis 69
Alford - 81: Bradley 87, Okwo 94, waters 96
There was no debate that NY was going to take CB. Beason, Spencer & Harris are good LB. None of the others did anything
2008 - Philips - 31: Lofton 37, Dizon 45
Thomas - 63: Gooden 72, Crable 78, Wheeler 93
Manningham last pick in rd 3
Lofton is the only guy playing and Atlanta did not resign him
2009 - Nicks - 29: Laurenaitis 35, Maueluga 38, Sintim 45
Beatty - 60: Williams 69, Levy 76
Barden - 85: Mckenzie 97
After the Sintim pick, no LB were drafted until williams - he and Mckenzie are on their 4th teams
2010 - JPP - 15: Weatherspoon 19
Joseph - 46: Washington 47, Lee 55, Spikes 62, Angerer 63
Jones - 76: Butler 79, Bowmann 91, Curran 98
Linval is a very good DT, Lee had all sorts of injury questions. Bowmann the NFL missed on
2011 - Prince - 19: Ayers 39, Carter 40
Austin - 52: Mouton 61, Moch 66, Irving 67, Sheppard 68, Wilson 72
Jernigan - 83: Foster 84, Dent 91
While we can debate the Austin pick, those 5 LB picked after him are not exactly lighting it up. 3 of them do not play. The 2 guys after Jernigan are better
The point of this is - the best LB are picked very early in the draft and the Giants have hardly been in a situation where quality LB were available. The guys after LinJo are good, but so is he and at a position generally difficult to find good players.
Based upon this, you are relying on late round picks or FA players. This shows there are not a lot of LB coming from college
Mason Foster would be a big upgrade
: 9/20/2013 1:46 pm :
And you don't include '12, missing out on Lavonte David, Bobby Wagner and Zach Brown.
As for "everyone knew we were taking a corner," not everyone knew that, and that's not how they draft (or so I'm always told). BPA. Beason was, and is, a better player than Ross.
faulty reasoning
: 9/20/2013 1:49 pm :
because you're assuming those players picked would have performed exactly same in this situation as they would in another or their current position.
: 9/20/2013 1:53 pm :
2012 - Wilson was picked 32. Wagner was picked 15 spots later. You are going bitch that they should have reached for Wagner. David was a 220lb LB coming out of Nebraska - there were major questions he could play LB in the NFL - he has done it. He was picked 58th. After Randle picked, Demarrio Davis and Shaun Spence
You can debate all you want, there was a 100% certainty that the Giants were taking the CB in 2007 based upon the CB entering that season. They did not have a choice but to get new talent.
nah, better to trade up to get a backup QB ;)
Victor in CT
: 9/20/2013 1:55 pm :
Yes, Stretch I understand
: 9/20/2013 1:57 pm :
Reese can do no wrong and linebackers always perform better on other teams than they would have on the Giants.
Think the Giants used to actually put forth some effort
: 9/20/2013 1:57 pm :
when it came to the linebacker position.Whether it be in Free Agency or the Draft.
Now it seems that is no longer the case.It's like the more complaining people do the worse our linebackers get.
: 9/20/2013 2:00 pm :
Daryl washington is nasty.
: 9/20/2013 2:03 pm :
Where did I say that. Clearly the players picked after Jernigan are better. You can debate the DT vs LB pick.
You want to say he erred with Austin and Sintim - I totally agree. When it comes to the LB, the point is there are not many at the times the Giants are picking
There have always been options, if not through the draft then
Curtis in VA
: 9/20/2013 2:16 pm :
free agency. The Giants continue to pass on them.
There are an insanely high amount
: 9/20/2013 2:30 pm :
of logical fallacies presented in the thread. The entire argument is stupid
My main beef with the way the Giants handle the LB position
: 9/20/2013 2:30 pm :
Stop drafting 3-4 LB and 4-3 ends and try to make them 4-3 LBs..... How about drafting 4-3 LB, even if they are not 6'3" and 250. There a good bunch on smaller LB that can fly and hit.
Fair point
: 9/20/2013 2:32 pm :
While you make a good point, the first year of your analysis is probably the best opportunity Big Blue has had to add a very good LB; especially early on in the draft. They have always gone BPA and made fairly good picks. The only year I wanted to "reach" (and I use that loosely) on a LB was with Spoon. But obviously, JPP has more than made up for that pick.
But back to 07, had we taken Revis then the discussion is moot. But that year I wanted Beason more than any other DB. He has proven to be everything our LBs haven't been. Ross has been decent, but I think his production could have been had by other means had they drafted Beason.
Overall, they need to scrap their draft philosophy when it comes to LBs.
For better or worse...
Jan in DC
: 9/20/2013 2:42 pm :
I think you've seen the front office devalue certain positions in terms of draft pick value. Interior offensive line and Linebackers. I think the Giants have LBs devalued because of the emphasis that the league has on 3 WR and spread formations.
I think the devalue of interior OL has come from the fact that Eli has a great pocket presence.
Personally, I feel like if you neglect something for long enough, it catches up to you.
