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|25th July 2007, 03:23 AM
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hi roger!
i often read ur wonderful replies to ppl, so i decided to try and get one myself! i hope u'll be kind enough, once again....
im writing from sri lanka, i weigh around 68 kgs, sail in lovely/awful indian ocean BIG chop in souht sri lanka, i own a mistral explosion 145 lts, have a tonix 5.5, rushwind 6.0, north disco 6.4 and a 7.0 arrows. fin is 50 cms freeride straight with a "curved" end). wind is gusty too. the wind range is 3 bft (bad days), 4 or, at a spot 30 mins away, can be 5 on good days. i ahve to get over the massive (for me anyway) waves (which break 30/40 metres form the shore) before i can go blasting, and when the on-side wind lulls i'm a candidate for wipeouts and washing machine spin cycles...
i can waterstart no problem, i'm very confortable in my (seat) harness and footstraps, and attempting chop hops nowadays and perfecting/sussing out carve gybes (difficult to nail/learn in the chop tho'
so...what next? my explosion (which i like) seems to take off because the wind lifts it in stronge wind, especially over chop, it becomes unmanageable with LOADS of spray in the eyes. any solutions? what board should i get now? my target is to freeride/blast/jump/carve/go fast/attempt some manouvres/ but not waves at the moment.... is going down volume wise the solution? what happens on the 3 bft days with my quiver of sails? would i still be moving enough to float and get home? could i manage a 100/105/110/115/120 lts carve, aero, kombat, stype oof that volume? which one is best for me according to my requirements? is the reduced fin going to land me on the rocks coz i cant go upwind anymore to get home for example(which i do well now on the explosion)?
pls help, i am the only windsufer here, no advice whatsoever.....!!!
p.s. anyone coming on holiday is welcome, as i have no windsurfing buddies....!
|25th July 2007, 09:37 PM
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RE: which board?
Hi Mondy,
@ 68 Kg. (149.9 Lbs) you should have plenty of volume on a 100 liter board to simply "stay afloat" so any of the sizes and types of boards you've listed should work nicely.
The tough part here is going to be which type and size to select.
Bft F3 (7-10 knots) is is a big surprise to me that you can even sail your Explosion 145 with your 7.0 m2 Arrows, and fighting your way out through small breaking waves would seem impossible.
Bft F4 (11-16 knots) would seem pretty marginal at the low end with a 7.0 m2 rig but you would be happily powered at around 13-16 knots.
Brf F5 (17-21 knots should be very nice on your 6.4 or 7.0 m2 rigs.
As far as the chop, and slightly higher winds (are we still talking Bft F5 here, or higher winds than F5?) you should be able to do some mast foot tuning and rig tuning to keep your 145 liter board on the water.
If the board starts getting out of the water and hard to control, slide the mast foot forward a few cm at a time and see if you can't find a "sweet spot" that gives you a smoother ride, without the board "blowing up" so much. Don't overdo this, as that can lead to getting the mast foot too far forward and holding the board down which makes for a rough and slower ride.
Ok, back to the boards......
I like the S-Types over chop alot, so I going to suggest the S-Type 115 as a first choice here. You will give up the Bft F3 completely with this board, so maybe the Carve 122 or 111 would be better choices here as thery are a little wider.
As I say it's a tough choice. A wider board will give you more opportunities for early and marginal planing, but the downside is they won't handle the chop as well as a slightly narrower board (S-Type) once the wind comes up to mid Bft F4.
Since you are a relative lightweight at 68 Kg. you could even go down to a Carve 101 or the Kombat 96, but then you would be giving up even more in Bft F3- low F4.
The Carve 122 "rides" a little smaller than it is, so I think the best choices would be the Carve 122 or the S-Type 115.
Hope this helps,
|26th July 2007, 01:33 AM
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hi roger, thanks for the, as always isee in the forum, prompt reply. i truly think ppl like u are one of the best advertisements/assets to companies like *board.
as u say, it is a tough life to schlog in 3 bfts with a 7 mt sail, but hey! we wanna get out as much as possible! there's always something to learn/pratice!
btw, the small waves u refer to are over head high, and i have destroyed a couple of sails that way....wifey is NOT happy about it, but what to do? i just wanna get out and catch that wind/gusts....
accordinto what u say i must have got it all wrong, i had slid the mast foot about 2 inches from the rear limit coz i had read somewhere that over chop it is better that way, but on 2nd thoughts it makes sense to move it forwards. i'll try that next time!
i think the safest would be to go for a carve 122 at this point.
last question:
will i really feel the difference do you think compared to my mistrl explsion 145 with a carve 122? is 25 lts going down enough, due to the fact that the carve as u say rides "small"?
tx, i really appreciate ur efforts to put up with us! i hope they acknowledge ur value at *board,
|26th July 2007, 03:35 AM
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RE: which board?
Hi Mondy,
With a 7.0 m2 rig I would probably have the mast foot as far back in the slot as it will go and still be attached to the board.
ALWAYS start out with the mast foot as far back as it will go and then move it forward 2-3 cm at a time until your board settles down.
If you run it 2" from the back, try it all the way back and then move it forward incrementally until you get back to the 2". Then you will know.
And, the "sweet spot" changes with sail size and fin size as well as with higher and lower wind conditions.
If you are sailing out through head high waves to get to the flat water beyond are there no channels for boats etc. that you could use?
I would guess you are getting very good at reading the waves so you can scoot out between the sets or sail around the breaking parts, right?
Yes, you should feel a significant different between your Explosion 145 and a Carve 122.
Ummmm... in case you didn't know, Starboard doesn't pay me to do this forum.
I do it for "love of the sport/passion". They do provide me with rash guards and have chipped in a portion on some extraordinary expenses like new engine and transmission to keep my truck on the road.
Overall, I didn't ask to be paid, and they sometimes even listen to what I have to say, so it works for them and me.
|26th July 2007, 03:21 PM
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RE: which board?
hi roger,
thanks again.
"If you are sailing out through head high waves to get to the flat water beyond are there no channels for boats etc. that you could use?
I would guess you are getting very good at reading the waves so you can scoot out between the sets or sail around the breaking parts, right?"
yes ur are spot on, it's when there's a lull as i'm scooting thru' that the major problems might occur, i.e. i'm stranded between sets and the next set comes in!!! quick tack and back is what i do and wait again in waste high water ready for another beach start! if i fall during that tack, it's hell because of course hter wont be enough wind to quickly waterstart at that paritcular moment! murphy's law....:@
good to hear that the 122 carve will have a sginificant difference, if i can get hold of one in some neighbouring country (thai, singapore, maldives, who knows....) i'll get one, but it means the cost will be very high by the time i ship it....oh, well, like u, things u do for the love of the sport/passion....
i'll try those mast track adjustments too
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|2008-07-12, 18:48
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We decided to do softsubs in H.264, thus the mkv-only release. Frankly, none of the stuff I do in the future will be avi anymore, and I can't think of credible reasons for needing it.
The resolution is small and should play on older pcs. Decoding power is not an issue.
|2008-07-13, 01:02
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So I decided to check the first episode out on a whim and was pleasantly surprised
I haven't read any of Yoshiki Tanaka's novels although I'm pretty sure I'd enjoy them, so I don't know the original story behind this at all but I did check out the site and some promo materials before the show aired - I had low expectations because at least the first 2 stories would be original material by a writer I'm not that fond of, and the animation studio is Dogakobo which afaik has been doing only subcontractor work - I think this is one of their first, if not the first, major anime that they are doing the actual production of.
Therefore I was actually quite surprised by the animation - frankly speaking it outclasses Natsume Yuujinchou, which I watched just a while earlier, and had expected better animation from considering I expected a return of the Baccano staff and maybe some Satelight folks. Here although in general nothign stood out, they could've cut a lot more corners with some of the movements people made in response to things. I'm guessing it's thanks to the work of Dogakobo animator Junichiro Taniguchi.
More importantly than that though, the story and characters are actually interesting!!!11 Amazing.
I've never been personally fond of characters like Ryoko, but I was thoroughly entertained by her and Izumida - I love the way she pulls off her personality without feeling forced in the least bit. I think her seiyuu Hitomi Nabatame should be thanked for that too... I way, way prefer older characters of this sort compared to say Haruhi or Sheryl (I don't quite hate them, but with that kind of personality, I'm less likely to get annoyed once said characters grow older)
It's refreshing to have a proper city feeling in the anime (ironically since I usually like watching anime to get away from the city) and to hear actually interesting conversations peppered with barbs and references to things like the Ginza height limit and how whatshisname ignored it when building that complex
Whatever it is at least the first episode didn't feel like a drag to watch at all, which is much more than I can say for a lot of other first episodes out there... Hopefully the second episode delivers somewhat even if I'm guessing the animation will take a severe dip sooner or later but I hope the direction doesn't... not too much, at least.
edit: if I have one complaint though, the music felt a bit cheesy sometimes - I dunno, even if one of the music writers for the show is KATSU from angela, some of the synth BGM just felt totally out of place... sort of.
And well sure, the show could go further and be a little more subtle in places but I'm watching an anime for god's sake, I don't demand such high quality most of the time >:/
|2008-07-13, 02:33
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Even though I'm not familiar with the novels, I can already tell that this is my kind of show with my kind of characters.
The intro is simple enough, but I think its city vibe, jazzy approach is precisely what sets the tone of the entire series as a whole. Some shows like to ooze with style, others with charm. This one on the other hand, likes to display class instead.
I admit that as a character, Ryoko hits all my weak spots. My favorite scene in the first episode has to be the one where Ryoko is shopping with Izumida. I love how their personalities play against each other. In fact, I think these characters become even more interesting when they interact with one another. Ryoko's reaction to Izumida supposedly receiving a note from Yukiko brought a smile to my face as well.
All in all, a good first episode. And well, Hitomi Nabatame and Houko Kuwashima lending their talents to this anime is just more icing on the cake for me.
|2008-07-13, 03:07
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Yeah, I just watched episode 2 and I think I'm pretty sure I'm going to watch this till the end. I might still wait till episode 5 to see whether I'd do that if it was a 24-26 episode anime but I don't think they could get too draggy with 1 season so... yeah.
The conclusion of the original storyline here may have been so-so but honestly I've seen much, much worse in other anime and the way they've presented it nothing really felt that out-of-place or contrived. Thumbs up. And the animation hasn't suddenly gone to the dogs either! (Guess there's always still next episode to check out)
Most importantly it's so fun watching Ryoko and Izumida. Pardon my awfully shallow and frivolous thoughts but it's like watching Haruhi and Kyon together, except a little more interesting (I guess sometimes it's a bit tiring watching young people all the time... which isn't what I should say seeing that I'm not that old even )
I have to mention I thought it might possibly make later parts of the show more interesting if they didn't
Spoiler for ep 2:
edit: Also I'm wondering if Takashi Mukouda did the explosion near the end, that was just lovely animation
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Premise: The first episode was just as I expected it to be and so it was really enjoyable.
But! I regret to say that the intro and ending songs are, imo, just rubbish; and lately there haven't been any jazz songs that were a little bit enjoyable, the recent Code-E is no exception, the only one who managed to achieve his goal with this kind of music is Baccano!, and we have to go back to Bebop (I think) for other good examples of jazz music in animes.
However this doesn't undermine the series, in fact, there a lot of good sides, such as: the animation, which I think was pretty good (given the studio) and the characters. Ryouko is beautiful woman in career, she knows what she wants, plus she is smart and cunning, I love the way she does her job, a little laid-back but she doesn't miss anything; Junichirou at first sight seems an average subordinate, but he knows how to kick ass too, they sure are a good pair.
About the story: it seems this series will be episodic and if the other episodes are like the first, it will be a good watch on this side too. It might become like Himitsu or Golgo 13, which are two awesome series to alternate with other more complicate ones.
I'll be sure to follow this until the end.
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|2008-07-13, 13:11
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Yes, ep2 really moved nicely and looked good. As with Daughter of Twenty-faces, you have to be ready for some miraculous escapes, but that's okay. And the mistress-slave relationship is quite rich. Good work by both Nabatame Hitomi and Kiuchi Hidenobu (Ren in NANA, Hei in Darker than Black). Kuwashima Houko still seems a bit over the top as the other investigator, but I'm sure we will get used to the style as we see more of her.
And tigerwoods, have you heard the OP for Crystal Blaze? That was as close to jazz as I've heard in an anime recently. This OP seems fairly stale to me, too. This anime seems a lot more interesting, however.
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|2008-07-13, 13:40
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For some reason, this anime brings me back to the days of Cat's Eye and Lupin III.
You can probably include City Hunter somewhere there, but I haven't seen that one so I'm not really that sure about it.
|2008-07-13, 14:31
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However, as I said, I don't mind the intro and ending sequence too much as long as the show is a good one (and this one seems to be so).
|2008-07-13, 19:52
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That's the best part in the novels, the novel made it clear to the reader that Ryoko (and to some extent Yukiko as well) is interested in Junichiro romantically and pretty much throw herself at him (in Royko-sama's unique way), But Junichiro is simply too dense when it comes to women.
And becuase the novels are told through Junichiro's point of view, you get to see how Junichiro thought of these advances by Ryoko and a lot of time he just brush them off as pranks by a spoilered, unreasonable boss who happens to be one of the most influencial and powerful figure in the country if she wanted to be. He also thinks these advances are just ways for Ryoko to torture and mess with him.
Also another cool part aobut the series is that Junichiro is far from useless, while he is not an elite CAREER like Ryoko and Yukiko, he himself is an elite NON-CAREER officer, it's stated in the noel that he is one of the best hand-to-hand fighter in the Police HQ and while he isn't as knowledgeable as Ryoko, he has his own sources for info and most of his deduction and theories are pretty close to the truth if not dead on.
Any way, I was keeping track of the torrent, and I was pretty happy to see the fact that it consistently having over 700 seeders/leechers, it shows that episode one is doing pretty well on its own for a new series woth a reletively unkown source outside of Eastern Asia. Considering that while Tanaka is perhaps the most popular Sci-fi/fantasy writer in Eastern Asia and his Legend of Galactic Hero was consider Eastern culture's answer to Star War, he novels has not made it outside of Eastern Asia. Most manga/anime fans might only know him from Heroic Legend of Arslan, when Lodass War was the hot stuff back then, and even that was over ten years ago. So I'm really glad to see people actually enjoys the first episode.
|2008-07-13, 20:24
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Regarding the original novel: Oh I see! Okay, thank you very much for the information. If the premise is from the beginning that Ryoko practically throws herself at Izumida then I'm fine with it - I was just worried that things were heating up a bit too soon and whether they were mucking around with things. If there's even greater stuff coming up though then it's okay
I like how he's definitely on a different level from Ryoko as well - his background and upbringing show, but like you said, he is far from incapable. I get the feeling Ryoko and Izumida are worthy of each other (even if Ryoko is "above" Izumida). And that is always a very nice thing to see.
kujoe: Yikes, you might be right :O Now that you mention it... But still, I can't see Ryoko really doing that scene in the beginning of episode 1 without some serious mind-fscking or a screwed up situation. Who knows what happens though.
Izumida, do your job!
|2008-07-13, 21:41
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Kinda cool!
But I had a hard time reading the subs on one part when Ryoko confronted the guards outside the building. Ah the shame... I'm using VLC and the Media Player Classic wouldn't work on the Vista.
Still looking forward for Junichiro to kick butt. I think it's shown Ryoko was jealous when the fake message came from Muromachi.
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FORT SMITH — When Southside High School graduate and former Fort Smith resident Greg Karber saw and heard what he calls "a social ill," he was appalled. So he grabbed his cell phone, hopped into his car and dove into film-making action.
Last week, the 26-year-old Karber, now a Los Angeles resident, writer and filmmaker, created the video, "Abercrombie & Fitch Gets a Brand Readjustment," which addresses quotes made by Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries. Karber's video, which has gone viral with almost 7 million YouTube views and more than 1.2 million Facebook "likes," features quotes made by Jeffries regarding the clothing company's marketing practices — "In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and then there are the not-so-cool kids. We go after the cool kids. A lot of people don't belong, and they can't belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely."
"Abercrombie & Fitch is trying to suggest that if you purchase their clothes, you'll be one of those cool kids, which I think is so stupid and ridiculous," said Karber, a freelance writer who is the son of Sherri Karber of Fort Smith. "I think it's wrong for a corporation with a $7 million advertising budget to use that money to make people feel worse about themselves.
"It's just a horrible, elitist company," he added of the New York City-based retailer. "I had also seen some articles written on Abercrombie & Fitch's policies about women."
Garnering recognition from TV host Ellen DeGeneres and many others, Karber said his video also is a reaction to Abercrombie & Fitch's practice of refusing to stock clothes for plus-size women, as well as the company's statement that it would rather burn damaged clothing than donate it to people in need, the Southwest Times Record reported (http://is.gd/My8vjz).
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"However, I hope people don't do it the exact way I did it in the video," he added. "The video was more of a visual illustration. If people want to give to the homeless — and I hope they do — they should go through homeless shelters and other facilities that help people. Call the shelter and find out what they need besides clothes."
Jeffries responded to Karber's video by making a public apology on his company's Facebook page, stating, " . I sincerely regret that my choice of words was interpreted in a manner that has caused offense. A&F is an aspirational brand that, like most specialty apparel brands, targets its marketing at a particular segment of customers. However, we care about the broader communities in which we operate and are strongly committed to diversity and inclusion. We hire good people who share these values. We are completely opposed to any discrimination, bullying, derogatory characterizations or other anti-social behavior based on race, gender, body type or other individual characteristics."
Karber said he doubts Jeffries' sincerity.
"Mike Jeffries said he was sorry that his resurrected words were taken out of context," he said. "It was a classic corporate apology, because it's absolutely silly to say his quotes had been taken out of context. There are several sentences in his apology that negates the apology, but it does show that if enough people put pressure on a company, they can force that company to reconsider its policies."
A longtime fan of satirical comedy, Karber said he plans to produce more videos.
"I've always been a goofier filmmaker, but there's been so much positive response to this latest video," he said. "It's funny because I made this video so quickly. I had the idea Thursday, went out and shot it with my iPhone in three or four hours and then edited it over the weekend."
Within an hour of its online posting, the video received responses.
"I felt Abercrombie & Fitch were doing a social ill, but I also know that I couldn't do something like shame GE into stop making missile weapons because of a video," Karber said. "I thought I could look at a company doing something bad and have people do something good."
Karber said he hopes people will donate more than A&F clothing in the coming weeks.
"People should take all kinds of clothing to help others," he said. "Don't make this just an opportunity to stick it to Abercrombie & Fitch, but turn this into something where people can really help other people in need."


