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Heavy rains cause flooding in low areas
|South Fork of Little River, east of Hopkinsville
Here in Christian County, KY, we've had 24 hours of rain and thunderstorms, and we're expecting more of the same for another 24 hours.
High winds last night snapped off one of our hybrid poplars about six feet above the ground and tore several branches out of other trees. About 4:00 AM we had a tornado warning for our immediate area, so I got out of bed and sat in the hallway until that storm passed over. Twice, the wind took on a frightening volume, and the house shuddered under its force. I suppose the tree broke during one of those episodes.
I heard on the radio that Hopkinsville has received about 5 inches of rain. Fort Campbell is reporting about 4.3 inches of rain. I don't know how much rain has fallen in our part of the county, but all our little streams are very full of water.
The photo above was taken about 5:00 PM today, just west of the Little River Church of Christ on Highway 68/80 east of Hopkinsville. The vehicle in the distance (center left) is at the bridge on the Little River Church Road. The South Fork is running over the bridge and road there. Backed-up water is threatening the Little River Church and parsonage. Those buildings have endured many floods.
|The flooded ditch at our mailbox
We saw several wild turkeys feeding at the edge of a cornfield. At first, I thought that they might be picking corn seeds out of the ground. Then I realized that they were probably feasting on earthworms that had come to the surface.
Right now, Fort Campbell's radar shows a big, fast-moving mass of intense weather coming into Christian County from the southwest. Currently, we have a tornado watch and a flash flood warning. A mighty blast of wind and hail passed through here a few minutes ago. I read on the Weather Underground for Hopkinsville that golf-ball sized hail was reported on a road about a mile from us. We will see in the morning if any damage was done.
UPDATE: WKDZ Radio's photos of flooding in Christian and Trigg counties


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Recent reactions to a proposed Senate bill on cybersecuity have left some fearful of whether President Obama (and future presidents) are being given too much power. To get a flavor of that, check out the reaction to FCW's original Web story (be sure to click "View all comments").
In looking through the fine print for humor purposes, I was able to discover additional administrative powers. It turns out the president will also be able to:
* Pick Facebook friends without them being able to refuse him.* Vote contestants off of American Idol.* Declare call-waiting part of the axis of evil.* Turn off the presidential spell check.* Designate the entire Stevie Wonder catalogue on iTunes the "free song of the day."* Use more than 140 characters in his tweets.* Stop the sale of all cereals with chocolate/peanut butter combinations.* Drive through EZ Pass toll booth lanes without slowing down. * Declare every basket he makes to be three-pointers.* Get the all-time high score on Wii Golf.
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It's Rising Star time, the 1105 Government Information Group's annual recognition of people who will someday be our bosses. This year's class (being honored Oct. 22 at the GCN Gala) was asked about their mentors -- people who helped them along the way. Since these are Rising Stars, I expect them to do the right thing: Name someone who can be the most useful to them in the future or someone who can help them move up in the agency, or make a profitable connection.
I used to have a basketball coach who was a throwback from an old movie, especially in his ability to spout sport cliches. One of his sayings was, "It takes two people to throw a pass; one to throw and one to catch." I would alter this for the purposes of mentoring: It takes two people to mentor; one to mentor, and one to be mentored. (Picture me spitting into the ground after saying this. Hopefully, I'm outside.) While I respect the Rising Stars' ability to recognize and thank someone for helping them, I find it as equally impressive when a talented person recognizes their need to learn and so listens to someone's experience. (I remember -- and cringe at the memory of -- the ego of my 20s.)
Personally, I would like the off-the-record version of the Rising Star discussions. This would cover the people who were helpful to us in ways that aren't so clearly recognizable. Besides, one person can't be an all-purpose mentor. There are many things we learn along the way, and many people who have influenced us in the process. Some of my favorite mentoring experiences are the unintentional ones -- the person I encounter every day in non-work environments that may teach me something without either of us having intended it. I hope that I have been the mentor in such a situation -- you never know that until after the fact.
(As a parent I run into unintentional mentors all over the place, people who set examples on how to deal with parenting situations or give me appropriate language for speaking with children of all ages.)
There are so many skills that won't be acknowledged in the Rising Star coverage. (Some of my listings feel like lightning strikes -- a one time event that may have changed your life, as opposed to mentoring that took place over a longer period of time.) That said, here's my list of questions that can help identify the unacknowledged mentors in our lives.
* Who told you about that "easy" course in college that you took because you needed to fill a space on your schedule but which has now become your career?* Who gave us the proper -- okay, exact -- wording to put on our federal job application?* Who showed us that we could lead useful, productive lives without first logging onto Facebook?* Who told us the best lunch special near work?* Who told us which of the office elevators was the faster one?* Who told us that Cobol wasn't a race from another planet in Star Trek?* Who told us about that obscure British sitcom, The IT Crowd? * Who told us where to find cheap -- oops, inexpensive -- work clothing?* Who taught us how to make guacamole? And how to eat it?* Who took us to our first Jackie Chan movie?* Who gave us Orioles or Nationals tickets while assuring us that professional baseball would return to the region someday?
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This has been a good year to do cartoons for Federal Computer Week.
In the 13-plus years I have been drawing cartoons for this publication, I have often needed a high learning curve on cartoon topics. I don't have to tell you, but FCW covers subject matter that is a) of interest to a specialized community, and b) often ahead of the mainstream curve. (For example, I noted that FCW's encounter with the birthers occurred several weeks before the mainstream media's.)
When creating humor, or making editorial comments, this is a challenge. It helps in these situations to have the readers, listeners, viewers, etc. know as much as possible about the subject matter that you are commenting on. Think of a bunch of people sitting in a room, commenting on someone in the room's clothing. Comments and jokes can cover more specifics — "Do you dress in the dark to conserve energy, Dave?" — because everyone knows the reference points. But when someone makes a reference to an outfit that same person wore last month, members of the community who weren't there are lost.
As I said, this has been a good year, topic-wise. Many of the issues of importance to the federal IT world have also been prominent in the public eye issues — including Web 2.0, virtual training, stimulus spending and tracking, cybersecurity, e-mail, contractor relations. These issues and their specifics are familiar to a larger audience, allowing me to comment on a wider variety of specifics, hopefully making for sharper commentary or humor. (I can't make a joke about "tweeting" to someone who is hearing about Twitter for the first time. Come to think about it, it isn't that easy to make a joke about 'tweeting" even if someone knows what I'm talking about.)