Giants no longer elite at DE
Steve in South Jersey
: 9/20/2013 2:48 pm :
I would like them to start loading up on LB with the thought of switching to a 3-4 defense in 2015. They are loaded with DT's now that may be able to play 3-4 DE and 3-4 NT. A 3-4 defense would work better against these read option offenses.
Perhaps we on BBI are looking at this too narrowly.
: 9/20/2013 2:52 pm :
How about this scenario:
"Poor LB drafting plus lousy Def. Coord. equals big problems."
Would we have two SB's
: 9/20/2013 4:30 pm :
without Ross?
Would we have two SB's
: 9/20/2013 4:30 pm :
without Ross?
I had to jump back into this,
: 9/20/2013 4:34 pm :
because I know a few guys would take it the wrong way....this was not a dominant team.....you take away any piece, like Strahan, Tuck, Osi in the first SB run or Mario, Bradshaw, Tuck, Webster, etc in the other, and do we win?
I had to jump back into this,
: 9/20/2013 4:34 pm :
because I know a few guys would take it the wrong way....this was not a dominant team.....you take away any piece, like Strahan, Tuck, Osi in the first SB run or Mario, Bradshaw, Tuck, Webster, etc in the other, and do we win?
: 9/20/2013 4:35 pm :
All these arguments point to the need to switch to 3-4
: 9/20/2013 6:17 pm :
With the way the players are used in college, and the way they fit into the NFL, the 3-4 defense is easier to find players for.
4-3 linebackers are nearly impossible to find.
: 9/20/2013 6:34 pm :
Go back to EA. Kiwi over
: 9/20/2013 7:31 pm :
DeMeco Ryans was a miss. Add to that trading up for Moss and giving up the pick they got when they traded down.
Giants need a MLB and EA went for a DE. It happens but Ryans was. Very good to great LB Until injury. Kiwi has never been anything other than average.
"4-3 linebackers are nearly impossible to find"
: 9/20/2013 8:38 pm :
They are if you're not looking.
: 9/20/2013 9:25 pm :
Didn't the Giants have Antonio Pierce as the MLB when they drafted Kiwi
Hmm we have a Tamper 2 defense
: 9/21/2013 1:57 am :
where LBs are the straw that stirs the drink. Yet we refuse to draft or pickup a LB that fits that system. Hmmmmm...
: 9/21/2013 7:26 am :
Should of been drafted in 2007 bottom line. Ross stinks
Stretch,yeah they had Piece but
: 9/21/2013 7:29 am :
Ryans could have played Anotherostipn and wouldn't have had to start right away. They had Osi and Strahan when they drafted Kiwi. Both a lot better than Pierce.
You could argue that after Pierces first tow years his play declined pretty rapidly. He was a smart tough player but he became a lability pretty quickly.
Calculate rounds 4-7
: 9/21/2013 8:14 am :
and let me know what you come up with, I like playing what if.
The Salary Cap
: 9/21/2013 11:22 am :
Teams have a philosophy they live or die with.
They have to put a premium on the positions they believe will get the most bang for the buck.
The Giants obviously highly value QB, WR, DE and DT.
Next the DBs.
If there was magically extra cap money for the Giants to spend, don't you think they'd upgrade what they feel are the lesser rated positions?
You have to do the best you can with what you have. An upgrade at LB would probably mean a downgrade at another important position.
Maybe the solution is to cut Eli, promote Nassib and sign the finest 3 free agent LB this off season?
Cut Eli?
: 9/21/2013 11:58 am :
Can we at least trade him?
The Salary cap is a bogus excuse
: 9/21/2013 3:09 pm :
They've had problems at LB for years. Way before Manning signed his extension.


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Very sorry to hear that she's passed away. Saw her interviewed on TV a few years ago — she was a lovely lady.
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Saturday, April 17, 2010
Cover Story: The Art of John Picacio
The evidence is all gathered right between the covers of Cover Story. I hate to repeat the old cliche about the picture and the thousand words, but it fits here. Just open the pages and take a look. I don't have to say any more.
But I will, of course. There's more than just pictures here. You also get Picacio's comments on the pictures. Here's an artist who loves what he does and who loves to talk about it. He's also a reader who loves the stories and novels he illustrates. The book closes with a substantial interview with Picacio from 2005.
The book's several years old now, but it's still available. If you like SF art and don't have a copy of Cover Story, grab one soon.
8 comments:
- George said...
No, I don't have this book, but I'm ordering it RIGHT NOW! It looks great! Woe be the guy that gets between you and some Gold Medals!
I'm still trying to picture you outmuscling Joe Lansdale.
Does not compute.
Jeff - 10:22 AM
- Rick Klaw said...
I remember that dark day.
And he didn't exactly outmuscle Joe. It was more of Bill being a crafty old codger.
We all entered the store and started looking around, when suddenly we realized that Bill was nowhere to be seen.
When we found him, he was quietly sitting on the floor, going through a selection of Gold Medals that were all priced at HALF COVER. When he heard us coming over, he spread out his arms covering the shelves and greedily claiming all the books for himself.