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His last day will be Nov. 29.
City administrator Brian Townsend said Mullen will be difficult to replace.
"I've worked with several fire chiefs in my career," Townsend said. "I have to say, Patrick is one of the best. He works very hard. He's done a lot of things for the fire department in the five years he's been here. I think the city is going to miss him. The residents of St. Charles owe him gratitude for the things he's accomplished."
Mullen joined the fire department in 2007 after 19 years with the Naperville Fire Department, where he was assistant fire chief.
He described his years in St. Charles as busy and challenging. When he was hired, he said the economy was markedly different than what it has become. He faced shrinking budgets and had to keep positions unfilled although they had once been identified as desirable.
The fire department is in the process of earning national accreditation, an achievement Mullen championed, Assistant Fire Chief Joe Schelstreet said.
National accreditation involves an in-depth review of every aspect of the fire department, including its emergency response, its facility and equipment upkeep, its human resources programs and its budget, Schelstreet said.
"If it touches the fire department, it's examined," he said. "What comes out of it is a true picture of how you're performing now, and then you can build a step-by-step program for continual improvement. That's something we're very much in favor of here."
Schelstreet will serve as acting chief until May.
"Leading this department is an honor," he said.
Townsend said this time frame will allow the new mayor and new aldermen, if any, to participate in the selection process.
"There could be a significant amount of turnover, not only in the mayor's office but in the City Council," Townsend said of the April elections.
Mullen said he and his wife will continue to live in St. Charles.


