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- Ostrich skeletons and fossils have been found which date back over 120 million years which makes it a true dinosaur.
- There are three main species of ostriches of which only one, the African Black, is found in captivity. When a group of ostrich are together they are called a herd.
- Even thought they can't fly, the ostrich is a very strong runner. The ostrich can sprint up to 43 miles (70 kilometers) an hour and run over a distance at 31 miles (50 kilometers) an hour. They may use their wings as "rudders" to help them change direction while running.
- An ostrich's powerful, long legs can cover 10 to 16 feet (3 to 5 meters) in a single stride. These legs can also be used as weapons. Ostrich kicks can kill a human or a potential predator like a lion. Each two-toed foot of the ostrich has a long, sharp claw. All other birds have three or four toes.
- The ostrich is an omnivore. It eats just about anything including plants, fruit, roots, insects, lizards and small rodents. In the stomach of an ostrich, small rocks, sand and clams can be found which help to absorb the food.
- The average lifespan of an ostrich in the wild is 30 to 40 years, but they can live to be 50 – 75 years old. When fully grown, an ostrich has one of the most advanced immune systems known to mankind.
- The ostrich can be from 7 to 9 ft (2.1 to 2.7 m) tall and weight from 220 to 350 lbs (100 to 160 kg). Adult males are eight to ten feet in height and weigh 350-400 pounds. A male ostrich is called a rooster and a female ostrich is called a hen.
- The male is black with white wing tips and tail plumes. The female has light brown and grey plumage and is slightly smaller than the male. The ostrich has the largest eyes of any land animal. Each eye measures almost 2 inches (5 cm) across.
- Although an ostrich egg is the largest of all eggs, it is small compared to the size of the bird that laid the egg. The ostrich lays the heaviest egg and the hen lays six to eight of them while she's at it. Each egg is about six inches long and weighs up to 2½ pounds (1600 gm). That's 24 chicken eggs in volume.
- An ostrich hen can lay 40 -100 eggs per year, averaging about 60 eggs per year. Ostrich eggs hatch in 42 days. An ostrich chick grows one foot taller each month until it is 7-8 months old. Females sit on eggs during the day and males sit on eggs at night.
- Ostrich farming produces fine quality leather, feathers and gourmet meat. Ostrich farming is one of the most open, free range farming alternatives available anywhere in the world today. Ostrich meat is a red meat and is very low in cholesterol, calories and is almost fat free.
- Ostrich are successfully farmed in at least 50 countries. They are farmed from the coldest climates of Alaska to the equatorial areas of central Africa.
- There is a belief that the ostrich buries its head in the sand. It isn't true, but this belief probably originated because of one of the ostrich's defensive behaviors.
- When in trouble, the ostrich will lie low and press their heads and necks into the soil in an attempt to become invisible. When observed, this behavior might look like the ostrich is burying its head in the sand.
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The ostrich is a member of the ratite family of birds. The ratite is a type of bird that is not able to fly. The ostrich is the largest living bird in the world and although it is native to Africa, the ostrich thrives in countries all over the world. For more information and facts about the ostrich, keep reading below.


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Flooding, lack of property maintenance bring values down in wealthy community
River Hills — When people speak of River Hills, one of the wealthiest communities in southeast Wisconsin, rarely do images of post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans come to mind.
But that's exactly how three residents living near Green Bay Road view their neighborhood right now.
Diane Klaman, Kathleen Block and Loring Talsky brought photos of flooded yards, houses with tarps on the roof and dead trees to last week's board meeting. Collectively, they are tired of all of it.
"We live in the triangle at Bradley, Green Bay and Range Line roads," said Klaman told trustees. "We are probably considered the stepchildren of River Hills."
The neighborhood is an older area of the village, with smaller houses and lots than in most areas.
"We have tarp city on Green Bay Road," Klaman said. "The roofs are caving in (on two houses under the tarps.) There is one house with toilets in the back yard."
Tolsky, whose house has been for sale for about two months, said a property abutting his looks abandoned. He asked if the village has anything in the code about maintenance.
"We shouldn't have homes that look reminiscent of (Hurricane) Katrina," he said. "I own a business in West Allis and they have strict rules, and they do enforce them."
Trustee Wendy Walcott said the village has ordinances that address property maintenance but depends on residents to notify staff when they see a problem.
Klaman said the drainage system in the area needs fixing.
"Water came across from Glendale through the Masonic Lodge property into our garage and basement," she said, describing the July 22 rains that flooded areas of the North Shore. "We were a complete island. There was no Green Bay Road."
Klaman said overgrown vegetation and failing culverts along the road are to blame.
"There are bricks, wood - stuff - in the culverts," she said.
Klaman said there are dead trees on some of the lots and a large overgrown tree 10 feet from her house that she fears will crash on her roof. She has talked to that neighbor and offered to help pay some of the cost of its removal but without success.
She hastened to add that there are many well maintained properties in the triangle but the flooding, condition of the culverts and property maintenance are dragging down the value of property in the area.
Village President Robert Brunner said the concerns would be placed on the Village Board agenda in September. In the meantime, Village Manager Tom Tollaksen said the building inspector would be involved with getting some answers to the questions the trio of residents raised.
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"Bat collecting is the closest link we have in getting to know a player's habits and style. All other pieces of baseball equipment are rather standardized, but a player can groove, tar, bone, or leave his personalized game use traits in many different ways."
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Over the past 5 years, game-used bat collecting has become increasingly popular. More and more collectors are, at minimum, dabbling in the field and adding some prized lumber to their collections. Despite the increased interest in game-used bat collecting and the influx of more definitive information regarding authenticity, this sector of collecting remains in its infancy.
What exactly does this mean?
Pine tar usage is evident on these Willie Mays game used bats.
In sum, how can you tell a great bat from an average one?
Well, in regards to cards and autographs, it is more or less understood. With cards it basically comes down to two main factors. One, is it authentic and unaltered? Two, what condition is it in? As you can see, it's a simple equation. It certainly took a while for the concept of 3rd party grading to finally take hold but, once it did, the hobby was changed forever.
When it comes to autographed balls, there is definitely more room for subjectivity in terms of evaluating quality but there still exists some general understanding in the market. Good questions to ask would include: How bold is the autograph? Is the ball official or non-official? Is the autograph on the sweet spot or the side panel? What condition is the ball in? Is it single-signed or multi-signed? Is the autograph personalized or not? The factors, or questions, go on and on and on.
