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Not every business making a few bucks on Valentine's Day sells chocolates and flowers. Whether you're in the market for some truly unique jewelry to give your Valentine, you want to make a loved one laugh out loud or hope to exact revenge on an ex, you should check out the offerings from these eight companies. You might just fall in love.
Your very own heartbeat
Jewelry made of cremation remains
Dead flowers
Flowers are a surefire way to make that special person in your life swoon. But what if your sweetheart has done you wrong? Flowers might still send a powerful message, especially if they arrive broken and on the verge of decay.
Dirty Rotten Flowers offers an array of damaged bouquets for delivery to your erstwhile partner. Whether it's a bunch of stinking, old carnations or an arrangement of decapitated roses, these gifts have the right stuff to get your twisted point across this Valentine's Day.
A little piece of you
Nothing says I love you quite as much as giving your sweetheart a ring made from one of your own teeth. Though a necklace made from your hair might be nearly as nice. Australian designer and jeweler Polly van der Glas makes such romantic gestures possible with her line of jewelry and miniature sculptures made from human hair and teeth housed in beautiful, cast-metal settings.
Van der Glas is always seeking donations of discarded bodily materials from residents of her hometown of Melbourne. But if you choose to use your own teeth as part of a custom piece of jewelry, you'll receive 10 percent off the purchase price of your item. It's a deal you can really sink your teeth into.
A naughty cross stitch
Thinking of giving your loved one something homemade this Valentine's Day? Consider stitching up something sassy with a kit from Subversive Cross Stitch. Julie Jackson, the creative force behind the site, has revived and revved up this old-fashioned pastime. Jackson, who started her business in 2003 as a way to expel the anger she felt toward her bully of a boss, has kept the company prospering for 10 years with some business savvy and a great sense of humor. Offering stitched, sentimental messages like, "I love you more than kittens," and, "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker," you really can't go wrong with one of these crafty gifts.
A fake girlfriend
You needn't worry if you feel lonely this Valentine's Day, but don't have time to find a date. In this digital world, a real person is no longer a prerequisite for a fleeting romance. NamoroFake.com, a Brazilian site with a catalogue of Facebook profiles for lease, can set you up with the virtual girl of your dreams, giving your social media ego a bit of a boost.
The site's package deals include daily comments on your Facebook timeline and, in the case of those committed, 30-day affairs, the obligatory relationship status change. If you're just looking for a fling, that's not a problem. The site offers a 3-day package for those just looking to test the strange waters of fraudulent, online dating. But if you have $39.00 to spare, you can make your real ex-girlfriend jealous for all of Valentine's week with glimpses of your exotic, albeit ersatz, paramour.
A real heart necklace
For some, the quintessential heart shape might feel a little stale this Valentine's Day. If this sounds like you, then London-based jeweler The Great Frog might have just the right gift. They cast their anatomically correct heart pendant in sterling silver, just one of many edgy designs that could make the science nerd or literalist in your life swoon.
A voodoo curse
Do you have someone on your nasty list this Valentine's Day? If so, consider putting a virtual voodoo curse on your enemy with the help of PinStruck.com. This free site, the brainchild of two bored Web designers, allows users to send anonymous, passive-aggressive messages to those who have wronged them. The victim of your hex will receive a link directing them to the site, where they will see a personalized effigy of themselves impaled with pins. So, if you're all out of cash and warm, fuzzy feelings this Feb. 14, don't get mad. Get even.
Additional reporting by Adam C. Uzialko.


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Those euro-zone countries get everything backward — working to live instead of living to work. That's what we smug Americans think. Take Greece. It has promised too much too soon to its pensioners, whose average retirement age is 61. And there's excessive generosity in other financially ailing European countries known by the snotty acronym PIIGS, standing for Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain. Actually, even the so-called stable countries of Europe, such as France, are too indulgent.
But let's not get too overconfident in our own country, as the New York Times pointed out in a March 12 story. Jagadeesh Gokhale, economist with the Cato Institute, noted in that story that officially Greece's debt is 113 percent of its total annual economic output. But if its pension obligations were included, Greece's debt would be 875 percent of output. Bad, huh? Yes. But the comparable ratio for France would be 549 percent and Germany 418 percent. The United States? About 500 percent, says Gokhale, who includes Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security obligations in his figures.
The Pew Center on the States says there is a $1 trillion gap between what the 50 states have promised workers in retirement benefits and what they have set aside. Some economists say phew to Pew. As noted in the March 15 cover story of Barron's, finance professors Robert Novy-Marx at the University of Chicago and Joshua Rauh of Northwestern say that the funding gap for state pension plans alone might be more than $3 trillion. Take a deep breath: these professors say that state pension funds as presently set up have only a 1 in 20 chance of paying their obligations 15 years from now, according to Barron's.
In California, State Treasurer Bill Lockyer says that past pension guarantees are legally cast in cement. The City of Vallejo, in the Bay Area, filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy two years ago because its employees' pay and pensions ate up a staggering 90 percent of its budget, according to Barron's. Vallejo has slashed employment. There have been so many cuts in police that the crime rate has risen sharply. But the root problem — excessive pension promises — has not been touched.
Over the last several decades, government pay and fringes have soared while private sector remuneration sagged. Economist Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute, using figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, points out that the average salary of state and local government workers is $26.01 per hour, compared with $19.39 in the private sector. And there is a yawning gap in benefits: state and local government workers get $13.65 an hour, private sector workers $8.02. If you have been keeping track of this on your calculators, you see that total compensation (wages plus benefits) is $39.66 an hour for state and local government workers and $27.41 in the private sector.
Of those benefits, government workers get $4.34 an hour in health insurance, more than double the $1.99 of folks in the private sector. Government workers rake in $2.85 an hour in defined benefit pensions versus a mere 41 cents in the private sector. (In a defined benefit plan, retirees get a set amount each month, no matter what happens to the fund's investments. In a defined contribution plan, employees plunk money in monthly, but their pots go up and down with the markets.)
Here's the punch line: a whopping 80 percent of government workers get that guaranteed defined benefit pension. Only 21 percent of workers in the private sector have defined benefit plans, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The stark truth is that, increasingly, governments know they can't meet future obligations. But fearing that they can't break pension promises, they punish the citizenry by raising taxes and fees and slashing services, maintenance, and urgently necessary infrastructural spending. Sound familiar, San Diegans?
To play catch-up, public sector pension funds are putting money into gamy things such as hedge funds, venture capital, private equity funds, junk bonds, commodities, and the like. Also, they are not slashing the high percentage of their portfolios that they had in stocks in the fat years. Back in 2006, both public and private sector funds had about 60 percent of their assets in stocks, according to the National Institute on Retirement Security.
Now, despite all the mayhem in the stock market, public funds still have 57 percent in stocks. But private sector funds are down to 38 percent equities as they put more into conservative bonds. Some of that is no doubt due to caution, and some relates to a change in the law. The Pension Protection Act of 2006 requires companies with underfunded plans to plunk in more money and write off the shortfalls over a short number of years, explains Brian White, head of the San Diego County Employees Retirement Association. "There is nothing comparable for the public sector," says White. "We have a longer investment horizon."
The speculation can backfire. White's County fund at one time had as much as 20 percent of its portfolio in hedge funds. One of them was Amaranth Advisors. That fund lost $6.5 billion of its $9 billion on futures market speculation, finally closing down. The County's fund lost $175 million initially and got $90 million back. It expected to recover the rest in a fraud lawsuit against Amaranth, but in mid-March a New York court threw out the suit. The County's fund is appealing. The chief investment officer resigned under duress as a result of his aggressive strategy. Now, hedge funds are down to 6 to 8 percent of the portfolio.
