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German Chancellor Angela Merkel made clear that she does not envision a full membership in the European Union for Turkey. Speaking before a group of fellow Christian Democrats, the German leader said "we cannot take in everyone in Europe as a full members." She expressed concerns about the border of the European Union and worried that too many members would make decision making difficult. "It makes no sense if there are ever more members, and we can't decide anything anymore." However, Merkel expressed her support for some form of EU membership for Turkey that was short of full membership.
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Re: Know the rules!
How is he supposed to get better if no one throws a flag? AND FOLLOWS THROUGH.
Next time, throw a flag, file a protest, and win. Get him tossed. He'll figure it out. Racing is a self policing sport, if we don't all police each other, then there are no rules. No rules = no race. A protest flag isn't a
d!ck move, it's just part of racing.
Re: Know the rules!
Happened to me this past weekend. DRIFTER of a "race". We're wing/wing on Stbd. Very slowly converging w/ us is a multihull on Port. Both of us doing about 2.5 knots. Pretty obvious there is going to be an "issue". I finally called to him "are you trying to cross us"? He said yes. I waited another 15 or 20 seconds and then loudly called out STARBOARD. Got no response and he kept getting closer. Finally when the lazy sheet hanging from my poled out jib (on the stbd side) was about to lasso his head I gybed away, muttering loudly as I did. He then proceeded to tell me he wasn't in my way! Wife said YES YOU WERE. Since neither of us was in danger of placing well in the race I wasn't going to protest him but his attitude really pissed me off so I called PROTEST, that's a circle... He ignored me and never did a circle.
What really irked me was we were gaining on a boat in our class and were just about to take their wind and pass them and lost the chance. Took another hour til we finally passed them and pulled away. 2 hours later they corrected over us by 26 seconds.
They and another boat both said they saw him foul me.
I recognized someone I knew on this guy's boat and they said they had just met him that day so they couldn't say what the hell happened.
You would think if you're racing you would at least know the S/P situations.
BTW, Just remember POW's have NO rights. Port, Overtaking, Windward.
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Thanks Andrew! I try.. I really try to be gracious.. but sometimes, the cheap shots can get annoying.
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First up, Denise did not claim a right of way nor did she say she was a vessel under sail. Nonethless her craft is still a SailBoat (to use the American vernacular.) Her post was more a note re the Power Boats rudeness and apparent ignorance of colregs. At least that is the way I took it.
You may well say that as Denise was motor sailing she had no right of way and at the very least she implies that herself. Irrespective of her situation the other boat was sailing and so her point re rules is quite valid and lets get real ... how many of you really believe that even if D was flying the appropriate shape the stinker would have recognised it ? Give way to sail or no give way to sail , cutting between two boats that are on a converging course is utter stupidity whichever way you look at it.
Now maybe (yes we have had a reported post) Denise's response was a tadge snippy but from where I'm sitting "No Shite Sherlock" would have been an appropriate response to Marcus' post.
Anywho ... please don't forget my fine feathered friends that this is On Topic .... polite society, civil conversation and no farting.
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If you were motor sailing, then you weren't a sailboat, you were a powerboat.
I'm like so impressed! Maybe this was the clue? "Today I was motor sail tacking down river," Oh please, come teach me all about sailing? I promise I won't be a good girl and not toss you overboard with the first real time remark! I'm glad you have the gall to correct me, since I've found no evidence of you advising your peers!
I love the ignore function.. it works too!
Re: Know the rules!
All points well taken...
In the end, it is all about accident avoidance. I know of a collision in Toronto Harbour where the "right of way boat" saw the offending boat approaching on a collision course. BANG! That boat ended up sharing the responsibility for the collision. (Read: the insurance company did not pay for damage to the boat!...)
I once came too close to a collision myself when a boat approached with 150% genoa obscuring his view of me and I was too complacent and should have changed course sooner for my own piece of mind. We were both on port tack, and I was down wind, but so what? With a large genoa like that we all know that scanning for traffic to windward is not easy and easily forgone for a minute or two! Shame on me! Never again!
Right of way rules are of course necessary and useful - but I think their application-to-the-letter happens only when racing. Otherwise, while we all leisurely make our way at something between 4 and 6 knots (unless in confined waters), we have time to make small corrections. I, for one, do not count on the other guy SEEING me in the first place, let alone react correctly.
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The first rule should be the golden rule. If you are in the right and cuss or crash into someone that may or may not know the rules what have you gained ? Where are you going ? You are making your stress level go up. The other boat may enjoy this there are strange folks in the world.
When I go to sail I want to have fun. Even at a race. You are most likely not going to get paid or go pro so save the boats. Try to educate and have fun.
Kind Regards, Lou
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Boat with Spinnaker is not flying their main sail
I'd probably stay out of their way regardless, no telling what their next move would be.