In both cases, cards and autographs, you started to see a more significant separation between the superb examples and the average ones as time went on. No longer were the best cards or autographs selling for a mere 15% or 25% premium. Now, the higher end PSA graded cards were selling for multiple times what the very same cards were selling for, cards that were only one grade lower. The separation between the 7's to 8's and 8's to 9's became more and more obvious. The same can be said of autographs. The finest Babe Ruth single-signed baseballs were commanding $50,000-$80,000 when nice but lesser examples could be obtained in the $15,000-$25,000 range.
Watching this phenomenon occur in these two collectible areas makes you realize that it's just a matter of time before it starts to affect the values of game-used bats. In fact, if you have been watching the game-used bat market over the past few years, it has already started to happen as high quality examples continue to command a more noticeable premium above the rest. Today, it is not uncommon for collectors to pay a significant premium for the best quality ash, hickory or maplewood weaponry on the market as evidenced by the numerous auction and retail sales in recent times.
Once again, now that we know a game-used bat is authentic, how do we determine its quality?
Like autographs, there is an element and level of subjectivity not found in the card market but there are some general rules. From eye-appeal to rarity to provenance, there is a plethora of contributing factors. Some bats sell for a premium because you can actually pinpoint the year they were used or, in some cases, the bat can be pinpointed to a specific game or event -- like a bat used to hit a home run. The main focus of this article and one of the main factors in determining the quality of a particular bat is the strength of the player characteristics on a bat. Player characteristics are what can help place the bat in the hands of the player who used it; it's a virtual "fingerprint" that makes that bat unique.
John Taube, one of the resident bat experts at PSA and Grey Flannel, discussed the importance and impact that player characteristics can have on the value of a bat. "Use characteristics are critical when it comes to evaluating bat quality," Taube explained. "Many years ago, I can recall analyzing a bat of Hall of Famer Frank Robinson with the numbers "35" and "20" on the knob in black marker. At first, I thought that the bat was used by Robinson and teammate Mike Cuellar. After more research, I found photos of Robinson holding his bats with both numbers on the knob. It turned out to be a unique characteristic of Robinson bats. The "35" represented the approximate weight of the bat and the "20" was, of course, his uniform number. In my mind, bats that exhibit this characteristic help place the bat directly into the hands of Robinson."
One thing to keep in mind about bat authentication in general is that a great deal of the value is determined at the point authenticity is confirmed. In other words, once we know that the bat was a professional model bat ordered by the player in question, then the bat takes on a whole new meaning. Finding an authentic gamer, whether used or unused, is where much of the value comes from. Once that is established, one of the factors that can take the bat to the next level is the player characteristics.
Taube continued to explain the impact. "There is a clear difference between an authentic bat that may have been used by the player and a bat that can virtually be placed right into his hands," Taube said. "Bats that possess those key characteristics are commanding a 40%-50% premium on average in the market. The examples are endless. Johnny Bench applied a strong layer of pine tar on about 10-12 inches of the handle, Wade Boggs and George Brett had specific pine tar patterns and Tony Gwynn had a unique taping method near the lower handle."
As Taube mentioned, there are so many unique characteristics to look for. Sammy Sosa, Ken Griffey Jr. and Duke Snider all used distinct taping methods for grip. Stan Musial would groove his handles for grip with a jackknife and Roberto Clemente would groove the hitting surface on the barrel of his gamers. Ted Williams and Musial would often underline the number ("9" and "6" respectively) on the knobs of their bats. Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays went through periods of using little-to-no pine tar and other stages of very specific, heavy pine tar usage -- mainly later in their careers. Mark McGwire, on the other hand, was one of the most consistent players (in terms of bat preparation and pine tar usage) in the modern era. The list goes on and on and on.
"I had the thinnest bat in the major leagues. I made my bat with a Babe Ruth handle and a Jimmie Foxx barrel and I would scrape down the handle to make it even thinner. I never used tar and I didn't like wax. I'd scrape up the handle a little bit so I could hold it better."
Stan Musial
"Crack of the Bat" - The Louisville Slugger Story
There is no question that the existence of strong player characteristics has varying degrees of impact on different bats. "Evidence such as pine tar on Mays gamers and numbers ("44") on Aaron knobs factor heavily on the value of those bats," Taube explained. "Most existing bats of these players have light use. They both had long careers and were approaching major milestones so, in turn, many people wanted a piece of history and their bats made their way out of the clubhouse as souvenirs. Recently, two Mays bats with heavy use and pine tar from later in his career sold for $13,000 and $11,000 respectively. Those two same bats would only sell for $6,000-$8,500 without the strong usage."
A "44" can add much to the value of a Hank Aaron bat.
What about the Sultan of Swat -- Babe Ruth?
After analyzing many, many photos, it is clear that Ruth would (more often than not) hit with the center brand down. What that means is that Ruth would actually strike the ball on the right-handed hitting surface (the left side) most of the time. You can actually see evidence of this on Ruth's follow-through as the center brand is facing the camera (in order for the bat to end up in that position, the bat must have traveled through the hitting zone with the label pointed down). Barry Bonds and Nomar Garciaparra have shown the same habit during their careers.
How do we know about these individual traits?
Well, photos can be a huge help is doing quality research. "Without photos as a reference, most Ruth bats in the hobby would be thought of as being used by another player due to the location of the ball marks," Taube explained. "As a bat expert, I have spent many hours in book stores in search of books that feature photos of the players with their bats. Numerous titles are available. I would recommend that all collectors assemble a collection of books they can use as a source when considering a purchase of a game-used bat."
The significance and importance of photos is, without question, evident but there is one major point that needs to be made. There are plenty of photos, both modern and vintage, where players are posing for the camera with a bat in hand. That bat may or may not be a bat they intend on using or one that is prepared for actual game use. What you will notice a lot is the fact that players would often pose for the camera with another player's bat. In fact, during college, I remember that our whole baseball team posed for individual pictures with the very same bat. Keep this in mind as you scroll through the pages of posed pictures.
Here's the key. This is a major challenge but the best types of photos are the ones that feature the hitter in actual game action. Why? Again, most existing photos (especially vintage) are of the player posing for the camera without a real gamer. The other part of this photo equation is that it really does help if the photo is obviously clear and taken at close range. In some cases, you may even be able to see the numbers on knobs if the image is clear enough.
Here are a few reminders of what not to worry about. Players, while traditionally consistent with their bats and bat preparation, occasionally try different things to break out of slumps, etc. So, in other words, if you find a picture of a player using a bat that is either not his or one that exhibits uncharacteristic characteristics for that player, no need to worry. This will happen occasionally but, most of the time, players remain consistent.
The grooved handle of this Musial bat is strong evidence of its authenticity.