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First 8 Home Buyouts in South River Completed
New Jersey officials have completed buyouts of eight homes damaged by Superstorm Sandy in South River as its program to buy and demolish storm-prone properties continues.
So far, the state has funding for 424 buyouts statewide.
The Environmental Protection Department says 169 property owners have accepted buyout offers in South River and Sayreville. The two Middlesex County municipalities sustained significant flooding when Sandy's storm surge pushed from Raritan Bay into the South River.
The state eventually hopes to buy 1,000 homes in areas affected by Sandy, as well as 300 more in other towns.
The houses will be razed and the land returned to its natural state as a buffer against future storms.
(Copyright 2014 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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Montana Board: No Clemency for Canadian on Death Row
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Montana Parole Board is recommending that a Canadian man on death row be denied clemency.
Ronald A. Smith's case now goes to Gov. Brian Schweitzer, who has the final say on the matter.
Smith is seeking life in prison without the possibility for parole — instead of the death sentence he now faces.
He asked for and received the death penalty at his 1983 trial for shooting two Blackfeet cousins. But Smith now says that was a mistake and argues he is a changed man who doesn't deserve to die.
But Blackfeet tribal members and family of the victims argue the execution has been postponed for too long.
The parole board tells Schweitzer that justice is best served by rejecting the clemency request.