Joe respects OLD men so he let him be. I was tempted to kick Bill in the shin.
PS Cover Story is an amazing book. - 10:32 AM
Trust me, Bill outmuscled Joe. I have scars from other trips that were just as violent.
- Richard R. said...
Has anyone seen this book on the remainder shelves?
- TruTV Re-enactment said...
JL: Hey, Bill, whatcha go--are those 1950s Gold Medals?
BC: [Earthshaking roar]. [Normal voice:] I'm sorry, Joe, what did you say?
JL: [Having fallen into conditioned response into defensive position, while jerking head from side to side to clear tinnitus:] Have you found a stash of Gold Medals?
BC: [While standing, striding forward, picking up the still-defensively postured Landsdale and tossing him with one hand twenty feet down the aisle before Lansdale has time to react] Why, yes, Joe, I believe I have. [Crider sits back down with a dead-eyed look at the other assembled daytrippers, who do not move.]
JL: [Standing with only slight difficulty and attempting to act as casually as possible under the circumstances] Ah, I see. I think we'll all go look over Here at the Other Books.
[The silence is broken only by quiet, careful steps of the others as Crider carefully sorts through the vintage paperbacks.] - 5:21 PM
- Bill Crider said...
An absolutely accurate account!
- Rick Klaw said...
Richard R. said...
Has anyone seen this book on the remainder shelves?
Nope. I don't think it's been remaindered.
It's definitely worth paying full price for. - 11:24 PM


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Felice Anerio
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"Anerio" redirects here. You may be looking for Giovanni Francesco Anerio. See also the disambiguation page for Anerio.
Born: 1560
Died: 27 September 1614
Felice Anerio was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, and a member of the Roman School of composers. He was the older brother of another important, and somewhat more progressive, composer of the same period, Giovanni Francesco Anerio.
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List of choral works
Sacred music
Secular music
- Al suon di corna musa
- Al suon non posa
- Donna sel cor legasti
- Fiamme che da begli occhi
- Mentre il mio miser core
- Mio cor se vera sei Salamandra
- Temo ch'altri si goda
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- Madrigali spirituali … libro primo, 5vv (Rome, 1585)
- Madrigali spirituali … secondo libro, 5vv (Rome, 1585)
- Sacri hymni, et cantica … liber primus, 8vv (Venice, 1596)
- Sacri hymni et cantica … liber secundus, 5, 6, 8vv (Rome, 1602)
- Responsoria ad lectiones divini officii feriae quartae, quintae, et sextae sanctae hebdomadae, 4vv (Rome, 1606)
- Canzonette … libro primo, 4vv (Venice, 1586)
- Il primo libro de madrigali, 5, 8vv (Venice, 1587)
- Primo libro de madrigali, 6vv (Venice, 1590)
- Madrigali, 3vv (Venice, 1598)
- Madrigali, libro secondo, 6vv (Rome, 1602)
Together with Francesco Soriano, Anerio also edited the so-called 'Medician Gradual'
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A record number of students will graduate from Ivy Tech Community College this year.
More than 20,000 credentials will be awarded to students at 14 Indiana sites this week and next. It's the first time the number of graduates passed the 20,000 mark.
Graduation rates at the school have been climbing for years. The college reports 22 percent more students graduated this year compared to last. Over the last four years, the total number of credentials awarded has increased by 67 percent
Nearly 200,000 students attend Ivy Tech each year.
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The world's remaining tigers are clustered in just a few dozen small areas that could serve as source populations for a recovery, but only if resources are in place to keep poachers out.
Tigers have been driven to the brink of extinction, primarily by poaching for pelts, body parts and live trade, as well as by habitat loss. It is estimated that fewer than 3,500 tigers remain in the wild, of which about 1,000 are breeding females. They occupy only 6 percent of their historical range.
"A lot of effort has been focused on distributing efforts across a broad range, but we need to make sure that these source sites are absolutely protected from poaching, rather than spreading resources too thin," said Wildlife Conservation Society Asia director Joe Walston, lead author of the study in PLoS Biology September 14.
The researchers identified 42 key tiger habitats through interviews with about 300 people working on tiger conservation on the ground, as well as by analyzing the published material on tiger populations, Walston said.
"If we don't do what's in this paper than we have nothing. But we have to do much more than that," said World Wildlife Fund scientist Eric Dinerstein, who has done work on tigers but was not involved in this study.
"There is no reserve today that is big enough to maintain a genetically viable population of tigers," he said. "We either need whopping big preserves, which is nearly impossible, or we need to manage tigers as a metapopulation — one big population that is linked by dispersal and habitat corridors."
Maintaining continuous habitat corridors of forest is critical for keeping tiger populations interacting, since tigers rarely cross even a one or two mile forest gap, Dinerstein said. He added that the World Bank estimates 500 billion dollars per year will be spent building new infrastructure and roads in the tiger range over the next ten years. If governments wait to protect connecting forest corridors, they'll soon be gone.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has organized a Tiger Summit for November where leaders of all countries with tiger habitat are expected to gather. Both Walston and Dinerstein hope this study will serve as a road map for guiding tiger conservation efforts set forward at the meeting.