In some ways, the County's fund is conservative: stocks are just 43.5 percent of the portfolio, with bonds at 30.8 percent. But junk bonds are 7.7 percent of the total pot, and emerging market debt is 4 percent. Private equity funds (capital pools looking for opportunistic investments) are 4.8 percent of the County's portfolio. They represent 5 percent of the City's pension fund, San Diego City Employees' Retirement System. The City's fund has 5 percent of the pot in so-called market-neutral strategies that often take both long and short positions, similar to hedge funds. Also, the City's fund is 53 percent invested in stocks — gamier than the County's — versus only 26 percent in bonds.
Both funds, along with others all over the country, vastly overstate their expected long-term returns. The City's fund claims it will make 7.75 percent a year; the County ups the ante to 8.25. But the City's fund has only chalked up a performance of minus 1.84 percent over three years, 3.3 over five years, and 5.1 over ten. The County's performance has also badly lagged its bogey.
A government's annual contribution to its fund is based on these unrealistic expected rates of return. Many scholars suggest using a "risk-free rate of return," which would be about 5 percent. At a meeting last month, one of the officials of the City fund said that if the expected rate of return were cut to 5 percent, the unfunded actuarial liability would double or triple to $5 billion or $6 billion. Whew! Chief of staff Rebecca Wilson says board members aren't quite so pessimistic: they think the unfunded liability would double and the required annual contribution rise by 50 percent.
But a 50 percent boost in the City's required contribution would be backbreaking. So maybe going to 5 percent would lead to reform: the City of San Diego would be forced into bankruptcy, and a judge might challenge the notion that excessive benefits are embedded in the law.
More from SDReader
- More stories by Don Bauder
- San Diego's pension fund expects to earn 7.75 percent a year — Oct. 13, 2010
- Sticking with Stocks — June 24, 2009
- San Diego City Employees' Retirement System overestimates annual pension returns — March 18, 2009
- Pay per City of San Diego employee averages $60,099 — May 31, 2007
- Over the Hedge — Sept. 28, 2006
Wow-there is TOO much good info to even comment on, you pretty much covered it all Don.
Good job.
Response to post #1: Aw, c'mon, SurfPup. This is your favorite topic. We expect you to contribute lots. Best, Don Bauder
Don, A comment as requested on your weekly column.
Governments can and do extend debt responsibilities to future generations. Heck the time horizon at SDCERS is 40 years, and U.S. Government is so far underwater it could be a century or more if the current spending spree is not halted.
In that time Don, you, me and BillyVegasSurfpup will be a distant memory where someone might find us on Ancestry.com if they were looking us up.
With the ability to "extend" the debt endlessly, unlike the taxpayer they are suppose to serve, we can only do an "Obama". HOPE that our future leaders will CHANGE their ways when it comes to ways they find to squander the people's treasury.
Sadly, history repeats itself more often than not, as memories fade with the so called good times, this cycle will repeat itself. Wasn't it only 75 years ago that the age of great indulgence and greed led to the Great Depression.
Response to post #3: The federal government can extend debts and print money. State and local governments are supposed to balance their budgets every year, but many do it with phony accounting (see San Diego). Of course, bonded indebtedness carries on for many years. What is likely to happen in the U.S. is the federal government will bail out broke states such as California, Illinois, New Jersey. Either the federal government or the rescued states will save the technically insolvent cities. It would be so much easier if the government employees with excessive pensions and ridiculously early retirements would take cuts without a fight. If there is no cooperation, the best way to force that would be through massive layoffs of those government employees, but services would then suffer even more. Remember one thing: the coming retirements of baby boomers change everything, making it much more difficult for the federal government to pass debt on to future generations. Best, Don Bauder
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Of course you are right, but what's the answer to this dilemma?
BTW, I somehow got onto some other part of the Reader website where there was a discussion like this on another subject and I can't find it again. In one of your comments you mentioned a "column," which I took to mean a new column. How many places do you write and where are they? Why doesn't the reader capitalize more on your popularity and put your name nearer the "masthead?" The website is not very well organized IMO.
Response to post #5: I consider my weekly contribution to City Lights, such as the one above, to be a column, not a news story. That's because there is opinion in it. However, sometimes it gets called a news story. I write the weekly column for City Lights, and a blog item almost every day -- often several a day, sometimes none. You can find the blogs by going to the upper right and clicking "Blogs." Go down the list of blogs on the left hand side and mine is titled "Scam Diego." I respond to comments to both my columns and my blog items. Best, Don Bauder
This is a perfect example of op-ed, I was attempting to point that out elsewhere to someone in here in another story, hope they read this and get it.
But Twister's first comment is also mine. If bankrupcy isn't an alternative and the courts aren't going to see reality and ultimate consequence of this, any ideas on how it could be unraveled? Or even, if it can? Otherwise, everyone is pretty much screwed.
Response to post #7: No law is set in concrete. It social conditions change, and the economic survivability of a political jurisdiction is at stake, then laws can be changed, legislatively or by courts. Or by a change in wording. (Remember when the Korean War was called a "police action," not a war?) Eventually, several insolvent cities and/or states will challenge the notion that excessive benefits are frozen in the law, bankruptcy judges will agree, the cases will move up to the Supreme Court, and the law will be changed. Or legislatures will make the change. Or public opinion will be so strong that public employee unions will voluntarily cave in. Best, Don Bauder
Interesting options.
The notion that the Courts will eventually force a change is something I don't expect to see in my lifetime, nor should I expect my nephews and nieces to live that long either. As it is, the Courts move in mysterious ways, depending on which arcane argument happens to win the day. There's nothing in that process that is dependable enough for the people to rely on for any speedy relief.
The same could be said about the California legislature and gridlock... especially when the primary contributors of campaign funds have been and will be corporations, thanks to the Courts as mentioned above.
This pretty much leaves public opinion, where there has been this saying around for a long time that "All politics is local." The question arises: What power do we citizens of San Diego have at the ballot box?
I'm not talking about electing so-and-so for city council or mayor because waiting for major change from that is like watching glaciers race for the coast. I'm talking about mobilizing 10,000 volunteers to gather 100,000+ signatures to bypass the city council and get things put directly on the ballot. There is this assumption that petition-writing and signature-gathering take a ton of money, and if you're PG&E trying to gain perpetual profitability through a state-wide constitutional amendment initiative, $25 million is not the most expensive way to go. No, what I am referring to is bypassing the not-so-strong-and-rather-corrupt relationship between developers and local politicians in favor of reaching out to the general public in the City of San Diego and the surrounding County, where people hopefully got some benefit from their public education.
Of course, this means that we or somebodies like us come up with some initiatives that make sense for (1) keeping necessary and desirable services available to the public and (2) doing that in a way that does not increase pension liabilities. My preferred method is to take advantage of the FEMA NIMS/ICS framework to manage by objectives, with a reliance on training and managing volunteers among the people to whom those services matter most: ourselves. I've labeled this as All-hazard Local Emergency Response Theory or ALERT, where a lot of the hazards we face stem from the inattentive mismanagement done by politicians and bureaucrats at the state and federal levels.
I'll be sharing my thoughts on some of those issues on open forum. Just for the heck of it, I'll be doing this free ICS training thang at City College during the summer for the in-coming student government officers, with hopes of expanding the NIMS/ICS training & integration program across the student bodies of the San Diego Community College District.
The last time I attempted something like this, then-City College President Jeanne Atherton gave me a tuition-free ride to dorms of USD just to keep me away from the City College campus. Sometimes it pays to be the student-activist squeaky wheel.