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Chef, this has actually happened to me this year – TWICE! Both times I was flying a spin shorthanded and with rookie crew members to boot. Both times we were on starboard board and the crossing boat was beam reaching also on starboard. Because the beam reacher was leeward of us as the situation developed, he was privileged and we burdened. The complications for us is we were flying the A-kite at the time and our only option was to head up and go in his same direction albeit on our ear. (trust me, you don't want to crash gybe a kite with a rookie crew on San Francisco Bay in the afternoon. Round-downs always end ugly). We were able to execute our heating up maneuver without anyone going over the side though it took a bit getting the kite back under control. The second time it happened, the other skipper was pretty thoughtful and he hardened up a little bit and he crossed safely behind us. Sometimes, common courtesy is a privileged skipper giving up his "rights" in order to help another skipper out. That other skipper was a real mensch – he altered his course just enough to communicate his intentions to us and promptly went back to his base course without losing much, if any ground.
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Thanks Jackdale!
Since I am house bound for a while and off the water, I will be around a bit more.
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I have well water and high pH. Out of the tap it used to be around 8.2. I mix the tap water with about 25% distilled and it kept the tank reading fairly consistent at 8.0. Since I only have diffusa/mystery snails and red cherry shrimp, I was never concerned about lowering it any further and they seemed fine. Until lately.
About a month ago I purchased some more young adult mystery snails. A few of them are not adjusting very well to my water. The biggest one floats and slimes constantly. My original snails seem fine, except for one that hangs near the top and siphons air all the time now. I started looking at my pH again. It's now about 8.4 in the tank. Out of the tap it's around 7.8. How can this happen? I know tap water can fluctuate, but why would it be higher in the tank now? Especially since I'm mixing it with distilled water..?
Other parameters: Ammonia and nitrite are both 0, nitrate is 20. I've never tested the KH (should I start?) Copper tested 0. I also have mopani in the tank and gravel substrate. Heavily planted with crypts and anubias mostly. No CO2.
I'm trying to understand pH better and hopefully save my snails, if that is the problem. What factors will cause it to rise in the tank? How about fertilizer? I use Flourish Tabs and Flourish liquid (not Excel). Can the tabs start leeching out of the substrate and affect pH? How can I safely lower the pH just a tad and keep it there? Should I increase the distilled mix to 50/50? Anything else?
ETA: Would calcium tablets affect pH? I feed the snails a lot of Caltrate. When they poop it out it sinks into the gravel and stays there. It's heavy and doesn't suck up well in the gravel vacuum.
Calcium (probably in the form of calcium carbonate?) would cause the pH to rise. Other things (substrate, rocks, decor, etc) could be leeching out to cause your pH to rise as well.
Another factor to consider is that while your tap water might be 8.2 straight out of the tap, there is some dissolved CO2 in it, which would slightly lower the pH. If you let the CO2 off gas (just let the water sit for a day), you would probably see the pH go up slightly.
As for decreasing the pH slightly, you can try mixing in a bit more RO/DI water.
Thanks, I'll increase the distilled water. I did have Petoskey stones in the tank which are made of calcite, I believe. I don't know if they were the culprit but I took them out. No other decor except for the mopani now. Maybe it is all the Caltrate. I serve it on a reptile dish now instead of laying it on the gravel. Less mess now, but they still poop it out all over the tank. It's almost like sand when pooped out and does not suck up at all. I wish I understood the chemistry better. :confused1:
I certainly would start checking the GH and KH.
TDS, too.
Here is why:
Water that passes through the ground dissolves whatever rock is there. If the rock is high in limestone or related materials then the rock dissolves quite easily and these minerals show up in the water.
Calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate are the most common minerals in limestone and related materials.
Calcium and magnesium are measured by the GH test.
Carbonates and bicarbonates are measured by the KH test.
Any other minerals would show up using the TDS meter. This is Total Dissolved Solids.
Carbonates are the most common buffer of pH in the aquarium. When the KH is high then the pH tends to be high, and does not change easily. If the KH changes, then the pH can change. I think this is what is going on in your tank.
Caltrate is calcium carbonate. So you are adding calcium and carbonates to the tank with every pill. The GH test would show if the Ca is rising. The KH test would show that the KH is rising. Rising KH = rising pH (almost always).
Hard water (high in GH or KH or both) is good for snails, up to a point. You can go to the apple snail web site and get the optimum levels for them.
Blending your well water with distilled (or reverse osmosis) water is a good way to keep the GH, KH, pH and TDS exactly where the snails like it, even when the well water may vary. This means you will need to test every time.
As you add fertilizer or anything else (caltrate, snail food) to the aquarium the TDS is rising. Doing water changes is the only way to drop this. Some people use the TDS as a way of knowing when to do water changes. Allow the TDS to build up slowly then do a water change.
Top off the tank with distilled or RO water so you are not adding more minerals to the tank.
This is great Diana, thank you. I'm definitely going to copy this info into my aquarium notes. Good to know the distilled water mix is the right thing to do. I do mini water changes daily (1/2 to 1 gal. nightly when I siphon waste) and 50% once a week. I probably overfeed so I'm trying to cut back a bit. Maybe the snails don't need the Caltrate every night. Will start testing for GH, KH and TDS as well.