You will find different levels of consistency with different players. For example, some players have been very loyal to specific brands of bats. Stan Musial and Ted Williams were almost exclusive H&B users while Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays bounced back and forth between H&B and Adirondack bats during their careers. Many players were somewhat inconsistent when it came to applying their uniform numbers to the knobs of their bats. So, again, there's no need to worry if a Mickey Mantle bat does not have a number "7" on the knob because most Mantle bats actually do not possess this characteristic -- it is far more important to look for other "Mantle" characteristics on the bat.
"I think I can hit with any kind of bat but I know I wouldn't have had the success had it not been for the Louisville Slugger bats I used the last 25 years of my career. Absolutely, they were the best for me. I tried others once, but I went back to the Louisville Slugger"
Ted Williams
"Crack of the Bat" - The Louisville Slugger Story
Mark McGwire used Adirondack bats throughout almost his entire career.
Vince Malta sums up the feeling of finding that special bat, one that possesses the "fingerprints" of that player -- one that exhibits excellent player characteristics. "A bat that has been game used by a player is a bat that has been immortalized by the player with a 'soul,'" Malta explained. "No matter what happens to the bat, it is immortal, because it was and always will be used by the player and a part of baseball history."
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Gucci is a worldwide legend in designer fashion for men, renowned for its quality, prestige, and Italian legacy. With timeless style and sophistication, this leather horsebit slip-on is a perfect staple for your wardrobe.
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QLD Rugby Takes Off With QLDâS Airline: Virgin Blue The Official Airline Of The Reds06/02/2007
Brisbane, Tuesday 6 February 2007: In one of its biggest sponsorship agreements to date, Virgin Blue Airlines has announced a three year partnership with the QR Queensland Reds.
It's the first time the airline has entered into rugby union sponsorship and reflects Virgin Blue's evolving sports sponsorship strategy.
The partnership got off to a winning start with the Reds sterling 25-16 season opening win over the Hurricanes at Suncorp Stadium on the weekend.
Virgin Blue Chief Executive, Brett Godfrey said, "This is tremendously exciting for Virgin Blue, we are a proud Queensland based company and we can think of no better way of paying back the community support we have received since our launch by both flying and supporting the home team. It's a win-win arrangement and we look forward to helping the Reds continue their successful start to the new season."
While Virgin Blue sponsorships are generally focused around charity groups, the airline is venturing further into the sports arena, with the QRU agreement complementing the existing NBL sponsorship agreement.
"We are partnering with like-minded organisations that mirror Virgin Blue's own outlook. Like the Reds, Virgin Blue enjoys kicking goals of our own in the corporate sector and we've made a lot of changes to our product. This partnership has the added bonus of providing opportunities to showcase the new Virgin Blue."
QRU Chairman, Peter Lewis said. "We warmly welcome Virgin Blue to the Queensland Rugby family as one of our elite sponsors and we are delighted to have them on board."
QRU Chief Executive, Ken Freer said: "Virgin Blue is a consumer champion airline and one that values competitive spirit, innovation and spunk. It's a brand and attitude that our team, our coaches and our fans relate to."
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Star Academy's music teacher Michel Fadel and art director Joelle Homeissy exchanged vows few hours ago at St. Louis church, downtown Beirut. The ceremony that was held in French solely, was attended by family and friends including Michel's father Mr. Fouad Fadel, Sophia Al Marikh, Wadih Abi Raad, George Assaf and more.
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While the gilded and engraved detail of Hirst's glass reflect his close study of antique decorative traditions, the flattened and tapering shape of this work is inspired by the featureless heads of prehistoric stone carvings from the Cycladic islands. These carvings are thought to have been symbols of fertility.
In Hirst's Guardian I, a heavy red-brown sacswells the upper portion of this vessel. The rim is embellished with gold lustre like a Renaissance chalice. A gilded panel beneath is incised with a short 'text' in a manner that reflects Hirst's early training as a printmaker.
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If you've never played Lights Out before the goal of the game is to turn off all the lights. Where ever you click it flips the lights in a plus-sign shape to their opposite states. So, if a light is on and you flip it it'll turn off and vice-versa. There is another version where the lights in the shape of an 'x' are flipped.
Instructions: Press 'm' to go to the menu during the game. Press 'r' to restart a level during the game. Use the menu to choose game type. Start Game starts a game with preset levels. Random Game starts a game with randomly generated levels. Options goes into options for the game. Mode determines the type of game. If you choose on it will be a normal type game where lights in a plus-sign shape are flipped. If you choose off it will be a game where lights in an 'x' shape are flipped. Music you can turn on or off.
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Posted on 01/04/2013 2:10:40 PM PST by virgil283
"1st Century Romans created the first folding pocket knife. They made for easy carrying for soldiers and other explorers on their journeys and conquests. However, as the use of sheathed knives became more popular, the use of pocket knives fell somewhat into disfavor......There are three common designs of pocket knives: the jack knife, the pen knife, and the multi-purpose knife. Well discuss the features and benefits of each one, in order to help you decide what kind of knife you should get.
A jack knife has a simple hinge at one end, and may have more than one blade. The jack knife is popular among hunters, fishermen, and campers.... A pen knife is hinged at both ends of the handle, and usually has two or three blades at each end. The pen knife was originally designed to cut or sharpen pen quills for writing. The pen knife is good if you want more than one type of blade. Its also small and lightweight and wont be noticeable in the pocket of dress clothes.....Multi-purpose knife. These are probably the most popular pocketknives. The Swiss Army knife and the Handyman are probably the most well known of the multi-purpose knives.....
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Mine is an automatic assault pocket knife.
I've usually got two and occasionally three, depending on which bag I'm carrying.
I carry a couple.
Also a big fan of AOM. Nice to see it linked on here. Good site. Reasonably good message board. Brett's running a good show over there.
I did get in trouble once in school... for not having a pocket knife in shop class.
This thread made me actually look at it.. The emblem insert on the side is missing, it got run through a washer once too often.
The tip of the short blade has been broken (never loan a knife to a brother-in-law).
It's starting to look positively ancient. It's only 40-odd years old.
Since I am an authentic "jack pine savage", I always have one, maybe more on my person. I do always change into the dress knife for church, however!
I still remember the present I got from my grandfather for earning my Boy Scout "toting chit". It's a Schrade Old Timer, and I still have it.
I have a Spyderco folder, too. They make good stuff.
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I still have my old Swiss army knife I got when I was eleven and in the Boy Scouts. It's 30 years old, both blades are still sharp, though those edges have been dressed, and the only thing I lost from it was the toothpick, but the tweezers I still have.
Great knife!
I too have one from decades ago. I saw a little knife shop during a vacation a few years back and found a replacement toothpick.