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I have a small (Mr Heater brand I believe) 40K BTU forced air heater in my garage. My garage is only 20'x 22' and it get quite dirty when I have a lot going on. Anyways, I hadn't ever done any real deep cleaning on it since I put it in in 2009. I've blown it out, but never took the side cover off and blew out the heat exchanger.
Yesterday, I was about out of propane and the heater started sounding different than normal. Figured it was because I was like almost out of propane. Got the cylinder refilled and now the burner won't fire when I tried to turn it back on. Being I know almost nothing about this kind of stuff, I went to YouTube and watched some vids on what could cause the furnace to do what it did. Grayfurnaceman has some excellent troubleshooting vids and sounded very knowledgeable about HVAC stuff. Even tho none of the videos had anything even remotely specific on my particular heater, the principles were the same and it was quite informative all the way around.
The led on the board was flashing a code indicating the high limit/flame rollout switch had tripped. The diagram on the inside of the cover had a code chart and flow schematic. Found the switch and reset it. This was actually the first thing I looked at when I took the side off the heater. Afterwards, it reset and allowed the burner to light again. Then, I got a good look at what the burner was doing. Yea, classic flame rollout. Just like in the videos. Dude said a blocked flue or dirty heat exchanger was likely the main cause, barring cracks.
I blew the exchanger out, and a huge cloud of black soot came billowing out of it
Guess that was the problem lol. I went ahead and took the heating chamber apart because the insulation inside it was pretty nasty. It was sagging, filthy and had some rips from blowing it out with compressed air over the years. Practically disintegrated when I touched it. Plan on replacing it today. After blowing everything out well, it worked perfect.
Guess the whole point of this is to make a habit of regularly checking and cleaning your garage heater if you have one like this and you get a lot of dirt and dust in your work area. Prolly should have done this a few years back, but sometimes you just don't think of this stuff until it happens. I'm more happy than anything that I was able to figure it out without a lot of dicking around or having to call somebody to do it.
If you haven't cleaned yours out in awhile, might be a good idea to take a look at it.
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Video: Man holding kidnapped infant stabs self, gets shot
Pa. trooper shot and killed a man on Dec. 7 that was stabbing himself in a stolen vehicle, with a kidnapped child trapped inside
By Paula Reed Ward
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. this morning said that a state trooper who shot and killed a Massachusetts man who abducted a baby in December was justified in his action.
"These guys did a heck of a job," Mr. Zappala said at a news conference. "They did what they're trained to do, and they did it very well."
Mr. Zappala went through the entirety of the incident that began Dec. 7 at a convenience store in Brentwood, where Jared Brown Garnham of Taunton, Mass., stole a car belonging to his former girlfriend — and which had her 8-month-old daughter, Bailey, strapped into a car seat in the back — and ended after a lengthy chase at Pittsburgh International Airport.
After the 2000 Toyota Avalon was stolen about 11 p.m., the baby's mother called 911 and met with Brentwood police officers. They issued an Amber alert and, using GPS triangulation, tracked Garnham's movements because the mother's cell phone was still in the car, Mr. Zappala said.
Ohio Township police spotted Garnham and began chasing him about 1:18 a.m. and were joined in the chase by a number of departments, including Coraopolis, the county, Robert Morris University and state police. A 9-minute, 53-second video of the chase was captured by a Moon police car.
Eventually, the chase ended outside a gate at the airport leading to the tarmac, Mr. Zappala said.
For about two minutes, Garnham sat in the car, yelling at police to shoot him.
"He's swearing at them," Mr. Zappala said. "He's saying, 'Kill me, kill me."
Garnham reached into the back seat and pulled the baby's car seat into the front with him, and then he can be seen pulling Bailey out by her arm. He was holding a 5-inch fixed-blade knife in his right hand, and made several superficial wounds to the baby's throat. He also stabbed himself in the leg and neck — also superficially.
"They're trying to calm him down," Mr. Zappala said as video continued to play. "'It doesn't have to be this way. We just want the baby.'"
As officers continued to give commands, "He's threatening to killing himself and the baby. The baby's on his lap against his chest. The baby's exposed."
Garnham put the car in reverse, rammed into the gate behind him, and attempted then to drive forward past the officers, the prosecutor said. But the Avalon got caught on a curb and eventually caught fire.
Officers feared taking a shot at Garnham through a window because of possibly causing the bullet to fragment or change trajectory, Mr. Zappala said. Instead, using a steel asp, one officer broke out the rear passenger window and a trooper leaned in, firing a single shot into Garnham's head from 12 to 20 inches away.
The baby was not injured.
Mr. Zappala praised the police response.
"They showed tremendous restraint," he said. "They saved that baby's life."
Copyright 2014 the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette


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This might be fun. The Mouth has anointed a bunch of his players as either best at their position in the NFL, or some other extreme analysis. With this in mind, what about an All World Rex Team. Criteria is that Rex has had to call them either a "special player", "best at their position in the NFL" or some other exaggeration.
I caught a blow fish! I knew it. If you don't like the topic, then don't post. You are turning a ton of people off with your nastiness and childish antics.
Its a fun thread---and in fact, you can actually probably come up with an all Rex Team. What I don't get is why some people on this channel have a need to control what others post. If they don't like it, just don't comment and move on. It really is childish and I find that the people who do it most are the ones who have swallowed the Kool-Aid. Again, you don't like it, move on.
I wonder if some of you guys really are fans of The Jets....it seems if you're hoping the team fails....don't get it???


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By Tiernan Ray
Online travel bookers Expedia (EXPE) this afternoon reported Q4 revenue and profit per share that topped analysts' expectations.
Revenue in the three months ended in December rose 24%, year over year, to $975 million, yielding EPS of 63 cents.
Analysts had been modeling $933 million and 65 cents a share.
Expedia's "room nights" booked rose "a record 33%," year over year, the company said, with domestic bookings rising by 19%, which the company said was the fastest quarterly rate in two years.
Gross bookings were up 19%, year over year.
The company's "adjusted Ebitda," a measure of pre-tax profit, rose by 14% to $184.6 million.
Expedia shares are up $3.25, or 4%, at $70.75.
Expedia management will host a conference call with analysts at 5 pm, Eastern time, and you can catch the webcast of it here.


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Sparkey showed up at my daughters house one day and refused to move! He would not be ran off...PERIOD! He dicided that looked like a nice house and he wanted to stay so he did. He was scared of men and would not let my son-in-law get near him but he followed my grandson everywhere he went and would wait by the back door for him to come out. He was a well bahaved pooch and grew on them really fast. (My son-in-law always refused to let them have a dog and would run every dog off that came, this one would not leave!!!!) My daughter came up with the idea of having Curt be the only one to feed him and while he was eating, for Curt to talk to him in soft tones, working into petting him while he talked to him. Now, when Curt comes home, Sparkey runs to greet him and Dad has to give him belly scratches before he can do anything. He has been living in the home HE adopted for several years now and he is a absolutely wonderful dog. He is also a really beautiful, well behaved pet who has his own bed inside the house with a owner that use to think dogs did not belong inside!
Oh, and by the way. When the big house had new sidding put on it, Sparkey's house outside had new sidding put on his too!


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Many of us were more than a little disappointed with the Nov. 6 presidential election results.
A lot of people, myself included, had hoped that Mitt Romney would win the election. I listened to coverage of the election for a while Tuesday night, and at first it seemed that Romney might have a chance, but unfortunately he did not. While I am definitely not a big fan of Romney, I thought that he would be the better candidate for our president. He wanted to completely remove funding for Planned Parenthood (which I am sure many Americans would have liked to see happen) and cut way back on unnecessary spending.
President Obama, however, in the four short years he has already been President, has already increased our debt so much through his healthcare plan, government bailouts, and unnecessary spending, that he has greatly increased our country's national debt. He has also driven many industries overseas due to his unreal taxation. He said he was going to create jobs, but instead he has actually lost many jobs by driving companies overseas and creating instead jobs for people overseas. That doesn't really help our country out.
What will he do in the next four years? He is piling so many taxes on the people that work, that it will become hard for them to keep going. Granted, our country needs to help our seniors, homeless, disabled, and our veterans who have seen combat and been affected by it so that they can no longer provide for themselves.
But what about all of the unemployed persons who "say" they can't work but really could if they wanted to? Why are we paying taxes so Obama can give them unemployment? The cost of living is already so high that the rest of us cannot continue to support this system. There's something really wrong with this. The system that was set up with the intent of helping out those who truly cannot provide for themselves has been abused.
It may be too late to change who is in office at the White House, but we still can make a difference.
John Boatright is an 11th-grade home-school student from Nikiski.


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State's College of Engineering's Staff Advisory Committee is hosting an ice cream social to thank engineering faculty and staff for their service to the college.
The event will be held from noon to 2 p.m. on Friday, June 20, at Foundry Park, located behind Hammond Building on the University Park campus.
Several celebrity scoopers have agreed to participate, including Penn State women's basketball head coach Coquese Washington and Penn State men's basketball head coach Patrick Chambers, as well as college department heads and administration.
The social was planned as part of a community building initiative, established by Amr Elnashai, Harold and Inge Marcus Dean of Engineering, which aims to encourage strengthening of affiliation and sense of community among the college's faculty, staff and leadership.
The College of Engineering Staff Advisory Committee's mission is to foster an ideal workplace while enhancing the stature of the college by serving as an advocate for staff.