The study estimates it it will require an additional $35 million a year to increase monitoring and enforcement efforts at the key habitat areas to enable tiger numbers to double over the next several years.
"Although the scale of the problem is huge, the complexity is not," Walston said. "We're really providing a demonstrably effective way of reversing the decline of the tiger. We're taking lessons from where conservation has been going well and where it has not been going well."
Tiger populations can rebuild quickly since they have litters of up to four or five cubs every year. As long as they are given space, food and continued protection from poaching over the long term, they will have a fast recovery, Dinerstein said.
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MILAN (AP) — An Italian newspaper reports that a court has more than cut in half the alimony ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi must pay to his second wife, Veronica Lario.
Corriere della Sera reported Tuesday that a civil tribunal in the Milan suburb of Monza set the payments at 1.4 million euros ($1.9 million) a month, citing an order issued this summer. The court said Berlusconi opened divorce proceedings in Monza.
A court in Milan deliberating the couple's legal separation, a separate procedure, previously awarded Lario 3 million euros a month.
Lario announced she was divorcing the billionaire media mogul in 2009, citing his fondness for younger women. The couple married in 1990, and have three grown children. He has two children from his first marriage.
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Love the jacket!
It is funny to put on regular jeans when you are so used to skinny jeans. I feel like I am being really lazy even when I dress them up with heels.
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sorry if this is a stupid question, does ammunition go bad?
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If the ammo is kept in a dry place, it can have a life span of fifty or more years.
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i have some ammo my grandfather had in hawaii when the japanese attacked pearl harbor.
Its an old 32 cal pistol with ammo I fired one round and it worked flawlessly. That said I had found some shotgun shells in an old shed and only got one to fire out of 12. Its possible they soaked up moisture being in a cardboard box laying on the ground. Depends on how you store it I would say. but stored properly it should last much longer than 10 years with no problem. |
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I have heard of ammo being brought up from sunken ships still working many years later. Ammo is about the most durable item you can stock aside from blocks of granite.
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When I was a kid in the 80's I shot up fouro cases of paper 28ga shells from the 50's....
I've hunted with and have ammo that dates back to the 70's and 80's in my storage boxes right now. It's amazing how reliable ammo is... On another note a Friend of mine come in with some Egyptian 9mm 1000 rounds back in the early 90's I don't know what date it was, but it was crap. Sometimes dropping the hammer 2, 3, 4 or 6 times would get it to fire. sometimes it just ended up tossed...We still had fun shooting the stuff |
I hate to tell you this . . but some types of ammo go bad very quickly. This would be 7.62x39, .45ACP, and .22LR especially. They all expire on April 1st.
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Properly stored?
-put ammunition in a sealed bag and then put it in a sealed box. I use 50 cal ammo cans from the suplus store. Use a dollar bill to check the tightness of the seal. If the closed box tighly hold a dollar bill on the middle of the sides when closed, it's good. -Put a moisture absorbent in there. Poor man's dessicant is recently purchased rice. For the price of stuff, just buy dessicant. Gun catalogs like midway have them. Some gun shops have them too. -Keep it in a temperature controlled area. Like a upstairs room. Attics, unheated garages, and other places where it can cook ro freeze make it go bad quicker. -Keep handling and vibration to a minimum. The more it moves, rattles, or shakes the more the gun powder breaks into finer particles and the better chance of fractures in the primer material. -Rotate ammunition. Keeping ammo dormant for ten years is bad. IF you think you need 10,000 rounds, you're wrong. You really need to shoot that much for the time you only need a full magazine. Make your practice count. Shoulder the gun for every shot, do minimal bench shooting, and dry fire practice if you can't get to the range often. |
The old saw, "Store it in a cool, dry, place", really does apply.
Kept cool and dry and free of contaminants (oil), ammo loaded prior to the turn of the 20th century is still viable. Not recommended as it's going to be corrosive and collectible. I've fired original Sharps ammo that was paper patched and over a hundred years old, (not much but still) and plenty of ammo from WWI and WWII and had good luck with them. At the same time, I've had bad lots of ammo also, some were stored improperly over their lives, make several ocean crossings in ships where the ammo was subjected to the rocking motion repeatedly and the powder broke down. Both looked great but one was unbelievably clumped (heat) and the other it turned to a fine powder and would be completely unsafe to fire, causing horrifically high pressures. Modern ammo (non-clean fire) that still used Lead-Styphnate for the priming compound is about as sure-fire as you're going to get. Daily carry ammo should be rotated every year because of powder breakdown issues, vehicle stored ammo definitely this often, every 6 months is preferred depending on heat/vibration amounts. YMMV |
I'm using 30 year old 7.62x54r ammo in my m44 still kicks like a mule and does the job.
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"The most challenging thing about being a mother is teaching them right from wrong, making sure they treat people with respect, that they grow up right. The most rewarding thing is the love they give you."
The birth of any child is a miraculous wonder but Holly Barker's 21/2-year-old daughter Lee took the scenic route getting here.