Response to post #9: The courts will only move if the people move first. There has to be a tsunami -- not just a groundswell. I think there is hope that one will develop. You can help that tsunami gain momentum. Community colleges are a good place to start. Best, Don Bauder
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People like your readers, by their nature, are not concentrated. Power IS concentration. It's like apathy, but at the other end of the curve. We have to settle for little drops in the bucket, hoping that a sorcerer like you can get the brooms to sweep out the power and wash them away.
Me, I see us as largely impotent or inadequate in the face of coagulated ignorance and apathy, and our very diversity and resistance to demagoguery produces just the kind of division that permit concentrated ideologies to flood the world with bull-kaka.
We are a species marked for extinction. Sucking more and more on limited resources ensures that. What we have to find are the ways we can understand universal (local AND global) priorities and fit our weak energies to them without fiddling whilst San Diego burns and the world is consumed by greed. We can't do that, because we're all hooked on a waste-centered economy and culture. This is a tiger-by-the-tail that merely turning loose of is no solution.
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Kinda convoluted, but doable. Thanks. I wonder how many other (potential?) readers have the same trouble? Seems that the Reader, if they would go 'round the table, could come up with a better web page design--one that is more reader-oriented and less Reader-oriented.
Response to post #11: I don't think we're impotent. Sure, ignorance and apathy are ubiquitous. But history has some lessons for us. Consider the abolitionists, for example. They were considered radical and uncompromising. Even after the Civil War, they got a bad press. But their persistence won. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #12: The Reader wants to please its audience. That I know. If you have ideas for how we could improve the site, email Jim Holman, [email protected] He is the editor and publisher. Best, Don Bauder
The notion that the Courts will eventually force a change is something I don't expect to see in my lifetime, nor should I expect my nephews and nieces to live that long either. As it is, the Courts move in mysterious ways, depending on which arcane argument happens to win the day. There's nothing in that process that is dependable enough for the people to rely on for any speedy relief.
As much as I hate to say it-I agree 100%.
The Courts USED to be the great equalizer, where it didn't matter if you were an 800 pound gorilla (corp) or a 100 pound weakling (everyday Joe). Not anymore.
Money rules, and the courts have shown extreme bias towards the weak, poor and middle class. I am still sick to my stomach over the Kelo v City of New London case....it is a perfect example of the problems we have today with the poor and middle class getting their Constitutional rights trampled by the rich and powerful/ special interest groups.
The Courts have been chipping away, bit by bit, piece by piece, our Constitutional rights and protections. They are NOT expanding, but contracting.
Hope the country can recover. I am losing faith in Obama, and I lost faith in our own gov (Arnold) 2 years ago. Had high hopes for both when they were elected.
Response to post #15: Agreed. The current court is not simply conservative. It is simply pro-big business. Roberts, Alito, Scalia, Thomas, others are just puppets of the business lobbies. Best, Don Bauder
DON, Ask jessie ventura about the problem he would have an answer...
Response to post #17: Is he back in the professional wrestling business? Best, Don Bauder
Seen this report, Don?
Fresh data showing that when you compare apples with apples, public employees really are paid less than those in the private sector - that includes the pension benefits.
Response to post #19; I had not seen the study. It contradicts other studies I have seen purporting to show that on a comparable job-for-job basis, public sector pay and benefits beat the private sector. I couldn't tell you the names of those studies, however. Probably the organizations financing the studies tell us much. Best, Don Bauder
I had not seen the study.
That is b/c that BS "study", put out by a public union hack, is just a JOKE! Skippy knows that.
Here, this is from a reputable, unbiased NEWSPAPER- not the "Center for State and Local Goverment EXCELLENCE" ( I almost PUKED!!! saying the word "excellence" when used to describe government employees);
Data compiled by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis reveals the extent of the pay gap between federal and private workers. As of 2008, the average federal salary was $119,982, compared with $59,909 for the average private sector employee. In other words, the average federal bureaucrat makes twice as much as the average working taxpayer. Add the value of benefits like health care and pensions, and the gap grows even bigger. The average federal employee's benefits add $40,785 to his annual total compensation, whereas the average working taxpayer's benefits increase his total compensation by only $9,881. In other words, federal workers are paid on average salaries that are twice as generous as those in the private sector, and they receive benefits that are four times greater.
Response to post #21: The study cited by SkippingDog regards jobs on a comparable basis -- plumbers in the public sector versus plumbers in the private sector, e.g. Previous studies I have seen on this topic -- and, unfortunately, I could not tell you their names or give you a link -- show that even on a comparable-jobs basis, the public sector wins. Best, Don Bauder
The study cited by SkippingDog regards jobs on a comparable basis -- plumbers in the public sector versus plumbers in the private sector, e.g.
There is a good study, recent study, that shows job comparisons between public sector and private sector just as you say-job by job (I am still trying to find it). It showed that in 8 out of 10 categories the public sector was comped more. The lower skilled gov jobs (vast majority) were comped MUCH more than the private sector. In fact the LOWEST comped employee in the UC education system was comped MORE than the AVERAGE employee in this state. Think about that-the LOWEST paid employee at UC was comped MORE than the average private employee in CA;
"Comparisons to the private sector boggle the mind. The lowest rate of pay/comp in the entire massive California system of higher education ($39,765/year) is more than the average income/comp for a private sector worker in this state ($38K)."
Generally speaking the public sector was comped more in every single area except the very top of gov employment, deparmtent head and directors, which account for propably 1 person out of a few hundred/thousand in gov employment.
The MAJORITY of gov employees are non skilled, non professionals. They are semi skilled, blue collar jobs like cop, ff, secretary, park and road workers and the such. In fact cop and ff comp accounts for 50%-80% of employment costs in every muni in this state- and those are both GED jobs.
"The old rationale for the generous benefits was that they were needed to make up for the inferior pay given to public employees. But public employees' pay has long since passed private employees' pay. On apples-to-apples comparisons of similar positions in the public and private sector, public workers generally receive far more generous compensation."
Response to post #23: I believe I saw that recent study you allude to. But I wouldn't be able to find it. I should save such things. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #24: I believe that is correct. Best, Don Bauder

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The Flettner rotor is attracting increasing attention as a viable technology for wind-assisted ship propulsion. Nonetheless, the influence of the Reynolds number on the aerodynamic performance of rotating cylinders is still unclear and under debate. The present study deals with a series of wind-tunnel experiments on a large-scale Flettner...journal article 2019


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The Cedro Peak Ultra is hosted by Support Trail Adventure Running (STAR) and features three distances, 50K, Full Marathon and a 1/2 Marathon. Proceeds are donated to Tijeras Food Bank and the Wildlife West Nature Park. The course is almost entirely single track passing through ponderosa pine, pinon, juniper and oak forests plus the added bonus of great views of the Sandia Mountains and of course, Cedro Peak. The race is an environmentally friendly leave-no-trace event bringing exciting trail running to Albuquerque's doorstep. This trail race has it all from non-technical to rocky sections. This is a good starter race for those new to Ultra running or for seasoned Ultra's as a great training run!
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So I have learned in my QM classes that you can't tell one electron from another electron. They are indistinguishable. I also learned that the wavefunction of a particle includes the spacial part and the spin part. (There might be other parts I don't know! Please don't fault me for not knowing.)
I have also learned that it is possible to use the quantum teleportation protocol to retrieve exactly, 100%, the spin state of one particle in another particle after particular measurements. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation
My question is, if you can teleport the spatial state and the spin state and whatever other state left there is that describes the particle, then wouldn't you be effectively teleporting the original particle?
A sub question directly related to this is; Is matter/particles just a changeable glob of stuff that acts differently, thus being a different particle, depending upon what quantum state its in? (This kinda sounds like string theory to me... Oh no!!)
Also, what's never answered is, What state does the original particle assume when its state is teleported to the new particle? Does the two particles, the original particle and the particle retrieving the quantum information, switch states?