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had "the goods" on the Speaker, Palosi.:rolleyes:
Sorry , but they were wrong in their conclusions.
Source with links to the emails, DOD documents, and letters.Quote:
In response to a series of requests for military aircraft, one Defense Department official wrote, "Any chance of politely querying [Pelosi's team] if they really intend to do all of these or are they just picking every weekend?...[T]here's no need to block every weekend 'just in case'..." The email also notes that Pelosi's office had, "a history of canceling many of their past requests."
One DOD official complained about the "hidden costs" associated with the speaker's last minute changes and cancellations. "We have...folks prepping the jets and crews driving in (not a short drive for some), cooking meals and preflighting the jets etc."
The documents include a discussion of House Ethics rules and Defense Department policies as they apply to the speaker's requests for staff, spouses and extended family to accompany her on military aircraft. In May 2008, for example, Pelosi requested that her husband join her on a Congressional Delegation (CODEL) into Iraq. The DOD explained to Pelosi that the agency has a written policy prohibiting spouses from joining CODEL's into combat zones.
Documents obtained from the U.S. Army include correspondence from Speaker Pelosi's office requesting an Army escort and three military planes to transport Pelosi and other members of Congress to Cleveland, Ohio, for the funeral services of the late Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones. Pelosi noted in her letter of August 22, 2008, that such a request, labeled "Operation Tribute" was an "exception to standard policy."
The documents also detail correspondence from intermediaries for Speaker Pelosi issuing demands for certain aircraft and expressing outrage when requested military planes were not available. "It is my understanding there are no G5s available for the House during the Memorial Day recess. This is totally unacceptable...The speaker will want to know where the planes are..." wrote Kay King, Director of the House Office of Interparliamentary Affairs. In a separate email, when told a certain type of aircraft would not be available, King writes, "This is not good news, and we will have some very disappointed folks, as well as a very upset [s]peaker."
During another email exchange DOD staff advised Kay King that one Pelosi military aircraft request could not be met because of "crew rest requirements" and offered to help secure commercial travel. Kay King responded: "We appreciate the efforts to help the codel [sic] fly commercially but you know the problem that creates with spouses. If we can find another way to assist with military assets, we would like to do that."
LIz, I'll wear my motorcycle helmet when I type from now on.:D
I saw something on the tube that made me think and get kinda melancholy.
BO was to make a stop here in the Southland. People were camping out for tickets and the news crews stopped by to interview people.
As I flipped thru the channels the interviews were in two parts, some people wanted to see him in person and the other set were there to see if they culd ask the pres about getting some of the stimulus money for themselves.
This is going to be a prob for this administration. 'giving' away money is the not the answer! Most of the people who lived within their means are doing 'o.k.' considering the econ climate. The people who over extended their financial limits are the ones that are begging to be helped. This is a scary
precedent because no one is inclined to clean up their mess-they want someone else to do it for them.
That really gets me angry that we have lost the desire and drive to 'do it ourselves'.
The people who wanted a government that would butt out of our lives is getting the opposite of their wishes!:(
Oh come on! Some people ...who make their own mess asking for a handout....NEVER happened before?
And this new action is the result of the Bush and the Obama administrations giving money to save corporations. :rolleyes::rolleyes:
PLEASE!!! An opinion about so-called "bailouts" - fine - dislike Obama and his ideas - fine....but to say...
...based on the overwrought interviews with some people. That make a "good" story on the news.Quote:
we have lost the desire and drive to 'do it ourselves'.
I don't know about you...but I am still doing "it" myself and so is just about everyone I know.
So a couple of people went to the Town Hall Meeting and asked for money. I realize the media (as you so often like to point out) makes a big deal out of it.
But...I really don't think this is indicative of a general collapse in the American spirit.
I hope someone tells Barney Frank to STFU.....
I used to like him, now he is just a political buffoon, Dance, Monkey, Dance.
I heard that AIG put some cash into BO's campaign.....They got what they paid for!
The country is on dire financial stratights and he's picking out the bracket for the NCAA basketball tournament.
Oh my gosh! At the OC Town Hall Meeting some people wanted to ask Obama...boxer or briefs?
Does this mean the country has lost its way? Do we no longer care about our own underwear? And how can it be blamed on Obama??
Oh wait!...it can be blame on Barbara Boxer for having a last name that is also used for men's underwear.
Or Barney Franks for never answewring the questions as to what HE wears!
Yup...thanks to Obama, Franks and Boxer we have lost our desire and drive to mind our own underwear!


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Submission + - Amazon Coins and How the Definition of 'Crypto-Currency' is Getting Too Loose (slashdot.org)
Nerval's Lobster writes: Amazon has expanded support for its Amazon Coins from Kindle Fire tablets to Google Android mobile devices.In its press release, Amazon positioned its e-currency as the ultimate in convenience for customers who don't want their credit-card statements riddled with lots of micro-purchases from Amazon's App Store. Expanding the currency's reach is also a potential win for Amazon, which wants to create an end-to-end ecosystem for app developers. But Amazon Coins' existence could alienate the same demographic that made Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies such a hit. The company tethers the Coins to a user identity, and likely keeps significant records on its crypto-currency ecosystem: who buys what when. That concept is anathema to those online denizens who embraced Bitcoin as a way to make purchases without needing to reveal a real-world identity, or deal with a currency tethered to a central repository; genuine crypto-currency can be used to purchase pretty much anything from a purveyor willing to take it, including—in the case of Silk Road and other online bazaars—drugs and weapons. Indeed, Amazon Coins has more to do with a corporate "currency" like the now-defunct Microsoft Points than an actual crypto-currency like Bitcoin. But that hasn't stopped some people from getting confused about it.


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UPDATE: The Bendigo Bank Spirit says it will meet with representatives of the WNBL tomorrow to discuss hosting home finals at Bendigo Stadium this season.
The Spirit has confirmed with the Stadium it can accommodate more than 3000 people with temporary stands.
A Basketball Australia spokesperson said the official position has not yet changed, in that no decisions have been made on the host venues.
EARLIER: Basketball Australia will not announce the location of the WNBL grand final today, a spokesperson said.
The spokesperson said at this point the venue for the grand final hasn't been decided.
"Essentially, there's a number of factors that dictate where a grand final is held – the teams involved, venue capacity, consultation with ABC but ultimately BA holds the cards in terms of when and where finals are played," the spokesperson said.
"At this point we haven't confirmed the venue."
Bendigo Stadium CEO Eric Pascoe has pledged to explore "every possible option to accommodate 3000 people".
The Bendigo Bank Spirit might not host the Women's National Basketball League grand final at Bendigo Stadium, even if it wins the second semi-final.
Traditionally, the top-two teams after the home-and-away season play-off in the second semi-final for the right to host the decider.
But, unless the WNBL does a backflip, that is unlikely to be the case for either Bendigo or Dandenong - the teams most likely to finish in the top two spots.
The Bendigo Spirit's official Twitter account tweeted last night: "#BendigoSpirit #DandenongRangers missing out on hosting WNBL G/F 'WOWSERS'."
In another tweet the account went on to say that no official decision has been relayed to the club yet, but the WNBL believes Bendigo Stadium doesn't meet its venue requirements of 3000 capacity.
Spirit coach Bernie Harrower said the club will fight for its right to host the decider.
"I think from our point-of-view there'd certainly be a lot of anger if we were the ones that won the right to host the grand final and couldn't. In a place like Bendigo I think there'd be an all-out war," he said.
"Part of their criteria is that for the grand final and preliminary final is that the stadium has to be able to hold 3000 people.
"We believe as a club we'd be able to put in enough portable seating to fulfil that commitment.
"Part of what you want to win home court advantage for is so that you can host grand finals and actually make some money out of the game and help the club along.
"I'm sure Dandenong would be in the same boat, if they win the right to host the grand final I'm sure they'd want to host it at their venue as well and would be just as angry as what we would be.
"There's a lot of water to go under the bridge. It wouldn't go down well with our town, it wouldn't go down with our club, there'd certainly be ramifications for BA (Basketball Australia) or the WNBL if they tried to do that to us."
It is understood the WNBL has booked the State Netball and Hockey Centre for the grand final.
"They're making decisions about things now and they haven't even entered into any negotiations with us - I don't know whether they have with Dandenong," Harrower said.
"But there's been nothing said to us at all about whether our stadium is suitable or unsuitable, they're just making decisions that's suiting them with no negotiations between the club and them."
Bendigo Stadium has previously held Commonwealth Games and Australian Opals matches, with about 2000 people attending Kristi Harrower's 200th match for Australia against Brazil before the London Olympics last year.
More to follow in tomorrow's Bendigo Advertiser.