Holly and her husband, Richard, already had a son, Marc, 15, but they longed for a second child. They were having trouble conceiving another child, so Holly turned to divine help for an answer.
After much prayer, one day while she was home alone, she got one.
"I heard a voice, plain as day saying, 'your daughter is in China,'" Holly said. "I know it was God's voice."
It took her a year to convince her husband to adopt a little girl from China, she said. He had concerns about finances and buying a bigger house. But he eventually heard the same voice and the couple began the painstaking task of completing the paperwork through Christian World Adoption. In June 2004, they learned that they had a healthy 10-month-old girl waiting for them in Zhezang province near the China coast.
Eight weeks later, the couple and Marc were on a plane to get the little girl they named Lee. The day the family arrived at the child welfare center in Hang Zhou City to get Lee is one she will never forget, Holly said.
"They placed her in my arms and she grabbed hold of me just as tight as she could and that was it. She was ours," she said. "There were so many emotions flooding over me, I was almost in disbelief, asking myself 'Is she really here?' and 'Oh my gosh, she is beautiful.'"
Nearly two years after bringing Lee home, she is an integral part of the family. She gets along well with her older brother, a freshman at North Henderson High.
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We were brave souls who went out not once, but twice with bookoos of people to take family pictures on the beach.
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Love my boys!
Pa and Ma'am (Hubs parents) with all their grandbabies.
I'm thinking of putting this one on a canvas.
The whole gang. Hubs oldest sister, her hubs and their 3 kids, hubs youngest sister, hubs parents, us, and hubs younger sister and her husband.
The gang for the second part of the week, adding in hubs youngest sister's fiance.
Kisses for baby brother!
A little love for our new family member. Can't wait for him to get here!
I have 1090 pics in my "Beach 2011" folder, so there will be more to come for sure!
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Haven't been on in awhile, and what beautiful pictures to return to. Where were these taken? I miss the beach so much. After living on one in the Philippines for three years, it kinda spoiled me. So glad to see you are doing well! Hoping I am on again before you give birth but if not, best wishes!
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How can we improve our work with our grantees and partners?
At the foundation's recent convening in Seattle of Family Health (maternal, newborn & child health, nutrition and family planning) grantees and partners, Achieving Lasting Impact at Scale , our discussion focused on, among other things, innovative approaches to spreading life-saving family health behavior change and products in low-resource communities.
But in order to achieve lasting impact in these regions of the world, it's equally as important that we work optimally with grantees and partners, with those organizations doing the work "on the ground." So, we asked the following questions: What are we doing well in our communications and interactions with our grantees and partners? What should we stop doing? What should we start doing more of?
Our grantees and partners responded through a survey and focus group discussions. We have analyzed the results and compared them to what we heard previously in a number of phone calls with grantees about a year ago. Based on those calls, we put some things into action to respond to what we heard then.
Now, the questions are: How are we doing? Where are we improving and where do we need to focus additional attention?
I want all of our grantees and partners to know that I greatly appreciate your feedback around our strengths in building grantee partnerships and particularly around the areas that are still a challenge for us.
Our relationships with you tell the story on how effective we're going to be, and we want to make sure that these relationships are as strong as possible. I want to reiterate what Greg Shaw, the foundation's Senior Advisor for Strategic Partnerships, told grantees and partners on December 15 : we are committed to making an effort to strengthen our partnership with you.
I'm sharing what we heard from you during the convening in an effort to hold ourselves accountable, and ask you to help us to make our commitments a reality.
The Family Health team, the groups at the foundation working on maternal, newborn & child health, nutrition and family planning recently changed some things in our processes and templates for proposal development to make them more transparent and manageable.
For example, we now organize a call with potential grantees during the proposal development process to go over and answer questions about the forms. Grantees, you told us that you noticed these changes and that they have been helpful.
Even though some templates (such as the budget) are still not as user-friendly as they could be, your feedback indicates that my team is at least more responsive than a year ago in helping you to understanding and work through those templates.
I'm also happy to hear that our grantees appreciate the depth of technical knowledge of our Family Health staff and appreciate the responsive, approachable, flexible and respectful interactions that you have with them. This really means a lot to me. I am very proud of the team and am happy to know that grantees see the value they bring to our partnerships.
Grantees, you told us that you like it when we bring you together to network and learn from each other, and wish that we did more of this, and did more to share what we are learning. I have heard this point consistently, and we are striving to bring you all together earlier in our thinking and in the development of our strategies and initiatives.
We plan to engage you in these ways a lot more going forward. Our recent Seattle convening Achieving Lasting Impact at Scale is one example.
Of course, when every feedback loop is opened, 'pain points' are also highlighted. There are important areas of grantee partnerships that we need to improve.
We heard that we need to set realistic goals during proposal development with accurate expectations of what can actually get done through any particular grant. And along with that, we need to set appropriate expectations for our level of engagement with you during the implementation phase and have enough staff capacity to meet engagement expectations.