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Upton's Injury caused some Instant Trade Thoughts
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With Victorino down now, Werth is likely off the trade market. But it still amazes me about ALL the injuries everywhere this year. It just seems so much worse than in years past. Hopefully, we will all get through it!
Heard a bit different on this end, but that is why they are called trade screts in Tampa Bay. Heard that if Upton is invloved in the trade….plus the prospects that might help snag Roy Oswalt….It might get done on Friday or Saturday.
But it might also be a nice smoke screen to make people think the Phillies need help to pull off the trade…then they swoop in and take Oswalt.
Guess we will find out tomorrow night. If Oswalt starts…he is going nowhere.
Rays Renegade
Wasn't Crawford brought up as a CF? Either way he's got the speed to play the position. Why not shift him there and then try and land Dunn, Luke Scott, Nick Markakis, Francour, to name a few. With the speed of that outfield, if Upton is done long term, it the team could easily look for any outfielder with some power to fill the void I'd say.
In the minor leagues, Crawford did play CF, but once he got to the Rays he replaced Greg Vaughn who retired after smacking a wall during an InterLeague series in Coors Field. I would not move Crawford, he is a Gold Glover in LF and should stay where he is totally confortable.
Dunn is a great idea, and Scott is a question mark, but adequate. Still think Upton can redeem himself in Maddon's eye, but it is goint to take a huge effort for the rest of the year.
Rays Renegade
Well, whatever they do they better act fast. Time is a tickin…. I think Upton has worn out his welcome.
I think the Rays will either stand pat, or make a last minute offer before the end of the Trading Deadline. For some reason this year the pickings are a bit slim, and the Rays might just see what the market is dictating before going window shopping at the last minute. Much like what I do during the holidays.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. -- In the event that he needed any kind of introduction at all when he first stepped onto the field inside the Metrodome in Minneapolis for the Perfect Game National Showcase about a month ago, Braxton Davidson decided to make sure everyone -- especially the hundreds of scouts in attendance -- received loud word of his arrival.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" went the bombs, landing with great fanfare in the Metrodome's upper deck in right field; those were only the results from Davidson's first three or four swings during batting practice
"Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!" -- times three -- went the missiles as the 6-foot-3, 215-pound left-handed swinging Davidson drove nine balls out of the yard in just the first round of the Rawlings Home Run Challenge. He joined Chase Vallot from Youngsville, La., and D.J. Peters from Glendale, Calif., in the finals and Vallot eventually won the competition. It was quite a display.
"I loved it up there, facing easily the best competition in the country," Davidson said Sunday morning, recalling his PG National Showcase and Rawlings Home Run Challenge experiences while getting ready to join his Dirtbags teammates in their opener at this week's 17u PG BCS Finals national championship tournament.
"It was tons of fun," he said, smiling at the memory of the Challenge. "Of course I wanted to win, but overall just getting to meet all those guys and getting to hit with those guys was awesome, especially the shows that everybody put on -- there were just bombs being hit all over the Metrodome. It was awesome being a part of it and coming in second," he shrugged, "that was no big deal."
Davidson's power display didn't come as any surprise to PG scouts that have watched him perform on most of nation's largest stages since he first took the field for a Dirtbags' team at the 2011 16u PG WWBA National Championship. His increase in arm strength was a little bit of a surprise -- he threw an event-best 88 mph across the infield from first base and 92 mph from the outfield. He is a primary outfielder and first baseman, and the left-hander also will do some pitching.
He was named one of top prospects at the PG National, and a Perfect Game report filed after the event read: "The left handed hitting North Carolina native could make a case for being the top pure power hitter in the 2014 class. But just as impressive was his improved athleticism and arm strength, which bodes well for a future as a corner outfielder rather than a first baseman."
For this week anyway, Davidson -- who calls Arden, N.C. ,home and will be a senior in the fall at renown T.C. Roberson High School in Asheville, N.C. -- will turn his attention away from showcase baseball to tournament baseball with all his pals from the Dirtbags.
"I'm really excited about being down here; playing the game of baseball is fun and it's something I want to do for a living some day," he said Sunday before the Sedalia, N.C.-based Dirtbags took the field to open play A's Baseball from Coral Gables, Fla., in their 17u BCS Finals opener at the Boston Red Sox's jetBlue Player Development Complex.
"Coming down to Florida -- I love it down here with all these great ballparks, and the best competition in the country is down here; they're all over Perfect Game tournaments. We're excited and we want to win, that's the main thing."
The Dirtbags skipped last week's rain-plagued 17u PG WWBA National Championship in Marietta, Ga., deciding to come to this Perfect Game national tournament for the first time instead.
"We wanted to do something different this year," Dirtbags founder and head coach Andy Partin said Sunday. "I'm not the kind of guy that just wants to do what everybody else is doing so we decided to come down here; this is a good event. I like the format, and we picked a good (year) to do it because we didn't have to go battle the rain with all those guys in Atlanta."
The team Partin has here is relatively young -- there are six 2015s mixed in on the roster with all the 2014s -- and he said they don't quite have the pitching depth he'd like, but he thinks with this tournament's format, they will be just fine.
The 80 teams play three games in their original pool before the entire field is realigned into a new set of pools, with those pool champions advancing to the playoffs. The pool champions from the second set will then be paired in five playoff groups with the Nos. 4 and 5 seeds in each group playing a first round play-in game and the other teams receiving byes into the second round.
"I like it because it kind of gets everybody's feet wet (with those first three games) and you kind of calm the nerves, if there are any nerves," Partin said. "I think it's going to be interesting to see the strategy of everybody else and how they manage they pitching. We're not super deep on the mound, so it might be more of a challenge for us these first three games, but we think we've got enough guys to get through these and see what happens. Once we get to the next round, that's when we'll throw our dudes."
The Dirtbags' pitchers certainly got things started in grand fashion on Sunday. Left-hander Jacob Craver (2014, King, N.C.) and righty Hansen Butler (2014, High Point, N.C.) combined to throw a five-inning no-hitter at A's Baseball, striking out eight and walking three in an 8-0 win.
"Last year we had a lot of depth on the mound and this year we don't have as much depth but we've got a lot of hitters," Davidson said of his Dirtbag teammates. "We have a lot of young guys that are playing up with us and the young guys are really, really good. This team is going to be on the rise next season and especially in the fall when we go down to Jupiter (Florida, for the PG WWBA World Championship). This is a very strong club and I'm excited to play with these guys."
There is no question it starts with Davidson, however. Following the same trajectory of some of those bombs he hit in the Metrodome, he has rocketed to No. 10 in PG's class of 2014 national prospect rankings (No. 2 outfielder) and is ranked the top overall 2014 prospect in North Carolina.
"He's been great for us for three years now," Partin said. "He means a lot to our program and he's a scary dude at the plate. He's a tough guy to match up against as an opposing team, and it'll be interesting to see how guys pitch him down here. Hopefully he can get some pitches to hit and hopefully we can hit well behind him and get him some pitches to hit.
"He's a tough-nut kid and he's a competitor and he wants to win," Partin continued, adding that he will ask the left-hander to do some pitching here this week. "He brings some things to the table that people maybe don't really know, like the fact that he is very valuable for us on the mound. But he's great for us and he leads by example and everybody looks up to him; when he goes, we go."
There are some other young fans that look up to Davidson, probably even more so than his teammates. He is involved with the Progressive Educational Program (PEP) at T.C. Roberson in which high school students work to serve students with moderate to significant disabilities at three age-appropriate sites in Buncombe County, N.C. Davidson said he "plays for the kids who can't play" -- special needs youngsters who are unable to play the game themselves.