I point all this out in light of the recent cartoon on a topic I had no familiarity with: the National Health Initiative Network. While aware of its existence, I wasn't aware of the specifics of their role, or any recent controversies. I had to revert back to older techniques: a) ask the editors a lot of questions; b) talk to the reporter covering this story; c) go to the FCW blogs and columns; or d) Google it.
It turned out this story was pretty new, and hadn't been widely reported yet, eliminating options c) and d). The editor was helpful in explaining the story to me, noting in particular that there are concerns about NHIN's technical architecture. Not all agree with these claims. There is debate about whether they should fix the flaws or should they proceed, slowing down the progress of the program.
In discussing this, the editor used a term that helped me immensely: Would going ahead with the network as it is be "paving the cow paths?" Although I hate to give away trade secrets, this is often all a cartoonist needs to go on — a strong visual image. In this case, however, it was a complicated image, and I don't have the rendering skills necessary to convey a cow path being re-paved in a 6-inch box.
So what other images did I consider? From my sketchbook, I offer the following ideas.
PROS: Easily understood, "flop, flop" looks funny. CONS: Car imagery is a cartoon cliché.
PROS: Unique image, funny implications. CONS: Doesn't convey the issue clearly or accurately.
PROS: Funny image if understood. CONS: Not so easily understood. Horse imagery is almost as big a cliché as cars.
The image I went with, below, isn't necessarily much better than the ones I rejected. But I felt it was unique — in looking at it again, I think it might be necessary to have the label "architecture" in there. Or at least a "flop, flop."
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HOLLAND - Michigan Campus Compact (MCC) will honor nine HopeCollege students for their dedication and commitment to community service during the organization's 15th annual Outstanding Student Service Awards Celebration on Saturday, April 9, at the Kellogg Hotel and ConferenceCenter in East Lansing.
Each year, MCC recognizes students from member colleges and universities across the state for their outstanding commitment to service-learning and civic engagement. Three types of awards are given: the Outstanding Community Impact Award, the Commitment to Service Award, and the Heart and Soul Award. MCC will be honoring more than 350 students who attend the organization's member colleges and universities.
Commitment to Service Awards will be presented to seniors Garrett Anderson of Wheat Ridge, Colo., and Kara Shetler of Goshen, Ind. The award is given to two students per member campus for breadth or depth of community service and the demonstration of meaningful reflection.
Heart and Soul Awards will be presented to senior Allison Bryan of Ada; senior Evan Dekker of Littleton, Colo.; junior Andrew Haggerty of Northville; senior Katharine Matejka of Sarasota, Fla.; senior Allison Reynolds of Northville; senior Meghan Vanderlee of Saint John, Ind.; and senior Jonathan Wielenga of Lansing. The award is given to students to recognize their time, effort and personal commitment to their community through service.
The nine students' service spans the wide range of such activity by students across the campus, from commitment individually in working with local organizations, to participation in major charitable fund-raising efforts involving hundreds of students. In January, Hope received national recognition for exemplary service-learning as one of only 115 colleges and universities across the country named to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's "2010 Community Engagement Classification."
Michigan Campus Compact promotes the education and commitment of Michigan college and university students to be civically engaged citizens, through creating and expanding academic, co-curricular and campus-wide opportunities for community service, service-learning and civic engagement. A total of 42 colleges and universities across the state are members of MCC.


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Charge on: best battery cases for the HTC One review
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1. MrKoles (Posts: 368; Member since: 20 Jan 2013)
Hah, this happens when you can´t change battery in your phone. Eat your unibody design HTC...
4. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
This happens when you use your phone so much that you need this much power. 90+% of consumers don't need this, and are unaffected by unibody designs. Motorola, HTC, Sony, Nokia, and Apple have been using them for quite some time, and people have been perfectly fine. I expect Samsung to cave in and completely seal their flimsy battery covers within the next couple years.
5. CanYouSeeTheLight (Posts: 1122; Member since: 05 Jul 2012)
Exactly, i love the performance of my One's battery can get easily 2 days out of it with 3 hours screen on. On a side note the first case looks like a soap.
6. MrKoles (Posts: 368; Member since: 20 Jan 2013)
That´s really nice, but as I´m a hardcore phone user, I need a battery with bigger capacity (or at least an option to change battery). Definitely, I´m not alone with this. The high sale numbers of Galaxy S4 show that there is need for changeable batteries. Turning back to HTC One, I´m absolutely not impressed with battery life. Let´s be honest...it is terrible.
7. therealestboy (Posts: 82; Member since: 03 May 2013)
I don't believe most people buy the galaxy s4 because they can swap batteries. Among my friends and family I am the only who carriers a spare battery. It's us geeks that think people care about things.
8. ngo2dd (Posts: 896; Member since: 08 Jul 2011)
Hahaha the iphone 5 sold more then the S4 and it does not have a removable batteries. So there is not need for a removable batteries according to you.
9. rdaex (Posts: 152; Member since: 24 Oct 2012)
What are you smoking?
Every day I get between 12 and 17 hours on my phone, and thats with at LEAST some bluetooth music streaming, apps updating whenever they decide to, and my power save only comes on at 20%.
Youre off your rocker if you think thats 'terrible'.. but Im actually guessing youve never used the phone, yet feel like youre an expert
16. MrKoles (Posts: 368; Member since: 20 Jan 2013)
I´m working with phones every day since 1998, so maybe I know something about them ;) nice try!
11. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
People aren't buying the GS4 because of the removable back. People are buying the GS4 because of the huge marketing campaign for the software features and the reputation Samsung has, the fact that Samsung's products have removable batteries is irrelevant to the majority of their sales.
14. flynfree (Posts: 374; Member since: 09 Jun 2013)
When I go out, I bring external batt juice pack for my hTc One, but if I use my gnote 2, I ask myself. .. do I need to bring my batt juice pack, ah. .. no! !!
10. g2a5b0e (unregistered)
Are you kidding?! Why would Samsung "cave" as you put it & change to inaccessible batteries when they're selling the most phones? They sold almost half of all Android phones last year. What you're saying makes no sense. Clearly, the public enjoys removable batteries among other Samsung features. If anything, other manufacturers will cave & go back to removable batteries so they can start making money again.
12. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
Because people are becoming more conscious of aesthetics with their device. When the GS4 was announced, the overall view from the public was that it was ugly in comparison to the One and Xperia Z. The only place where you could find people saying something good about the design of the GS4 is on tech sites like these where power users were praising the fact that it had a removable battery.