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Steve Keim didn't need to camp out for good deals on Black Friday. He did his bargain shopping in the offseason, and gave himself and his team the best veteran presents – or is it presence? -- money could buy.
While other teams shied away from aging linebackers Karlos Dansby and John Abraham in free agency over the summer, the Cardinals' first-year general manager inked both to team-friendly contracts. The additions proved masterful again on Sunday, as
The 35-year-old Abraham had five tackles, three sacks, three tackles for loss and a forced fumble. Abraham also added a safety when he pulled down Kellen Clemens in the end zone to give the Cardinals a 23-3 lead with 9:10 remaining in the third quarter. The 32-year-old Dansby finished the game with eight tackles, a sack and a 23-yard interception return for a touchdown.
Dansby played the first six years of his career with the Cardinals before signing a 5-year, $43-million contract with the Dolphins in 2010. He stayed there for three seasons but was released in March, a move which Dansby said lit a fire within him.
"It was a lot of disrespect in that situation and it motivated me, without a doubt," said Dansby, who signed a one-year, $2.25-million contract with the Cardinals in May. "And you can see the outcome from that."
Dansby's biggest contribution came on the second play of the third quarter when Calais Campbell pressured Rams quarterback Kellen Clemens, who as he was falling threw a pass intended for tight end Jared Cook. Dansby stepped in, picked it off and returned it for a score and a 21-3 lead. It was Dansby's second pick-six in the past three weeks following one against Andrew Luck and the Colts.
He now has 105 tackles, six sacks, three interceptions, a forced fumble and 17 passes defensed on the season.
Dansby has been one of the better linebackers in the NFL for much of his career, but he's never been to a Pro Bowl. It sounds like
"It's been so great to have him back," wide receiver
Abraham entered this season under a different scenario. He had 10 sacks for the Falcons last season but was released in March, also because of a big 2013 salary. He contemplated retirement instead of moving to a new city and starting with a different organization.
He decided to play, but despite a stellar career, there wasn't much demand. He signed with the Cardinals for two years and $4.6 million late in July as a pass-rushing specialist.
"At 35, that's young in life, but in football, that's a graveyard," Abraham said.
Abraham was close a few times but was sackless for the first six weeks. Since then, he has 11 sacks and four forced fumbles in seven games. He stepped into the starting lineup after injuries to
Abraham surpassed Lawrence Taylor and Leslie O'Neal for ninth place on the all-time sack list with 133 in his career with is hat trick Sunday.
"Passing L.T. was one of my goals coming into the year," Abraham said. "I always try to get 10 every year, and I knew 10 would put me right there."
Abraham is the first Cardinals player to register double-digit sacks in a season since Bertrand Berry, who made the Pro Bowl after putting up 14½ in 2004.
Sunday's game came to a fitting conclusion when Abraham and Dansby met at the quarterback to seal the game with a late sack. Abraham got the credit, but both players again illustrated their worth.
"People thought I was done, washed up," Dansby said. "Not on my watch."


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PvP is hard to discuss in writing. (I'm not talking about how to properly 4-gate your opponent on Shakuras Plateau, but rather about WoW's player-vs-player content.) It's a relatively easy task to distill a PvE encounter into a list of salient points, but that's because raid bosses aren't random. Magmaw is going to do the same thing against every single raid group that encounters him, and so our strategies for countering him are fairly unilateral. We're playing rock-paper-scissors with the developers, except that we know they're going to throw paper ahead of time. All we have to do is successfully become scissors, and the raid bosses will fall over and explode with purples -- they're just loot piñatas.
PvP, meanwhile, is impossible to condense into a single strategy. In a raid setting, most classes use less than a dozen simple abilities on any given encounter. In an arena or battleground, players will be drawing from the deepest, darkest pages of their spellbooks to gain any advantage. I can't tell you what that warrior on the opposing team is going to do, because he can literally do anything. Instead of trying to make some sort of overly complicated flowchart in an attempt to remove all decision-making from PvP, you have to adjust and react on the fly. The key to surviving in this volatile environment is to maintain control of the tempo -- you need to fight on your terms.