Students sign up to be involved in the program which works to provide positive influences on those special needs kids. Many of those kids are invited to every T.C. Roberson home game to throw out the first pitch; all fund-raising projects the Roberson baseball team holds benefits the PEP.
"It's awesome to me," Davidson said. "They make me play harder for them because they're the ones who can't play and I have all the ability in the world, so it makes me go out and play my hardest every game. That's who I do it for -- I do it for my family and those kids because they mean the world to me.
"It's something I look forward to," he continued. "You never know what could happen -- I could go out here and get hit in the head and never be able to play ever again. You've got to live life to your fullest and play your hardest all the time. It's something special to me."
Davidson has committed to play collegiately at the national power University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill as part of its 2014 recruiting class. He will be joined in that class by Dirtbags teammates Hansen Butler and Zach Gahagen (2014, Fletcher, N.C.).
"They're my best friends, especially Zach; I grew up with Zach," Davidson said. "We grew up playing travel ball with each other with the Blue Ridge Bears ... and we've always been best friends. To commit (to North Carolina) in the same day, that was something special. And Hansen, we've been friends a long time, too."
There were a large number of college coaches and other scouts watching the Dirtbags' opener on Sunday, although a total of nine Dirtbags have already made their college commitments. They include Matt Davis (2014, Wilmington, N.C.) and Matthew Horkey (2014, Greensboro, N.C.), both of whom have committed to UNC-Charlotte, and North Carolina State commit Steven Oakley (2014, Durham, N.C.).
Davidson has never really felt unnerved performing in front of scouts, and there's a simple reason for that. His father, Cecil Davidson, has worked as an MLB associate scout.
"I grew up playing in front of a lot of people all the time, so it's kind of natural for me," Davidson said. "My dad ... knows all those guys and I know all those guys so it's just like playing in front of family; it makes me want to play even a little bit better in front of all those guys. It's a little bit nerve-racking at times but it's a lot of fun at the same time."
Braxton Davidson is sure to give the scouts an eyeful this week as one of the brightest stars playing at the 17u PG BCS Finals. He'll enjoy his teammates and maybe even blast a moon-shot or two, like he did in downtown Minneapolis in mid-June
"I just love playing," Davidson said. "It's great being able to play with great players and playing with these kind of players makes me step up my game and makes me want to be better."


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you know the kind that goes on for v long time and combines sex with yoga…. sorta"
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EMT Vogues and Drives…All the Way Into Our Hearts
This EMT may need someone to come to his aid because he clearly busted a move.
While driving an ambulance, this guy whipped out some serious dance moves, highlighted by his skills doing the vogue in the ultimate nod to Madonna.
Apparently, that ambulance is equipped with 1.21 jigawatts because it appears he's driven it right to 1990.
For those of you who need a refresher, here is Madonna's 'Vogue' video, which set off a dance craze that went unparallelled until the Macarena reared its ugly head.


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Hans Johnson, Editor1 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO
Axel Grandell, Redovisningens utvecklingshistoria fran bildskrit tii dator (The Development of Accounting from the Hieroglyphs to the Computer) (Abo, Finland, 1972, 121 pp.).
Reviewed by Sandor Aszely Gothenburg University, Sweden
Though we have comprehensive and scholarly studies in English and German of the history and development of accounting (Yamey, Penndorf and others), readers of The Accounting Historian might be interested in a study of the development in the Scandinavian countries, especially Sweden and Finland. This development was, to be sure, strongly influenced from Northern Germany and the Netherlands but had also characteristics deserving more than local interest. As to the influences from abroad, we have to bear in mind that Lübeck and the Hansa had a solid grip on the commerce of the Baltic region from the 12th to the 16th centuries and that the influ-ence of the Low Countries became manifest after their indepen-dence from Spain and after they had established themselves as a worldwide naval and commercial power with considerable business interests in the Arctic regions and the Baltic Sea.
Grandell discusses in detail two of the simplest means of control and instruments of accounting of the old days, the scoring board and the tally. The scoring board was used as an aid to memory in the counting of physical units (loads, sacks, etc.) or as a control on work-performance. The oldest type was a board with 10x10=100 holes and a peg to put into the holes corresponding to the counted units. A later type had 10 holes in 3 columns for marking one, two and three digits respectively. The simple tally served the same pur-pose as the scoring board: as a memory-storage of the counts of stores or as a means of control of operations. It was just a stick upon which notches were cut for each operation carried out. An-
1Appointment appeared in Vol. 2, No. 3. p. 4, 1975.


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thegreatgwin needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 187 designs submitted by 38 freelance designers.
After a beautiful natural healing themed logo mark next to Naturopathy Japan text.
Naturopathy Japan
Desired Color Scheme:
Soft greens, orange, maybe yellow
Desired Style:
Simple, clean, classy, nature-based, original, instantly recognisable.
Accepted File Formats:
Web (png/gif/jpg) and print (tiff) both colour and greyscale
Looking for an instantly recognisable logo mark to go alongside the text "Naturopathy Japan" that carries a healing theme: holistic/nature/healing.
Ideas for a theme are flower/petals/leaf/water/waves/original pattern... am open to your ideas!
So, we will have the text AND a logo mark but the logo mark could also be used on its own.
One idea is something like a simple but classy looking coat of arms. See the UK royal crests for inspiration: http://www.royalwarrant.org/
NOTHING on a Japanese/Asian theme please. No flags or maps of Japan, no red suns, bamboo, cherry blossom, mount fuji, tori gates, yin/yang etc. The logo is to be used in Japan and these types of designs don't go down well. Thank you ;-)
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High Fives announces 'willPower& grace' Community Day
TRUCKEE, Calif. – The High Fives Foundation announced trainer and fitness expert Carrie Haines will bring her years of experience to the CR Johnson Healing Center in a group, community style event on Saturday, Feb. 16 at 9 a.m. Carrie's class, called willPower & grace, is a workout that links the strength, power and desires of the mind with the demands and potential of the body. Anyone can participate for any size donation to the High Fives Foundation. Carrie's class will be capped at 15 people. Scheduling will go through the CR Johnson Healing Center at email@example.com or 530-587-4453."This workout is a fusion of the best in group exercise: cardio, strength, flexibility, functional movement, and balance in one dynamic barefoot experience. We truly strengthen the body from the ground (feet) up. Over time, this workout has not only changed my body, but as someone who suffers from severe osteoarthritis in both knees, I am grateful for every day that I get to experience willPower and to be able to share it," said Haines.To promote health and fitness in the Truckee-Tahoe Community the CR Johnson Healing Center has hosted weekly Saturday Community Days for more than six months. Along with promoting healthy living, the Community Days are in place to highlight area healers and fitness professionals, while offering discounted treatments/classes to the public with proceeds going to the High Fives Foundation – CR Johnson Healing Center, 10775 Pioneer Trail, Ste. 108, Truckee.


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Sydney FC were crowned champions in the Australian W-League after a thrilling finale at the weekend, while Lyon continued their scoring feats in the French Cup, and the league leaders stayed on course in Spain and Italy.
FIFA.com rounds-up all the latest action from selected women's leagues around the world.
Australia: Sydney FC crowned
Sydney FC secured their first title since 2009, and second overall, after beating Melbourne Victory 3-1 in the championship decider. The latter, appearing in their maiden grand final, were unable to make the most of the home advantage earned after finishing above their rivals in the standings. In front of a 4,181-strong crowd, the visitors had the upper hand early on, with Nicola Bolger putting coach Alen Stajcic's side ahead. A free-kick from Swedish midfielder Petra Larsson ensured Melbourne went in level at the break, only for Samantha Kerr to restore Sydney's lead immediately after the restart.