My point is, I saw a LOT of comments saying how the GS4 looks bad. Yes, they're still selling millions of units, but that's mainly because of their huge marketing campaign and brand recognition, no one's buying the GS4 because of its looks. People are buying into all those software features Samsung has made commercials for. I'd imagine very, very few people buy the GS4 primarily because of its removable battery.
Removable batteries are a dying feature. Samsung (and LG I guess) is the only major manufacturer still providing them in their flagship devices. I'm sure if Samsung did seal off the battery door, their sales wouldn't suffer at all, because the mass majority of people don't really care.
17. flynfree (Posts: 374; Member since: 09 Jun 2013)
I'm a picky man or let say perfectionist, and I didn't see wrong about the design of sgs4...I like it!
The only reason I pick the One is because I had a gnote 2 and I'm waiting for gnote 3.
19. g2a5b0e (unregistered)
You might be right on that. Maybe. But considering the fact that the GS4 is so far the fastest selling Android device of all-time, Samsung probably sees no reason to change anytime soon. I personally think it's a good looking phone. Apparently, most people also do.
20. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
I think it looks nice aside from the glossy finish. I don't like the flimsy battery cover either. If they gave the GS4 a design like the Wave 3, where the battery compartment slides out of the metal shell of the device, I would have picked one up immediately. The Wave 3 is one of the only solidly built Samsung devices out their in my opinion.
The last paragraph of this article states it perfectly.
"Samsung cannot allow its success to cloud its judgment. The company must listen to what its customers want and many of them want a metal uni-body construction on the next Samsung flagship phone."
That articles says that Samsung was actually worried about the plastic build quality on the GS4. I remember an article on PA saying that Samsung actually wanted to use a metal body for the GS4, but it would have caused a delay, which is reasonable.
So Samsung knows their build quality is an issue, but they couldn't change anything on the GS4. The Note 3 will allegedly have the new design with enhanced build quality, which may or may not seal the battery.
22. belovedson (Posts: 1060; Member since: 30 Nov 2010)
The articles you listed came from sources that aren't credible. So there.
A credible source.....
Or they........
24. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
Phone Arena and SamMobile aren't credible sources? So the site that we're commenting on and another site that Phone Arena gets a lot of their Samsung related information from isn't credible? Yeah, that's logical.
21. belovedson (Posts: 1060; Member since: 30 Nov 2010)
Hahaha and what phone do you use berserk?
And someone mentioned three hours of screen on time. That's pathetic.
Back to berserk.
Removable batteries are a hot seller. Most people don't use their phones like the hardcore people because they haven't figured out the many uses it has. For example it can replace a lot of functions that were reserved for laptops for example
Audio streaming
Video streaming
...... .....
All of which kills any phones battery unless its an iPhone (hahahah)
So either you have a sealed design and pay a ridiculous amount man or just get a fatty battery that comes out with a case for a little more or a lot less, depending on the brand
23. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
I use a Galaxy S3, and I have never once felt the need to remove my battery.
Removable batteries aren't a "hot seller." People buy a phone either because of its price point, or the features it was advertised to have. No one buys a GS4 because of the removable battery, people buy it because Samsung advertises the Air Gestures and camera features constantly, the fact that the GS4 has a removable battery is irrelevant to the vast majority of sales from the GS4.
Audio/Video streaming and GPS? I do that a lot, aside from audio streaming, and my battery life is just fine. I always end the day with about 20-30% left after a day of moderate use, which is perfect for probably more than 90% of consumers. The power users that play intensive games and stream audio/video constantly make up a very small percentage.
26. ngo2dd (Posts: 896; Member since: 08 Jul 2011)
All I want to say is the iPhone 5 sold over 25 million. So can anyone say removable batteries is important if the best selling phone is none of those. Samsung marketing is more then coke coca. Come on now people
27. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
Exactly. People are buying the GS4 based on advertisements and brand recognition, not the fact that it has a removable battery; otherwise, the iPhone wouldn't be selling at all.
2. Rehankhan (Posts: 323; Member since: 24 Oct 2012)
lmfao i would rather carry lumia with me than this
3. Suraj3337 (Posts: 45; Member since: 20 Apr 2012)
Definition of ugliest cases on earth!
13. aleksey4738 (Posts: 13; Member since: 27 Apr 2013)
Why are Samsung owners trolling in a HTC article ? Aren't you guys suppose to be online searching for 1. Why my phone has so many gimmicks that I will never use. 2. Why my battery cover is so cheap. 3. What am I doing wrong with my life that I need an extra battery in my phone just to go through a day. 4. Why is the HTC one winning in almost every compassion against my beloved gs4 . Lmao
15. Rehankhan (Posts: 323; Member since: 24 Oct 2012)
wow dude that was lame
18. flynfree (Posts: 374; Member since: 09 Jun 2013)
I already add to my wish list the #4 batt case for my next purchase at Amazon.
25. nashoa (Posts: 12; Member since: 18 Jun 2013)
Really wonderful and beautiful


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Eagle Scout candidate William Prince led a group of scouts and adult leaders in completing his community service project, which was to make the Citra Community Center playground a safer haven for those who use the facility.
Eagle Scout candidate William Prince led a group of Scouts and adult leaders in completing his community service project, which was to make the Citra Community Center playground a safer haven for those who use the facility.
The group, including volunteers from William's Troop 563, as well as family members and friends, on Saturday installed, leveled and painted 44 traffic barriers around the playground to keep traffic from getting too close to youngsters and equipment.
Bette Harris, William's grandmother and president of the Citra Improvement Society, praised the additions.
"The CIS board authorized the project. The barriers will keep vehicles at a distance from the slide and playground equipment. Recently, some equipment was stolen by someone backing up to it with a vehicle," Harris said.
"The wooden poles are intended to block cars and ensure kids can play safely. They will also discourage theft of the playground equipment," said William, 17, an 11th-grader at North Marion High School and a member of the Air Force Junior ROTC program.
"My parents gave me a lot of encouragement," he added, as his mother, Ruth Prince, made arrangements at the site and his father, Charles Prince, worked at setting poles.
William has been involved in Scouting for seven years and has earned 23 merit badges.
"The First Aid badge was one which required a lot of effort and paperwork. I liked earning the shotgun badge," he said.
His Eagle Scout project, which is required to reach Scouting's top rank, will require an estimated 200 hours to finish, including planning, obtaining donations and workdays. The pressure-treated poles put in place are topped with yellow paint for visibility. They were donated by Harrison Logging. Mulch also was added to the center of the playground as part of the project.