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Keep them separated. It takes a couple of weeks for the hormones to come back down to normal levels.
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Hey all,
This is my first time posting so I hope I'm doing this right.
I need some immediate help with my 8 month old, he's become extremely aggressive with my other dog.
I have a second shepherd named Captain who is 8. Jack ( my puppy) and Captain have been like buddies since we originally brought jack home. Granted, there have been times when jack has irritated Captain and he would growl at him, or they would rough play..but it was never mean or aggressive.
It started with the kitchen. I was cooking one day and captain came walking by me, jack was already by my feet and when he saw captain coming closer he started raising his fur, growled, and lunged at captain. I managed to get them to stop but got some scratches myself. I assumed it was just over food, and have been trying to just keep them apart if I know i'll be cooking, or when I feed them, but really it's a pain.
Lately, if Captain and Jack are in the hallway together Jack will raise his fur, start growling, and just go at Captain. I don't get it, they've been fine up until about 2 weeks ago when all this started.
Captain is fixed, and jack isn't but we're getting him fixed on the 21st of this month. Hoping that this aggression is just a lot of hormones.
Does anyone have any advice? I try to teach jack to " be nice" but i'm not sure it that's enough.I just really don't want to see either of my guys get hurt obviously. I just want them to be buddies again.
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Yesterday, I highlighted Onsale's (Nasdaq: ONSL) atCost site, which is now selling a broad line of new computer equipment for a low, flat-fee markup. In short, it's now competing directly with CompUSA (NYSE: CPU) and everybody else in PC retailing, online or off. In the near future, atCost will no doubt venture into consumer electronics, competing even more completely with Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), Circuit City (NYSE: CC), and everybody else in that notoriously tough but recently booming business. While Onsale's strong customer base makes it well positioned for this fight, the company won't be alone in this move toward a light, high-volume, low-margin online business model. Many other firms will use the same game plan to try to capture a piece of the e-commerce pie.
A few observations seem obvious. First, every store-based retailer of commodity-like hard lines will have trouble competing with the atCosts of the world. Their brick-and-mortar cost structure is just too high to slash prices low enough. People will browse for PCs, TVs, or boomboxes at Best Buy, but they'll increasingly buy from a reputable, low-cost online vendor. This change may be gradual, but the market will begin to discount the extraordinary competitive pressures on these well-known retailers. After all, it's begun to discount the fact that Borders (NYSE: BGP) was too slow in launching its online bookstore and thus fell way behind Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), leaving it simply caught in a bind. Borders must now pay up to promote its website, cannibalizing its store revenues with low-margin online sales that may not necessarily expand its market. Or, it can simply hope that the Web goes away. Shareowners of many still-strong retailers should ask what Borders has to teach them, and the lesson may be, "Get out now!"
Second, e-commerce has generally been thought of as a process of disintermediation whereby buyers and sellers can now bypass those parties that once took a slice of the profits despite adding little or no value to the transaction. The clearest example may be the way discount brokers like Schwab (NYSE: SCH) reduced stock transaction fees by convincing millions of investors that full-service (that is, high-priced) brokers didn't add enough value to justify their commissions. Now, online brokers like E*Trade (Nasdaq: EGRP) have convinced millions more that even talking to an order-taker over the phone is of minimal value.
What the gold rush in the online brokerage business really suggests, though, is that traditional business-to-consumer commerce is undergoing a process of re-intermediation. Old business is being conducted through new (or simply different) intermediaries that offer customers a new value proposition and thus depend on different profit centers. What used to cost a lot of money (a stock trade) is increasingly inexpensive or free. Companies that provide excellent service and a competitive price on this repeat, commodity business will be positioned to benefit from other revenue streams (say, getting you to invest in their own mutual funds) or from a greater volume of traditional, though once-downplayed revenue streams (say, from interest on margin loans). You have to be lean, though, to make money this way.
Third, despite Onsale's experience, sound management, and established customer base, it too could have a difficult time competing in this game without additional financing. The key here is the unusual nature of competitive advantage in the world the Web is creating. In short, brand matters, and matters hugely, but in two very specific ways: its ability to produce an increasing volume of customer traffic and transactions, and its related ability to ensure that a company has access to unlimited financial resources. Brand won't ensure that a company enjoys (much) pricing power up front. But it will definitely help a company survive in an environment where no one is supposed to have pricing power but where someone eventually will.
What I'm suggesting is that e-commerce may work like a poker game in which the players capable of raising the stakes high enough will never lose because competitors will simply have to fold. Clearly, Amazon may be best-positioned to play this game. Although the Amazon bears have repeatedly argued that there are no barriers to entry on the Web and that price competition will destroy the company, they're not just wrong, but diametrically wrong. The dynamics they identify as a threat actually speak to precisely why Amazon is so strong.