I have many, but one of my favorites for 20 years was a Puma White Hunter which I lost several years ago after field dressing a deer. I thought about replacing it a while back and was a bit shocked at the price now. I like Buck knives—good Christian family founded this fine knife company.
'giant swiss army knife'...When I was 10 my Dad gave me a giant army knife he found in a pawn shop. It was literaly the size and shape of a large baked potato. There were over a hundred 'blades' (saws, spoon, fork, etc.). Never again have I seen one like it. I wish I still had it cause my friends don't believe me....ha ha.
Which bag you're carrying? Tell me it's not a murse!
Yep, Spyderco is my favorite folding knife maker. Quality materials and construction. The Harpy is my favorite design. Very useful but also useful for self defense.
I also have an old Swiss army knife, a Gerber Flik multi tool, Cold Steel Gunsite, Kabar black fighting knife, SOG seal team elite, tactical tomahawk, and my collection of throwing knives which see heavy use.
Ack I have never thought to seek a toothpick replacment!
I am a dirka face.
As soon as winter is on, and I am in my muks, I regularly carry a boot knife too, as coats, insulated bibs and such make it hard to access pockets... And since my pants are always inside the muks, the boot knife is easy to get to.
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I am not a collector but I have probably over a hundred pocket knives. For many years I carried a Puma Stockman. It is very high quality but I no longer carry one.
Back in the early 60s I read an article in one of the sports magazines such as "Outdoor Life" about knives. The author made a comment about Swiss Army knives. He said he thought tools belonged in the tool box not on a knife.
I thought this was really clever and for years would not even consider carrying one. Then I actually used one and decided that guy didn't have a clue. I usually carry a super tinker or one of several which have the toothpick and tweezers.
The things I use most are the scissors, the tooth pick and flat bladed screw driver. Maybe the knife blade is next then the Phillips head. I prefer the Victorinox over the Wenger but not by a lot.
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Ditto - Swiss Army, Boker Armed Forces and an itty bitty Gerber Baby.
Except, of course, when I'm going TDY with just a carry-on. Most idiotic rule EVER. And SPARE me the "box cutters brought down airplanes" BS - we weren't ready for it the first time. Now, I'm pretty confident everybody with a knife would pull it at the first sign.
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Sent her into Schrade...and they replaced the blade..no questions asked. Just cost me S & H.....
Still have that knife..Still use it all the time. I'll be taking it to the GOM next fall....for a tuna adventure!!
Just a Boy Scout FYI. It's a "Totin' Chip" for the knife and a "Firemans Chit" to be a recognized fire builder. And if the leaders cut off all the corners of your "Totin' Chip" (by catching you doing usafe stuff) you have to re-earn it. Let's be careful out there... :-)
It's also ruined the love life of a large number of young former bulls, back before the rubber band thing became common.
Dude....you ARE a collector!! Ha!!
It's called a "Leek" - designed by Ken Onion. Onion, leek, get it?
I'll go away now.
I just got to thinking and I don't think I have ever had a bad pocketknife as long as it was a name brand.
At one time I thought "Tree Brand" or Arbolito was the best one for the money. Buck is a good knife tho a bit hard to sharpen at times. I believe Puma has got the right combination of ease of sharpening, edge holding and resistance from rust.
Case XX are great but I think a little high. Schrade used to be a good buy. SOG was at one time great but they seem to have gone down recently. I like a lot of Gerber designs.
Like I said all name brands are good.
dirka face??
I like the Barlow I have had for many, many years.
My Father carried and used a Queen Steel pocketknife until he died. I don't know which one of my siblings got it but it was literally worn out.
I always thought Queen knives steel was just a bit soft. They were one of the first stainless ones but then again, the one Daddy had stood up to a tremendous amount of use.
When I lived on the farm, 110 acres, I carried a knife with a gut hook. Handy! But now that it's a collectible, it's stashed away. I cut down an Osage Orange tree, and sliced up some of the nice crotch branchings into handle sized pieces. Dried them for a year near the wood burning furnace. I bought a very nice quality 440 stainless blade, and custom-made my own sheath knife. Polished that stainless like crazy. Took it to a gun/knife show, and was astonished by what I was offered for it! So,,, it's stashed away too. Osage orange is such a lovely wood. Hard as a rock too. Came up with a design for hidden rivets. Shoulda made some more of them! Maybe I'll hit the second hand/junk stores looking for an old carving set with Damascus blades. Just might be a nice Winter project! I still have enough wood for a couple more......
I usually carry my Applegate/Fairbairn Covert Folder issued to me when I was deployed with the Army.
Swiss Army sells a small knife with a 128MB flash drive. You just plug it into your USB port connected to the knife.
I have a shorter Kershaw my wife bought me.
I carry it daily (and I just have an office job).
Extremely handy and easily opened one handed with a bit of practice, but it's a little small for any serious work. This is my first pocket knife with a locking blade, and I'll never go back to a non-locker.
Been thinking about getting something larger and more utilitarian for in the field, perhaps something with a fixed blade, but I got a bit distracted stocking up on guns and parts and the knife has gotten pushed down on my todo list.
The only man lower than one who does not carry a knife, is one who needs to borrow YOURS!
I tell them; "Ask your mom, she'll probably tell you you're old enough to have your own."
Loaning tools is a good way to end up having to buy new ones.
Around 1953, my older Brother broke the blade in his pocket knife. I can't remember the brand but think it was Queen. He mailed it to them and asked for a repair.
He would have been 11 at the time. I remember they replaced the blade and even cleaned it up a bit and no charge.
When I was a kid my grandfather told me everyone should have a pocket knife. He gave me my first. Carried one ever since.
IOW, while not fully automatic, are they faster to open than a well-lubed quality folder ?
Would be interested in acquiring something reasonably priced, but would prefer some educated steerage in the right direction.
These are what I normally carry.
The little red Victorinox Classic being indispensable for digging/tweezing out splinters in the shop, and the Gerber Paraframe 'just in case'.
Good post. I was taught always to carry a pocket knife, and always did... Until I had the quite traumatic and infuriating experience of a TSA officer relieving me of a custom-made model. It bothers me a great deal that knives are not allowed on airplane carry-on, and are likely to be stolen on international flights when checked. (1 SCUBA knife and another "piece" lost that way.) I wonder if the folks at VICTORINOX or Spyderco have the moxie to petition Congress from K Street to repeal these ridiculous, draconian, Orwellian standards. Ronnie Barrett also makes knives, and they are magnificent.
Lately I have become a big fan of the SVORD Peasant knife, great knife by the way...
My words.......Always Go Armed.