Volunteers included William's brother, Nathan Bais, 14, who also aspires to Eagle rank; Eagle Scouts Brandon Boucher and Michael Ward, and his father Bill Ward; Scout Abrahim Francis and his mother, Aida Francis; Scouts Breese Taschenberger, 12, Alphonso Gordon, 14, and Jason Masey, 12; and adult leader Peter Dubose, his wife, Judy, and their son, Brian, 13, also a Scout.
William's sister, Elizabeth Prince, 20, said the project was a "big job."
Jared Norris, an Alachua County Sheriff's Office deputy who earned his Eagle Scout rank with Troop 563, now serves as a leader with the troop.
"William took a lot of prodding and poking, but he didn't quit" on his path to Eagle, Norris said.
Troop 563 Scoutmaster Ludvig Olson III has guided 17 Scouts in the troop, which is sponsored by United Methodist Church of Sparr, to Eagle rank.
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A. Approval of Minutes: 4/27/06, 5/4/06
B. Payment of Bills: C. Personnel: Recall of Teachers
V. Old Business
Second Reading and possible vote on "Student Nutrition and Physical Activity Policy"
VI. New Business
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A. Superintendent's Report: Enrollment
B. North Kingstown Sleep Study Results
VIII. Committee Reports a.) SITS b.) SELAC c.) Facilities d.) N.K. School Committee e.) SORICO f.) Legislative
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Application of Greg Ferguson, whose property is located at 65 Spanker St., and further identified as Tax Assessor's Plat 15, Lot 35 for a variance from Article 3, Table 3-2 (District Dimensional Regulations) to construct an addition to a single-family home 22.5 ft. from front property line. Said property is located in a R40 zone and contains 14,400sq. ft. BY ORDER OF THE ZONING OFFICER
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7 fail-safe tricks to deal with homework successfully
homework is never easy
If you are anything like me, you know that homework is never easy. As a matter of fact, sometimes you feel that no matter how much you struggle you still can't deal with those complicated exercises that you need to solve. The bad news? You will have to work a little bit to make everything perfect. The bad news? It is completely possible to get amazing assignments in a very short time if you apply some tricks. Check this out!
Don't waste any time.
I know that it is tempting to do anything but your assignments when you get home, but the more you postpone it the more difficult it will be. If you get used to work on your paper as soon as you get home it will become a habit in a very short time and you will no longer feel that it is a torture. Take a few minutes of rest when you get home after the school, then solve the exercises. You will feel much better after that!
Make a schedule.
It's easy to miss your deadlines when you don't have a clear schedule. That is why you have to write every time you get a new assignment, and to make sure to set reminders on your phone if you are not sure that you will remember when you have to start them. You will notice that if you apply this trick, you will never go to school again without your assignment fully done.
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Give up distractions.
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Will need to wait for subs to check part of Sanetoshi's speech. Did he really said "交わらない" ∑(゚ω゚ノ)ノ ?
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Now, if fate was initially derailed because of the incident 16 years ago, that incident itself is what should be changed/removed to "derail" fate into its original course. If the attacks never happened, Momoka wouldn't have died and the brothers wouldn't have any reason to feel they're cursed. And if Himari's death is truly a punishment for the attacks, that would be fixed too. Maybe the PoC wants the penguindrum for something like this.
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In the other hand, to completely erase the accident seems too much. There was probably lots of victims due to the attack 16 years ago, to change the destiny of all of them by bringing them to life, no less... Not sure if anyone, even Ikuhara, could come with a convincing explanation for that ^^'.
As for the brothers, I don't really see where there guiltiness comes from anyway :/. I would understand feeling ashamed or disgusted by what their parents did and want to atone for it, but why the "we need to be punish" talk ? It's not like they put the bombs (or whatever that was) themselves or agreed to their parents actions or anything.
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Wait a minute... if PoC is Momoka, then who is Mario's hat then? And is Sanetoshi talking to us as the audience or another entity when he said for 'you two to witness it'?
And ARGH, such a tease this episode is with Sanetoshi saying he knows who has the other half of the diary, but without actually telling us. So frustrating lol.
Overall I didn't like this episode, as it had too much flashbacks on the Takakura parents and the police trying to find them. I mean, it was already pretty much clear cut last episode why Sho/Kan feel the need for retribution, no need to explicitly animate the time when the police investigates their house.
That said, finally, a song that I can listen to. I hate OP and first ED with a passion, but I love this new ED that was used as an insert from before.
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If Momoko is the hat, it sure makes me want to re-watch all the survival strategy scenes.
Also, adult Tabuki has the scars on his fingers this episode, so all the previous episodes he didn't was probably an oversight/laziness. Still waiting to see how they play into everything. Tabuki himself sounded every bit the mature adult here, but I still don't buy it. I'm just paranoid over tall, glasses-wearing men in anime.
Was it Sanetoshi on the phone with Kanba's Stalker (I keep forgetting her name). Male VAs all tend to sound the same to me, so I wasn't sure who it was, just that we were probably supposed to recognize him since they finally let us hear who's on the other side of her phone.
Ringo seems to have gotten through her psycho phase, and has even come to accept her father's marriage. Does this mean she's "done" in terms of plot, or is this a temporary lull?
I'd still love to know what Kanba is paying in exchange for all the penguin money he gets. And how what Kanba said about not wanting anything for himself serves as being payment Sanetoshi accepted for reviving Himari. Or was Sanetoshi just messing with Kanba, since I get the impression he would have saved Himari regardless, as I suspect if Himari dies, so does "Momoka"/the Hat.
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We just need to know what's his winning game though.
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How is the music for this show so godlike. New ED made me freakin' cry. I love the first OP too, but I'll be honestly curious to hear the next one.
On the other hand, the episode itself this time was a bit blunt. Neither subtle nor clever there, Ikuhara: "because to have the punishment end here would be no fun"? The reuse of Shouma and Ringo's "fate" monologues were quite effective, though: their words again at this point in the story really hits home.
You can see a bit of Shouma's darkness coming out here. He's fully accepted it: the punishment, the sin, that their own lives really are worthless and that they will never amount to anything. With no will to challenge that or remotely fight against it, Shouma's perspective is one of someone who has long given up any hope to resist.
The contrast with Kanba's personality is thus direct. The latter had better reason to idolize both his parents and, accordingly, also Himari. He refuses to give up hope out of moral outrage on behalf of them. He does not accept that they should have to give up on there ever having been a point to their lives.
As I thought, Tabuki is indeed "broken". He really seems to me as if he is just apathetically flitting through his life, unable to come to grips with reality. This makes his relationship with Yuri so shallow and fake that it's really quite amusing and interesting. Tabuki's relationship with Momoka will obviously a plot key somewhere somehow however.