Nonetheless, because we're all still coming to grips with competitive advantage on the Web, Amazon's stock will likely take a huge hit at some point. For FY98, Amazon reported gross margins of 21.9%, up from 19.5% in FY97. Despite fears that lower-margin CD sales would cause gross margins to decline, they still increased to 21.1% in Q4 versus 19.6% a year ago (though they did decline sequentially from 22.7% in Q3). Jeff Fischer, co-manager of the Fool's Rule Breaker portfolio, is not alone in projecting that gross margins should continue to rise, perhaps to 25% by 2001. Yet, at least in terms of product sales (as opposed to commission or advertising revenues), I now think the atCost model will exert tremendous pressure on gross margins.
Ask yourself how investors would react if Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos said the company would pursue a strategy of achieving zero gross margins on product sales for a period maybe measured in years. That would be a shock. Investors would be seriously stumped about how you can operate a business in such a fashion. Yet, if e-commerce becomes as competitive as everyone seems to believe, then such a strategy could well be Amazon's most rational response, a natural extension of the current strategy of accepting net losses while growing the business.
A pithy way to summarize Amazon's competitive advantage is to say that it may be the only company capable of adopting a sustained zero gross margin strategy on product sales without simply going out of business. Amazon's first-mover cachet, stellar brand, smart management, and daunting 6.2 million customers (1.7 million new customers in Q4 alone) have allowed it to raise a stunning amount of cash via convertible debt offerings: $326 million last spring and $1.25 billion in February. It's now got about $1.62 billion to use however it likes to remain the top online retailer. Competitors can probably get their hands on more cash, but a quick snapshot of a few shows Onsale with $46.7 million, N2K (Nasdaq: NTKI) with $36.2 million, CDNow (Nasdaq: CDNW) with $49.0 million, Best Buy with $409.4 million, and Circuit City with $118.0 million. So Amazon has a lot of money to build out its distribution infrastructure (as announced), boost ad spending, make acquisitions, create content, or whatever.
Amazon could even use its cash hoard to support cutthroat pricing that drives competitors out of the market. On an operating basis, Amazon reported a FY98 net loss of $74.4 million, a gross profit of $133.8 million, and sales of $610 million. Even adjusting for tremendous sales growth, Amazon could afford to drop gross margins substantially without risking its future. Indeed, it may be one of the only companies for which such a strategy would not only not be suicidal but might even be smart. How many competitors could afford to suffer massive losses for years to come while simultaneously finding a way to eventually make money in a low gross margin environment where Amazon already enjoys a huge head start and greater economies of scale?
To be clear, I'm not saying Amazon will pursue this strategy, only that it can if it must. However, Bezos probably will decide at some point that lowering gross margins makes more sense than increasing advertising spending, though these are really just two sides of the same coin paying for long-term market share. The main point is simply that e-commerce will likely remain a game of who can afford to lose the most money for the longest time while keeping investors convinced that its strategy makes sense. Keeping Wall Street hooked is really the only reason why any of these companies wants to turn a profit sometime soon. From a pure business angle, it would probably be smarter for Amazon to postpone profitability for another decade.
That's not a joke either. Whether you imagine Amazon continuing to grow its infrastructure largely by allowing its vendors to fund its working capital needs or whether you imagine Amazon moving increasingly toward a kind of atCost fee-for-service model (which seems likely), the fact is that Amazon is positioned to be a player when everybody who wants to lose money venturing into e-commerce has thrown the dice and come up snake-eyes. At that point, margins from product sales will firm and then climb. Meanwhile, the stream of advertising revenues that Amazon has only begun to tap should just get bigger and bigger so that it becomes a significant if not the major source of profits.
Working out the actual numbers and putting a valuation on the business is a challenge, but I think these tasks can only be addressed once you figure out where the industry is going in terms of price competition and what firms can maintain good financing options. I've personally come around to the view that the Web will prove so competitive that competition will disappear. That's a bizarre formulation that's not literally true, but it at least points to the logic of the system. E-commerce may simply be so weird that we had better re-wire our brains if we hope to understand it.
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Been lookin for a replacement Daily Driver /tow pig for my current 94 F150 2wd. I have been over working the crap out of the 150 for a few years now so I was tryin to find an older F250/350 since I really like old junk. Have had no luck and even started to concider buyin a Cummins Dodge. Well as my luck seems to go I just had to wait long enough for the right truck to find me.
A friends dad had this truck sitting in a yard full of cars/trucks and was looking to get rid of it. We actually worked out a trade for an old 86 Mustang I was tryin to sell so I got the truck for no cash outa pocket.
Its a 1988 F250 factory 460/auto 2wd body with 68k on the clock. Its sitting on a 97 f250 4wd chassis minus its 5.8 drivetrain.
If you look at my avitar you see the obvious reason why I had to have it.
The body is 99.9% rust free.Only bad spots are where the paint was scratched. I plan to have some touch up work done and preserve the factory paint job.