The match developed into an end-to-end encounter and a greater scoreline was prevented only by the heroics of both goalkeepers, Brianna Davey and Sham Khamis. The hosts' hopes of a comeback were dashed shortly before the final whistle, as Maika Ruyter-Hooley was sent off for a foul inside the area. Kyah Simon made no mistake from the ensuing penalty to hand Sydney a 3-1 victory.
Italy: Tavagnacco close the gap
Reigning champions Torres Calcio remain top of the Italian league after Matchday 18, although their nine-point lead has been reduced to seven following a goalless draw with Napoli. Tavagnacco made up ground thanks to a 5-0 thumping of Fiammamonza, with a brace from Alice Parisi, as well as strikes from Kacie Oliver, Elisa Camporese and Michela Rodella securing the win. Brescia are still in third courtesy of a 3-1 triumph over Lazio.
Top three: Torres Calcio (50 points), Tavagnacco (43), Brescia (42)
France: Favourites show no mercy
Lyon continue to be the team to beat in France after transferring their imposing league form into the cup. Coach Patrice Lair's side are on course to defend their title after a ruthless display in their last-32 tie against Epinal, marching into the next round with a 13-0 win. Both Eugenie Le Sommer and Camille Abily netted hat-tricks, Lara Dickenmann, Laetitia Tonazzi and Ami Otaki each bagged a brace, with Amandine Henry also on the scoresheet.
There was no let up from last year's finalists Montpellier either, who made light work of Nivolas with a 4-1 triumph. Juvisy advanced to the next stage following a 10-0 hammering of Gonfreville, while the match between second-placed Paris Saint-Germain and AS Montigny-le-Bretonneux was postponed.
Spain: Top three in step
There was no change at the top after Matchday 19 in Spain, with Athletic Bilbao continuing at the summit thanks to a 4-0 win against Sevilla. Atletico Madrid remain three points behind after edging past Real Sociedad 1-0. Defending champions Barcelona beat San Gabriel 2-0 to stay third and can close the gap on second to a single point next week when they go head-to-head with Atletico.
Top three: Athletic Bilbao (50), Atletico Madrid (47), Barcelona (43)


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After all, it's called HARVEST.
Meaning, the whole thing is named for that which is being done. Harvesting happens at Harvest.
And we tend to think of Harvest in terms of clear, proscribed roles. Harvesting happens at Harvest, Harvesting is performed by Harvesters.
And there is immense truth to that.
And there is immense truth to THAT.
But that ain't all, jack.
Because don't look now, but there's a winemaker in the vines!
The holy grail of taste.
The pick may be over for one group — for one day — yet still, those evacuated spaces await the next guard.
And in the dry, heaving air, what moves now are the dispersements of those tired old divisive aphorisms; wine is made in the vineyard, wine is made in the winery.
There's a winemaker in the vines.
And wine is being made.
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Location: Story
Age: 27
Job: Residential adviser and tutor
Email: email@example.com
Twitter: @randy39951697
In the words of his coworker who nominated him: "Randy is a true country gentleman, plus he's compassionate and witty."
Celeb crush: "Charlize Theron"
If he's into a woman: "I'll text or Facebook her so she gets the hint."
His pleasure trigger: "Nipples"
Sign he's smitten: "When I look at her as if I'm in a trance"
Baffling female behavior: "Their moods change all the time!"
Top number of texts a girl should send him per day: "20"
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Published date: 16 June 2016
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Victoria Redel
Victoria Redel is the author of two books of poetry and three books of fiction, most recently the novel The Border of Truth. A new collection of poems, Woman Without Umbrella, is forthcoming in 2012 and a collection of short fiction, Make Me Do Things in 2013. Redel teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.
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TOUR CODE: NAHAB 003 3 Days Amboseli and Tsavo Game Viewing Private Safari
Trip Highlights: This is an exciting safari that takes you to visit some of the best wildlife sanctuaries in Kenya. This safari starts upon picked up at you hotel or resort in Coastal Kilifi and will take you to visit Amboseli National Park and finally to the Tsavo National Parks. You will travel with a professional driver/guide and in a private safari minivan and spend the nights in lodges on full board basis.
Detailed Itinerary:
Day 1: Kilifi – Amboseli National Park
In the morning, you will be met by the driver/guide at your Coastal Kilifi Hotel or Resort and be welcomed for the safari as you receive a briefing. After the briefing, you will immediately depart to Amboseli National Park. You will arrive in time for lunch at the lodge before departing for an afternoon game drive within the park.
Amboseli National Park lays North West of Mt. Kilimanjaro, on the border with Tanzania. Large concentrations of wildlife occur here in the dry season, making Amboseli a popular touristic destination. The Park embodies five main wildlife habitats which include the open plains, acacia woodland, rocky thorn bush land, swamps and marshland. There is also a temporary lake, Lake Amboseli, those floods during years of heavy rainfall. The Amboseli is famous for its big game and its great scenic beauty. The landscape is dominated by Mount Kilimanjaro and massive numbers of elephants, approximately one thousand elephants. Also, its snowcapped summit dominates the landscape and on a clear day it is easily visible during early mornings and the late afternoons. This makes it a perfect spot for photograph taking.
Lodge: Ol Tukai Lodge
Day 2: Amboseli National Park – Tsavo East National Park
After breakfast you will check out of the lodge and depart for morning game drives within Amboseli for a chance to spot the wildlife when it is most active. At midday, you will depart to Tsavo East National Park arriving in time for lunch at the lodge. After lunch, you will depart for afternoon game drives within the park.
The Tsavo West and Tsavo East National Parks form one of the largest National Parks in the world and covers a massive 4% of Kenya's total land. Tsavo West is the more famous of the two and is painted on a sprawling canvas of endless skies, hills, liquid lava flows, rivers, sparkling oases and a cloud shadowed African savannah. The magic Mzima Springs is fed by over 250 million litres of fresh water gushing from the lava flows of the Chyulu Hills. It provides a continuous supply of water to Mombasa town. The park is famous for the numerous prides of maneless lions that patrol the plains and predate on the herbivore herds. It offers some of the most magnificent fame viewing in the world with vast herds of dust-red elephant, hippo, giant crocodile and a wide variety of bird life.
Lodge: Ashnil Aruba Lodge
Day 3: Tsavo East National Park – Tsavo West National Park – Kilifi
After breakfast, you will check out of the lodge and depart Tsavo East for Tsavo West. Upon arrival, embark on game viewing drive, carrying packed lunch. At 4.00pm, you will get out of the park and return to Coastal Kilifi. Where you will be drop off.
Shetani lava flows got its name from molten lava that spewed from the earth 200 years ago. The fiery fury was thought by the local people to be the work of the devil, hence the name 'Shetani', which means 'Devil' in Swahili. The glorious Ngulia Rhino Sanctuary also has a growing population of the endangered black rhino which was a victim of poaching in the early 1960s. Lake Jipe also offers a memorable experience as it is abundant with aquatic life. Boat rides are a sure way to blow your mind away as you sail through the clear waters watching different species of fish and aquatic animals enjoy the suns rays penetrating through the water. Bird watching is also a major activity in the park.
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Cost includes:
- Accommodation in lodges on full board basis while on safari
- Transport in a private safari minivan with open roof for better game viewing and photography
- All park entry fees and game drives
- Services of a professional English-speaking tour guide/driver
- Picnic lunches as indicated in itinerary
- Applicable government taxes and levies
Cost excludes:
- All items of personal nature e.g. telephone call bills, fax / email bills etc.
- Optional cultural visit to Maasai villages
- Tips and gratuities lodge staff and driver-guide
- Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks
- Any local or international flight and departure taxes
- Laundry services
- Personal travel insurance
- Any other item not included in our itinerary including extra excursions


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Good. You will have no problems. Pay attention and buy the beverages.