On Sanetoshi's messiah complex, and "Survival Strategy". Extending from what I talked a bit about last time, I might be stretching this, but seeing himself as being the single person who can see the "proper" path for the universe gradually leads me to think of the leader of Aum Shinrikyou. I wonder if the 1995 subway attacks (in Penguindrum-verse) were not orchestrated by Sanetoshi and if Takekura Keibu/Takekura Chiemi were not in fact actually working for him?
Who is "the Goddess"? I know that in the previous episode I started feeling like the PotC was the goddess, in some weak/incomplete form.
We can guess that the PotC i.e. Momoka is working against Sanetoshi, as his "aibito" who rejected him. However, she herself is also chasing the Penguindrum in order to pursue a "Survival Strategy". The holder of the other diary half must be a third party who is unrelated to both of them. The obvious suspicions currently lie with Yuri.
(Natsume was revealed to be speaking with Sanetoshi by cell phone this episode. Presumably this closes the loop of who she was talking to in all the previous incidents.)
Kinda clumsy in delivery, but damn this episode did deliver I guess. A solid watch this time.
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Gotta said I loved Ringo so much in this episode. I didn't really have any emotional attachment with any of these characters until now, mostly because Ikuhara hasn't put too much effort to make them sympathetic, let alone likable: they're all one-trick ponies, all of them stack on their issues and/or desires, and they just don't change or grow....
But Ringo did grow. When the series began she was just nut (literally) but now she's coming to terms with the past and is even starting to show genuine concern for the people around her. Heck, she was even able to congratulate his father on his new marriage.
I just would like to see some progress from the other characters as well, specially Shouma and Kanba, although that probably isn't going to happen any time soon.
EDIT: Now that I think about it, the main force behind Ringo's character growth was Shouma. He really helped her to see things from a new perspective. I wonder if she can help Shouma get over his issues. Now that Kanba has made a contract with Sanetoshi, I assume the only one who is in a position to act is Shouma, who's still pretty much the only character outside the game, so to speak. But unless he can come to terms with the past, he isn't going to be of any use, so... let's just hope Ringo can do something for him.
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Dosh, of course, knew that this argument was specious. She points out that B&N, since it's not the copyright holder, cannot take action. I actually don't think this argument is all that compelling, really. B&N, as a private actor, certainly has the right to agree with a copyright holder that it will block photographs of their books or to decided, just as a private store, to block photography. Still, it appears the reason is somewhat misleading, and Dosh's later calls to B&N confirmed that they consider this a copyright issue. I'm a bit surprised that Dosh doesn't mention fair use, as it seems like there's an amazingly strong argument that there's a fair use claim here that would protect her from any copyright issue.
But, really, this has nothing whatsoever to do with the legal arguments one way or the other. As happens so often in copyright issues, it's about the common sense situation, and the fact that blocking photographs in the store makes no common sense. Basically, B&N is barring attempts by people to promote the in-store display for free, and that's silly. Stopping word of mouth marketing is a bad idea. Dosh digs in:
When I was in San Francisco last fall, I tweeted about the best winery I visited, Jacuzzi Family Vineyards, and encouraged my followers to visit. It's four months later and that winery still tweets back and forth with me, which has added to my positive experience with them and caused me to continue to order wine all the way from back at my home in Atlanta.And yet, Barnes & Noble makes sure this is not possible... because it's afraid of some nebulous, questionable "copyright" claim. Of course, part of this demonstrates the problems of basic copyright law today (even if there isn't a valid copyright claim here). It's designed for a world where nothing is shared, where people aren't promoting things for you, and where all "content" is professionally produced for "consumption" by the riffraff. But reality is more complex. We talk to each other. We share. We promote. It's what we do. It's how culture works. It's how communication works. And copyright throws a wrench into all of that, which is really unfortunate.
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Last month, my boyfriend and I went to Asheville and got more good restaurant recommendations from our Twitter followers. We then proceeded to tweet pics of each and every gorgeous plate of food we had to encourage others to eat at these wonderful locations. I know of at least one follower who has already dined at one of these establishments based on our tweets.
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(Wayne, New Jersey--February 14, 2014) FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Optical Devices Division, has announced that it is a major lens supplier to Russian video production company ANO Sports Broadcasting (also known as Panorama), for production of the country's national HDTV feed of the Winter Games and Paralympic Games in Sochi. A total of 292 FUJINON lenses were provided to ANO SportsBroadcasting by Sony Moscow and the UK-based dealer Broadcast Solutions. The Sochi 2014 Winter Games started on February 7th and continue through February 23, 2014. The Sochi Paralympics run from March 7-16th.
Included among the large complement are: 20 XA101x8.9BESM-TK telephoto field lenses, 41 XA88x8.8BESM telephoto field lenses, 24 HA42x9.7BERD telephoto ENG-Style lenses, 53 HA14x4.5BERD wide-angle
ENG/EFP lenses
, and 54 ZA22x7.6BERD telephoto remote-controlled lenses. The lenses will be used by several major European and Russian outside broadcast companies.
During the entirety of the Winter Games and Paralympic Games, Fujifilm's Optical Devices Division will have an engineer available at its technical center to support FUJINON lens customers. The company's Russian and German offices will also be available for customer support during the Sochi Winter and Paralympic Games.
The technical support center is located at:
Adler district
Staronasypnaya str., 22
Business Center Plaza
Sochi, Russia
Hours of operation for the center during the Winter Games are from 9:00 a.m. through 18:00 p.m. The center was opened on January 2 and will remain in operation until February 25th. It will be open during the same hours to support customers broadcasting the Paralympic Games from March 6 through March 16th.
Service center phone numbers during the Winter Games:
Nikolay Zharov +79688474071 (for Russian and English speakers)
Lars Gehring +491735242211 (German and English)
Service center phone number for Paralympic broadcasters:
Nikolay Zharov +79688474071 (Russian and English)
Contact information for German speakers will be announced at a later date.