Im dropping in a 93 460,c6,205 and Im pulling the d60 out up front and reinstalling the factory d50. It has 3.55 gears so I might go a little larger than the factory size tire to drop highway RPM with the c6. And in an effort to try something different Im not goin to run the factory ecm. I plan to install a Megasquirt ecm and build my own engine harness. I think this 460 can be a little better on gas and in the power department running off a modern ECM that reads real time off a wide band o2 sensor.Im already running Megasquirt in my little turbo Ranger and plan to run one on my efi 5.0 Truggy Ranger once I put a Kenne Bell blower on that one.
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|July 10th, 2013, 12:59 AM
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I was wondering the same thing with the puling the 60 out and then throwing the crappy TTB 50 under it. I know its not as strong but I would rather throw a HP44 swapped over to 8 lug in it over the TTB 50.
But I am liking the matching trucks. Plus for it to be that clean after sitting is shocking.
|July 10th, 2013, 01:01 PM
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The d60 wasnt part of the trade.The guy threw around wanting 1k cash on top of the deal for me to keep that axle. The d60 swap was never finished and all the factory TTB brackets are still on truck and the TTB is in the bed complete.Im not planning to do any wheeling with this truck so I see no need to have it jacked up in the air like it is and then try to finish the axle swap. It would be much easier to just put it back to stock for me.Plus it should ride and haul nice with the TTB back under it. I did get a set of f250 TTB diesel leafs for the front in the deal to better handle the big block since this chassis was just small block.
The d50 looks to have fresh rotors and brake parts as well.It makes it easy on me that its already out so I can throw each half on the bench to go through them and do u-joints,bearings and bushings.I need to find lock outs to replace this Auto 4x4 shit hubs it has tho.I dont even understand how those things work!
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|July 23rd, 2013, 06:06 PM
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Was able to start getting some things done this weekend. Got the bed cleaned out and pulled shitty liner out. Pulled bed off to make working on stuff easier. Going to do a roll on bed liner up over the rails. Still in shock how clean the metal is.
It just kills me that the 97 chassis is so rusty. So far Im lookin at replacing the shackles and frame brackets,brake lines and hose,shocks and Im going to pull hitch off to replace old hardware with new grade 8 stuff. Plan to pin hammer the hole chassis then coat with something,not sure what yet tho.
|September 24th, 2013, 08:37 AM
Brian R.
Got my motor home now and started to check it out. Its a 89 7.5 that factory rated at 230hp @3600 and 390ft @ 2000. Was Ford serious about those numbers??
Anyway motor looks to be pretty clean for not knowing the mileage on it.
And here is the factory upper intake I plan to replace with one of my own. Will be making a sheetmetal plenum with a single blade throttle body thats at least 75mm.
|December 16th, 2013, 02:58 PM
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Doesn't seem very practical for a tow rig
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|December 16th, 2013, 03:32 PM
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How does it not seem practical? Makes perfect sense to me.
I was goin to put a 75mm turbo on it and that would require new forged pistons. Decided to ditch that idea and just keep it simple and add another 100ci. Depending on the condition of the shortblock it will need at minimum the crank polished,rods resized,new bearings,rings...worse case it could need crank grind or replacement,bored,honed and new pistons.
For around 1300 I can get a new 557 stroker kit with all new parts.Cast crank,H beam rods,hyperutectic pistons in 3 different sizes and all bearings and rings. Even if my shortblock is in perfect shape it wouldnt be a whole lot more to just buy the stroker kit.
With the stock heads,stock cam,my custom intake/throttlebody,big injectors and Megasquirt ecm running it all it should make an easy 400-450hp and I bet dam near 600ft/lbs.
Call me crazy but I think it sounds perfect for a tow vehicle! I love tuning with MS and I see no reason it wouldnt return decent MPG either.
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I would think it would need more air and more air requires more fuel
I'm not hating on the idea just asking an honest question, it just seems a little over kill to me that's all
Seems like it would be hard to get good mpgs out of something that big, but you very well could prove me wrong
It would be cool either way
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4-8 doves skinned and whole
1 apple, peeled, cored, and cut into 8 slices
8 strips of bacon
1/2 cup of red wine
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder(I like a little more)
1/2 teaspoon powdered ginger
1 cup red wine
Combine the marinade ingredients in a bowl. Add the doves and marinate over night (anything over 2 hours has worked for me). Take doves out of marinade, stick a piece of apple inside the cavity, wrap a piece of bacon around the bird (right in the middle) and secure it and the apple with a toothpick. Put the doves in a casserole dish and add the 1/2 cup of wine (I put some more garlic in too). Bake at 350 for 45-55 minutes, or until tender, basting occasionally with the pan juices. Serve over rice, wild rice is the best. Make sure to take out the toothpicks before you eat them!
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The most important lesson was taught to me by my first boss. One day he caught me goofing off and he said, "George, if you can't work and talk, don't talk. Do the work." That's where black people are in this moment in time. There has been enough talk and book ideas. We must now do the work. Here are some steps that I think people need to take to start doing the work:
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I am currently working on my ESB Fett build. I have built other costumes before and dabbled in Mandalorian ones, but this is my first full Boba attempt.
The helmet was made using thin cardboard, resin fiberglass and the dome was cardstock. I have to fix the size of the dent, and build the ear caps and rangefinder. But the look is there.