I heard you say that we tend to micro-manage during the grant proposal process without setting clear expectations or giving a clear context of how decisions are made or why more information is requested. I need to do some further assessment on this issue with my team in order to pinpoint just what is behind this issue and devise feasible and effective solutions.
You also said there is not enough clarity on what foundation priorities are and how priority shifts affect grantee goals. We are in the midst of a major re-imagining and re-design of the foundation. But while foundation organizational structures may change, we do not anticipate significant changes in our strategic priorities at this time.You asked for a communication channel to pose questions or voice comments, or raise issues with a foundation staff member beyond your program officer. That would be me!
You also asked for more opportunities to connect with each other and not necessarily with the foundation at the center. You requested more support for grantee organizational and institutional capacity and want feedback on foundation reports and information on changes in strategies on a more timely basis.
And finally, you asked us for feedback on how you and other grantees are doing, highlighting successful programs or grantee stories, as well as to provide opportunities to learn from failures.
I can't say I have the solution to all of these 'pain points' today. But I do know that your responses are the first step in determining our actions to improving our work together.
We are reflecting on your feedback to identify concrete steps to respond to your concerns. I will get back to you over the coming months to continue the conversation - with our thoughts on how to address these issues.
I invite each and every one of you to continue to challenge our thinking.
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Your thoughts and feedback are greatly appreciated. Please keep the comments coming. Send me a note anytime at email@example.com and let me know how we can continue to do better in our work with you to create impact for women and children in low resource settings around the world.
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Lester headed home Ishmel Demontagnac's cross midway through the second half and then gathered a loose ball to fire home in the box 10 minutes later.
Prior to his double, the struggling home side had dominated and deserved their advantage.
Grimsby hit the woodwork early on, Michael Coulson's fizzing low free-kick beating the wall and a standing Tommy Lee in the Chesterfield goal before coming back off the crossbar.
But Lee was beaten when Tommy Wright collected Dean Sinclair's neat pass to slot home the opener after 28 minutes.
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Oddly-shaped (but quite appealing) DM bass guitar
I'm not aware of the guitar brand "DM" but according to the seller of this DM Bass it's a "cheaply made Chinese instrument". I can imagine that the bold body shape is not for everyone, but personally I quite like it.
The bass sold on eBay recently for £115.
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I always like it when the neck and head are rather big, proportionally. For instance a baritone Jaguar is in my eyes better looking than a normal Jaguar guitar. This bass definitely makes that happen.
On another note, I think it would be a great idea for all posts reffering to an online auction, to add the selling price. Sometimes when I read an old post and the auction is long gone, I really wonder how much it went for.
KalleRepliesI have been including online auction/Buy It Now prices for the last couple of years now. Older entries in the archive won't have them - it didn't occur to me at the time - but I now think it's important to include prices so as to give the idea of a guitar's worth (or perceived worth) bearing in mind that this blog will become an archive of guitar informatmation in years to come. Unfortunately I rarely have the time to go back and check the finished auctions and see what guitars ACTUALLY sold for.


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The class-action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on Feb. 23, 2012. It alleges that SAIC's failure to disclose the possible overbilling issue in relation to CityTime made its statements to investors false or misleading in violation of the federal securities laws. ~Hagens Berman Press Release
The contract to build a computerized timekeeping system for the city was taken over by SAIC in 2000. Somewhere along the way, the project degenerated into a massive kickback and bill-padding scheme that has cost the city more than $650 million. The scandal has already brought down two high-ranking former SAIC employees, project manager Gerard Denault, who is charged with receiving at least $5 million in kickbacks, and chief engineer Carl Bell, who pleaded guilty in June 2011 to fraud and money laundering. It also prompted SAIC to fire three key executives last fall.~Big Trouble in the Big Apple… Neil Gordon, POGO
Largest Known Single Recovery in a State or Municipal Contract Fraud Case Forfeiture Action Also Filed Against Assets of Technodyne and Its Principals, Padma and Reddy Allen
(DoJ) – March 14, 2012 – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Rose Gill Hearn, the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation ("DOI"), announced today that the Office has entered into a deferred prosecution agreement ("DPA") with Science Applications International Corporation ("SAIC"), a Fortune 500 scientific, engineering and technology applications company with approximately 41,000 employees worldwide. SAIC is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange and 93% of its business is generated by government contracts. The DPA resolves the Government's investigation of SAIC's conduct relating to the CityTime project, a timekeeping and payroll system modernization project undertaken by the City of New York (the "City") for which SAIC served as the lead contractor.
The Government's investigation of conduct by others continues. Under the agreement, SAIC will forfeit a total of $500,392,977 to the Department of Justice, and forgive more than $40 million still owed by the City to SAIC in connection with the CityTime Project. In a Statement of Responsibility (the "Statement") that was part of the agreement, SAIC acknowledged that it failed to properly investigate a 2005 ethics complaint filed by a whistleblower alleging, among other things, that the project's Program Manager, Gerard Denault, had to be receiving kickbacks on the project from the single source subcontractor he had hired to perform the work. SAIC also accepted responsibility for the illegal conduct alleged against Denault and admitted to by Carl Bell, who served as Chief Systems Engineer in SAIC's New York office.