Throughout both events, the Russian and German offices of FUJIFILM's Optical Devices Division will also be available to support customers:
Russian office central number : +7(495)797-3512 (Russian, English)
German office phone number : +49-(0)211-5089 8950 (German, Japanese, English)
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About Fujifilm
FUJIFILM North America Corporation, a marketing subsidiary of FUJIFILM Holdings America Corporation consists of four operating divisions and one subsidiary company. The Imaging Division provides consumer and commercial photographic products and services, including: photographic paper; digital printing equipment, along with service and support; personalized photo products; film; and one-time-use cameras; and also markets motion picture archival film and on-set color management solutions to the motion picture, broadcast and production industries. The Electronic Imaging Division markets consumer digital cameras, and the Graphic Systems Division supplies products and services to the graphic printing industry. The Optical Devices Division provides optical lenses for the broadcast, cinematography, closed circuit television, videography and industrial markets, and also markets binoculars. FUJIFILM Canada Inc. sells and markets a range of Fujifilm products and services in Canada. For more information, please visit
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Why plant dozens of different varieties of narcissus this fall? Well, apart from the beauty they bring to the garden in spring, they give you the most fantastic indoor bouquets.
Every year, I find myself clipping more than a dozen different daffodils to put into vases. The contrast in form and colour is always amazing.
Ones with bright orange cups in the centre always catch my eye first - Cool Flame, Amadeus Mozart, Pink Parasol, Barrett Browning, Tommy's White, Precocious.
Then, there are the sensational doubles, including Delnashaugh, Irene Copeland, Obham and Tahiti.
And there is never a shortage of the simple yellow King Alfred type trumpets like Dutch Master, Gigantic Star, Mount Hood and the early blooming Rynveld E. Sensation.
The point is there are dozens of cultivars; the more you plant, the merrier.
The key is to plant enough that you can cut dozens of them to bring indoors and still do no damage to the overall beauty of your garden.
With the heavy-headed multi-petalled "double" narcissus, rain often knocks them over, making cutting and bringing them inside an act of redemption. And seen close up in a vase on a hallway or kitchen table, these complex, almost exotic flowers, become matchless works of art.
If you feel you don't have time to carefully pick out a grand assortment, you can defer to the Dutch experts and let them do it for you. There are packages, such as Twice as Nice, Fragrant Narcissi Mix and Trio of Champions that feature a good selection of top performers.
If you live in deer country, you definitely should invest in a narcissus garden.
Deer will destroy everything else, but they hate nibbling daffodils. In fact, daffodils are quite poisonous; deer (as well as squirrels and moles) won't touch them.
And if you do it right, you can have a diverse collection - daffs in all sorts of sizes, shapes and colours, even ones that are super-fragrant.
Now's the time to plant them. Stuff them into pots. Mass-plant them in dense drifts. Or create small colonies by planting odd numbers in clumps in random patterns under trees and shrubs.
My personal favourites are the miniatures. These little beauties look wonderful planted in tight little clumps, dotted here and there under trees and shrubs or freely scattered throughout the perennial border.
Jack Snipe, Jetfire and Tete a Tete are three of the best. Golden Bells have a large yellow campanula-like bellflower.
Other top cultivars are Baby
Moon, Hawera, Minnow, Pacific Coast, Sundial, Little Gem, Golden Bells, Double Campernelli and Canaliculatus.
Get more for your money by picking ones that also have fragrance, such as Baby Moon, Canaliculatus, Double Campernelli and Hawera.
Miniatures all grow 10 to 25 centimetres (four to 10 inches).
Rock garden narcissus are slightly taller than miniatures, growing 25 to 40 centimetres (10 to 16 inches) high, although many of them could just as easily be lumped in with the dwarf daffs.
These are the first to bloom, appearing in mid-February and flowering into March. Bell Song has white petals and a pale-pink cup. February Gold is a warm yellow. Pipit is more lemon-yellow. Suzy has yellow petals and a bright orange cup.
Others to consider include Sailboat, Quail, Rip Van Winkle, Segovia, Thalia and Topolino.
Cupped narcissus or "cups" have shorter, more truncated cup-shaped trumpets. The best ones are Barrett Browning (white petals with bright orange cup) and Avalon (pale yellow petals with white cup).
A variety that always gets lumped in with this group is N. poeticus recurvus, which has white reflexed petals and a delicate small cup, edged with orange.
It is also quite fragrant.
Double narcissus are a must. They have fantastic ruffled centres. Tahiti and Obdam are irresistible, but also look for Sir Winston Churchill, Delnashaugh, Gold Ducat and Flowerdrift.
To wow visitors when you show off your vase of daffodils, make sure you always include a few of the super-scented ones such as Bridal Crown, Cheerfulness, Geranium and Yellow Cheerfulness.
In the garden, I generally plant narcissus in dense clumps, scattered through the borders and under trees and shrubs, but drift-planting à la William Wordsworth's "host of golden daffodils" is coming back into fashion. To plant this style, first dig a trench, carefully placing the soil on a tarp at the side, and then quickly fill the trench with bulbs domino-like five-patterns, and cover with the lifted soil.
Bulb-planting is really an act of faith. You plant now, confident of the rewards to come. And they certainly will come next spring as the narcissus turn your garden into a symphony of colour.
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Why plant dozens of different varieties of narcissus this fall? Well, apart from the beauty they bring to the garden in spring, they give you the most fantastic indoor bouquets.


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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
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Metascore®Mixed or average reviewsbased on a weighted average of allcritic review scores.
Alan Arkin does the best trick, bringing a dollop of humanity to the role of Rance Holloway, the magician who was young Burt's inspiration. Apart from Rance, the whole production is slovenly nonsense, photographed on the cheap with blaring ghastliness. Yet it poses an intriguing mystery. Did the producers appeal to a denominator even lower than common by making their film as dumb as possible, or did it just turn out that way?
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What might have been an entertaining, silly comedy opts for pseudo-earnestness over movie magic.
Enjoyable but as familiar as the old-school routines its magician heroes dish out.
The movie itself is too cautious and unimaginative to bring off what a great magic trick — or comedy — should do: make us laugh out loud with surprise.
This is also one dark and wickedly funny comedy.
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OK for kids 14+
Not enough magic to mostly unfunny Carell-Carrey comedy.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that The Incredible Burt Wonderstone is heavy on scatological and sex humor, as well as cringe-inducing scenes of some Jackass-style stunts, but it doesn't veer completely into over-the-top raunch. Language includes one use of "f--k" and several of "s--t" and "a--hole." Main character Burt is known to bed a different woman from the audience every night; two humorous sex scenes feature bra-clad women and jokes about condom size. The violence is mostly self-inflicted by Burt's rival, a street magician who sleeps on burning coals, cuts his skin, asks to be punched, douses himself with pepper spray, and drills a hole in head -- among other things. And early scenes show a kid being bullied. If you dig under the Vegas-style humor, the two big takeaways are that friendship should be forever, and your career should be your passion, not just what you do for money.