I also finished building my ammo belt and pouches by following Batninja's tutorial on here, and came out with fantastic results.
The cape was made from two different color materials and then tea dyed to darken them up a bit. I may coffee dye them to further darken/dull the colors.
I have a jumpsuit I am modifying currently and hope to have some progress on that and the flakvest this week. And obviously all this stuff still needs weathering and such. I am waiting till I get all the soft parts done so I can weather them all at once. That way it will look uniform-ish.
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In the early '30s, my father came to the Aysén region of Chile from the island of Chiloé looking for land and work. He met my mother in Valle Colonia, and I and 11 brothers were born in this stark and beautiful land on the edge of the northern ice cap in Patagonia.
Our family has always survived on the natural lands, forests, livestock, wildlife, rivers and isolation of the Aysén region. For these reasons, at age 12 I quit school to work in the farmlands to help my family.
As an adult I came to work in a beautiful place: the Estancia Valle Chacabuco, a huge ranch with over 150,000 acres and thousands of sheep and cattle. I was hired as an ovejero (shepherd) to take care of 5,000 sheep. Pumas, foxes and birds of prey were the main threats to the sheep. We frequently hunted these predators and were rewarded when we killed one. During those days, I sometimes worked as a leonero, tracking and killing pumas in the mountains.
As sheep ranching declined from overgrazing, I was again looking for work. And I apparently had the skills necessary to be a park ranger. In this job, I have had a lot of contact with people that I wouldn't have met before. Through my contact with veterinarians and biologists, I began to understand the value of my knowledge of the land, and the value of conserving its plants and animals. I also began to understand the value of conserving the community and the way of life that people have made here.
Today, my family and I are proud to work toward what will one day become Patagonia National Park. We are working hard to achieve this difficult goal. I am in charge of monitoring and protecting native species of the area, many that we used to hunt in the past and others that we took no notice of. Especially important in the area of the park where I work, I can identify each huemul individual, a critically endangered deer of Patagonia.
I am very happy with this turn of events. It provides great satisfaction to learn more about the local wildlife, their behavior and their relationships in an intricate network in this wonderful land that I love.
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Take Janna Noland, for instance.
Right now, the 17-year-old senior at Carolina Christian Academy is putting the finishing touches on her Girl Scout Gold Award project.
An Ambassador Girl Scout with Troop 645 in Great Falls, Janna is hand-making 21 tote bags that will be filled with baby items to hand out at Springs Memorial Hospital the week of March 12.
That week commemorates the 100th anniversary of Girl Scouts.
Damien Ward had heard enough.
Ward had already been on the dance floor several times Saturday night at the Fairway Room with his dressed-to-the-nines daughters, Emeliana, 6, and Olivia, 5, at the annual Girl Scouts Father Daughter Dance.
Emeliana is a member of Daisy Troop 2339 and Olivia is a Girl Scout in the making. Second-generation Girl Scouts, their mom is Emily Evans Ward, who earned her Gold Award.
The men's prayer breakfast at First Presbyterian Church began 23 years ago in 1989 by Brooks Johnson and Steve Williams Jr., Judd Funderburk, Harold Rowell, Charlie Franks, Frazier Kirkpatrick and Harvey Stewart, who are all now deceased, as well as others.
It's was just after Hurricane Hugo came through.
Since I was alone, it was a lucky day when I was invited to attend for a time of good fellowship with other Christian men.
For Katie Stogner, here and now is the stream of sweat beads dripping from her chin onto the rubber floor of Island Sun Tanning and Fitness on Pageland Highway as owner Steve Lewis encourages her through a grinding workout. Captured on video, there is no place for her to hide the here and now.
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But to do that, she hopes to lose 30 pounds, much of it coming from the birth of her son, Thaxton, on Dec. 7.
Name: Mindy Martin
Age: 30
Address: Buford community
Family: Husband, Gary, 33, and a son, Nathan, 7
Pets: Jagger, a lhasa apso, and Foxy, a Himalayan cat
Job: Master colorist, stylist and eyelash extension specialist and Mane Street Hair Designers
Church: Crestview Baptist Church
The room was abuzz with laughter and friendly chatter as women from across the area gathered for the Christian Women's Connection birthday luncheon on Tuesday.
But this sort of camaraderie isn't unusual. It's like this every time these women of faith gather to encourage one another as they enjoy a meal together.
On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons, students who pass by Room 412 at Lancaster High School Career Center can count on one thing – a chorus of blow dryers will be singing out.
The 20 members of Jan Williamson's senior cosmetology class won't be talking to each other much and Williamson won't be lecturing them from an adjacent classroom.
Most days, a labor and delivery nurse goes home smiling.
"We get to share in the happiest days of people's lives," said Cathy Montgomery, who is the nurse manager for labor and delivery and newborn nursery at Springs Memorial Hospital.
But there is a flip side to that happiness coin, when things go wrong and pure joy turns to unspeakable sorrow.