As you've found, a problem with making/buying something really nice is the almost insurmountable hesitance to use it ! LOL
I always carry at least one. Usually Swiss Army or Gerber. My two teenage boys always carry also (Reason 3,492 to homeschool) They have over 30 each.
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Millions of pounds in overseas aid are wasted every year planting trees in dry countries in the belief that they help attract rainfall and act as storage for water, scientists said yesterday.
In fact, forests usually increase evaporation and help to reduce the amount of water available for human consumption or growing crops, according to a four-year study.
Research on water catchments on three continents says it is "a myth" that trees always increase the availability of water.
Even the cloud forests of tropical Costa Rica had less effect in stripping water out of clouds than previously assumed, according to the study, funded by the Department for International Development.
In one part of a large study, Sampurno Bruijnzeel, of the Free University of Amsterdam and one of the world's leading experts on tropical forests, measured the overall amount of water flowing from wet, forested catchments in Costa Rica and found there was no more water than was flowing from surrounding grassland.
While cloud forests were more effective at stripping water out of clouds, the researchers found that the evaporation was higher than on short vegetation.
The study, for the UK's Tropical Forestry Research Programme, will be controversial as it shows that converting cloud forests to pasture does not cause major reductions in water yields.
In India, South Africa and Tanzania, the study showed that plantation forests actively wasted water and were "ineffective" or "counterproductive" at retaining water.
Studies by Newcastle University in the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh found that planting trees had a "negative" effect on the supply of water.
The study suggests that efforts to convert agricultural land to forest caused a 16 to 26 per cent reduction in water yield. The study suggests that rainfall evaporates up to twice as fast in forests as it does in treeless areas.
Prof Ian Calder, of Newcastle University, one of the researchers, said: "Putting in more forestry in water-stressed catchments where the water table is 500 ft down and the ground water is being mined for uncontrolled crop irrigation will only aggravate matters."
"The public perception is that where you plant trees, you will be increasing the ground water recharge. The evidence is the opposite," Prof Calder said.
Other "water myths" the study knocks down are that trees, particularly plantation trees, are always beneficial in preventing erosion and stopping floods.
Prof Calder said the study showed that there might be some benefit with plantations taking up water in most years, and reducing annual floods, but in major 1-in-20-year floods, the benefits were "negligible".
Astounding ignorance. Trees make good firewood or wood pulp.
"A suprise to me."
Another thing people are surprised to hear, and still don't believe, is that trees are a source of pollution.
Reagan got bashed and still gets bashed for pointing this out.
But it's true.
Several things come to mind. First, the water run-off from large forests wouldn't be especially great, because the water is held in the undergrowth. While there isn't great run-off, there is a bountiful amount of animal and plant life supported by the water in these eco systems.
On the one hand the study says that trees don't create more rain, but then it also notes that there is greater evaporation from the forests. This makes one wonder if the people running the study understand where rain comes from.
"Some trees", not all trees...
Water attracts trees, not the other way around. Some people just don't think logically.
"Another thing people are surprised to hear, and still don't believe, is that trees are a source of pollution."
I remember a childhood trip to the Smokey mountains where a park ranger explained that the haze in the air was from the trees.
Yup. I remember that. (Reagan's picture still hangs over my desk)
It would seem to me that if there were not enough water.. trees wouldn't grow.
Besides.. this was a FOUR YEAR STUDY? How freepin stupid is that? Four lousy years... don't they know how long trees live? I'm sorry, but I don't care how sophisticated your computer models are, you cannot measure/predict the impact of a forrest on a complex ecosystem in just four years.
The good Lord just doesn't work that way... or that fast.
Really. Which trees don't produce pollen?
Since most trees root systems are on the top 3-6 inches of the ground this study proves that some people get far to much time and gelt to spew their ignorance. In the rain forests of South America, nearly the whole eco system is above ground.
Trees provide the canopy to cool the air by shade and evaporation..causing all that water to go into the air and return as rain..maybe not in that area, but it comes down. The Sahara desert once had forests. After they became extinct the desert was the result.
The biggest polluter on earth is forest fire. Forest fire releases carbon, not only from the fire itself but the ground. And it continues to release that element for years untill a new forest grows. Fire also releases Mercury as well as other elements collected over the years on the ground. So lets get Bruce "The Rabbit" Babbit to get out on another photo op of him with a drip can lighting up a "controlled" burn...the ignorant idiot!
Um, not much survives a 20 year flood. This is overstating the obvious, and ignores the benefit of having trees reduce erosion, which would conserve valuable topsoil.
Some of us learned that in basic Environmental Science merit badge class at summer camp..
He is still lampooned for his comment. He was taken out of context for political reasons and they still run with it.
"Trees provide the canopy to cool the air by shade and evaporation..causing all that water to go into the air and return as rain..maybe not in that area, but it comes down."
Of course, but that wasn't the point of the study.
And water vapor is a greenhouse gas much more powerful than CO2.
I don't consider pollen to be polution. When Reagan addressed this issue, I believe he was refering to some trees which produced a fair amount of oxygen and others which net drains on the oxygen supply.
Millions of allergy sufferers would disagree - as would the kind folks that came up with the term "pollen count", as part of the pollution index.
But everyone is entitled to their opinion, to be sure.
And I couldn't speak to what Reagan was actually referring to - though if he was referring to pollen, he would've been more widely understood, and also correct.
I would suggest that Reagan wasn't talking about pollen. If he had been, he wouldn't have qualified his comments about 'some trees'. He would have said all trees.
As for the pollen count, the inclusion of it in the daily index reporting doesn't make it pollution. It does make it bothersome for people with allergies, which is why they report it.
Thanks for the additional comments.
When Reagan menthioned trees in this manner, he was talking about overall polution in our big cities. (At least I think he was.)
I didn't mean to imply that oxygen was a polutant, but that Reagan's premise was that some trees could compete with humans for the oxygen supply in heavily populated areas.
Thought you guys might like to see this AP report clipping from 2003.
Reagan was right!
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Thursday, March 13, 2003
Ottawa Coniferous forests around the world may be emitting more smog-causing nitrogen oxides than traffic and industry combined, suggests a report in the prestigious journal Nature.
The report, released Wednesday, flies in the face of the accepted view that forests reduce pollution by absorbing it a theory Canada relied on in demanding credit for forests as pollution "sinks" under the Kyoto climate change accord.
I hope I didn't give the impression that I didn't think trees could emit pollutants. I just didn't think that they all did.
Leaving the pollen arguement out of it, would you state that all trees emit significant amounts of pollutants?
Trees do emit oxygen also. Isn't it still a net overall good?