Earlier today, the DPA was approved in Manhattan federal court during a proceeding before U.S. District Judge George B. Daniels. During the proceeding, SAIC, through its counsel, agreed to waive Indictment by a grand jury and consented to the filing of a one-count Information in which SAIC is charged with participating in a conspiracy to defraud the City in relation to the CityTime project.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said: "For seven years, fraudsters working on CityTime had a field day at the City's expense. Today, the people of New York City have more than a half billion reasons to celebrate, and corporations that deal with the City have more than a half billion reasons to do so honestly. This investigation revealed that SAIC managers responsible for CityTime placed profit ahead of principle, time and again. A half billion dollars is a staggering sum, but it is a sum commensurate with the staggering scale of the crimes and misconduct we uncovered, and it is an amount that makes the City whole."
DOI Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn said: "This half-billion-dollar payment reflects a stunning fraud against the City and a powerful case that exposed it. As the prime vendor, SAIC's responsibility was to deliver the CityTime project efficiently and honestly. But two high-level company officials, among others, were charged with lining their pockets at the City's expense while SAIC did nothing to stop them. One official has pleaded guilty, and today we are gratified that the company admits its responsibility. The criminal investigation by DOI with the U.S Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York has produced this unprecedented financial recovery for the taxpayers of New York City. It is a good day for the City and its eight million residents."
According to the Statement, and as alleged in the Superseding Indictment in United States v. Mark Mazer et al., (the "Mazer Indictment"), and other public filings in the case:
The CityTime project was a City initiative intended to modernize its timekeeping and payroll systems across City agencies. In 2000, SAIC became the lead contractor on CityTime, which, at the time, had a contract value of approximately $73 million. In 2003, SAIC appointed Gerard Denault as Program Manager on CityTime. At Denault's behest, SAIC hired TECHNODYNE LLC ("TECHNODYNE") as a "single source" subcontractor on the CityTime project.
TECHNODYNE, through its principals, REDDY ALLEN and PADMA ALLEN, agreed to pay and facilitate kickbacks to Denault and others in connection with the CityTime project, and to defraud the City into overpaying for the project in exchange for obtaining over $325 million in work on CityTime as an SAIC subcontractor. Some SAIC managers charged with supervising the CityTime project, and with ensuring that the project complied with ethics and procurement policies, either failed to perceive or ignored significant and pervasive irregularities within the SAIC-TECHNODYNE relationship. SAIC's failures resulted, in part, from an overemphasis by those assigned to manage the project on demonstrating its financial and operational success at the expense of SAIC's own ethics, human resources and procurement policies. In order to assure the success of CityTime, some managers supervising Denault and the CityTime project disregarded warning signs of possible corruption and tolerated Denault's improper handling of the contract. Consequently, SAIC failed to take actions that might have detected, disrupted or curtailed the charged conduct, thereby allowing the City to be victimized repeatedly and systematically for more than seven years.
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Monday, March 19th 2012 at 7:35 am |It seems that SAIC has joined the ranks of Big Time Crooks. Had I committed this action I would be in jail with out bail. By all appearances they are in good hands with the Govt protection Racket way up the sky scraper.
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Monday, March 19th 2012 at 11:53 pm |COVER-UP BY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
SAIC SHOULD BE SUSPENDED AND DEBARRED FROM US GOVERNMENT CONTRACT FOR A PERIOD OF TIME. NOT A SUSPENDED SENTENCE LIKE ITT WAS GIFTED BY THE DOJ AND THE ARMY ( YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO WONDER WHAT MOTIVATE$ THE ARMY TO DO WHAT THEY DO FOR ITT )GIFTING ITT THE KBOSSS CONTRACT WHERE THEY ARE THE SLOWEST TO PROCESS PAPERWORK OF ANY BASE IN THE WORLD. POOR SERVICE – ITTs HALLMARK.


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Before you start changing everything , start with the simple things first. Are you sure there is no air in the system? When I first fill the radiator I jack the front of the car up , and run the engine with the cap off to purge all the air in the system. Sounds to simple but believe me a air pocket will stop water from flowing.
Pictures. If you are using Windows @ the top of site suggestions & Help there is a sticky for a link to Microsoft's Power toys for a "picture resizer" 2nd Read this Cooling. . . . ~If I were you I would get a Infrared Non Contact thermometer & check your Rad for hot & cold spots then check your Cats to see it they are too hot. ~Look for a soft hose collapsing . ~What kind of belt system are you using? "V" or Serpentine? ~You need to make sure you water pump is turning the right direction. The belt routing can get screwy & sometimes water pumps can be Clock Wise or Counter Clock wise rotation. A Typical SB Chevy will naturally cool itself even if the impeller blades are rusted off . Basically the heat pushes the coolant out of the block thru the top hose gravity flows down & across the Rad & sucked up again. If the coolant rushes past the Rad too fast it does not cool off in turn going back to the block hot. ~Which leads me to ask have you checked for a air pocket? ~Have you checked the Gage? ~Has there been work done recently? Like maybe a head gasket on back wards or something like that? Unless you are running a super Hi Perf motor it should run cool. let see...... ~Ok one more thing check your cap for the right pressure & you need to have a overflow tank so that when the rad is filled up to the proper level { a few inches below the top} it has room to expand & contract . Let me know if I can be any further help. R
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what type of fan are you using, as said previous it could be that you have a reverse flow fan on the engine or even that your electric one is wired back to front and pulling instead of pushing.