Your friend could do it if he has a press. If not, this is a good idea. Make sure he lines them up correctly. There are marks on the bushing and lolli. Same goes for when you put it back on the control arm. Make sure you line it back up properly
He wanted to keep dirt off of them. the boots are there to keep dirt out of the area beacause dirt can destroy the steering rack seals. If yours are fine, just use yours and put these on the shelf. If not, use these.
If he is worth his salt, he'll be able to eyeball it pretty darn close.
Remember, if you want the solid RTABS, DO the RTABs IF the shop DOES NOT have the special tool to do the subframe bushings. If they don't have the tool, they will have to pull the subframe so it would make sense to do them at that time.
IF the shop DOES have the special tool, they will not need to pull the subframe and there will be no duplicate labor.
Clean them with sand paper or similar, or use a conversion primer. The rust is no big deal though. Those are the upper strut mounts on the rear struts, and they have reinforcement plates with them too. Those go inside the trunk, not outside the car, they sandwich the strut tower. If the mount rubber looks bad or split, replace them (but keep those plates) otherwise just use them.
Get new links front and rear. The front mounts will be fine, but the rears should probably be reinforced. This can be done either on the car, or when you pull the arms for RTABs.
Do not ever take advantage of a helpful mechanic. Buy him food, drink, and offer to pay, even if it is in bar tabs.
Im back with more questions. Im looking on Turners website and they offer rear sway bar mount reinforcements for both the upper and lower sections of the rear suspension. The upper reinforces the sway bar bushing mount, and the lower reinforces the lower links. I would imagine the upper reinforcement is more important. Is the lower link reinforcement necessary?
Also, I'm assuming these reinforcements need to be welded on, correct? Approximately how much is this going to cost?
As always, thanks for the help.
Yes, the lower link reinforcement is necessary. Probably even more so than the upper, but with bushings and links that have no cushion, you will be ripping tabs and body in short order without them.
I know the lowers must be welded, but that should be on the order of 0.5-1 hour labor. Don't know about the uppers.
So next Saturday is the day that my buddy and I will be replacing the front suspension and the rear springs/shocks. The only thing that I still need is the hardware. What hardware should I be replacing when we put in the new stuff?
BTW, I decided at the last minute to order OEM CAB, Subframe Bushings, and Diff Mount.
Best wishes with the project.
Regarding "'hardware", since you seem to have all the other pieces, I assume you mean the replacement nuts, bolts, clips etc.
When I redid the suspension and steering systems on my 1991 318i last winter, I replaced more or less everything. I just went through the realoem diagrams, got all the part numbers and took them to a dealership. The parts guy went in the back and brought back all kinds of stuff in small plastic bags. Parts they didn't have (in my case, enough "self-locking colar nuts" for the F & B shock mounts) (part 07119904295) they ordered and had them within 48 hours. Parts guys can be saints sometimes.
About the only warning I have is that a few of the parts had the decimal slipped in the price list. $0.50 nuts were coming up at $5.00 each. I spotted it (easy when $8 worth of stuff rings up at $80). I wonder customers who had their nuts replaced as part of a dealer service repairs got kicked in the, umm, shin regarding part price.
umm... got their WHAT replaced?! What kind of services are dealers providing these days??
I don't want to hijack Grinch's thread but I have a closely related question. I'm about to put 14.5mm rear sway bars (12mm stock) on my car (also replacing 20mm front sways with 21mm). I am thinking of ordering an upper bar reinforcement kit from TMS, but it's my idea that with that mild an upgrade I wouldn't need the lower link reinforcement also. Am I wrong, just being penny-wise and pound-foolish? (I also have Bilstein HDs and M3 springs in the rear.)
The reason I'm considering the reinforcement kit(s) is that the car is 20 years old and has been tracked in the past. I intend to do a bit of track (driving classes) but mostly spirited street driving.
Thanks. This is exactly what I have done. Im going to the local dealership tomorrow with a list of part numbers.
Im sure someone more knowledgeable than me will give you an answer, but I don't think you "need" the reinforcement kit for such a mild upgrade. Im putting on a 19mm rear bar, and for that Ive been recommended to have the reinforcement kit welded on, but for only a 14.5mm bar I doubt you need it.
BTW Steve, its great to see your posts about your e30. I remember seeing your threads on The Car Lounge when you were looking for, and then bought, your e30. Good luck with the upgrades!
Its my understanding that the lower mount fails first. I believe the prevention is the same as the cure: weld on stronger tabs. If this is true, then you may as well wait until they break before repairing. As I recall, MGarrison described this in another thread somewhere. FWIW, I've got 16mm Eibach bars on the back of both of my E30s and so far no breakage.
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I just recently did all of this work myslef inmy backyard over a weekend.
We a huge amunt of work on my rusty, siezed up 88 vert.
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Given that my little friend Moxie is the new face of The Obesity Epidemic, as soon as I saw the following video, I knew I had to post it here. After all, this is clearly what people like Sally Ann Voak, assorted douchehounds, and self-righteous temporarily thin people imagine happening when 95% of dieters regain the weight they lost.
They're just not trying hard enough!
In reality, of course, fat people, unlike adorable kitties, can and do exercise. [ETA: adorable kitties, too! — Kate] I can definitively say that my co-bloggers Kate and Fillyjonk, both of whom are fatter than me, exercise about a bajillion times more than I do (hey, I'm in grad school — it's all I can do to finish my reading and consume my required weekly dose of alcohol). When I had more time to exercise? I was fatter. You might be starting to sense a pattern.
On the Douchehounds thread, Roughmagic left a comment that broke my heart.
I'm a teacher who's written a book, I have a beautiful son, and I cook Thanksgiving dinner for 20 friends and family every year, but I don't consider myself hard working or disciplined in the least because I'm fat.
Roughmagic, despite strong evidence to the contrary, has been convinced by all the fatphobic strains of our culture that she is more like that lazy cat than like the accomplished person she is.
Take a minute and remind yourself, even if you know it already: your body is not a sign of failure. Your body is not a punishment for your moral character. You are not lazy because you are fat. (And if you are lazy, that's nobody's business but your own!) You have just as much right to control of, and happiness in, your own body as my cat does in hers.
I was going to end this entry with another cat, but in fact a different and more sublime animal image keeps coming to mind: Mary Oliver's poem "Wild Geese."
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Go read the whole thing (it's short). And then be good to the soft animal of your body, whether it's soaring at the moment or, like mine, just trying to catch a nap on the treadmill.


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New brands and bottles you should know.
French distillery Maurin and importer Anchor Distilling have brought back three Maurin vermouths, each sporting the classic green devil on the label. The recipes were inspired by house concoctions that dated back to the 1800s, and each is infused with herbs and spices including coriander, cinnamon, clove, and mixed with a bit of Maurin's absinthe. But how do they taste? We gave each a turn at our review table.
Maurin Dry Vermouth has a rich herbal scent with an musky undercurrent, but the flavor is pretty easy-drinking and peachy, with a little orange peel flavor and a slightly malty finish. It's not as herbal as you might expect, more wine-y and fruity. Pair it with a juniper-forward gin;if you go too floral, you'll be drinking an extra-perfumey combination.
Maurin White Vermouth is sweeter but seemed more balanced and bright to us, bringing forward fresh citrus peel flavors (lemon and orange) and highlighting the herbs a bit more. If you like Lillet Blanc, you might find this a pleasant change of pace. It's nice alone on ice but would work with a little muddled basil and cucumber (consider adding tonic) or try it with fresh lemon and a few drops of absinthe. For us, this was the most successful of the three and the bottle we're most likely to dip into again.