Absolutely trees are beneficial. I don't think I'd ever live any place I couldn't go out and walk in them and smell them. They take in CO2, and expire O2 just like you say. Besides that they're a necessary crop for raw materials.
Some give off more VOC's than others. Evergreens give off a lot. A pretty good rule would be the more you can smell the tree the more it gives off. If you go out in the national forests on a hazy day, it is not the big city causing the smog.
I think what Reagan was trying to point out is that human beings are not the cause of all the world's ills. Some things are just beyond our capacity to control and we just have to live with it. Also, he was trying to say we can't regulate our way to a perfect world. EPA tends to think that with just a little more regulation, just a little lower limits, we can get to utopia. That'll never happen.
That's fine about Reagan. As I stated, I don't remember.
But - with all due respect, Google the simple question "Is pollen considered pollution?", and see what you get.
Pollen IS part of pollution, it's just not man-made.
And it's WAY more than "bothersome" for a lot of people.
It is great for stereo stands, tooth picks, picture frames, baseball bats, skis, decks, homes, barns, clocks, chests, etc.
I think the article is pretty strange, myself, but it seems like the qualifier is "plantation trees," which means one type of tree, rather than a natural forest. Like the white pine plantations in your home state.
Anyway, before I make up my mind I'd need to see more on this.
Although I live in the DC suburbs, the back half of our lot is covered in mature hardwoods with typical understory which we don't mess with. We even let fallen trees stay where they fall. Behind our lot is another three acres in similar condition, and the neighborhoon on the other side also lets their trees grow.
The rest of the yards in our own neighborhood are typical suburban lawns.
Our back yard stays plenty cool in the summer, and I can see that rain runoff concentrates in the sward between the trees and our house. Rain in the woods just soaks in.
I'll trust my own eyes over a newspaper article any day.
I have no idea how this affects rainfall, my guess is that it's too complicated.
Indeed, forest land is graded by how much rainfall it receives annually, the best forest land has the greatest rainfall, and supports the fastest forest growth.
Fine furniture, cabinets, gun stocks, outdoor decks...
mmmmmmmmmmmm, wood!
We have wood falling out of the ground around here.
Yes, I think you're right on target there. Thanks for the comments.
Thanks for the additional comments.
I don't consider something that is biodegradable to be pollution. You and probably a lot of other people do.
Trees make a real mess of things sometimes. They also give off pollen which can bother people. As a kid I suffered from extreme asthma. That's life. I still don't consider something that will be part of the earth in a few months, and help to sustain other life, to be polution. Hey, that's just my take on it.
You take care.
"Really. Which trees don't produce pollen?"
Pollen = Polution? No, I don't think so...
So sez you.
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Size chart
(96.5 - 101.6cm)
(101.6 - 106.7cm)
(106.7 - 111.8cm)
(111.8 - 116.8cm)
(76.2 - 81.3cm)
(81.3 - 86.4cm)
(86.4 - 91.4cm)
(91.4 - 96.5cm)
(86.4 - 91.4cm)
(91.4 - 96.5cm)
(96.5 - 101.6cm)
(106.7 - 111.8cm)
|Bike Shorts
|30 - 32in
(76 - 81cm)
|32 - 34in
(81 - 86cm)
|34 - 36in
(86 - 91cm)
|36 - 38in
(91 - 96.5cm)
|38 - 41in
(97 - 104cm)
|35 - 37in
(89 - 94cm)
|37 - 39in
(94 - 99cm)
|39 - 41in
(99 - 104cm)
|41 - 43in
(104 - 109cm)
|43 - 46in
(109 - 117cm)
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- Measure under your arms, around the fullest part of your chest.
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- Measure around your natural waistline, keeping the tape a bit loose.
- Hip:
- Measure around the fullest part of your body at the top of your legs.
- Inseam:
- Using pants that fit well, measure the crotch seam to the bottom of the leg.
Reviews & Community
Runs too small
- Fit: Runs small
Just received it in size M, but it's definitely too tight, especially on the neck. Other than that it looks really great, but the style is not the only thing when riding, right? I use to wear everything in Medium, but not this time. Don't trust the size chart: order a size up! I will have to reorder a size L.
great shirt
lasted through an entire season, no rips in a few falls. excited to throw it back on year too! very breathable.
Awesome shirt. Order one size up.
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: Runs small
- Size Bought: Small then medium
Ordered this in small (chest 38) but it was just a bit too tight. Thankfully, the good people at Backcountry set me up for a replacement immediately. Ordered a medium and it fits just perfectly. Had a crash recently and got scratches on my arm and shoulder but this jersey still looks new. Looks awesome too.
Nice Fit For a Pencil Neck
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
- Size Bought: Large
As the title suggests, the neck is a little tight, but other than that I love everything about this jersey.
great fit and feel
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
- Fit: True to size
- Size Bought: Large
This jersey is great for summer riding in the mountains. I am 6ft-200lbs and the large fits great. It breaths well and doesn't chafe. I love the look and it goes with just about anything. I have had problems with jerseys in the past being too tight around the neck but that is not the case here. I think the fit is great and I can wear this thing all day.
If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to me.
Love it
Great jersey, light weight with great venting, fits true to size, but smaller than most Dakine jersey's I have purchased in the past.
- Familiarity: I returned this product before using it
- Fit: True to size
I returned this because the neck fits really tight. Cool shirt otherwise but I'd recommend sizing up or avoiding if you have a large neck.
more colors than black?
The Dakine site has an orange/red version of this jersey, any plans to stock that in the future?
Hey Ryan,
Doesn't look like we have an order in with Dakine right now. Dakine has the "Shop Charger Jersey" in the "Blaze/Red Rock" color but it does not look like we will carry that. Wish I could be more help. Reach out to me directly with any other questions.
Camo version is awesome
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: True to size
- Size Bought: medium
I have always been a huge supporter of Dakine products. I love this jersey. As with all products it is really lightweight, breathable, and looks really nice. Once downside for me was the neck was a little tight but it stretches out after a few rides. Fits true to size.
Great summer jersey!
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: Runs small
- Size Bought: Medium
I've worn this for most of my rides this summer, and have really enjoyed this shirt. Holds up well to brushes with trees, branches, while still being really light and breathable. Raglan sleeves are a wonderful thing, they move really well and keep the shirt from "boxing". The length on the sleeves is also a little longer, which really helps out in the brush.
I've observed that neck bunching also, though its never been a problem while I've been riding, only when I run in it
Thanks for the reviews Ryan! Super helpful to get this feedback out to the community.
Charger Jersey - Short-Sleeve - Men's
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
- Fit: Runs small
- Size Bought: XL
just tried this jersey on. it feels nice and I think it will help on shedding the sweat I will be making as I go up hill. I am usually an XL in everything but this feels a little tight, especially around the neck. Maybe after I rock it on a ride I will have a better description of how it works.