Messages: Buried underneath the over-the-top Vegas humor are a couple of positive messages. One is that unconditional friendship should be just that -- unconditional, not based on fame or popularity. The other is that whatever you decide to do with your life should come from a sense of joy and passion, not because of the things it will buy you. Jane's love of magic also shows that women are capable of performing traditionally male-dominated forms of entertainment. And the movie promotes the joy of enjoying the childlike wonder of magic tricks.
Role models: Jane isn't interested in simply being a magician's assistant; she wants to be a full magician. Rance Holloway explains that being a magician is about providing a sense of awe and wonderment, not going through the motions for a big paycheck. Anton is a great (and in many ways, only) friend to Burt, but Burt is a jerk to him until he realizes the error of his ways.
Violence: The violence is mostly self-inflicted by magician Steve Gray, whose "street magic" includes dangerous, don't-try-this-at-home stunts like burning himself with a lighter, forcing someone to punch him in the face, cutting open the swelling from a wound, sleeping on burning coals, and drilling a hole in his skull. An early scene includes a child being bullied and punched. A couple of scenes of animals in peril.
Sex: Two comedic sex scenes in which women are shown wearing bras and underwear and making out with Burt in bed. Burt has a tradition of picking a woman out of the audience (based on how attractive she is) to help with a trick and then taking her back to his suite to have sex. Burt brags about his quadruple-king bed which can fit "at least" a dozen people. In one of the two sex scenes, Burt and Jane do magic tricks and joke about condoms (she makes a bag of Trojans appear out of nowhere, and he replaces it with Magnum XLs).
Language: One "f--k," as well as several uses of "s--t," "a--hole," "hell," "ass," "crap," "bitch," "damn," "oh my God," "goddamn," and the possibly offensive (faux) TV show title Brain Rapist. Other insulting/demeaning language.
Consumerism: Many Las Vegas hotels are featured or mentioned, as are Big Lots, Bounty, and Trojan and Magnum XL condoms.
Drinking, drugs and smoking: Adults drink in a few scenes; in one, Burt gets visibly drunk.
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Louisville Seminary has been awarded a $375,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to support and expand its Doors to Dialogue (D2D) program, an initiative to increase opportunities for seminary students to engage, understand, and work cooperatively with people of diverse religious identities.
"If we hope to convince American people of faith that we can live faithfully with difference, the struggle for their hearts and minds must be won in the heartland of this country, in places like Louisville," said Louisville Seminary President Michael Jinkins. "The generous support of the Luce Foundation validates this as important work of a theological institution."
The grant, which will be disbursed over three years, will provide students and faculty opportunities for deeper engagement with persons of diverse religious identities by:
"We are glad to support this initiative, which will help Louisville Seminary students learn to recognize and wrestle with the complex and interrelated cultural, racial, denominational and religious factors that they will encounter throughout their careers," said Lynn Szwaja, Program Director for Theology, at the Henry Luce Foundation.
The Doors to Dialogue (D2D) program was established in 2009 to ensure that the Seminary's graduates will serve effectively in the midst of religious difference. A plan to strengthen the program is one of five key initiatives of the Seminary's strategic plan, Covenant for the Future. "This generous grant will offer new opportunities for our students to discover the many ways that knowing and working with people of other Christian denominations and other religions can enrich and strengthen their own commitment and service as ministers of Jesus Christ," said Susan R. Garrett, Dean of the Seminary.
Dean Garrett led the Seminary's grant writing team, which also included: Cliff Kirkpatrick, Visiting Professor of Ecumenical Studies and Global Ministries; David Hester, Harrison Ray Anderson Professor of Pastoral Theology and Director of Doctor of Ministry and Continuing Education; Kathryn Johnson, Professor of Historical Theology and Paul Tudor Jones Professor of Church History; and Frances Adeney, William A. Benfield Jr. Professor of Evangelism and Global Mission.
The Henry Luce Foundation, of New York, was established in 1936 by Henry R. Luce, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Time Inc., to honor his parents who were missionary educators in China. A key priority of the foundation's Theology Program is support for new models of theological education to prepare leaders for service in a religiously plural world.


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SpaRitual Nail Lacquers: I am the Light, Yes, I Can, Hope Springs Eternal
SpaRitual Believe Collection for Spring 2010
For spring, SpaRitual has created a collection of six shades: Yes, I Can (leafy green creme), I Believe in You (poppy orange creme), Hope Springs Eternal (hot pink shimmer), Spread Your Wings (pomegranate creme), Shoot for the Stars (purple creme), I am the Light (lavender creme).
Each shade comes with a unique charm that dangles from the bottle with "an inspiring mantra," like Yes, I Can comes with the charm "I Can." This collection of nail lacquers will be available February 2010 at fine salons and spas nationwide, as well as skinstore.com. Each bottle retails for $10.00.
- I am the Light is a cool-toned lilac. It's very spring-y! It has a cream finish and goes opaque in just two medium-thick coats. The formula gave me no issues when I applied it, which was surprising (I'm not always so good at applying cream polishes!).
- Yes, I Can is a rich, grassy green cream. Like I am the Light, it goes opaque in two solid coats. I don't think I own any greens like this in my own stash, so it's a nice addition.
- Hope Springs Eternal is a bright, shimmery pink-coral that flashes fuchsia-pink in some light. It has an almost chrome finish to it, though it's definitely not a full-on chrome. I had some brushstrokes, but I think with a more patient hand, you could get it to look pretty smooth. This formula was easy to apply and went opaque in two coats.
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DescriptionAlong with the pygmy chimp or bonobo (Pan paniscus), the chimpanzee is the closest living relative (4) to humans and is estimated to share 98 percent of our genes (6). There are currently four recognised subspecies of chimpanzee, showing differences in appearance and geographic range: the western or masked chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus), central or black-faced chimpanzee (P. t. troglodytes), eastern or long-haired chimpanzee (P. t. schweinfurthii) and the eastern Nigeria chimpanzee (P. t. vellerosus) (3). They all have the characteristic chimpanzee body shape with longer arms than legs, together with opposable thumbs and big toes (5). The bare skin on the face, ears, palms, and soles of the feet is pinkish to black (5), whilst the rest of the body is covered with brown to black hairs (6). Chimpanzees have very expressive features with their bulging eyebrows and protrusive lips (6). The long arms and fingers and mobile shoulder joints allow chimps to move easily in the trees where they forage and rest (4). The majority of their locomotion however, takes place on the ground in the form of 'knuckle-walking' (4).