Those are the days when infants are stillborn or die.
"I always say we have the best job in the world or the worst," Montgomery said.
On occasion, I'm a little jealous of W.B. Evans. This is one of those times.
When it comes to looking back, "Mr. Bill," as we call him in the newsroom doesn't have to pick and choose when looking for what stands out. Choosing the top features stories of the year is hard.
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We are well aware that things have changed. With airline security now ramped up, this year's Christmas dinner will be different.
There will be no jars of Duke's Mayonnaise or pickled okra.
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The Gulf of Mexico, where all those oil platforms are, has shipping lanes set up so as to avoid striking them or submerged well heads. You cannot just set any course you want on an ocean-going ship when transitting the Gulf of Mexico. In fact, I'm not sure that you can count on all of them even being charted. The problems of offshore windfarms are certainly surmountable if the efficiencies are there.
Energy storage is an obvious problem with most alternative energy sources. We all know the problems with battery storage. One of the nuclear power plants on the west coast of Michigan has an innovative idea that might lend itself to alternative energy as well.
The plant has an optimum operational range wherein it is most efficient. ideally one would like to run in that range continuously but the demands for power have peaks and valleys. What is done at this plant, along the lakeshore, is use the excess power to run pumps. Water in pumped many miles north to a huge man made lake where it is stored. When energy demands rise the flow is reversed and the water flows south where it turns turbines to generate additional power.
The obvious benefit is that you need a proportionally smaller power plant that you are able to run at peak efficiency continuously.
A note on conservation. It doesn't work. I should say that it doesn't work on other than a personal basis. It sounds great as a plan and yes, I'm one of those types who is always turning off the lights and see's no reason why a five foot sixteen year old girl needs more than 7 minutes in the shower once a day to complete her ablutions. (I thought five minutes appropriate but the energy czar was feeling particularly beneficent towards the daughter the day that regulation was drawn up.) I'd add, as a personal note, if you do not have a programmable thermostat on your furnace you're really missing out on some savings. They even come in versions that will lie. You can adjust the stat so that it will display 80 degrees when it's 75, so grandma "feels" warmer.
The history of energy consumption is that when products become more efficient, people use more of them. Fuel efficient cars in the 1970's through the 1980's are a case in point. There was a dip in miles driven in the seventies, along with increased car-pooling. Once energy efficient cars arrived, the miles driven not only went back up, it climbed even more rapidly. The same is true in water usage. As a water well driller I can tell you that the demand for residential water volume continues to climb each year. Low capacity toilets and water outlet restrictors have done nothing to decrease the overall water used. I've heard of a study done in an Iowa town where they installed energy efficient light bulbs in 50% of the towns houses and energy consumption actually went up. People spend the savings in increased usage whether it's water or energy. Homes are increasingly run with either the windows never opened or even no provision for opening the windows. Actual usage in homes that wouldn't have even had air-conditioning equipment 30 years ago is to run heat in the winter and transition into a/c immediately, with some homes running both systems within the same day. it's far more common than you'd think. That's why I say "conservation" doesn't work. What does?
Well, the market does. The only thing that will reduce energy consumption is cost. I live on the "Dutch" side of my street. My neighbor across the street must not share my cultural leanings. His a/c system runs all summer long. I do not have an a/c system, even though I work for a company that has a whole division devoted to heating and cooling. I could get a deal. I thought of installing a/c but I found that the trees I planted 15 years ago have taken me out of the market. I now enjoy enough shade that there are only a few days a year where I'd want a/c. I bought a window shaker unit some three years ago and have used it for one week, during one summer, since purchase. It's in the garage if Al Gore turns out to be right. The reason I did not take my company up on "the deal" is that I could envision my family using it when they were "uncomfortable", ie...if we had it we'd use it. I decided to save not only the capital cost but reap the energy savings as well. My neighbor built his house and what trees that weren't cut down during building he removed afterwards, for reasons that escape me. What will cause him to shut the a/c down and open a window? Cost, nothing less.
Everybody is in favor of energy conservation, particularly someone else's energy conservation. Mandating it though is a wrong headed policy. Let the market do it. As stated in an earlier post, you're not going to see much in the way of nukes or wind farms until the cost of energy rises to overcome public opposition. It'd be nice to think that we could centrally plan a wind farm or nuclear plant evey so many square miles but that's not how the market or the real world works. If certain areas are demonstrably superior for wind generation, wind generation will happen when the price of the energy supplied reaches a level where the acquisition of the land is such that the current owners cannot afford not to sell. Nothing else really works on a societal scale.
I'm late to this discussion, but there has been allot of chat about the use of public land for Wind Farms in Western Maryland.
See here http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/loc...,5615429.story
I am not against the farms, just not on public land designated as park land.
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Sorry, meant to get this up sooner. On January 17, the province of Ontario lifted a one-year moratorium on considering applications for wind farm installations in Great lakes waters. The province was apparently goaded into doing so by initiatives in Ohio to put wind farms in lake Erie. Georgian Bay is a highly logical place, from a power generation point of view, but it's said that because of concerns over winter ice, we're more likely to see offshore wind farms first on Lake Ontario and Lake Erie.