Revision: I have now used the Jersey for 4 rides now and gotta say this shirt is awesome!!!!!!!!!!! The fit is still weird when not riding but for some reason when on the bike and pedaling it feels perfect. I am a sweaty dude and this thing wicks all the moisture away. The Venting is spot on with mesh on the sides and across the shoulders on the back. the shirt just went up from the 3 star to a 4 star. I just wish the jersey fit better around the neck.
Camo makes you fast & sneaky in the wood
- Size Bought: Large
I'm 5'11" and weigh 175lbs. I'm usually a large in all shirts I wear, this was no exception. I've literally scared a couple of people wearing the camo jersey as they don't see me coming. Plus, I'm convinced that I'm faster wearing it (kidding).
- Fits well. Its the right amount of being relaxed for a mtb jersey.
- Was a fan of the camo/black color scheme. Some camo looks weird or too much like I'm trying to go hunting, think Dakine nailed it. Might not be for everyone's color tastes though.
- It does dry quick and breaths well and I can get notoriously overheated too fast, so this is essential for me.
- Can't totally put my finger on it, but neck feels a little tight or a little too high. Would have preferred it a bit more relaxed or maybe a small V to have less constriction, especially when doing a highly aerobic activity.
-Despite the antimicrobial properties claimed, the polyester can still get some riding funk going on. Hasn't seemed to get the perma stink some polyesters I've had before have gotten though.
For the one minor design flaw of the jersey cut, it comes out very much on top. Feels good when wearing it around and actually riding and actually looks cool - just make sure to stay on top of laundry and you'll be set (pretty much a good hygiene tip in general I suppose)
Cool and Comfortable
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
- Fit: True to size
- Size Bought: Small
This was my first Dakine Jersey and I was very pleased with how it performed. It breathes very well due to the mesh side paneling. The material seems resilient enough to stand up to a few good crashes and it works well as a layering piece should you need to add a long sleeve jersey or shell over top.
I will try additional Dakine products after this experience.
Great Jersey
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I have a few of these jerseys and love them. Dakine makes a great fitting jersey. Vented shoulder and armpit areas helps keep you cool. Not only do they function well but they make you look cool and ride faster!


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You will find maximum stability in the better than ever update to the Mizuno® Wave Nirvana running shoe and superior comfort for those with flat to medium-arched feet. The Mizuno® Wave™ technology combines cushioning and stability and will give your running performance the extra boast you have been looking for.
- Synthetic upper
- Removable insole
- Mizuno Wave technology for combined cushioning and stability
- New Dynamotion Fit for harmony between body and feet
- AP+ midsole for increased rebound and cushion durability
- VS-1 cushioning in the heel for shock absorption
- X-10™ carbon rubber oustole for durability
- Imported
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Santoni is the perfect blend of high quality craftsmanship and innovation. You can expect nothing less than luxurious perfection when you slip into this slingback pump.
- Leather upper
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- Cutout details
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- Fully lined in leather
- 4" heel
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- Made in Italy
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Rabbit Leg Confit in Éphémère Apple and Cedar Jelly
Preparation: 30 minutes (excluding confit prep. - 24 hours)
Cooking time: 2 hours
For 2 persons
- 4 rabbit legs
- Olive oil
- 1 tsp. chopped garlic
- 3 cloves garlic, halved and degermed
- 7 sprigs fresh thyme
- 3 bay leaves
- 1 pinch coarse salt
- 1 tbsp. marinating spices
- 2 apples
- 1 tbsp. butter
- 2 French shallots, minced
- 2 cups (16 fl. oz.) cedar jelly or 1 cup (8 fl. oz.) of apple jelly
- 3 cups (24 fl. oz.) Éphémère Apple
- Salt or beef extract
- Brown roux
Rabbit confit preparation:
- Place the rabbit legs in a dish.
- Season with marinating spices, bay leaves, chopped garlic, and coarse salt then refrigerate for 24 hours.
- Remove salt and spices and place the rabbit legs in an ovenproof dish.
- Cover with olive oil.
- Add garlic halves and 3 sprigs of fresh thyme.
- Cook in the oven for about 2 hours at 300°F (rabbit is cooked when the flesh is tender and detaches easily from the bone).
- Remove rabbit from the oil and place on paper towel to absorb excess fat.
Éphémère Apple sauce with cedar jelly
- Peel 2 apples and chop into pieces.
- Fry apples with a pat of butter, French shallots, and 4 sprigs of fresh thyme.
- Once apples are golden brown, add cedar jelly or apple jelly.
- Simmer for several minutes.
- Add 3 cups of Éphémère Apple.
- Simmer for about 10 minutes.
- Strain the sauce and let simmer again.
- Thicken the sauce with brown roux until desired consistency is achieved.
- Season with salt or beef extract.
Finally, pour the sauce on the rabbit and accompanied with salad or seasonal vegetables.
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The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources continues to receive test results on other Utah waters, but has received word that mussels have been found in Red Fleet Reservoir just north of Vernal.
Laboratories in Colorado are still testing water samples taken from 38 lakes and reservoirs in Utah in 2008.
The lab workers are searching for destructive organisms called quagga and zebra mussels.
Their testing is almost done. And so far, the results the Division of Wildlife Resources has received are encouraging â most of the waters tested do not appear to have mussels in them.
However two waters have been identified as having mussels.
Besides Red Fleet the other is Electric Lake, in Emery County. Red Fleet was just added to the list.
"So far, all of the mussels found have been very small juveniles," says Walt Donaldson, Aquatic Section chief for the DWR. "That's a sign that the mussels may not be well established in these two waters yet."
Invasive quagga and zebra mussels are a major threat to our quality of life. They are small, clam-like creatures that reproduce rapidly and deplete nutrients in the water. As such, they jeopardize power and water infrastructures, damage ecosystems and destroy recreation.
In 2008, the Utah State Legislature made it illegal to possess or transport invasive mussels. If you have been in an infested water, you must now decontaminate your boat and equipment before entering or traveling in Utah.
Decontamination is the only way to stop the spread of these horrible mussels. It does not harm your boat. It can actually prevent damage on your boat by removing mussels that would clog pumps and hoses.
There are two ways to decontaminate your boat after pulling it out of the water.
Clean mud, plants, animals or other debris from your boat and equipment.
Drain the ballast tanks, bilge, livewells and motor.
Dry (7 days summer, 18 days spring/fall and 30 days in the winter) or freeze (3 days).