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Brian Wilson, a fourth-generation cattle farmer with a property near Tamworth, says the Coles and Woolworths duopoly cut his income by about $80,000 last financial year.
For Mr Wilson, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's stepped-up investigation of the duopoly's power over suppliers can't come soon enough.
Mr Wilson said producers in New England went through a competitive tender process to win the Coles and Woolworths milk contract, but many farmers were forced to sell their product at a loss.
Mr Wilson said dollar-a-litre milk offered by Coles and Woolworths had a drastic effect on his Tamworth farm and other farms in the region.
''The last financial year we were probably down $80,000 dollars on our milk income,'' he said.
''The processors can't talk with each other to keep their prices up, so it becomes very cut-throat,'' Mr Wilson said. ''They get the contract, but it's good news and bad news, because they have to go so low to get it.''
But for some, the pressures of the system means the investigation comes too late.
NSW Farmers Association chief executive Matt Brand said 30 farming families in the state had left the dairy industry in the past year because of price cutting by supermarket chains.
He said the market dominance of large retailers which adverselyaffected returns to farmers and processors had been a concern for years.
''We just want to see these guys getting a fair return for a solid days work,'' Mr Brand said.
The ACCC announced last week it would investigate the supermarkets over claims they bullied suppliers, misused market powers and potentially breached the law.
Fifty producers anonymously stepped forward with evidence against the supermarket giants, who last year earned a combined revenue of $70 billion.
Mr Brand said some sort of resolution needed to be reached.
"The reality is supermarkets aren't going anywhere and neither is agriculture and we need to all be able to sit down and have a serious look at supply chain solutions,'' he said.
He said the Association supported the investigation particularly the ACCC's promise to protect the identity of those who spoke up.
But Mr Wilson said producers had lost control of the dairy industry, and he wasn't sure if they could gain it back.
He said an independent body needed to step in to curb the power of the pair before they "take over the world''.
Both supermarkets said they would co-operate with the ACCC investigation.
A spokesman from Coles said the supermarket absorbed the cost of low-price milk by reducing its own profits, and it compensated dairy processing companies who buy the milk from farmers.
"Our contracts with dairy processing companies contain 'rise and fall' clauses, which mean if farm-gate prices increase we pay the processors more," the spokesman said.
"There are a number of factors affecting farm-gate prices such as global demand for milk, exchange rates and rising input costs."
Woolworths said they matched the milk price set by Coles, but they were committed to supporting the dairy industry.
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|2004-02-07, 17:36
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Join Date: Dec 2003
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
any1 heard of it?
also does any1 knw where i can get the anime to download or download the manga? i was told by some friends that it was really good. but i cant seem to find its bit torrent on sites. please help if u knw.
|2007-04-09, 17:19
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Location: Oh Canada
Even if there will be another Jojo anime coming out, I really don't wish the same people who made the movie and the (first part of the)OVA makes it.
|2007-04-12, 19:19
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an anime series of JoJo would mean a series where 90% of the characters fight like Shikamaru, only they have powers a LOT weirder(and are a lot less lazy)-
for exemple, there is a fight of Koichi Hirose, whose Stand Echos(Act 1) has the power to place Onomatopoeias on things, against Tamami Kobayashi, whose Stand The Lock is a lock on the chest of his victim, becomes heavieras the victim's feeling of having done a wrong grows.
or the "fight" at Tonio's restaurant.
a good part of JoJo 4th Series is more like Death Note than Naruto...
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Jojo.... one of my top favorite mangas of all time. While I'll always like Stardust Crusaders the best, both Diamond is Unbreakable and Stone Ocean (parts 4 and 6 respectively) come pretty close behind it. I also greatly enjor Steel Ball Run, which seems to be nearing its end (the battle against Valentine has been dragging on forever, though ). I'd especially love for Araki to approve of a new Jojo fighting game sometime in the near future (preferably featuring characters from ALL of the different generations, not just part 3).....
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Wooo! Bump time!
Anyway, in case anyone hasn't heard yet, Steel Ball Run ends this month. The final chapter is too freaking awesome for words. I won't spoil the details, but if anyone wants to know how it ends, then I'd recommend checking out this place.
Aaaand...... with the end of part 7, we learn new details about part 8! So now without further ado I present to you...... JOJOLION!
New main character looks pretty neat, if I do say so myself (kudos to Araki for making the new Jojo gap-toothed ). And the best part? The new series will take place in Morioh DUWANG! Boy, oh boy, I can't wait for next month.......
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: France
Age: 31
I was shocked when I saw the gapped teeth
It's not often you see a manga character with teeth like that. Since it takes place in Morioh and it might be a "remake" of part 4, I wonder if this Jojo will be touchy about his teeth (did you say something about my teeth!?).
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Done! I was actually considering making a manga thread for Jojo for quite some time, but procrastinated for some reason. Anyway, I checked and saw that there was only an SBR thread in the manga section, so I went ahead and made a general JJBA thread. Besides, I think this is pretty appropriate now that we've got Jojolion to look forward to next month.
Yeah, I've seen a lot of speculation about whether or not this will be a part 4 remake. Personally, I like the theory about the new Jojo being the son of Shizuka Joestar (the Achtung Baby user that Joseph adopted in part 4), but there's kind of the issue of her not being blood-related to the Joestars. But then again, I wouldn't be at all surprised if Araki came up with some completely nonsensical explanation for the birth (like alternate-universe Shizuka having blood relations to a Joestar after all, Giorno Giovanna ends up being the father, the new MC is some new incarnation of Dio, etc.).....
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Live like 'Big Unit' Randy Johnson
Former Mariner listing Arizona estate for $25 million
Updated 10:42 am, Wednesday, September 3, 2014
The Mariners' pitching staff is doing just fine these days without Randy Johnson, but many fans retain fond memories of "The Big Unit." If you're one, here's your chance to imagine living like him.
Johnson is slated to put his 5-acre, Mediterranean-style estate in Paradise Valley, Ariz., on the market on Monday, and it's worthy of the five-time Cy Young Award winner's nickname.
We'll start with the 21,148-square foot main house, which includes a living room with 24-foot ceilings and massive stone fireplace, a 12-seat dining room with adjacent temperature-controlled wine room, a chef's kitchen, a great room with beamed ceilings, his-and-her offices, a game room, a billiards parlor with a wet bar and leather-trimmed ceiling, seven bedrooms, a poker room, a fire pole from the main floor to the lower level, a 20-seat theater with marquee, ticket booth and snack bar, a recording studio, a stage, a music instrument showroom, an elevator and a three-car display garage.
There's also a two-bedroom, 1,936-square-foot guest house, a 1,746-square-foot fitness center, a covered patio with a wood-fired pizza oven, an outdoor fire pit, an eight-carmotor court, a tennis court, a pool with a spa, two-story waterslide and bathhouse, an indoor kennel, dog wash and an outdoor dog run.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal officials say four California clinics received steroid shots from a recalled batch linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak that has caused five deaths and 40 cases of the illness in other states.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the shots, used to relieve back pain, were received by Cypress Surgery Center in Visalia, Encino Outpatient Surgical Center, Ukiah Valley Medical Center and Universal Pain Management in Palmdale.
The California Department of Public Health says no cases of meningitis have been reported here.
It's unclear if any of the California clinics administered shots from the recalled lot, and whether any of those shots were contaminated with fungus and administered.
Across the country, 75 clinics received the recalled steroid shots.
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Sterling Centers, 301 W. Third St., opened Thursday. A ribbon-cutting ceremony that included Rep. Mike Smiddy, D-Hillsdale, Sterling Mayor Skip Lee and representatives from the Sterling and Rock Falls chambers of commerce and other business leaders in the area.
Sterling Centers General Manager Doug Wiersema said the facility, because of its size, will not only allow for businesses to have an office, but also offer space for build-outs and some manufacturing. He said he's had serious discussions with some businesses, but none confirmed to locate there.
"We also strongly support the concept of economic gardening," Wiersema said. "That's a philosophy of growing from within a community."
The offices can be equipped to meet the specifications needed by the business, and rent will start at approximately $1 per square foot, depending on lease terms, Wiersema said.
The Sterling Centers, Wiersema said, hasn't received any government funds.
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Dinner and Induction slated for Friday evening
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – During just two seasons in a Golden Eagle softball uniform, pitcher Brandy Henry Kleeman made an indelible mark on the Tennessee Tech program. So well, in fact, that in May her name was placed on the Wall of Honor in centerfield at the TTU Softball Field.
Now, in even greater recognition of her Golden Eagle success, she is one of four people who will be enshrined into the Tennessee Tech Sports Hall of Fame on Friday as the school honors its athletic legacy with the 36th annual induction ceremony.
The 2010 Hall of Fame Class will be honored during Homecoming weekend, Nov. 12-13. The induction will take place at the Hall of Fame Dinner Friday evening, and the group will also be recognized at the Homecoming football game Saturday against Eastern Kentucky.
A two-year starting pitcher for the Golden Eagles in 1999 and 2000, Henry was a dominant presence in the circle. She finished her career with the second-most wins in the program's history at that time, and her 30 wins in 2000 marked the highest single-season total by a Golden Eagle.
The team's top starter in both of her seasons at Tech, Henry helped Tech to a 40-win season as a senior in 2000 after pitching a record 284 innings. She led the Golden Eagles with a 1.43 ERA and 30 victories while notching 11 shutout wins. She struck out 161 batters and went the distance in a program-record 33 of her starts. A workhorse for the team, she handled the workload by earning 75 percent of Tech's wins.
The previous season, Henry led the team with 17 victories and a 1.39 ERA to go along with 20 complete games and five shutouts in coach Tory Acheson's first season at the helm.
She continued to mow down opposing hitters throughout the season and was recognized as the team's Most Valuable Player and Pitcher of the Year. She also garnered first-team all-OVC accolades and was Tech's first-ever all-region selection.
Her consistency was on full display during her senior campaign as she repeated as the team's MVP and Pitcher of the Year. After earning three OVC Pitcher of the Week honors during the season, Henry was once again named to the all-OVC first-team. Along the way, Henry recorded her second career no-hitter when she held UT Martin at bay in a game during the heat of the OVC regular season title race.
Not to be lost in the mix was how Henry handled herself off the field. A two-time winner of the softball team's President's Award – the highest honor a Tennessee Tech student-athlete can receive – Henry appeared on the Athletic Director's Honor Roll in each of her four semesters at Tech. During her senior season, Henry joined six Golden Eagles before her when she was recognized on the CoSIDA Academic All-District Team.
She received her degree in Multidisciplinary Studies in 2001, and married former Golden Eagle baseball player Brad Kleeman in 2003. The couple has a two-year old son, Parker. Brandy began her career by teaching first and third grades for six years in the Georgia Public School system. She was an assistant principal for one year, and has spent the past three years teaching in the Georgia Cyber Academy, an online charter school.
She continued to be involved in her sport, spending one season as the pitching coach at Kennesaw State University. She has also coached high school softball, and has given private pitching lessons.
Joining Henry Kleeman in the Class of 2010 are Diane Seng Haynes, Steve Hawkins and Gene Palmer. With their induction, the Hall of Fame will grow to 154 since it was established in 1975.
Tickets to the Hall of Fame Dinner and the game are available by calling (931) 372-3940, or through the Athletics ticket office in Eblen Center. Reservations must be made for the dinner, and tickets are $25 each. Reservations may also be made online at TTUsports.com.