I've been trying to keep pace with this issue on my website, sweetwatercruising.com.
Much thanks again for all who contributed opinions and experiences to this discussion earlier.
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Energy Probe, the nonprofit NGO I mentioned above, analyses utility initiatives in the province, looking for clean solutions that will also be reliable and meet consumer demands. It does think there's a place for windpower, or at least is cautiously supportive, with caveats. It doesn't like nuclear, but interestingly is very big on "clean coal."
Another note/update. The Georgian Bay Asssociation, an org of cottage associations on the east shore of the bay, claims it talked Ontario Power Authority out of laying a new transmission corridor up the shore to handle proposed wind power input to the grid. The Wikwemikong reserve on western manitoulin island has been talking about a massive wind farm which I now realize is supposed to go on property they own on the mainland, at Point Grondine on the east side of Beaverstone Bay. But I haven't a clue how they'd ever get all that juice to market.
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I've also read the Energy Probe report and reliability of wind is a problem. Unfortunately for Ontario, wind resources aren't often in the right places when it comes to grid efficiency, demand, etc. Another constraint is known in the business the "Orange Blob" (link below). This is area where the Ontario Power Authority has placed restrictions on new projects due to transmission constraints. This area also conforms to many areas where there are decent wind resources.
With respect to wind turbine variability, check the work being done with vanadium redox batteries. I've provided some links below. See the Sorne Hill wind farm in Ireland where there is a large scale pilot project to load shift using this type of battery (built by VRB power in Vancouver).
An additional comment from me on the Ontario situation. In November 06 the NGO Energy Probe (which by nature is sympathetic to clean energy solutions) released a study of wind power performance in Ontario from May to OCtober 06. It was troubled to see the following issues:
Capacity factor so far is 22.3% (not including results from a wind farm apparently experiencing start-up problems);
Periods of very low or no production were particularly common during high-demand periods;
High but highly variable wind production during low demand periods was common;
The hourly production pattern in most months demonstrated a declining average output during the 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. period a period when consumer power usage consistently increases.
So the solution is not perfect. I believe the wind farms need to function at least at 30 percent capacity to be economically viable (or sensible). Energy Probe was also concerned that siting decisions were being made without paying much attention to grid demands, energy loss in transmission, and the possibility for coordinating with neighboring jurisdictions (ie Quebec, Manitoba, border states) to ensure that the the infrastructure was built in the right place for the broader needs of the integrated grid. I've demonstrated my impatience with the NIMBY crowd, but I must say I'm also sympathetic to the possibility that large wind farms could end up being installed in entirely the wrong places (above and beyond wind).
One of the things the Energy Probe study underscored was a potential for meaningless "feel-good" installations. The single wind generator on the Toronto waterfront looks lovely, but the operator, Windshare, wouldn't even provide Energy Probe with its full capacity and operating figures for the months of the study. Energy Probe did learn that in its first 42 months of operation, the turbine's average capacity was a dismal 14.7%. Toronto is just not a place to go spending money on wind farms. Local sailors know all too well why Humber Bay right offshore is called the Humber Hole, especially in August, when all those air conditioners need juice.
|Very interesting thread; the size of some of the machines is pretty amazing. As all things there are negative and positive factors and most of these were pretty well presented here. Some of the same mindless who gives a **** about tree huggers and the enviroment remarks and some actual thoughtful options. The location is very important and should be tested and investigated to not have the same negative effect that the Altamont site caused in a narrow flyway. With thoughtful planning and more research hopefully wind will contrubute positivly to our energy problems......... learning to conserve is a very good start and long term cruisers seem to be very good at using eneryg wisely. Thank you for this thread and all the useful information.
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Today, Tuesday March 4th, is Mardi Gras!!! We will be celebrating all night with more music by The Number Ones, beads for everyone (no need to embarrass yourselves), killer beers and great Cajun and Creole food. Get on down and enjoy this traditional day of eating and drinking.
Every year we are asked what day of the week Mardi Gras is on. Well, Mardi Gras actually translates to Fat Tuesday. Notice the key usage of the word Tuesday. This means that the holiday occurs on TUESDAY not Friday or Saturday. Of course in Utah we find ourselves celebrating Cinco de Mayo on whatever Saturday or Friday is closest to the Fifth; Independence day on the 4th unless it is a Sunday and then we go to Friday or Saturday using some method I have no understanding of. Same with Halloween where kids use the whole weekend if it falls on a Sunday. At The Bayou we will always celebrate Mardi Gras properly on Tuesday.
Anyway, getting that rant out of my system, Mardi Gras is a day of celebration in Anglican and Catholic traditions, the last day of eating rich, fatty food and drinking before the fasting of the Lenten season which begins on Ash Wednesday (the day after Mardi Gras). While many consider the whole period of festivities leading up to that special Tuesday as "Mardi Gras" really is it more appropriate to call that time Carnival.
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