Professional decontamination is an alternative method available at many Utah waters. Certified personnel will wash your trailer and boat inside and out, flushing your ballast tanks, bilge, livewells and motor with high-pressure, scalding (140° F) water. This method is effective and does not harm your boat.


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We are changing the faucet on out kitchen sink. The old faucet had a stainless steel base which was
glued onto the sink with plumber's putty. The new faucet does not have this base - it has the fixtures
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How pelvic radiation therapy can affect erections
Prostate, bladder, and colon cancer are often treated with radiation to the pelvis. This can cause problems with erections. The higher the total dose of radiation and the wider the section of the pelvis treated, the greater the chance of an erection problem later.
One way that radiation affects erection is by damaging the arteries that carry blood to the penis. As the treated area heals, the blood vessels lose their ability to stretch due to scar tissue in and around the vessels. They can no longer expand enough to let blood speed in and create a firm erection. Radiation can also speed up hardening (arteriosclerosis), narrowing, or even blockage of the pelvic arteries. Radiation may affect the nerves that control a man's ability to have an erection, too.
A reasonable estimate is that 1 out of every 3 to 4 men who get radiation will notice that their erections change for the worse over the first year or so after treatment. This change most often develops slowly. Some men will still have full erections but lose them before reaching climax. Others no longer get firm erections at all.
As with surgery, the older you are, the more likely it is you will have problems with erections. And men with heart or blood vessel disease, diabetes, or who have been heavy smokers seem to be at greater risk for erection problems. This is because their arteries may already be damaged before radiation treatment. Doctors are looking at whether early penile rehabilitation could help after radiation therapy, too. (Penile rehabilitation is discussed under "Early sexual rehabilitation after surgery" in the "How pelvic surgery to treat cancer can affect erections" section.)
In a few men, testosterone production will slow after pelvic radiation. The testicles may be affected either by a mild dose of scattered radiation or by the general stress of cancer treatment. If a man notices erection problems or a loss of desire after cancer treatment, his first thought may be that he needs to have a blood test for testosterone. But testosterone levels usually get back to normal within 6 months after radiation therapy, so extra hormones may not be needed. And men with prostate cancer should not take testosterone, since it can speed up the growth of prostate cancer cells.
For men with prostate cancer treated with radiation
Most men will report difficulty with erections (erectile dysfunction or ED) within 4 years of getting external beam radiation for prostate cancer. Some of these men may have erections that allow penetration, but only about 15% will report their erections are as good as they were before treatment. Many men with early stage prostate cancer have a choice between radiation and surgery to treat their cancer. When looking at how men's erections are affected by these treatments, ultimately there really is not much difference between the two. Men who have had radiation may see a general decrease in the firmness of their erections over time (up to 5 years after radiation). In contrast, after surgery most men have poor erections right away and then have a chance to recover erections in the first 2 years following the surgery. About 4 years after either treatment, the percentage of men reporting ED is about the same. Treatments can help these men get their erections back, and these treatments usually work for men who have had either surgery or radiation.
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- How pelvic radiation therapy can affect erections
- How chemotherapy can affect erections
- The psychological effects of cancer treatment on erections
- How cancer treatment can affect ejaculation
- How cancer treatment can affect fertility
- How cancer treatment can affect sexual desire and response
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- Is there a way to make orgasms as intense as they used to be?
- Special concerns linked to certain cancers and their treatment
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- Chemotherapy also changes the way you look
- Overcoming depression
- Dealing with grief and loss
- Good communication: The key to building a successful sexual relationship
- Overcoming anxiety about sex
- Rekindling sexual interest
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Professor Brandes teaches the core class in human resource management at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She also teaches the doctoral seminar in organizational behavior and human resources management. She is a 2005 recipient of Syracuse University'
Brandes's research interests are in the areas of executive compensation, corporate governance, and employee attitudes. Her research appears in publications such as Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of Business Research, Group and Organization Management, and Human Resource Management Review.
Select Publications:Goranova, M, Dharwadkar, R., & Brandes, P. "Owners on Both Sides of the Deal: Mergers and Acquisitions and Overlapping Institutional Ownership," Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming).
Dharwadkar, R., Goranova, M., Brandes, P., & Khan, R., 2008, "Institutional Ownership and Monitoring Effectiveness: It's Not Just What You Own, But What Else You Own." Organization Science, 19(3): 419-440. Special Issue on Corporate Governance.Brandes, P., & Goranova, M., & Hall, S. (Director, Steven Hall and Partners), 2008. "Navigating Shareholder Influence: Gaining Shareholder Approval of Compensation Plans." Academy of Management Perspectives, 22(1): 41-57.
Goranova, M., Alessandri, T., Brandes, P., & Dharwadkar, R., 2007. "Managerial Ownership and Corporate Diversification: A Longitudinal View." Strategic Management Journal, 28: 211-225.


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The PCI Utilities
What's that?
The PCI Utilities are a collection of programs for inspecting and manipulating configuration of PCI devices, all based on a common portable library libpci which offers access to the PCI configuration space on a variety of operating systems.
The utilities include: (See their manual pages for more details)
- lspci
- displays detailed information about all PCI buses and devices in the system
- setpci
- allows reading from and writing to PCI device configuration registers. For example, you can adjust the latency timers with it.
Supported systems
The library (and therefore all the utilities) works on the following operating systems:
- Linux
- FreeBSD
- NetBSD
- OpenBSD
- GNU/kFreeBSD
- Solaris/i386
- GNU Hurd
- Windows
- BeOS
- Haiku
- Darwin
However, not everything is supported on all systems. Some back-ends are read-only, some access the I/O ports directly, which need not work reliably. The only back-end which has all the features is Linux with a recent kernel.
The latest release of pciutils is version 3.5.3 (2017-02-15).
You can download it from:
- atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz (the master site)
- ftp.kernel.org (expect a few hours delay)
Sometimes, development versions are also avaiable for testing. If you feel brave,
download them from the
alpha directory at the first two FTP servers.
There is also a public GIT tree at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/pciutils/pciutils.git containing the current development code. You can also view the shortlog of the development tree.
PCI IDs
The PCI Utilities also contain a list of known vendors and devices (used for displaying vendor/device names instead of the ID numbers reported by the devices themselves). The list is maintained separately by the PCI ID Database project, daily snapshots are available there.
If lspci doesn't recognize some device in your machine and you know what the device is, please submit an update to the database.
You can ask questions and report bugs on the
mailing list running on Vger
(the old mailing list at Atrey is no longer in use).
Announcements about new versions are also sent there.
You can find the latest updates to the
pci.ids file (the list
of all known vendor, device, subsystem and class ID's) in the PCI
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