Maurin Red Vermouth definitely displays its cardamom and absinthe with slightly mentholated results; this stuff tastes like sweet cherry juice that's been sucking on Ricola throat lozenges. There's a richness to the fruity side, it makes for a rather intensely fruit-forward Negroni.
Have you tried Maurin vermouth yet? At $24.99 per bottle, would you stock it in your home bar?
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Dr. Raeder teaches political theory and political economy. Before joining the PBA
faculty, she taught at the Center for U.S. Studies in Wittenberg, Germany. She has
been associate editor of Humanitas, published by the National Humanities Institute, since 1994. Her publications include
a book on the religious thought and aspirations of John Stuart Mill, John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity (University of Missouri Press, 2002), as well as various articles on the nature and
development of the Anglo-American liberal tradition, including "Hayek: A Man of Measure,"
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Old Whig," "Augustine and the Case for Limited Government," "Liberalism and the Common
Good," "The Nature of Civil Society: an American Perspective," "The Liberalism/Conservatism
of Burke and Hayek: A Critical Comparison," "Education and the Free Society" and "Marxism
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Culture," "The Nature of Civil Society," "The Psychological Presidency," "Liberalism
and the Common Good" and "The Rule of Law." She has been awarded numerous academic
fellowships, including a Lambe Fellowship by the Institute for Humane Studies, a Weaver
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February 18, 2008
Book On 1918 Red Sox Due In June
I mentioned this project last July and now it looks like the book will be out in June.
In addition to working as an Associate Editor, I wrote biographies of Babe Ruth, Carl Mays and Walt Kinney. (The bios of all of the players cover their entire careers/lives, not just the 1918 season.) I also wrote the book's introduction and co-wrote the day-by-day timeline of the season.
As I mentioned last summer, the amount of information the various SABR members found on the lesser-known players is staggering. It's a perfect companion to my book.
17 comments:
- laura k said...
It looks great! Congratulations!
- February 18, 2008 at 10:40 AM
- Jack Marshall said...
Fantastic! Congratulations!
- February 18, 2008 at 10:48 AM
- Jere said...
Name on the cover, nice. Congrats!
- February 18, 2008 at 12:59 PM
- Jere said...
Just watched Pettitte conference. Talked for an hour, said nothing. He said right away there were things he couldn't talk about. I knew that was a bad sign. They did ask him about the "mis-remembering." No answer.....
- February 18, 2008 at 1:06 PM
- allan said...
Name on the cover, nice.
I first saw the cover about a month or so ago. It was a nice surprise.
What about the book you and your mom are writing? Isn't that coming out this summer also?
- February 18, 2008 at 1:16 PM
- Jere said...
Woo-hoo, free plug! The latest is that we're shooting for a June/Julyish release. But definitely 2008. Thanks.
- February 18, 2008 at 2:07 PM
- allan said...
Woo-hoo, free plug!
One of many to come, I assume. I'm excited to read it.
When you first told me about it, I checked our library branch and saw a couple of your mom's books. Any tips on what might be a good one to start with? Maybe one that is in the same style as the upcoming one?
- February 18, 2008 at 2:12 PM
- Jere said...
People always made fun of me for never having read my mom's books. But in the last few years, I have started with the earliest one (The Book of Phoebe, 1985), and the latest one, her memoir (Girls of Tender Age, 2006). And I can say with full confidence that I would've found these to be amazing books even if she was a total stranger.
Right before the memoir, she did a three-mystery series, each of which was named after a classic rock song. The third one, She Smiled Sweetly (you know who did that one), is the one in which a side-character is introduced who will be the main character of our new book (also named after a 60s tune--Dirty Water, of course). So maybe start with that one?
- February 18, 2008 at 2:49 PM
- Amy said...
Congratulations, Allan! That's terrific. (By the way, did I tell you how much I enjoyed your book? It was a lot of fun to read, very interesting to learn both how much is different and how much is the same 90 years later.)
Jere, who's your mother and what kind of books does she write? What are you writing about?
- February 18, 2008 at 3:40 PM
- Jere said...
Amy--My mom is a novelist, sometimes mystery, sometimes not. She was asked to do a "Red Sox mystery," and she in turn asked if I wanted to collaborate with her on it. Her name is Mary-Ann Tirone Smith. Thanks.
- February 18, 2008 at 5:11 PM
- laura k said...
Jere, thanks for the info on your mom's work. It sounds great, the memoir particularly.
And I can say with full confidence that I would've found these to be amazing books even if she was a total stranger.
Very cool. Can you imagine if you didn't?? I'm always nervous when a friend gives me something to read, or if we go see someone perform. What if they suck? What will I say?
I can't wait to read the Fenway Mystery - a signed copy.
- February 18, 2008 at 7:36 PM
- Jere said...
"I can't wait to read the Fenway Mystery - a signed copy."
Cool. I'll definitely send some up north.
- February 18, 2008 at 7:58 PM
- Amy said...
Jere, thanks for filling me in. I see that she grew up in Hartford, and since we live about 25 miles from there, I am interested in reading her memoir. I look forward to your book!
- February 19, 2008 at 4:27 AM
- Zenslinger said...
I'm always nervous when a friend gives me something to read, or if we go see someone perform. What if they suck? What will I say?
If they suck, you have to give them an honest critique. Nothing's sadder than someone who's laboring under a misconception about something that's obviously important to him or her. If someone enjoys writing as a hobby, I don't think the level of quality matters a bit -- but if really they're hoping to make money at it, they have to be at least competent. Not everyone is; and some won't become competent no matter how hard they try at it.
And it's not necessarily a bad thing. For me it was a relief to stop trying to play music. Just wasn't much good at it.
- February 19, 2008 at 9:33 AM
- laura k said...
I'm always nervous when a friend gives me something to read, or if we go see someone perform. What if they suck? What will I say?
If they suck, you have to give them an honest critique.
I disagree. I feel my role as a friend is to be supportive. My opinion on their work is irrelevant. I'm not a publisher or a theatre producer, nor an abiter of popular opinion. (Most things that most people love, I hate!)
What I will do in these situations is find something to praise - there's always something - emphasize that, praise them for their effort, and not say another word unless they ask for an honest critique. Which almost no one does.
It takes a lot of guts to put your stuff out in front of the world. People need to be encouraged, not cut down. If they're not good at it and later quit, that will be their choice.
Also, none of these are ever "hobby" situations. They are all people whose heart and soul and ego is completely bound up in their work. (Just like me.)
- February 19, 2008 at 5:43 PM
- laura k said...
For me it was a relief to stop trying to play music. Just wasn't much good at it.
But I hope that was your choice and not from lack of support.
Even if some other people didn't think you were good, if you wanted and needed to continue, you still could, and should.
- February 19, 2008 at 5:48 PM
- Zenslinger said...
I don't know, Laura, it really depends on where the friend is at. I try to be encouraging, too, and whether it's reading friends' writing or grading papers, always have something positive to say.
But there was one guy in a writing group I was in; he had five novels under his belt. He once shook his head and said to me that he sure hoped he would sell something soon -- and he wrote like an eighth grader. No one could bear to tell him how bad this stuff was. So finally he asked directly and we told him; but we told him in the most constructive way possible.
It's possible to have an opinion of the underlying quality beyond love-it-or-hate-it. And although it's true that stuff you might not think is that good may indeed be marketable, when someone asks for your view on their work, don't you give it? I try to be nice in doing so and concrete in my suggestions.
But it's a risk and an obligation to be asked to read something. I certainly don't act like I'm doing someone a favor when I ask them to read mine. My wife was terrified the first time I did!
- February 21, 2008 at 10:05 AM


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