using V-belt,pump is CW rotation.
used a laser temp meter found and even wave from top to bottom had hard time with the alum rad have recovery can/recerc will run with cap off today to check for air pulled the manifold off first thing to check if i fliped the intke gaskets,there wereinstalled right did check the gauge by boiling water,gauge said 210 just at boil |
I would expect you put the electric fan on as a response to this idle overheat problem, is that true and did it make any difference? The engine fan doesn't have a lot of space for flow around the engine so the amount of air flow thru the core is most likely restricted by that regardless of how much fan you put on it. You just might have to resort to more "radiator", given that is seems to have as much fan on it as can be applied. This is to say that you might have to resort to an engine oil cooler with it's own fan mounted underneath some where. Engine oil coolers will usually take about 15-20 degrees off the radiator's coolant temp. Another trick is to use a length of copper pipe secured to the frame rails. This just gets more cooling by using the frame as a heat sink instead of getting more air thru the radiator which probably isn't practical for you. You run a loop in or on the frame rail. One side connects to the bottom of the radiator so flow goes into the pipe. The return connects to the water pump intake. Either or both methods are pretty effective. Or using smaller pipe or tube, the routing can be made on what was the heater bypass circuit. While this adds total liquid capacity, that really isn't the point, it's adding additional heat transfer area which is the bigger and long term effect. Bogie |
Yes the electric fan did not make any temp difference at all. I am going to hook up the heater core and run the fan as a heat sink to see what effect this would have. I have installed this set up(16 inch puller only) on a 32 and had no overheating. rad core is 3- 1 inch tubes 24 X17 is the area. Same rad no problem.
Question, has anyone had the timing mark on the harmonic balancer off? Balancer came with the crate engine, always supplied my own. later on this week I plan to bring up #1 to TDC to check to see if the timing mark is at zero at tdc. I am a big back to basic's guy. That's why I feel I am missing something stupid. Please keep the ideas comming, basic or not ...Thanks again ...Jim Last edited by JBSMITH; 06-02-2009 at 04:20 PM. |
Your initial post is classic of not enough air flow through the radiator.
Most of the other common overheating issues get worse at highway speed.I would get rid of that pusher and if you have a good pedestal or floor fan, run it in front of the radiator from a foot or two away while idling to see if it helps. Boggie also brought up a good point, maybe the fan is not able to move the air away from the radiator. You could prove this with the same external fan running from the side to move some of the hot air away from the front of the engine. If you put your hand up by the thermostat with the engine running is there good air movement. Is that shroud sealed to the radiator so that the air is not being sucked around the radiator rater that through it. I would use you I/R thermal sensor and see waht the air temp is in the fan cavity. If it is a lot cooler than the engine temp it may be due to the air going around the radiator rather than through it. Remember every engine is a little different so what worked on others may not work on this one
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Just looked at your pics, tight fit!
One thing I noticed is that the fan blades appear to be entirely inside the shroud, or nearly so. This is incorrect, for the fan to properly propel the air off the tips of the blades, the rule of thumb is 1/2 of the blade inside the shroud lip and 1/2 the blade outside the lip. Right now the 1" or so "lip extension" you have on the shroud is forming a choke to the air leaving the end of the blades. You might shorten the whole shroud at the radiator face or just remove the lip extension. |
Yes I did try a large box fan 12" in front of the rad,No change
Yes there is good hot air flow rear of the shroud (mostly at the edges of the fan blade tips) The fan blade in the photo's is this weeks attempt , 17" seven blade replaceing the 17" six blade that was half in half out. I am torn between air flow an timing. This rad is 3" thick,most I have used were 2" Tight fit is an under statement I have the cuts to prove it. Keep it comming,..Thanks...Jim |
Question, has anyone had the timing mark on the harmonic balancer off? Balancer came with the crate engine, always supplied my own. later on this week I plan to bring up #1 to TDC to check to see if the timing mark is at zero at tdc. I am a big back to basic's guy. That's why I feel I am missing something stupid. Please keep the ideas comming, basic or not ...Thanks again ...Jim[/QUOTE] As Far as I know there are 3 different marks for the balancer passender side, straight down thru the water pump & drivers side . Also they do spin on them selves {worn out} R
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I am asking this here, for I am starting to dislike asking questions in the CB. Plus, this way, other people can read the answer to this post, which is less selfish if you ask me :) My question is : I am trying to perform a loop using modulus in my perl script. Is this even possible? I have searched PM and did not find. My gratitude. Detonite Oh, before I forget... does anyone know how I can "test" if a number is dividable by another number? (As in 9 is dividable by 3, but not by 5)?
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