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Honda Ridgeline Maintenance and Repair
dokrox Posts: 2On my 2006 Ridgeline I had a problem with water coming up into the floor boards. We live on the Oregon coast where there is plenty of rain. Our dealer took it to a body shop and they discovered that the body underneath was not welded properly and hence there were gaps where water could come in. They welded these openings in two tries and the problem went away. Perhaps in dusty conditions the dust in coming up through those same gaps and, of course, cold air.0
jesserk Posts: 4Thx for the info. I always drive with the fan system on fresh air and have the fan on high. This still does not help. Honda told me that there are holes in the kick plate right under the doors that go from the outside into the cab. So when dust comes off the front tires it goes in through the holes. Basically the inside of the cab is like the inside of a vaccum cleaner. This is if you have a window open. If you keep them closed, then the road dust gets in these holes and sits there. If you open the window while driving, after having them closed for a long period of time, the dust blasts in the cab. I tried this and there was so much dust in the cab that I couldn't see out the window and had to pull over. I opened all the doors so the cross wind could blow the dust out. It looked like my truck was on fire. Honda does know about this and their comment was that this is how the vehicle was designed and this is normal. I even have anti lock brakes malfuctioning occasionally and I attest all issues with this truck to the dust problem. Seat belts also malfunction due to dust in the lock mechanism. They won't do anything until it is too late and someone gets seriously injured or ill, or even worse. Then it will be too late. I have a 1968 pickup that doesn't get dust in the cab like my Honda and it only retailed at $1900.00 not $40,000.00 plus like my Honda. Disgusting!!! They should be ashamed of themselves.0
I have had a similar experience with my 2007 Ridgeline. Once in March and again today, when attempting to start the truck it appears as if there is no power whatsoever. If you turn on and off the headlights and then attempt to start, the power is back and the truck starts as usual. The residual problem is that the radio won't operate until a special code through a special procedure of button pushing (which the dealer talked me through) is entered. Other than that there appear to be no negative side effects.
Because the shop can't repair a vehicle that is operational, I will probably have to wait until is stays dead or someone responds to this forum with some ideas on what the cause may be.
I found the apparent cause of the two power failures - the positive battery terminal clamp was loose. The tightening bolt/nut assembly was as tight as it could go, but the terminal still slid around on the post. I added a shim between the post and the terminal clamp and now it is tight.
I have a 2007 Ridgeline. Only have 42000 miles on it. It has developed a creaking sound in the rear suspension. Actually in the center of the vehicle. At slow speeds on rough roads it is very prominent. It does not appear to be coming from the struts. Anyone else experience this?
lem888 Posts: 7I had the same problem a few years ago on my 2006 Ridgeline. It was the strut assembly and the dealer replaced it - I forget if it was under warranty or was a recall of some kind.0
I have a 2006 Honda Ridgeline and I have a strange creaking sound at the rear end of the truck. The sound happens when I drive it normally on the street. To trouble shoot the problem I stand in the back of truck and jump up and down to simulate driving conditions. I have my mechanic listen under the truck and we can not find the squeak or creak. If there is a recall how do I get Honda involved? Is the strut assembly the creak? Is the strut the shock absorber? I don't think that's covered.....Who can help?0
I had the same problem this spring. I posted a question here but the only response was the one before your post.
My problem stopped after I took my trailer with a full load of wood down the road. Not sure if a rock had gotten wedged in the suspension or just what it was. But it is gone now.
I also jumped up and down on the bumper and was able to make it creak.0
My 2006 Ridgeline clunks and rattles in the front, in slow turns over rough pavement.
I would replace the struts, but there are also rubber mounts that might be the problem. I would hate to order the struts and replace when it's the mounts instead.
I just remembered something from many years back. I sprayed silicone all over the rear spring mounts of some old car and cured squeaks. I might try this on my truck.
It seem like Ridgelines have various problems and noises with both from and rear strut assemblies.0
..I needed to jack up the truck and look around myself....I had a can of spray silicon and while I was spraying I found the creak. There are two short rods attached to each side of the rear assembly....they are about a foot long and the left side rod was broken and had become lodged against the inner wheel well. As the rear assembly moves the rod would rub and squeak....until I replace the rod I moved the part away from where it made the noise.....0
Anybody else have a problem removing the fluid fill plug on the transmission? I could not remove it. Had to fill the tranny through the dipstick hole with a syringe and a long tube. Very time consuming. I broke 2 extensions trying to loosen up the fill cap.
But it is a job that is finished and won't have too do it again for quite awhile.0
I know that it doesn't matter to anyone but ljc2tall and kcclassic are one in the same. Lost my password and could not log in, so just made a new account.0
I have a 2006 Ridgeline. It's the top model, the RTS, I think.
My original tires have worn great, the best tires I've ever owned, but they are now 7 1 /2 years old, 53,000 miles and are getting noisy on the road. So, I'm getting close to replacing the tires, with the same Michelin as came on it. I think Michelin has slightly changed the tire name, but they still have a LTX MS and which seems to be the same tire and that is what I'm probably going to get.
My Questions are about the TPMS sensors in the wheels:
Has anyone replaced these?
Has anyone run the truck until the sensors' batteries 'wore out'? (I assume an error message or pressure warning would be set if the battery was drained.)
At almost 8 years old, should I just go ahead and replace the TPMS sensors when I put new tires on?
Has anyone bought aftermarket TPMS sensors and had problems or no problems?
(I've seen a comment the ones sold my Amazon will not actually 'communicate' with the truck and basically do not work.)
I do know the original sensors do NOT have to be 're-learned' with a specialized tool because I have rotated the tires myself and the truck will pick up the correct sensor location. I've had several low pressure warnings and it always pointed to the correct low tire.
Any help here would be appreciated.0
yankeefan2 Posts: 53If they are working leave alone. You also can't use aftermarket sensor because your TPMS lite will go on, because the TPMS computer will not read after market sensor. It reads only Honda TPMS Sensors. I had a problem with one of mine and I was getting my tires rotated so I had them change it (at Sam's Club). What a mistake. Not only did I pay for the one I had replaced, but then I had to pay Honda to try to match it to the computer in the truck because the TPMS lite came on. It would not read it so I had to have Honda put a Honda Sensor in and it solved the problem.0
belaircarguy Posts: 107If the sensors are working, leave them alone. I had one sensor go out on a VW Jetta (2007). The "check tire" or "air pressure" light came on, but all the tires were fine. In any case, had to get a new sensor which was about $100 or so, and it had to be the correct one to work in a VW.
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