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Because Carter had surgery on the same knee in training camp, there is fear his setback could be long term. The team is discussing a possible roster move.
Carter first sustained the injury late last season, although he got his first two career interceptions in the postseason against Pittsburgh's Ben Roethlisberger in the first round, and New England's Tom Brady in the second round.
A fourth-round pick out of Oklahoma in the 2011 draft, Carter opened training camp No. 1 on the Broncos' depth chart at strong safety, but he aggravated the knee and popped his hamstring during an indoor camp workout on July 27.
He returned to start in the team's final preseason game Aug. 30 at Arizona, and was a special teams' contributor through the first three games of the regular season.
But Carter experienced knee pain in the game last Sunday against the Houston Texans and has not practiced this week. Rahim Moore and Mike Adams have been the Broncos' safeties this year with veteran Jim Leonhard playing in the dime package.
Fines and appeals
It was a costly week for Broncos linebackers. Second-year strongside backer Von Miller was fined $15,750 for a roughing the passer penalty he incurred during the Broncos' 31-25 loss to the Houston Texans.
Miller declined comment, saying he wanted to first go through the appeal process.
Specifically, the league said Miller "unnecessarily drove the quarterback to the ground."
The quarterback was Matt Schaub, who lost part of his ear after his helmet flew off from another blast, this one by Joe Mays, the Broncos' middle linebacker. Mays was not only fined $50,000 for the hit, he received a one-game suspension and will not play Sunday against the Oakland Raiders.
Broncos coach John Fox filed an appeal Friday with the NFL office contesting his $30,000 fine for inappropriate behavior toward the replacement officiating crew, according to a league source.
Broncos defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio is expected to follow Fox's lead and appeal his $25,000 fine, according to a source.
There's a sense among the coaches recently fined for misconduct with the replacement officials that their fines could disappear -- like the replacement officials themselves. But a league source says the fines for Fox, Bill Belichick, Del Rio and Kyle Shanahan will not be rescinded.
Then there's D.J.
Besides the punishment to the Broncos' strong and middle linebackers, Broncos weakside linebacker D.J. Williams met with an NFL representative Wednesday to appeal a second suspension stemming from the driving while ability impaired conviction he received from a Denver jury on Aug. 15.
Williams, who is currently a six-game suspension for failing the league's steroid test, is facing an additional three-game penalty for his DUAI conviction.


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November 11, 2013
Marquette Mining Journal, MARQUETTE - State officials responded Friday to allegations that distorted facts and false claims were made in the effort to remove state and federal protections for gray wolves and in establishing Michigan's first state-sanctioned wolf hunt, which is set to begin next Friday.
Jill Fritz, director of Keep Michigan Wolves Protected, wrote to Gov. Rick Snyder Tuesday asking that he cancel the hunt in the wake of a "damning expose" by Internet media "revealing distortions and falsehoods" in "arguments that played a decisive role in shaping the trajectory of the debate."
"The rationale for the removal of wolves from the state's list of protected species and the subsequent opening of a trophy hunting season on a small wolf population was predicated on a series of fraudulent claims, including claims that were included not just in the public debate, but also in actual resolutions approved by state lawmakers," Fritz wrote.
Snyder's Upper Peninsula representative David Nyberg said Friday Snyder supports the Michigan Natural Resources Commission's decision to move forward "with a very limited and science-based wolf management harvest to aid the department in its charge of addressing wolf-human conflict issues in the U.P."
Nyberg said the decision to establish this fall's hunt was reviewed by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and based on Michigan's Wolf Management Plan.
That 2008 plan updated a plan from 1997 and was put together over several months with the help of the 20-member Michigan Wolf Management Roundtable, a diverse group of often opposing interests that developed a set of principles to help guide wolf management.
In 2011, state Sen. Tom Casperson, R-Escanaba, and others offered a resolution asking Congress to remove gray wolves from the Endangered Species List. That resolution and another introduced by Casperson in May 2012 seeking to establish wolves as a game species in Michigan included as part of the rationale the description of a wolf incident outside a day care center in Ironwood.
"Wolves appeared multiple times in the backyard of a day care center shortly after the children were allowed outside to play," the resolutions stated. "Federal agents disposed of three wolves in that backyard because of the potential danger to the children."
Fritz said the incident "never occurred" and "grossly distorted the details of a wolf sighting."
Casperson told fellow lawmakers Thursday on the Senate floor there were errors in the report used to craft the resolutions. He did not disclose the source of the original information, but apologized and clarified the statement.
Casperson said there is a day care center in Ironwood that had wolves on its property and they had appeared there multiple times. "In fact, the family dog even faced down one of the wolves in the backyard while five children were inside the home," Casperson said. "And, in fact, that wolf, apparently completely socialized to humans, was not at all troubled by the woman who owned the daycare 'screaming' at the sight of this."
However, the children were not in the backyard, nor were the wolves killed in the backyard, but were eventually killed in the vicinity, Casperson said. "Words matter. Accuracy matters. Especially here, with a topic that is so emotional to so many and so important to so many, especially those whose way of life is being changed in my district," Casperson said. "And the decision here, with whether or not we use sound science to manage the wolf, as with all decisions this body should make, should not be based on emotion, innuendo or agendas. But rather on facts."
Fritz said DNR furbearer specialist Adam Bump "intentionally misled Public Radio listeners with comments about wolves showing up in people's backyards." Fritz said Bump has since renounced his "false claims," but after the Legislature took action on the bills.
In a media teleconference Friday, featuring a panel of DNR experts, Bump did not speak to the question of the controversy surrounding the Keep Michigan Wolves Protected claims. "Any errors that were made were not material to the actual hunt that was designed," DNR spokesman Ed Golder said, responding to the question posed by The Mining Journal. "Those had to do with the recovery of wolves and where we were at in terms of delisting wolves."
Fritz said the NRC solicited public feedback on the wolf hunt and then deleted or ignored more than 10,000 email comments from members of the public opposing the hunt." Golder agreed the DNR received "thousands of emails that were generated by opponents of the hunt," most of which were form emails. "They really weren't a measure of public opinion, they were a measure of one organization's ability to generate mass emails," Golder said.
Golder said that organization was the Humane Society of the United States and Keep Michigan Wolves Protected. "We took a number of factors into account including public opinion, public comments to the Natural Resources Commission and the advice of experts," Golder said. Fritz said the media reports also stated 60 percent of the wolf livestock depredation incidents in the Upper Peninsula occurred on a single farmer's land in Ontonagon County. "The purported incidents of wolf depredation on his property were a central argument of lawmakers and others who demanded the hunt," Fritz said. DNR wildlife biologist Brian Roell said Friday the John Koski farm did have "more depredation than all the farms put together. The numbers are correct."
However, Roell said what was incorrect was suggesting the Koski farm was overly influential in establishing any of the three wolf management units for the hunt where a total of 43 wolves are slated to be killed. "We do not center the hunt or anything like that around that one farm," Roell said. "There's no one farm or one incident that drove any part in developing those units."
Roell said the Koski farm is located on the edge of Unit B and the unit is not centered on that property. "He's just one of the 14 farms in Unit B that have had depredation," Roell said.
A total of 1,200 licenses were sold for the hunt. No trapping will be allowed and the units will be closed Dec. 31 or once hunting quotas are reached.